Author: Christine Schier

Nearly two weeks into the U.S.-Israel relentless bombing of Iran, and contrary to the expectations of many in Washington, there are no signs that Tehran is on the edge of defeat. And nothing indicates that the Trump administration actually has a plan of how to proceed. Perhaps that’s because the war was not launched on the basis of realities on […]

A letter signed by 30 U.S. Congressmen was delivered to the Pentagon Inspector General Platte B. Moring III, requesting that he investigate an effort to use Millenarium cult-like teachings of the “Return of Jesus” to inspire soldiers deployed to fight against Iran. The letter refers to reports “of disturbing discourse within the military that the current war in Iran is […]

The financial system is so unbalanced, that if the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran continues, and oil and gas prices keep spiking at the current rate, it will trigger a financial collapse, followed by a global trade breakdown and a global recession. Well before high energy prices have impacted production, they will create havoc on the derivative markets, unleashing margin calls, […]

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, wrote an open letter on March 9 to Pope Leo XIV, calling on him to intervene “in this grave hour of mankind”. The world has now entered a phase in which “international law has been declared nonexistent; the so-called ‘rules-based order’ declared as always having been a charade; and the principle of ‘might […]

On Monday evening, March 9, U.S. independent presidential candidate Diane Sare held a special webcast headlined: “Only the American people can end this war!”. She was joined by former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, TV talk show host Garland Nixon, LaRouche Congressional candidate Jose Vega of The Bronx (NYC), and other independent-minded candidates for Congress. In announcing the webcast, Sare, […]

Since late January, Ukraine has prevented the delivery of Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia through the Druzhba pipeline, claiming it had been damaged in a Russian attack. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, however, does not buy that argument, and has refused to approve an EU emergency loan of €90 billion to Ukraine. In a letter to the EU Commission […]

Of Germany’s 16 states, Baden-Württemberg in the southwest is traditionally the leader in innovation, as 5.9% of its investments go to industrial innovation, compared to an overall average of 3.1% for the entire country. In terms of new patents, it registers some 137 per 100,000 citizens annually, while the national average is 47, and the share of productive industry in […]

With the onset of the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran and the increasing chaos in South-West Asia, special attention is given this year to the annual Two Sessions of the Chinese legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which takes place March 4-11. Of major interest for the world is, of course, the prospects […]

At two back-to-back gatherings this week in Doral, Florida, the first at the U.S. Southern Command headquarters, the second at the Trump National Doral Miami resort, President Donald Trump and his cabinet unveiled the next phase of their plans for the United States to take over the nations of Ibero-America and the Caribbean, whether outright or by dictating policy through […]

The United States Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz stood before the UN Security Council on March 2 and described Iran’s retaliatory strikes as “unprovoked”. The United States and Israel had been bombing a sovereign nation for three consecutive days, killing its leader along with dozens of senior officials, and when that nation fired back, its response is called […]