Author: Christine Schier

The world has welcomed the news of the agreement reached between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran, announced by President Donald Trump on June 14. This was confirmed by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif as well as the Iranian leadership, themselves, and a formal signing ceremony is planned to take place in Switzerland this Friday, June 19. […]

Inflation is on the rise and central banks are reacting in the usual knee-jerk fashion, by raising interest rates. On June 11, those of the European Central Bank were increased from 2 to 2.25%, the first such increase in almost three years. Inflation had surged to 3.2%, well above the ECB target of 2%. In Japan, the central bank raised […]

Over the past days, the political and diplomatic developments around the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine have been characterized by apparently contradictory aspects. On the one side, the EU narrative about how “Russia is losing the war” grew louder, as the E3 group (Britain, France and Germany) met again to reaffirm their support to Kyiv. On the other side, “pro-negotiation” factions […]

Energy-intensive branches of the German industry find it increasingly impossible to produce at affordable costs without gas from Russia, which is why many CEOs have called for resuming imports of Russian gas. Chancellor Merz, on the other hand, insists that that will never happen. But Friedrich Merz will not be Chancellor forever, and his decision could be overturned by another […]

On June 11, the Armed Services Committee of the U.S. Senate approved its version of the $1.15 trillion dollar National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2027, which includes a section on extended military cooperation with Israel which is virtually identical to that passed by the same committee of the House of Representatives on June 4 (cf. SAS 24/26). If […]

Mohamed Abdel Hamid Ibrahim Hegazy, the former Assistant Foreign Minister of Egypt, has written a major proposal for a long term basis for peace in the Middle East, aspects of which resonate with the extended Oasis Plan proposed by the Schiller Institute. In Egypt’s Ahram Online June 12, Mohamed Hegazy calls for a “framework for collective security and cooperation” for […]

Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has been carrying out “infrastructure diplomacy” with the Sub-Saharan states of the Alliance of Sahel States (Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso) as well as the non member state of Chad. The aim of the initiative is to integrate Algeria and other North African countries, including Tunisia and Libya, with their landlocked neighbors. The policy is supported by […]

Following his visit to Africa (cf. SAS 17/26), Pope Leo XIV just completed a visit to Spain, where he had a profound impact on the population. We quote below from a preliminary statement that Helga Zepp-LaRouche gave us on June 16. “Of all the important and urgent speeches delivered in recent times by politicians and experts from many countries with […]

Looking to the week ahead, there are two crisis points in the world that could blow up again at any moment, one being the Russia-Ukraine war, and the other the illegal war against Iran and Lebanon. They are both, in their own way, the result of the collapse of the transatlantic “unipolar world” and the emergence of a completely different […]

The recognition that time is running out for the Western financial system has grown significantly in the last weeks, especially among the emerging Global Majority (aka Global South), which is abandoning the US dollar as reserve and trade currency, but also among transatlantic financial circles, which see how the magic recipes of the Trump administration wiz kids are failing miserably. […]