Author: Christine Schier

While the Shangri-la Diaologue of defense ministers from Asia and other parts of the world is held annually in Singapore, it’s main sponsor is the British International Institute of Strategic Studies, and the conference therefore retains some of the character of the British imperial tradition. For many years, the People’s Republic of China has attended the gathering, but Beijing downgraded […]

As June 22 draws near, the infamous date on which the German Nazi war machine launched the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, remarks by senior German government officials indicate that a new attack on Russia is being prepared. Chancellor Friedrich Merz first declared on May 26 that he includes “among possible options” the delivery of Taurus cruise missiles […]

The Israeli policy of “ethnic cleansing” and implicit starvation of the Palestinian population in Gaza continues, despite the growing protests worldwide. The privately run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, set up by the United States and Israel to distribute a meager amount of food aid to the population after the highly competent and well-organized United Nations relief agencies were prevented from operating, […]

Syria expert and journalist Vanessa Beeley strongly denounced the centrality of the British role in bringing Al Qaeda to power in Syria in both a May 27 article in UK Column and a May 30 discussion with The LaRouche Organization’s Weekly Symposium with Diane Sare. She correctly traces the British colonial manipulation of the entire region to the 1916 then-secret […]

As the rotating president of the BRICS this year, and in preparation of the group’s summit in Rio in July, Brazil has been very active on the diplomatic front. The government just hosted a three-day “Second Brazil-Africa Dialogue on Food Security, the Fight Against Hunger and Rural Development” in Brasilia from May 20-22, with ministers of Agriculture and representatives of […]

“Let me greet all of you, in person at the conference of the Schiller Institute, and online around the world, with this optimistic view about the nature of the human species: We are the creative species –the only one known in the universe so far, and the human mind, as the microcosm of the universe at large, the macrocosm, is […]

The first panel of the Schiller Institute conference (“A Beautiful Vision for Humanity in Times of Great Turbulence!”) took up the major strategic crises around the world and the emerging new world order. After the opening speech of Helga Zepp-LaRouche (cf. above), participants heard from representatives of a few of those countries contributing to the new paradigm, beginning with Naledi […]

The second day of the Schiller Institute conference began with a panel devoted to the incredibly rich legacy of Lyndon LaRouche, in so many different fields of knowledge and statecraft. Dennis Small, the head of the LaRouche Legacy Foundation (LLF) advisory council, briefly reviewed the work of the Foundation since LaRouche’s passing in February, 2019, noting that he was a […]

As the death toll in Gaza mounts, defenders of the Netanyahu regime’s continuing slaughter of Palestinian civilians hide behind a “legal” argument that it does not meet a “legal definition” of genocide. The leaders of the U.K., France and Canada have now finally warned Israel that “concrete actions” will be taken against Israel if an “egregious” expansion of military operations […]

United States government debt is the “Stone Guest” of the global financial system. Just as the Stone Guest arrives to drag Don Giovanni to hell in Mozart’s opera of the same name, the $36 trillion U.S. debt is arriving to pull the entire system down. The writing is on the wall. Over the past years, the U.S. Treasury has issued […]