Author: Christine Schier

The nationally televised debate on Feb. 9 between outgoing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the SPD, and the front-runner to take his place, Friedrich Merz of the CDU, was characterized by the glaring absence of any reference to the political and economic changes ongoing worldwide. Scholz and Merz may disagree on one or another specific programmatic point — but they […]

A special guest on Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s weekly webcast of Jan. 29 was Dr. Werner Rügemer, a publicist, author, consultant and co-editor of the World Marxist Review. He is also one of Germany’s top experts on BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management firm, whose operations in Germany were chaired from 2016 to 2020, by the man expected to become the next […]

Among the countless threats thrown out by Donald Trump in the first days of his second presidential term was an ultimatum to the BRICS member countries: don’t back any other currency to replace the U.S. dollar or face 100% tariffs on their imports into the United States. Brazilian President Lula da Silva, who holds the chairmanship of the group this […]

President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order on Feb. 7 suspending aid or assistance to South Africa alleging that its new land reform law violates the rights of white farmers, including by confiscating their land with no compensation. In fact, the measure is a transparent punishment for the fact that South Africa had brought the case of Israeli genocide against […]

It is now two weeks into the second Presidency of Donald Trump, and he continues to hold the world in suspense as to what his next moves will be. There are many breaking developments, but the question is, will they lead to solutions, or to an accelerated slide into chaos and danger? The jury is still out on that one. […]

The confirmation hearings last week for Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence and Kash Patel as FBI Director were scenes of clashes between defenders of the old disintegrating order, and bold challengers deployed by President Trump to clean out the corruption of an old boys network which has presided over one failure after another. The hearings took place, respectively, […]

As we have emphasized, Donald Trump’s weak flank is the economy. Faced with the threatened collapse of the financial bubble, which includes derivatives on out-of-control government debt, the Trump team of financial specialists is now planning to create another bubble, which might bring some results in the short (or rather very short) term, but will inevitably deflagrate the entire system. […]

On Monday, January 27, the U.S. stock market suffered a surprise plunge, which highlights the reality of the dilemma facing the Western world today. The financial shock was in response to the news a few days earlier, that the new Chinese artificial intelligence model, DeepSeek, had outperformed the leading American models. And that, at a fraction of the cost and […]

Reviewing the latest political developments in Germany and the chaos they have generated, one can only conclude that while the German elites are good at producing problems, they have no clue as to how to solve them. That was again made clear in the Bundestag last week. In an attempt to improve his popularity, CDU chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz initiated […]

On Feb. 1, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the lead candidate for the BüSo (Civil Rights Movmenet Solidarity), made a two minute video on the vote that had just taken place in the Bundestag on the changes in the migration laws proposed by CDU leader Friedrich Merz (cf. above). The text of that video follows (cf. also SAS 4/25). Friedrich Merz has just […]