Author: Christine Schier

The visit of President Xi Jinping to Moscow was the subject of a discussion organized by Helga Zepp-LaRouche on her Twitterspace on March 26. Her special guest was Einar Tangen, an American living in China since 2005, who is a leading fellow at the Taihe Institute, an independent, non-profit think tank based in Beijing that promotes global peace and development. […]

This week will see the second meeting of U.S. President Biden’s “Summit for Democracy” take place online March 28-30. What the Biden Administration has not yet realized, is that, outside of the western “cocoon”, the “democracy vs. autocracy” mantra has lost credibility throughout the world. Excluded from the event are those who openly challenge the rules-based order, including China, Russia, […]

Thanks to the sanctions against Russia and the EU’s idiotic energy policy, the EU trade balance suffered a loss of over €400 billion income in 2022. From a surplus of €105.3 billion in 2021, it plunged to a deficit of €333.5 billion. The three largest economies, Germany, France and Italy, carried the bulk of the collapse: Germany lost nearly €100 […]

As the 2008-2009 crisis broke out, many called for reinstating a Glass-Steagall type of bank regulation, separating commercial banks from investment banks. Governments decided, instead, to listen to the “financial industry”, and adopted completely inadequate measures. Since then, EIR and the Schiller Institute have consistently called for a Glass-Steagall reform, and now that the crisis is in full swing, legislators […]

The plan to make it mandatory for Berlin to become totally “climate-neutral” by 2030 was defeated on March 26, when the relevant referendum failed to receive the minimum number of “yes” votes required to win. A victory would have forced the Berlin Senate to include a binding provision in the state’s energy transition law, providing for climate-neutrality by 2030 instead […]

One hundred years after the British Empire secretly negotiated with the French Empire, in 1916, the carving up of the “Middle East” (West Asia) into separate colonies and satrapies, diplomatic and economic efforts by China and Russia could put an end to this century of bloody divide-and-conquer strategy. Its most violent aspect was the Shia-Sunni sectarian divide that followed the […]

The following appeal was issued on March 14 by the chairwoman of the Schiller Institute Helga Zepp-LaRouche. It can be signed at the link below. The tremors in the financial system felt around the world triggered by the run on Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in the United States, its subsequent closure and being put in receivership, are the clarion call […]

“Without the Development of All Nations, There Can Be No Lasting Peace for the Planet”, is the theme of the international online conference the Schiller Institute will hold on Saturday, April 15, 2023, from 16.00 to 23 CET, featuring speakers from around the world. Just over one year after the Russian military operation was launched in Ukraine, it is very […]

Over the past months, we have repeatedly warned that as soon as a large financial institution goes bust due to central bank monetary tightening, and threatens a systemic contagion, those very same central banks would throw the “fight against inflation” out the window, and resume liquidity pumping on an unprecedented scale. When the British Bond Crisis of 2022 hit last […]

A stunning blow to the geopolitical “rules-based order” was delivered on March 10 with the announcement, from Beijing, of the resumption of diplomatic relations between Riyadh and Tehran. Representatives of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran announced that they would reestablish diplomatic ties no later than two months from now. This was done, as the […]