Author: Christine Schier

The heads of state of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Sept. 15-16, took the occasion to reaffirm the need for mutual economic development and their rejection of a “unipolar world” dictated from the West. It was stressed during the event that the member countries (China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan – soon to […]

At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting on Sept. 16, President Putin announced that Russia was ready to provide to poor countries, free of charge, the some 300 tons of Russian fertilizers that are now sitting stranded in European ports due to the EU sanctions. During his discussion with Antonio Guterres on Sept.14, he said, he had asked the UN Secretary […]

As soon as Queen Elizabeth’s coffin was lowered into the Royal Vault, a major strike wave began throughout the United Kingdom that will eventually involve more than 170,000 unionists. On the evening of Sept. 19, the Liverpool dockworkers launched a two week strike action, shutting down one of the UK’s largest ports, which handles over half a million containers a […]

On Sept. 16, the German government illegally seized the shares of Russian energy giant Rosneft in three oil refineries in Germany, without offering any compensation. Chancellor Olaf Scholz told a press briefing that it was a “far-reaching energy policy decision to protect our country…. Russia, we have known for some time, is no longer a reliable energy supplier.” He called […]

The momentum is building in both Germany and Austria for mass protests against the boomerang effects of the Russia sanctions as well as the failure of political decision-makers to prevent speculative increases of food and energy prices. In most cases, the demands are limited to price and rent caps, as well as compensation to make up for inflation rates. However, […]

On Monday of this week, the leader of the Moderate (conservative) Party, Ulf Kristersson, began probing the possibilities of forming a center-right government after the opposition won an extremely slim majority of two seats in the national elections, leading Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, a social democrat, to resign on Sept. 15. A Kristersson government would have the support of the […]

Arno Klarsfeld is the son of well-known “nazi hunters” Serge and Beate Klarsfeld. In a column published by the French weekly Le Point on Sept. 11, he points to a reality that is hysterically denied by Western and NATO leaders, who are using Ukraine to try and crush Russia. Our newsletter, on the contrary, has consistently reported on the neo-nazi […]

Professor Ding Yifan, Deputy Director of the Research Institute for World Development of the China Development Research Center, participated in Panel 1 of the Schiller Institute’s Sept. 10-11, 2022 conference, titled “Inspiring Humanity To Survive the Greatest Crisis in World History” (cf. SAS 37/22). In his presentation, reproduced below, he brought up Lyndon LaRouche’s invaluable contributions to the science of […]

On the eve of the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, the phase shift now in progress under Global NATO in Ukraine makes nuclear war far more likely. On Sept. 8, the monthly Ukraine Contact Group Meeting, held at the United States Air Base in Ramstein, Germany and personally presided over by U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman […]

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lyndon LaRouche, the Schiller Institute held a highly successful online conference on Sept. 10-11 under the banner in the title above. And inspiring it was, as the participants and speakers agreed. On Sept. 8, the actual birth date of LaRouche, who passed away in February 2019, celebrations were held […]