Author: Christine Schier

On Oct. 16, the opening day of the 20th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a much-awaited speech, reviewing the achievements accomplished over the past five years since the last party congress, and laying out the path forward for the next five years and beyond. Since 2017, the international environment has hardened dramatically, as […]

The Schiller Institute, as our readers know, is heading an international campaign to denounce the “blacklists” of so-called enemies of the Kiev regime published by both the Ukrainian website Myrotvorets and the Kiev-based Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), which include dozens of members and associates of the Schiller Institute (cf. SAS 31-41). Many persons on those lists have already received […]

A conference of current and former elected officials on the above theme will take place in the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico City on Oct. 27 and simultaneously via Zoom with international speakers, under the aegis of the international Schiller Institute. The invitation notes that the political and social leaders involved “urge Russia, Ukraine, the United States and NATO to […]

In just a few weeks, the global strategic situation has moved into the domain of massive infrastructural sabotage and other forms of irregular warfare, on top of the war pitting Russia against NATO. On Sept. 26, sophisticated sabotage ruptured the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, and then on Oct. 8, a truck blew up on the Crimean Bridge, causing […]

The entire financial system was on the verge of blowing out when the Bank of England intervened on Sept. 28, to bail it out with an extraordinary injection of 65 billion sterling pounds, five billion a day for 13 days. On Oct. 10, the BoE intervened again, raising the daily purchases to ten billion, while at the same time activating […]

According to an article in Politico, it began in November 2021 at the White House, during Ursula von der Leyen’s visit to Washington, accompanied by the head of her cabinet Björn Seibert another member of her Cabinet, Fernando Andresen Guimaraes. In addition to President Biden, they met with his National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, and then Deputy National Security Adviser […]

In the early hours of October 8, all railway traffic in northern Germany came to a standstill, after two crucial fibreglass cables of the GSM-R (Global System for Mobile Communications – Rail), which enable communication between the control centers and the trains were cut. In the past, there have been frequent acts of sabotage against the railways, predominantly by leftist […]

The results of the Oct. 9 elections to the state parliament in Lower Saxony do not directly call into question the future of Chancellor Scholz’ grand coalition in Berlin. But given the energy crisis, the soaring cost of living, and the international pressures on Germany, its reassurance will be short-lived. The big loser is in any case the Christian Democrats, […]

Documents obtained by EIR demonstrate that Nathalie Loiseau, a French Member of the European Parliament, is on a crusade to target for EU sanctions European citizens who served as international observers in the latest referendums in Donbass. Loiseau, who is known to be close to French President Emmanuel Macron, is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the […]

In view of of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which convenes Oct. 16, the Chinese daily Global Times is conducting interviews with “influential scholars from Western think tanks” on their view of the Chinese economy and Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects. The second such interview, published on Oct. 9, was with Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder […]