Author: Christine Schier

The first-ever High-Level Forum between the African Union (AU) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) was held in Bogotà, Colombia on March 21. Greater coordination of policy initiatives and enhanced trade among member countries, as representatives of the Global South, were on top of the agenda. The Forum itself was preceded by three days of discussion […]

While the West is increasingly attempting to “protect” its technological research and development from “outside forces”, the Chinese leadership has chosen the opposite approach. China’s Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang told the Zhongguancun Forum on March 25 that broader and more diverse technological cooperation will be carried out, together with an increase in joint efforts in fundamental and frontier research, and […]

President Trump once again surprised the world on March 23 by suddenly announcing a halt on strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure. The U.S. and Iran “have had, over the last two days, very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East”, he wrote on Truth Social, adding that strikes on Iran’s […]

In the United States, independent presidential candidate Diane Sare is leading a mobilization to put an end to the current U.S.-Israel war against Iran. To that end, she issued a new statement on the evening of March 22 (before Donald Trump’s latest about-turn), which we excerpt at length here. She calls upon American citizens to contact their Congressmen and demand […]

The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran has already had severe consequences for the world economy, which hit especially hard the poorer countries, with the rise in energy prices and also, longer-term, in fertilizer and food prices. Globally, the entire financial system is now at risk, which may be the main factor that could convince Donald Trump to pull out now. The […]

The trend of the traditional labor vote for the Social-Democrats shifting to the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) was confirmed in March 22 elections for state parliament in Rhineland-Palatinate, (RP) following the collapse of the SPD in Baden-Württemberg two weeks before (cf. SAS 11, 12/26). Overall in Rhineland-Palatinate, the SPD received just under 26%, which means a loss of 10% […]

Some labor unionists are speaking out against the EU’s “Green Agenda” and its disastrous consequences for industry, particularly in the automotive sector and its supplier firms. One case in point is the chairman of the works council at Bosch, Germany’s leading battery producer and automotive supplier, which plans to eliminate 22,000 of its 89,000 jobs. In an 18-minute video, Frank […]

In the first high-profile resignation in the Trump administration over the war in Iran, the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), Joe Kent, stepped down on March 17, sending a shock through the White House. “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran”, reads his letter of resignation. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation […]

As much of the attention of the world has been focused on the U.S.-Israel assault on Iran, the Netanyahu regime is escalating the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians on a number of fronts. At the same time, in southern Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are pushing Hezbollah north toward the Litani River, leaving behind a swathe of death and destruction. […]

Peter Thiel, the ideologue of the surveillance state and the man who provides the U.S. Army and the Israeli Defense Forces with AI capabilities for war-fighting, hoped to be welcomed as a prophet in Rome, but was treated for what he is, a devil. The nominally Catholic Thiel was supposed to hold a closed-door seminar on his Apocalypse theory at […]