Author: Christine Schier

As we report below in more detail, one of the most exciting prospects that serious Russian-American cooperation holds forth is the construction of a tunnel under the Bering Strait, from Russia’s eastern-most tip to Alaska. Ever since the 1980s, Lyndon LaRouche and his political movement have promoted such a project, as one which could open up tremendous opportunities to the […]

Just as we were finishing our weekly newsletter on Oct. 22, EIR Washington (Executive Intelligence Review), was about to host an emergency international round table discussion on the strategic implications of the Bering Strait Tunnel project, which has been put front-and-center in U.S.-Russian relations by social media posts of Kremlin special envoy Kirill Dmitriev, and by Donald Trump’s comment in […]

A Goldman Sachs note to customers on Oct. 20 warned of a high risk of a “credit tail event”. A credit tail event is an extreme credit loss scenario caused by widespread or concentrated defaults, credit rating downgrades, or severe market dislocations in credit spreads. It could be a sudden wave of corporate defaults, like in 2008, a major counterparty […]

Surely, investments in Artificial Intelligence are safer, some would protest. In fact, it’s also on the verge of bursting, as noted by former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich in an article on Substack: “Shares of stock surrounding AI and its data centers account for an estimated 75% of the returns to America’s biggest corporations, 80% of earnings growth, and 90% […]

New opinion polls in Germany show the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) either scoring 25%, putting it on a par with the CDU-CSU, or bypassing the latter by 1-2%. This has triggered a heated discussion about what the main governing party should do: attempt to ban the AfD by a Constitutional Cout ruling, or change some policies to boost the […]

On Oct. 17, the second suspect in the bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines was released in Poland, after a court ruling denying his extradition to Germany. This followed a similar decision by the Italian Court of Cassation regarding the first suspect, who was arrested in a resort near Rimini at the end of September (cf. SAS 35/25). The two […]

Despite the progress made on an end to the war and genocide in Gaza since the ceasefire agreement was signed on Oct. 13 (cf. SAS 42/25), many hurdles remain, largely due to the resistance from the Netanyahu regime. On Oct. 18, the Prime Minister’s office announced that the gate to Rafah would not be opened as scheduled on Oct. 20 to […]

The Ambassador of the Palestinian Authority to Denmark, H.E. Prof. Dr. Manuel Hassassian, was interviewed for EIR on Oct. 14 by Helga Zepp-LaRouche. The ambassador has endorsed the Schiller Institute’s Oasis Plan, which he has carefully studied, on several occasions. In answer to the first question about the ceasefire agreement for Gaza, Ambassador Hassassian said it was a “breakthrough” and […]

Monday Oct. 13 may turn out to have been an historic day in South-West Asia. Mediators signed a ceasefire deal for Gaza in Sharm el-Sheikh, Hamas released all 20 of the remaining living Israeli hostages, and Israel released 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, some of whom had not been seen for decades, to shouts of joy and celebration. Much-needed humanitarian aid, medicine, […]

To avoid a return to the same cycle of violence in Israel and Palestine, a transcendental change is required, wrote former Speaker of the Knesset Avrum Burg in an insightful piece on Oct. 12 which we quote. “There are moments in history when not only states change but entire nations. It is not borders that are redrawn but consciousness itself; […]