Author: Christine Schier

The UN Security Council, at the request of Russia, held an emergency session on Aug. 26 on the circumstances surrounding the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines. Schiller Institute chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche backed such a request, calling for the establishment of an independent investigative committee. The need for such emergency action emerged after the rather astounding arrest in Italy, on […]

On Aug. 22, a United Nations-backed body “officially” declared that famine conditions exist in the Gaza Governate. “After 22 months of relentless conflict, over half a million people in the Gaza Strip are facing catastrophic conditions characterized by starvation, destitution and death”, and over one million more face “emergency” conditions, according to the findings of the Integrated Food Security Phase […]

Paul Davies is a global banking analyst for Bloomberg News, who previously worked for the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal. This is not a pedigree that inspires confidence, but his blunt judgment on the negative consequences of the Trump administration’s “crypto” financial policy is correct, and overlaps with what we have written here. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is […]

Further actions taken by President Trump’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard continue to shake up the Washington apparatus often referred to as the “deep state”, especially in the intelligence community, as we have reported in previous issues (cf. SAS 30-34/25). * On Aug. 18, Tulsi Gabbard announced she would remove the security clearances of 37 former and current […]

The first round of Bolivia’s presidential elections on Aug. 17 gave the best results to two neoliberals — Rodrigo Paz Pereira and Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga – one of whom will win the runoff election scheduled for October. Their results, while not unexpected, raise grave concerns about the future of the crisis-ridden country, but also about how this may destabilize relations […]

The two-day High-Level Conference on Implementation of a two-state solution for Palestine and Israel, that took place at the United Nations on July 28-29, could have been, and should have been, the occasion for world governments to intervene forcefully to stop the tragedy unfolding in front of their eyes. That did not happen and no one actually expected it to. […]

When a high Vatican prelate compares the massacre perpetrated in Gaza by the Israeli government to the Holocaust, such allegations cannot be longer ignored. And when a prominent Israeli figure does the same, it is the moral duty of all to join that call. They, of course, are not the first to do so, but they represent a palpable waking-up, […]

One narrative circulating among pro-Trump populists is that the GENIUS Act is Trump’s Machiavellian strategy to destroy the power of the financial oligarchy through the creation of a currency system alternative to the system of “private” central banks. Whereas the latter is a problem in terms of private control of government finances, the suggested solution is worse than the problem […]

In the last week, the European Commission took a series of steps, all of which went against the interests of EU member states. The only good thing about them is that they have eroded, perhaps decisively, the support for Ursula von der Leyen in the European Council and the European Parliament – not to speak of her support among citizens […]

While Europe’s political and military elites announce one rearmament project after another, a growing number of citizens are asking when something will finally be done to reverse the collapse of industrial production and to improve the populations’ living conditions. In the case of Germany, Ukraine is receiving five billion euros worth of new weapons, but the government seems to have […]