Author: Christine Schier

On May 11, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued an “urgent warning” to residents of central Rafah to immediately evacuate the area, which would soon become a “dangerous combat zone”, and go immediately to the “humanitarian zone” in the coastal area of Al Mawasi. Likewise, Palestinians in the northern Gaza camp of Jabalia, have been told to evacuate to Gaza […]

With 143 yeas, 9 nays and 25 abstentions, the UN General Assembly passed a draft resolution in a special session May 10, stating that “the State of Palestine is qualified for membership in the United Nations” under its Charter rules. This initiative was motivated by the fact that the UN Security Council had failed to grant Palestine full membership on […]

Given the extreme danger for the survival of the Palestinian population, South Africa filed on May 10 a new request for emergency measures with the UN’s International Court of Justice at The Hague. It asks the court to order Israel to “cease its military offensive” in Rafah and to allow delivery of humanitarian aid as well as “unimpeded access” for […]

The wave of campus protests against U.S. support for Israel’s deadly assault on the population of Gaza began inauspiciously with the takeover of the Brown University (Rhode Island) administration building on Nov. 8, 2023. Among the demands of the students was for a printout of the university’s financial relationship with the Israeli government and military establishment, and of investments of […]

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius’ two-day visit to the United States May 9-10 was above all a shopping spree for U.S.-made military equipment. Among his purchases were three complete units of HIMARS long-range missile launchers to be shipped to Ukraine, as well as 60 twin-engine “Chinook” transport helicopters, produced at a Philadelphia Boeing helicopter factory which Pistorius visited May 9. […]

China’s overall trade grew in April with both exports and particularly imports increasing from a year earlier, further indicating strengthening expansion in China’s economy. Exports rose by 1.5% from a year earlier in dollar terms, meaning the growth was significantly larger in volume of goods, given the dollar’s appreciation over that year. Imports were up by 8.4%, in part for […]

As usual, Lyndon LaRouche’s “typical collapse function” helps explain developments of last week. Western elites are operating within the constraints of the collapsing financial system, constraints that force them to both escalate global tensions and de-industrialize their own economies. Tensions escalated as French President Emmanuel Macron and British Foreign Minister Cameron raised the possibility of sending (NATO member country) troops […]

As University administrators collaborate with local police to silence dissent on campuses, Congressmen are racing to enact legislation to empower a thought police to monitor “anti-Semitism” and “extremism” which they claim leads to “violence and intimidation”. Leaders of both political parties in the U.S. are falsely denouncing protesters as anti-Semites and pro-Hamas, and have called for many to be arrested […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping began his first visit to Europe since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic on May 6, amid tremendous financial and geopolitical turbulence worldwide, and the acute danger of world war. Beginning in France, his trip will also take him to Serbia and Hungary. By all accounts, both from China-bashers and from those in favor of cooperation, […]

First was decoupling, then de-risking, now it is “overcapacity”: U.S. and EU leaders have no trouble in finding narratives to justify geopolitical hostility to China. During U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s recent visit to China, he pointed to the “unfair trade practices” and the potential consequences of “industrial overcapacity” for global and U.S. markets. In China a few days […]