Author: Christine Schier

At the same time U.S. Secretary of State Blinken was consolidating a U.S.-U.K. agreement to provide long-range missiles to Kiev to strike deep in Russian territory, he released a lengthy State Department Fact Sheet, which detailed U.S. sanctions against RT, its owner Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian news outlets, and anyone working with them. Speaking to the press on Sept. […]

A great friend and political ally of the Anglo-American war machine has come out in support of Kamala Harris for President. Dick Cheney, the infamous Vice President of President George W. Bush (2001-2009), wrote on Sept. 6 that “In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump…. […]

Engineer, astronaut, and classically trained violinist Sarah Gillis was part of the four-person crew on the Polaris Dawn mission, that lifted off on Sept. 10 and splashed safely down on Earth five days later. This commercial spaceflight, operated by Space X and funded by billionaire Jared Isaacman who was part of the crew, was the first human mission since 1972 […]

An extraordinary dialogue took place on Sept. 6, at the 66th consecutive weekly meeting online of the International Peace Coalition (IPC), that brought together scientific, military and political experts, all of whom addressed different facets of the insane policy being pursued by the leaders of the United States and Europe. Insane because their goal, warned Helga Zepp-LaRouche in opening the […]

Ambassador Jack Matlock is one of America’s most respected retired diplomats. A scholar of Russian history and culture, he was posted to Moscow for the first time in 1961, and remained Washington’s man on the scene for most of the Cold War. In 1987, he was chosen by President Reagan for the crucial post of ambassador to the Soviet Union, […]

As NATO’s Ukraine Contact group met again last week at Germany’s Ramstein Air Base, pledging to continue the war against Russia, the intelligence chiefs of the United States and United Kingdom jointly affirmed their commitment to coordinate their efforts in an unprecedented fashion: co-authoring an op-ed for the Sept. 7 issue of the Financial Times (FT), followed by a joint […]

Eight weeks after the second round of the French legislative elections, on Sept. 5, French President Emmanuel Macron finally nominated Michel Barnier as his Prime Minister. A member of “The Republicans” party, Barnier has been involved in local, national and European policies since 1973. He was Foreign Affairs Minister under Jacques Chirac, and twice held the position of European Commissioner, […]

Streamlining of production processes and resorting to part-time as opposed to full-time jobs are methods that have been massively used in German industry over the past years. In the automobile sector, for instance, total employment was 42,000 jobs less in 2023 than in 2018, when it was 822,000. But these were gradual shifts over several years. Today, deindustrialization has hit […]

In his discussion at the Ambrosetti Forum in Cernobbio, Italy, on Sept. 6, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán revealed that he continues to pursue his peace effort, but no longer publicly, as he had done initially with his surprise visits in July to Kyiv, Moscow, Beijing and Washington (cf. SAS 28-31/24). He had sent reports to his EU colleagues “within […]

The ninth annual Eastern Economic Forum, held over Sept. 3-6 in Vladivostok, Russia, welcomed over 7,000 guests from 75 countries, primarily high-level officials and business people. A total of 258 agreements were signed, amounting to 5.4 trillion rubles ($59.7 billion), with a special emphasis given to building a large new chemical complex in Komi Republic and a new timber processing complex […]