Author: Christine Schier

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 […]

How does one create an exit strategy from a trap of one’s own making, which has resulted from miscalculation, hubris and blunders, while bringing the world closer to nuclear war, and still put a positive spin on what is recognized by most as a humiliating defeat for oneself? This is the task now facing President Donald Trump, as his decision […]

The trap the Trump administration has fallen into regarding Iran has led Western media to promote the narrative that there is “no strategy” behind the Israeli-American attack. Regardless of the operation’s success or failure, this narrative clashes with the policy outlined in the two U.S. strategic papers published in December 2025 and January 2026: the National Security Strategy of the […]

The Schiller Institute has called for an urgent international mobilization to stop the war against Iran and its potential escalation even to the use of nuclear weapons. In an open letter to Pope Leo XIV on March 9, Schiller Institute chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche urges the Holy Father, in the spirit of the great Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, to help bring […]

At the March 13 weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition, which was co-founded by the Schiller Institute, Helga Zepp-LaRouche suggested this may be the right time to revive the proposal for a “dialogue among civilizations” first made by former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami to counter the widespread theory of a “clash of civilizations”. In 1998, on his suggestion, the […]

A preliminary court ruling handed down on Feb. 26, may turn out to be an important factor in the profound shifts now underway in Germany’s political landscape. On that day, the Cologne Administrative Court ruled that the right-wing Alternative for Germany party (AfD) may no longer be classified as “confirmed right-wing extremist”. The injunction had been requested by the AfD […]

This was a most opportune time, as it turned out, to hold the 2026 Nuclear Energy Summit, hosted by the French government in cooperation with the International Agency of Atomic Energy (IAEA). It was on the backdrop of soaring energy insecurity and geopolitical tensions that many world leaders, government ministers and heads of industry and international financial institutions met in […]