Author: Christine Schier

The foreign ministers of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) met in Cape Town, South Africa, June 1-2, to prepare the agenda of the heads of state summit in Johannesburg in just under three months. The five ministers were joined on the second day by their counterparts from 15 nations of the Global South, for a […]

The potential importance of the New Development Bank (NDB), that is, the bank founded by the BRICS in 2014-2015, can hardly be overstated, at a time when the trans-Atlantic financial system and its institutions have proven themselves unable and unwilling to finance real development and to work for the general welfare. That reality is increasingly clear in the Global South. […]

As if its obsession to fully convert the nation’s energy supply system to “renewables” by 2030 were not enough, the German government also plans to mandate the replacement of gas-powered heating systems by heat pumps. Their number is supposed to increase six-fold, up to total of six million pumps, with the electricity to operate them being provided to a significant […]

On May 23, the Agriculture Committee of the European Parliament voted to reject the EU’s “Nature Restoration Law” draft bill, and the next day the Fisheries Committee followed suit. This is good news, as the EU draft bill calls reducing for agricultural land and fishing areas and restoring wildlife and wetlands, allegedly to “save the planet”. The package includes cutting […]

The Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) of Ukraine published on May 31 a “Digest of Hate Speech by Russian Propagandists”, which twice accuses Schiller Institute founder and leader Helga Zepp-LaRouche of spreading Russian “hate speech” against both Ukraine and “its allies.” The CCD labels as “Russian propaganda” and “hate speech” any advocacy of peace with Russia, reference to any NATO […]

A five-member delegation of the Schiller Institute, led by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, paid an exciting and instructive one-week visit to China at the end of May. Through their numerous discussions and tours, the participants, from Germany, France and Sweden, were able to get a good sense of developments in the country and open new circles of friends. As for their interlocutors, […]

On June 10, 1963, less than eight months after his nearly-catastrophic confrontation with the Soviet Union over nuclear missiles the latter had placed in Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy (JFK) delivered a speech which must be heard by everyone concerned about the existential threat coming from NATO’s war against Russia in Ukraine. The decision taken by JFK in Oct. […]

For all their blustering about “human rights” and “moral superiority”, the trans-Atlantic powers are pursuing a policy of confrontation and war, on all fronts. With China, after the “chip war” initiated by the U.S. government, the Chinese government has now ordered a ban on the purchase of chips from the U.S. manufacturer Micron. The Biden Administration denounced the move as […]

While there has been much diplomacy in favor of a negotiated settlement to the war in Ukraine, the war party in the West, led by the British, as well as President Zelenskyy’s inner circle, are working to sabotage them. To begin with the former initiatives, Brazil’s President Lula da Silva has been actively organizing his “peace club” since the G7 […]

The almost unprecedented economic sanctions applied against Russia have not achieved the desired results, due to the refusal of the “non-West” to go along. That reality was recently acknowledged in two prominent British publications, The Spectator and the Telegraph. Alastair Crooke, a former senior British diplomat with almost 30 years of career at MI6, reported on the admission on May […]