Author: Christine Schier

The Chinese cities of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and the Hong Kong Special Administration Region are planning to design and build a maglev train system with a speed of 650 km per hour, that will link all three cities, and then extend elsewhere in China. The plan was disclosed at an Aug. 5 transportation infrastructure forum in Guangzhou, organized by the Chinese Academy […]

On Sunday Aug. 6, the 78th anniversary of the barbaric bombing of Hiroshima, dozens of parallel “Humanity for Peace” rallies across Europe, Ibero-America and the United States took place, led by a flagship rally in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in front of the United Nations in New York City, demanding peace and a new international security architecture that protects the interests […]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK), the son of Robert and nephew of President John F. Kennedy, is running for the Democratic Party nomination to the Presidency. In his video message to the New York “Humanity for Peace” rally, he said: “Today we’re closer to a nuclear exchange than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962. […]

The July 26 coup in Niger is the latest manifestation of the rejection of the West’s Malthusian policy sweeping over the global South. It is the fourth coup in West Africa, that has nearly liberated francophone Africa from France. On Aug. 6, Niger’s military leaders addressed a rally of tens of thousands of supporters in the national stadium. The same […]

On August 22-24, the BRICS Summit will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, and despite ongoing blackmail and pressure tactics coming from London and Washington, the heads of state or government of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa will take up their agenda of: 1) the expansion of the BRICS into “BRICS-Plus,” establishing the mechanism for inclusion of the […]

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, quoted by RT on Aug. 4, brought some clarity to the widely discussed issue of a “BRICS” currency. Introduction of a single BRICS currency is impossible right now but this does not mean that the issue should not be discussed, Peskov said. “Certainly, expert discussions are underway about the possibility, expediency and feasibility of plans to […]

The IMF’s most recent placing of Germany at the tail end of leading industrial nations, with a minus 0.3% GDP growth in 2023, is just one spectacular indicator of the deepening depression in the country. The assessment of the Munich-based research institute Ifo, a member of the government’s chief economic advisory council, is that “the situation of the German economy […]

Responding to the massive terror propaganda blaming human activity for the “unprecedented” extreme weather with storms in northern Italy and high temperatures in southern Italy (and southern Europe), the Italian Clintel group issued a statement July 30 refuting the campaign and characterizing climate policies as destructive. The statement is signed by Uberto Crescenti, Professor Emeritus of Applied Geology, University of […]

The over-hyped NATO Summit finally took place last week in Vilnius, Lithuania, with the expected talk about the “victory” of the West’s “rules-based order”. The reality, however, is that we have arrived at the end of the era in which the “unipolar world” was hegemonic and undisputed. The NATO final communiqué contains the standard attacks on Russia as the enemy […]

Drawing on the “painful experience” of his nation, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on U.S. President Biden and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy not to use cluster munitions in Ukraine. “It would be the greatest danger for Ukrainians for many years or up to a hundred years if cluster bombs are used in Russian-occupied areas in the territory of Ukraine,” […]