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It’s always useful for Europeans to look outside of their own “box” to recognize that, in other parts of the world, ambitious, optimistic plans are being made to shape the future. Thus, in just a few days, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will be convening its largest summit ever, with leaders from over 20 countries and heads of 10 international […]

It’s an irony of history that the announcement that Larry Fink and André Hoffmann, respectively heads of BlackRock and of the Hoffmann-LaRoche pharma giant, will take over the chairmanship of the World Economic Forum, came on the eve of the Vladivostok Economic Forum (VEF), which will take place from Sept. 3 to Sept. 6. BlackRock needs no introduction, while André […]

Just one week after the very promising meeting in Alaska of Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump (cf. SAS 34/25), Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recorded an interview on Aug. 22 with Kristen Welker for “Meet the Press” on NBC News. In the course of the 53 minute discussion, the Russian diplomat systematically refuted the constructs and outright […]

The UN Security Council, at the request of Russia, held an emergency session on Aug. 26 on the circumstances surrounding the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines. Schiller Institute chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche backed such a request, calling for the establishment of an independent investigative committee. The need for such emergency action emerged after the rather astounding arrest in Italy, on […]

On Aug. 22, a United Nations-backed body “officially” declared that famine conditions exist in the Gaza Governate. “After 22 months of relentless conflict, over half a million people in the Gaza Strip are facing catastrophic conditions characterized by starvation, destitution and death”, and over one million more face “emergency” conditions, according to the findings of the Integrated Food Security Phase […]

Paul Davies is a global banking analyst for Bloomberg News, who previously worked for the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal. This is not a pedigree that inspires confidence, but his blunt judgment on the negative consequences of the Trump administration’s “crypto” financial policy is correct, and overlaps with what we have written here. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is […]

Further actions taken by President Trump’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard continue to shake up the Washington apparatus often referred to as the “deep state”, especially in the intelligence community, as we have reported in previous issues (cf. SAS 30-34/25). * On Aug. 18, Tulsi Gabbard announced she would remove the security clearances of 37 former and current […]

The first round of Bolivia’s presidential elections on Aug. 17 gave the best results to two neoliberals — Rodrigo Paz Pereira and Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga – one of whom will win the runoff election scheduled for October. Their results, while not unexpected, raise grave concerns about the future of the crisis-ridden country, but also about how this may destabilize relations […]

The first half of August saw progress in the cause of peace through development and cooperation. This was the basis for the mid-August meeting between Presidents Putin and Trump in Anchorage and further developments, including a possible peace agreement for Ukraine. (On the latter,  Donald Trump forced reluctant EU leaders to accept his conditions in the meeting with President Zelenskyy […]

The beginning of Autumn this year could turn out to be a major political Spring, if the call by Helga Zepp-LaRouche and others for a Three Leaders Summit is successful. Indeed, on Sept. 3, China will celebrate the end of the war with Japan, that is, the end of WWII, with a big military parade to which all world leaders […]