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There was a great deal of agreement among all speakers at the conference on the need to replace the current, unjust economic order, with its rapidly growing inequalities. EIR editor Dennis Small presented the Schiller Institute’s new “LaRouche Plan for a New International Economic Architecture,” and discussed the potential of how it could be implemented – since the trans-Atlantic powers […]

From France, Jacques Cheminade, President of the Solidarité et Progrès party, oopened the third panel of the conference, by presenting the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which brought an end to 150 years of wars and atrocities in Europe, as a necessary inspiration for securing a durable peace order on the planet today. The Westphalian peace was achieved by a change […]

The final panel of the Schiller Institute conference addressed on the urgent necessity of development for all nations on Earth. Dennis Speed, a leader of the LaRouche movement for many years, presented the work of the Committee for the Coincidence of Opposites founded by Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche and former Surgeon General of the United States Joycelyn Elders, stressing […]

Due to the Easter holidays, the next issue of your Strategic Alert Service will be dated April 28, 2022.

A unique combination of international experts from different fields will come together to discuss the urgent need for a new security and development architecture on April 9, 2022, starting 3 pm CET, for a Schiller Institute online conference. The preliminary program of this extraordinary event is provided below, as a supplement to this issue of your Strategic Alert Newsletter. (See […]

Italian economist and China expert Michele Geraci summarized the outcome of the 23rd EU-China summit, that took place by videoconference on April 1, with the following comment: “While [Chinese President] Xi’s message was one of detente, [EU Commission President Ursula] von der Leyen and [EU Council President Charles] Michel let loose with the usual, now inopportune repertoire: human rights, Xinjiang, […]

In the European Union, inflation continues to rise rapidly, reaching an average rate of 7.5% in March on an annualized basis (9.8% in Spain, 7.3% in Germany, 7.2% in Italy, 4.5% in France). ING bank’s The chief Eurozone economist of ING bank, Carsten Brzeski, among others, forecast double-digit inflation for Germany this year. Indeed, all the giant food store chains, […]

The media have been full of atrocious images, allegedly from the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, showing dozens of dead bodies on the ground, which the Ukrainian secret services claim were shot and killed by Russian troops some time before March 30. A few days earlier, videos had circulated showing Russian prisoners near Kharkiv being shot and maimed live, by soldiers […]

One factor tends to be forgotten in the ideologically heated debate now raging in the European Union over whether to implement a total embargo of Russian gas: the repercussions on the Russian economy would be less draconian than here. Of course, 73% of Russian gas exports go to Europe, but they only make up 11% of Russia’s total exports. So […]

The Ukraine-Russia military conflict, two nations that together provide 29% of the world’s wheat exports, has provoked a certain awareness of the precariousness of the world’s food supplies and the dangers of import dependency. For the EU, although food shortages are not yet an issue, the costs of ensuring the availability of food are soaring. The explosion of fossil fuel […]