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The following statement was made by Schiller Institute Chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche in opening her international webcast on Dec. 31. “This coming year is going to be one in which a lot of very crucial strategic issues will come to a head, where humanity is being confronted with choosing a path; a path to either solutions which will bring mankind into […]

The idea proposed by Helga Zepp-LaRouche to make 2022 the “Year of LaRouche” is not an honorific request, shaped simply by a desire to see that an intellectual giant, the late Lyndon LaRouche (1922–2019), is given the recognition he richly deserves. It is, instead, a necessary intervention to provide both world leaders and honorable citizens the profound, in-depth insight required […]

On Jan. 3, 2022, the heads of state and government of five nuclear weapons states, which are also the permanent members of the UN Security Council, issued a declaration stating, for the first time, that “nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought”. It further declares that nuclear weapons should only “serve defensive purposes, deter aggression, and prevent […]

The Schiller Institute issued on Dec. 31 a lengthy memorandum with the above title, which gives an overview over the last 30 years of the buildup of NATO forces against Russia. Today, it notes, Ukraine is being used by geopolitical forces in the West “as the flashpoint to trigger a strategic showdown with Russia,” which could well end up in […]

The year 2022 opens under the full impact of the hyperinflation of energy prices. As natural gas prices have increased sixfold on the future markets, authorities in many member states of the European Union have already allowed consumer price increases of over 50% for electricity. But growing energy costs have started to drive consumer prices up across the board, and […]

During their first few weeks in power in Berlin, the Greens have used every chance to confirm their allegiance to the financial elites behind the “green deal” and the Great Reset, and to the transatlantic “war party”. Nowhere is this more glaring than in connection with Russia, although China is not far behind, while their “climate” and energy agenda, if […]

Just prior to the Christmas holidays, Greek parliamentarian Panagiotis Kouroumplis stood up in Parliament and denounced the New Democracy-led government for murder. This came in reaction to an official report, which detailed the failure of the Greek health system to deal with the COVID 19 pandemic. It pointed in particular to the ICU beds in private hospitals whose incompetent operation […]

In an interview given to EIR and the Schiller Institute on Dec. 20, economist Justin Yifu Lin provides useful insight into the thinking behind Beijing’s development policy, which dovetails in many respects with the approach developed by Lyndon LaRouche. Justin Lin was Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at the World Bank from 2008 to 2012, and is now the […]

On Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2021, at 7:20 a.m. EST, the James Webb Space Telescope was flawlessly launched from the ESA’s Kourou Space Center in French Guiana. NASA tweeted: “the beginning of a new, exciting decade of science climbed to the sky. Webb’s mission to #UnfoldTheUniverse will change our understanding of space as we know it.” The director general of […]

On Aug. 30, one day ahead of schedule, U.S. Central Command chief Gen. Frank McKenzie officially announced “the end of the military component of the evacuation,” and “the end of the nearly 20-year mission that began in Afghanistan shortly after Sept. 11, 2001.” The withdrawal also signifies, although the commander did not say so, the end of a failed system, […]