Category: ENGLISH

Following the March 29 New York Times lengthy article titled “The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine” (cf. SAS 15/25), the Times of London ran its own article covering the British side of the operations. The latter makes clear that the British military, from its Ministry of Defense to its various intelligence branches, was involved at every […]

Roughly one thousand Israeli Air Force reservists, 60 of them still on active duty, issued a public letter on April 10 charging that the Netanyahu government is continuing its war in Gaza at the expense of the hostages for personal political, rather than security reasons. The active duty reservists who signed were thrown out of the military the next day. […]

The necessity of re-introducing into the United States an economic policy modeled on that of Alexander Hamilton has been scarcely taken up in America itself, outside of Lyndon LaRouche, who was the recognized expert on the subject, and his growing political movement. Particularly now, when President Trump claims he wants to end the excesses of globalization and make America a […]

Two major flash points dominated the strategic news this week. First, was the announcement by U.S. President Trump of blanket tariffs on imports to the United States, which set off a stock market collapse amid a mixture of warranted and unwarranted warnings about the collapse of the entire globalized system. The tariffs, that go into effect April 9, come on […]

On April 2, Donald Trump announced tariffs on imports from all nations, including a 20% tariff on imports from the European Union and a 34% tariff on imports from China. Attentive observers see this as consistent with the American leader’s drive to destructure the globalization system pivoted on the World Trade Organization and as a means to force trade partners […]

In her article posted on CGTN, Helga Zepp-LaRouche quotes from the White House official statement on tariffs, which mentions “China, Germany, Japan and South Korea” as countries that “suppress the domestic consumption power of their own citizens” to artificially boost their exports. But these are very different countries, notes Zepp-LaRouche. “While China has lifted nearly 850 million of its own […]

While the political class in the West is hysterically focused on whether the tariffs ordered by President Trump will blow out the world financial system, there are serious discussions proceeding on the implementation of a new development architecture. At the center of this process are Russian officials and their counterparts among the BRICS nations, including especially nations from the Global […]

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was in Moscow March 31-April 2 for high-level talks on strategic issues such as the Ukraine war, BRICS and bilateral cooperation, and to prepare the upcoming trip of President Xi Jinping on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, celebrated on May 9 in Russia. The Russian President will […]

One of the most important and controversial panels at this year’s Moscow Economic Forum, April 1-2, was entitled: “Is it Time To Nationalize the Central Bank of Russia?” A very timely issue for the MEF, which was founded in 2013 by businessmen and economists, including from the Russian Academy of Sciences, as an alternative to the neoliberal-dominated economic forums dating […]

Tentative new Chancellor Friedrich Merz cannot avoid granting some concessions to the Social Democrats (SPD) in return for forming a coalition government with his Christian Democrats. But there are a number of rebels within his party who threaten not to vote for him as Chancellor if he does make those concessions. In an interview April 7 with Süddeutsche Zeitung, Johannes […]