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The visit to the United States last weekend by a delegation of Alternative for Germany (AfD) politicians and their prominent reception by Republican politicians have freaked out the mainstream parties in Germany, as they provide insight into how the Trump Administration’s new security doctrine intends to shake up the political landscape in Europe by supporting opposition parties. Chancellor Merz, in […]

The tragic mass murder of Jews in Sydney, Australia, at a Hanukkah celebration on Dec. 14, could trigger the next round of war in Southwest Asia. At least 15 celebrants have died so far, with another 40 in serious condition, victims of gunfire from two Muslims in what has been described by Australian officials as an act of terrorism. Israeli […]

The Schiller Institute in Denmark held a highly successful diplomatic seminar on Dec. 11, attended by 14 diplomats from 10 countries, with guest speakers H.E. Ambassador Prof. Dr. Manuel Hassassian and Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who traveled to Copenhagen from Germany. The title of the seminar was “Can There Finally Be Peace Through Development Between an Independent Palestine, Israel and the […]

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the founder and CEO of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, had been designated two months ago by Donald Trump to join him on the “Board of Peace” responsible for overseeing a permanent peace for Gaza. His potential appointment, however, ran up against huge opposition in Arab and Muslim countries, and beyond. Those […]

The weekly online meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) on Dec. 12 featured a discussion on the turning point in history caused by the release of the National Security Strategy (NSS) by the Trump Administration, dated November 2025 (cf. SAS 50/25). The opening speakers were Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Schiller Institute leader and initiator of the IPC; Alastair Crooke, diplomat having served […]

Dear Reader, thanks to your response to our call for financial support, we are now closer to end the year with a balanced budget. There is still a big gap to be filled, but we are better off than a few weeks ago. Your help shows us that you appreciate our unique capability to think strategically and to understand “in […]

Following the release by the Trump administration on Dec. 4 of its National Security Strategy, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the international Schiller Institute, drafted an article calling for withdrawal from the NATO military alliance, as a first step toward a new world peace order freed from geopolitics. Her call, although directed more specifically to Germany, applies to all member countries. […]

Helga Zepp-LaRouche goes on in her article (cf. above) to note that while the American and Russian governments discuss ending the war in Ukraine through negotiations, the European “coalition of the willing”, consisting of Germany, France, Great Britain, Poland, the Baltic states, and the EU Commission, continues under the illusion that it could inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia, the […]

The National Security Strategy of the United States 2025 sent waves of panic through European capitals and Brussels, which are harshly, but not unjustly, criticized in it. There are many good objections one could raise on the paper, but the most important aspect, strategically, is that it represents a complete break with the post-war “unipolar world” order, which has brought […]

Justin Yifu Lin, a prominent Chinese economist who served as the World Bank’s first Chief Economist from a developing country and is currently member of China’s State Council, forecast a bursting of the AI bubble in a speech given at the Fudan Chief Economists Forum in Shanghai on Nov. 23. “In my view, during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030), […]