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The EU “RearmEurope” plan and the German rearmament plan are officially motivated by two emergencies: the Russian military threat and Donald Trump’s intention to deprive Europe of the American nuclear umbrella. Don’t believe it. In reality, the current drive for a war economy is the latest phase of a permanent bailout of the international financial system, the most recent stage […]

In a much-awaited verdict, a Paris court ruled on March 31 that Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s National Rally (RN), was guilty of embezzlement of public funds, and banned her from running for public office for a period of five years – with immediate effect. Marine Le Pen immediately announced she would file an appeal against the « politically […]

Caught in the political gray zone between an outgoing government and a yet-to be-formed new one, Germany has engaged in an adventurist march into confrontation with Russia, which can only have catastrophic consequences. Burying the era of detente, expected new Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) and the current and likely new Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD), as well as the Inspector […]

The first guest speaker at the March 27 International Peace Coalition meeting was former Iranian Ambassador to Germany Seyed Hossein Mousavian, who gave a very competent overview of the policy orientations of the current government in Tehran. As for President Trump’s policy, he said that the policy statements he made before taking office were quite supportive of a new agreement […]

China is prepared to build the world’s first Xinghuo fusion-fission hybrid power plant, with the goal of generating 100 MW of continuous electricity and connecting it to the grid by the end of the decade. After first announcing the project in 2022, the facility is now to be built on Yaohu Science Island, in the high-tech zone of Nanchang, Jiangxi […]

Following a first high-level meeting between American and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia on Feb. 18, and the phone call just one month later between Presidents Trump and Putin, technical delegations from the two countries met for several hours in Riyadh on March 24 behind closed doors. As expected, no official public statements were produced at the conclusion. Just as […]

n a number of recent interventions, Russian President Putin has put the BRICS grouping at the center of the discussion of the needed new security order. He did so, as we reported, on the very important occasion of his first response to President Trump’s ceasefire proposal for Ukraine, on March 13, in which he thanked not only the U.S. President, […]

If Donald Trump manages to carry through on his plan to normalize relations between the United States and Russia completely, one area that would benefit greatly from cooperation is space research and travel. Here, the openings are virtually unlimited, going from the short-term, such as defense of the entire planet against such natural threats as asteroids, to the long-term colonization […]

According to the March 8 Financial Times, five days after the national elections in Germany, election winner Friedrich Merz had lunch with acting Finance Minister Jörg Kukies. “At lunchtime last Friday [Feb. 28], Germany’s chancellor-to-be received a sobering briefing on the state of the economy from finance minister Jörg Kukies. Kukies explained that after two years of stagnation and with […]

The unprecedented militarization and infrastructure programs that were signed into law after passing the Bundestag and the Bundesrat last week (cf. SAS 12/25), provide for €400 billion in defense spending (to be financed by debt) and €500 bn in infrastructure projects, largely defense-related. To recruit the Greens into the alliance of the CDU-CSU and SPD, the CDU Chancellor candidate Friedrich […]