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A conference took place in Beijing on Sept. 23-24 on the theme “Exchanges and Mutual Learning: Respecting the Diversity of Civilizations”, organized by the China International Communications Group (CICG) and the Academy of Contemporary China and World Studies. It gathered hundreds of delegates and high-ranking officials from China and all over the world, including Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, for […]

At the high-level General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly that began on Sept. 23, just as our newsletter was put to bed, the dominant issue is and should be the ongoing genocide being perpetrated against two million Palestinians in Gaza and, increasingly, in the West Bank. In the days before the opening of the session, important nations such […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump held an telephone call on Sept. 19, which was highly anticipated and much-needed, given the tense relationship between the two countries over the last few years and the uncertainty surrounding the second Trump Administration. The draconian tariffs on China, which have been intermittently mooted by President Trump in his somewhat loose […]

In a major strategic move concerning the entire Middle East and beyond, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Saudi Arabian Prime Minister and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman signed a Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement on Sept. 17. This brings Pakistan as a nuclear power into the circle of Arab states, that are now more seriously challenging Israel’s genocide in Gaza […]

In a webcast on Aug. 27, Schiller Institute Chair Helga Zepp-LaRouche warned against the coming financial tsunami. If overindebted countries such as the United States, France, and other European countries try to pay the debt by printing money or creating private cryptocurrencies, “we are looking at a potential repeat of 1923, only this time, not in one country but all […]

During Donald Trump’s first term as President, leading figures in the City of London were apoplectic over fears that his presidency would mean an end to the “Special Relationship”, a phrase coined by Winston Churchill to describe the strategic partnership between the U.S. and U.K. whose purpose was to defend the interests of a British-directed empire. Russiagate was launched by […]

Faced with growing international and domestic pressure, it is increasingly difficult for the German government to maintain its dual policy approach on Gaza of claiming to be against Hamas and for the Palestinian population. At the same time, it is no longer credible to evoke Germany’s “special historical obligation” to support Israel because of the Nazi holocaust, as an argument […]

On international Children’s Day, September 20, an initiative called “Musik für Menschlichkeit – Music for Humanity” held flashmobs with classical music in at least two German cities, Berlin and Rostock, with musicians from different philharmonics and opera houses. Among their slogans were “When humanity is violated, art is not allowed to stay silent” and “Music against Silence”. The patron of […]

One of the most important announcements to be made after the trilateral meeting of the Presidents of Mongolia, China and Russia on Sept. 2 was the agreement to construct the massive Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline. With a planned capacity of transporting 50 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year for 30 years, the pipeline will go from […]

The desperate attempt by the global financial oligarchy to hold on to its bankrupt system is driving Western nations into ruinous policies of war and economic mayhem, while at the same time catalyzing in the non-Western world the formation of alternative systems for financial transactions, for political consultations, and for scientific and cultural cooperation. That has been evident in many […]