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Within days after Russia launched its “special military operation” in Ukraine on Feb. 24, the West unleashed what it called “the largest sanctions in history,” including the “nuclear financial option”, which involved banning seven Russian banks from the SWIFT financial system. A few weeks later, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that, as a result of those sanctions, the […]

Amidst the many demands made on all countries but their own by the G7’s Foreign Ministers at their May 14 meeting (cf. above), they issued an outrageously insulting statement on China to which Beijing gave a swift and stinging response. The G7 officials call on China “not to assist Russia in its war of aggression” or “undermine sanctions imposed on […]

Diane Sare of The LaRouche Organization is running for Senate in New York State against incumbent democrrat Sen. Charles Schumer, a leading proponent of the “war party” and the Green New Deal in the United States. She released a video statement on May 15, in response to the senseless slaughter of ten people in Buffalo one day earlier, by a […]

The world witnessed two major events on May 9: the traditional parade in Moscow, on the anniversary of the victory over Nazism in WWII, and the simultaneous Europe Day in Strasbourg. Two events, two world views: the geopolitical conception of “blocs” armed against each other vs. international law based on sovereign nations. The irony is that whereas weapons were exhibited […]

Pope Francis set off a storm of protest by suggesting in an interview to Corriere della Sera published May 3 that NATO might share responsibility for the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. While clearly denouncing the “atrocities” of the war, he noted that NATO had been “barking at Russia’s gate”, in other words engaging in hostile provocations of Moscow. However, outside […]

The European Union announced the sixth round of sanctions against Russia last week which, like the previous five, is supposed to “destroy” the Russian capacity to finance the war in Ukraine. But, if approved, it will help destroy the European economies. The new sanctions are imposed on 58 individuals, among whom alleged Bucha criminals, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov’s family and […]

An online petition against Western escalation of the war in Ukraine, that quickly gathered over a quarter of a million signatures last week, has helped shift the balance in the public debate in Germany against the war party. Signed by 28 senior intellectuals and artists, the open letter to Chancellor Scholz warns an uncontrolled spiral toward nuclear war. The main […]

If Sweden and Finland decide to join NATO and give up their policy of non alignment, it would dramatically transform the Baltic Sea region, where tensions were low even during the Cold War, into a zone of high tension. For most to two centuries, it has been a common understanding among the coastal nations, that the Baltic Sea should remain […]

Despite the tremendous hype about NATO being the only rampart against autocracies and totalitarianism, only 14% of Austrians polled are in favor of their country joining the military alliance, while 75% are against, according to the results of a poll commissioned by the Austrian Press Agency that were announced last week. The respondents are thus very much in favor of […]

On May 7, SAS co-editor Claudio Celani was invited to give a presentation for the “Bürger für Bürger” (Citizens for the Citizens) organization in the vicinity of Zürich, Switzerland, on the connections between the economy, climate policies and war. At the well-attended event, Celani was introduced by BfB chairman Dr. Markus Erb, who spoke of the war in Ukraine and […]