A Swiss Startup Developing a Revolutionary Thorium Reactor

The Geneva-based Transmutex company is working on a new generation of nuclear power plant that burns thorium rather than uranium. As the company’s website explains, it is a “breakthrough energy process” based on using particle accelerators and thorium, which occurs abundantly in rocks. It is inherently safe, burns existing long-lived waste, is cost competitive and produces no carbon emissions. A […]

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Four Opposition Parties in Sweden Favor Nuclear Power

All four party leaders of the non socialist opposition in Sweden, including the Christian Deomocrats, Moderates and Liberals, which make up nearly half of the Swedish parliament, co-signed an op ed in Svenska Dagbladet (Feb.7), calling for the development of nuclear power. In light of skyrocketing electricity prices, and the expected doubling of consumption by 2045, they propose to redefine […]

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Argentina Signs Belt and Road MOU with China, Strengthens Ties With Russia

In a move that is without doubt causing panic among trans-Atlantic financial and geopolitical elites, on Feb. 6 Argentine President Alberto Fernández met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing to sign a joint statement announcing Argentina’s joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—the 20th nation of the Ibero-American/Caribbean region to do so. This came three days after Fernández’s very […]

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The “Everything Bubble” Is About to Burst

On Jan. 20, Jeremy Grantham, founder of the asset management firm GMO, warned that a “superbubble”, comprised of stocks, housing and commodities, will soon pop, wiping out $35 trillion in assets. This would be the fourth superbubble collapse in the last one hundred years, he wrote, after the stock bubbles which imploded in 1929 and 2000, and the housing bubble […]

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European Industry Wants Improved Cooperation With Russia

Important sections of European industry are breaking with the anti-Russian policy of the European Union. On Jan. 26, a delegation of the largest Italian corporations met Russian President Vladimir Putin in a videoconference, and on Jan. 27 it was made known that a similar meeting is being organized by German companies. The Jan. 26 meeting was organized by the Italy-Russia […]

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Calls from Germany for an Independent Diplomacy toward Russia

Among the main losers of the escalation of tensions between NATO and Russia, as Helga Zepp-LaRouche has emphasized for months now, is Europe, and in particular Germany. Not just economically, due to the deteriorating trade relations, and not just on the vital question of energy, as Nord Stream 2 continues to be blocked, but also, if it should come to […]

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