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Only a political solution is possible for Afghanistan, and such a political solution is possible only if a common interest is found, based on a national development program among all components of Afghan society. This was the conclusion of a five-hour webinar sponsored by the Schiller Institute on July 31, involving diplomats and experts from many nations, including Afghanistan, Russia, […]

Meetings held between U.S.Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and leading officials of China and Russia opened the prospect for an improvement of relations, after reaching new lows at the end of the Trump administration and the beginning of the Biden presidency. Sherman met with Chinese of ficials in Tianjin on July 25-6, followed by a meeting with her Russian […]

“We are at a very precious moment of history in Afghanistan, and actually in terms of universal history”, said Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche at the July 29 webinar (see above). “There are long periods where states and people just continue a trend, they sort of muddle through, they find patterns. And then, there are what is called in German […]

Pino Arlacchi, who has a decades-long experience in Afghani stan first as director of the UN Narcotics office and eventually as Rapporteur on Afghanistan for the European Parliament, called for letting Afghanistan decide its destiny on its own or, at most, together with its neighbors. Central Asia is not an unstable region, and Afghanistan’s neighbors have been growing at respectable […]

The new EU Commission guidelines for investments in the infrastructure sector pose uncertainties about what will be possible in the future. That applies not only to the necessary reconstruction of the infrastructure destroyed by the mid-July flash floods in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, but also to projects in general in Europe, On July 29, the EU Commission published its […]

World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley made a strong intervention in the July 26–28 Rome World Food Systems Pre-Summit, focusing on ending hunger for millions. Prince Charles, in contrast, complained that people are eating too much and pushed the greening of food production, and serving “nature” apart from human beings. In a call for action, Beasley said: “While the […]

While there seems to be a consensus among media and political figures alike to blame the near 200 victims of the recent flood disaster in Germany and Belgium on “climate change”, one of the major aspects of the disaster that should be looked into, is the role of “environmental” groups that prevented or delayed necessary flood protection measures. Exactly this […]

An online international conference will be sponsored on Saturday, July 24 by the Schiller Institute under the title: “There Is No ‘Climate Emergency’ –Apply the Science and Economics of Development to Stop Blackouts and Death.” The invitation follows: “The shift out of high-density electricity generation –coal and nuclear –into low-energy-dense, unreliable wind and solar, has reached the stage of pending […]

The 14th of July generally evokes the storming of the Bastille, but it may also be remembered in the future as the day the EU Commission launched the storming of European industry. Indeed, it was on July 14, 2021 that Brussels presented its insane plan to reduce CO2 emissions by 55% by 2030, called “Fit For 55”. Two measures stand […]

The catastrophic rainfalls that killed nearly 200 people in Western Germany and Belgium, and drowned entire villages in veritable flash floods, were immediately claimed to be due to “man-made climate change” by all sorts of voices that demand even more energetic measures to curb CO2 emissions. But the fact is that there have always been floods, droughts and other extreme […]