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Touring the flooded areas on July 18, German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivered a torrent of climate hysteria, featuring the absurd statement: “The German language hardly knows any words for the devastation that has been caused here.” She might have tried the word Nachlässigkeit, German for “negligence.” Apparently, the government had meteorological warnings, beginning July 10, that heavy rains were likely […]

At recent meetings and conferences held in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the stabilization of Afghanistan following the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops was high on the agenda. An important flank involves integrating the country into two major international connectivity projects: the China Pakistan Economic Corridor and the North South International Transportation Corridor from St.Petersburg, Russia, through Central Asia and Iran, […]

An urgent task in the future reconstruction of the Afghanistan economy is the elimination of opium plantations, which today provide 80% of the world’s heroin. Pino Arlacchi, the former UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) director from 1997 to 2002, told EIR by phone, that Afghanistan today, with the help of China, could eliminate its opium production by implementing […]

A number of Western companies, financial institutions, and political organizations have called for disinvestment from Africa’s fossil fuels as part of the drive to reach the goal of “net zero emissions” imposed by the climate change lobby. In response, the African Energy Chamber (AEC), which represents African firms engaged in developing the continent’s fossil fuels, issued a July 13 statement […]

On July 11, protests broke out in several Cuban cities, as citizens took to the streets to complain about energy blackouts, food and medicine shortages that have intensified in recent months as the COVID-19 pandemic worsened. This was not the “social explosion” that Western governments and globalist media claimed, but rather the product of a sophisticated social media campaign organized […]

The above is the title of an article written by Helga Zepp- LaRouche on July 10, following the withdrawal of most Western troops from Afghanistan. If anything positive is now to come out of the 20 years of war waged there by the United States and NATO, she cautions, then the West must urgently examine why and how that intervention […]

The many projects already planned for modern transportation lines in and through Afghanistan need to be implemented immediately, Helga Zepp-LaRouche urges in her article, to integrate it into a development perspective. Of course they pose “considerable engineering challenges” given the rugged geography of the country, “but the shared vision of overcoming poverty and underdevelopment combined with the expertise and cooperation […]

In the shadow of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban have given both Russia and China assurances that they welcome their investments and will protect their interests in Afghanistan. Talks were held on July 8 in Moscow between Russia’s Special Presidential Envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov and a Taliban delegation on future relations. The political spokesman of the latter, […]

At a moment when officials in Russia and the United States correctly assert that relations between them are at the “lowest level” in years, any change immediately attracts scrutiny and speculation. Such was the case following the phone call on July 9 between Presidents Putin and Biden, the first substantive follow-up to their June 16 summit in Geneva. Reports on […]

On July 9, the United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution on cross-border humanitarian aid for Syria jointly prepared by Russia and the United States, together with Ireland and Norway, This is the first time Washington has de facto recognized the authority of the Syrian government, and the country’s territorial integrity. Russia’s Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia described […]