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The narrative that the COVID-19 virus originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and was deliberately covered up by the Chinese authorities, took a major hit with the release on Aug. 27 of the assessment by the United States Intelligence Community, which found no evidence of any origin other than natural ones. Last May, amid a fierce debate on policy […]

Former Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Criminal Affairs (1997–2001) Pino Arlacchi has started a media offensive, bringing to the public key issues regarding the necessity of rapid economic development in Afghanistan, the implementation of a drug eradication program and working with the Taliban to accomplish this, and exposing the roots of international terrorism. Professor Arlacchi, after discussing […]

A guest column in France’s Le Figaro Aug. 27, headlined, “How the West Let Afghanistan Again Become the Land of Drugs,” presents a devastating rundown of how the opium poppy production was drastically reduced in Afghanistan over the years 1999-2001, under the Taliban rule, but was later increased again, during the occupation by U.S., British and NATO forces. The author […]

On Aug. 21, the first batch of nuclear fuel was successfully loaded into unit 1 of the demonstration high-temperature gas-cooled reactor plant (HTR-PM) at Shidaowan, in China’s Shandong province (cf. SAS 44/20). The loading should be completed in 30 days, at which point the first reactor will reach criticality. It should be connected to the grid before the end of […]

Scientists in China are about to turn on for the first time ever an experimental thorium-based molten salt reactor, with the first tests scheduled to begin as early as September. The new reactor, built at Wuwei on the edge of the Gobi Desert in northern China, is a small prototype designed to have an output of just 2 MW. According […]

While hysteria continues to be spread in the West over the “chaotic” withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover of the country, a rational discussion of what needs to be done was organized on Aug. 21 by the Schiller Institute under the title “Afghanistan, An Opportunity for a New Epoch for Mankind”. Three main themes were struck […]

The British government has made clear from the beginning that it was against President Biden’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan. For Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, the agreement with the Taliban, first made by then-President Donald Trump in Feb. 2020 was a “rotten deal”. In his interview in the Aug. 8 Daily Mail, he revealed that the U.K. tried to convince […]

Opening the Schiller Institute round table on Afghanistan on Aug. 21, Helga Zepp-LaRouche insisted that the key to stabilizing the situation there is rapid economic development and thus the perspective of building a promising future free of war. “Afghanistan is among the ten poorest countries in the world already, it’s been hit by a terrible drought. One in three people […]

China’s international media organization CGTN produced a six minute video of excerpts from the keynote speech given by Helga Zepp-LaRouche to the July 31 Schiller Institute Conference on Afghanistan as a turning point in history. The CGTN video is titled: “Afghanistan: The Bright Future for the Coming Cooperation of the Great Powers.” It can be found on their Opinion pages […]

On June 21, 2021, the German Bundestag passed the government’s proposal for introducing into the country’s industrial supply chains strict ecological and social standards. The new law obliges all German companies and businesses to ensure that such standards (for instance concerning female and child labor) are respected in all the firms from which they import, or face fines and bans. […]