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“Strengthening the Bundeswehr is the top priority in our own policy. In the future, the German government will provide all the financial resources that the Bundeswehr needs to become the strongest conventional army in Europe.” Such is the commitment made by the new Chancellor Friedrich Merz in his first official address to the Bundestag on May 16. In addition to […]

The key role played by the British in sabotaging peace efforts in Ukraine has opened the eyes of many to the interventions of Her Majesty’s successive governments not only there, but globally, to destabilize nations worldwide. Everyone knows now that it was then Prime Minister Boris Johnson who prevented the peace deal between Ukraine and Russia negotiated in Istanbul in […]

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who will chair the BRICS summit on July 6-7 in Rio de Janeiro, just visited Moscow (May 8-10) and then Beijing (May 12-14), for substantive discussions on both global and bilateral issues before that summit. At every opportunity, he argued that unilateralism does not work; international relations demand cooperation among sovereign states for […]

“A Beautiful Vision for Humanity in Times of Great Turbulence!” SATURDAY, May 24, 16:00 CEST 16:00 -19:00 Panel One: Strategic Challenges and the Emerging New Order Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), Founder, The Schiller Institute Naledi Pandor (South Africa), former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Donald Ramotar (Guyana), Former President of Guyana Ambassador Jack Matlock (U.S.) former United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, […]

It is too early to say definitively that the Trump administration is pivoting toward diplomacy to resolve global hot spots. But events of the last week indicate that the U.S. President has rejected the Bush-Obama-Biden policy of permanent warfare dictated by the City of London/Wall Street military-industrial establishment, and is serious about keeping the United States out of wars. A […]

Donald Trump arrived on May 13 in Saudi Arabia, where he held meetings with Prince Salman, signed many agreements, announced the lifting of the sanctions on Syria, and participated the next day in the summit of the United States and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), before traveling from Riyadh to Qatar and the Emirates. While economic and trade deals are the […]

Taking a page out of Boris Johnson’s book, the British Prime Minister who rushed off to Kyiv in Spring 2022 to sabotage the Istanbul peace process between Ukraine and Russia, the leaders of France, Germany, Poland and the UK gathered in the Ukrainian capital on May 10, after ostentatiously refusing to send representatives to Moscow just one day before for […]

The celebrations in Moscow last week of the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War were the occasion of not only moving commemorations for the countless millions of victims of that war, but also of important political and diplomatic discussions. Heads of state and government from 27 countries were present, who met with President Putin at different […]

Adding ridicule to the sensational, the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) backtracked on May 10 and suspended its decision to classify the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) as “proven right-wing extremist”, pending the outcome of the urgent legal challenge filed by the party. This means that the domestic intelligence agency will not repeat that designation but […]

Last week, we highlighted what we believe is the most important legacy of Pope Francis: his commitment to end the war in Ukraine, defying the western narrative that the war was unprovoked and the recognition that it could not be won. The debut of the new Pope, Leo XIV, on St. Peter’s throne, raises the hope that that effort will […]