Nervous traders watch Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, as yet another hedge fund threatens to unleash huge losses, due to a bet gone bad. The unravelling of speculative positions held by Archegos, triggered over $6 billion in losses, hitting major banks which were lenders to the firm. Will the Fed keep interest rates low, to […]
Roman Catholic Cardinal Mario Zenari, the representative of the Vatican in Syria since the beginning of the Syria war, issued an appeal for international support to reconstruct the country, as time is running out. “Peace, I repeat, will not come to Syria without reconstruction and without economic recovery,” Zenari said March 23. “But how long […]
Beijing Welcomes Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s ‘Declaration of China Experts from All Over the World’ March 26 (EIRNS)—The Spokesperson’s Office of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs released the statement following today: The French Schiller Institute statement condemned the recent anti-China movement. Chinese Spokesperson Hua Chunying stated: “It reflects the rational and just voice of insightful people in the international […]
Putin’s Conference on Defeating COVID-19 by Outflanking the New Strains Mar. 25 (EIRNS)–Russian President Vladimir Putin held a videoconference earlier this week on the scientific and industrial mobilization needed to expand COVID-19 vaccine production, and to attack the virus. By way of introduction, he said that their Sputnik V vaccine, now approved in 55 countries […]
Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban, Media and Political Advisor to the Syrian Presidency, gave a passionate presentation to the March 20-21 Schiller Institute international conference. She focused her remarks on painting a picture of the destruction of her country over the last 10 years by an American policy which is based on the ugly axioms of Western […]
Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s presentation, “Will Human History End in a Tragedy or Continue with a New Paradigm?” to the March 20-21 Schiller Institute conference, laid out the extremely tumultuous strategic picture typified by Biden’s recent remarks calling Putin a killer, which is now coming together to a point, as in a drama, to a moment of […]
Retired Air Force Colonel and Pakistani Journalist Sultan M. Hali rips apart the lie about “Uyghur genocide” and proposes the US engage with China for peace and economic cooperation.
Beethoven: Sparks of Joy – Opus 9, No. 1: A Gem Trio Dedicated to an Irishman Who Served in the Russian Army! Beethoven’s Opus 9 is a delightful set of three string trios, deserving of broader popularity than they enjoy today. They were dedicated to one of his early patrons, Count Johann George von Browne, […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, struck out against U.S. policy against their countries, including its sanctions and geopolitical games, in a joint press conference in Guilin, Guangxi, during Lavrov’s official two-day visit to China. “We reject zero-sum geopolitical games and reject unilateral illegitimate sanctions that our Western colleagues […]
The U.K. Defence Command Paper, “Defence in a Competitive Age,” released by British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace yesterday as a follow-up to the defense, security, and foreign policy review released last week, focuses on the “21st century threats” that the U.K. supposedly faces in a world allegedly characterized by permanent confrontation. “Those of us in […]