Over the weekend, World Food Program Director David Beasley sent out a tweet, reiterating his frequent call on billionaires to step up to meet the $6 billion more needed this year to roll back hunger and prevent starvation. But this time he named names. He included in his tweet the June 26 CNN video story, […]
Foreign and Development Ministers of the Group of 20 and representatives of UN agencies met today in a one-day summit in Matera, Italy, hosted by Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio as Italy is currently the rotating president of the group. Several of the ministers appeared in person, but China’s, Russia’s, Brazil’s, and other ministers […]
NATO is not addressing “Russian aggression” sufficiently. It is out-of-control and Britain, within the NATO construct, must lead the way in countering it. So writes Henry Jackson Society fellow Robert Clarke in a June 23 paper — apparently written just before the incident with the HMS Defender the same day — published in the {UK […]
The otherwise nondescript nation of Gabon made history last week as the first African country to “get paid” to preserve its rainforest. At the end of an arduous, four-year process of “conforming,” on June 24, the Norwegian government distributed a $17 million payment, with the fantastic sum of $150 million still in the wind. The […]
As more becomes known about the provocation launched by the British warship HMS Defender, it is clear this was a provocation aimed at sabotaging any potential for better relations between the U.S. and Russia. It is an example of the kind of gunboat diplomacy which characterized the British Empire’s actions to dominate global trade and […]
This past weekend’s Schiller Institute conference pointed the way toward an escape from the devastating consequences of the end of an imperial era, with a dialogue demonstrating the potential for sovereign nation states to cooperate for the benefit of all mankind. The Empire will not just go away quietly, though. Instead, they are engaging in […]
Panel 2, Saturday, June 26, 2pm EDT — The Real Science Behind Climate Change: Why the World Needs Seven More Terawatts of Energy Megan Dobrodt, President, Schiller Institute USA: “Why the Universe Needs More People” Dr. Kelvin Kemm, (South Africa), nuclear physicist, former Chairman of the Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa Prof. Horst-Joachim Lüdecke, Physicist (Fluid Mechanics), […]
The British government at first denied there was a confrontation in the Black Sea with Russian naval vessels, then proclaimed they do not recognize that Crimea is Russian; and finally, a BBC reporter, on board the ship, admitted it was “a deliberate move to make a point to Russia.” At the risk of a nuclear […]
A naval incident provoked by the British in the Black Sea yesterday led to shots fired over the bow of the HMS Defender. Former British Ambassador Craig Murray asked what business it had in the Black Sea, describing its deployment there as “lunacy.” Court documents released on the January 6 “insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol […]
Panel 4, 2pm EDT — The Coincidence of Opposites: The Only Truly Human Thought Process Helga Zepp-LaRouche, President and Founder, The Schiller Institute Russian Federation speaker Dr. Khadijah Lang (US), Chairman, National Medical Association (NMA) Council on International Affairs; President, Golden State Medical Association Marcia Merry Baker (US), Editorial Board, Executive Intelligence Review Dr. Joycelyn […]