General updates about activity the Schiller Institute is concerned about
May 6 (EIRNS)–Under the title: “Biden’s Taiwan Policy Is Truly, Deeply Reckless,” the New York Times Opinion writer Peter Beinart warned on May 5 that the Administration’s policy is bringing us very close to war, and quotes experts that the war would become nuclear. He also quotes military experts that the U.S. could not win […]
May 5 (EIRNS)—Having withstood the first wave of the Covid-19 attack in 2020 rather commendably, India’s Modi administration declared “victory” and virtually ignored the threat waiting around the corner — the second wave of the virus attack. India is now paying dearly with lives and general chaos caused by global pandemic. On May 4, WHO […]
West Sends Thimbles Full of Aid to India May 5 (EIRNS)–According to India Today, 3,000 tons of aid has arrived in the country so far. That may sound like a lot; but what it boils down to is that this nation of 1.4 billion people, with over 20 million cases of COVID which are growing […]
Did Geopolitics Sink Portugal’s Sines Port Expansion Project for Now? May 5, 2021 (EIRNS)—At the close of the April 6 deadline for submitting bids to construct a new, huge container terminal at Portugal’s Sines Port, not a single bid had been entered. Port authorities blamed the fiasco on the drop in world shipping from the […]
The Group of 7 Foreign Ministers met in London to prepare for June’s leadership conference. They devoted two ninety-minute sessions to coordinate military and financial containment of Russia and China, two nations they designated as threats to the “Rules-Based Order” (RBO). While there, Secretary of State Blinken praised the U.S.-U.K. Special Relationship as the cornerstone […]
May 4, 2021 (EIRNS)–“Diplomacy is being replaced by sanctions,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned in an interview with RT Television yesterday, and this is “undermining mutual trust and darkening the prospects for normalizing relations” between Russia and the collective West. “The vicious practice of imposing unilateral political and economic restrictions, especially the extraterritorial […]
May 4, 2021 (EIRNS)–In its May 1 cover article, the Economist wrote with satisfaction about the dangerous strategic condition created with respect to Taiwan. The outgoing head of the Pacific Command, Adm. Phil Davidson, had told Congress in March that he worried about China attacking Taiwan as soon as 2027. The {Economist} notes the unique […]
Police-State Measures Against Protesters with ‘Wrong’ Thoughts May 4, 2021 (EIRNS)–An Arkansas man photographed at a desk in Nancy Pelosi’s office was taken into custody on Jan. 8, charged with trespassing, disorderly conduct, and possession of a “deadly or dangerous weapon” (the retired firefighter’s walking stick — fitted with a stun gun but without batteries […]
Kissinger on U.S.-China War Threat May 2 (EIRNS)–Henry Kissinger warned that pushing the conflict with China is threatening the extinction of humanity. Speaking to the McCain Institute’s Sedona Forum on April 30, said: “For the first time in history, humanity has the capacity to extinguish itself in a finite period of time. We have developed […]
Beethoven: Sparks of Joy – Lessons from history: act for your nation. Eleonore Prochaska was the daughter of a Prussian soldier, raised in a military orphanage after the death of her mother. She was one of many German women who fought in the Napoleonic Wars, though most were ejected from the army when it was […]