Category: Geopolitics updates

Updates about geopolitical politics that are holding back fair and just economic development and progress

Helga Zepp-LaRouche Discusses Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Initiative With PTV “Views on News”

by Mary Jane FreemanActivity of the Schiller Institute, China, Economic development updates, General updates, Geopolitics updates, Global Diplomacy, Helga media coverage or interview, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Media coverage of our activity, Pakistan, United States, World war danger updates

Feb. 9 (EIRNS)—Pakistan TV “Views on News” program today was focussed on “U.S.-China Competition—Pakistan’s Exertions to Avoid Bloc Politics” with host Faisal Rehman, and three guests: Syed Hasan Javed, former Ambassador (phone); Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Skype); and in studio Dr. Tughral Yamin, senior analyst. {This transcript includes only the exchanges between host Rehman and Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche. […]

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Russia Organizes UN Security Council Debate vs. Wielding Sanctions Against Peoples and Nations

by Mary Jane FreemanEconomic development updates, General updates, Geopolitics updates, Global Diplomacy, Russia, Sanctions

Russia Organizes UN Security Council Debate vs. Wielding Sanctions Against Peoples and Nations Feb. 8, 2022 (EIRNS)—Being chair this month of the UN Security Council, the Russian Federation organized an Open Debate on Monday on “General Issues Relating to Sanctions: Preventing their Humanitarian and Unintended Consequences.” Two UN officials and representatives from 19 nations spoke, most […]

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Catholic Journalist: ‘We Have a Moral Obligation to Save Afghans from Starving’

by madeleineAfghanistan, Sanctions

Tony Magliano, a Catholic columnist for peace and justice, syndicated internationally, wrote on Feb. 3, “We Have a Moral Obligation to Save Afghans from Starving,” posted on Catholic Online, and since appearing in local media, e.g., on Feb. 6 in the Clarion Herald, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. Magliano wrote in his strong article, […]

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Putin Asks: Does NATO Really Want To Fight Nuclear Power Russia?

by Mary Jane FreemanFrance, General updates, Geopolitics updates, Global Diplomacy, Russia, World war danger updates

Feb. 8, 2022 (EIRNS)—President Vladimir Putin reported in his opening remarks to the joint press conference following lengthy talks with President Macron, that the two had “continued to exchange views on the proposals regarding long-term legally binding security guarantees, which Russia has made to the United States and NATO,” and also discussed at length the battle […]

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Russian Envoy Warns of Explosions in Afghanistan if Economic Aid Not Sent

by Mary Jane FreemanAfghanistan, Economic development updates, General, General updates, Geopolitics updates, Global Diplomacy, Russia, Sanctions

Russian Envoy Warns of Explosions in Afghanistan if Economic Aid Not Sent Feb. 2 (EIRNS)—Members of the “Extended Troika” —Russia, China, Pakistan and the U.S. — a diplomatic format set up to coordinate policy on Afghanistan, are currently working out the date for their next meeting, which should take place before the end of February, […]

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Ostausschuss Chairman Calls for Helsinki 2, Economic Cooperation With Russia

by Mary Jane FreemanEconomic development updates, General, General updates, Geopolitics updates, Germany, Global Diplomacy, Russia, Ukraine, World war danger updates

Ostausschuss Chairman Calls for Helsinki 2, Economic Cooperation With Russia Feb. 2 (EIRNS)–Oliver Hermes, chairman of the Ostausschuss, the German industry’s association for trade with the East, issued an urgent appeal on Feb. 1 to de-escalate the crisis and instead negotiate solutions for the Ukraine problem centered on economic cooperation. “The specter of war is […]

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Afghanistan Crisis: Humanity Comes First!

by Mary Jane FreemanActivity of the Schiller Institute, Afghanistan, Agriculture, Economic development updates, General, General updates, Global Diplomacy, Healthcare, Our economic development events, Our initiatives (petitions, etc), Power & Energy, Sanctions, The Committee for the Coincidence of Opposites

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”                                                                                                                  –Mark 8:36 The head of the United Nations World Food Program, American David Beasley, has fought to bring to the world’s attention the now-unfolding catastrophe in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a nation which has known nothing but […]

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Afghanistan—‘Act Now’!

by Mary Jane FreemanActivity of the Schiller Institute, Afghanistan, Agriculture, COVID-19, Economic development updates, General updates, Global Diplomacy, Healthcare, Healthcare, Sanctions, The Committee for the Coincidence of Opposites, World Food Program, World Land-Bridge updates

Jan. 5 (EIRNS)—Today a 30-second video was issued by David Beasley, Executive Director of the World Food Program (WFP) on Afghanistan, showing both hungry children, and also food delivery, with the text: “The situation in Afghanistan may have faded from the front page, but don’t let Afghan families fade from your mind. 8.7 million people […]

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Webcast – FOR THE SAKE OF HUMANITY, LET’S MAKE 2022 THE YEAR OF LAROUCHE

by tobiGeneral, Geopolitics updates, Global Diplomacy, Helga Video, Helga Webcast, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Russia, Sanctions, World war danger updates

In her weekly dialogue, Helga Zepp-LaRouche proposed that we make 2022 the Year of Lyndon LaRouche. In doing so, we are not only commemorating the 100th year of his birth, but offering a pathway for solutions to the unresolved crises, which threaten humanity at the end of 2021. Zepp-LaRouche reviewed the chronology which we have […]

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Are We Sleepwalking into Thermonuclear World War III?

by Mary Jane FreemanActivity of the Schiller Institute, Economic development updates, Finance, General, General updates, Geopolitics updates, Global Diplomacy, Our initiatives (petitions, etc), Russia, Sanctions, Ukraine, United States, World war danger updates

Schiller Institute Memorandum [Updated]December 31, 2021 The war in Ukraine could have been prevented. If the West would have insisted on the Minsk agreement, instead of letting Zelensky capitulate to the right-wing forces in his country, it would not have happened. If the US and NATO would have responded to Putin’s request for legally binding […]

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