Beethoven: Sparks of Joy – Four hands are better than two, Op. 6 piano sonata With an opening theme that resembles the Fifth Symphony, Beethoven’s Opus 6 sonata for piano four hands is a rarely heard gem. Due to its brevity and relative ease of execution, it’s generally thought of as a work for piano […]
Mexico Stands Firm: Texas Shows We Are Right To Put Energy Security Before Profit March 3 (EIRNS)—In the middle of the Texas energy crisis, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador asked leaders of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) to brief the nation on how that crisis proves that his policy to restore national energy self-sufficiency and […]
U.S. Infrastructure Gets Report Card: C- March 3 (EIRNS)—The American Society of Civil Engineers released its 2021 Infrastructure Report Card. Although the grade improved to a C-, up from a D+ in 2017, the investment gap—the funding required to get all infrastructure to a “B” rating—has grown from $2.1 trillion over ten years to $2.6 […]
China to Biden Team: It Is ‘Evil’ To Try and Prevent AnyPeople’s Right To Pursue a Better Life. March 3 (EIRNS)—China’s Global Times responded strongly to a report issued March 1 by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, which accused China of undermining U.S. national interests through coercive and unfair trade practices and promised […]
While there are still questions about where the Biden administration is heading in strategic policy, there are some very real reasons for concern. There is the threat of mass starvation in Yemen, and the growing danger of food shortages in Syria, due to sanctions; last week’s U.S. military strike on a base in northeast Syria; […]
The inability of many to see that Mike Pompeo has been and continues to be a supporter of the geopolitical doctrine which leads to the “endless wars” which President Trump pledged to end, is a strategic vulnerability that allows the Military Industrial Complex to keep us engaged in those wars. Not only is Pompeo, along […]
Yemen Donors Conference Raises Even Less Money for Yemen Humanitarian Relief than Was Provided Last Year March 2, 2021 (EIRNS)—The UN donors conference which convened yesterday to raise funds for relief efforts in Yemen, cosponsored by Sweden and Switzerland, failed to raise even half of the $3.85 billion that UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres appealed […]
Tulsi Gabbard Slams Unconstitutional U.S. Regime-change War in Syria March 2, 2021 (EIRNS)—In a series of tweets on Feb. 28, former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard addressed the Biden administration’s unconstitutional airstrikes in Syria, but also addressed the broader issue of the U.S. regime-change war in Syria, carried out through an alliance with Al Qaeda, al-Nusra/HTS […]
As documented in EIR’s special report, “The Great Leap Backward”, the Great Reset and Green New Deal represent the culmination of decades’ long effort by the British Royal Family and its City of London financial arm to dramatically reduce the world’s population. Following the recent online planning session of their Davos billionaires to implement their […]
Biden Drops a `Green’ Hammer on American Industry March 1 (EIRNS) – The Biden White House on Feb. 26 announced that it would multiply the “price of carbon” by more than seven times, to $51 per ton of CO2, for all cost-benefit analyses of industrial technologies – and was likely to more than double that […]