The website of the United Arab Emirates’s Space Agency answers the question, “Why Are We Exploring Mars?” succinctly: “The red planet has captured human imagination for centuries. Now, we are at a junction where we know a great deal about the planet, and we have the vision and technology to explore further. Mars is an […]
China’s Tianwen-1 orbiter fired its engine at 6:52 AM EST today to slow down, and get pulled into Mars’ orbit, joining the UAE’s Hope, which arrived yesterday. Unlike any of the first Mars missions ever sent by other countries, China’s Tianwen-1 consists of not just an orbiter, but also a lander and rover. This is […]
Beethoven’s piano sonata Op. # 3 in E-flat major, “The Hunt,” was written in 1802. The third of the Opus 31 sonatas is affectionately known as “The Hunt”, a nickname that describes only the last movement – fast, rollicking, and full of “horn calls”. This is one of Beethoven’s most good-natured works, displaying grace, charm, and […]
Schiller Institute author, Hussein Askary, speaks to Nigerians: Africa will become the workshop of the world. On Feb. 4, Hussein Askary, a Schiller Institute member and co-author of its special report, Extending the New Silk Road to West Asia and Africa – a Vision of an Economic Renaissance, spoke to a webinar in Abuja, Nigeria. […]
In her weekly dialogue today, Helga Zepp-LaRouche contrasted the exciting horizons opened by three near-simultaneous space flights arriving at Mars, with the polarizing circus underway in the U.S. Senate trial of former President Trump. The Mars’ missions, she said “show where mankind should be going….We have so much to discover.” She pointed to the successful […]
With a show trial underway in the U.S. Senate, and an EU/NATO/Five Eyes planning session in Brussels, the City of London/Wall Street human rights mafia is moving aggressively to isolate and destroy Donald Trump, and to overthrow Vladimir Putin. But their real targets are not Trump and Putin, but the people of the U.S. and […]
Beethoven’s “Tempest,” Opus 31 #2 in D-minor. We come to one of the greatest sonatas in the entire repertoire, the Opus 31 #2 in D-minor, nicknamed “The Tempest”. From the unsettling eerieness of the opening movement, to the marvelous , orchestra-like setting of the Adagio second movement, and then the “moto perpetuo” Allegretto at the […]
Join us LIVE on Saturday, February 13 at 1pm EST. Please register today. “The U.S. military must shift its principal assumption from ‘nuclear employment is not possible’ to ‘nuclear employment is a very real possibility.’” Adm. Richards, head of U.S. Strategic Command This astonishing utterance from the head of U.S. Strategic Command, Adm. Charles Richard, […]
The flames of international conflict and domestic polarization are being fanned at a moment when sober deliberation is needed, to address the interconnected crises confronting humanity. In the last days, on the eve of the Senate impeachment trial of former President Trump, representatives of the Military Industrial Complex have compared Trump supporters to ISIS and […]
Beethoven’s Opus 31 piano sonatas began a new path for him. Beethoven composed his trio of Opus 31 piano sonatas in 1801-1802, after he had remarked to his student Carl Czerny that he was dissatisfied with his compositions so far and was setting out on a new path. Each of the sonatas is strikingly different, […]