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, […]
George Shultz was a leading economic hitman, a prominent promoter of Schachtian economic policies, named for Hjalmar Schacht, who was responsible for Nazi’s slave labor policy. Shultz was at the center of more than fifty years of the “controlled disintegration” of the U.S. economy: advising Nixon to break with the gold-reserve system in 1971; advocating […]
Beethoven, Franz Schubert: musical dialogue and the C-minor series. No investigation of the C-minor dialogue among composers can be complete without the astonishing C-minor sonata by Franz Schubert, whose birthday we recognized on January 31. Schubert, a native of Vienna, was 15 years Beethoven’s junior, although he died just one year after Beethoven at the […]
In einem Interview mit dem amerikanischen Radiosender National Public Radio am 4. Februar betonte Dr. Anthony Fauci vom nationalen Gesundheitsinstitut der USA (NIH) die Dringlichkeit eines globalen Ansatzes zur schnellen Eindämmung von COVID-19, bevor das Virus noch weiter mutiert. Fauci sagte: „Es muß möglich sein, die ganze Welt mit Hilfe der industrialisierten Länder zu impfen. […]
In a Feb. 4 interview with NPR, Dr. Anthony Fauci of the NIH emphasized the urgency of taking a global approach to the eradication of the coronavirus, and of doing so quickly before it has more time to mutate. “You’ve got to be able to get — with the help of the developed world — […]
Die ECR (European Society of Radiology) und die Renew-Gruppe des Europäischen Parlaments haben eine unabhängige Studie in Auftrag gegeben, um die Effektivität der EU-Klimaneutralität zu bewerten und zwei klimaneutrale Stromerzeugungstechnologien zu analysieren und zu vergleichen, die zu einer Dekarbonisierung der Stromerzeugung führen können: Wind- und Solarenergie und Kernkraft. Die Studie wurde von den Europaabgeordneten Rob […]
The ECR (European Society of Radiology) and the Renew group of the European Parliament commissioned an independent study to assess the effectiveness of EU climate neutrality, and analyse and compare two climate-neutral power-generating technologies that, if they effectively replace fossil fuel infrastructure, can result in decarbonisation of the electricity system – wind/solar and nuclear. The […]
Von Helga Zepp-LaRouche Mit Amerika wird noch eine Weile nicht gut Kirschen essen sein. Angesichts der diversen gegen Rußland und China gerichteten Strategiepapiere und Äußerungen führender Militärs klingt Präsident Bidens Ankündigung in seiner ersten Rede zur Außenpolitik – „Amerika ist zurück“ – wie eine unverhohlene Drohung. Unter seiner Führung seien die Tage, in denen sich […]
Beethoven and the C-minor dialogue. We return to Beethoven with two of his best-known sonatas in C-minor: the Pathétique and the Opus 111. Listen for the development of the theme that Bach put forward in his Musical Offering! Sonata Pathétique (1st movement) played by Dubravka Tomsic: Opus 111 (1st movement) played by Alfred Brendel: