Beethoven: Spark of Joy – HIs Mass in C, God’s Grace Comes to Those Who Act for Posterity Prince Nikolaus Esterházy II, the long-time patron of Franz Josef Haydn, commissioned a new mass setting each year for his wife’s name-day. In 1807, the commission fell to Beethoven, who, in his own words, “treated the text […]
As we are dashing headlong into a systemic economic collapse and a danger of annihilation through nuclear war, how can we organize our fellow citizens to recognize the common interests we share with citizens of all nations? In today’s Update, we hear the words of President John F. Kennedy from June 1963, shortly after the […]
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 […]
In ihrem heutigen Bericht zur globalstrategischen Lage sprach die Vorsitzende des Schiller-Instituts, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, über die Notwendigkeit der Wortmeldung weiterer Stimmen, um ihre Warnung vor der Gefahr eines Atomkriegs, der durch die geopolitischen Manöver des transatlantischen Establishments provoziert werde, aufzugreifen. Selbst Henry Kissinger, lange ein Sprecher dieser Fraktion, warnte, daß es sich hierbei um etwas […]
„Diplomatie wird durch Sanktionen ersetzt“, warnte die Sprecherin des russischen Außenministeriums, Maria Zakharova, gestern in einem Interview mit dem Fernsehsender RT, und dies „untergräbt das gegenseitige Vertrauen und verfinstert die Aussichten, die Beziehungen“ zwischen Rußland und dem kollektiven Westen „zu normalisieren“. „Das boshafte Verfahren, unilaterale politische und wirtschaftliche Beschränkungen aufzuerlegen, insbesondere die extraterritoriale Anwendung solcher […]
In seinem Leitartikel vom 1. Mai schrieb der Economist mit Genugtuung über die gefährliche strategische Lage, die in Bezug auf Taiwan entstanden sei. Der scheidende Chef des US-Pazifik-Kommandos, Admiral Phil Davidson, hatte dem US-Kongress im März gesagt, daß er sich Sorgen mache, daß China Taiwan bereits 2027 angreifen könnte. Der Economist verweist auf die herausragende […]