by Ben Norton,* Latin America
(14 February 2023) In a video address to a US corporate lobby group, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky thanked companies like BlackRock, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and Starlink, insisting “everyone can become a big business” by investing in Ukraine, where “we are defending freedom and property”.
by Jeremy Kuzmarov,* USA
(29 January 2023) The military’s deep penetration into all aspects of American life has hampered the development of a strong anti-war movement – at a time when it is desperately needed.
by German Foreign Policy*
(16 January 2023) EU sanctions exacerbate hunger crisis in Africa. Now the EU wants to ease sanctions on Russian fertiliser supplies.
by Christian Kreiss,* Germany
(9 January 2023) A lot of recent political and economic measures clearly harm our middle class, the backbone of our prosperity. Leading business representatives say: “the substance of our industry is threatened”1 or: “we are simply getting poorer. I’ll draw you a picture for Germany and I wouldn’t be surprised if we end up 20 to 30 percent poorer.”2 The conservative “Handelsblatt” newspaper speaks of a threat of deindustrialisation of Germany.3
by Marc Friedrich*
(17 November 2022) “Germany must die!” This is the title of a popular song by the Hamburg punk band “Slime”, to which people like to dance the pogo. Can a country die? Yes, first its own economy and then, more or less in the long term, the entire country, for the economy is the heartbeat of a country. And if the heart dies, everything else ceases to function.
by F. William Engdahl*
(19 September 2022) A great humanitarian uproar in recent weeks demanding the safe shipping of Ukrainian grain to ease a hunger crisis in Africa and elsewhere is deceptive on many levels.
Not the least is who owns the land on which the grain is grown and whether that grain is actually illegal GMO patented corn and other grains.