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It is getting harder and harder to breathe. The world grows smaller as storms gather. All night the storm raged furiously, the lightning, thunder, rain, and wind locking…
As I listened to Western political analysts babbling about Iran on the airwaves this past week, I thought about Um Kulthoum and the West’s tendency to filter non-Western modes of…
Nobody saw it coming. Iran and Israel surprised the world by agreeing to a ceasefire precisely at the point when most observers expected their war to spiral out…
While days like Mother’s Day are corny, they do elicit memories. I think of my mother. She died at the age of 100. Although she was quite debilitated…
In a dystopian moral inversion of the rules based international order, life, now, is more terrifying than death. As British state-controlled news opened its lunchtime broadcast on Valentine’s…
The path ahead will be very difficult due to the sensitive issues that Russia and the US must resolve. 12 February 2025 will go down in history as…
Probably, only a common war against a common enemy can unite Muslims. And that could happen very soon. On 11 November, an emergency Arab-Islamic summit on the question…
These are difficult times for those who believe firmly in creating a world based on peace. Every day the world appears to be drifting more and more towards…
By 2014 McBride had compiled a dossier into profound command failings that saw examples of potential war crimes in Afghanistan overlooked and other soldiers wrongly accused. On Tuesday…
The recent Congressional hearings leading to a bloodbath of university presidents brings back memories from my teen-age years in the 1950s when everyone’s eyes were glued to the…
In the past three months, two people in the United States have taken or risked taking their own lives in an attempt to change U.S. policies on Palestine…
I have no idea whether or not it is fashionable in literary circles to criticize the two protagonists of George Orwell’s 1984, Winston and Julia. After all, they inhabit…
The International Peace Coalition (IPC) held its eighth weekly meeting, on Friday July 28. The spirit of changing the course of history, as current developments are taking the…
The International Peace Coalition (IPC), initiated by Helga Zepp- LaRouche, held its sixth weekly Zoom meeting today, chaired by the Schiller Institute’s Anastasia Battle, with 38 guests from…
If you are interested in working with the International Peace Coalition, please contact questions@schillerinstitute.org On Friday June 30, the International Peace Coalition (IPC) held its fourth meeting with approximately…
If you are interested in working with the International Peace Coalition, please contact questions@schillerinstitute.org The International Peace Coalition (IPC), initiated by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and leader of the…
The second meeting of the International Peace Coalition, launched on June 2, was held today with 29 participants from peace-oriented organizations from about a dozen countries. The two-and-a-half-hour…
An intense four-hour dialogue occurred at today’s Schiller Institute online conference “The World Needs JFK’s Vision of Peace”, an event commemorating President John F. Kennedy’s historic American University…
Some of us have not voted in this 28M and will not vote any more until a new generation of politicians arrives who seriously propose the exit of…
Source: The International Schiller Institute Message from Adolfo Pérez Esquivel transmitted by Joan Carrero (1:53:40 – 2:03:45)
It will be attractive to the Global South, writes Tony Kevin. It will cause consternation in the Western war party camp. The tragic year-long war in Ukraine has already transformed…
On the short roof outside the bedroom window, two black vultures sit, staring in. They have come to remind me of something. I put my book down and…
June 22, 2022 was the 81st anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, and a prominent German antiwar activist took the occasion to publicly question why…
Sometimes top military warriors tell US war presidents the painful truth. That happened yesterday when retired admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under George…
It isn’t often that a generation lives through a systemic breakdown crisis. It isn’t often that a generation lives through a systemic breakdown crisis. While many shallower minds…
An end to the invasion and war in Ukraine can only be guaranteed if Russia’s security is itself guaranteed. Security is largely indivisible. Security for one state requires…
It’s a New Dark Age. Evil abounds. Is a postmodern embarrassment about discussing spiritual matters, keeping us stupid and putting us in danger? I recently spoke at a…
Rewriting history – essentially negating the historical relations between the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and the ongoing struggle to free Palestine – serves the interests of mainstream…
Glen Ford spent more than four decades delivering the news from a Black perspective on a national scale Glen Ford, a veteran broadcast, print and digital journalist who…
Today is a day to celebrate the prophetic voice and witness of Fr. Daniel Berrigan, the non-violent anti-war activist and poet, whose life and witness has touched so…
Our friend in struggle, Attorney Ramsay Clark, passed away on April 9, 2021. Ramsay affected many of our lives. We followed closely his opposition to the American invasion…
These days it seems that people have plenty of trouble with “religion”, but rather adore the idea of “spirituality.” It pervades the consumerist culture, and one cannot travel…
“The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating, that Civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot…
September 20th marks the anniversary of the last speech John F Kennedy delivered to the United Nations’ General Assembly. This event bears more relevance upon our present crisis than most people…
Compared the great initiatives taken on behalf of freedom and anti colonialism throughout the past 260 years, today’s America appears to be a strange and foolish creature running…
As this troubled summer rolls along, and the world begins to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the creation, and use, of the first atomic bombs, many special, or…
Today’s fires which have spread across America in the wake of George Floyd’s murder at the knee of Minnesota police officer Derick Chauvin has presented America with the…
Inscribed on a wall across from the United Nations in New York City are ancient words of incalculable yearning: “They will beat their swords into plowshares and…
“I do not represent the G7, or the G20, or the P5, I represent the G192, all the member states belonging to the United Nations. All 192 are…
Cuba Continues African Solidarity in COVID-19 Battle [Abayomi Azikiwe – Global Research, 04.30.2020]
Medical team arrives in South Africa as other delegations spread throughout the continent High-ranking governmental and military leaders in the Republic of South Africa greeted a Cuban medical…
Today, the world finds itself moving through a turbulent transformation between two systems. Collapsing at a faster rate every day are the foundations of a failed imperial world…
Coronavirus is indiscriminate. We have seen young and old affected, rich and poor. In the UK alone, we have seen the Prime Minister himself succumb to it and…
We hear a lot these days about providing benefits and income for the tens of millions of workers who are being laid off, required to ‘stay in place’…
“We have more physicians working abroad than practically any other country in the world, not because we are exporting anything but simply because we want to participate in…
Rome blasts the EU for ignoring its pleas for help China has sent a team of medical experts and aid to support Italy and Spain in their fight…
It is an honor for me to present before this Committee the candidature of a union and social leader, the first indigenous President of Latin America, who managed…
When the state becomes chillingly evil—enacting a Fugitive Slave Act to criminalize those helping to free slaves, or financing prisons and wars for the benefit of sociopathic profiteers—and…
On October 24, following a three-day trial in Brunswick, GA, seven Catholic Workers who acted to disarm a nuclear submarine base were convicted on three felony counts and…
The road to war has many signposts along the way, even that small sign buried under weeds, squashed down by marching boots, that has scribbled on it, in…
“Now That He Is Safely Dead” By Carl Wendell Hines Now that he is safely dead let us praise him, build monuments to his glory, sing hosannas to…