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UN WARNS FUNDING SHORTFALL PUTS 650 000 PEOPLE AT RISK IN SOUTH SUDAN

An estimated 650,000 refugees and asylum seekers in South Sudan are already surviving on half-rations, but face the possible loss of all food and other assistance within weeks, due to severe funding shortfalls. At the current funding levels, all assistance will end in September, according to an August 14 joint statement from the United Nations […]

CHINESE AND AFRICAN BANKS WORK ON REPLACEMENT FOR SWIFT SYSTEM

Chinese banks are increasingly aligning their financial infrastructure with Africa’s broader trade expansion, supporting commerce under China’s zero-tariff policy for 53 African nations, and overlapping with the implementation goals of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Major institutions like the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and Standard Bank (South Africa) are facilitating direct […]

NUN KOMMT DIE SCHILLERZEIT!!

Four weeks from today, the Schiller Institute’s New York City Chorus will present, in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attack on New York City and the United States, a concert: “Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony—A Pathway Out of War.” This is intended to employ the apparently “weak force” of ideas, with respect […]

THE PHYSICAL ECONOMY OF SOLON, NOT LYCURGUS

On yesterday’s 81st anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, its mayor, Shiro Suzuki, said: “The theory of nuclear deterrence is extremely dangerous and fragile. Nuclear weapons are not a ‘necessary evil’ but an ‘absolute evil,’ and can never coexist with humanity…To all leaders of the nuclear states and nations relying on […]

LONDON SETS OUT STRATEGY TO SINK TRUMP-XI RELATIONS, SUMMITS

The City of London’s strategists at The Economist published a pair of articles on July 30 charging that since President Trump is being soft on China’s “provocations against America’s Asian allies,” those allies had better take action to reverse this. The articles make clear (1) that London is very unhappy that Presidents Xi and Trump […]

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ASEAN FOREIGN MINISTERS CALL FOR STOP TO WARFARE IN SOUTHWEST ASIA

Foreign Ministers of the 11 nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) opened their three-day conference in Manila, Philippines on July 21 with a closed-door morning session on the worsening situation in Southwest Asia, followed by the release of a joint message, the “ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Statement on the Evolving Situation in the […]

CHINA, RUSSIA WANT CONTACTS WITH HIGH-LEVEL U.S. OFFICIALS

Asked in Monday’s press briefing if President Xi Jinping’s trip to the United States is still on China’s agenda, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian reiterated China’s interest in the Presidents of the two countries meeting. “Head-of-state diplomacy plays an irreplaceable role in providing strategic guidance to bilateral relations. China and the U.S. are in […]

RUBIO’S STATE DEPT. ISSUES ‘ENEMIES LIST’ OF U.S. ‘CUBAN AGENTS’

Joe McCarthy has been reincarnated as Marco Rubio. On July 20, Rubio’s State Department issued a 100-page report, titled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,” for the dual purpose of both stepping-up judicial and other measures to crush the growing opposition in the U.S. to the Trump administration’s assaults on foreign countries and immigrants […]

103 CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS VOTED TO STOP AID TO ISRAEL

The July 15 House vote was considered mostly symbolic and in the end the effort failed, but 103 House Democrats and one Republican, Thomas Massie (R-KY), voted for an amendment to cut off all aid to Israel. This was a one-sentence amendment written by Rep. Massie to cut $3.3 billion from the Foreign Military Financing […]

LUXEMBOURG PREPARES FOR WAR

The bizarre case of Luxembourg adds a grotesque note to the NATO rearmament drive. As reported, Prime Minister Luc Frieden (an Orwellian name) is the co-initiator, together with Canadian PM and former Bank of England boss Mark Carney, of the so-called Bank for Defense, Security, and Resilience (i.e., the NATO Bank). Luxembourg is a tiny […]

GERMANY TO PURCHASE 400 TOMAHAWK MISSILES FROM US

According to various sources, German Defense Minister Pistorius and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth signed an MOU in Ankara, Türkiye, for Germany to purchase as many as 400 Tomahawk missiles and a compatible Typhon launch system. The number of missiles actually agreed upon remains classified. The Tomahawk missile can travel up to 2,500 km […]