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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Carl Osgood |Gretchen Small |Claudio Celani |Jason Ross
March 22, 2025 (EIRNS)—The Israelis are continuing to pound Gaza with the apparent intention of driving the Palestinians out of the strip. After retaking part of the Netzarim corridor that divides Gaza’s north from south, Israeli troops moved Thursday toward the northern town of Beit Lahiya and the southern border city of Rafah, reported AP. The military said it had resumed enforcing a blockade on northern Gaza, including Gaza City.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Jason Ross |Gretchen Small |Claudio Celani
March 21, 2025 (EIRNS)—This week has seen two major developments: First, Presidents Trump and Putin spoke by phone, signaling a return to diplomacy, an event that any sane person should be happy about (but not Europe’s vehemently pro-war politicians). They were treated to the second major development: the decision by a lame duck German parliament to bypass Germany’s debt brake, enabling a military buildup using procedural trickery.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Jason Ross |Gretchen Small |Claudio Celani
March 21, 2025 (EIRNS)—After suffering a GDP decline of 1.2% in 2022 on account of sanctions imposed by the West, Russia’s economy has grown by 4.1% in both 2023 and 2024. This occurred despite a hostile environment: more than 16,000 sanctions of various sorts, the freezing or theft of financial assets held abroad, and the destruction of natural gas pipelines. How did Russia succeed?
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Jason Ross |Gretchen Small |Claudio Celani
March 21, 2025 (EIRNS)—Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi is in Japan for a Saturday meeting with Foreign Minister of Japan Takeshi Iwaya and Foreign Minister of South Korea Cho Tae-yul. The three will discuss the planned trilateral summit among the three countries to take place in Japan later this year. The three foreign ministers met with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Carl Osgood |Gretchen Small |Claudio Celani |Jason Ross
March 21, 2025 (EIRNS)—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet voted unanimously in the early hours of Friday morning to dismiss Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, the premier’s office announced, The Times of Israel reported last night. April 10 has been set as Bar’s last day on the job, but that could come earlier if the Cabinet approves a replacement before then.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Claudio Celani |Gretchen Small |Carl Osgood |Jason Ross
March 21, 2025 (EIRNS)—Decisions on the EU “RearmEurope” scheme have been postponed to June, due to disagreements in the mental asylum called the European Union. At the EU Council meeting, Italy, France, Spain, Belgium and Sweden turned down the EU Commission proposal to allow more deficit to finance rearmament.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Claudio Celani |Gretchen Small |Carl Osgood |Jason Ross
March 21, 2025 (EIRNS)—The German Upper House, the Bundesrat, ratified the “Staatsstreich” concocted by the Red-Green-Black coalition and already approved by the Bundestag. Helga Zepp-LaRouche and prominent Constitutionalists characterized the decision as a coup d’etat (Staatsstreich) because the life of the outvoted Bundestag was stretched to the limit in order to allow a constitutional change, which would not have achieved a two-thirds vote in the new Bundestag.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Carl Osgood |Jason Ross |Gretchen Small |Claudio Celani
March 21, 2025 (EIRNS)—In his latest posting, veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh says that Ukrainian and Russian generals are talking about how to end the war. His starting point is the interview that Gen. Zaluzhny gave to the London Economist about two years ago in which he said that the war was a stalemate.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Claudio Celani |Paul Gallagher |Carl Osgood |Richard Black
March 14, 2025 (EIRNS)—The EU “is like a sailboat at the mercy of the winds, with a crew of 27 hubs getting in each other’s way and no captain,” said Gustavo Piga, professor of political economy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, in commenting on the ReArmEurope plan. In an interview with Il Sussidiario, Prof. Piga said that “von der Leyen is leading us toward disaster” as she is reacting to Trump without a strategy. This post is for paying subscribers only
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Claudio Celani |Paul Gallagher |Carl Osgood |Richard Black
March 14, 2025 (EIRNS)—The ReArmEurope plan is not a defense strategy, but a financial plan, said Gianandrea Gaiani, editor of the defense magazine Difesaonline. In a video interview with Giacomo Gabellini’s Blog Il Contesto, Gaiani said: “It is a financial program aimed at ensuring that there is a transfer of public and private funds, including those of savers, to investment funds, to systems that feed the defense industry.
