Economy / Finance

Open Nord Stream 2!

by Oskar Lafontaine*

(29 July 2022) I can no longer listen to the whining of Steinmeier, Scholz and others about the social upheavals that will occur when the price of gas triples. If you can only get energy from states like the U.S., Saudi Arabia or Qatar and Russia, which are accused of waging wars in violation of international law, then you should give preference to the supplier that has the best and cheapest goods. And that is Russia. It is also becoming increasingly clear that the German economy is closely intertwined with Russia for many other necessary raw materials and spare parts as well.

From real cash to unreal digital money

by Prof. Dr Eberhard Hamer*

(4 July 2022) “The biggest and most far-reaching economic scandal of our days is currently taking place through the manipulation of the monetary and currency systems. For the first time, monetary fraud has a global dimension, because it takes place on a worldwide scale, that can no longer be controlled, stopped or prevented by any national government, and because it is formally legal even under outdated national laws”.¹

The US sanctions against Russia will produce a global food disaster

by John Ross*

(20 June 2022) “There is really no true solution to the problem of global food security without bringing back the agriculture production of Ukraine and the food and fertilizer production of Russia and Belarus into world markets despite the war.” These blunt words1 by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres accurately describe the present global food crisis.

The Ukraine War is a Racket

by Ron Paul, USA*

(9 May 2022) “War is a racket, wrote US Maj. General Smedley Butler in 1935. He explained: “A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.”

The sanctions are tearing the global economy apart

by Prof. Dr Eberhard Hamer*

(2 May 2022) Ukrainian President Selenski demanded of the Western allies that the sanctions imposed on Russia be tightened and “maintained for at least 15 years”. US sanctions against Iran have lasted longer, also against Venezuela and others.

Disarmament For Development

by Alfred de Zayas,* Geneva

(25 April 2022) Edit. The author is both US and Swiss citizen. Here he comments on economic policy issues concerning the USA.

AdZ. Our governments have the wrong priorities — totally skewed budgetary priorities. Year after year our tax dollars are being squandered by Congress, which adopts military-first budgets instead of human-security budgets.