As this Friday’s summit meeting between Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Donald Trump of the U.S. approaches, the British Empire and NATO are working to prevent peace from breaking out. The United States and Russia have significant shared interests that go beyond ending the conflict in Ukraine.
“When you are meeting in Alaska on August 15, the fate of humanity lies in your hands,” writes Helga Zepp-LaRouche in her open letter to the two presidents. They cannot only eliminate the Sword of Damocles of nuclear extinction, but they can also give “the whole world a beautiful vision for the future,” by developing the Arctic and building a link across the Bering Strait, she writes. Zepp-LaRouche was asked by TASS to express her views in an interview.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy has been on the phone with leaders of European countries and EU representatives, even Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, flailing about and trying to find some way to interfere with the summit. Kiev and the Ukrainians so far have little to show for their efforts to prevent peace and derail the summit. They have not managed to be invited to attend, and have had to settle with a phone call with Trump on Wednesday, August 13. The British are already worrying that the summit could mark the end of the power of the Anglosphere.
The other major flashpoint of the world is in Southwest Asia, where the Netanyahu government’s genocide against the Palestinian people continues, promoted in particular by those Messianic Jews who seek to replace secular Israel with a religious state, and rebuild the Temple, igniting religious warfare that could spread across the world.
Former Speaker of the Knesset Avraham Burg has called on Jews to rebel, now, to file a “collective legal complaint against the State of Israel for crimes against humanity committed in our name and under the false banner of our Jewish identity.” Burg, a former chair of the World Zionist Organization, writes that “We will not allow the State of Israel, which systematically inflicts violence upon a civilian population, to speak in our name. We will not allow Judaism to be a cover for crimes.”
Israel’s destruction of Palestinian life is a moral test for all people.
Just hours before he and several other journalists were killed by Israeli forces in the IDF’s ongoing effort to prevent documentation of its actions in Gaza, Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif posted what were to be among his last words to X: “The occupation is now openly threatening a full-scale invasion of Gaza.… If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased—and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Let us not be silent witnesses.
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