Author: Dennis Small

REALITY TRUMPS TRUMP

GLOBAL PARADIGM SHIFT: The face of a new unfolding world order The reality is that the continuation of the unprovoked war of aggression against Iran has now led to the Houthis launching a lightning march south along the coast of Yemen, seizing both the land opposite the critical Bab al-Mandab strait on the Red Sea, […]

CHINA’S GLOBAL TIMES: ‘US HAS SET ITS OWN HOUSE ON FIRE’ WITH ‘D-DAY’ SANCTIONS VS IRAN

A scathing editorial in the Aug. 21 Global Times, the influential semi-official Chinese English-language publication, rips into the Trump administration’s announced “economic D-Day” sanctions against Iran, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s preposterous demand that China had better “get with the program.” Excerpts follow: “The so-called ‘economic D-Day’ operation is less a new offensive launched by […]

THE ANTEROOM OF NUCLEAR WAR

There is good reason to believe that Pope Leo XIV already has, or will soon have on his desk the “Appeal to Pope Leo XIV to Organize a Global Leaders Summit to Address the Questions of Peace and Nuclear Disarmament”, which was issued on August 19 and has already gathered signatures from political, religious and […]

IS LULA BRAZIL’S FDR?

That is the worried headline on a short article published in London’s Economist magazine today, as campaigning for the October 4 presidential election got underway. “Our poll tracker puts the 80-year old incumbent president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in the lead,” the Economist confessed. “If Lula emerges victorious, he would become one of just […]

CHINA-EUROPE ARCTIC SHIPPING ROUTE STARTS 2026 WEEKLY OPERATIONS

The China-Europe Arctic container express route, which had its maiden voyage in September 2025, began its first trip for 2026 on August 15, Xinhua reported. This year, eight weekly voyages are planned through October, which is when weather conditions are most favorable for the Arctic route. “The route crosses the Northeast Arctic Passage,” Xinhua explained, […]

RUSSIAN MEDIA WIDELY REPORTS ON SARE’S TASS INTERVIEW

The TASS interview with Diane Sare appeared in Russian as well as English, and has been picked up widely. Internet aggregators rambler.ru, dzen.ru, and life.ru summarized the TASS release, as did vesti.ru, the website of state television. Some of the websites added relevant details, such as that Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has likewise called […]

UKRAINE WAR INCHES TOWARDS DIRECT NATO-RUSSIA FIGHTING

Romania’s Ministry of National Defense reported August 16 that a Spanish F-18 jet, which was part of a NATO air patrol mission in Romania, had engaged a drone that allegedly entered Romanian airspace and shot it down. In reporting this news, [Al Jazeera] quoted NATO military spokesman Martin O’Donnell saying that NATO is prepared to […]

NEVER BEFORE, AND NEVER AGAIN

Never before today has humanity stood so close to the precipice of our own avoidable annihilation, and never so close to being able to achieve a lasting solution to the causes of the crisis that has brought us to that precipice. Last October 20th, Sergey Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence agency, warned: […]

NOT ONLY FEET OF CLAY, BUT BRAINS OF SILLY PUTTY

It is 55 years to the day since Lyndon LaRouche issued his famous warning about the implications of the Aug. 15, 1971 Nixon administration decision to deliver the coup de grace to the post-war fixed exchange rate international financial system, and replace it with a speculation-friendly floating rate system, including the decoupling of the dollar […]

THE ART OF REVERSING OUR CRIMINAL COURSE

Today, August 6,is the 81st anniversary of the actually unnecessary dropping of the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Even as thermonuclear war is being more seriously—and madly—discussed as “more thinkable” than at any time since October 1962, there is still “good news,” of a sort. That good news has been expressed in […]

ON THE 81ST ANNIVERSARY OF HIROSHIMA, WE ARE CLOSER TO A GLOBAL NUCLEAR WAR THAN ANY TIME IN HISTORY

The American economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche was incessantly slandered and vilified for holding “apocalyptic views” on the dangers facing humanity. Today, 50 years later, what LaRouche warned about is front and center reality on the strategic stage: the twin dangers of onrushing nuclear war, encouraged by the active promotion in London and Washington of […]

LIFTING THE VEIL ON THE MASS MIGRATION FROM MOROCCO INTO CEUTA

Over July 30-31, some 60,000 migrants—mainly young men—swam and climbed their way from Morocco into Ceuta, a Spanish exclave on the African continent bordering Morocco, in an explosive mass migration that overwhelmed Spanish authorities and shocked the world. So far, 67 migrants are known to have died in the process. Ceuta itself has a population […]