THE THEATERS OF GLOBAL WAR EXPAND TO THE STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR
Preparations are underway this weekend in both Washington and Tehran for a likely dramatic resumption of all-out warfare between the United States and Iran. The State Department has issued new travel advisories and warnings to its personnel throughout Southwest Asia that they may come under attack at any time. U.S. mass media CBS is reporting […]
A DIALOGUE OF CIVILIZATIONS: DEVELOPMENT OR WORLD WAR III
That is the provocative title of the lead panel of the upcoming July 31 EIR Roundtable Dialogue, which over the course of the day will include presentations and deliberation among prominent political, religious, economic, and youth leaders from 14 countries on every continent. It will truly be the seed crystal of the kind of Dialogue […]
AMB. CELSO AMORIM, SPECIAL ADVISOR TO THE PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL: THE MONEY FOR WARS IS TAKEN AWAY FROM DEVELOPMENT
The following is a slightly edited transcription of an interview with Amb. Celso Amorim, Special Advisor to the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, conducted by EIR’s Ibero-American editor Dennis Small on July 24, in the course of a visit to Brazil. DENNIS SMALL: This is Dennis Small with {Executive Intelligence Review} and […]
WHO’S CRAZY ENOUGH TO DELIBERATELY CUT OFF 10% OF WORLD WHEAT SUPPLIES, ON TOP OF 20% OF WORLD OIL?
The City of London and Wall Street, that’s who. Over the last week, the twin wars in Ukraine and Iran have each escalated and spread dramatically. On London’s command, Ukraine has launched a growing barrage of drone attacks on Russian ships in the Sea of Azov, the gateway for over a quarter of Russia’s grain […]
TRUMP RESUMES STRIKES ON IRAN
The U.S. ceasefire with Iran is “over,” President Donald Trump told reporters on the sidelines of the Ankara NATO summit, and threatened major new attacks against Iran as early as last night. World oil prices immediately rose by more than 5%, and stock markets worldwide plummeted on the news. Trump’s comments came after three days […]
A POLICY FOR GETTING THE ELEPHANT OUT OF THE LIVING ROOM
To date, the implemented “solutions” to the wars in Ukraine and Iran have contained the seeds of their own destruction. Not surprisingly, each theater is rapidly escalating again, each bringing with it the danger of escalating to nuclear war. The NATO meeting in Ankara saw both crises worsen gravely. But perhaps most dangerous of all, […]
RUSSIA LAUNCHES ‘MASSIVE OVERNIGHT PRECISION STRIKE ON UKRAINE’
Russia’s Defense Ministry issued a statement July 6 reporting that a “massive overnight precision strike” had been launched against Ukraine, TASS reported. “Last night, in retaliation to the Kiev regime’s terrorist attacks on Russian territory, the Russian Armed Forces delivered a massive strike by ground-based, airborne and seaborne long-range precision weapons and attack unmanned aerial […]
NOT BABEL, BUT THE BEAUTIFUL CITY
If the United States ceases to exist, perhaps in a thermonuclear mushroom cloud generated by one or another NATO-instigated conflict, it will not be because of any aggression against it, or its trans-Atlantic “allies.” The United States will cease to exist, because it chose to stop existing. It chose to dress itself in the trappings […]
THE SCHACHTIAN DILEMMA: CONQUER OR COLLAPSE
The overriding theme of the just-concluded Schiller Institute conference in Berlin, Helga Zepp-LaRouche explained in her weekly webcast today, was the “unbelievable indifference” being shown by most European governments to the extreme danger for all Mankind that their own actions have created by driving relentlessly for war with Russia—a war which will inevitably be nuclear, […]
NOT THE DELUGE, BUT THE OASIS
Before the world descends into a maelstrom of total war, from which human civilization itself may not emerge, a different path must needs be taken. This Tuesday, May 26, the United Nations will convene the session, “Upholding the Purposes and Principles of the UN Charter and Strengthening the UN-Centered International System.” sponsored by the United […]
A VERY PRECIOUS MOMENT TO ACT TO BRING A NEW PARADIGM INTO EXISTENCE
“This is a very precious moment in history, which must not be missed,” Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche wrote with urgency in a May 17 open letter addressed to the Governments of the United Nations, but also meant for action by all the peoples of the world. In little more than a week, the United […]
IRANIAN PRESIDENT THANKS POPE FOR STANCE AGAINST WAR
On May 15, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian sent an official letter to Pope Leo XIV thanking him for his earlier statements denouncing military spending and war—the same statements which led to strident criticism by U.S. President Donald Trump—according to the Venezuela-based Telesur news agency. Pezeshkian urged the entire international community to oppose Washington’s “illegal” and […]