Author: Jason Ross

HOPE OR HELL: THE CHOICE IS STILL OURS

Much damage is already done. Not “will be done” if the war against Iran escalates further—though it will if the current occupants of Washington, Jerusalem, and London keep their hands on the tiller—but already done. Thirty-two million people pushed back into poverty. Half a percent to eight-tenths of a percent of global GDP erased. Fertilizer […]

TWO AMERICANS, TWO GODS

A year ago on Easter Sunday, President Trump shared on Truth Social what he called “the golden rule of negotiating and success“: “HE WHO HAS THE GOLD MAKES THE RULES.” One year on, the gold has not made the rules. What it has made is war. This Holy Saturday, Trump posted: “Remember when I gave Iran ten days […]

THE DIALOGUE THAT MUST NOT BE REFUSED AGAIN

In September 2001, as the rubble of the Twin Towers still smoldered and the logic of civilizational war was becoming American policy, Iran’s President Mohammad Khatami rose before a United Nations conference and made a different argument. The UN General Assembly had just endorsed his country’s proposal for a Dialogue of Civilizations. The moment, Khatami said, […]

WHEN THE STATE BECOMES A CULT: IF FAITH REPLACES STRATEGY, WHO PAYS THE PRICE?

The rulers of the Gulf nations made a calculation: that American military bases on their soil were an insurance policy. This week, they are discovering they may have purchased the opposite. Iran has declared it will not strike neighboring countries—unless those countries serve as launchpads for attacks against Iran. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the U.A.E. […]

CULTURE SHIFT: FROM EPSTEIN’S TRAINING CAMP OF DEPRAVITY TO A RENAISSANCE WORTH FIGHTING FOR

Every day brings new sordid and reprehensible details about the practices of Jeffrey Epstein and his collaborators and “guests.” Some speculate that the point of his operation was to compile incriminating documentation of high-powered individuals to be used to control them through blackmail. But this hypothesis misses the broader cultural point of sadistic depravity: the […]

WHAT IS ‘WESTERN CIVILIZATION’? RUBIO’S MUNICH FANTASY MEETS THE EPSTEIN REALITY

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood before the Munich Security Conference on February 13th and delivered what was meant to be a stirring defense of Western Civilization. It was the European continent, he declared, “that produced the genius of Mozart and Beethoven, of Dante and Shakespeare, of Michelangelo and Da Vinci, of the Beatles and […]

THE ELEPHANT IS STILL IN THE ROOM

Every day brings a new headline seemingly designed to jolt the public into a state of permanent alarm: ICE shootings and new discussions with Minnesota officials, the USA’s “big armada” parked off Iran, a self-anointed American regency over Gaza, and a homely form of totalitarianism that could be called “apple pie fascism.” The tumult is real. But it […]

DON’T LET CRAZY BE THE NEW NORMAL

“In the 250th year of our Declaration of Independence,” writes LaRouche independent candidate for U.S. President Diane Sare, “CRAZY appears to have become the new normal. This situation must be immediately reversed or we face consequences that are unfathomable.” She offers what she calls a “cold shower” for those clinging to the belief that the chaos […]

CATALYZING A TECTONIC CHANGE FOR THE BETTER

The first year of a presidency that promised “America First” has produced a record that is deeply divided against itself. There have been real, if fragile, departures from the logic of endless war: the formal rejection of primacy in strategic doctrine, the reopening of diplomacy with Russia and Belarus, a narrowly defined ceasefire with the […]

BEFORE THE DOOR CLOSES

The world, as Helga Zepp-LaRouche warned, is “hanging between hope and disaster,” and the outcome depends on whether action replaces inertia. There are openings. The continued dialogue between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, described by both sides as productive, marks a meaningful path forward toward ending the conflict playing out in Ukraine. Alongside diplomatic movement forward […]

WAR FEVER AND THE NEW OUTLAWS

Europe’s war chorus is growing louder as its strategic capabilities grow thinner. Strip away the slogans, and a blunt question remains unanswered: Can the EU or NATO credibly fight Russia without the United States? Not sanction, not posture, but fight? The answer, obvious to military planners and increasingly obvious to publics, is no. And that reality […]

DIPLOMACY MUST OVERCOME WHAT SOME CALL DESTINY

As the danger of wider war mounts across multiple theaters, a quiet but consequential intervention is underway. Kirill Dmitriev has arrived in Florida for weekend meetings with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, focused on ending the Ukraine conflict. At a moment when rhetoric elsewhere races toward “unprecedented” escalation—from the Baltic to the Caribbean—the very fact […]