CHINA PASSES FRANCE IN NUCLEAR POWER, APPROVES EIGHT MORE REACTORS
Two Chinese reactors reached start-up milestones four days apart, and with them China’s installed nuclear capacity reached 63.98 GWe, passing France’s 63 GW for the first time. China is now second in the world only to the United States, at 96.9 GWe—and it is the only one of the three that is expanding its capacity. […]
THE PHASE CHANGE
Heat water and nothing appears to happen—until it reaches its boiling point and becomes something else entirely. That is a phase change, and it is what Helga Zepp-LaRouche says the world is now facing: “A phase change has to occur one way or another, because the existing trajectory is coming to an end.” The Iran […]
TÜRKİYE DEMANDS SAFE NAVIGATION AFTER DRONES STRIKE TWO OF ITS SHIPS
Türkiye’s Foreign Ministry denounced attacks on two Turkish-owned civilian cargo vessels in the Black Sea and called on Russia and Ukraine both to guarantee the safety of commercial navigation, after drones struck the ships near the Russian port of Novorossiysk late on August 3rd. The Nadezhda was hit roughly 20 nautical miles off Novorossiysk while […]
THE SHADOWS OF AUGUST
At fifteen minutes past eight on the morning of August 6, 1945, a human being sat on the stone steps of a bank in Hiroshima, waiting for it to open. Then came the flash. The heat of it—thousands of degrees in an instant—bleached the stone white around the place where they sat, and left behind […]
U.S.-IRAN WAR WIDENS: SEAFARER DEATHS AT HORMUZ, THE BLOCKADE REIMPOSED, AND A THREAT THAT POINTS TO A NUCLEAR WEAPON
The war over the Strait of Hormuz claimed the lives of commercial seafarers Tuesday, as the United States launched its fifth wave of strikes on Iran in a week and moved to reimpose a full naval blockade of Iranian ports at 4:00 p.m. ET today—an act of war in itself. The UAE said Iranian cruise […]
BEIJING PUSHES BACK ON ANTI-INDIA XENOPHOBIA
As China and India rebuild ties after years of estrangement, Chinese officialdom has moved to tamp down a nationalist online backlash against the reopening. A July 2 commentary in the state outlet The Paper (澎湃新闻)—written under “Xin Ping”—a collective byline used for pieces reflecting official positions, and republished in full on the Chinese Embassy in […]
THE ARROW THAT POINTS UP
On July 14 at Baikonur, the heads of the American and Russian space agencies stood side by side—the first such meeting on that soil in nearly eight years—and launched a crew, two Russians and an American, toward the one outpost where their nations have never stopped cooperating. That same morning in the Strait of Hormuz, […]
WASHINGTON YANKS IRAN’S OIL WAIVER AS THE CEASEFIRE UNRAVELS
The fragile U.S.–Iran ceasefire came apart this week at its economic seam. On July 7, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control revoked (with a ten-day grace period) “General License X”—the waiver, barely two weeks old, that had lifted U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil exports and the banking, insurance, and shipping services around them. […]
THE CHOICE BEFORE US: TWO WARS, OR THE MAGNIFICENT HUMANITY
Take the day’s news as a single picture. Iranian missiles have targeted U.S. bases, including the Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain, after U.S. bombers, the night before, struck the very rail line carrying millions of mourners to bury Iran’s assassinated leader. Oil leapt more than five percent and the Dow fell nearly 600 points as […]
‘A DECENT RESPECT TO THE OPINIONS OF MANKIND’: THE DRAFTING BEGINS
Two hundred fifty years ago today, on June 11, 1776, the Continental Congress did something that should puzzle every cynic about politics. The day before, it had postponed until July 1 the vote on Richard Henry Lee’s resolution for independence—the delegates of the middle colonies were not yet ready to decide. And then, the decision […]
THE ARCHITECTURE IS ON THE TABLE — AND WHAT MUST BE DONE IS NOT IN DOUBT
At 10:00 Tuesday morning in New York, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi opens the United Nations Security Council’s high-level debate, “Upholding the Purposes and Principles of the UN Charter and Strengthening the UN-Centered International System.” Secretary-General António Guterres briefs. Foreign ministers and senior diplomats of the world’s nations are in the chamber. Implicitly before them […]
THE PATH TO PEACE RUNS THROUGH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INTERCONNECTION: A CONVERGENCE AT EIR’S ROUNDTABLE
The May 15 EIR Emergency Roundtable on “The Iran War and the ‘Controlled Disintegration’ of the World Economy” produced a substantive convergence that may, if pursued, alter the trajectory of current history. Former Turkish Prime Minister (2014-2016) and Foreign Minister (2009-2014) Ahmet Davutoğlu set out the proposal he laid out in Project Syndicate last month […]