Author: Jason Ross

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 […]

COOPERATION OR (UN)-CONTROLLED DISINTEGRATION: THE CHOICE AFTER BEIJING

On May 14, Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump met in Beijing and pledged “a constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability”—a three-year framework, an institutionalized economic channel, and a high-level calendar through year’s end. The handshake at the Great Hall of the People was the opening of a possible road back from the brink. On […]

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 […]