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 […]