MAKE THE COLLAPSE OF EMPIRE THE GATEWAY FOR WORLD DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE
Looking at the sweep of history, one sees that when empires go down, the trigger is often a failed military operation—an assault, a siege, a war. This observation was made today by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and leader of the Schiller Institute, to draw out the import of some of today’s leading current events and set […]
EXTREME DANGER: ESCALATION OF CONFRONTATION WITH RUSSIA IN EUROPE
In recent days, the escalation is extreme of Trans-Atlantic confrontation with Russia in Europe, not limited to bombast in the countdown to the annual NATO Summit July 7-8 in Turkiye, of the leaders of the 32 member nations. The stream of lies about how Ukraine is heading for “victory,” and Russia is weak, is incessant. […]
THE LOGIC OF MIGHT-MAKES-RIGHT SHOWS IT MUST BE ENDED, IT CANNOT BE RESTRAINED
Over the last 30 hours a sequence of reactive events occurred in the grim situation of Southwest Asia, in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, which points up the reality that only replacing the might-makes-right conduct of the United States and Israel, not expecting restraint, will end the horrors. This reflects the deadly logic of the […]
STILL MORE MIGHT-MAKES-RIGHT MILITARISM IN THE AMERICAS
An ominous event took place in the Americas in the past week. On May 28 the foreign and security ministers of five Ibero-American nations—Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Ecuador—met in Santiago, Chile, convened by that country’s President Jose Antonio Kast, to announce the formation of a new regional agreement to collaborate in combating organized transnational […]
INTERVENE WITH NEEDED IDEAS AND DEBATE INTO THE ‘HISTORIC MOMENT’ FOR HUMANITY
The timing and content of the May 17 “Open Letter to Governments of the United Nations: A Policy To Bring Peace and Development to Southwest Asia,” following the EIR Emergency Roundtable dialogue May 15, has contributed significantly to the discussion in and around the many international events at the end of this month, coming at […]
NOOSE TIGHTENS AROUND THE NECK OF HUMANITY
Over the past 30 hours, the United States escalated the conflict in its war against Iran, when U.S. President Donald Trump on May 2 declared that U.S. “Project Freedom” would begin today, for the U.S. military to control transit through the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. CentCom statement declared that the U.S. Navy will provide […]
TAKE IT AS AN URGENT OPPORTUNITY: THE ‘OLD ORDER IS UNDENIABLY GONE’
Take a step back from the rush of the day’s events, and the fact that the old order has collapsed is dramatically evident. The Western casino economics system is cracking up with debt, crypto, and non-production. The Western military system—whether Global NATO or unilateral U.S. or EU—is exposed as dead-head bellicosity. The Western political and […]
MOBILIZE FORCES TO INTERVENE IN A ‘BREAK-OUT OF REASON’
As of the eighth week of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, the world is at a severe point of crisis both objectively—in worsening economic shock; and subjectively—in moral and diplomatic shock. The dynamics are underway for a global depression, with no “if and when” about it, given the chain reactions of shortages of fuel and […]
DIALOGUE AT EIR APRIL 6 EMERGENCY ROUNDTABLE LIGHTS A PATHWAY OUT OF CATASTROPHE
Today’s EIR Emergency Roundtable, the third since January, saw an extraordinary online dialogue among 13 international experts from 10 countries, dedicated to shifting the world off its current course of war, and onto the plane of global development and peace. The title of the event, convened on very short notice, was, “A Dialogue of Civilizations: Is There […]
WEEK THREE OF U.S.-ISRAEL WAR FEATURES MADNESS OVER THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ
At a Pentagon briefing on March 13, marking the end of two weeks of U.S.-Israel warfare against Iran, a triumphalist report was given by Pete Hegseth, U.S. Defense Secretary, self-styled “Secretary of War,” and Gen. Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hegseth summed up, “We said it would not be a fair […]
EVERY INITIATIVE COUNTS AGAINST INCREASED BELLIGERENCE
There are, at present, many points of escalating belligerence in the world. From military confrontation, to financial/economic warfare. This spells both increased danger, especially in the case of the Persian Gulf, where there is the threat of triggering nuclear war, to otherwise needless suffering and chaos, as we see with the horror in the eastern […]
THE BRITISH EMPIRE HAS FIREWORKS PLANNED FOR AMERICA’S 250TH BIRTHDAY
London’s The Economist is bubbling over with excitement about what the new year will bring and what strife its British imperial ownership can foist upon humanity. In a December 29 article, they mention seven conflicts that could “explode” into regional or global disasters: “China v. Taiwan, India v. Pakistan, Russia v. Ukraine, Israel v. Hamas, Congo v. Rwanda, […]