DIPLOMACY IS SANITY
The opening days of August marked the 81st year since the 1945 mass deaths from the U.S. atomic bombs dropped in Hiroshima (Aug. 6) and Nagasaki (Aug. 9,) during which anniversary week this year, the annual U.S. Strategic Command’s “Strategic Deterrence” conference took place in Nebraska, discussing present-day use of nuclear weapons. USSTRATCOM commander Adm. […]
ADD TO THE VOICES OF SANITY, TO STOP ESCALATION OF NUCLEAR WAR
Today foreign ministers representing 690 million people, in the 11 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) issued a joint statement calling for an end to the warfare in Southwest Asia. In the opening hours of their three-day meeting in Manila, they met in private, then immediately released their eight-point statement, “On the […]
EVEN DEEPER LOSSES PROJECTED FOR U.S. FARMERS IN 2027
The “Farm Policy News” today issued by the University of Illinois has a round-up from many sources, of the scale of income crisis for U.S. farmers this year, and projected for next year, under the headline, “American Farmers May See Deeper Losses in 2027.” U.S. farm income could lose close to $40 billion overall this […]
NATO SUMMIT HOSTS ARMS SALES JAMBOREE; GLOBAL MAJORITY CALLS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE AT UNGA DEBATE ON CUBA
As NATO opened its two-day yearly summit in Ankara on July 7, two major conflicts in which member countries are deeply involved, Russia-Ukraine and Iran, could quickly escalate to a point of no return. The United States today resumed strikes on Iran targets in the area of the Strait of Hormuz. On Ukraine, the NATO […]
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 […]