WILL WESTERN NATIONS FIND THE MORAL FITNESS TO ACCEPT SURVIVAL?
On Thursday, February 5, the only remaining agreement limiting the nuclear arsenals of the United States and Russia expired. The expiration of the New START Treaty “marks a grave moment for international peace and security,” said UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres—a reaction expressed by many from around the world, and made even more palpable given […]
NUCLEAR DOOMSDAY OR A NEW SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT ARCHITECTURE?
The New START treaty—the last remaining nuclear arms agreement between the world’s two largest nuclear superpowers—has expired as of today. Russian President Putin’s offer to the United States to adhere to the treaty’s limitations for one year met with no official response from the U.S.—a non-answer answer. “Given the fact that the world is already […]
UKRAINE’S ZELENSKY SHOULD STOP BEING MISLED BY EU’S WAR-MONGERS
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky seems to be caught between a rock and hard place. Publicly, he repeatedly calls for the war to end – immediately. However, methinks his biggest fault-line can be traced in his insistence that the war in Ukraine, which broke out in 2022 at the height of significant geopolitical differences between Moscow […]
WILL THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE PREVAIL?
The spectacle that was President Donald Trump’s speech to the Davos World Economic Forum on Wednesday, January 21, presented an alarming picture of the state of mind of a U.S. Presidency ruled by the Beast-Man ideology of Joseph de Maistre, the inhuman belief that rule by terror and coercion, the Thrasymachan “might makes right,” must govern human […]
ZELENSKY’S PRAISE FOR MADURO’S KIDNAPPING MUST TEACH SA TO CHOOSE ALLIES WISELY
As most of the international community paused in “shock and awe” of the US whilst staging a brazen military attack on Venezuela – kidnapping and whisking away the country’s president and his wife to a detention centre far away in New York – some celebrated the cowboy drama as a lesson for adversaries. Among the […]
‘PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH’ OR ‘STRENGTH TO LOVE?’
Will the United States be bombing Iran or in possession of Greenland by the time this article arrives in your email inbox? Both outcomes are possible today or in the coming days and weeks ahead. On January 12, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social: “Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING—TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!! Save the names of the […]
DOES THE UNIVERSE ANSWER TO SHOCK AND AWE?
The City of London’s flagship daily, the Financial Times, summarized the state of the world ten days into the New Year with the following headline: “Trump Takes On the World in Week of Shock and Awe.” The article first took stock: “A trigger-happy, expansionist Trump launched a military operation to capture Venezuela’s strongman leader Nicolás Maduro and vowed […]
PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A THREAT TO WORLD PEACE
Amidst a week of great turmoil in geopolitics, the US Senate voted 52-47 to advancea war powers resolution aimed at limiting theuse of armed forces against Venezuela. The vote followed concerns that President Donald Trump did not seek congressional approval prior to his military attack on Venezuela. Trump had ramped up his discomforting rhetoric with […]
THE LAROUCHE DOCTRINE: IMPLEMENT IT NOW, BEFORE ITS TOO LATE
“The political foundation for durable peace must be: a) The unconditional sovereignty of each and all nation-states, and b) Cooperation among sovereign nation-states to the effect of promoting unlimited opportunities to participate in the benefits of technological progress, to the mutual benefit of each and all. “The most crucial feature of present implementation of such […]
GOODBYE TO A CHAOTIC 2025 – AND HELLO TO AN EVEN MORE TURBULENT 2026
To those hoping that the new year would bring some calm resolve to a world gripped by significant crises across the board—think again. The year 2026 has already opened with a literal bang, and promises to be even more tumultuous than its predecessor. Taking center stage in this is the major escalation between Ukraine and […]
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, […]
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 […]