THE SPARK OF REASON OR THE SPARK OF WAR? WAR MADNESS THREATENS THE FATE OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
With the return of fighting between the United States and Iran, and the seeming collapse of any prospect of negotiations, the world has come again to the edge of the abyss. “We currently have no plans for negotiations and are focused on defense,” Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said July 15. This was backed […]
LUXEMBOURG PREPARES FOR WAR
The bizarre case of Luxembourg adds a grotesque note to the NATO rearmament drive. As reported, Prime Minister Luc Frieden (an Orwellian name) is the co-initiator, together with Canadian PM and former Bank of England boss Mark Carney, of the so-called Bank for Defense, Security, and Resilience (i.e., the NATO Bank). Luxembourg is a tiny […]
WILL TRUMP SELL THE F-35 TO TURKIYE?
Will President Donald Trump sell the F-35 stealth fighter to Türkiye? He was expected to make such an announcement at the NATO summit in Ankara, but didn’t do so during a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “Well, it’s a decision we’re going to make,” he said in response to a […]
UN WARNS OF ANOTHER WAR CRISIS IN SUDAN
On July 3 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned that the world’s largest humanitarian crisis may take a turn for the worse. New battle lines are forming around the city of El Obeid in northwest Sudan for a possible replay of the October genocide and ethnic cleansing at El Fasher, Sudan. Speaking […]
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. […]
UKRAINE-POLAND FALLOUT THREATENS NATO’S PROXY WAR AGAINST RUSSIA
This week, SA’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO), Ronald Lamola, hosted his Polish counterpart, Radoslaw Sikorski in Pretoria to give effect to their joint desire for closer ties as per their Davos, Switzerland visit, undertaking during the World Economic Forum. The bilateral meeting at the OR Tambo Building – DIRCO’s HQ in SA’s […]
NOT BABEL, BUT THE BEAUTIFUL CITY
If the United States ceases to exist, perhaps in a thermonuclear mushroom cloud generated by one or another NATO-instigated conflict, it will not be because of any aggression against it, or its trans-Atlantic “allies.” The United States will cease to exist, because it chose to stop existing. It chose to dress itself in the trappings […]
‘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 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 […]
SCHILLER INSTITUTE BERLIN CONFERENCE, 2026: ‘THE URGENT NEED FOR A NEW INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT ARCHITECTURE’
The Schiller Institute convened an international conference in Berlin May 30-31, whose opening session today was described by the participants from many nations, as “inspiring,” given the danger and depravity around us. Over the course of the full, two-day event, panelists from 15 nations, with experience and skills in international relations, economics, science, and the […]
NETANYAHU ORDERS IDF TO OCCUPY 70% OF GAZA
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that he had ordered the army to occupy 70 percent of the Gaza Strip, in the latest violation of the October ceasefire, Middle East Eye reported yesterday. “At this point, we are fully in control of 60 percent of the territory of the Gaza Strip,” Netanyahu said […]
THE FATE OF HUMANITY IS NOT YET DECIDED: IT’S TIME FOR YOU TO ACT
“Is the human species capable of governing itself,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche asked in her webcast of May 27, “or are we on the path of potential self-destruction?” This question remains to be answered. The dangerous and very volatile state of the world strategic picture, from the illegal aggressive war against Iran to the deranged continuation of […]