Tag: War

A NEW TYPE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IS ON THE AGENDA

Two very different possible futures stare humanity in the face, and we, as a species, have reached what the poet Friedrich Schiller called a punctum saliens, the salient point in history at which we must choose one of two very different directions. The first possible future was advanced in the important state visit just concluded […]

ANOTHER INTELLIGENCE LEAK SHOWING IRAN RETAINS SUBSTANTIAL MISSILE CAPABILITIES

The New York Times reported in a May 12 article on yet another intelligence leak showing how little damage the U.S. did to Iran’s missile capabilities during 40 days of air strikes. “The Trump administration’s public portrayal of a shattered Iranian military is sharply at odds with what U.S. intelligence agencies are telling policymakers behind […]

BRICS FOREIGN MINISTERS MEET IN NEW DELHI

At the same time that the Trump-Xi summit is being held in Beijing, the foreign ministers of the BRICS nations will meet in New Delhi over May 14-15, and will set the agenda for the heads of state summit in September, chaired by India this year. RT reports that the meeting “is expected to focus […]

THE BACKDROP TO THE TRUMP-XI SUMMIT

“In the case of the actualization of the presently onrushing general monetary-financial blow-out,” Lyndon LaRouche wrote in November 2004, “all of the sundry elements of a complexly integrated world system, including the most notable nations of Asia, would be plunged into chaos in a way most nearly resembling the plunge of Fourteenth Century Europe into […]

PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA ADDRESSES THE NATION

“I would like to address you this evening onthe judgment handed down by the Constitutional Court on Friday last week. In that judgment, the Constitutional Court found that certain aspects of the National Assembly rules that govern the process for the removal of the President from office are inconsistent with the Constitution. The judgment has […]

STANDING UP TO THE EMPIRE’S BLACKMAIL — AND OFFERING A NEW PARADIGM INSTEAD

Scarcely 13 hours before the May 9 Victory Day parade in Moscow was scheduled to begin, celebrating the 81st anniversary of the Allied defeat of fascism in World War II, U.S. President Donald Trump pressured Ukraine’s erstwhile president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to stand down from his wildly provocative May 4 threat to attack that Victory Day […]

81 YEARS LATER: HUMANITY AT A CROSSROADS

May 8 in the West, and May 9 in Russia, marks the anniversary of the victory over fascism in Europe in World War II. Though a distant event for many alive today, much of today’s world was formed in its wake, including the current UN-centered order—despite the attempt to corrupt it with the barbaric dropping […]

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 […]

TRUMP’S CANTANKEROUS LEADERSHIP A BAD OMEN FOR WORLD PEACE

Claims about the activities of the US government-aligned institutions such as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and USAID, among others, give credence to discourse about a systematic fermentation of chaos in international relations. USAID has been whittled down since the triumphant return of President Donald Trump to the White House. Trump ascended to the […]

A NEW START, FOR PEACE OR WAR

Our reports below, this morning, illuminate two realities: The world economy is being broken down by wars, embargos, sanctions, punitive tariffs, even genocide—every form of economic and military punishment which leaders of major nations can impose on others; heavily armed on less armed; nuclear nations on non-nuclear. Humanity is on the verge of a world […]

‘WE’RE CUTTING FOOD, DAYCARE, AND MEDICARE BECAUSE WE’RE AT WAR TO PROTECT YOU’

In his April 1st press conference, President Trump wasn’t fooling. He said: “it’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. They can do it on a state basis. You can’t do it on a federal—we have to take care of one thing. Military protection. We have to […]

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 […]