David Shavin

Dec. 24, 2024 (EIRNS)—Will this Christmas season be the optimum time for the U.S. intelligence community to sabotage U.S.-Russian relations in the upcoming Trump administration? This is exactly what was done eight years ago. Let’s take a quick look at a Christmas past.

Dec. 19, 2024 (EIRNS)—Which country’s capital has the most berserk discussion going on?

Dec. 12, 2024 (EIRNS)—On Nov. 21, the Russian military hurled a very loud message at Washington, D.C., when their new hypersonic ballistic Oreshnik missile hit a military-industrial site in Dnipro, Ukraine, coming in at breathtaking speeds, far faster than any present-day air defense system is capable of dealing with. And, of note, it proved that it hits where it is aimed.

Dec. 8, 2024 (EIRNS)—The message from the historic weekend Schiller Institute conference, “In the Spirit of Schiller and Beethoven: All Men Become Brethren!” was loud and clear. The world is at a “punctum saliens”’ where hard work over the Institute’s forty years has created a real breakout possibility for the world to break the cycle of underdevelopment, poverty and constant warfare. Today’s third panel, “The Science Drivers of Physical Economy”, laid out the very real development projects and method of thinking for the way forward. (The transcripts of Panel 3’s speeches are in this briefing in Documentation.) And the fourth panel, “The Beauty of the Cultures of the World: A Dialogue Among Civilizations”, posed the thoroughgoing classical statecraft of Lyndon LaRouche, the motor behind the developments that make for a pathway out of war and genocide.

Dec. 5, 2024 (EIRNS)—What is it that allows a global security architecture to stop wars and genocide? And is it a practical alternative to all the dirty games, the physical and mental violence, to muscle countries into the sacrifices required to keep financial speculation going another day?

Nov. 25, 2024 (EIRNS)—Four days have passed since Russia delivered their unexpected answer to the West’s latest escalation. The launching of U.S. ATACMS missiles, targeted and guided by U.S. forces, into undisputed Russian territory last week was supposed to be part of a pre-rigged game, where the geopoliticians have calculated that they can take the next step in degrading and breaking Russia. After all, the reasoning goes, we can keep ratcheting up the pressure on Russia and they would never go to a nuclear exchange, cause they would lose everything. But Russia unleashed not a nuclear bomb, but a new hypersonic missile with remarkable precision, that indeed could have carried a nuclear bomb.

Nov. 14, 2024 (EIRNS)—There’s a very real idea that people are going to have to wrap their minds around, if they want a pathway out of thermonuclear confrontation. It is the matter of nations, with different situations, characteristics and problems, having a higher basis for benefiting from interactions with other nations. Do nations actually become better, become more of what they are uniquely capable of being, by their cultural, scientific and economic exchanges?

Nov. 7, 2024 (EIRNS)—Was it that easy? Russian President Vladimir Putin answered a question today, whether he would talk with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump; and he says he would. Then he adds that he is not above reaching out first to Trump. And an hour later, Trump says that he thinks the two of them will be talking.

Nov. 3, 2024 (EIRNS)—Halloween is over and now comes the U.S. presidential election. Recent elections in Germany, France, Hungary, Slovakia, Georgia and today in Moldova have delivered a thunderous message, that anyone associated with the de-industrialization and “permanent war” policies of the West is to be treated rudely by the electorate. Whatever would be running a “collective Kamala” administration, it smells of the same brand, loyal to putting financial derivative bubbles first and subjects of proxy wars last.

Oct. 29, 2024 (EIRNS)—It is a foregone conclusion that the least of two evils in the U.S. presidential election will not be capable, left to their own devices, of taking the simple step of having the country step away from addiction to a “gambling casino” economy, and embrace the economic mobilization of science, industry, and agriculture found in the new Global Majority of the BRICS. If they are left to their own devices, one could perhaps dodge a thermonuclear confrontation over Ukraine and stumble into one over Israel, or vice versa; or if the collapse of the dollar should occur before an explosion in Ukraine or Israel, then a nuclear conflagration could erupt without the use of a proxy.