Marcia Merry Baker

Dec. 2, 2024 (EIRNS)—It is an understatement to assert that human civilization is in mortal danger. Circles of the “Collective West” are perpetrating lies, military force, and provocation even to the point of triggering nuclear holocaust, and at the same time conducting financial warfare, and practices promoting economic breakdown, including for their own populations.

Nov. 29, 2024 (EIRNS)—The White House on Nov. 28 issued a statement in the name of President Joe Biden denouncing Russia’s “horrific” attacks on Ukraine earlier that day, using terms of self-righteous insanity. Biden pledged to continue “prioritizing air defense exports” to Ukraine, from the U.S.. The sense of the message is that Russia has no reason but “aggression” for their actions.

Nov. 21, 2024 (EIRNS)—Today Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a starkly clear strategic assessment in a video presentation, as an address to “military personnel of the Russian Federation Armed Forces, citizens of our country, our friends across the globe, and those who persist in the illusion that a strategic defeat can be inflicted upon Russia.” This Alert includes the full transcript of his eight-minute remarks, from the translation on the website of the President of Russia.

Nov. 11, 2024 (EIRNS)—Yesterday concluded the first ministerial meeting of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum, in Sochi, whose attendance and policy deliberation manifest the growing leadership drive in the Global Majority, which was dramatically expressed at the BRICS-Plus Summit in Kazan, Russia on October 22-24. Today, the Belarus government officially accepted the BRICS invitation to become a “partner nation.”

Nov. 4, 2024 (EIRNS)—Schiller Institute founder and leader, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, in reviewing the world strategic situation today, asserted, “Our moment in history is here!” We can be sure, she is not referring to the U.S. elections Tuesday! Not to the voting result, nor the aftermath. Rather, Zepp-LaRouche refers to the undeniable fact that “the old system is crumbling,” and this means, “this is the chance for a new system.”

Nov. 1, 2024 (EIRNS)—In Southwest Asia, in addition to Israel’s continuing genocide warfare in Gaza and southern Lebanon, Israel this week perpetrated the emblematic act of bulldozing into the ground buildings in the West Bank provincial capital of Tulkarem, where the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has been carrying out aid to the Nur Shams camp. UNRWA, mandated since its founding in 1949 to provide aid to Palestinians in the transition to Palestine becoming an independent state—a transition wrongfully extended for decades, has been unilaterally outlawed this week by Israel, and is now physically under destruction. In Lebanon, one estimate of the devastation there is that nearly a quarter of all buildings have been destroyed in 25 municipalities near the border with Israel.

Oct. 27, 2024 (EIRNS)—There is currently an escalation of both nuclear war danger, and of censorship against any forces opposing the war drive. These threats are worsening, even as the BRICS process grows and provides leadership in a dramatically positive direction for a future for humanity. The BRICS is now formally 22 nations—nine permanent member states, and thirteen "partner nations.

Oct. 23, 2024 (EIRNS)—Today was the second of three days of the Oct. 22-24 BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia. The agenda saw heads of state and government of the nine member nations meet privately in Restricted Access mode, then in expanded format. The Summit released a Declaration, “Strengthening Multilateralism for Just Global Development and Security,” and on the sidelines, dozens of meetings are taking place, including among the 15 other heads of state and government in attendance, as well as among the 36 foreign delegations present this week.

Oct. 22, 2024 (EIRNS)—Today in Berlin, Helga Zepp-LaRouche warned at a China-Germany human rights conference of the immediate danger of nuclear war. This evening evening the China daily Global Times paraphrased Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche that: “It is probably impossible to speak about human rights without addressing the immediate danger to the very existence of the entire human species—war in Ukraine and war in the Middle East, which risk escalating into a global nuclear war. The highest priority for all people must be to rise above geopolitics and the notion that nations or groups can impose their interests on others by any means is fundamentally flawed.”

Oct. 11, 2024 (EIRNS)—We’re at the point of decision in two realms of terrible, and needless, conflict: Ukraine and Southwest Asia. Will it be diplomacy, or the short road to World War III?