Stewart Battle

Aug. 12—As the smoke is beginning to clear, and accounts are being taken, it is universally being recognized throughout the world that Ukraine’s counteroffensive has failed, and failed badly. Despite tens of billions of dollars in the most advanced weaponry, and all the other assistance given by the countries of NATO, it still has not been enough to even break Russia’s massive defensive lines in eastern Ukraine, let alone retake previously held territories.

An outstanding opportunity awaits if the West today focuses on collaboration in the effort to end underdevelopment worldwide

Aug. 10—As this news service has frequently reported, a historic sea-change is underway globally, being led by the members of the BRICS and their growing allies within the developing world. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov referred to it some months back, the “Global Majority” is currently finding its voice and demanding a new future, free from the neocolonial and oligarchic yoke of the past.

A centuries-spanning shift is taking place, as evidenced by the recent Russia-Africa Summit

Aug. 1—As has famously been said: Sometimes there are decades where nothing happens, and then there are weeks where decades happen. Events set into motion since Russia’s military operation into Ukraine, and especially since the ensuing response by NATO and Western countries attempting to erase Russia from history, have shown that these coming weeks and months will see monumental changes in the world.

July 30—Lyndon LaRouche used to insist that any competent scientist must know the role that “weak forces” play in the physical universe. While it may seem to the everyday blockhead that virtually all events are determined by the everyday push-and-pull of the things around you, the reality is that other “weak” forces play an even more powerful effect on the whole—even though you may never experience their actions. Such is the case with the exceptional fragility of life, hardly a speck amidst the enormity of the cosmos, yet somehow has become one of nature’s most powerful forces.

July 24—Escalations over the recent few days have made it clear that the growing danger of war will not go away until a qualitative change occurs among Western nations. Any thought that, because nothing disastrous has happened yet in 17 months of conflict in Ukraine, therefore everything will continue to be fine—is absolute idiocy.

July 21—If you tell a lie loudly enough and frequently enough, then people will most certainly begin to believe it—or at least that’s the theory of those followers of the modern-day Goebbels school of thought. Thus, a new and obnoxious lie was born this week on the occasion of Russia’s cancellation of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, with claims coming from the usual suspects that, “See, we told you Putin could not be trusted!” As has been said before, wars are based on lies, and these kinds of lies are leading us straight to a world war.

July 13—During an interview with Russian news site Lenta.ru, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made the sobering point that the deployment of Western F-16’s into Ukraine will be perceived by Russia as a “nuclear threat.” “We have informed the nuclear powers,” Lavrov said, “that Russia cannot ignore the ability of these aircraft to carry nuclear weapons. No amount of assurances will help here.” It is known that F-16’s can be equipped to carry B-61 gravity nuclear bombs, yet a distant observer, namely Russia, will have no way of discerning whether or not one is so armed. “In the course of combat operations,” Lavrov continued, “our servicemen are not going to sort out whether each particular aircraft of this type is equipped to deliver nuclear weapons or not. We will regard the very fact that the Ukrainian armed forces have such systems as a threat from the West in the nuclear sphere.”

July 10—When you go to flip on the lights, but instead the switch causes the toilet to flush, you know you’ve got a problem. This is the situation with the trans-Atlantic alliance today, where every action taken in the effort to project dominance over the world ends up backfiring in their face.