Oct. 19—Hamas warriors slaughtered up to 1,400 Israelis on October 7. Almost 3,000 Americans died on September 11, 2001. While it may not compare to hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths in Iraq (2003-06) or many other locations of darker-skinned peoples (and while it falls short of the slaughter of Palestinians over the last two weeks), it still is horrendous. And, worse, it is guaranteed to keep happening until the cycle is broken. |
Oct. 10—Israel’s most widely circulated daily, Yedioth Ahronoth, properly exploded in outrage over the psychopathic failings of the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, failings that have left many Israelis slaughtered and the country plunging into a bloodlust rage. |
Oct. 5—The events in the US House of Representatives and the Canadian House of Commons over the last two weeks have left the political prognosticators and spin-doctors lying in a ditch on the side of the road. The reality they’ve been avoiding is that there really is a massive, deadly financial cancer, and when such a cancer is left to metastasize, nasty and senseless wars ensue. |
Sept. 28—To smell a rat, one did not need to know that the 98-year-old man, trotted out for a ‘feel good’ moment when the Canadian Parliament welcomed Ukrainian President Zelensky on Sept. 22, was a soldier of the Nazi’s Waffen-SS ‘Galizien’ Division. |
Sept. 21, 2023—Three African leaders, who together had recently attended the recent Russia-Africa Summit in St. Petersburg, addressed the United Nations General Assembly today. Certainly they found colonialism to be oppressive and destructive, but all three were not ‘punching from below.’ |
Sept. 14—After addressing the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Sept. 12, and after fielding questions for almost three hours, Russian President Vladimir Putin was asked in conclusion, what was the future of Russia? Without blinking, he spoke straight from his mind and heart: “We are the makers of our future.” |
Sept. 7—Today is the 10th anniversary of the launching of China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI). On Sept. 7, 2013, President Xi Jinping presented what was then called the “Silk Road Economic Belt,” in a speech he made early in his presidency, entitled “Promote People-to-People Friendship and Create a Better Future.” |
Sept. 1—What kind of world would it be if heads of state loved their nation and its people as much as parents loved a child? |
Aug. 21—The next 72 hours are momentous.
The BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, Aug. 22-24, moves center stage in the world, and in history. Some 22 nations have applied to join the original five, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The issue is reformulating the world economic relations and ensuring secure relations amongst nations. |
July 15—President Biden’s decision on July 13 to send more troops to Europe, prompted notable commentary from two of Biden’s expected opponents in the Presidential race, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and former President Donald Trump. RFK, Jr tweeted yesterday: "Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian youth have already died because America’s foreign policy establishment manipulated their country into war to fulfill vain + futile geopolitical fantasy. Now, rather than acknowledge failure, Biden admin prepares to sacrifice American lives too. |
As part of the ongoing series on LaRouche’s economics, we will discuss Lyndon LaRouche's “That Which Underlies Motivic Thorough-Composition.” |
July 9—Weather forecasts can be fairly predictable, except when they’re not. It’s those fascinating intervals when great forces gather, seemingly out of nowhere, that epochal changes may occur. |
July 5—It turns out that climate change is real—though perhaps not the one embraced by the financial elite. |
June 22—The harsh reality of thousands of Ukrainian youth dying in “killing fields” in the last 2-3 weeks of the vaunted “counteroffensive” is beginning to haunt the Western alliance. Instead of the beginning of conquering of the Donbass, of Zaporozhye, of the drive into Crimea, etc., an estimated 13,000-plus Ukrainian soldiers are casualties (wounded or killed) in 2.5 weeks of senseless battle. Not getting past even the first line of multi-layered defensive lines erected by Russia, lines built up with trenches, fortifications, minefields, questions must be asked. |
June 13—The just concluded 10th Arab-China Business Conference, held for the first time in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, drew more than 2,000 participants, and signified the shift of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries towards business and economic growth with China. Last year, trade between Arab countries and China had already surged 31% higher than 2021, and China is building a modern steel plant in Saudi Arabia. Over the two days of the conference, at least 30 trade deals, worth $10 billion, were signed. |
What is it about modern Western culture that begs for it to be lied to? And, on a personal level, how fatiguing is it to have to keep track of all the lies one imbibes these days? |
June 4—Russia’s National Committee for BRICS Research now has on the front page of its website an EIR article by Paul Gallagher, “Will Credit Finally Be Included in De-Dollarization Dialogue?” The National Committee of Russian experts is the government institution responsible for formulating Russian policy proposals for the upcoming annual meeting of the BRICS heads of state in August. |
May 29—Memorial Day is not about choosing between celebrating a day off to eat hog dogs or feeling sad for a moment about those who gave their lives for a cause. Abraham Lincoln, in his First Inaugural address, best captured how memorial days for those who fought for the country actually works, even as the country faced the outbreak of civil war: “The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” |
May 25—“Happiness” and the “beautiful” were the subjects of China’s President Xi Jinping in a critical address to the Eurasian Economic Union’s opening of their plenary session in Moscow. Xi was explaining why he thought the synergy between his Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) nations can and should be deepened. This is the tenth anniversary of Xi’s presidency and of his launching of the Belt and Road Initiative. Its mission is to discover and realize the common development for countries, and so, to open up a “path of happiness” that benefits the entire world. |
May 18—Italy is finally committing to the Messina Bridge, linking Sicily with mainland Italy with the longest single-span, suspended bridge in the world. Russia just produced the largest grain harvest in its history. Today, China’s President Xi just had five bilateral summit meetings in one day, with the heads of state of the Central Asia republics. They were meeting in the original Silk Road city of Xi’an. In every one of the meetings, Global Times reports, the central topic was the Belt and Road centerpiece of massive infrastructure projects. |
May 16—Before making fun of President Zelensky’s meltdown the other day, put yourself in his shoes for a moment. You’ve hitched your wagon to a Western world that has a systemic financial breakdown on its hands. Your Western allies are so ‘post-industrialized’ that they have trouble being the war machine they fantasize about, leaving you way short of ammunition. Worse, they will have Ukraine fight to the last Ukrainian, bleeding itself to death in a proxy war, designed to sap as much strength from Russia as possible. And what regime change in the last many decades, engineered by London and Washington, has resulted in the country getting stronger going forward (or going forward at all)? |
May 9—U.S. war veteran Col. Frank Cohn (ret.), now 97 years old, is an optimist on a mission. He fought against the Nazis in World War II and met Soviet soldiers at Torgau on the Elbe River on April 25, 1945, when the two armies met. On the occasion of the victory in Europe over the Nazis, Cohn says: "While it is probably a false hope, I am an optimist, and I hang onto the time when things looked bright for all of us—back in May 1945. Yes, there was terrible devastation all around us, but the spirit was correct. We were going to go forward and repair the world, we were allies, we were friends.... Now, I go and participate to bring back that moment. It is not an easy thing to do at my age, but I must do it as long as I can, because someone young might catch that simmering glow of a short-lived peaceful world surrounded with friendship, and in remembrance, perhaps years far in the future, say with the political power that he or she might have attained: ''We can do this again!'" |
May 3—Two projectiles hurtled through the air toward the Kremlin early this morning. The Kremlin states that security personnel onsite immediately moved to intercept and neutralize the threat, using electronic warfare equipment. One was apparently hit and did explode over the Senate Palace, holding a working residence of President Putin. The other ended up on the Kremlin’s grounds, close to Putin’s other working residence, the Great Kremlin Palace. Debris was scattered. The Kremlin stated that Russia reserves the right to retaliate in a manner, place and time of its choosing. |
April 27—China’s authoritative “Global Times” (GT) featured a discussion of the method of President Xi Jinping’s seemingly mysterious diplomacy. It shocked all the clever analysts, think tanks, and talking heads in the West when the Saudis and Iranians just last month buried the hatchet. Immediately, supposedly intractable hotspots such as Yemen—where many more have died than in the Ukraine conflict—begin to become not so intractable. Again, the Saudis and the Syrians are talking with each other, even though the Saudis for a decade had financed a civil war in Syria—also where many more have died than in the Ukraine conflict. But can Xi perform a semi-miracle with the intractable President Zelenskyy in Ukraine? |
April 23—Operating out of Ukraine’s Office of the President, the head of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Oleksiy Danilov, reacted today against the possibility of an outbreak of peace: “When the goal of the Russian aggressor remains the same —to destroy Ukraine—recent peace settlement initiatives are pro-Russian peacemaking. Don’t try to put us at the negotiating table, give us enough weapons. Weapons are the best mediator and a clear argument for Russia in communication.” |
