April 19—Last month, China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin held a summit in Moscow, which included charting their collaboration over the next eight years on economic projects. Xi’s “Belt and Road” approach over the last ten years has shown country after country that nations can mutually benefit, if they simply choose projects that, in real physical economy terms, work. And since one nation doesn’t have to push down its neighbor in order to get ahead, room is created for defining pathways in which one nation is important, even vital, to its neighbor. China’s “shocking” diplomatic successes with the rapprochement of Saudi Arabia and Iran—with the radiating effects, notably in Syria and Yemen—turn out to be a normal byproduct of sane economics. It forces to the surface the realization that insane economics were at the root of the so-called intractable conflicts we’re accustomed to. |
April 13—The elected leader of a very large country with a lot of resources posed a simple question today: “Every night I ask myself why all countries have to base their trade on the dollar. Why can’t we do trade based on our own currencies? Who was it that decided that the dollar was the currency after the [1971] disappearance of the gold standard?” |
April 10—A special event at the Moscow Economic Forum featured Sergey Glazyev, Minister for the Integration and Macroeconomics of the Eurasian Economic Commission, addressing directly whether Russia can figure out the secret of China’s economic miracle and apply that method for Russia. The special session appeared to be designed around Glazyev’s new book, Chinese Economic Miracle. Lessons for Russia and the World. |
April 6—Whether it is Passover’s celebration of the victory of humanity over slavery, or the spiritual reflection of Ramadan, or Easter’s passion of the soul’s victory over death, there is something important and truthful and beautiful that could and should be driving the thoughts and actions of a major section of humanity this week. And not only this, but one would think that any Jew, Muslim, or Christian, properly moved and inspired by the best of their religion, would be enabled to discover that quality amongst their monotheistic neighbors; and that it would magnify their sense of wonder for the richness of the Creator’s world. |
March 30—The precious indications of sanity are popping up, like early spring flowers. The ten ASEAN countries, meeting in Indonesia on the level of Finance Ministers and Central Bank governors, escalated their arrangements for trade in local currencies—delinking from the dollar, the pound, the euro, and the yen. Indonesian President Joko Widodo was most explicit about the simple reality that the geopolitical craziness that seizes Russia’s foreign reserves must not be allowed to loot their ASEAN countries. |
March 26—Swiss law required that Credit Suisse’s shareholders vote on the takeover by UBS, but UBS would not participate in the forced marriage without massive government financial commitments and a massive loss to Credit Suisse’s shareholders. The latter would not be approved by the shareholders. What’s a government to do? In a flash, they simply rewrote the law, eliminating the vote. |
March 23—Forty years ago today, President Reagan shocked the world, announcing that the United States would make nuclear weapons “impotent and obsolete,” employing advanced scientific principles (lasers, plasma physics, electromagnetic pulses, etc.) to make it an order of magnitude cheaper to kill missiles than to build them. Further, the strategic defense systems would be provided to the Russians—then the communist U.S.S.R. Reagan had adopted the program as designed, laid out, and campaigned for by Lyndon LaRouche. |
March 19—To put it mildly, banking hours the last two weekends have been extended. The “Everything Bubble” is now everywhere. The deadly fear amongst the central bankers is that on Monday morning in Tokyo, the Asian markets will no longer be drinking the Kool-Aid,’ that the parties on both sides of the $2 quadrillion notional worth of derivative contracts will show up. So, from the close of markets on Friday afternoon, a marathon of intense negotiations set in these days. This weekend, the show was, how to stop an implosion at Credit Suisse from spreading, triggering a collapse of the intricate web of derivative bets from unraveling, as fast as a nuclear chain reaction. |
March 7—A general strike took place across France today. Police authorities estimate 1.3 million participants. The government’s attempt to grab back pensions initiated the protests, but governments in Europe are widely seen to have sacrificed their population’s welfare. A second round has been called by the CGT and other unions for this Saturday, March 11. |
March 1—Over 50,000 human lives have been lost already in the last three weeks from the earthquakes in Turkiye and Syria. Food, clean drinking water, medicine, protection from the elements—such things become the over-riding reality. Yet, U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price explained a different reality: “We think it’s important still that countries remember that this humanitarian plight, this humanitarian emergency, long predates the earthquake from earlier this year. The humanitarian emergency that the Syrian people have faced for more than a decade now is largely a manmade one … owing to the actions of the Assad regime, the brutality that the regime has inflicted on its people.” Therefore, “it’s important that the Assad regime’s track record not be forgotten even as we prioritize this humanitarian response.” |
Feb. 23—Is there a graveyard for delusions? Can derivatives, that is, placing side-bets, replace agriculture, manufacturing, energy generation, etc., as the basis of a population’s survival? Might a parasite persist forever, consuming and destroying its own home? Where do cancers go when the organisms are decimated and cease functioning? |
Feb. 14—Today, the Defense Ministers of NATO began a two-day session. They have a mission to pull together whatever armaments, tanks, etc., that can be pulled together, for a vaunted spring counteroffensive in Ukraine, in a desperate attempt to trade blood for an improved deal at the negotiating table. They also have a new strategy paper, challenging them to figure out a way to simultaneously fight one war in Europe along with an “out-of-area” one in Asia. Later this week, over Feb. 17-19, the Munich Security Conference convenes for three days, evidently on how to provide for security without considering the concerns of the world’s largest nuclear power. For the first time in post-Soviet Russia, Moscow’s officials have been refused an invitation. |
Feb. 12—On this Feb 12th, the fourth anniversary of Lyndon LaRouche’s passing, The LaRouche Organization and the Schiller Institute dedicated their webpages to providing a “marathon” of his videos, to help viewers educate both their minds and their emotions for the grave challenges that lie ahead. |
Feb. 3—It were useful to compare the Grand Strategy of the Russia-China agreement, whose one-year anniversary is this February 4, with today’s Grand Buffoonery of the “Chinese spy balloon” over Montana. The former, “Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development,” explains: |
A very different world could have existed if the offer were taken up |
Jan. 26—Yesterday’s “Tanks to Ukraine” parade, a silly and dangerous piece of theater, meant primarily to busy Europe into a perpetual state of conflict, provoked more than a few forces around the world today to dig deeper into their own principles. In Gottfried Leibniz’s “best of all possible worlds,” evil is certainly possible, but the better angel of mankind’s nature always has the capacity to rise to the occasion, forging a greater good than otherwise would have been possible. Today provided more than a few examples. |
Oleksiy Arestovych — former advisor to Zelensky — has ridiculed the Kiev regime’s insane, counterproductive assaults against its large Russian-speaking population. But Zelensky said similar things in the past. Is Arestovych just positioning himself for future electoral success? |
Jan. 20—The reality that won’t be addressed at Friday’s Ramstein meeting is that Russia has mobilized a serious military force, has secured their positions across the board, and can afford to clean out the remaining occupied portions of the Donetsk region at their own pace. The “Western alliance” can huff and puff over Ukraine militarily defeating Russia, or even just try to push Russia back somewhere, hoping to earn a bargaining chip in a future negotiation that will put Russia in its place in the ‘rules-based’ civilized West—but they are playing with a naked hand, in a morally and economically bankrupt system. |
Jan. 14—Sponsored by the Schiller Institute, an online conference titled “Resurrect the True Mission of JFK and Martin Luther King, Jr.: Stop NATO’s World War and Dismantle the ‘International Assassination Bureau,’” presented different facets of the process which began in the 19th century and reached a crescendo of violence in the period following the end of the Second World War. An international oligarchy, faced by a threat to its power, posed by the rise of actual and potential sovereign states, implemented a “strategy of tension” to intimidate political leaders around the world into submission. |
Dec. 26—The good news is that Russia’s leadership cared enough to leave some coal in your Christmas stocking. |
Dec. 20—Russian President Vladimir Putin made public yesterday that Russia will agree to train Belarus’s air force in the delivery of Russian nuclear weapons. He made the point that “this form of cooperation is not our invention… The US, for example, has been carrying out similar measures with their NATO allies for decades.” And now, “such coordinated measures are exceptionally important due to the tense situation on the external border” of Russia and Belarus. |
Dec. 17—It is one week to Christmas. Today’s EIR conference, “Peace on Earth, or Humanity’s Doom: The Case for Negotiations,” had the specific mission of a clear trumpet call, to send a wakeup call to a sleepwalking world. As Helga Zepp-LaRouche put it: “This program is actually a call for people to really wake up to the incredible danger in which mankind finds itself…. Putin on Dec. 9th, in a press conference in Bishkek, at a meeting of the Eurasian Economic Union, where he basically said that Russia has to rethink its nuclear doctrine. |
Dec. 9—Over the last two days, the LaRouche drumbeat is getting louder and louder. |
Dec. 1—It was only two weeks ago when President Biden finally refused to take the final leap with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy’s nuclear gamble. Zelenskyy had sworn with absolute certainty that Russia had fired missiles at NATO member Poland. The West had not let the facts get in the way of previous outrageous provocations, but this was NATO vs. Russia in direct military confrontation, two bodies with large nuclear weapon arsenals. But Zelenskyy’s bluff was called, he was exposed, and the West had the opportunity to take a clear look at what their little Frankenstein’s monster had become. |
Nov. 23—Abraham Lincoln established the national holiday of Thanksgiving in 1863, in the midst of the bloodiest conflict in American history. Yet he maintained there was so much for which to give thanks to the Creator. And a central message was, as he put it, that the great trial of a civil war, in God’s eyes, could bring forth the animation and inspiration of our hearts and minds to do what we had to do, even if we weren’t sure we were capable. |
