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Nov. 20—Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had his first experience with his Western supporters failing to shout “Amen,” after any of his many wild allegations of 2022. It calls forward the question, can the West manage the puppets that they employ in the geopolitical proxy conflicts? There was that messy case with Hitler, where he broke off from the leash.

Nov. 19—Scott Ritter took no prisoners.

In a 15-minute interview on Germany’s Gegenpol video weekly, “In the Eye of Big Brother,” Ritter got in the face of Germans. Blunt, mocking, humorous and occasionally loving, the video needs to be watched.

Nov. 17—NATO was tracking, from launch in Ukraine to the explosion in Poland, the Ukrainian surface-to-air missile that killed two civilians in Poland, as explained by Scott Ritter in his RT article, “NATO’s Hair Trigger: The Polish Missile Incident Was a Close Brush with Nuclear Annihilation.”

Nov. 16—Today was the first day of a two-day G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia. Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández met with China’s President Xi Jinping. Argentina wants to join the BRICS and China lent a big hand with $6 billion of support (and none of it for weapons!). Separate from the conference, Russia extended a hand to Japan and India on the massive Sakhalin oil and gas development, which both were happy to accept. That is a normal non-nuclear war day.

Nov. 10—The gatherings at the Association of South Eastern Asian Nations (ASEAN) and at the East Asia summits come together in Cambodia on Saturday, November 12, for three days. It is a question, at this otherwise annual gathering, whether the senile British/US/NATO/“Western” song and dance can compete with the demonstrated projects around the Belt and Road, and the new set of regional organizations taking on an international role—the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the BRICS, the Eurasian Economic Union, etc.

Oct. 31—The Pope has, reportedly, offered Vatican City for negotiations between the U.S., Europe and Russia on the matter of “shared security” arrangements. Previously, it had been reported that the Pope had reached out to President Biden regarding the Vatican helping to arrange peace talks between Russia and Ukraine; but they were ignored. Instead of despairing and resigning matters to fate, enlarging the call to negotiations over shared security is the proper escalation. It goes beyond any tenuous and unstable ceasefire that skirts the issue. Rather, the “shared security” arrangements are exactly the necessary discussion that was spurned last year, when Russia brought up the impolite topic, why was a military force relentlessly moving toward their border?

Oct. 28—The Second Seminar of current and former legislators of the world deliberated today on the path forward for the nations of the world, out of nuclear confrontation, and toward the sort of mature relations amongst nations, as co-host Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, put it, “so that every country realizes its potential.” Her co-host, former Mexican Congresswoman Maria de los Angeles Huerta, spoke from the Chamber of Deputies of the Mexican Congress, from where the seminar was transmitted. Her proposal for the establishment of a global network of “legislators for peace” catalyzed a new level of responsibilities of these former and current national legislators to, as Schiller would put it, go beyond their destinies, in taking on international responsibilities.

Oct. 23—Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spent Sunday, Oct. 23 calling his counterparts in the U.S., the U.K., France and Turkey, about a quickly degrading situation in Ukraine. In particular, he warned them about the Kiev regime’s involvement in an alleged plot to manufacture a dirty bomb, to create a false-flag nuclear incident in Ukraine. The plot, according to RIA Novosti’s sources, involves the aid of Britain in securing certain nuclear components.

Oct. 18—There’s no denying that it is a turbulent world. The twists and turns will leave the unprepared tossed aside. Witness, the vaunted “price cap” on Russian oil that Federal Reserve head Janet Yellen and the EU’s Josep Borrell worked so hard to impose upon Europe and dictate to Russia. The EU drafters on the energy crisis apparently just walked away from more sanctions, and acted—even in their awkward, still incompetent fashion—as if they were hearing crowds of citizens in the streets of France, the Czech Republic, Belgium, Holland, Germany and Italy. The draft reads: “This is the moment to act, for this winter and beyond…. The current situation causes economic and social hardship, placing a heavy burden on citizens and on the economy.”

Oct. 17—The “North Atlantic Fellas Organization” (NAFO) functions as a “public-private” adjunct in NATO’s social media operations. But the narrative is that a bunch of “good ole boys” who love democracy and hate Russian autocracy are just harnessing their social media skills to troll, harass, and otherwise do their keyboard warfare thing against anything that deviates from the “destroy Russia” mission. It all supposedly started with a Polish Twitter user, one Kamil Dyszewski, using a catchy Shiba Inu avatar.

Oct. 13—As with a summer storm, the relentless, oppressive tension of a silent march toward nuclear war, has been broken. Two LaRouche movement youth leaders refused to play footsie with nuclear war, insisting that Congresswomen Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) take in the horrifying reality of her actions. The video of Kynan Thistlethwaite and José Vega, confronting her at a New York City town meeting on her moral bankruptcy, her embrace of the war party, has exploded on the scene. In the first 24 hours, there were 5.5 million views, catapulting the video onto Fox News, RT, the New York Post, and a host of other locations.

Oct. 3—The head of state of a major nuclear power identified, with a clear strategic grasp, the reasons for the seemingly inevitable worldwide military showdown—the neocolonial mindset that spent the last 30-50 years pretending that one could print pretend money and loot real wealth, without its ever coming back to bite them in the butt.

Sept. 20—There was more than a little outrage among the Western defenders of “democratic values,” over the decision of the Russian-speaking sections of Ukraine to hold a vote over staying with Ukraine or rejoining Russia. It has been no secret for the last eight years, since a coup in Kiev eliminated the government that they had voted for, that the peoples of South and Eastern Ukraine, by a large majority, resent what Kiev has been doing to them. So, “democratic values,” in the modern “rules-based order,” has a rather wide and flexible application. Today saw outbursts from the Kiev government, NATO, the Pentagon, the State Department and others.

Sept. 20—In a fast-moving situation over the last 24 hours, referenda have been scheduled, beginning Friday, Sept. 23, for the populations of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the Kherson Oblast, and the Zaporozhye Oblast to vote on rejoining Russia. The leader of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, signed a law for their referendum, and it was announced by the chair of the LPR’s People’s Council, Denis Miroshnichenko. The People’s Council had demanded of the LPR authorities that a referendum be held immediately. the official question is: “Are you in favor of the LPR joining the Russian Federation as a constituent entity of the Russian Federation?” Voting will extend over five days.

Sept. 20—In the blink of an eye, the citizens of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, along with two southern regions of Ukraine—Kherson and Zaporozhye—set up referenda for Sept. 23—27, voting on whether to formally rejoin Russia. All parties assume that in one week, the overwhelmingly Russian-speaking populations of these areas will have spoken their minds; and Russian leaders have indicated that they will take on this responsibility. At that point, Russia’s “special military operation” is over, as is the West’s “proxy” war. Those new areas of Russia are not to be toyed with.

Sept. 16—The leaders of nine countries, representing around 25% of the GDP of the world with over half of the world’s population, finished the two-day annual conference of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in the historic city of Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Their “Samarkand Declaration” delineates a non-aligned force in the world, alive and well, determined to forge a pathway out of the tired, geopolitical morass of the London-Washington dollarized system. The necessity for the large-scale infrastructure projects, centered around China’s Belt and Road, is never more apparent, given the induced breakdown of supply chains of food and energy. And the specific necessity of recruiting national currencies to settle trading accounts has been a feature of the bilateral meetings amongst the participating countries, and also of the final conference declaration. Importantly, the curtain is being pulled back on the Wizard of Oz.

Sept. 6—The oh-so-clever strategy to force Russia into a corner is in for a bruising — and the geopoliticians willing to starve populations and deploy neo-Nazi killers may want to wish they didn’t get out of bed on September 7. First, in Vladivostok, Russia, President Vladimir Putin will address the Seventh Eastern Economic Forum (EEF), with sixty nations deliberating the subject, “On the Path to a Multipolar World.” Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, announced that his speech will address the “huge global storm” that has started, and will cover the “very intense, thoughtful and consistent work” going on in Moscow to create the “macroeconomic stability” to survive the “huge global storm.” Russia’s “pivot to the East” is never more timely, and is dependent upon the marriage of the economies of Russia and Asia.

Sept. 1—So much of the world is dangerous and sorrowful right now, from violent conflict, and economic breakdown. But the pillars of Global NATO’s geopolitical military expansion—“democracy,” green mandates, corporatism—are beginning to conspicuously crack and sway. Two instances this week involving the European Union are the latest in many manifestations of how the Global South is sidelining Global NATO. They concern the EU, UK, and US in Africa and Ibero-America. The underlying structures of Global NATO alignments based on lies, “narratives,” and coercion are disintegrating.

Aug. 23—The assassination of the 30-year-old Russian journalist/activist, Darya Dugina, with the initial evidence pointing at a member of Ukraine’s Azov-founded National Guard, one Natalya Vovk/Shaban, is one of those events that qualify as a trigger for a rapid expansion of the “confront Russia” game into a nuclear confrontation. At what point do Western so-called democracies step in and squash the networks that deliberately built up neo-Nazi irregular forces? Does the targeting of citizens of the United States, of Germany and elsewhere, by Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council and by Ukraine’s SBU, not elicit a blink of the eye?

Aug. 16—Long missing from world affairs has been the simple exercise of the uniquely human talent for dialogue, for thinking and making social the thought process. Recently, the Schiller Institute conferences have served as a model and a rallying point, showing the world that, aside from the unique content of actual solutions to strategic crises, the art of actual dialogue is possible. Further, it appears to be the unique ingredient to dislodge the world from a march to a thermonuclear end.

Aug. 12—To Ukraine’s credit, in June, the Pyotr Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine refused to remove Tchaikovsky’s name from their Academy. Leo Tolstoy had already lost a public square that used to be named after him; and there’s a live proposal to change all Pushkin Streets across Ukraine to “Stephen King Street.” Now, that’s a horror story worth writing about!

Aug. 11—We lead with the concise overview from Helga Zepp LaRouche’s interview with Harley Schlanger today. In brief, the populations of the world are not, nor could they be, as stupid as the gaggle of “Global NATO” puppets masquerading as Western leaders.

June 14—Competing strategic deliberations could not be much more clearly delineated this week. The Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the Swiss National Bank conduct their policy deliberations, including decisions over rate hikes, as over a decade of central banks ingesting garbage financial paper looks to come back up on them. The roiling of the markets indicates some of the indigestion. Does the Fed have a magical rate hike amount — 0.5%, 0.75%, 1.0% — that will keep the doors open this week?

June 6—Do ideas actually change the world?

Lyndon LaRouche used to ask, how much does an idea weigh? While fools might rush in, thinking that ideas are hereby being discounted as not real, or as some sort of epiphenomenon, LaRouche was putting on the table the seeming paradox, that something that did, indeed, change the world—and change the world as it had to be changed, and could not be changed any other way—might be more real than all the things, stuff and matter that we too often take as primary.

April 27—There was a time when Germany’s principled stand, to not ever be a party to the promulgation of war, expressed itself, in part, as a commitment to abstain from the weapons trade—especially in heavy offensive weapons, especially where conflict threatens or reigns. The relatively new German Prime Minister Olaf Scholz upheld that principled position, against the frenzy of war fever gripping the West—that is, until Tuesday, April 26, and Ramstein.