April 16, 2025 (EIRNS)—As the new Trump Administration bumbles into its fourth month in office, bullishly overthrowing any and all conventional approaches, the world is struggling to find order in the new president’s actions. The wildly varying statements regarding Iran, for example, are understandably causing concern. |
April 14, 2025 (EIRNS)—Today, the world is on a sea of uncertainty, hovering between multiple crises, while at the same time on the verge of a breakthrough. The growing potential of normalization of relations between the U.S. and Russia continues to move forward, although many obstacles still stand in the way for a meaningful resolution after years of anti-Russian hysteria. U.S. President Trump gave a useful reminder that he had opposed the Biden administration’s mindless march to nuclear war, in an April 14 post on his Truth Social account, writing: “President Zelenskyy and Crooked Joe Biden did an absolutely horrible job in allowing this travesty to begin. There were so many ways of preventing it from ever starting.” |
April 8, 2025 (EIRNS)—The Trump Administration has continued its bullheaded approach with new policy initiatives around the world. Among these now include: attempts to expand U.S. military further around the world, including into space, explicitly to counter Russia, China, and other “adversaries;” an escalation in Southwest Asia which threatens to unleash a full-scale military campaign against Iran—all the while seemingly putting no limits on Israel’s genocide in Gaza; and now a chaotic trade and tariff policy that threatens to crash the world economy. |
April 6, 2025 (EIRNS)—The problem President Trump is confronting in Iran, as he contemplates a potential major military intervention there, will never be resolved through threats, intimidation, or war. In the context of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, Israel’s rejection of international law, and the declining Western-centric system, the ostensible crisis around Iran that Trump is being drawn into is far more complicated than meets the eye. |
April 4, 2025 (EIRNS)—When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. appeared on ABC News’ “Issues and Answers” program on June 18, 1967—one week after the conclusion of the June 1967 Arab-Israeli War—he was asked on his views, as a Nobel Peace Prize winner, on the difficult situation in the region. |
April 1, 2025 (EIRNS)—As tensions around Iran, Yemen, and Palestine escalate, the question arises, whether Donald Trump will succeed in evading the traps and disasters of endless wars which plagued his predecessors—and against which he explicitly campaigned. |
March 24, 2025 (EIRNS)—Monday saw the continuation of what could possibly become a historic breakthrough in Russian-American relations. Negotiating teams from both countries met in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, following a separate meeting between Ukrainian and American negotiators the day before. |
March 18, 2025 (EIRNS)—The March 18 call between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump has opened the door to a world that has not been able to exist for at least 35 years, and more likely not since the end of World War II. |
March 15, 2025 (EIRNS)—The veil is coming down in Europe. As if in a real-life version of Edgar Poe’s Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether, the seemingly most sophisticated—and insistently “democratic”—are actually the most deranged. And as in Poe’s story, the most frightening part is the sudden realization that they are the ones in charge. |
March 12, 2025 (EIRNS)—The March 11 meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia between Ukrainian and American representatives, where a 30-day ceasefire was agreed to, has shifted the world’s attention yet again. But who is actually doing the shifting? Reports now abound that, after Tuesday’s agreement, “the ball is in Russia’s court.” Former British Prime Minister and notorious anti-peace fanatic Boris Johnson said March 12: “The Ukrainians have proved that they can make peace. Now it is up to the Kremlin to sign up to the Trump plan—or face the consequences. If Putin refuses we will know that he is not serious about peace and never was.” |
March 9, 2025 (EIRNS)—It’s almost daily that historic events are unfolding, underlining the dramatic nature of the historic process currently underway in the world. Larger than the new Trump administration in the U.S., the scale of this process encompasses a historic change that spans at least the past 500 years of colonialism and neocolonialism, even if many shifts have been set into motion following Trump’s inauguration. Most importantly, all underscore the need for an entirely new security and development architecture to replace the disintegrating “rules-based order.” |
March 5, 2025 (EIRNS)—In discussion with associates on March 3, Helga Zepp-LaRouche said: “The world is undergoing an earthquake a day, [but] the shattering of the old order—and the birth pains of the new order—is still not entirely settled how this will play out.” At the same time, “the potential to go in the direction of … a new security and development architecture is clearly there,” she added. |
Feb. 21, 2025 (EIRNS)—During an interview published Feb. 20, Secretary of State Marco Rubio continued the trend of throwing out the neocon doctrine of the sole unipolar hegemon imposed after the Cold War. |
Feb. 13, 2025 (EIRNS)—At the Feb. 12 Ukraine Contact Group meeting in Brussels, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced a new U.S. policy for Ukraine. He declared that there will be no NATO membership for Ukraine; any peacekeeping troops deployed there will not be under the umbrella of NATO or its Article 5; and the United States will not send troops to Ukraine. Further, returning Ukrainian territory it has lost since 2014 is “unrealistic,” Hegseth said. Panic immediately set in throughout NATO’s most hard-core faction, in Europe and in the U.S., among those who had hoped President Trump would maintain at least some degree of confrontation with Russia. |
Feb. 9, 2025 (EIRNS)—The first three weeks of the Trump Administration have without a doubt been tumultuous, and the results of its various actions are still too early to judge. The central question remains whether, with a new President at its helm, the United States will attempt to maintain the existing post-Cold War hegemony over the world, or if it will join the growing chorus of nations seeking a new security and development architecture free from the trappings of geopolitical machinations. Reality demands that it be one or the other, and any attempt to ignore this while solely insisting on “America First” will only run into problems and contradictions. |
Feb. 6, 2025 (EIRNS)—Following the flurry of statements over the past two days, a picture of the ominous implications of President Trump’s policy vis-à-vis Gaza is beginning to emerge. “The Gaza Strip would be turned over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion of fighting,” Trump said today in a post on Truth Social, and the Palestinians “would have already been resettled in far safer and more beautiful communities.” Gaza “would become one of the greatest and most spectacular developments of its kind on Earth,” he claimed. Who will live in this new, magnificent “Riviera,” one might ask? According to Trump, it will be “the people of the world,” i.e., not the Palestinians. |
Jan. 27, 2025 (EIRNS)—If looked at properly, Monday’s surprise stock market plunge in the U.S. shines a light on the actual situation facing the Western world today. The financial shock was in response to the news late last week that the new Chinese AI model, DeepSeek, had outperformed the leading American models, and that, at a fraction of the cost and energy consumption. |
Jan. 24, 2025 (EIRNS)—Schiller Institute founder and initiator of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) Helga Zepp-LaRouche opened the Friday meeting, No. 86 of the IPC by saying: “The world is relieved that we have a new President in the U.S., and while not everything is clear about how it will go … I think it’s definitely a relief.” Zepp-LaRouche particularly focused on the news that President Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 23 announcing “the full and complete release” of all records on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, to then be followed by those on the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. “This is a bombshell,” she continued, “because this is going to be a Pandora’s Box which will lead the world to [understand] what has been wrong with the United States, up to what people call the deep state…. So this is big, this is really big, it will have international ramifications.” |
Jan. 20, 2025 (EIRNS)—President Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th President on Monday, with the eyes of the world watching. Trump’s inauguration speech was anything but meek—he pledged various initiatives to strengthen the economy, bring back manufacturing, and increase energy supplies; called for ending America’s wars; and even announced a plan to put an American flag on Mars in the coming years. Significantly, he also declared he would end the weaponization of the government, and later in the day revoked the security clearances of 50 former intelligence officials. |
Jan. 15, 2025 (EIRNS)—On Wednesday Jan. 15, news broke that negotiators in Qatar had reached an agreement for a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. After 15 months of brutality, a sliver of hope has emerged that the senseless killing of Palestinians can stop and a different future for the region could begin. However, while hopeful, this development only represents a window through which to address the deeper issue, of which the genocide in Gaza has been only a reflection, and there are many obstacles still in the way. |
Jan. 12, 2025 (EIRNS)—The most recent round of sanctions on Russian oil companies, vessels, and other related entities is a clear continuation of the trend by the Biden Administration, which is working to throw as many hand grenades for the upcoming Trump Administration as possible, so that it is nearly impossible to change the strategic dynamic between the U.S. and Russia. The Russian Foreign Ministry said as much in response yesterday, identifying that the new sanctions “appear to be aimed at creating maximum obstacles for bilateral economic relations,” and that “the incoming U.S. President … will inherit a scorched earth policy—both figuratively and literally.” |
Jan. 9, 2025 (EIRNS)—The advent of a second Donald Trump administration has got the panties of all those defenders of the Western liberal order in a bunch. While what Trump actually intends to do remains a mystery, it is without a doubt that the world is in for a wild ride. But can something be created in these next four years which is genuinely positive, and capable of replacing the evils of the prevailing post-Bretton Woods world order with a system which actually resolves the fundamental problems in the world? |
Jan. 3, 2025 (EIRNS)—As news comes in from Gaza, and the almost unspeakable things occurring there, we are forced to reconcile certain new realities about the world. Israeli forces are committing the unheard of crime of escalating their war against hospitals, and are forcing the evacuation of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, even though the building had ceased to serve as a functioning medical facility and is merely operating as a shelter. Over 1,000 medical workers have now been killed since October 2023—a complete violation of all international law. Beyond this, Israel has now admitted they are holding Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of the formerly last operating hospital in northern Gaza—Kamal Adwan hospital—on the absurd basis of suspected terrorism, with multiple reports that he is being subjected to torture. |
Dec. 27, 2024 (EIRNS)—As the outgoing Biden Administration continues its policy of wreaking havoc, ensuring the next presidency has few, if any, chances of establishing an alternative policy, whole regions of the world are descending into chaos with the encouragement of the Anglo-American establishment. Israel unleashed a new round of airstrikes against Yemen this week, striking two Red Sea ports and the Sana’a International Airport. In addition to hitting largely civilian infrastructure, the bombing of the airport on Dec. 26 came “meters away” from the visiting head of the World Health Organization—leaving him stranded in Yemen until repairs were made today and he evacuated to Jordan. |
Dec. 20, 2024 (EIRNS)—During the Dec. 20 meeting of the International Peace Coalition, a discussion ensued between Prof. Steven Starr and Helga Zepp-LaRouche, in which Zepp-LaRouche asked if there weren’t war-planners in the U.S. who imagine that a “limited” war with Russia could be fought on European soil, and that therefore it is assumed that Europeans would become “collateral damage” in order to maintain U.S. hegemony. Starr responded in the affirmative, adding that “the hubris is so immense in Washington, they think they’re invulnerable. They think they can make Russia back down.” Zepp-LaRouche added that the logical consequence of this, therefore, is: “if Europe wants to survive, we should get the hell out of NATO as quickly as we can.” |
