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 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. |
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 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. 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. 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. 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.” |
Nov. 26, 2024 (EIRNS)—When Russia fired its new hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile on Nov. 21, decimating a Ukrainian weapons depot in Dnipro, it was effectively a message to the West that Russia was not playing around. The attack came after the United States no later than Nov. 17 had lifted restrictions on Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles to strike Russia—and Ukraine’s ensuing use of such missiles—crossing a red line which put the U.S. in direct, open conflict with Russia. The message should have been clear: further escalation means all options are now on the table. |
Oct. 19, 2024 (EIRNS)—Russian President Vladimir Putin made it perfectly clear Friday, Oct. 18. what the stakes are over the conflict in Ukraine. When asked about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s statement that Ukraine demands either NATO membership or nuclear weapons, Putin replied, with a look of conviction and animus that almost needs no words: “Under no circumstances will Russia allow this to happen.” |
Sept. 13, 2024 (EIRNS)—On Friday, the eyes of the world were focused on the White House meeting between the Collective Biden and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, on the critical question of whether or not the White House will approve the London-authored policy of unleashing NATO’s precision-guided long-range missiles against Russia, using Ukraine as their cat’s-paw. Prior to the D.C. meeting, Secretary of State Blinken and British Foreign Secretary Lammy had met in Kiev with Zelenskyy, and leaked to the media that the deal had been agreed upon, but to not expect a formal announcement coming out of the Biden-Starmer meeting. |
Sept. 3, 2024 (EIRNS)—The annual Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) opened in Vladivostok, Russia, on Tuesday, Sept. 3, with the apt title: “Far East 2030. Combining Strengths To Create New Potential.” It is expected that as many as 6,000 participants from 76 countries will be in attendance, and will be discussing themes such as “New Contours of International Cooperation,” “Technologies To Ensure Independence,” and “Financial System of Values.” In his greetings to the conference, Russian President Putin noted that “The influence of the Asia-Pacific region in international affairs is growing fast.” |
Aug. 31, 2024 (EIRNS)—Extremely concerning developments continue to emerge out of Ukraine and its increasingly flagrant attacks into Russian territory. Late on Friday, August 30, Ukraine shelled a number of civilian targets in Russia’s Belgorod region, killing 5 and wounding at least 50. Russia’s Foreign Ministry called the attacks a “pre-planned and carefully prepared terrorist act of intimidation.” Coming on the heels of Ukraine’s invasion into Russia’s Kursk region, which had already pulled the legs out from under any prospect of a negotiated peace settlement, this act is only serving to further inflame the situation. |
July 14, 2024 (EIRNS)—The July 13 assassination attempt against President Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania shocked the nation and the world, bringing the country literally an inch away from total chaos. For the first time in decades, a President or Presidential candidate has suffered an assassination attempt, and at a crucial time in history at that. This is not simply an attack on Donald Trump, but is an attack on the institution of the Presidency of the United States, and on that institution’s ability to respond organically, or non-linearly, in a moment of grave crisis. |
June 4, 2024 (EIRNS)—On Tuesday, one day after being prevented from boarding a plane and after having his passport seized by U.S. border patrol, former U.S. Marine and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter said the following on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s “Judging Freedom” show: |
March 12—The evidence of the collapsing Anglo-American world system is everywhere one looks, cautioning anyone who would dare follow its dictates to urgently reconsider. The most recent example of this is taking place in Haiti, where rebel gangs have seized control of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and threaten to bring the entire nation spiraling into an abyss. Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced his resignation Monday, March 11, following increasing pressure from the gangs. However, assigning blame to either of the so-called “factions” in the country is a fool’s errand. Rather, the cause must be found outside, in the overriding system that has doomed Haiti to its current tragic state. |
March 3—There is a dangerous escalation of events taking place around the world which, if not stopped, are quickly bringing the world to the brink of a nuclear world war. The leaked audio file of German military officials conspiring around an increased German role in military operations—not just in Ukrainian territory but in Russia—has significantly changed the situation, and has given the lie to claims by Western leaders that they are trying to avoid a direct war with Russia. |
Feb. 20—Everybody knows that electoral politics in the United States is a fraud, and likely has been so ever since 9/11. The façade of a free and open debate among the leading political contenders mocks the reality of what is a thoroughly-controlled and deeply-corrupt political establishment, which fights to keep the most qualified candidates out, and to degrade the ones who are let in. |
Feb. 11—Wars do not begin out of nowhere, as if manifested instantaneously by the firing of a bullet at the wrong target. Simplistic stories like this are only used as tools for swaying public opinion, such as in the case of the current absurd notion that the ongoing war in Gaza began on October 7, 2023. To the contrary, wars, and history generally, are part of a dynamic process which must be understood as a whole—at least if you would like to get out from under the slavish manipulations consciously being deployed against you. |
Feb. 6—If historians will have the opportunity to look back on the human race in 2024, they will undoubtedly identify this period as a defining moment in history. No, not because of a showdown between “democracy” and “autocracy,” nor over “liberal” versus “traditional” values. Nor because of a “culture war” or a fight over our national or personal identities. This moment will be a defining period because it’s the end of a system which can no longer continue to exist, no matter which culture, ideology, or political system takes power. The oligarchical system is dying, and resistance to it, along with a passionate commitment to build a better future, is growing. |
Jan. 29—Last week’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling in The Hague has put the world dynamic into stark relief. It was always a misnomer to discuss the war in Gaza as merely an issue of Israel’s occupation and the ensuing response to that by Hamas. While that certainly plays a factor, it is a managed factor, a mere player on the stage of a poorly-directed drama. But it is directed, nonetheless. |
