Aug. 12—As the smoke is beginning to clear, and accounts are being taken, it is universally being recognized throughout the world that Ukraine’s counteroffensive has failed, and failed badly. Despite tens of billions of dollars in the most advanced weaponry, and all the other assistance given by the countries of NATO, it still has not been enough to even break Russia’s massive defensive lines in eastern Ukraine, let alone retake previously held territories. |
An outstanding opportunity awaits if the West today focuses on collaboration in the effort to end underdevelopment worldwide |
Aug. 10—As this news service has frequently reported, a historic sea-change is underway globally, being led by the members of the BRICS and their growing allies within the developing world. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov referred to it some months back, the “Global Majority” is currently finding its voice and demanding a new future, free from the neocolonial and oligarchic yoke of the past. |
A centuries-spanning shift is taking place, as evidenced by the recent Russia-Africa Summit |
Aug. 1—As has famously been said: Sometimes there are decades where nothing happens, and then there are weeks where decades happen. Events set into motion since Russia’s military operation into Ukraine, and especially since the ensuing response by NATO and Western countries attempting to erase Russia from history, have shown that these coming weeks and months will see monumental changes in the world. |
July 30—Lyndon LaRouche used to insist that any competent scientist must know the role that “weak forces” play in the physical universe. While it may seem to the everyday blockhead that virtually all events are determined by the everyday push-and-pull of the things around you, the reality is that other “weak” forces play an even more powerful effect on the whole—even though you may never experience their actions. Such is the case with the exceptional fragility of life, hardly a speck amidst the enormity of the cosmos, yet somehow has become one of nature’s most powerful forces. |
July 24—Escalations over the recent few days have made it clear that the growing danger of war will not go away until a qualitative change occurs among Western nations. Any thought that, because nothing disastrous has happened yet in 17 months of conflict in Ukraine, therefore everything will continue to be fine—is absolute idiocy. |
July 21—If you tell a lie loudly enough and frequently enough, then people will most certainly begin to believe it—or at least that’s the theory of those followers of the modern-day Goebbels school of thought. Thus, a new and obnoxious lie was born this week on the occasion of Russia’s cancellation of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, with claims coming from the usual suspects that, “See, we told you Putin could not be trusted!” As has been said before, wars are based on lies, and these kinds of lies are leading us straight to a world war. |
July 13—During an interview with Russian news site Lenta.ru, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made the sobering point that the deployment of Western F-16’s into Ukraine will be perceived by Russia as a “nuclear threat.” “We have informed the nuclear powers,” Lavrov said, “that Russia cannot ignore the ability of these aircraft to carry nuclear weapons. No amount of assurances will help here.” It is known that F-16’s can be equipped to carry B-61 gravity nuclear bombs, yet a distant observer, namely Russia, will have no way of discerning whether or not one is so armed. “In the course of combat operations,” Lavrov continued, “our servicemen are not going to sort out whether each particular aircraft of this type is equipped to deliver nuclear weapons or not. We will regard the very fact that the Ukrainian armed forces have such systems as a threat from the West in the nuclear sphere.” |
July 10—When you go to flip on the lights, but instead the switch causes the toilet to flush, you know you’ve got a problem. This is the situation with the trans-Atlantic alliance today, where every action taken in the effort to project dominance over the world ends up backfiring in their face. |
June 30—At the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact held in Paris June 22-23, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa raised the fact that 600 million Africans are still living without access to electricity. His comments came during a conference, sponsored by French President Emmanuel Macron, which proposed a global $1 trillion/year tax that would go towards a “green energy” transition—somewhat of a poke in the eye considering the crushing poverty still existing in much of the world’s Global South. |
June 17—The LaRouche movement has been on a campaign to revive the legacy of President John F. Kennedy—particularly his vision of a negotiated peace with the Soviet Union following near-disaster during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This took the form of a major online conference last weekend titled The World Needs JFK's Vision of Peace, which highlighted his famous "peace speech" of June 1963, and its implications for the world today—a world teetering on the brink of another, more dangerous, nuclear catastrophe. |
May 15—As Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said while on a visit to Beijing today, Western nations are “gripped by a psychosis of war,” and that what is needed from the sane portions of the world is “to increase the voice of the peace camp.” Indeed, the war party is on a rampage, as can be seen by Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy’s tour throughout Europe, having made visits to Germany, France, Italy, and then Britain, getting showered with more and larger instruments of death at each stop. These are not the actions of leaders who have compassion for the lives their nation’s citizens, nor for those of others. |
May 11—This week, the United Kingdom announced that it would escalate its reckless drive to arm Ukraine to the teeth, now confirming that it would deliver Storm Shadow missiles capable of reaching targets 300 km distant—far enough to reach deep into Russian territory. As Ben Wallace, the UK’s Secretary of State for Defense, said upon announcing the decision: these missiles “will allow Ukraine to push back Russian forces based within Ukrainian sovereign territory,” i.e., Crimea—something the Russians will never tolerate. Lap dogs in the media were quick to jump, asking: Does this mean the US will be following suit? |
May 7—The explosion of drones over the Kremlin on Wednesday, May 3, means the world is closer to thermonuclear war than at any time in history, including October 1962. Absurd stories in the American and European media have appeared (like those that covered up American and NATO responsibility for blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines) that assert, without any evidence, that “the Russians flew and blew up the drones themselves.” But think: even if that lying absurdity were true, shouldn’t that also cause extraordinary alarm? If the United States flew and blew up drones over the White House, and then blamed Russia for supporting, say, Cuba, in a drone-weapon assassination attempt against the President of the United States, wouldn’t that mean the world was on the verge of a shooting war between Russia and America, a war potentially deploying thermonuclear weapons that would wipe out life on the planet? |
May 1—With the dismantling and selloff the First Republic Bank over the weekend, more was exposed than that bank’s dirty underwear. The FDIC arranged a deal with Jamie Dimon’s JPMorgan Chase, wherein the already bloated Chase Bank will become even more bloated, and the American public, in the form of FDIC bailouts, will pay for the unwanted toxic paper. Further, this is now officially the second largest bank failure in U.S. history, exposing the fact that the U.S., and by extension the entirety of the trans-Atlantic economies, are in an existential pickle between a hyperinflationary blowout on one side, and a rapid collapse of financial values on the other. |
April 29—As Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at an online conference Saturday, countries representing 85% of the world’s population have made it clear they refuse to do the bidding of the neoliberal West. Even among those “occupied” nations among North America and Europe, the majority of the public are not in favor of risking the annihilation of civilization in a nuclear war in order to punish Russia. In the U.S., Congressional approval is at all-time lows, and President Biden’s support continues to drop. This, of course, makes all the accusations that “Russia is isolated” look quite absurd. |
April 25—There is a mindless march underway towards the biggest crisis in human history. If it’s not stopped by saner heads prevailing in the Western world, then we are on the fast track towards World War III. |
April 18—Since last year, Western leaders have bombastically proclaimed their plans to “punish” and “weaken” Russia for its invasion into Ukraine, even threatening to “isolate” it from the global community. This included measures from sanctions against everything and everyone Russian, to the so-called “financial nuclear bomb” of kicking Russia out of the SWIFT international payments system. However, far from bringing Russia to its knees, these and other actions have increasingly backfired, catching many with their proverbial pants down. |
April 8—Over the recent period, and increasingly since Xi Jinping’s trip to Moscow, Western media have finally been caused to notice the motion underway globally away from the dollar—and the freakouts are beginning to roll. This process has undoubtedly sped up following Russia’s special military operation into Ukraine and the ensuing sanctions and other forms of financial warfare against Russia from Western governments. Now, as has been increasingly reported, trade in national currencies is on the rise, new lending institutions have been envisioned, and alternative currencies are being discussed. The dollar-denominated trans-Atlantic financial system is seen as unreliable and disingenuous, and can turn on you at any moment as a form of financial warfare. |
April 5—There are times when history stretches out like a long road, as far as the eye can see. But there are other times when long historical processes shift almost overnight, for good, or for ill. We find ourselves in the latter type today, where the world is gripped between an unfathomable horror of global war, and the birth of a new era which has the potential to move beyond the traps which cause wars. In times like this, old routines and habits become far worse than useless—they become deadly. |
March 29—Wise nations and peoples know that when the United States begins to lecture others on “democracy,” the polite thing to do is to quickly go find a toilet before things get ugly. This week’s “Summit For Democracy” is just such an event. In fact, it is so hypocritical, that even wholly rotten outlets like the Washington Post and Financial Times cringed at the thought. One member of the Council on Foreign Relations went so far as to say that, “The summit for democracy is a bad idea that [won’t] go away.” |
March 21—To get a sense of how rapidly the world is changing, and how the idea of a world without geopolitics is asserting itself, look back at the developments over the last month. |
March 16—On Wednesday night, emergency international action was taken to save Switzerland’s Credit Suisse—to the tune of $54 billion. Less than one day later, it appears that California’s First Republic bank, larger than the recently bailed-out Silicon Valley Bank, has received the same treatment, getting an emergency bailout of $30 billion Thursday, this time from leading U.S. banks. Will these actions be successful in stemming the tide of contagion? How deep, how entrenched does it go? This is the proverbial $64 trillion question—the everything bubble. |
A round table discussion was hosted by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, which showed the kind of dialogue process and method of thinking which can provide a pathway out of a new world war. |
