March 2—Twice in the course of February, Russian President Vladimir Putin directly addressed an urgent strategic question to the people of the United States and its leaders. |
Feb. 21—That is the cry that must become a drumbeat, a campaign around the world to break the current trajectory towards a genocide that is engulfing the entirety of Palestine, and especially the 2.3 million desperate people of Gaza. As anti-war demonstrations in the United States and Europe take up that call; as people’s attention is drawn to the existence of a solution known as LaRouche’s Oasis Plan, and to the 15-minute video which presents that concept clearly and convincingly; the imagination of forces opposed to the current policies can be captured, and quickly turned into an effective political force where it is most needed: the United States and the nations of Europe. |
Feb. 14—The eyes of the world are once again riveted on the International Court of Justice in The Hague, and the “Urgent Request for Additional Measures” that the South Africa government filed on Feb. 12 to stop the imminent genocide in Rafah. It is a demand that the ICJ act immediately, without need of further hearings or argument, to order Israel to not carry out its announced full ground assault on the desperate and destitute 1.4 million Palestinians in Rafah, at least half of whom are children. |
Feb. 7—February 7 marked four months that Israel’s shocking blood-letting has been underway in Gaza, actions which the International Court of Justice (ICJ) characterized in its Jan. 26 order as a case of “plausible genocide.” The ICJ ordered not only Israel, but all nations that have provided military and other support for the Israeli atrocities, to immediately cease and desist, lest they too be found complicit in the genocide. |
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Feb. 4—We summarize the strategic situation, and what must be done to immediately reverse the current rush to genocide and global war, as follows: |
Jan. 31—On Jan. 26, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague handed down a binding order finding that South Africa had presented a “plausible case” of genocide by Israel, and further ordered that Israel immediately cease any such actions in Gaza while a full investigation is conducted. The ICJ also demanded that Israel file a report with the Court on progress made within 30 days. |
Jan. 27—The government of Algeria announced over the weekend that it has requested that the UN Security Council be urgently convened this coming Wednesday, Jan. 31, to give “binding effect” to the historic Jan. 26 decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the matter of South Africa’s charges of Israeli genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. UN Security Council resolutions—if they can get past U.S. and British vetoes—are in fact internationally legally enforceable. ICJ decisions are legally binding on the parties, but the Court has no enforcement mechanism of its own. |
Jan. 15—The world is in the throes of a tectonic shakeup, which is not about to come to a halt anytime soon, Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche told associates on Jan. 15. We are at the end of an era, and 2024 will be decisive in determining what the outcome will be. |
Jan. 11—Two strategic developments which reflect a shift from the passivity of accepting outrageous policies, to fighting for what is right and just, were the central topics of the Jan. 10 weekly Dialogue webcast with Helga Zepp-LaRouche. |
Jan. 3—The British colonial playbook is fairly predictable. If a war they launched is in danger of winding down or moving towards negotiations, they blow the situation up with the most offensive geopolitical provocation imaginable. They taunt their enemy and use targeted violence to try to force him to retaliate in kind. |
Dec. 25—Read below excerpts of the searing sermon delivered on Dec. 23, 2023 by the Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem. Dr. Isaac, a Palestinian Christian pastor and theologian, designed and placed a now-famous creche of Christ in the Rubble in his church, and was part of a delegation of religious leaders from Bethlehem who visited Washington, D.C. in late November carrying an open letter to President Biden and U.S. congressmen demanding: “We want a constant and comprehensive ceasefire. Enough death. Enough destruction.” |
December 20—As of this writing, the evening of Dec. 20, 2023, the United Nations Security Council has been unable to schedule a vote on a U.A.E.-authored resolution calling for a halt to the fighting in Gaza—because the Biden administration, yet again, is threatening to veto any resolution containing the word “ceasefire.” With its actions, the U.S. continues to provide cover for—and is facilitating—the Netanyahu government’s unending butchery of innocent Palestinians in Gaza. Today, local health authorities said the death toll has now surpassed 20,000. |
Dec. 11—The Secretary General of the United Nations António Guterres used a Dec. 10 speech at the Doha Conference in Qatar to issue another dramatic call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. He did this because on Dec. 8, the United States once again vetoed a UN Security Council resolution demanding such a ceasefire. Guterres responded to that vote by saying that “Regrettably the Security Council failed to do it, but that does not make it less necessary. So, I can promise I will not give up.” |
Dec. 6—In an urgent letter today, directed to the current Ecuadorian chair of the UN Security Council, UN Secretary General António Guterres invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter, to call for the immediate declaration of a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza so that a “catastrophe with potentially irreversible implications for Palestinians as a whole and for peace and security in the region” can be averted. |
Dec. 6—The resumed Gaza nightmare is a marker of what has become characteristic in the West’s plunge into a New Dark Age, under the policies demanded by the Wall Street and City of London financial Establishment. If we are to stop the carnage, and not just gaze in frozen horror, we are going to have to force through the bankruptcy reorganization of the entire bankrupt trans-Atlantic financial system—and work with the nations of the Global Majority to that end. |
Dec. 3—On Sunday Dec. 3, Israel’s AI-designed bombing raids continued in Gaza, with their deadly toll of over 700 Palestinians killed in the last 24 hours. AP reported Dec. 3 that the area of Khan Younis and the southern city of Rafah were hit especially hard. “On Sunday, the Israeli military widened evacuation orders in and around Khan Younis, telling residents of at least five more areas and neighborhoods to leave.” Noting that most residents have nowhere to go, AP commented that UN monitors reported that those who were told to leave were from about one-quarter of the territory of Gaza—home to nearly 800,000 people before the war. |
Nov. 29—An extraordinary United Nations Security Council meeting called by China was held in New York City on Nov. 29 to discuss the deadly warfare underway in Gaza, and the urgent need to convene an international peace conference to stop the carnage. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was eloquent and specific, laying out a four-point action program. |
Nov. 22—A tense, negotiated hostage exchange and temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is scheduled to go into effect sometime this weekend, possibly as early as Friday morning, local time. It will last only four days, with the possibility of extending it, day-by-day, for a few more days if things proceed as agreed. International aid agencies are already warning that the increased humanitarian aid that is also supposed to flow into Gaza will be far from what is needed and will scarcely ameliorate the human suffering there. |
Nov. 16—A glimmer of a possible way out of the deadly global strategic crisis besetting the entire planet took shape in the four-hour summit meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, which was held near San Francisco on Nov. 15. |
Nov. 13—The facts speak for themselves. The British and American governments are deliberately and knowingly allowing Netanyahu’s Israel to commit war crimes in full view of the entire planet, crimes so heinous they are a moral blot on all humanity, and lead us to cry out: What ever happened to “Never Again!”? They are doing this “in full technicolor,” as used to be said, to send a simple message to the entire world: “Anybody else want to rebel against the City of London and Wall Street?” |
Nov. 6—A groundbreaking conference is taking place this week in Kabul, Afghanistan, that is aiming to help Afghanistan be among the new paradigm of nations seeking a beautiful future of collaboration and economic development. Titled: “Creating the Afghan Economic Miracle,” the conference runs from Nov. 6-8 and has attracted scholars and guests from across Afghanistan as well as from other parts of the world. It is being hosted by the Ibn Sina Research and Development Center. The conference’s stated aim is: “to present a comprehensive plan for the economic reconstruction of the entire country, with the goal to turn Afghanistan into a middle level-income country in the foreseeable future.” |
Nov. 4—Over 9,500 people have been killed in Gaza to date, of whom 3,900 are children, according to a report issued by the Gaza Health Ministry on Nov. 14. Over the last 24 hours, Netanyahu’s IDF bombed a school in Gaza, killing 20, after hitting an ambulance convoy departing Al Shifa hospital on its way to the Rafah crossing—killing 15 and wounding over 50. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, not known for his radical rhetoric, wrote that he was “horrified” by the attack, and that “the images of bodies strewn on the street outside the hospital are harrowing.” There are reports of additional strikes at the gates of the Al Nasr children’s hospital. |
Oct. 27—This afternoon at the UN General Assembly in New York, the 193 nation body voted 120-14, with 45 abstentions, in favor of a resolution calling for a humanitarian truce, toward a ceasefire in Gaza-Israel. The vote and resolution, though non-binding, expresses the assertion by the world’s Global Majority of a desire for compassion and reason, and love of humanity, to supplant the compulsive evil now involved in warmaking in multiple theaters. The vote is a clear rejection of the position of the Global Minority—the U.S., the Anglosphere and Global NATO. The resolution calls for an “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce,” the release of the hostages, and work towards a ceasefire. The resolution condemns “all acts of violence aimed at Palestinian and Israeli civilians.” |
Oct. 26—Russian President Vladimir Putin met in the Kremlin on Oct. 25 with eight of Russia’s top religious leaders, representing the Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist faiths. Putin denounced the terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7, as well as the unconscionable Israeli response of destroying all of Gaza based on “the notorious principle of collective responsibility,” and delivered a very sharp warning to the entire world: “Further escalation of the [Israel-Palestine] crisis poses a risk of severe and highly dangerous and destructive consequences … [that] can spill far beyond the borders of the Middle East.” |
