Oct. 18—It is hard to imagine a starker contrast than that offered by the Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation now underway in China, which is organizing optimistic plans for further, large-scale infrastructure projects encircling the planet, on the one hand; and the devastation and destruction of infrastructure and human life, horrendously exemplified by the deadly strike on the hospital in Gaza on Oct. 17, on the other. |
Oct. 11—Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche held her weekly "Dialogue" webcast on Oct. 11, in which she discussed the rapidly worsening strategic crisis and war danger, and what to do about it. |
Oct. 8—Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche has been warning repeatedly that the global crisis is going to get a lot worse, and even more dangerous, unless and until the underlying cause of the crisis is addressed: the systemic breakdown of the entire, predatory trans-Atlantic system. |
Oct. 4—The entire Western system is unravelling at breath-taking speed—economically, politically, socially, in every imaginable way. The fissures are everywhere and in plain view: |
Sept. 27—The military quagmire in Ukraine, combined with the onrushing breakdown of the entire trans-Atlantic financial system—which now includes the takeover by predatory hedge funds of the $25 trillion market in U.S. Treasuries—has brought the world to a crossroads. |
Sept. 13—Three weeks ago, in his remarks to the BRICS Business Forum during the Aug. 22-24 BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, Russian President Vladimir Putin told the gathered leaders from dozens of nations: “I would like to invite representatives of your countries’ business circles to attend the Eastern Economic Forum in Russia that will take place on Sept. 10-13 in the city of Vladivostok, where, by tradition, the discussions will focus on issues that are also of interest to the business communities of the BRICS countries.” |
Sept. 3—There are certain battles that cannot be avoided and must be won. One such is the battle to get the United States and Western Europe to change their current geopolitical confrontation course with Russia and China, a course meant to enforce the bankrupt trans-Atlantic financial system and its unipolar world order. The alternative to winning that fight is probable thermonuclear war. |
Aug. 30—It is arguably the case that the results of the recent BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, has Henry Kissinger rolling over in his grave. |
Aug. 23—It was the perfect metaphor for the rising power of the Global Majority in its unstoppable drive to put an end to 500 years of colonial-style economic looting, backwardness and wars. |
Aug. 18—In the midst of the NATO-orchestrated war that was launched, in fact, to destroy the Russian nation-state and its economic power, Vladimir Putin on Thursday, Aug. 17, spoke of building three high-speed rail lines: one between St. Petersburg and Moscow; one between Minsk and Moscow; and a third, connecting Sochi and Moscow. This internal improvements approach, echoing that of both Alexander Hamilton and Franklin Roosevelt, will require other internal changes, including financial changes, which, if implemented, will serve as an example to other nations, including developing economies in Africa, for how to end colonialism once and for all. |
Aug. 16—In less than a week, high-level representatives from over 65 developing sector nations, sometimes referred to as the Global Majority, will gather in Johannesburg, South Africa, under the auspices of the 15th BRICS heads of state and government summit. |
Aug. 6—A stunning chorus of voices form around the world sang out on Sunday Aug. 6, the 78th anniversary of the barbaric bombing of Hiroshima, from dozens of parallel “Humanity for Peace” rallies across Europe, Ibero-America and the United States, led by a flagship rally in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in front of the United Nations in New York City, demanding peace and a new international security architecture that protects the interests of all nations, large and small. |
Aug. 2—While London and Washington remained obsessed with their NATO frontal assault on Russia in the Ukraine theater, sinking further into the bog of an unwinnable land war that leaves only the nuclear option available, Russia turned the strategic flank with its just-concluded Russia-Africa Forum in St. Petersburg. Along with its Chinese allies, Russia is fully incorporating Africa into the emerging new global development architecture being built around the Belt and Road Initiative, the BRICS-Plus and associated groupings. |
July 29—It may be hot and sultry outdoors, but the pace of strategically decisive events is only quickening on all fronts, so don’t look for there to be any dog days of Summer—or Fall, for that matter. |
July 22—In her weekly column for the newspaper of Germany’s Bueso party, Neue Solidarität, Helga Zepp-LaRouche sounds the alarm over the onrushing destruction of Germany due to its adherence to the policy insanity of the trans-Atlantic financial Establishment. What she describes for Germany applies equally to the United States and, in fact, the entire so-called West. |
July 22—London and Washington may think that they scored a victory by creating security threats that have prevented Russian President Vladimir Putin from participating in person in the Aug. 22-24 BRICS summit in South Africa, but Russia’s policy related to the BRICS has not been diminished nor derailed. Russian spokesmen stated over the last 48 hours that the issue of non-dollar trade settlement mechanisms will be on the agenda for the upcoming summit, and that they expect the 2024 BRICS summit—hosted by Russia in Kazan—to see the number of participants grow beyond the current five members. |
July 19—It is now one week after the July 11-12 NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. During this past week, the British-steered NATO apparatus has issued two discernible policy statements on where they intend to take the Ukraine war, to punctuate their resolution coming off Vilnius. The first took the form of a drone attack on Russia’s Kerch Strait bridge, which produced modest structural damage and killed two civilians. |
July 4—The 23rd Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit concluded its one-day video-conference meeting on July 4 under Indian chairmanship, with the participation of Narendra Modi of India, Xi Jinping of China, and Vladimir Putin of Russia, as well as the leaders of Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. A ninth member was admitted to the SCO at the meeting: Iran. |
July 4—When the Prigozhin mutiny occurred back on June 23-24, LaRouche movement spokesmen quickly noted that, although the details of the revolt and its suppression were still hazy, there was little doubt that those who had motive to attempt to destabilize and destroy Russia—cui bono—were British and American intelligence services operating on behalf of the City of London and Wall Street financial interests. And therefore, the real question that the Prigozhin affair posed was: What’s coming next? What will be London’s next provocation in their effort to trigger a nuclear confrontation between NATO and Russia? We suggested that a close eye be kept on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (ZNPP). |
June 28—The June 23-24 Wagner mutiny led by Yevgeny Prigozhin in Russia was brought under control in less than 24 hours, but the strategic crisis behind that revolt is not under control—and the danger of a full-scale thermonuclear war between the United States and Russia will continue to escalate until it is. The reasons for that—and what to do about it—are as follows. |
June 21—The recent article by Russian professor Sergey Karaganov which calls for Russia to launch a tactical nuclear strike against one or various European countries, and which was run on June 13 in Russia in Global Affairs and reprinted on June 17 by RT and Asia Times, has unleashed a series of responses both within Russia and in the West. For example, Russia Matters, the publication of The Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, has published their latest “Russia Analytical Report, June 12-20, 2023,” noting in their “4 Ideas to Explore” item that a “debate has reemerged among some of Russia’s best-known foreign and defense policy pundits on whether Moscow should initiate use of nuclear weapons to dissuade the West from providing further support to Ukraine.” |
June 17—Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was the venue for the 10th Arab-China Business Conference last Tuesday, June 13, where the new president of the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB), Dilma Rousseff, asserted that there is a process underway in the so-called Global South “towards reshaping the global economy and reducing dependency on a single currency.” She noted that this initiative “requires cooperation among countries, financial institutions and collaborative policies and organizations such as the Belt and Road Initiative, the New Development Bank and the Islamic Development Bank, to give a few examples.” |
June 10—An intense four-hour dialogue occurred at today’s Schiller Institute online conference “The World Needs JFK’s Vision of Peace,” an event commemorating President John F. Kennedy’s historic American University speech of June 10, 1963—and the paradigm of Man that it represented, which is decisive to bringing about peace today in this most dangerous of global crises. |
June 5—Something of a proverbial “perfect storm” is brewing strategically in the immediate weeks and months ahead. |
May 31—In recent months, Helga Zepp-LaRouche has frequently referred to the unstoppable drive of the Global South—the vast majority of Mankind and its nation-states—to put an end to centuries of colonial looting and servitude, once and for all. She has urged the United States and Europe, in particular, to take note of the sea-change, and to stop their governments from driving the world to the edge of nuclear war to defend their bankrupt and superannuated financial system. |
