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 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 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. |
May 27—The one thing you can’t accuse the Russian government of is engaging in subtle diplomacy, with nuanced, hard-to-interpret signals. Consider the urgent warnings and messages delivered over the last 48 hours, all of which have been blithely ignored by Washington and London, and all of which have been blacked out of the major media so that most Americans remain totally ignorant and in a strategic stupor over this Memorial Day weekend—a holiday meant to commemorate those lost in earlier wars—while the clouds of a third, nuclear world war hang darkly over the planet today. |
May 24—A Financial Times Editorial Board statement published yesterday under the headline “Taking Stock of the G7 Hiroshima Summit,” provides a useful bird’s-eye view of the global strategic situation from the standpoint of the thoroughly bankrupt City of London and Wall Street financial interests. A fair summary would be: Things are going ok for us in the West with our gameplan of orchestrating a showdown with Russia and China, but we have a huge problem with the Global South. They are not on board with that policy, at all, and we’d better come up with something to deal with that. However, the “something” that the Financial Times proposes—significant investment in the nations of the South— is not achievable under today’s trans-Atlantic financial system. |
May 10—What should be said of an anachronistic monarchy, medievalist in both trappings and outlook, whose recently crowned King expresses the view that the planet is terminally overpopulated and requires a “vast military-style campaign” to impose a “fundamental economic transition” back to a feudal form of economy? |
May 6—Two drones attacked the Kremlin in Moscow on May 3. Within 24 hours, the Russian government had asserted that they considered this an attempted assassination of President Vladimir Putin at the very seat of the Russian State, and they specifically charged that Ukraine was behind the attack, with the backing, logistical and intelligence support, and explicit instructions of the United States, United Kingdom and NATO. |
April 30—Chinese President Xi Jinping’s phone call with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last on April 26, at Zelenskyy’s initiative, threatened to kick over the warmongers’ applecart, by opening up a new pathway for a possible negotiated solution to the Ukraine crisis—and with it, a step away from the nuclear brink. |
April 26—The Ukraine theater of NATO’s proxy war against Russia continues on its trajectory of an early superpower showdown, with relentless chatter broadcast by Ukrainian authorities, from President Zelenskyy on down, of a coming Ukrainian “counter-offensive” to include seizing control of Crimea—a nuclear tripwire if ever there was one. High-level Russian officials continue to warn, at every opportunity, about where that trajectory leads—“a hot, full-scale World War III,” as Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev stated yesterday. |
April 22—Today, the TLO endorsed candidate Sare for Senate organized a Manhattan Town Hall meeting in New York City, both in-person and online, under the theme, “Putting Away Childish Things: America in a World Without War.” The event saw over 120 attendees from New York and other states, along with around 90 online participants. The gathering brought together diverse political voices that collectively called for the United States to return to its anti-colonial philosophical roots and commit to building a community of sovereign nations, in the spirit of John Quincy Adams, Franklin Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy. The printed program for the event stated that the participation of the speakers did not constitute an endorsement by them of her Senatorial campaign. |
April 3—It’s become so obvious that even the self-deluded bankers of the City of London and Wall Street have to admit it: They can no longer order every nation on the planet to do their bidding, and expect them to bow and scrape and obediently commit suicide. “It’s no longer a unipolar world,” a leading financial strategist at the global investment bank RBC Capital Market (Royal Bank of Canada) ruefully remarked to the Financial Times today. |
April 1—The President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko delivered his annual Address to the Nation and Parliament speech yesterday, in which he issued a severe warning about the danger of thermonuclear war, if NATO continued its aggressive forward march against Russia. On March 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to acquiesce to Lukashenko’s long-standing request that Russian tactical nuclear weapons be deployed to Belarus. |
April 1—It’s what Lyndon LaRouche always forecast with certainty: That under conditions of a breakdown crisis (like today’s), increasingly motivated leadership circles all around the planet would turn to LaRouche’s ideas for solutions that will allow their nations to survive and flourish—as is happening today. The knowledge that that is the case, Helga Zepp-LaRouche explained over the weekend, is what will shape the unified focus of the upcoming April 15-16 Schiller Institute conference. As a new introduction to the conference invitation states simply: |
March 22—Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping wrapped up two-days of intense summit meetings in Moscow on Wednesday, March 22, and announced a fruitful strengthening of their bilateral relationship on all fronts, along with a call for the international community to recognize that, “to settle the Ukraine crisis, the legitimate security concerns of all countries must be respected,” as their Joint Statement on strategic issues asserted. The two leaders stated that it was necessary to “update and improve the international security architecture,” and they specifically called for urgent consideration of China’s 12-point peace proposal for Ukraine. |
March 18—Feverish emergency meetings of financial authorities are underway on both sides of the Atlantic this weekend, as the owners of the thoroughly bankrupt trans-Atlantic financial system scramble to prevent their entire system from blowing out. The reason can be summed up in a single word: derivatives. |
March 4—Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was on to something when he stated last week that part of the “tectonic process” underway in world politics is that “the countries which feel independent and are guided by national interests,” as opposed to the diktats of Wall Street and the City of London, now constitute “the Global Majority … [which] include giants such as China and India and many of our other international partners.” |
Feb. 27—Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met on Monday Feb. 27 with the heads of the Foreign Ministry’s branches in Russia’s regions, and he reported to them that there is a “geopolitical tectonic process” underway worldwide, in which some 20 nations have expressed an interest in joining the BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). This is not a matter of mere organizational affiliation, Lavrov noted, but a global rebellion against colonial looting and the unipolar “rules-based order”: |
