Aug. 3—House Speaker Nancy Pelosi left Taiwan today, less than 48 hours after arriving, leaving strategic wreckage in her wake in the all-important U.S.-China relationship, wreckage that may hasten the world’s rush towards thermonuclear war. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov captured the stark reality, in response to a journalist’s question regarding the U.S. motive behind Pelosi’s trip: |
July 27—The ongoing severe crisis around the supply of Russian natural gas to Europe is underscoring for even the most obtuse that the old ways just don’t work anymore. Many in Europe are scrambling to respond to the crisis; some are even trying to figure out a new way to do things, but by and large they are doing that while refusing to abandon the old axioms that got us into this mess in the first place—the defunct, British system of free trade and globalization which is now in a full-fledged systemic breakdown crisis. |
July 20—The nations of Europe are rapidly plunging into economic collapse and social chaos, as the insane London-dictated sanctions against Russia are succeeding in boomeranging against the very countries that have unleashed them. |
July 17—At last Friday’s Schiller Institute weekly strategic discussion with members and supporters in Ibero-America, one after another of the participants came to the microphone on the video conference call to report on the anguishing economic collapse underway in each of their countries. |
July 13—The best way to put the current strategic situation in focus is by training the James Webb Telescope back on Planet Earth, so to speak. With the Webb telescope, we have become able to see over 13 billion years back into our universe’s existence, while looking at a tiny arc of the sky which NASA has explained is the equivalent of holding a grain of sand up at arms-length! On the one hand, this accomplishment serves to underscore how incommensurably minuscule we each, as human beings, are on the scale of the universe. But at the same time—since we are capable of conceptualizing our relationship with the incommensurably large, with the enormity of continuing creation—it reminds us that we are also possessed of an immense, and apparently unique, power to participate willfully in that process of creation of the universe. |
July 6—While most of your neighbors were either asleep at the switch or too wrapped up in a media-induced coma about the supposed “brave Ukrainian people’s war to defend democracy and our way of life,” the City of London and Wall Street’s total economic warfare against Russia has helped unleash a tectonic shift that is now underway in global physical-economic flows. There are drastic shifts towards Asia and the Pacific of energy, food and other essential economic activity; and there are corresponding deadly reductions underway especially in Europe, but which are also affecting the U.S. and parts of the developing sector. |
July 1—What will be tomorrow’s current history? As things seem to stand at the moment, “tomorrow’s news” for the northern hemisphere, particularly the United States, Canada and Europe, has just been previewed in Australia, and is reported in the London Daily Mail. “Outrage as Australia’s energy crisis worsens with hospitals ordered to reduce electricity use and millions warned not to use appliances at night: ‘We’re rationing power like a 3rd world country.’” The Mail continues: “Australia’s energy crisis has deepened, with the National Electricity Market suspended, hospitals ordered to reduce electricity use and millions of people urged not to use basic appliances, despite the freezing winter weather…. The Tomago aluminum smelter in N.S.W. (New South Wales), the country’s biggest electricity user, was also forced to cut production to reduce the chance of a blackout.” |
June 29—At a meeting of President James Monroe’s cabinet on November 7, 1823, then Secretary of State John Quincy Adams argued forcefully against the proposed strategic alliance of the young American republic with Great Britain, which had been suggested by British Foreign Secretary George Canning. “It would be more candid, as well as more dignified,” Adams argued, “to avow our principles explicitly to Russia and France, than to come in as a cockboat in the wake of the British man-of-war.” |
June 26—There are four major international summit meetings underway in the last week in June, which in large measure summarize the options facing the planet at this time. The BRICS Summit, hosted by China, concluded on June 24, presenting one view of the future—a future based on development and cooperation to solve the grave economic and strategic crises facing humanity. That was followed by the EU summit; then the ongoing G7 summit in Germany; and finally, the NATO meeting scheduled for June 28-30 in Madrid—these three all dead-set on perpetuating a bankrupt and war-provoking system centered in the City of London and Wall Street. |
June 25—Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche has issued a “Call for an Ad-Hoc Committee for a New Bretton Woods System,” which is now circulating and gathering signatures from prominent leaders around the world, and will shortly be made public. |
June 15—There are two systems today before the world; the one looks to salvaging its $2 quadrillion speculative bubble at the cost of the decimation of the physical economy and sustenance of the majority of the planet’s population, by war if so required; while the other looks to cooperation on great infrastructure and scientific projects to raise the productive powers of all. Those two systems are today in the process of actively decoupling into warring blocs, a trajectory leading into nuclear war and Mankind’s annihilation, if not preempted. |
June 1—Back in the late 1970s, a much younger Henry Kissinger warned his banker patrons that, in a period of profound global crisis, Lyndon LaRouche’s views and policies could quickly become hegemonic—and that that is what made him so dangerous to the Anglo-American financial Establishment. |
May 28—As reports came in from the war front last week, indicating that, after taking the port of Mariupol, Russia is methodically advancing westward in the Donbass region and that Ukrainian forces have had to retreat, the British have let it be known, yet again, that they will not allow Russia to win the war—even if it means bringing the world to the brink of a nuclear showdown. |
May 25—Economic development is the name of peace—and security, and human rights. Therefore, the Four Laws of Lyndon LaRouche, taken as a whole, is the complex yet fully graspable path forward. Pretending that credit generation works without a fusion- and plasma-physics-based economy, or that credit generation works outside of the sovereign, cultural capacities of nations, or that such a creative approach could work without necessary prophylactics against cancerous speculative practices, all are simply outside those Four Laws. How has that been working? |
May 22—Many people that LaRouche movement organizers speak to in the broader population, both in the United States and in other countries around the world, are having difficulty grappling with the strategic implications of what is happening today in the Ukrainian theater, preferring instead to view it as a kind of soap opera, or a particularly nasty football game. |
May 18—The governments of Finland and Sweden today presented their formal requests to promptly join NATO, and were received with hurrahs and hosannahs by the war-crazed governments of the United States and most of Europe, as well as the financial Establishment of the City of London and Wall Street. |
May 11—In his May 9 address to the Victory Day parade in Moscow, commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a most profound overture to Americans, which went largely unnoticed and unreported in the United States. In recalling the ultimate sacrifice made by 27 million Russians during World War II, and their decisive role in stopping Hitler, Putin also went out of his way to state: |
May 4—In the course of a wide-ranging interview with author and publicist Daniel Estulin, Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche today responded to a question about the subject of the Schiller Institute's upcoming May 7 international dialogue on "The Role of Youth in Creating a New International Economic Architecture." |
April 25—The first U.S. administration trip to Kyiv since the February 24 special military operation by Russia occurred yesterday, after which Secretary of State Tony Blink and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced that the U.S. would provide an additional $650 million in military aid to Ukraine, bringing the total of security aid to $3.7 billion in the last 60 days. |
April 25—On April 25, 1945, the Soviet and U.S. armies linked up on the Elbe River, marking the success of the allied effort to defeat fascism. In April 1955, The Spirit of the Elbe memorial was unveiled at the Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C., and every year since then, the occasion has been celebrated as a symbol of cooperation between the two nations to achieve victory in a just cause. |
April 20—The world’s leading finance ministers, central bankers, and private financiers gathered in Washington, D.C. the first three days of this week, for the annual spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. They admitted publicly that up to 1.7 billion people face a severe food crisis and hunger this year. They nodded sagely at reports that inflation of 50, 80, even 120% on food and energy products had exploded in Germany and across Europe, not to mention desperate South America. They concurred that the debt of low-income countries had become utterly unpayable and would be blowing out shortly. And they congratulated each other on their scorched-earth sanctions with which they intend to wipe Russia—and any and all other rebellious nations—off the face of the Earth. |
April 17—As we move forward from the achievements of the April 9 Schiller Institute conference, we rightly also look back for further sustenance, clarity, and courage for the battles that lie immediately ahead in these most troubled of times. |
April 13 (EIRNS)—Today, the Biden administration announced that $800 million worth of new weapons would be shipped to Ukraine, in order to perpetuate the blood-letting in that country and escalate the war against Russia. |
April 6—In addition to their ongoing “controlled disintegration” of the world physical economy, the British are now carrying out a “controlled demolition” of the existing international institutional architecture, because it is getting in the way of their Brave New World. |
March 30—How, then, should we go about organizing our fellow citizens and those of other nations, under conditions where the world is facing the very real possibility of thermonuclear war; where it is already descending into a physical-economic meltdown unseen since the 14th-century New Dark Age; and where most about us are gripped by a pessimism which numbs their concern for humanity—and for themselves? |
