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 9—The Summit of the Americas, ending tomorrow in California, was not only a flop, but last evening’s “inaugural” event was a grotesque display of the cultural collapse behind the madness of the US/UK/Global NATO imperium. President Biden and Vice President Harris gave their remarks interspersed between entertainment acts of raucous so-called music, and their message matched. Biden extolled democracy and condemned “Russian unprovoked aggression.” He announced the Partnership for Prosperity, which is a sham. That may not be news, but the Summit of the Americas marks a moment, as the fable goes, where it’s clear for all to see, “the emperor has no clothes.”
March 12, 2025 (EIRNS)—The March 11 meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia between Ukrainian and American representatives, where a 30-day ceasefire was agreed to, has shifted the world’s attention yet again. But who is actually doing the shifting? Reports now abound that, after Tuesday’s agreement, “the ball is in Russia’s court.” Former British Prime Minister and notorious anti-peace fanatic Boris Johnson said March 12: “The Ukrainians have proved that they can make peace. Now it is up to the Kremlin to sign up to the Trump plan—or face the consequences. If Putin refuses we will know that he is not serious about peace and never was.”
Feb. 24, 2025 (EIRNS)—Why is it in Americans’ national security interest, that President Donald Trump act to curtail the “special relationship” that presently exists between the British Imperial and Commonwealth intelligence services, and the United States military and military-intelligence?
Oct. 3, 2024 (EIRNS)—Today the Chief of Staff of Iran’s armed forces, Major General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, explained for anyone who cared to hear, what their Tuesday, Oct. 1 attack on Israel was about: “After Martyr Haniyeh’s assassination, Iran went through a tough period of self-restraint amid repeated requests by the Americans and Europeans, who would ask us to exercise self-restraint so they would establish a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.” However, Israel’s constant provocations undermined the process, and the assassination of Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah was the last straw. So, Bagheri explained that Tehran took a measured action: Iran targeted the “center for terrorism,” the Mossad spy agency; the Nevatim air base, which houses Israel’s F-35s; and the Hatzerim base, which had enabled the assassination of Nasrallah. Further, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, in the hours after Iran’s Oct. 1 launching of missiles, clearly explained to European foreign ministers that Iran had sent its message, a lawful response, and that they were finished—unless Israel “plans retaliation.”
March 7—If you think the elites of NATO have lost their minds, you’re right! But their fantasies endanger the entire world, by bringing us to the brink of a nuclear conflict, and to civilizational disgrace.
Oct. 20—President Joe Biden’s just-concluded “mission to the Middle East” was a strategic, military and moral disaster for the world—which he then further compounded in his Thursday night speech on Oct. 19 to the American people. Biden, like the gambler who begs his wife to use the rent money “because I know I can win,” asked a crumbling America, the most indebted nation in the world, for $100 billion more, to throw down the sink-hole of a no-win-World War Three with Russia and China.
Dec. 28, 2024 (EIRNS)—As of today, the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza is empty and burned out. Yesterday, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital, threw patients and staff outside, smashed equipment, and set fire to the surgery room, the laboratory and other departments. Hospital Director Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya was taken into custody; his whereabouts are unknown. Other staff were arrested. Those expelled were stripped bare outdoors; any who objected were beaten.
Dec. 18, 2024 (EIRNS)—Gen. (ret.) Keith Kellogg, President-elect Donald Trump’s envoy on Ukraine peace negotiations, responded quickly to the Dec. 17 assassination of Russian Gen.-Lt. Igor Kirillov by Ukrainian secret services, denouncing the terror hit in Moscow as “not a smart thing to do…. There are rules of engagement, and there are certain things that you just don’t do.”
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.
Dec. 4—In Washington, D.C. yesterday, a special Dona Nobis Pacem Vigil was held on the Ellipse in front of the tall National Christmas tree across from the White House, by Schiller Institute members and collaborators singing the universally known canon, presenting signs, and handing out a message that the name for peace is that there must be development. Although at midday, and lasting some two hours, the event reached hundreds of people, including visitors from around the world, and the import is international. The effect was not just from the beautiful music, the words of the prayer—“grant us peace”—nor just from the signs, which said, for example, “Bridges Not Bombs,” and “Peace through Development,” and “No Nuclear War.”
Sept. 19—If you are a regular reader of this report, you were probably shocked to learn last Thursday, Sept. 15 that the commander in chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, had co-authored an article published on the Ukrainian news site Ukrinform on Sept. 7 which claimed that there were indications that Russia was preparing a nuclear strike in Ukraine, and that it is therefore “extremely necessary … [that] any Russian attempts at practical steps in the use of tactical nuclear weapons must be preempted by employing the entire arsenal of means at the disposal of world powers.” We warned you at the time that “such an outrageously dangerous and provocative article could never have been written, let alone published, without the prior approval of the U.S., U.K. and NATO forces running the war.”
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.”
Oct. 16, 2024 (EIRNS)—One year ago, the Netanyahu gang initiated what can only be called a population war upon the civilians of Gaza. The civilians went from an average of 500 trucks/day of food, water and medicine, for the 2.3 million residents, to zero. That was the centerpiece of the naked policy of driving all Palestinians out of Gaza, an explicit policy of the “Eretz Yisrael” (“Greater Israel”) gang. Weeks went by before international pressure resulted in a handful of trucks being allowed in, and that over the strenuous objections of Netanyahu’s front men, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
Aug. 3—One of the speakers at the Aug. 6 Humanity for Peace rally at the United Nations in New York, Jose Vega, of the Schiller Institute, said yesterday on the Jimmy Dore Show, that we are seeing “one big ray of positivity” in the public response to activate and demonstrate to stop the drive to nuclear war. There are dozens of sister rallies, and contingency planning for actions in the coming weeks. He remarked that over past months, there were important personal “interventions” to publicly put individual figures on the spot for their backing for Global NATO’s warfare expansion, but now there is a new phase of people stepping up to “get in on that action” together. “It has been loose and fluid” in the past period of interventions, but now, “this is the moment” in which people are all coming together.
Feb. 4, 2025 (EIRNS)—President Donald Trump, at a joint White House press conference this evening with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, stated that the United States will “take over the Gaza Strip,” and build it up to what he said can even be, “the Riviera of the Middle East.” He motivated the concept by reporting that he has given this thought for months, talked to people and nations in the region, and this way, there can be stability.
Oct. 26, 2024 (EIRNS)—With the title, “Build a Peace Chorus Against the Ghouls of War,” the combined independent campaigns of Jose Vega and Diane Sare hosted a public event in New York City on the afternoon of Saturday, Oct. 26.
June 11—The topsy-turvy world of the West is becoming more unglued by the day, while the new, non-unipolar paradigm exemplified by the work of the BRICS is expanding in potential. Will the war for peace be fought and won?
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.
March 5, 2025 (EIRNS)—The Christian season of Lent began Wednesday, March 5. No matter what one’s religion, or lack thereof, Lent’s suggestion of self-reflection, self-control and self-development, through what Gandhi called “experiments with truth,” is the best way to develop both the ideas and the passion to propose a new direction for the trans-Atlantic “golden billion,” away from the Hell waiting around the corner.
April 19—April 19, 1775 marks for many the “official beginning” of the American Revolution: the battle of Lexington-Concord—“the shot heard ’round the world.” On April 18, 249 years later, a “vote heard around the world” was taken in the Security Council of the United Nations. Algeria, France, Slovenia, Malta, Guyana, Ecuador, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Russia and China took action to recognize Palestine as a state member of the United Nations. This was a vote heard around the world, on behalf of human freedom, justice and equality. There were two equivocators, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, that abstained. Only the United States, in a vote which will live in infamy, opposed Palestine’s membership. Because it is a permanent member of the Security Council, that one vote by the U.S. stopped the resolution from going through.
Sept. 4—The fight is clearly on for a new world system, one that will determine the direction of the world for the coming decades and beyond. While some of this may be playing out more explicitly on the surface, such as the U.S.-Russia proxy war and its footprint in Ukraine, the deeper elements which have actually been at play for decades are beginning to become more evident than ever before.
Jan. 15, 2025 (EIRNS)—On Wednesday Jan. 15, news broke that negotiators in Qatar had reached an agreement for a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. After 15 months of brutality, a sliver of hope has emerged that the senseless killing of Palestinians can stop and a different future for the region could begin. However, while hopeful, this development only represents a window through which to address the deeper issue, of which the genocide in Gaza has been only a reflection, and there are many obstacles still in the way.
