July 9, 2024 (EIRNS)—Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán used the following words to identify the principle behind the actions he has embarked upon, immediately after assuming the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, a position he will hold for the next six months. “What we can do is what it is always the job of the Presidency to do: to put proposals on the table. So we won’t be deciding, but we’ll help the twenty-seven prime ministers to decide. We’ll be there in all the places that are important for Europe, we’ll explore all the situations… This leadership isn’t bureaucratic—of course there are these dossiers and deliberations, but there also needs to be a political form of energy: an initiative which isn’t a decision, but which puts a clear description of the situation on the table, the possible solutions. This is how we’ll proceed. If in the coming days you or your viewers hear surprising news from surprising places, this is the way of working that’s behind it.”
Feb. 19, 2025 (EIRNS)—The dizzying pace of developments on the world stage over the last 30 days has left most of the world—including many of the principal actors in these events—at a loss to explain what is happening, and why things are moving so rapidly.
Sept. 10, 2024 (EIRNS)—What has caused an obscure French-based publication, Intelligence Online, to suddenly not only attack the Schiller Institute, but also to call for the U.S. Department of Justice to “shut Schiller up,” and down? Was it something Schiller said? Not exactly, but close.
March 25—The April 9 Schiller Institute international conference to Convoke A New Security and Development Architecture, and the organizing process which precedes it, can be a punctum saliens for the world.
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.”
Feb. 22—The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has already warned that Israel is in grave danger of committing a genocide in Gaza—and that was before the threatened invasion of Rafah, the only remaining safe zone for Gaza’s refugees. The leaders of 18 humanitarian aid organizations have now issued a statement warning of “mass casualties” if Israel proceeds with its ground invasion. This reality is increasingly clear to the world, yet this still has not stopped Israel and its supporters from moving ahead.
Sept. 29, 2024 (EIRNS)—Whatever team is making decisions at the White House, this “collective Joe” grouping has, on two recent occasions, apparently turned down the opportunity to go full “flight-forward,” when confronted with the matter of firing Western long-range missiles deep into Russia. On Sept. 13, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer came to muscle Biden on the matter, and on Sept. 26, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attempted his unique form of charm on the White House. On both occasions, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin had sent a loud and clear message the day before, that Moscow was in no mood to play games, where Ukrainian proxies have their “’label” on the launching of U.S., British and French long-range missiles deep into Russia.
April 23—Operating out of Ukraine’s Office of the President, the head of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Oleksiy Danilov, reacted today against the possibility of an outbreak of peace: “When the goal of the Russian aggressor remains the same —to destroy Ukraine—recent peace settlement initiatives are pro-Russian peacemaking. Don’t try to put us at the negotiating table, give us enough weapons. Weapons are the best mediator and a clear argument for Russia in communication.”
Oct. 2—Today, President Vladimir Putin continued the protocol for the accession to Russia of the four areas—Lugansk, Donets, Zaporozhye and Kherson, which voted in favor of accession last week. Putin provided to the Duma their requests, which he signed Sept. 30. The Duma is expected to review the documents Oct. 3; the Federation Council will review them Oct. 4. The Russian Constitutional Court approved the accession documents earlier today. Putin has appointed as his Presidential representatives for the process of accession, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Deputy Foreign Minister Yevgeny Ivanov.
May 13, 2025 (EIRNS)—Reports over the recent days have made it unmistakably clear that the “international community” has failed the people of Gaza. Not only have they suffered 19 months of indiscriminate bombing, forced relocation, and a lack of even the most basic human needs; now, after 70 days of Israel’s complete blockade, they are facing a full-blown famine.
May 11—Can all of humanity think the way that the poet Friedrich Schiller forecast that it would, one day, in his poem An die Freude? Can all of humanity be called to service, not the way doomed governments call their young to die in senseless war, but for the purpose of eradicating poverty, famine, disease and war itself, as one American President—the last flawed, but truly free, and then assassinated American President—proposed in his 1961 Inaugural Address?
July 2—Diane Sare, the independent LaRouche Organization endorsed candidate from the state of New York for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Chuck Schumer, one of the most evil members (among many) of the U.S. Congress, has pointed out in her July Fourth Independence Day statement that “Any honest patriot will admit that our beloved nation is now the perpetrator of the very acts of unjust barbarism which the British Empire had imposed on the thirteen original colonies, and for which we fought a war to liberate ourselves.” We encourage you to go to that statement and review those acts of barbarism by King George III enumerated by America’s Founding Fathers, and ponder Diane’s words.
May 6—Signs of sanity are surfacing, “and we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.” The Schiller petition; letters and calls to the United States and other national congresses; independent candidates advocating the new security and development architecture; and a vibrant youth mobilization against war and for scientific/technological and cultural development, is the way ahead.
Oct. 14, 2024 (EIRNS)—As the U.S. Congress is busy campaigning in their districts, and the media bombard people with emotion-laden news in the leadup to the Nov. 5 U.S. elections, the world is operating on a distinctly different timeline. Southwest Asia sits on a razor’s edge of exploding, as Israel expands its barbaric actions into Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon, and threatens to launch a full-blown attack on Iran. Iran’s President and Foreign Minister are engaging in a flurry of diplomatic activity to attempt to stave this off—President Masoud Pezeshkian spoke to French President Emmanuel Macron, and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi traveled to Iraq after having visited Beirut, Damascus, Riyadh and Doha in a little over a week.
April 3, 2025 (EIRNS)—We don’t know all of what was discussed between the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev, who is a close associate of President Vladimir Putin, and Steven Witkoff and other representatives of the Trump Administration, over his just-concluded two-day White House visit.
Dec. 12, 2024 (EIRNS)—On Nov. 21, the Russian military hurled a very loud message at Washington, D.C., when their new hypersonic ballistic Oreshnik missile hit a military-industrial site in Dnipro, Ukraine, coming in at breathtaking speeds, far faster than any present-day air defense system is capable of dealing with. And, of note, it proved that it hits where it is aimed.
June 13—The battle today remains clear: Overcome the contrived, militarized divide between the West, on the one side, and China, Russia and the Global South on the other. Going for a complete decoupling of the two sides cannot work, and endangers world war. We need the new paradigm where nations work jointly to solve today’s common problems of the food, energy and pandemic emergency, and together, to build infrastructure and create scientific breakthroughs.
April 23—New initiatives in Eurasia this week conform in an exciting way with the “Oasis Plan” approach for economic development and security, concerning especially transportation, water, and power. The “Oasis Plan” concept was put forward in the 1970s by Lyndon LaRouche, statesman and economist, and today is the emergency intervention needed in mobilizing to stop the devastation in Palestine-Israel, and other warfare zones, and to stop the plunge into World War III.
April 19—Last month, China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin held a summit in Moscow, which included charting their collaboration over the next eight years on economic projects. Xi’s “Belt and Road” approach over the last ten years has shown country after country that nations can mutually benefit, if they simply choose projects that, in real physical economy terms, work. And since one nation doesn’t have to push down its neighbor in order to get ahead, room is created for defining pathways in which one nation is important, even vital, to its neighbor. China’s “shocking” diplomatic successes with the rapprochement of Saudi Arabia and Iran—with the radiating effects, notably in Syria and Yemen—turn out to be a normal byproduct of sane economics. It forces to the surface the realization that insane economics were at the root of the so-called intractable conflicts we’re accustomed to.
March 10—The Global Security Initiative delivered an important victory to humanity yesterday, with the announcement, from Beijing, of the resumption of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Representatives of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran made the announcement that they would reestablish diplomatic relations two months from now. This was done, as the Saudi News Agency official statement put it, “in response to the noble initiative of His Excellency President Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, of China’s support for developing good neighborly relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Consider the role of the United States in Iran from the CIA-orchestrated coup in 1953 until 1979. Consider the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia, from the end of World War Two until now. Then, think more deeply about the colonial relationship of the British Empire to both Iran and Arabia, over centuries, and over the period since especially the 1916 Sykes-Picot Treaty. What has just happened to the Anglosphere’s geopolitical “Great Game?”
Sept. 25, 2024 (EIRNS)—On Wednesday Sept. 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced proposed revisions of Russia’s standing doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons, which significantly lower the threshold for their use—at exactly the moment that new military action by the United States and NATO, acting through Ukraine, is about to cross that threshold. Unless Washington’s policy of seeking the strategic destruction of Russia is changed immediately, the world stands at the brink of global thermonuclear warfare.
March 18, 2025 (EIRNS)—The March 18 call between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump has opened the door to a world that has not been able to exist for at least 35 years, and more likely not since the end of World War II.
April 26, 2025 (EIRNS)—President Vladimir Putin announced on April 26 that the Russian armed forces had succeeded in fully expelling the Ukrainian military from the Kursk region of Russia, which Ukraine had invaded nearly nine months ago, on Aug. 6, 2024. In a solemn, televised exchange with Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov, Putin made it clear that Russia intends to keep fighting until a peace can be negotiated which takes Russia’s security concerns fully into account. “The complete defeat of the enemy in the Kursk border area creates conditions for further successful actions by our troops in other important areas of the front,” Putin told Gerasimov.
