July 13—During an interview with Russian news site Lenta.ru, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made the sobering point that the deployment of Western F-16’s into Ukraine will be perceived by Russia as a “nuclear threat.” “We have informed the nuclear powers,” Lavrov said, “that Russia cannot ignore the ability of these aircraft to carry nuclear weapons. No amount of assurances will help here.” It is known that F-16’s can be equipped to carry B-61 gravity nuclear bombs, yet a distant observer, namely Russia, will have no way of discerning whether or not one is so armed. “In the course of combat operations,” Lavrov continued, “our servicemen are not going to sort out whether each particular aircraft of this type is equipped to deliver nuclear weapons or not. We will regard the very fact that the Ukrainian armed forces have such systems as a threat from the West in the nuclear sphere.” |
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in an interview with Lenta.ru posted yesterday, issued a stark warning against the supply of F-16’s by NATO countries to Ukraine |
As part of the ongoing series on LaRouche’s economics, we will discuss Lyndon LaRouche's “That Which Underlies Motivic Thorough-Composition.” |
July 12—We are at the end of an era, and the dawning of a new epoch for human civilization. But we also stand at the edge of the abyss: Anglo-American NATO is unwilling to release its hegemony, and is choosing policies that will lead, inevitably, to war with Russia, China, or both. Catastrophic war. Unsurvivable war. |
While NATO leaders presented a plan for permanent war to defend their Unipolar Order, Sergei Lavrov spoke of the development of a Multipolar Order. |
July 11—The confederacy of dunces meeting at Vilnius have proclaimed, with dubious conviction, that someday, somehow, Ukraine will be in NATO. This displeased “Little Caesar” Zelensky, who took to the streets of the city and, speaking at a concert clearly staged on his behalf, castigated the whole Anglosphere as “weak sisters,” for being “indecisive,” for being afraid to throw caution to the winds, get some iron in the spine, and stand up to the Russians. Another Ukrainian official, Andriy Yermak, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, went further. He explained, in an ABC interview, why the West should not fear escalating toward nuclear war. “Some countries, unfortunately, don’t really understand the current Russia. It’s not the country of Pushkin, Tchaikovsky, Russian ballet, one of the strongest armies in the world. It’s the country [of] terrorists.” |
Despite rejecting Ukraine's membership application, NATO reaffirmed its commitment to war "to accelerate the finalization of Russia's existence." |
July 10—When you go to flip on the lights, but instead the switch causes the toilet to flush, you know you’ve got a problem. This is the situation with the trans-Atlantic alliance today, where every action taken in the effort to project dominance over the world ends up backfiring in their face. |
The NATO summit opens today in Vilnius, amidst a whirl of fantasy-ridden bravado, covering for the defense of a collapsing "Rules-Based Order" (RBO). |
July 7—While the July 11-12 Vilnius NATO conference will, in all probability, constitute a self-blinding exercise in arrogance, incompetence and hubris—continuing what historian Barbara Tuchman called “the march of Folly” into the jaws of an “unthinkable” thermonuclear Hell—today’s Strasbourg, France Schiller Institute Conference offers a form of Promethean “forethought”—an alternative to that self-destructive path. The world need not be tragic; neither wealth, nor power, nor force of arms, nor murder need triumph over those that believe in the unalienable rights of humanity. Ideas, indeed, when embodied by individuals in touch with the immortality of humanity, are more powerful than weapons—including thermonuclear weapons. |
July 8—Today was the first of a two-day international conference held by the Schiller Institute, titled “On the Verge of a New World War: European Nations Must Cooperate with the Global South!” Today’s proceedings, organized in three panels, and an evening concert, featured 22 speakers, from 14 different countries. The dialogue took place before more than 200 attendees. Another two panels are set for tomorrow. |
July 9—Weather forecasts can be fairly predictable, except when they’re not. It’s those fascinating intervals when great forces gather, seemingly out of nowhere, that epochal changes may occur. |
As the Schiller Institute was meeting in France for an in-depth dialogue on how to build a new global peace based on development, Biden unleashed cluster bombs on Ukraine. |
Join Diane Sare, Harley Schlanger, Gerry Rose, and other guests TODAY at 2pm EDT, 11am PT |
July 6—This week has seen a breakthrough in the censorship regime just as flickers of sanity have emerged in the form of reporting on US-Russia back-channel negotiations for peace and a decline in hysterical claims that Russia is about to destroy the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Take advantage of the improved opportunity to organize for a new security and development paradigm! |
July 5—It turns out that climate change is real—though perhaps not the one embraced by the financial elite. |
The new self-assertiveness of leaders from the Global South against Green, anti-growth policies has been on display recently in multiple venues. The "Western" oligarchs are not amused. |
July 6--U.S. District Court Judge Terry Doughty, from the Western District of Louisiana, issued an injunction preventing government agencies and officials from communicating with social media companies "for the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech posted on social-media platforms." The injunction was granted based on the plaintiffs' claims that they would have "a substantial threat of irreparable injury" during the litigation itself. |
Don't let our democracy become diseased |
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). |
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. |
As Zelensky threatens a nuclear False Flag at Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, Putin-Xi-Modi commit to deeper security/economic coordination. |
July 3—As the United States (or at least some in the United States) celebrate Independence Day, it is worth reflecting on what is meant by “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” |
Former member of Congress and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has been campaigning against the threat of nuclear world war. |
July 2—The Anglo-Americans are preparing for their NATO Summit next week, with the intention to save the disintegrating war against Russia in Ukraine while expanding the “North Atlantic” treaty into Asia. With the world buzzing with reports on the failure of Ukraine’s much-heralded “counter-offensive,” an open discussion of a nuclear conflict between the U.S. and Russia is replacing the happy-talk about Ukraine “winning” the un-winnable war. |
