The United States Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz stood before the UN Security Council on March 2 and described Iran’s retaliatory strikes as “unprovoked”. The United States and Israel had been bombing a sovereign nation for three consecutive days, killing its leader along with dozens of senior officials, and when that nation fired back, its response is called […]
Read moreThe EIR Roundtable held on March 2 covered many aspects of the fast-evolving strategic crisis, but with a focus on the way to overcome it. Many experts from around the world presented their viewpoints and proposals in lively dialogue. A report on the speech by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who convened the event, is given below as well as excerpts from the […]
Read more“We are meeting here at what very likely is the gravest moment in world history so far. It is more likely than not that World War III has already begun.” With that solemn warning, Schiller Institute Chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche opened the March 2 conference convened by EIR. The unprovoked attack by the United States on the Republic of Iran, she […]
Read moreOur newsletter has repeatedly warned that stablecoins, by luring depositors away from banks, would destroy bank credit. Now, the alarm has been sounded by central banks. A new study by the Federal Reserve of New York documents that stablecoins “erode banks’ deposit franchises” and “impact bank lending”. Not only that, they “also transmit liquidity stress to the banking system”. The […]
Read moreThe main result of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s visit to China on Feb. 24-26 is the commitment to take the strategic industrial partnership with the Chinese to a new level, and this resonates very much with the outlook of German industry. In particular in the automobile sector, which is in severe difficulty in Germany, including the struggle to maintain the […]
Read moreIndependent presidential candidate and long-time LaRouche associate Diane Sare delivered her own State of the Union Address via livestream video on Feb. 23, preceding by 25 hours that given by President Donald Trump, and the difference between the two could hardly be greater. Diane Sare began by saying that she has “low to no confidence that the current occupant of […]
Read moreArtificial Intelligence is much more integrated into defense policies of the major powers than one might think, despite its obvious shortcomings. The danger of relying on such technologies in the real world was just recently underscored in a series of “war scenarios” run by Professor Kenneth Payne of King’s College, London. The study placed three leading AI models – GPT-5.2, […]
Read moreAnother record in grain production was broken in China in 2025, with nearly 15 million tons more produced than the record over 700 million tons it had reached in 2024. Thus, the country’s per-capita grain availability rose to over 500 kilograms per year, despite “complex global geopolitics and mounting economic pressures” worldwide, as the Global Times editorial put it on […]
Read moreZhang Weiwei, Professor of International Relations, and Director of China Institute, Fudan University, Shanghai, spoke after Helga Zepp-LaRouche at the March 2 EIR Roundtable. Excerpts of his address follow. “Today, really, the world is in crisis, in chaos. There is a lot of deeply intertwined turmoil and many crises: the war against Iran, launched by the United States and Israel; […]
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