Category: ENGLISH

To put into perspective the tremendous drama and upheavals the world is witnessing today, it is useful to turn to poets and playwrights. Thus, we quote from the EIR Daily News of April 12: “In Aeschylus’ Oresteia, the oldest surviving trilogy of Western drama, the cycle of blood-vengeance that has consumed the House of Atreus is finally broken, not by […]

While over the last few months and years, the American population has been inundated with reports of new wars and conflicts, from genocide in Gaza to the threat to destroy civilization in Iran, the successful splashdown of the four Artemis II astronauts, who had, for the first time since 1972, come face-to-face with the lunar surface, has given the people […]

Pope Leo XIV convened a worldwide prayer vigil for peace on April 11 at St. Peter’s Basilica. He addressed the gathering with a direct rebuke of the war: “Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war! True strength is shown in serving life.” He warned that “even the holy Name of God, […]

Perhaps President Donald Trump truly believed his loyal base would stick with him if he went to war in alliance with Israel against Iran, yet failed to realize his stated objectives; or when he insulted the Pope in reaction to Leo XIV’s appeals for peace, and killed Iran’s Muslim religious leaders while mocking their religion and threatening to destroy their […]

The LaRouche movement in the United States is in the midst of a campaign, led by candidates Diane Sare for President and Jose Vega for Congress from The Bronx (New York City), to unify the growing number of independent candidates for federal office in the U.S. around a platform of returning the country to its founding principles of ending imperialism […]

At the April 6 EIR Emergency Roundtable (“Is There Still Time To Prevent the War Against Iran from Escalating into a Global Nuclear Conflict?”), an initiative was proposed by Chandra Muzaffar, the well-known founder and president of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST) based in Malaysia. He suggested that the level of danger today is so great, that […]

Faced with a drastic rise in the oil price over the 100 dollar mark, and in diesel fuel to above 200 dollars, a popular revolt is growing in Europe, in particular among motorists, industrialists and farmers, demanding action from their governments. Italy was among the first countries to reduce taxes on fuels to prevent drastic price rises at petrol stations. […]

Opposition leader Peter Magyar won the April 12 national elections in Hungary with an unexpectedly large margin over Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The opposition led by Magyar swept the Parliament, winning two-thirds of the seats (138 out of 199), enough to govern alone and even to make Constitutional changes. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen did not hide her […]

It was a highly symbolical, but also controversial, six-day visit to mainland China that the Chairwoman of the Taiwanese Kuomintang (KMT) party concluded on April 12. The high point came on day 4, when Cheng Li-wun met President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, marking the first meeting between the leaders of the Chinese Communist […]

As the U.S.-Israeli war of aggression against Iran is well into its fourth week, and after the U.S. extended to April 6 its deadline on attacking Iran’s energy facilities, President Trump continues to claim that negotiations with the “new” Iranian leadership are “going well”. That claim has been repeatedly denied by Tehran, and even contradicted by Trump’s own chief diplomat, […]