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Just as U.S. President Trump had suspended attacks on Iran on July 24, after 13 days of strikes, a major provocation was launched by President Zelenskyy and his western backers the next day, aimed at merging the conflicts in Southwest Asia and in Ukraine into one major world war. Ukrainian drones hit vessels in the Caspian Sea headed to Iran, […]

After 13 nights of strikes on Iran, President Trump said on July 24 he would “pause” attacks to allow more space for diplomacy, although the Iranian leadership has stated that no talks are underway. Many suspect, including the New York Times, that the U.S. “lull” is due more to the lack of U.S. military hardware and precision munitions and to […]

Celso Amorim, Special Advisor to Brazilian President Lula da Silva, has played a key role in the BRICS, of which Brazil is a founding member, and in Brazil’s relations to China and to other countries of the Global South for decades now. In an interview with EIR’s Dennis Small on July 24, he emphasized that peace and development are indivisible, […]

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva delivered a sharp warning to the Trump administration in an opinion column published in the Washington Post of July 26. U.S. tariffs, he charged, are an openly-declared act of interference in Brazil’s elections, and if that policy does not change, Brazil will look elsewhere for trade, investment and friendly relations. The interference is […]

Contrary to public perception that the Federal Reserve continues to reduce its holdings of securities on its balance sheet, the Fed is in fact in full bailout mode, with a balance sheet back up to $6.7 trillion. While still selling off much smaller amounts of mortgage-backed securities, it is buying up – bailing out—far larger amounts of short-term Treasury Bills […]

On July 22, the European Union declared “dual use” sanctions against 14 entities in China over alleged links to Russia, to which China responded the following day, with sanctions against 14 entities in the EU, including defense sector heavyweights such as Germany’s Rheinmetall, France’s Cavok UAS and Italy’s Lafert. Under the export control law of June 2025, the Chinese government […]

After a short hangover from AI and tokenized assets, the Chinese leadership is focusing fully on the development of the real economy. The adjustment occurred after a broad debate that involved several government and advisory bodies, as well as President Xi Jinping personally. This shift is documented in a July 14 analysis in China Policy Leads, a private China-focused research […]

Finally, on October 27, elections are scheduled to be held in Israel, and recent polls show that the electoral coalition of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still running behind his opposition. Netanyahu has retained power for years with a slim lead in the Knesset obtained by his unholy alliance in December 2022 with the aggressively racist pro-war parties of […]

The roundtable dialogue, sponsored by EIR together with the International Peace Coalition, will begin at 17.00 CEST, on July 31. Two panels are planned: “Pope Leo and the Dialogue of Civilizations” from 17.00 to 19.00, and “Development Drive Means Billions of New Jobs, No Refugees, No War”, from 19.30 to 21.30. The event will be streamed live in English on […]

“On July 14 at Baikonur, the heads of the American and Russian space agencies stood side by side — the first such meeting on that soil in nearly eight years — and launched a crew, two Russians and an American, toward the one outpost where their nations have never stopped cooperating. That same morning in the Strait of Hormuz, a […]