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The Schiller Institute has called for an urgent international mobilization to stop the war against Iran and its potential escalation even to the use of nuclear weapons. In an open letter to Pope Leo XIV on March 9, Schiller Institute chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche urges the Holy Father, in the spirit of the great Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, to help bring […]

At the March 13 weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition, which was co-founded by the Schiller Institute, Helga Zepp-LaRouche suggested this may be the right time to revive the proposal for a “dialogue among civilizations” first made by former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami to counter the widespread theory of a “clash of civilizations”. In 1998, on his suggestion, the […]

A preliminary court ruling handed down on Feb. 26, may turn out to be an important factor in the profound shifts now underway in Germany’s political landscape. On that day, the Cologne Administrative Court ruled that the right-wing Alternative for Germany party (AfD) may no longer be classified as “confirmed right-wing extremist”. The injunction had been requested by the AfD […]

This was a most opportune time, as it turned out, to hold the 2026 Nuclear Energy Summit, hosted by the French government in cooperation with the International Agency of Atomic Energy (IAEA). It was on the backdrop of soaring energy insecurity and geopolitical tensions that many world leaders, government ministers and heads of industry and international financial institutions met in […]

EIR News is continually expanding its podcasts with experts around the world on crucial strategic issues. In the past two weeks, three highly informative interviews have been posted. Ted Postol on the Fraud of U.S. Missile Defense Outlined. Dr. Theodore Postol is professor emeritus of Science, Technology, and National Security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and one of the world’s […]

On March 12, Brazilian President Lula da Silva called a press conference to announce measures “to prevent the Brazilian population from bearing the cost of a war that is not ours”. To deal with the oil price shock resulting from the war against Iran, the government is eliminating federal taxes on diesel, providing subsidies to producers and importers where needed […]

Nearly two weeks into the U.S.-Israel relentless bombing of Iran, and contrary to the expectations of many in Washington, there are no signs that Tehran is on the edge of defeat. And nothing indicates that the Trump administration actually has a plan of how to proceed. Perhaps that’s because the war was not launched on the basis of realities on […]

A letter signed by 30 U.S. Congressmen was delivered to the Pentagon Inspector General Platte B. Moring III, requesting that he investigate an effort to use Millenarium cult-like teachings of the “Return of Jesus” to inspire soldiers deployed to fight against Iran. The letter refers to reports “of disturbing discourse within the military that the current war in Iran is […]

The financial system is so unbalanced, that if the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran continues, and oil and gas prices keep spiking at the current rate, it will trigger a financial collapse, followed by a global trade breakdown and a global recession. Well before high energy prices have impacted production, they will create havoc on the derivative markets, unleashing margin calls, […]

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, wrote an open letter on March 9 to Pope Leo XIV, calling on him to intervene “in this grave hour of mankind”. The world has now entered a phase in which “international law has been declared nonexistent; the so-called ‘rules-based order’ declared as always having been a charade; and the principle of ‘might […]