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Artificial 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, […]

Another 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 […]

Zhang 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; […]

Will the United States launch an attack on Iran in the next days? Will it be with limited or massive strikes? These are the questions strategists are asking themselves. As usual with U.S. President Trump, there is no predictable answer. If the attack does take place, all indications are that it will have incalculable consequences (cf. below). While the conflict […]

As it stands as of this writing, U.S.-Iran negotiations are to be resumed again on Feb. 26 in Geneva, with the participation of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, after Tehran has produced a written compromise proposal. President Trump has said his decision on whether or not to attack Iran “massively” will depend on the outcome of those talks. Meanwhile, the […]

The widespread use of tariffs by U.S. President Trump was overturned by a ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court, announced on Feb. 20. The tariffs had been imposed on imported goods to address what Trump called unfair trade practices, which he argued were the principle cause of the country’s trade deficit. He also used them to bring countries in line […]

During Friedrich Merz’s visit to China Feb. 24-26, he is accompanied by a delegation of some 30 leading CEOs of German industry. This alone indicates the importance of German companies’ interest in China, which was marked by a 55% increase in direct new investments during 2025, reaching a total of seven billion euros. And that, in turns, shows that the […]

The German government and mainstream media are trying to keep the lid on a scandal that threatens to reveal a deep control by Epstein-connected MI6 networks over German government policy. The scandal involves Philippa Sigl-Glöckner (PSG), a former official of the Finance Ministry and current head of the SPD Council of Economic Policy, who turns up in a June 23, […]

Donald Trump opened the first meeting of the Board of Peace for Gaza (BOP) on Feb. 19, in Washington, with one hour of largely extemporaneous comments, which was followed by short prepared remarks from representatives of some of the 27 countries that have joined. As usual, the U.S. President praised himself effusively for his success in “ending wars” and in setting […]

“Brazil and India are not just two major democracies of the Global South. We are the meeting point of the pharmacy of the world with the breadbasket of the world…. Two megadiverse countries, with cultural strength and commitment to multilateralism and peace”, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wrote after his Feb. 21 state visit to India at the invitation […]