News of PopIndonesia RSSTue, 22 Oct 2024 14:28:13 GMTOct. 12—“Die alten, bösen Lieder, Die Träume bös’ und arg, Die lasst uns jetzt begraben, Holt einen grossen Sarg.” (“The old, evil songs, the spiteful and mean Dreams, let’s bury them now; fetch a big coffin.”—Heinrich Heine’s words, and their musical setting by Robert Schumann, come to mind, seeing the too-familiar dance between Macron and Zelenskyy, Zelenskyy and Washington, Zelenskyy and various nations in South and East Europe, etc., pretending that they do not know that the Ukraine war is all but lost. They mouth that they are in full support of “victory for Ukraine” in its unwinnable war against Russia, with the full realization that they are lying, and will soon be discovered—but continue, nonetheless.About them, and their predecessors in history, the Old Testament prophet Hosea put it well: “For they have sown the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind.” As for the descendants of dictators, and those with a despotic mind-set, as Plato depicted the Greek Thrasymachus in his dialogue The Republic, the “strong men” of perpetual wars and conflicts, they never think twice, and never apologize. It is futile to ask them what their objectives are. Netanyahu’s objective, for example, is to do exactly what he is doing. There is no need to ask, “What is Israel trying to accomplish?” Those who sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.Neros who believe that “tyranny means never having to say you’re sorry,” are, sooner or later, ultimately broken by natural law, which suddenly appears in some guise—for example, expressed in the form of an unexpected, uncontrollable hurricane, of varying form or function. It can be the hurricane of the unpayable $2 quadrillion-plus trans-Atlantic debt. It can be the hurricane of a new pandemic. It can be an actual hurricane, or two, or more.Biden, for example, it is said, suddenly could not go to Germany’s Ramstein military base on Oct. 12, where many thought that he would announce that it was now okay for Ukraine to use American we... Read more

]]>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 14:28:13 GMTOct. 5—“Where Is Israel Heading, When the Only Horizon Its Leaders Offer Is War?” asked the editorial in Israeli daily Haaretz. The same could be said of the leaders of every nation of today’s entire trans-Atlantic world, with a few notable exceptions. Indonesia’s President-Elect Prabowo Subianto recently pointed out that “We are witnessing heightened tensions, with global defense and strategy experts suggesting that we are on the brink of World War III…. History has shown that when powers seek to impose their will, wars erupt unexpectedly, as seen in World War I and II…. Thankfully, Indonesia has a strong tradition of non-alignment, and we will continue to uphold that position.”A correct outlook, no doubt, and importantly espoused by the leader of the fourth-largest nation in the world. Yet, “here’s the rub.” Once thermonuclear war begins—and it begins with the first nuclear bomb deployed—it won’t matter whether you are aligned or non-aligned, whether you are “left wing” or “right wing,” or, indeed, whether you are “poor” or “rich.” The only way to survive a thermonuclear war, is to prevent it.Helga Zepp-LaRouche began Friday’s 70th meeting of the International Peace Coalition by saying, “I think everybody on this call probably shares the feeling that the events are cascading more quickly towards a potential nuclear war than our efforts so far have been able to slow them down or even reverse them. If people have a more optimistic view, please go ahead and tell me.” No one could, in fact, offer a more optimistic view. That is not because there is nothing that can be done, but because what is required, has yet to be done by us".It is necessary to face the truth: To get out of this situation requires that we change the axioms that constrain our behavior. This is not an introspective process, though introspection may be required. It is a deeply social, “interventionist” process, disruptive to the comfort zones and “safe spaces” of everyday life.Why, for example, d... Read more

]]>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 10:25:52 GMTSept. 25—Declarations and speeches of an unusual importance were made on Tuesday, Sept. 24, at the opening of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly Debate. (That did not include the embarrassment of President Biden’s troubled remarks.) While the threat of thermonuclear war palpably loomed over the UN proceedings, addressing that threat in its true form required a strategic upending of the “masters of war,” to seize the moral high-ground before the “collective Zelenskyy/collective Biden” show could gain traction.On the first day on which heads of state and government addressed the UN, the “NATO narrative” was upset and outflanked. In the case of the remarks delivered by Presidents Lula of Brazil, Erdoğan of Türkiye, and Ramaphosa of South Africa, and King Abdullah II of Jordan, NATO’s “Israel” population war against the people of Palestine was clearly identified as the actual, central theater of injustice on which the world’s attention must be concentrated, and that must be immediately addressed and resolved—not the NATO/Ukraine “moral crusade against Russia.”Integrity was shown in this moment by the several of the national leaders. Türkiye, a NATO member, knew that it was criticizing NATO’s support for the mass-murder in Gaza, when Erdoğan said, “And those who unconditionally support Israel! For how long will you continue to bear the shame of looking on this massacre, of being its accomplices?” This demonstrated that a line can be drawn, showing the clear difference between the moral as well as strategic priorities of the Global Majority, and those of NATO-world.The “moral crusade of Ukraine” is, of course, the desired NATO “public relations” focus. The intent is to use Zelenskyy’s “Victory Plan” speech as the trigger for the United States in “finally deciding” to authorize the deployment of long-range missiles to Ukraine, which will be used to attack deep into Russia. That is the very thing that was said to be off-limits by the Biden Adm... Read more

]]>Sat, 28 Sep 2024 16:09:07 GMTSept. 18—“Captain Ahab! It’s the white whale! Moby Dick! He’s headed straight for us!”“Wrong, Mr. Starbuck!! I’m headed straight for him—and so are you, sir!!”Neither first mate Starbuck, nor the ship of fools that had signed on to sail on what would be their final voyage with Captain Ahab, realized that another name for Moby Dick was Hell, and another name for Ahab was Satan—the Prince of Fools, as well as of Darkness. Today, the deluded Starbuck’s spiritual descendants, many of them smugly sipping five-dollar custom-made beverages at the churches that today bear his name, are unaware that they are, at this moment, hurtling toward thermonuclear Hell, as supporters of a fictitious, “collective Biden” Presidency that Captain Ahab wanna-be Dick Cheney, “the president of vice,” now enthusiastically supports.Is there a sane voice of Reason, anywhere?Former Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has penned an op-ed, together with Donald Trump, Jr.—“Negotiate with Moscow To End the Ukraine War and Prevent Nuclear Devastation.” It begins, “The New York Times reported Thursday that the Biden administration is considering allowing Ukraine to use NATO-provided long-range precision weapons against targets deep inside Russia. Such a decision would put the world at greater risk of nuclear conflagration than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis.” The op-ed usefully points out that “It is past time to de-escalate this conflict. This is more important than any of the political issues our nation argues about. Nuclear war would mean the end of civilization as we know it, maybe even the end of the human species.”A ray of sanity? Yes, but not yet a change of policy. Also, on cue, a Mephistopheles-like creature from the black lagoon of perfidious Albion has emerged, named Lord Ashcroft, to admonish the American colonials. Ashcroft, lifetime peer of the House of Lords, member of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. Georg... Read more

]]>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:52:50 GMTSept. 11—What has caused an obscure French-based publication, Intelligence Online, to suddenly not only attack the Schiller Institute, but also to call for the U.S. Department of Justice to “shut Schiller up,” and down?  Was it something Schiller said? Not exactly, but close.The Schiller Institute’s Sept. 3 publication of Ambassador Jack Matlock’s truthful assessment of the absurdity of current United States foreign and (self-defeating) military policy toward Russia, China and Southwest Asia—which, as of March of this year, includes a commitment to a three-front nuclear war against Russia, China and North Korea—is now being picked up by other news outlets. This has caused a small earthquake among the once-competent “elites” of the trans-Atlantic, who, unlike the “children of Madeleine Albright”—Antony Blinken, Victoria Nuland, Samantha Power et al.,—know that what Jack Matlock has said, is true. Matlock was President Ronald Reagan’s Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991, and a true witness to, participant in and shaper of our current history, a different breed than today’s “junior varsity” at the State Department.“It seems to me that it is extremely dangerous to attempt what is, in effect, an undeclared war against a nuclear armed power, which perceives, rightly or wrongly, that its sovereignty and even its political existence are being threatened,” Sputnik reported Matlock saying from his Sept. 3 interview with EIR's Michael Billington. Matlock remarked days later, at the Sept. 6 meeting of the International Peace Coalition, that “I think what we need to understand is that the expansion of NATO, and particularly the bases—and in this case, it was the bases that were planned in Poland and Romania for anti-ballistic missiles. It turned out that, although these were defensive weapons, they could easily be converted to offensive weapons. So, it was understandable that the Russian leader (Putin) would be quite opposed. And yet, we went ahead, and after progre... Read more

]]>Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:23:30 GMTSept. 6—Today's meeting of the International Peace Coalition will expose to the people of the world, through the words and interventions of the participating international experts and former members of the American military and intelligence establishment, that it is the United States and Great Britain, not Russia, China, or anyone else, who would both provoke and initiate thermonuclear war. In the words of Col. Larry Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell and IPC meeting participant: “The most likely state owning nuclear weapons today, to use those nuclear weapons, again, is the United States. And we have put ourselves in that position, and in that posture, by our incompetence at the other skill-sets, most prominently diplomacy, necessary for the relations of nations.”Therefore, it is incumbent upon all thinking citizens to come to terms with the fact, that the primary concern, above all other concerns—even the most pressing economic concerns—is to find a way to prevent NATO, and the “secret government” now running the United States Presidency and the Congress, from going through with their mad war scheme, as seen in the ongoing military incursion into Russia.The deaths of perhaps as many as 600 people, including several, possibly scores of NATO personnel Sept. 3 at the Poltava Institute of Military Communications in Ukraine has grimly lifted the veil on the truth of who is actually fighting, and dying, in the “Ukraine” war. Two Kinzhal hypersonic missiles—Kinzhal is Russian for “dagger” —found their target. Among those killed were an undisclosed number of Swedish military advisors, specialists and trainers said to be nearly irreplaceable. Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom resigned almost immediately following the news.Who are the strategic geniuses that have placed the world on the brink of self-destruction, as though “world conflict” were a video-game?Whoever they are, know this: Thermonuclear war will come ... Read more

]]>Sun, 08 Sep 2024 02:37:44 GMTSept. 2—Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern began his presentation for the Sept. 31 meeting of the International Peace Coalition thus: “It’s nice to be on with some people that have some semblance of sanity these days…. Elections still mean something. They still have a very determining effect on the behavior of world leaders. I’m thinking not only of the U.S. election in November, but of the elections coming in Germany … I’m told, reliably, that there a lot of Germans that don’t like Scholz’s policy with respect to Ukraine—the provision of arms, and the knee-jerk support for this new initiative, the initiative proposed by the U.S.” —actually, decreed by the U.S.—to install medium- and long-range missiles in Germany that can strike into Russia.Indeed, as McGovern proposed, two days later, in the Sunday local elections in two states in Germany, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party was projected to win 33.1% of the vote in Thuringia, placing first, beating the Christian Democrats (CDU). Next door, in Saxony, the AfD was a very close second to the CDU. Sahra Wagenknecht’s Alliance (BSW) placed third. The parties that rule nationally in Germany’s “streetlight coalition”—the Social Democrats (red), the Free Democrats (yellow), and the Greens—were trounced in the local elections. This was a clear referendum against the German government’s policies, and specifically NATO’s policies around the Ukraine war.The International Peace Coalition meetings are, as of this moment, the only place where citizens from all nations are able to speak with and hear from those who will tell them the truth. On the basis of that, if they comprehend the message, they can then organize and intervene, to reverse our war-direction, in ways that no others are able. This IPC formation, brought into being by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, now an institutionalized weekly conference, needs to erupt into a system of such conferences. It needs to be grown by all its participants, preferably to double, week by week. ... Read more

]]>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 19:30:46 GMTAug. 31—More evidence emerges, almost by the hour, of NATO’s no-longer-secret, on-the-ground involvement in the invasion of Russia. Meanwhile, Chinese President Xi Jinping just tried to deliver an important message, in person, to the brain-dead Jake Sullivan—but it seemed not to take. And in Israel, opposition leader Yair Lapid has just made it abundantly clear that “During the months leading up to the (Oct. 7) disaster, the Prime Minister [Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu] and cabinet ministers received a series of serious, unprecedented warnings. From the middle of 2023, there were more and more voices within the terrorist organizations that said that the moment they had been waiting for had arrived.” Was the October 7 Hamas attack allowed to occur, so that the mass murder we now see could commence?Even if we manage to survive the next few months without the geniuses of NATO provoking a world-ending thermonuclear war with either Russia or China, or both, or without Netanyahu lobbing one or several nuclear warheads one morning at Iran—or perhaps at Budapest, or at Rome—what are we actually going to do, to end the impulse toward war of a dying Anglo-imperial system? Humanity cannot be safe, unless a higher idea of humanity prevails, and in the short term. Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, prime organizer of the 1439 Council of Florence, arguably the most successful diplomat in history, is invoked by Helga Zepp-LaRouche in Principle Eight of her Ten Principles for a New International Strategic and Development Architecture, which reads: “In  former times, one civilization at one corner of the world could go under, and the rest of the world would only find out years later, due to the length of distances and the time needed for travel. Now, for the first time, because of nuclear weapons, pandemics, the Internet, and other global effects, mankind is sitting in one boat. Therefore, a solution to the existential threat to humanity cannot be found with the help of sec... Read more

]]>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 11:16:12 GMTAug. 24—There was something that should not escape notice, said Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention, and pointed out by Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche at the conclusion of her Friday address to the International Peace Coalition. Behind that convention statement lies an intent that could bring about the end of civilization itself, and as soon as within the next weeks, or months. Vice-President Kamala Harris, in her Thursday evening speech, August 22, said: “As Commander-In-Chief, I will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world.”The messenger need not—as Kamala Harris does not—grasp the meaning of the message, in order to deliver it. In this case, the message is not the words, but what those words imply. The message, spoken through the puppet now occupying the Vice-Presidency of the United States, and who aspires to be Puppet-In-Chief, is actually coming from the once-hegemonic, now hopelessly bankrupt, set of trans-Atlantic financial institutions, and the “failed states” they have enslaved, that owe an unpayable $2 quadrillion in debt. In the guise of NATO, they met, only a month ago in Washington, D.C., to consolidate a drive for a near-term escalation to a three-front total war. In other times, one might dismiss Harris’ words as second-rate rhetorical flourish. Not now. It is a declaration of intent, not for the future, but for this moment. Total War Now! is the actual meaning of puppet Harris’ message.This is a time like no other—a time in which “Global NATO” has actually invaded Russia. Harris’ words, though mindlessly uttered by her, carry the full weight of the office of the Presidency of the United States—a Presidency which, in fact, has the capacity to launch a thermonuclear first strike from a nation whose military policy has not sworn off the first use of thermonuclear weapons, is the only nation on the planet to have actually used nuclear weapons, and has now, together ... Read more

]]>Sat, 24 Aug 2024 11:29:11 GMTAug. 20—The wheels are coming off the wagon of deception that is Global NATO’s failing “World War Three for Democracy” roadshow. With the Ukraine adventure having failed, in its intention to provoke the disintegration of Russia; with the failure of the very real and very purposeful assassination of Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump; with the now-unfolding failure of the Chicago “Democratic” Convention, which is selecting a candidate, Kamala Harris, who not only did not win a single delegate in 2024, but also did not win a single delegate in her 2020 Presidential race either; with the new multiple cover-stories, each more embarrassing than the next, appearing in various publications in Europe and the U.S. regarding the revisited Nord Stream 2 terrorist action all contradicting one other, but all clearly implicating “Ukraine” and “Zaluzhnyi/Zelenskyy”—wouldn’t you think that the “Grand Design” geniuses at the helm of this cluster-flop would wise up, and change direction?The warning that “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad,” is, unfortunately, not only true; it is also never heeded by those to whom it most aptly applies. The mini-intellects of the 21st century’s NATO-based trans-Atlantic oligarchy are victims of the “Scarface Syndrome”—“Never start consuming your own product.” When you think you are steering the Titanic, you don’t even register the need to change direction, until it’s too late, at best. What must be done, as Global NATO racks up failure after failure, is to assemble all good people within “the belly of the beast” of the trans-Atlantic failed states, to take back their governments. An Intercontinental Council of Reason, whether formal or improvised, must come into existence, that becomes, and provides, what the late U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark once called “a fertile engine of ideas”—a term he used to describe those various organizational ventures associated with Lyndon LaRouche.The hopeful signs registered in ... Read more

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