Popular News RSSSun, 25 May 2025 22:24:38 GMTMay 25—The following is a report on yesterday's Panel 2 of the Schiller Institute’s Conference, titled “The Beauty of the Diversity of Cultures.”Jen Pearl, of the Schiller Institute, a singer and choral conductor, moderated the panel, opening with a video of the late statesman Lyndon LaRouche from 1995 on the motet “Jesu, Meine Freude” by J.S. Bach. LaRouche described his attendance at a rehearsal and later at a performance of the famous Thomanerchor (St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig), which has a history of more than 800 years, in which these students, ranging from 8 to 18, were trained in the performance of this very difficult motet of Bach, and then performed it to perfection.Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Schiller Institute chairwoman then discussed why we need a new International Renaissance, beginning with the founding of the Schiller Institute in 1984, a moment of great danger (with a missile crisis between the NATO and the U.S.S.R.) in order to build a movement on the art of statecraft with a vision of making the state beautiful, requiring a new economic order and a new Renaissance for humanity as a whole. Today, this is happening in Asia, but the West is degenerating, with drugs, perversity, and a cult of ugliness. She raised Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s view that Western culture was rejecting the values of our ancestors, adopting a “post-Christian” culture of “anything goes,” and then trying to impose such a perverted culture on the rest of the world. That was the culture in which the unipolar world, the 20th century philosopher Francis Fukayama’s “End of History” and LGBTQ proliferated, and the “autocracy vs. democracy” fraud degrading all to the lowest denominator.The question of how to uplift people in this condition is our task, as with the great minds of history, typified by Confucius and Friedrich Schiller, who argued that an aesthetical education was the bedrock of this necessary human process, uplifting the mind to the level of reason, making the sens... Read more

]]>Sun, 25 May 2025 22:24:38 GMTMarch 3—Let us first recall, for all those that have, in the last two days, either been deluged with commentaries and “takes” on the eruption that occurred in the White House Vance-Zelenskyy-Trump exchange of Feb. 28, or have, for some reason, not yet viewed it, and evaluated it for themselves, the single most important matter that was discussed there. This matter is so far widely, almost hysterically under-reported, and under-emphasized. It far outweighs anything that was raised, or could have been raised, in the exchange. It was enunciated, several times, by President Donald Trump: “You’re gambling with World War Three!”In this 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, and after the explosive events of last week, and, most emphatically, last Friday, at the White House, the practice and standard of American diplomacy pioneered by Secretary of State, later President, and, still later, Congressman and fierce anti-slavery advocate, John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) is the proper standard to which our nation must now return. That standard is incommensurate with that of most recent American Presidential Administrations, particularly after Franklin Roosevelt’s death in April of 1945. President Eisenhower, in the Suez Crisis of 1956; President John F. Kennedy, in the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis actions, and in his American University speech, June 10, 1963; President Ronald Reagan’s March 23, 1983 announcement of the Strategic Defense Initiative, are examples of that John Quincy Adams standard. Note that in all three cases, the actions taken by those Presidents were in response to war, or the looming danger of war. In a thermonuclear age, war, particularly war involving nuclear powers, must be made obsolete.Both Vice-President Vance and President Trump gently alluded to the small matter—a matter also never honestly reported—that Ukraine has been decisively defeated on the battlefield, and has no military capability to win the war—as it n... Read more

]]>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:46:47 GMTMay 25—Yesterday's opening session of the Schiller Institute conference, titled “A Beautiful Vision for Humanity in Times of Great Turbulence!” began with a performance by pianist Dura Jun of the Prelude and Fugue in C# Major by J.S. Bach, followed by archival video, from July 3, 1982, of the late physical economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche speaking on the meaning of the nature, quality and origin of the  American Revolution. He characterized it as a crucial battle, waged by the partisans of the Renaissance, against the forces of oligarchical anti-Renaissance reaction. It was a “trans-Atlantic conspiracy” to establish a republic on American shores; “We whipped the British,” he said, with the help of this conspiracy.Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, declared her intention to present “an optimistic view of the nature of the human species,” based on the anti-entropic nature of human creativity, despite the dire situation in the world today. She warned that the genocide in Gaza has put “a horrible stain on all of humanity,” and that the war in Ukraine poses a threat of the nuclear extinction of humanity. She asked of her native Germany and the rest of Europe: “Why are they ruining themselves?” The case of Romania shows that Vice President J.D. Vance was correct in his assessment of the “degeneration of democracy in Europe,” where elections are repeated as often as necessary in order to obtain the desired result. “Europe will soon be shown as a fossil of civilizations that did not make it, in museums around the world,” she said.Charging that the historic opportunity at the end of the Cold War was “sabotaged by the geopolitical maneuvers of the neocons of the Anglosphere,” she reviewed the historical documentation of the promises made by NATO leaders that there would be no Eastward expansion. She then described how many of the crucial historical documents have largely disappeared from the internet, and in a similar way, historical re... Read more

]]>Sun, 25 May 2025 22:21:57 GMTMay 25—President Donald Trump has refused calls from the European Union and its leading countries to drop new, harsher sanctions on Vladimir Putin’s Russia in an effort to force an “unconditional” ceasefire in NATO’s war against Russia in Ukraine. Instead, Trump views Europe and NATO as primary obstacles to ending the war, accusing them of enabling what he has privately called “deranged behavior” by NATO-backed Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelenskyy.Trump has stated that Zelenskyy refuses to acknowledge the reality that he has lost the war, lost over a million citizens, destroyed his country, and lost part of it to Russia—due to a conflict that, with NATO’s backing, he provoked by attacking Russian-speaking populations in Ukraine and stripping them of their rights. According to Trump, the war “never should have started.”Tariffs Against EU On May 23, Trump announced that he may instead sanction the Europeans—not over Ukraine, but over their failure to negotiate an end to trade barriers against American goods and services. Declaring that he is “not looking for a deal with the EU,” Trump threatened to impose a 50% tariff, more than double the 20% “reciprocal” tariff introduced in April.“Their powerful trade barriers, VAT taxes, ridiculous corporate penalties, non-monetary trade barriers, monetary manipulations, unfair and unjustified lawsuits against American companies, and more, have led to a trade deficit with the U.S. of more than $250,000,000 a year, a number which is totally unacceptable,” he wrote in a May 23 Truth Social post.“Our discussions with them are going nowhere!” Trump added. “Therefore, I am recommending a straight 50% tariff on the European Union, starting on June 1, 2025.”Later that day, speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, he reinforced his position: “I’m not looking for a deal. We’ve set the deal—it’s at 50%.”While Trump extended an olive branch, it was not to European leaders backing Zelenskyy’s continued fight against Russia, but to ind... Read more

]]>Sun, 25 May 2025 22:19:39 GMTMay 25—Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel warned this week that the United States risks triggering a "meltdown" of the financial system if it does not back off its tariff and other disruptive economic policies. Speaking at a press conference following the G7 Finance Ministers meeting in Canada on May 23, Nagel stated that the world came close to such a crisis in April, when President Donald Trump’s tariff announcement sent shockwaves through U.S. bond and stock markets, sparking panic across global financial markets.Nagel’s use of the term "meltdown" startled financial analysts in Wall Street and the City of London, where bankers—especially central bankers-- typically avoid language that could undermine confidence in the system. However, when pressed for clarification, Nagel did not retract his statement."If you look at the situation we had in the first week of April, the volatility in U.S. Treasuries, if you were to put that into some kind of normal distribution and put a few standard deviations around it, then you would actually be in areas where the probability would be very high, if you take the historical data, that something like this could happen," Nagel said. "That’s why I think you can use a term like ‘meltdown’ if this process had continued. Fortunately, that wasn’t the case."Trump’s Tariff Strategy and European TensionsDespite Nagel’s warning, the crisis he described had since receded, with new trade deals favoring the U.S. being negotiated and tariffs adjusted. However, sources suggest that Trump’s frustration with European leaders—particularly France, Germany, and the United Kingdom—over their interference in his efforts to end NATO’s war against Russia in Ukraine has led him to consider imposing new tariffs on Europe.Trump has reportedly begun circulating this threat, signaling a potential escalation in trade tensions.Financial System Vulnerabilities and Strategic RisksThe trans-Atlantic financial system has long been viewed as overdue for a collapse, ... Read more

]]>Sun, 25 May 2025 22:16:24 GMTFeb. 28—Several intelligence sources say that they believe that the security threat against President Donlad Trump is at the highest level ever, as the President takes more aggressive stances against the NATO war machine and seeks to end the wars in Southwest Asia and Ukraine.These sources say that Trump does not really face a threat against his life from Iran or similar sources, and certainly not from President Vladimir Putin’s Russia or from President Xi Jinping’s China. Instead, they say that threat comes from NATO, and its assets inside the United States military-intelligence complex, which effectively runs an international assassination bureau, the which was responsible for the “hits” on President John F. Kennedy, his brother Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and other leaders over the last more than 75 years.“Trump is now NATO’s ‘Public Enemy No. 1,’ working in collaboration with Putin to end NATO’s war against Russia using Ukrainian proxies,” said a source who had accurately forecast the assassination attempt against Trump last summer in Pennsylvania, weeks before it happened. “They failed to prevent him from becoming president and now they face him in the form of their worst nightmare. Trump sees NATO policy as a greater threat to the United States than Russia. He has even publicly said that Ukraine with NATO encouragement had started the war by deliberately provoking the Russians. And despite the attempts of the NATO ass-kissers in the press to ridicule this charge, he has refused to back down.“I know several people who regard [Vice President JD] Vance’s Feb. 14 speech at the Munich Security Conference as a declaration of war against NATO,” said the source. “The problem for NATO is that Trump can’t be backed down. Once he gets it in his mind to do something, he does it, no matter how many people with authority tell him he can’t do it. And he has it in his mind to change the whole process of post-war international relations, in which blocs like NATO played promine... Read more

]]>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 12:22:23 GMTMarch 6—The Christian season of Lent began Wednesday, March 5. No matter what one’s religion, or lack thereof, Lent’s suggestion of self-reflection, self-control and self-development, through what Gandhi called “experiments with truth,” is the best way to develop both the ideas and the passion to propose a new direction for the trans-Atlantic “golden billion,” away from the Hell waiting around the corner. A dialogue with the Global South on economic development, using that which the city-builders of Egypt have just initiated with their $53 billion project-proposal to completely rebuild Gaza in five years, allows us to respond with the more far-reaching LaRouche Oasis Plan. Dr. Mubarak Awad, a founder of Non-Violence International, has said, “I think that your idea of having an Oasis Plan is necessary not only for the Palestinians, but for the Middle East. It’s a great idea and it will work,” and he has called for an Oasis Plan conference to be organized somewhere in Southwest Asia.This is the path forward out of Hell. Already, many have forgotten that just over 40 days ago, when long-range missiles were still landing in pre-2014 Russia, the world dangled over the precipice of thermonuclear war. It is important to remember that is the real-world context, in which each of the speeches being given, in these days, by Presidents Trump, Putin and Xi Jinping, and a few other true leaders, is being delivered.What was the real context, for example of the Tuesday Trump speech in Congress? We now know that several United States Senators and Congressmen, including Senators Chris Murphy, Chuck Schumer, and other darlings of the National Endowment for Democracy, met with Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday morning before Zelenskyy went to meet with the U.S. President and the Vice-President. They encouraged him in his folly—an instigation after the final question that he, not Vance, initiated—that then played out before the world’s media. A sensitive negoti... Read more

]]>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 06:12:51 GMTFeb. 27—The Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin interviewed President Vladimir Putin at some length on Feb. 24. The following are excerpts, by machine translation from the Kremlin site: Note: The [English is now posted to the President’s website, with slightly different translation.On Ukraine: Zarubin asked if Trump was playing into Russia’s hands on the Ukraine matter, as some in the West say. Putin: "I believe that this is absolutely not the case. I have my own point of view on this matter, it is the opposite of what you have just stated…. Because in reality it doesn’t matter how many percent he [Zelenskyy] has—four or whatever. What’s important is that his rating, according to our data—they are objective—is exactly two times less than that of his possible closest political rival. This is Mr. Zaluzhny, the former commander of the Ukrainian armed forces, who was exiled to London—his rating is exactly twice as high….“Among other things, the current [U.S.] President has declared that he wants to achieve peace—and by the way, so do we—and as quickly as possible. And the current head of the regime is standing in the way of achieving this goal. That is where the position of the President of the United States comes from, as I see it.”On Trump’s Approach: Zarubin asked if Trump acts “on the basis of emotions?” Putin said: “Of course not.” Question: “Do Europeans even understand, in your opinion, the essence of the current situation around Ukraine?” Putin: "You should ask them. Judging by the way they act, it seems to me that they do not really understand. But that is not even the point. The point is that, unlike the new President of the United States, the political leaders of European countries are connected with the current regime, they are engaged….“Unlike them, the current President of the United States, the new President, the newly elected President—he has his hands free, he is free from these shackles that do not allow him to move... Read more

]]>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 12:14:45 GMTFeb. 28—When NATO’s sock-puppet dictator of the Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives in Washington today, he will meet with a determined President Donald Trump who will force him to agree to end NATO’s bloody war in Ukraine on his terms. Sources report that there could be an agreement in principle between Russia and Ukraine by the beginning of March that would end the fighting and define terms of a peace deal.These sources say that Trump will congratulate Zelenskyy for agreeing to a massive investment plan in which the U.S. will provide more than $50 billion to develop the mining of rare-earth metals and other minerals for the benefit of Ukraine and the United States, which will have access to those minerals. The profits from sales will be placed in an investment fund, administered jointly by the two countries, which will go toward rebuilding that war-ravaged nation. The two leaders will sign the first part of the agreement, while the creation of the fund must await legislative approval in both countries.But, the agreement, whose final form was reportedly worked out by Steve Witkoff, Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East and to all trouble spots, does not contain any specific U.S. security guarantees as Zelenskyy has demanded. Instead, that security guarantee will come as part of the larger agreement that will end the fighting, sources report, the which agreement could take shape as soon as the end of this month.“Zelenskyy has met with various European leaders this month as they travelled to Kyiv on the three-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of the Ukraine,” said a source. “What he encountered were a bunch of impotent ravers who have no cards to play on his behalf against Trump. They told him that they would try to soften Trump’s approach to a peace settlement, but no one would say that they would succeed in doing that. In fact, [French President Emmanual] Macron told him that Trump does not really believe that Europe should tell him what to do about anyth... Read more

]]>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 12:16:43 GMTFeb. 24—Why is it in our national security interest that President Donald Trump act now to curtail the “special relationship” that presently exists between British Imperial and Commonwealth intelligence services, and the United States military and military-intelligence agencies? This week’s visit Feb. 27 by British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to Washington, D.C., undertaken in the vain hope of re-enlisting America as the financial and logistical “backstop” for further fruitless European posturing in an already-lost war in Ukraine, is the proper time to pose to the American people this question: What exact benefit does the United States gain from its so-called “special relationship” with Great Britain? Put more positively, should a swift, solemn end be brought to the British-U.S. “special relationship,” in preparation for the upcoming celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States’ Declaration of Independence?It is time—past time—to recommit the United States to the original purpose of its 1776–1783 American Revolution. That purpose was, as it was clearly re-stated by President Franklin Roosevelt during World War Two to an apoplectic Winston Churchill, to remove the foot of Portuguese, Dutch, Belgian, French, and British colonialism from the throat of people all over the world. Instead, the United States, founded on principles that were the opposite of those of the British empire, has, especially in the “unipolar era” from 1990 until now, been acting against the interests of the American people, and the American Revolution itself. It has been engaged in no-win wars and overthrowing governments—always in the name of democracy—but in reality, on behalf of an international financial elite, a trans-Atlantic “War Party,” a criminal syndicate operating under the code-name, “NATO.” Starmer visits Washington this week on behalf of that mission of war, and nothing else.This is not to suggest that there are no sound, and even essential reasons for the U.S. to ma... Read more

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