Top News RSSSun, 22 Jun 2025 13:44:23 GMTJune 22—President Donald Trump yesterday afternoon ordered U.S. strikes on 3 Iranian nuclear enrichment sites, including Fordow, embedded deep in a mountain, using precision heavy munitions, including 15-ton bunker buster bombs.The attacks followed a war plan already put in placed by Trump, which rejected the option of using tactical nuclear weapons, and were carried out solely by U.S. forces, and not jointly with Israeli aircraft, as Israel's messianic Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu had requested, sources report.At 7:50 p.m. EDT, U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social: “We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”Sources report that 14 total bunker buster bombs were used, and that preliminary evaluation, from satellite imagery as well as on the ground reporting from agents and assets, is that the targets, including the embedded Fordow site, were totally or mostly destroyed. Other sources, however, that such reports are preliminary and further work will have to be done to reach a proper conclusion.Deal Collapse After Ayatollah’s RejectionThese sources report that Trump made the decision after he was informed by his Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, who has been conducting furious negotiations with various parties, including the Iranians, the Omanis, the Russians and others to strike an acceptable deal that would end Iran's nuclear weapons program, that the outline for a deal that could be quickly worked up and signed had been accepted by the Iranian government, but was rejected by the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. It was Witkoff's opinion that no de... Read more

]]>Sun, 22 Jun 2025 13:44:23 GMTMay 1—Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a special visit April 28 to the Shanghai headquarters of the BRICS’ New Development Bank (NDB) today to congratulate its president, former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, and the NDB team, on the occasion of the bank’s tenth anniversary. He received quite a warm welcome from Rousseff, the bank’s four Vice Presidents, and the bank staff, before the ceremony. In 2014, as President of Brazil, Rousseff hosted the BRICS summit in Fortaleza, whose “Fortaleza Declaration” announced the formation of the New Development Bank.In his remarks, Xi called the NDB “a pioneering initiative for the unity and self-improvement of the Global South,” Xinhua reported, emphasizing its importance, given that the broader BRICS cooperation has entered a stage of high-quality development. He advised the staff and leadership of the bank “to consider the development needs of the Global South, and to provide more high-quality, low-cost and sustainable infrastructure financing,” and suggesting that it “needs to improve its management and operations,” and “implement more technology, green finance projects, and other help developing countries bridge the digital divide and accelerate green and low-carbon transformation.”The NDB should also “amplify the voice of the Global South, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the Global South, and support the countries of the Global South in their pursuit of modernization,” he said. Both Xi and Rousseff alluded to the current turbulent international situation, Folha de São Paulo’s report made clear. “No matter how the international situation changes, the direction of human development will not change…. China’s development is based on self-reliance and hard work, and the country will firmly protect its rights and interests, as well as the common interests of the international community,” Folha quoted Xi as saying.Rousseff stressed that “in today’s turbulent world, China h... Read more

]]>Mon, 05 May 2025 14:01:55 GMTMarch 21—As the great strategist, revolutionary, and supporter of President Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen once said, “Acting is easy; thinking is hard.” Dr. Sun, the creator of modern China, wished to shock his Chinese contemporaries into the realization that we must also elicit from our contemporaries—that their fundamental weakness is not that they fail to act, or to react, to world crises, but rather, that they fail to think of themselves as acting on the world as a whole, through particular and even individual actions based on a shared idea of humanity. The Ten Principles for a New Security and Development Architecture that inform the May 24-25 conference of the Schiller Institute, demand the kind of “hard thinking” which, if embraced, places each thinker in immediate dialogue with the changing landscape of world history expressed in the emerging communities of discourse that have emerged in the Global South, and are emerging in pockets of the Anglosphere itself.There is a greater power now available to the citizens of the Anglosphere than at any time before, but the mind must be alive in order to wield it. That assertion runs counter to the everyday “narrative” that is accepted and repeated, especially by those who claim to be “politicized,” that “the deep state is everywhere” and is omnipotent. For any citizen in today’s trans-Atlantic sphere, successfully proposing and enacting lawful and productive change in foreign and domestic policy requires that one first recognize that you can’t ignore the fact that “there’s a war going on.” The Anglosphere, terrified by Tuesday’s two-and-a-half-hour Trump-Putin dialogue on March 18, and the already-discussed possibility of a meeting between the two leaders in Saudi Arabia “in the near future,” is increasingly attacking its own population. This can most readily be seen in Europe, with the at first gradual and now headlong dismantling of parliamentary democracy, under the Orwellian b... Read more

]]>Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:30:23 GMTSept. 11—Some in the Atlanticist centers of power appear to be worried that the Schiller Institute’s campaign for a new international security and development architecture is becoming a powerful threat to their dying unipolar order.The Paris-based intelligence leak sheet, Intelligence Online, published a piece on the front page of its website Sept. 9, blaring: “Washington-Based Non-Profit Continues Spreading Kremlin Message.” A kicker identified the target of its slander: “The Schiller Institute has continued to cooperate with Russian media outlets, even while the U.S. cracks down on foreign influence.[…]” The attack was not unexpected, as journalists associated with the outfit had been sniffing around the Schiller Institute since the beginning of the month.The article itself is behind a (very expensive) paywall, but its intent is clear. Coming just six days after the U.S. Department of Justice announced a new series of drastic actions to shut down agencies and individuals accused of running Russian “Foreign Malign Influence Operations” into the U.S. elections, the Intelligence Online product is a direct call for FBI and other action to silence Schiller Institute operations in the United States. The article makes sure to reference the FBI’s raid on former UN weapons inspector and Marine intelligence officer Scott Ritter’s home as part of its argument. Ritter is frequent speaker and participant Schiller events, and vcoal critic NAT's war against Russia in the Ukraine.As for Intelligence Online, only a silly fool would look at its profile and believe that it is the “100% independent” intelligence news agency it claims to be. Its track record for 40 years has been as an outlet for French and Anglo-American intelligence agencies, publishing purported “scoops” from the underworld of the intelligence services, which target those whom the “powers that be” such as NATO choose to hit at that time. In fact, as far back as 2002, an Intelligence Online journalist co-authored a ... Read more

]]>Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:16:29 GMTMarch 31—The 43rd consecutive weekly online meeting of the International Peace Coalition began March 29 with an acknowledgment of the importance of the recent memo issued by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), titled “The French Road to Nuclear War”, and it was noted that some of the authors of that report were participating in this IPC meeting, including Scott Ritter, former UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq; Ray McGovern, former Russian analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); and Coleen Rowley, former FBI special agent and whistleblower.Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche opened the proceedings by recalling the film, “Storm Over Asia”, released by her late husband, Lyndon LaRouche, in 1999. During its first ten minutes, this film describes the ongoing “Great Game” of conflict between the Anglosphere and the Asian powers, why it is happening, and who is doing it. At that time, the active conflicts were in the North Caucasus region, but we see the same dynamic going on in Ukraine now. French President Macron’s threat to deploy 20,000 troops to Ukraine is, said Zepp-LaRouche, “a very tricky situation,” and added that she thought it was of great importance to have members of the VIPS on the call to dialogue with important speakers from France and elsewhere. The recent terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall music venue, located in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, adds another dimension of danger: Russia has compiled substantive evidence that the attack came from Ukraine, including large amounts of money in cryptocurrency deployed to sponsor it and seeks further evidence of who beyond the Nazis in the Ukraine might have been involved in sponsoring it.Zepp-LaRouche reported a number of positive developments, including the decision of the Irish government to join South Africa in its action against Israel before the International Court of Justice; the resignation of Annelle Sheline from her State Department position in protest against U.S. s... Read more

]]>Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:56:38 GMTRAY McGOVERN: I just want to thank the people who already spoke, and I’d like to just remind people, if they don’t already perceive it from looking at me, I was born before World War II, and I have immediate experience with World War II. My uncle died in the war. I’ve also worn the uniform of the United States of America as an Army Infantry Intelligence Officer. I know a little bit about war.Joe Biden doesn’t know anything about war. Tony Blinken doesn’t know anything about war. Jacob Sullivan doesn’t know anything about war. None of them ever donned a military uniform except maybe the Cub Scouts, and I haven’t checked the Cub Scouts. Biden had how many deferments during Vietnam? Would you believe he had as many as Dick Cheney—five; count them. So, this is a point that is really worth making; they don’t know what they’re getting into.These are the times that try men’s souls. This is where we have to step up; organize, and put our bodies into it. There are a bunch of things that come out of Gaza and come out the situation in Ukraine. I might also mention that there are U.S. Marines on islands in sight of China; islands that are part of Taiwan, but they’re there. So, Americans have no idea, because of the media, of how close we are to having not only a one-front or a two-front, but a three-front confrontation with very powerful entities. This not even to mention Iran, which is some power to be coped with now.I’d just like to comment on Mr. Putin. Now, he is riding high; an 87% win in the election on March 17th; 77% of people came out. How many of you would come out if you knew who was already going to win? He’s riding high, and yet in my view he is still very cautious. Now, I don’t understand exactly what he is meaning by saying he prefers Biden because Biden is predictable. I think Putin may be playing us. Predictable? A week after Putin said I prefer Biden because he’s predictable, Biden called Putin a Sukin syn; it sounds worse in Russian than son of a b—... Read more

]]>Mon, 01 Apr 2024 18:01:32 GMTMarch 31—The New York magazine posted an article March 29, covering the March 28 glitzy fundraiser with Presidents Clinton, Obama and Biden at Radio City Music Hall, in which the article opens with the intervention against nuclear war danger made by Diane Sare, Independent candidate for U.S. Senate from New York. Some $25 million was reportedly raised, but any controlled-environment campaign mood anyone was foolish enough to imagine existed, has been permanently broken. Headlined, “Will Biden’s Star-Studded, Triple-President Radio City Unity Blowout Bring His Party Together?” the article was authored by Shawn McCreesh, a features writer, who had earlier posted a video of the intervention on his X account. Though Sare was not named, a link to her X account post was given. The article begins (capitalization in the original).“YOU IDIOTS!!!!!”It was shortly before 9 p.m. last night, and a 58-year-old anti-war activist who’d paid $1,000 for her seat near the stage at Radio City Music Hall was yelling at Stephen Colbert and the three Democratic presidents, Biden, Obama, and Clinton. They were on stage, in the middle of answering one of Colbert’s softball questions, about whether it’s actually enjoyable to live inside the White House. Bill Clinton (who says it is) paused briefly while the woman tussled with security. As they frog-marched her past where I stood with the rest of the press, she turned back and screamed one more time, “YOU’RE ALL OUT OF YOUR MINDS!” 

]]>Mon, 01 Apr 2024 18:06:17 GMTMarch 31—Today, on Easter Sunday, Diane Sare, LaRouche Independent candidate for U.S. Senate in New York issued the following statement:On March 29, 2002, Lyndon LaRouche delivered a powerful message, "Easter, A Time for Reflection.""On the Isle of Capri, the Octavian who was later enthroned as the Emperor Augustus, sealed a pact with the priests of Mithra. Through aid of that pact, he overturned the reign of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, and established the evil which was the Roman Empire. During his reign, Jesus Christ was born. It became the pleasure of Augustus' adopted successor, the Emperor Tiberius, also at Capri, to receive the news of his agent's, Pontius Pilate's judicial murder of Christ."Augustus and Tiberius have had many imitators in modern times...."And so they have. President Biden, who claims to be a Christian of the Catholic persuasion, chose Maundy Thursday to hold an obscene fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall, where millionaires, blind to the suffering of the world, paid up to $500,000 per seat, which I am happy to have at least briefly disrupted.But Biden is not the only imitator of the bloody Roman emperors. We have Macron, King Charles, Netanyahu, Zelinsky, and a gaggle of self-righteous billionaires in the City of London and Wall Street who believe that they can impose their perverse agenda on the rest of humanity, but they will not prevail, any more than Tiberius or Nero, or Netanyahu's hero Genghis Khan did, if we act now.LaRouche continues,"My message to you is this; to achieve a sublime result, you must let yourself be inspired by a sublime thought, and combine that thought, as Jeanne d'Arc did, with the will to risk whatever that sublime intention demands of you."On this occasion, you should focus your attention upon the great work of Johann Sebastian Bach, in his Passion of St. John, and, most notably, the Passion of St. Matthew. These musical services for Easter-time were intended for the participation of the congregation and m... Read more

]]>Mon, 01 Apr 2024 18:09:12 GMTMarch 27—The United Nations Security Council March 25 finally approved a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, which UN Secretary-General António Guterres says is binding on all parties and must be implemented. The 14-0 vote approving the ceasefire which also calls for the release of all hostages held by Hamas and a prisoner exchange with Israeli-held Palestinians but did not make the ceasefire contingent on such a release, was made possible because the United States, which had cast its veto on three previous similar ceasefire calls, abstained.On Friday, the U.S. had submitted a less direct resolution, stating that the Council found a ceasefire imperative and urged the free flow of humanitarian aid which even the Americans have said the Israelis are impeding. That resolution was vetoed by the Russians and the Chinese, with the Algerians also voting against. After that vote, it was announced a new, more direct resolution would be submitted by the Algerians and other Council members. U.S. delegate Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield strongly implied that the U.S. would veto.That likely would have happened, had Thomas-Greenfield, who has been a slavish servant and defender of Israeli interests, had received her instructions from the State Department. But sources report that President Sleepy Joe Biden, whose rage against the bloodthirsty Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu and his oft-stated plans to carry his war of extermination against the Palestinian people of Gaza to the last city standing in the face of the Israeli onslaught, Rafah, personally ordered the abstention. If the resolution’s sponsors had accepted suggested language that condemned Hamas for their October 7 attack on Israel that slaughtered more than 1,200 innocent Israeli civilians and took another 250 hostage, of which, it is thought, less than 100 are still held alive, sources report that the American delegate had been instructed to vote for the resolution.What provoked th... Read more

]]>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:39:57 GMTMarch 25—Various informed sources say that the publication by The Wall Street Journal of a leaked report of a possible plea deal for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may have been an attempt to sabotage delicate talks between the Justice Department and Assange’s legal team. According to the account, first published in The Journal March 20, the deal would have Assange, who has been held in the maximum-security HM Prison Belmarsh  since April 11, 2019 awaiting a British court decision on his extradition to the U.S. where he faces espionage charges that could put him in prison for 175 years, plead guilty to a lesser charge of mishandling classified documents in 2010. Under the reported deal, he would be allowed to walk free, for time already served.But sources say The Urinal’s reporting on the deal makes the sensitive negotiation more difficult. Lawyers for Assange said a day later that they had no evidence of such a deal, and that the U.S. is pursuing his extradition and trial on espionage with all its previous vigor. A source indicated that they had to say that to maintain the pressure on Britain’s High Court, which is hearing his fight against extradition.Assange’s wife, Teresa, and his lawyers have said that his continued incarceration threatens to worsen health conditions that could kill him. They have argued that his case violates the U.S. Constitution, in which his right to publish documents that showed the U.S. government in violation of laws against spying on its citizens and other acts, is protected. His case has garnered worldwide support from civil libertarians and supporters of the fight to expose illegal government acts, and has produced demonstrations around the world demanding his freedom.“The Urinal is up to its usual tricks,” said a source, with knowledge of the case. “Its editors would like to see Julian die for exposing government crimes—an action that much of the mainstream media supports—such as spying on citizens and even leaders of allied g... Read more

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