June 23—This past month, two teams of human beings reached into the two ends of the universe at once. In the hills of southern China, the JUNO observatory—a 20,000-ton sphere of liquid scintillator, watched by more than 43,000 light-sensors, 650 meters underground—caught the near-weightless flicker of the neutrino, and in just 59 days of operation measured the laws governing that ghostly particle more precisely than all prior experiments of recent decades combined. In those same weeks, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration published its latest catalog of gravitational waves: some 390 collisions of black holes and neutron stars have now been recorded—ripples in the fabric of spacetime itself, on

June 12--A profound revolution in contemporary intellectual affairs has been proposed by Pope Leo XIV in his new Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas. More importantly, as seen in his recent trip to Spain, and the response he is eliciting, this first United States-born Pope is “walking his talk.” He is challenging the international War Party, and calling for a dialogue of civilizations that transcends the present failed and failing bankrupt geopolitics that is relentlessly driving humanity toward thermonuclear war.Vatican News reports that “In the fifth chapter—The Culture of Power and the Civilization of Love—Pope Leo XIV turns his gaze to war, saying ‘the digital revolution is changing the natur

May 29—President Donald Trump has in his hands a Memorandum of Understanding, whose language has been agreed to by U.S. and Iranian negotiators, and which, according to reports, has been signed off on by the Iranian leadership. The deal, which will open the Strait of Hormuz and which will end Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions (if they ever had any), is the exit ramp Trump has searched for from this disastrous war that Israel's messianic lunatic Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu suckered the President into joining in his fool's-errand mission of regime change on Feb. 28.The deal is acceptable to Trump, a source close to the White House said this morning, "but it is totally unacceptable

by Mr. XMarch 29--“Planetary war.” That was the term used by Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (FSB) Director Sergei Naryshkin, in describing the silent interlacing of several of the more than sixty conflicts now occurring around the world. An example: journalist Kit Klarenberg reported May 24 on what he characterized as Ukraine’s Secret Al Qaeda Invasion of Africa: “On May 13th, French outlet RTL published an explosive report, entirely unremarked upon by English language media. It exposed how Ukrainian military and intelligence units are covertly operating in Mali on France’s behalf, in coordination with both ethnic Tuareg rebels and Al Qaeda-linked forces determined to crush the country

by Mr. XMay 29—The following was written May 24, prior to the special United Nations meeting convened by UNSC chairman China.Before the world descends into a maelstrom of total war, from which human civilization itself may not emerge, a different path must need be taken. This Tuesday, May 26, the United Nations will convene the session, “Upholding the Purposes and Principles of the UN Charter and Strengthening the UN-Centered International System.” sponsored by the United Nations Security Council’s rotating Chairman, the People’s Republic of China. For the past week, LaRouche forces, and the International Peace Coalition (IPC), among others, have circulated, including at the UN itself, a pro

May 23—Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced Thursday that she will resign at the end of June, citing a family medical crisis involving her husband, according to a resignation letter addressed to President Donald Trump.In the letter, dated May 22, 2026, and marked "Unclassified," Gabbard said her husband, Abraham, was recently diagnosed with "an extremely rare form of bone cancer," prompting her decision to step away from public service."Unfortunately, I must submit my resignation, effective June 30, 2026," Gabbard wrote. "At this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle."Gabbard, a former Hawaii Democratic con

May 22—Less than week remains before the high-level open debate on “Upholding the Purposes and Principles of the UN Charter and Strengthening the United Nations-Centered International System,” to be convened by China at the UN Security Council on May 26 as the culminating event of Beijing’s May rotating presidency. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will chair; UN Secretary-General António Guterres will brief the meeting.China’s framing of the debate is direct, identifying more than 60 armed conflicts active today, “trust lacking among major countries, raising risk of major miscalculation,” and the “rise of power politics” and “bully practices” as the principal threats to the rule of law in in

May 22—The decision, which is still in process, to dissolve the Knesset and hold elections in Israel seems to be having an effect in loosening up the discussion process there. Public debates about genocide and apartheid are becoming more prominent.Avraham Burg, former Speaker of the Israeli Knesset and one-time chairman of the Jewish Agency, has published a scathing assessment of Israel’s upcoming elections, arguing that the Israeli political system no longer offers voters any meaningful path away from the subjugation of Palestinians—only a choice between its cruder and more refined expressions: a choice between genocide and apartheid.Writing in his Substack newsletter on May 21, Burg strips

May 22—At the conclusion of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s May 19-20 series of meetings and summit, the two governments issued a “Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on Further Strengthening Comprehensive Partnership and Strategic Interaction and on Deepening Relations of Good-Neighborliness, Friendship, and Cooperation.”This document specified the two countries’ overview and plan for achieving a “multipolar world order,” “maintain[ing] progress in settlements in national currencies,” the expansion of trade, and so forth. One of the Joint Statement’s driving core concepts is collaboration in space development, in

May 22—Professor Abdullah al-Ahsan, respected political scientist at the International Islamic University Malaysia and Istanbul Şehir University, endorsed former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu’s proposed Hormuz mediation framework in a May 21 commentary in Juan Cole’s Informed Comment. Al-Ahsan will be a featured speaker at the May 22 meeting of the International Peace Coalition.Al-Ahsan considers Davutoğlu’s proposal—a joint maritime security force composed of Türkiye, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia to secure and temporarily administer the Strait of Hormuz—the most viable path out of the current standoff. The argument rests on what he calls “dual-acceptability”: these four nation

May 22—Sources close to the White House and familiar with ongoing negotiations to end the catastrophic war in Iran say that President Donald Trump is now considering a multi-stage approach that will end the war immediately, open the closed Strait of Hormuz, and allow for commitment by all parties to abide by existing U.N. resolutions and treaty agreements, including the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, of which Iran is a signatory and which bars it from developing a nuclear weapon. In exchange for compliance with this agreement, Iran will see the release of sanctions over time. In addition, the agreement calls for further negotiations to begin within seven days of signing on the specifics o

May 21—Middle East Eye reported on May 18 that the ICC prosecutor’s office last month filed a secret arrest warrant application for Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The charges against Smotrich, the self-anointed leader and spokesman for the settler's movement, reportedly include forced displacement as a crime against humanity and war crime, the transfer of Israel’s own population as a war crime into occupied territories, and persecution and apartheid as crimes against humanity.In a letter to the ICC’s deputy prosecutors in March, which MEE says it has seen, Palestine’s miss