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Aug. 14—Hamas has accepted the outline of a new peace plan for Gaza that would release all remaining hostages—living and dead—at once, and within 60 days lead to a withdrawal of Israeli forces and a new civilian government that would not include Hamas, which would also be demilitarized. Sources close to discussions between Hamas and mediators in Cairo say that the agreement is provisional upon Israeli acceptance of the plan, which has yet to be fully presented to the Netanyahu government.

Ultimately, these sources say that any agreement would come out of a joint meeting between Hamas, Israel, and mediators from Egypt, Qatar, and the United States. If Israel agrees to the outline of the plan, which had been worked out with the Arab mediators and President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff last week, such a meeting would be scheduled, depending on Witkoff's schedule. The Special Envoy is heavily involved in tomorrow's Alaska summit between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Pressure Mounts on Netanyahu

Hamas' agreement with the terms of the new plan, which will see the end of its rule in Gaza and its end as a military organization, puts pressure on the Butcher of Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, whose announced plan for a new wave of slaughter and the full occupation of the Strip by the Israeli military has met with universal protest both inside Israel—where it is opposed by the leadership of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the families of the hostages, who say that it will kill all that remain alive—as well as in the rest of the world. Various European and other nations have used it as an impetus to announce their pending recognition of a Palestinian state.

Hamas' Diminishing Support

"Hamas has finally accepted the reality of its situation," said a source close to the negotiations. "It has no future, lacking support from both its former patrons, Bibi, who gave them guns and money to block the Palestinian Authority, and Iran, who totally lacks the means to supply its proxy. It has little or no support among Gazans who blame its stupid massacre and attack on Israel Oct. 7, 2023 for giving Netanyahu the pretext for unleashing his genocide against them. This deal can halt a new slaughter and get Hamas out of Gaza.

"And it backs Bibi into a corner," the source continued. "He has said that the only way to deal with Hamas is to exterminate them, perhaps freeing a handful of the hostages in the process. But the IDF leadership has said that the occupation of the rest of Gaza will kill all the hostages. This deal gets them home alive. If he refuses it, the families and the rest of Israel minus the insane Nazi Zionists represented by war criminals Bezalel Smotrich [Finance Minister] and Itamar Ben-Gvir [National Security Minister] will come for him."

Trump’s Role and Global Implications

"The key will be if Trump finally decides to turn up the pressure and demand sanity from Israel," said the source. "Trump wants the humanitarian disaster in Gaza to end. He knows that people are being starved to death by Bibi's denial of aid. This new deal will allow Trump and the United States to mobilize the world to put an end to this. It removes Israel from any role in determining how much humanitarian aid enters Gaza and who will distribute it. This provides the hammer needed to ram through such a deal.

"What has happened in Gaza is one of the most disgusting episodes in modern history, the worst genocide since the Nazis, done by an American ally, with America looking on," concluded the source. "Trump did not allow this to start, but ending the killing has eluded him. Until now. If the Arabs can bring Hamas on board, then the President must force Bibi to go along. If not, then what happens next is on Trump."

Aug. 13—Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov expressed hope that the upcoming meeting between the Presidents of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, will give an impetus to normalization of bilateral relations, TASS reported yesterday. “We hope that the forthcoming top-level meeting will give an impetus to normalization of bilateral relations, allowing [them] to facilitate resolution of certain issues,” he said in an interview with the Izvestia daily, speaking about resumption of direct air service. “Although, obviously, the leaders will focus on other subjects,” he added.

Trump, meanwhile, was reportedly dismissive of NATO's Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose demands to be included in the summit were refused by Trump. “I get along with Zelenskyy, but, you know, I disagree with what he’s done. Very, very severely disagree. This is a war that should have never happened,” Trump said, reported The Hill.

The Hill notes that Trump has said the meeting will touch on some territorial swapping for “the betterment of both” countries, a proposal Zelenskyy rejected on Saturday, Aug. 9. “Of course, we will not give Russia any awards for what it has done. The Ukrainian people deserve peace,” he said, adding that “all partners” must understand peace and that “Ukrainians will not give their land to an occupier.”

Trump said he was perturbed by the Ukrainian leader’s resistance. “I was a little bothered by the fact that Zelenskyy was saying, ‘Well, I have to get constitutional approval.’ I mean, he’s got approval to go into war and kill everybody, but he needs approval to do a land swap—because there’ll be some land swapping going on,” Trump said. He added that the land swap will be “for the good of Ukraine,” before adding that a possible deal will also involve “some bad stuff for both” Kyiv and Moscow. 

In a recent poll of Ukrainians, Gallup found that 69% believe that Ukraine should seek negotiations to end the war as soon as possible, with only 24% saying that Ukraine should keep fighting until it wins the war. This is a dramatic change even from 2024, when 52% supported peace talks and 38% preferred to continue the fighting. Sources report that Gallup also asked Ukrainians if they believed that they could win the war. They did not publish the results of that question that showed over 90% believed that such a victory was impossible.

Aug. 13—Brazil intends to develop, whether the Trump administration likes it or not.

Finance Secretary Fernando Haddad reported on Aug. 11 that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had cancelled his scheduled Aug. 13 Zoom discussion with Haddad. It was to have been the first high-level meeting between the two trading partners, despite President Trump imposing 50% tariffs on a number of key Brazilian exports to the U.S., beef and coffee among them. The meeting was not cancelled for any economic reason, Haddad charged, but at the instigation of “extreme right forces,” who “acted together with some of President Trump’s advisors” to cancel it. Nor was the meeting rescheduled. “What is clear to us is that the trade issue is not the focus,” Haddad said.

The Trump administration’s intent with the tariffs is regime change. When he announced the punitive tariffs, President Trump said as much, demanding that the Brazilian government order the Supreme Court to shut down the ongoing trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro, charged with attempting to organize a military coup so he could continue in power after President Lula da Silva defeated him at the polls in 2022. Bolsonaro’s son, Eduardo took a “leave of absence” from Congress to move to the United States, where he is currently coordinating the campaign against the Supreme Court and the Lula government with Trump advisors.

Brazil is therefore developing more beneficial relations. On Aug. 11, Brazil’s Minister for Integration and Regional Development Waldez Góes signed an MOU in Beijing with the Vice Minister of China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) Wang Changlin for cooperation on regional development policies. The agreement specifically focuses on policies for reducing regional inequalities, a problem which China has been working on for some time, and which is quite important for Brazil, where poverty in parts of the Northeast is similar to the poorest parts of Africa, as compared to the southeast of the country, where there is much more industry and infrastructure and where living standards are far higher. Joint case studies, technical visits, training and science and technological innovation programs are on the agenda. The NDRC has already invited 24 high-level officials from Brazil’s Planning and Budget Ministry and the Executive Office of the President (Casa Civil) to participate in a seminar on economic development strategies.

The same day, Finance Minister Haddad signed both a memorandum with Chinese Finance Minister Lan Fo’an, updating plans “to expand joint projects, raise the level of economic cooperation and boost sustainable regional integration,” and a separate MOU with Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov on the creation of a bilateral “Economic and Financial Dialogue.” The aim of the latter is reportedly to guarantee stable communication between the ministries, on seven priority areas, which range from macroeconomic policies, to “confronting challenges and reforms;” tax cooperation; infrastructure financing; new bilateral opportunities; joint action in multilateral forums—and “other topics of mutual interest.” 

Aug. 13—“BRICS may be on the verge of its most significant strategic convergence since its inception,” the Indian weekly, Indian Eye, suggests. “The coming weeks will test whether the current wave of U.S. tariffs becomes a catalyst for deeper BRICS integration or merely another irritant in already complex international relations. [Indian Prime Minister Neranda] Modi’s dual engagement with Russia and China,[Brazilian President and current head of BRICS] Lula’s outreach to India, and Beijing’s criticism of U.S. trade policy suggest a moment of rare alignment in the group’s political calendars.”

The Aug. 11 story is credited to the New Delhi, Moscow, and Beijing Bureaus of the weekly, which is published in India, the U.S.A., Brazil, and Canada, thus reaching the Indian diaspora. The article reviews the diplomatic contacts between the BRICS in recent weeks (which EIR News has covered), but offers more details on developing India-Brazil ties.

“The Lula-Modi conversation gains strategic weight,” it reports. “The two leaders are not only the political heads of their respective nations but also the voices of two continents within BRICS. Their call underscored a shared vision for South-South cooperation that blends trade expansion with technological exchange, defense coordination, and multilateral reform…. The agreement to expand the Mercosur-India trade pact and the plan for [Brazilian] Vice President Geraldo Alckmin to visit India in October, accompanied by ministers and business leaders, point to a practical follow-through. The agenda will cover trade, defense, energy, critical minerals, health, and digital inclusion—all sectors where both countries can gain by pooling resources and reducing dependence on Western market.”

President Donald Trump’s tariffs have created “a political opportunity. The bloc can present itself as a collective shield against what it sees as arbitrary economic measures, and as an advocate for reforming global trade rules to protect the sovereignty of emerging economies,” it argues.

“While it is premature to predict a formal BRICS response to Trump’s tariffs, the diplomatic choreography of the past week hints at a converging strategy. Modi’s talks with Lula, [Modi’s] upcoming visit to China, [Indian National Security Advisor Ajit] Doval’s discussions with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, and the expected Putin visit to India are all part of a dense web of leader-level engagements that could culminate in a more united BRICS economic front.”

Indian Eye’s story adds the tantalizing suggestion that “joint infrastructure projects” are among the possibilities for a coordinated economic response. Coordination “might take the form of expanded intra-BRICS trade agreements, local currency settlements to bypass the dollar, joint infrastructure projects, and coordinated positions in the WTO and G20. Brazil and India’s interest in digital payment systems, as shown in the PIX-UPI exchange, also opens the door for fintech collaboration that reduces transaction costs and dependency on Western financial systems.” 

Aug. 13—Paulo Nogueira Batista, one of Brazil’s leading economists and a former Vice President of the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) from its creation in 2015 until 2017, believes the BRICS summit held in Rio de Janeiro in early July 2025 “was a success, contrary to what many had feared (including me).” In an article published in the leading Brazilian daily Folha de São Paulo on July 7, right after the summit ended, Nogueira wrote:

“In the financial area, some important initiatives were reaffirmed…. In particular, it was interesting that President Lula reiterated that the BRICS needs to create an alternative currency for international transactions. This is a fearless statement, as he ignores—and he is right to ignore—Donald Trump’s repeated threats against the BRICS and against any country that acts to weaken the dollar as a currency.”

Nogueira explained that the proposal is not meant as an attack on the dollar. “BRICS does not intend to deliberately weaken the dollar, but rather to create alternatives to the international system dominated by the West, a system that is inefficient, politically manipulated and does not meet the needs of the Global South. That’s why we need to create alternative and independent mechanisms, while still participating in the Western system.”

He also praised the steps taken so far by the BRICS and the NDB: "Increasing use of national currencies in transactions between countries (bypassing the dollar), the construction of a new international payments platform, and the outlines of a multilateral guarantee scheme within the framework of the NDB.

Nogueira regretted that “there was no mention in the Leaders’ Declaration of the creation of a new reserve currency, which is supported by President Lula and other leaders. This is the most important step,” Nogueira insisted, because it is needed to facilitate both trade and investment that is outside the speculative framework of the Western financial system. But the idea “faces stiff resistance from India. And also from the group’s central banks, which get in the way a lot and grant themselves the right to interfere in geopolitical issues! Brazil’s Central Bank is one of the worst. Incredibly, it often behaves as if it were a separate country, an 11th BRICS nation. It needs to be brought to heel.”

In other writings, Nogueira has gone out of his way to praise the approach taken by former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who is now the President of the NDB, who intervened when she was head of state of Brazil to stop the sabotage of the BRICS by Brazil’s Central Bank. Nogueira has urged current Brazilian President Lula da Silva, who is head of the BRICS for this term, to act similarly.

As for the political obstacles within the BRICS, which makes decision by unanimous consensus, Nogueira proposed that prompt action is required due to the gravity of the crisis, and that "the solution is to allow certain initiatives to be taken forward by a sub-group, on a voluntary basis, leaving the door open for those who don’t wish to participate from the outset, to come on board later. 

The problem is, really, that the BRICS cannot exist as a subset of the existing totally broken and bankrupt global financial system. Anything that touches that system, which is dominated by the City of London and its Wall Street satrap, is corrupted and will eventually be destroyed. So, the efforts both collectively and independently by BRICS members to create new physical wealth through investments that are made for different purposes than making financial profit for investors or for establishing control of physical and resource assets that can be looted for financial profit must eventually be undermined and opposed by the central banks that are players for existing global system, and by agents and operatives of that old system.

Eventually, as Nogueira knows but does not say, the question must be called: either you are part of an old and collapsing monetarist system, and will be dragged down by its collapse or you are the embryo of what must be a totally new system, founded not for financial profits for the few, but for the expansion of physical wealth for the many, as part of a new just, world economic order that must replace the existing decadent order of London and Wall Street. It is a fools errand to think that the BRICS can become a pathway to escape the collapse of the old order, the which cannot be reformed or fixed. Whether the BRICS wants to pretend that it is not a threat to the old system, it is already recognized as such a threat and London and Wall Street will use whatever power they muster to destroy that threat. There ultimately can be no accommodation with the central banks. The BRICS must offer their new path to prosperity to the national powers of the old system, such as the United States of Donald Trump, to join with them in bringing a new system into being. 

Aug. 13—Just three days before the summit between Presidents Putin and Trump in Alaska, the New York Times Aug. 12 drops what they hope will be a bombshell: Russia is suspected of hacking into the federal court filing system.

A cyber security specialist contacted about the report said there is absolutely no reason to believe that the information about the hack is true, "given what has now been proven to be false reports of Russian hacking during the 2016 election." The source says, as is well known, but the Timesneglects to report, the NSA has software that can mimic and falsely attribute to alleged foreign actors attempted and actual hacks into such systems, as has been exposed in leaks of materials reporting on such capabilities from Edward Snowden and others.

The source said that rather than assume that such reports of alleged Russian (or Chinese) hacks are true, it were better to assume that they are the work of sections of our own intelligence agencies, linked to NATO, that want to sabotage improved relations and cooperation between the United States and Russia and China, until proven otherwise. The timing of this leaked report, just days before the Alaska summit, gives a better clue as to who is behind this, the source said. "I don't think it is credible," he reported.

Federal officials are “scrambling” to figure out how deep this digital dumpster fire goes. While the coverage acknowledges that hackers have allegedly been in the system for years, this now “urgent matter” (as it is reportedly described by an internal memo). Another source reported that there has long been suspicion that hackers working for Dope, Inc, the international drug cartels, have attempted to hack the courts and justice system records.

While the hacking may be centered in New York, courts in places like South Dakota, Missouri, and even Arkansas have reportedly been affected. Judges, under instructions likely from the FBI, are taking measures like not uploading sealed docs to PACER (the software program/server that provides access to the documents).

Politico sniffed out that a “foreign actor” has been poking around courts since early July, although it were far more likely that such information was deliberately leaked to them, as they have no ability to check its veracity and are known to simply publish what leakers provide.. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (R-NY), a Zionist lobby asset, back in 2022 even claimed that three unnamed countries had breached the system starting in 2020. 

Aug. 13—The Russian Ministry of Defense issued an alert that Kyiv is preparing a provocation to disrupt the Russian American summit negotiations scheduled for Aug. 15.

“For this purpose, a group of foreign media journalists were brought by SBU [Ukrainian Security Service] vehicles to the city of Chuguyev in the Kharkov Region on Monday, Aug. 11, under the cover of ‘preparing a series of reports about the residents of a city in the frontline zone,’” says the statement.

“Immediately before the summit on Friday, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have planned a provocative strike using UAVs and missiles against one of the densely populated residential areas or a hospital, with a large number of civilian casualties, which are to be immediately ‘documented’ by the Western journalists who were brought in.”

The Ministry of Defense concludes that the strike will be blamed on Russia, to create a negative media environment and the “conditions for the disruption of Russian-American cooperation on resolving the conflict in Ukraine” at the scheduled Friday summit between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. 

Aug. 13—Sergei Gavrilov, a Communist Party member of the Russian State Duma, and the head of its Committee on Property, Land, and Property Relations, told RIA Novosti on Aug. 11, that the upcoming Alaska summit talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump, could address significant Arctic economic projects. While the Ukrainian issue is the primary agenda, global economic cooperation in the Arctic is also expected to be discussed.

Gavrilov, a member of the National Financial Council of the Bank of Russia, highlighted that the talks could address long-term economic interests, such as joint mechanisms for Arctic route development, investment in port and transport infrastructure, and increasing cargo flow to boost trade between Russia and the U.S. Key projects include enhancing the Northern Sea Route and modernizing navigation infrastructure.

The legislator singled out one particular possible project: a transport corridor across the Bering Strait, which could facilitate resource development and economic growth.

A flagship infrastructure project, like a Russia-U.S. transport link, could symbolize broader international cooperation in the Arctic and Pacific regions.

Gavrilov suggested that the billions of dollars in frozen Russian assets in the U.S. could theoretically be used to co-finance infrastructure projects, stimulating economic ties and attracting private capital participation. 

Aug. 12—Prof. Enzo Siviero, who together with Claudio Celani, wrote a call for Trump and Putin to build the Bering Strait Tunnel, has explained in a June 29 video interview what an infrastructure such as the Bridge over the Strait of Messina can bring to the local economy as a driver, during its construction phase. He also encouraged to have a broader vision, which includes exploring the feasibility of a Sicily-Tunisia connection, which he called TUNeIT.

The executive project, which the Italian government approved last week, "provides for diversification, that is, the bridge is one thing, all the complementary works are another thing, which are more than half of the overall project and are works that are normally semi-standard, so they are bridges, viaducts, railways tunnels, and junctions, and then there is the whole expropriation operation, which takes time. Not only that, but a construction site like this one, and when we talk about that construction site, we are actually talking about dozens of simultaneous construction sites because otherwise it cannot be done. It requires logistics, incredible support logistics. … If we think about logistics, we think simply about feeding tens of thousands of people, washing, ironing, supporting the whole operation, including security from the point of view of hospital health, equipping those that exist and probably implementing those who do not yet exist with field hospitals, because when you have tens of thousands of workers, it’s obvious that you have to take into account that there will be accidents or other things. Of course, it’s an environment that takes into account all possible and imaginable variables, so it’s likely that nothing will happen, but the human variable [must always be considered] … then there is all the construction site logistics: Think about transportation, concrete, the water supply—we will make desalination plants that will then remain, available to the community Where does the spoil from the tunnels go? There will be beach nourishment, in short, there is also a very accurate environmental study, let’s say that.

“I must also say, just to broaden the scope, how visionary engineering has shaped the world. Visionary engineering is what has been done for Suez as well as the Panama Canal, but also many other things, such as the Messina Bridge and this idea that I launched—which, however, is not mine because it is now about 20 years old and was launched by the Sicilian Region—for a permanent link between Mazara del Vallo and Capo Bon, that is, between Sicily and Tunisia, or between Europe and Africa.”

The project is feasible “even within the limits we find ourselves in, which are essentially craftmanship, but ideas are based on vision and the ability to invent something that did not exist before. … I believe that this can work. We have the room to make it happen because if we think that in this way, with this operation, Sicily could become the logistical hub of Europe towards Africa, in turn Tunisia could become the logistical hub of Africa towards Europe.” 

Aug. 12—In an Aug. 10 interview with TASS, Prof. Peter Kuznick, Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University proposed building a Bering Strait tunnel that would connect the United States with Russia through high-speed rail.

Kuznick, who is well-known as a collaborator with filmmaker Oliver Stone on several historical projects, urged building upon the upcoming Trump-Putin summit, by holding talks that would involve the leaders of Russia, Brazil, India, China, and the United States. “What I would like to see is a follow-up meeting between Trump, Putin, and [Chinese leader] Xi Jinping at the World War II commemoration [Sept. 3] in China. It would be even better if [Indian Prime Minister Narendra] Modi and [Brazilian President Luiz Inácio] Lula [da Silva] also join.”

He urged cooperation between Russia, the U.S., and perhaps other nations, on joint development projects in the Arctic “and perhaps a Bering Strait Tunnel connecting Russia and the U.S. with high-speed rails.” This sort of collaboration could “put the world back on the path toward peace and begin easing the tensions that have made our world so insanely dangerous of late,” he said.

EIR covered this idea on Aug. 8. On Aug. 11, Schiller Institute Founder Helga-Zepp LaRouche released an open letter to Presidents Trump and Putin, which said that as they meet August 15 at a summit in Alaska, “There is something even more elevated you can do, by not only fighting off the threats facing mankind, but by giving the whole world a beautiful vision for the future. You could agree to build a corridor across the Bering Strait, and with that rail and tunnel project unite the rail systems of Eurasia with those of the Americas.” This would produce physical development.

Zepp-LaRouche added, that as a result of such a project: “In the not so distant future, one could then travel by high-speed railroad around the world, from the most southern tips of Argentina and Chile in Ushuaia and Puerto Williams, all way through the Americas, then through the Bering Strait, across Eurasia, then with a tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar, travel all the way through the African continent to the Cape of Good Hope.”

Aug. 12—The Sunday, Aug. 10 weekly magazine of the daily Calabria Live published an article by Claudio Celani, identified as co-editor of the EIR Strategic Alert and collaborator of Schiller Institute chair Helga Zepp-LaRouche, entitled “Messina, the Bridge of Records—Italy Challenged the World”. The magazine has several other articles dedicated to the Messina Bridge, including an interview with Italian Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini.

What follows is the translation of Celani’s feature:

The bridge that will break all records has already broken one, that of the opposition. Never before has there been, in the world, such procrastinated hostility against a project as bold as it is necessary to connect two territories of the same nation, a hostility that has at times turned into political sabotage and has postponed the work on a project that has been talked about for fifty years. Indeed, for 2,000 years, if the Romans were already thinking of a bridge, but, since at the time they were made of stone, they could not go beyond a pontoon bridge, not exactly destined to last. It is only thanks to the industrial revolution that today we possess the technology and materials that allow us to realize a 2,000-year-old dream.

Now that the construction of the Strait Bridge is a state law, its detractors will have to give up, even if there is reason to fear that organized minorities will continue to try to sabotage it. They do not realize that they are acting as useful idiots for interests that transcend national borders, and harken back to the times when colonial empires fought for supremacy in the Mediterranean. The times when France and England fought for control of Suez or Italian commercial ambitions in Tunisia were overridden by the French expeditionary force. Yes, the strategic function of the Mediterranean Bridge has not escaped those nostalgic for those times, if Anglo-American high-finance figures even write, without fear of ridicule, that the Strait Bridge will favor Putin, because it diverts resources from Defense (google: Brooks Sicily Bridge, to believe it). In reality, London, Wall Street, Brussels, and Paris understand well that the project will immeasurably increase our country’s political clout in the geographical area of reference.

We all understand that the Bridge, together with the high-speed train and highway connections, will bring Sicily closer to Italy and vice versa, but also Sicily and Southern Italy to Central and Northern Europe. If everything works north of the Alps, it will be possible to travel from Berlin to Palermo in eight hours. Furthermore, the Bridge will bring Italy and Europe closer to the African continent, whose development is Europe’s natural—and obligatory—mission. It is, in fact, inconceivable to stem the migratory phenomenon without intervening to create development, with a vision that goes beyond the Italian government’s Mattei Plan, laudable though its intentions are, but entirely insufficient.

In mid-July, I attended an international conference in Berlin that addressed precisely this topic, with the participation of European, Chinese, American, Russian, and African experts. One of the proposals that has gained support is to establish trilateral cooperation agreements between Europe, Africa, and China for major development projects capable of acting as “game changers,” that is, driving the agro-industrial development of large regions. The model has already been tested, for example in the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a project built by the Italian company Webuild, the French company Alstom, which supplied the turbines, and the Chinese company, which, in addition to building the power lines, co-financed the project. The same model can be applied to bring water to the Sahel, through the Italian-led Transaqua project, which would serve as a driving force for the whole of Central Africa.

The Bridge thus fits into the perspective of integrating the Euro-Afro-Asian continental economies, defined by the great American economist Lyndon LaRouche as the “Land-Bridge of Development.” It’s no coincidence that LaRouche, who was well acquainted with the Strait Bridge project and had discussed it with Italian interlocutors, is considered the forerunner of the New Silk Road, “a visionary,” according to Giulio Tremonti, who anticipated its lines well before it was launched by the Chinese leadership under the name Belt and Road Initiative. The benefits of the Bridge for the Sicilian and Southern Italian economies have been extensively described, and we won’t repeat them here. We’re keen to broaden the framework within which it fits: A global economy driven by the great growth coming from Asia, from which it would be foolish to isolate ourselves. To conclude, we can already look to the future, in the TUNeIT and GRALBeIT projects of our friend Enzo Siviero, the stable connection between Sicily and Tunisia, the first, and between Italy and Albania, the second. A dream? Perhaps today, but not in the near future, just as the Strait Bridge was in the past and is no longer.

Aug. 12—The following is a machine translation of an article, published on Aug. 11, by the Russian news service TASS, based on an interview with Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who was asked for her perspective on the upcoming August 15 Summit in Alaska between Presidents Putin and Trump.

Zepp-LaRouche Expert: Russia and the U.S. Could Build a Tunnel under the Bering Strait

The founder of the international Schiller Institute said that the August 15 summit “promises to be more than just an attempt to find a way to resolve the crisis in Ukraine.”

WASHINGTON, August 11. /TASS Corr. Sergei Yumatov/. The meeting of Russian and U.S. Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump on August 15 in Alaska could allow the two countries to resume work on promising joint projects, including the construction of a tunnel under the Bering Strait that would connect Chukotka and Alaska. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the international Schiller Institute, expressed this opinion in an interview with a TASS correspondent.

According to her, the upcoming summit “promises to be more than just an attempt to find a way to resolve the crisis in Ukraine.” “The presidents of the two countries may finally decide to build a 100-kilometer tunnel under the Bering Strait, which would connect Eurasia and America and facilitate the development of the vast resources of Siberia and the Far East, where the largest deposits of all the elements that can be found in the periodic table are located,” the expert noted. According to her, “the joint development of these resources could become an ideal conflict prevention program and a benefit for all of humanity.”

The idea of implementing a project within the framework of which a more than 100-kilometer tunnel would be built under the Bering Strait to connect the transport systems of Eurasia and America has been discussed for decades. As The Times newspaper noted in 2011, citing British experts, the transportation of goods along the Eurasia-U.S.A. highway, which would also connect resource-rich but sparsely populated areas of the planet with key overpasses, would be less expensive, faster and safer than by sea.

On August 8, Trump said that he expected to meet with Putin in Alaska on August 15. Then, plans for these talks were confirmed by Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov. According to him, the leaders will focus on discussing options for achieving a long-term peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian crisis. The Kremlin expects the next meeting between Putin and Trump to take place on Russian territory, Ushakov said.

The Bering Strait is a strait between the easternmost point of Asia (Cape Dezhnev) and the westernmost point of North America (Cape Prince of Wales). The strait’s narrowest width is 86 km, and its shallowest fairway depth is 36 m. The strait connects the Arctic Ocean (Chukchi Sea) with the Pacific Ocean (Bering Sea). It is named after the Russian navigator Vitus Bering, who passed through this strait in 1728. The first of the known navigators to pass through there, in 1648, eighty years before Bering, was Semyon Dezhnev, after whom the cape in the strait was named.

Aug. 12—As the Netanyahu regime is preparing a bloody takeover of Gaza with the goal of ridding the Gaza Strip of Palestinians, Haaretz featured an interview on Aug. 9 with an attorney who warned of a coup plot underway by ultra-Orthodox Messianic Jews. According to Yair Littman Nehorai, the ultra-Orthodox see the wars in Gaza and Iran as “divine intervention,” which will “expedite the era of redemption,” when the world will embrace their view of one God. For the believers, the Jewish mission is “the struggle against global wickedness,” which is inspiring “an outburst of unfettered ecstatic fervor,” with talk of miracles and the belief in Netanyahu as a “messenger of God.”

Nehorai’s father was once a prominent member of the ultra-Orthodox movement headed by former Chief Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook. After spending World War I in England, Kook returned to Palestine, where he was named Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, and later Mandatory Palestine. He founded Yeshiva Mercaz HaRav, which Nehorai identified as the training ground for the ultra-Orthodox movement, and the religious Zionist parties.

They believe in a two-stage process. First, the establishment of a Jewish state with an army, a secular state, while building an Messianic army. Nehorai says there are 5,000 to 6,000 graduates of the Yeshivas created by Kook’s followers, who are now in the army and the intelligence services. One example is Maj. Gen. David Zini, who has been chosen by Netanyahu to be the new head of Shin Bet. Another is the recent appointment of Brigadier General Eyal Krim as Chaplain General of the Army. Krim’s first act was to replace all members of the IDF rabbinate with followers of Kook.

Nehorai says they are now prepared to move to the second stage, which includes: taking over all the “promised land” (i.e., Greater Israel—Kook was behind the founding of the radical settler movement, Gush Emunim); rebuild the Temple; replace the secular state with a messianic ultra-Orthodox state. The judicial coup initiated by Netanyahu is part of the plan.

Their goal is to foment a religious revolution in Israel, moving their people into all institutions. Individuals like Fianced Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir are examples, racialists, who believe in “Jewish supremacy.” He characterized their outlook as follows: “The war in Gaza is a war of mitzvah [blessing]. That means you take what’s yours—and you’re allowed to kill them all. They succeeded in introducing the Amalek narrative … and thanks to it the idea that ‘No one in Gaza is innocent.’ We are in the midst of a religious war.”

Finally, he concluded with these two points: the loyalty of the Messianists is to the “land of Israel, not the state of Israel.” And all of Israel’s wars have been necessary stages toward redemption.

Aug. 12—With Israel facing political convulsions as a result of the Butcher of Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu's decision to go for the final kill in Gaza and totally occupy the territory—at the risk of letting all remaining living hostages be killed—the ability to force through a workable deal with Hamas depends on how "rough" President Donald Trump is willing to get with the Israeli leader.

Sources close to the White House say that Trump's Special Envoy Steve Witkoff has worked out, with Egyptian and Qatari mediators, a plan that would see the release of all hostages—living and dead—at once, in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and the withdrawal of all Israeli forces from Gaza within 60 days. That withdrawal would be supervised by the mediators, including the United States. As part of this deal, Hamas would be demilitarized under the supervision of the mediators, and its leaders sent into exile along with many of its so-called fighters.

A New Government and Humanitarian Relief for Gaza

Hamas would play no role in a new Gazan government, created under the supervision of the mediators, which would immediately begin working on plans for reconstruction and development of the land that has been reduced to an unlivable rubble heap by Israelis.

The agreement would begin with an immediate ceasefire, during which Israeli forces would cease blocking the influx of massive food and humanitarian aid for Gaza's starving and stricken population. That aid would be distributed by reputable international agencies, including the United Nations, coordinated under a plan soon to be announced by the United States. The role of the hated Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)—an American-backed entity that has distributed food at limited sites that have become killing fields for starving Gazans, fired upon by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and private security hired by the GHF—remains unclear. The foundation’s operations have reportedly claimed thousands of lives.

Mounting Pressure on Netanyahu from Allies and the IDF

Netanyahu continues to reiterate his claim that there is no starvation in Gaza, saying on Aug. 10: "If we wanted starvation, two million Gazans would not be alive today. If we wanted to carry out genocide, it would have taken exactly one afternoon. There is no policy of starvation; there was a shortage that needed to be stopped. And that is exactly what we are doing." Such statements infuriate President Trump, sources report, who has told Bibi to stop denying the reality "I can see and people can see with their eyes."

Sources report that the plan is being presented to Hamas today in Cairo by Egyptian mediators, who have conveyed the message from Witkoff that it represents the only way to avoid further slaughter of Palestinians in the proposed Israeli occupation, which will start with an assault on Gaza City. The sources say that Hamas has come to realize that "they are over. They can have no political role in Gaza. They will either take this safe passage or be eliminated in bloody battle, that Bibi has proposed. If they take the deal, they will have done some for the people they have ruled over by force, and caused their slaughter with the murderous Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which led to more than 200,000 Palestinian casualties."

Hamas Loses Support as Israeli Opposition Grows

Important in this equation is that Hamas backers—the Iranians—have reportedly told the Hamas leadership that they can no longer supply them with weapons and funds. Their only other source of money and weapons had been Bibi, who had helped create Hamas as a buffer in Gaza against the Palestinian Authority. In order to push through the deal, the Israelis have been promised that the PA will not be part of the new Gazan government.

With the removal of Hamas as the governing authority in Gaza, it is thought that the IDF will play a role in policing the area until a Palestinian structure to do that job can be put in place. There is also the possibility that some Arab nations might assist in this in a transitional role, although none, as of yet, have agreed to do so.

Witkoff and the mediators believe that they have a chance to sell their plan now to the Israelis because of the explosion of opposition to Bibi's Gaza occupation plan, which is strenuously opposed by the leadership of the IDF—including its chief, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir—who have given the mediators some important space and time by insisting that he will not have sufficient forces to carry out Bibi's plans for nearly two months. Zamir has further inflamed opposition by saying that he will need to conscript 200,000 recruits, since reservists are refusing Gaza duty.

Most importantly, Zamir has contradicted Netanyahu's claim that his action could rescue the remaining hostages. Zamir has said that it is likely such action would cause all of them to be killed.

Domestic Unrest and International Condemnation Intensify

"Netanyahu is having trouble selling his usual shtick. He's trying to market the security cabinet's decision to send ground forces into Gaza City as a new move that will finally defeat Hamas. But few are willing to buy this stale promise. Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir is convinced that his more limited plan is better. The far-right parties, which demanded the move, think it doesn't go far enough. And most Israelis would apparently prefer to end the war and sign a hostage deal, even at a high price," so wrote the respected Amos Harel in Haaretz yesterday.

Netanyahu's plan has sparked the largest antiwar demonstrations so far, bringing nearly a million people into the streets over the weekend to demand an end to the war and a peace deal to return the hostages. Polls have shown that the vast majority of Israelis want the war to end, and they are not interested in Bibi's plans to exterminate Hamas. Nor do they support announced plans from the lunatic wing of Bibi's coalition, led by Bezalel Smotrich (Finance Minister) and Itamar Ben-Gvir (National Security Minister), to populate parts of occupied Gaza with Israeli settlements.

Smotrich said he wants large parts of Gaza to remain under Israeli control and be settled, acknowledging that PM Netanyahu opposes the plan. "I don't think this is the right time to have that debate. I'm conducting it behind closed doors – I'm not blowing everything up over it," he told Israel's public broadcaster.

Smotrich and Ben-Gvir will never accept Witkoff's new plan and have denounced previous deals as delaying the moves to destroy Hamas. If Bibi accepts even parts of the plan, the two would leave the coalition and could collapse it. But if the war and protests continue—with the hostage families promising to lead a total shutdown of the Israeli economy—Bibi could lose a vote of confidence in the Knesset in the fall, which would force an election, likely next year.

Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto told the daily La Stampa on Aug. 11 that Israel's offensive in Gaza is not "a military operation with collateral damage, but the pure denial of the law and the founding values of our civilization ... beyond condemnation, we must now find a way to force Netanyahu to think clearly."

"Trump is going to have to force the issue and set the agenda here," said a source with 50 years of experience in the region. "He is going to have to tell Bibi that he is the President of the United States, and 'you will have to do what I say. You have made Israel into a pariah state, which does not have the support for your policies among most Jews in the world and in the U.S. We have worked a plan for get you out of the mess you created, and to end this slaughter of mostly innocent women and children. You will take this deal, or you will suffer the consequences.'

"Bibi can then say he was forced to do this," said the source. "If he gets the remaining hostages returned and he ends the war, then he just might win re-election—if he is not tossed into jail for corruption. This all depends on how committed Trump is to ending the war and returning the hostages. He says he is, but the test of that is coming soon. It is already here."

Aug. 11--Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar (ret) was hired as a security contractor by UG Solutions, the company that was hired to provide security at the food distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)> But what this former Special Forces officer saw caused him to resign his position and speak out against the conduct of the GHF-security, and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), who committing genocide against starving peoples. We present his remarks to the Aug. 8 meeting of the International Peace Coalition> We have added subheads.

LT. COL. ANTHONY AGUILAR (ret.): Thank you, and thank you for having me on this platform. I think a lot of important discussion is happening today.

So, basically my experience was, I was hired as an independent security contractor for UG Solutions, which is a subcontract under a greater contract called Safe Reach Solutions, which is the for-profit contract mechanism under what many have heard of as the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. So, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is kind of the umbrella organization, but the organizations, the companies that are actually executing this humanitarian aid and assistance in Gaza are absolutely for-profit contract companies; they are there making money.

I’ve said it on many platforms in terms of what I’ve witnessed in terms of war crimes. I get a lot of pushback from people saying, “What you described aren’t war crimes.” Well, what I’ve described are exactly war crimes. I don’t prescribe to it being war crimes just because it’s on the news and you see someone beheading someone or somebody doing something grotesque. Those are certainly war crimes. But I call them war crimes based on what is prescribed and directed in the international humanitarian law, further codified therein by the protocols of the Geneva Convention, further codified in the laws of armed conflict. All of these are things that the United States is signatory to, along with Israel. I want to remind everybody that Israel is also a signatory to these things.

Within Gaza, is there a threat in Gaza? The threat of Hamas; the threat of an enemy? There absolutely is; I have never discredited or discounted that. However, there is also a very large, unarmed civilian population that is starving. They are on the brink of famine if they haven’t already crossed into what can be described as famine. That is a fact. And anybody who says that there isn’t mass starvation, or there aren’t starving people in Gaza, that is irresponsible rhetoric and that should be condemned. There is starvation. War crimes are being committed when you have Israel Defense Forces soldiers and UG Solutions American contractors—who, mind you, are in the country on a tourist visa—who are firing at the crowd to control their movements; or firing at the crowd to keep them back from a certain area. That’s just one example: Firing live ammunition, targeting at an unarmed population for the means of controlling them is a war crime.

A Campaign to Dehumanize the Population

So, what all this has shown me, having been there; having been on the ground in Gaza; is that it seems to me that there is an active effort, an active campaign if you will, to dehumanize the population. To label the entire population as the enemy, and then to further dehumanize the population through putting them in a position where they’re literally begging for food. We have set up these distribution sites in areas that, in order to reach them, the Palestinians have to travel many, many kilometers to get there. When they do get there, it is a mass free-for-all, fight for survival if you will, to get food at these locations. This further dehumanizes the population.

My fear is that, based on the current information that is available, the proposal that Netanyahu is putting forth to go and re-occupy or occupy the entirety of Gaza once again, is one, for the interests of the United States. We are complicit in that; they are using American weapons, they are using American bombs. Taxpayers’ dollars are going into an American contract entity, an American contract mechanism that is making money. U.S. tax dollars going into a company that is making money to be a part of this forced displacement if you will; putting Palestinians in danger. Regardless of the politics, beliefs and opinions aside, it is a fact that the distribution sites, the secured distribution sites where humanitarian aid is delivered and distributed in Gaza are built in the engagement areas of active combat zones. That’s a fact; I’ve been there and I’ve seen them. This, in and of itself, inherently puts a civilian population at great risk; just that piece alone should be condemned. The United States is absolutely complicit in that.

If Israel goes into a full occupation of Gaza, it will not be in Israel’s best interests, it will not be in the world’s best interests to occupy Gaza. To try to achieve a military defeat of Hamas is a fool’s errand. Hamas will not be militarily defeated. They have been militarily weakened, their leadership has been devastated. Now is the time for political and diplomatic actions, not military means. We have learned these lessons as a country in Afghanistan, Iraq, the southern Philippines. I’ve been deployed to the southern Philippines in the fight against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. We’ve been there since the 1950s, since the days of General Pershing. We’ve learned that a military defeat of an organization of this nature is not going to achieve success. The full occupation of Gaza is only going to lead to much, much more death of a civilian population. It’s going to pull Israel into a quagmire of a conflict that will have no end. It is going to drag its allies into it with it—of which the United States is one.

I Am Committed to Spreading the Truth

So, I look at it through three different things, if you will. Humanitarian rights, humanitarian law; humanitarian law, Geneva Convention, international laws and treaties that the United States agrees to, that we hold as our values. We are violating those in Gaza every day. It’s like the tail wagging the dog, if you will, in terms of going along with whatever our ally says that we should do, rather than standing up to … Not standing up to our ally, but standing with our ally to hold them accountable for what is right. Because in the end, this is only going to severely damage Israel’s position and credibility on the world stage.

Two, the aspect of perception; that U.S. citizens are in Gaza, armed with fully automatic weapons, stun grenades, shotguns, machine guns, tear gas, used against an unarmed civilian population, mind you, that is starving. They come to these sites to get food. The unarmed population isn’t coming to these sites to protest or coming to these sites to try and incite an attack; they’re coming to these sites because we’re inviting them to come to these sites with food that they need to survive. And then, in return, they’re getting treated as if they were animals; as if they were sub-human. So, there is the aspect of the United States presence on the world stage and our American values. My message in spreading the truth of what I’ve seen in Gaza is not to shame or belittle or criticize or blame. That’s on the world community. My position in this is to bring forth the truth so that the American people and the world have an honest assessment of what’s going on.

I think anyone can agree that with the amount of secrecy in Gaza—no foreign press, no press can go in. No foreign entity or anybody who may speak out against the IDF or Israel. When I think about the secrecy and the hiding of the truth and the doublespeak and the language of “Oh, no one’s being shot, and no one’s starving.” Then when you show ample evidence to the contrary, then the narrative turns to “OK, well some people are starving, and some people are being shot, but Hamas is bad.” You create these red herring arguments. So when you think secrecy, red herring arguments deflecting blame, there are other countries in the world that do that. North Korea. Is that the line-up that we want to be with in terms of how we engage in the world and how we prosecute conflicts and wars? I don’t think so.

The third piece I look to is Israel, an ally, and their position in the world. If they continue down this path to where it is now evident to the world that there is starvation; it is evident to the world that it is seemingly systematic and that it’s done intentionally. If Israel does not change their approach of what they’re doing to include not going forth with a full-scale invasion of Gaza; if they continue on this path, this trajectory, they’re only going to harm their position on the world stage. They will lose allies and supporters, and they will make themselves more of a target and isolate themselves to the point where they will not have support in the future. Again, I always make an attempt to take in all perspectives, everyone’s view, why someone thinks the way they do. I did not lose a close family member or a fellow citizen on October 7th. So, it would be unfair of me to say, “This is how an Israeli or the IDF should feel.” That would be unfair of me to say that.

However, regardless of the justification of a war, regardless of the justification of the reasoning to take action against a perceived enemy, there are values and guidelines and rules and laws and treaties that dictate and establish how that should be done. These maintain responsibility and accountability in our world; that’s what we’ve been doing for hundreds of years. From what I have witnessed, just looking at the facts as they are, there are war crimes being committed in Gaza. There are crimes against humanity being committed in Gaza. If that’s being done intentionally, or just through the mission creep and the fog and friction of war, I don’t know. But I invite the world to investigate and to look at that.

A Day of Reckoning Is Coming

I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again in ending here: A day of atonement, a day of judgment, a day of reckoning is coming. More and more of the world are waking up to what’s going on in Gaza; it cannot be ignored. The months and months and months of “Oh, there’s no starvation. Oh, there’s no mass killing; women and children aren’t dying. That’s all made up.” That rhetoric has been exposed. And a day of reckoning is coming when the world is starting to take a hard, hard look. It’s like a box; and when that box is opened, and we look in there and see what’s truly going on, the world is going to demand accountability. Now is the time—not next week, not next year, not after; now is the time for the United States to stand and hold our ally accountable. Because if we do not, the world is going to hold us accountable right alongside of them; right alongside Israel. It will not be to the benefit of Israel, the United States, and quite frankly the world. The thing is, we know this; we can see it. There’s ample evidence; not just from me, not just from one American who was there. I share these stories with you not as someone who read the newspaper or read an article and applied some kind of opinion to it. I was there on the ground, seeing it with my own eyes, witnessing it firsthand.

But even beyond that, if you can’t take my word for it, the evidence includes Israeli Defense Force soldiers, IDF soldiers who in the last week have come forth to confirm many of the things that I have said. So, what I would ask is, let’s look at the truth and let’s take an honest assessment of our position in the world right now, and choose the right path. Because if we do not, we will be on the wrong side of history as a nation. That’s something that I don’t want, and I’m sure that’s something no one here wants….

The dehumanization aspect is something that I think is something I have seen time and time again. I remember as a young lieutenant, as we were going into Iraq, the post-invasion counterinsurgency world was new to America in terms of conventional war transitioning into a counterinsurgency type war with a long duration of staying in that nation. It’s something the United States as an Army was not prepared for; I’m not saying the United States hadn’t experienced it in other places before—Vietnam, Moro Philippines, other places, etc. But at this scale in terms of a conventional fight transitioning into a counterinsurgency fight to where the conventional army was a player in it. The dehumanization aspect [screen freeze] soldiers. The names and things we give to our enemy, or to just the population. We’ve all heard these horrible things. I’ll say them, not that they’re my beliefs, but they’re things that have been said. In Iraq, we called them ragheads, or in the Philippines just calling the Filipinos [screen blip] and things like that that you hear. This dehumanization not only comes through in how we act, but in our language and what we call people and how that conveys it. The same thing in Gaza; the UG Solutions personnel on the ground, who, by the way, the contract leader, the guy in charge of the contract, is a high-ranking officer in the Infidels Motorcycle Club that claimed to have the downfall of all Arabs and all Muslims. He’s the guy in charge of the security contracts; the guy who wears a tattoo that says “Infidel.” They call the Palestinians the “zombies”; they call them the “shit heads”; they call them just horrible names. All of that is part of the dehumanization. You don’t refer to them as human beings; you refer to them as some name that dehumanizes them. Then it’s easier to not see them as a human. Then when they’re crawling around on the ground, trying to pick up food to survive, they’re subservient to you, and you have all the power. That’s another step of dehumanization. When you lie about their plight, when you lie about their struggle—“Oh, they’re not starving. They’re fine.”—you dehumanize them further.

What’s really sad and striking to me is that dehumanization is not just coming from the uneducated and the ignorant. That dehumanization is coming from the likes of Ambassador Huckabee. “There’s no starvation.” Come on; the American people aren’t dumb; we can see it. Or, what was striking was that Ambassador Huckabee and Mr. Witkoff went to go visit one of the sites in Gaza recently. Parts that were cut out of the mainstream media that I saw, the video that was shot was that they’re saying, “Oh, the IDF aren’t shooting at the civilians.” During their visit, just outside the site, you can hear constant machine gun fire. OK, somebody is shooting somebody. It’s just the blatant lies in the face of the truth that to me is concerning. What changes that is the American people speaking up and saying, “We won’t tolerate that.” But the dehumanization aspect, yes, you and I sir [referring to peace activist and former CIA intelligence officer Ray MacGovern], we’ve seen that. We’ve seen that in conflict; we’ve seen that in places around the world. That is often an approach by one enemy to another to dehumanize the population, because then it makes it more palatable to oppress them.

Aug. 11—According to a New York Times report on Aug. 8, President Donald Trump has secretly signed a directive to the Pentagon authorizing the use of military force against certain Latin American drug cartels that his administration has deemed are terrorist organizations. The order provides an official basis for the possibility of direct military operations at sea and on foreign soil against drug cartels. U.S. military officials have started drawing up options for how the military could go after the groups, according to “people familiar with the conversations.”

But the bulk of the New York Times story focuses on the complex and apparently unresolved host of legal issues that could arise if the U.S. military is used to target drug traffickers in other countries, especially if operations are conducted without Congressional authorization or without the cooperation of the countries involved. It is unclear, the Times says, what White House, Pentagon and State Department lawyers have said about the new directive or whether the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel has produced an authoritative opinion assessing the legal issues.

Mexico has rejected the prospect of U.S. military operations on its territory. “There will be no invasion of Mexico,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said yesterday after the Times story appeared, reported AFP. “We were informed that this executive order was coming and that it had nothing to do with the participation of any military personnel or any institution in our territory,” Sheinbaum told her regular morning press conference. The Mexican Foreign Ministry said later that Mexico “would not accept the participation of U.S. military forces on our territory.”

Sheinbaum’s remarks followed a statement released by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, which said both countries would use “every tool at our disposal to protect our peoples” from drug-trafficking groups. U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ronald Johnson said on X that the countries “face a common enemy: the violent criminal cartels.”

Sources close to the White House report that Trump is struggling with finding a way to take on the cartels, and that he is being pushed by some advisors "to bring in the Marines," said one source. "Direct military action is not necessarily the most effective way to fight these people. Some advisors, close to Director of National Intelligence (DNI) say the best way to fight is to bust up the protection racket that the international banking system runs for the cartel, which pass trillions of dollars through banks, and provide them with both liquidity and profits. If you can block these cash flows, both the cartels and the corrupt banks that service and use them would be put out of business. Then, it is not a very complex law enforcement operation to mop them up, in which the government of Mexico, with some logistical and other support provided by the U.S., can handle the job."

But the banks are going to fight to keep control of the massive money flows of "Dope, Inc.", which they launder on a daily basis for the cartels. "Maybe we should do as FDR and his friend and ally, former Marine commandant Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler proposed—send the Marines into Wall Street to take on the real enemy of our republic."

This and other sources also reported that there are people in the Southern Command who would like to have a military base in Mexico. Trump is reportedly opposed to this, which would make Mexico feel like a colony, and which they would strenuously resist. The idea of the base or bases was being pushed as part of the plans to control the border, which has proven to be unnecessary, in part, thanks to cooperation from the Mexican government.

Aug. 11—Chinese rail engineers have given thought since at least 2014 to the construction requirements for the Bering Strait tunnel required to build a “China-Russia-Alaska-Canada-U.S. high-speed railroad.” In May of that year, one of China’s most famous tunnel and rail engineers, Wang Mengshu, outlined China’s overall ambitious plans for building transcontinental high-speed railroads globally in an interview with Beijing Times.

The fourth of the transcontinental trunklines he identified caught international attention: the idea of linking Eurasia to Canada and the United States. Wang reported that planning was beginning on an estimated 13,000 km route, “starting from the northeast and heading north, through Siberia to the Bering Strait, crossing the Pacific Ocean by building a tunnel to Alaska, then going from Alaska to Canada, and finally to the United States.” He estimated that crossing the Bering Strait would require approximately 200 km of tunnels, “a technology used in the high-speed rail tunnel from Fujian to Taiwan, and the necessary technology is already in place.”

“If it is completed, people from China to the United States will no longer need to take a plane. They can take the high-speed rail to see the scenery of many countries along the way. According to the design speed of 350 km per hour, passengers can reach the United States in less than two days by high-speed rail,” he told Beijing Times.

Hearing of Wang’s interview, U.S. rail expert Hal Cooper, a champion for the Bering Strait tunnel for decades together with the Schiller Institute, told Russia’s RIA Novosti that while the political obstacles to Chinese, Russian, American cooperation may remain, “after this announcement by the Chinese, [the project] will never be suppressed. It’s never going to be swept back under the rug again.”

Seven months later, Wang told the New York Times in a December 18 interview, that the Bering Strait crossing "is a wish and a dream of not only China’s railway experts but also railway engineers in Russia, Canada and the U.S. whom I have spoken to. The technology developments in recent years in high-speed railway and underwater tunnels make it possible. It is a dream, but one that is within reach.

“The Chinese central government is not seriously considering it, not yet,” he reported. “But why not? We have the technology, and it is a good thing to do. It would benefit generations to come, and the environment. As railway engineers, we think it would be a great legacy to leave for future generations. It would connect continents. It would be a grand structure of human engineering.”

The New York Times wanted to know what the chances are that this grand idea would ever be built. Wang answered:

“That depends entirely on politics, because we have the technology. It depends on whether governments of the four countries can work together, make this dream come true and leave this amazing legacy for our children…. Some governments like to spend their resources on fighting wars. I think building a railway is far more meaningful than fighting wars.” 

Aug. 11—Writing on his X page Aug. 9, Russian Direct Investment Fund CEO and special presidential envoy for investment and economic cooperation Kirill Dmitriev said that Russian President Vladimir Putin and American President Donald Trump, who will be meeting in Alaska on Aug. 15, should commit their countries to developing cooperation in the Arctic and beyond.

“Born as Russian America—Orthodox roots, forts, fur trade—Alaska echoes those ties and makes the U.S. an Arctic nation. Let’s partner on the environment, infrastructure, and energy in the Arctic and beyond,” Dmitriev wrote. Dmitriev included with his post a picture of railroad tracks extending in the direction of Alaska’s high mountains.

Also posted in the comments section of Dmitriev’s X account is a simple post by the Schiller Institute’s Daniel Burke, “Time for the Bering Strait Tunnel,” to which Dmitriev responded: “Possibly yes.”

On his Telegram channel, Dmitriev warned that there would be efforts to derail the Trump-Putin summit. “A number of countries that are interested in continuing the conflict, will make enormous efforts (involving provocations and disinformation) to disrupt the upcoming meeting between President Putin and President Trump,” he wrote, according to TASS.

It was Dmitriev who greeted Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff, when his plane landed in Moscow earlier this week for his meeting with President Putin. At that time Witkoff commented: “We see vast potential for mutually beneficial collaboration, including with U.S. investors in Arctic projects, rare earth metals and infrastructure development,” he said.

Aug. 11—There is no starvation in Gaza, repeated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, the Butcher of Gaza, at an Aug. 10 news conference. When asked about the matter, he lied that, while there was “deprivation” in Gaza, “no one in Gaza would have survived after two years of war” if Israel was implementing a “starvation policy.” He sidestepped the question about people starving to death, to passively deny there was a “starvation policy” being implemented to effectively kill everyone that won’t “leave voluntarily.” He was also never asked whether there is a “starvation policy” whose primary aim might be, not to directly kill everyone, but to drive everyone out of Gaza. There are historical examples in 1940s Poland and in Nazi Germany, where similar policies were carried out. In World War II’s concentration camps, the mission was to work the inmates (including the Reich’s political enemies) to death and to gas the ones that were deemed no longer worthy to be worked to death.

Netanyahu lied, as he has been doing repeatedly, since being warned by President Donald Trump last week to stop claiming that people are not starving, when everyone can see that they are. "If his mouth is moving, then he is lying<' said one source close to the White House. "President Trump, for one, does not believe his lies, believing hsi own eyes instead." This and other sources say that Trump will be announcing a comprehensive U.S. to halt the starvation and ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza last this week, perhaps before his Aug. 15 summit in Alaska with President Vladimir Putin of Russia.

What follows is a brief summary overview of the policy of the Netanyahu government using food in Gaza as a weapon:

The UN and related agencies had no logistical blockages to getting 600 trucks/day into Gaza during the February ceasefire. That was completely stopped in March and April. From May through July, a total of 5,100 trucks have gotten in, not quite 57/day—or 8 days worth of aid over 91 days. And that figure included the late July “upsurge” response by Israel. Yet July averaged only 72/day. As of Aug. 10, the daily figure for people starved to death and for people shot dead trying to get aid was at 11 apiece. There are still more people in the latter category (around 900 at or around the GHF sites) than the former (around 150 known cases).

The so-called Gaza Humanitarian Fund claimed that they distributed 7.6 million “meals” last week. While that is certainly a record high for them, they don’t actually distribute meals. (The World Food Program, e.g., used to distribute meals.) The GHF figure has devised the amount of 40-lb boxes employed as the prize in a bizarre pre-dawn, 8-minute scramble—what have been called by its critics “hunger games.” The figure of 7.6 million “meals” translates into 19,000 boxes/day for the more than 1 million Gazans in southern Gaza.

What happens in this real-life “hunger game” is that about 8,000-10,000 people walk some 5 miles in the dark to line up, under gunfire, at each of four sites. Some 4,000-5,000 boxes are distributed at each site. Those lucky ones who get a 40-lb box try to walk the 5 miles back, and the other 4-5,000 are supposed to take it in stride and leave the winners alone. And to get the boxes back to their families, they have to avoid criminal gangs—some armed and financed by the Israelis—who can avoid the 10-mile trek.

Do those boxes translate into 57 meals per box? That would require access to water and cooking fuel. Normal aid, last February and pre-October 7, included water and cooking fuel. However, since February, no water has been delivered, and two (that is, 2) trucks of cooking gas have been delivered. Normal deliveries of cooking gas were 8 truckloads/day, so Gaza has received in the last 5 months one quarter of one day’s cooking gas. Brackish water, with salt and waste, has been used, creating widespread diseases.

No nation that imposes this mass death on others can remain fit to survive for long, nor can nations who choose to look the other way at what is going on.

Aug. 11—The prominent Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko, a critic of both the 2014 coup in Kiev, and the war policy of NATO dictator Volodymyr Zelenskyy, had, as of July 2025, over 2 million subscribers to her YouTube account. However, as of Aug. 8, YouTube has now shut it down.

A former Journalist of the Year, Panchenko was a presenter on a Kiyv TV channel beginning in 2010 and on “NewsOne” TV in 2015. The latter was associated with Victor Medvedchuk, head of the “For Life” party. She’s hosted several shows since then, and was very well-known in Ukraine. Zelenskyy then imposed sanctions on Taras Kozak, the owner of NewsOne, and other media outlets. Panchenko then co-founded the Journalists’ Protection Club movement. In 2022, she interviewed people in Mariupol and a captured Azov defender Mykhailo Shvets, for her video “From Kyiv to Donbass.” In late 2022, she left Kiev for Donetsk.

She is listed on the infamous Myrotvorets list as an “Anti-Ukrainian propagandist.” They note that: “Comprehensive measures are underway to bring the defendant to justice for crimes against Ukraine” and that her “Liquidation date” has not been filled in. Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council placed her under sanctions in January 2023. The NSDC’s “Center for Countering Disinformation” listed her on its March 2024 report for the crime of “spreading hostile disinformation on TikTok.”

YouTube’s action, shutting out her 2 million subscribers, can only raise concerns regarding Panchenko’s security. 

Aug. 11—Following up on criminal referrals that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard submitted to Attorney General Pam Bondi, on the manufacture of the “Russiagate” narrative, Vice President J.D. Vance told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo Aug. 10 that indictments were coming for “defrauding the American people, defrauding the intelligence agencies, lying about what the intel said…. That’s a violation of the people’s trust, that’s a violation of what our intelligence services should be doing, and I absolutely think they broke the law. You’re going to see a lot of people get indicted for that.” 

Aug. 11-- Schiller Institute Founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche released today the following open letter to President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin. The letter is copied to Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The letter is accompanied by three articles from EIR magazine on May 4, 2007, on constructing a Bering Strait tunnel, through which would pass a rail line that unites the rail systems of Eurasia with those of the Americas. The addresses for three of the EIR articles that would accompany Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche’s letter are presented immediately below: “Russian-American Team: World Needs Bering Strait Tunnel!”; “Mendeleyev Would Have Agreed;” “Origins of the Bering Strait Project.”

To President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin:

When you are meeting in Alaska on August 15, the fate of humanity lies in your hands. Against all the attempts by the opponents of peace, you can not only bring the war in Ukraine to an end, and with it eliminate the Sword of Damocles of the nuclear extinction of the human species at least over this conflict, but you can also reintroduce diplomacy into the relation of the two most powerful nuclear nations on the planet.

But there is something even more elevated you can do, by not only fighting off the threats facing mankind, but by giving the whole world a beautiful vision for the future. You could agree to build a corridor across the Bering Strait, and with that rail and tunnel project unite the rail systems of Eurasia with those of the Americas. This project would open up for development the vast untapped resources of Siberia, as well as the U.S. Arctic resources of oil, gas, precious metals of all kinds, as well as fresh water. Siberia and the Russian Far East hold the largest deposits of raw materials of all the elements which one can find in Mendeleyev’s Periodic Table, and the joint development of these resources, to which many other resource-poor countries could be invited, could become the perfect war-avoidance program and greatly enhance the prosperity of the world.

In the not so distant future, one could then travel by high-speed railroad around the world, from the most southern tips of Argentina and Chile in Ushuaia and Puerto Williams, all way through the Americas, then through the Bering Strait, across Eurasia, then with a tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar, travel all the way through the African continent to the Cape of Good Hope.

The Bering Strait Tunnel project has been studied and promoted over decades by leading scientific and political figures in the United States, Russia and China, as is documented in the attached set of articles from EIR magazine, dating back to 2007, as well as an 8-minute video prepared by Dr. Victor Razbegin, deputy chairman of the SOPS, Russia’s Council for the Study of Productive Forces, which won the Grand Prize for Innovation at the Shanghai World Expo 2010.

The Bering Strait Tunnel and related great infrastructure projects could also serve as the basis for further in-depth discussions among Presidents Trump, Putin and China’s Xi Jinping, should President Trump be invited and agree to attend the 80th anniversary celebration of the end of World War II, to be held in China on Sept. 3—as I have earlier proposed.

This project for integrated infrastructure of the whole world as the basis for development will lay the basis for ending war as a means of conflict resolution forever. The hope of humanity rests on you!

Respectfully Yours,

Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Founder, Schiller Institute

Aug. 11, 2025

cc.: President Xi Jinping 

Aug. 11—Israel’s escalated attack on Gaza City Aug. 10 targeted and hit a tent housing journalists, outside the main gate of the Al-Shifa Hospital, killing five journalists and two others. Al Jazeera reported that their well-known journalist Anas al-Sharif was among the dead. The other four deceased are Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh, and its camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa.

The Al Jazeera Media Network condemned the killings as “yet another blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom…. This attack comes amid the catastrophic consequences of the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza, which has seen the relentless slaughter of civilians, forced starvation, and the obliteration of entire communities. The order to assassinate Anas al-Sharif, one of Gaza’s bravest journalists, and his colleagues, is a desperate attempt to silence the voices exposing the impending seizure and occupation of Gaza.”

Shortly before his death, al-Sharif posted on X that Israel had launched intense, concentrated bombardment—also known as “fire belts”—on the eastern and southern parts of Gaza City. His last video showed flashes of orange light with loud bombs of missile bombing. He commented, translated to English: “Nonstop bombing…. For the past two hours, the Israeli aggression on Gaza City has intensified.”

An Isreal Defense Force (IDF) statement claimed that al-Sharif headed a Hamas cell and “advancing rocket attacks against Israeli civilians and troops.” It claimed documents, not revealed, proved his involvement with Hamas. Muhammed Shehada, an analyst at the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, said there was “zero evidence” that al-Sharif took part in any hostilities. “His entire daily routine was standing in front of a camera from morning to evening.”

Lethal targeting of the journalist was in evidence last month, when IDF spokesman Avichai Adraee shared a video on social media that accused al-Sharif of being a member of Hamas’s military wing. Irene Khan, the United Nations special rapporteur on freedom of expression, said that she was “deeply alarmed by repeated threats and accusations of the Israeli army” against al-Sharif. “Fears for al-Sharif’s safety are well-founded as there is growing evidence that journalists in Gaza have been targeted and killed by the Israeli army on the basis of unsubstantiated claims that they were Hamas terrorists.” The IDF has killed more than 200 reporters and media workers since Oct. 7, 2023.

Al Jazeera released a statement from al-Sharif, written on April 6, in the event of his death. He said that he “lived the pain in all its details” and “tasted grief and loss repeatedly. Despite that, I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or misrepresentation, hoping that God would witness those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing, and those who suffocated our very breaths. Not even the mangled bodies of our children and women moved their hearts or stopped the massacre that our people have been subjected to for over a year and a half.”

He also expressed sorrow for having to leave behind his wife, Bayan, and for not seeing his son, Salah, and daughter, Sham, grow up. 

Aug. 11—Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, reflecting on the combined but uneven evolving state of U.S.-Russian relations, said in an interview with Rossiya-1 Aug. 10, “some sprouts of common sense are appearing in the dialogue with the U.S., which have been sorely lacking in recent months and years.”

He, at the same time, discussed Russia’s recent decision to lift its self-imposed ban on deploying intermediate range missiles, ascribing the Russian change in policy to the need to respond to what “the Americans and their allies, especially the European warmongers, are undertaking.” In his interview with Rossiya-1, Ryabkov made it clear that besides the now-famous Oreshnik missile, Russia has developed other advanced missile technologies.

“Oreshnik—yes, but we have other [weapons]. We did not waste time…. I cannot dwell on what I am not supposed to, but, we have such weapons.” TASS news agency reported: “Commenting on the potential deployment of Russian weapons to new regions, Ryabkov noted, ‘It would be absolutely wrong, irresponsible of me to disclose concrete geographical locations.’ ‘We always have a lot of options on the table and we never exclude anything for us,’ he added.”

TASS then reminded some, and recounted for the first time for others, the wildly dangerous days of the Biden Administration and NATO’s deployment, via Ukraine, of long-range missile attacks on Russia last fall. “Russian President Vladimir Putin said on November 21 [2024] that the United States and its NATO allies had announced their approval of the use of long-range precision weapons. Following this announcement, Russian military sites in the Kursk and Bryansk regions were attacked with American and British missiles. In response, Russia used its newest intermediate-range ballistic missile, the Oreshnik, in a non-nuclear strike targeting Ukraine’s Yuzhmash defense plant in Dnepr (formerly known as Dnepropetrovsk). The Russian President warned that the West could bring upon itself heavy consequences, should its inflammatory policies prompt further escalation of the conflict.”

This—both the potential for sanity, and the present reality of a reckless escalation that could prove unstoppable past a certain point—is the true, “nuanced” circumstance of the Friday Aug. 15 Trump-Putin summit in Alaska. 

May 12—Sources report that European leaders, led by British Prime Minister Sir Keith Starmer, sabotaged a plan that would have brought Ukrainian and Russian officials into direct talks to end NATO’s war against Russia in Ukraine, with a full-stop 30-day ceasefire in place.

President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff had reportedly worked out a plan designed to address Russian President Vladimir Putin’s objections to what he called a “fake” ceasefire—one that would allow Ukraine to resupply and reposition its frontline forces. Witkoff’s proposal called for Ukraine and its European allies to recognize the three-day truce Putin had declared to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat as a step toward broader peace.

Under the plan, they would then request an extension of the truce, with a commitment that Ukraine’s allies would halt arms shipments for 30 days and that both sides would agree to freeze military movements along the front lines—a ceasefire in place.

European Opposition Derails the Plan

Sources report that Trump briefed NATO-backed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the deal in a phone conversation and instructed him to agree. But when European leaders—led by Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron—gathered in Kyiv last weekend, the situation shifted.

According to sources, Starmer and Macron told Zelenskyy that he should make no concessions on arms resupply or troop movements and that the truce should come without conditions. They reportedly argued that Trump and the U.S. were “caving in” to Putin’s demands. Zelenskyy agreed, maintaining that he would only consider a ceasefire without conditions before engaging in direct talks.

Furious over what he saw as European sabotage, Trump then instructed Witkoff to tell the Russians to proceed with direct negotiations—without a ceasefire—and pledged to bring Zelenskyy to the table. Putin made his offer in a Moscow press conference overnight on May 10-11.

Initially, Zelenskyy—backed by European leaders—rejected the proposal, insisting that Russia must first implement a 30-day ceasefire to demonstrate “good faith.” In response, Trump erupted in a social media post, demanding that Zelenskyy immediately accept the Russian offer.

Next Steps in Negotiations

After some hesitation, Zelenskyy announced that he would travel to Istanbul on May 15 to meet with Russian representatives, adding that they “had better show up.”

“Trump has told people that this war could have been over a long time ago if it weren’t for Europe and NATO, who want the bloodbath to continue,” a source familiar with the discussions said. “If it were up to Trump, the Europeans would have no part in any of this. He remains totally committed to ending the war on fair and reasonable terms. If the Europeans don’t agree, then ‘maybe I should consider bombing London.’”

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