by Running Girl
Jan. 24—Some people believe that because they have billions of dollars or positions of power, they can speak nonsensical schemes into being. Some recent examples follow:
• Venezuela is doing great and America will be sharing the oil revenue, which will lead to an economic boom for the Venezuelan economy.
• We’re going to blockade all funds and petroleum from reaching Cuba, and they’ll soon make a deal.
• ICE Agents in Minneapolis need to be protected from protesters by the local police, who, themselves, are also being harassed by ICE if they are non-white and not in uniform. Keeping ICE agents safe will calm things down.
• Russia is going to make concessions to Ukraine and can be pressured into ending the war by imposing new sanctions.
• Greenlanders and Canadians want to be part of the United States.
• The U.S. and Israel could easily crush Iran.
• Gaza will be rebuilt into a beautiful resort in less than three years, and 2 million Palestinians will happily reside there.
• After a nuclear war, the important thing is to make sure we have enough weapons left over to remain the global hegemon.
• The Golden Dome will shield all of North America from nuclear weapons.
• President Donald Trump has presided over the greatest economic recovery in American history, rivaled only by the recovery that Joe Biden believes he created.
Many of these rich fools gathered in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum, presided over by its interim co-chair, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, who is selling shares in Ukraine to those who have already purchased several versions of the Brooklyn Bridge.
It is the job of the collaborators of Lyndon and Helga Zepp-LaRouche to stand for the truth.
On Jan. 22 there were two important contributions to the effort to puncture the dome of delusion covering most of North America and Western Europe.
First were the comments of Ted Postol, Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology, and National Security Policy at MIT, who participated in the 138th meeting of the International Peace Coalition Jan. 23 at the request of “General Commander Helga LaRouche” as he put it. He demolished the argument for taking Greenland as a matter of “national security” for the United States and for the functioning of the mythical “Golden Dome,” which the Trump Administration is promoting.
Postol demonstrated with a series of charts and graphics that to merely track and knock out one ICBM in its launch phase would require no less than 1,200 satellites, and that to handle 100 missiles launched simultaneously, 120,000 satellites would be required. This is a physical impossibility, which, even if it were possible, would cost in the tens of trillions of dollars, which no one can afford.
In a few minutes this scientist demonstrated that all of the arguments made in Donald Trump’s bizarre letter to Norway’s prime minister had no basis in reality.
The second intervention was made by Col. (ret.) Douglas Macgregor, a friend and collaborator of independent Presidential candidate Diane Sare, who released a powerful 10-minute video in his capacity as CEO of the “National Conversation.”
In the video, entitled “Nuclear Gain of Function,” he warns that on Feb. 5 the START Treaty expires, and President Donald Trump has not responded to President Vladimir Putin’s suggestion that they agree to extend it until a new arms-control treaty can be negotiated.
Macgregor says that an electrician visiting your home is subject to more safety regulations than people making nuclear bombs, and that “gain of function” research on nuclear lethality will have no limit, and there are no guardrails to protect the population from even an accidental launch.
Colonel Macgregor makes a bold proposal to President Donald Trump, telling him to “Champion a global agreement of NO FIRST USE of nuclear weapons” among all nine nuclear weapons powers. Macgregor goes on to name the nations that possess nuclear weapons, including Israel, which has never formally acknowledged its nuclear weapons capability.
The billionaire elites are going to discover that just because they declare the Moon is made of green cheese doesn’t make it so, and the universe will not comply to their whims. The question is how many human beings will have to pay a terrible price for the efforts of the fools attempting to impose their fantasies on the rest of us.
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by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Dec. 9--The following statement has been released by the Schiller Institute for immediate circulation internationally. It was written as a rallying call during this period of change and new strategic openings, and individuals are encouraged to endorse it. Subheads have been added.
Although the recently published U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) was received by some leading circles in Europe with a mixture of gnashing of teeth, temper tantrums, and despair, it should be considered, under the circumstances, as having usefully provoked a crisis that was long overdue. It represents a break with the Biden administration’s security doctrine regarding U.S. leadership in a unipolar world order in favor of a more balanced policy toward Russia. But at the same time, it advocates for the losing strategy of trying to contain China, and, in particular, stop its economic cooperation with the nations of the Global South, especially in the Western Hemisphere. Under today’s conditions of a financial meltdown of the Trans-Atlantic system, the new document has created the opportunity for a rational reassessment of one’s own security interests and the redesign of the international security architecture.
The document expressly prohibits further expansion of NATO, which de facto rules out NATO membership for Ukraine, since the so-called “coalition of the willing” cannot impose such membership against the will of the U.S. It also effectively ends the concept of a “global NATO”, as well as the “interoperability” of the European Union (EU) with this global NATO.
Instead of huffing and puffing about not needing “advice from outside”, as German Foreign Minister Wadephul put it, Europeans would do better to take seriously the admittedly harsh wake-up call contained in the NSS paper, namely that the European continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years if the current trends of economic decline continue. It even warns of a “civilizational erasure”.
A Warning Not to Be Dismissed
The biggest mistake we in Europe could make right now would be to arrogantly dismiss this warning as further proof of President Trump’s unpredictability. For the “civilizational erasure” of Europe is a threat not only because of the continuation of the current economic policy—massive austerity in all social areas to the benefit of an unscrupulous arms industry—but even more imminently by the absolutely irresponsible and hopeless attempt to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia.
The new U.S. NSS offers a much-needed opportunity to withdraw from NATO, as it pursues a strategy that has not corresponded to our fundamental security interests for quite some time. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO should have been dissolved, just as the Warsaw Pact was in 1991, in favor of a peace order for the 21st century which would have been entirely possible at the time. Instead, NATO transformed itself from a formerly defensive alliance into an offensive alliance. The final straw came when the highest-ranking NATO military officer, Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, chair of the NATO Military Committee, recently called in an interview for a “more aggressive response by NATO to the war in Ukraine”. A “preemptive strike” against Russia, he said, was also conceivable, which could of course be considered a “defensive action”. George Orwell, anyone? “Attack is defense, war is peace!”
President Putin responded with unmistakable clarity that Russia had no intention of starting a war with Europe. He had already emphasized this hundreds of times. However, if Europe itself were to start such a war, he added, Russia would be “immediately ready” and such a conflict would be ended very quickly in Russia’s favor, unlike the “surgical” approach used in Ukraine. Russian political scientist Sergei Karaganov was even more direct in an interview with Eva Peli on October 30 in Moscow, stating that if a major war broke out in Europe, Europe would cease to exist.
End the War in Ukraine Now
While serious efforts are being made by the American and Russian governments to end the war through negotiations, the European “coalition of the willing,” consisting of Germany, France, Great Britain, Poland, the Baltic states, and the EU Commission, continues to focus on inflicting a “strategic defeat” on Russia. It must be clear to any thinking person that this is impossible against what is now the world’s strongest nuclear power, unless one is willing to accept the end of humanity. Following the recent meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjártó accused these European forces of trying to prevent peace efforts and drag Europe into a war with Russia. Hungarian Prime Minister Orban even warned on Saturday (Dec. 6) in Kecskemet that European leaders had already decided to go to war against Russia and that a large Hungarian delegation would visit Moscow in the coming days.
Despite the fact that in Germany, every statement about the war in Ukraine must repeat the mantra that it is “Putin’s unprovoked war of aggression in violation of international law” to avoid being labeled a Putin puppet, the near-unanimous view throughout the Global South and among American experts such as Jeffrey Sachs, John Mearsheimer, Ray McGovern, Chas Freeman, and many others, is that it was NATO’s fivefold eastward expansion by 1,000 km —contrary to the promise made at the end of the Cold War not to expand NATO “one inch” to the east—that triggered the war. By early 2022, offensive weapons systems near the Russian border had effectively created a reverse Cuban Missile Crisis, and Putin’s appeals for legally binding security guarantees were simply ignored.
The war could have ended in March 2022 with the Istanbul Agreement between Putin and Zelenskyy, which was notoriously sabotaged by then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Now, after almost four years of grueling war and the loss of millions of lives, there is no denying what the former Inspector General of the German Armed Forces and former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Gen. (ret.) Harald Kujat, has repeatedly emphasized: that Ukraine has never been in a position to turn the strategic situation around – and certainly not now, when entire sections of the front are collapsing, when frontline troops and forced conscripts are deserting in droves, and when international military experts openly discuss the fact that the war has been lost. In this situation, for the highest-ranking NATO officer to talk about preventive strikes is highly irresponsible and amounts to a call for collective suicide.
In the nearly four years that this war of attrition has lasted, neither the EU Commission nor European heads of state have made any attempt to end the war through negotiations. On the contrary, when a diplomatic solution between Putin and Zelenskyy was practically agreed upon in March 2022 with the Istanbul Agreement, Europe, and of course then-President Biden, watched in silence as Boris Johnson squelched the opportunity. Now, when there is a justified prospect that the war can be ended by Trump and Putin, and relations between the two largest nuclear powers can be normalized, NATO is talking about preventive strikes!
Building a New World Order
NATO is no longer an Atlantic defense alliance but considers itself as the military arm to defend the unipolar world order that has been pursued since the end of the Cold War. But that order has long since been replaced by the partnership between countries of the Global South, which are no longer willing to submit to the imperial and colonial structures of the collective West, but are building a new world economic order with their BRICS and SCO organizations, based on sovereignty and mutual and equal development. We must not oppose this new world order, which brings 500 years of colonialism to an end, and allows the nations of the Global Majority to overcome poverty and underdevelopment for the first time. We must rather cooperate with these countries and thus open a new chapter in human history!
In these times of epochal change, several regional crises have the potential to escalate into a major war. Following the ongoing catastrophe in the Middle East, a new and highly dangerous escalation between Japan and China has recently broken out. Now that Prime Minister Takaichi has questioned the One China policy, which is indisputable under international law, and even raised the possibility of Japanese military intervention in Taiwan, concern is growing throughout the Indo-Pacific region about the resurgence of militarism in Japan, which is very similar to that occurring in Europe, and evokes the most terrible memories of the joint action of the Axis powers in World War II, which was responsible for 27 million deaths in the Soviet Union and 35 million casualties in China.
If we have learned anything from the two world wars, then now is the time to reconnect to where we left off at the end of the Cold War, when we took the wrong turn. At that time, there was no longer an enemy, so it would have been very easy to establish a new international peace order. Today, 35 years later, the complete fallacy of the arrogant and short-lived prediction of the “end of history” is evident, as is the enormous boomerang effect of the attempt to establish a unipolar world order.
Each respective country must announce its withdrawal from NATO and, at the same time, convene a new conference in the tradition of the Peace of Westphalia, at which a new international security and development architecture must be developed that takes into account the interests of every nation on this planet.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has already proposed a similar approach with his Global Governance Initiative. President Putin has also raised the idea of a Eurasian security architecture. There is also hope because young people in Germany are participating in a school strike, since they neither want to serve as cannon fodder nor shoot people in foreign countries.
We have reached a point in the universal history of mankind where we must leave behind not only half a millennium of colonialism, but also the mindset that led to two world wars in the 20th century: geopolitics. We must leave behind, once and for all, the barbaric idea that we always need an enemy, that man is a wolf to man, as Thomas Hobbes, the ideologist of the British Empire, believed. This barbaric view of humanity is expressed in NATO’s promotional video “From Foresight to Warfight,” which states: “War will always remain an essential human endeavor, the manipulation of emotions and understanding will be just as important as denying access to our space, the human mind will be the a battlefield in its own right…” Anyone who watches this video and does not reject this sick worldview has already lost the battle for his or her own mind.
We are the only species known in the universe that is endowed with creative reason, and we must now use it by putting the idea of one humanity first as we establish a new order.
After suffering a massive outage that caused our servers to go down, we are now back in operation—to the great chagrin of those forces who tried to take us out. Speir strives to tell you the things that really no one wants you to know, because they prefer to keep you all in the dark about a world that is slipping out of control of the Anglo-American networks that have more or less held that control since the end of World War II. There are changes taking place which hold out great hope for the future, while the enemies of such change drive the world towards a nuclear Armageddon. The survival of the human race depends on whether people will choose to think differently than they have for the last more than 50 year, or whether like witless lemmings, they continue their march towards a cliff that they refuse to see, or have been rendered so stupid by incompetent leaders and a brainwashing global propaganda machine, that they cannot see. Speir pledges to let you peer beyond the haze of propaganda, to the truth of your circumstances. But as the saying goes, you can bring a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink. What you do with we what we present is your choice. Let the dialogue continue.
We have been down for about 2 weeks, and a lot has happened in that time that the enemies of truth and change had wanted you not to see. Rather to go back, we will provide over the next days important updates on the battlefronts we have been covering, as well as cover some important events that have recently taken place.
We move forward, without hesitation into a future, fraught with danger, but which offers the seeds of hope for a new age of peace, progress and prosperity. Our enemies, such as Global NATO, are not happy about that, and that is very good. So, we begin, anew.
Aug. 5—President Donald Trump has announced that his Special Envoy Steve Witkoff will arrive in Moscow possibly as soon as tomorrow, at the request of the Russian leadership, for meetings which will likely include one or more with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The visit and the meetings come in advance of Trump's announced Aug. 8 deadline for progress on a ceasefire in Ukraine, that would avoid the imposition of a new regime of sanctions on Russia, which Trump himself has speculated are unlikely to halt Russia's advance against NATO's proxy, Ukraine, on the battlefield.
Ceasefire Proposal Sparks Alarm in Kyiv
Sources close to the White House report that Witkoff is prepared to hammer out the outlines of a ceasefire proposal that might be acceptable to the Kremlin and Putin, but which will send NATO's Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelenskyy into a rug-chewing fit. The basic concept, these sources say, is for a ceasefire in place—a halt in the fighting where existing battlelines are. In addition, Russia and Ukraine would agree to not fortify or resupply their positions during the ceasefire that would allow for real peace talks to take place, likely in Istanbul. But most important, the United States would agree to force Ukraine to discuss the adjustment in its borders, reflecting the fact that four eastern oblasts and the Crimea have become part of the Russian Federation. Zelenskyy has said that he would never cede even one inch of Ukraine's territory to the Russian "invaders," a position that Trump has called insane.
Zelenskyy, these sources say, is hysterical with fear that the U.S. will sell out his position to get a ceasefire. He reportedly has been frantically calling the White House, who have found reasons for Trump to not be available to take his call. The pint-sized dictator has also been calling his NATO allies in Germany, Great Britain, and France to urge them to back his position on territory concessions and to ask what Trump is really doing. They have been forced to admit to him that they have no idea what Trump and Witkoff are up to because no one has briefed them. “We expect something to happen,” they have told him, “but we have no idea what.”
Backchannel Diplomacy and Leadership Shifts
The White House sources say despite the recent bellicose threats towards Russia from Trump, Witkoff and his minions have been in touch with their backchannels in Moscow and have been working on getting things moving for a new round of talks. This has included working on getting Putin to agree to meet with Zelenskyy to discuss the terms of a peace agreement. Putin and his spokesmen now say such a meeting is possible, if preparations are made in advance by "experts" on both sides; that is key and code for progress in the negotiations and an agreement on a ceasefire.
The White House sources say that they are aware that the Ukrainian dictator is likely on the way out. Trump, they say, is making his push now for a ceasefire/peace deal because he believes that within weeks or sooner the Ukrainian military position will become untenable, and its lines are likely to collapse. Key elements of the Ukrainian military leadership share this assessment and want a negotiated end to the war to take place immediately. If Zelenskyy cannot consummate such a deal, then he will be replaced.
Trump-Putin Meeting Floated Amid Nuclear Tensions
"So, there are many moving parts here," said a source. "Trump's methods are chaotic, often contradictory, and even dangerous. But he and Witkoff may pull a rabbit out of the hat." This and other sources confirm one thing that would be discussed is a possible meeting, soon, between Putin and Trump, to de-escalate and put relations between the two superpowers back on a better track.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made very measured remarks overall about this Aug. 4, and in answer to questions about threats. Asked about Trump’s July 31 announcement that he had ordered two nuclear submarines into “appropriate regions” regarding Russia, Peskov noted that submarines are deployed all the time, “This is an ongoing process.” When asked about Trump objecting to remarks made by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev last week, Peskov pointed out that the West—for example in Europe—has many who make tough statements; and as for policy, it is made by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin. He said that Russia “does not wish to become involved” in an exchange over nuclear threats.
June 18—Twenty-one Islamic countries have signed a statement condemning Israel’s attack on Iran. In a joint statement issued June 16, the Foreign Ministries rejected what they described as violations of international law and Israeli actions that threaten regional security, reported the Egyptian daily Al Ahram. The statement calls for the respect of sovereignty, territorial integrity, and for the peaceful resolution of disputes. It warned that the Israel-Iran conflict risked spiraling further and called for an immediate ceasefire and return to calm. It also voiced concern over the broader regional fallout of the escalation.
The statement also called for renewed negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, describing diplomacy as the only viable path to a lasting agreement. The statement concluded that dialogue and adherence to international law—not military action—were essential to resolving the crisis. Iran had issued an urgent appeal to halt the war, and restart negotiations with the United States, that President Donald Trump has yet to formally respond to. Despite Trump's threatening bluster and hinting that the U.S. might join the war, sources close to the White House report that his emissaries are exploring restarting negotiations.
Signatories include Egypt, Algeria, Bahrain, Brunei, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Iraq, Gambia, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Mauritania, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Türkiye, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates.
According to Iran’s Mehr News, the statement was initiated by Egypt, following consultations between Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and his counterparts in the other 20 countries.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov highlighted the statement when he spoke with Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty today, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported. “The unprecedented escalation in the Middle East” was the main topic of discussion, with both ministers expressing their “profound concern regarding Israel’s use of force against Iran, which constitutes a violation of the UN Charter and international law.” Abdelatty “highly commended Russia’s readiness to offer the necessary mediation for a political and diplomatic resolution to the crisis,” it added.