Indonesia Surges Past India in New COVID Cases Per Day — July 14 (EIRNS)–Indonesia hit a record 54,000 official new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, about a twelvefold increase over the last seven weeks. Covid deaths follow new cases by two weeks, going from 200/day to over 1,000/day over the last five weeks. India, with five […]
Poverty, and the chaos it causes, are spreading worldwide, from Afghanistan and Myanmar to South Africa and Cuba. The specifics vary from country to country, but the root cause is the enforcement of neoliberal economic policies, which serve the interests of the U.S.-UK-NATO Military Industrial Complex. This was forecast by Lyndon LaRouche following Nixon’s break […]
Russian Academic Identifies Mackinder Geopolitics as Enemy of Russia and China— July 13, 2021 (EIRNS)—Global Times yesterday published an interview with Alexander Lukin, head of the Department of International Relations at the Higher School of Economics and director of the Center for East Asian and SCO Studies at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. […]
July 13 (EIRNS)—Helga Zepp-LaRouche gave the following interview to China Plus radio’s World Today broadcast today. China Plus is the official English website of China Radio International. The interview is the second news story starting at 12:55 minutes CRI: Welcome back. The United Nations Human Rights Council has passed China’s resolution on the contribution of […]
The visit of UK Defense Secretary Wallace to Washington yesterday demonstrates that, in the minds of key Anglo-American officials, the “Special Relationship” between the U.S. and U.K. — which allows the Brits to run U.S. foreign policy — is still operational. If this is not dumped, the world will be headed toward more wars, eventually […]
Out of the frying pan, into the fire? Will the U.S. blindly follow the British lead to turn the retreat from Afghanistan into more provocations against Russia and China? Or can we learn from our catastrophic mistakes, and join Afghanistan’s neighbors to engage in cooperative, mutually beneficial development policies, to bring peace to the war-torn country. […]
Dramatic developments are taking place over the past days which make clear that the world is sitting at a crossroads. Two clearly distinct ideas about the nature of man are contending for the future of human civilization. One, which could well lead to the destruction of civilization itself in a nuclear holocaust, sides with the […]
Pessimists might be shocked by some recent developments. A Putin-Biden phone call ending in a call for joint action against cyber warfare? A unanimous U.N. Security Council vote to open the door for humanitarian aid to be distributed to “all parts of Syria”? How about a U.S. official commenting favorably on a Taliban-Afghan government meeting in […]
PDF of this statement by Helga Zepp-LaRouche July 10—After the hasty withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops from Afghanistan—U.S. troops, except for a few security forces, were flown out in the dark of night without informing Afghan allies—this country has become, for the moment but likely not for long, the theater of world history. The […]
Russia Denounces Sanctions on Syria as “Collective Punishment” — July 9 (EIRNS)–In a press conference following the Astana format meeting on Syria yesterday, held in Kazakhstan, Russian Special Presidential Envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentyev denounced what he called the “collective punishment” of the Syrian people through Western sanctions. “We believe the consultations that we have held […]