reign Secretary Lord Palmerston. In response, Falk observed that today’s situation is different, due to technological changes. Also, with the founding of the UN, there was an effort to move away from the Hobbesian anarchy of “might makes right” and toward a Westphalian world order, but the effort was flawed and allowed the dominant players to put their thumbs on the scales. Consequently, the UN Security Council today has enabled the crimes of the neocons against Gaza and Iran.

Zepp-LaRouche said that efforts to remedy this situation are hindered by mainstream media, which present “a narrative which is completely counter to reality.” Ulf Sandmark, president of the Schiller Institute in Sweden, reported on weekly demonstrations there with which they have “attempted to break the spell” of making a taboo of advocacy of diplomatic solutions instead of war. In Sweden, the political parties are squeezing out antiwar politicians, who are also excluded from media coverage. The Schiller Institute is including these politicians in its demonstrations and giving them a voice. Larry Johnson, former CIA intelligence official and a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), noted that Russia has moved from conducting its Special Military Operation in Ukraine, to all-out war. One manifestation of this has been the total shutdown of maritime activity in the Black Sea, which will be devastating for Ukraine. He listed numerous other developments in Russia’s conduct of the war, and compared it to the war in Iran, stating that both wars highlight the “delusional nature” of U.S. policy. Trump proclaims that the Strait of Hormuz is open and “under our control.” If that is the case, why are we running a blockade? The painful economic consequences of the war are completely divorced from the fantasy world of Wall Street, which can make money regardless.

The U.S. military is in trouble, on two fronts: It does not have access to the rare earths and other raw materials required to replenish depleted stocks of armaments; China has almost monopolistic control over those rare earths. Secondly, “the military across the board is in a mental health crisis.” There has been a wave of suicides and other deaths related to deteriorating morale and psychological stress among military personnel. The reports of deaths aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have significantly underestimated the number of casualties. There will be a political response from the angry parents of the affected servicemen. A ‘Crony Capitalist Monster’

Johnson said that the U.S. military is not the greatest or most powerful military in the world, but it is the most expensive. He cited the astronomical costs of U.S. aircraft and drones, many of which have been destroyed in the war with Iran. He commented on the “profit collaboration” between the military and the private sector. Although “fascism” is a term perhaps too “emotionally charged” to describe it, he characterized this collaboration as a “crony capitalist monster.” Russia and China, operating on military budgets which are tiny in comparison, have achieved greater technical results.

Zepp-LaRouche returned to what Pope Leo XIV calls a “new Tower of Babel.” Peter Thiel, founder of the Silicon Valley tech firm Palantir Technologies, said that members of the billionaire class should not be shy about flaunting their wealth and power. The privation endured by U.S. military personnel stands out by comparison.

Co-moderator Dennis Small reminded the participants that the “military-industrial complex” should be called the “military-industrial-financial complex,” because, as EIR has shown, the largest arms manufacturers in the United States are owned by the leading financial speculators. This, he said, is the Achilles’ heel of the war machine.

Numerous speakers referred to the recent manic activity by so-called “U.S. Deputy Secretary of War” Elbridge Andrew Colby, who has been making the rounds and issuing public comments about U.S. dominan[...]

ce in Asia and the Western Hemisphere, in addition to promoting the use of nuclear weapons.

Daisuke Kotegawa, former official in the Japanese Ministry of Finance, former Japanese executive director at the IMF, and research director at the Canon Institute in Tokyo, submitted a video on the topic of immigration, which he said became a problem for Europe only after the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the sabotage of development plans for Africa. He also noted that the population of Ukraine has declined from 40 to 30 million due to the war there. Discussion

In response to a question from an African participant, Zepp-LaRouche asserted that colonialism still exists, although typically Europeans are in denial. She said that the IMF exemplifies the new structures of colonialism.

Another participant posed a question about the Oasis Plan, which has been discussed on a regular basis at IPC meetings. Zepp-LaRouche replied that the only thing required would be a commitment by a number of Southwest Asian nations. She speculated that the new Mecca Alliance might be a prospect for this. A “devil’s advocate” asked her whether it was time to reevaluate the tenth of her Ten Principles, the assertion that humans are fundamentally good. Her response was an emphatic no; the current degraded culture cannot be seen as the last word on human nature. We have a long history to consider, and the net improvements in the human condition teach us that humans are essentially good. A dark age can always be overcome by a new renaissance.

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Il dilemma di Donald Trump sullo Stretto di Hormuz

Il Wall Street Journal ha affermato il 10 agosto che Donald Trump stava preparando da settimane il terreno per dichiarare vittoria e ritirarsi dalla guerra con l’Iran, anche in assenza di un accordo sul presunto programma nucleare iraniano, a condizione che Teheran riaprisse completamente lo Stretto di Hormuz.
“Ma quell’obiettivo ridimensionato è diventato più difficile da raggiungere quando sabato [8 agosto] l’Iran ha insistito sul prezzo più alto mai richiesto per consentire il libero flusso del traffico nella via navigabile, chiedendo, tra le altre cose, miliardi di dollari di indennizzi, il ritiro delle truppe americane dalla regione e la fine del blocco navale statunitense”, ha scritto il WSJ, riferendosi alle richieste avanzate lo stesso giorno dall’allora segretario del Consiglio Supremo di Sicurezza Nazionale iraniano, Mohammad Zolghadr.
L’accordo raggiunto tra l’Iran e l’Oman intorno al 5 agosto sulla gestione dello Stretto di Hormuz prevede che l’Iran controlli le navi in entrata nella via navigabile e che l’Oman, congiuntamente all’Iran, controlli quelle in uscita. Secondo alcune fonti, non sarebbero state applicate tariffe di transito per un periodo di almeno 60 giorni. Ma Teheran era irremovibile sul fatto che non sarebbe stato concluso alcun accordo a meno che e fino a quando Washington non avesse rispettato il Memorandum d’intesa. Da allora, gli iraniani hanno aumentato le richieste.
Ciò induce il WSJ a scrivere che le opzioni della Casa Bianca per uscire dal conflitto “si sono nuovamente ridotte. Trump ha ripetutamente minacciato – per poi fare marcia indietro — una massiccia escalation della campagna di bombardamenti. Ma il recente caos nei negoziati ha indicato che Teheran è pronta per un conflitto lungo e logorante”.
Come sottolinea il WSJ, Donald Trump ha affermato più volte che lo Stretto di Hormuz era completamente aperto, per poi ritrattare poco dopo. “Ora, a meno di tre mesi dalle elezioni di metà mandato e con il prezzo della benzina ancora molto più alto rispetto a prima dell’inizio della guerra a fine febbraio, Trump sta cercando il modo di dire all’opinione pubblica americana che la guerra è vinta”.
Secondo quanto riferito, anche il presidente del Comando congiunto delle forze armate statunitensi, il generale Dan Caine, avrebbe discusso con altri funzionari di alto livello dell’amministrazione Trump della necessità di trovare una “via d’uscita” dalla guerra contro l’Iran. Caine vuole assicurarsi che il presidente comprenda appieno i limiti della forza militare nella regione.
A ciò va aggiunto il fatto che le scorte di munizioni delle forze armate americane si sono drasticamente ridotte. Gli Stati Uniti hanno lanciato più di 850 missili da crociera Tomahawk contro l’Iran, oltre a più di mille missili Patriot e intercettori THAAD. Il CSIS aveva già segnalato in precedenza che le scorte di missili Patriot erano scese da 2.200 prima della guerra a meno di 825 oggi. Il Pentagono sta ora esercitando pressioni sull’industria della difesa affinché aumenti rapidamente la produzione delle armi necessarie. Ma dopo decenni di deindustrializzazione e una drastica diminuzione della manodopera qualificata, ciò non sarà così facile.

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Generale Vad: Germania e NATO scherzano col fuoco

Il 23 luglio, il Presidente del comitato militare della NATO, l’ammiraglio Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, ha rilasciato un’intervista al Kiev Independent (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-NdwWoyUxY) in cui ha affermato che l’Ucraina sta ribaltando le sorti della guerra. “Concordo con questa valutazione perché dispongo di informazioni fornite dal comando NATO, quindi è ciò che stiamo osservando”, ha detto Cavo Dragone, notando che Kiev sta “guadagnando terreno, non perdendone” e che la “forte reazione” di Mosca potrebbe essere dettata dalla “frustrazione”.
Militari esperti hanno reagito con incredulità a una simile dichiarazione, che contraddice tutto ciò che le persone informate sanno sullo stato della guerra.
Tra gli altri, il generale di brigata (a riposo) Francesco Cosimato, intervistato dal giornalista Giacomo Gabellini, ha osservato (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xEXUMRF_HA&t=239s) che “Questa narrazione, che viene sostanzialmente costruita per ingannare un po’ l’opinione pubblica, sembra iniziare ad ingannare persino coloro che stanno orchestrando questa stessa campagna. Crediamo alla nostra stessa propaganda.”
E il generale di brigata Erich Vad (foto), ex consigliere per la sicurezza di Angela Merkel, intervistato da Alexander Teske (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtxXT4_jXYk&t=174s), ha dichiarato che “la situazione per l’Ucraina è eccezionalmente grave (…) I russi stanno avanzando, seppure lentamente a causa di questa guerra dei droni e del ‘campo di battaglia trasparente’ che ne consegue. Quindi la guerra di manovra classica non è più nemmeno possibile lì. Ciononostante, stanno avanzando, seppure lentamente”.
Il generale Vad, che sta rilasciando interviste a diversi blogger e youtuber, si dice preoccupato per la probabile reazione di Mosca alla partecipazione della Germania alla guerra.
“Questi attacchi in profondità che l’Occidente sta conducendo – i dati sugli obiettivi provengono da noi, cioè dall’Occidente. Alcuni dei sistemi sono fabbricati in Europa – anche in Germania. Sono molto validi, hanno una gittata molto lunga, e l’intenzione è di intensificare questo tipo di guerra.
“E la grande domanda è: che cosa faranno i russi? Ed è proprio questo che comporta un rischio massiccio di escalation, e non dobbiamo dimenticare che, nonostante il coraggio dell’Ucraina e nonostante il suo buon equipaggiamento – incluso il sostegno occidentale – i russi mantengono comunque il vantaggio in termini di escalation in tutti gli ambiti, fino a quello nucleare. E il pericolo maggiore è semplicemente che a un certo punto non prenderanno più di mira soltanto l’Ucraina stessa, ma – da una prospettiva strategica – anche il retroterra dell’Ucraina. E ci sono già stati segnali che anche l’Europa occidentale viene inclusa nei loro piani di targeting. Questo non vuole essere allarmismo, ma è certamente una reazione molto seria – ma probabile e possibile – da parte dei russi nel lungo periodo.”

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Youth Class Series # 4:The Anti-entropic Science of Vernadsky and LaRouche

In this final presentation of the youth class series, we explore the foundational question of human purpose within the universe. Discover how human thought functions as the most powerful geological force on Earth, why human history and evolution are inherently anti-entropic, and how creative scientific discovery drives true physical economic progress.

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Live Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: U.S. War Hawks Push Option to Use Tactical Nukes

Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche in her live dialogue and discuss the issues and solutions that move the world and its people. Send your questions & comments to questions@schillerinstitute.org. Please share the YouTube link with your friends, acquaintances, and colleagues to increase the reach of the solutions presented by the LaRouche movement. Wednesday, Aug, 19, 2026, 11am ET/ 5pm CET
Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has caused a firestorm by posting on X that she is not speculating when she says that President Trump is contemplating nuclear strikes on Iran.

In a post which has now over five million views, MTG said, “They are discussing using nuclear weapons on Iran in strategy meetings. Yes you read that correctly. It’s real. I’m not speculating, I know. And it’s pure evil.”

White House spokesman Davis Ingle was quick to respond, telling USA Today: “Marjorie ‘Quitter’ Greene has no idea what she is talking about…She is completely out of the loop and should quit spreading Fake News.”

Honesty has not been a strong trait of the Trump administration’s foreign policy, but rather than speculate, given the massive destructive potential of nuclear weapons, every person should mobilize to ensure that a nuclear weapon is not used. Not in Iran and not anywhere else.

Retired German General Harald Kujat, who had been Chairman of the NATO Military Committee two decades ago, had said that the great fear of the Soviet Union, now the Russian Federation, was a Cuban Missile Crisis in reverse. Worse than that, the Russian leadership must know that even before the end of WWII, Britain’s alcoholic Prime Minister Winston Churchill was already contemplating a nuclear first strike against the then Soviet Union.

If one looks at the arc of history from the dropping of the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which had more to do with threatening Russia than defeating Japan (which had already been defeated), the world has been moving in the direction of nuclear war with a few brief exceptional periods.

The great American statesman and former presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche warned in 2011, when Muammar Gaddafi was brutally murdered in the streets, that this was preparatory to a war with Russia.

That march toward nuclear war with Russia has been pushed by the Anglo-Zionist Epstein-class billionaires behind successive American presidencies from Barack Obama to Donald Trump’s second term.

The stakes are even higher today because their multi-quadrillion-dollar bubble of speculative obligations is nearing the end of its sustainability. People who think nothing of raping and shooting children at short range will not shy away from using a nuclear weapon. As far as they are concerned, they have two highly compatible objectives:

1. Reduce the world’s population

2. Maintain their monetarist financial dictatorship

The problem they have is that human beings are not animals. As the great poet of freedom, Friedrich Schiller said in his play “Wilhelm Tell,” “There is a limit to a tyrant’s power.” Billions of people in the nations of the BRICS-plus, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Organization of African Unity, to name a few, reject the old colonial order. They do not believe that might makes right.

China has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, and India celebrated 79 years of independence from the British Empire on August 15th.

The way to avoid a thermonuclear Armageddon is for the nations of the West, in particular the United States, to recognize that they have a shared future with the entirety of mankind.

There will soon be a second letter to Pope Leo, signed by prominent peace activists, political leaders, military analysts[...]

and others, asking him to convene an emergency international peace conference. It is indeed fortuitous that the leader of the Catholic Church comes from the United States, and that he is a profound thinker familiar with the writings of Nicholas of Cusa.

Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche has convened an International Peace Coalition that has become an important meeting place for the adults in the room, as South Africa’s former Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor has said. On September 4th, the IPC will also host an EIR Roundtable: An Alternative to War and Looting in the Americas.

LaRouche congressional candidate Jose Vega is leading a national fight against the Epstein elite by targeting one of their lead ducks, Richie Torres in the Bronx. Long-time LaRouche associate independent presidential candidate Diane Sare has become a spokesperson for an appropriate presidential policy, as reflected in her interview prominently featured in TASS.

On September 11th, the Schiller Institute NYC Chorus will bring the poetry of Schiller to life with a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and the Brahms Naenie on the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks.

We have the evil-doers surrounded! Join us and support our work.

Dialogo settimanale con Helga Zepp-LaRouche, oggi dalle ore 17 (in Italia)

I GUERRAFONDAI STATUNITENSI PROPONGONO L'OPZIONE DELLE BOMBE NUCLEARI, REPUTANDOLE SOLTANTO "TATTICHE"

🇺🇸 U.S. War Hawks Push Option to Use Tactical Nukes

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Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche in her live dialogue and discuss the issues and solutions that move the world and its people.

Send your questions & comments to questions@schillerinstitute.org

Da Solidarité et Progrès:

🇮🇹 SIAMO DIRETTI ALLA GUERRA FRONTALE TRA RUSSIA E NATO?

🇫🇷 OTAN - Russie : vers une guerre frontale ?

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Un avion espagnol a abattu un drone russe en Roumanie ce dimanche matin. Le pape Léon XIV sera en visite d'État en France en septembre pour rappeler encore la faisabilité de la paix. Notre combat politique contre le fascisme financier et le complexe techno-militaro-financier doit se faire connaître.

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L’incidente del drone a Lipsia: Cui Prodest?

Il 5 agosto, un drone di 25 cm con una rudimentale carica esplosiva (inesplosa) è stato trovato all’aeroporto di Lipsia, nelle vicinanze di un Antonov ucraino carico di armi e munizioni destinate a Kiev. La reazione immediata del governo tedesco, che ha parlato di un “attacco ibrido da parte di uno Stato straniero”, e l’attribuzione mediatica dell’attacco a Mosca, hanno spinto l’ambasciata russa a Berlino a rilasciare una dura dichiarazione, che afferma tra l’altro:
“È evidente che questa provocazione messa insieme in fretta e furia serve esclusivamente gli interessi di Kiev e dell’ala militarista della classe politica europea. L’Ucraina ha un disperato bisogno di armi, mentre i governi degli Stati europei non amichevoli mancano di argomenti per spiegare perché, di fronte ad acuti problemi sociali ed economici, debbano affluire risorse finanziarie illimitate verso un regime corrotto che non esita a ricorrere a metodi terroristici e che promuove pubblicamente un’agenda neonazista, compresa la glorificazione di coloro che massacrarono civili di varie nazionalità durante la Seconda guerra mondiale.
“Da parte nostra, vorremmo aggiungere che il pericolo maggiore per la Germania oggi non proviene dai tanto invocati ‘attacchi ibridi’ di Mosca – che non esistono – bensì da politici che, con notevole zelo, stanno elaborando scenari per una guerra imminente con la Russia ed esortano i cittadini tedeschi a parteciparvi” (https://germany.mid.ru/de/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/kommentar_der_botschaft_der_russischen_f_deration_in_deutschland_zu_einer_neuen_welle_antirussischer/).
In effetti, l’incidente di Lipsia appare tempestivamente calibrato per favorire la riforma dei servizi segreti pianificata dal ministro degli Interni tedesco Dobrindt (foto), che era prevista all’ordine del giorno della riunione di gabinetto del 12 agosto. I cosiddetti esperti militari sostengono che l’unico modo per proteggersi da un simile “attacco ibrido” sia la prevenzione, possibile solo attribuendo maggiori poteri agli enti di intelligence BfV e BND, secondo quanto proposto da Dobrindt.

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Le economie tedesca e italiana vittime collaterali della guerra contro l’Iran

Da quando è iniziata la guerra contro l’Iran, oltre 700 milioni di barili di riserve petrolifere strategiche, pubbliche e private, sono stati immessi sul mercato a livello mondiale per compensare parzialmente il 20% mancante dalla regione del Golfo. Tuttavia, si calcola che entro settembre/ottobre le riserve strategiche avranno raggiunto il loro limite operativo e, anche se lo Stretto di Hormuz venisse riaperto oggi stesso, occorrerebbero mesi prima che la produzione di petrolio e gas torni ai livelli precedenti. Di conseguenza, si prevede un’impennata dei prezzi, che colpirà anche le economie occidentali già in difficoltà.
Germania e Italia sono tra i maggiori importatori di gas naturale per uso industriale e domestico in Europa. Entrambe sono state colpite duramente dalla guerra contro l’Iran, seppure in forme diverse: mentre l’Italia ha perso un terzo delle sue importazioni in un colpo solo, la Germania ha visto i prezzi del gas salire a livelli insostenibili.
L’Italia era il principale importatore europeo di gas dal Qatar (quasi il 35% del totale delle sue importazioni di gas). Questa fonte di approvvigionamento è stata bloccata dalla distruzione degli impianti di produzione, unita al blocco dello Stretto di Hormuz. Roma ha compensato l’80% della perdita raddoppiando le importazioni da Algeria e Kazakistan, i cui gasdotti stanno ora funzionando al 100% della capacità. Inoltre, ha aumentato le importazioni dagli Stati Uniti, il cui prezzo del gas naturale sulla borsa di Amsterdam TTF è salito a 53-60 Euro/MWh. Due rigassificatori galleggianti, navi che riconvertono il gas naturale liquefatto (GNL) in gas naturale, sono stati aggiunti alla rete nazionale, che sta funzionando a piena capacità e non può accogliere ulteriori importazioni di GNL. Tuttavia, almeno un rigassificatore, quello di Ravenna, può funzionare solo in condizioni meteorologiche favorevoli. Il GNL che l’Italia acquista al TTF costa esattamente il doppio di quanto pagava per il gas del Qatar.
La Germania, anziché importare dagli Stati del Golfo, acquista da Belgio, Norvegia e Paesi Bassi il proprio GNL, che transita attraverso gasdotti, oltre a circa il 12% di GNL statunitense tramite il TTF di Amsterdam. Dall’inizio della guerra in Iran, la Germania ha pagato 6,3 miliardi di euro in più per le sue importazioni di gas, a causa degli aumenti del prezzo, mentre l’Italia ha pagato 12-13 miliardi di euro extra.
I prossimi sei mesi si prospettano cupi: per l’Italia si parla di 7,77 miliardi di euro di costi aggiuntivi, sulla base di un consumo medio di 40 miliardi di metri cubi di gas (circa 420 TWh) e di un aumento di 18-20 euro per MWh; per la Germania, di 9,9 miliardi di euro di costi aggiuntivi, sulla base di un consumo invernale medio di 550 TWh – a seconda delle condizioni meteorologiche. Anche se lo Stretto di Hormuz venisse aperto oggi e tutte le petroliere potessero transitarvi, ci vorrebbero due mesi perché il Qatar possa esportare GNL all’80% del suo potenziale precedente il conflitto, e da tre a cinque anni per recuperare il restante 20%, a causa dei gravi danni strutturali causati dalla guerra. A valle del disastro energetico provocato dalle sanzioni UE, è il caso di dire che piove sul bagnato.

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Appeal to Pope Leo XIV To Organize a Global Leaders Summit To Address the Questions of Peace and Nuclear Disarmament

The following open letter to Pope Leo XIV was issued on August 19.

We appeal to you, Pope Leo, as the leader who has made the greatest effort to speak for humanity as a whole, instead of for specific nations, religions, or constituencies, to call for an emergency international summit to guide the world away from the current path of war and potential nuclear disaster and to peacefully resolve the greatest crises facing humanity today. Such an effort would be consistent with your repeated calls for peace and justice ever since you assumed the papacy—calls that have inspired and given hope to millions if not billions of people across our planet.

On June 10, 2025, U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard released a brief but chilling video that began in Hiroshima and warned we are “closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before” and that “political elite warmongers are carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers.” “It’s up to us, the people,” she concluded, “to speak up and demand an end to this madness. We must reject this path to nuclear war and work toward a world where no one has to live in fear of a nuclear holocaust.”

On October 20, 2025, Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence agency, warned, “The world is now experiencing the most fragile moment for international security since World War II.” Naryshkin continued, “Our shared, and perhaps principal, task is to ensure that adaptation to the new reality proceeds without a major war, as has happened at previous historical stages.” It has been many months since the two intelligence chiefs rang the alarm and we’ve only gotten closer to nuclear annihilation—much closer.

When Gabbard and Naryshkin issued those warnings, the war in Ukraine was raging, Israel was conducting its genocide in Gaza, and tensions were high between China and the U.S. over Taiwan and the South China Sea. We have since added the U.S./Israeli war with Iran and the threat of WWIII has thus grown exponentially.

Signs continue to appear that leaders are planning for such an eventuality, even though we have known for more than four decades that even a limited nuclear war, let alone a large-scale one, could unleash unthinkable damage globally, including nuclear winter, which would threaten to end life on our planet. On August 20, 2024, the New York Times ran a front-page article warning that the U.S. was preparing to fight a simultaneous three-front nuclear war against Russia, China, and North Korea. That same day, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reported on a growing school of nuclear strategists who believe a nuclear war can be fought and won, effectively overturning decades of understanding that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. Last year, U.S. Admiral Thomas Buchanan said that the U.S. was preparing to fight and win a nuclear war and keep enough nuclear weapons in reserve to be able to maintain its global hegemony. More recently, the U.S. Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby has discussed the need for the U.S. to use tactical nuclear weapons on top of deploying troops from South Korea and Japan if fighting breaks out between the U.S. and China over the Taiwan Strait.

The experts behind the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock are not alone in believing that the world is getting closer and closer to nuclear annihilation. And on top of the threats coming from the U.S., several influential Russian leaders have called on Vladimir Putin to use nuclear weapons in defeating Ukraine.

We, the undersigned from around the world, think the timing is propitious for calling an emergency international summit to [...]

address major conflicts in the world and the need for stepping away from the nuclear precipice. Russia has been bogged down in Ukraine for almost five years. Though Russia continues to make incremental gains at great cost, the battlefield has largely stalled and both sides are doing extensive damage to energy infrastructure and shipping in their drone and missile warfare, causing global energy and food shortages and suffering both inside and outside their respective countries. If NATO-backed Ukraine continues to cross Russia’s red lines, will Putin be willing and able to thwart Russia’s hawks? The U.S., meanwhile, has been unable to find a diplomatic escape route from its war with Iran, which shows no sign of allowing the U.S. to end the crisis it and Israel created by attacking Iran. While China insists that retaining Taiwan is its ultimate red line, everyone in the region would benefit from a calming of tension and diverting resources into development, along the lines of China’s Belt and Road initiative, instead of into warmaking.

That last point should be applied universally. It is painfully wasteful to see so many nations diverting resources from food, housing, education, and healthcare to their militaries. This has especially been true in North America, Europe, and Asia where talk of peacefully resolving conflicts has given way to talk of preparing for war.

As you yourself wisely and powerfully stated a couple of months ago, “I have repeated more than once the fervent appeal that Saint Paul VI made to the United Nations Assembly—What unites me, my venerable predecessor noted, is a pact sealed ‘with an oath that ought to change the future history of the world: never again war, never again war! It is peace, peace, that has to guide the destiny of the nations of all mankind’! Above all in the atomic era, the affirmation of the truth must push through: it is not atomic weapons that generate peace, but disarmament. This truth, which seemed clear in past decades when we witnessed a nuclear de-escalation, has been obscured by a race to armament that today frightens and terrifies.”

It was indeed Pope Paul VI, the first pope to address the United Nations in October 1965, who, in that extraordinary address, quoted President Kennedy, “Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.” He cited the Book of Isaiah, declaring, “They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.” In his 1967 Encyclical “Populorum Progressio,” Pope Paul VI emphasized, “Development is the new name for Peace.”

Other popes have also taken bold initiatives to save humanity in moments of crisis. In October 1962, Pope John XXIII appealed for peaceful resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis and helped provide both President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev with face-saving means to resolve the crisis diplomatically rather than militarily at a moment when war seemed imminent. A similar effort might succeed today when the world’s two major wars seem to be intractably bogged down. (see “Letter To Archbishop John Wester, To Urge Pope Leo XIV to Call for a Peace Conference“) The same is true of the nuclear arms race as the nine nuclear powers are not only modernizing their arsenals but expanding them after decades of sensible if much too slow reductions. And, for the first time in decades, the two major nuclear antagonists are constrained by no nuclear arms control treaties. Other countries, including Japan, South Korea, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, and Ukraine, have begun discussing the attainment of nuclear weapons of their own, which would only turn the world into a larger nuclear tinderbox.

A papal appeal for an emergency summit to end the current wars and reverse the growing dependence on nuclear weapons and warfighting might give global leaders the chance to select a new course of action and get us off the current drive toward planet-destroying nuclear war. We urge you, Pope Leo, to use your unique moral authority to convene such a meeting of the wo[...]

rld’s leaders, including the heads of state of the three principal nuclear powers, to meet and respond to the pleas of humanity to take our world in a fundamentally different direction before it is too late. Initiating Signers (as of Thursday, August 19, 10 AM)

Peter Kuznick, Professor of History and Director, Nuclear Studies Institute, American University, Washington, DC

Jack Gilroy, Pax Christi New York State Council; Veterans for Peace; Ban Killer Drones; International Peace Coalition of the Schiller Institute

Ivana Nicolic Hughes, President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation; Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Chemistry, Columbia University (NYC)

Naledi Pandor, former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, South Africa

H.E. Donald Ramotar, former President of Guyana, 2011-2015

Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law, Princeton University; Former U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories; Vice President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

Chandra Muzaffar, Islamic Reformist and Activist, President of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST); Convenor of SHAPE (Save Humanity and Planet Earth)

Kathy Kelly, Pax Christi Teacher of Peace 1998; Board President, World Beyond War

David Swanson, Executive Director of World Beyond War; author, “War is Still a Lie”

Marjorie Cohn, Professor Emerita, Thomas Jefferson School of Law; Dean, People’s Academy of International Law

Bandy X. Lee, President of the World Mental Health Coalition; Co-founder of Preventing Violence Now

James C. Cobey, Founder, Health Volunteers Overseas; Steering Committee, Voices from the Holy Land;  Member, International Committee to Ban Landmines (ICBLM), which received the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize

Dr. Mohammad A. Toor, Chairman of Board of Trustees, Pakistani American Congress; President, American Pakistani Physicians for Justice & Democracy; Chairman, American Muslim Alliance

Ann Wright, US Army Colonel (Ret) and former US diplomat who resigned in March, 2003, inopposition to the US war on Iraq. Member, Veterans for Peace, World Beyond War, CODEPINK, Hawaii Peace and Justice

Susan Schnall, President, Veterans for Peace (USA)

Norman Solomon, National Director of Roots Action; Author

Martin Sheen, Golden Glober and Emmy Aweard-winning actor; Pax Christi Teacher of the Year (1999)

Setsuko Thurlow, Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor; Nobel Peace Prize Recipient; Order of Canada Recipient

Glenn Diesen, Professor, University of South-Eastern Norway

Frida Stranne, Professor, Foreign Policy Expert, Sweden

Ray McGovern, Co-founder, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity

Oggi, venerdì 21 agosto 2026
dalle ore 17 italiane

168ª riunione della
Coalizione Internazionale per la Pace
[CIP #168 / IPC #168]

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🇺🇸 Who Is Pushing for Nuclear War?
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🇪🇸 ¿Quién está enpujando una guerra nuclear?
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🇫🇷 Qui veut la guerre nucléaire ?
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Vedi anche la lettera aperta a Papa Leone XIV dello Schiller Institute
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Movisol
La Cina risponde alle nuove sanzioni dell’amministrazione Trump

Il tanto atteso vertice tra i presidenti Donald Trump e Xi Jinping è ancora previsto per la fine di settembre a Washington, nonostante i numerosi e vari tentativi da parte della lobby anti-cinese negli Stati Uniti di mandare all’aria il piano. La guerra commerciale è una delle questioni che sarà senza dubbio al centro delle discussioni.
Il 28 luglio, è stato annunciato che la Commissione Federale delle Comunicazioni (FCC) avrebbe provveduto a vietare le importazioni di robot mobili di fabbricazione estera (umanoidi e quadrupedi) e di inverter di potenza. Stando a quanto riportato dai media, la misura avrebbe lo scopo di proteggere lo sviluppo delle capacità di intelligenza artificiale negli Stati Uniti, anche da minacce alla sicurezza nazionale. Sebbene non sia stata specificatamente menzionata dalla FCC, la Cina è chiaramente l’obiettivo principale del divieto.
Questa misura, se applicata in modo efficace, si rivelerà controproducente per gli Stati Uniti. La Cina è infatti il principale produttore di inverter di potenza, dispositivi fondamentali per i data center dedicati all’intelligenza artificiale al fine di ridurre i costi dell’elettricità.
In risposta, il Ministero del Commercio cinese ha rapidamente annunciato nuovi controlli sulle esportazioni di droni verso gli Stati Uniti e ha vietato alle imprese cinesi di avere rapporti con sei entità americane (che ci crediate o no, la Cina è il principale fornitore di droni degli Stati Uniti).
Il 25 luglio, l’amministrazione Trump ha annunciato un nuovo regime tariffario, in base al quale oltre 60 paesi, accusati di “ricorso al lavoro forzato” o di “mancata applicazione delle leggi sul lavoro forzato”, sono soggetti a dazi del 10% o del 12,5%; tra questi figurano la Cina e il Brasile.
Il 5 agosto, il Global Times, pubblicazione satellite del Quotidiano del Popolo, ha definito le misure di ritorsione adottate dalla Cina come “una mossa risoluta per salvaguardare gli interessi nazionali e i diritti legittimi della Cina”. Nonostante a maggio Xi e Trump avessero raggiunto “un importante consenso sulla costruzione di un rapporto costruttivo” tra i due Paesi, la decisione della FCC ignora tale intenzione. “Le contromisure della Cina questa volta sono nel complesso moderate. Se gli Stati Uniti insisteranno nell’introdurre nuove misure restrittive, la risposta cinese sarà ancora più risoluta. La Cina non si tirerà indietro, né esiterà a intraprendere ulteriori azioni”.
Quanto all’Unione Europea, il 22 luglio sono state imposte sanzioni da parte dell’UE relativamente ai prodotti cosiddetti a “doppio uso” nei confronti di 14 entità cinesi, accusate di avere legami con la Russia, anch’essa pesantemente sanzionata da Bruxelles. Pechino ha risposto il giorno successivo, annunciando sanzioni contro 14 colossi europei del settore della difesa. Questi ultimi dipendono dalle importazioni cinesi più di quanto non avvenga viceversa.

Simposio della candidata indipendente Diane Sare alla presidenza degli Stati Uniti d'America

SULLA NONA SINFONIA QUALE VIA D'USCITA DALLA GUERRA

🇺🇸 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: A Pathway Out of War

https://www.youtube.com/live/1QZoZ3Q99Kg

Londra, ancora e sempre Londra!


Schlanger: It's still the City of London
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKYS1rYD6K8

Schlanger: London's "Coalition of the Willing"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU3Ml-jGOAc

LaRouche: Let Us End Empire Forever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFtsddtJwo8

Sare Campaigns in Iowa; Black Iowa News Runs Long Interview

Aug. 24, 2026 (EIRNS)—Independent presidential candidate Diane Sare campaigned in Iowa beginning Aug. 20, meeting farmers and veterans and visiting the Iowa State Fair and the Henry Wallace house. On Aug. 23, Black Iowa News published a long interview with her, conducted by founder and publisher Dana James. The article cites Sare’s success in getting on the ballot for U.S. Senator from New York in 2022 and 2024 and notes that she is running with Jose Vega.

Asked what independent candidates can offer Black voters, Sare answered on economics. “Freedom and equality—it means nothing unless there’s a physical economic basis for it,” she said. “I think that our nation needs a mission, because if we have a certain quality of unity for a mission, everything is going to look different, and we’re going to be looking for the talent and the potential. We throw so many people on a scrap heap right now… Now, if your nation is saying, ‘Look, we need 42,000 miles of high-speed rail, and we need to figure out how to get to Mars, and we need to cure Parkinson’s,’ then you can’t throw people away. You’re going to need every single person.”

On culture, Sare discussed Antonín Dvořák’s National Conservatory in New York, funded by Jeannette Thurber in the 1890s, and the Black composers who came out of it—H.T. Burleigh and Hall Johnson—before it was destroyed under Jim Crow. Dvořák, she said, had concluded that “the kernel of a great and noble school of American music is the Negro spiritual and the Native American music.” Knowing that history matters, she argued, because “then you say, ‘Well, of course it’s normal for an African American to be a genius.’”

She told Iowans the situation is worse than they know on two fronts. “We are potentially very close to a nuclear war… you have people now discussing using tactical nuclear weapons.” And on the economy she pointed to the Strait of Hormuz, fertilizer shortages and “the spring planting that didn’t happen,” warning of a food crisis this autumn: “The cattle herd is the smallest it’s been in 75 years.”

For Iowa specifically she advocated the North American Water and Power Alliance, citing Des Moines’s water problems.

“These billionaire perverts who are running things will never give up their power willingly,” she said. “But if they go into a free-fall collapse, we have an opportunity to change everything.”

https://blackiowanews.substack.com/p/2028-independent-presidential-candidate

The Schiller Institute
Who Is Pushing for Nuclear War?

International Peace Coalition, Week 168

Aug. 21—On August 21 the International Peace Coalition (IPC) held its 168th consecutive weekly meeting which Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute and initiator of the IPC said may be our most important meeting ever. Two regional wars threaten to go out of control, and the use of tactical nuclear weapons is now a topic for casual discussion. This has been recently confirmed by former U.S. Congresswoman Majorie Taylor Greene who said that she is not guessing when she says that there is an open discussion in the Pentagon, or in the President Donald Trump administration, of using tactical nuclear weapons, but rather she knows from direct sources that this is a live discussion. Elbridge Colby, the so-called “U.S. Under Secretary of War for Policy,” has confirmed on the record that the Pentagon is re-examining U.S. nuclear employment guidance in order to give the President what he calls “rational nuclear options” in a regional conflict with Russia or China—and he maintains that, unlike U.S. Nuclear Posture Reviews, this does not need to be approved by Congress or even be made public.
Zepp-LaRouche said that President Trump should admit that he has lost the war in Iran, but instead he is vacillating between saying he is talking to the Iranians and saying there are no talks—most recently warning of crushing sanctions against Iran and any country working with them. However, Iran has survived 47 years of sanctions, and it is the United States which is bankrupt with the federal deficit now passing the $40 trillion mark. According to media reports, Iranian officials threatened to attack U.S. military bases in Europe if the U.S. intensifies the war. Israel continues the genocide in Gaza, but has been committing similar atrocities in the West Bank. But President Trump is unable or unwilling to control Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The fighting in Ukraine is also escalating, but all of these wars are a consequence of the economic crisis, and the desire by western countries to maintain the 500-year-old colonial system of looting. Zepp-LaRouche stressed the urgency to circulate the letter which appeals to Pope Leo XIV to intervene by calling for a summit of global leaders to address the need of peace and nuclear disarmament. At least two former heads of state have already signed the letter. Ray McGovern, the retired CIA analyst and founding member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), said that he started the day this morning the same way he starts every morning—reading the news from EIR. He highly recommended that people read an article by Jason Ross. McGovern questioned how Elbridge Colby could even talk about changing official nuclear doctrines without first consulting with the Russians. McGovern said that he has been watching the Russians and the Soviets before them for over six decades, and said that the Russians are “an open book,” and make their nuclear policy crystal clear. Colby is “still wet behind the ears” with no experience and no understanding of what war is. McGovern used to brief Colbyʼs father on the Russians. Elbridge Colby wrote that he wants “nuclear superiority,” but McGovern said that this is not possible and that nobody will be superior in a nuclear war, which is why it is called “Mutually Assured Destruction.”

McGovern stressed that President Trump is not well physically nor psychologically and could lead the world into a nuclear war either deliberately, accidentally, or by responding to an Israeli “false flag” provocation. This Israeli instigation is how President Trump started the Iran War. Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz which is the equivalent of holding a nuclear weapon. Would Trump respond with a nuclear weapon? Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson recently spoke on the Judging Freedom[...]