ed ex fedele di Trump. La Green si sta mobilitando per fermare la guerra contro l’Iran e porre fine all’alleanza di Trump con Israele. Il suo messaggio alla conferenza, secondo cui il MAGA è morto e Trump lo ha ucciso, è stato accolto con entusiasmo, inviando un chiaro messaggio: l’appoggio di Trump a Carlo III è considerato inaccettabile da molti dei suoi ex sostenitori.

Oggi, venerdì 8 maggio 2026
alle ore 17 italiane

153ª riunione della
Coalizione Internazionale per la Pace
[CIP #153 / IPC #153]

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Tra due ore

Simposio della candidata presidenziale indipendente Diane Sare

https://www.youtube.com/live/P929QTipHFE

Movisol
Che cosa farà saltare in aria il sistema?

Sullo sfondo della peggiore crisi strategica dalla Seconda guerra mondiale, stanno emergendo diversi fattori che potrebbero far crollare il sistema finanziario. La bolla globale, quella che coinvolge “tutto”, è pronta a scoppiare e le uniche incognite riguardano quando ciò avverrà e che cosa la innescherà: sarà la bolla del private credit, quella delle criptovalute, quella dell’intelligenza artificiale, il debito pubblico statunitense o la crisi petrolifera? O forse una combinazione di alcuni di questi fattori?
Cominciamo dalla crisi petrolifera. Darren Woods, CEO della più grande compagnia petrolifera occidentale, Exxonmobil (la più grande a livello globale è Saudi Aramco), ha recentemente messo in guardia dal prossimo “vero” picco del prezzo del petrolio, in un’intervista alla CNBC (https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/exxon-ceo-iran-war-oil-strait-hormuz.html). Il mercato non ha ancora scontato l’impatto della chiusura dello Stretto di Hormuz, ha affermato Woods. Ciò che vediamo ora, con il prezzo del petrolio che si mantiene intorno o leggermente sopra ai 100 dollari, è dovuto a due fattori: 1) I paesi stanno attingendo alle riserve strategiche, e 2) C’erano già molte consegne via mare in viaggio durante il primo mese circa di guerra; quindi, quei volumi hanno temporaneamente garantito l’approvvigionamento. Ma ora quelle sono esaurite e le scorte commerciali e nazionali si stanno riducendo ogni giorno, ha affermato Woods.
“Se si guarda alla perturbazione senza precedenti dell’approvvigionamento mondiale di petrolio e gas naturale, il mercato non ne ha ancora visto il pieno impatto”, ha affermato Woods. “Quindi c’è ancora molto da aspettarsi se lo stretto rimane chiuso.”
Private credit: abbiamo affrontato più volte la bolla del private credit non regolamentato, che ormai ha superato i 2.000 miliardi di dollari. Negli ultimi mesi si è verificata un’ondata di prelievi, soprattutto da parte degli investitori al dettaglio (vedi https://www.ceps.eu/ceps-publications/private-credits-liquidity-facade-is-beginning-to-fracture/), a cui i principali fondi hanno reagito bloccandoli per evitare una crisi di liquidità. Tuttavia, le società che gestiscono il private credit saranno danneggiate dal blocco di Hormuz, poiché i loro maggiori investitori sono il ristretto gruppo dei regni petroliferi del Golfo Persico. Il fondo sovrano di Abu Dhabi, ad esempio, ha investito il 5% nel private credit, seguito da Kuwait, Qatar e Arabia Saudita. Questi fondi si uniranno all’ondata di prelievi, poiché il protrarsi del blocco sta erodendo la loro liquidità.
Debito USA: diverse fonti hanno messo in guardia da uno scenario in cui i titoli di debito statunitensi non trovino acquirenti, il loro valore cali e i rendimenti salgano alle stelle. Questo può diventare una profezia che si autoavvera, soprattutto perché, contrariamente al passato, quando la fetta più grande del debito USA era detenuta da attori statali (banche centrali), oggi sono gli hedge fund a dominare il mercato. Mentre nessuno Stato è interessato a una crisi del debito statunitense, a causa delle sue conseguenze sul commercio ecc., gli avvoltoi di Wall Street ucciderebbero la nonna pur di sopravvivere. Intervistato nel programma “Wall Street Week” di Bloomberg News, l’ex Segretario al Tesoro Henry Paulson ha previsto la necessità di un “intervento d’emergenza” per impedire che la domanda di buoni del Tesoro statunitensi a breve termine si riduca e poi crolli in breve tempo (https://www.thestreet.com/economy/henry-paulson-has-blunt-message-on-potential-treasury-market-shock).
Bolla dell’IA: le aziende tecnologiche hanno bruciato miliardi di dollari in investimenti nell’IA che non hanno ancora generato alcun profitto e hanno annunciato nuovi investimenti per un totale di 725 miliardi. Le turbolenze nel Golfo sono una cattiva notizia per l’IA, poiché le monarchie del Golfo da sole rappresentano un quarto di [...]

tali investimenti. Il divario tra debito e rendimenti è impossibile da colmare, come ha avvertito l’ex consigliere del governo statunitense Asad Ramzanali in un podcast mensile (https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/03/an-ai-crash-is-coming-what-then/).
Infine, arriviamo all’universo delle criptovalute. Bitcoin e simili sono paragonabili alla bolla dei tulipani del XVII secolo e, come la bolla dei tulipani, finiranno. Al culmine della bolla dei tulipani, si poteva comprare una casa con un solo bulbo. Quando la bolla è scoppiata, i bulbi hanno perso il 99% del valore. Con le criptovalute sarà peggio perché gli investitori non avranno nemmeno un bulbo in mano. Ciò significa che i 64 miliardi di dollari che BlackRock ha attualmente nei suoi libri contabili (il valore di mercato degli investimenti in Bitcoin) scompariranno. Si pensi all’intero mercato delle criptovalute, stimato in 2,6-2,7 trilioni di dollari. Non solo i fondi, ma tutte le megabanche di Wall Street ed europee hanno investito nelle criptovalute.
Tutti questi potenziali fattori scatenanti sono interconnessi: le banche nel credito privato e nelle criptovalute, il credito privato nell’intelligenza artificiale, i paesi del Golfo in tutti questi settori, ecc. Un crollo del sistema è certo come l’Amen in chiesa. L’unico modo per evitarlo è prevenirlo, chiudendo Wall Street e reintroducendo le regole.

Due appuntamenti rilevanti con la candidata presidenziale indipendente Diane Sare e i suoi ospiti

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81013123439?pwd=tZCQic7iYsPePTIyGBXUr2k9jmkzRl.1

Oggi,
LUNEDÌ 11 maggio 2026
(alle 2:00 della notte in Italia)

Discussione assieme al candidato indipendente Jose Vega e altri candidati al Congresso sulla necessità che questo interrompa i finanziamenti alla guerra in corso contro l'Iran. Il congressista associato a Sare, Pat Ryan (New York 18), ha appena presentato una proposta in questo senso, raccogliendo finora diciotto firme.

MARTEDÌ 12 maggio 2026
(alle 2:00 della notte in Italia)

Trasmissione su Un programma di ripresa economica per il popolo degli Stati Uniti d'America, in difesa dalle guerre e dalla dinamica iperinflattiva.

🇺🇸 We have been told by our leaders that we should be happy to pay more at the gas pump, first "to defeat Russia," in the case of Joe Biden, with the Ukraine-Russia war; and now "to defeat Iran," in the case of Trump.

Vedi:
The Road to Recovery (1999)

The Schiller Institute
International Peace Coalition, #153: We Have Passed the Rubicon

May 9, 2026 (EIRNS)—The International Peace Coalition (IPC) held its 153rd consecutive weekly meeting on May 8 which is also VE Day, this year being the 81st anniversary of the victory in Europe over fascism in 1945. Schiller Institute founder and IPC initiator Helga Zepp-LaRouche noted that it will be celebrated in Moscow on May 9 with a military parade and a ceremony attended by visitors from around the world—celebrations which acting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has threatened to disrupt with drones. For three years Russia has avoided any escalation of the Ukraine war, but has warned that any attack on the Moscow celebrations would be met with severe attacks by Russia on decision-making centers in Ukraine. Russia has also identified 12 European facilities involved in producing drones for Ukraine, many of which are in Germany, and has warned that if these drones are used to attack the Moscow celebrations, these German facilities would become legitimate military targets.
Dmitry Medvedev, the former President and Prime Minister of Russia and current deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, has recently spoken in very blunt terms that the denazification in Germany was never fully completed at the end of World War II. The Oct. 3, 1990 Two Plus Four Agreement, which allowed the unification of Germany, stated that no NATO troops would enter the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany)—but NATO forces, in violation of that agreement are now stationed there. The 2025 Kensington Treaty is a joint defense agreement between the United Kingdom and Germany which puts Germany on the front lines in the military campaign against Russia. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has been outspoken that Britain has worked against any peace agreements and is actively encouraging more war. Germany, which is currently mobilized for a military buildup, would be a clear target in any escalation of the Ukraine war.

Zepp-LaRouche stressed that the next 48 hours are critical to stop this madness for war, and encouraged all participants to use the video of this IPC meeting to educate others. She also insisted that NATO should have been dismantled in 1991 when the Warsaw Pact dissolved. U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that he intends to remove 5,000 U.S. soldiers from Germany, but that still leaves 30,000 in place. NATO can no longer be seen as a defensive alliance, she said, but is rather an occupying force, quoting NATO’s first Secretary General Lord Ismay that NATO’s job is to “Keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.”

Iran, after months of fighting, remains in control of its territory and has gained the support of its population, which sees the Israeli and U.S. war as an act of unprovoked aggression, Zepp-LaRouche said. She referenced a Washington Post report which details the warning from U.S. intelligence that Iran can outlast President Trump’s blockades, has 70% of its stockpile of drones and missiles still intact, and is still able to assemble new weapon systems—while the United States has depleted its supply of interceptors. A second Washington Post report proves that Iran has inflicted much more damage on U.S. military facilities and other targets in the region than previously reported. She argued that if the United States is unable to protect its own bases in the region, then these facilities become a liability to their host country, adding that many countries in the region depend upon desalinization plants for 70 to 80% of their water supply, and any targeting of these facilities could be catastrophic.

Defund the Iran War

The cost of this war and the damage to the world economy is estimated to be $4 trillion and threatens a global economic depression. Some members of the U.S. Congress, mostly[...]

with military backgrounds, are working to cut all funding for the war. Spain has been working to stop the many wars around the world and this week gave the nation’s highest honor to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese, for her tireless effort to stop the genocide in Gaza. In the ceremony, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that Albanese “upholds the conscience of the world.”

The next speaker was Beto Almeida, a journalist from TeleSUR-TV in Brazil. Almeida said that Brazil is working to end wars and start economic development. He compared the May 7 meeting between Brazilian President Lula da Silva with President Trump, and the friendly cooperation between President Franklin Roosevelt and Brazilian President Getúlio Vargas. Almeida said that Roosevelt helped Brazil build its first steel mill, but now the United States is run by neoliberal economists and hedge funds. When Brazil works on economic development projects, China comes to offer cooperation, but the U.S. never comes—and that President Trump prefers threats. Lula is willing to talk about any subject, but not under threats or undue pressure. For example, in 2010, despite intense pressure from President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton not to do so, he made a high-profile visit to Iran. According to Almeida, Lula has offered to mediate relations between the United States and Venezuela—relations which have been severely strained by the U.S.’s unlawful kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Dennis Small, Ibero-American editor for EIR, later added that Lula correctly met with Trump, but also spoke to the American people stressing the Franklin Roosevelt tradition.

Militant and Grim

As one would expect, Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector and U.S. Marine, did not sugarcoat the danger of war. He said that we have passed the Rubicon, and the decisions for war escalation have already been made. Ritter has been invited to the Russian Embassy four years in a row to celebrate VE Day, but for the first time the atmosphere was much more “militant and grim.” If this Ukraine war escalates, Ukraine will be destroyed as a modern country—but Russia will not stop there. Because Germany has been producing drones used by Ukraine, it could be targeted by Russia for destruction. More broadly Europe, with its militarization policy aimed at Russia, is committing suicide and taking the rest of the world with it. Zepp-LaRouche commented that Ritter confirmed all of her fears of the approaching danger. She said that we must multiply our efforts to wake up the population before it is too late.

The next speaker was the co-founder and president of Farm Action Angela Huffman. She stressed that farms have been in a fragile position, but the war is only making the problem worse. The United States loses 67 farms every day, but the monopolies make billions. Shell Oil doubled its profits this quarter to $7 billion. A system of bailouts has been implemented, but farmers don’t want any bailouts, and the bailouts never resolve the underlying problems. Huffman is demanding antitrust legislation to break up the monopolies, end the price gouging, especially during wars, and to produce the food that we eat instead of overproducing certain crops for export. She pointed to the $50 billion U.S. trade deficit in agriculture.

Lyndon LaRouche movement organizer Tim Rush gave a report on efforts in the U.S. Congress to defund the Iran war. He and fellow organizers had meetings in 40 House and Senate offices; and now Congressman Pat Ryan (D-NY) has introduced the No Funds for Iran War Act. Helping in this effort were the 67 letters from people in 15 countries demanding that Congress stop funding the Iran war. Rush said that the legislation has language similar to that in the leaflet that he was distributing written by independent U.S. presidential candidate Diane Sare. Many of the 18 cosponsors of the legislation have military backgrounds, and are serio[...]

us about stopping the war. Others in Congress have put on a show of speaking against the war, but not actually supporting this or any other legislation to stop it. Rush also said that President Trump’s push for a $1.5 trillion military budget is to create a “slush fund” and copies the plan of Nazi Minister of Economics Hjalmar Schacht to slash social programs to fund a giant military buildup.

A short excerpt from a video interview with historian and long-time activist with the LaRouche movement Tony Chaitkin was played, with Chaitkin making the point that America has suffered “identity theft” because the United States used to be the leading anti-colonial power in the world, but now the U.S. is merely a tool of the imperial system. Presidents such as John Kennedy worked with leaders around the world promoting economic development. Chaitkin said that the fight for self-government and the fight for economic development are identical.

Floating Concentration Camps

In the question period, Abril Rojas Angel from Mexico City spoke about her involvement with the Freedom Flotilla and the 36-hour kidnapping of its 175 member crew, including herself, by the Israeli military, while the ship was in international waters. She said that they were forced into shipping containers which she described as “floating concentration camps.”

Alberto Vizcarra, a leader of the farm producers’ movement in Sonora, Mexico, praised the efforts of Angela Huffman from Farm Action and her focus on the control of the food cartels. Vizcarra agreed with her that the bailout system for farmers does not resolve the problem and that 70% of the bailout goes to the corporate interests which have created the problem. Vizcarra encouraged Huffman to take her cause to the U.S. Congress and said that “Mexico will support you.”

Helga Zepp-LaRouche ended the meeting giving her endorsement to Vizcarra’s call to take the farm crisis to the U.S. Congress and that we all must see ourselves as the One Humanity. She said that the Global South is 85% of humanity and that their voice must be heard. She called on everyone to help build the May 15 EIR Emergency Round Table dealing with the danger of the world plunging into an economic depression.

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Il vero costo della guerra

Il 29 aprile Jules Hurst, Sottosegretario al Pentagono con delega al bilancio, ha dichiarato al Congresso degli Stati Uniti che i primi 60 giorni della guerra contro l’Iran sono costati al contribuente circa 25 miliardi di dollari. Ma questa cifra sbalorditiva si riferisce solo alle munizioni, ai mezzi e alle truppe impiegati nelle operazioni militari, escludendo esplicitamente, ad esempio, i danni alle basi americane. Il costo effettivo a livello globale è di gran lunga superiore.
Secondo le stime iniziali di varie istituzioni, se si tiene conto delle spese militari statunitensi e israeliane, dei danni a tutte le installazioni militari e ai paesi della regione, nonché delle ripercussioni globali della chiusura dello Stretto di Hormuz e della conseguente perdita di produzione, i costi reali si aggirano intorno ai 4.000 miliardi di dollari e sono in aumento.
Ma questa cifra, probabilmente sottovalutata, non riesce ancora a cogliere appieno la realtà economica concreta dei danni. Mentre ci sono voluti solo 60 giorni per distruggere scuole, abitazioni, industrie e infrastrutture nell’Asia sud-occidentale e per mietere migliaia di vite in Iran e oltre, quanto tempo e quanto denaro ci vorranno per ricostruirle? Alcuni dei danni sono probabilmente irreversibili.
A ciò si aggiunge l’aumento dei costi energetici che deve ancora verificarsi a seguito della chiusura dello Stretto di Hormuz. Oltre alle migliaia di vittime dirette della guerra, centinaia di milioni di persone potrebbero finire in condizioni di povertà e fame a causa della carenza di gas e fertilizzanti e, di conseguenza, di cibo. Se ciò comporterà difficoltà nei paesi sviluppati, nei paesi in via di sviluppo sarà una questione di vita o di morte.
E quale sarà l’effetto sulla densità demografica potenziale relativa a livello mondiale, misura del vero progresso economico concreto? Quale sarà l’effetto sulla capacità di aumentare la produttività del lavoro pro capite e per chilometro quadrato, per sostentare così una popolazione umana in crescita con un tenore di vita sempre più elevato? E quale sarà il costo in termini di vite non vissute?
Dipingendo questo quadro, emergono due questioni interconnesse: in primo luogo, questo collasso del sistema globale in una modalità di spopolamento è l’intenzione stessa del sistema imperiale; in secondo luogo, le nazioni del mondo devono rendersi conto che certe misure potrebbero ritardare il collasso, ma esso non potrà essere fermato a meno che l’intera combinazione di geopolitica e di guerra non venga sostituita da una nuova architettura mondiale di sicurezza e sviluppo che abbia come ragion d’essere gli obiettivi comuni dell’umanità.

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Lettera aperta di Maurizio Abbate a sostegno della Biennale di Venezia

Riceviamo e volentieri pubblichiamo una lettera aperta di Maurizio Abbate, presidente dell’ENAC, a sostegno della Biennale di Venezia.

Tra le voci che si sono levate in difesa di Buttafuoco c’è quella dell’ENAC, l’Ente Nazionale Attività Culturali, che in una lettera aperta del dott. Maurizio Abbate al presidente della Biennale ha espresso solidarietà convinta e piena. Per l’ENAC, da anni impegnato nella promozione della cultura come strumento di dialogo e avvicinamento tra popoli, la posizione di Buttafuoco non è una concessione politica ma un atto di coerenza con i valori fondamentali dell’espressione artistica.

“La cultura non deve farsi ancella della geopolitica del momento”, si legge nella missiva firmata dal presidente dell’ENAC, Maurizio Abbate. Una frase che sintetizza bene la filosofia dell’ente: la creatività e il pensiero critico hanno il compito di unire ciò che i conflitti dividono, utilizzando un linguaggio che trascende le contingenze belliche e i calcoli di potere. Un principio che l’ENAC non enuncia solo in astratto, ma che informa concretamente la propria attività: dalla promozione di scambi artistici internazionali alla costruzione di ponti culturali tra realtà anche lontane e in tensione tra loro.

Arte e pace: un binomio antico
La storia è piena di esempi in cui la cultura ha svolto un ruolo di mediazione laddove la diplomazia faticava ad avanzare. Dalle esposizioni internazionali dell’Ottocento ai festival del jazz durante la Guerra Fredda, fino alle mostre d’arte contemporanea che attraversano le frontiere più rigide: le espressioni creative hanno spesso anticipato o accompagnato i processi di riconciliazione. La Biennale di Venezia, nata nel 1895, è essa stessa figlia di questa visione: uno spazio in cui le nazioni si incontrano attraverso l’arte, sospendendo — almeno per un momento — le logiche della competizione e del conflitto. https://enac-online.it/la-biennale-di-venezia-e-il-coraggio-del-dialogo/

Venerdì 15 maggio 2026
Alle ore 17:00

In concomitanza con la

154ª riunione della
Coalizione Internazionale per la Pace
[CIP #154 / IPC #154]

🇮🇹 LA GUERRA CONTRO L'IRAN E LA 'DISINTEGRAZIONE CONTROLLATA' DELL'ECONOMIA MONDIALE

🇺🇸 The Iran War and the 'Controlled Disintegration' of the World Economy
https://www.youtube.com/live/6QQ40OEnQE0

🇪🇸 Mesa redonda de EIR: “La guerra contra Irán y la ‘desintegración controlada’ de la economía mundial”
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🇫🇷 Table ronde: Guerre contre l’Iran: la désintégration contrôlée de l’économie mondiale https://www.youtube.com/live/4KhpCnCSRH8
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Nota sulla espressione "disintegrazione controllata" adoperata da Paul Volcker:

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Tutti gli ospiti di Diane Sare e Jose Vega della videoconferenza della notte scorsa:

- Anthony Aguilar, candidato verde per il Congresso, NC-13
- Jerrad Christian, candidato democratico per il Congresso, OH-12
- Karen Ortiz, candidata indipendente per il Congresso, NY-12
- Shelby Campbell, candidata indipendente per il Congresso, MI-13
- Clayton Cuteri, candidato write-in per il Congresso, SC-1
- Catherine Fleming Bruce, candidata indipendente per il Senato, SC
- Rex Jones, giornalista di Grey Area

https://youtu.be/Vsjo_LAbgL4

The Schiller Institute
Live Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Break with Anglo-American Geopolitics, with LaRouche’s Oasis Plan

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, May 13 2026, 11am ET/ 5pm CET
At the conclusion of a turbulent discussion with members of the International LaRouche movement, Helga Zepp-LaRouche advised that when facing doubt and confusion, as is quite common in this moment of incredible tension and danger, one should turn to the works of Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, German poet of freedom Friedrich Schiller, and her late husband, the American genius Lyndon LaRouche.

She said, “But I think what Lyn had set out to do was something much more fundamental, by trying to correct the axiomatic flaws in the thinking of why people again and again produce political ideas which lead to catastrophe.”

Take, for example, LaRouche’s comments to New Hampshire voters when he was campaigning for U.S. President in 1996:

“What’s needed there, is for someone to do the terrible things that I do. More people. Is to go out and insult my fellow Americans, but in a loving way. Say, ‘Look, you guys have been behaving like idiots. You’re like the guy who went back to the same used-car dealer that sold you the car without the engine last year, and you bought it again! You’ve got to realize that you may not have concocted these evils, but you, who have a brain, who could have used it, should have gotten wise to this racket, before now. So, why don’t you give up the idea that everything has to be simple, everything has to be stupid, everything has to be in bite-size answers, and let’s talk about it, and let’s think!’”

Does that apply today? How is it that we, the American people, have elected presidents who are clinically insane in succession? Why do we allow the people who are called “representatives” to not represent us?

With the leadership provided by the LaRouche movement on both sides of the Atlantic, this situation is changing.

Thirty Democratic Party Representatives have written a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking about Israel’s nuclear weapons. A bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) to end the funding of the Iran war.

The majority of the world’s population rejects war and genocide. The majority of the world’s population is represented by leaders who are striving to bring their nations into a new dynamic of cooperative relations, not winner-take-all, not survival of the fittest, but win-win cooperation.

Somehow, President Vladimir Putin of Russia managed to convince President Donald Trump that he had to put the screws on Zelenskyy and prevent a “Ukrainian” (British-directed) assault on the V-E Day celebration in Moscow.

In two days, unless the Anglo-Zionist Epstein-class billionaires manage to sabotage it, President Donald Trump will be meeting with President Xi Jinping in Beijing. China is a nation of 1.4 billion people with a very big economy— an economy much larger than that of the United Kingdom, represented by King Charles. What new agreements might emerge as a result of this meeting?

The continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the looming danger of an escalation of warfare by the United States and Israel against Iran is going to cause massive economic hardship, even if the war is ended at this moment. The extent of the danger is not really understood by most people in the Western world, but they will soon feel it and, in their desperation, will be much more susceptible to these solutions being put forwa[...]

rd by LaRouche’s associates.

To that end, LaRouche Independent presidential candidate Diane Sare is holding a webcast tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET, with Jason Ross, on an economic recovery plan for the people of the United States. On Friday, at 11:00 a.m. ET, Helga Zepp-LaRouche will convene an EIR Emergency Round Table “The Iran War and the ‘Controlled Disintegration’ of the World Economy”

Mobilize everybody on the planet to tune in on Friday at 11:00 a.m.

The Schiller Institute
May 15 EIR Roundtable: The Iran War and the ‘Controlled Disintegration’ of the World Economy

May 15 at 11:00 a.m. ET Online via Zoom and live-streamed over YouTube

Simultaneous interpretation into Spanish, French, and German will be available on Zoom. Speakers

* Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany): Editor-in-chief, Executive Intelligence Review
* H.E. Abolfazl Pasandideh (Iran): Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Mexico
* H.E. Donald Ramotar (Guyana); former President of Guyana
* Prof. Richard Falk (U.S.): professor emeritus of International Law and Practice at Princeton University
* David Hundeyin (Nigeria): investigative journalist, founder, The Spearhead
* Prof. Lier Pires Ferreira (Brazil): Researcher, BRICS Center (Núcleo BRICS – NuBRICS), Fluminense Federal University, Niterói

And others to be announced.

It is now two and a half months since the Feb. 28 closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a predictable—some would argue intended—result of the unprovoked U.S.-Israeli war of aggression against Iran. If this war continues for another few months, it is likely that the world economy will enter into a spiral of collapse leading into a full-scale global depression, including skyrocketing poverty, hunger, industrial collapse, and population dislocation and forced migration—as well as a guaranteed hyperinflationary blowout of the entire $2.4 quadrillion global financial bubble.

It will make the Great Depression of the 1930s pale in comparison. The closest parallel will be with the New Dark Age of the 14th century, with its notorious Black Death that wiped out up to half of the population of Europe.

This is because of the massive dislocation of the physical means of survival of billions of people that is well underway, triggered by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of world oil exports and 30% of the world supply of fertilizer formerly transited. This is already having devastating, non-linear effects:

• World Food Program Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau reported that “an extra 45 million people are projected to be pushed into acute hunger because of rises in food, oil and shipping costs, putting the global tally above its current record level of 319 million…. This would ‌take ⁠global hunger levels to an all-time record and it’s a terrible, terrible prospect,” he said.

• Many impoverished nations in east Africa depend on imports of fertilizer for more than 85% of usage. It is estimated that a 10% reduction in fertilizer application will result in up to 25% less rice, corn and wheat there, with devastating human consequences.

• U.S. diesel prices—which is the lifeblood of American farming activity—have soared by more than 50% since the war began, with ripple effects throughout the economy.

• The German industrial economy is in free fall, as a result of the combined effect of the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline and now the shortages of gasoline, and especially jet fuel, as a result of the Iran war.

We emphasize physical economy because Man’s productive activity is actually a living process, as the renowned American physical economist Lyndon LaRouche proved scientifically. If one significant area of that process is destroyed, the entirety will tend to collapse in a nonlinear fashion. This is what some observers refer to, simplistically, as a “supply chain” effect.

The real financial cost of the war is also staggering—probably upwards of $4 trillion, according to EIR’s estimates. The Pentagon’s acting comptroller told Congress on April 29 that Operation Epic Fury had cost about $25 billion, but this covered only U.S. munitions and operations through Day 60, with damage to overseas bases explicitly excluded. When that is added in, along with Israeli military expenditures, the total rises to some $200 billion. The[...]

re is also in the range of $1 trillion in physical damage across Iran and the Gulf states. The IMF’s April Regional Economic Outlook further estimates that as much as 2% of global GDP will also be wiped out by the war—implying $1.5-$2 trillion in lost global output for 2026 alone.

So, $4 trillion is probably on the low side of the real monetary cost of the war to date.

How many productive jobs could be provided if those funds were invested in infrastructure, agriculture and industry? How many bridges, ports and high-speed rail lines could be built? How many lives could be saved by increased investment in hospitals, schools, and essential pharmaceuticals?

Over a longer time period: The war kills hundreds of thousands directly and through cascading food and energy shocks; pushes hundreds of millions into hunger over the next two to three years; and—through the destruction of productive capital and the diversion of $4 trillion from development to destruction and the rebuilding of what once was—could reduce the planet’s mid-century potential population by something on the order of a half-billion to a billion. The war’s most consequential casualties may be people who, had it never been started, would have been born into a more productive global economy and were not.

All of this is clearly unnecessary—but is it also an intentional policy of Malthusian depopulation being implemented by the international financial establishment centered in the City of London and Wall Street? In the mid-1970s, the New York Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)—to this day the premier U.S. Establishment’s foreign policy think-tank and sister organization of Britain’s Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA/Chatham House)—published a voluminous study, Project 1980s, which explicitly called for the “controlled disintegration” of the world economy as a means of maintaining their slipping political control. In November 1978, then Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker delivered a speech in England pronouncing that “a controlled disintegration in the world economy is a legitimate object for the 1980s”—and Volcker then proceeded to raise U.S. interest rates to the deadly level of 21.5% in December 1980.

The true economic cost of the Iran war—and the alternative policies to build a new security and development architecture for the world—will be the central topic explored by highly qualified experts at the May 15 EIR Emergency Roundtable Dialogue.

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Tavola rotonda dell’EIR: La guerra in Iran e la “disintegrazione controllata” dell’economia mondiale

Venerdì 15 maggio, autorevoli studiosi e leader politici discuteranno della crisi mondiale in una riunione d’emergenza indetta dall’EIR. Tra i relatori confermati figurano: Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germania), direttrice dell’Executive Intelligence Review e fondatrice dello Schiller Institute; Abolfazl Pasandideh, Ambasciatore della Repubblica Islamica dell’Iran in Messico; Richard Falk (Stati Uniti), docente emerito di Diritto e Pratica Internazionale presso l’Università di Princeton; David Hundeyin (Nigeria), giornalista investigativo, fondatore di The Spearhead.
Nell’annunciare la conferenza, che inizierà alle 17 (ora di Roma), l’EIR scrive:
Sono ormai trascorsi due mesi e mezzo dalla chiusura dello Stretto di Hormuz, un risultato prevedibile – alcuni direbbero intenzionale – della guerra di aggressione, non provocata, degli Stati Uniti e di Israele contro l’Iran. Qualora questa guerra dovesse protrarsi per altri mesi, è molto probabile che l’economia mondiale entrerà in una spirale di collasso che porterà a una depressione globale, con un aumento della povertà, della fame, del crollo industriale, della crisi demografica e delle migrazioni forzate, oltre a un’esplosione iperinflazionistica garantita della bolla finanziaria globale da 2,4 quadrilioni di dollari.
Ciò farà impallidire la Grande Depressione degli anni ’30. Il parallelo più calzante sarà con l’epoca buia del XIV secolo, con la famigerata Peste Nera che spazzò via quasi la metà della popolazione europea.
Ciò è dovuto alla massiccia privazione dei mezzi fisici di sopravvivenza di miliardi di persone già in atto, innescato dalla chiusura dello Stretto di Hormuz, attraverso il quale transitava il 20% delle esportazioni mondiali di petrolio e il 30% dell’approvvigionamento mondiale di fertilizzanti. Ciò ha già effetti devastanti e non lineari, in termini di produzione alimentare ed energia, in tutto il mondo, così come nell’industria.
L’attività produttiva dell’uomo è in realtà un processo vivente, come ha dimostrato scientificamente il famoso economista americano Lyndon LaRouche. Se un’area significativa di tale processo viene distrutta, l’intero sistema tenderà a crollare in modo non lineare. È ciò che alcuni osservatori definiscono, in modo semplicistico, l’effetto “catena di approvvigionamento”.
Anche il costo finanziario reale della guerra è sbalorditivo: probabilmente oltre 4.000 miliardi di dollari, secondo le stime dell’EIR.

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