In a situation of extreme political turbulence, such as today, when two distinct prospects stand before the world, and civilization itself hangs in the balance, it is nevertheless possible, not only to survive, but to prosper—but only by thinking clearly.
Executive Intelligence Review, particularly in these moments, in order to discover the truth, goes beyond “information gathering” to the realm of “intelligence,” whatever the prejudices of its audience, or the dominant “analytical institutions” may be. In cases such as current history, it is important, as American author Edgar Poe illustrated in his tale, “A Descent Into the Maelstrom,” not to drown one’s judgement in the particulars of what are erroneously called “current events.”
Helga Zepp-LaRouche has issued a statement for wide circulation, titled “The Nations of the West Must Cooperate with the New World Economic Order!” It is, in reality, a peace proposal, a proposal for a new security and development architecture. It describes how last week’s multiple conferences in Asia brought into being an increasingly consolidated, new world economic reality. The world is already now orienting to the Pacific Ocean, and potentially, to the Arctic Ocean—no longer to the Atlantic, and NATO.
India, Russia and China, containing 3 billion people, and a great concentration of the world’s resources, are at the fulcrum of a larger concentration (including the Koreas, Japan and Indonesia) of the world’s most skilled workforces and most advanced technologies. If the United States joins that process, and abandons war, the world’s greatest age of prosperity in its history can result. Against that new, happy reality, decapitation strikes (Yemen, Lebanon, Iran), color revolutions (Serbia, Serb Republic, Georgia) and sanctions, including tariffs (many nations) are being utilized by a dying empire. With that in mind, consider the following questions regarding two recent “extreme events.”
First, with respect to the Israeli illegal attack on Doha, President Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt reported that the United States had called its ally, Qatar, to warn that nation of an impending attack by Israel: “President Trump immediately directed special envoy Witkoff to inform the Qataris of the impending attack, which he did.” She was quickly corrected by Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani: “The attack happened at 3:46 p.m. The first call we had from an American official was at 3:56 p.m., which was 10 minutes after the attack. After that, President Trump had spoken with His Highness The Amir, and said that he condemned the attack.”
After this, Trump posted the following: “This morning, the Trump Administration was notified by the United States Military that Israel was attacking Hamas which, very unfortunately, was located in a section of Doha, the Capital of Qatar. This was a decision made by Prime Minister Netanyahu, it was not a decision made by me. Unilaterally bombing inside Qatar, a Sovereign Nation and close Ally of the United States, that is working very hard and bravely taking risks with us to broker Peace, does not advance Israel or America’s goals.”
Economist Jeffrey Sachs, in an interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano, commented that, like the attack on Iran, the Israelis were trying to kill the negotiators, because peace might break out. Trump was saying he did not know about something, the Doha attack, that had to be prepared over weeks—and it’s very possible that did not know. Is that the case?
