The Financial Times summarized the first ten days of the year as a “Week of Shock and Awe,” and the editorial asks whether the universe answers to it, after Trump’s military operation to capture Venezuela’s Maduro.

The International Peace Coalition’s 136th weekly meeting opened with Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s warning that after the attack on Venezuela “there is no more international law,” only “might makes right” and the law of the jungle.

In the Jan. 7 weekly dialogue hosted by Harley Schlanger, Helga Zepp-LaRouche asks whether the world will choose international law or the law of the jungle, from Greenland and Ukraine to Venezuela and China.

Diane Sare launched her presidential campaign at a Jan. 10 event in New York City with 500 attendees, strategic experts including Scott Ritter, Jose Vega, and international messages of support.

On the day the U.S. launched an invasion of Venezuela to kidnap its leader, Diane Sare explains why she declares her candidacy for President, in the year of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Robert Wesser argues that twelve hours of Ken Burns’ The American Revolution is worse than a waste of time, since it presents the crimes of the Revolutionary era as committed by Americans rather than by the British Empire.

EIR’s Jan. 12 Emergency Roundtable brought ten experts from the Americas, Eurasia, and Africa together for nearly three hours on the strategic implications of the attack on Venezuela and how to bring the world back from the brink.

Trump’s National Security Strategy names the “foreign adversaries” he says Venezuela was hosting, Small writes, and the real target of the attack on Venezuela is China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Ibero-America.

A summary statement of U.S. foreign policy released by LaRouche’s 2004 presidential campaign committee, intended to serve as a compact summary, as suited for translations.