Editorial

The Davos Scramble To Replace the Collapsing Institutions of the West
The liberal establishment met at Davos to discuss how to defy the law of gravity while ignoring the financial bubble, Small writes, pointing to LaRouche’s analysis of a systemic collapse of physical economy.

I. International

Declaration of January 12: Let Us Create a Movement of World Citizens!
Panelists at EIR’s Jan. 12 emergency roundtable issued a call for a movement of world citizens, urging an international conference and teams to work on a World Land-Bridge and the reorganization of the world financial system.
International Peace Coalition #138: The Glass Is Half-full, ‘Maybe More than Half-full’
Helga Zepp-LaRouche opened the International Peace Coalition’s 138th weekly meeting with Trump’s Davos speech, and said the glass is half full after Kushner and Witkoff met Putin in Moscow.
Schiller Institute Weekly Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: How the Davos Summit Reinforces Geopolitics
In the Jan. 21 weekly dialogue hosted by Harley Schlanger, Helga Zepp-LaRouche discusses the Davos Summit, Greenland, Trump’s Board of Peace, and how to organize a real recovery.
US NORTHCOM Operationalizes Outside of NORAD, Marking Continual Fragmentation Of Alliances
NORTHCOM’s two new task forces, JTF-Gold and JIATF-CC, signal the irrelevance of NORAD and pose a direct challenge to Canada’s role in it, writes Morrigan Johnson of the Canada Wide Peace and Justice Network.

II. Physical Economy

The Artificial Sun: China’s ‘Manhattan Program’ for Fusion Development
Fusion is back in the American public eye after nearly 40 years of silence, as China’s fusion program advances while the United States has neglected fusion research since the 1980s.

III. Book Review

Photographer Logs Russia’s History in Architectural Genius
Ulanowsky reviews William Brumfield’s From Forest to Steppe, a photographic survey of Russian wooden architecture, from country huts to palaces, made over five decades.

IV. America’s True History

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: How the Natural Law Concept of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Inspired America’s Founding Fathers—Part I
The American Revolution was a battle against the philosophy of John Locke, and Emmerich de Vattel’s The Law of Nations was key in framing the United States as the world’s first constitutional republic.

V. From Lyndon LaRouche

The Lesson of ‘The “Spot” Resolutions’
In a preface to an essay on Lincoln’s exposure of Polk’s pretexts for the Mexican War, LaRouche examines the roots of the conflict and why “single-issuism” is immorality.