Opening with Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan as “Jeffrey Epstein’s credo,” the editorial traces the hedonism of the Epstein files to the philosophy behind modern liberal society, and the speculative financial system built on it.

At its 140th weekly meeting, the International Peace Coalition took up the latest Epstein revelations and the expiration of New START, and asked how to raise the moral character of humanity as part of ending the danger of war.

On the day New START expired, independent presidential candidate Diane Sare held a press conference, “For a New, New START,” with arms control expert Scott Ritter, moderated by Garland Nixon.

The Jerusalem Post attacked congressional candidate Jose Vega as “antisemitic” and part of the “cultlike” LaRouche movement, using a video that Vega says he never approved, while defending incumbent Ritchie Torres.

After the killings of Rachel Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis by federal agents, protests against ICE spread to all fifty states, as courts and citizens push back on an agency whose budget Trump has sharply increased.

Trump promised to end “endless wars,” but his second administration has doubled down on the neocon agenda, Schlanger writes, as the snake’s nest around him pushes a shift from “man of peace” to the Hobbesian law of the jungle.

Billionaire Paul Singer, who pioneered “vulture fund” attacks on developing nations, is within reach of seizing Venezuela’s CITGO Petroleum after a Delaware court awarded his Elliott Management ownership in November 2025.

After the U.S. captured Maduro and pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, Vereycken examines Próspera, the “charter city” of Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin, and the PayPal Mafia behind Trump’s crypto deals.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio brings the venom of the Bay of Pigs crowd to the State Department, the authors write, tracing his roots in Miami’s CIA-linked Cuban exile networks and drug-trade scandals.

Kevin Warsh’s nomination to head the Federal Reserve will keep the central bank under Wall Street’s power, EIR argues, as a bubble-sustaining flow of central bank liquidity runs up against Japan’s carry trade.

Trade Representative Jamieson Greer claims a return to Alexander Hamilton’s American System, but Hamilton used selective tariffs together with credit for manufactures, and one year on, Trump’s tariff policy has failed.

As Washington presses China to strengthen the RMB, the CPC journal Qiushi published a 2024 speech in which Xi Jinping says the financial system must serve the real economy and not indulge in self-circulation.

The EU-India free trade agreement, signed January 27 after twenty years of talks, offers limited gains for European automakers, EIR argues, and falls far short of the infrastructure cooperation that is really needed.

In opening remarks to a November 11, 2004 webcast with universities in Argentina and Peru, LaRouche says the problems of Argentina are international, and points to the IMF and the Synarchist International behind them.