Editorial
Déjà Vu Approaches in Southwest Asia—Time for a New Plan for Peace and Security
Seven months after a TLO statement asked what happens if Trump’s strike on Iran did not destroy its nuclear sites, the editorial warns of a wider conflict and calls for a new plan for peace and security.

I. International
International Peace Coalition, Week 139: Be Joyful in Creation, for That’s the True Nature of Humanity
Helga Zepp-LaRouche opened the International Peace Coalition’s 139th weekly meeting with the danger of war with Iran and the $2.4 quadrillion debt bubble, and closed with Schiller: everything you love, you own.
The Lesson of Davos: Toss Out the Failed Axioms
Host Harley Schlanger and Helga Zepp-LaRouche discuss Davos, Trump and Mark Carney, Ukraine, India’s free trade deal with the EU, and why young people must demand a new paradigm.

II. Africa
The African Continent and the Future of the World
Addressing a Schiller Institute youth conference, Jacques Cheminade argues that “our future is not NATO; it’s Africa,” and turns to the Ife civilization and Cheikh Anta Diop to make the case against the colonialist spirit.

Africa Briefs
Seven briefs on African development, from record Belt and Road investment and Madagascar’s BRICS bid to Tanzania’s largest inland ship, Nigeria’s pipeline and fertilizer plant, and Uganda’s oil pipeline.
III. Physical Economy
Alberto Vizcarra: Stop Speculating with Mexico's Grain Production!
Alberto Vizcarra of the National Front To Save the Mexican Countryside tells Dennis Small why cartel dumping has devastated Mexican agriculture, and why Mexico needs a policy of national production, not speculation.

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 II
In part two of Robert Trout’s 1997 Fidelio article, Emmerich de Vattel’s Law of Nations is traced through the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and Alexander Hamilton’s approach to natural law.

V. From Lyndon LaRouche
The Evil We Have Tolerated in Africa, Has Caught Up with Us!
In remarks to a June 1997 EIR seminar on Africa, published in EIR for the first time, LaRouche says the same evil that is killing Africans is killing us, and asks how it can be changed.

