Editorial
Culture Matters: From Epstein's Training Camp for Depravity to a Renaissance Worth Fighting For
Jason Ross argues that the Epstein revelations point beyond individual crimes to a culture in which imperial elites train their successors to separate power from empathy, and calls for a Renaissance worth fighting for.

I. International
The Epstein Scandal: the Last Chapter of Oligarchism — Interview with Ray McGovern
Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern tells Helga Zepp-LaRouche why the Epstein files, which appear to center on the British government, open a pit with seemingly no bottom, and what it will take to rebuild a republic.

The New Silk Road Is Reaching Record Levels
A Griffith Asia Institute study documents record Belt and Road construction contracts and investments in the first half of 2025, nearly double the same period of the previous record year, 2024.

II. Strategic
What was Jeffrey Epstein, Really? Part Three: The Truth About Epstein Might Bring Down the British Monarchy
Following the Justice Department’s January 30 release of more than three million Epstein documents, Schlanger argues that the full picture of the “Epstein class” is now visible, with the British monarchy and the Blair machine under growing pressure.

III. Economics
Trump Heads for a Cliff, with Powers Seized from Congress
Trump’s billionaires’ economy of stock speculation, tariffs, and rising debt is running into trouble: manufacturing employment is withering, inflation is rebounding, and the federal debt is soon to pass $39 trillion.

IV. America’s True History
Leibniz, Halle, and the American Revolution
Spannaus traces how the Leibniz networks around Halle and August Hermann Francke, through Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin, fed the principle of the General Welfare into the American Revolution and Constitution.

V. From Lyndon LaRouche
The Coming Fall of the House of Windsor—Prologue
In his prologue to EIR’s 1994 special report, LaRouche examines the scandals directed against the Royal Family over the preceding five years, and what the House of Windsor’s exposure means for Britain’s ruling establishment.

VI. In Memoriam
EIR’s Friend Graham Fuller Has Passed On
Graham E. Fuller (1936-2026), a former CIA station chief in Kabul and National Intelligence Officer for Near East and South Asia, and a frequent speaker at the International Peace Coalition, has died at 89.

