Editorial

How Does a War Without an Endgame End?
A classified intelligence assessment warned that even a large-scale assault would not bring regime change in Iran; the editorial argues that the war’s religious motivation cannot deliver a peace, because it does not seek one.

I. International

‘With the Pen and the Word, It Is Possible To Neutralize the Effects of Guns’
The International Peace Coalition’s 145th weekly meeting featured Iran’s ambassador to Mexico, Abolfazl Pasandideh, who called the war “a betrayal of diplomacy,” as Helga Zepp-LaRouche urged reviving Khatami’s proposal for a dialogue of civilizations.
Schiller Institute Weekly Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: To Achieve Peace, Think Like Cusa
Helga Zepp-LaRouche discusses calls for nuking Iran, the danger of religious delirium in the chain of command, signs of sanity in the military ranks, and why peace requires thinking like Nicholas of Cusa.
Zepp-LaRouche Calls on Pope Leo XIV To Intervene on the Level of Nicholas of Cusa
Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, released the following open letter on March 9 that she sent to His Holiness Pope Leo XIV. Holy Father, I am writing to you at this grave hour of mankind, since you may be the only person left who could hopefully avoid

II. Strategic

‘We Were Sent by God To Kill You…’
Harley Schlanger reports on the end-times teachings being spread among U.S. troops in the war on Iran, and traces the belief to Hegseth’s circle and the messianic roots of Greater Israel.
U.S. Rejection of New START Nuclear Treaty Signals Dangerous Shift
Carl Osgood examines the U.S. rejection of the New START nuclear treaty, the responses of China and Russia, and the danger of a new arms race.
Lt. Gen Fabio Mini: “China Is NOT an Enemy”
Italian Lt. Gen. (ret.) Fabio Mini, interviewed by EIR’s Claudio Celani, explains why the West needs an enemy in China, how China sees itself, and why its strategy is to win without fighting.

III. EIR Emergency Roundtable

EIR Held an Emergency International Roundtable March 2: ‘Epstein and the Bottomless Depravity of the “Elites”—Urgent Need for a Cultural Renaissance!’
EIR’s March 2 emergency roundtable on the “Bottomless Depravity of the ‘Elites,’” with speeches by Donald Ramotar, Richard Falk, María de los Ángeles Huerta del Río, and Fernando Garzón on the need for a cultural renaissance.

IV. From Lyndon LaRouche

President Bush’s Rearmament Scam: Goebbels in Bush’s Bunker
Writing on May 2, 2001, LaRouche calls President Bush’s “miracle weapons” rearmament package primarily an economics hoax.