Responding to Hegseth’s boast that America is winning “without mercy,” the editorial traces the brink of nuclear war to a decades-long degeneration of culture, and calls for a conference on a new security and development architecture.

The International Peace Coalition’s 144th weekly meeting brought leaders from six countries, including Col. Richard Black, to describe the horror of the war policy in Iran and Lebanon and to support a new architecture for peace and development.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche discusses with host Harley Schlanger Trump’s launching of the war on Iran, Spain’s stand against it, two opposing images of man, and why action cannot wait for the elections.

Platt and Osgood present a timeline of what is actually known about the genesis of the war on Iran, from the 1901 D’Arcy oil concession to 2026, and the decades of repeated “three to five years” nuclear warnings.

Luis Vásquez Medina shows how the U.S. National Security Strategy’s demand for a hemisphere free of foreign ownership of key assets is now aimed at Peru’s China-linked Chancay Port.

EIR’s March 2 emergency roundtable on “Epstein and the Bottomless Depravity of the ‘Elites,’” with speeches by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Zhang Weiwei, Beatriz Bissio, B.R. Deepak, Dennis Kucinich, Ding Yifan, Namit Verma, Timothy Ninsiima, Kwame Amuah, and Father Harry Bury.

Writing on Oct. 31, 2000, LaRouche traces the rising threat of a Middle East war to the internal political history of the United States and the role of the fundamentalists.