With President Trump’s 48-hour ultimatum to Iran looming, Diane Sare warns that striking Iran’s power plants could bring on a collapse of the world economy and perhaps nuclear war, and points to a regional agreement and great projects of development as the alternative.

At the International Peace Coalition’s 146th weekly meeting, Helga Zepp-LaRouche challenged the audience to help stop the escalation around Iran, now spiraling with “breakneck speed” toward the potential for nuclear war.

Yakov Rabkin argues that the important question about the war on Iran is not what it costs Washington but what Israel, the war’s proponent and initiator, stands to gain, and that the assault is inseparable from the question of Palestine.

Christie and Platt trace Robert Maxwell’s ties to Israel’s nuclear program, British intelligence, and the Santa Fe Institute’s cybernetics work, and show how Jeffrey Epstein later took over that portfolio.

Analyst Einar Tangen, speaking from Beijing with Helga Zepp-LaRouche, explains Iran’s defensive strategy, why Trump launched the war, and what the West gets wrong about China.

Lt. Col. (ret.) Ralph Bosshard says the Epstein scandals are not simply an expression of moral depravity but a characteristic of a system built on what he calls strategic corruption.

David Monyae of the University of Johannesburg outlines three phases of Africa-China relations, beginning with the anti-colonial solidarity of 1949 to 1978.

Ali Rastbeen of the Académie Géopolitique de Paris describes a structural turning point in the international system, as the post-1945 order is transformed by shifting power centers and the rise of multipolarity.

Sculptor Hanspeter Widrig, speaking as an artist at the edge of society, describes a world of paradox and confused goals in which people are being blinded.

Diane Sare argues that the West is in a pre-revolutionary moment, the inverse of Friedrich Schiller’s discovery of the failure of the French Revolution, and that only through beauty does one proceed to freedom.

Addressing an informal seminar at the Italian Institute for Asia on Oct. 16, 2001, LaRouche described an attempted coup d’état in the United States and set out the basis for a dialogue of cultures around common principle.

Dr. Kwame Amuah, a Ghana-born security analyst and former nuclear adviser to the South African government, reflects on an America whose ghost, he writes, was once hope.