Editorial

Overcoming the Force of Tragedy
As Trump’s collision course with Russia, China, and Iran deepens, the deeper problem is not any one leader’s psychology but the tragic flaw of a dying British imperial system—one that citizens must still act to stop.

I. International

International Peace Coalition, Week 150: ‘We Are Not Condemned To Be Bestial’
At its 150th consecutive weekly meeting, Helga Zepp-LaRouche warned the world is “vacillating between hope and Hell,” as speakers called on Congress to invoke its war powers and cut off funding for the war.
Artemis Mission Helps Ignite New Sense of Purpose for America
The successful splashdown of the Artemis II astronauts, after humanity’s first return to the vicinity of the Moon since 1972, gave millions of Americans a rare spark of unifying, science-driven optimism.
Schiller Institute and Chinese Think-Tank Organized an Event in Berlin
A seminar on “China-Europe Dialogue on Global Governance” brought German and Chinese speakers together in Berlin on April 15, with Helga Zepp-LaRouche calling for an enlarged Oasis Plan that includes Africa.

II. EIR Emergency Roundtable

The Nuclear Threat Posed by Israel’s Messianic Extremists
Professor Theodore Postol warns that Israel’s push toward nuclear weapons under messianic extremist influence poses a grave, underappreciated threat to regional and global stability.
How the Oasis Plan Could Transform the Middle East
Professor Zhang Weiwei condemns the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran as a symptom of a collapsing unipolar order, and argues China’s own desert-to-green-energy transformation offers a model for the Oasis Plan.
The Oasis Plan: Shifting from Zero-Sum Conflict to Shared Economic Gains
Ambassador Prof. Dr. Manuel Hassassian weighs the narrow window between escalation and diplomacy in the Iran war, and argues that shared economic development is the only durable path out of the region’s cycle of conflict.

III. From Lyndon LaRouche

Why We Must Colonize Mars
In this Oct. 14, 1996 address, Lyndon LaRouche argues that a Mars-colonization science-driver program is not a luxury but an urgent economic necessity for a world sliding into depression.