Editorial

It’s Time To Pull Off a Miracle
As a fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran hangs by a thread, Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s Extended Oasis Plan offers a rare chance to turn this dangerous moment into a lasting peace.

I. International

International Peace Coalition, Week 149: Challenge Our Axioms To Become Wiser and More Loving
Helga Zepp-LaRouche opened the International Peace Coalition’s 149th meeting by warning that Iran’s resilience under U.S.-Israeli bombing has left the region in disarray, as speakers called for a new, reason-based world order.
Anglo-Zionists on a Deadly Offensive: Iran and Its ‘Proxies’ Are the Targets of the ‘Ongoing Nakba’
Harley Schlanger traces the British imperial roots of Zionism’s century-long campaign of Palestinian displacement, from Herzl and the Balfour Declaration to today’s ‘ongoing Nakba’ in Gaza and the West Bank.

II. EIR Emergency Roundtable

Press Release: EIR Emergency Roundtable Lights a Pathway Out of Catastrophe
April 7—On April 6, EIR brought together experts from around the world for an emergency roundtable titled, “A Dialogue of Civilizations: Is There Still Time To Prevent the War Against Iran from Escalating into a Global Nuclear Conflict?” The event was an urgent and dramatic call to action, occurring
Short Road to Hell, or Daring To Have a Sublime View of Mankind: The Need To Have an Extended Oasis Plan for Southwest Asia
Helga Zepp-LaRouche warns that humanity risks self-annihilation in the Iran war, and proposes an Extended Oasis Plan of development corridors to transform Southwest Asia into a zone of shared prosperity.
Only a ‘Moral Intention of Action’ Will Solve the World Crisis
Dennis Small argues that the same ‘moral intention of action’ being withheld by the British Empire’s geopolitical choke-point strategy is exactly what’s needed to reverse the world’s onrushing collapse.
Will the War Against Iran End in Tragedy, or Solidarity?
Iranian Ambassador Dr. Khalil Shirgholami says the U.S. and Israel have again bombed the negotiating table, and that Iran will accept nothing less than real guarantees against future aggression.

III. History and Culture

Raphael Comes to America—And None Too Soon!
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first major U.S. exhibition of Raphael’s work situates the poet-painter within the explosive creativity of the Italian Renaissance he helped define.
Compassion, Not Barbarism, Is the Essence of Mankind
An exhibition in Berlin honors two Soviet pilots who died steering their crippled jet away from the city in 1966—and Willy Brandt, the West Berlin mayor who broke with Cold War hostility to honor their sacrifice.

IV. From Lyndon LaRouche

Southwest Asia: The LaRouche Doctrine
In this 2004 policy statement, Lyndon LaRouche calls for a complete U.S. withdrawal from Iraq paired with a declared American commitment to the security and development of Southwest Asia as a whole.