Editorial

Two Americans, Two Gods
President Trump’s Easter-weekend Truth Social threat to unleash “all Hell” on Iran, invoked in the name of God, reveals a theology of imperial violence supplanting the Christian message of peace it claims to serve.

I. International

International Peace Coalition, Week 148: One Humanity Will Not Tolerate Bombing People into the Stone Age
At the IPC’s 148th weekly meeting, Helga Zepp-LaRouche and other speakers warned that Trump’s threat to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Age” risks a wider war, and called for the Extended Oasis Plan as the real alternative.
Dialogue at EIR April 6 Emergency Roundtable Lights a Pathway Out of Catastrophe
Thirteen experts from ten countries joined EIR’s April 6 Emergency Roundtable to make the case for an Extended Oasis Plan across Southwest Asia, as the alternative to a U.S.-Iran war threatening to escalate into global nuclear conflict.
Schiller Institute Weekly Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Messianic Delusions and the End of History
Helga Zepp-LaRouche examines the messianic delusions driving Trump and Israel’s leadership toward apocalyptic war, and the reasoned “Coincidence of Opposites” needed to pull the world back from the brink.

II. United States

Investigation: $200 Billion More for Iran War, or a Warmakers’ Slush Fund?
Paul Gallagher investigates the Trump Administration’s reported request for $200 billion in additional Iran War funding, and whether the true purpose is a much larger and longer war than officials have admitted.
An Eyewitness Account of Israel’s Attack on the USS Liberty
Marine veteran Bryce Lockwood gives a firsthand account of Israel’s unprovoked 1967 attack on the USS Liberty, which killed 34 American sailors in an assault the U.S. government has never seriously investigated.
Diane Sare: Providing Presidential Leadership in a Time of Crisis
Presidential candidate Diane Sare talks with EIR’s Harley Schlanger about what real presidential leadership demands at a moment of escalating war and civilizational crisis.

III. America’s True History

From Leibniz to Franklin on ‘Happiness’
The following article was originally published in full in the Spring 2003 issue of Fidelio magazine. In 1766, ten years before the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin met and discussed, with the German scientific republican Rudolph Erich Raspe, the Leibnizian idea of forming a nation based upon “life, liberty, and

IV. From Lyndon LaRouche

Why Ignorant Bankers Believe Schacht Succeeded
In this May 1976 analysis, Lyndon LaRouche shows how Hjalmar Schacht’s Reichsbank policies did not save Germany’s economy, but directly produced the conditions that fueled Hitler’s war crimes.

Editorial

Zepp-LaRouche: There Is No Bottom to the Gutter
Helga Zepp-LaRouche updates her 2021 warning about the misuse of Lyndon LaRouche’s legacy, amid what she calls a dangerous, uncritical embrace of the Trump administration’s war policies.