May 8 in the West, and May 9 in Russia, marked the 81st anniversary of the victory over fascism in Europe in World War II—yet many of the core principles of that postwar order are being ignored today.

The International Peace Coalition held its 153rd consecutive weekly meeting on May 8, also VE Day, the 81st anniversary of the victory in Europe over fascism in 1945.

The new Prime Minister of Japan, Sanae Takaichi, is playing a reckless part in Global NATO’s drive against China, putting Japan on a fast track of militarization that would include the hosting of nuclear weapons.

April 30—In parallel with Japan’s plans to rearm, her World War II ally has announced similar intentions. A new military strategy for the German armed forces has now been adopted, most of which remains secret. Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, however, did unveil some of its contents in a

Bombshell drug trafficking charges against the sitting governor of Sinaloa are opening salvos in what is shaping up as an orchestrated destabilization of Mexico designed to end the way the invasion of Venezuela did.

The National Front To Save the Mexican Countryside issued an Open Letter to President Sheinbaum denouncing the Trump administration’s escalating destabilization of Mexico in the fraudulent name of “fighting drugs.”

Pentagon acting comptroller Jay Hurst told Congress the war against Iran had cost $25 billion—but the actual cost for the globe, once physical and economic damage are included, runs to roughly $4 trillion.

Responding to a threat from Pete Hegseth to send Iran “back to the Stone Age,” the Iranian Embassy in South Africa invoked the Cyrus Cylinder, the world’s first declaration of human rights.

Two meticulously researched books reveal just how essential the aid of Europe, and particularly France and Spain, was to the success of the American cause in the Revolutionary War.

The story of Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais’s role in spurring French and Spanish decisions to arm the American revolutionists is as daring and inventive as any of the ploys of his own Figaro.

Editor’s Note: This article was first published in EIR, Vol. 33, No. 14, April 7, 2006. Here is Mr. LaRouche’s speech as delivered on March 30, 2006 to the 27th International Economics Symposium, “Visionomics: Challenges and Proposals for Mexico,” at the Monterrey Technological Institute in Monterrey, Mexico. Greetings.