President Trump says the Federal government can no longer afford daycare, Medicaid, or Medicare—only military protection—as the price of beef, housing, and energy spirals out of reach for ordinary Americans.

The International Peace Coalition’s 151st weekly meeting opened with Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s warning that the two-month blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has put the world in acute danger of economic depression.

Kuomintang Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun’s six-day visit to the Chinese mainland—including a handshake with Xi Jinping in the Great Hall of the People—reopened a cross-strait channel just weeks ahead of Trump’s Beijing summit.

While Western media fixated on President Trump’s fury at his rebukes, little attention was paid to the substance of Pope Leo XIV’s April 13-23 missionary visit to Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea.

Former Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig warns that the Federal Reserve is once again monetizing the national debt, and that a $1.5 trillion war budget would send interest rates spiking.

The U.S. cattle herd is at its lowest number since the 1950s, and beef prices have soared 16% in a year, as Washington’s cartel-friendly policies continue to block the rebuilding of independent ranching.

In a June 21, 2007 international webcast delivered as the BAE Systems bribery scandal broke, Lyndon LaRouche identified the scandal as a symptom of the British Empire’s terminal financial collapse.