Things are not looking good for U.S. President Donald Trump. On one hand, his proposed peace agreement with Iran is falling apart before his eyes, evidence of a forced series of demands intended more for media flare than for actual diplomatic progress.

Viewed from a deeper historical perspective, Germany’s failure to win a rotating seat on the UN Security Council offers an urgently needed opportunity to reorient German policy, which has clearly been a complete failure.

The 157th weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) on June 5 included a deep discussion about the disaster in the Mideast between Helga Zepp-LaRouche and the former Israeli Director of Peace Now.

The Schiller Institute convened an international conference in Berlin, Germany, May 30-31, titled “The End of 500 Years of Colonialism: For a Dialogue of Civilizations—The Urgency of a New Global Security and Development Architecture.”

It is a great pleasure for me to welcome guests from so many countries, but also from Germany—and thus, I am sorry to have to add a significant fly in the ointment to this joy—a country that could very soon find itself at war again.

Thank you, Stephan. Thank you, Helga, for your enlightening speech. I will discuss the topic, “Building a Win-Win Multipolar World Order.” As a scholar on the Chinese model of development, one feature of this model is experimental.

We are witnessing the end of multiple epochs. The world of our parents and our childhood is no more. Never has the dire description of current events attributed to Antonio Gramsci seemed more apt: “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born.”

Thank you very much for the invitation, Schiller Institute, and my dear Helga, for providing me the opportunity to speak about basically two things. First, my idea of the world order.

The Institute of International Politics and Economics (IIPE) in Serbia, cooperating with three universities, including from the United States and Italy, organized an international academic conference in Belgrade May 20-21.

Good afternoon, distinguished Dr. Helga Zepp-LaRouche and dear colleagues, it is my great honor to participate in this relevant conference which is of great importance, and holds great responsibility at this moment of turmoil in the world.

The following is an edited transcript of an interview with Lyndon LaRouche conducted in December 1996 in Germany, by reporters from the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, on why the British seek Iran’s destruction regardless of its government.

An original poem on artificial intelligence, war, and the fading promise of a nation that once thought things through, as humans do.