Editorial
The World at a Crossroads: Make Humanity Human Again
In a moment when Europe seizes Russian oil tankers and Washington pours billions more into war, EIR calls for a world movement of world citizens who fight for development as the new name for peace.
Stewart Battle
I. International
International Peace Coalition, Week 160: ‘Sitting on the Absolute Edge of the Abyss’
The 160th session of the International Peace Coalition addressed the deepening war danger in Ukraine and the Persian Gulf, alongside economic questions inseparable from the fight for peace.
EIR NewsLula Da Silva Lists G7 Economic Policy Failures to G7 Leaders
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva delivered a pointed lesson to the G7: stop complaining about Chinese competition, and join in investing in the development of the Global South instead.
Gretchen Small
II. Strategic
Some Reflections on Resolving the Ukrainian Crisis, Europe and Global Security
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reviews two decades of Western duplicity behind the Ukraine crisis, and lays out the conditions under which genuine dialogue with Europe could resume.
Sergey Lavrov
The Well-Deserved Ouster of Sir Keir Starmer
June 24—What was described as “inevitable” since the Epstein-Mandelson scandal broke in the UK on February 9, 2026, came to pass on June 22, as Sir Keir Starmer announced his resignation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The Mandelson story encompasses much of what was wrong with
Harley Schlanger
NATO Intelligence Haunted by Lyndon LaRouche
A NAFO-linked Substack series meant to discredit Lyndon LaRouche instead reveals how deeply his ideas on sovereign credit have penetrated the thinking of two successive U.S. Treasury Secretaries.
Kevin Pearl
Greenspan Has Died, But His Sins Outlive Him
Alan Greenspan, who spent four decades dismantling Glass-Steagall and championing the deregulation behind boom-bust cycle after boom-bust cycle, has died at 100.
Harley Schlanger
III. History and Culture
Hafiz and Goethe—An Intellectual Dialogue Between Persia and Germany
Dr. Mostafa Maleki, press attaché of the Iranian embassy in Germany, traces the enduring dialogue between the Persian poet Hafiz and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as a model for civilizational understanding today.
Dr. Mostafa Maleki
First ‘Organized’ Celebration of Fourth of July 1783 Featured Beautiful Moravian Music for Peace
In 1783, the Moravian settlement of Salem, North Carolina held the first “organized” Fourth of July celebration, marked by a specially composed music program called the “Psalm of Joy.”
Marcia Baker
IV. From Lyndon LaRouche
I Stand at the Bedside of a Doomed Empire
In this Feb. 14, 2004 keynote address, Lyndon LaRouche traces the collapse of the British-modeled financial empire to its 18th-Century origins, and warns that America’s own moral character will decide whether civilization survives.
Lyndon LaRouche