“Both theaters of war, the Iran situation and also the war in Ukraine, are escalating,” Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche told the 162nd meeting of the International Peace Coalition on July 10. “I think that if we are not changing course very, very quickly, that we soon will have reached a point of no return.”
There is no sign, however, that the Epstein-class elites of the West intend to do any such thing, as over the past week we have witnessed a ratcheting up of provocations, broken commitments, and further moves toward militarization—including with nuclear-capable weapons.
Regarding Iran—which just finished burying its assassinated Supreme Leader before a reported 40 million mourners, the largest funeral in recorded history—the situation remains very volatile, with renewed attacks on both sides. Despite media rumors and Trump’s claims to the contrary, Iranian officials have announced that at this point they are not seeking negotiations with the United States and that the US has repeatedly breached the June MOU. As if to prove the point, on Friday, the State Department piled new sanctions on Iran. President Trump took to Truth Social late Thursday night to announce that “1,000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands…more to immediately follow,” should Trump be assassinated. Should we be surprised if, as reports claim, British intelligence’s proxy, Israel, did, indeed, pass intelligence to the US about such an alleged assassination plot?
It would behoove anyone who might otherwise get swept up in reacting to the death threats coming from both sides to ask themselves, “Cui bono?” If such an assassination were to become the fuse to a world war, who built the bomb?
The Ukraine situation is no different. On Friday, a Russian military expert charged that American intelligence helped organize and support a thwarted drone attack on the Rostov-on-Don airfield, understood to be the operational nerve center of Russia’s Special Military Operation, while earlier in the week, NATO’s Ankara summit locked in €70 billion in new 2026 arms for Kiev, and Germany moved to buy up to 400 nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles from Washington.
But the real target of all this was never Tehran or Moscow; it is the emergence of a new system of governance, a win-win paradigm of development among sovereign nations, outside the control of the geopolitically driven, neo-imperialist elites of London and Wall Street. That imperial structure, administered via the bestial Epstein class, is what must be broken by those patriots in the West who still remember the mission of the recently celebrated US Declaration of Independence.
Even inside Washington, cracks are showing due to growing pressure from the American population. Rep. Ro Khanna, [detained for over an hour] this week in the West Bank by armed settlers carrying American-made M4s, called the Democratic establishment “clueless about how much of a moral test” Palestine, Gaza, and Israel have become. [Rep. Thomas Massie has announced]() that he will vote down the rule to bring the NDAA bill to the floor unless his amendment striking Section 219—the US-Israel military merger—is included. Sen. Chris Van Hollen and others are circulating a Dear Colleague letter against the Senate’s companion provision. Rep. Adam Smith, who initially opposed that same amendment, reversed himself after his own constituents made clear they’d had enough.
Why are the Epstein-class elites so desperate to keep the war machine running regardless of the cost? Because their system is utterly bankrupt, and they know it. A real president—one capable of keeping the republic—would do what independent presidential candidate Diane Sare is calling for: implement Lyndon LaRouche’s Four New Laws to Save the USA, starting with the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall and a bankruptcy reorganization of the entire speculative financial system, clearing the way at last for a return to the American System of credit-driven physical development.
“The big enemy which we have to fight,” Zepp-LaRouche said, “is the idea of empire”—the evil and inhuman system the United States was founded to end. The people who wrote the Declaration would likely not recognize what has been made of the US republic in service of a financier class that answers to no one; they would, however, recognize those founding intentions in the New Paradigm now taking shape among the BRICS and the Global Majority. They would embrace China’s Belt and Road Initiative not as a rival to be contained, but as a fellow traveler on the same road they set out on in 1776—and they would celebrate, joyfully, a real chance to free humanity from poverty and war forever.
“You can actually win against the empire if you unite and have a good plan,” Zepp-LaRouche said in referencing Friedrich Schiller’s purpose in writing his Revolt of the Netherlands. “You can bend even the stretched arm of the worse dictator and actually win for the good cause.”
Overwhelming Congress with calls to block the NDAA’s Section 219 in the House and 1217 in the Senate is an urgent task for anyone who wishes to do just that. As Diane Sare’s call to action reads, “Call your congressmen today and every day until their office confirms that they will not pass the NDAA if it includes any provision to merge our military with Israel or any other nation. In this 250th anniversary year of our Declaration of Independence, let’s heed Ben Franklin’s admonition and keep our Republic.”
