August 21—Independent U.S. presidential candidate Diane Sare has faced an almost unique blackout of her campaign. Almost unique, because it echoes the treatment of her mentor, Lyndon LaRouche, in his 8 U.S. presidential campaigns. In the ’80s and ’90s, despite an incredibly broad base of contributors, counting far more individuals than the “major candidates,” and an extremely well organized cadre of activists and volunteers, he was excluded from debates and campaign coverage with very few, but notable exceptions. Despite this, his voice shaped the political environment, and the Presidency itself.

Similarly, Sare has demonstrated a uniquely capable campaign organization, being the only non-major-party candidate to successfully petition her way to ballot status in a statewide race in New York in the last two election cycles. She did this in 2022 when she ran for U.S. Senate against the incumbent U.S. Senator and majority leader of the Senate Democratic Caucus Chuck Schumer, and again in 2024 when she challenged U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. Like LaRouche, she has also been totally blacked out by the mainstream media, and massively shadow banned on social media. That clumsy shadow banning has included videos that have somehow received orders of magnitude more likes and reposts than recorded views.

The dam attempting to block the American and world population from hearing a truly independent voice is now beginning to burst. On August 16, TASS, the major state-owned news agency in Russia, ran an interview with Sare in both their English and Russian language editions. Accompanied by a large picture of Sare speaking, the headline reads: “U.S, Should Avoid Tensions With Russia Ahead of Elections—Candidate for President. The White House Should Seek To Expand Trade and Joint Projects in the Spirit of Anchorage, said Diane Sare.” Excerpts of the English-language article follow:

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump should avoid escalating tensions with Russia ahead of the midterm congressional elections and instead seek to expand trade and joint projects in the spirit of Anchorage, independent candidate for U.S. President Diane Sare told TASS.

“Luckily, the United States is having midterm elections in November. The American people are weary of war, and this may impact the Trump administration’s thinking on whether it is wise to escalate the conflict against Russia. Not to mention that, between arming Ukraine and Israel, and attacking Iran, we have depleted our own conventional munitions to very low levels,” Sare said.

She announced in January that she would run as an independent candidate in the 2028 U.S. presidential election.

Sare called the U.S. intelligence community and Pentagon providing Kiev with data for strikes on Russian territory “unfortunate and destructive.” “It would be far more productive to revive the spirit of Alaska and emphasize the enormous benefits to be reaped on both sides by cooperation in trade and development on such projects as the Bering Strait Tunnel and the Northern Sea Transport Route,” the presidential candidate said.

Sare said the United States could immediately pledge not to be the first to use nuclear weapons, arguing that this “would help to alleviate some uncertainty and further the negotiating process.” “Unfortunately, this is not what is being expressed by our Under Secretary of War for Policy, Elbridge Colby, who seems to be saying the opposite with regard to the use of tactical nuclear weapons,” she said, referring to the Pentagon official’s remarks that the United States “must carry the biggest stick in the world.”

Sare’s TASS Interview Makes News in Scandinavia, Iran

International hunger for sane voices in the United States prompted coverage of the interview elsewhere as well.

“US Presidential Candidate Demands Trump Back Down from Russian Escalation,” Dagens.com headlined its August 17 story on Sare’s prominent interview with TASS from the day before.

“High stakes international politics is a delicate dance during a major election season. When the ballot box looms closer, politicians frequently reconsider how far they want to push military conflicts abroad,” the English-language Scandinavian-wide digital news service reported.

“One presidential hopeful thinks this political pressure could finally force a diplomatic shift. President Donald Trump needs to dial back the tension with Russia ahead of the November midterm elections. That is the stark warning from independent candidate Diane Sare. She recently outlined her foreign policy views during an interview with TASS.” The article then proceeds to report on the whole of her interview.

Microsoft News’s aggregator platform MSN, which claims a huge audience of roughly 500 million visitors per month, reposted the Dagens.com story, generating an intense debate in the comments section.

Iran’s Tasmin News agency also posted a story on Sare’s TASS interview on August 16.

Sare and Vega Interviewed in the U.S. by Garland Nixon

Last week, both Sare and Jose Vega, the LaRouche independent candidate to replace AIPAC’s favorite congressman, Richie Torres, in New York’s 15th Congressional District (the Bronx), were featured on Garland Nixon’s widely-watched podcast. The focus of the discussion was the dysfunction of the two-party system. While both Sare and Vega noted with interest the recent primary victories of numerous maverick candidates across the country, indicating that the citizenry is sick of war, they also decried the lack of a positive program being presented. This prompted Nixon to say how happy he was to interview true independents:

Let me say this—and you know I like to be pretty blunt—this is why I support you guys, because you’re independents. If you’re still in the Democratic or Republican party, I got nothing for you…. I don’t care who you are. If you’re still in one of those parties, Garland Nixon’s got no love for you whatsoever.

I know you. I’ve listened to what you’ve said. I’ve read your platforms. It’s genuine. … And I think a lot of voters will be here, too. And that is we’re tired of trying to fix people. You know what I mean?

… Let me just say, you two guys, you’re already there. I don’t have to fix you guys, all I got to do is go click, Diane Sare is—the things that I’m on down with—she’s there. Jose, hey man, he’s opposed to war broadly; he’s making noise about it. I’m voting for him…. I’m giving you guys the credit to the people that are watching—you’re finished products, and what I mean is that you’re taking positions that are moral positions, that are civilized positions opposing war and genocide, and that combine this: we’ve got to stop war; we’ve got to have economic development, too.

The time is ripe to fully break the containment.

Gretchen and Dennis Small contributed to this article.