Editorial

Deciding What Five Hundred Years Will Have Meant
Between the AfD’s landslide win in Saxony-Anhalt and Congo’s new China-backed railroad deal, Jason Ross argues the world is deciding, in real time, whether the next five centuries repeat colonialism or break from it.

I. International

International Peace Coalition, Week 171: Now More Than Ever, the Truth of 9/11 Must Be Known
The IPC’s 171st meeting marked the 25th anniversary of September 11 as a strategy session on how to use new political openings to expose the truth behind the attacks and build a movement for peace.
Political Landslide in Germany! What Matters Now!
Helga Zepp-LaRouche says the AfD’s landslide win in Saxony-Anhalt sends an unmistakable message that the German people are rejecting the war policies of the Merz government.
AfD Victory in Germany: Merz’s Days May Be Numbered
Warnings that a vote for the AfD would turn Saxony-Anhalt into a ‘suburb of Moscow’ failed to stop the party’s landslide win, leaving Chancellor Merz’s own political survival in doubt.

II. Strategic: The Americas

The Future of Brazil: Science, Technology, Innovation, and Sovereignty
Roberto Amaral, Brazil’s former Minister of Science and Technology under Lula, addresses the EIR-IPC Roundtable on what real scientific and technological sovereignty would require for Brazil’s development.
The New Monroe Doctrine and U.S. Claims to Uncontested Hegemony in the Western Hemisphere
Paulo Nogueira Batista, Jr., former IMF executive director for Brazil, warns that a revived Monroe Doctrine is being used to justify unchallenged U.S. hegemony over the whole Western Hemisphere.
China’s Role in the Development of the Global South
Professor Zhang Weiwei of Fudan University lays out the case for China’s development model as a genuine alternative for the Global South, rather than a new form of dependency.
Peru’s Chancay Port and South American and Pacific Basin Integration
Retired Peruvian Gen. Edwin Patterson Monsalve explains how the new Chancay megaport positions Peru, and South America as a whole, at the center of Pacific Basin trade integration.
Why Spain Should Not Join the NATO War against Russia and Iran
Spanish geopolitical analyst Col. (ret.) Pedro Baños argues that Spain has no strategic interest in being dragged into NATO’s confrontations with Russia and Iran.
A Bi-Oceanic Rail Corridor for South America
Dennis Small recalls the choice Brazil faced decades ago at the Carajás iron mine—exploit the ore for export debt payments, or use it to industrialize—as the same choice facing a bi-oceanic rail corridor today.

III. From Lyndon LaRouche

The United States & Ibero-America
Published for the first time, this Aug. 10, 1982 introduction to LaRouche’s Operation Juárez lays out his original case for U.S.-Ibero-American economic cooperation as an alternative to imperial exploitation.