Editorial
Dare to Be Wise: The Choice Is Ours
Sept. 29—“We are experiencing … the end of the epoch of five hundred years of colonialism,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and leader of the Schiller Institute observed in a Sept. 21 open letter to heads of state and delegations at the UN General Assembly. “If we, as the human species,

I. International
International Peace Coalition, Week 174: From Confrontation to Collaboration
Oct. 2—October 2 marked the 174th consecutive weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC). Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Schiller Institute founder and IPC initiator, opened the proceedings by warning of new developments, including the potential dangers of the military use of artificial intelligence (AI). U.S. Secretary of War

Pope Leo XIV to France: Never Give Up on the Question of War
Bierre is editor of the French monthly, Nouvelle Solidarité. Oct. 1—Pope Leo XIV’s four-day trip to France is already turning the country upside down. Despite its well-known secularism, France has never abandoned its claim to being “the eldest daughter of the church,” based on the conversion

Chaos Builds in Israel as Election Nears
Oct. 1—“How is it possible that a state founded in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust stands today credibly accused of perpetrating large-scale war crimes, forcible displacement of civilian populations, and crimes against humanity?… And how do we come to terms with the fact that Israel’s war

II. Strategic
The Root of Warfare Against Iran Is That It Chose an Independent Path
Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi, professor at the University of Tehran, is a scholar, political analyst, and former advisor to Iran’s nuclear negotiation team. The following is the edited transcript, with subheadings added, of remarks by Dr. Marandi to the International Peace Coalition on Sept. 25, the 173rd consecutive weekly

Iran’s IRGC Sends an Open Letter to Americans Calling for Truth, and an End to Warfare
Oct. 4—Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Sept. 29 released “An Open Letter to the Honorable People of the United States of America,” in a surprising and welcome intervention. The document is explicitly addressed to “scholars, the students, and the members of the media,” as well as

Xi Jinping’s State Visit to the U.S.—Potential for a Strategic Shift
Oct. 3—Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Sept. 23-25 state visit to Washington offered an impressive display of friendship and good-neighborliness between the world’s two largest economies. After having hosted U.S. President Donald Trump in Beijing earlier this May, President Xi received an equally honored reception

III. Political Economy
At the Economic Breakdown Phase, Beyond Economic Shock Waves
Oct. 3—The following are summary notes on selected aspects of the world economic breakdown in production and access to food, fuel, and fertilizer/chemicals as of the beginning of the fourth quarter of 2026. The process goes beyond the economic shockwaves that hit in the first weeks following the

IV. America's True History
Leibniz, Gauss Shaped America’s Science Successes—Part 1
The following is Part 1 of a feature on American history first published in EIR on February 9, 1996. The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by what would soon become the United States of America. That instrumental document laid down the principles of an

V. From Lyndon LaRouche
‘We Must Revive the Concept of a Just, New World Economic Order—Now!’
Editor’s Note: This article was first published in EIR, Vol. 30, No. 22, June 6, 2003. Here is Lyndon LaRouche’s keynote, as delivered, to a conference on “The World Situation after the Iraq War,” in Bangalore on May 26, 2003, organized by the Center for Social Justice and










