In speaking with EIR's Harley Schlanger on March 19, market analyst Alex Krainer warned that the effect of the breakdown of oil and gas production and delivery due to the Iran war may be the "single greatest disruptor of the world economy in history." Krainer, a former hedge fund manager and commodities trader, said that while price hikes due to wars and other disruptions take time to have a knowable effect, the Trump-Netanyahu war against Iran is foolish on multiple levels, which may create a level of disruption which will take years to stabilize.
The biggest problem, he said, is that the damage extends far beyond shortages of energy resources. It affects agriculture, transport and manufacturing, while the inflation that it generates causes central banks to react to liquidity problems by unleashing a flood of liquidity, to monetize the debt. This can trigger a "commodity super cycle," leading to long-term price increases in commodities, building to a systemic crash.
This was foreseeable, he said, but was ignored by Trump and his advisers, who seem to have been driven by hubris and delusion in choosing to go to war, combined with an ignorance about the history of Iran. He endorsed the proposal of Helga Zepp-LaRouche that we need a rapid transition to a New Paradigm, but don't expect it to come from the existing establishment. He said that the necessary changes must come from an aroused citizenry, but they must be educated. As an example of total establishment dysfunction, he pointed to the European Union, which he said appears headed toward dissolution, similar to that which brought down the Soviet Union.
Why has Donald Trump dropped his "No War" pledge? Is it because he was ordered to do so by war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu? Is the U.S. really run by Israel? NO! Both Israel and the U.S. are serving the interests of the City of London, operating on behalf of what is now known as the "Epstein Class". You would know that if you had read the EIR pamphlet, "The Empire Has No Clothes."
Peter Thiel presents the theory of a globalist institution taking a messianic role to curb risks of AI and technological revolution
US-German billionaire Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, is holding a controversial series of lectures on the Antichrist in Rome this week, prompting criticism from Vatican-linked officials and institutions, according to multiple media reports. Thiel continues to face scrutiny over his ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The invitation-only conference, which began on Sunday and runs through Wednesday, is taking place at a secret location near the Vatican.
The content of the lectures – closed to the media and under tight security – is unclear, but is expected to focus on Thiel’s theory that the biblical Antichrist may appear not as a malevolent figure, but as “a reassuring actor” and heroic administrator aiming to manage technological risks.
This figure, in Thiel’s telling, will use existential fears, like AI, climate change, and nuclear war, to convince the world to unite under a single centralized government.
According to Fortune, Thiel’s vision essentially “blends theological language with Silicon Valley’s anxieties over AI, transhumanism, and decay of meaning.” CNN also noted that the billionaire believes the Antichrist might come “not necessarily as a person but… as a global government system.” (more...)
Friedrich Merz says Iran deserves being the target of war because it hasn’t bent the knee to sanctions
Say what you will about Germany’s current ‘elites’, but they are consistent: Once they don’t give a damn about international law, elementary fairness, rudimentary human decency, and, last but not least, basic logic, they really won’t quit before their country’s reputation is ruined as it has not been since 1945. Hyperbole, you think? Can it really be that bad, you wonder?
Leave it to Chancellor Friedrich Merz and company to achieve what seems almost impossible. For almost two-and-a-half years, not one but two German governments have been, in effect, complicit in Israel’s continuing Gaza genocide. Under former Chancellor Olaf Scholz from the centrist Social-Democrats – otherwise remembered for gutless evasion when US ex-president Joe Biden announced, in essence, that he was going to blow up Nord Stream – as well as under the unusually dishonest Merz from the centrist Christian-Democrats, Berlin has supplied Israel with arms (and probably misled the International Court of Justice about it), diplomatic cover, legal support, media propaganda, and the often brutal suppression of protests against Israel’s crimes.
Indeed, recently a UN special rapporteur has identified the “use of anti-terrorism laws to restrict advocacy for Palestinian rights” as “a primary concern” in a report warning that the “space for freedom of expression is shrinking” in Germany.
Against this awful and shameful background, the fresh war of aggression launched by Israel and its American auxiliaries – that’s the technically correct term for troops serving a foreign nation – could, conceivably, have been a very late wake-up call. Perhaps, an eternal optimist may have thought, the sheer brazenness of the attack will make even Berlin hesitate. Nope. Instead, Friedrich Merz and official Germany in general have radicalized their virtually nihilistic denial of law, ordinary ethics, and common sense. (more...)
Is there anything that can thwart the drive for a global fascist order coming from the corrupt degenerates of the Epstein Class? That was the topic of the EIR Emergency conference on March 2. If you reject the idea that all humans are bestial, but that many will fight for peace and justice if they can find a way, watch the dialogue from yesterday's conference, and join with The LaRouche Orgaization to build a New Paradigm.
Canada has defended every country harmed by the conflict except the victim of aggression. It’s part of Ottawa’s longstanding support for war on Iran.
After the prime minister released a written statement and made a public declaration expressing “support” for US/Israeli aggression, foreign affairs minister Anita Anand released two more statements criticizing Iran on Saturday. Late in the evening she posted, “Canada stands with the United Arab Emirates as it defends itself against Iran’s attempts to escalate the conflict.” After it was confirmed Iran’s leader and multiple family members were killed, as well as a 165 at a girls’ school, Anand posted “Canada strongly condemns the targeting of the State of Qatar by Iran. Canada stands with Qatar and all partners in the region in efforts to safeguard security and prevent further escalation.”
On Sunday Anand followed those statements up with a broader condemnation of Iran’s strategy of targeting countries housing US bases used to launch the aggression. She stated, “We condemn the Iranian Regime’s indiscriminate attacks against civilian infrastructure across the region, including in the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Jordan. These attacks are a dangerous threat to regional stability and civilian safety.”
According to Anand, Iran is responsible for the US/Israeli aggression that has already hit more than 1,000 targets in the country. Ottawa’s support for the war is stronger than many other members of the US-led NATO alliance. Spain and Norway criticized the US/Israeli aggression while UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for an “immediate cessation of hostilities and de-escalation.” (more...)
Alexander Rahr, the President of the Eurasia Society in Berlin, who has a long history of experience in working to improve relations between Germany and Russia, expressed deep concern over the report of a possible British-French initiative to provide nuclear weapons to Ukraine. He decried such talk as dangerous, but not surprising, given the role the British have played in organizing Europe to keep the war against Russia going. Given the Russophobia of the northern Europeans -- by which he specified nations of Scandinavia and the Baltics, Britain and France -- he said he believes the only hope of ending the war rests with the U.S. President. Donald Trump will prevail, he said, but he faces opposition in the U.S. from the Democrats and the "Deep State", in addition to that from Europe. As for the Republicans, he said those who want Trump to succeed in achieving peace in Europe want him to split the alliance between Russia and China, and get Russia to join with the U.S. to face the challenge of China.
He also had interesting comments about what he described as the "weakness" of the Russian army and strategic errors in the war against Ukraine.
He said he watched the "European problem" dominate the last several years of the Munich Security Conference (MSC). He singled out the failure of Europe's leaders to recognize the emerging "multipolar world" as their problem. The MSC focus was narrowly on Europe, with no attention given to the BRICS, which is a new element. He expressed disappointment in the youth in Germany, who act as though nuclear weapons are an issue for older people who live in the past.
In addition to chairing the Eurasia Society in Berlin, Rahr serves as a board member of the Petersburg Dialogue, is a member of the Valdai Club and a former senior adviser to Gazprom.
In today’s EIR Report, Harley Schlanger interviews veteran radio and TV political analyst Garland Nixon on developments following the annual Davos summit, including the increasingly brutal ICE operations in Minnesota, the shift away from the Trump Administration’s “no new wars” stance to neocon-backed interventions in Venezuela and Iran, and the role of British imperial strategy in shaping U.S. foreign policy—using NATO, financial power, and proxy conflicts to prevent Eurasian economic integration and weaken Russia and China.
Nixon pointed out that the expanded ICE deployments have drawn major political backlash from within the U.S., including some pro-gun Trump supporters who have highlighted that Alex Pretti was following the law with respect to carrying a concealed firearm. ICE agents have increasingly used intimidation, physical force, and violence against civilians, including U.S. citizens. Nixon, a former law enforcement official, points out that some of the federal agents have received training directly from the Israel Defense Forces, turning counterterror and foreign-war tactics against their own fellow Americans.
Many Americans now see that this is no longer about “combatting illegal immigration,” but empowering a post-9/11 surveillance apparatus—run by Palantir CEO Alex Karp, Peter Thiel, and others—to be used to suppress political dissent and protest at home. This has also been applied to social media platforms, like X and TikTok, to censor any kind of discussion criticizing the government for its policies in Gaza, Ukraine, and other nations. Younger Americans, including those from Jewish communities, have increasingly turned against U.S. support for the Israeli government’s militarist Zionist ideology. The issue is much deeper though, as both Schlanger and Nixon get into, which is the role of British imperialism in creating destructive ideologies like Zionism to maintain a geopolitical stranglehold on the world. The intervention from Bush-RINOS and neocons in the Trump Administration to provoke a war in Iran, for example, is being done with the intent to weaken Russia and China.
All of this relates to the collapsing global financial system, which the swindlers are desperate to save. Increased military spending in the U.S., AI investment, repeated bailouts, and more endless wars are the present measures being taken to sustain the failing speculative economy. This will not work, however, as reality cannot be defied. A very dangerous moment presents itself, but at the same an opportunity exists for citizens to expose the underlying structures of financial power and oligarchism at its core, and present a new alternative based on cooperation, mutual benefit, and economic development.
Words, words, words -- some truthful, but most not. It is not a sign of genius to recognize that the globalized economy has "ruptured", at least for the so-called advanced countries. But who will tell them that they have no viable alternative despite the "academic credentials" of western leaders? They have failed, decisively, and none of them stepped forward with an alternative. There is an alternative development architecture emerging, around the BRICS, China's Belt-and-Road Initiative, based on LaRouche's advances on the American System -- which the City of London-directed forces wish to crush. Implement a new Glass Steagall bill to take power away from the speculative swindlers of Davos and their system of financialization!
In this week's Underground, Michael explains why so many conservative influencers agree that the ICE tactics are the problem. Joe Rogan compared the tactics to those of the Gestapo, and Bill O'Reilly said that if Trump doesn't find a way to lower the temperature he's going to "lose the country."
This is not a Republican vs Democrat issue, Michael argues. There is a whole lot more going on here than mere immigration enforcement. What is happening in Minnesota right now could negatively impact the entire world.
Why so much outrage, where’s the Catholic Church, and what’s the connection between Minneapolis, Gaza, Greenland and Davos?
At the southern edge of the continent, where the Andes dissolve into the sea, and Antarctica feels closer than Buenos Aires, the Port of Ushuaia has always been more than infrastructure. It is geography made political, with sovereignty poured into concrete. A gateway not just to commerce, but to the South Atlantic, the Antarctic, and the long, unresolved question of who controls the southern hemisphere’s future. That is why what is unfolding today in Ushuaia cannot be understood as a routine ‘administrative’ intervention. It is the latest chapter in a familiar South American story—where strategic assets are declared deficient, then stripped away from local hands, before quietly being repurposed to serve elite foreign interests under the language of efficiency, modernisation, or so-called peace.
Argentine politician and former Minister of Agrarian Affairs Alejandro “Topo” Rodríguez’s warning cuts through the fog: yesterday he announced via his social media account on X, that Argentina did not pay the billion dollars demanded to join Donald Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” which was officially launched during the 56th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, held in Davos, Switzerland. Instead, Argentina is paying with territory.
If we are to believe Alejandro Rodríguez’s statement, and there is no reason we shouldn’t, the exchange, or barter, did not take place on the docks of Ushuaia, nor in the legislature of Tierra del Fuego. It unfolded thousands of kilometres away, in Davos, amid snow-covered mountains and sealed conference rooms where power is traded in gestures and silence. There, President Javier Milei accepted Trump’s invitation to join the newly created Board of Peace, an initiative marketed as a platform for global stability but strangely structured as a real estate consortium, entirely outside the traditional architecture of international diplomacy. The price of admission was steep—one billion dollars, yet Argentina did not pay it.
Official statements and reports celebrated the savings. The country, they said, would not part with scarce funds during a time of economic adjustment. What they did not explain was how Argentina secured its seat at the table regardless.
That silence was broken not by a leak from within the government, but by a post on X from Rodríguez, a veteran Peronist politician and former national deputy, who is also the current director of the Instituto Consenso Federal. Rodríguez is not an outsider throwing stones. He is the consummate insider, with a career that spans legislative work, executive administration, and policy analysis. His message was blunt: Milei compensated for the unpaid billion dollars by offering the Port of Ushuaia. (more...)
The intellectual fraud presented at the billionaires’ summit in Davos, Switzerland poses a burning question: Where were the adults? While Donald Trump’s speech portending a U.S. takeover of Greenland for reasons of “national security,” and “securing American dominance” through a Golden Dome project, took media center stage, the weirdest—and most acclaimed—bloviation was delivered by the Bank of England, through the mouth of its favorite circus clown, Mark “The Barker” Carney.
Trump’s fantasy “Golden Dome” was usefully demolished by leading nuclear weapons expert Dr. Ted Postol, Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology, and National Security Policy at MIT. At the 138th meeting of the International Peace Coalition, Postol demonstrated, with a series of charts and graphics, that at least 1,200 satellites would be required to track and neutralize one ICBM missile, fired from anywhere in the world. This means that if one wishes to knock out 100 missiles simultaneously—a far more realistic scenario—it would require 120,000 satellites to be built!
This makes Trump’s Golden Dome project a physical impossibility. Russia’s new nuclear capabilities, implied by its deployment of the hypersonic Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile, or its Poseidon unmanned underwater drone, far exceed any of the nuclear capabilities of the West. “Golden Dome,” however, rather than being “defensive,” may be a cover for continuing a move toward the placement of offensive thermonuclear capabilities, including in space, leading to a new arms race. That path will likely be the shortest to thermonuclear disaster.
Davos’ signature psychedelic moment, however, was Mark Carney, who called for “more open dialogue” within a non-existent “international rules-based order” which he admits was a fraud from the beginning! Many people, though not everyone, have been bamboozled by the Bank of England’s Trotsky impersonator. Carney, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming in August of 2019, called for a “bankers spring” — financial regime change by the global central bankers, to replace sovereign credit with an international synthetic currency to replace the dollar. Carney, the former head of the Bank of England, the financial vulture who champions a Malthusian “Green New Deal” designed to shackle energy-poor nations, use their resources, and depopulate them, received a standing ovation from the filthy rich at Davos, as he quoted Václav Havel about “the power of the powerless.”
The Davos crazies must be crushed. Lyndon LaRouche’s Four Economic Laws—return to Franklin Roosevelt’s Glass-Steagall, separating speculative from human banking, saving homes, pensions and jobs; the creation of national banks that issue credit for productive investment to build independent, full-set national economies; and crash science-driver programs for energy-intensive new frontier technologies, such as thermonuclear fusion, are what needs to be implemented as the alternative. Actions by independent candidacies in the United States that stand up for these policies—for what American patriot Tom Paine called “Common Sense”—are exactly what the world, as well as the American people, want to hear in this 250th year of the United States of America’s birth.
As Independent Presidential candidate Diane Sare recommends, “Let’s Make Crazy Crazy Again!” Let’s implement the rule of the LaRouche Four Laws, and end the rule of lunacy.
Why Western governments have been waging an economic warfare against Iran for almost five decades.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is number one supporter of Palestinian people’s struggle against Zionist oppression and has been a major obstacle to implementation of the so-called Greater Israel project.
That’s why Israeli PM Netanyahu desperately tries to persuade Donald Trump to wage a full-scale war against Iran.
The intellectual fraud of the synarchist establishment's Great Reset was on display at the Davos Conference, if you knew what to look for. Its overriding message is that participants may disagree on tactics and strategy, but share a common belief that they are superior, and the choices available for future policy must all be based on maintaining their control over policy. Its signature moment was the hype surrounding the supreme hypocrite Mark Carney, calling for more open dialogue! The escape from the sterility of false, controlled choices is to study the work of Lynson LaRouche, the only true anti-WEF strategist.
LaRouche on the false choice between Hobbes and Locke:
Patagonia is often imagined as a remote sanctuary at the edge of the world: vast forests, glacial lakes, windswept plains, and indigenous territories that have resisted the pressures of industrial modernity for centuries. Yet in recent years, this image has begun to fracture. Across Argentina’s southern provinces, forests have burned with unusual frequency and intensity, communities have been displaced, and land once protected by ecological or cultural barriers has become newly accessible, as documented in assessments of the 2024 Argentina wildfires. At the same time, Patagonia has emerged as a focal point in a far larger global struggle, one driven not by climate, but by geopolitics, resource scarcity, and national security imperatives emanating from Washington.
Beneath Patagonia’s scorched earth lies a convergence of uranium, lithium, copper, gold, and rare-earth-associated minerals, precisely the materials the United States has identified as critical to its military, technological, and economic survival, according to the Defense Logistics Agency’s Strategic Materials list (DLA). As China continues to dominate global supply chains for these resources, the U.S. has embarked on an aggressive, state-backed campaign to secure alternative sources, a shift analysed in multiple policy briefings and industry reports from Fastmarkets, and Rare Earth Exchanges, just to name a few. Argentina, and Patagonia in particular, have become central to that strategy. This investigation examines how U.S. mineral policy, Argentine investment frameworks such as RIGI, foreign mining corporations, and a wave of criminally investigated fires intersect, raising disturbing questions about environmental destruction, indigenous population displacement, and the true cost of securing “strategic” resources.
Over the past decade, the United States has quietly but decisively reframed access to critical and strategic minerals as a matter of national security, a transformation detailed in analyses of Pentagon stockpiling and mineral vulnerability, as described in a report from Ecor Network, titled: “Mining for War: An Assessment of the Pentagon’s Mineral Reserves“. This shift reflects a growing awareness inside the Pentagon, Congress, and the intelligence community that modern warfare, surveillance, and economic power depend on materials that the U.S. largely does not control. Lithium is essential for batteries powering military systems and electric vehicles; rare earth elements such as neodymium, dysprosium, and terbium are indispensable for missile guidance systems, radar, satellites, and advanced communications; uranium remains fundamental to nuclear energy and deterrence; and copper, nickel, gallium, and cobalt underpin everything from fighter jets to data centers, as reflected in the DLA strategic materials mandate (DLA).
The vulnerability lies in the supply chains. The United States is fully import-dependent for at least twelve critical minerals and more than fifty percent dependent for twenty-eight others, while China controls roughly seventy percent of global rare earth mining and more than ninety percent of refining capacity, a dominance outlined in policy analyses cited by GovFacts and Discovery Alert. These realities allow Beijing to control, or according to some critics, weaponise supply chains, a risk openly acknowledged in U.S. government and industry circles.
Faced with this imbalance, Washington has responded not with market liberalism but with a form of mineral mercantilism. The Pentagon has invested directly in mining companies, guaranteed price floors for rare earth products, invoked the Defense Production Act to subsidise extraction and processing, and expanded the National Defense Stockpile, developments examined in industry reporting like Fastmarkets. A proposed $2.5 billion Strategic Resilience Reserve, reported by Reuters, would further entrench government control over mineral flows, explicitly aiming to reduce reliance on China and secure long-term access to critical inputs.
The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), which manages the stockpile, lists uranium, lithium, rare earth elements, copper, nickel, cobalt, gallium, and platinum group metals among its priority materials. These are not abstract commodities; they are the physical backbone of U.S. military power and technological dominance, and the list reads almost like a geological map of Patagonia itself. According to the recent Observatorio de Tierras report, US citizens and corporations are the largest owners of Argentinian land, leading with 2.7 million hectares, followed by Italy and Spain, with 50% located in the Andes and in Patagonia. (more...)
Garland Nixon and Harley Schlanger further expose the nefarious role of the British
The video discusses the complex web of power and influence that shapes global events, focusing on the role of intelligence agencies, media manipulation, and oligarchic control. The conversation explores the interconnectedness of these entities and their impact on public perception.
KeyPoints
🚨 The British Empire's legacy of manipulating other elements against each other is still present today.
💡 Intelligence agencies play a significant role in shaping global events through covert operations and media manipulation.
📰 The media is often complicit in covering up these operations, creating cynicism among the public.
📊 Oligarchic control of financial systems, such as the Bank of England, allows for manipulation of power dynamics.
💸 Epstein's case highlights the involvement of powerful individuals and organizations in compromising themselves for personal gain.
On December 26th, the Zionist entity recognised Somaliland - historic Somalian territory that has claimed independence since 1991 - as a state, the first country in the world to do so. The move sparked widespread outcry and international condemnation, with the African Union demanding it be revoked. Undeterred, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar visited Hargeisa on January 6th, signing a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in multiple areas, including ‘defence’. President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi hailed the visit as a “historic milestone” in Somaliland’s quest for international legitimacy.
These developments are of significant concern to Somaliland’s neighbours throughout the Horn of Africa, with which the statelet has extremely strained relations, that have boiled over into all-out conflict on numerous occasions over decades. Fears are understandably widespread an Israeli - if not accompanying US - military presence locally will embolden breakaway authorities to intensify their belligerence, and seize contested territory claimed by both Hargeisa and Somalia. But grave anxieties are also felt throughout West Asia.
Speculation has long-swirled Somaliland is viewed as a potential dumping ground for Gaza’s population by the US and Israel, to clear the way for further Zionist settlement and Palestine’s total erasure. Recognition appears to be a move in that monstrous direction. Moreover, in November 2025 the highly influential Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies published a paper explicitly stating Somaliland was “an ideal candidate” for “strategic” cooperation, in service of numerous geopolitical and military objectives. Chief among them, a “future campaign” against Yemen’s AnsarAllah.
Throughout the Gaza genocide, God’s Partisans have stood defiant in their defence of the Palestinian people. This has included direct strikes into the heart of the Zionist entity with drones and hypersonic missiles, and a blockade of the Red Sea. The latter effort endured for almost two years, causing immense disruption to global trade and crippling Israel’s ports, to the extent of outright closure. Along the way, AnsarAllah resoundingly defeated two grand Anglo-American air and naval efforts to regain control of the Sea. (more...)
