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China Briefs China Launches the Core Module of Its Space Station With the successful launch on April 28 of the Tianhe core module of its Tiangong space station, China begins to carry out the third phase of its manned space program. That series of missions has been a 30-year program, culminating in the operation of an Earth-orbiting space station in 2021, a bit later than the target year of 2020. The first phase had the goal of demonstrating that manned space flight was safe. That was accomplis...

International Briefs Argentina Is First Nation in Ibero-America To Produce Sputnik V Vaccine In an April 20 press release, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, announced that its partner, Argentina’s Laboratorios Richmond, had produced a test batch of 21,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine, the first Ibero-American nation to do so. Samples will be sent to Russia’s Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology, which first developed Sputnik ...

April 16—Helga Zepp-LaRouche stated emphatically, “This must stop, and the Caesar Sanctions must be lifted. And all the members of the U.S. Congress who do not lift these sanctions make themselves complicit in every death that occurs in the region.” C-SPAN James Jeffrey, Obama’s U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Trump’s Special Representative for Syrian Engagement, said the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists are a U.S. asset, and any government helping to rebuild Assad’s Syria will be a target of...

Virginia Abolishes Death Penalty: Now, Let’s Abolish Genocide EIRNS A September 1992 march against the death penalty—from Virginia’s capital Richmond to Washington, D.C., led by Lyndon LaRouche’s vice-presidential running mate Rev. James Bevel—is met and addressed by LaRouche associate Michael Billington (center, necktie), on his way to a Virginia prison to serve a long sentence from the political prosecutions of LaRouche’s movement. April 17—The Virginia General Assembly and the ...

SUBSCRIBE TO EIR Executive Intelligence Review. COMMITTEE FOR THE COINCIDENCE OF OPPOSITES Join Forces Against Pandemic and Famine by Lynne Speed Dr. Khadijah Lang (left) and fellow medics in Mozambique in 2019, at a hospital ophthalmology center. April 11—The world has now reached a new, horrific milestone of more than three million deaths worldwide from COVID-19. With the infection rate increasing in many countries and new variants on the rise, the urgency of concerted, coordinated actions ...

Make Space for the Belt and Road in the Americas Dennis Small is the Ibero-America Intelligence Director for Executive Intelligence Review. Mr. Small delivered this speech on March 20, 2021 to Panel 2 of the Schiller Institute conference, “The World at a Crossroad—Two Months into the Biden Administration.” Video of Panel 2 is here . Dennis Small Ibero-America today is being wracked by a pandemic that is also wracking the world. It is facing approximately 45% real unemployment, if you meas...

To Survive the Green New Deal, Defeat It! by Paul Gallagher March 31—Despite the frantic efforts of the Federal Reserve’s QE4ever program and similar financial “easing” from other runny emitters of currency in the trans-Atlantic world, the inevitable financial blowout following decades of collapse of the physical productivity of the trans-Atlantic world—a collapse made all the more astonishing and sickening when contrasted not to the past, but to what could have been the present—is ...

April 1—The dire situation in Syria is becoming one of the critical junctures in the intensifying battle between the genocidal policies of the British Empire and a new paradigm based on peace through development. After ten years of warfare in Syria, instigated and orchestrated by the Obama Administration with the intention of bombing it into oblivion, arming terrorists to destroy its social and political structure, assassinating its head of state, and looting its raw materials—i.e., precise...

Lessons of Syria Senator Richard Black spoke to the Schiller Institute’s conference, “The World at a Crossroad: Two Months into the New Administration,” on the March 21 panel, “Southwest Asia: Pivot for War, or Peaceful Development with the New Silk Road.” Sen. Richard H. Black Moderator: Now we are going to go to the United States. Former Virginia State Senator Richard Black, who is also a veteran of the Vietnam War, where he served in the Marines, and then became Judge Advocate Gene...

The Middle East As a Strategic Crossroad by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. EIR, Vol. 29, No. 23, June 14, 2002. A speech delivered on June 2, 2002 at the Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-Up in Abu Dhabi, UAE, on the first day of its two-day conference on “The Role of Oil and Gas in World Politics.” A transcript of the discussion that followed is available here . Lyndon LaRouche speaking June 2 to the Zayed Centre for Coordination and Follow-Up in Abu Dhabi, at the opening of the Centre’ ...