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As we enter the early phase of a tentative peace deal between Israel and Hamas to end a horrific genocide conducted against largely innocent Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, there are already moves being made by Netanyahu’s criminal team to undermine the peace process. The Gaza ceasefire went into effect noon local time on Oct. 10, while Israeli forces completed their withdrawal to lines specified in the first phase of the agreement. Only six hours later, two people in Khan Younis were killed by an Israeli drone strike. Netanyahu then threatened a return to war, if Hamas did not capitulate on disarmament and other Israeli demands, saying, “If this is achieved the easy way, great. And if not, it will be achieved the hard way.” Also, consider the fact that respected Palestinian leader, Marwan Barghouti, who was specifically named in the list of 250 Palestinian political prisoners to be released in exchange for hostages held by Hamas, was omitted later on. We cannot leave the peace process in the hands of criminal leaders who will take any chance to sabotage it. What and who is behind Netanyahu, including his criminal war cabinet ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich? The old British Empire, who intend to prevent Southwest Asia from being a world crossroad for development, are using Israel as the hand grenade to blow up the entire region. American economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche suggested, following the 1993 Oslo Accords, that shovels be immediately put into the grounds so that people in the region could see that something was moving, and that there was real development. If nations in the region were to agree to LaRouche’s Oasis Plan, including the Arab League, Gulf Cooperation Organization, and Organization of Islamic Cooperation, they could throw a monkey wrench into imperial ambitions for the region, and promise a real future to the people of Gaza and surrounding nations. Speakers: Harley Schlanger and Mike Robinson

International Peace Coalition Meeting Friday, October 10, 11am ET/5pm CET RSVP to join the discussion on Zoom: https://schillerinstitute.nationbuild... With Graham Fuller, Dr. Vincenzo Romanello, and Ali Rastbeen The Western nations’ apparent commitment to geopolitics—to the old and dying system of imperial control of some nations and peoples over others—is the biggest threat to humanity today and, because it now risks our extinction in a nuclear war, in all of human history. The relentless and psychotic drive of the European, NATO, and other elites toward militarization, toward getting a war with nuclear-armed Russia going at any cost, is a very relevant case in point. Many are decrying the most recent, desperate push of Zelenskyy and his controllers to get U.S. President Donald Trump to send Tomahawk long-range missiles to Ukraine—missiles which the Russians have made quite clear cannot be operated without U.S. military personnel—in order to "get Putin to the negotiating table." Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter has called on Congress to act immediately to ban the shipment of such weapons to Ukraine, along with intelligence support in targeting the missiles. Trump, for his part, has not yet said whether he’ll make such a stupid move, about which Putin declared in his speech to the Valdai Club on October 2, ”This would signal the advent of a totally new stage in this escalation, including in terms of Russia’s relations with the United States.” In the other British Empire cockpit of war, Southwest Asia, an initial agreement has been reached in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, between Hamas and Israeli negotiators for phase one of a peace deal. Initial statements from U.S. President Donald Trump and the Hamas team state that all of the Israeli hostages and roughly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, who had been seized since October 7, 2023, are to be released; Israeli troops are to withdraw to agreed-upon lines; and the flow of aid is to resume at levels consistent with the January 2025 agreement. The obvious and quite understandable concern of the Hamas team is that Trump give guarantees that he will hold Israel to their end of the bargain. The only solution to the set of crises erupting across the globe is for the Western nations to look to the better angels of their natures, to change their axioms, and to dump the system of war and geopolitical conflict. Our universe is not a dog-eat-dog, Hobbesian world; quite the contrary. Look to the nations of the Global South, of the BRICS, of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization; despite Trump’s tariff warfare, South-South trade is growing, year-on-year; new, cooperative ventures in transportation, energy, and agriculture are beginning in those nations; 7,000 participants from 80 countries are currently attending the “Inventing the Future” forum in Moscow, discussing a wide range of topics from demographic challenges to artificial intelligence and space exploration. Russian President Vladimir Putin told the gathering, "Conclusions and results of such a profound and substantive conversation are of great value. I am confident that we must create our own future based on a sovereign worldview." "I think the sign of the time is cooperation," Zepp-LaRouche said in her Oct. 1 Schiller Institute webcast. "If the Western countries would signal to the Global Majority that they intend to cooperate with them on economics, on politics, on culture, on all kinds of fields, we could move into a new era of civilization." The moment requires our intervention around the world now.

After 738 days, the remaining 20 living hostages held by Hamas were released this morning, fulfilling a deal pushed by President Donald Trump. Trump has convened a summit today, attended by at least 20 nations' leaders, to discuss future governance and reconstruction of Gaza. Will LaRouche's Oasis Plan be part of the plan for a sustainable peace?

The world let out a sigh of relief following the successful summit between President Trump and President Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, 2025. While the momentum from that summit has not completely dissipated, it seems to be headed in that direction. The relentless and psychotic drive of European, NATO, and other elites to escalate towards full-on war with a nuclear-armed Russia is now putting the world a few inches away from an irreversible catastrophe—a global nuclear war that would destroy all life on Earth. Pressure is being brought upon the Trump Administration to sell Tomahawk missiles to Europe for use in Ukraine, which are capable of carrying nuclear warheads and can be launched up to a range 1,550 miles, more than enough to hit targets deep within Russian territory, a clear red-line which would make the U.S. and NATO direct participants in the war. Former UN weapons inspector and U.S. marine Scott Ritter had reminded readers in his Substack article, “The Missiles of October,” that Trump had clearly outlined his opposition to the Biden Administration's policy of allowing Ukraine to use the U.S.-provided ATACMS missiles to strike targets deep inside Russia. Trump had said then, in December 2024, “ “I disagree very vehemently with sending missiles hundreds of miles into Russia. Why are we doing that? We’re just escalating this war and making it worse. That should not have been allowed to be done. Now they’re doing not only missiles, but they’re doing other types of weapons. And I think that’s a very big mistake, a very big mistake.” Ritter and others are now mobilizing the U.S. Congress to act immediately to ban the shipment of such weapons to Ukraine, along with intelligence support in targeting the missiles. We know, given the statements of former military experts within the U.S. who have voiced opposition to the current war hysteria which has taken over Washington, that the long-range missiles could not be operated except with the intelligence and reconnaissance data provided by the U.S. to Ukrainian operators. In Southwest Asia, another theater of war, there is cautious, yet renewed hope for a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, following an initial agreement being reached Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, for the first phase of the agreement to release hostages on both sides of the conflict. Initial statements from the teams involved indicate that all of the Israeli hostages, and roughly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners who were seized since October 7, 2023, are to be released; Israeli troops are to withdraw to agreed-upon lines; and the flow of aid is to resume at levels consistent with the January 2025 agreement. It’s our obligation, as actors, not spectators, to make sure the geopolitical confrontation with Russia, China, and other nations is ended, and replaced with win-win agreements between sovereign nation-states, not vassals of Wall Street, for economic development. In a statement written by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, and distributed across several peace rallies in Germany, on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, she makes clear, “For the first time in human history, we are all in the same boat: We will either go down together, or jointly open a new more humane chapter in universal history. That is why we must stand up against the war hysteria that is being whipped up, with hundreds of thousands of people on the streets—as in the early 1980s. But that is not enough. We must overcome the geopolitical causes of war and overcome, together with the Global South, the great challenges facing humanity—poverty and underdevelopment. Only by helping the countries of the Global South to develop their economic potential will we be able to resolve the refugee crisis in a humane way.” Only through that adopted policy of nations of the world, can we address the roots of all crises. Speaker: Stewart Battle

1. Will the Gaza peace process hold? 2. What do you think of Max Blumenthal's coverage of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk? 3. Did JP Morgan's CEO Jamie Dimon just predict a collapse of the $141 trillion bond market? Is that likely? 4. Now that Pres. Trump did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, do you have some advice for him for next year?

Former nuclear weapons inspector, Scott Ritter, has initiated a campaign to get the U.S. Congress to prohibit the shipment of U.S. Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine. With a reference to the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis, resolved peacefully by President John F. Kennedy through diplomatic cooperation with Soviet leader Krushchev, the threat of nuclear war then was resolved by agreements which reduced the danger posed by unchecked proliferation. We face at present a situation more dangerous than 1962, with few world leaders offering solutions. Instead of talking tough and building new weapons systems, now is the time for cooperation, to build "a new international peace order."

Your weekly Battle Report for Wednesday, October 8 from Ashley Tran.

Events are moving at a breakneck speed. Are you keeping up? Our voice is crucial to breakthrough the lies and psychological warfare deployed by those who benefit from Permanent War -- the globalists in finance and corporate cartels, people like Larry Ellison of Oracle, who is leading Silicon Valley tech companies into an alliance with the Military-Industrial Complex, under the direction of a U.S.-British tech sector. Trump calls Ellison his favorite CEO, while the British media cite Ellison as very close to Tony Blair. What will that mean with the corrupt war criminal Blair playing a leading role in the "peace" process in SW Asia?

Thirty nine years ago today, in the early morning of October 6, 1986, a swarm of 400 heavily armed law enforcement and intelligence officers, accompanied by several TV camera crews, surrounded Lyndon LaRouche’s home in Northern Virginia. In this October 6, 2025 presentation to LaRouche movement activists, former U.S. senate candidate Diane Sare details the central role of the FBI-allied Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith in this insidious political witch-hunt which set the precedent for 'Deep State' operations to silence political opponents in the United States.

The much awaited response to President Trump’s 20-point peace plan has finally been announced by Hamas. In their response, Hamas agreed to key points mentioned in the plan, specifically, the release of all Israeli captives, alive and deceased, according to the exchange formula mentioned in President Trump’s proposal. President Trump posted the following commentary on the statement to his Truth Social: “Based on the Statement just issued by Hamas, I believe they are ready for a lasting PEACE. Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza, so that we can get the Hostages out safely and quickly! Right now, it’s far too dangerous to do that. We are already in discussions on details to be worked out. This is not about Gaza alone, this is about long sought PEACE in the Middle East.” Many have expressed either praise and discontent with the proposal, but what is lacking is a strong mobilization by citizens to support the only viable solution to the tragic genocide which has become the moral test for all of humanity, determine whether we as a human species can survive. The basis for long-lasting peace is through Lyndon LaRouche’s now five-decade old proposal to provide fresh water to the region through his Oasis Plan, which would ensure the prosperity of all inhabitants, both Israeli and Palestinian in the region. This must be called for in the context of a new security and development architecture, which would replace the existing rules-based order created following the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has only ensured misery for the developing sector, through endless wars, sanction, and crushing debt. In today’s program, Harley Schlanger will review key aspects of the developments in Southwest Asia, and the solution to break the cycle of tragedy which has caused the death of at least 65,000 Palestinians, but likely much more.

Read what Harley reads everyday, subscribe to eir.news The world became more dangerous two years ago today. The Hamas attack on Israel led to a rush through a door which was already open, a door leading to a new round of Permanent War. Even as President Trump forced a bloody PM Netanyahu to agree to a ceasefire, the genocide in Gaza is continuing, and the "Peace President" has embraced a "warrior ethos" which is suicidal. Never has it been so obvious why there is no alternative to the "LaRouche Solution"!

Read what Harley reads everyday, subscribe to https://eir.news/ Too many have succumbed to City of London brainwashing, having been led to believe that Permanent War is the "new normal". Increasingly, submission to that belief is changing. Putin said at Friday's Valdai Club that fatalism must be replaced by a "philosophy of complexity" -- that solutions exist outside of the oligarchy's plan for Permanent Warfare. Join with The LaRouche Organization to make the "new normal" a commitment of western governments to respond to the demands for justice from the Global South. For Southwest Asia, that means LaRouche's Oasis Plan. Here is a link to the Oasis Plan -- study it, and fight for it. No submission to murderous oligarchs wh promote Permanent War to protect their private fortunes:

Confused about today's political events? Do you feel like a tennis ball being volleyed back and forth between the "right" and the "left?" This week's LaRouche Show presentation, originally titled "How the Global Financial and Monetary Crisis Is Seen in U.S. and European Policymaking Circles," was delivered to a special conference on world economic development held on May 17, 1995. In it, Lyndon LaRouche provided Americans a very clear strategic road map detailing the ACTUAL strategic battle lines existing then and today: the life and death conflict between the American System of Political Economy vs. the cult of British free-trade, typified by Adam Smith (as well as its "left opposition" Karl Marx) which has defined politics for over two centuries. As the rotten Wall Street/City of London imperial system unravels, Americans must abandon their beliefs in the cult of money and again focus on what defines real wealth in an economy.

In this special presentation for the Diane Sare Symposium, LaRouche Organization history editor Christopher Sare presents the first in a series of episodes on the historic implications of one of the most revolutionary institutions ever created: the American presidency. Forged by George Washington and increasingly perfected by later presidents, the American presidency was the first effective political/economic form of government created in the Western world free of the burden of oligarchical rule, and able to wield power on behalf of the General Welfare of the people of the nation.

Friday, October 3, 11am ET/5pm CET RSVP to join the discussion on Zoom: https://schillerinstitute.nationbuild... Please mobilize your organizations. We are one humanity; we have one future, which will either be the New Paradigm and peaceful relations among all nations on the planet, or we are going to destroy ourselves in a thermonuclear war which no one will survive. Join the International Peace Coalition Friday with Jonathan Kuttab, Executive Director of Friends of Sabeel North America and Co-Founder of Nonviolence International; Prof. Lier Pires Ferreira, professor, head of Nu-BRICS; Prof. Steve Starr, professor at the University of Missouri, former director of the MU Clinical Laboratory Science program. Please send reports and initiatives for the agenda ASAP. There is a new and different kind of world order taking shape, one of a completely different nature than the geopolitical, neocolonial system which has dominated the world for much of its history. This undeniable and unstoppable fact was apparent to all at the recently concluded United Nations General Assembly High Level Debate, at which leaders of nation after nation spoke of each country’s sovereign right to develop, of the importance of the principle of sovereign equality of nations, and of the fact that the actual composition of world power is no longer reflected in the desire of the few, the "golden billion," to dominate the interests of the many. These nations of the Global South "are engaged in organizing a new economic system based on win-win cooperation, on the advantage of the other," Helga Zepp-LaRouche said in her webcast of Oct. 1, "and in that way are giving the formerly colonized countries the capability to no longer regard themselves, and be forced to be, raw material producing countries, but to develop the value chain in their own country, and that way starting the serious road to their own development and industrialization…. I think that that is a reality which will not go away." While to a sane and moral person, the prospect of finally ending colonialism is an incredibly optimistic one, not everyone falls into that camp. Twenty-six heads of government from the EU met in Copenhagen on Wednesday to discuss how to keep the war in Ukraine, and against Russia, going, even as more and more Ukrainians are ground up on NATO’s battlefield. Blinded by perverse ideology and oligarchical loyalty, former British Defense Minister Ben Wallace told the Warsaw Security Forum on Oct. 1 that the West must "choke the life out of Crimea," and make it "uninhabitable," even attacking the Kerch Strait Bridge, in order to make an impression upon Russian President Putin. Provoking the largest nuclear power on the planet into a war does not bode well for the survival of humankind. And in Southwest Asia, attention is focused on whether Hamas will accept the Gaza peace plan announced at Oct. 29’s White House press conference with Trump and Netanyahu. There is much debate about the viability and legitimacy of the plan, about whether it will actually benefit the Palestinian population, and whether Netanyahu will sabotage it; aside from the obvious need to get Sir Tony Blair, whom Helga Zepp-LaRouche called "the late-day incarnation of the British Empire, responsible for the cockpit of conflict in the Middle East in the first place," as far away from Gaza as possible, the most urgent task is not to analyze what the plan is or isn’t, but to organize to ensure that what comes about is what must be: "What we have to do is to redouble our efforts to put the Oasis Plan on the agenda," Zepp-LaRouche insisted. "Only if there is a comprehensive change, economically—development, meaning the new name for peace is development," will people in Gaza, who "are in urgent need for such a vision for the future…have any hope."

Your weekly Battle Report for Wednesday, October 1 from Ashley Tran.

If you still doubt that the British establishment is insane, read this excerpt from today's EIR Daily Update: The EU met on Wednesday, Oct. 1, "to discuss how to keep the war in Ukraine, and against Russia going, even as more and more Ukrainians are ground up on NATO’s battlefield. Blinded by perverse ideology and oligarchical loyalty, former British Defense Minister Ben Wallace told the Warsaw Security Forum on Oct. 1 that the West must 'choke the life out of Crimea,' and make it 'uninhabitable,' even attacking the Kerch Strait Bridge, in order to make an impression upon Russian President Valdimir Putin." For a sane alternative to this suicidal insanity, watch the weekly dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche from yesterday, linked below.

Wednesday, Oct. 1st, 11 am EDT/ 5pm CET Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche her live dialogue and discuss the issues and solutions that move the world and its people. Send your questions, comments, and reports to questions@schillerinstitute.org or post them in the next live stream. Today the White House released a 20 point program for a ceasefire in Gaza and a way forward whose approval by the United States and Israel were discussed by President Donald Trump and Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, at a joint press briefing at the White House, following their meeting there earlier. The “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict” was reportedly then provided to Hamas for their consideration, by envoys of Egypt and Qatar. Within hours, a joint statement was released by six nations in the region, along with Pakistan and Indonesia, thanking the United States and committing to “working on the program.” President Trump spoke extensively at the press briefing, which did not take questions, thanking these nations, many of whose representatives he met in New York City last week, and others, and ebulliently calling the new program “historic,” and a breakthrough after “thousands of years” of strife. Trump reported how during his talks with Netanyahu this morning, Trump called Qatar’s Prime Minister al Thani, and Netanyahu apologized to him for having bombed his country, an act only “aimed at Hamas,” Netanyahu rationalized. The main specifics Trump chose to announce were that a “Board of Peace” will be formed to oversee the implementation of the proposed terms, such as demilitarizing Hamas, and Trump will head it, though he demurred that he is very busy. Trump made a point of saying that a member of the Board of Peace will be Tony Blair. On economic development, there is barely a veneer of a point or two on the topic, with Point 10 opening by saying, “A Trump economic development plan to rebuild and energize Gaza will be created by convening a panel of experts who have helped birth some of the thriving modern miracle cities in the Middle East….” In reality, the starting point in the whole region is that the current population of 450 million, in the 10 nations and Gulf states, from Egypt eastward to Iran, and Yemen northward to Türkiye, must have the means to life, and for generations ahead, which calls for the LaRouche Oasis Plan approach. Each person, in every sovereign nation, deserves the water, the power, the food, the industry, the healthcare, the education, the surroundings for a productive life. We don’t know what will happen next on this 20-point “Comprehensive Plan,” over the coming hours and days, but any wait-and-see mode of reaction is wrong. We need to organize to spread the reality of the Oasis Plan concept, and variations on it worldwide. This is the dramatic reality of the direction of the Global Majority now underway. Today was also the last day of the UN General Assembly annual General Debate. There were many messages of demand for truth, peace and development over the past six days, though blacked out from general reporting to the international public. EIR will publish several of them in a review. There were dozens of bilateral and group meetings in New York in the past 10 days, among the Global Majority, for example, the BRICS foreign ministers on Sept. 26. Schiller Institute leader Helga Zepp-LaRouche today stressed that, “The Global Majority is not silent about what is going on.” At the same time, there are critical actions in other parts of the world, to end the genocide in Gaza, and also to stop the insane perpetual war stance in Europe, blocking any resolution of the Ukraine conflict. The demonstration in Germany over the weekend was massive. Even more is expected this week in Berlin and elsewhere, for October 3, marking the National Day of Germany. Be sure to attend the International Peace Coalition on Friday, October 3, this week.

The Government Shut Down and World War Your daily update for Wednesday, October 1 from Dave Christie.

The 20-point peace plan between Israel and the Palestinians was vague on economic solutions. There is little reason to believe that peace can be guaranteed without economic incentives. Netanyahu has proven to be a liar and a war criminal. Without a commitment to advance mutually beneficial economic programs, peace will remain elusive. LaRouche's "Oasis Plan" is a unique plan, as it addresses what is necessary to advance the physical economy of the whole region.