Will Wertz traces the millennia-long battle between national sovereignty and empire — from Plato to Nicholas of Cusa to the EU — and shows why a new Bretton Woods system is the path forward.
Trump rejected Israel's South Pars strike and blasted NATO as "cowards" — both serve Britain's Great Game. The Japan deal shows what replaces it: sovereign energy, nuclear power, and critical minerals.
What if the deadliest threat to America isn’t a war overseas, but a silent chemical invasion? This episode exposes the global fentanyl supply chain behind over 1 million deaths.
Russian President Putin’s surprise appointment of economist Andrei Belousov as Russia’s Defense Minister last week, heralds big changes in Russia. Defense industry hi-tech will be integrated for high payoffs in the civilian economy—but that’s only the beginning. Putin and his government are moving to build a new, young Russian elite around veterans of the Ukraine war. But what sort of elite? Belousov is being mentioned as a potential successor to Putin if he succeeds. He sees this as a multi-generational project to carry forward Russia’s Christian “cultural code.”
For all the differences between Russia and America, we have to do the same thing here. We’ll compare what Belousov said with statements of Lyndon LaRouche, and with earlier editions of our “Strategic Update.”
Mike joined LaRouche's last campaign for President in 2002. He ran a political intel and outreach company from 2011–2021, and co-founded Promethean Action in 2021. He lives in the Detroit area with his wife. [email protected]
Founding member of the LaRouche movement in the 1960s. Former editor of LaRouche’s writings and EIR magazine. Regular host of our Saturday class series.
Mike Steger argues Trump's Iran strategy is really about reorganizing global relations to end neocon permanent-war dynamics, framing U.S.–Russia collaboration as the decisive pivot for ending perpetual war.
Mike Steger frames current events as an existential conflict over how nations and the world should be organized, emphasizing the need to educate more citizens in core American principles and a coherent worldview centered on the common good.