📌 China openly challenges Trump 🇨🇳🇺🇸
Trump: "We need two billion dollars a day to reopen the Strait of Hormuz."
Chinese Foreign Minister: "The Strait was open before the war. The root of the problem lies in your illegal actions against Iran; you have created a global crisis out of nothing."
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When our political-media establishment chant "stand with Ukraine", it means boycotting diplomacy and finance the kidnapping of Ukrainian men to use them in a campaign to weaken Russia as a strategic rival. If the majority of Ukrainians had a say, there would not have been a regime change in 2014, the 2015 Minsk agreement would have been implemented, the 2019 peace platform would not have been reversed, the 2022 Istanbul agreement would have been signed, and there would now be negotiations about the pan-European security architecture. However, the US and EU run Ukraine, and men are hunted on the streets to fight to the last Ukrainian in NATO's proxy war.
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The Lead
Are We Not All Immigrants?
by Dennis Small (EIRNS) — Jun. 13, 2026
Speaking from the Canary Islands on June 12, Pope Leo XIV used the last speech of his one-week Apostolic Journey to Spain to address the highly divisive immigrant issue by reminding the world: “We are speaking, above all, of people created in the image and likeness of God, rather than of legal categories or problems to be managed.” He also chose to “address a message to those who take advantage of people’s desperation, to those who organize death routes, traffic in human beings… Stop. Repent…Free those you hold in bondage… You will have to appear before divine justice.”
Irony would have it that the same day, June 12, the European Union inaugurated a new migrant policy which fully qualifies Brussels to receive the wrath of God. The total opposite of the Pope’s approach, the EU policy is designed to expedite the expulsion of migrants from EU countries immediately upon arrival, and to create “return hubs” in third countries where they can be shipped—including nations such as Syria and Bangladesh. This is nothing different than what Leo’s predecessor, Pope Francis, described as the virtual “concentration camps” for desperate migrants which had been set up in Europe.
Historically, such an approach should come as a shock to Americans—although to many today it will not, to those who have made excuses for the inhuman way migrants are being treated by Trump’s ICE. Recently enough it was proudly stated that the United States of America is a “nation of immigrants,” a “melting pot.” After all, “E pluribus unum”—"Out of many, one”—was the de facto national motto for centuries.
Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, clearly understands this legacy. On May 19, just before traveling to Spain, he sent a Commencement message to the graduating class at Villanova university, his own alma mater. He reminded them that this is the 250th anniversary of the U.S.A. and he invited them “to recall in a special way the guiding principles of the foundations of our nation: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.’”
Leo did not say these things about the United States because he spent a lot of time in Chicago—so did Al Capone, and Barack Obama for that matter—but because the founding principles of the U.S. are identical to those motivating the Pope’s demand for justice for all immigrants today, and his emphatic affirmation in Spain that “The desire for goodness, beauty and truth is rooted in the very DNA of humanity. It is on the basis of this profoundly human aspiration and our centuries-old experience that the Church proposes paths toward a life of dignity and the common good.”
Although many of our jaded fellow citizens today would scoff at the idea, the United States was founded to do Good. Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, one of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence that Pope Leo quoted to the Villanova grads, was a protegé of Cotton Mather, who wrote in his 1710 Essays to Do Good:
“It is an invaluable honor, to do good; it is an incomparable pleasure. A man must look upon himself as dignified and gratified by God, when an opportunity to do good is put into his hands. He must embrace it with rapture, as enabling him to answer the great End of his being.”
The philosophical bedrock for our entrusted mission of “the pursuit of happiness” for all men, was provided by the German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz. In a 1694 essay On Wisdom, Leibniz wrote https://t.co/r3Oe6arDUJ :
“Nothing serves happiness more than the illumination of the mind and the exercise of the Will to act at all times according to Reason… [This] can give new light to those who have the same common purpose of helping each other in the search for Truth, the Knowledge of Nature, the augmentation of human powers and the promotion of the common good.”
Leibniz elaborated on the meaning of the lives of those so dedicated:
“They can do as much for their happiness, as if they had a thousand hands and a thousand lives; yes, as if they lived a thousand times as long as they do. For so much is our life to be valued as a true life, as one does good in it. Who now does much good in a short time is equal to him who lives a thousand times longer; this occurs with those who can cause thousands and thousands of hands to work with them, through which in few years more Good can happen to their highest glory and enjoyment, than many hundreds of years could otherwise bring.”
So live a thousand lives in that fashion, and join the LaRouche movement—the Schiller Institute, the Sare for President campaign, the Vega for Congress campaign, The LaRouche Organization—in changing the world to make that possible for all. In particular we invite you to participate, in person or via Zoom, in Diane Sare’s July 5 meeting in Philadelphia, America 250: A Rededication.
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Since New START expired February 6 with no successor, what restrains the world’s two largest arsenals is, in the words of Russian International Affairs Council president Dmitry Trenin, fear alone: “intimidation... remains the foundation of peace among nuclear powers.” What has sharpened the Russian discussion since is specific: Ukrainian deep strikes on facilities like the Votkinsk strategic-missile plant, 1,400 km from Ukraine, which builds Iskander, Oreshnik, and Topol-M missiles; drones reportedly transiting NATO airspace; and the Russian Defense Ministry’s April 15 list of drone-production sites in twelve countries https://t.co/pjbxtiJ2kv —of which Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev wrote that it “must be taken literally” as “a list of potential targets for the Russian armed forces. ... Sleep well, European partners!”
Listen closely, and the Russian signals come in two registers. From the state: conditional warning, inside published doctrine. First Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told TASS May 19: https://t.co/9YpFoTQ7cQ Western “provocative moves in the nuclear sphere” raise “the danger of a head-on clash between NATO and our country, with potentially catastrophic consequences.” Ambassador-at-large Rodion Miroshnik, May 21: https://t.co/lZzTTj9aCN “The line beyond which the use of all possible types of weapons is justified is becoming increasingly thin.” OSCE envoy Dmitry Polyansky, on a U.S. podcast: “They have already crossed all the red lines, and it’s a matter of time if it continues like this…. It will be too late.” Each statement is tethered to the 2024 doctrine’s stated conditions and to political decision.
From outside the chain: advocacy. Sergey Karaganov urges “reconsider[ing] the priorities for preemptive strikes, beginning with non-nuclear options, followed, only if necessary, by nuclear ones as a last resort,” against “locations where elite decision-makers are concentrated, particularly in Europe"; Tsargrad owner Konstantin Malofeyev proposed a 20-25 kiloton strike on western Ukraine. And the state has fenced the advocates off: at a June 4 St. Petersburg forum panel, in which Scott Ritter participated, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin stated that Karaganov’s proposals are not Russian policy—after Ritter, a critic of the “Karaganov Doctrine” by name, invoked the P5’s January 2022 reaffirmation that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.” https://t.co/rYjV4AjMwm
Which approach will gain the upper hand? Those who planned the deep-strike campaign—who have defined success, as RUSI does, as the “strategic defeat” of a nuclear power—are wagering that Moscow’s official register will keep holding even as their strikes remove the basis on which it rests. But every crossed red line strengthens the advocates against the diplomats. What has dissolved such standoffs before was not exhortation but interest: the INF Treaty was achieved when both sides concluded that survival, and the prosperity that requires it, was worth more than positioning. What must be achieved is to recreate that calculation: an economic order in which Europe, Russia, and America gain more from each other’s development than from each other’s defeat. The signals catalogued above summon us to the effort.
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In a meeting today in the Canary Islands, a Spanish province off the coast of Africa, with migrants and people who aid migrants, Pope Leo XIV called for humanity to face up to its moral responsibility to create a world in which all people, in all nations, can live, work, raise their families and fulfill their dreams in safety. Asserting that there is a “right not to have to migrate,” he asked the fundamental question which begs the urgency of establishing a new international security and development architecture: “What kind of world have we built, if so many brothers and sisters must risk death to seek life?”
The meeting took place on the docks of the Arguineguín port on the island of Gran Canaria, known today as the “Port of Shame”, because some 2,600 Africans who arrived on rickety wooden boats in a few days during the 2020 COVID pandemic were left to live in the open, packed onto the port’s concrete pier, for three months. Before the Pope spoke, testimony had been given by four migrants and aid workers, including a Maritime Rescue captain who has helped save more than 20,000 people from drowning at sea, so far.
The Pope responded:
“From this island, I hope that the voices of those who have spoken today will reach those who hold positions of decisive responsibility—civil authorities, parliaments, governments, and international organizations—as well as Christian communities, other religious traditions, and all men and women of good will. It is not enough to manage arrivals, distribute numbers, reinforce borders, or lament deaths after they have already occurred.
“Every boat that arrives does not bring only migrants; it brings with it a question: What kind of world have we built, if so many of our brothers and sisters must risk death in search of life?
“While there is a right to seek refuge when one’s life is threatened, there is also a right not to have to migrate: the right to remain in one’s own home without hunger, without war, without persecution, without violence, without the land becoming uninhabitable, without corruption stealing the bread from the poor, without weapons destroying children’s futures.
“We cannot grow accustomed to counting the dead. Human dignity has no passport and does not lose its value when crossing a border.”
In the course of his remarks, the Pope addressed the migrants directly, bowing his head, “to your dignity,” he said. “You are not just numbers or files. You are people who have left behind families and homes. You have dreams that no one has the right to despise.”
So he appealed “to the conscience of Europe, which cannot claim to uphold human dignity while growing accustomed to the Mediterranean and the Atlantic becoming unmarked graves, as well as that of the international community, which is called to effective and persevering cooperation.”
Nov. 1984 Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the international Schiller Institute, holds its founding document, the Declaration of the Inalienable Rights of Man
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Following the unspeakable ravages in loss of human lives, destruction of transportation infrastructure, physical property, and an eviscerated national coffer, all occasioned by the 2 Opium Wars against Britain (1839-1842 and 1856-1860), the 14-year-long War of Resistance against Imperial Japan (1931-1945), the Civil War between PLA and KMT, and finally the Korean War when US crossed the 18th parallel (1950-1953), China as a nation was reduced to such dire poverty its only aspiration was to feed all its people (in 1949 pop 540 million, 1/3 of the total world population <-> in 2026 1.41 billion, 17.02% of total world population) [Souce: https://t.co/sL0hY0mxWa].
China believes People Need To Eat to Stay Alive. Without Food, there Could Be No Life [Not rocket science, contrary to what some geniuses in Washington seem to believe].
Yet China historically had limited arable land (hence centuries after centuries we see the use of terraced rice fields to increase the surface area of plantable soil on mountain slopes in all the lovely tourist pictures we still see today).
Arable land to scale began as a dream. The dream was to turn desert sands into arable land. Today, the dream came true. Not the result of a miracle like an old man with a staff diving the sea, but science and technology made a dream come true - the fruits of 7 decades toil, tears and sweat + the help of SCIENCE.
Btw, must be another thing "*stolen*" from America, one would think according to folks like Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton and sundry other ignoramuses in Washington. And various China-Experts from Ivy academia who pridefully announce they obtain the totality of their so-called knowledge about China from books written by folks who obtain the totality of their so-called knowledge from books written by so on and so forth. Birds of the same feathers who now trade feathers to make fluffy stuff in the Age of Hard and Soft Innovation spearheaded by 🇨🇳.
Might I suggest that the best response from the USA would be to leave the Strait of Hormuz, stop funding Israel, and be done with this?
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