Romanian Media Highlight U.S. Presidential Candidate Sare’s Effort To Stop Slide to World War
[Apr. 22, 2026 (EIRNS)—An intelligent and extensive report by Alexandra Bellea-Houry on the unique U.S. Presidential campaign of Diane Sare was recently published in two news outlets in Romania. One outlet is a Romanian diaspora magazine(https://nymagazin.ro); the other is by senior journalist Ion Cristoiu.]
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Principles, Not Parties. In the U.S., Independent Candidates Want to Stop the Slide Toward a Third World War
April 14, 2026 / Alexandra Bellea-Noury
This text describes a political process that has received little attention in the Romanian public sphere: the collaboration between independent candidates in the congressional elections, Diane Sare’s presidential campaign, and military veterans, with the aim of halting the slide toward a third world war.
Diane Sare is an activist who has been associated with the Lyndon LaRouche movement for several decades. In 2007, alongside him, Sare brought to the forefront the need to separate speculative banks from deposit banks, in the spirit of the Glass-Steagall Act. In 2024, she became the only qualified independent candidate in the New York State Senate election, after gathering approximately 70,000 signatures in six weeks. Her economic platform proposes a Hamiltonian-style national bank, with credit directed toward industry, agriculture, and infrastructure. On the international stage, Sare advocates for a new security and development architecture that would enable cooperation between the U.S., China, and Russia and guarantee the sovereignty and right to development of every nation.
A political domain beyond labels
Despite the U.S. two-party system, which leaves little room for independent candidates, these candidacies are gaining increasing legitimacy. Gallup data indicates a record 45% of voters identify as independents, with no affiliation to the Democratic or Republican Party.(1) Following the publication of the “Epstein Files,” a growing number of voters are beginning to believe that “No matter how we vote, it’s still Epstein who wins."
Moreover, in recent years, an alternative ecosystem of podcasts, media platforms, and independent organizations has emerged that promote peace, organize events, and facilitate collaboration across political divides. Examples include events such as Rage against the War Machine, Humanity for Peace, and Occupy Peace & Freedom, as well as online conferences hosted by the Schiller Institute, the International Peace Coalition, and the Eisenhower Media Network, which bring together figures from diverse backgrounds. To unite independent candidates, Sare’s campaign organized several events. On March 17, Sare released a joint statement signed by 12 other independent candidates for the U.S. Congress (2).
The document brings together voices from across the political spectrum, including LaRouchians, independents, members of the Green Party, and Democrats. They condemn aggression against Iran, warning of the risk of a U.S. nuclear attack. At the same time, they call for an investigation into the networks of influence associated with Epstein as part of a strategy to defuse pro-war policies. The text was subsequently distributed in Washington to members of Congress by a delegation of activists.
The peace mobilization of veterans
Veterans from the military and intelligence services play an important role in the mobilization for peace. In recent years, organizations such as Veterans for Peace have reported a threefold increase in the number of veterans wishing to join anti-war civic actions. (3) At the same time, images of veterans disrupting political gatherings are circulating more and more frequently on social media, and resignations and critical statements are multiplying in the press.
The mobilization of veterans does not easily fit into traditional political patterns. One example is the organization Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), whose members have criticized both Democratic administrations (the “Russiagate” campaign, anti-Trump) and Republican ones (the war in Iran). At the same time, the public has taken note of the recent resignation of the head of the counterterrorism service, Joe Kent—a former supporter of the MAGA movement—who now finds the strength to oppose it, denouncing the war in Iran.
We are dealing rather with a process taking place in a realm that transcends party interests and pertains to each individual’s conscience and commitment to the common good. For military personnel who have become peace activists, their involvement in political life stems from a perceived disconnect between the values for which they enlisted in the military and the realities of current politics. It is a moral standard that some people uphold, one that, in the face of horrors, leads them to risk their careers, reputations, families, and lives to combat lies and crime.
This moral integrity is now infusing the political process. We find some of these veteran activists in the midterm elections and on the list of signatories of Sare's statement. One of the signatories is Anthony Aguilar, a Green Party candidate for the House of Representatives, known as a whistleblower who exposed the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s involvement in the genocide in Gaza, helping to shut down the organization’s operations. Another signatory is Brian McGinnis, the Green Party candidate for the Senate. Images of McGinnis in military uniform, with a broken hand during his Senate protest against the war in Iran, went viral. McGinnis is also a former military member. (4)
Other veterans and whistleblowers are also participating in Sare’s campaign events, such as Scott Ritter (5), a former U.S. Navy officer and United Nations inspector for disarmament; Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst and co-founder of VIPS; Douglas MacGregor, a reserve colonel and former consultant in the Trump administration; Coleen Rowley, a former FBI agent and whistleblower regarding 9/11; and Josephine Guilbeau, a former U.S. military analyst and cybersecurity expert.
From Empire, Back to Republic
Congressional elections are in November 2026, and the presidential election is in 2028, but despite this, Sare and the associated candidates insist that the stakes are not in November, but now. In this anniversary year, marking 250 years since the birth of the American Republic, they are calling on voters to break out of passivity and become citizens in the true sense of the word, because only a massive process of empowerment can pull the Republic off its path of self-destruction.
In the spirit of LaRouche, Diane Sare takes on the role of equipping activists with the intellectual tools necessary to succeed in this mission. One of these is the distinction between, on the one hand, empire—based on financial plunder and war—and, on the other hand, republic—based on the development of the productive forces of the population and peace. Sare recalls that the mission of the American republic, as given by the Founding Fathers, is not to dominate the globe, but to free the world from British imperialism.
Sare proposes a comprehensive economic program (6), but the first steps would be to deflate speculative bubbles and reorganize the banking system so that it serves economic reconstruction rather than the financial empire based in Wall Street and London.
On April 15, a meeting titled “Resistance on Both Sides of the Atlantic: Our Candidates in France and the U.S.” will take place in France, featuring Diane Sare and her colleague Jose Vega from the U.S., as well as five independent candidates from France. https://solidariteetprogres.fr/reunion-publique-avec-nos-candidats-en-france-et-aux-usa
Notes
(1) https://news.gallup.com/poll/700499/new-high-identify-political-independents.aspx
(3) “Every month we are getting three to four times the amount of phone calls from veterans wanting to join us than previous years,”spunea în 2025 vicepreședintele Veterans for Peace https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jan/16/us-veterans-protest-over-gaza.
(4) Campaign sites: www.aguilarforuscongress.com/home și https://brianmcginnis.org
(5) Scott Ritter explained his position as follows: "We are a constitutional republic, a nation of laws. Diane has made a career out of um defending these values and she has run for office on several occasions uh for the United States Senate unsuccessfully. But that doesn't mean in a few that it's a futile action because by running Diane injected a modicum of integrity into a process that was thoroughly corrupt and she injected principles and values that were missing from this. So Diane is a person Americans should start thinking about, people like Diane, because we live in a time where our constitutional republic is all but dead." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrrNSwwFImk&t=30s