IPC 112th Meeting
July 25, 2025 (EIRNS)—The 112th consecutive online weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition began today with Co-moderator Dennis Speed calling attention to the fact that on July 25, 1945, then U.S. President Harry Truman made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan, an evil and needless act. Schiller Institute leader Helga Zepp-LaRouche then gave a strategic overview, beginning by noting we are also observing the 80th anniversary of the Potsdam Conference, when the victorious powers in World War II discussed their preferred post-war order in Europe.
Zepp-LaRouche stressed that there is “complete amnesia” in Europe about the horrors of World War II, as Europe rearms to prepare for another world war. She added, “But no one can say that they are not witnessing the horrors going on in Gaza.” Despite this, the UN two-state solution conference for Israel and Palestine set for July 28-29 in New York City, looks like it will not receive high-level attendance. Nevertheless, she called on everyone to continue to put forward the Oasis Plan. She added that, “The situation in Ukraine remains unsettled.”
Regarding the strategic picture in general, “the only counterweight” to this bleak situation is the recent release of classified documents by U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, but “there is a clear effort by the mainstream media to play it down.” The new material shows not only that Russiagate was a fraud, it was British intelligence associated, for the purpose of preventing any U.S.-Russia normalized relations.
Zepp-LaRouche concluded by saying, “We absolutely have to follow up what Dr. Pandor said to our Schiller Conference.” We must expand the reach and impact of the IPC.
Falk Reports on Gaza Tribunal
Prof. Richard Anderson Falk, in a prerecorded video presentation, reviewed international judicial moves against Israel’s genocide and the work of the new Gaza People’s Tribunal, which seeks to stimulate engagement by civil society. Falk is professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor’s Chairman of the Board of Trustees, and former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories from 2008 to 2014. Falk warned that despite the judicial rulings on Israel’s crimes, there is an “enforcement gap” caused by U.S. vetoes in the UN Security Council, which has come to mean that “the UN was paralyzed” in enforcement. We need “more than a verbal commitment to end this genocide,” he said, adding that the Arab governments have “proved to be passive.” (His full interview conducted on July 23, will appear in EIR weekly, Aug. 1, 2025).
Congressional candidate Jose Vega (New York CD15) reported on the rally at the United Nations on July 24, organized by The LaRouche Organization. Demonstrators met new people from the U.S. and other countries who were campaigning, and in some cases fasting, to call attention to the starvation in Gaza.
Co-moderator Dennis Small said there are important events upcoming for peace and development that the Western media are ignoring. The upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization heads of state meeting in Tianjin, China Aug. 31-Sept. 2, will include President Xi Jinping, President Vladimir Putin, and perhaps Prime Minister Narendra Modi of, respectively, China, Russia and India.
Jacques Cheminade, head of the Solidarité et Progrès party in France, reported on the mobilization by French activists to halt the genocide in Gaza. French media are beginning to pay attention. He concluded by saying that the “Oasis Plan has to be the main reference for the future.”
U.S. Policy Morass
Larry Johnson, former CIA officer and member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), said that we are entering an “interesting period of U.S. impotence,” but that the U.S. is “still able to cause a lot of mayhem and death.” He asserted that the Ukraine war will be settled militarily, not at the negotiating table. He added that the root cause of the war “is very, very simple, it was NATO’s expansion to the East.” Returning to the theme of U.S. impotence, he said that “Trump is boasting about sending non-existent military equipment to Ukraine.” Trump wants to ramp up military production while waging economic warfare on China, a self-defeating strategy because we depend on China for critical supplies for military production. The U.S. desire to bully Russia and China with economic sanctions has provided the impetus for BRICS to begin building an alternative economic system. “Every single threat that comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth concerning BRICS” simply reinforces the movement toward alternative structures to replace U.S. dominance. The Global South has come to realize that “We no longer have to be held hostage to the West.”
Dennis Small responded on the question of the persistent belief in the U.S. establishment that we should dictate policy to the rest of the world: “The reason for this hubris … is not only phenomenal stupidity. If their system is to survive, they can’t do it any other way.” They have no way to maintain their enormous bubble of speculation other than to impose authoritarian rule on the rest of the world. He noted that Trump’s new infatuation with cryptocurrency is an even worse approach than what they had previously been doing. They are going in exactly the wrong direction. The correct direction is to work with the BRICS, not to oppose it.
Zepp-LaRouche observed that U.S. policy offers military security, but not development, to the rest of the world. China, on the other hand, offers real development. She said that if the U.S. forces the world at large to choose between themselves and China, “the West will lose this battle.” The West insists on a rivalry, on geopolitics. Neocon high priest Francis Fukuyama wrote a book in which he proclaimed The End of History. “How long did that prognosis last?”
Deep State, British Hand
Zepp-LaRouche posed a question to Johnson: regarding DNI Gabbard’s releases: who is stronger, Trump or the Deep State? Johnson replied, “the Deep State,” adding that he thinks they could have released documents during Trump’s first term, but they are doing it now to distract from the Epstein case. However, he agreed that those people in Obama’s cabinet who ran the Russiagate hoax ought to be prosecuted.
Dennis Small observed how the Western media are covering Israel shooting desperate people who are queuing for emergency food aid in Gaza. Calling it a “global snuff film,” he asserted that the media present horror as a form of menticide, and there is a British stamp on it.
The British seek to “generalize and convince the human species that we are a wolf to man,” the doctrine of British philosopher Thomas Hobbes: Homo homini lupus. The Schiller Institute titled its recent Berlin conference ‘Man Is Not a Wolf to Man’ in order to confront this evil. Creativity distinguishes us from every other species—man is fundamentally good by nature, as is stated in the 10th and final principle by Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s Ten Principles of a New International Security and Development Architecture.
In concluding remarks, Larry Johnson predicted that the next couple of months will be very consequential, and we will see a rapid conclusion to the war in Ukraine.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche reminded the participants that it was 50 years ago in 1975 that her late husband, Lyndon LaRouche, proposed both the Oasis Plan and the International Development Bank. Taken together, these initiatives would have created an entirely different world today. [eir]
