Prof. Georgy Toloraya (Russia), Retired Senior Diplomat; Deputy Chairman, Russian National Committee on BRICS Research: “BRICS: A War Prevention Medicine”
Robert Cushing (U.S.), Association of U.S. Catholic Priests, and others: “A Policy for Peace”
Raymond McGovern (U.S.), former Senior Analyst, U.S. Central intelligence Agency (CIA); Founding Member, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS): “JFK and Russia, Making a Shift Towards Sanity on the Brink of Annihilation”
Diane Sare (U.S.), LaRouche independent candidate for U.S. Senate from New York
Scott Ritter (U.S.), former UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq: “The NATO Worldview Is Colliding with Reality”
Dennis Small (U.S.), Schiller Institute, U.S.: “An Emergency Program to Save Argentina, the Newest Member of the BRICS”
Kiran Karnik (India), former President of the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM); 20 years at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO): “India and Chandrayaan-3: The Global South as Protagonist”
Jacques Cheminade (France), Chairman of the Solidarity and Progress party; former French Presidential Candidate: “The Win-Win Policy of the BRICS and the Role Of Argentina”
Prof. David Monyae (South Africa), Director of the Center of Africa-China Studies (CACS), University of Johannesburg, South Africa: “The Future of Africa, China and the BRICS”
Rubén Guzzetti (Argentina), Foreign policy analyst, Argentine Institute of Geopolitical Studies (IADEG): “Argentina in the BRICS, a Historic Opportunity”
Prof. Franco Battaglia (Italy), Professor of Chemical Physics, University of Modena, Italy: “A Solution (the Energy Transition) in Search of a Problem (Climate Emergency)”
Dr. Akiko Mikamo (Japan), Author, “8:15 – A Story of Survival and Forgiveness from Hiroshima” Alejandro Yaya (Argentina), Vice-President, Civil Institute of Space Technology; leader of the Technology and Innovation Relations Unit, National Defense University
Sept. 4, 2023—There are certain battles that cannot be avoided and must be won. One such is the battle to get the United States and Western Europe to change their current geopolitical confrontation course with Russia and China, a course meant to enforce the bankrupt trans-Atlantic financial system and its unipolar world order. The alternative to winning that fight is probable thermonuclear war.
Another is the upcoming presidential election in Argentina on Oct. 22, which is shaping up as the immediate, first battleground between the newly-expanded BRICS-11 process, and that same bankrupt trans-Atlantic system – a system that is terrified that it will be swept away by the tidal wave of nations joining the BRICS, the emerging Global Majority. The outcome of that showdown will surely determine the future of Argentina for decades to come; but it may also decide the fate of the BRICS as well.
Argentina is one of six nations that joined the BRICS at the Aug. 22-24 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, despite threats and pressure to not do so. Now there are another 20-30 countries that want to follow suit, and join the Global Majority in building a new development and security architecture for their nations and the world. The City of London and Wall Street urgently need to make a bloody example of Argentina and prevent it from ever joining the BRICS on Jan. 1, 2024, by beating that nation’s economy to a bloody pulp through debt collection and capital flight, and in that way fully discredit the current Alberto Fernández government and its candidate, Economics Minister Sergio Massa, and hand victory to the psychologically unstable Javier Milei.
Bankers’ favorite Milei, who some call “Argentina’s Zelensky,” has already sworn that, if he wins, he will pull Argentina out of the BRICS even before it joins; eliminate Argentina’s currency (and thus its sovereignty) and replace it with the speculators’ dollar; break ties with China, Russia, and most of Argentina’s Ibero-American neighbors; and otherwise implement extreme neo-liberal policies that will deliver a coup de grace to the nation’s physical economy.
The economic crisis is already so grave in Argentina that Massa, who is currently in charge of negotiations with the IMF hit-men, was slammed in last month’s presidential primaries, with the three leading candidates (Massa, Milei and neoliberal Patricia Bullrich) each getting about a third of the votes – a shocking setback for Massa, who had expected a much stronger showing.
Argentina is today in the death choke of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the trans-Atlantic banks it represents. Those banks forcibly indebted the country under the previous Macri government, the way an aggressive drug dealer shoves fentanyl down a victim’s throat. As a result, Argentina today is by far the largest debtor of the IMF, at $46 billion. Massive capital flight, orchestrated by the same banks, has bled the country white; the parallel-market peso has plunged from 200 to 600 to the dollar in a year’s time; interest rates today stand at 118%; and inflation for the year is forecast by the IMF to come in at 108%, which has played a major role in driving about half the population into poverty.
If Argentina can be picked off by the bankers, its neighbor and ally Brazil – one of the five founding members of the BRICS – will be next. And the message will have been delivered to the world: “Try to break with our system, and we will financially `waterboard’ you and wipe you off the map.”
This message is the same one pronounced in 1969 by the arrogant Henry Kissinger, then National Security Adviser to President Nixon, to visiting Chilean Foreign Minister Gabriel Valdés: “Nothing important can come from the South. History has never been produced in the South. The axis of history starts in Moscow, goes to Bonn, crosses over to Washington, and then goes to Tokyo. What happens in the South is of no importance. You’re wasting your time.”
The BRICS are now proving him wrong.
The following is the Schiller Institute’s proposed emergency program for Argentina and the BRICS to win that fight, which specifies the immediate steps to be taken by the Alberto Fernández government and candidate Sergio Massa of the Unión por la Patria governing coalition, well before the Oct. 22 presidential election so that it’s impact will already be felt by election day. Based on Lyndon LaRouche’s work in the science of physical economy, we propose nine specific measures, which fall under three broad policy headings, to be adopted for Argentina and as an example for the world.
1) Declare an immediate debt moratorium on the servicing of the $275 billion foreign debt, including the $46 billion owed to the IMF – the largest amount owed that institution by any country in the world. Unilaterally break off all negotiations with the IMF – whose initials in Portuguese (FMI), according to Brazilian patriots, in fact stand for “Fome, Miséria, e Inflação” (Hunger, Poverty and Inflation).
2) Impose full capital and exchange controls, including the obligatory conversion of all export earning into pesos for deposit in Argentine banks. These measures will end the free convertibility of pesos into dollars, and stop the speculation and capital flight that it promotes.
3) Establish a fixed parity between the peso and the dollar, as sovereignly determined by the Argentine government, for approved categories of international trade, travel, and other productive uses of foreign exchange. Speculative international banking transactions are not in the approved category, and illegal efforts to carry them out should be severely penalized by confiscation and legal proceedings. Franklin D. Roosevelt demonstrated that bankers tend to respond with remarkable rationality when facing the prospect of losing both their speculative assets and their freedom.
The international floating exchange rate system which was ushered in with the Aug. 15, 1971 measures announced by U.S. President Nixon, was the catastrophic turning point which opened the doors to the $2 quadrillion speculative bubble which has today taken over the entire trans-Atlantic financial system. A return to a fixed-rate system of productive (non-speculative) national currencies, long advocated by Lyndon LaRouche, is now on the agenda, far sooner than most expected.
4) Issue emergency government funds and subsidies to the poorest Argentines (half now live in poverty) and to businesses otherwise heading towards bankruptcy. Debt service payments on the government’s large domestic bonded debt (which in March 2023 totaled almost $400 billion) must be frozen, until such time as the urgent needs of the population have been met. Economics Minister Massa announced measures in late August to provide some emergency relief, but what the government hands out on a Monday is stolen from Argentines on Tuesday by the bankers’ imposition of over 100% hyper-inflation and rampant capital flight. That will change with the implementation of measures 2 and 3 above.
5) Nationalize the “autonomous” central bank (BCRA), which is in fact controlled by the City of London and Wall Street, and reestablish a national bank which issues peso-denominated productive credit, at 1-2% interest rates. Argentina has such precedents in its history, as does the United States with Alexander Hamilton’s First Bank of the United States of 1791.
6) End runaway inflation by establishing strict price controls for market baskets of essential consumer and producer goods. Inflation-generating high interest rates, banker-imposed devaluations, and the international speculative “carry-trade” will all have been banished and will no longer be factors creating skyrocketing domestic prices.
7) Expand trade in national currencies with BRICS members and other friendly nations, taking full advantage of Argentina’s new membership in the BRICS and its access to the New Development Bank (NDB). This will also help Argentina gain access to non-dollar credit lines for investment purposes from those countries and the NDB. The BRICS nations must respond to Argentina’s battle for survival as if their own existence depended on it – because it does.
8) The bi-oceanic high-speed rail corridors linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America must be built, as part of a reestablished sense of long-term mission for Argentina – and the whole region. Convoke an international conference to be held in Buenos Aires in mid-October 2023 to get the projects quickly approved and launched, with the participation of high-level government representatives from at least Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and China (the country that has the required rail technology and has for years offered to build such projects, under its Belt and Road Initiative proposal). In China, such infrastructure projects have raised the technological platform of entire regions and have been essential to that country’s spectacular achievement of lifting some 850 million Chinese out of extreme poverty in the last four decades. The growing sense in Argentina and across the Global Majority is: If China can do it, why not we?
9) Argentina must also join the world’s space-faring nations, as India just succeeded in doing with its Chandrayaan-3 moon landing. Argentina already has an active space program, and Brazil’s Alcântara space launch facility near the Equator is the perfect center for a cooperative South American effort, along with international allies from among BRICS nations and others. The Alcântara base (and the European Union’s space facility in Kourou, French Guiana – should they choose to join the effort) can serve as the hub for the rapid training of a highly productive, skilled labor force for the entire region. This can be taken up at the same mid-October international conference, with the critical addition of India as a participating nation. After all: If India can do it, why not we?
Such a set of measures will save Argentina from becoming a failed state, allow it to proudly join the BRICS on Jan. 1, 2024, and strengthen the BRICS’s role strategically for the battles that lie ahead. Argentina won’t survive without the BRICS; but also, the BRICS may not survive without Argentina.
As President Lula of Brazil recently stated: “I can’t accept that it’s normal for a citizen to be born poor and die poor, for their child to be born poor and die poor, for their grandchild to be born poor and die poor…. We don’t have the right to remain poor… We don’t have the right to continue being called the Third World.”
Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche in a live dialogue on August 23 to discuss how to overcome the increasingly obvious fact that the Global North is isolating itself.
The BRICS Summit being held Aug. 22-24, 2023 in Johannesburg, South Africa is a strategic turning point, even if you don’t hear it from Western mainstream media. With representatives from more than 40 countries and the leaders of the group’s five members (Vladimir Putin via video link for security reasons), it will consolidate the rapidly advancing shift away from the “unipolar world” and its “rules-based order.”
On the eve of the BRICS summit, Schiller Institute Chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche called on Global North citizens on Aug.19 to “support the building of a new just world economic order.” Please support the appeal by adding your name and circulate among friends and institutions.
Furthermore, the Schiller Institute is organizing an internet conference on September 9 with the title: “Let us Join Hands with the Global Majority To Create a New Chapter in World History!” to discuss, among other things, the results of the BRICS summit and the linking of the movement of the global South (the global majority) with the new peace movement.
All, particularly those from the United States and Europe, who have wondered what the principles and method of implementation of a “Development Architecture” would be, are encouraged to read and master the concepts for which LaRouche became known, almost 50 years ago, to the people of the developing sector, and for which he and his movement were unjustly persecuted.
The pamphlet titled “Colonialism Is Over! Appeal to the U.S.A. and Europe: Support a New, Just World Economic Order, Not War!” includes:
The LaRouche Plan for 1.5 billion new productive jobs, which addresses, among other things, the real origin of the misnamed “world immigration crisis;”
“How the International Development Bank Will Work,” by Lyndon H. LaRouche, written on May 16, 1975, and;
Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s “Ten Principles for a New International Strategic and Development Architecture,” released in 2022.
Contact us at contact@humanityforpeace.net , Follow us on twitter @4peacehumanity The danger of nuclear war has escalated to a point that no thoughtful person on the planet can ignore it any longer. Yet, in this atmosphere, there are still some who think there should be more weapons, more sanctions, and who think that a nuclear war can be won against Russia. It is very clear that those who have provoked the war, and continue to escalate it, do not care about the lives of the people of Ukraine or any other nation on the planet for that matter. This is NOT acceptable to those of us who care about the well-being of ALL of humanity — those who do not wish to see the human race wiped off the face of the earth.
We, therefore, call on the citizens of the world to come together and raise our voices against this madness. Humanity For Peace is building a unified coalition, above ideologies, to stop this unfolding escalation towards nuclear war. We refuse to let humanity perish at the hands of insanity.
August 6 will be the 78th anniversary of the unnecessary and genocidal nuclear bombing of Hiroshima by the United States, which was followed days later by the same crime against Nagasaki. Humanity For Peace is proud to announce that on this occasion, August 6, 2023, an international rally will be held to remind the world that nuclear war should never be fought and can never be won. Humanity is better than that, and we must reject the destiny of inevitable war as a morally repugnant and horribly cynical view.
The main rally will be held at the United Nations in New York City, NY, from 1-4pm, which will be live streamed over the internet. In solidarity with this, sister rallies will be held in other cities around the world. Please get in contact with us if you are interested in organizing another sister rally.
There are currently over 20 organizations sponsoring the event. If your organization would also like to sponsor the event, please contact us. More information, including the current speakers list, can be found at HumanityForPeace.net.
As President Kennedy said in his famous address to American University in 1963, war is not inevitable — but only if we work instead to create peace. The leadership in the United States and NATO is currently not working towards this goal, but rather are further escalating and inflaming the situation in Ukraine. For this reason, an international chorus of voices must be raised against this policy, and sound the call for peace!
Join us August 6 — we must make this sentiment the dominant voice in the world!
Location: Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza E 47th St, New York, NY 10017 1:00pm – 4:00pm EDT
Our Demands are as follows:
1) The immediate ending of all funding and weapons to Ukraine.
2) Convene immediate unconditional peace talks.
3) The Dissolution of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
4) A new international security architecture must be created to end the division of the world into blocs, eliminating geopolitics. This new architecture must take into account the security concerns of every sovereign nation, large or small.
Current List of Speakers Include:
Gerald Celente, Founder/Director of the Trends Research Institute and Publisher of the Trends Journal magazine, Founder “Occupy Peace & Freedom.”
Mike ter Maat, 2024 candidate for the Libertarian Party Presidential nomination, former White House economist, professor, entrepreneur & pro-reform police officer.
Scott Ritter, former U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer and author. He served in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, served in General Schwarzkopf’s staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991 to 1998 served as a chief weapons inspector with the UN in Iraq.
Nick Brana, national chair of the People’s Party and an organizer with Rage Against the War Machine.
Jose Vega, staffer for the Sare for Senate campaign (NY) and also a LaRouche activist since 2014.
Ahmadou Diallo, President and founder of the Guinean American League of Friends for Freedom, analyst for the Guinean community in New York and other U.S. states.
Rev. Dr. Terri L. Strong, Chairwoman of the Action and Global Concerns Committee for the National Church Women United Organization
August 6, 2023 — 6pm EDT
This concert takes place on the 78th anniversary of the horrific 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which was followed by the August 9th bombing of Nagasaki and in the context of the growing danger of world war today.
Sixty years ago, on June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy gave a speech at Washington, D.C.’s American University, eight months after the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. The world had just barely avoided destroying itself in a thermonuclear war. The words he spoke that day are words we desperately need to listen to now:
“What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children—not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women—not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.”
Humanity for Peace is organizing a series of actions across the globe on August 6th, to commemorate those who should not have lost their lives that day, 78 years ago. We wish to remind humanity that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.” We will join with others worldwide, holding rallies, vigils, musical tributes, poetry readings, and other activities that day, to insist on peace, and demonstrate how to end the escalating danger of nuclear war.
Now is the time to act on President Kennedy’s prophetic words: “Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.”
The Requiem will be conducted renowned conductor Maestro Gürer Aykal, the Permanent Conductor and General Music Director of Borusan İstanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, and professor emeritus and former conductor of El Paso, Texas Symphony Orchestra.
Join us at the Humanity For Peace Concert! Don’t miss this beautiful and impactful evening of music.
This concert takes place on the 78th anniversary of the horrific 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which was followed by the August 9th bombing of Nagasaki and in the context of the growing danger of world war today.
Sixty years ago, on June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy gave a speech at Washington, D.C.’s American University, eight months after the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. The world had just barely avoided destroying itself in a thermonuclear war. The words he spoke that day are words we desperately need to listen to now:
“What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children—not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women—not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.”
Humanity for Peace is organizing a series of actions across the globe on August 6th, to commemorate those who should not have lost their lives that day, 78 years ago. We wish to remind humanity that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.” We will join with others worldwide, holding rallies, vigils, musical tributes, poetry readings, and other activities that day, to insist on peace, and demonstrate how to end the escalating danger of nuclear war.
Now is the time to act on President Kennedy’s prophetic words: “Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.”
The Requiem will be conducted renowned conductor Maestro Gürer Aykal, the Permanent Conductor and General Music Director of Borusan İstanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, and professor emeritus and former conductor of El Paso, Texas Symphony Orchestra.
Join us at the Humanity For Peace Concert! Don’t miss this beautiful and impactful evening of music.
A two-day international conference was held July 8-9 in Strasbourg, France by the Schiller Institute, titled “On the Verge of a New World War: European Nations Must Cooperate with the Global South!” The proceedings were organized into five panels, with three on Day One July 8, featuring 22 speakers, from 14 different countries, ending with an evening concert of classical music. The second day’s two panels, which also included musical offerings, had wide-ranging discussions, involving many of the audience of more than 200 attendees. (See the full program below).This event, and the process of deliberation it represents, stands in sharp contrast to the recently convened Paris “Summit for a New Global Financial Pact,” where leaders of the Global South ridiculed the hypocrisy of their European counterparts. As opposed to the not-so-hidden Malthusian “green imperialist” depopulation agenda of the arrogant Paris Summit, the Schiller Institute colloquy is an opportunity for peoples of all continents to gather for the purpose of deliberation on how to bring about a peaceful and prosperous future for the entire human race.
The Schiller Institute conference is also a timely and necessary intervention against Global NATO’s July 11–12 Vilnius, Lithuania summit, where bloodthirsty leaders of the West’s Military-Industrial Complex will be plotting more measures which, unless stopped, will bring about the destruction of humanity through thermonuclear war.
The Schiller Institute’s panels covered a broad range of critical economic, strategic, and cultural themes. Notable was the fact that due to the Covid-19 pandemic this was the first in-person Schiller Institute conference in three years! The conference opened with the famous Adagio cantabile of Beethoven’s C minor Pathétique piano sonata, performed by Werner Hartmann, of the Schiller Institute.
Panel I: Peace in the World Through a New Security and Development Architecture for Each and Every Country: The Indispensable Strategic Autonomy of European Countries
MODERATOR: Harley Schlanger
• Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and leader of the Schiller Institute: “Let a Garden Amidst a Million Gardens Bloom!”; PREPARED REMARKS
• HE Lu Shaye, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China in France: “China’s Role for Peace and Development”; PREPARED REMARKS
• HE Ilia Subbotin, Minister-Counselor of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in France: “What Russia Really Wants in Its Relations with Europe – Peace or War ?”; PREPARED REMARKS
• Mrutyuanjai Mishra, Author and Journalist, India: “India’s role as a Peace Mediator in These Critical Times”
• Michele Geraci, Former Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Economic Development ; Prof. of Practice in Economic Policy, Nottingham University, Ningbo; Honorary Professor Peking University, School of Economics; Adjunct Professor of Finance, New York University, Shanghai; En-ROADS Climate Ambassador—Climate Interactive/MIT, Italy
• Dr. Hans-Joachim Lemke, Colonel (A.d – retired), Editor Kompass, Magazine of the Association for the Preservation of Traditions of the National Peoples Army and GDR Border Troops (Verband zur Pflege der Traditionen der Nationalen Volksarmee und der Grenztruppen der DDR): “Thoughts on Peace from the Perspective of an East German.”
• Alain Corvez, Colonel (retired), consultant in international affairs, former advisor to the French Ministry of the Interior, France: “Following Its Military Failure against Russia in Ukraine, Will U.S. One-Upmanship Cross the Nuclear Threshold?”
Panel 1 Summary
Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and leader of the Schiller Institute, gave the conference keynote, “Let a Garden Amidst a Million Gardens Bloom!” (Full text on this website). She set the tone for the panel by contrasting the tragic consequences of the collapsing trans-Atlantic “rules based order” attempting to maintain its hegemony, with the rising nations of the Global South, freeing themselves from centuries of colonial servitude and asserting their right to economic development.
Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche asserted at the beginning of her presentation her commitment: “We will revive the best of what European culture has produced … and we will bring that into the shaping of the New Paradigm!”
The next speaker, H.E. Lu Shaye, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China in France, delivered his presentation titled “China’s Role for Peace and Development.” He stated, “At present, changes unseen for a century are taking place at an accelerated pace, giving rise to unprecedented transformations of our world, our times and history.” He characterized the world as divided into two camps: pro-peace and pro-war. Which camp will prevail? Ambassador Lu detailed the incredible opportunities Western nations would realize were they to cooperate with China and the Global South through participation in the multitude of development initiatives China is leading, such as the Belt and Road Initiative.
‘The Multipolar World is Emerging’
H.E. Ilia Subbotin, Minister-Counselor of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in France, spoke on the topic, “What Russia Really Wants in Its Relations with Europe: Peace or War?” He recounted his own personal perspective of the history of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent tumultuous transition to the post-Soviet era.
He noted that, contrary to proclamations by President George H.W. Bush that the West had “won” the Cold War, from the Russian perspective it was President Mikhail Gorbachev who had stopped the Cold War. Most people in the former Soviet Republics looked forward to a new union with a desire to become a part of the “Western world.” But, despite countless efforts by Russian leaders over a 30-year period, particularly President Vladimir Putin, every attempt at Western integration has been sabotaged.
But Minister-Counselor Subbotin asked, will the European nations free themselves from the “shackles of U.S. control” and join with the “new centers of economic growth” of the Global South? “When and if this happens, Russia will be ready for mutually beneficial dialogue of equals, on the basis of our fundamental interests.”
Other panelists addressed the potential that exists for European nations to join with the Global South to create a New Paradigm.
Panel II: Why It Is in the Strategic Interest of European Nations To Cooperate with the Global South
MODERATOR: Elke Fimmen
• Jacques Cheminade, President Solidarite & Progres: “The Rise of the Global South against Geopolitical Blocs”; PREPARED REMARKS
• Julio Miguel de Vido, former Minister of Federal Planning, Public Investment and Services (2003-2015) during the governments of both Nestor and Cristina Kirchner, Argentina : “Planning for Integration, Cooperation and Growth with the BRICS: Missteps and Risks”; PREPARED REMARKS
• Dr. Doğu Perinçek, Chairman of the Vatan Party, Türkiye : « The decisive Importance of the Alliance between Türkiye, Russia, Iran and China at the edge of Entering the Eurasian Era » Patricia Lalonde, former MEP, associate researcher at Institut Prospective et Sécurité en Europe (IPSE); “Syria, Reasons for Hope”
• Herve Machenaud, former Executive Director of the EDF Group (for engineering and generation) and former Director of the Asia-Pacific branch, France: “The History of France-China Relations, the Example of Nuclear Power”; PREPARED REMARKS
• Dora Muanda, Teacher, biologist, scientific director of the Kinshasa Science and Technology Week, Democratic Republic of Congo, RDC: “Humanity and Africa need science”
• Dr Andrews Nkansah, Undersecretary General of the African Diaspora Congress (USA), Ghana: “Strategic Partnership for the Rapid Development of Africa”
• Alain Gachet, water specialist, president of Radar Technologies International (RTI), inventor of the Watex (Water Exploration) process for locating aquifer resources by satellite – Introduction by Jacques Cheminade: “Water for Peace and Development”
Panel 2 Summary
Jacques Cheminade, President of the Schiller Institute co-thinker organization Solidarité et Progrès political party in France, gave the Panel 2 keynote, titled “The Rise of the Global South against Geopolitical Blocs.” He characterized the current historical period as “the battle between the Malthusian, domineering financial oligarchy that occupies our Western countries and those who believe that the human species has a right to development.” He noted that the first signs of a potential “conflagration” are everywhere evident in Europe, particularly in his own country of France.
In the midst of this gathering storm, nations of the Global South see the Russia-China alliance as reflected in their joint statement of February 4, 2022, as a “positive option and chance to escape the trans-Atlantic straightjacket”—a path to realize what President Xi Jinping calls “the common future of mankind.”
Mr. Cheminade highlighted the crucial role of the late U.S. statesman and economist Lyndon LaRouche, husband of Schiller institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, in discovering the principles of physical economy critical for a New Paradigm of development. This was stated explicitly by the famous Russian economist Sergei Glazyev, Minister in charge of Integration and Macroeconomics of the Eurasian Economic Union, who said Sept. 8, 2022: “It is the principles of physical economics championed by Lyndon LaRouche that underpin the Chinese economic miracle today, and that are the basis of India’s economic development policy.”
Panelists from many other nations provided a stirring crossfire of ideas.
Panel III: The Peace Movement Worldwide Above Party Lines; The Special Case of the United States; The Role of the Vatican and the Global South
MODERATOR: Claudio Celani
• Harley Schlanger, Vice Chairman of the Board of directors, Schiller Institute, USA: “Kennedy’s Vision of Peace”
• H. E. M. Donald Ramotar, former president of Guyana (2011-2015), Former Member of Parliament (1992-2011) and General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), trade-unionist:“The World’s People Must Make Their Voices Heard”
• Diane Sare, Candidate for US Senate, USA:“Make the US a Force for the Good”; PREPARED REMARKS
• Hussein Askary, Vice-president BRIX Instittut, Soutwest Asia Coordinator Schiller Institute, Sweden:“The Revolutionary Changes in Southwest Asia”
• Alessia Ruggeri, Trade Unionist, Member of the International Coalition for Peace, Italy “Italy and the War: an Important Referendum to Stop Sending Weapons to Ukraine”
• Jens Jørgen Nielsen, historian, author, former Moscow correspondent of the Danish newspaper Politiken, representative of the Russian-Danish Dialogue, Denmark: “The Lack of Strategy by the Western Countries to avoid Nuclear War”
Panel 3 Summary
Harley Schlanger, the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Schiller Institute U.S.A., gave the Panel 3 keynote, opening with a video clip of the first four minutes of President John F. Kennedy’s June 10, 1963 American University “Peace Speech” Mr. Schlanger then gave a brief history of Kennedy’s Presidency, from his battle with the U.S. Senate to ratify the Nuclear Test Ban treaty with the Soviet Union, to his efforts to extricate the United States from the war in Vietnam and end the Cold War.
Although constantly having to discover ways of out flanking the war hawks within his administration—dead set on escalating the Cold War—just as big a challenge was overcoming the mass brainwashing of the American population who believed that it was “better dead than red.” His efforts were cut short on November 22, 1963, when the President was murdered in Dallas, Texas.
Mr. Schlanger then delivered a short discussion of the anti-imperialist history of the United States—from the American Founding Fathers to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon LaRouche. Exemplary of that tradition is the famous July 4, 1821 speech by then Secretary of State John Quincy Adams in which he declares: “But she [the United States] goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy….” This anti-imperialist tradition contrasts sharply with today’s defenders of the militaristic “Rules-Based Order,” such as the hapless Sec. of State Antony J. Blinken.
Other speakers on Panel III included H.E. Donald Ramotar, former President of Guyana, and Diane Sare, Candidate for U.S. Senate from New York, both of whom have been actively collaborating with people from many nations, in the newly formed International Peace Coalition.
Panel IV:A Culture To Emancipate and Expand the Creative Capacities of Every Human Being; A Dialogue among Cultures and Civilizations
MODERATOR: Karel Vereycken
• Prof. Luc Reychler, (PhD Harvard, 1976), professor emeritus of international relations at the University of Louvain and former director of the Center for Peace Research and Strategic Studies (CPRS), Belgium: “European Humanist Values versus War Culture, What would Erasmus say about peace in Ukraine?”; PREPARED REMARKS
• Liliana Gorini, chairwoman of Movisol, Italy; “Pacem in Terris and Civilization of Love”
• Maurizio Abbate, Italy National Institute for Cultural Activities connected to the Ministry of Culture, Italy:“Culture, the Key to Peace”; PREPARED REMARKS
• Tatjana Zdanoka, MEP, member of the Russian Union of Latvia, Latvia “On Demonization of Russian Culture”; PREPARED REMARKS
• Liz Augustat, President of the International Association “Peace through Culture. Europe”: “World Peace based on common ethics and values”, Germany; PREPARED REMARKS
Panel 4 Summary
Dr. Luc Reychler, Professor Emeritus at Louvain University and former Director of the Center for Peace Research and Strategic Studies in Belgium, gave the Panel 4 keynote, on the provocative question, “European Humanist Values versus War Culture: What Would Erasmus Say about Peace in Ukraine?” He reviewed today’s Ukraine “proxy war”—as he termed it—against Russia, from the eyes of the great Dutch Renaissance scholar Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536). Famous for works such as In Praise of Folly and The Complaint of Peace, Erasmus warned that those who have not experienced war are often its greatest proponents, that sentiment being well expressed in a quote from his book Against War: Dulce bellum inexpertis, or “War is sweet for the inexperienced.”
Were Erasmus here today, he “would criticize and satirize the excuses for ongoing war; for example, the misrepresentation of the war as the defense of democracy and of the democratic world” and “would also be a whistleblower and name the princes and kings, and the war profiteers who are responsible for the war.” But importantly, Erasmus would seek a process of “peace building” through promotion of economic development and education—particularly for youth.
The next speaker, Liliana Gorini, chairwoman of the Schiller Institute affiliated Movisol political party in Italy, invoked the wisdom of another great figure, Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901). To hear U.S. President Joe Biden and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni speak of “peace,” as they did at the G7 meeting in Hiroshima, Japan last month, Gorini said, reminds one of the way Verdi in his opera Don Carlos—inspired by Friedrich Schiller—has Don Rodrigo telling King Philip of Spain that his so-called militarist “peace” for Flanders is a “horrible, horrible peace, the peace of graves.” She called on conference attendees to take inspiration from Verdi, and from Pope John XXIII, and President John F. Kennedy, “to fight for a true peace, which only comes from respecting and developing the rest of the world.” (Ms. Gorini’s remarks were read, as she was unable to attend).
Other panelists stressed the tremendous importance of culture as a key foundation for lasting, durable peace among nations.
Panel V: Scientific Ecology and Assessing the Climate Challenge: Eradicating Poverty and Hunger in the World is the Priority
• Moderator: Stephan Ossenkopp, the Schiller Institute, Germany
• Christian Lévêque, Emeritus Research Director, Institut de Recherchepour le Développement (IRD) and specialist in aquatic ecosystems; Honorary President, Académie d’agriculturede France; Member, Académie des Sciences d’Outre-mer, France: “Scientific Ecology Is Being Instrumentalized by Magical Thinking”
• Dr.-Ing. Hans-Bernd Pillkahn, engineer, CEO of PROASSORT, metallurgy, Germany: “EU Climate Policy: A Disaster for Energy-Intensive Production”
• Frank Bornschein, co-initiator of the Initiative “Peace, Freedom and Sovereignty”; City Councilor, Schwedt/Oder, Germany: “Deindustrialization—Not by Chance but by Design; The Example of the PCK Oil Refinery of Schwedt”
• Prof. Alberto Prestininzi, geologist, Sapienza University of Rome; Director, CERI Research Center, Italy: “Climate: Between Emergency and Knowledge”
• Prof. Carl-Otto Weiss, Advisor to the European Climate and Energy Institute (EIKE); Professor and Director, German Federal Institute of Metrology, Braunschweig, Germany: “How Solar Cycles Determine Earth’s Climate”
Christian Lévêque, Emeritus Research Director at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement of France, gave the Panel 5 keynote, “Scientific Ecology Is Being Instrumentalized by Magical Thinking.” He scored the Malthusian agenda of what he termed “the wealthy urban bourgeois” and their affiliated NGOs such as the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) who have adopted “nature worship” as their religion. Their axiomatic foundation is “that God created a perfect, harmonious and balanced world”—a paradise—and that man, through development and overpopulation, is destroying that world. He denounced their “fear tactics” and how they impose their agenda.
The WWF and other environmentalist NGOs, using the UN to push their pseudo-religious dogma, are behind the infamous “30 by 30” agenda, promoted at the 2022 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) in Montreal, Canada, to “protect” 30% of the Earth’s land and water by the year 2030 from the aggressions of man.
Other panelists debunked the fraud of “man-made climate change,” and called for a stop to the deindustrialization and economic destruction underway.
Classical Beauty
The first day’s proceedings were capped off by a wonderful Classical music concert, featuring Albanian pianist Dhurata Lazo and Swedish Soprano Leena Malkki. Ms. Lazo began with four compositions for solo piano including a romance by Albanian composer Tonin Harapi (1926–1992) and three pieces by Frédéric Chopin: the Muzurkas Op. 67; the Scherzo No. 2 Op. 31; and the Andante spianato et grande polonaise brillante Op. 22.
She was then accompanied Ms. Malkki on five songs: a piece from Mozart’s opera La Clemenza di Tito; Schubert’s Nacht und Trӓume Op. 43 No. 2 and Auf dem Wasser zu singen Op. 72; Verdi’s Ave Maria from Otello and Pace, pace mio Dio from La forza del destino.
On the Verge of a New World War—European Nations Must Cooperate with the Global South!
by Kevin Gribbroek
July 9—A two-day international conference was held this weekend in Strasbourg, France by the Schiller Institute, titled “On the Verge of a New World War: European Nations Must Cooperate with the Global South!” The proceedings were organized into five panels, with three on Day One July 8, featuring 22 speakers, from 14 different countries, ending with an evening concert of classical music. The second day’s two panels, which also included musical offerings, had wide-ranging discussions, involving many of the audience of more than 200 attendees. (See the full program below).
This event, and the process of deliberation it represents, stands in sharp contrast to the recently convened Paris “Summit for a New Global Financial Pact,” where leaders of the Global South ridiculed the hypocrisy of their European counterparts. As opposed to the not-so-hidden Malthusian “green imperialist” depopulation agenda of the arrogant Paris Summit, the Schiller Institute colloquy is an opportunity for peoples of all continents to gather for the purpose of deliberation on how to bring about a peaceful and prosperous future for the entire human race.
The Schiller Institute conference is also a timely and necessary intervention against Global NATO’s July 11–12 Vilnius, Lithuania summit, where bloodthirsty leaders of the West’s Military-Industrial Complex will be plotting more measures which, unless stopped, will bring about the destruction of humanity through thermonuclear war.
The Schiller Institute’s panels covered a broad range of critical economic, strategic, and cultural themes. Notable was the fact that due to the Covid-19 pandemic this was the first in-person Schiller Institute conference in three years! The conference opened with the famous Adagio cantabile of Beethoven’s C minor Pathétique piano sonata, performed by Werner Hartmann, of the Schiller Institute.
Panel I: Peace in the World Through a New Security and Development Architecture for Each and Every Country: The Indispensable Strategic Autonomy of European Countries
Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and leader of the Schiller Institute, gave the conference keynote, “Let a Garden Amidst a Million Gardens Bloom!” (Full text on this website). She set the tone for the panel by contrasting the tragic consequences of the collapsing trans-Atlantic “rules based order” attempting to maintain its hegemony, with the rising nations of the Global South, freeing themselves from centuries of colonial servitude and asserting their right to economic development.
Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche asserted at the beginning of her presentation her commitment: “We will revive the best of what European culture has produced … and we will bring that into the shaping of the New Paradigm!” (Her full presentation is below.)
The next speaker, H.E. Lu Shaye, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China in France, delivered his presentation titled “China’s Role for Peace and Development.” He stated, “At present, changes unseen for a century are taking place at an accelerated pace, giving rise to unprecedented transformations of our world, our times and history.” He characterized the world as divided into two camps: pro-peace and pro-war. Which camp will prevail? Ambassador Lu detailed the incredible opportunities Western nations would realize were they to cooperate with China and the Global South through participation in the multitude of development initiatives China is leading, such as the Belt and Road Initiative. (His full presentation is below.)
‘The Multipolar World is Emerging’
H.E. Ilia Subbotin, Minister-Counselor of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in France, spoke on the topic, “What Russia Really Wants in Its Relations with Europe: Peace or War?” He recounted his own personal perspective of the history of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent tumultuous transition to the post-Soviet era.
He noted that, contrary to proclamations by President George H.W. Bush that the West had “won” the Cold War, from the Russian perspective it was President Mikhail Gorbachev who had stopped the Cold War. Most people in the former Soviet Republics looked forward to a new union with a desire to become a part of the “Western world.” But, despite countless efforts by Russian leaders over a 30-year period, particularly President Vladimir Putin, every attempt at Western integration has been sabotaged.
But Minister-Counselor Subbotin asked, will the European nations free themselves from the “shackles of U.S. control” and join with the “new centers of economic growth” of the Global South? “When and if this happens, Russia will be ready for mutually beneficial dialogue of equals, on the basis of our fundamental interests.” (His full presentation is below.)
Other panelists addressed the potential that exists for European nations to join with the Global South to create a New Paradigm.
Panel II: Why It Is in the Strategic Interest of European Nations to Cooperate with the Global South
Jacques Cheminade, President of the Schiller Institute co-thinker organization Solidarité et Progrès political party in France, gave the Panel 2 keynote, titled “The Rise of the Global South against Geopolitical Blocs.” He characterized the current historical period as “the battle between the Malthusian, domineering financial oligarchy that occupies our Western countries and those who believe that the human species has a right to development.” He noted that the first signs of a potential “conflagration” are everywhere evident in Europe, particularly in his own country of France.
In the midst of this gathering storm, nations of the Global South see the Russia-China alliance as reflected in their [[joint statement]] [[http://en.kremlin.ru/supplement/5770]] of February 4, 2022, as a “positive option and chance to escape the trans-Atlantic straightjacket”—a path to realize what President Xi Jinping calls “the common future of mankind.”
Mr. Cheminade highlighted the crucial role of the late U.S. statesman and economist Lyndon LaRouche, husband of Schiller institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, in discovering the principles of physical economy critical for a New Paradigm of development. This was stated explicitly by the famous Russian economist Sergei Glazyev, Minister in charge of Integration and Macroeconomics of the Eurasian Economic Union, who said Sept. 8, 2022: “It is the principles of physical economics championed by Lyndon LaRouche that underpin the Chinese economic miracle today, and that are the basis of India’s economic development policy.” (His full presentation is below.)
Panelists from many other nations provided a stirring crossfire of ideas.
Panel III: The Peace Movement Worldwide Above Party Lines: The Special Case of the United States; The Role of the Vatican and the Global South
Harley Schlanger, the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Schiller Institute U.S.A., gave the Panel 3 keynote, opening with a video clip of the first four minutes of President John F. Kennedy’s June 10, 1963 American University “[[Peace Speech]]” [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA_kjj2c0Qc]] Mr. Schlanger then gave a brief history of Kennedy’s Presidency, from his battle with the U.S. Senate to ratify the Nuclear Test Ban treaty with the Soviet Union, to his efforts to extricate the United States from the war in Vietnam and end the Cold War.
Although constantly having to discover ways of out flanking the war hawks within his administration—dead set on escalating the Cold War—just as big a challenge was overcoming the mass brainwashing of the American population who believed that it was “better dead than red.” His efforts were cut short on November 22, 1963, when the President was murdered in Dallas, Texas.
Mr. Schlanger then delivered a short discussion of the anti-imperialist history of the United States—from the American Founding Fathers to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon LaRouche. Exemplary of that tradition is the famous July 4, 1821 speech by then Secretary of State John Quincy Adams in which he declares: “But she [the United States] goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy….” This anti-imperialist tradition contrasts sharply with today’s defenders of the militaristic “Rules-Based Order,” such as the hapless Sec. of State Antony J. Blinken.
Other speakers on Panel III included H.E. Donald Ramotar, former President of Guyana, and Diane Sare, Candidate for U.S. Senate from New York, both of whom have been actively collaborating with people from many nations, in the newly formed International Peace Coalition. (See Editorial.)
Panel IV: A Culture to Emancipate and Expand the Creative Capacities of Every Human Being—A Dialogue Among Cultures and Civilizations
Dr. Luc Reychler, Professor Emeritus at Louvain University and former Director of the Center for Peace Research and Strategic Studies in Belgium, gave the Panel 4 keynote, on the provocative question, “European Humanist Values versus War Culture: What Would Erasmus Say about Peace in Ukraine?” He reviewed today’s Ukraine “proxy war”—as he termed it—against Russia, from the eyes of the great Dutch Renaissance scholar Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536). Famous for works such as In Praise of Folly and The Complaint of Peace, Erasmus warned that those who have not experienced war are often its greatest proponents, that sentiment being well expressed in a quote from his book Against War: Dulce bellum inexpertis, or “War is sweet for the inexperienced.”
Were Erasmus here today, he “would criticize and satirize the excuses for ongoing war; for example, the misrepresentation of the war as the defense of democracy and of the democratic world” and “would also be a whistleblower and name the princes and kings, and the war profiteers who are responsible for the war.” But importantly, Erasmus would seek a process of “peace building” through promotion of economic development and education—particularly for youth.
The next speaker, Liliana Gorini, chairwoman of the Schiller Institute affiliated Movisol political party in Italy, invoked the wisdom of another great figure, Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901). To hear U.S. President Joe Biden and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni speak of “peace,” as they did at the G7 meeting in Hiroshima, Japan last month, Gorini said, reminds one of the way Verdi in his opera Don Carlos—inspired by Friedrich Schiller—has Don Rodrigo telling King Philip of Spain that his so-called militarist “peace” for Flanders is a “horrible, horrible peace, the peace of graves.” She called on conference attendees to take inspiration from Verdi, and from Pope John XXIII, and President John F. Kennedy, “to fight for a true peace, which only comes from respecting and developing the rest of the world.” (Ms. Gorini’s remarks were read, as she was unable to attend).
Other panelists stressed the tremendous importance of culture as a key foundation for lasting, durable peace among nations.
Panel V: Scientific Ecology and Assessing the Climate Challenge: Eradicating Poverty and Hunger in the World is the Priority
Christian Lévêque, Emeritus Research Director at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement of France, gave the Panel 5 keynote, “Scientific Ecology Is Being Instrumentalized by Magical Thinking.” He scored the Malthusian agenda of what he termed “the wealthy urban bourgeois” and their affiliated NGOs such as the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) who have adopted “nature worship” as their religion. Their axiomatic foundation is “that God created a perfect, harmonious and balanced world”—a paradise—and that man, through development and overpopulation, is destroying that world. He denounced their “fear tactics” and how they impose their agenda.
The WWF and other environmentalist NGOs, using the UN to push their pseudo-religious dogma, are behind the infamous “30 by 30” agenda, promoted at the 2022 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) in Montreal, Canada, to “protect” 30% of the Earth’s land and water by the year 2030 from the aggressions of man.
Other panelists debunked the fraud of “man-made climate change,” and called for a stop to the deindustrialization and economic destruction underway.
Classical Beauty
The first day’s proceedings were capped off by a wonderful Classical music concert, featuring Albanian pianist Dhurata Lazo and Swedish Soprano Leena Malkki. Ms. Lazo began with four compositions for solo piano including a romance by Albanian composer Tonin Harapi (1926–1992) and three pieces by Frédéric Chopin: the Muzurkas Op. 67; the Scherzo No. 2 Op. 31; and the Andante spianato et grande polonaise brillante Op. 22.
She was then accompanied Ms. Malkki on five songs: a piece from Mozart’s opera La Clemenza di Tito; Schubert’s Nacht und Trӓume Op. 43 No. 2 and Auf dem Wasser zu singen Op. 72; Verdi’s Ave Maria from Otello and Pace, pace mio Dio from La forza del destino.
