- Ray McGovern, Co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS),
- Scott Ritter, former UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq,
- Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute and Chair of Bürgerrechtsbewegung
Solidarität (BüSo), - General (ret.) Dominique Delawarde, former liasson officer of France with the U.S. Army
Higher Officers‘ School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas - Colonel (ret.) Alain Corvez, advisor on security questions,
and others.
The surprising acknowledgments by former Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and former
French President Francois Hollande, that they supported the Minsk Process only as a
subterfuge to buy time for the arming and training of Ukraine, represents a breaking point. This
Minsk Agreement acquired the character of international law with UN Resolution 2202. How do
the representatives of the “rules-based order” deal with international law?
For years they have repeated the mantra that the sanctions against Russia could be lifted only if
the Minsk Agreement was to be fully implemented. But if the conclusion of this agreement was
nothing but lip service, what was their intention?
What sense does any agreement with representatives of the West make, if it must be assumed
that they will do what they say only if it serves to carry out their agenda? What is necessary to
restore trust in international political relations? Is that even possible?
The speakers named above will discuss the dangers of the strategic situation, and the
alternatives.
Join the Zoom meeting
December 20, 2022
His Holiness, Pope Francis
Apostolic Palace
00120 Vatican City
Your Holiness,
Greetings from the grouping of Political and Social Leaders of the World to Stop the Danger of Nuclear War, initiated by the Schiller Institute in Germany.
We have met on three occasions to discuss the impending danger of nuclear war and global Armageddon resulting from the war between Ukraine and Russia, with a view to taking whatever action necessary to stop the war and to bring peace. On 17 November 2022, our group issued a Declaration to Stop the Threat of Nuclear War, signed by legislators and former legislators from Latin America, the United States, Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa.
In that declaration, we highlighted Your Holiness’s call for a negotiated, peaceful solution. We further welcome Your Holiness’s offer of the Vatican as a possible neutral ground for peace talks – without any preconditions – between Russia and Ukraine. Our group wishes to support this initiative in any way we can, including gathering together all who wish for peace and the prevention of nuclear war.
We note that others in Europe and the United States have also offered venues for the Russian and Ukrainian leadership to negotiate peace. We believe it is urgent to unify all such efforts into a globe-spanning movement to bring resolution to this conflict, taking into consideration the valid security interests of all parties.
In that spirit, we hereby sign this letter to indicate that support, and call on other political and social leaders around the world, regardless of differences in ideology or religious faith, to add their signatures as well.
We intend to convene a Fourth Seminar of Political and Social Leaders of the World to Stop the Danger of Nuclear War in early 2023 to further this push for peace and to stop the danger of nuclear war, and we extend an invitation to a representative from the Vatican to attend.
INITIATING SIGNERS | ||
Donald Ramotar | Guyana | Former President |
Dr. Kirk Meighoo | Trinidad & Tobago | Former Senator |
Helga Zepp-LaRouche | Germany | Founder, Schiller Institute |
Diane Sare | United States | Candidate for U.S. Senate from New York State |
Karl Kroekel | Germany | Founder, “Craftsmen for Peace” |
Dr. Rodolfo Ondarza Rovira | Mexico | Former member, Mexico City Legislative Assembly |
Nick Brana | United States | Chair, People’s Party |
Maria de los Ángeles Huerta | Mexico | Former Congresswoman |
ADDITIONAL SIGNERS | ||
Tse Anye Kevin | Africa | Vice President, State55, Afrika |
Dr. Smaine Djella | Algeria | Ph.D. in International Studies; Assistant Professor, University of Algeria; researcher, translator |
Enrique Juan Box | Argentina | Social communicator |
Roberto Fritzsche | Argentina | Professor, Dep’t of Economic Science, University of Belgrano |
Rubén Darío Guzzetti | Argentina | Professor, Argentine Institute of Geopolitical Studies |
Carlos Pérez Galino | Argentina | Lawyer |
Juan Francisco Numa Soto | Argentina | Legal counsel to Yacyretá Binational Entity; former professor of Constitutional Law, University of Buenos Aires |
Gustavo Russo | Argentina | Lawyer; Professor of Juridical Sciences |
Clive Ettia | Australia | Premium Science Trade |
Erich Fankhauser | Austria | International Associate, Peace through Culture Association |
Christian Dierick | Belgium | Engineer, International Science and Technology Collaboration |
Clinton Canul Luna | Belize | Columnist, Amandola newspaper |
Edwin de la Fuente Jeria | Bolivia | Former Commander in Chief, Bolivian Armed Forces |
Osman Vladimir Escobar Torrez | Bolivia | Human Rights Secretary, Bolivian Labor Confederation (COB) |
Max Yecid Ibañez | Bolivia | Former Secretary of Grievance Resolution, National Federation of Electrical and Telephone Workers of Bolivia |
Sandra Marca Uscamayta | Bolivia | Consultant, specialist in Family Agriculture |
Jairo Dias Carvalho | Brazil | Professor of Philosophy of Technology, Federal University of Uberlândia |
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | Brazil | Journalist; Researcher in Social Sciences at the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; geopolitical consultant. |
Raphael Machado | Brazil | Political analyst; president, Nova Resistência |
Pedro Augusto Pinho | Brazil | President, Association of Petrobras Engineers (AEPET) |
Gabriel Tincani Ramos | Brazil | President, Union of Socialist Youth – Campinas |
Renata Welinski Da Silva Seabra | Brazil | Former UNDP Executive Director, UN Global Compact Brazil; Ph.D. candidate in international environmental law – Belt and Road Initiative |
Lassane Ouedraogo | Burkina Faso/Ireland | Former Chairman, Board of Directors, Africa Solidarity Center, Ireland |
Julian Fell, Ph.D. | Canada | Biologist; Co-Director Area F, Nanaimo Regional Government, British Columbia |
Sherri Lange | Canada | CEO, NA-PAW (North American Platform Against Wind Power); Vice President Canada, Save the Eagles International |
Dr. Wayne Smith | Canada | Regional Emergency Medical Director |
Mario Guillermo Acosta Alarcón | Colombia | Scientist, writer; Director, CIFRA (Space Lab City) |
Patricia Mena | Colombia | Social Leader for Mental Health |
Hernán Palacios Casallas | Colombia | Labor leader |
Alba Luz Pinilla | Colombia | Former Member of Congress; Vice President, Partido Dignidad |
Pedro Rubio | Colombia | Union leader; public policy analyst |
Dr. Ronnie de Camino | Costa Rica Professor (emeritus), Tropical Agronomic Center of Research and Teaching (CATIE) | |
Enrique García Dubón | Costa Rica | Economist |
Enrique Ramírez Guier | Costa Rica | Biologist; consultant |
Martha Rollins | Costa Rica | International Projects Consultant |
Alex Krainer | Croatia | Author, “Grand Deception: The Truth about Bill Browder, the Magnitsky Act, and Anti-Russian Sanctions” |
Gregory Caimares | Dominican Republic | Communicator, “Hora 22” TV program |
Ramón Emilio Concepción | Dominican Republic | Attorney at Law; Presidential Pre-candidate for PRM party (2020) |
Dr. Roque Espaillat | Dominican Republic | Physician, social activist |
Reinaldo Olivo | Dominican Republic | Bishop, El Shaddai Pentacostal Christian Church |
Dante Ortiz Nuñez | Dominican Republic | Historian |
Msgr. Norberto Polanco Pérez | Dominican Republic | Missionary Archbishop, Fidelitas Vetero-Catholic Apostolic Church |
Rafael Reyes Jerez | Dominican Republic | Journalist |
Eddy Rafael Ruiz Peña | Dominican Republic | Certified Public Accountant |
Enrique Antonio Sánchez Liranzo | Dominican Republic | Lawyer, writer, poet |
Caonabo Suárez | Dominican Republic | Lawyer; social activist |
Mario Brito | Ecuador | Journalist, author; former minister |
Ernesto Pazmiño Granizo | Ecuador | Human Rights Defender; Former Minister of Justice of Ecuador |
Alexis Ponce | Ecuador | Rights advocate, National Association of Patients and Vulnerable Families of Ecuador. |
Napoleón Saltos Galarza | Ecuador | Univeristy professor; former Legislator (Diputado) |
Mardokai Russom | Eritrea/United States | Founder, Eritrean-American Public Affairs Committee (EAPAC) |
Jacques Cheminade | France | President, Solidarite et Progrès; former presidential candidate |
Col. Alain Corvez (ret.) | France | Consultant, International Strategic Affairs |
Gen. Dominique Delawarde (ret.) | France | Former French Liaison Officer with U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS |
Uwe Behrens | Germany | Logistics expert, author |
Dr. jur. Wolfgang Bittner | Germany | Author |
Joachim Bonatz | Germany | Vice President, East German Board of Trustees of Associations (Ostdeutschen Kuratoriums e.V.), Berlin |
Isabelle Casel | Germany | Speaker, Federal Working Group on Peace and International Politics, Die Linke |
Dr. Ole Doering | Germany/China | Professor of Philosophy, Culture and Ethics |
Jochen Gueniker | Germany | Spokesman, parish team of St. Aegidius, Mannheim-Seckenheim |
Holger Huettel | Germany | Chairman, Die Linke, Sangerhausen |
Prof. Dr. Karin Kulow | Germany | Professsor Emeritus of Middle East Political Sciences; conflict researcher, peace activist |
Fokko Muenck | Germany | Psychologist; peace researcher |
Maj. Florian D. Pfaff (ret.) | Germany | Spokesman, working group “Darmstaedter Signal” |
Rainer Sandau | Germany | Technical Director, Satellites and Space Applications, International Academy of Aeronautics (IAA) |
Prof. Wilfried Schreiber | Germany | Oberst a.d., Prof Dr. Phil et sc.oec.; Senior Research Fellow, World Trends Institute for Internationl Policy, Potsdam |
Michael von der Schulenburg | Germany | Former Deputy General Secretary of the United Nations for UN Peace Missions |
Bartholomew Chirapanga | Ghana | Legal advisor; language interpreter |
Dr. Panagiotis Ioannides | Greece | Member, International Academy of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Athens |
Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos | Greece | Ambassador ad honorem; Secretary General, Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (2006-2010) |
Raúl Aníbal Marroquín Casasola | Guatemala | “Pupil of Heaven” Citizens for Peace Observatory |
Beatriz Solórzano León | Guatemala | Lawyer; Parliamentary staff, Congress of Guatemala |
Otto René Quiñónes Carías | Guatemala | Former Congressman |
Jhonny Estor | Haiti | Founder, Renaissance Haiti |
Andrea Szego | Hungary | Former Professor of Economics |
Koushik Das | India | Journalist |
Dr. A. K. Merchant | India | Joint Secretary, Shanti Sahyog – Centre for Nonviolence & Peace |
Sundeep Waslekar | India | President, Strategic Foresight Group |
Sam Pitroda | India/United States | Telecom/IT Innovator |
Zahra M. Ali | Iraq | Member, Iraqi Council of Representatives (Parliament) |
Saud Al-Saedi | Iraq | Member, Iraqi Council of Representatives (Parliament) |
Mustafa Jabbar Sanad | Iraq | Member, Iraqi Council of Representatives (Parliament) |
Mario Agostinelli | Italy | Trade unionist; Chairman, Fondazione Energia Felice; former General Secretary of CGIL, Sesto San Giovanni |
Alberto Arecchi | Italy | Architect; Art historian; Founder and President, Liutprand (a Northern Italian Cultural Association) |
Pino Arlacchi | Italy | Former Director, United Nations Drug Control Program; Professor of Sociology, University of Sassari |
Francesco Battaglia | Italy | Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Modena |
Prof. Bruno Brandimarte | Italy | Professor (ret.), Applied Biophysics, Univ. of Rome, Tor Vergata |
Liliana Gorini | Italy | Chairwoman of Movisol |
Giancarlo Guaitani | Italy | Former mayor, Fara Gera d’Adda |
Maria Elena Lacquaniti | Italy | Coordinator, GLAM Globalization and Environment Commission |
Federica Mancini | Italy | Nuclear engineer, Atoms for Peace, Italy |
Pierangelo Monti | Italy | President, Movimento Internazionale della Riconciliazione (MIR), Italian branch of International Fellowship of Reconciliation |
Carlo Pettirossi | Italy/Germany | Nuclear engineer, Atoms for Peace, Italy |
Alessia Ruggeri | Italy | Comitato per la Repubblica |
Antonella Visintin | Italy | Member, Commission on Globalization and Environment, Protestant Federation |
Vincenzo Romanello, Ph.D | Italy/Czech Republic | Senior Nuclear Researcher and Project Manager, National Radiation Protection Institute (SURO) |
Sutou Shizuyo, Ph.D | Japan | Professor emeritus, School of Pharmacy, Shujitsu University |
Mohammed Peter Davis, Ph.D. | Malaysia | Biochemist; biotechnologist; architect; Consultant, deep tropical agriculture |
Adam Ouologuem | Mali | Washington D.C.-based journalist |
Celeste Sáenz de Miera | Mexico | Secretary Gerneral, Mexican Journalists Club |
Mouris Salloum | Mexico | Director General, Mexican Journalists Club |
Jaime Varela Salazar | Mexico | Chemical Engineer; Former Director, Faculty of Chemical Sciences, University of Sonora |
Samo Fernando Soares da Manhiça | Mozambique | Executive Director, International Alliance for Development – Mozambique |
Prof. Bishnu Pathak | Nepal | Professor of Peace, Justice and Security Studies, TRANSCEND Peace University |
C. (Kees) le Pair, Ph.D | Netherlands | Physicist, Univ. of Leiden; Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |
Fletcher Glass | New Zealand | Property development |
Bolívar Tellez Castellón | Nicaragua | Lawyer; university professor |
Mahamadou Habou | Niger | Focal point, Lake Chad Basin youth network; young entrepreneur |
David Ajetunmobi | Nigeria | Trade union leader, auto sector |
Adeshola Kukoyi | Nigeria | Founder, Equilibrium Perspectives/University of Lagos |
Zubair Zubair | Nigeria | Human rights and youth advocate; radio host |
Thore Vestby | Norway | Former Member of Parliament |
Hassan Daud | Pakistan | Former Project Director, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) |
Shakeel Ahmad Ramay | Pakistan | CEO, Asian Institute of Eco-Civilization Research and Development |
Iván Alexander Muñoz Maestre | Panama | Businessman; “Citizen of the World” |
José Antonio Benllochpiquer Castro | Peru | Vice President, Christian Democratic Party of Peru |
Dr. Carlos Francisco Gallardo Neyra | Peru | President, Christian Democratic Party of Peru |
Dr. W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz | Poland | Philosopher; professor, University of Opole; former deputy mayor of Gdansk |
Andrzej Strupczewski, Ph.D | Poland | Professor; vice chairman, Environmentalists for Nuclear Power |
Vladimir Onoprienko | Russia | Member, Noosphere Public Academy of Sciences |
Mira Terada | Russia | Chairwoman, Foundation to Battle Injustice |
Prof. Blagoje Babić | Serbia | Member, Serbian Academy of Economic Science |
Natasa Milojevic | Serbia | Political scientist; former Member of Parliament |
Jozef Miklosko | Slovakia | Former Deputy Prime Minister, Czech and Slovak Federative Republic; former Slovak Ambassador to Italy |
Meshack Maxongo | South Africa | Leader, LaRouche South Africa |
Yim Sungbin | South Korea | President, FAVORs, Seoul |
Juan José Torres Núñez | Spain | Author, poet, free-lance journalist |
Amir Kamaly | Sweden | Ph.D. in Fourier Analysis, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm |
Thomas Pettersson | Sweden | Senior Advisor, Civil and Human Rights |
Hussein Askary | Sweden/Iraq | Southwest Asia Coordinator, Schiller Institute |
Georg Koch | Switzerland | Retired social pedagogue; co-editor, “Schweizer Standpunkt” |
Lt. Col. (ret.) Ralph Bosshard | Switzerland | Swiss Armed Forces; consultant, military/strategic affairs |
Eyup Topkaya | Turkey | Political activist |
Bishop Lubega Geoffrey Bob | Uganda | Minister, Born Again Faith |
Dr. Yurii Sheliazhenko | Ukraine | Ph.D. in Law; Executive Secretary, Ukrainian Pacifist Movement |
Prof. Koku Adomdza | United Kingdom | Researcher |
Joseph Ali | United Kingdom/Guyana | Engineer |
Jenifer Chambers | United Kingdom | Social Activist |
Renato Corsetti | United Kingdom/Italy | Psycholinguist, esperantist |
Timothy Hardacre | United Kingdom | International lawyer |
Bernie Holland | United Kingdom | Head of Value Creation Collective |
Mike Robinson | United Kingdom | Editor, UK Column |
Dr. Athar Abassi | United States | Major, U.S. Army (Ret) |
Mohammad Salim Akhtar | United States | National Director, American Muslim Task Force on Civil Rights and Elections, Washington D.C. |
David Andersson | United States | Co-Director, Pressenza IPA |
Fatmeh Atieh Bakhit | United States | Editor, Al Entesher newspaper, Los Angeles, CA |
Rev. John C. Beal | United States | Orthodox Church of America, California |
Tim Begalka | United States | State Senator, South Dakota |
Archbishop Benjamin | United States | Orthodox Church in America, San Francisco |
Pastor Hugo Berger | United States | Evangelical Church of the Good Shepherd, Brooklyn, NY |
Rev. Lawrence Bernard | United States | Chaplain, Poor Clare Monastery, Roswell, NM |
Victoria Bingham | United States | Retired Intelligence Analyst; Russian linguist |
Meg Bowerman | United States | Pax Christi, Norther California chapter |
Kathleen Boylan | United States | Dorothy Day Catholic Worker, Washington D.C. |
Lt. (ret.) Robert E. Branca | United States | U.S. Naval Reserve |
Lisa Bryce | United States | Opera singer; Ph.D., Music Education; Reverend |
Harry J. Bury Ph.D. | United States | Twin Cities Non-Violent Association of U.S. Catholic Priests |
Leslee Coady | United States | Pax Christi, Norther California chapter |
Father Ray Chase | United States | Pastor, St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, Baltimore, MD |
Marjorie Cohn | United States | Former president, National Lawyers Guild; Veterans for Peace Advisory Board |
Ronald M. Converse | United States | Retired Correctional Counselor; established pioneering Drug & Alcohol Recovery Program |
Arthur Dawes | United States | President of the Board, Pax Christi, Texas |
Bishop Demetrios of Mokissos | United States | Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Vinnie De Stefano | United States | National Organizing Director, Assange Defense |
Daniel Donnelly | United States | Member, Libertarian Party of NY State Committee 9 (Hudson Valley district) |
Denny Dreher | United States | Co-Coordinator, Pax Christi Maine |
John Droz | United States | Physicist |
Brian A. Earley | United States | Captain (ret.), U.S. Army |
Ed Ehmke | United States | Pax Christi, Northern California chapter |
Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi | United States | Islamic House of Wisdom, Dearborn Heights, MI |
John Farrell | United States | Civil Engineer; Millwright |
Mike Ferner | United States | Formert National President, Veterans for Peace |
John Flynn | United States | U.S. Senate candidate from Connecticut, 2022; newly announced candidate 2024 |
Christopher and Mary Fogarty | United States | Irish Support Group (Chicago) |
Chuck Frascati | United States | Member, Pax Christi, Baltimore |
Graham Fuller | United States/Canada | Former Vice Chair, National Intelligence Council of the CIA for Long Term Forecasting; writer, political commentator |
Hector E. Garcia | United States | Twin Cities Noviolent, MN |
Larry Gauthier | United States | Journalist; former member, Nebraska Democratic State Central Cttee; owner, Westphalian Publishing |
Laurent “Larry” Gilbert | United States | Veterans for Peace, Chapter 136, Florida; Former Mayor, Lewiston, Maine |
Jack Gilroy | United States | Pax Christi, Upstate New York |
Dr. Bennett Greenspan | United States | Past President of SNMMI (Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging), American College of Radiology |
Rev. John Gregory-Davis | United States | Meriden Congregational Church, UCC, Meriden, NH |
Ephraim Haile | United States/Eritrea | Eritrean Cultural & Development Center (ECDC); Eritrean Diaspora, Boston |
Joyce Hall | United States | Member, Board of Directors, Texas Pax Christi |
Stephen P. Hanley | United States | Retired school principal, Framingham, MA |
Cathy Helgason | United States | Professor of Neurology |
Jim Hogue | United States | Republican candidate for Lt. Governor, Vermont, 2020 |
Albert W. Holt | United States | Marine Corporal (ret.); former electrician |
Milla Ismailova | United States | Retired Russian Linguist |
Appo Jabarian | United States | Publisher, USA Armenian Life magazine |
Claudio Jaffe | United States | Cellist |
Ivan I. Jones | United States | Former Board Member and Shop Steward, Local 783, AFSCME, Boston MA |
John S. Jones | United States | Ward 14 Democratic Committee, Boston, MA |
Frank Kartheiser | United States | Organizer, The Mustard Seed Catholic Community, Worcester, MA |
Dan Kennedy | United States | Author, “Res Publica; The Nation of Space” |
Bishop Reginald L. Kennedy | United States | President, Ministers Conference of Baltimore and Vicinity; Pastor, Gospel Tabernacle Baptist Church |
Robert Flash Kingsley | United States | Pastor, author |
Dr. George Koo | United States | Chairman, Burlingame Foundation; retired business consultant, U.S.-China relations |
Gerald W. Kopp | United States | Founding member, North Dakota Natural Farmers Association; former U.S. Congressional candidate |
Janice Kortkamp | United States | Citizen Journalist, “American Housewife in Syria” |
Jeremy Kuzmarov | United States | Journalist, author |
Jack Lau | United States | Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI); Pax Christi, Northern California |
Nebojsa Malic | United States | Serbian-American journalist |
Joseph Marcinkowski | United States | Chair, Military & Foreign Policy Workgroup, Houston Peace and Justice Center |
Imam Radwan Mardini | United States | American Muslim Center, Dearborn, MI |
Charles Marrone | United States | Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) |
Eli McCarthy | United States | Professor, Georgetown University Program on Justice and Peace |
David R. Meiswinkle, Esq. | United States | Former President and Executive Director, Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry |
Kevin Menne | United States | Podcast host, “Ask the Politician”, Cincinnati, OH |
Suzzanne Monk | United States | Chair, Patriot Action PAC |
James Moore | United States | Past president, Alaska Trollers Association; Executive committee for NSRAA and AKI (aquaculture) |
Fr. John Murray | United States | Pastor, Our Mother of Perpetual Church, Ephrata PA |
Al Mytty | United States | Florida coordinator, World BEYOND War |
Darrell Nichols | United States | Former President, NE Ohio NAACP; Former Vice-President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Toledo, OH; Captain (ret.), U.S. Army |
Jeff Norman | United States | Founder, U.S. Tour of Duty; podcast host of “Ask the Inspector” and “Scenes from the Evolution” |
Tim O’Conner | United States | Broadcast jounalist; Chairman, Otsego County, NY, Libertarian Party |
Nestor Oginar | United States | Representative, World Macedonian Congress at the UN; Member, Macedonian Orthodox Church – Ohrid Archepiscopy |
John OLoughlin | United States | author of “McDuff Lives!: The Life and Untimely Death of Thomas F. OLoughlin, Jr.” |
Andy Olson | United States | Farmer; former LaRouche Democrat candidate for Governor of Minnesota; and for U.S. Congress (2nd CD – MN) |
Daniel B. Ostrowski | United States | U.S. Army Captain (ret.); member, Polish Legion of American Vets, Post 169 |
Sue and Bud Ozar | United States | Retired educators; Co-founders, Friends of Kenyan Orphans; Lay Missioners, Samoa Islands and Kenya |
Lorin Peters | United States | Moderator, Northern California Pax Christi |
Jeffrey S. Philbin, Ph.D. | United States | Nuclear Engineer, nuclear weapon response, Albuquerque, NM |
Cynthia Pooler | United States | Broadcast journalist; peace activist, NY |
David T. Pyne | United States | Former U.S. Army HQ Staff Officer |
Earl Rasmussen | United States | Executive Vice President, Eurasia Center, Washington D.C. |
Tara Reade | United States | Author; Producer; former U.S. Senate Aide |
Harry J. Reith, DDS | United States | Chemist; advocate for Maglev Rail, IN |
Derotha Ann Reynolds | United States | former Democratic candidate for Nevada House of Representatives |
David Rothauser | United States | Filmmaker, Veterans for Peace USA – Smedley Butler Brigade, Boston |
Karl Schmidt | United States | Broadcast journalist, NY |
Peter M. Schuller | United States | Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus |
Abbot Paul Mark Schwan, OCSO | United States | Abbey of Our Lady of Clairvaux, Vina, CA. |
John Shanahan | United States | Civil engineer; editor of website AllAboutEnergy.net |
John Calvin Smith | United States | Senior Project Engineer, Dams and Levees; Earthquake Geotechnical Engineer |
Tracy Smith | United States | Member, Board of Directors, Florida Water Well Association and FL Wastewater Association 1991-2006; Member, Abundant Life Ministries |
Marcia Sprinkle | United States | Member, Pax Christi; Deacon, Seventh Avenue Presbyterian, San Francisco, CA |
Steven Starr | United States | MPH, MT(ASCP)BB; Assistant Clinical Professor, Univeristy of Missouri |
Kelley Stillwell | United States | Retired Union Workers of America |
Barbara Suhrstedt | United States | International concert pianist, retired; President, Board of Directors, Framingham Lomonosov Association for Mutual Exchange (F.L.A.M.E.) |
Stan Taylor | United States | Treasurer, Northern California Pax Christi |
Kathleen Temple | United States | Former pastor, Mennonite Church USA |
Bruce Todd | United States | Millwright Local 715 (ret.); former Independent candidate for Lt. Governor, New Jersey |
Archpriest John Tomasi | United States | Rector, Joy of All Who Sorrow Orthodox Church (Orthodox Church of America), Marina del Rey, CA |
Dr. Mohammad A. Toor | United States | Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Pakistani American Congress |
Bob Van Hee | United States | Commissioner, Redwood County, Minnesota |
Therese Mughannam-Walrath | United States | California member, NorCal Sabeel (North Coast Coalition for Palestine) |
Dr. Zaher Wahab | United States/Afghanistan | Professor of Education, Emeritus; Former Advisor, Afghanistan Ministry of Higher Education |
Mary Ellen Waite | United States | Maryknoll Affiliate, California |
Michael Walli | United States | Dorothy Day Catholic Worker, Washington D.C. |
Alan Waltar | United States | Past President, American Nuclear Society (ANS) |
Lonnie Weinheimer | United States | Dorothy Day Catholic Worker, Washington D.C. |
Michael Wharton | United States | Pax Christi, Norther California chapter |
Ron Wieczorek | United States | Rancher; former LaRouche Independent Congressional and Gubernatorial candidate, South Dakota; food for Peace leader |
Tom Zawistowski | United States | President, We the People Convention |
Vivian Zelaya | United States | Pax Christi, Norther California chapter |
Luisa Báez Catarí | Venezuela | President, Diocesan Union of Confraternities of the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar, Guarenas |
Jose Bustamante Plaz | Venezuela | Sociologist |
Andrés Ramón Giussepe Avalo | Venezuela | Former member, Latin American Parliament |
Marco Antonio Hernández | Venezuela | Community, education, social networks organizer |
Emil Guevara Muñóz | Venezuela | Former member, Latin American Parliament |
Alberto Mendoza Urbina | Venezuela | Fundamaraisa Foundation |
César Mogollón | Venezuela | National Coordinator, Central Alliance of Venezuela |
Ramón Antonio Pérez | Venezuela | Catholic journalist; director, website “El Guardián Católico” |
Ronald José Rivas Cortés | Venezuela | Sociologist; University Professor |
Román Rojas Cabot | Venezuela | Former Ambassador of Venezuela to the European Community |
Piero Trepiccione | Venezuela | Coordinator, Network of Jesuit Social Centers in Latin America and the Caribbean |
Manuel Felipe Sierra | Venezuela | Journalist, political analyst, author, radio and television presenter |
Edgar Rodriguez Martínez | Venezuela | Coordinator, Commission for the Study of Comprehensive Human Development, Alberto Adriani Foundation |
Munashe Chiwanza | Zambia | Civil Engineer |
The Non-Release of the JFK Assassination Documents
Dennis Speed (moderator): This question is for you, Ray. It has to do with [Fox News host] Tucker Carlson’s broadcast of December 15th concerning the JFK assassination. The reason I’m bringing it up is because of its relationship to what you’ve talked about—the expanded military-industrial complex that you’ve dubbed the MICIMATT (the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think Tank Complex).
Here’s a bit of what Carlson had to say, which gets to the point. He stated—among other things in what was a 30-minute discussion:
In 1976, long forgotten, the House of Representatives empaneled a special committee to re-investigate the JFK assassination. Their bipartisan conclusion? Jack Kennedy was almost certainly murdered as a result of a conspiracy. But the question is, a conspiracy by whom? The obvious subject would be the CIA.
Carlson talked about how the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 had mandated the full disclosure of all documents by 2017, and that Mike Pompeo, then the Director of the CIA, withheld those documents from the public, and that the same thing happened again two days ago, when the Biden administration also withheld documents. Carlson went on to say:
We spoke to someone who had access to the still-hidden CIA documents. A person who is deeply familiar with what they contain. We asked this person directly, “Did the CIA have a hand in the murder of JFK, an American President?” Here’s the reply we received, verbatim: “The answer is, yes, I believe they were involved. It’s a whole different country from what we thought it was. It’s all fake.”
Tucker Carlson did not name that source. He said, “This is not a ‘conspiracy theorist’ we spoke to, not even close. This is someone with direct knowledge of the information that once again is being withheld from the American public.”
The broadcast continued in that vein. Then, near the end, he said:
Many people have known this for a long time, but people who knew would include every director of the CIA since November of 1963. That list would include Obama’s Director of the CIA, John Brennan, one of the most sinister and dishonest figures in American life. That list would also include, we are sad to say, our friend Mike Pompeo, who ran the CIA in the last administration. Mike Pompeo knew this; we asked Pompeo to join us tonight, and although he rarely turns down televised interviews, he refused to come.
Ray, the question is: given the fact that you were a CIA analyst for 27 years, and you also returned various commendations that you got as a result of your differences and clear opposition to what happened, particularly in Iraq in 2003, what is your view of what Tucker Carlson said? What is your view about this issue, and what is your view about its relationship to the problem of an honest executive today, and an ability to get to the truth of things?
Six Ways From Sunday
Ray McGovern: Let me begin by quoting New York’s Senator Chuck Schumer, who should have lost to Diane Sare [in the recent midterm election]. After Donald Trump won the Presidency in 2016, the very first week of January, he arranged to get himself on [Rachel] Maddow’s [MSNBC] show. Maddow said, now Senator Schumer, you have something to say about the CIA and how Trump is criticizing the CIA and taking off after them. What did he say? Schumer said,
He’s being very foolish. You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you. I thought Trump was a pretty smart businessman, and maybe he is. But he’s being very foolish to take on Intelligence.
Schumer was telling us what the situation is.
The best book about this is something called JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, written by James W. Douglass, who happens to be a friend of mine. He pored over all the foregoing books—this is about 12 years ago now—put them all together, and said, yeah, JFK was done in by the Deep State. The CIA, the parts of the Army, parts of the FBI knew about it, and parts of the Secret Service. He was done in, why? Because after the Cuban Missile Crisis—which relates to the kind of situation we face now—after the Cuban Missile Crisis, when JFK realized how close we had come to blowing up the world, he worked out a deal with Nikita Khrushchev, started a test ban treaty; started all kinds of negotiations toward rapprochement. With whom? With the Commies!
Now, you had to have been alive—I was serving in CIA under John Kennedy just for several months. But you had to be aware of the atmosphere. Kennedy was hated because he didn’t support the invasion of Cuba, the Bay of Pigs invasion. He told those CIA types:
This sounds like a cockamamie operation to me. But if Eisenhower approved it, go ahead. But look, we’re not going to commit the U.S. Air Force or the U.S. Army or the U.S. Armed Forces to rescue you if it screws up.
pursued it? We have then CIA Director Allen Dulles’ coffee-stained notes from his desk, saying that Kennedy said we would not commit U.S. forces, but when push comes to shove, he will not be able to avoid committing U.S. forces.
‘JFK and the Unspeakable’
So, what happened? Kennedy stayed true to his pledge not to commit U.S. forces. The whole thing fizzled out, and Kennedy was heard to say to a neighbor up there in Hyannis Port, “I’d like to take the CIA and scatter it into a thousand pieces.” That’s sort of a declaration of war, right? Kennedy and Allen Dulles didn’t get along very well at all. It took him several months to fire Allen Dulles. You don’t fire a well-connected patrician like Allen Dulles, whose brother is the Secretary of State, and who has all kinds of—let’s put it this way—“six ways from Sunday to get back at you,” without paying the price.
It was the substantive issue of John Kennedy trying to figure out how to live with the Russians in a more decent, peaceful way. And the fact that he could not be trusted to support fully the cockamamie schemes of CIA, that did him in. You don’t have to take my word for it. Read Douglass’ book, JFK and the Unspeakable. It’s a quote from Thomas Merton, of all people.
Today, what happened when, under Trump’s watch—he’s still not being wise to the ways of Washington—he got up on the day that the Congressional mandate said he has to release the rest of the JFK documents hidden by the CIA and the FBI. He got up in the morning without telling anybody, and said, “Today’s the day Congress said I have to release those documents. I’m going to release them.” Four hours later, in the middle of the afternoon, he said, “Oh, I changed my mind. I’m not going to release them. The CIA and FBI said it’s too sensitive; we’ll revisit it in six months.” That’s what he said. It doesn’t matter what Congress said, right?
Six months. McGovern makes a little note in his notebook. In six months, it fell through the cracks; nobody remembered that they were going to revisit in six months. Hello! Do you have to be a master psychiatrist or psychologist to figure out that maybe if they don’t want those things released, it’s because it shows that they were involved?
After the Kennedy assassination, all kinds of irregular things happened. The Warren Commission was set up by Lyndon Johnson. Who did they pick to pretty much orchestrate the whole commission proceedings? It was Allen Dulles! Allen Dulles pretty much orchestrated that whole thing. Did LBJ know about all this? James Douglass tells me, yeah, the evidence is pretty clear. Johnson may not have been involved in the actual assassination, but he knew what the plans were; he was not agnostic on that. LBJ appoints Earl Warren, and Earl Warren appoints Allen Dulles.
The Political Parties Are Collapsing
What’s my point here? When honest people—people like me—said “wait a second. This doesn’t parse. There’s some suspicion that the CIA might have been involved in the assassination, and now you’re appointing the previous CIA Director?” Guess what we got? Conspiracy theorists. “You guys are conspiracy theorists.” That’s where the term got its impetus, and to this day, often when you say the truth, and when you stop saying the truth, you’re considered a conspiracy theorist.
Both parties are equally corrupt in all this; both parties are equally afraid of the Deep State. You don’t have to just listen to Chuck Schumer to talk about “they’ve got six ways from Sunday to get back at you.” Talk to the Senators who knew that there were no weapons of mass destruction [in Iraq], but couldn’t say it, because it was classified. Talk to the Senators who know all about Afghanistan. Again, we come back to the Senators and the Representatives who are getting the take from the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think Tank complex, the MICIMATT. Putting it in their pockets, appropriating more money for arms building, selling more money, taking a share of that money, putting it in their pockets, getting re-elected. Hello! Is this a great country or what? That’s what it takes; everybody’s afraid, and everybody’s on the take.
The Democrats tried to prevent Trump from winning the election in 2016. It’s documented now. Obama, in October; Hillary Clinton, also in October 2016 authorized all this Russia-gate stuff. We know about it; it’s in court testimony. Not many people know about it, but it’s in court testimony.
Then, what happened in 2020? My goodness! All of sudden, Hunter Biden’s computer comes out, and what does the Deep State do? They hire 51 former senior intelligence agents to say, “Russian operation. We can’t prove it, but it’s got the earmarks of a Russian operation.”
What am I saying, here? I’m saying that the media and the Deep State are joined at the hip now as never before. Both elections, or at least the following election, were probably affected by the fact that no one could tell the truth; Twitter wouldn’t allow it. Only Glenn Greenwald would tell the truth about Biden’s laptop, and how Joe Biden himself was on the take.
The 2016 thing? They tried and failed to derail Trump, but they sure got him for the four years after that. He couldn’t do a damn thing he wanted to do in terms of creating a more decent relationship with Russia.
It’s a sad story. Is the Deep State strong? It sure as Hell is. Is it still around? Of course it is. John Brennan [the former CIA Director] mentioned before. He’s a big commentator on MSNBC; James Clapper, [former Director of National Intelligence], is on CNN. It used to be that the Agency controlled the media; now the Agency is the media.
The Schiller Institute has just released Volume 2, No. 1, of its new journal Leonore, which opens with the following from Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.’s October 20, 2002, article, “The Historical Individual:”
“The principal cause for the doom of any culture, is that mental disorder typical of popular opinion, which is to assume the validity of any assumptions currently adopted by a learned profession, or religious teaching, or more crudely adopted as ‘generally accepted popular opinion’.”
The 88-page issue, contains eleven articles, including the first English translation of one of the last letters by the 15th century scientific and political genius, Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, which has been called his “religious last will,” and an original translation of Friedrich Schiller’s “On the Sublime,” described as “perhaps his most refined discussion of the process of the development of the soul.”
The preview includes the ground-breaking article by Jason Ross, “Vernadskian Time: Time for Humanity,” which addresses “the paradoxes posed by Vernadsky’s scientific work,” which open the way to a an entirely new set of definitions of space, time and matter, taken from the standpoint of the human mind.
The journal is yours as a monthly Schiller Institute contributing member. Memberships start at $5/month. Sign up here.
In her weekly webcast today, Helga Zepp LaRouche ridiculed the anti-Russian narratives of NATO leaders, pointing to the broad implications of the admissions, by former German Chancellor Merkel and ex-President of France Hollande, that they never intended to fulfill the agreements they signed in Minsk. They were not just lying, she said — they were violating international law. These are the same people who speak incessantly about the “Rules-Based Order.” She said that these admissions led Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov to announce that there is no longer anyone in the EU with whom to negotiate.
In contrast, leaders in the Global South are moving ahead with plans to build an alternative to the neo-colonial Unipolar Order. She cited a Chinese intellectual who said that rather than being in a period of “epochal change”, it is more properly a moment of “de-westernization.”
This moment requires a “higher level of thinking,” which she introduced with her Ten Principles, in which the principle of “One Humanity First” must be the starting point. Reflecting the “divine nature of human beings”, this new era can establish humans as a “species of poetry, science and composers.”
The New Year 2023, must become the year where humanity reaches the age of adulthood. That means, we must leave behind us childish, geopolitical squabblings, where nations fight each other as if we were spoiled brats, fighting each other aiming war toys against each other in a sandbox. That sandbox can turn thermonuclear radioactive in a moment.
We must remember that we are the creative species which has the lofty task to continue the process of creation for the good of all of humanity. The majority of mankind, the countries of the Global South, and many in the formerly so-called advanced countries, want to leave war behind us, be it the danger of a new global war, or the many interventionist wars, which left millions dead or displaced as refugees.
Let us create a new paradigm of international relations, where the interest of each sovereign nation is respected, where we all join hands to eradicate poverty and underdevelopment. Let us create a modern health system in every country, so that life expectancy is increased for all human beings living on this planet, and let us create the conditions, where every child and every adult has access to universal education, so that each person has the chance to realize his or her innate creative potentials to the fullest.
Let us also create a new credit system to finance these goals and to increase the living standard of the people of the Global South and the poor in the so-called industrialized countries. Let us finally bring infrastructure, agriculture, and industry to all continents on Earth. Let us create a new international security architecture, which overcomes the division of the world into blocs and ban all weapons of mass destruction and work to make nuclear weapons technologically obsolete.
Let us think of the entire human species as that higher One, which is of a higher order than the many nations, and let us never pursue a national interest, which is not in coherence with the interest of humanity as a whole. Let us put the political, economic, and social order in cohesion with natural law, the laws of the physical universe, and let us increase that knowledge through progress in science and classical art. And let’s start from the assumption that the nature of man is fundamentally good, and that all evil comes from a lack of development, and therefore can be overcome!
A new world economic order is emerging, involving the vast majority of the countries of the Global South. The European nations and the U.S. must not fight this effort, but by joining hands with the developing countries, cooperate to shape the next epoch of the development of the human species to become a renaissance of the highest and most noble expressions of creativity!
Let us therefore create an international movement of World Citizens, who work together to shape the next phase in the evolution of mankind, the new epoch! World Citizens of all countries, unite!
The murder of John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States sixty years ago, was also the murder of the American republic—and that murder is still unresolved in the minds of the American people. Many subsequent crimes, including many criminal wars and deposing of governments, are actually derivative expressions of that “murder most foul.”
Now, because of a December decision by the Biden Administration to continue to suppress certain documents, there is renewed discussion about the potential international significance of releasing thousands of pages of still-withheld files regarding the assassination of President Kennedy. Can the United States finally regain its soul as a nation through the public exposure of how and why American (and other) governmental and non-governmental institutions may have played a role in—or even directed—the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963?
Answering that question with “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,” is now essential to restoring the trust of both the American people as well as that of other nations in the now horribly compromised Congress, Presidency and American judicial system. To successfully do this, in the 60th year after JFK was murdered, requires a higher cultural vantage point from which to see and face the truth. Mozart’s Requiem, performed in Kennedy’s honor immediately after his assassination at the request of Jacquline Kennedy, provides that. The greatest beauty is required to confront the greatest ugliness. “
The Schiller Institute commemorated the January 1964 performance of the Mozart Requiem at Boston’s Cathedral of the Holy Cross, 50 years to the day, January 19, 2014 . On that occasion, chairwoman and founder of the Schiller Institute Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who attended and briefly spoke (along with former Mayor of Boston and Ambassador to the Vatican Ray Flynn,) observed,“It is urgent to evoke again the divine spirit of beauty of Mozart’s composition in order to recreate in us the better world which both Kennedy and Mozart represent.”
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Dr. Carlos Gallardo, the president of the Christian Democratic Party of Peru, joins a group of Peruvian children from the Oasis community settlement in Villa El Salvador, Lima, to call for peace and an end to violence, and to deliver a message endorsing the Pope’s offer for the Vatican to serve as the venue for urgent negotiations, with no pre-conditions, between all parties in the Ukraine war.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche used a pre-Christmas webcast to call for an expanded mobilization behind the offer of Pope Francis to use the Vatican as a site for negotiations, without preconditions, to end NATO’s war against Russia. Every thinking person, she said, is concerned with the danger of an escalation to World War III. She urged viewers to circulate the Schiller Institute’s letter of support for the Pope’s offer, in the spirit of Christmas, and use the season as a moment for serious reflection on the mission of Jesus to achieve peace, through acting with good will towards all men.
The Zelensky extravaganza in Washington yesterday demonstrated the opposite, exposing the British intent for expanding the war, even as NATO is approaching the crossing of a trip-wire which is unacceptable to Russia. She said that she believes the war hawks, typified by the Green officials in the German government, are preparing an escalation against China in 2023. If they are successful in “diversifying” EU economies away from China, Europe will be “marginalized”. Instead, the potential still exists for Europe to participate in the BRI.
In her webcast today, the Schiller Institute’s Helga Zepp-LaRouche explained how this week’s deadly missile attack in Poland confirms why she and the Schiller Institute have insisted on the need for a new strategic and financial architecture. Even after it became evident that the attack, which killed two Polish citizens, was not initiated by Russia but by Ukraine, the NATO pro-war faction continued to blame Russia, and insist on full support for Zelensky’s puppet government.
The attack occurred during the G20 summit, in which nations of the Global South asserted that they are no longer willing to accept a colonial world order, dominated by the U.S. and Europe. There were important discussions between China’s Xi Jinping and leaders, including Biden and Macron. Zepp-LaRouche emphasized that momentum is with Asia, where there is growth of the real economy, while the west is collapsing due to self-imposed deindustrialization.
While the arrogance of western leaders, committed to war defending the Unipolar Order, remains a danger to all mankind, the emergence of a new NonAligned Movement offers the opportunity for a new movement of world citizens to recognize that the future depends on cooperation. She urged viewers to register for the SI conference on Nov. 22.
Panel 1: Stopping the Doomsday Clock —
The Common Good of the One Humanity
Tuesday, November 22 — 9:30 am eastern
Moderators: Dennis Small, Stephan Ossenkopp, The Schiller Institute
An International Chorus for Peace: Dona Nobis Pacem
Video Address from Lyndon LaRouche
· Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany); founder, Schiller Institute: “Principles of a New Security and Development Architecture”
· Benjamín Robles Montoya (Mexico); Congressman: “A Call to Current and Former Legislators of the World: We Must Act Now to Stop the Danger of Nuclear War”
· Col. Richard Black (ret.) (U.S.); former state senator for Virginia: “The Danger of Nuclear War After the U.S. Midterm Elections”
· Steven Starr (U.S.); retired director of the University of Missouri’s Clinical Laboratory Science Program, expert on nuclear war: “What Would Happen if a Nuclear War Started in the Black Sea?”
· Karl Krökel (Germany); Founder of Craftsmen for Peace: “The Role of Artisans for Understanding Among Peoples”
· Sister Ortrud Fürst (Germany), Dominican Missionary: “Thoughts on Current World Affairs”
· Dr. Andreas Uhlig (Germany); Organizer of Citizens Initiative Peace Negotiations NOW, Dresden: “Peace Negotiations NOW”
· Liane Kilinc (Germany); peace activist
· Scott Ritter (U.S.); former U.N. weapons inspector
· Patrice Kindt (France); Mayor of Chidrac, Puy de Dôme département;
· Patrick Gombault (France), Mayor of Viâpres-le-Petit: ““Support of French Mayors for the Stralsund Call for Peace”
· Antonio Ingroia (Italy); former anti-mafia Magistrate in Sicily; former candidate for Prime Minister: “Italy and Europe Are on the Front Line in the Danger of a Nuclear War”
· Julio de Vido (Argentina); former Minister of Federal Planning, Public Investment and Services (2003-2015), former congressman (2015-2017): “The Necessary Conditions for the Development of the Third World”
· Paulo Cannabrava Filho (Brazil); journalist, Editor of Diálogos do Sul: “The Danger of Nuclear War: The Alternative Is Being Built by the BRICS”
· Alberto Quintanilla (Peru); former congressman: “The End of Globalization and the Emergence of the BRICS”
· Pedro Páez (Ecuador); former Minister for Economic Policy (2007-2008): Greeting
· Pino Arlacchi (Italy); former head of the UN Office for Drug Control (1997-2002), professor at Sassari University.
Question & Answer Session
Panel 2: Peace Through Development
Tuesday, November 22 — 2:00 pm eastern
Moderator: Dennis Speed, The Schiller Institute
· Diane Sare (U.S.); 2024 candidate for U.S. Senate from New York State: “America’s Voice in the Emerging New Global Architecture of Peace Through Development”
· María de los Ángeles Huerta (Mexico); former congresswoman: “The Role of the Media in Creating a World Movement for Peace and Development”
· Donald Ramotar (Guyana); former President and former member of parliament
· Jorge Robledo (Colombia); former senator: “The Only Positive Thing About this War Is for It to End”
· Juan Pari (Peru); former congressman: “The Energy Crisis and the Ukraine-Russia War”
· Mike Eby (U.S.); dairy farmer, Chairman, National Dairy Producers Organization (NDPO), Exec. Dir., Org. for Competitive Markets, V.P., Penn. Farmers Union: “Monopsony – the Other Silent Killer”
· Dr. Rodolfo Ondarza (Mexico); former Representative, Mexico City Legislative Assembly: “Bacteriological Warfare and the Need for a Global Health System”
· George Koo (U.S.); retired international business advisor: “The Prospects for U.S. China Economic Cooperation”
· Nick Brana (U.S.); National Chairman, People’s Party: “Citizens Action to Demand Congress Stop Funding the War”
· Tony Magliano (U.S.); Internationally Syndicated Catholic Social Justice and Peace Columnist: “Compelling Catholic Church Reflections on Peace and Nuclear Disarmament”
· Dr. Kirk Meighoo (Trinidad and Tobago); former senator: “Reviving the Bandung Spirit of the Non-Aligned”
Question & Answer Session