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International Peace Coalition 83: Professionals Must Lead the Fight Against Genocide

Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche opened today’s 83rd consecutive weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) forecasting the unraveling of the present global order in 2025, leading either to world war or a new paradigm. She cautioned that President-elect Trump’s “America First” agenda does not solve the problem, because it could lead to other nations following suit, creating more conflict. We need a completely new paradigm putting the “one humanity” first.

Reviewing the current zones of conflict, Zepp-LaRouche warned that even if the West sends more weapons, Ukraine cannot win in their war against Russia. They are running out of soldiers. Ukrainians are acutely aware that they have been used as pawns in a proxy war.

In Southwest Asia, Axios reports that National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan discussed Iran’s nuclear program with President Biden, including the possibility of the U.S. launching a military attack on Iran. Zepp-LaRouche recommended the video by Indian historian and journalist Vijay Prashad, “The Genocide in Gaza EXPOSED the West’s Moral Collapse.” She concluded with the importance of 2025 as a Jubilee Year, an opportunity to usher in a New Paradigm. Affirming that the West must stop the confrontation against the Global South (which has become the Global Majority), she read out the nine nations that became BRICS partner nations as of Jan. 1.

Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and co-founder of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), spoke about the Biblical massacre of the innocents by King Herod. No longer can any country, he said, least of all America, claim to be the “exceptional country,” after 500,000 children were killed by sanctions in Iraq, and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright proclaimed that it was “worth it.” We must not only “do no harm,” we must also do the Good, he insisted, reading a poem by British author Michael Rosen, “Don’t Mention the Children,” written after Israel had banned a radio broadcast that named killed Gazan children.

Dr. Nidal Jboor, co-founder of Doctors Against Genocide, stated that “a mass slaughter of children has been happening in the past 15 months.” The Western powers’ complicity in genocide will have long-term ramifications that we will all have to live with. Israel claims to be fighting a “war,” but in war you fight armies, not schools, hospitals and clinics. Jboor described how Kamal Adwan Hospital was burned. Patients fled to an abandoned hospital with no services. The hospital’s director, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, was abducted and tortured. The Israeli regime says it cannot locate him. The American Medical Association and other U.S. medical institutions have been silent. “We are calling them out,” Jboor said. “More than 20,000 children have been slaughtered by Israel.”

Dr. Mimi Syed, an emergency medical doctor, born and trained in the U.S., just returned from Gaza where she worked in emergency care for horrifically wounded children. She did not encounter any military operations or combatants in hospitals there. She described “scenes of chaos and despair … an excruciating reality.”

Fernando Garzón, leader of the Ecuadorian-Palestinian Union, discussed the significance of Pope Francis having announced a Jubilee Year and how the international financial institutions are responsible not only for the debt, but also for the conflicts such as Gaza. Ecuador successfully repudiated a large part of its public debt in 2008 under President Rafael Correa, after completing a detailed study which proved that the debt was “odious and illegitimate,” resulting in Correa’s political persecution. The “conditionalities” policy of the IMF and World Bank created a shameful situation where “external debt became eternal debt.” Garzón was a vice-minister in the Ecuadorian government when it issued its historic debt study. Ecuador is a small country, but provided a very big lesson for the world today.

Discussion and Initiatives

Dr. Karameh Hawash-Kuemmerle, co-founder of Doctors Against Genocide, said that people are feeling sick from the genocide, not because we are fragile, but because it is an unnatural thing. “What is happening in Gaza is something beyond what we can imagine,” she said. We are disoriented and depressed, suffering from chronic fatigue, sleep disorders, and many other symptoms, because we are witnesses to genocide. We should honor doctors who fight for human life, not “doctors who say that if you speak of genocide you will be fired.” In response to a question, she replied, “The treatment for sickness from genocide is organizing to end the genocide.”

Josephine Guilbeau, a 17-year U.S. Army veteran with four children, who served as an all-source intelligence analyst and is currently associate director of communications for the Eisenhower Media Network, recently intervened, in full uniform, before the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. “As an American, I am going to acknowledge the painful truth,” that the U.S. has been complicit in the genocide in Gaza, and “I am committed to holding my government accountable.” Another group, Taxpayers Against Genocide, launched a legal action against Congress, accusing it of helping arm the Israeli military in violation of “international and federal law that prohibits complicity in genocide.” Guilbeau added that we need universities to create platforms to accept students facing expulsion due to their public opposition to genocide.

Zepp-LaRouche lamented that although there was a commitment in her native Germany 80 years ago, that “Never Again” would genocide be tolerated, now Germans face arrest and jail for even talking about the ongoing genocide in Gaza. “I pledge that we will use these heartbreaking stories to mobilize opposition to this genocide.”

IPC co-moderator Dennis Speed said that many people are “conveniently forgetting Aaron Bushnell,” an active-duty U.S. serviceman who self-immolated in protest against U.S. complicity in the genocide. Bushnell said: “Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.”

John Steinbach, co-founder of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Committee, said the official death toll in Gaza of 46,000 counts only those people who have been identified. A conservative estimate as of six months ago, by British medical publication The Lancet, gives the actual death toll of 186,000. It is a mistake to see Israel as “influencing the U.S. government”: Israel, led by the followers of Meir Kahane, is carrying out the policies of the U.S. government.

Dr. James Cobey, a renowned orthopedic surgeon who served in Gaza many times, had led the campaign 30 years ago to ban landmines, gaining support from the American Medical Association, said we need to get the AMA to oppose the present genocide.

IPC co-moderator Dennis Small noted that the Hippocratic Oath is not satisfied by the mere rejection of doing harm; one must actively do the good—just as repudiation of the debt is not enough. It has to be followed by issuing productive credit for real growth and ending poverty. Dr. Jboor agreed, deploring the silence of the medical community. He said his organization is trying to replicate the efforts of the student movement on campuses across the U.S.

Zepp-LaRouche concluded by saying that many Germans could claim, 80 years ago, that they did not know of the atrocities being carried out by their government. People living today, with omnipresent media coverage of the ongoing genocide, have no such excuse. “We can shame the people today, who now know and pretend not to know.”


Helga Zepp-LaRouche to Global Times: ‘We Are Currently in the Most Dangerous Period in History Ever’

On Dec. 26, China’s Global Times published an article by Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, titled, “BRI Offers Opportunities for All Nations in the Second Decade of Growth.” The article was assembled by the editors based on a recent exclusive Global Times interview with Zepp-LaRouche.

Zepp-LaRouche describes how China’s innovation-driven economic policy has fostered an era of high quality development in many nations of the Global South, during the just concluded first decade of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

However, she warns, “We are currently in the most dangerous period in history ever, because some forces in the West cannot reconcile themselves with the fact that the unipolar world has been replaced already with a multipolar order.

“In any case, the China-proposed initiative, with the ultimate aim of building a community with a shared future for mankind, is one of the global cooperation platforms on the table to overcome the geopolitical divide in the world. It is also a natural and essential way to bring infrastructure development into all corners of the world as a precondition for industrialization.”


Global Medical Outcry: Livestream to Stop the Genocide in Gaza

Welcome!

You are invited to join a webinar:
*Global Medical Outcry: Livestream to Stop the Genocide in Gaza.*

*DATE:* Sunday, December 29, 2024
*TIME:* 12:00 PM (Eastern Time US and Canada)

Join us on an Emergency Livestream spotlighting urgent and unfiltered
reports from our colleagues in Gaza.

This event, hosted by *Doctors Against Genocide*, brings together medical professionals, media voices, activists, and organizers to amplify Gaza’s cry for justice amidst the relentless genocide.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

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International Peace Coalition: ‘Geopolitics Is a Mental Disease, It Should Be Eradicated’

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, kicked off the 82nd weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) today, wishing everyone a good New Year, “especially a whole New Year, because that is not yet certain.” She reviewed the various zones of military conflict, noting the U.S. is setting up a new military base in Damascus. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recently said that Russia has received encouraging signals from the pending administration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, but it remains to be seen whether they are supported with facts.

Zepp-LaRouche assessed the appointments of the incoming Trump administration, saying they “are very, very mixed.” The first two hopeful strategic signs: the Japanese Foreign Minister visited Beijing and the two nations made a number of constructive agreements, including to foster each other’s classical traditions. Secondly, Russian President Vladimir Putin, after meeting with Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, agreed to have Slovakia as a venue for peace talks with Ukraine.

In Southwest Asia, the new Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) leaders in Syria were all founding members of al-Nusra and related terror organizations. The situation there is a powder keg, with an assortment of factions and states vying for control. The danger is that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “may feel that the wind is in his sails,” and be emboldened to take ever more provocative actions, including against Iran. Israel continues its unspeakable genocide against the children of Gaza, and now has bombed Yemen’s international airport in Sana’a, nearly killing the Director General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Zepp-LaRouche concluded, “Geopolitics is a mental disease; it should be eradicated.”

Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and co-founder of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), said that Zepp-LaRouche really should be briefing the incoming President of the United States. With the recent revelations by Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding his 2021 meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden, when Biden tried to convince Putin that China was a threat to Russia’s security, McGovern said “These guys really don’t get it,” adding that the word that comes to his mind is the German “Wahnsinn,” an expression which is “stronger than just crazy,” and perfectly describes NATO’s delusions. NATO, he said, combines Wahnsinn with sociopathy, having no empathy. Then U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, when asked in a “60 Minutes” interview about the deaths of half a million children in Iraq due to sanctions, replied, “I think that it is a very hard choice, but the price, we think, the price is worth it.” McGovern concluded, “We’re at a liminal point here.” Hopefully, we will be able to breathe a lot easier in three weeks.

Larry Johnson, retired CIA official and a co-founder of the VIPS, began with “the mess that is Syria,” suggesting that the nation most likely to wind up in control is Türkiye. Turkish President Erdoğan has “climbed into bed with Israel.” HTS leader and former head-chopper Abu Mohammad al-Jolani is being presented as “Mahatma Gandhi with a beard.” But HTS is not in control and not able to make the state function for its inhabitants. There is now a civil war. Israel has been fighting Hamas, a lightly armed guerrilla force, for 14 months and can’t beat it. Yet Israel wants to control part of Syria? The more they extend themselves, the faster they will weaken themselves.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche agreed with McGovern on the topic of Wahnsinn, and with Johnson that a current in Türkiye wants an empire. When she and her husband Lyndon LaRouche met with Turkish President Turgut Özal in the 1980s, she was astonished at the degree to which “Greater Turkey” was on his mind. Johnson replied, “The vanity of Erdoğan is clouding his judgment.” He believes that he’s in a position to restore the Ottoman Empire.

Ray McGovern discussed the delusions that arise when a group of people believe that they are “exceptional.” During the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry dreamt of “aligning the forces in Syria.” Helga Zepp-LaRouche agreed, asserting that exceptionalism leads to geopolitics, “like Germany 80 years ago.” McGovern soberly added, “Chosen people, indispensable people … each case leads to disaster.”

IPC co-moderator Dennis Speed reported on the podcast in the U.S., where an advisor turned critic of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave an interview contrasting the “official view” on Putin, that Putin had launched a military aggression against Ukraine, to his own, unofficial view: that Putin is the most pro-Western Russian official in memory. Putin proposed to join NATO, create a joint missile defense, and offered to provide a base for U.S. forces during the initial stage of their war against Afghanistan. Zepp-LaRouche replied that this “unofficial view” is “totally in cohesion with what I have observed over the years.”

Dr. Nidal Jboor of Doctors Against Genocide, announced that Kamal Adwan, the last remaining hospital in northern Gaza, has been burnt, and all doctors arrested. His [organization](doctorsagainstgenocide.org) will hold a live-stream this Sunday, Dec. 29, with colleagues in Gaza, urging IPC participants to attend.

Larry Johnson said that the last 10 years have convinced even the most pro-Western people in Russia that the West cannot be trusted; they are “like a ravenous locust that wants to consume everything.” McGovern said that “Putin has a long record of reaching out and speaking to the deaf and dumb.”

The balance of power between the U.S.S.R. and the West used to be more or less even. Now Russia and China work together, and Russia has technical advantages that they never enjoyed before. Johnson added that thanks to social media, we have a video record of new missile technology in action. In addition, offensive drones are a game-changer.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche reiterated: The only hope she can see, is for the West to say, let’s stop geopolitics and move from confrontation to cooperation. There are huge swaths of territory in the U.S. which are underpopulated. Clearly it should shift its emphasis from seeking hegemony, to developing its tattered economy. This is the road to solving the migrant problem and bringing peace.

French Solidarité et Progrès leader Jacques Cheminade suggested that the interests of Israel and Türkiye will no longer coincide. This raises the question of what will happen with Iran. Will Russia keep its bases in Syria?

Finally, there was a discussion of the role of churches, and the Pope’s Urbi et Orbi Christmas call for peace. Joe Biden, who identifies as a Catholic, will shortly visit the Pope; McGovern mused, “I don’t know how a practicing Catholic can enable genocide, it’s beyond me.” He said wryly that Biden has a lot to confess.

About Trump’s recent statements on annexing Panama, Canada, and Greenland, Larry Johnson called these “the most bizarre statements I have seen.” There are hardly any U.S. ships going through the Panama Canal. “Trump likes torturing Trudeau…. I must say, I can’t blame him.”

Zepp-LaRouche concluded that “der Wahnsinn is increasing” in Germany. It is being said that “the Bundeswehr should get ready to fight right now,” and that is insane. There is an explosion of voices coming out in alternative media saying that there is “no longer a coincidence of interests between Europe and the United States.” She reminded the participants of the summits of culture represented by Schiller and Beethoven. Discussion of a humanist image of man, should give us the strength to intervene.


International Peace Coalition: The Perilous Weeks Ahead

Dec. 20, 2024 (EIRNS)—Opening today’s 81st consecutive online Friday weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC), Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche reminded participants that she warned that the period leading up to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20 could be the most dangerous period in human history—and that assessment has not changed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is looking at the prospect of an early war against Iran, to confront Trump with a fait accompli. The truth about the sudden collapse of the Assad government in Syria is emerging: The British- and American-trained fighters of the Revolutionary Commando Army (RCA) had been told by U.S. Special Forces, this is your moment, get ready for the attack.

She underscored that the British and American sabotage of peace talks between Ukraine and Russia in the Spring of 2022, is now confirmed by Jean-Daniel Ruch, Switzerland’s Ambassador to Türkiye at the time. In the same vein, U.S. Defense Secretary Austin told the Ukrainians that it was too early to end the war; that it must be prolonged in order to weaken Russia.

Swiss Lt. Col. Ralph Bosshard (ret.) , formerly senior planning officer for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Special Monitoring Mission (OSCE SMM) in 2014, reported that when Trump withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, Russia immediately began to work on what became the hypersonic IRBM Oreshnik. It was relatively inexpensive; it involved nothing revolutionary. They simply channeled existing efforts into making a new missile. However, to shoot down a hypersonic Oreshnik, which flies at Mach 10, one has to be close enough to intercept it in its boost phase. When it reaches its descent phase, it is moving far too fast. Even the European Parliament can’t change the laws of physics, no matter what EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen thinks. The Russians were thinking about non-nuclear strategic weapons in the 1980s, taking warnings of nuclear winter seriously, unlike USSTRATCOM Director for Plans and Policy Rear Admiral Thomas Buchanan, who explains his imagining what a winnable nuclear war looks like.

Steve Starr, former director of Missouri University’s Clinical Laboratory Science Program, discussed the recent assassination of Russian Gen.-Lt. Igor Kirillov, head of Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear Defense Troops of the Russian Armed Forces. The Anglophile media accused General Kirillov of disinformation regarding U.S. biolabs in Ukraine. He was providing factual information. The U.S. claims that these labs were for “biological threat reduction,” but pathogens produced there were not destroyed. They were purchasing long-range drones from Türkiye. Why would they need those, if not for the delivery of biological weapons? The U.S. Department of Defense has biolabs in 25 countries. They are conducting “research into biological warfare under the guise of health.”

Starr compared the Oreshnik system to ballistic missiles, which follow a parabolic trajectory through space. Hypersonic missiles, however, stay within the atmosphere. Russian hypersonic glide missiles, such as the Avangard, use magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) generators to, in some way, annihilate shock waves and eliminate drag, making missiles maneuverable at hypersonic speeds. Starr concluded that no political goals are worth risking the destruction of the entire human race.

Zepp-LaRouche asked Starr to comment on the fact that Europeans are asking whether NATO war scenarios assume the destruction of Europe. Starr replied that during war games, there was a popular joke that German villages are 5 kilotons apart, adding that under present doctrines, there are incentives for launching a preemptive strike. Electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons can fry all solid-state electronics, disabling all communications. Under such circumstances, it’s “use ’em or lose ’em.” Zepp-LaRouche responded, “If Europe wants to survive, should we get the hell out of NATO as soon as we can?” Starr responded, “Yes.”

Herman “Ka Mentong” Tiu Laurel, head of the Asian Century Journal in the Philippines, began with his long history of collaboration with the LaRouches. Before February of 2023, the Philippines was in good shape, enjoying productive engagement with China and the world. But the Bongbong Marcos team came in and stopped all development projects. Disputes with China, which were being addressed by dialogue, are now sparking armed clashes at sea. Laurel said, “There are still many Filipinos who do not accept the China Bully theory.”

In April 2024, the U.S. brought in missile launchers, ostensibly for an exercise. There was protest against this. The Armed Forces of the Philippines promised that they would be removed, but they are now accepted as permanent. Laurel’s organization works to counter the war drive. They have found 25 U.S. bases that are not identified as such, and need to be removed, so that the Philippines can be a sea of calm; of peace and prosperity.

Discussion

A question was asked of Starr: If a number of hypersonic Oreshniks and/or other weapons were combined, as Putin has noted, could it produce an effect similar to a nuclear explosion, but without using a nuclear weapon? Starr discussed some of the possible effects, then returned to the question of MHD, which could help develop fusion energy. But the French military said, “bombs first, energy later.”

A number of long-term activists presented reports on their organizing activity. Cloret Ferguson of the Schiller Institute described how she has been trying to broaden the network that is active with the IPC, including with an email campaign to “derail this deranged Admiral Buchanan.” Former congressional candidate Jose Vega was in the nation’s capital with former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter a couple of weeks ago, where he was told that the CIA had briefed congressional officials that Russia is not bluffing, but the corporate media has spun their reports to say the opposite. Vega is emphasizing that Congressmen should support H.R. 10218, to stop the shipment of ATACMS missiles to Ukraine. Gilles Gervais, from The LaRouche Organization in Canada, read from a letter he sent to the Canada-U.S. Intra-Parliamentary Group, telling them that the solution to border issues, tariffs and migration is to be found in the new Schiller Institute pamphlet, “Development Drive Means Billions of New Jobs, No Refugees, No War”.

In response to a participant who argued that Buchanan’s first-strike policy has been in effect for decades, Zepp-LaRouche answered that that is true, but there are differences today in the world situation. Following the end of the Cold War, it would have been easy to dissolve NATO and go for a peace order. Instead, we got NATO expansion, more than 1,000 km eastward, then the Maidan coup in 2014 and the subsequent civil war in Ukraine which killed 14,000 in the Donbas. What we face now is not simply more of the same, but rather an escalation spiral. The population of Europe is “only slowly waking up,” unlike during the 1980s when hundreds of thousands were protesting in the streets.

She concluded, “If I may add a bit of optimistic outlook at the end of this discussion,” this is the time to call your elected officials. “Much of our democracies have been turned into plutocracies,” but you may find some officials who are still human, and civilization is at risk. Trump has hinted that he “might not be the kind NATO member that Biden was,” and we must act to ensure that is the case. She encouraged the participants to read up on the Peace of Westphalia, and her proposal for Ten Principles of a New International Security and Development Architecture


International Peace Coalition: Non-Linear Thinking Is Needed To Stop the Crisis

Dec. 13, 2024 (EIRNS)—The International Peace Coalition (IPC) has now reached its 80th consecutive Friday online meeting. Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche opened the meeting, saying that we are witnessing a “seismic change in the strategic situation.” The establishment is “quite hysterical,” trying to consolidate the position of the pro-NATO forces vs. the pro-BRICS forces before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. Of all the erupting crises, the Ukraine situation is still the most dangerous, because of potential escalation to nuclear war. Zepp-LaRouche reminded the participants of the Nov. 20 comments by Rear Adm. Thomas Buchanan to a meeting at the Washington-based CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI), whereby he said that the United States would take the right to use nuclear weapons preemptively if the hegemony of the United States was at risk. The only problem was, one had to make sure to keep back enough nuclear weapons so that even after such a nuclear exchange, future adversaries could be deterred. The Dec. 7-8 conference of the Schiller Institute was intended to sound the alarm and provide a systematic alternative.

After the collapse of Syria, Western media are “jubilant,” and neighboring countries are carving out pieces from Syria’s carcass. Why did all of this happen? Syria was a modern and multiconfessional state, but then the flow of mercenaries and weapons from Benghazi, Libya began after the “Arab Spring.” Now everything is up in the air. What will be Trump’s Iran policy? Is the larger trend in history toward harmonious cooperation, “the forces of construction and building” in all countries? Zepp-LaRouche reminded the geopoliticians that every one of their attempts to conquer Russia has failed.

Vanessa Beeley, a Syrian-based independent journalist, peace activist and photographer, who just safely made it out of Syria, was scheduled to speak, but because of technical issues was not able to join the conference.

Frequent IPC participant Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst and co-founder of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), praised the IPC for being “the only group of its kind that’s doing this kind of work.” He commended Trump’s recent criticism of “collective Biden” for approving Ukrainian attacks on Russia with U.S.-supplied long-range missiles, such as ATACMS. Russia responded yesterday to the latest such attack with a massive missile and drone attack, taking out electricity infrastructure in Ukraine.

McGovern then turned his attention to the significance of Russia’s hypersonic ballistic Oreshnik missile, which he called a “game changer.” If the U.S. insists on belittling the Oreshnik, the Russians will be forced to respond. Russian President Vladimir Putin began warning in 2007 of the danger of NATO expansion, and in 2016 he underlined the point to Western journalists in St. Petersburg after the U.S. decision to station anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems in Romania, ostensibly to counter an imaginary threat from Iran. Russia knew they were lying. Putin said to the journalists, “I don’t expect you to report this,” and then described the geostrategic balance of power which existed before the U.S. unilaterally withdrew from the ABM Treaty. Rather than compete in costly and ineffective ABM technology, Russia opted to improve its offensive weapons, which, McGovern said, led to the Oreshnik.

During the discussion, McGovern reported that in his Tucker Carlson interview, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov mentioned Rear Admiral Buchanan by name for promoting the possibility of nuclear war between the superpowers. On the subject of Syria, McGovern said that the newly-minted leader of Syria, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, supposedly had a “Damascus conversion” from his earlier use of terrorism. The Western media are putting “a whole lot of lipstick on him.”

Haim Bresheeth, retired professor, author, filmmaker, and founder of the Jewish Network for Palestine, was recently arrested in Britain under the Terrorism Act 2000, and faces a 14-year prison sentence. Bresheeth described a pattern of U.K. persecution of journalists, with close to 100 arrested. Mainstream journalists are “carefully policed by their bosses.” Britain has become a “dystopian society,” with a “great silence, a season of fear.” Being a conformist Jew in the West has become “untenable,” said Bresheeth, and the support of Israeli Jews for genocide is “an unpardonable blot” on their honor. The only way to understand it is as “a deep disturbance, a cognitive dissonance,” and the “replacement of Judaism by Zionism.”

In response to McGovern, Zepp-LaRouche recalled that as the U.S. was setting up ABM systems in Poland and Romania, the Russians were debunking claims that these sites were intended for defense against Iran. They offered anti-missile sites right next to Iran, which the U.S. would have accepted if Iran were the actual concern. She reminded the IPC that her husband Lyndon LaRouche had warned that making the other side’s nuclear weapons technologically obsolete, as the Russians have done with Oreshnik, is the successful strategy, as he had done with his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) proposal. Zepp-LaRouche noted that the West is stuck in linear thinking, its mistaken axioms tracing back to Aristotle and British liberalism. The Russians and Chinese, she said, are proceeding with non-linear responses, in the spirit of Gottfried Leibniz and Nicholas of Cusa.

IPC co-moderator Dennis Small thanked Bresheeth, and reminded the participants that police-state tactics have also been employed in the U.S., in particular against Lyndon LaRouche, who was jailed in 1989 for his views.

During the discussion, Bresheeth was asked to describe what the British police said when they arrested him. He said that a British Zionist organization has a hit list which is provided to police. Initially they told him that he was guilty of “hate speech,” but when asked for specifics, the police became confused and made numerous calls. Ultimately, they changed the charge to “terrorism.”

A Canadian participant followed up: In Canada, there is a handbook with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of “anti-Semitism,” which includes any form of criticism of Israel. This is used to persecute anti-genocide opinions. Bresheeth replied that Britain is about ten years ahead of Canada in this respect.

He went on to say that two terrorist groups, Syria’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and the Israel Defense Forces have taken over the Middle East. Syria is Humpty Dumpty; no one can put it back together. Who will stop Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from grabbing Syrian land? Israel has 200-300 nuclear devices, and they could use them against Iran, which has none.

Zepp-LaRouche said that the picture of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad painted by the Western media is completely wrong. Due to the Caesar Sanctions, 95% of Syrians live below the poverty line. Assad decided that fighting would be enormously painful for the Syrian population. Sanctions are intended to punish civilian populations in every case; they are a brutal form of warfare, illegal and unilateral.

An excerpt was presented of an interview with Chandra Muzaffar, founder and president of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST). “BRICS is an effort outside the West,” he said. BRICS should be cautious and not expand too fast. It should not exclude Western nations. It can become a global movement for humanity, for greater justice and integrity.

Dennis Small, in response to a question about war profiteering, said that the military-industrial-financial complex is owned by investment corporations like BlackRock. But don’t try to understand these wars as simple profiteering; there is a larger strategic game in play.

In conclusion, Bresheeth proposed that the Global South expel Israel from the UN, the way South Africa was expelled to end apartheid. McGovern and Zepp-LaRouche suggested a mobilization for a Christmas ceasefire and renewed efforts for peace. “Civilization hangs by a thread,” said Zepp-LaRouche.


Zepp-LaRouche Keynoted ‘International Think Tank Forum for the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road 2024’ in Guangzhou

On Nov. 22, Helga Zepp-LaRouche delivered a keynote address to the “International Think Tank Forum for the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road 2024” in Guangzhou, China, organized among others by the Guangdong Institute for International Strategies, which is based in Guangzhou. Her 10-minute speech described the leading role that China is playing in the world economy and as a leader in advanced technology, and how some in the West see this as a reason to have confrontation against China. Instead, she appealed to the G20 nations and others to work together to solve the migrant crisis, not by building walls, but by launching massive economic development in the Global South. She ended by saying that it was even more crucial now, given the recent escalation in the war in Ukraine, which threatens nuclear war.

The Institute is connected to the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS), and is an advisor to the Guangdong Provincial Government.

On Nov. 23, Helga Zepp-LaRouche was appointed Special Advisor to the Guangdong Institute of International Strategies. In connection with her appointment, she spoke for one-hour about Lyndon LaRouche’s ideas at the Institute’s Yunshan Academic Salon, followed by a Q&A discussion. An audio file of her speech about Lyndon LaRouche at the Yunshan Academic Salon is available on the Schiller Institute in Denmark website, along with an audio file of the introduction to her address by Prof. Li Xing. He recently became the leading academic at the Guangdong Institute. He is also a professor at Denmark’s Aalborg University Department of Politics and Society. Prof. Li Xing addressed the Schiller Institute in Denmark’s May 25, 2022 online conference on the need for the new security and development architecture.

In September 2024, a delegation from the Guangdong Institute for International Strategies travelled to Denmark and participated in a seminar with the Schiller Institute in Denmark in order to learn more about each other and to discuss cooperation.

Here is an article in Executive Intelligence Review about the trip:

Maritime Silk Road Conference in Guangzhou: Advancing ‘New Quality Productive Forces’


Webcast: Schiller Institute Conference Breaks Through the Fog of War

Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche Dec 11, 11am Eastern/5pm CET in her Weekly Live dialogue and help usher in the Year of the New Paradigm for all Humanity. Send your questions, thoughts and reports to questions@schillerinstitute.org or ask them in the live stream.

The message from the historic weekend Schiller Institute conference, “In the Spirit of Schiller and Beethoven: All Men Become Brethren!” was loud and clear. The world is at a “punctum saliens”’ where hard work over the Institute’s forty years has created a real breakout possibility for the world to break the cycle of underdevelopment, poverty and constant warfare.

Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche opened her keynote stating, “We are coming here together at this international Internet conference, in order to send out an urgent call to the world, not only, that we may be weeks, days, or hours away from the potentially greatest catastrophe in human history—namely its potential annihilation in a thermonuclear war—but also to emphatically make the point, that there is a solution, a way out of this danger, if people of good will unite all over the world to enforce its implementation. It is my great honor to greet all the distinguished panelists representing the Global South as well as Western nations, at this 40th anniversary of the founding of the Schiller Institute.”

The “distinguished panelists” of Panel 1 and 2, men and women of good will, came from institutions at the highest levels in and around governments, from West and East, North and South—former presidents and prime ministers, ambassadors, military figures, economists, farmer leaders, and professors. All underscored the fact that humanity is in this potentially fatal mess because of the refusal of the Western elites to let go of the idea of geopolitical hegemony; all urged, in different ways, that the West must be caused to see the inexorable shift in the world order toward equality of sovereign nations and the right of all to develop not as a threat, but as a great good, and the only way forward for all countries.

Sunday’s third panel, “The Science Drivers of Physical Economy”, laid out the very real development projects and method of thinking for the way forward. And the fourth panel, “The Beauty of the Cultures of the World: A Dialogue Among Civilizations”, posed the thoroughgoing classical statecraft of Lyndon LaRouche, the motor behind the developments that make for a pathway out of war and genocide.

As Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche posed, and the other dialogue participants developed, the idea poses a paradox, which challenges the listener to work the problem through to the end, coming to a solution on a higher level only dreamed of before. “Classical” works in a world where there is a coherence and a causal connection between the world’s “objective” requirements and the “subjective” world of the mind. So, an opening theme, rich though not yet fully grasped, engages the listener, allowing the beauty of the idea to drive the listener through the lawful development of the untapped riches implicit in the opening; so as to change the listener into a version of a capable statesman.

Friedrich Schiller refused to let go of a critical scientific paradox, whereby the American Revolution had proven that the imperial, hegemonic mode of the British Empire could be superseded, yet the French Revolution demonstrated a cultural backwardness that substituted for the required passion for justice, an animalistic and impotent rage. Schiller knew that humanity was born for something better and fought for a Classical method—in poetry, in music, in historiography and statecraft—so that a great moment in history, a punctum saliens, might not find a small-minded population.

Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche Dec 11, 11am Eastern/5pm CET in her Weekly Live dialogue and help usher in the Year of the New Paradigm for all Humanity. Send your questions, thoughts and reports to questions@schillerinstitute.org or ask them in the live stream.


Webcast: Ignore the “Experts” — Peace Is Good!

Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche Dec 4, 11am Eastern/5pm CET in her Weekly Live dialogue and help usher in the Year of the New Paradigm for all Humanity. Send your questions, thoughts and reports to questions@schillerinstitute.org or ask them in the live stream.

It is an understatement to assert that human civilization is in mortal danger. Circles of the “Collective West” are perpetrating lies, military force, and provocation even to the point of triggering nuclear holocaust, and at the same time conducting financial warfare, and practices promoting economic breakdown, including for their own populations.

We need a mobilization of a lifetime,” was the battle cry given today by Schiller Institute leader Helga Zepp-LaRouche, speaking of citizen activation in Germany, her own country, but also applying elsewhere. The Global NATO war-making must end, the cooperation between the Global North and the Global South must begin.

A mobilization of Congress to wise up fast on the danger of nuclear war is set for this week by many circles in the United States and The LaRouche Organization. Today in New York, the Schiller Institute’s new report came off the presses in a 5,000 run for mass distribution. Title: “World Development Drive Means Billions of New Jobs, No Refugees, No War.”

The circulation of this Schiller Institute discussion document is part of the buildup for the international online conference on December 7-8, “In the Spirit of Schiller and Beethoven: All Men Become Brethren!” sponsored by the Schiller Institute, where you, your friends and family can register.

Today happens to be the date, in 2014, when Executive Intelligence Review released its book-length report The New Silk Road Becomes the World Land-Bridge, in Washington, D.C. It presents a blueprint for mega-projects for integrated world development. Helga Zepp-LaRouche addressed an EIR seminar, Dec. 2, 2014, of some 100 diplomats, policy experts and citizens. Her keynote was titled “The World at a Crossroads: BRICS Paradigm, or a War of Extinction.”

Zepp-LaRouche’s opening words a decade ago, ring out now as a call to action: “I think it is a fair statement to say that the future destiny of mankind will depend on the question of whether the United States and, to a secondary degree, Europe, will take up the offer made by President Xi Jinping to President Obama at the press conference during the APEC conference [November 2014 in Beijing], where Xi invited the United States, and other major nations, to cooperate with a whole set of policies promoted by China and also the BRICS countries.”

Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche Dec 4, 11am Eastern/5pm CET in her Weekly Live dialogue and help usher in the Year of the New Paradigm for all Humanity. Send your questions, thoughts and reports to questions@schillerinstitute.org or ask them in the live stream.


International Peace Coalition: Peace Requires a New International Peace of Westphalia

Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche opened today’s 72nd consecutive weekly online meeting of the International Peace Coalition, emphasizing that with the Israeli assassination of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the escalation of war is looming in Southwest Asia, contrary to the proclamations of some U.S. leaders. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to attack Iran; Russia has warned Israel not to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. Iran has received advanced missile systems from Russia which require Russian specialists to help operate them, while 100 American troops are in Israel to help operate the new THAAD missile system there. This could become a direct U.S./Russia confrontation. Meanwhile, the ethnic cleansing continues in Palestine, with Israel declaring 400,000 civilians in northern Gaza to be “combatants.”

In Ukraine, “there is no chance in the world that Ukraine could win against Russia.” Nonetheless, acting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who “has no concern for reality at all,” demands that Ukraine be immediately admitted to NATO, or be given nuclear weapons. Either scenario leads to World War III.

Zepp-LaRouche said she was encouraged that the Director-General of China’s Department of Arms Control of the Foreign Ministry Sun Xiaobo has made a call similar to Zepp-LaRouche’s call for a new Security and Development Architecture. Because the existing security structures are not adequate to prevent nuclear war, we have to catapult our proposal in the tradition of the Treaty of Westphalia onto the international agenda.

Mossi Raz, a former member of Israel’s Knesset, former director general of Peace Now, and a former IDF paratrooper, said: “It’s really clear that there is a conflict here that is not only between two partners…. This has become global war, which we must bring to an end.” Peace activists in both Palestine and Israel are saying the same thing: release hostages on both sides and end hostilities, and go toward a two-state solution. Raz reported positively on the Oct. 17 discussion at the Vatican between Pope Francis, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and former Palestinian Foreign Minister Nasser Al-Kidwa, on an Israel-Palestine peace proposal.

Graham Fuller, former U.S. CIA official, senior political scientist and Islamic scholar, warned that Israel’s actions in the broader Middle East are the key accelerator of the crisis throughout the region. He decried the “stunning Western inaction.” He said he was encouraged by student action in the U.S., and that foreign policy is now beginning to play a small role in the presidential race.

Israel, Fuller said, is no longer simply seeking revenge for Oct. 7; it’s an excuse for broader ethnic cleansing and Israeli expansionism. Other states in the region are putting their differences aside in a way that was unthinkable even one year ago. “The geopolitical center of gravity is shifting away from the West.”

Zepp-LaRouche responded, saying that we need to stop the drive for “Eretz Israel” (Greater Israel) and move to policies in the mutual interest of everyone in the region.

She also addressed the Vatican meeting as hopeful, but not enough. This led to a very fruitful exchange between her and Mossi Raz. She said, “These partial solutions are very, very important if they are embedded in an overall new security architecture as was accomplished with the Peace of Westphalia.” Today that includes Russia, China, the U.S. and the BRICS. Raz responded, “I fully agree.” The Nasser Al-Kidwa and Ehud Olmert proposal are important, and offer hope, especially from people of their experience and stature. That proposal, along with the Arab League proposal, can work in the context of the Schiller Institute’s broader Oasis Plan for the region.

LaRouche independent Congressional candidate in the Bronx Jose Vega (CD15) read from newly published letters of the late Leah Rabin, widow of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who negotiated the Oslo Accords and was assassinated 29 years ago on Nov. 4, 1995. He asked for a response from Raz, who said that he agrees with Leah Rabin. However, the problem is not only Netanyahu, just as with Hamas, it’s not only Sinwar. The majority of Israelis support the war. If we have leaders who will mobilize us for a peace agreement, maybe we can win.

An excerpt was shown of a video interview of Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, American economist and public policy analyst and a professor at Columbia University, speaking with Mike Billington. Sachs described the arrest of students calling for peace in Palestine, with university administrators bullied by Congress. Universities forgot that they are universities. On the upcoming Oct. 26 Sare-Vega peace concert and rally, which will include Classical music, Sachs recalled that he attended a concert with leaders of G20 and saw how they were touched by a performance of the finale of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. There is a deeper problem than the Israel-Palestine conflict. It was started soon after the close of World War II by the U.S. Deep State—the Security State—but went into “hyperdrive” during this century; the “extraordinary claim that it’s the sole superpower” has to be reexamined.

Diane Sare, LaRouche independent candidate for U.S. Senate in New York, said, “We have to somehow change the trajectory of the United States…. The adversaries of civilization truly have a misunderstanding of power,” because they think it emanates from the use of force. Martin Luther King had a different and better understanding. “Judging from the candidates other than myself and Jose [Vega], the election is not going to solve our problems.”

During the discussion period, video coverage of an antiwar demonstration in Germany was presented. Zepp-LaRouche emphasized that the Russians did not cause the conflict with Ukraine. In response to a question about a dialogue among cultures, Zepp-LaRouche said that when people from various cultures assemble informally and meet face to face, they get along amicably. That is because people are basically good. The conflict and misery are created by powerful interests that have their own motives. She went on to endorse a proposal from a participant who suggested an event be organized where children from around the world would present cultural contributions from their respective nations in the interests of peace.

When Zepp-LaRouche was asked to comment on the role of the British, she asked: Who is always egging the United States on? This comes from the old British Empire idea of divide and conquer, “always sowing mistrust to manipulate.” She reminded the participants of the 1955 Bandung Conference, in which leaders of the Global South reminded the U.S. that the American Revolution was the first anti-colonialist revolution. The British Empire still exists in a camouflaged form, and the U.S. has regrettably been persuaded to use it as a model for foreign policy. She described the international “Green” movement as an expression of the British Empire’s Malthusian doctrine.

In her concluding remarks, Zepp-LaRouche mentioned that there have been heavy-handed attempts to destabilize the BRICS nations, and in one case, Argentina, they were able to reverse that nation’s decision to join. She added, “Many of the leaders of the BRICS are incredibly wise and mature statesmen.” At one time we had statesmen in Europe like Konrad Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle, but today we have leaders who have a “stature like dwarves.” We must overcome geopolitics, because the present effort to divide the world into two blocs is the source of the war danger.


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