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“Only direct cooperation with the Arabs can create a dignified and safe life. If the Jews don’t comprehend this, the whole Jewish position in the complex of Arab countries will become, step by step, untenable. What saddens me is less the fact that the Jews are not smart enough to understand this, but rather that they are not just enough to want it.”
So wrote Albert Einstein in the context of the creation of the State of Israel, whose presidency he was offered, and declined.
An emergency summit of the League of Arab States and the Organization for Islamic Cooperation was held on Sept. 15 in response to Israel’s outrageous strikes in Doha, Qatar, targeting the Hamas representatives there to negotiate with their Israeli counterparts. Israel’s strike targeted negotiation itself. The summit issued a final communiqué denouncing the Israeli attack on Qatar, the barbaric destruction of Gaza, settlements in the West Bank, and Israeli strikes on Lebanon, Syria, and Iran, and calling for international action.
The assembled leaders demanded that the international community act to change Israel’s course. Specifically, they called on all nations “to take all possible legal and effective measures to prevent Israel from continuing its actions” against the Palestinian people, including by supporting efforts to end its impunity, holding it accountable for its violations and crimes, imposing sanctions on it, suspending the supply, transfer, or transit of weapons, ammunition, and military materials—including dual-use items—reviewing diplomatic and economic relations with it, and initiating legal proceedings against it,” as well as suspending Israel from the United Nations.
In Madrid, a crowd of some 100,000 people shut down the final stage of the Tour of Spain bike race. The prime minister voiced his support for the protesters, and called for Israeli teams to be banned from all international competitions, as has happened to Russian teams.
Meanwhile, Moscow persists in warning NATO that it is already at war with Russia, with consequences that could be devastating. The recent drone swarm that entered Poland is seen as a deliberate provocation by those who seek the continuation of the fighting, which is destroying Ukraine.
While Trump may have attempted to extricate himself from the Ukraine conflict by making unfulfillable demands on the Europeans, he is moving deeper toward conflict in the Americas with another strike on a Venezuelan vessel and continues his bellicose statements about Gaza.
What is needed is the success of an international campaign for a new paradigm of economic, cultural and political relations—the campaign waged for decades by the movement founded by Lyndon LaRouche. We need action, and action now!
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The 119th consecutive weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) began with remarks by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Schiller Institute Founder and initiator of the International Peace Coalition. She said that “the world is completely out of order,” cataloguing the latest eruptions: the uproar about Russian drones over Poland, the Israeli attack on Qatar, the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and others. She warned that the Kirk assassination can be seen as a warning to U.S. President Donald Trump, and the bombing of Qatar is another manifestation of the law of the jungle, which could be the final nail in the coffin of peace negotiations. The only “plus point” is that for the first time, all five members of the UN Security Council denounced the Qatar attack, with no U.S. veto.
Donald Ramotar, former President of Guyana, focused on the tensions in the Caribbean region. He rejected Venezuela’s claim to two-thirds of the territory of Guyana, but also reminded the participants of U.S. attacks on Guyanese sovereignty in 1962, much as the United States is trying to bring about regime-change in Venezuela today. In the Caribbean, fear of U.S. sanctions is a major factor, after what has been done to Cuba and Venezuela. U.S. sanctions against a Brazilian judge are unprecedented interference in the internal affairs of a South American nation.
Regarding Trump’s justification of his assault on Venezuela, claiming that its government is a drug cartel, Ramotar reminded the participants that Pino Arlacchi, who served as the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), has characterized Venezuela’s anti-drug cooperation as one of the best. The issue is not drugs, Ramotar said, it is oil. Since President Nixon declared the War on Drugs in the 1970s, the drug scourge has gotten much worse. The use of the military to combat it has failed.
Looking at the global outbreak of violence referenced by Zepp-LaRouche, Ramotar asserted, “It is a clear sign of desperation and a new aggressiveness on the part of the NATO countries…. Gaza is being used in order to destroy international laws and international institutions.” He called the Ukraine war “a failed attempt to destabilize Russia.”
Shakeel Ramay, Political Economist and CEO of the Asian Institute of Eco-Civilization Research and Development, discussed the 2025 Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, saying that it should be a step toward a multipolar world, not a multibloc world. SCO has facilitated the resolution of conflicts, unlike NATO and similar “bloc” organizations. The SCO Development Bank will be created, complementing the efforts of other Global South organizations. Xi’s Global Governance Initiative is intended to combat the residual Cold War mentality. China respects diversity in its own society, and follows a people-centered policy; this approach can be applied globally.
Prof. Fernando Garzon, architect, urban planner, and leader of the Ecuadorian-Palestinian Union, referenced Ramotar’s warnings about regional tensions, noting that there are 25-30 U.S. and European military bases in the Caribbean, which represent a threat.
Turning to the issue of Palestine, he said that all members of the UN should recognize the Palestinian state and make it a full member. He called for the transfer of UN meetings to Geneva to include Palestinian representatives, and said we should hold corporations accountable for their participation in crimes in Gaza. Francesca Albanese has carried out an important study on this. We should consider sending armed forces into Gaza, and implementing UN Resolution 377, Uniting for Peace.
Jacques Cheminade, head of the Solidarité et Progrès party of France, dissected the confused and impotent foreign policy of his nation. Macron’s goal of sending troops to Ukraine provides targets for Russian missiles, and is rejected by the French population. “France has neither the money nor the weapons for what they pretend to do.”
An EIR video interview with Jonathan Kuttab, co-founder of Nonviolence International and executive director of Friends of Sabeel North America, was presented. He began by saying, “On the Palestinian side there is a strong feeling of helplessness, but not hopelessness.” Israelis know that their conduct is unacceptable to the world, but their attitude is “So what? We can do whatever we want.” Israel has a new sense of impunity. In response to a question on the role of the British in the Middle East, he said, “The British are behind every evil thing that happens in the world…. Many people think that they are also manipulating the United States itself.”
“We really need international law,” said Kuttab, including the Israelis. The Israelis are very shortsighted if they think they can ignore international norms. What would it take for nations to support UN Resolution 377? It will take pressure from ordinary people on their governments.
Zepp-LaRouche responded by saying that if the Palestinian delegates to the UN do not receive visas, we should mobilize the IPC to move the General Assembly meeting to Geneva. AOC is cancelling her appearance in North Carolina due to security concerns after the Kirk assassination. “The role of the British subversion of the American republic needs to be addressed,” she said, because it is the root cause of the destructive campaign for a “unipolar world.” She urged everyone to sign the new statement from the Schiller Institute.
Ramotar asserted that the BRICS is offering a viable alternative to the collapsing colonial system, and the ongoing aggression and sabotage is intended to wreck international law, replacing it with the “survival of the fittest” where the colonial forces hope to come out on top.
Discussion Period
In response to a question, IPC co-moderator Dennis Speed asked Zepp-LaRouche to elaborate on the 10th principle of her proposal for a New International Security and Development Architecture, that humans are essentially good. She responded by saying that when you are confronted with a great evil, we need to have love, and that is most difficult. If you don’t have that love, you cannot find a solution. Rage short-circuits your reason. Man has an infinite capacity for self-perfection, not only of the mind, but for the improvement of one’s character.
Cheminade suggested that Resolution 377 is often misunderstood as a way to trigger military intervention. Its effectiveness is to present a consensus of the world community and to isolate Israel, leading to boycotts and a halt to weapons sales, and to touch the consciences of Israelis.
A participant questioned whether the recognition of a Palestinian state would deter Israel, which has attacked numerous sovereign states. Speed emphasized the importance of intervening with their representatives at the upcoming UN General Assembly session and vowed that the Schiller Institute and The LaRouche Organization would have a regular presence there. Ramotar insisted that Israel will not stop because they see the opportunity to realize the dream of a Greater Israel, with the acquiescence of the U.S. He castigated the Arab countries for their passivity, saying that “we have to shame them.”
In her concluding remarks, Zepp-LaRouche urged everyone to pressure their governments in the context of the upcoming UNGA meeting. The SCO conference showed a new confidence in the nations of the Global South, and we have to convince the citizens of the Global North/Global West to give up their arrogance and cooperate with the Global Majority.
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The situation in France following the vote of no confidence against French Prime Minister François Bayrou is indicative of the entire Western system. François Bayrou is the fourth (!!) French prime minister to be ousted from office within 20 months. Emmanuel Macron’s approval ratings are at 15%, and protests in France are directed against him and/or his austerity policies.
The people of Europe are realizing that they will have to pay with their living standard for the march into war with Russia. The economies are collapsing, while military spending is skyrocketing. The coalition of the brain-dead, as Ray McGovern calls them, which wants to make the population war-ready, does not care in the slightest about the population.
Governments are being replaced, but the underlying problem is not being addressed.
The only way out of the transatlantic breakdown crisis is to cooperate with the New World Economic Order, which is being promoted by the majority of humanity, this was the topic during the recent meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
All nations can work together based on mutual benefit and jointly work together to develop their economies for the prosperity of all. One step in this direction is to get the United Nations General Assembly to unite for peace and pass UN Resolution 377.
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The world is entering a new era of civilization following the extraordinary decisions made at the SCO summit and the profound moves toward a paradigm of Peace through Economic Development. These changes give the people of the world a precious opportunity to respond to create a New Just Security and Development Architecture, so that every human life is treated with dignity and respect.
In this global context, Professor Jeffrey Sachs in a September 6 Consortium News article outlined concrete actions for leaders, organizations and representatives to intervene to end the Genocide. These demands are summarized below:
End all economic trade, shipping and air links with Israel as done recently by Türkiye.
All U.N. member states that have not yet done so should recognize the State of Palestine.
Arab signatories to the Abraham Accords, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and the U.A.E., should suspend their diplomatic relations with Israel until the Gaza siege ends and the State of Palestine is admitted to the U.N.
Suspend Israel from the UN General Assembly, as done in the case of the South African Apartheid Regime.
U.N. member states should stop the export of all technology services that support the war (Amazon, Microsoft) until the siege of Gaza ends and Palestine’s membership in the U.N. is adopted by the U.N. Security Council.
Under Res. 377, Uniting for Peace, a U.N. Protection Force should be sent to Gaza and the West Bank. Writes Sachs, “Typically, it would be the U.N. Security Council that mandates a protection force, but in this case, the U.S. will block the Security Council with its veto. There is another way.”
In addition to the above, there must be a plan for reconstruction of the entire region which will require abundant amounts of energy and fresh water. Lyndon LaRouche’s 1975 Oasis Plan would be a good model, and will become a real possibility if the west can abandon its destructive short-sighted quest for global hegemony and cooperate with the Global Majority as proposed in the Schiller Institute Appeal on the other side of this leaflet.
We encourage all organizations, leaders and representatives to follow these immediate actions. Please join the international chorus to create an era where we can have true peace and prosperity for all human life.
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In a discussion with international collaborators, Helga Zepp-LaRouche described the changed political world situation after the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting, which took place on August 31 and September 1, 2025, as follows:
“The strategic picture is one of incredible changes going on at the same time and in very different directions. But one thing is certain to say: With the meeting in Tianjin in China with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the world is already changing and has already changed in a way which cannot be undone. What that signifies for sure is that the effort to have a unipolar Western-dominated world in control over the majority of the world population is definitely over. A new system is clearly being established where the attitude of the West to look at this new formation as the enemy is completely suicidal and fatal, and we must correct it. The only way to relate to this emerging new world order is through cooperation. I think that is the absolute message which we have to introduce in every channel of the Western organizing for what can possibly be done.
“What is happening is enormous; it is nothing less than the establishment of a new world economic order based on principles which are in great affinity with what Lyndon LaRouche had been fighting for his whole life, starting with the IDB, the idea of overcoming developing sector under-development and introducing justice in the economic system. That will take an enormous fight to explain to people because by just glancing at the media this morning, they are completely hysterical about the fact that the big three—China, India, and Russia—are now together. And on top of that naturally other SCO members as well. But the verbiage is that the probable war criminal Putin got the red carpet treatment, blah, blah, blah; all of this sort of thing.”
Describing the approach that must be used to win the populations in the Western nations to participate in this historic change and to help their respective countries join this changed world, Zepp-LaRouche said:
“I think by now, everybody has the sense of the incredible potential of this moment. These are the kinds of moments which do not come all the time, and they are the rule of the developments. In 1989, this was such a moment; what we called the star hour of mankind, the historic chance of ’89. This was thoroughly screwed up. That chance remained sort of lingering a little bit afterwards because there was a discussion that Russia could have joined NATO. There are now new documents out that Clinton even considered it at a certain point. Lyndon LaRouche was in the middle of this, if you remember our first trip to Moscow after Lyndon came out of jail. This was the period when this potential clearly existed, and it was sabotaged. So, we should really get this sense across to the people we are talking to, who are all correctly complaining about the suffering of various kinds of poverty, unemployment, other considerations, school violence, drug addiction, suicidal tendencies. This is the moment to really change direction, and I think we must do it with the sense that mankind is the only creative species; that man is gifted with creative reason, and therefore we are not the victims of this or that or some developments we can’t influence. If you have the right historic coalition and constellation of forces, you can, through voluntary action and having the right idea of a plan for the future, one can shape history. I think it is that optimistic sense we must invoke in the people we are organizing so they don’t feel small and think that you can’t do anything anyway, this kind of pessimistic self-conception.”
“So, I think we should go into this with a total explosion of organizing and really demand that people be visible with us in a coalition of voices to say we want to end this geopolitical insanity. We want to have a world where countries are equal partners; our country is one part and not trying to sabotage it. So, I think that is what we should be doing in all countries—European countries, the U.S.—we should talk to all the best contacts and get them on board with this perspective and then take it from there.”
Aug. 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—The 117th consecutive weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) on Friday, Aug. 29 began with opening remarks by Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who charged that the international community is “impotent and doesn’t act” with respect to ending the genocide in Gaza. She reminded the participants that September 18 is the deadline for Israel to comply with International Court of Justice rulings, and should it fail to do so, the UN General Assembly can employ “Uniting for Peace,” UN resolution 377. A two-thirds majority in the General Assembly can decide to send Blue Helmets or a similar military force to break the siege. “We are not just threatening to lose the Palestinian people; we are losing the ability to look into the mirror every morning,” she stressed.
Germany, France and the U.K. have activated the “snapback,” an ultimatum to Iran for inspections of nuclear sites. The last time that Iran attempted to cooperate with the West, the U.S. engaged in fake negotiations to set them up for an attack. The sanctions regime imposed upon Iran has caused more than 500,000 deaths from hunger and lack of medical care.
Zepp-LaRouche commented upon the new German theory for how the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage was carried out. She said that the tale of a “small sailboat with practically hobby-divers” who supposedly carried out the crime, is viewed with skepticism internationally. This act of terrorism caused a rift between Europe and Russia, and marked the beginning of the German economic collapse. Russia points out that if there is not a proper investigation, no infrastructure anywhere in the world is secure. Zepp-LaRouche deplored the present political climate in her homeland of Germany, where military leaders are holding highly secretive meetings in preparation for war.
Fortunately, the September 3 meeting in Beijing will help consolidate the global majority. On the same day, more than 6,000 firms will attend the Vladivostok Forum, where Arctic development is on the agenda. We will push to include the Bering Strait tunnel as a key element for our perspective of global peace through development. Zepp-LaRouche joked that perhaps Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize because his bullying has brought China and India closer together.
Dr. Georgy D. Toloraya, Executive Director, Russian National Committee on BRICS Research; Director, Asian Strategy Center, Institute of Economics; and Chief Researcher, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia, Russian Academy of Sciences, said that the Beijing meeting will be a milestone, because the Shanghai Cooperation Organization will offer a declaration for how the Eurasian countries can jointly address the world crisis. Also, there will be a commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the end of war in the Pacific, and the Vladivostok Forum. Toloraya said that we have stepped back a bit from the threshold of nuclear war, but the situation is still very concerning.
Zepp-LaRouche replied that the voice of the Global South is being heard clearly in the collective West. All problems could be solved easily if we can change the mindset from confrontation to cooperation. In response, Toloraya said that this will not be easy, because egoism and exploitation is deeply ingrained in the so-called “golden billion,” and supported by military force and psychological warfare. Zepp-LaRouche came back saying that the golden billion is not a homogeneous group, and that Western leaders do not enjoy popular support; the collapsing economy will further erode what support they have. A clear offer of cooperation from the Global South, for joint ventures to develop the South, would have an impact. There is much room for intervention, which is what we should concentrate on. Toloraya said that Russians were hopeful that Trump’s election was an expression of the desire for change in the U.S., but the results so far have been disappointing.
Graham Fuller, former U.S. diplomat, CIA official, and Islamic scholar, said that “Ukraine is just the symptom of a much deeper malaise between the U.S. and Russia.” He is “very excited by the Schiller Institute’s idea of the land-bridge,” but political obstacles, particularly Russophobia in the U.S., are daunting; people will talk about hordes of communists rushing across the Bering Strait. He charged that the British created Russophobia, fearing that Russians might invade their crown jewel of India. In the U.S., we deported Russian ballerinas and musicians to keep the U.S. “pure.” Fuller proposed to make Ronald Reagan the poster boy for better relations with Russia, because he enjoys a good reputation in the U.S., and we could revitalize his image as a great patriot who was “a proponent of getting along with Russia.”
Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), thanked Fuller, who played the role equivalent to what today is DNI, for his “tour d’horizon.” He said that there is hope because Putin and Xi are in no rush. The world is shifting toward the majority.
Zepp-LaRouche said that there is something beautiful about humanity which gives her optimism, but she still can’t understand what is wrong with leaders who are willing to risk its extinction. “What does it help you to have riches, if everything is destroyed in the end?” she demanded to know. Lamenting again the condition of her homeland, she said, “You have to shout loud into Germany,” to awaken some of these Germans who are sleepwalking.
IPC moderator Anastasia Battle reported on her recent experiences in organizing in Germany, saying that people don’t share the Russophobia of their leaders, and it would be good if Russia’s leaders could directly address the European populace, and specifically anti-war demonstrators. McGovern, back from a week in Germany himself, pronounced, “It’s the media.” German media are worse than in the U.S. and as bad as in Britain. Russia stopped short of taking Kiev because they believed in the Minsk accords. Russia does not wish to expand its territory. He offered another joke: Why is Tony Blair involved in the Gaza negotiations? Because Satan was unavailable this week.
Discussion
Purnima Anand is the president of the BRICS International Forum, a civil society organization based in Delhi, India. She said that India will find new trading partners in response to the tariffs announced by Trump. India trades in large volumes with both Russia and the U.S., so why the complaints from the American administration? “America cannot always be number one, Europe cannot always be colonizers.”
Toloraya emphasized that “BRICS is open to cooperation with the West,” but lamented that the West isn’t interested.
Returning again to the sad state of Germany, Zepp-LaRouche reported that nurses there are being advised that they must be prepared to treat wounded NATO soldiers before caring for civilians. She touched upon the insolvency of the U.S. and the West, saying: “I think we are going into a very stormy period…. I think that what happened in 2007-2008 will be the proverbial peanuts” compared to the collapse we are faced with now.
The question of Trump’s threats toward Venezuela, and his claim that its government is a “drug cartel,” came up. IPC co-moderator Dennis Small reminded the participants that when the British HSBC bank was caught laundering over $60 billion for the Sinaloa Cartel, it faced no consequences.
In concluding remarks, Fuller asked, “Will we block the BRICS at every turn, or will we join them for something that could be very rich?” Returning to his proposal to promote Ronald Reagan as a model for U.S.-Russian détente, Zepp-LaRouche recalled that in his proposal for the Strategic Defense Initiative, Reagan offered cooperation with Russia on making nuclear weapons obsolete, an idea taken from her late husband, Lyndon LaRouche.
Moderator Battle posted a link to the names of 97 prominent endorsers of the “Urgent Appeal to Presidents Xi, Trump and Putin To Meet on Commemoration of VJ Day, Sept. 3.” eir
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In an interview with Global Times, Helga Zepp-LaRouche was asked whether China’s Global Civilization Initiative, which Zepp-LaRouche has repeatedly emphasized as the only viable solution to the global crisis, offers a new model for the interaction of different cultures in today’s world. Zepp-LaRouche replied that her institute [the Schiller Institute] was founded in 1984 with the same idea, that the world needs a new and just world economic order, but that this can only work if it is combined with the concept of a dialogue amongst all cultures, so that each nation or civilization can learn about the best cultural contributions of all other nations or civilizations. By getting to know the beauty of other cultures, all prejudices and fears would disappear and make way for the joy of discovery and even love. She said that, when she read about the Global Civilization Initiative, she was very happy and confident that this initiative would help make wars obsolete, because when you get to know the best creations of different peoples, it completely changes your perspective. By engaging with the best of other nations, one forms friendships and discovers that all these works of art are based on a human quality which unites us as a species.
Looking at the situation in Gaza, but also at the unchecked urge of European states to further escalate tensions with Russia, it is becoming increasingly clear to more and more people that the future of humanity is at stake and that only such a great civilizational leap forward can ensure the survival of humanity.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which describes itself as a system for improving food security and nutritional analysis for decision-making, already stated on August 22 that famine prevails in the Gaza Strip. Data from an internal Israeli intelligence database shows that at least 83 percent of Palestinians killed in Israel’s attack on Gaza were civilians, as revealed by research conducted by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian on August 21. And an Israeli attack hit the fourth floor of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, killing more than 20 people. Among the dead are at least four journalists, including freelancers from AP, Al Jazeera, and Reuters.
On Friday last week, Helga Zepp-LaRouche began the 116th meeting of the International Peace Coalition emphasizing the importance of the campaign to activate UNGeneral Assembly Resolution 377 (“Uniting for Peace”) and intervene against the atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank. A person associated with the UN told her that sending blue helmets to the region in accordance with Resolution 377 would have a significant regional and global impact in countering Israel’s atrocities.
Regarding the so-called conflict between Ukraine and Russia, die-hards in the EU are trying to undo the successful summit between President Trump and Putin in Alaska to further prolong and extend the war, which will be fought not only to the “last Ukrainian” but possibly to the last human being. The relevant “heads of state” seem indifferent to the consequences of escalation, remilitarization, progressive economic collapse, and a possible nuclear war.
Following the August 3 surprise arrest in Italy of a Ukrainian citizen suspected of organizing the Nord Stream bombing, a special session of the UN Security Council will meet today, at Russia’s request, to discuss the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines.
The chairwoman of the Schiller Institute, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, supported the request and called for the establishment of an independent investigative committee.
Virtually all serious observers see the arrest as just another attempt to cover up those truly responsible for this act of sabotage, which required intelligence information, sophisticated equipment, and skill. Uncovering the truth about who ordered and carried out the international act of terrorism in September 2022 and who staged the cover-up is central to restoring trust and diplomacy in the world.
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The 116th meeting on Friday, Aug. 22 of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) featured intense warnings against nuclear war, optimism about U.S. relations with Russia, and reports on the unrestrained genocide of Palestinians and the insanity of the Ukrainian and European leadership insistence of continuing the already lost war in Ukraine.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche began by emphasizing our campaign to activate the UN General Assembly Resolution 377, Uniting for Peace, to intervene against the horror unfolding in Gaza and the West Bank. A person connected to the UN told her that a deployment of Blue Helmets in the region under Resolution 377 would have a significant impact regionally and globally, to bring action against Israel’s atrocities. She asserted that Trump’s tariff wars were forcing the BRICS nations to get even closer, pointing to Indian Foreign Minister Jaishankar’s visit in Moscow and China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi in India. The September 3 military parade in Beijing, celebrating the end of World War II, and the related meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Tianjin, and the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, if they bring the leaders of Russia, China and the U.S. together for development of the Bering Strait tunnel and related great infrastructure projects, could, and must, mark a turning point in history towards a new international security and development paradigm for all nations.
Professor Ted Postol, the world’s leading expert on nuclear weapons, said that the Israeli and U.S. bombing in Iran has resulted in two nuclear powers now confronting each other in Southwest Asia, with Iran joining Israel as a nuclear power. He explained that Iran had 13,000 kg of 60% enriched uranium before the bombing, but still has 400 kg, enough to produce 10 nuclear bombs of the size of the Hiroshima bombs within 4 or 5 weeks, if they should decide to do so. “That was created by the U.S. attacks,” he said, noting that the 400 kg had been under the inspection of the IAEA, but after the bombing, the IAEA was thrown out. Iran will not announce any decision to make the bombs, but will prefer “strategic uncertainty.” Zepp-LaRouche asked him about Iran’s fatwa against producing a bomb. Postol answered that the authority of the fatwa was based on the stature of the supreme religious leader, but that it was not a law, and could be lifted according to Islamic law.
Scott Ritter described his just-completed trip to Russia, which was “citizen’s diplomacy,” aimed at capturing the reality in Russia for the American population, who lack any sense of that reality. Postol noted that he had been in discussions with Ritter, and that Ritter was understating his impact within Russia. Ritter concurred, reporting that a leading Russian political figure had told him that his trip had created a “political nuclear explosion” in the country, due to an American telling the truth about the crisis. He said that he was about to publish a public letter, co-signed by Ted Postol, Dennis Kucinich and Ray McGovern, addressing the issue. Asked by Zepp-LaRouche to comment on the state of the war in Ukraine, Ritter said the Russian view was that the war will be won by the Russians, that they have not changed their demands (neutrality, de-Nazification, freedom of language), and that they do not care about the European bluster, knowing that they have no capacity to continue the war against Russia without the U.S. He said that the territories taken over by Russia “will be Russian forever.” Neutrality, he said, will be “under a Russian umbrella.”
Zepp-LaRouche asked about the recent arrest in Italy of a Ukrainian supposedly part of the operation which blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline in 2022. Postol said he was very close to Sy Hersh, and that when Hersh was writing his exposé accusing the U.S. military, under the direction of President Joe Biden, of carrying out the Nord Stream attack, Postol questioned him with serious questions about the “underwater acoustics” in the incident, adding that he was an expert in the field. Hersh took the questions to his source, whose response fully convinced Postol, who changed his mind and led him to concur with Hersh’s analysis.
Postol also added his view on the reported 1.7 million dead or missing Ukrainian soldiers, noting that this number, with the (mostly young) men and their partners, means that about 3 million child-bearing youth had been eliminated. This, he said, would leave a devastating impact on the nation, virtually wiping out a generation of Ukraine’s population. He said the callousness of Zelenskyy’s continuing the war in this condition reminded him of Hitler’s refusal to concede when Russia was closing in on Berlin, a “racist and hateful” leadership.
Garland Nixon, a blogger with a large following, described the importance of social media, especially as the commercial media is failing. He described something called “stream yard,” which is groups of 8-10 platforms coming together to further expand their reach. He said that meetings like the IPC need to be mass-distributed in a manner that can be understood by the growing audience of social media. He was asked about his viewership in Russia, which he said was the result of a group called “Russia Accent,” which had requested permission to translate and broadcast his shows in Russian, and which has resulted in millions of views throughout Russia.
Zepp-LaRouche added that the same has to be done with people in Africa, Asia and elsewhere, to get the world unified around the September 3 events, demanding “Never Again” to fascism and war.
Dennis Speed added that, like the “Continental Congress” by the Founding Fathers, we need an “International Congress” today, to change the global paradigm.
In the discussion period, Postol was asked about something called “super fuse technology.” He responded that this was something he had discovered by accident, which is a new technology allowing far more accurate targeting of missiles in silos. His concern is that the Russians and Chinese who see this multibillion-dollar technology being built would convince them that the U.S. is preparing for a first strike. Putin, he added, knows that such fantasies about “winning a nuclear war” cannot work, but worries about Western leaders who think they can.
Zepp-LaRouche responded that Rear Adm. Thomas Buchanan, a Director for the Plans and Policy Directorate at USSTRATCOM, had argued in public that the U.S. could win a nuclear war, but should be certain to retain enough nuclear weapons to assure continued world dominance. Postol said that such a person was “ignorant” and should have no position of authority in the U.S. military. He had worked with many three- and four-star generals with more sense than that. He noted that Putin had fired a general who was leading the Russian forces in Ukraine, but who called for using nuclear weapons.
A woman from India issued a call of support for the IPC, and for all people to join the fight for development and infrastructure. Zepp-LaRouche strongly endorsed her call, emphasizing that building infrastructure was critical for the new world paradigm, including education, so that we can “create billions of geniuses.”
A question about the U.S. military forces in the Caribbean led Dennis Small to insist that this had nothing to do with countering drugs, despite the argument made by the U.S.. Any real war on drugs would start with the shut down of the banks running the drug financing, while the claim of fighting drugs was just an excuse for military intervention by those who want to continue the dying colonial system.
In her conclusion, Helga Zepp-LaRouche said, “Right now we are in the most important next period, because if we get this global development of the Bering Strait as a corridor for the World Land-Bridge, if that becomes the motor, then you can have peace between the United States and Russia. I think no other force in the world can stop it, because as Putin said, they are neighbors; it’s just a few kilometers. If that bridge or tunnel is being built, and then you start to develop Alaska and Siberia, a tremendous wealth of ideas and creativity could come from that.”
Join Diane Sare and Helga Zepp-LaRouche in her weekly live dialogue. This week’s topics will include the outcome of the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, the peace process in general, and the initiatives of the international LaRouche movement. Send your questions, comments and reports to questions@schillerinstitute.org or ask them in the next live stream.
On Monday, Aug. 18, President Donald Trump hosted acting Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and seven European leaders at the White House for a series of meetings on ending the conflict in Ukraine, following up on his Alaska summit last Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In a statement following the discussions, Trump reported two primary outcomes of those meetings: 1) moving toward a bilateral meeting between President Putin and President Zelenskyy, followed by a trilateral meeting including President Trump; and 2) discussions of security guarantees for Ukraine, “provided by the various European Countries, with a coordination with the United States of America.”
Prior to and during the meeting, those security guarantees were the obsession of the European leaders who had scrambled to Washington to back Ukraine as the last bastion against “the evil Russian invader.” It isn’t known exactly what kind of security guarantees were discussed behind closed doors, and, as with many things, the devil is in the details. While Russia will never accept European and NATO boots on the ground in Ukraine—especially with long-range missile capability—that is exactly what the British have been calling for, and it is quite unlikely that the Coalition of the Willing has so quickly suffered a change of heart.
What is needed for the world is true security, which comes not in preparing for war and deterring the enemy through military might, as heard in the hyperventilating proclamations of the geopolitically minded, warmongering European leaders; the true content of security, and of peace, is development.
This indisputable fact rests upon the authority of natural law: Mankind is a one—a unified species whose fundamental characteristic is creative discovery. The maximum development of the creative capacity of our species across the entire planet is in the best interest of every person in every nation. This principle is enshrined in the American Declaration of Independence as the Leibnizian “pursuit of happiness.”
The shift in the world that began in the Aug. 15 Alaska summit between President Trump and President Putin, away from the precipice of confrontation between nuclear powers, must be seen against the backdrop of the larger, tectonic shift occurring in the world order. The geopolitical, unipolar system is over, and more and more nations of the world, such as the BRICS+ nations, are reorganizing themselves into new modes of cooperation and collaboration for long-overdue development.
This was expressed in a statement by President Putin on the website of the Vladivostok Eastern Economic Forum, whose upcoming meeting begins September 3: “We have identified the development of the Far East as a national priority for the entire 21st century. The importance and correctness of this decision has been confirmed by life itself, by the challenges we have faced recently, and, most importantly, by the real trends that are gaining momentum in the global economy, where the key business ties, trade routes, and in general, the entire vector of development are increasingly reorienting toward the East and the Global South.”
Helga Zepp-LaRouche has called for the crucial next steps to be taken coming out of the Trump-Putin summit: President Trump must go to Beijing for the September 3rd 80th anniversary commemoration of the end of World War II and there meet with Presidents Xi Jinping and Putin; to cement a new direction for the world, away from the forever wars of the British Empire, those three Presidents must agree to lead a new mode of economic development among nations, spearheaded by the Bering Strait tunnel project.
In her call to those leaders to initiate what she calls the “perfect war-avoidance policy,” Zepp-LaRouche declares: “But there is something even more elevated you can do, by not only fighting off the threats facing mankind, but by giving the whole world a beautiful vision for the future. You could agree to build a corridor across the Bering Strait, and with that rail and tunnel project unite the rail systems of Eurasia with those of the Americas. This project would open up for development the vast untapped resources of Siberia, as well as the U.S. Arctic resources of oil, gas, precious metals of all kinds, as well as fresh water. Siberia and the Russian Far East hold the largest deposits of raw materials of all the elements which one can find in Mendeleyev’s Periodic Table, and the joint development of these resources, to which many other resource-poor countries could be invited, could become the perfect war-avoidance program and greatly enhance the prosperity of the world.”
That is true security for humanity.
Join Diane Sare and Helga Zepp-LaRouche in her weekly live dialogue. This week’s topics will include the outcome of the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, the peace process in general, and the initiatives of the international LaRouche movement. Send your questions, comments and reports to questions@schillerinstitute.org or ask them in the next live stream.
Among other capacities, Larry C. Johnson is the co-founder of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), which has done a lot of work since the beginning of “Russiagate” to expose the true nature of the allegations against the incoming first Trump administration.
Now that DNI Tulsi Gabbard has released documents proving that there was no Russian interference in the 2016 US elections, and that The LaRouche Organization has released a White Paper Worse Than Treason: The Actual Motive Behind Russiagate which shows the actual intent behind the election interference allegations, i.e. the drive by the British Empire to get the United States and Russia to fight a nuclear war against each other and wipe out humanity in the same breath, there is a chance to return to diplomatic relations and conflict resolution between President Trump and President Putin.
The upcoming Trump-Putin summit in Alaska on August 15th bears the potential of becoming a peace summit if the two sides decide, as Helga Zepp-LaRouche has emphatically urged, “… there is something even more elevated you can do, not only by fighting off the threats facing mankind, but by giving the whole world a beautiful vision for the future,” and start construction of the Bering Strait Tunnel project, a project long favored by the LaRouche Movement in the realm of “Development is the New Name for Peace.”
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Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. As an independent contractor, he has provided training for the US Military’s Special Operations community for 24 years.
Since its founding in 1998, Larry has been managing partner of BERG (Business Exposure Reduction Group) Associates LLC, which specializes in investigating money laundering and counterfeit products, as well as providing financial analysis and counter terror strategy.
Larry was a frequent guest on all major US networks from the 1990s to the late 2000s, but made the “mistake” of consistently offering candid insights and honest assessments, without deferring to establishment bias. As waging “Forever Wars” became the singular policy objective of 90% of the nation’s elected officials, and of the entire media, those voices offering independent and unbiased analysis were relegated to the wilderness, Larry’s along with them.
Vilified by the establishment right, left and center, Larry must be doing something right. His take on global security, intelligence and geopolitics is regularly sought by businesses, by non-mainstream media, and by an organic and growing online cooperative of non-partisan dissident journalism and commentary.
In 2024, Larry addressed the United Nations Security Council, and attended the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). He appears regularly on various news sites, video blogs and independent online channels, including Sputnik, RT, Judging Freedom, Redacted and The Duran, among many others.
