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Schiller Institute founder and leader, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, in reviewing the world strategic situation today, asserted, “Our moment in history is here!” We can be sure, she is not referring to the U.S. elections Tuesday! Not to the voting result, nor the aftermath. Rather, Zepp-LaRouche refers to the undeniable fact that “the old system is crumbling,” and this means, “this is the chance for a new system.”
The Western casino financial/economic, and neo-colonialist system has reached the phase of its own demise, to the point that its once leading nations are themselves in economic and social breakdown. Their own elites are responding with Global NATO warfare and brutality, in their attempt to maintain dominance.
But the human response to the Global North degradation is, instead, for the Collective West to cooperate in the development of the Global South. That is the only way to have a humane solution to the crisis: Build economies, create billions of jobs, cooperate with the Global Majority, whose leadership dynamic is strong and increasing.
Discussion of this will be the focus of an international (online) conference, hosted by the Schiller Institute, Dec. 7-8, on the theme, “In the Spirit of Schiller and Beethoven: All Men Become Brethren!”
This trans-Atlantic decay goes right along with NATO’s expansion and warfare. Contrast that with the concrete examples of support for the principles of development among the Global Majority, especially of the Belt and Road Initiative.
These few, but wonderful examples indicate the boundless horizon for development, once the change in the system is accomplished. This is the historic task. It is already underway in the Global South. But the “miracle” to be made is mobilizing the potential goodness still left among those in the Global North to force into being an outlook of cooperation, and working together the world over, for a future of common benefit. That must be the content of the anti-war mobilization.
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The 74th consecutive meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) was opened by former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter. Ritter said that the world was in transition from the colonial era—the British, the French, the Dutch and the American empires—which is over, despite the efforts by the current Western leaders to pretend they can hang on to their unipolar world. The Oct. 22-24 BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia demonstrates that the Spirit of Bandung in 1955, when the former colonies declared the end of colonialism only to see the Cold War wipe out their victory, is now finally being realized. The war in Ukraine is over, he said, although the U.S. and NATO will continue fighting and killing people until the Russians get their demands of de-nazification, de-militarization and “no-NATO.” Russia will not be bullied into a compromise which does not assure their own security, he said. The greatest danger is—what will the U.S. and NATO do in the face of a Russian victory? That’s where the danger of nuclear war must be confronted.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute and initiator of the IPC, then addressed the meeting, pointing to the continued genocide in Palestine, including the Israeli shut down of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). She quoted the UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini that the UN was established to prevent any return of the genocide and horror of World War II, but now it had been revived. There are 350,000 children in Palestine facing murder by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Zepp-LaRouche said. South Africa’s new report on the genocide, submitted Oct. 28 to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), points to the intensification of the slaughter, including the use of starvation as a weapon of war and ethnic cleansing, and the possible escalation of war with Iran. The alternative was seen in Kazan, while another event, the International Conference on Eurasian Security in Minsk, Belarus, is also addressing the solution. The killing and warfare will only end by ending geopolitics, which already gave us two world wars and the current threat of nuclear war. She added that there are also “hunger spots” around the world which must be ended through a new security and development architecture for all nations. She called on everyone to mobilize for the planned Dec. 7-8 Schiller Institute conference.
The next speaker was Jeremy Loffredo, a young independent journalist who was arrested in Israel by the IDF while covering the war, and threatened with 25 years to life or the death sentence for supposedly revealing secrets to the enemy. There was an international mobilization through social media to force his release, which eventually worked when a judge recognized that Israeli journalists were writing the same thing as he was, and the only difference was that he was a foreigner. He said the U.S. Embassy did essentially nothing to help him, and that Israel is the only country where Washington does nothing to help U.S. citizens who are arrested.
Jason Ross, one of three EIR reporters who attended the BRICS Summit in Kazan, gave a report on the summit, which invited 13 new “partner nations” to join, bringing the total to 22. A more detailed report can be read on EIR.news. Ross noted that the other Western journalists who were there told him that the summit clearly shows that “Putin is isolated,” to which he laughed and replied that the summit included participation from most of the world. Instead, he remarked, it seems that it is the West that is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
Dr. James Cobey, a surgeon who is part of several peace organizations (Voices of the Holy Land, Holy Land Foundation Five, Palestine House for Freedom, and Physicians Against Genocide) said he had been working in Gaza since 1964, where he started as a volunteer for UNRWA (which the Israeli Knesset recently voted to shut out of the Occupied Palestinian Territories). He addressed the urgency for citizens to join the campaign to end the genocide against Palestine.
The meeting showed a two-minute video produced by Türkiye’s Anadolu Agency, titled “Israel Will Eventually Pay the Pprice for Gaza Genocide Going on for a Year: Turkish President Erdogan,” fictionally set in the year 2040 and looking back at the 2024 genocide in Gaza, in which children from around the world were asking their parents why they had done nothing to stop the slaughter of Palestinian children like them.
Jose Vega, LaRouche independent candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in the Bronx (CD15), said that U.S. surgeon Mark Perlmutter, who has done extensive medical work in Gaza, had been scheduled to address a forum at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City, but his address was cancelled supposedly due to threats of disturbances. Vega said he briefed a meeting of people who had come to hear a presentation by the UN Special Rapporteur to Palestine Francesca Albanese on what had happened to Dr. Perlmutter, and the people there rallied to help the situation. A new forum was set up for Dr. Perlmutter, and messages were sent out to inform the city.
Chandra Muzaffar, the Malaysian founder and leader of International Movement for a Just World (JUST), provided a video statement on the “root problem, the underlying cause” of the instability in the world, being the hegemonic power asserted by the U.S., which has driven all the wars of the past decades and the current danger of nuclear war from the wars in both Ukraine and in Southwest Asia. It is that imagined power over the world which causes the military disasters, the economic breakdown and the cultural disintegration, which comes from the population being obsessed with selfishness, over the greater good. He said there are “hopeful signs,” such as the growth of the BRICS, the rise of China and of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Strengthen those, he said, and we can get out of this.
The discussion period raised a number of questions. Ben Wesley, an independent Congressional candidate in Connecticut, described a debate he was in with the Democratic incumbent Jim Himes of the district and the Republican opponent. He directly challenged Representative Himes on his support for the war in Ukraine and for his support for the Israeli genocide against Gaza. Himes did not deny nor change his position, but the result of the debate was the exposure of his warmongering character. IPC Moderator Dennis Small pointed out that that is exactly the kind of action individual citizens should take to tell truth to power.
An African from Kenya brought up the multiple wars on the continent. Moderators Dennis Small and Dennis Speed addressed this, with Speed declaring that there are 35 conflicts currently in Africa, but that none can be resolved without a change in the system, pointing to the 1978 conference report “The Industrial Development of Southern Africa” by the Fusion Energy Foundation, and the Oasis Plan for Southwest Asia, as the physical economic development policies required to end the wars, especially as Africa will have two and a half billion people by 2050.
Zepp-LaRouche closed the meeting by promoting the Schiller Institute’s conference on Dec. 7-8. She said no election in any single country, including the U.S., will stop the drive for nuclear war. In response to a question about the concept that the Jews are the “chosen people,” she said that no race or nation can be considered superior to others—which is what had produced Nazism in her country of Germany. A new paradigm is required that puts humanity as a whole first, above any nation or religion. She elaborated the concept of the great German “Poet of Freedom” Friedrich Schiller, of self-perfection coupled to the development of the nation, overcoming the dichotomy between self and state.
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In a Monday meeting, Oct. 28, held to evaluate the history-making events of last week—including the Oct. 22-24 Kazan, Russia BRICS summit; the Oct. 26 symposium/concert “Build a Chorus of Peace Against the Ghouls of War,” hosted by LaRouche Independent candidates Diane Sare and Jose Vega; and the Sunday, Oct. 27 “Operation DAWN, Threat of Nuclear War in the World Today” brunch, organized by former U.S. Marines intelligence officer and whistleblower Scott Ritter—Schiller Institute head Helga Zepp-LaRouche, both contributor to and participant in those events, and earlier processes that made the achievements of those events possible, indicated what she believed needed to happen next. “We have to absolutely make clear that the only way how the danger of a Third World War can be overcome, is that we have to get the collective West—that’s the United States and the European nations—to stop their silly geopolitical confrontation against this new majority of the world. After all, the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, plus other nations) as they are now, represents 4.7 billion people, and 57% of the world’s population, and there are many more countries in line waiting to join. And it would be foolish, to the point of insanity, if the West would continue to oppose that.”
During last week’s Kazan BRICS conference, EIR correspondents in attendance had asked Russian advisor to host President Vladimir Putin, Anton Kobyakov, the question: Even if the BRICS is not anti-West, the West is currently anti-BRICS. If this does not change, we have the risk of nuclear war in the conflicts occurring in Ukraine and the Middle East, and a perpetuation of sanctions. Do you see the potential for activities and successes of the BRICS to change the outlook of the Anglo-American elites, to participate positively in developing a new security and development architecture, as proposed by Helga Zepp-LaRouche of the Schiller Institute?” Kobyakov had responded: “Indeed, we hope very much for that—that they will take part in hammering out, so to speak, peace initiatives. Our President talks about that, always. And we even have a nuclear deterrence strategy. The main thing is that Pax Americana, if it collapses—the main thing is that when they collapse, that they not bury all of us under the rubble.”
These are words that Americans should pay close attention to. The United States, presently on the verge of an expanding and potentially even a thermonuclear war with both Russia and China, is also on the eve of a November 5 Presidential electoral result, which will ultimately be unsatisfying, no matter which candidate wins. Two other candidates, neither of them running for the American Presidency—U.S. Senate independent candidate in New York Diane Sare, and Congressional independent candidate in the Bronx (CD15) Jose Vega—stepped into the Presidential policy vacuum, co-hosting a completely unique “international town meeting” on a new foreign and security policy. With its extraordinary set of experts, it focused, not on who is to blame, but rather, what citizens need to do, and what solutions to the present crisis must be made. In that context, the wars in Ukraine and Southwest Asia were addressed as tragic expressions of the lack of a higher perspective, and they identified the path to that higher perspective.
An international audience heard former American military officers of high rank, journalists, and even comedians, in dialogue among themselves, and with Helga Zepp-LaRouche. “These nations of the Global South are already the Global Majority, and they are determined to end the period of 500 years of colonialism, by building a new world economic system which will allow them to industrialize and overcome poverty and underdevelopment,” she said to the Saturday symposium. “They are building a great, New Development Bank of the Global South, a new Investment platform, a new BRICS grain exchange, and other institutions, which will help them to grow. It is the most urgent task for reestablishing world peace that the United States supports this effort. We must remember that the American War of Independence was the first anti-colonial war in history, by establishing independence of America from the British Empire.”
The Ten Principles for a New International Strategic and Development Architecture by Helga Zepp-LaRouche are not only a statement of principle, but a statement of intent, which, if adopted by people in the trans-Atlantic world, would supply the only means by which a collaboration with the nations of the Global South, and the Global Majority would ever be trusted, and therefore realized.
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The 73rd consecutive weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition opened today with the strategic briefing by Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche. She announced that earlier this morning she had received an unconfirmed report that a huge fleet of U.S. aircraft had been transferred to U.S. bases in the Middle East, an ominous indication of a pending attack on Iran. She put this in the context of the just-concluded Oct. 22-24 BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia. The BRICS now has 22 affiliated nations—9 permanent members, plus 13 partner nations—representing 57% of world population. It is not inconceivable that an escalation in Southwest Asia could be a reaction to that growth in the Global Majority. Zepp-LaRouche warned that if the West does not change course, “the road to disaster could be a very short one.”
Jason Ross, executive director of The LaRouche Organization, provided a report from on the ground at the BRICS summit in Kazan. He stressed that it is extremely important that China and India have resolved territorial disputes. Their leaders, President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi met for the first time since 2019. He read excerpts from an EIR interview of Russian presidential advisor Anton Kobyakov, and quoted from the XVI BRICS Summit Kazan Declaration which endorses multipolarity and urges for changes in the UN Security Council, WTO, IMF, World Bank, and other institutions. It warns that unilateral sanctions pose a risk to international trade, and to the universal human right to development. Brazilian President Lula da Silva, who had to attend remotely, said that the creation of an alternative means for transactions between countries can no longer be postponed.
Nuclear weapons expert Steve Starr agreed with Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche that all the signs indicate that the U.S. is building up forces for an attack on Iran. He presented video evidence to debunk the U.S. media tales that Iran’s missile attack on Israel had failed. Iran destroyed Israeli radar systems, so the U.S. had to provide Israel with a THAAD anti-missile system. Russia has provided high-tech military gear to Iran, better than anything the U.S. has.
Starr continued by sharing a video interview with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (ret.), who suggests that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu hopes to provoke a major Iranian response that will draw the U.S. into the war. Echoing an earlier IPC presentation by Scott Ritter, Starr said that “Iran is a virtual nuclear weapons state,” which could have a bomb in a matter of days.
Next on the agenda were excerpts from a video interview with Norwegian political scientist Glenn Diesen. He said that the development of the BRICS is an effort to break out of the cycle of war. A unipolar or imperial system depends on “divide and rule”; an alliance or bloc system automatically divides the world into sides which can be manipulated. BRICS is not simply a rival bloc or alliance, like the Warsaw Pact versus NATO, and “it is not by definition anti-American…. The U.S. has the option to join it.” “Unipolarity is already gone,” he said, and efforts to bring it back will only bring economic war or in the worst case nuclear war. “We are presenting the Russians with a dilemma,” he warned: Do they embolden NATO by not retaliating, or do they retaliate? This is the dilemma the Russians are talking about. Either path leads to nuclear war and that is why the Russians are changing their nuclear doctrine, he said.
Olivia Zémor, president of France-based Coordination des Appels pour une Paix Juste au Proche-Orient (EuroPalestine), described the activities of her organization, which uses boycotts, demonstrations and legal action to defend Palestine and Palestinians. She emphasized that Europe, not the U.S., is the chief commercial partner of Israel, whose leaders have made no secret of their genocidal intentions.
Dr. Gershon Baskin, an Israeli columnist and social/political activist, described his efforts to coordinate meetings and agreements between Israeli and Palestinian leaders. He asserted that no one in power is actively pursuing peace negotiations, so he has sought out leaders who are not in power. He wants a guardianship of five countries over the religiously important section of Jerusalem. He also supports bringing in China for the reconstruction of Gaza, when the war ends.
Palestinian Ambassador to Nigeria the Hon. Abdullah M. Abu Shawesh responded to Dr. Baskin, by insisting that official Palestinian government figures are on the record calling for negotiations and a two-state solution, and the Israeli government remains the obstacle. Contrary to the narrative that the war against Palestine began after Oct. 7, he said that it was launched by the U.K. in November 1917 with the Balfour Declaration. “The most dangerous war we are facing is the media war,” he said. Fictitious stories of atrocities on Oct. 7 have gone unchallenged. “The current messianic government of Israel” poses a threat to the entire world.
In response, Zepp-LaRouche thanked the Ambassador, and reiterated her view that we need “everything at once”: a commission of inquiry for war crimes, but we also need to break the “eye-for-an-eye” cycle, and we need the Oasis Plan and a new international security and development architecture, in which the issue of Israel and Palestine is one feature. We must use the momentum that now exists with the expanded BRICS. “We should aim for an actual physical conference in Southwest Asia in the short term.” The Ambassador agreed with his “distinguished sister Helga” that “no one is safe until everyone is safe.”
Discussion
LaRouche independent U.S. Congressional candidate Jose Vega (Bronx, CD15) reminded the participants of his upcoming campaign rally, co-sponsored by LaRouche independent U.S. Senate candidate in New York Diane Sare, and agreed on the importance of the BRICS Summit.
Retired CIA analyst and Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) co-founder Ray McGovern said, “I want to call attention to the ‘air of inevitability’” of the upcoming Israeli conflict with Iran. Battle plans of Israeli assault, which were “leaked by an American patriot,” may have delayed this attack. We have ten days before the Nov. 5 election, during which there may be a lull in which we have time to stop it. “Russia is reining in the Iranians,” urging them not to respond to Israel’s provocations. “Is that much to base some hope on? Well, I think it is.”
Peace activist Father Harry Bury, who began his activism during the Vietnam War, described how private citizens from Israel and Palestine worked out a peace plan and delivered it to the Pope.
A British activist asked Zepp-LaRouche whether the expanding BRICS could supplant the moribund United Nations. Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche replied that while she doesn’t exclude this possibility, the key issue for her is whether we can get the nations of the Anglosphere to respond favorably to the new paradigm represented by the BRICS.
A Spanish-speaking representative of “A World Without War or Violence” described how they conducted a march from Costa Rica to New York, holding events along the way.
A participant asked whether there are really North Korean soldiers coming to the aid of Russia in Ukraine. Ray McGovern answered, “Nonsense. Bollocks.” They aren’t needed. Perhaps these rumors are being circulated to justify the entry of South Korean planes and pilots in the Ukraine war.
In conclusion, Zepp-LaRouche said, “It is the tendency of the universe to out-do evil with greater good … but I only believe in those miracles that we do ourselves.” Can we get the United States and Europe to take a positive attitude toward the Global Majority? It’s never the people that are the problem, but rather what Pope John Paul II called the “structures of sin,” like the military-industrial Complex and the global financial interests. We need to go back to a system where “the power of Wall Street was contained.” Read the speeches of the BRICS leaders, compare them to those of the leaders of the “West,” and make your own judgment.
Sixty scholars from 16 countries gathered today in Berlin at a conference on, “The Protection of New and Emerging Rights: Views from China and Europe.” One of the featured speakers was Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, whose comments were prominently covered in China’s Global Times.
Global Times paraphrased Mrs. LaRouche: “It is probably impossible to speak about human rights without addressing the immediate danger to the very existence of the entire human species—war in Ukraine and war in the Middle East, which risk escalating into a global nuclear war. The highest priority for all people must be to rise above geopolitics, and the notion that nations or groups can impose their interests on others by any means is fundamentally flawed.”
Xinhua News Agency also covered Mrs. LaRouche’s comments, but failed to include her warnings of the war danger. According to Xinhua’s coverage, Zepp-LaRouche “praised China’s vision of a shared future for mankind, as well as initiatives like the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative, which transcend narrow geopolitical interests to address modern human rights needs.”
This was the eighth such conference, which was started in 2015. This year’s seminar was co-hosted by the China Society for Human Rights Studies and the Central South University Human Rights Center. Organizers for the event included the German and Chinese Culture Foundation, the University of Münster, and the International Academy for the Philosophy of the Sciences.
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The assembly of top leaders from dozens of countries next week in Kazan, Russia, may prove to be truly historic, particularly as it contrasts with the devastating decisions being taken by Anglo-American NATO and Israel.
Representatives of Palestine will attend, and they have been informed by their host President Vladimir Putin that Israel’s ongoing assault against them in both Gaza and the West Bank will be the theme of one of the events at the summit.
The fact that justice is coming neither from Anglo-American NATO, nor from the United Nations Security Council as it currently operates, draws greater attention to the BRICS as a meaningful discussion platform.
Some on this planet have their sights set upon higher goals. NASA plans for a Monday launch of its latest mission to Jupiter. And SpaceX has achieved a spectacular landing of its reusable Super Heavy booster rocket.
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Today’s 71st consecutive weekly online meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) began with an overview presented by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, reminding participants that two regional crises have the potential to escalate to nuclear war. She speculated that a “private démarche” from Putin may have caused Biden to stop short of giving his blessing to Ukrainian missile strikes into Russia. Russia’s concerns “not to have offensive weapons systems immediately at their border” have not been addressed. As the Ukraine war is rapidly coming to an end, NATO must decide whether to offer an acceptable peace formula to Russia, or to escalate.
She said that the world is waiting to see how Israel will retaliate against Iran; Israel cannot attack Iran’s underground nuclear facilities, as suggested by former President Donald Trump, without the use of nuclear weapons.
Interview with Mahathir bin Mohamad
EIR Editorial Board member Mike Billington introduced an excerpt from his Oct. 6 video interview with 99-year-old former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir bin Mohamad, describing how, during the Asian Crisis of the 1990s, Mahathir successfully defended his nation against the IMF, hedge funds, and George Soros, using currency controls. He said that this, of course, infuriated the financial oligarchs.
Mahathir described how the U.S. is trying to get the ASEAN countries to confront China. Countries of the Global South are being pressured to take sides in an East-West bloc confrontation, but they want a stable world where they can grow with trade; dividing the world into blocs is counterproductive. We would prefer to solve problems with the United Nations, but since that isn’t working due to vetoes in the Security Council, BRICS is necessary. When a country is recalcitrant like Israel, the world must take action.
Billington recalled how the Wall Street Journal Asia said Mahathir was influenced by Lyndon LaRouche in his opposition to Soros. Mahathir responded that “it was Soros who was responsible for changing the values of currencies.” Soros predicted that Mahathir would destroy Malaysia’s economy, but the exchange controls were a success.
Southwest Asia: Injecting Fear
Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector, promised to continue to “inject fear,” because, “The world is not a safer place than it was the last time I spoke.” If present policies continue, nuclear war is inevitable, he said. He then shocked the participants, saying that Iran is now a nuclear power. They have the technology required to make a simple nuclear weapon, and the Iranian parliament has recommended that Iran withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). “Iran is putting the world on notice that it has nuclear-weapons capability.”
He examined some of the implications of this development. Iran is now a member of BRICS—if Israel attacks, how will Russia respond? “Russia will have Iran’s back.” Ritter agreed with Zepp-LaRouche’s assessment that you can’t attack their facilities without using nuclear weapons, so candidate Trump is de facto encouraging Israel to launch a nuclear strike against Iran. The U.S. vote on Nov. 5 matters, but only if we can get candidates to “walk away” from the use of nuclear weapons.
Zepp-LaRouche responded: “Scott, you succeeded to scare me to death.” Ritter clarified that Iran has not formally declared that it has a nuclear weapon, but if they withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, they could develop a weapon in “less than a week.” He added that “This is a problem of Israel’s own making,” and “the last thing the U.S. wants is for Israel’s nuclear weapons to be discussed in the UN Security Council.” Ritter asked, why did the U.S. UN Ambassador reverse position on two UN resolutions regarding Gaza? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has disregarded President Joe Biden’s advice, and now Biden is making him pay a price. But the U.S. seems to have lost the ability to pressure Israel.
Bassam El Hachem, executive committee member of Independents for Lebanon, presented a Lebanese perspective that behind Iran, you have powers such as Russia and China, and behind Israel you have the United States. Following the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks, there was intensive media manipulation with false tales of mass rapes and killing of children. He estimated that there have been 150,000 victims of Israel’s reprisals, but after one year, they have achieved none of their goals. In both Gaza and Lebanon, they are simply carrying out an extermination war under the guise of a military operation. Western leaders rushed to Israel to embrace Netanyahu, permitting him to carry out all sorts of atrocities, while repeating that Israel has the right to defend itself.
El Hachem disagreed on one point with Ritter: The U.S. is not incapable of restraining Israel, they are complicit. In 1993 an historic agreement was signed, the Oslo Accords, including the agreement for a Palestinian state. Two years later, on Nov. 4, 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, and the main culprit was Netanyahu. Last July the Knesset declared the Palestinian state to be null and void, and then passed the “Nation-State” law, formalizing apartheid. They intend to expel Palestinians into Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. All of these elements were in the background to the Oct. 7, 2023 attack.
Layla Elabed, co-founder and co-director of the Uncommitted National Movement, described her role as a leader of the “Listen to Michigan” project. In Michigan they won over 10% of the primary vote, not just from Arab-American or Muslim-American voters. It spread to Minnesota, Washington and Wisconsin. They had 30 anti-war delegates to the Democratic National Convention. However, the Harris campaign has signaled that they are willing to lose the state of Michigan and sacrifice the youth vote, in order to continue supporting Israeli genocide. Nonetheless, Elabed’s group has made a political assessment that the best way to influence policy is to oppose Trump and permit Harris to take the White House, without endorsing Harris.
Discussion
During the discussion period, Zepp-LaRouche warned against fixating on the U.S. elections, saying that “we have to completely change the entire collective West.”
Independent Congressional candidate in the Bronx Jose Vega (CD15) urged participants to carry out public interventions like the ones he and his colleagues have done. He asked, how can individuals be confident that it will make a difference? Zepp-LaRouche responded with a distich from German poet Friedrich Schiller, “Always strive for completion, and if you can’t be complete in yourself, become part of something that is complete.” She said that the IPC provides the vehicle required: “It’s better that people have sleepless nights and start to think.”
One participant brought up again the problem of the UN being paralyzed by the veto power of the permanent UN Security Council members. Zepp-LaRouche said that we need to mobilize the citizenry in every nation. A number of participants described their efforts to do this. One man from a pro-Palestine organization in Costa Rica read a proclamation from his group, comparing the genocide in Gaza to the Holocaust. A representative of Veterans For Peace read a letter issued by his organization which calls for an investigation of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken for lying to Congress and other misdeeds.
In conclusion, Helga Zepp-LaRouche asserted that Scott Ritter’s assessment is either 100% correct or in the upper 90% range, and agreed with moderator Dennis Speed that the Nov. 5 U.S. election will not be important if we are all dead by then. Therefore, we must continue to mobilize with the IPC.
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The world is sitting on an absolute powder keg, as there are now two major conflicts which could erupt at any moment into a global war. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is scheduled to visit Washington this week where he will be discussing a potential response to Iran’s missile attack last week, and at the same time working to bring the U.S. fully into Israel’s war against Iran. Despite the echo chamber that exists in Washington, there are even some voices across the trans-Atlantic that recognize that nothing good will come if this policy is continued—as French President Emmanuel Macron has most recently exhibited in calling for an end to weapons shipments to Israel.
However, after one full year of Israel’s medieval-like barbarity in Gaza, and now in Lebanon, the world is no longer the place as it was. As has been hinted before, Gaza is not only the graveyard of innocent children—it is also the graveyard of the “rules-based order.”
At the same time, Russia’s recent victory in the town of Ugledar [Vuhledar] has unleashed something of a panic in the West, exposing a far more stark reality than is allowed to be shown on the pages and television screens of mainstream media. A conflict which could have been avoided had the neoconservative Russophobes in NATO agreed to negotiations and an acceptance of Russia’s national interests has now become a bellwether of the ineffectiveness of NATO as a whole—at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives and perhaps Ukraine’s nationhood itself.
Western officials are now scrambling on both sides of the Atlantic, as new proposals for a ceasefire in Ukraine are floated and President Biden along with his teleprompter will visit Germany at the end of the week to discuss other options. These will include “Trump-proofing” NATO and the creation of a long-term war footing against Russia. But NATO unity and planning are not looking good, as exemplified by Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico, who has said he will never allow neighboring Ukraine into NATO as long as he is in office.
Nonetheless the danger remains enormous as those committed to defending their doomed worldview are driving the world toward a thermonuclear showdown.
In discussion with associates today, Helga Zepp-LaRouche emphasized that these next four weeks leading into the U.S. November elections are going to be decisive, and will see numerous inflection points as the world is going through this current upheaval. Tensions are likely to only increase—hopefully not to the point of no return—but the outcome is not yet decided. Openings to organize and introduce new ideas about which direction the world must go in will also increase, and it will be an opportunity to build momentum for a principled response to this crisis.
Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche October 9, 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.
Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche October 3, 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.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche published an article in German for the big peace rally that will take place on German Reunification Day, October 3rd in Berlin.
The article is entitled: “On the Brink of Nuclear Apocalypse: Germany Needs a New Security Architecture!” and she writes:
“Two regional wars – the situation in Southwest Asia and the war over Ukraine – are spiraling out of control and both could lead to a global nuclear war!
After the assassination of the head of Hezbollah, who has enjoyed the highest esteem throughout the Islamic world, and Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, which has already killed over a thousand people and displaced over a million, the situation is now escalating into a conflagration that could lead to a world war.
Ever more powerful and far-reaching weapons are being supplied for the war of Ukraine against Russia, as if there were no red lines in the fight against the nuclear power Russia.
In response, Putin has now changed Russia’s nuclear doctrine to the effect that it will not only use nuclear weapons if Russia’s territorial existence is in danger [from another nuclear power], but also if a non-nuclear state supported by a nuclear power launches a massive air attack. Nevertheless, certain politicians and the media still talk about Putin only “bluffing”. Vladimir Putin’s patience is interpreted as weakness, which is a potentially fatal misjudgment!
It seems that the memory of the destruction and suffering of two world wars has been erased. ..”
Zepp-LaRouche ends her article with the following demands:
No to American medium-range missiles in 2026!
No more unilateral sanctions!
Cooperate with the BRICS nations!
Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche October 3, 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.
Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche September 26, 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.
Declarations and speeches of an unusual importance were made on Tuesday, Sept. 24, at the opening of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly Debate. (That did not include the embarrassment of President Biden’s troubled remarks.) While the threat of thermonuclear war palpably loomed over the UN proceedings, addressing that threat in its true form required a strategic upending of the “masters of war,” to seize the moral high-ground before the “collective Zelenskyy/collective Biden” show could gain traction.
A team of 8 LaRouche Movement activists met the steady stream of participants and delegations near the United Nations Headquarters on the first day of the General Debate. Our banners on BRICS and the New Paradigm could be seen by passing traffic and demonstrators across the street. We distributed about 500 leaflets, as well as the Schiller Institute’s “Colonialism is Over” pamphlet.
On the first day on which heads of state and government addressed the UN, the “NATO narrative” was upset and outflanked. In the case of the remarks delivered by Presidents Lula of Brazil, Erdogan of Türkiye, and Ramaphosa of South Africa, and King Abdullah II of Jordan, NATO’s “Israel” population war against the people of Palestine was clearly identified as the actual, central theater of injustice on which the world’s attention must be concentrated, and that must be immediately addressed and resolved—not the NATO/Ukraine “moral crusade against Russia.”
Integrity was shown in this moment by the several of the national leaders. Türkiye, a NATO member, knew that it was criticizing NATO’s support for the mass-murder in Gaza, when Erdogan said, “And those who unconditionally support Israel! For how long will you continue to bear the shame of looking on this massacre, of being its accomplices?” This demonstrated that a line can be drawn, showing the clear difference between the moral as well as strategic priorities of the Global Majority, and those of NATO-world.
The “moral crusade of Ukraine” is, of course, the desired NATO “public relations” focus. The intent is to use Zelenskyy’s upcoming “Victory Plan” speech as the trigger for the United States in “finally deciding” to authorize the deployment of long-range missiles to Ukraine, which will be used to attack deep into Russia. That is the very thing that was said to be off-limits by the Biden Administration in 2022, because it would “lead to a nuclear world war with Russia.” Russia has, in fact, made it clear what its response will be if and when such a decision is made. Sane people in Germany, as seen in the recent Brandenburg state elections, want no part of the “NATO Victory Plan.”
Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche September 26, 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.
