Join Col. Larry Wilkerson and Helga Zepp-LaRouche in their discussion of the implications of President Donald J. Trump’s return to the White House on Wednesday, January 22nd, 11 am EDT / 5pm CET. Send your questions and comments to questions@schillerinstitute.org.
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson spent 31 years in the U.S. Army, serving in Vietnam, in the Pacific Command, on the faculty of the Navy War College, and at the Marine Corps University. In 1989 he became Chief of Staff to Gen. Colin Powell. He is a regular speaker at the International Peace Coalition.
Col. (ret.) Larry Wilkerson told participants of the 85th meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC), Friday, Jan. 17: “The American Empire – and I will refer to the United States of America as an Empire – has gone badly astray.” He warned that the American empire is confronting a dangerous and chaotic situation of its own making. We have placed two billion people under our “very draconian sanctions.” Col. Wilkerson described how he and his fellow IPC collaborator, retired Air Force Command Chief Master Sergeant Dennis Fritz, witnessed 20 to 30 Capitol Police officers in one of the Senate office buildings threatening to arrest members of Doctors Against Genocide, who were peacefully lobbying to stop the genocide in Gaza.
During the discussion period Helga Zepp-LaRouche said that in her view now would be the moment to push the Oasis Plan, because Trump has said of himself many times that he is a builder, and he does understand something about construction. He wants to get the economy going for the United States. To which Larry Wilkerson responded: “You’re right to put your finger on water. Water is critical in that region. And one of the reasons you can understand partly what Israel has done with regard to Lebanon and elsewhere is their search for water. It’s going to become even more critical as climate change wreaks more of its havoc. So, yes, I would be absolutely for that.”
Join Col. Larry Wilkerson and Helga Zepp-LaRouche in their discussion of the implications of President Donald J. Trump’s return to the White House on Wednesday, January 22nd, 11 am EDT / 5pm CET. Send your questions and comments to questions@schillerinstitute.org.
Jan. 17, 2025 (EIRNS)—Opening today’s 85th consecutive weekly session of the International Peace Coalition (IPC), Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Schiller Institute founder, expressed guarded optimism about the Gaza ceasefire agreement, noting that the deal had already been agreed to last May. However, it took pressure from President-elect Donald Trump’s team to implement it; the Biden administration bears responsibility for the carnage that took place in the interim. Trump’s intervention shows a certain resolve, but a real settlement of the crisis requires the recognition of a Palestinian state, the comprehensive reconstruction of the destroyed areas, and the full implementation of Lyndon LaRouche’s proposed Oasis Plan for the region.
Ukraine Plus
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump could speak soon, but the British will try to disrupt it a Ukraine settlement, as we see with Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s sudden visit to Ukraine. Starmer’s proposal for a “100-year partnership” with Ukraine is reminiscent of Hitler’s dream of a “Thousand-Year Reich,” which “didn’t go so well, as we all know.”
What will Trump formulate as the strategic posture of the United States? Will we see a continuation of the plan for a $1.2 trillion modernization of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, after major setbacks in arms control negotiations? Geopolitics is a relic of the past that caused two world wars. Zepp-LaRouche emphasized that only by overcoming poverty, can we address the root cause of the migrant crisis, and solve such crises in a human way.
Col. (ret.) Larry Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to the U.S. Secretary of State, followed saying, “The empire—and I will refer to the United States of America as an empire—has gone badly astray.” He warned that the American empire is confronting a dangerous and chaotic situation of its own making. We have placed two billion people under our “very draconian sanctions.” Col. Wilkerson described how he and his fellow IPC collaborator, retired Air Force Command Chief Master Sergeant Dennis Fritz, witnessed 20 to 30 Capitol Police officers in one of the Senate office buildings threatening to arrest members of Doctors Against Genocide, who were peacefully lobbying to stop the genocide in Gaza.
Of the announced ceasefire, he predicted that the Israelis would continue to brutally settle Gaza the way they have the West Bank. The Israel Defense Forces has significant problems: soldiers are not showing up for duty, and many veterans are seeking treatment for psychological trauma.
Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector, called the ceasefire a “holding action” while the Israelis regroup. Israel set out to eradicate Hamas, and failed. In this sense, the ceasefire is a defeat for Israel. But it is not a win for the Palestinian people, if a Palestinian state is not achieved. Whether you love or hate Donald Trump, he changed the dynamic. Israel had hoped that “Adelson’s widow’s $100 million investment in Donald Trump would pay dividends.” We don’t know what will happen after Jan. 20, he said, but “Netanyahu’s government is fatally injured.” When the hostages are released, the true scope of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s crimes will be exposed, causing his government to fall. Saudi Arabia will not normalize relations until there is a Palestinian state. Netanyahu and Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir will pay a “fatal political cost” for the lies they told the Israeli people.
Zepp-LaRouche, responding on the topic of the ceasefire, said, “I can only share your concern,” adding that we should not rest on our laurels, and we must go with the Oasis Plan. Instead of building a ski resort in the desert, the Saudis should spend the money on water projects.
Steve Starr, former director of the University of Missouri Clinical Laboratory Science Program, offered a provocative comparison of the recent firestorms in Los Angeles with firestorms created when nuclear weapons are detonated. The key difference between a “line fire,” such as the Los Angeles fires, and a “mass fire” from a nuclear blast, is that there is no escape from the latter, which is accompanied by 400 mile per hour winds.
Prof. Haim Bresheeth, founder of the Jewish Network for Palestine, responded to Starr by saying that it was difficult to follow that sobering discussion of nuclear war, but we must remember that this is what Israel is planning for Iran. “We should be very wary about personalizing politics,” he said, because behind people like Netanyahu and Trump, there are states. Netanyahu’s departure will not make a radical change in Israel, which has its own “Deep State”: Zionism, which has inscribed on the body of Palestine a “terrifying narrative.”
The people who will replace Netanyahu are not better than him. “Zionism has produced a population in Israel which supported the war in Gaza by 97%,” Prof. Bresheeth said. The genocide did not start on October 8, 2023, but rather, when the UN partitioned Palestine on November 29, 1947. The Zionists started the war the following day. In 80 years, more than a quarter-million people have been killed. The first person to call this a genocide was Raz Segal, who, on Oct. 13, 2023, wrote an article for Jewish Currents titled “A Textbook Case of Genocide.” Hundreds of other Israelis have agreed, which gives Prof. Bresheeth hope for Israel.
Israel bombed Lebanon immediately after signing the ceasefire agreement, which is typically what they do. A ceasefire “is just a delay in the genocide.” We have to work “as if there is international law.” Not just eight Israelis, but hundreds of people in other nations who supported them should be in the dock for genocide. Secretary of State Antony Blinken should be there.
Discussion
The discussion period began with three organizing reports. IPC co-moderator Dennis Speed presented the special report just released by The LaRouche Organization on the efforts by Deep State operatives to block the confirmation of Trump appointees Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel. It is titled “The Liars’ Bureau.”
Jack Gilroy gave an activism report from Veterans For Peace and Merchants of Death, and former (and future) congressional candidate Jose Vega reported on his organizing activities. He was present, along with Col. Wilkerson and Dennis Fritz, to support the Doctors Against Genocide lobbying action in Washington, D.C.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche responded to a number of questions and comments. To a question about the coincidence of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the Trump inauguration, she said that it is something we should use, to steer Trump toward an ethical path. She said that “today, we are still on the road to dictatorship,” giving as an example the fact that in Germany it is forbidden to call what Israel is doing to Gaza a genocide. Everybody in the Global South can see that the West’s talk of “democracy” and “human rights” is a charade, and has become an object of ridicule. She mentioned a recent article in the Swiss newspaper Neue Züricher Zeitung, in which former Swiss President Ueli Maurer refers to the “Stasi 2.0” in Germany. Zepp-LaRouche observed that Tulsi Gabbard has abandoned her opposition to section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which has evolved to the point that anyone talking to foreigners can become a target of surveillance.
She concluded by saying that we are in the middle of change that is as significant as Europe’s transition from the Middle Ages to the Golden Renaissance. Having a better culture will determine how we act.
Live Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche, January 15, 11am EDT/5pm CET. Send your questions to questions@schillerinstitute.org
In a discussion with staff and activists of the international LaRouche movement on January 13, Helga Zepp-LaRouche described the “historic opportunity to intervene” as follows:
Now, this year, 2025, is without any doubt, the end of the old system, it is the end of the idea of the unipolar world, the end of the neoliberal system trying to impose hegemony over the rest of the world, but it is really the opportunity to implement what Lyn has been advocating for the better part of half of the last century. And while there is still the danger that things could go really wrong, either immediately in the period before Trump gets into the White House, because there are several crisis spots still hot, but also, if we do not eliminate the geopolitical design that there is a legitimate interest of one nation, or groups of nations, against another nation or other groups of nations, that confrontation could come at any point a little bit later on. So we, as a priority, have to proceed in everything we are doing that we have to get a change in the axioms of the West, that they have to stop geopolitical thinking, and that we have to shift the direction of the nations of the collective West into one of cooperation with the countries of the Global South, in the building of a new and more just system.
So, we have to intervene, and we have to do it by recognizing that European nations, and the United States as well, have been suffocated for the last—in the case of Europe it’s been longer, but in the United States for the last 50 years, with axioms which are completely alien to the true identity of our nations. Therefore, we have to really start in earnest a project to identify, first of all, very clearly what are the best traditions of Europe, European nations, and the United States. Because if we don’t do that, there is no basis for the Europeans and the Americans to join with the countries of the Global South…
The situation with Trump coming in, looking at both the potentials and the shortcomings, it seems that Trump is considering, actively, an early meeting with Putin, and even Scholz in an interview yesterday welcomed that, but naturally he made his usual remarks that the sovereignty of Ukraine should be respected. But nevertheless, Peskov declared that Putin is open for such a meeting with other heads of state, including Trump. There are no conditions necessary for it, so I think this will probably go ahead fairly soon.
But with Trump coming in on Jan. 20, that leaves about four weeks to the German election campaign, in which Merz will have to see if the idea they presented in Ramstein, trying to compensate for everything which will be lost by Trump on Ukraine and other issues, if that can be held up. There is a push, very much, that this “war-ready” bullshit is still in the air, but it will create an opening, because the situation is very much in flux. …
I think we have a very dramatic situation, full of suspense; it is full of potential. It doesn’t mean that the dangers have been eliminated, but the vision of where the world could go is absolutely clearly there, but it will require an extraordinary effort of our organization internationally to bring that about, and bring this objective into the discussion. Because that particular idea, especially in terms of reviving the Classical culture, as Lyn always said, a society which does not know principles of Classical composition, has no chance to survive. Lyn was always extremely emphatic on that, and that is something only we can bring in, because I have never heard any of the present crop of politicians speak in any meaningful way about ideas of Classical composition and statecraft, the way we have unearthed that treasure.
So, I think we are in an incredibly optimistic situation, if we do what we have to do.
Live Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche, January 15, 11am EDT/5pm CET. Send your questions to questions@schillerinstitute.org
Jan. 10, 2025 (EIRNS)—Today’s 84th weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) was again a powerful expression of leaders from around the world joining forces to bring peace to a world on the brink of global war. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, opened by noting the suspense in the air as the world awaits the Jan. 20 inauguration of Donald Trump, with no certainty about what direction his administration will take. The outgoing Biden Administration continues to push for war policies, with Defense Secretary Gen. Lloyd Austin again lying that if Ukraine is lost, the Russians (and other “autocrats”) will make other “land grabs.” The horror in Palestine continues and is expanding to the West Bank, which even the Israeli newspaper Haaretz admits is genocidal and can be called a “pogrom.”
Zepp-LaRouche named several of the people that Kash Patel (Trump’s pick to be FBI chief) listed in his book as targets for investigation in any effort to clean out the “Deep State.” To stop the wars, she said, we must stop the cause of the wars, which is the disintegration of the Western financial system, and do this in cooperation with the BRICS, to “help make humanity human again.”
Retired Swiss Lt. Col. Ralph Bosshard said that Trump is entering office in a “difficult atmosphere” which is not of his making. He said that the 2003 deal with Iran to stop their nuclear weapons program (which did not exist, as everyone knew) was agreed to by Tehran because they knew that otherwise they would be attacked. Now we have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is committing genocide and threatening war on Iran, being cheered in the U.S. Congress and by the Biden Administration. To prevent a global war with Russia, Russian interests must be addressed. Europe is collapsing in part because Biden used the weakness of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to blow up the Nord Stream pipeline, undermining all of Europe’s energy security. Trump must address the de-dollarization and determine which other policies must be addressed first. Time will be short, for he will soon not be able to blame Biden for the crises. The first few months will tell.
Dr. Glenn Diesen, a political scientist from Denmark, said he was optimistic that Trump will act to resolve the crisis with Russia, but that the “liberal democracy” paradigm has failed. The “international aristocracy” has constructed a “club of democracies,” but such a unipolar policy requires hegemony, which can only be implemented through force. As a result, now the so-called “democracies” are supporting genocide; they have overthrown the Assad government in Syria through force; they are supporting ISIS; and they have overturned the democratic election in Romania. They refuse to acknowledge any security interests other than their own. Multipolarity is not up for question, he said, it is a reality. The unipolar world was based on many wars with weak countries, but were nonetheless a disaster for the West. Imagine what will happen in a war against a superpower. The economies and the people of the West are exhausted, and have given up on diplomacy. Governments are falling left and right. Trump has acknowledged that the expansion of NATO was a mistake, which is at least a step toward peace.
Dr. Mimi Syed of the Doctors Against Genocide spoke as a physician and as a mother, describing the horror she witnessed during her trips to Gaza—“atrocities which should never be witnessed by anyone.” This is counter to the ideas upon which the U.S. was created, she said. She described several such horror situations, including that of an 8-year-old boy in a “safe zone” whose face was blown off by a bomb, who was wearing a t-shirt with “Captain America” on it—an ugly irony. She said America was financing these war crimes, and we must rise together to demand a ceasefire and humanitarian aid for the Palestinians.
Dr. Joycelyn Elders, the former Surgeon General of the U.S., addressed the meeting, praising the Schiller Institute and the IPC, and Helga Zepp-LaRouche in particular, for waging this fight. We are failing to prepare the next generation, she said, by allowing the destruction of children, who need health, education and hope. The horror which we all see is “making us all sick.” She pledged her support in any way she could to stop the genocide. “Everybody can do something,” she stated.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche noted that Dr. Elders had played a critical role during the COVID pandemic in working with her to create the Committee for the Coincidence of Opposites, based on the concept of Nicholas of Cusa in the 15th Century—the notion that if humanity is put first, then all apparent opposites can be brought together. She also agreed with Lt. Col. Bosshard on Trump’s shortness of time to act, noting that the U.S. has now lost all credibility worldwide, and has lost the right to address human rights, as a “dying civilization.” The U.S. can and must return to its own best traditions. “Our own humanity is at issue” if we don’t stop the atrocities underway.
Dr. Rodolfo Ondarza, a Mexican neurosurgeon and a former Representative in the Mexico City Legislative Assembly, read an excerpt from a public letter he wrote in support of the Doctors Against Genocide, praising the morality and bravery of Dr. Hassan Abu Safiya and other Palestinian medical workers incarcerated by Israel. He demanded their freedom, and an end to the genocide.
In the discussion period, people addressed the failure of the United Nations, the need for more exposure of the IPC, and the lack of adequate health systems around the world. The ongoing lobbying in the U.S. Congress by the Doctors Against Genocide, with help from Schiller Institute members and retired U.S. military officers, was discussed. Schiller Institute organizer Joe Jennings described the rally he and fellow activists held at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, the largest medical center in the world with fifty thousand health workers, with leaflets and signs to stop the genocide. There was a discussion of the Peace of Westphalia which resolved the religious wars in Europe in 1648 based on respect for the “interests of the other,” and how the Versailles Treaty after WWI, which ignored Germany’s interests, created the conditions for WWII. The end of the Cold War, in which the interests of the Soviet Union were ignored in favor of the expansion of NATO, led to the current extreme danger of global nuclear war.
In closing statements, Lt. Col. Bosshard noted that he had been in Ukraine before the military operations began, and that it was clear that Russia would defend the Russian speaking population. For the Kiev government to declare the use of the Russian language illegal was insane. The belief in Western superiority has only encouraged Western leaders to “bark louder,” he said. The West must learn to respect other cultures.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche addressed the pandemic question by noting that Lyndon H. LaRouche in 1971 created a taskforce on the impact of the “conditionalities” of the IMF, which forced nations to pay their debts even at the expense of the needs of the population. Lowering the living standards in this way, he showed, was the cause of pandemics of old and new diseases, and the related collapse of populations.
Live dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche and Scott Ritter
January 8, 2025, 12.30 pm EDT/6:30 p.m. (CET)
“Change Course Now – We Need a New Paradigm!”
On January 8, 2025, Helga Zepp-LaRouche will hold a dialogue on the current political situation with former UN weapons inspector and anti-war activist Scott Ritter.
Ritter is known internationally for his opposition to the neocon foreign policy and military policy in the United States and Europe. He served as an intelligence officer in the Marine Corps. He later served as a weapons inspector with the United Nations Special Commission in Iraq (UNSCOM mission) from 1991 to 1998. In this context, he emerged as a harsh critic of the Bush administration’s claims that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, which was used to justify the 2003 war against Iraq.
Scott Ritter is an author, a member of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), and a frequent commentator on international podcasts. His latest book, Disarmament in an Era of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union, details his experience working with the Soviet Union to reduce the threat of nuclear war. He has spoken at conferences of the international Schiller Institute, including a high-level press conference on the acute danger of nuclear war in Washington in June 2024.
Discuss the implementation of the New Paradigm for peace and genuine economic development with Helga Zepp-LaRouche. Send your questions to questions@schillerinstitute.org or post them in the chat.
With urgency, the Schiller Institute adds its voice to those of dozens of organizations and thousands of individuals worldwide in support of the demand by Doctors Against Genocide (DAG) that the ongoing genocide being perpetrated in Gaza must stop immediately.
“The deliberate bombing of hospitals, the targeting of healthcare workers, and the systematic destruction of medical services must be stopped. Not another child should suffer, starve, be amputated, or lose their life due to this ongoing genocide,” the DAG’s recent urgent appeal states. “We are sick from genocide,” they state.
These doctors and healthcare workers represent the best humanist tradition of the Hippocratic Oath, which by extension prescribes for all moral persons who would help heal the human condition that we must “do no harm or injustice”—but also suggests that we must actively do the Good. While most of the world stands by and watches in horror as another genocide unfolds before our very eyes; while the NATO governments lead us to the very brink of thermonuclear war; those who are standing up and raising their voice against these Nuremburg crimes are keeping the spark of everyone’s humanity alive—and that is a force which, if strengthened and educated, can spread and do incalculable Good in the world.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the founder of the Schiller Institute, on Jan. 3 called for all organizations and individuals to join forces to stop the ongoing genocide, in remarks to the 83rd weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition, which she initiated:
“I think that is why we absolutely have to move this, but not stop there: Because think about Sudan, think about Yemen, think about Haiti. There is genocide, and it’s part of this system, which is why we need to have a new security and development architecture which puts a completely new system on the table. I think 2025 is the year when we either will manage to do that, or we will see that the world may be blown up. So, this is a very strong motivation to move with everything we can.”
Join Ray McGovern and Helga Zepp-LaRouche January 1 2025, 12.30 EDT/18.30 CET in their New Years 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: First, I want to wish all of you a good New Year, and especially that we can realize peace in the whole world. Therefore, I thought that I could not invite a better guest to my weekly program for the beginning of the new year than Ray McGovern, who is an important voice for peace and historical truth. Ray is, among other things, co-founder of VIPS, of Veterans Intelligence Professionals for Sanity and a long standing daily briefer for three U.S. presidents. He was a live witness to the decisions made at the end of the Cold War, and he will discuss with me the reasons for the present acute war danger and how to overcome them.
Join Ray McGovern and Helga Zepp-LaRouche January 1 2025, 12.30 EDT/18.30 CET in their New Years 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 Dec 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.
In the course of human history, rare moments arise in which it is possible for a seemingly weak force to completely alter the trajectory of the world, and to conquer what had, up until that point, been an enemy so powerful that none could resist. The victory of the American Revolution against the British Empire was one such moment.
In Leonardo da Vinci’s painting The Adoration of the Magi, the most powerful figure is the tiny, vulnerable baby, Christ, sitting in the lap of a serene Mary and curiously reaching his hand toward an offered gift. Throngs of confused, curious people crowd around the child, their faces half in shadow as they cautiously approach, hopeful, perhaps, and wondering. Behind them, the storm of the collapsing Roman Empire rages and mighty figures battle out its last moments amidst already collapsed ruins.
Such a time is ours. A new world order, a light in the darkness, has begun to take shape, whose great power lies in its rejection of colonialism and insistence on the right of all nations and peoples to develop and contribute to the progress of the human family. Partnerships like that of the BRICS nations and of China’s Belt and Road Initiative now comprise the vast majority of nations on the planet and are already implementing paths for development and the end of poverty for all involved. This is the only approach that has real power—the power to create a viable future for humanity in both the long and near term.
The alternative, which will only bring about its own (and our) destruction, is the logic of nuclear war, now codified, unabashedly, in official policy by the U.S./NATO establishment. The statement on Nov. 20 by Rear Adm. Thomas Buchanan that fighting a nuclear war—and the fantasy of coming out on top to “lead the world”—is the U.S. strategic policy betrays the tragic and fatal impotence of the old thinking.
Despite that, the ghouls of the old order are loath to let it go, and are desperate to lock the incoming Trump administration into a fait accompli of war against China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. To that end, not only has the outgoing “collective Biden” authorized Ukraine to continue to use ATACMS missiles against Russia, the latest strike occurring on Dec. 18, but on Dec. 20, an additional $571 million in military assistance for Taiwan was approved, in complete violation of the “One China” policy. Congressional Republicans are also pressuring Trump to prepare to strike Iran, perhaps alongside an emboldened Israel, to preemptively take out its nuclear facilities.
World War III, anyone?
And what of those people emerging from the shadows of the collapsed system? What power can citizens in the West wield to stop the logic of nuclear annihilation? Learn from Leonardo: Once the possibility of the new, more lawful system has been born, the old order has already collapsed, “ob sie noch so brummen” (“however much they still rumble”). [Text from J.S. Bach’s motet Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227..]
The introduction to the Schiller Institute’s new report, “Development Drive Means Billions of New Jobs, No Refugees, No War” states, “In order to overcome the danger of war for good, we need to establish a new international security and development architecture, which takes into account the interests of every single country on the planet. This should be done in the tradition of the Peace of Westphalia, which ended 150 years of religious wars in Europe, because the warring parties realized that there would be nobody left alive if the fighting continued. How much more is that true in the age of thermonuclear weapons! Let us unite for security and development, to usher in a new era for Mankind.”
This is the Christmas message to take, with uncompromising insistence, to your elected officials and others. How easy and natural it would be for the United States to join in win-win cooperation to end empire and colonialism!
The reverend Munther Isaac, Palestinian pastor, ended his Dec. 20 sermon from Bethlehem with this: “In our steadfastness—sumud, let us have eyes of faith to perceive and believe that every Herod will pass, every Caesar will fade, for Empires have an expiry date, and let us remember that it is the meek, not the powerful, who will inherit the earth. In our pain and oppression, we might feel that death has the final word, that Herod is sovereign. But through the eyes of faith, we see that God has the final word: and it is a word of life and light, not death and darkness. In Christmas, God has spoken, and the Word is Christ. Christ is born! Hallelujah! Peace on Earth, Hallelujah! May it be so today.”
Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche Dec 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.
Nov. 29, 2024 (EIRNS)—The 78th consecutive weekly online meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) today opened with the return of Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who noted a “strange discrepancy in the perception of reality” between the Chinese, Russians and the Global Majority, on the one side, and leaders of the Anglosphere, on the other. Russia’s new Oreshnik missile flies at Mach 10, is solid fueled, on mobile launchers, and not vulnerable to preemptive “decapitation” strikes. It was nonetheless “pooh-poohed” by Western commentators. NATO’s war against Russia could so escalate that it would be nearly impossible for Trump to “tone it down” when he enters the White House. The new Schiller Institute report explains how Europe, the BRICS and the U.S. could launch a crash program to electrify Africa and industrialize the Global South, resolve the migrant crisis, and prevent world war. The December 7-8 Schiller Institute conference will be a deliberative platform to move that vision forward.
A New War in Syria
Col. Richard H. Black (ret.), a Marine combat veteran, former head of the U.S. Army’s Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon, and former Virginia state Senator, reported that on Nov. 27, a new front opened up in the Middle East conflict. Al-Qaeda (aka al-Nusra, etc.), with likely cooperation from Türkiye and the CIA, broke a ceasefire and attacked the Syrian government. “Türkiye is always on the lookout for opportunities to seize territory from Syria,” he said, and “Israel … has long had its eyes on Syrian territory.” Carl Osgood, military specialist for EIR, later added that in 2018, then-President Trump issued an order to withdraw U.S. troops. There was a revolt from military leaders and the U.S. Senate, which prevented that from happening. The Israelis have been waging a “low-grade war against Syria for many years,” said Osgood.
The Oreshnik Missile and Ukraine
Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and co-founder of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), reported that intelligence specialists believe that Russia has successfully developed a “new genre” of weapons: Oreshnik has the power of a nuclear bomb without the fallout, but “these tone-deaf NATO people” refuse to take it seriously. The Biden people, on their way out of office, might be tempted to use a nuclear weapon to avoid extreme humiliation in Ukraine. “Let’s get on our knees and pray that there is sangfroid enough” on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s part to prevent such reckless actions, he said.
Carl Osgood reported that on Nov. 25 the Russians, responding to the ATACMS strikes, struck NATO missile launchers in Ukraine, killing foreign specialists at the scene, including 40 American and 9 French technicians, who operated them. He added that the Nov. 21 Oreshnik strike carried no explosive warhead; its enormous destructive power was simply from the kinetic force of impact at Mach 10.
Zepp-LaRouche responded that the “denial by the officialdom of the West is really the scariest thing,” suggesting that it is a form of clinical insanity. “We have to get a breakout,” she insisted. “We’re in mortal danger.”
What Can We Expect from Trump?
IPC co-moderator Dennis Speed suggested that Americans who are still hung over from Thanksgiving may not know that on Thursday, Nov. 28 Putin commented: “You know, what struck me most, and I think you share my view, was not the fact that entirely uncivilized means were employed against Trump, absolutely uncivilized, including attempts on his life, more than once (incidentally, I believe he is still not entirely safe)….” Putin went on, “There have been various instances in the history of the United States. I believe he is a wise and hopefully judicious individual who comprehends all this.”
Former Guyanese President Donald Ramotar asked, are we putting “too much at stake on Trump?” Trump said we were in Syria to take the oil. He “had a domineering outlook on Syria as well.” A German participant said that he is unable to share optimism over Trump, because Trump withdrew from the INF Treaty, declared Jerusalem capital of Israel, and blocked the Nord Stream pipeline. Ray McGovern responded, “Maybe Trump’s people will wake up … or maybe not.”
War Prevention, and the Schiller Institute’s New Report
Former President Ramotar expressed his total agreement with Helga Zepp-LaRouche on linking development to peace, adding that the great danger is the collective West seeking hegemony over the world. Russia saw Western designs on Ukraine as an “extreme no-no” and a threat to their security. Regarding the recently announced ceasefire in Lebanon, he asked, are the Israelis simply buying time to rest their military and replenish supplies? The Israelis can restart the war whenever they are ready. This is not a genuine ceasefire.
Former U.S. Senate candidate Diane Sare, president of The LaRouche Organization, said the American people are equally oblivious to the threat of a new world war, and the promise offered by the New Paradigm of the BRICS and the Global South. “We have a really degraded view of Man in the West … our identity is that of the British Empire.” The cultural interventions, such as the new Schiller Institute pamphlet, are of critical importance to address this.
IPC co-moderator Dennis Small, who was part of the trans-Atlantic task force commissioned by Helga Zepp-LaRouche to produce the pamphlet, said the Western response to Oreshnik has been to escalate. A new talking point for Western figures, including Admiral Robert Bauer, Chair of the NATO Military Committee, is that “instead of shooting at arrows, we have to get rid of the archer,” effectively a statement of intent to go to war with Russia. U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) commented that “this is simply batshit crazy,” and called for the United States to pull out of NATO. Small added, “Now, that’s a reasonable comment.”
Small said the pamphlet offers a way to get beyond dividing the world into antagonistic blocs, by focusing on economic development to avoid war and resolve the migrant problem. The single largest number of migrant detentions in Europe are from Syria, followed by Guinea, then Afghanistan. These are war refugees. In the Americas, the largest cause of migration is economic destruction caused by policies of the IMF, Wall Street, and the City of London for purposes of depopulation and looting. With the construction of the new port in Chancay, Peru, a continental infrastructure grid has become possible, and if it is built, people will stay in their home countries.
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A Romanian participant reported that her nation, “a colony plus-plus-plus,” voted in the first-round of the presidential election for Călin Georgescu, a “dark horse” candidate who stands for national sovereignty and peace, which “you cannot discuss in the press.” The result was “almost like a miracle.” He will now go on to a runoff election against the pro-NATO candidate. The incumbent government is calling for a criminal investigation of the election results. Zepp-LaRouche said, “It is in line with what we have been seeing from many Eastern European countries,” mentioning Georgia’s decision to postpone any discussion of joining the EU. These are all neighbors of Ukraine, and are not blind to what has occurred there.
Zepp-LaRouche concluded saying we need to mobilize millions of people in the streets, and put together networks of people who can make the New Paradigm a reality. She supported Scott Ritter’s call for mobilizations and rallies on Dec. 7, emphasizing the central importance of the upcoming Schiller Institute conference on Dec. 7 and 8. Everyone will be surprised at the caliber of the speakers at the upcoming conference, and the importance of the deliberation that will occur. [eir]
Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche November 28, 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.
As a strategic intervention meant to knock the world off its current trajectory towards short-term military and economic Armageddon between two irreconcilable blocs—that of the bankrupt Western powers running the U.K, the U.S. and NATO, on the one hand; and that of the emerging Global Majority, including Russia and China, on the other—Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche commissioned a study that was released today under the title, “Development Drive Means Billions of New Jobs, No Refugees, No War.”
It makes the case that a solution to the current showdown is readily at hand if the nations of the West join with the BRICS grouping to ensure the rapid industrialization of the whole planet. It emphasizes that this approach also provides the only possible solution to the migrant crisis sweeping the Americas and Europe: Develop the impoverished nations of the South to productively employ their labor force at home.
The new pamphlet is also meant to organize for, and underscore the central themes of, the upcoming Dec. 7-8 Schiller Institute international online conference “In the Spirit of Schiller and Beethoven: All Men, Become Brethren!” It is there that the scientific breakthroughs of Lyndon LaRouche will be used as the touchstone for policy deliberation around the needed new international security and development architecture—to be organized along the lines proposed by Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s Ten Principles.
It is only four days since the Russian deployment of their new Oreshnik hypersonic missile system delivered a shock around the world, and the implications are still being digested in Western policymaking circles. Early indications, however, are that those circles have by and large not yet been jolted back into reality, and they continue to escalate the confrontation with Russia. France has doubled down on the policy of using their SCALP long-range missiles to strike deep into Russia from Ukrainian territory. The Baltic nations are joining Germany in becoming “war-ready” for a frontal confrontation with Russia. And the outgoing Biden administration is being deployed to lob political and economic hand grenades in all directions as they head for the exit, as can be seen in the Department of Justice’s “lawfare” attack on the Modi government in India.
Nor is the response to date from the incoming Trump administration particularly encouraging, as is reflected in the naming of Scott Bessent to be Treasury Secretary. Bessent is not only a Soros protégé going back decades, who reportedly played a leading role in Soros’s infamous speculative operation in 1992 which “broke the Bank of England,” but he is also being cultivated by the City of London and Wall Street as their inside man to control Trump and make sure he doesn’t do anything the bankers disapprove of. London’s The Economist wrote happily: “By eventually picking Mr. Bessent, Mr. Trump has sided with his instinct to keep the markets happy. His selection suggests that he really could be constrained by their reaction, at least when it comes to economic policy.”
It is precisely that “constraint” being imposed by the global mega-speculators that has to be broken, and replaced with Lyndon LaRouche’s science of physical economy, if we are to get Mankind off the trajectory towards thermonuclear extinction.
Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche November 28, 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.
