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Webcast: Turning the “Many” into the “One” — The Fight for a New Strategic Architecture

September 10, 2024by tobi in General, Helga Video, Helga Webcast, Helga Zepp-LaRouche

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

A portion of the concluding statement of the remarkable discussion of the International Peace Coalition (IPC), made by Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, hit the nail on the head. The session, entitled the “New U.S. Nuclear Doctrine: Reason for the World to Worry,” first laid out the severely advanced nature of the thermonuclear confrontation. Zepp-LaRouche addressed the root cause of the war drive and, hence, the solution:

“…the underlying reason of the conflict is on the one side, the pending threatening collapse of the trans-Atlantic system sitting on the $33 trillion of U.S. debt, but furthermore, $2 quadrillion outstanding in derivatives which could be detonating at any moment. Then secondly, that the real cause and the change in the strategic doctrines in the U.S. which was then accompanied by a uniform blasting of Russia and China by all the trans-Atlantic think tanks, which really started in 2017. The reason being the rise of China and the rise of the BRI, where China extended the Chinese economic model to other developing countries.…

“As some of you may know, the Eurasian Land-Bridge was our design for a peace order in 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed. A lot of what China is doing now is in affinity with what my late husband and our movement did for half a century.

“Therefore, you don’t solve the problem by just making a new defense treaty or disarmament treaty or any such thing. You have to address the root causes, which means you have to have a change in the paradigm.

“I think we can become friends again with not only the Russians, but also every other country in the world or people in the world if we consider that we are the one humanity. Whatever historical, ethnic and other divisions may separate us, we must make the jump to first think about the interests of humanity as a whole, and then go to our national interests. In a certain sense, it’s the opposite of America First. America second, or American in line with humanity first. I think that mental jump has to be made.

“I think we need to address the conflict that President Ramotar said, the world is falling into two blocs. That should not happen. We have to have a situation where the United States and European nations stop this geopolitical nonsense and say we cooperate with the Global Majority. If the countries of the Global South are now finally after 600 years of colonialism intending to build their own system which allows for their economic development; we should not fight it, we should support it.”

September 8 marked the 102nd birthday of Lyndon LaRouche—the world-historic statesman and the most accurate economic forecaster of his time. There is no one whose life and contributions stand more at the center of current world history than LaRouche, and at the same time whose enemies tried harder to silence, slander, and eliminate him. As the current world system is in a process of breakdown, shifting from the post-World War II order to a new, post-colonial architecture (if we survive such a transition), there is no one whose work will play a more definitive role in determining the success of a new system than Lyndon LaRouche—whose legacy is currently being carried forward by his wife, Helga Zepp-LaRouche.

The LaRouche movement has for decades been addressing the world’s historical direction from the highest level, including the higher vision of development that makes it possible to resolve the crises in Southwest Asia. The International Peace Coalition, convened by Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, is taking on the task of galvanizing efforts to stop war, while presenting at the same time the parameters of an active, energetic peace worthy of the inherent dignity of our human species.

International Peace Coalition: Cage the ‘Dogs of War’!

September 7, 2024by tobi in General, International Peace Coalition

The 66th consecutive online weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) today featured a uniquely high-powered senior group of scientific, military and political experts in dialogue, all addressing different facets of the insanity of those leaders in the U.S. and Europe who have committed themselves to what Col. Larry Wilkerson aptly described as the suicidal policy of “Cry Havoc, and Letting Slip the Dogs of War.”

Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche opened the session, warning that “the goal is to inflict strategic defeat on Russia,” which, given Russia’s status as a nuclear superpower, is impossible without initiating nuclear war. She emphasized the role of the British, citing recent statements by Russian government spokeswoman Maria Zakharova that London is behind the drone attacks and the constant escalation in the Ukraine war. President Biden submitted to Congress an amendment to the U.S.-British mutual defense agreement of 1958, to make it permanent, ending the requirement for renewal every ten years, to make the arrangement “Trump-proof.”

She reminded participants of Biden’s new nuclear weapons doctrine, which is so secret that apparently no electronic version exists. In discussions with military experts, we have learned that the decision to station missiles in Germany was actually worked out in 2021. Trump’s National Security Strategy (NSS) of 2017 proclaimed for the first time that Russia and China are geopolitical rivals and was followed in 2018 by a National Defense Strategy (NDS) to modernize nuclear weapons. In response, Russia announced the introduction of new weapons systems, including hypersonic missiles. In 2022, the U.S. Nuclear Policy Review stated that the U.S. can use nuclear weapons to “defend its vital interests.” British Defense Secretary Mark Lancaster proclaimed the same for the British government. Germany, in typical anticipatory obedience, embraced recent U.S. policy changes.

In August 2019 the U.S. withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Zepp-LaRouche proposed that both sides must reinstitute the verification regime.

Dr. Ted Postol, MIT Professor Emeritus and one of the world’s leading experts on nuclear weapons, then characterized recent U.S. upgrading of nuclear weapons systems as “prompt preemptive strike forces.” The U.S. has, at great cost, produced “super fuse” weapons, designed to preemptively destroy silo-based missiles. One would only pursue this approach if planning to fight and win a nuclear war, an extraordinarily delusional mindset. A Russian military officer would be forced to conclude that the U.S. intends to attack.

Col. Larry Wilkerson, who was chief of staff to then-U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, followed, recalling discussions with Powell about the 2002 National Security Strategy, about which Wilkerson warned, “We’re at the peak of the mountain, and if we see anyone stirring at the bottom … we will kill it…. We are going to get sucked into something that is initially conventional … once we start losing—which we will,” we will resort to nuclear weapons.

He is now hearing high-ranking military officers talk about the utility of nuclear weapons for the first time since the Cold War, which are very lucrative for defense contractors. In 1991-92, when both the U.S. and Russia were destroying nuclear weapons, he saw that it “scared the bejesus” out of the leaders of the military-industrial complex.

Colonel Prof. Dr. Wilfried Schreiber (ret.), Senior Research Fellow at the WeltTrends Institute for International Politics in Potsdam, who was born in Dresden, reported that according to military historians, Dresden was intended to be one of the first targets for a U.S. nuclear bomb. The war ended before that could happen. The threat of nuclear war has now re-emerged, hotter than ever before. Germany is taking on greater risk than any other country by stationing missile systems. If you follow military logic, the places where these advanced systems are stationed are the most important targets. The unilateral decision by the Chancellor to accept these missiles means that German democracy has failed.

Lt. Col. Ralph Bosshard (ret.) of the Swiss Armed Forces, a consultant on military-strategic affairs, contrasted the decision by Biden and Scholz to station missiles in Germany to what Chancellor Helmut Schmidt did in 1979, agreeing to station Pershing II missiles—but also pursuing negotiations which led to the INF Treaty. Biden and Scholz will station without negotiating. Bosshard said that what he calls “decapitation strikes,” like the “shock and awe” campaign in Iraq, have weakened the UN Charter. “NATO is nothing more than a safe harbor, behind which Western powers pursue their geopolitical ambitions…. Europe should learn its lesson and not chain its destiny unconditionally to the global players.”

Zepp-LaRouche was moved by the remarks of her countryman, Professor Schreiber, saying that he “touched what is in the hearts of many people in Germany,” and that in the time of thermonuclear weapons, war has become so barbaric that it must be outlawed.

New York Congressional candidate Jose Vega asked Colonel Wilkerson whether someone in the State Department or other agencies could play the same role as Daniel Ellsberg, who exposed plans to use nuclear weapons against China. Wilkerson responded that Ellsberg “was a hero par excellence.” He added that the U.S. is “the only country in the world that divides the world in fiefdoms, and puts a four-star general in charge of each fiefdom.” We had plans to invade countries throughout the Levant, if Iraq had been a pushover. Secretary of State Blinken’s remarks about the sanctity of borders are the height of hypocrisy.

Postol added that nuclear war planning is done in a ritualized way, by people who have no real knowledge of the actual physical effects of nuclear weapons. The side effects, such as massive firestorms, are not included in planning. “They don’t even get the basic physical effects right,” he said. In response, Wilkerson said, “My experience from 31 years of military service is that I am more frightened of the civilian leaders than the military,” to which Postol replied, “Me, too!”

Ambassador Jack Matlock, a scholar of Russian history and culture, who was President Reagan’s choice in 1987 for the crucial post of ambassador to the Soviet Union, reviewed what followed the demise of the U.S.S.R. Secretary of State James Baker and his counterparts gave assurances to Gorbachev that there would be no expansion of NATO—not one inch. But for Russia, the problem is not NATO expansion, but the stationing of American or NATO bases in these countries. The decision of Western powers to interfere in the politics of Ukraine was also particularly provocative.

Donald Ramotar, former President of Guyana, professed his admiration for Matlock, and asked: How much of this situation would you attribute to the deterioration of leadership in the West? Matlock replied that a big problem has been the preference for military solutions to all problems. Ramotar went on to say that the world is presently divided into two blocs: the former colonial powers trying to maintain their domination, and the Global South. He endorsed Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche’s proposed Council of Reason to break out of this trap.

In conclusion, Zepp-LaRouche asked participants to widely share what had been discussed at the meeting, and to take to the streets in the upcoming demonstrations. She urged the U.S. to “stop the geopolitical nonsense,” and collaborate with the Global South. “Move toward solutions, because if we only protest the negative, it will not be sufficient.”

“Can the U.S. Nuclear Doctrine Get More Threatening?” Col. Richard H. Black (ret.)

August 27, 2024by tobi in General

Remarks by Col. Richard H. Black (ret.) originally delivered to the International Peace Coalition (IPC) on August 23, 2024

Webcast: Urgent Appeal from Russian General: Citizens of the West, Wake Up Before It’s Too Late!

August 27, 2024by tobi in 436, 465, 483, Helga Video, Helga Webcast, Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche August 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@schillerinstitue.org or ask them in the live stream.

There was something that should not escape notice, said Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention, and pointed out by Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche at the conclusion of her Friday address to the International Peace Coalition. Behind that convention statement lies an intent that could bring about the end of civilization itself, and as soon as within the next weeks, or months. Vice-President Kamala Harris, in her Thursday evening speech, August 22, said: “As Commander-In-Chief, I will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world.”

This is a time like no other—a time in which “Global NATO” has actually invaded Russia.

It is now clear, including from articles published in the New York Times and other outlets, that the invasion of Russia was planned at least a year ago, and that its planning and execution, from the beginning, involved the participation of NATO forces, including operatives from Poland, Ukraine, the United States, Germany and other nations. A Russian commander, Major General Apti Alaudinov, commander of the Chechen Akhmat special forces and deputy chief of the Russian Armed Forces’ Main Military-Political Department, in an August 19 interview, has also made this clear.

Alaudinov stated that the invasion of Kursk “was prepared directly under the American leadership. These forces invaded the territory of the Kursk region…. The initial task was to take control of the nuclear power plant, as well as the Kursk and possibly Belgorod regions.

Alaudinov also delivered a message to the people of the United States and Europe: “You probably do not see or hear that your leadership is doing all it can to launch a nuclear war, and the blame for the current situation in the world lies solely on America and the NATO bloc … as you’ve been trying with all means to make Russia cross the red line and start protecting itself using all these nuclear weapons. I don’t think this is something you really want. If you don’t want this to happen, speak out! Go to the streets and stop your government!” He concluded: “In any case, if you want Russia to lose the war, you have to understand: The Russian nuclear state will not lose the war. After all, why do we need the world if there is no Russia? That’s why I’m saying: You either wake up and go to the streets to stop your government, or you all (will) appear … in the Third World War zone. This is the issue of the nearest future!”

Going out into the streets, however—though necessary, desirable and perhaps even primary in the short term—is far below sufficient. We must be “an engine of ideas” and solutions. From the Zepp-LaRouche Ten Principles for a New International Security and Development Architecture, programs and policies can be fruitfully outlined, and then advanced. We must not only discard the present policies, but supplant and replace them with clear, pro-human-based alternatives.

Webcast: “Whom The Gods Would Destroy, They First Make Mad”

August 20, 2024by tobi in Helga Video, Helga Webcast, Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche August 21, 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@schillerinstitue.org or ask them in the live stream.

The warning that “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad,” is, unfortunately, not only true; it is also never heeded by those to whom it most aptly applies. The mini-intellects of the 21st century’s NATO-based trans-Atlantic oligarchy are victims of the “Scarface Syndrome”—”Never start consuming your own product.” When you think you are steering the Titanic, you don’t even register the need to change direction, until it’s too late, at best.

What must be done, as Global NATO racks up failure after failure, is to assemble all good people within “the belly of the beast” of the trans-Atlantic failed states, to take back their governments. An Intercontinental Council of Reason, whether formal or improvised, must come into existence, that becomes, and provides, what the late U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark once called “a fertile engine of ideas”—a term he used to describe those various organizational ventures associated with Lyndon LaRouche.

The hopeful signs registered in the recent meetings of the International Peace Coalition, which have attracted representatives from 50 nations, and in the increasing support and initiative of either independent candidates for office, or new institutions emerging in the “Global South,” indicate the existence of a world outside of the “Flatland” of geopolitics. There is a tangible, if not material, complex domain of action, from within which apparent “miracles” can be accomplished by those who realize that it is their commitment to that higher domain’s “narrow path,”—just their individual talents or capabilities—that makes these miracles possible. The physical-economic solutions, including the successful development of thermonuclear fusion power, that were characteristic of the proposals of economist Lyndon LaRouche, including his 1975 Oasis Plan for the Middle East (which referenced “controlled thermonuclear reactions” as a central component), flow from that higher domain of new physical principles.

To avoid the impending thermonuclear war, we must think differently. There is a difference between thinking and acting poetically, and thinking and acting prosaically. On a call held last night by Independent U.S. Senate candidate for New York Diane Sare and Bronx Congressional candidate Jose Vega, Professor Norm Finkelstein pointed out that what is missing from all of the protest movements he has seen arise in the past decade is that “none of them have songs.” He contrasted this to Martin Luther King’s Southern Civil Rights movement, and the constant presence of singing, especially the Spirituals. He asked, “Name me what song there is that everyone associates with Black Lives Matter, or with Palestine, or with any other recent action. You can’t! I know, because I’ve been to out there for these gatherings.”

In the case of the 1989 movement that broke through the Berlin Wall, however, everyone “instinctively” knew what the musical/poetic inspiration—not the “theme song,” but the inspiration—that embodied that great moment was: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Friedrich Schiller’s Ode To Joy poem, and the moral domain from which it proceeds, which Beethoven studied and thought about for thirty years before he set it to music in his great symphony, provides the aesthetic basis for a new Constitution for all of humanity. The Schiller Institute, and Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s “Ten Principles for a New International Strategic and Development Architecture,” both proceed from the same domain, and the realization that it takes only a few people, organized as a Council of Reason, to make the realm of the Beautiful, become the realm of the True. That is the secret of victory over the folly of our time.

Webcast: Reason, Not Weapons – Join the International Peace Coalition

August 13, 2024by tobi in 436, 465, 483, General, Helga Video, Helga Webcast, Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche August 14, 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@schillerinstitue.org or ask them in the live stream.

In a discussion with collaborators Helga Zepp-LaRouche said on Monday, August 12:

“I can only say that the war danger is clear and increasing, and the situation is fragile, with the situation absolutely on the brink. Therefore, we absolutely have to increase our activities of the IPC meeting: I think last Friday’s meeting on Aug. 9, gave us excellent ammunition and tools. The video of the speeches is on the Schiller site. We can use that video and the speeches of individual speakers for massive outreach. And I think for the next Friday, Aug. 16, we should use those videos to contact as many parts of the peace movement domestically and internationally, to try to keep the process of expansion, and simply tell people, it is not good enough to demonstrate for peace: We have to make the international peace movement more vocal, more visible, so that we reach the people who are influenced only by the narrative of NATO and the mainstream media via a different voice, and that can only be done by unifying the international peace movement. And to present solutions: It’s not good enough to just be against the war, but we have to offer solutions for how to remedy the causes for the war, like the Oasis Plan, the International Security and Development Architecture, the Peace of Westphalia approach applied to today, and the Council of Reason.”

Webcast: The Strategic Imperative for a Classical Renaissance

July 30, 2024by tobi in General, Helga Video, Helga Webcast, Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche July 31, 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@schillerinstitue.org or ask them in the live stream.

In a conference presentation in Italy on July 27, Helga Zepp-LaRouche gave a presentation which demonstrated how to think about the conflict between the Trans-Atlantic Roman-modeled “democratic dictatorship” called NATO, and the true interests of the people and nations of the world, starting with the concrete case of Germany, the most important economy in Europe and the second largest military/financial contributor to NATO’s war against Russia.

Read Zepp-LaRouche’s remarks here.

There was more than applause at the conclusion of her remarks. There was a deeper understanding of the crisis actually confronting Western Civilization itself—not merely the geopolitical construct called “the West.” Those viewing the Olympics’ “Last Supper” blasphemy, with the near-naked “god” Dionysius, the “Anti-Christ” as the “sacrifice served as a meal,” were seeing the spiritual foundations espoused by the “new NATO” alliance, an Allgemeine SS with pagan diversity at the core of its “spiritual center.”

There is a reason that many trans-Atlantic pundits, bloggers, commentators and academics are baffled by Russia’s insistence on “de-Nazification” in Ukraine, and, therefore, about Russia’s fierce commitment to fighting NATO’s “Allgemeine SS” military deployment there. They refuse to understand that the true roots of the fascism of 1920s Italy, and 1930s France, Germany, Spain, and Central and Eastern Europe, lay in the attempted revival, largely fueled by British imperial studies of “the secret of Roman rule,” such as Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, of the anti-Christian, Roman imperial tradition of Tiberius, and its pagan expressions, for example in the military Cult of Mithra, or the baby-sacrificing cult of Moloch. Think, in this context, about the “green” movement’s peculiar and comparatively recent, if not sudden, political sex-change, from once being the erstwhile leaders in the “peace movement” to stop nuclear weapons from being placed in Germany, to now being all-out advocates for ultimate military confrontation with Russia, including the deployment of long-range missiles and even thermonuclear weapons.

Why did the “Greens” do this? Because it is the military, financial and political policy of NATO that “climate change” will be used as the pretext for a global military “Allgemeine SS,” and a universal Gestapo, to “save the planet” by reducing the human population to less than 1 billion. This Malthusian mission requires a spiritual visualization; we just saw one expression of that at the Olympics.

What should humanity be for? We request that all should read, and re-read, Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s “Ten Principles of a New International Security and Development Architecture” with new eyes. They outline the difference between a principle and a “policy,” “platform,” or “party plank.” There is a difference between “principles” and “issues.” That difference is also amply demonstrated in the interview that appears below which was given by New York United States Senate candidate Diane Sare to “Great Game International.”

Helga Zepp-LaRouche Addresses Orvieto Forum Panel

July 30, 2024by tobi in Helga statement, article, transcript, Helga Video

The following is Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s transcript of her responses to two questions, at the Orvieto Forum of the panel on “The Spirit of Sovereignism Is Once Again Haunting Europe,” sponsored by the Indipendenza! party on July 27, 2024. Here she responds to the first question, which was presented in Italian. The English translation was not available. Zepp-LaRouches presentation can be watched here.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Well, I think we have a big crisis in Germany right now, because when the NATO summit took place, Scholz—the Chancellor—afterwards declared that the United States had decided to install long-range missiles in Germany. Now, that was not discussed in the German Parliament, there was no referendum among the German citizens, and these long-range missiles represent a clear escalation towards nuclear war. The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov already answered by saying that Russia will counter that with similar measures, possibly including nuclear-armed missiles. So, the question is, how is it that the United States can make a decision which puts into jeopardy the very existence of Germany? When Scholz says, it was the United States who decided, who in the United States? We just experienced that there was an assassination attempt on Trump, where the cui bono is still a very open question. Then shortly afterwards, President Biden resigned [from running for reelection], because he clearly was not fit for the office anymore, and there was a big discussion that this was not new, but that he had not been fit for quite some time. So, Biden obviously did not make the decision to put these long-range missiles into Germany.

So, this is a big problem. If you think that some unknown entity is making a decision over the very existence of Germany, that just brings on the table, very clearly, the question that Germany at this point has zero sovereignty. This is, however, clear to a small, but significant portion of the German people, who, basically I would say, join most of what has been said here yesterday and today, meaning that they do not regard Russia as a mortal enemy, which the NATO summit just had declared. The NATO summit declared Russia to be a direct threat, the axis of Ukraine to NATO is irreversible, China to be a challenge for the Euro-Atlantic security order, all of which are assumptions which are not shared by the average people, because they have not been consulted, and the mass media is just trying to get people convinced to believe the narrative of NATO.

So, in reality, the present situation is one where NATO is trying to impose its global dictatorship, which would mean, decouple from Russia, from China, and with that, from the Global Majority. Because in a complete blowback to the policies coming from NATO for some time, there is now a new system emerging in the form of the BRICS, the SCO, and other organizations of the Global South, who are trying to create a new economic system, including a new currency, a new development bank. And Europe is very much in a position where we have to decide, do we want to be the vassals of NATO going into a Third World War with the majority of the world—the Global Majority? Or, do we want to line up with the economic bloc, which clearly is on the rise, to create a new system?

So, I think that we are right now in Germany in a very existential decision-making process, where I think we have to ally forces, and that’s why I’m very happy to be here, and I want to thank you for the invitation, because I think the Italians, the Germans, the French, and other people of Europe have to unite at this point to fight this existential danger. [applause]

Here is Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s response to the second question, also presented in Italian:

Zepp-LaRouche: We have a situation where the German economy is in a free-fall. The economic collapse is much, much worse than meets the eye, if you look at the media or so. I think Germany is heading towards an absolutely existential collapse. And I think, in that, unfortunately lies also a chance that people are waking up, because, it’s not just Germany which is collapsing: You have the trans-Atlantic financial system which is bankrupt. It’s sitting on $2.1 quadrillion in unpayable derivatives debt. That is a bubble which can detonate at any moment.

Now, there is a safety boat already, and that is the new economic system which is emerging in the Global Majority—the BRICS, the SCO, the Eurasian Economic Union, ASEAN: All of these countries are building an economic bloc. The danger is that if NATO puts pressure on Europe to decouple or to de-risk, not only are we heading towards a thermonuclear war, because any one of the crises—Ukraine, the situation between Israel and Gaza; Netanyahu was just in the United States lobbying for a war against Iran; the crisis around China and Taiwan. [applause] We have three regional crises which could go into a nuclear war in a very short period of time.

So, what is the way out? The way out is that we have to think completely differently. If we stick to normal party politics, or normal procedures, I don’t think there is a way out. But if we think in terms of a paradigm shift, that we are experiencing right now a historic transformation, where 500 years of colonialism is ending. Because of the strength of China, the countries of the Global South are now forming a new economic system. This is where economic growth is: The growth rates in Asia and the countries that are working with the BRI are extremely high, while Europe and the trans-Atlantic world are collapsing.

So I think the task we have to solve is we have to convince and make clear to the people of Europe that they do ally with the Global South. Germany is collapsing, but Germany is an export nation, and if we would say, “Let’s work with the BRICS, let’s work with ASEAN, let’s work with the Global South,” we could participate in the prosperity which is developing there. We have to create 2-3 billion new productive jobs in the Global South, which we could do. If all the countries of Europe would ally—hopefully with even Japan, and even the United States at some point—we could solve the migration issue in the only possible human way, in creating productive jobs so that the young people of Asia, of Latin America, of Africa want to stay home and build up their own countries. [applause]

So, I think the biggest challenge we have is, how do we get to the mainstream influence people? In Germany for example, the East Germans are not believing the NATO narrative, because they had a different socialization than the West Germans. There are very important people in all of Germany, who are already thinking the way I’m talking about now. But we have to succeed in making clear to the people who are reading Bildzeitung, FAZ, the mainstream media every day, that there is a hope.

So, I’m promoting, since the special military operation in Ukraine broke out, the idea that we have to have a new security and development architecture, which must include every single country on the planet, because if we create any kind of structure, which does not include every country, it is a step to war. That is the lesson of the Peace of Westphalia, which ended 150 years of religious war in Europe and it came to the conclusion that you have to pay attention to the interest of the other if you want to have peace: And that means the interest of every other.

Now, what I’m suggesting is not so far-fetched. On June 14th, President Putin of Russia proposed a new Eurasian economic security architecture. He did not mention the United States, he only said this Eurasian security architecture could be open to NATO countries. He left it undefined if that includes the United States or not. Now, Xi Jinping has made similar proposals by always talking about the need to have a shared community for the one future of mankind. He has proposed several initiatives—the Global Security Initiative, the Global Development Initiative, and the Global Civilizational Initiative—which go very much in the direction of what I’m saying.

So, I think we have to conspire, if you want, to put this idea of a new security and development architecture on the table, which includes every single country on the planet. And because the present constellation of governments is so difficult—to put it diplomatically—I have also called for the creation of a Council of Reason: that is the call to elder statesmen, retired military, people from science, from culture, who have merit in having contributed something important, to step forward and advise governments and suggest solutions. Because I think the present crop of governments is not fit for the job, and obviously, the electoral process is very difficult, and many obstacles are there. But I think if we would find in every single country on the planet, in all continents, the wisest people who would step forward, like there are examples: For example, the Council of Florence in the beautiful Italian Renaissance was such a council, bringing together the wisest people from the Roman Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church. They managed to get unity in Christianity, at least for a certain period of time. The Peace of Westphalia itself was such a council of the wisest, and also the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which helped South Africa to get over apartheid was such a precedent.

So, I think we need to come up with new solutions, because the fate of humanity has never been so much in danger as right now.

Now, why is sovereignty the absolutely important precondition, and why we have to make that clear to people? Now, up until the 15th century, all government forms were oligarchical. You had kings, monarchs, aristocrats, a small elite of privileged people, who would keep the population deliberately backward, and there was no participation of the individual in government. Then, in the 15th century, through several influences, like the Italian Renaissance, which was a big step forward in the history of Europe, the government of Louis XI in France, where the income of the people doubled in 20 years, and through the writings of Nicolaus of Kues, who developed for the first time, the idea that government is only legitimate, if it has the consent of the governed. That only if the people agree with what the government is doing, is the government legitimate. That’s something which is completely lost today—you know, governments do whatever they like.

So, it was this invention by Nicolaus of Kues of the reciprocal relationship between the government and the governed, mediated through the representatives, whereby the individual—for the first time—could participate in government. And this is why we absolutely have to reject supranational institutions like the EU, because the EU is a gigantic bureaucracy, with enormously large numbers of people, no transparency, no accountability, and the participation of the individual citizen in Italy, in Kosovo, in Germany, does not exist.

So, I think this principle of sovereignty needs a broad discussion. Why do we need sovereignty? It’s an existential question.

Now, lastly, I think we need a cultural renaissance. And I heard some of the speakers yesterday and today speaking about the need to have the Greek, Roman, Christian foundation, and I fully agree. I would even go a step beyond, and say, we urgently need a Classical Renaissance of the best traditions of Europe. [applause] The Classical Greek, the Italian contributions of Dante, of Petrarca, of the Council of Florence, of the Golden Renaissance in Italy; likewise the German Classical period of Bach to Beethoven, from Lessing to Schiller: These are so important ideas, and our young people have completely forgotten it!

So we have to revive that and make it real. Furthermore, we have to have a cultural dialogue between the best traditions of Europe and the best traditions of China, of India, of Africa, of Latin America, because only if we understand the other culture, if we start to discover the beauty of the poetry, of the music, that we start to love these other countries, and that is the best medicine against any kind of chauvinism, or wrongly understood nationalism. [applause]

And I have not heard Ursula von der Leyen, Olaf Scholz, Annalena Baerbock, or any of these people ever speaking about any beautiful idea of Europe. And that is why they are completely unfit to save Europe at this point. [applause]

I think we are in a minority, obviously, right now, but I think we have the vision. I have a vision, where the world can be. I think we are, at this point, this close to thermonuclear war which would be the annihilation of civilization. But we are also only this far away, from making the jump, to create the new world economic order in which all countries can live in a win-win position. And it soon will become apparent that Europe has only one choice: Either go with NATO on the road to destruction, or join with the Global Majority towards a beautiful future. And I think this is what we have to make clear to people so that they understand the potential much better.

I would like to invite your party to participate in a conference we are planning, at this point: A European-wide conference where we are trying to put together people from Scandinavia, from France, from the Benelux, from Germany, and hopefully from Italy, as well. So, that is what I wanted to tell you. [applause]

Webcast: Trump Assassination Attempt, Biden Withdrawal — What’s Next?

July 23, 2024by tobi in 436, 465, 483, Helga Video, Helga Webcast, Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche July 18, 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@schillerinstitue.org or ask them in the live stream.

This week began in the U.S. with today’s spectacle of the Congressional committee hearing on, “Oversight of the U.S. Secret Service and the Attempted Assassination of President Donald J. Trump,” in which next to no information came out about the July 13 incident. The head of the U.S. Secret Service Kimberly Cheatle stonewalled; most Representatives fulminated, and the public still awaits the truth, after nine days since the murder attempt. To be sure, elected officials and citizens have grounds to be angry: The Secret Service insists there must be an internal investigation, with results due out not for another 60 days.

Scott Ritter, military expert, has called for an independent investigation, commissioned by a grouping of state authorities. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) released a report yesterday by his office, with valuable preliminary findings. He said, “We can’t trust the FBI and the Secret Service to do an honest and open and transparent investigation, that’s just a very sad fact.”

The prevarication and lies about July 13 are in line with the Big Lies foisted on the public about other life and death matters. The lies from the “invisible government” in the U.S. are in line with the NATO lies that President Vladimir Putin is bent on having Russia invade all of Europe in order to re-establish an empire, and that China is menacing the world.

Suddenly today, Vice President Kamala Harris is center stage at the White House and on the campaign trail, wildly promoted by the MICIMATT—military-industrial-congressional- intelligence-media-academia-think tank—as the golden girl answer all along to the U.S. leadership void. There is almost no attention to the obvious fact that President Biden, too incapacitated to be a presidential candidate for the next three months, is in no condition to be President for the next five months until Jan. 20, 2025.

The war danger is extreme. Zepp-LaRouche pointed to the situation in Germany, her homeland, where Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, and Economic Minister Robert Habeck, among others, have prostrated themselves to the U.S./NATO decision to deploy U.S. long-range missiles in Germany, just made known at the July 9-11 NATO Summit in Washington.

Besides the bellicosity of these statements, the prospect of triggering all-out war by “accident” not by design, is increasing relentlessly.

These are the circumstances crying out for all deliberate action to restore diplomacy and truth – Towards a Council of Reason.

In the dizzying swirl of events which is creating the impression that history is “speeding up”, here are two articles by Harley Schlanger covering developments of the last days, which provide the broader context in which these seemingly discrete “events” are occurring. The first is from July 19, the second from July 23. To stay on top of the “news”, sign up here for email notifications of future articles, and share with friends and associates. Read here.

Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche July 24, 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@schillerinstitue.org or ask them in the live stream.

Webcast: The Trump Assassination Attempt — Less than an Inch Away from Total Chaos

July 17, 2024by tobi in 436, 465, 483, General, Helga Video, Helga Webcast, Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Helga Zepp-LaRouche issued the following brief statement Mondy, July 15:

“The world is still in a state of shock. The July 13 assassination attempt on Donald Trump failed by only an inch. Had the assassin’s bullet struck its mark, the shot could have been Sarajevo 2.0 for throwing the US and subsequently the world into chaos, followed by a global nuclear war.

“The next three and a half months will be a period of maximum danger, escalation of military conflict around Ukraine and Southwest Asia, increasing ungovernability in France and possibly other countries, increasing financial turbulence, and above all the escalating danger of a direct military confrontation between `Global NATO’ and Russia and China.

“Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary started an exploratory mission to Kyiv, Moscow and Beijing, and found that the road to diplomacy does exist. We therefore call on Elder Statesmen, religious leaders, former diplomats and elected officials, retired military and other civilian leaders—from all nations—to step forward and create a Council of Reason to explore the potential for a new international security and development architecture, which can take into account the interests of every single country on the planet.”

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In a discussion with international associates today, Zepp-LaRouche discussed the organizing challenges posed by the global crisis, including the shocking attempted assassination of Trump. “I think this is a very good image for people to reflect on. That may be how far we are from the total annihilation of the human species.… The world’s fate is as fragile as this accidental movement by Trump’s head. If one reflects on that, it should send shivers down your back. Because that is the reality, and it should help people wake up from their complacency about what is obviously the most dangerous moment in history ever.”

The attempted assassination of Trump occurred scarcely 48 hours after the July 9-11 NATO summit concluded in Washington, D.C. That meeting activated a policy of replacing all sovereign governments—including that of the United States—with a supranational military structure under NATO command, with the British in the catbird seat. A major feature of their gameplan is to render the United States itself ungovernable, to unleash a “strategy of tension,” including orchestrated violence and chaos.

Was the assassination of Donald Trump intended to kick that off? Was there deliberate security-stripping at the Butler, Pennsylvania event to facilitate the job?

We don’t yet know the answers to those questions. But what we do know is that the “Global NATO” policy is consistent with that; and we also know that the only way to stop their policy of destroying all semblance of sovereignty and development is to organize a new international security and development architecture. The International Peace Coalition’s Declaration of Independence from Imminent Nuclear War: Begin Negotiations for Peace Now lays out a pathway to bring that about, beginning with initiating discussions and then negotiations along the lines proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in his June 14 peace proffer.

A “Council of Reason” of Elder Statesmen from around the world can be a decisive catalytic force in furthering that process.

Zepp-LaRouche concluded her discussion with associates today by stressing that such a new approach is urgently needed if mankind is to be saved. “If we stay within the confines of `I belong to this party and can only talk to this person and think this,’ as long as you are staying within that kind of a corset, we are all doomed. We somehow have to catalyze this discussion about what a new paradigm really means in terms of sovereignty, elimination of poverty, health systems, infrastructure, credit system, education—a different way of thinking.” She insisted that “these are the issues which are important, and people have to be organized to think along these lines. And that coincides with what the Global Majority is attempting to do.” It is the methodology of Lyndon LaRouche that has provided us with a way of thinking, which breaks with the axioms of reductionist thinking and “has taught us not to believe any one doctrine, but how the progress of science has moved forward from one thinker to the next, and how that became the self-enriching manifold of which there is no end. That’s the beauty of it.”

Zepp-LaRouche concluded: “We are at the end of an epoch: 500 years of colonialism are coming to an end irreversibly. At the end of it, it’s either a new paradigm or World War III. And I don’t see any middle ground to that.”

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