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Nov. 15, 2024 (EIRNS)—The 76th consecutive Friday weekly meeting today of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) began with Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche discussing the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election in the United States.

We are in “an extremely interesting moment in history” in which “the direction has not been decided.” Trump has announced diverse choices for members of his Cabinet, but, “You cannot read from the previous history of these people, what they will do in the future.” She suggested that with former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence, “The truth about where the war in Ukraine stands will for sure come out,” as well as the truth about the actual authors of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage.

However, “there is no point speculating or commenting on events”; our job is to propose solutions. We need to create a consensus on the economic development of the Global South as an alternative to geopolitical wars. Imagine a world in which the nations of the BRICS join hands with the U.S. and Europe to accomplish this in everyone’s self-interest. The migrant crisis besetting both the U.S. and Europe is a case in point: The only way to solve the crisis is by full-set development of the nations of the South, rather than subjecting them to looting and wars. The Schiller Institute is preparing an emergency report on this crisis and its solution, which will be published in ten days or so. Everyone should take part in the Dec. 7-8 Schiller Institute conference where these topics will be addressed in depth.

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, heartily endorsed the appointment of Tulsi Gabbard, recounting his first contact with her over the question of U.S. sponsorship of terror groupings in Syria. “She is not an indoctrinated individual,” he concluded.

On the BRICS, he said that the Oct. 22-24 summit in Russia demonstrates that U.S. attempts to isolate Russia have failed. The genocidal effects of U.S. sanctions against Syria, and the ludicrous sanctions against Russia, including banning crippled children from participating in the Paralympic Games, are horrendous. There has been “deep revulsion and fear engendered by the theft of the Russian treasury,” which he described as the greatest theft in world history. Biden’s participation in dropping 2,000 lb. bombs on Gaza “has badly stained America’s reputation in the world.”

Colonel Black’s presentation inspired an in-depth dialogue among the participants. Former Guyanese President Donald Ramotar intervened to voice his concern over Gabbard’s position on Gaza, which he compared to that of Netanyahu, and warned that she appears to have a strong anti-Islamic bias. In response, Colonel Black echoed Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche in saying that the cabinet appointees will be carrying out Trump’s policies, which remain to be seen. IPC co-moderator Dennis Speed added that the accusations by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and others, that Gabbard is “in Putin’s pocket,” suggests that something is going on here that bears further scrutiny. Returning to the case of Syria, Colonel Black reported on the CIA’s willingness to deploy modern, mechanized armies of ISIS and al-Nusra to steal Syria’s oil and grain. Trump’s efforts to pull out of Syria were met with “an effective rebellion by the Deep State,” supported by the collective propaganda capabilities of the corporate media. Zepp-LaRouche called for the lifting of the Caesar Sanctions to alleviate the suffering of the Syrian people.

Professor and author Glenn Diesen spoke about the Nov. 3-7 Valdai Discussion Club annual meeting, addressed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, at which Diesen had a lengthy exchange with Putin in the open discussion session. The BRICS initiative has elevated the nations of the Global South to being autonomous nations, rather than “pawns in blocs.” Asked about Putin’s proposal of a “polyphonic world order,” Diesen described it as “an important part of multipolarity.” Unipolarity has “corrupted diplomacy,” he said.

Mike Robinson, co-editor of the UK Column, agreed with Colonel Black’s assessment of the role of the “Western media” in crafting a narrative to justify the destruction of Syria, highlighting the role of “BBC Media Action,” supported by the British Foreign Office. His colleague Vanessa Beeley, who resides in Syria, has actively broken with the enforced consensus among putative journalists. Robinson also noted Donald Trump’s promise to reverse the trend toward censorship. The shift toward reliance on social media is creating financial problems for the “mainstream media,” to the extent that the British government is now subsidizing it by purchasing ads, while using so-called “terrorism legislation” and the “Online Safety Act” to silence unapproved narratives.

Discussion

In response to a participant in Ibero-America, who warned of a “disguised continuity” between the Biden and Trump administrations, and another who charged that Tulsi Gabbard is complicit in the genocide in Gaza, Helga Zepp-LaRouche again urged listeners against speculating about what are open questions. Rather, organize to bring about the needed changes. There are enormous changes taking place in the world today, she reminded her listeners. “If we would orchestrate all the countries involved” in a “huge economic program” like China’s Belt and Road Initiative to develop the Global South, we could end the flood of refugees and have “a decent living standard for everyone on the planet.”

IPC co-moderator Dennis Small reported on studies underway for the upcoming Schiller Institute pamphlet which show that “what is driving people to the United States is that their own physical economies are being destroyed” by the looting policies of Wall Street and the City of London. If that is reversed, the migrant problem can be solved.

On the German economic collapse, Zepp-LaRouche cited a recent statement by Col. Douglas Macgregor (ret.) that the U.S. is implementing the post-World War II Morgenthau Plan to de-industrialize Germany, saying that his assessment is correct.

A participant in Colombia asked what the role could be for his nation in the New Paradigm. Dennis Small described the new super-port being built in Chancay, Peru in collaboration with China, emphasizing “the next stop in Xi Jinping’s travels is Brazil,” where there will be discussion of the Bi-Oceanic Rail Corridor, “which will open up the entirety of South America to the kind of development which is going on in China.” Small pointed out that ideological differences are not an obstacle: “Forget the geopolitics—build the damn rail lines!” A representative of the Schiller Institute Peru, Sara Madueño, described the excitement in her country around Xi Jinping’s visit, and the historic relationship between Peru and China.

To a questioner from Ecuador, Helga Zepp-LaRouche said that basic infrastructure has historically been the key to industrialization all over the world, and that she had just received reports that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had held a one-hour phone discussion with Russian President Putin, and that Russia will resume uranium exports to the U.S.

The “torch of progress” has been passed from one country to another throughout history. Now we are in a new moment in history where we are “all sitting in one boat.” Either we will soon all be dead in a nuclear war, or we will reach a new era in civilization. Our ideas can influence which way history goes. [eir]

Nov. 8, 2024 (EIRNS)—Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche opened today’s 75th consecutive weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) saying that Nov. 6 will be seen as “a milestone,” due to the election of Donald Trump as U.S. President, and the fall of the so-called “streetlight coalition” government in Germany. This is a major disruption of the war machine, a tectonic strategic shift, which the British and others are totally hysterical about; but whether Trump makes good on his promise to end wars has yet to be seen. The composition of his Cabinet will be one early indication, but the situation does not depend on the U.S. alone. The fall of the German government is a very positive development, because this was “the worst German government in the entire post-war period.” The only merit of Chancellor Olaf Scholz was that he prevented the sending of Taurus missiles to Ukraine, whereas Atlanticist warmongers want to “send every possible weapon before Trump comes into office.”

Whether or not Trump succeeds in ending today’s dangerous confrontations will depend entirely on his view of the emerging Global Majority, as reflected in the Oct. 22-24 BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia. In that regard, she urged all the participants to read the “remarkable speech” delivered by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Nov. 7 at the Valdai International Discussion Club meeting, in which he offered a provocative metaphor:

“The rise of nations and cultures that have previously remained on the periphery of global politics for one reason or another means that their own distinct ideas of law and justice are playing an increasingly important role. They are diverse. This may give the impression of discord and perhaps cacophony, but this is only the initial phase. It is my deep conviction that the only new international system possible is one embracing polyphony, where many tones and many musical themes are sounded together to form harmony. If you like, we are moving towards a world system that is going to be polyphonic rather than polycentric, one in which all voices are heard and, most importantly, absolutely must be heard. Those who are used to soloing and want to keep it that way will have to get used to the new ‘scores’ now.”

Donald Ramotar, former President of Guyana, offered an “outsider’s perspective” on the U.S. election, saying it will have a very important influence on the international situation, which offers us both hope and concerns. He is hopeful about the possibility of ending the unnecessary war in Ukraine, and agreed with Zepp-LaRouche that Trump’s Cabinet choices will tell us what to expect, including whether he will support Israeli genocide. On the other hand, Trump seems to have an ill-advised “mission to stop China’s rise.” However, the nations of the Global South have pivoted toward Russia and China for security and development.

Ramotar noted that Trump received more Black and Hispanic votes than any other Republican candidate in decades, largely because they are angry about the state of the U.S. economy. The Democratic Party has abandoned the working class, not the other way around. Ramotar said that he is concerned about Trump being a “climate change denier.” Diane Sare, a leader of the LaRouche movement, who had just completed her election campaign for United States Senate in New York, later responded to this, saying that we don’t have evidence that humans are causing climate change, but we do have evidence that humans are not building infrastructure to defend themselves against it.

Dr. Perlmutter’s Images of Genocide

Jose Vega, independent candidate for Congress from the 15th CD in the Bronx, and well known for his political interventions against Kamala Harris, Mike Pompeo, and others, reported on a very rapidly organized, successful event in Manhattan, featuring Dr. Mark Perlmutter. Dr. Perlmutter, president of the World Surgical Foundation, had been scheduled to speak about his three-week experience doing medical work in the Gaza war zone, at an event at Mount Sinai Hospital’s Icahn School of Medicine in New York City. The event, however, was cancelled due to pressure from pro-Israel activists. (See EIR, November 8, 2024, “What a Doctor Witnessed in Gaza.”) Another venue was found through the actions of Sare and Vega, who both ran as LaRouche independent candidates for U.S. Senate and Congress in the Nov. 5 general election. Vega said that he and Sare “operated our campaigns as if we were already elected,” which is why they could step in to find a place for Dr. Perlmutter to speak.

Next, the meeting heard from a second-year medical student, who is also an activist in the Medical Students for Justice in Palestine. That organization had sponsored a meeting for Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a colleague of Dr. Perlmutter, who has also done medical surgery in Gaza. She reported that the Biden administration never acknowledged receipt of a letter on the genocide in Gaza signed by 99 medical professionals who served there. Isabel read to the IPC meeting a statement from Dr. Sidhwa warning, “The genocide in Gaza appears to be accelerating.”

Dr. Perlmutter has circulated shocking photos of the cases he encountered in Gaza, showing the deliberate targeting of children by Israeli Defense Forces snipers. There was an extended discussion of how these images should be used. Zepp-LaRouche commented, “If the world sees these pictures, there is no way it can deny what is going on.” But she also added that Plato warned that children of his time should not watch the plays of the Greek tragedians, because their minds are not prepared to deal with the evil and violence which are depicted. She proposed that, because doctors are professionally trained to deal with such horrors, we should confront them with the evidence, but shield children from it.

IPC co-moderator Dennis Small warned, “We don’t want to paralyze people with horror and fear,” but use the reality to mobilize them into action. The student responded by saying that the U.S. media are disregarding what is happening in Gaza; we have to share what we know with the public.

During the discussion period, a retired medical professional proposed that Dr. Perlmutter’s images should be used, but with the context he provides, and that we should emphasize the illegality of the weapons being used. Another participant proposed that we approach the 26 medical professionals presently serving in the U.S. Congress.

More Thoughts on the U.S. General Election

Diane Sare said that the number-one issue for the American electorate is war and genocide, followed closely by the economy. Americans do not want the blood of tens of thousands of children on their hands. She said we need a “robust campaign against AIPAC” and the “despicably cowardly congressmen” who are the recipients of AIPAC money.

A participant asked whether U.S. President Joe Biden might escalate the Ukraine war to emergency levels, in order to prevent a transition to President-elect Donald Trump. Zepp-LaRouche answered that because of the magnitude of Trump’s victory, it is unlikely that any such scenario could succeed, and therefore it is unlikely that one would be attempted. However, Trump should be on guard, after three assassination attempts.

President Ramotar was asked, as a senior politician, what he thought about increasing the involvement of young people. He said that we must not forget the old methods that we have always used, but we must also discover things we can learn from young people. He cited political comedian Jimmy Dore as an example of someone whose activity seems to have quite an impact on youth.

In her concluding remarks, Zepp-LaRouche said that the question of war and peace depends on whether we can move the populations of the U.S. and Europe to respond positively to the new emerging order, rather than seeing it as the enemy. “Open your heart and your mind to new cultures,” she said. “Make the upcoming Schiller Institute Dec. 7-8 conference a very powerful demonstration that we are entering a new era … a thundering breakthrough for the whole world.”

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.

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.

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