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Live with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: To Defeat the British Empire, Study Lyndon LaRouche!, June 11, 11 am Eastern/ 5 pm CET

In a time of growing tension and fraying nerves, where each successive provocation threatens to trigger a civilization-ending world war, staying a step ahead of the oligarchy’s war hawks is essential for survival. 
Each week, Helga Zepp-LaRouche presents a precise overview of changes in the overall strategic dynamic, the implication of those changes, and updates a strategy to outflank those running the international war party.
Send your questions to questions@schillerinstitute.org

When Anglo-American Russia “expert” Fiona Hill told Britain’s The Guardian in a June 6th interview, “Russia Is At War with Britain and U.S. Is No Longer a Reliable Ally, U.K. Adviser Says,” she was speaking an inverted partial truth—not only is Britain at war against Russia, but the British Empire is at war with every sovereign nation on the planet, exactly as former U.S. Presidential candidate and economist Lyndon LaRouche warned on numerous occasions.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, speaking at a Moscow conference of the Tsargrad Institute, said sharply of the recent terror attacks on Russia, “And it is obvious that everything is being done by the Ukrainian side. But it would be helpless without the support—I wanted to say, of the Anglo-Saxons. But now it will have to be without the ‘Saxons,’ simply without the support of the British. Although, who knows, maybe some U.S. special services are also participating there by inertia. But the British are 100%.” Yes, the Russian Foreign Minister is saying with 100% certainty that the British are directly involved in the attacks on Russia.

But are these British-orchestrated attacks merely a military operation? What is their ultimate objective? Newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told a group of central bankers gathered at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in 2019, that the object was “regime change”—that is, replace democratically elected governments with central banker dictatorships, that will maximize financial profits (until the whole thing crashes).

The American Revolution was the first successful defeat of this British oligarchical ideology, and our founding documents express very clearly that the purpose of a republic is to allow the maximum development of the creative potential of its citizens. That is “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” not “pleasure” and not “property,” but the happiness of making an immortal contribution to the future development of mankind in the universe, “freude” as German poet Friedrich Schiller expressed in his “Ode to Joy,” and as Beethoven further developed it in his magnificently joyous Ninth Symphony, both of which looked with great hope toward the new American Republic.

The British moved quickly to ensure that no such republican revolution occurred in Europe, and set to work to destroy the identity of the United States of America through a series of wars, coups, assassinations, and most effectively through a cultural war run by the Tavistock Institute and the CIA known as the Congress for Cultural Freedom.

Lyndon LaRouche recruited an international cadre organization, dedicated to defeating that British imperial legacy, and his ideas contributed significantly to the newly emerging paradigm expressed by the Belt and Road Institute (BRI) and the BRICS-Plus dynamic, which now encompasses the majority of the world’s population.

The British and their lackeys are in a full mobilization to prevent such a new order from coming into being. From assassination attempts against both Presidents Trump and Putin, as well as Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico, and now Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, as well as arresting qualified candidates for office, as in France, Romania, and Argentina, to full-blown acts of terrorism and war, the British intend to impose a world order based on oligarchical principles.

The challenge for those who want to stop war and genocide is that they must quickly understand what is the species characteristic of Empire as an economic policy. LaRouche understood this, and for it he was prevented from becoming President of the United States.

Read below an excerpt from LaRouche’s June 27, 2009 webcast, “Britain Delenda Est.”

“We have to understand that Obama is not the only problem. Obama is chiefly a symptom, a by-product of the problem. The problem is that the world is run by an empire. That empire is nominally a British Empire. It’s the international monetary system, which is controlled by the British Empire. That’s the problem.

“We have to destroy the British Empire, as Roosevelt had intended to do it, when he was President. He intended to destroy the British Empire at the end of the war. The intention was, as he told Winston Churchill, ‘Winston! When this war is over, we’re not going to have any British Empire on this planet! We’re going to free those people, we’re going to help them to develop, give them their own nations.’ He called that the United Nations, to eliminate imperialism from the world, and to create, instead, a planet, organized as composed of respectively sovereign nation-states. To use the vast power of production, which we had created in preparing for and dealing with war against Hitler, and to use that power, to create a process of growth.

“Don’t shut down our war production plants!, as Truman did, at the behest of Churchill and Company. Convert those plants into plants for production. Take the capacity we had built up for fighting and winning the war, and use that capacity, with the people in place, to now produce for the world! To free the colonial parts of the world, to rebuild a shattered Europe, to develop the world as a whole.”

This will be the topic of the upcoming conference of the Schiller Institute in Europe on July 12 and 13, and the point of intervention we are about to make next week at the United Nations. Britain Delenda Est!

This article was written by Diane Sare, President of the LaRouche Organization (TLO) for Lyndon LaRouche’s daily EIR News. You can subscribe to EIR News here.

In a time of growing tension and fraying nerves, where each successive provocation threatens to trigger a civilization-ending world war, staying a step ahead of the oligarchy’s war hawks is essential for survival. 
Each week, Helga Zepp-LaRouche presents a precise overview of changes in the overall strategic dynamic, the implication of those changes, and updates a strategy to outflank those running the international war party.
Send your questions to questions@schillerinstitute.org


Live: Helga Zepp-LaRouche and Ray McGovern: Between Peace and WW3, June 4, 11 am Eastern/ 5pm CET

Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche and Ray McGovern in a live dialogue on June 4, 11 am Eastern / 5 pm CET and participate in the next International Peace Coalition meeting on Friday, June 6.

Ray McGovern attended and addressed the Schiller Institute Memorial Day Conference A Beautiful Vision for Humanity in Times of Great Turbulence!”in Newark, NJ.

Mr. McGovern delivered his remarks entitled “There Is Such A Thing As Too Late” during Panel 1 of the two-day conference.

During the May 27 broadcast of the “Judging Freedom” podcast of Judge Andrew Napolitano reported the Schiller Institute’s May 24-25 Conference, “A Beautiful Vision for Humanity in Times of Great Turbulence!” Immediately following his introduction of guest Ray McGovern (former senior CIA analyst, and co-founder of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), Napolitano asked McGovern, who had addressed the conference, what the two-day Memorial Day weekend event was about, and for McGovern’s feel for the attitude of young people about war and peace.

McGovern reported that the Schiller Institute is reaching out to young people to inspire them to do something about the indignities happening in our own country and abroad. He said they’re having some success, and working really hard at it.

McGovern reported on the presentations made at the conference, including his own and that by Scott Ritter, former Marine intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector. He described the speeches as “motivational speeches,” that were a little bit about history, but that they also challenged the audience to act. There is such a thing as “too late,” he stressed. McGovern said the more informed people are, the more motivated they are.

Ray McGovern goes to EIR.News first thing every morning to find out what’s going on in the world. Shouldn’t you?

Ray McGovern is the man who prepared the briefing for the President of the United States every morning, when he worked in CIA’s analytic team—until he quit over the lies used to get the U.S. into the murderous Iraqi war. McGovern co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) so like-minded ex-U.S. officials could fight the lies and war together.

Here’s what McGovern had to say about the EIR.News Daily Alert when he was a guest on The LaRouche Organization’s Dec. 21, 2024 Manhattan Dialogue:

“I used to work in current intelligence: That is, six days a week, you serve up something that’s very, very current, and very interesting to the policymakers. That was our job. I watched EIR improve to the point where I’d go there first thing in the morning. I go there and I see what kind of current intelligence has been prepared by your specialists and I’m amazed, and I think it’s really a good idea for people to subscribe, as I have, and get filled on what your specialists are saying. They are many, and they write a lot about stuff, a lot about economics that I don’t know, that I need to know. So, if you want my endorsement: You got it! Sign up: Sign up, now! Don’t wait, don’t wait for Christmas.

Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche and Ray McGovern in a live dialogue on June 4, 11 am Eastern / 5 pm CET and participate in the next International Peace Coalition meeting on Friday, June 6.


The Most Beautiful Renaissance – IPC #104

The 104th consecutive online meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) marked the two-year anniversary of its founding, and followed on the heels of the highly successful Schiller Institute conference which took place in Newark, New Jersey over Memorial Day weekend. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, began by commenting on the strategic situation, saying that tensions around the Ukraine war have increased sharply in the last week, but that “all is not lost,” despite the fact that “Trump used very undiplomatic language” with respect to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Amazingly, Trump reported he was not briefed on what appears to have been the attempted drone attack by Ukraine on Putin’s helicopter.

Zepp-LaRouche expressed guarded optimism about the next round of Ukraine-Russia talks, to be held June 2 in Istanbul. She warned of the danger of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s intention to provide Taurus missiles to Ukraine. A respected military expert on the Russian news program “60 Minutes” recently mooted the possibility of using Oreshnik hypersonic missiles to obliterate the plant in Schrobenhausen, Germany, where the Taurus is manufactured. Merz’s policy, she said, reminds the world of what Germany did 80 years ago when they attacked the Soviet Union, and Russian official comments have stopped just “a tiny millimeter away” from saying that Germany had reverted to Nazism. She urged the participants to watch her dialogue with Professor Ted Postol from earlier in the week, and commented on the “marked shift” in the Western rhetoric recognizing the genocide in Gaza—recognition which is still “too little, too late,” because the killing continues, unabated.

‘Collective Insanity’ in Europe

Graham Fuller, a former U.S. diplomat, CIA official, and Islamic scholar, said that the situation with the leadership in Europe looks like “collective insanity,” and that Europe must come to terms with their important neighbor, Russia.

Fuller commented on an article in the American Conservative, which pointed out the language Trump used last week in Saudi Arabia, when he said that it is not his job to look into the hearts and minds of world leaders, but rather, that’s God’s job. Fuller suggested that this may mean that Trump is “moving away from the classic neoconservative view,” which, like Leon Trotsky, calls for “world revolution.” Trump rejects this approach; Trump’s worldview is not ideological, it is “fundamentally economic,” according to Fuller. “Trump’s vision is a transactional one,” he said, adding that he would sum it up as “make business, not war.”

Fuller said that he disagrees with his esteemed colleague John Mearsheimer, who believes that the U.S. and China are destined to clash because of their size. He reminded the participants of the Turkish policy of “zero enemies,” advocated by former Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu. Trump, Fuller said, realizes that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies are turning Israel into a pariah state, and the continuing support by the U.S. can be “extremely costly on the diplomatic front.” The U.S. is being left out of the dramatic developments around the BRICS, etc., and Trump intuitively recognizes this. Trump is willing to talk to the “main countries that matter,” unlike his immediate predecessors.

Although Fuller disagrees with Trump on immigration and student affairs, including “his war on Harvard,” he is heartened by the possibility that Trump may be distancing himself from the neocon outlook, although later, during the discussion period, he emphasized that it is too early to conclude that this is the case. He wrapped up his comments by reminding participants of the famous quote from President John Quincy Adams: “America … goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.”

Flirting with Human Extinction

What followed was a five-minute video clip from Zepp-LaRouche’s May 28 webcast discussion with Theodore Postol, who is professor emeritus of Science, Technology and National Security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Postol asserted, “We are dealing with hallucinating leadership in the West,” who are flirting with the thermonuclear extinction of humanity. Fortunately, “Putin is a man who will not allow himself to be provoked…. If somebody kills him, God help us.” Zepp-LaRouche responded by saying that “you would think that every sane person would be happy” that Trump and Putin are trying to normalize relations. After the U.S. losing all the wars from Vietnam to the present, you would also think that the policy would be reevaluated, but there is no sign of such reflection.

IPC co-moderator Dennis Small observed that talk of assassinations is in no way idle. The drone attacks in Russia appear to have targeted Putin’s helicopter, while in the U.S., we have Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s identification of the death threat by former FBI chief James Comey against Trump.

The LaRouche Organization activist Daniel Burke presented a report from the just-concluded Schiller Institute conference. Attendees saw previously unseen videos of Lyndon LaRouche speaking to younger people on the meaning of immortality, defined as participation in a mission that lives on after you die, to bring human activity into coherence with natural law. There was significant youth attendance, both at the conference and online. Burke was moderator of the youth panel, which he encouraged participants to watch.

Jose Vega, a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in New York’s 15th Congressional District, described the testimony of Dr. Feroze Sidhwa at the UN Security Council, about the ongoing genocide in Gaza, which got significant coverage in independent media as well as some mainstream media.

Discussion

A journalist commented that over time, the perception that Netanyahu was fighting the war in Gaza for security purposes has changed, after his obvious sabotage of efforts to free hostages. The war has been hijacked by the extreme right wing in Israel’s government, who want ethnic cleansing. Netanyahu wants to prolong the war in order to prevent the formation of an investigative committee that will examine his role in allowing the October 7, 2023 attacks to take place.

A Washington, D.C. activist described a campaign to ask Pope Leo XIV to go to Gaza. In response, Schiller Institute leader Tim Rush reported on a campaign to circulate the Open Letter to the Pope which was reported at the IPC meeting two weeks ago, and has now been signed by roughly 600 individuals. It has been translated into half a dozen languages.

IPC co-moderator Anastasia Battle reported that a new Freedom Flotilla has just set sail for Gaza, with food and medicine for the starving Palestinians.

Nuclear-weapons expert Steve Starr, a frequent IPC panelist, submitted a note commenting on a report by RT that Ukraine would have needed U.S. help to target Putin’s helicopter, providing the drones and real-time intelligence for targeting. If that is the case, Starr asked, did elements in the Pentagon authorize this, going behind Trump’s back? Fuller expressed the hope that we have not yet reached that level of insanity. Zepp-LaRouche urged that a full investigation be conducted about the incident, and that it is not productive to speculate until such an investigation is done. We don’t yet know whether this was an assassination attempt, or simply a large-scale drone attack on the area where the helicopter was operating.

In response to a question from Germany, Zepp-LaRouche urged everyone to read the EIR Daily Alert, which was enthusiastically seconded by Fuller.

In his closing remarks, Fuller delivered another strong endorsement of the EIR Daily Alert, noting that his own experience in intelligence over decades allows him to confirm that it is of exceptional quality, and should be widely read.

Zepp-LaRouche agreed with Fuller on John Quincy Adams’ “wonderful speech.” She said, look back on every Renaissance where the Dark Ages were overcome; what got us out of the one in Europe was the humanist movement of Cusa, Dante and Petrarch, and the Council of Florence which revived Plato. That’s what we need to do now, and we will have “the most beautiful Renaissance, what we can’t even imagine yet.”

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Live: Defense Expert Ted Postol Warns: Trump’s “Golden Dome” Poses an “Enormous Danger” (May 28, 11 am Eastern/ 5pm CET)

Dialogue between Helga Zepp-LaRouche and military expert Dr. Theodore Postol.

Defense Expert Ted Postol Warns: Trump’s “Golden Dome” Poses an “Enormous Danger”

In an already tense strategic climate, the introduction in the U.S. by President Trump of a “Golden Dome” missile defense system increases the threat of nuclear war with Russia and China, rather than enhancing security.  Dr. Theodore Postol, who is a renowned expert on modern warfare and nuclear weapons, will discuss with Helga Zepp-LaRouche his conclusions about the danger inherent in the design of the system.

In his review of the proposal, Postol concludes that 1.)  this proposal of the Trump Administration poses an enormous danger to geopolitical stability; and 2), the second part of the Trump Administration’s proposal, which is to expand the ground-based missile defense system, would simply increase the size of a defense system that now provably has no missile defense capability. 

However, he believes that rather than serving as a deterrent, the appearance of an expanded missile defense program might well result in the Russians and Chinese feeling compelled to expand their offense of nuclear forces to offset perceptions that the United States might have some residual capability to negate their nuclear deterrents

When combined with the insistence of Germany’s new Chancellor Merz that the limits be lifted to the range of long-range missiles provided to Ukraine, we are entering a moment of extreme instability which heightens the risk of nuclear war. 

This discussion follows last weekend’s Schiller Institute conference which focused on the “LaRouche Solution” to the strategic crisis, centered around the battle to establish a new strategic and development architecture to replace the collapsing Unipolar Order.


Schiller Institute Releases Names of 85 Prominent Endorsers of Open Letter to Pope Leo XIV Backing Urgent Peace Efforts

May 22– The Schiller Institute today released the names of 85 prominent endorsers of the Institute’s Open letter to Pope Leo XIV from all over the world, as a spur to broader circulation of the Letter, and the addition of many further endorsers. These names come from over 600 current total signers. The Institute stresses the urgency of this effort, in light of the unimaginable civilian death toll and suffering in Gaza as the Israeli government’s policy of genocide and ethnic cleansing intensifies, and other conflicts, such as that in Ukraine, which continue to menace humanity with the specter of nuclear war. The letter is translated into Spanish, French, German, Swedish, Arabic, and Portuguese.

The Schiller Institute letter states, “We the undersigned, wholeheartedly welcome your Holiness to your Pontificate in these present extremely turbulent times, and we appreciate the fact that your first words were ‘Peace be with all of you.’

“Not only are regional conflicts raging in many parts of the world, but several of those conflicts have the potential of escalating to nuclear Armageddon, which could end civilization, and would thus be the ultimate sin against God’s creation.

“You have offered to facilitate peace talks among countries at war, continuing the mandate of Pope Francis, who had made peace an urgent demand in his last Urbi et Orbi message, and continuously denounced the arms trade, as well as those who profit from war.

“We wish to communicate to your Holiness our commitment to try everything in our power, to reach out to all Christians, as well as believers of other religions and world outlooks, to unify in an effort to establish a true peace order in the world, one which eliminates the real causes for war by taking into account the valid security interests of all parties.

“But, given the horrendous, satanic genocide going on in Gaza, and the unforgivable silence and inaction on the side of the governments in face of it, we also appeal to you to speak out on this ongoing genocide. We need a moral authority to condemn this genocide. Without that, we will lose any moral compass whatsoever.

“We also fully support your rejection of the ‘Manichaean notions’ that divide people into ‘good and evil,’ because such notions deny people the chance to overcome evil through development. But that requires the mobilization of our free will, and it does not mean an automatic acquittal of those who decide to be the instrument of evil.

“We support the idea that ‘the new name for peace is development!’”

The five initiating signatures:

  1. Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), Founder of the Schiller Institute and co-initiator of the International Peace Coalition (IPC)
  2. Ray McGovern (United States), Former CIA analyst, co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
  3. Liliana Gorini (Italy), Chairwoman, Movimento Solidarietà (Movisol)
  4. Anastasia Battle, (United States), Co-initiator of the International Peace Coalition (IPC)
  5. Jacques Cheminade (France), former French presidential candidate, President of Solidarité et Progrès,

The listing of a first group of 85 prominent additional signers released today, organized alphabetically by country, and alphabetically by last name within country. Profession, title and/or affiliation, for identification purposes only

  • Daud Azimi, Afghanistan/Germany, Engineer; Board Member, Peace National Front of Afghanistan
  • Tse Anye Kevin, State55 Afrika, Acting President
  • Enrique Juan Box, Argentina, journalist
  • Roberto Fritzsche, Argentina, Professor, Department of Economics, Universidad de Belgrano
  • Rubén Darío Guzzetti, Argentina, Professor, Argentine Institute of Geopolitical Studies
  • Juan Francisco Numa Soto, Argentina, Legal advisor, Yacyretá Binational Entity; former Professor of Constitutional Law, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
  • Carlos Perez Galindo, Argentina, Lawyer
  • Meinrad Schneckenleithner, Austria, Pax Christi  
  • Gen. (ret.) Edwin Alfonso De La Fuente Jeria, Bolivia, Former Commander-in-Chief, Bolivian Armed Forces
  • Paulo Cannabrava Filho, Brazil, journalist; founding director, Diálogos do Sul
  • Jairo Dias Carvalho, Brazil, Professor of Philosophy of Technology, University of Uberlândia
  • Dimitri Lascaris, Canada/Greece, Lawyer, Activist; 2025 Serena Shim laureate award for integrity in journalism; host, Reason to Resist podcast
  • H. Douglas Lightfoot, Canada, Mechanical engineer (ret.); founder, Lightfoot Institute
  • Juan Gómez, Chile, Coordinator, World Without War and Without Violence
  • Vincenzo Romanello, Ph.D., Czech Republic/Germany/Italy, Nuclear engineer; founder, Italian chapter, “Atoms for Peace“
  • Tom Gillesberg, Denmark, President, Schiller Institute Denmark; former independent candidate for parliament
  • Alcibíades Abreu, Dominican Republic, University Professor, School of Mathematics, Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) and Universidad Católica, Santo Domingo
  • Ramón Emilio Concepción, Dominican Republic,Attorney at Law; Presidential Pre-candidate, PRM party (2020)
  • Marino J. Elsevyf Pineda, Dominican Republic, Attorney at Law; notary
  • Arsenio Hernández Fortuna, Dominican Republic, Director, El Diario Antillano newspaper
  • José Rodríguez Portorreal, Dominican Republic, President, Solidarity Party
  • Ernesto Pazmiño Granizo, Ecuador, Human rights lawyer; university professor; former Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Ecuador; former vice-president, Justice Center of the Americas.
  • Mariano Nguema Esono Medja, Equatorial Guinea, Focal Point in Equatorial Guinea, United Nations Regional Center for Peace and Disarmament in Africa 
  • Col. (ret.) Alain Corvez, France, consultant, international strategic affairs; former advisor to Commandant of UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)”;
  • Jean-François Geneste, France, business CEO
  • Ali Rastbeen, France, President, Académie de Géopolitique de Paris
  • Joachim Bonatz, Germany, Vice President, East German Board of Trustees of Associations (Ostdeutsches Kuratorium von Verbänden e.V.), Berlin 
  • Magret Bonin, Germany, Global Women for Peace United Against NATO
  • Holger Hüttel, Germany, Chairman, local branch of Die Linke, Sangerhausen
  • Sabiene Jahn, Germany, Independent Journalist, Koblenz: In Dialogue 
  • Dr. Takis Ioannidis, Greece, Co-Founder, Global Gandhian Harmony Association; Dr. Litt., poet, writer
  • Raúl Aníbal Marroquín Casasola, Guatemala, Coordinator, Citizen Observatory for Peace “La pupila del cielo” – Human and Environmental Rights Defender.
  • H. E. Donald Ramotar, Guyana, former President of Guyana
  • Koushik Das, India, Journalist
  • Mauricio Abbate, Italy, Chairman, National Institute for Cultural Activities (ENAC)
  • Gaetano Santoro, Italy, trade unionist
  • Marino Savina, Italy, National chairman ANDICOSI,  Italian Association of Security Workers
  • Alessia Ruggeri, Italy, trade unionist
  • Tatjana Ždanoka, Latvia/Belgium, Former Member, European Parliament; Ph.D., Mathematics 
  • Bassam el Hachem, Lebanon, Professor of Political Sociology; researcher
  • Chandra Muzaffar, Malaysia,Founder and Director, International Movement for a Just World (JUST)
  • Driss Larafi, Morocco, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Ibn Tofail University
  • Kees le Pair, Ph.D., Netherlands, Physicist, Univ. of Leiden; former Ass’t Professor, American University of Beirut; Science Advisor, Dutch Military Research
  • Adewale Aiyedun, Ph.D., Nigeria, Forensic Investigator, Audit & Security Consultant
  • David Ajetunmobi, Nigeria, trade union leader, auto sector
  • Shamsudeen Hassan, Nigeria, Founder, Yhunich Mentors Academy – Advocates for Youth Development
  • Adeshola Kukoyi, Nigeria, Founder, Equilibrium Persepctives, University of Lagos
  • Archbishop Theodosios Atallah Hanna, Palestine, Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem
  • Yorel Kira Alcarraz Aguero, Peru, Congresswoman, Congress of the Republic of Peru
  • Luis Mora, Peru, President, Peruvian chapter, “World without war and without violence”
  • Fabiola Morales, Peru, President, Cooperation and International Relations Commission, Municipality of Lima. First Councilwoman, Lima.
  • Roberto Vela Pinedo, Peru, Former National Dean, College of Economists of Peru
  • Georgy Toloraya, Russia, Executive Director, Russian National Committee on BRICS Research; concurrently Director, Asian Strategy Center, Institute of Economics and Chief Researcher, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia, Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Earl M. Bousquet, St. Lucia, veteran Caribbean journalist
  • Hussein Askary, Sweden, Southwest Asia coordinator, Schiller Institute
  • Ulf Sandmark, Sweden, Chairman, Schiller Institute Sweden
  • Erich Fankhauser, Switzerland/Germany, Peace Through Culture e.V. (Frieden durch Kultur e.V.) 
  • Prof. Dr. iur. et phil. Alfred de Zayas, former UN Independent Expert on International Order, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Bernie Holland, United Kingdom, musician; antiwar activist
  • Mohammad Salim Akhtar, United States, National Director, American Muslim Task Force on Civil Rights and Elections
  • Archbishop Vicken Aykazian, United States, Vice Moderator, Central & Executive Committee, World Council of Churches; Board & Executive Committee Member, National Council of Churches; Diocese of the Armenian Church of America
  • Fatmeh Atieh Bakhit, United States, Publisher/Editor, Al Enteshar Al Arabi newspaper 
  • Col. (ret.) Richard H. Black, United States, former Virginia State Senator; former head of U.S. Army’s Criminal Law Division, Pentagon
  • Nelson Borelli, United States, Professor of Psychiatry (ret.), author, teacher
  • Charles Borowsky, PH.D., United States, musician, educator; President, Intermuse Performing Artists Bureau
  • Fr. Harry Bury, United States, Twin Cities Non-violent; U.S. Catholic Priest Association
  • Dr. James C. Cobey, MD, United States, Founder, Health Volunteers Overseas; Steering Committee, Voices from the Holy Land; as part of work with Physicians for Human Rights, shared 1997 Nobel Peace Prize with International Campaign to Ban Landmines coalition
  • Joseph J. Fahey, United States, Co-Founder, Pax Christi USA; author, teacher, theologian
  • Christopher and Mary Fogarty, United States, Author, “The Perfect Holocaust: Ireland 1845-1850”; Chicago Ireland Support
  • Graham Fuller, United States/Canada, Former U.S. diplomat and CIA official; former Vice-Chair, National Intelligence Council
  • Jack Gilroy, United States, Veterans for Peace; Pax Christi – Upstate NY; Pax Christi International
  • Joyce Hall, United States, Coordinator, Pax Christi, Dallas chapter
  • Nydia Leaf, United States, Granny Peace Brigade
  • Marie-Noelle Lombard, United States, United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC)
  • Martin Melkonian, United States, Adjunct Associate Professor of Economics, Hofstra University; Treasurer, Long Island (NY) Alliance for Peace and Justice
  • Lt. Col. (ret.) Earl Rasmussen, United States, international consultant
  • Coleen Rowley, United States, Retired FBI agent; former Minneapolis Division Legal Consel, 9/11 whistleblower; member, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS); First recipient, Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence.
  • Diane Sare, United States, President, The LaRouche Organization
  • John Shanahan, United States, Civil engineer; president, Go Nuclear Inc.; editor, website: allaboutenergy.net
  • John Steinbach, United States, Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee, National Capital Area
  • Dr. Mohammad Toor, United States, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Pakistani-American Congress
  • Father Joseph Varghese, United States, Executive Director, Institute for Religious Freedom and Tolerance; Holy Sophia Coptic Orthodox Church School of Theology
  • René Wadlow, United States/France, President, Association of World Citizens
  • Alan Waltar, Ph.D., United States, Former president, American Nuclear Society; former head, nuclear engineering, Texas A&M University; consultant, IAEA, DOE
  • Jim Wohlgemuth, United States, Veterans for Peace, Nashville (TN) chapter; radio host  
  • Luisa Beatriz Báez Catarí, Venezuela, Secretary of Organization, Diocesan Union of Confraternities of the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar Guarenas
  •  Munashe Chiwanza, Zimbabwe, civil engineer
  • Ahmed Bassalat, Ph.D., Professor of Physics, CERN associate

Upcoming Schiller Institute Initiatives Can Shift the Strategic Equation (May 21, 11 am)

Live Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche

In this week’s webcast with Harley Schlanger, Helga Zepp-LaRouche addresses two key interventions by the Schiller Institute aimed at derailing the pathetic attempt to maintain the failed “geopolitics” by the transatlantic elites.

First, there is the upcoming Schiller Institute international conference taking place in the U.S. over Memorial Day Weekend titled “A Beautiful Vision for Humanity in Times of Great Turbulence!” Some of the speakers include former South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation H.E. Naledi Pandor, prominent representatives from Russia and China as well as Americans Ray McGovern, Scott Ritter, former Ambassador Jack Matlock and well-known American diplomat Chas Freeman. The conference will also take up the challenge of creating a worldwide youth movement to shape the next 50 years along the lines of the conference’s theme.

Second is the Schiller Institute’s international initiative to send an “Open Letter to Pope Leo XIV” signed by dozens of prominent figures from around the world to appeal to the new pope to fully embrace the idea of “the new name for peace is development!” especially in regards to ending the horrific genocide taking place in Gaza.

Shiller Institute Memorial Day Conference: https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2025/03/01/conference-invitation/

Open Letter to Pope Leo XIV: https://schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.com/open_letter_to_pope_leo_xvi


Live with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Three Stooges Plus One Rally Behind the Puppet Zelensky (May 14, 11am EDT/ 5pm CET

Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, in her weekly live dialogue to discuss the creation of the New Paradigm for mutual economic development. Send your questions to questions@schillerinstitute.org

At 2 a.m. Sunday morning, May 11, Russian President Vladimir Putin, after three full days of non-stop meetings and ceremonies devoted to the commemoration of the Victory against Fascism in Europe, held a press conference and proposed the resumption of full negotiations with Ukraine to put an end to what is actually a NATO war imposed on that nation. Putin proposed that these negotiations restart in Istanbul, Türkiye this Thursday, May 15.

The European leaders who had joined Zelenskyy in Kiev, in direct opposition to the 30 heads of state who had assembled in Moscow for the Great Victory, had demanded a few hours earlier that a 30-day ceasefire begin Monday morning. They were, however, caught sleeping, in more ways than one, by Putin’s 2 a.m. press conference, and his unexpected proposal. “Russia is ready for talks without any preliminary conditions. There are combat actions and war going on now, and we propose to resume negotiations that were not interrupted by us. Well, what’s wrong about it?”

As Putin and others know, it was Ukraine that ceased the discussions that were terminated in Istanbul, Türkiye, in April 2022. Of course, it was then Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Great Britain who had, on April 9 of that year, traveled to Kiev to demand that Ukraine walk away from the already-agreed negotiations with Russia—and Ukraine had done so. To this day, Ukraine’s decree, passed in their parliament in late 2022, forbids any Ukrainian President from negotiating with Russia, so long as Putin remains in power. Ukraine “is still legally prohibited from negotiating with the Russian side,” said Russian Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov in March.

So, although a blustering Volodymyr Zelenskyy later on Sunday dared Putin, “High Noon” Western-style, to “meet him in Istanbul” this Thursday, Ukraine’s unelected leader knows that the Russians are aware that the Kiev decree is still in effect. U.S. President Donald Trump—not one to stand on ceremony, certainly—had advice for Ukraine: “President Putin of Russia doesn’t want to have a Cease Fire Agreement with Ukraine, but rather wants to meet on Thursday, in Turkey, to negotiate a possible end to the BLOODBATH. Ukraine should agree to this, IMMEDIATELY. At least they will be able to determine whether or not a deal is possible, and if it is not, European leaders, and the U.S., will know where everything stands, and can proceed accordingly!” While many have asserted for days that “no one knows where Trump stands” on the matter of Russia and Ukraine, today’s statement is unequivocal: “Ukraine should agree to this, IMMEDIATELY.”

One of the outflanked European heads of state who met with Zelensky is Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who is the first chancellor in the post-war era to have the dubious honor of being crowned chancellor only after a second round of voting. In mid-April, the very same Friedrich Merz suggested on ARD television’s Carmen Miosga show that German Taurus long-range missiles should be sent to Ukraine so that the country could get off the defensive after three years of war against Russia. Merz mentioned the possibility of destroying the most important land link between Russia and the Crimean peninsula, as an option. Merz had already supported the delivery of cruise missiles to Ukraine before the early parliamentary elections on February 23. According to media reports, both Friedrich Merz and government spokesman Stefan Kornelius have stated that details and discussions regarding the Taurus delivery will not be made public in the future. What might that mean?

Helga Zepp-LaRouche and Dr. Werner Rügemer, in a joint live dialogue on January 29, had already warned against Merz, the Chancellor from Black Rock.

The second notable event Sunday was that newly-elected Pope Leo XIV, appearing in St. Peter’s Square before more than 100,000 people, and unexpectedly leading the open-air assembly in the singing of the “Regina Caeli” Easter antiphon. Leo, who is the first member of the Augustinian order to be elected to the Papacy, the first native-English-language Pope since Pope Adrian IV of the 12th century, and the first Pope from the United States, also made clear why he chose his name. “In his first meeting with Cardinals on Saturday, the new Pontiff said that he chose his papal name to continue down the path of Pope Leo XIII, who addressed ‘the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution.’” CNN reported.

Consider these two very different “flanks” as flowing from one, higher strategy of victory for the human race. War must become obsolete, but that cannot happen unless the cause of war is removed. For that to occur, the world requires “A Beautiful Vision for Humanity in Times of Great Turbulence!” Such is the subject, purpose, and mission of the May 24-25 conference of the Schiller Institute.

Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, in her weekly live dialogue to discuss the creation of the New Paradigm for mutual economic development. Send your questions to questions@schillerinstitute.org


Not a Single Effort Toward Peace Will Be in Vain

International Peace Coalition 101

May 9, 2025 (EIRNS)—The 101st consecutive online meeting of the International Peace Coalition, on Friday, May 9, addressed several urgent topics:

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, reported that 29 heads of state were in Moscow for the May 8-9 Victory Day celebration. Russia and China took this occasion to consolidate their partnership and denounce attempts by the Anglophiles to rewrite history. In an attempt to counter this event, the NATO faction declared May 8 to be “Europe Day,” and the German government prohibited any display of Russian or Soviet flags. Earlier, the European Commission had forbidden EU leaders to attend the Victory Day event, but Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico had announced their intention to participate.

Larry Johnson, former CIA officer and a cofounder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), posed the question, Why do Americans tolerate endless wars? He answered that Americans haven’t paid the price; even in World War II we did not suffer the way other nations did. In World War II, 20% of the Russian population died, compared to 0.1% of Americans.

Co-moderator Dennis Speed asked Johnson to comment on the VIPS presence at the event in Moscow. Johnson reported that Ray McGovern and Oliver Stone are there, speaking with government officials and student groups. Scott Ritter has drafted a letter calling for a return to arms control negotiations, but the Russians are cautious because the U.S. routinely abrogates agreements. During the question period, a viewer asked for comment on Stone’s “lefty” role, to which Speed replied that Stone was not originally a leftist; he had fought in Vietnam as a volunteer, which had a major impact on his views.

The Ongoing Genocide in Gaza

Mossi Raz, former Member of the Knesset and former Director General of Peace Now, said, “It seems that the Israeli government has no idea what it wants to achieve in this war,” and that it is “interested in revenge more than in solving problems.” The Israelis are expanding settlement activity, and making “small moves toward annexation.” He endorsed the Egyptian plan for rebuilding Gaza, but noted that it cannot be implemented until the shooting stops, and “if President Trump wants to stop it, he could stop it in one minute.”

Larry Johnson remarked that there are reports that Trump is sick and tired of Netanyahu, and has cut off contact. This, if true, could lead to welcome changes

Dr. Dannie Ritchie, Founder of Community Health Innovations of Rhode Island, gave a report on the Doctors Against Genocide’s upcoming press conference. She said that over 1,000 healthcare professionals have died in Gaza, and the Israelis are targeting hospitals and children. Our tax dollars are funding it, which makes us directly complicit. Doctors Against Genocide has a project called “Bread not Bombs, Let the Children Eat” Later, she commented that it is shocking that a people who once were victims of genocide can now perpetrate it. If what is being done to Gazans were done to animals in the U.S., Americans would not stand for it.

Zepp-LaRouche responded to a question from Congressional candidate Jose Vega, that “the intention of Israel is very clearly, they want to get rid of all Palestinians in Gaza.” She emphasized that time is running out, and the June 2-4 conference of the UN on the two-state solution is crucial.

The Importance of Economic Development

After some debate among the speakers about the viability of the Egyptian plan for Gaza, former Guyanese President Donald Ramotar intervened to say that in order to have a lasting peace, “you cannot divorce the question of development.” He went on to promote the Oasis Plan as essential to peace in Southwest Asia. This was later underscored by Zepp-LaRouche, who said that we need to mobilize for the Egyptian plan plus the Oasis Plan. “If it coincides with what Larry is saying about Trump, so be it, that’s even better.” Later, Johnson asserted that the reports on Trump and Netanyahu are credible because the U.S. blinked in Yemen, withdrew and declared victory.

A video was presented, excerpted from an interview conducted by EIR’s Gerald Belsky with author and Professor Dr. Glenn Diesen. Belsky asked him for comment on the relationship between the American System approach to economics, and the emerging new order in the world. Diesen reviewed the history of Alexander Friedrich List and Sergei Witte, and observed that the new leaders of the Global South are “linking industrial sovereignty to political sovereignty, as Hamilton clearly did.” He said that Russia is going down this path with industrial sovereignty, transportation corridors, financial sovereignty, and the New Paradigm calls for cooperation between equals, not a hierarchy of dominance. He recalled that he had seen “an ‘American System’ developing in China” when they announced the Belt and Road Initiative.

President Ramotar observed that Biden attempted to present an infrastructure initiative, but his plan was “more tactical in nature,” designed to counter China more than to create peace.

The Significance of the New Pope

Jacques Cheminade, the president of Solidarité et Progrès party in France, praised the decision of the new Pope to call himself Leo XIV in reference to Leo XIII, who authored the encyclical Rerum Novarum in 1891, as the basis for modern Catholic social doctrine. Cheminade’s remarks were seconded by Pax Christi leader Jack Gilroy, who said that the encyclical stresses the dignity of every human being. Zepp-LaRouche said that she is “hopeful and optimistic” about the new Pope. In Germany you have parties CDU and CSU with “Christian” in their name, but what they are doing is the opposite. Cheminade suggested that colonial wars were testing what distinguishes between good Christians and fake Christians, and Johnson said that when European churches “became enablers of colonialism,” they abandoned their faith.

Later, during the question period, a viewer asked why had academics and others in Europe repudiated Judeo-Christian values. Zepp-LaRouche named three key factors: synarchism, the Frankfurt School, and the Congress for Cultural Freedom. “They consciously intended to de-root the people from their Classical culture,” and to replace it with neoliberal values. “This is not a natural development, but it is the result of social engineering and manipulation.”

Discussion

Jose Vega, who is a Congressional candidate in the Bronx, New York, reviewed the activities of his campaign in making public interventions to confront the hypocrisy of public figures. He described how one activist confronted Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after it became publicly known that she and other prominent Democrats weren’t working “tirelessly for a ceasefire.” He reported that a lot more young people are coming around, and urged people to attend the Memorial Day weekend Schiller Institute conference.

In response to a question on fascism, Zepp-LaRouche replied that it sacrifices human life to the maximization of profit. The authors of bad policy are never blamed, instead others are scapegoated, such as immigrants. “The British System does not respect the creativity of human beings,” because it is preoccupied with “buying cheap and selling dear.”

A participant commented that “Mrs. LaRouche looked so bright and shiny when she returned from China,” which was encouraging.

Zepp-LaRouche and Larry Johnson spoke of the danger in the current India-Pakistan conflict. Johnson reported that the Pakistani Defense Minister admitted that for more than 30 years, Pakistan has been the slave of the U.S. in protecting and covering for terrorist organizations. He said that Western intelligence is stirring the pot in Kashmir to create tension and destabilize BRICS.

Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche concluded by reiterating the importance of the mobilization to getting “the Oasis Plan into the hopper, big time…. We are on this Earth to do good, not just to eat burgers and drive Porsches…. Whatever little part all of you can do, do your part.”

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Live with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Three Dangerous Hot Spots, One Solution (May 7, 11 am Eastern/5pm CET

Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, in her weekly live dialogue to discuss the creation of the New Paradigm for mutual economic development. Send your questions to questions@schillerinstitute.org

May 5, 2025 (EIRNS)—Today’s different zones of strategic crisis are in various phases of escalation, or temporary de-escalation, in Ukraine, in the Pakistan-India conflict, and in Southwest Asia, with the warfare and horror in Gaza the most urgent to be stopped.

This world situation points up the role of the Schiller Institute conference in three weeks, titled, “A Beautiful Vision for Humanity in Times of Great Turbulence,” and the vital process of the International Peace Coalition, which now has met for 100 weeks straight.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Schiller Institute founder and leader, has insisted on the point of approaching all crises from the highest level. She said today that we have to “create a world to solve issues through development.” The dynamic is in motion and gathering force. The BRICS summit will take place in July in Brazil.

Zepp-LaRouche put forward the task of mobilizing for the next five weeks for the Oasis Plan approach, in the countdown to the June 2-4 UN meeting in New York City, on the two-state mandate for Gaza and a reconstruction plan. In the course of this mobilization, the May 24-25 two-day Schiller Institute conference in the Metropolitan New York area is the place to confer on the principles involved. Register now. Join up with the International Peace Coalition, beginning this Friday.

Diane Sare, President of The LaRouche Organization (TLO) published a leaflet titled VE Day 2025: Celebration and Rededication for circulation around the celebrations of the defeat of Fascism in Europe. Sare writes:

“Therefore, let us not only celebrate the victory won on the battlefields of Europe eight decades ago, but let us now resolve that none of those dead in that war, or the tragic series of wars which came after, shall have died in vain. We must act now so that the innocent Palestinian infant, and the fallen IDF soldier, the fearless Russian youth, or the conscripted Azov fighter, will be immortalized in their better nature – the universal goodness of Man, which for reasons unknown is obscured or buried among the tortured souls who have been the aggressors, but who are human nonetheless.  No human is an animal.”

“Our actions today, to bring about a just world, will fulfill the purpose of those departed souls who perished in innocence, guilt, or valor, no matter what they may have thought their purpose was.”

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Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, in her weekly live dialogue to discuss the creation of the New Paradigm for mutual economic development.. Send your questions to questions@schillerinstitute.org


Zepp-LaRouche on CGTN: China and U.S. Beyond the Trade War

The China’s CGTN television network interviewed Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the founder of the Schiller Institute, on the trade war between China and the U.S. and the way out. Notable were her answers to two of the questions:

“I think that the United States really has to go back to their own best traditions of the American system of economy and otherwise … overcome this idea … that you have to be the number one and dominant over all others. Because there is no way how anybody, the United States or anybody else, can contain the rise of China. It’s a country which has 1.4 billion people, and they have taken the lead based on an economy based on innovation. You can’t contain it—so just live with it and, you know, cooperate.”

Is this possible? “The world has changed and President Trump came into the White House the second time in a world which was completely different than his first term, because the countries of the global south have risen due to the rise of China, and extending the economic cooperation through the Belt and Road Initiative; and therefore I think the BRICS, and the many countries aspiring to become part of the BRICS, are a new factor in the situation which I’m confident will impact the more rational thinking people in the United States—that the world has changed and the United States will have to adapt.”


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