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Appeal to Pope Leo XIV To Organize a Global Leaders Summit To Address the Questions of Peace and Nuclear Disarmament

The following open letter to Pope Leo XIV was issued on August 19. If you would like to sign this appeal, please fill out this Google form.

We appeal to you, Pope Leo, as the leader who has made the greatest effort to speak for humanity as a whole, instead of for specific nations, religions, or constituencies, to call for an emergency international summit to guide the world away from the current path of war and potential nuclear disaster and to peacefully resolve the greatest crises facing humanity today. Such an effort would be consistent with your repeated calls for peace and justice ever since you assumed the papacy—calls that have inspired and given hope to millions if not billions of people across our planet.

On June 10, 2025, U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard released a brief but chilling video that began in Hiroshima and warned we are “closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before” and that “political elite warmongers are carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers.” “It’s up to us, the people,” she concluded, “to speak up and demand an end to this madness. We must reject this path to nuclear war and work toward a world where no one has to live in fear of a nuclear holocaust.”

On October 20, 2025, Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence agency, warned, “The world is now experiencing the most fragile moment for international security since World War II.” Naryshkin continued, “Our shared, and perhaps principal, task is to ensure that adaptation to the new reality proceeds without a major war, as has happened at previous historical stages.” It has been many months since the two intelligence chiefs rang the alarm and we’ve only gotten closer to nuclear annihilation—much closer.

When Gabbard and Naryshkin issued those warnings, the war in Ukraine was raging, Israel was conducting its genocide in Gaza, and tensions were high between China and the U.S. over Taiwan and the South China Sea. We have since added the U.S./Israeli war with Iran and the threat of World War III has thus grown exponentially.

Signs continue to appear that leaders are planning for such an eventuality, even though we have known for more than four decades that even a limited nuclear war, let alone a large-scale one, could unleash unthinkable damage globally, including nuclear winter, which would threaten to end life on our planet. On August 20, 2024, the New York Times ran a front-page article warning that the U.S. was preparing to fight a simultaneous three-front nuclear war against Russia, China, and North Korea. That same day, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reported on a growing school of nuclear strategists who believe a nuclear war can be fought and won, effectively overturning decades of understanding that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. In November 2024, U.S. Admiral Thomas Buchanan said that the U.S. was preparing to fight and win a nuclear war and keep enough nuclear weapons in reserve to be able to maintain its global hegemony. More recently, the U.S. Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby has discussed the need for the U.S. to use tactical nuclear weapons on top of deploying troops from South Korea and Japan if fighting breaks out between the U.S. and China over the Taiwan Strait.

The experts behind the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock are not alone in believing that the world is getting closer and closer to nuclear annihilation. And on top of the threats coming from the U.S., several influential Russian leaders have called on Vladimir Putin to use nuclear weapons in defeating Ukraine.

We, the undersigned from around the world, think the timing is propitious for calling an emergency international summit to address major conflicts in the world and the need for stepping away from the nuclear precipice. Russia has been bogged down in Ukraine for almost five years. Though Russia continues to make incremental gains at great cost, the battlefield has largely stalled and both sides are doing extensive damage to energy infrastructure and shipping in their drone and missile warfare, causing global energy and food shortages and suffering both inside and outside their respective countries. If NATO-backed Ukraine continues to cross Russia’s red lines, will Russian President Vladimir Putin be willing and able to thwart Russia’s hawks? The U.S., meanwhile, has been unable to find a diplomatic escape route from its war with Iran, which shows no sign of allowing the U.S. to end the crisis it and Israel created by attacking Iran. While China insists that retaining Taiwan is its ultimate red line, everyone in the region would benefit from a calming of tension and diverting resources into development, along the lines of China’s Belt and Road initiative, instead of into warmaking.

That last point should be applied universally. It is painfully wasteful to see so many nations diverting resources from food, housing, education, and healthcare to their militaries. This has especially been true in North America, Europe, and Asia where talk of peacefully resolving conflicts has given way to talk of preparing for war. This wastefulness and irrationality are at their clearest when it comes to the spending of nine nuclear armed states to support, modernize, and increase their arsenals of nuclear weapons that could end human civilization in a matter of minutes. As the first state to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in 2017, the Holy See under your leadership must remain true to the goals of this powerful effort of one hundred nations who have so far joined the treaty.

As you yourself wisely and powerfully stated a couple of months ago, “I have repeated more than once the fervent appeal that Saint Paul VI made to the United Nations Assembly—What unites me, my venerable predecessor noted, is a pact sealed ‘with an oath that ought to change the future history of the world: never again war, never again war! It is peace, peace, that has to guide the destiny of the nations of all mankind’! Above all in the atomic era, the affirmation of the truth must push through: it is not atomic weapons that generate peace, but disarmament. This truth, which seemed clear in past decades when we witnessed a nuclear de-escalation, has been obscured by a race to armament that today frightens and terrifies.”

It was indeed Pope Paul VI, the first pope to address the United Nations in October 1965, who, in that extraordinary address, quoted President Kennedy, “Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.” He cited the Book of Isaiah, declaring, “They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.” In his 1967 Encyclical “Populorum Progressio,” Pope Paul VI emphasized, “Development is the new name for Peace.”

Other popes have also taken bold initiatives to save humanity in moments of crisis. In October 1962, Pope John XXIII appealed for peaceful resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis and helped provide both President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev with face-saving means to resolve the crisis diplomatically rather than militarily at a moment when war seemed imminent. A similar effort might succeed today when the world’s two major wars seem to be intractably bogged down. (see “Letter To Archbishop John Wester, To Urge Pope Leo XIV to Call for a Peace Conference“) The same is true of the nuclear arms race as the nine nuclear powers are not only modernizing their arsenals but expanding them after decades of sensible if much too slow reductions. And, for the first time in decades, the two major nuclear antagonists are constrained by no nuclear arms control treaties. Other countries and territories, including Japan, South Korea, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, and Ukraine, have begun discussing the attainment of nuclear weapons of their own, which would only turn the world into a larger nuclear tinderbox.

A papal appeal for an emergency summit to end the current wars and reverse the growing dependence on nuclear weapons and warfighting might give global leaders the chance to select a new course of action and get us off the current drive toward planet-destroying nuclear war. We urge you, Pope Leo, to use your unique moral authority to convene such a meeting of the world’s leaders, including the heads of state of the three principal nuclear powers, to meet and respond to the pleas of humanity to take our world in a fundamentally different direction before it is too late.

Initiating Signers

Peter Kuznick, Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute, American University

Jack Gilroy, Pax Christi, Veterans for Peace, Ban Killer Drones, International Peace Coalition of Schiller Institute

Ivana Nikolić Hughes, President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, Columbia University

Richard Falk, Albert Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law, Princeton University and Senior Vice President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

Naledi Pandor, former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, South Africa (2019-2024)

H.E. Donald Ramotar, former President of Guyana, 2011-2015

Yukio Hatoyama, Former Prime Minister of Japan, 2009-2010

Maurizio Abbate, Chairman, National Institution for Cultural Activities of the Italian State (ENAM)

Hafsat Abiola, President, Women in Africa Initiative; human rights, civil rights, democracy actist, Nigeria

Alcibíades Abreu, Professor, School of Mathematics of UNIBE and Catholic University of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Rev. Dr. Fahed Abu Akel, past Moderator, General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, USA

Chris Agee, Executive Editor, CovertAction Magazine

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, Distinguished Professor American University

Muhammad Salim Akhtar, National Director, American Muslim Task Force on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT)

Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima, 1999-2011; Former President of Mayors for Peace

Abdullah Al-Ahsan, Professor of Comparative Civilization; previously taught at Istanbul Sehir University and International Islamic University Malaysia; former Vice President, JUST International

Waltraud Andruet, Spokesperson, Pax Christi Saar, Germany

William J. Astore, Lt. Col. (ret.), USAF, historian, author

Robert Baker Director, Schiller Institute Agriculture Commission

Henry Baldelomar, Bolivia, former ambassador to Washington, D.C.

Karen Ball, Board Member, Pax Christi Texas, San Antonio Chapter

Ellen E Barfield, Veterans For Peace, War Resisters League, Women”s International League for Peace and Freedom

Andrea Bartoli, President, Sant’ Egidio Foundation for Peace and Dialogue; Founding Director, Center for International Conflict Resolution; Senior Research Scholar, Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity, Columbia University; former Dean , School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University; former Dean, Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University.

Anastasia Battle, International Peace Coalition co-initiator, Schiller Institute

Judy Bello, United National Antiwar Movement, Member of the Administrative Committee

Julio Bendezu-Sarmiento, archeologist, National Center for Scientific Research, director of MAFTUR (Franco-Turkmenian archeological mission)

Ronald Bettag, Schiller Institute, International Peace Coalition

Christine Bierre, Editor, Nouvelle Solidarité (France)

Beatriz Bissio, Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, historian and journalist (Brazil)

Wolfgang Bittner, Author, Germany

Dianne Blais, Candidate for Congress, VA, CD 11 (Green Party); World Beyond War; Project Enduring Peace; WILPF

Raïs Neza Boneza, Dr.hc; Author/Poet, Peace Practitioner. DRC/Norway

Yevgeny Bort, civil society activist, Chairman, Berlin-based NGO MEcoVEPe.V.

Thomas Boucher, Professor Emeritus of Engineering, Rutgers University; Veterans for Peace; Peace Action

Earl M Bousquet, Veteran Caribbean Journalist, Castries, St. Lucia

Stephen Brawer, Chairman, Belt and Road Institute (Sweden)

April Brown, Co-Founder, Marshallese Educational Initiative, and Professor of History, NWACC

Heinrich Buecker, Anti-War Cafe, Berlin, Germany

Catherine Buntin, Co-President, Chicago Area Peace Action

Fr. Harry Bury, Twin Cities Nonviolent; author; member, Association of U.S. Catholic Priests

Ken Butigan, Member, Executive Committee of Pax Christi International’s Catholic Nonviolence Initiative; Senior Lecturer in Peace, Justice and Conflict Studies, Catholic Studies Dept., DePaul University

Dr. Helen Caldicott, cofounder Physicians for Social Responsibility, 1985 Nobel Peace Prize

Tom Carney, Mideast Action Group for Interfaith Collaboration, US

Lorenzo Carrasco, Presidente, Ibero-American Solidarity Movement (MSIA)

Joan Carrero, President of the S’Oliver Foundation (Spain)

Joseph Carson, President, Affiliation of Christian Engineers

Marshall Carter-Tripp, Tripp, U.S. Foreign Service Officer (ret.), former Division Director, State Departmernt Bureau of Intelligence and Research, member, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)

Jose Reinaldo Carvalho, President, Cebrapaz (peace organization), Brazil

Claudio Celani, Co-Editor, EIR Strategic Alert Service

Jacques Cheminade, President, Solidarite et Progres (French political party); three times candidate for French President

Dr. James C. Cobey, Founder, Health Volunteers Overseas; Steering Committee, Voices from the Holy Land; Member, International Committee to Ban Landmines (ICBLM), which received the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize

Marjorie Cohn, Professor Emerita, Thomas Jefferson School of Law; Dean, People’s Academy of International Law

Ramón Emilio Concepción, Attorney at Law; Presidential Pre-candidate, PRM party (2020), Dominican Republic

Gerry Condon, Co-Coordinator, Nuclear Abolition Working Group of Veterans for Peace; Board of Directors, Veterans for Peace; Chair, Golden Rule Committee

Sean Conner, Executive Director, International Peace Bureau

Carolina Cositore Sitrin, JVP, If Not Now, Code Pink, ANSWER

Bob Cushing, Association of US Catholic Priests Gospel Nonviolence Working Group

Dr. Thomas Daffern, Director, International Institute for Peace Studies and Global Philosophies

Max De Brouwer President, Belgian Chamber of Translators and Interpreters, Brussels, Belgium\

Rev. John Dear, Executive Director, The Beatitudes Center for the Nonviolent Jesus

Marie Dennis, Past Co-President, Pax Christi International

Dr. Kate Dewes ONZM (Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit), Former Director, Disarmament and Security Centre; Christchurch, Aotearoa-New Zealand

Safie Deyab, Senior Correspondent, Egyptian TV

Michele Di Paolantonio, AIMPGN, Italian Affiliate of IPPNW, 1985 Nobel Peace Prized Organization

Mary Dickson, Author and Survivor of nuclear weapons testing

Glenn Diesen, Professor, University of South East Norway

T. Herbert Dimmock, Founder and Director of “Bach in Baltimore”

Anthony Donovan, Veterans For Peace, Pax Christi International, Catholic Worker, War Resisters League

Judith Ehrlich, filmmaker, “An Ordinary Reality-Daniel Ellsberg on the Threat of Nuclear War”

Carolyn Rusti Eisenberg, Co-Founder and Vice-Chair of Brooklyn for Peace; United for Peace and Justice Steering Committee, NY

Robert Ellsberg, Publisher, Orbis Books

Joseph Essertier, Coordinator, Japan Chapter, World Beyond War

Corazon Valdez Fabros, Co-President, International Peace Bureau (1910 Nobel Peace Prize)

Mike Ferner, former national president, Veterans For Peace

Pierre Fidelia, Pax Christi Metro New York, Board President

Norma Field, Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of Chicago

Klaus Fimmen, vice chairman Buergerrechtsbewegung Solidaritaet (Civil Rights Movement Solidarity, Germany)

Christopher Fogarty, Friends of Irish Freedom; Author, Chicago

Gian Guido Folloni, former Italian Senator; former Italian Minister for Relations with Parliament; former editor of Italian weekly Il Sabato and editor-in-chief of Italian daily Avvenire; Vice President of the Italian Institute for Asia and President of the Italy-Libya Friendship and Cooperation Association, (Italy)

Gen. Edwin de la Fuente Jeria, Former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Plurinational State of Bolivia

Bruce K. Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space

Ela Gandhi, Chairman, Gandhi Development Trust, South Africa

Hall Gardner, Professor Emeritus, Department of History and Politics, American University of Paris

Victor Newking Garpulee, International Coalition of Peace and Euphrates Peace Practice Network of Liberia

Fernando Garzon, Ecuador, UN consultant, former President, Ecuadorian Committee for Solidarity with the Palestinian People

Joseph Gerson, President, Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security; Co-President, Interntional Peace Bureau

Thomas Getman, former Director of International Relations, World Vision; former senior aide to Senator Mark Hatfield; aide to former President Gerald Ford

Subrata Ghoshroy, Research Affiliate, Program in Science, Technology and Society, MIT (USA)

Mempo Giardinelli, Argentina, recipient of the Romulo Gallegos literature award of Venezuela, and the National Literature prize of Mexico

Marie Mechtild Gillissen, Pax Christi, Germany

Aaron Good, political scientist, host of the American Exception podcast, author of ‘American Exception: Empire and the Deep State’

Liliana Gorini, Chairwoman of Movisol, Italy

Commander Robert Green, Royal Navy (ret’d); Former Director, Disarmament & Security Centre; Christchurch, Aotearoa-New Zealand; Author of “Security Without Nuclear Deterrence”

Dr. Ben Greenspan, former President, American Society of Nuclear Medicine

Elliot Greenspan, Schiller Institute, International Peace Coalition (USA)

Joyce Hall, Coordinator, Pax Christi Dallas, TX; Pax Christi Texas Board

Melvin Hardy, The Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University; Washington Interfaith Staff Community

Fr. John Heagle, Director, Priests Against Genocide, U.S.

Martha Hennessy, Catholic Worker, Kings Bay Plowshares 7, granddaughter of Dorothy Day

Andrej Hunko, Co-President of BSW Party, NRW EF

Margareta Ingelstam, Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation

Maoz Inon, Israeli peace activist; Co-CEO, InterAct; Co-Author, “The Future is Peace”

Farhang Jahanpour, retired Distinguished Professor at the University of Isfahan, visiting professor at Harvard, lecturer at Cambridge, and part-time lecturer at Oxford University

Tony Jenkins, Managing Director, International Institute on Peace Education, Coordinator, Global Campaign for Peace Education

Dr Aruna Kammila, Professor & Director, School of Legal Studies, REVA University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Frank Kartheiser, Catholic Worker Movement

Marylia Kelley, Senior Advisor, Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, Livermore, CA

Kathy Kelly, Pax Christi Teacher of Peace 1998; Board President, World Beyond War

Tse Anye Kevin, Acting President, State 55 Afrika, Pan African Political Officer Global African Congress

John Kiriakou, former CIA Counterterrorism Officer; former Senior Investigator, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

Dominic Klos, Executive Director, Pax Christi Trier, Germany

Michael D. Knox, Chair, US Peace Memorial Foundation

Jonathan Kuttab, Executive Director of Friends of Sabeel, North America

Jeremy Kuzmarov, Managing Editor, CovertAction Magazine; Historian; Author

Art Laffin, Catholic Worker, Pax Christi Teacher of Peace 2016, author of The Risk of the Cross: Living Gospel Nonviolence in the Nuclear Age, co-editor of Swords into Plowshares

Yuba Nath Lamsal, former Nepal Ambassador to Denmark, with concurrent accreditation to Norway, Sweden, Lithuania, Finland; editor, “The Rising Nepal” daily

Fr. Paul Lansu, Pax Christi International

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Founder, Schiller Institute; Initiator, International Peace Coalition

Cynthia Lazaroff, Founder, Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy

Bandy X. Lee, President of the World Mental Health Coalition; Co-founder of Preventing Violence Now

Steven Leeper, Chairman, Peace Culture Village, Hiroshima; Board Member, Physicians for Social Responsibility; Past President and Chairman of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, 2007-2013

Michel Legendre, Steering Committe Member, Network to Dismantle the Military-Industrial Complex

Kamel Louadj, Journalist-Correspondent of French language Sputnik-Afrique, Moscow

Claudio McConnell, Swedish Peace Committee

Brian McGinnis, Candidate for Congress, Green Party, North Carolina District 2

Ray McGovern, Co-founder, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity

Ted McIntyre, Major , USAF (retired), Founder, Worldwide Humanitarian Solidarity

Peter Metz, Chair, Pax Christi New England Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (PCAN)

Rabbi Jeremy Milgrom, Co-founder and Co-director, Clergy for Peace

Horuko Moritaki, Co-Representative, Hiroshima Alliance for Nuclear Weapons Abolition

Father Claude Mostowik msc, President of Pax Christi Australia.

Chandra Muzaffar, Islamic Reformist and Activist, President of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST); Convenor of SHAPE (Save Humanity and Planet Earth)

Darrell Nichols, former President, NE Ohio NAAPC; former Vice-President, SCLC, Toledo, Ohio; Captain (ret.), U.S. Army

Agneta Norberg, Women for Peace, Sweden

Hno. Darwin Francisco Orozco Orozco, Minor Capuchin friar, novice master of the Conference of Capuchins of Hispanic America (CCH); member of the Franciscan Family’s Commission for Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation (JPIC), Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Karen Ortiz, Candidate for Congress, Independent, NY CD 12

Dantes Ortiz Núñez, Historian; Professor of History, Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Rosemarie Pace, Pax Christi New York State

Pedro Paez, Ecuador, former deputy economics minister in the Correa government

Benoit Pare, Former Analyst at the French Defense Ministry

Hon. Melissa Parke, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize)

Ernesto Sócrates Pazmiño Granizzo, former Minister of Justice and Human Rights of Ecuador; former vice president of the Justice Studies Center of the Americas, Ecuador

Barbara Pivernik, Hartford (CT.) Catholic Worker; Fiends Committee on National Legislation; Back from the Brink

Theodore Postol, Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology, and National Security Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Margaret Power and Van Gosse, Co-Chairs, Historians for Peace and Democracy

Yaakov Rabkin, Emeritus Professor of History, Universite de Montreal

Steve Rabson, Professor Emeritus, Brown University; Veteran, United States Army, Defense Atomic Support Agency

John Rachel, Director, Peace Dividend Project

Ali Rastbeen, President of the Geopolitical Academy of Paris

Jerome Ravenet, Agrege Professor of Philosophy, Sinologist, Author, France

Mossi Raz, former Member of the Israeli Knesset; former Director-General of Peace Now, Israel

Dr. Herbert Reginbogin, Professor of International Relations and International Law, Institute for Policy Research, The Catholic University of America

Luc Reychler, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, University of Leuven, Belgium

Rafael Reyes Jerez, Journalist; producer of the programs “Cara a Cara” and “Economía y Política,” Dominican Republic

Ilse Ritter(Germany), Actress of the Year (1985 and 1994), recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit for services to culture

Alan Robock, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University, and nuclear winter researcher

Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C., Canada

Nicholas Rooney, British actor, director, producer; former diplomat

Alain Rouy, Vice-President, International Peace Bureau

Coleen Rowley, retired FBI agent, former MN legal counsel; Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity

Richard E. Rubenstein, University Professor Emeritus, Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Geroge Mason University

Celeste Saenz, Mexico, head of Journalists Club

Enrique Antonio Sánchez Liranzo, Lawyer, author, poet—Columnist in Primicias newspaper, Dominican Republic

Ulf Sandmark, Chairman, Schiller Institute in Sweden

Diane Sare, Independent U.S. Presidential candidate

Robert Scheer, Author, Professor, Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism, University of Southern California; former editor, political website, TruthDig.com

Harley Schlanger, President, The LaRouche Organization

Susan Schnall, President, Veterans for Peace

Meinrad Schneckenleithner, Pax Christi Austria, former Vice-President

Kay-Achim Schoenbach, Vice-Admiral (ret.) of the German Navy; former Inspector-General (Chief of the General Staff) of the German Navy

E. Martin Schotz, MD, Coordinator for the JFK Peace Speech Committee (Mass. Peace Action); Author, “History Will Not Absolve Us: Orwellian Control, Public Denial, and the Murder of President Kennedy”

Martin Sheen, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor; Pax Christi Teacher of Peace (1999)

Martin Sieff, Former Chief Political Correspondent, United Press International, Three time Pulitzer Prize Nominee

Alice Slater, World Beyond War Board Member

Norman Solomon, Author and National Director of Roots Action

Christina Spannar & Jan Oberg, founders, The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, TFF, Lund, Sweden – https://transnational.live

Rick Staggenborg, MD President, Veterans For Peace Linus Pauling Chapter

Steven Starr, Associate, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

John Steinbach, Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capital Ares

Jean Stevens, Warheads to Windmills Coalition

Oliver Stone, Academy Award-winning Hollywood Director and Best-selling Author

Frida Stranne, Professor, John Morton Center for North American Studies, University of Turku, Finland

Susan Strickler, Director of Documentary “The View from Hiroshima”

Bernard Survil, Pax Christi, Olean, NY; Stop Banking the Bomb Pittsburgh

David Swanson, Executive Director of World Beyond War; author, “War is Still a Lie”

Jane Swanson, President, San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace

Professor (Dr) Anoop Swarup, Chairman Centre for Global Nonkilling

Kathleen Temple, Mennonite Action, Peace Praxis, other peace groups

Setsuko Thurlow, Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, Order of Canada Recipient

Owen Brian Toon, Emeritus Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder, researcher of nuclear winter

Dr. Mohammad A. Toor, Chairman of Board of Trustees, Pakistani American Congress; President, American Pakistani Physicians for Justice & Democracy; Chairman, American Muslim Alliance

Lode Vanoost Journalist, De Wereld Morgen, Belgium

Roberto Vela Pinedo Presidente de la Red de Integracion Amazonica

David Vine, political anthropologist; Founder, Network to Dismantle the Military-Industrial Complex and Overseas Base Realignment and Closure Coalition

Prof. Rene Wadlow, President, Association of World Citizens

Alan Waltar, Ph.D. Engineering Science, former President, American Nuclear Society; Consultant to IAEA, DOE

Roger Waters, Musician, Founding Member and Lead Singer of Pink Floyd

Alison Weir, Founder, Executive Director, If American Knew

Ben Wesley Independent Party Nominee for U.S. Congress (CT–4th C.D.)

Elayne Whyte Gomez, Former UN Ambassador from Costa Rico; Senior Fellow at UNIDIR; President of the UN Conference that negotiated and adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (2021)

J. Kirk Wiebe, Retired National Security Agency Whistleblower; VIPS

Lawrence B. Wilkerson, Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired), Former Chiel of Staff to the U.S. Secretary of State

Rev. Richard Wise and Martin Tiller, Co-Chirs, Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

Lawrence Wittner, Professor Emeritus of History, State University of New York, Albany

Ann Wright, US Army Colonel (Ret) and former US diplomat who resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the US war on Iraq. Member of Veterans for Peace, World Beyond War, CODEPINK and Hawaii Peace and Justice

Hideki Yoshikawa, Director, Okinawa Environmental Justice Project; Advisory Board Member, World BEYOND War

Alfred de Zayas, Professor, Geneva School of Diplomacy

Tatjana Zdanoka, PhD in Mathematics; former Member of the European Parliament, Latvia

Zool Zulkowitz The Rising Together Theater Company, Artistic Director; Directors Guild of America (retired);’ Veterans for Peace, Associate Member

For the full list of signers, click below:

Full List of Signers

Tore B Aanonsen – Norway
Paul Aarts
Kentaro Abe, Citizen in Japan, Member of Citizens’ Network for Evacuation From Radiation
Hafsat Abiola, President, Women in Africa Initiative; human rights, civil rights, democracy actist, Nigeria
Maryam Afkarian
Chris Agee, Executive Editor, CovertAction Magazine
Dr. John Agostinelli, Retired Research Fellow, Rochcester, NY
Javier Aguiar
Elisabeth Ahlbäck
Abdullah Ahsan
David Ajetunmobi, Secretary NATA
Sait Fatih Alagoz
Mateo Alajarin, profesor emérito de Química Orgánica, Universidad de Murcia, España
Mateo Javier Alajarín Huertas
Samuel Albert
Christine Albertini, Peace Advocate
Gian Piero Albrile
Rafael Alejandro
CARLOS ALEJOS, SICSAL PERÚ
Maite Alepuz
Antonio Alfau
Thulfiqar Ali
Sören Almkvist, Sweden
Hugo Alves
Nara Ane Ambroso – Source Temple Sanctuary Brazil
Alexa Andra
Kevin Anton
Anke Apt Deutschland, Berlin
Dan Aquililna
Tupac Aragón
ARAIZA SIERRA HECTOR
Edgardo Arca – ciudadano argentino por la Paz
Tal Ariel
Linda Arkert. ANESW South Africa
Judith Arnold, President, New Jersey Peace Action Education Fund
Federico Arrigoni
Mikk Arro, citizen of the world
William J. Astore, Lt Col, USAF (Ret.)
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Anders Axner, the Swedish Unity Party
Gretchen Aycock
Rev. Deepak Mammen Babu
Henry Baldelomar Chávez, Ex-Encarcargado de Negocios de la Embajada de Bolivia en los EE.UU, Docente Universitario.
Brigitte Gerlinde Ballo
Vojtěch Balský, human
Johnny Baltzersen, chairperson, CICED-Global Solidarity, Denmark
Sandra Barbosa
Ellen E Barfield, Veterans For Peace, War Resisters League, Women”s International League for Peace and Freedom
Kay Barnes, former Catholic journalist
Tad Barnes American Citizen
Teresa Barnes-Matych, mere retired Scientist and Science Teacher
Ahmed Bassalat, An-Najah National University, Palestine
Anastasia Battle, International Peace Coalition co-initiator, Schiller Institute
Peter Baumann
Kalisa Beagle, MA, French language instructor and Credentialed preschool teacher.
Mary Pat Beatty, O.P. Pax Christi West Michigan
Raymond Becker – Friddens- a Solidaritéitsplattform Lëtzebuerg
Borwin Beer Systemischer Familientherapeut Überlingen, Germany
Palle Bendsen, NOAH Friends of the Earth Denmark (ICAN Partner) & Forbyd Atomvåben – ICAN in Denmark (Ban Nuclear Weapons)k
Rev. Jorgen U Bengtsson, Church of Sweden
Elliot Benjamin
Peter Bergel, Treasurer, Oregon PeaceWorks
Dianne Bettag, Schiller Institute, International Peace Coalition
Ronald Bettag, Schiller Institute, International Peace Coalition
Claude Bezençon FAU
Willa Bickham and Brendan Walsh
Kenneth Biegel
Christine Bierre, Editor, Nouvelle Solidarite (France)
Itziar Bilbao Bilbao (Doctora en Psicología)
Maria Beatrice Bisortole
Mathieu Bissonnette
Wolfgang Bittner, Author
Elizabeth Bjerke
Leila Black, Pediatric Nurse
Reverend Debbie Blane, PC(USA).
Monika Blanke
Hope Bless
Petter Boberg
Sr. Mary E. 9Buffy) Boesen, SL POresident Sisters of Loiretto and Loretto Community. Participated in 1986 “Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament” across the united States
Jan Malte Böhm
Davide Bolognesi
Raïs Neza Boneza, Dr.hc; Author/Poet, Peace Practitioner. DRC/Norway
Ian Boreham
François Bosc
Laura Bottaro I’m an artist and I believe in Peace because it’s the only way for survive in this Earth
Thomas Boucher, Professor Emeritus of Engineering, Rutgers University; Veterans for Peace; Peace Action
Samir Boudali
Jean-François Boulanger
Robert Bowen, Owner, Bowen Associates
Allyson Bowers, Registered Nurse
Susan Boyd
Stefano Braccini
Adam Bradley
Stephen Brawer, Chairman, Belt and Road Institute (Sweden)
Evi Bremer
Philibert Bretonvilliers
Claudia Bretschneider, Psychotherapist
Carlos Brobjerg, Cook
Dr Alan Broom, Convener Climate and Justice Group, St Matthew-in-the-City, Auckland, New Zealand
April Brown, Co-Founder, Marshallese Educational Initiative, and Professor of History, NWACC
Patrick Bruns
Jure Filip Brzović Juvan
Buchman
Sr. Marie Buckley Sparkill Dominican Sisters
Heinrich Buecker, Anti-War Cafe Berlin
Fernando Buen Abad Domínguez
Zintis Buls, novice researcher of geopolitics
Catherine Buntin, Co-President, Chicago Area Peace Action
Frances Buring (Humanitarian)
Daniel Burke, Schiller Institute
Kai Büttner
Elke und Matthias Butze aus Dresden wegen großer Sorge um den Weltfrieden
Guven Cagil Copiague, New York
Dr Helen Caldicott cofounder Physicians for Social Responsibility 1985 Nobel Peace Prize
Prof. Dr. Karl Cammann University of Muenster
Marcos Campos
Margarita Campos
Sergio Capraro
Joseph Carson, President, Affiliation of Christian Engineers
Philippe Cartalas
Susan Cartwright Australian and US citizen.
Simone Casu – Messaggio di Silo
Joyce Caulfield, OP
Susan Cavalieri
Carlos Cazalis
Graciano Cebeira – España
Claudio Celani, Co-Editor, EIR Strategic Alert Service
Peter Celle
Federico Chan, MD. Human
Jacques Cheminade, President, Solidarite et Progres (French political party); three times candidate for French President
Matteo Cherchi, Human being
David Cherry, staff member, Executive Intelligence Review, Washington DC and Leesburg, VA
Andrea Chiesa
Peter O. Childs HUMAN RACE
Dr J Andrés Christen, Mexico
Chris C Christensen
Jane Christenson Worker’s Strike Back – Member
ross clady
Erik Clayworth
Joseph Michael Clifford
Catherine Cloud
Jane Coc
Anastasia Conway
Peter Cooke
Carolina Cositore Sitrin, JVP, If Not Now, Code Pink, ANSWER
José Costa
Steven Creve, PhD, MBA
Doug Creveling
Ian Crooks
Carol Crossed, Feminists Choosing Life of New York
Finian Cunningham, Author and Journalist
CHRISTINE CURRIE
Edward Curtin, Independent Writer, USA
Bob Cushing, Association of US Catholic Priests Gospel Nonviolence Working Group
Laszlo Czifra, traveler
Sherwin Dadman
Barbara and Jim Dale, United Methodist Christians
Catherine Daly
Petr Dann
Ειρήνη Δασκαλάκη
Alexander Dávila / SIGNIS Ecuador
Nancy Davis Disciples of Christ
Debashis De
Felicity De Motta Lecturer/Peace Activist
Don DeBar, journalist and analyst, Ossining, NY
Jean-Baptiste Debiais
Jose Armando Delgado Alvarez
Sylvia Demarest Retired Trial Lawyer and Substack writer.
Marie Dennis, Past Co-President, Pax Christi International
Kathy Dervin, MPH
Frank DeVuono
Norma Di Benedetto Argentina discipula de Francisco
SANDRA DI BONIFACIO, insegnante di Lettere all’Istituto Tecnico per il Turismo “Livia Bottardi” di Roma, Italia
Michele Di Paolantonio, AIMPGN, Italian Affiliate of IPPNW, 1985 Nobel Peace Prized Organization
Josh Diamond- antiwar and animal rights advocate
J.A. Diaz
Carlos Julio Díaz Lotero Líder social, exdirigente sindical en Colombia
Bruce Dickson, with Equal.Vote coalition
Mary Dickson, survivor of nuclear weapons testing
Francis Didion
Victor Diez
T. Herbert Dimmock, Founder and Director of “Bach in Baltimore”
Ilko Dimov
Denis Doherty Hiroshima Day Committee Sydney Australia
Frank Dohrmann
Gemma Doll Dominican Sisters of Peace
Anthony Donovan, Veterans For Peace, Pax Christi International, Catholic Worker, War Resisters League
Frank Dorrel, Publisher of Addicted To War, Member of Veterans for Peay
Inka Dote Cuevas
Lucy Duff, member of Peace Action
Christiane Dulk
Don Dunbar
David Dussault Sgt retired
Phil Eagleton, Constitutional American
Alexander Ebert
E.G.
Peter Egelkraut
Judith Ehrlich, filmmaker, “An Ordinary Reality-Daniel Ellsberg on the Threat of Nuclear War”
Lois Eichman, Project Radical Hospitality
Jody Eisemann, L.Ac., mother, USA citizen
Carolyn Eisenberg Hofstra University
Jennifer Eland
Pat Elder, Military Poisons
Miriam Elliott, Member of Emmanuel Mennonite Church, Gainesville, FL
Michael Ender Parishioners St Albert – St Philip Neri Church Alameda CA
Sean English Lex Innocentium 21st Century
Angela Ercole
Larry Erickson
Carina Eriksson
Lena Eriksson
Earl E. Erland
Anna Erroufi
Frederik Esbach
Eugenio Escudero
Joseph Essertier, Coordinator, Japan Chapter, World Beyond War
Ingar Evje
Jeff Ewener, retired from advertising
Corazon Valdez Fabros, Co-President, International Peace Bureau (1910 Nobel Peace Prize)
Fèmy A.D.D. FAGLA
Farrokh Fathi
Klaus Fauser
Jette Fergo
Cloret Ferguson International Schiller Institute
William Ferguson, Schiller Institute
Sara Ferizovic
Mike Ferner, former national president, Veterans For Peace
Pierre Fidelia, Pax Christi Metro New York, Board President
Andrew Fidler
Klaus Fimmen, vice chairman Buergerrechtsbewegung Solidaritaet
Joachim Fisch. – Frieden für Alles und Alle auf der Erde ist das wichtigste Gut, welches wir anstreben sollten, nicht Kriege!
Justin Fischer
Barbara Fitters /Teacher
James Flaherty
Floraline
Carla Floriani, mother and grandmother
Christopher Fogarty, Friends of Irish Freedom; Author, Chicago
Gian Guido Folloni
Jean-Luc Fontaine. Je souscris à cet appel.
Naomi Forrester
Mattias Forsgren, Dissidentklubben (Dissident Club Sweden)
Andrew Forsyth, Berkeley, CA, USA
Giulio Francomanno Global Sumud activist
Maximilian lFrantz
paul frazier
Mary Jane Freeman, Schiller Institute organizer & EIR staff
jan weber fritsbøger
Guilherme Frota
Francisco Fuenzalida Walker
Edmilson Gabardo
SHARON GADBERRY
Ricardo Galán Sierra
Sister Eileen Gannon ,OP
GAOUAOU Youcef
Virginia Garcia-Bunuel, Citizen of the World
Hall Gardner, Professor Emeritus, Department of History and Politics, American University of Paris
Victor Newking Garpulee, International Coalition of Peace and Euphrates Peace Practice Network of Liberia
Javier Garralon Huete
Fernando Garzón Orellana. Académico, consultor de las NNUU; expresidente del Comité Ecuatoriano de Solidaridad con el Pueblo Palestino.
Jonathan Gaynor
Renate Geiser MD
Dr. rer. nat. Michael Geisler, Physicist
Thomas Getman, former Director of International Relations, World Vision; former senior aide to Senator Mark Hatfield; aide to former President Gerald Ford
Carol Gilbert, OP (Dominican Sister Grand Rapids)
Laurent F. Gilbert, Sr. Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights, Partners For Palestine -Florida, Veterans For Peace, Mayors For Peace, Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
Marie Mechtild Gillissen, Pax Christi, Deutschland
Justin Girves
Slobodan Glumac, Canadian citizen
Carol Goiburn Back from the Brink Fresno CA
Juan Gómez Mundo sin guerras y sin violencia
Aaron Good, political scientist, host of the American Exception podcast, author of ‘American Exception: Empire and the Deep State’
Liliana Gorini, chairwoman of Movisol, Italy
Patric Gorrebeeck, voorzitter van de werkgroep ” Vrede in de Wereld ” te Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Patrick Goubau, member Grands Parents pour le climat
Robert Gould, MD; San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility
Busy Graham, Alchemy Ballet and Carpe Diem Arts
Giuliano Gramegna
Elliot Greenspan, Schiller Institute, International Peace Coalition (USA)
Juliana Grell
Peter Griffin, Pax Christi New South Wales
Brigitte Groß-Dölen
Pernille Grumme, Actress, Peace/Truth-activist
Nelson Guedes
Patrick Guéret, Engr.
Elizabeth Guru
Kjell Uwe Gutschmidt, physician, Berlin
Heiko Haase, Frieden ist ein Gebot der Vernunft
Alan Haber, Students for a Democratic Society, Megiddo Peace Project, UNION Option 2028, PeaceTable.org
Odile Hugonot Haber (WILPFUS and Megiddo Peace Project)
Manuel Haegler, Entrepreneur
Oscar Haffmans — Founder Ministry of Democratic Affairs — The Netherlands
Regula Hagmann
Sandra Haigh
Joyce Hall, Coordinator, Pax Christi Dallas, TX; Pax Christi Texas Board
Dosier Hammond
MARIAN HANKINS
Ingeborg Hanson
Harald
Ebrahim Hardan
Hossein Hardan
Melvin Hardy | The Carter School for Peace at George Mason University | The Washington Interfaith Staff Community
Scott Harper
Niels Harrit, Associate Professor (ret.), Dept. Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Timothy Havel, Retired Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paulina Havilček, the mother, wife and concerned Citizen of the world.
Le Ly Hayslip, Founder Global Village Foundation
Elizabeth Healy
John Healy, musician
Leigh Watson Healy
Linda Deborah Healy, “A Peopled-Garden” podcast
Yuli Henao; Postdoctoral Research Associate at The University of Akron; Ohio
Charlotte Henriksen
Patrick Henry
Ethan Hernandez
Guillermo Hernandez
Eloy Jesús Hernández González, Religious Society of Friends
Dr. Volker Hettler
Patrik Hidefjäll
Marion Hilger
Rick Hines No affiliation. Just concerned citizen
Jeanne Hodgkiss
Christian Hoening
Nancy Hollo
Thala Juul Holm
Thor Holt
Graeme Hood
Ann Marie Hook,AMMM
Karen Hoover MD
Christoph Hornetz, citizen of this great planet
Uwe Hostmann, Berlin
Jarle Hovland
Lieng Hua
Matthias Huber; Atheist
Kit Larsen Hughes
Graeme Hull
Andrej Hunko, Co-President of BSW NRW
Magnar Husby
Ivett Husveth
Jude Iam, Elder American
Kobo Inamura, Special Fellow, Okazaki Institute
Margareta Ingelstam, Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation
Barbro Ingman
Ginette Isabel
Aziz Islam Retired Geologist/Palynologist
Mark Ivison
Joaquín Izquierdo
Angelika Jahn
Peter Jahn
Carol Jahnkow, Director Emerita, Peace Resource Center of San Diego
Margaret Jarvis, Canada
Richard Jarvis
Janice Lee Jayes, Illinois State University
Tony Jenkins. Managing Director, International Institute on Peace Education. Coordinator, Global Campaign for Peace Education.
Andrea Jepson
Thomas Jerchel
Lotte Johansson, partiet MoD Mänskliga rättigheter och Demokrati
Magnar JOhansson
Benjamin Jones
Ken Jones, Witness Against Empire
Jean-Sébastien Joubert
Rashid Jussa, World citizen
Mikael Kallavuo, freelance journalist, Finland
Holger Kalweit, Father
Dr Aruna Kammila, Professor & Director, School of Legal Studies, REVA University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Mani Kang
Klaartje Kaptein
Andrew Karanikolis, Deputy Vice President of Sales in MENA & Europe, Easy Environmental Solutions, Inc.
Suzan Karim
Jürgen Karres
Frank Kartheiser, Catholic Worker Movement
Steve Kaylor, candidate for NY State Senate in 1986.
Gabriel Kearns Ground Zero Center for nonviolence
Susan Keeny
Georg Keller
Marylia Kelley, Senior Advisor, Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, Livermore, CA
Elizabeth Kelly
John M Kelly
Wayne KELLY
Maeeda Kenaya
Geoffrey Kern
Lark Kerr, concerned citizen
Lois Kerschen, Consistent Life Network president
Donya kh
Aliyah Khan, Advocate for Justice and Universal Human Rights
Thabo Khoboko
John Kirsch, human being
Sebastian Kirsch, MD, Switzerland
Bitte setzen Sie sich mit all Ihrer Kraft für eine friedliche Welt ein und rufen zu einem internationalen Friedensgipfel auf. Beate Kittel
Ute Kleber
Helene + Dr. Ansgar Klein, NATO is preparing war against Russia
Kim Klein, Loretto Link Board
Heinrich Klössler Rentner
Nickola Klössler Rentnerin
Thomas L. Knapp, Director, William Lloyd Garrison Center for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism
Michael Knoch, Berlin, Germany
Peter Koch
Walt Kochirka
Rodney Kooney
Klaus-Jürgen Korcz
Jon Koriagin
Mariya Kosturska
Jivko Kozarov
The nuclear bomb is something we would like NOT to have invented. My prayers to You and Your ability to do the right thing. Eric Kuijper
Karsten Kunkel
Eva Kuntz, lehrerin für Transzendentale Meditation (TM)
Mercy Kurian
Jeremy Kuzmarov, Managing Editor, CovertAction Magazine; Historian; Author
Cecilia La Pietra OP Sparkill Dominican
Regine Laaser – Teacher
Lylian del Mar Labarca León, Human being on Planet Earth
Art Laffin, Catholic Worker, Pax Christi Teacher of Peace 2016, author of The Risk of the Cross: Living Gospel Nonviolence in the Nuclear Age, co-editor of Swords into Plowshares
Francesco Lai
Christophe LAMOTTE
Michael Lanahan
Dr. Peter Langille
Fr. Paul Lansu, Pax Christi International
Gustavo Lanza Castelli (Licenciado en Psicología)
Thomas Larsson, Engineer
Stefan Laug, international artist
Lea Launokari
John Laws
Tristan Le Gallois
Gregory C. Lee
Nancy Lee
sue y, lee, Professor emerita Biological Sciences Cal Poly Humboldt
Johann Lenkait
Ulrich Leonhardt
Michael Leppig, Schiller Institute
Edison Lessa
Maria Pia Lessi
Charlotte B. Lewis
Christopher Lewis
Stuart Lewis
Wolfgang Lieberknecht, Wanfried, Deutschland, International FriedensFabrik (IFFW)e
IRA LIEBOWITZ, EDUCATOR
David Lindemann, EHU University of the Basque Country
Christiane Lindholm
Kore Linnerud, father
Christian Lippmann
Mika Litwora
Sandra Litz
Robin Lloyd, Vermont WILPF
Arno Lohmann, Pfarrer i.R., Bochum, Germany
Jhonny Alexander Londoño Betancur
Mats Lönnerblad
Eduardo López Guzmán
Wendy Evans Lothe, retired orthoptist
Jean Richard Louis
Antonella Lucchi
Samuel Luján
Douglas Lummis; VFP-ROCK
Although I am An atheist, I think Pope Leo will be the right person to fathom almost all peace-loving peope and organisationd. Johannes Lund/DK
Nick Lydall, former ECC, YCC member South Africa
Vyron Lymberopoulos Airline Captain (retired)
Karen Lyons
Tanya m cheadle
Stefano Macchi, no affiliation
Alan Macdonald, Professor Emeritus, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
Andrew MacDonald, Writer, Evolutionary YOU
nelson macedo
Duncan Macintosh, Renfrewshire CND
Kent Magnusson
Nancy Mahoney
Zoran Major, concerned citizen
Bassel Majzoub
MALOV Valerij
Hans C van Mameren
Pere Maragall Professor of Catalan Language
Lucila Amiel Marcora, world citizen.
Glenn Marcus
Arda Shamshoum Mardirossian, christian
Adam Marín Loría
Giuseppe Marino
Shad Marsh
Bob Martin, MD, Oakland, CA, US
Frank Martin
Cristina Martín Asensio
Lucía Martín Moreno
Salvador Martín Moreno
Dany MASSIEUX ex-militaire/aéronavale France
Paulo Mateus
Ursula Mathern
FFr. Jim Mathews Pastor of St.Lucy’s Church in Syracuse
Manfred Matt
Monika Matthias
Katia Mazzau English high school teacher, mother and wife
Karina Mc Conell, catholic
Daniel McArdle
Richard McCaughan
Claudio McConnell, Swedish Peace Committee
Robert McCormick, Asylum Law, Criminal Defense, Natural Resource Law/Documentary Filmmaker – Asylum Chronicles, Owener ProteusNMFrontera Film Production in Santa Fe and Blanco NM
Colin McDonald
Mary Ann McGivern, Sister of Loretto
Ted McIntyre, Major , USAF (retired), Founder, Worldwide Humanitarian Solidarity
Kevin McKay-Carroll
Declan McKenna Retired nurse, Donegal Ireland
Sr. Peggy McPartland
Mike McVicar, BS & MS, Cinema Television and Media Production, Filmmaker and Citizen of Lawrence, Kansas.
Susie Mechesney
Ramon medico
Ligia Mello
Iván Méndez
Gilles R. Mérier, MD
Torsten Merkel, retired teacher of mathematics and physics in Germany.
Reto Mettauer
Peter Metz, Chair, Pax Christi New England Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (PCAN)
Hannefriedel Meyer-Faude
Teresa Miarnau
Yolanda Miarnau
Michele
Ilinca Lucia Mihalca
Mariusz Mikołajewski człowiek
Todd Millikan – Unaffiliated
William Milne
Mim, Istituto Salvemini-duca d’Aosta, Fitenze, Italy
Jesus Bartolome Miranda – Pale Blue Dot Peace Project
Dr. Misha Misholina, PhD, Managing Director, Asia, and Senior Manager, Executive Go-to-Market Strategy
Jon Mitchell, Environmental journalist and author
Karin Moergelin, Writer supporting peace
Valentine M. Moghadam, Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Northeastern University, Boston
Christoph Mohs, Schiller Institute, Germany
Isabelle Monconduit French citizen
ISMAEL MONGE, INSTITUTO SCHILLER MÉXICO
Celerino Montes, Conservation Ecologist.
Patricia moreno Manzo
Haruko Moritaki Co-representative Hiroshima Alliance for Nuclear weapons Abolition(HANWA)
Dr. Michael David Morrissey
Lucien Möschinger
Father Claude Mostowik msc, President of Pax Christi Australia.
Nick Mottern – Ban Killer Drones
Jenny Muda
Jim Mulherin, PhD, UCSC
Manfred Muller Engineer
Yasumi Murata
Arthur Murphy, LaRouche organizer
Catherine Murphy Minnesota Peace Project
Madeleine Murphy, NJ, USA
craig murray
Alice Murtha
Karina Murtha
letizia Musiari
Name: Bamalum Buji Mustapha; Affiliation: Founder and CEO – Hyrax Investment Company Limited
George Mutalemwa, Solidarity for Peace and Development (MAMA)
Karen Nafziger, Schiller Institute
Sara Natoli
Anatolio NDONG MBA
Darin Nellis
Stefanie Nesse a private individual
Dietmar Neumann
Barbara Nicholas SL Sisters of Loretto at the Foot of the Cross Nerinx KY
Dave Nicholson CPPNW
Dr Ross Nicholson Paediatric Cardiologist Auckland NZ
Emil Nicolov
Lieselot Nijhuis
Madelief Nijhuis
Agnieszka Nimark, Affiliated Scholar, Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, Cornell University
Simonetta Noè
Kathleen Nolan, OP
Declan Noonan
Agneta Norberg, Women for Peace, Sweden
Mohsen, Nourani Vatani
Navid Nourani Vatani
Mohsen, Nourani Vatavi
Sean Nowak, Berlin, Germany
Manfred Obererlacher
Meinrad Odermatt, Zug, Switzerland
Mats Öhlin, Retired Educator, Sweden
Gabrielle O’KAne
Carlos Olarte
Gert Olefs, co-founder of WhiteGreenBlue, Sustainable You
Kerstin Olofsson
Cecily O’Neil
Gregor Ophey
Maria Orlandini OSF – Director of Advocacy at Franciscan Action Network
Nathalie ORTIZ
Nicolas Ortiz, violinist and composer
Yoshimichi Ota, retiree
Paul Otero, Member of the human species
Elisabeth Özdalga, former Professor of Sociology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Rosemarie Pace, Pax Christi New York State
Jorge Eduardo Paganini
Constantine Pakavakis, Co-Convenor No AUKUS Coalition Victoria and PEN Melbourne Writers for Peace convenor
Inga Palme
Leo Palmer (University of Cambridge)
Yuri Pantioukhin, Business Owner
Andreas Papageorgiou
Michael Parker
Gregory Parry
Dr. Ray Pastorino, Earth
Olivier Patrick
Mag. Andreas Paul, IFOR Austria
Roger Peace, U.S. Foreign Policy History & Resource Guide initiator and coordinator
Michael G. Peña
Eric Pepiciello Quesada
Antonio Pérez
Diane Perlman, PhD Transcend US
Jürgen Peters
Paulette Peterson Loretto Link
Sarah Phillips
Bernardo Piemonte Italia
Mary Lou Pierron Loretto Community Comember
Daniel Piñón – analisis geopolítica- militante-humanista-PJ.- Argentina
Lewis Pitts, Retired Movement Lawyer
Emil Plic
Wolfgang Pluschke
Katherine Pomeroy
Mikael Porath, peaceactivist, organic farmer, devout catholic father of four children
Ben Powys
Pozuelo González Carolina
Liam Prendergast
Julie Prendiville, University of British Columbia
Alexander Preobrazhenskiy, IT evangelist, father of three sons, marathoner
Paschal Preston, Prof. Emeritus, Dublin City University
Robert Preti, Deeply Concerned Human
Timur Pulatov
Brigitte Püttmann
Daniele Dario Quaglia
Dieter Quaschnok
Yakov Rabkin, Emeritus Professor of History. Université de Montréal
John Raby, board member, Peace Action Maine
John Rachel, Director, Peace Dividend Project
Raddington2
SHARON RAJKUMAR
Savita Ramdev
M.Vittoria Rampinelli, docente di scuola secondaria, indipendente
Spencer Ramsey, Roman Catholic. But most importantly, a man who wants a future.
Morteza Rasaei
Laurence Rebello
Dr. Andrey Redlich
Barbara Reed
Angelika Rehbein
Josep M. Reichardt
Jim Reid
Christa Reintges
Octavian Renea
Cristóbal Rey Moran
Dolores Reyes
Dee Reynolds, Professor Emerita, University of Manchester
Julia Ribas
Manuela Ribera Perez
Dennis Riches, Professor, Seijo University, Tokyo
Ivana Rihter
Theodore Ringelheim retired educator Alexandria VA
Angelica Riquelme
Alan Robock, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University, and nuclear winter researcher
Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C., Canada
Dane Rogers, Rehumanise UK, Medical Statistician, DPhil in Statistics, University of Oxford
Bernd Rohmann
Bettina Röhrig
Martha Rollins Consultant International Projects
Rommel, Jürgen, Berlin 14050
Marian Ronan, Ph.D. Research Professor of Catholic Studies,, New York Theological Seminary (Retired)
Christof Rörig, Freiburg
Maria Rory A MOjica SJB (ST John the Baptist) SodalitySodality
Richard rosen, former president, Tempro Decelopment Co. inc., temple sinai, rochester, ny
Janosch Rosenberg Germany
Hansjörg Rothe, Leipzig
David Rous
Alain Rouy, Vice-President, International Peace Bureau
Stijn Rubens, Practical Philosopher
Richard E. Rubenstein, University Professor Emeritus, Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University
Helmut Rümke
Phil Runkel. Archivist Emeritus, Marquette University
Helen Russell human being
Mary Ryan-Hotchkiss
Dr Oumar Sacko , MD. Neurochirurgien au CHU de Toulouse, France
Roland Saher, SCCAN
Saint Cloment Hervé
Olaf Sammler
Rainer Sandau
Lenore Sanders, International Peace Coalition of the Schiller Institute
Ulf Sandmark Chairman Schiller Institute in Sweden
Macela Carmo dos Santos
Mario Lopes dos Santos EU official
Tom Sauer, Professor International Politics, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
Daniele Sberna
PAOLO SBERNA
Elaine Scarry Cabot Professor of Aesthetics, Harvard University
Cristina Scassellati
Andreas Schäfer
Prof Dr Rolf Schäfer
Dr. Wolfgang Schäper
Paul Dieter Scharpf
Robert Scheer, Clinical Professor, Annenberg School for Communicatio and Journalism, University of Southern California
UWE WERRNER SCHIERHORN
Matthew J. Schimpf (citizen of planet Earth)
Nadia Schlüter-Paulssen
Rüdiger Schneider
Katharina Scholer : Frieden ist die einzige Lösung!!!
Renate Schoof, Author
Alexander Schrieken
Volker Schulz
Uta Schumann
Patricia Schur
Thomas Schur
Peter Schwarz, Governor of the Age of Enlightenment
Pauline Seales Santa Cruz Climate Action Network
Silvia Secchi
Hans-Georg Seidel Male nurse Düsseldorf
DR. Eberhard Seifert I like them listed in the appeal
Martin Seith-Böhm, Musiker und Pädagoge
Janice Sevre-Duszynska
Nikita Shalimov (NTV Russian television)
David Shavin, Schiller Institute
Naoko Shibusawa, Associate Professor of History, Brown University
Tonia Shimin Professor Emerita of Dance, University of California, Santa Barbara
Colby Shumway, American University Student
Amb. Br Meck Sibanda OFS ( Ambassador of Kindness Foundation For World Harmony), Executive Director Christian Youth Volunteers Association, Country Coordinator Laudato Si Movement Zimbabwe Chapter.
Lindokuhle Sibiya – Eswatini Youth and Women for Change
Hans H. Siegrist, retired
Susan Silva Parishioner St. Albert the Great – St Philip Neri Church Alameda, Ca
Achim Simmer
Jörg Sitzenstock
Hannah Meyer Sjoeblom
Rev. Jasmine Smart, Presbyterian Church (USA)
Cathy Smith, SL
Lance Smith One Love Sangha
Sally N Smith
Julia Smucker, board member, Consistent Life Network
Vanya Smythe, Gnostic Society, New Zealand
Regina Sneed Life Member Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Evelien Snijders
Webb Sobolik – Seconds ’til Sunrise
Henry Söderström
Kim Sofo
Eugeniu Sofronov
Svein Øivind Solberg, professor, University of Inland Norway
Pilar Soledispa
Achim Sommer
Sosher S
Hatem Soua, a concerned father of two.
Joan Spero, Loretto Community
Alberto Sposito
Rick Staggenborg, MD President, Veterans For Peace Linus Pauling Chapter
James Stamps, Retired Pilot, FAA,
Steven Starr, Associate, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Carla Stea, Investigative Journalist, Global Research
Peggy Steckler, human
Klaus Stedem
John Steinbach: Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capital Ares
Sister Carol Stenger, CDP; Sisters of Divine Providence, Pittsburgh, PA 15101
Peter Stepaniuk
Jochen Steuber
Dr. Wolfgang Steuer, Conscience and Peace Tax Germany
Mariand Steve
Jean Stevens, Warheads to Windmills Coalition
Otto Stiegler
Heinz Stobe
Joachim Stommel
Richard Strange Jedi 1st Earth Battalion, New Earth Army
Ibnar Stratibus, Intentional Peer Support
Florence Stratton, Making Peace Vigil
Susan Strickler, Director of the documentary, The Vow From Hiroshima
Birgit Stroh, evangelisch-lutherisch
Helge Suess
Matt Sullivan, Pleasantonians for Peace
Dorin Sumalan
Suquet Brigitte
Bernard Survil, Pax Christi, Olean, NY; Stop Banking the Bomb Pittsburgh
Jane Swanson, President, San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace
Lee Ann Swarm, Board President, Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance
Professor (Dr) Anoop Swarup, Chairman Centre for Global Nonkilling
Nancy-Jo Taiani
Alissa Takesy, PhD candidate, Environmental Studies Department, University of California Santa Cruz
Mitchie Takeuchi Not Just A Survivor Film
Daniel Dariush Tanara, CSU Fullerton
Clement Tarpey
Elizabeth Tascón, citizen of the world
Joan Tascon Henao
Radek Tauchman, Adhesives Bonding Technology consultant, Czech Republic
Kathleen Temple, Mennonite Action, Peace Praxis, other peace groups
Marlene R Tendler
Eric Terclaevers ICAN campaigner
Sarah Terzo, Board Member, Consistent Life Network
Christopher thiele – durchschnitts otto mit licht, deutschland, gesegnet und ehrlich für gerechtigkeit
Cristina Thompson
Jonathan Thron, Schiller-Institute Germany & BüSo
Joan Tierney
Stuart Tiller St Matthews Church. Auckland,
Joan Tirak, Pax Christi Michigan, PCUSA Ambassador of Peace
Evelyn Tischer, Pressenza IPA
Sheila Marie Tobbe, osu
Prof Dr. Asomba Tobias, Founding Director of Christian Community Health Care Foundation (COHECF Int’l)
Toilliez Christophe
robert tomas
Raffaella Trebbi
Marco Trelles
Maria Trignano
Dirk Tröndle
Luc Trudel
Anna Breian Tskhovrebova
Philip Ulanowsky, artist, Schiller Institute
Karin Utas Carlsson PhD Peace education
Dr.med. Hans-Peter Utikal, Herrsching, Germany – Arzt, Psychoanalytiker, Diplomchemiker
Alvin A Valeriano
Margarete Valladares
Rich Van Dellen –retired physician, Rochester,MN
Roland Van Deusen, Navy veteran, VA volunteer in suicide prevention, member Veterans For Peace.
Bob Van Hee Political Leader in Minnesota, USA USA
Kostas Vassiliadis former Chairman/CEO STASY SA
Willie Vázquez
Roberto Vela Pinedo Presidente de la Red de Integracion Amazonica
Joan Ventura Codinas
Karel Vereycken, painter-engraver, France.
Gabriel Vergara. Miembro movimiento humanista universalista. Québec, Canada
Caroline Beatriz Vieira
María Cristina Vignoles, religiosa
Mariarosa Villa
Dr. David Vine, author “The United States of War”
Estelle Voeller, Chair One Sunny Day Initiatives
Susanne Vogt, Dipl. Mathematician, Germany
dylan voisard
Danijela Vujošević
Urs Wagen
Reinhard Wagner German author, journalist and photographer
Clay Wakeford, South Africa
julian wallach
John Warburton
Brian Watson
Nicola Watson
Herbert Weß
Roland Weber, Oekumenische Initiative Eine Welt https://erdcharta.de/verein-oeiew/
Alison Weir, founder and executive director of If Americans Knew
Barbara Weissenbacher
Berndt Karl Horst Weissenbacher
Nina Westgard
Chris Wheeldon
Peter Whitehead
Gunilla Wigertz, Unity Party (Enhet)
Jakob Willerström, Uppsala University, Sweden
Taffy Williams
Peter Wilson
Andreas Wimmer
Maarten de Wind
Michael Wineberg
Marc Winniczek, economics teacher
Olaf Wittchen, Pfarrer
Janna Wittenberg, Chair, Loretto Peace Committee
Jim Wohlgemuth, Veterans for Peace, Hector Black Chapter
Joseph P. Woolslayer
Robert Wright
Patrick Wyss, former business owner
Edlira Xhafa
Gustavo Yescas, México.
Gerry Yokota, World BEYOND War – Japan
Muhammad Shahzad Yousaf PhD Candidate in Development Studies at University of International Business and Economics Beijing PR China
Mong Yuen
Hans Zandvliet
Alfred de Zayas, Professor, Geneva School of Diplomacy
Maria Zazzaro Architetto e Docente liceale MIM
Tatjana Zdanoka, PhD in Mathematics; former Member of the European Parliament, Latvia
Dr. Gisela Zehner, Zahnärztin
Ulrich Zeidler
Sonja Zens
Hilary Ziols, member Evangelical Church in America
Andrew Zoerner, physiotherapist and health service manager (retired), Adelaide, Australia
Eric Zuesse
Milica Züfle
Benno Zuiddam DTh PhD, ethics VU Amsterdam and North West University.
Gašper Zupančič


Dennis Fritz: How America Got Trapped in Endless Wars

Dennis Fritz, a retired Command Chief Master Sergeant of the United States Air Force, current senior fellow and former director of the Eisenhower Media Network, reveals how U.S. foreign policy helped drive the wars in Iraq, Ukraine, Iran, and the Middle East. He warns that the military-industrial complex, imperial ambitions, and the pursuit of profit have come at an enormous human cost, while escalating tensions and nuclear weapons pose a growing danger. He calls on Americans to challenge the status quo, hold political leaders accountable, and fight for a new foreign policy centered on peace rather than endless war.

Mr.Fritz is the author of Deadly Betrayal: The Truth About Why The United States Invaded Iraq.


Live Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Social Rumbling Shakes Euro Governments

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Wednesday, October 7th, 2026, 11am ET/ 5pm CET

The turmoil of the emergence of a new era in world history is upon us, as in the turbulent years of the 1980s. These are not “normal times.” This time is reminiscent of the months just before the sudden fall of the Berlin Wall, November 9, 1989, followed by the “unthinkable” dissolution of the Soviet Union two years later. Now, as then, most analysts fail to grasp the depth of what is actually going on. Their axiomatic beliefs prevent it.

There is something that unifies the popular uprisings in Spain (“housing”), France (“education”), Germany (“government collapse”), and Italy (farmers, fishermen and truckers actions.) The triggers may seem different, but the underlying process is the same. One thing is clear—all NATO economies are failing, and no NATO nation’s people support the drive for a new world war!! The trans-Atlantic’s leaders, for the most part, “have been tested in the balance and found wanting.” The multiple flashpoints of war, the electoral campaigns of the next 30 days in Brazil, Israel and the United States, should be viewed, not as “important current events,” but as embedded in something much bigger. The assembly of 800,000 people in France for Pope Leo’s Sunday Mass, half or more of whom had not ever been to such a gathering in their lives before, were seeking what they hoped would be the presence of authentic leadership, in the person of Pope Leo XIV. His recent campaign for a “Just Peace” doctrine in the Church, supplanting the opportunistic practice of citing—but not studying—St. Augustine on “just war,” and his adamant rejection of nuclear weapons, can supply a moral compass in a time of crisis.

In a discussion yesterday, EIR intelligence officer Roger Moore reminded the assembled that forty years ago, October 11-12, the Reykjavik, Iceland Summit between American President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev was held. Internet narratives that refer to Reykjavik state that it was Ronald Reagan’s refusal to abandon his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) that was the “deal-breaker” for negotiations there, that could have eliminated the use of most, if not all nuclear weapons. That “narrative” is wrong. In reality, it was that very SDI proposal, involving creating joint technological breakthroughs for an advanced laser weapons defense system, that was designed to render nuclear weapons “impotent and obsolete,” and therefore unnecessary. Gorbachev’s rejection of Reagan’s SDI proposal ended the chance for the Soviet Union to escape its own demise, accelerated by the “primitive accumulation” methods its economy was forced into to attempt to keep pace with the United States and NATO in the 1980s arms race.

The truth is that the founder of this magazine, EIR Editor-In-Chief Lyndon LaRouche, had, with the knowledge of the Reagan Administration’s National Security Council, formulated the SDI policy. LaRouche engaged in a series of negotiations with representatives of the Soviet government from December of 1981 through early 1983. Ronald Reagan famously announced the SDI policy in a speech on March 23, 1983, to the shock of governments worldwide, and many officials in the United States.

Five days before Reykjavik, as Lyndon LaRouche reported in his “The Night They Came To Kill Me”: “On October 6, 1986, a virtual army of more than four hundred armed personnel descended upon the town of Leesburg, Virginia, for a raid on the offices of EIR and its associates, and also deployed for another, darker mission. The premises at which I was residing at that time were surrounded by an armed force, while aircraft, armored vehicles, and other personnel waited for the order to move in shooting. Fortunately, the killing did not happen, because someone with higher authority than the Justice Department Criminal Division head William Weld, ordered the attack on me called off. The forces readied to move in on me, my wife, and a number of my associates, were pulled back in the morning….. This is not only my cause for complaint. The great majority of Americans are as much the intended victim as I am. They have a right to know what is being done to them in this connection. I explain….. Ironically, but not accidentally, this operation was unleashed at the time President Reagan was meeting Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland, where the President, once again, firmly restated his commitment to SDI.”  

LaRouche’s proposal was the moral opposite of multiple preceding “deep state” lunatic proposals for nuclear war, starting with Winston Churchill’s May, 1945 “Operation Unthinkable,” which sought to nuke the Soviet Union by no later than September, 1945. In 1949, Operation Dropshot, formulated by the United States Department of Defense, proposed dropping 300 nuclear weapons on the Soviet Union to destroy 85% of its industrial capacity, with “collateral damage” of tens of millions of deaths. There were more proposals, all hidden from the American people.

In 1954, the US’s “Operation Vulture” proposed using 3 “small tactical” atomic bombs to save the defeated French forces at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam. In 1958, according to the late Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, the United States had a plan to bomb mainland China with nuclear weapons in order to prevent an invasion of Taiwan. (In a 2021 interview with CBS News reporter Michelle Miller, Ellsberg said, “I was part of a plan that should never have been made, that was a crime against humanity.”) And on July 20, 1961, Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer, Gen. Curtis LeMay and others presented a plan to JFK to launch a surprise nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, by no later than December of 1963.

The following year saw the October, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and the courageous actions by the Kennedy brothers to open up back-channel negotiations with the Soviet Union. Like those JFK/RFK discussions with Khrushchev, the LaRouche discussions were carried out under duress, and on the brink of war. For example, the near-nuclear war of 1983, thwarted by the courageous intervention of one man, Stanislav Petrov, was discussed just last week in Valdai by Vladimir Putin. In that case, intelligence, not artificial intelligence, prevailed. The LaRouche-Reagan initiative known as the SDI, far from preventing negotiations in Reykjavik, was the basis for a new security and development architecture at that time, presented in LaRouche’s 1984 Presidential campaign “Draft Memorandum of Understanding Between the United States and the USSR.”

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who was with Lyndon LaRouche when they came to kill him, has proposed Ten Principles for a New Security and Development Architecture, in a time when “the tables have turned.” Today, the idea of “a Just Peace” must pervade discussions in the churches, unions, and other institutions of the United States and Europe. Those in motion and turmoil must begin to think in the spirit of  Pope Leo’s and Zepp-LaRouche’s Nicholas of Cusa, whom the Pope discussed in his Angelus speech last October 25.

The world needs a “coincidence of opposites” approach to world peace. China and Russia can help a declining trans-Atlantic world, but only if the United States Presidential system can become capable of responding. The American Presidency is an institution, not merely an individual. LaRouche Independent Presidential candidate Diane Sare will shortly release a statement that will denounce the crazed Pete Hegseth’s  Autonomous Warfare Command, as well as propose a sane approach to a just peace with Iran, China, Russia and all nations. The lesson of that October 6, 40 years ago, is that a great idea, and a great movement for great ideas advanced on behalf of humanity, can never be defeated, if you keep fighting.


From Confrontation to Collaboration

174th Meeting of the International Peace Coalition

October 2nd marked the 174th consecutive weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC). Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Schiller Institute founder and IPC initiator, opened the proceedings by warning of new developments, including the potential dangers of the military use of artificial intelligence (AI). U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is promoting the development of autonomous weapons systems, with no discussion of human control over these systems. She referenced the “absolute exploding situation in the Mideast,” where the blockage of both major maritime chokepoints threatens a global depression. On the other hand, a bright spot is the IRGC’s open letter to the American public, which gives Americans access to Iran’s side of the story for the first time. She also cited the remarks of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the 23rd annual forum of the Valdai International Discussion Club on Oct. 1, 2026, who described how Russia had sought to integrate itself with Europe and had been rebuffed. She recalled as well the case of Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, who overruled the automatic retaliation mechanism in Soviet doctrine and prevented nuclear war on Sept. 26, 1983.

Agriculture in Crisis

Marcia Merry Baker, EIR Co-Editor for Economics, described today’s economic crisis situation as a “breakdown phase,” following economic shocks last Spring. She began with the projected collapse of total cereal grains production worldwide in the 2026-2027 crop year of 2.5%—which, she said, “might not sound like much, but it’s going to get bigger and faster as the planting and harvesting cycles go ahead, unless we intervene to stop it”—this in a world already facing hunger and shortages of food. She noted the trading of fertilizers globally has declined by 20 to 30 percent since the February start of the Iran War. The shutdown of shipping by the Persian Gulf oil states through the Strait of Hormuz has doubled the price of key industrial chemicals like sulfur. This is compounded by price rises in gasoline, jet fuel, heating oil and especially by shortages of diesel fuel. She described how Europe is moving to cut agricultural subsidies in order to re-direct the funds into rearmament. On the positive side, she cited agreements by Russia to supply India with fertilizer, and until recently, by China to export fuel to Southeast Asian nations. At Valdai, Putin spoke of resuming Russia’s global energy exports, provided that the economic sanctions are lifted.

Mike Callicrate is a cattle rancher, farm policy leader, and founder and owner of Ranch Foods Direct in Colorado. He catalogued the rapid decline of ranching due to bad policy, saying that “we are losing our ability to feed ourselves.”

Jesus Holguin Cazares, Kansas Cattlemenʼs Association President, reported on the sudden raids by ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) last week in several communities with big meat-packing plants in southwestern Kansas. ICE gave no advance notice to anyone, including local law authorities. For several days, processing stopped, accounting for 20% of the U.S. beef supply. Ranchers had thousands of heads of cattle with nowhere to go. The ICE raids created a climate of fear where even well-documented U.S. citizens of Hispanic origin are reluctant to show up for work.

In response, Zepp-LaRouche referenced Pope Leo XIV’s remarks on the migrant controversy. “You do not solve the migrant question by expelling people,” she said; the answer is to stop wrecking the economies of other nations, which is what provokes waves of refugees. Mike Callicrate charged that meat packers “love disruption, they love chaos,” because it drives down the price that ranchers can ask for their cattle. Merry Baker agreed that ICE raids have disrupted the meat packing in southwest Kansas, contributing to a global crisis. Zepp-LaRouche urged everyone to step back from local controversies and view them from the perspective of a global shift away from the colonial system.

From Confrontation to Collaboration

Fr. John Heagle, Director, Priests Against Genocide (USA) and Member, Association of U.S. Catholic Priests, reminded the session that Pope Paul VI said, “If you want peace, work for justice.” He compared this to Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s call for a paradigm shift, and cited various Catholic Church leaders who called upon the church to engage with humanity as a whole. Paul VI called upon world leaders to recognize that “development is the new name for peace,” but he may have been naïve, because secular governments have disregarded his words, a situation which Fr. Heagle described as “the total failure of our democracy today.” Priests Against Genocide is working around the world where people are being slaughtered because of who they are. He described the role of the Church as a “field hospital” for the multitudes of victims. He ended with a powerful poem written by a child in Gaza describing the action of a parent writing their name on the child’s leg to identify them.

E. Martin Schotz, MD is Coordinator for the JFK Peace Speech Committee (MAPA—Massachusetts Peace Action) and author of History Will Not Absolve Us: Orwellian Control, Public Denial, and the Murder of President Kennedy. He described the philosophical shift that President John F. Kennedy underwent toward the end of his life, toward a rejection of “Pax America” and the deployment of war as an instrument of policy.

Zepp-LaRouche praised Fr. Heagle as an exemplar of authentic Catholicism, as opposed to those who twist the “just war” doctrine of Saint Augustine in order to excuse wars that are anything but just.

Co-moderator Dennis Speed once again introduced Larry Johnson, former CIA intelligence official and a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). Speed summarized the content of the meeting thus far for Johnson, who was just arriving in the session. Johnson related that he had just returned from Russia where he had met with numerous military leaders, including one who had already concluded from the pronouncements of NATO leaders that Russia would soon be at war with Europe. He warned of the seriousness of the supply shortages that have ensued in the wake of the Iran War: “Diesel is to the global economy what blood is to the human body.” He said that U.S. President Donald Trump suffers from a form of mental illness and “has lost any social filter.” Referring to Trump’s UN speech where he spoke of annihilating Iran, he warned, “when Trump’s rhetoric exceeds that of Adolf Hitler, we’re in a very dangerous position.”

Jacques Cheminade, head of the Solidarity and Progress (S&P) party of France, described the impact of Pope Leo’s visit to Paris, with an estimated 700,000 to 800,000 people gathering for an open-air mass at the Place de la Concorde on September 26 to hear the pope’s message of peace. Cheminade described the intervention of his organization into the events of the pope’s visit, and the distribution of 12,000 leaflets of the [[open letter]] [[https://nuclearinsanity.substack.com/p/appeal-to-pope-leo-xiv]] by Peter Kuznik, which the IPC is collaborating on.

Discussion

In response to questions from Germany, Africa and Mexico, Marcia Merry Baker reported that there is an initiative in the world that is very precious, that promotes cooperation among farm leaders of the United States and Mexico, and could be expanded to include farm leaders from other nations as well. Co-moderator Dennis Small, EIRʼs Ibero-American intelligence director, observed that the destruction of agriculture in both the United States and Mexico is the driving force behind the waves of migrants entering the U.S. To appease the banks, Mexico and other nations around the world are forced to abandon food self-sufficiency in favor of cash crops for export, in order to pay debt service. According to polls, 75% of Americans oppose the very policies which cause immigration, and their anger should be directed at those policies rather than at the migrants. Mike Callicrate called for a return to an agriculture whose fundamental purpose is to feed people, as opposed to being a playground for speculators.

In concluding remarks, Fr. Heagle echoed Zepp-LaRouche’s indictment of those who misuse Augustine’s Just War doctrine to excuse wars of aggression, and emphasized the importance of the open letter to Pope Leo XIV. Zepp-LaRouche returned to President Putin’s warnings in Valdai, that the crisis of a new world war could erupt much faster than people think. We are so close to extinction, but we are also so close to the new paradigm that we desire. [eir]


International Peace Coalition, Week 172: On the Brink of an All-Out Regional War in Southwest Asia

by EIR staff

Sept. 18—The 172nd consecutive weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) began with remarks by Dennis Small, IPC co-moderator and Ibero-American Editor for the Executive Intelligence Review. Small emphasized that U.S. President Donald Trump, despite his bluster, is not the “master of his fate.” At this point, with the closure of both the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the world is headed for an enormous economic shock, which Trump is powerless to prevent. He has failed to thwart the BRICS and the shift toward a multipolar world, as the world could see at the recent BRICS conference in New Delhi, India. Trump has announced that the United States has stationed weapons in space, and that the U.S. is discussing the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons, because he still hopes to intimidate the rest of the world.

Omer Bartov, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, reported that genocide, like war, has been used as “the continuation of politics by other means.” He cited historical examples where the perpetrators of genocides were able to achieve their policy goals. Since opposition to genocide was codified in 1948, there was a deterrent of sorts, but the impunity with which Israel is carrying out its genocide in Gaza threatens to take us back to the world as it was before the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG). In the case of the Palestinians, both Hamas and the Israeli regime-initiated violence in order to accomplish specific objectives, and both have been successful, but at a price. Hamas drew global attention to the plight of the Palestinians, at the cost of tens of thousands of lives. The Israeli regime hopes to provoke another Intifada in the West Bank, which would serve as a pretext for another genocide there, to hasten the ethnic cleansing and annexation.

Harley Schlanger, President of The LaRouche Organization, praised Bartov’s presentation and his recent book, Israel: What Went Wrong? Schlanger discussed the topic of Israel’s postponed constitution, which was superseded in 2018 by the “Basic Law: Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People,” which effectively institutionalized apartheid, as is described in Bartov’s book. Schlanger proposed that rather than focusing on disincentives such as sanctions to change Israeli behavior, the world should promote positive incentives such as Lyndon LaRouche’s Oasis Plan, which would benefit both sides of the conflict.

Jonathan Kuttab is a Palestinian-American Christian who is Executive Director of the Friends of Sabeel North America, and also Co-Founder of Nonviolence International. He expressed his appreciation for the ongoing IPC meetings, and praised the diverse and global nature of their participants. He then moved on to the topic of genocide denial in the case of Gaza. He said that the most difficult thing to prove in legal proceedings of genocide was intent, but Israel has made its intent extremely easy to demonstrate and document. Westerners who deny the genocide are doing so to hide their own culpability. Israel’s impunity threatens to normalize genocide, a return, as Prof. Bartov warns, to the world as it was before the Genocide Convention. What is particularly shocking is the attacks on the international courts and on international law itself.

In response, Bartov debunked the “two-state solution,” charging that “the idea of two separate states with a wall between them is a fantasy.” He praised an organization called “A Land for All,” which promotes a plan which envisions two sovereign states—Israel and Palestine—within a single shared homeland, linked by open borders and shared institutions rather than strict separation. He said that it was difficult for many people to come to terms with the fact that Israel, which presented itself to the world as a refuge for victims of the Holocaust, could now be perpetrating a holocaust of its own, but because Israel “overplayed its hand” and pushed its impunity too far, the eyes of the world have been opened.

Dennis Small addressed the issue of denial, saying that people are unwilling to face the truth because they have no solution, and consequently reality is too painful. He said that the worst damage is to those who tolerate the genocide, more so than to the actual victims. He contrasted the benevolent image of man found in China’s Confucianism with the bestial image found in Thomas Hobbes and his “war of each against all.” He also reminded the participants that Zionism was in large part a project of the British Empire.

Beatriz Bissio is an Associate Professor at the Post-Graduate Program of Comparative History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She described her previous career as a journalist with a publication called Third World Notebooks, during which she extensively covered Palestinian issues and interviewed the chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization Yasser Arafat. She then moved to the subject of the recent BRICS conference, which was by no means guaranteed to succeed, particularly because of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s friendly relations with Israel. Despite this, the meeting was a major success. The meeting between Modi and China’s President Xi Jinping was particularly important, producing the memorable comment, “We are partners, and not rivals.” The conference on the whole, while not unanimous on all controversial issues, was characterized by “diplomacy, dialogue and the patient construction of consensus.” She said that this conference allows her to be optimistic, despite the cruel realities which are addressed in the IPC’s series of meetings, and cited the 1955 Bandung Conference, a landmark meeting of 29 Asian and African nations which laid the foundation for the BRICS, who are the “inheritors of Bandung.”

Discussion

In response to a questioner who asked why the Arab states do not come to the aid of the Palestinians, Kuttab said that the Arab nations are not democracies and they are not responsive to the wishes of their populations, plus they are afraid of the Israelis. Schlanger came in to point out that Iran is an exception, which is the reason that a war was launched against it.

A German woman said that Germany had a special responsibility to oppose today’s genocide in Gaza, since it was guilty of genocide itself under the Nazis. She thanked Schlanger for bringing up the British role, and also called attention to the importance of the controversy surrounding the American rap star Macklemore, who came under attack for supporting Palestine on stage. She described his official statement as “beautiful.”

Ulf Sandmark, head of the Schiller Institute in Sweden, gave a report on the situation there, and the interventions being carried out by his organization, which are helping to build an anti-war coalition among the opposition parties.

Small returned to the topic of the Anglo-American desperation to preserve their “unipolar world,” including the intention to use nuclear weapons. He described Israel as a “stick of dynamite” that could be detonated and discarded, also in the pursuit of the unipolar dream.

A journalist asked Kuttab to explain the “slavish devotion” of American politicians to the Israeli regime. He described it as something intended to serve broader interests, and said that these politicians would happily “throw Israel under the bus” if it seemed advantageous. But, he said, there is a shift in the United States, especially among young people, and Jewish people who no longer feel comfortable with what Israel is doing. He predicted that the U.S. will eventually remove the “umbrella of impunity,” and Israel must come to terms with that.

Schlanger returned to the importance of the IPC process to help people get “outside the axiomatic structure of their thinking,” to overcome the brainwashing to which they are subjected in the legacy media. He described the day’s meeting as a thorough discussion which “takes up these questions at the root.”


Live Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: UNGA Session Offers Opportunity to Consolidate a New Paradigm.

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Wednesday, Sept. 23rd, 2026, 11am ET/ 5pm CET

To the Heads of State and Delegations participating in the UN General Assembly in September 2026

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The following statement was released today by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and leader of the Schiller Institute.

This institution,  the United Nations General Assembly, may not be perfect and may need reform, but it does represent still, at this moment of extreme crisis, the most important institution where representatives of the entire human population come together to address existential problems.

This time, the UN General Assembly takes place at a moment of great danger to the very existence of the human species. Two regional wars, the Ukraine war and the war against Iran, are both threatening to escalate into  wider regional conflicts, and even global nuclear war. Several senior  military experts are warning that we are in a situation more dangerous than during the Cuban missile crisis.

Most recently in the United States and Great Britain, the discussion has broken out into the open about the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons, and even the idea that a “limited nuclear war” can be fought and won. Anybody who has studied the matter knows that there is no such thing as a tactical nuclear war, because even the use of a single so-called tactical nuclear weapon will escalate, within days, to a full global nuclear war, leading to the annihilation of the human species.

In the course of the last thirty-five years, after the end of the Cold War,  the world has undergone the transition from  the failed effort to to establish an unipolar world to an unfolding multipolarity, which, however, is still governed by the logic of geopolitics. Geopolitics is based on the idea that one nation, or a group of nations, has a legitimate interest that it can impose on another nation or group of nations. 

We are experiencing at the same time the end of the epoch of five hundred years of colonialism. If we, as the human species, want to prevent this tumultuous transition period from ending up in a new world war, we have to replace geopolitical confrontation with a completely new paradigm, the vision of ONE humanity. It is the same question which was discussed during the time of the young American Republic, in the Federalist Papers:  Can mankind govern itself?

If this question is to be answered affirmatively in the time of  thermonuclear weapons, we must establish an entirely new paradigm: The  idea of the one humanity first, must be put above all particular interests.

This U.N. General Assembly is the place to put the concept of a “New Security and Development Architecture” on the agenda, which must take into account the interests of every single country on the planet.  The four Global Initiatives – but especially the Global Governance Initiative – put forward by China, represent a very practical approach to establishing  the basis for such a new paradigm.

Let the “Spirit of Bandung”, and the “Spirit of Shanghai”, and the spirit of Beethoven’s Ninth symphony, that All People Shall Be Brethren, be your inspiration!

Respectfully,

Helga Zepp-LaRouche,

Founder of the Schiller Institute


To the Heads of State and Delegations participating in the UN General Assembly in September 2026

The following statement was released today by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and leader of the Schiller Institute.

This institution,  the United Nations General Assembly, may not be perfect and may need reform, but it does represent still, at this moment of extreme crisis, the most important institution where representatives of the entire human population come together to address existential problems.

This time, the UN General Assembly takes place at a moment of great danger to the very existence of the human species. Two regional wars, the Ukraine war and the war against Iran, are both threatening to escalate into  wider regional conflicts, and even global nuclear war. Several senior  military experts are warning that we are in a situation more dangerous than during the Cuban missile crisis.

Most recently in the United States and Great Britain, the discussion has broken out into the open about the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons, and even the idea that a “limited nuclear war” can be fought and won. Anybody who has studied the matter knows that there is no such thing as a tactical nuclear war, because even the use of a single so-called tactical nuclear weapon will escalate, within days, to a full global nuclear war, leading to the annihilation of the human species.

In the course of the last thirty-five years, after the end of the Cold War,  the world has undergone the transition from  the failed effort to to establish an unipolar world to an unfolding multipolarity, which, however, is still governed by the logic of geopolitics. Geopolitics is based on the idea that one nation, or a group of nations, has a legitimate interest that it can impose on another nation or group of nations. 

We are experiencing at the same time the end of the epoch of five hundred years of colonialism. If we, as the human species, want to prevent this tumultuous transition period from ending up in a new world war, we have to replace geopolitical confrontation with a completely new paradigm, the vision of ONE humanity. It is the same question which was discussed during the time of the young American Republic, in the Federalist Papers:  Can mankind govern itself?

If this question is to be answered affirmatively in the time of  thermonuclear weapons, we must establish an entirely new paradigm: The  idea of the one humanity first, must be put above all particular interests.

This U.N. General Assembly is the place to put the concept of a “New Security and Development Architecture” on the agenda, which must take into account the interests of every single country on the planet.  The four Global Initiatives – but especially the Global Governance Initiative – put forward by China, represent a very practical approach to establishing  the basis for such a new paradigm.

Let the “Spirit of Bandung”, and the “Spirit of Shanghai”, and the spirit of Beethoven’s Ninth symphony, that All People Shall Be Brethren, be your inspiration!

Respectfully,

Helga Zepp-LaRouche,

Founder of the Schiller Institute


Schiller Institute Publishes New Translation of Friedrich Schiller’s The Aesthetic Education of the Human Being

Sept. 16, 2026 (EIRNS)—The Schiller Institute has just published Friedrich Schiller’s most important philosophical work, The Aesthetic Education of the Human Being, in a new, improved translation by Leni Rubinstein. The book also includes his essay, On the Sublime. The book is now available at Amazon for $15.

Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was a historian, dramatist, poet, and philosopher—a very special, beautiful thinker whose ideas remain of crucial importance for the present world, and for humanity in the future. In all of his works, be they his dramas, essays on universal history, poems, or philosophical writings, his intention was to create a worthy future for humanity through the ennoblement of the individual. He used to be known throughout the United States as “The Poet of Freedom,” and there are statues of him in parks all over the country.

In the 1790s, Schiller wrote a number of profound philosophical essays, of which The Aesthetic Education of the Human Being is the zenith—and Schiller himself recognized that in a series of letters to friends.

Schiller’s intention was to rout the dominant influence of Immanuel Kant, who believed that there is no intelligible standard for truth and the beautiful, and that the sensuous part of your being must be negated—contrary to Schiller’s view that the human being is a harmonious whole, who must strive to educate his or her emotions and bring them into harmony with intellectual reason, through classical art, and who must strive towards becoming a beautiful soul. “We call a soul beautiful when it can confidently let its emotions guide its own will, without any risk of coming into contradiction with its [the will’s] own decisions…. In a beautiful soul, sensuousness and reason, duty and inclination harmonize, and grace is its epiphany.” The whole character of a beautiful soul is moral. Love (agapē) is the emotion of the beautiful soul, the emotion that generates creativity.

In 1801, Schiller wrote On the Sublime, another gem which is included in this book. Schiller wrote this essay late in life, and it is perhaps his most refined discussion of the process of the development of the soul.

This book is a must-read for anyone who is concerned about educating children and youth to develop all the capabilities they have been born with, so they truly can be citizens of their country, and of the world, and thus pave the way for future generations. Which means that this book is a must-read for all individuals who care about the future of mankind.


Live Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: German Election Result Sends Tremors Worldwide

Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche in her live dialogue and discuss the issues and solutions that move the world and its people. Send your questions & comments to questions@schillerinstitute.org.

Please share the YouTube link with your friends, acquaintances, and colleagues to increase the reach of the solutions presented by the LaRouche movement.

Wednesday, Sept. 9th, 2026, 11am ET/ 5pm CET

“Truly exciting! A political Earthquake” were among the descriptions today by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and leader of the Schiller Institute, speaking of the “smashing defeat” for German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Sept. 6 state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, in which the Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party polled 43.8%, far ahead of any other party. The CDU vote, party of Merz, fell by half since the last election, down to 17.2%. The SPD (Social Democrats) fell to 9.3%. The Linke (Left) went down to 8.6%. The BSW (Alliance Sarah Wagenknecht—Reason and Justice) 5.3% (enough to place in the parliament).

Thus, not just Merz’s Germany, but Europe’s “Big Three” stand repudiated along with Merz, referring to France, led by minority President Emmanuel Macron, and the UK, led by Andy Burnham, the latest of many prime ministers. These leaders have been colluding as the Coalition of the Willing to keep funding and supplying Ukraine as a proxy against Russia, while subverting their own national economies, and all of Europe, with a wild arms build up drive and other destructive policies.

The AfD and the BSW are clear on their policy stance to stop the warfare over Ukraine, and start diplomatic and economic relations with Russia and other countries. They call for resuming the Nord Stream gas pipelines, and other economic basics. On all else, their programs vary greatly in principle and wisdom. You can call it a “mixed bag.” But with over 77% of the eligible voters participating yesterday, the mandate of the Sept. 6 German state election is clear. Their vote is in the direction of a new system of foreign and economic relations, provided there is policy intervention to help lift up the outlook of people, to a higher level of knowledge and reason, to bring about a new system. This is the call to action of people everywhere, to take up this mission.

Either we stop warfare, and we have a new economic and security system in the world, with development as the basis for peace, or we are headed down the short road to World War III, and that means nuclear annihilation. The Saxony-Anhalt vote against Merz is a reflection of, and opportunity for, a shift. …

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Sept. 4 EIR Roundtable: ‘An Alternative to War and Looting in the Americas’

On Sept. 4, the Executive Intelligence Review and the International Peace Coalition held a roundtable discussion on “An Alternative to War and Looting in the Americas,” which will be streamed live on YouTube in English, and broadcast on Zoom with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish, German, French and Italian.

List of speakers and topics:

Panel 1: 11:00 – 1:00

  1.  Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), founder, Schiller Institute: A New International Security and Development Architecture to End War and Looting
  2. Roberto Amaral (Brazil), former Minister of Science and Technology in Lula’s first government (2003): The Future of Brazil: Science, Technology, Innovation and Sovereignty
  3. Gen. (ret.) Edwin Patterson Monsalve (Peru), Academic and professor of Geopolitics and Geostrategy: Peru’s Chancay Port and South America’s Development and Integration Networks
  4. Paulo Nogueira Batista, Jr. (Brazil), economist who was formerly the Executive Director in the IMF for Brazil and 10 other countries in Washington, DC, as well as co-founder and Vice President of the New Development Bank established by the BRICS: The New Monroe Doctrine and the US Claims to Uncontested Hegemony in the Western Hemisphere
  5. Prof. Zhang Weiwei (China), Professor of International Relations at Fudan University in Shanghai: China’s Role in the Development of the Global South
  6. Col. (ret.) Pedro Baños (Spain), geopolitical analyst: Why Spain Must Not Join NATO’s War Against Russia and Iran

Panel 2: 1:30 – 3:30

  1. Dennis Small (U.S.), EIR Ibero-American Director: South America’s Bioceanic Rail Corridor, a Century-Scale Planetary Transformation
  2. Donald Ramotar (Guyana), former President of Guyana (2011-2015): A Good Neighbor Policy Among the Nations of South America
  3. Sara Madueño de Vásquez (Peru), EIR bureau chief, Lima: The “Chancay Effect” on the Eve of the Pope’s Visit to Peru
  4. Estevão Damacena (Brazil), Schiller Institute youth movement: Brazil’s Physical Economic Vulnerabilities and How to Overcome Them  

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