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Interview With Palestinian Authority Ambassador to Denmark H.E. Ambassador Prof. Dr. Manuel Hassassian, Who Supports the Oasis Plan

March 14, 2024 (EIRNS)–COPENHAGEN (Schiller Institute in Denmark)—The Schiller Institute in Denmark conducted an hour-long video interview with the Palestinian Authority Ambassador to Denmark H.E. Ambassador Prof. Dr. Manuel Hassassian yesterday, in which the Ambassador expressed his anguish about the death and destruction in Gaza and, also, the West Bank, the lack of support for ending the war by Western political leaders, and expressed full support for LaRouche’s Oasis Plan and the peace through development concept. He was interviewed by Tom Gillesberg, President of the Schiller Institute in Denmark.

Watch the Oasis Plan video and sign the petition in support of the Oasis Plan Idea

Register for the Schiller Institute free online conference Saturday April 13, 2024 at 11am EDT; 5pm CET: The Oasis Plan: The LaRouche Solution for Peace Through Development Between Israel and Palestine and for All of Southwest Asia

The video, which will be widely circulated internationally, includes links in the video and description to the LaRouche Organization video “The Oasis Plan: LaRouche´s Solution to the Middle East,” and the link to register for the upcoming April 13 Oasis Plan video conference.

H.E. Ambassador Prof. Dr. Manuel Hassassian has had a distinguished career in the academic and diplomatic spheres. His academic expertise is in international relations and conflict resolution. He was educated in Jerusalem, the American University in Beirut, and earned his MA in international relations and PhD in political science at Toledo and Cincinnati universities in Ohio in the U.S. He was a professor and eventually Executive Vice President of Bethlehem University on the West Bank of Palestine. He taught an Israel-Palestine conflict resolution course together with Israeli professor Edward Kaufman at the University of Maryland for 26 years.

He was also the PLO’s leading advisor about the status of Jerusalem.

H.E. Ambassador Prof. Dr. Manuel Hassassian then became the Palestinian Authority’s Ambassador to Great Britain for 13 years, Hungary for one year, and now Denmark for the last four years.

The interview also covers, especially, the urgent need to stop the current genocide in Gaza, and violence and oppression on the West Bank; the need for UN and international recognition of an independent Palestinian state and what it will take within Israel to get there; his Israeli-Palestinian conflict resolution class at the University of Maryland; concluding with his warm praise of the Schiller Institute..

Articles by the Ambassador in Palestine-Israel Journal: https://www.pij.org/author/326

More extensive CV: http://passia.org/personalities/351


Cracks in the Facade of Western Hegemony – 41st. International Peace Coalition Meeting

by Kevin Gribbroek

While we should not pay less attention to the danger—which is increasing daily, one can say—it is also clear that if there is a decisive action, there is hope that we can turn the situation around.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche

March 15—The 41st meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) convened today, and provided a very interesting contrast—one could call it a “dissonance”—between despair and hope. On one hand, several participants conveyed a sense of despondency due to the impression that the IPC and the peace movement more generally are trapped in an “echo chamber,” with few people in the general population “getting the message.” On the other hand, many participants reported on exciting initiatives designed precisely to break out of the “echo chamber” and build a bigger base of support for the IPC process. Based on remarks from several speakers, it is also evident that there is a growing revolt in the Global South against the arrogance of Western hegemony and the centuries of colonial policies that have impoverished their nations and destroyed the hopes and dreams of their people.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche began the proceedings with a strategic overview that indeed demonstrated this growing revolt by the Global South and the effects it is having on political layers in the West. Of great importance was Pope Francis’ recent demand that Ukraine have the courage to negotiate a peace settlement with Russia. In the United States, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on March 14 spoke from the Senate floor, demanding that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resign and that Israel hold new elections, saying that Netanyahu does not serve Israeli security by making Israel a pariah state. In Berlin, during a joint press conference between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, Ibrahim blasted Scholz in regard to the Palestinian genocide, essentially accusing him of racism. In Denmark, the Ambassador of the Palestinian Authority, Prof. Dr. Manuel Hassassian, in an interview with the Schiller Institute, endorsed the LaRouche Oasis Plan for economic development throughout the region.

Zepp-LaRouche emphasized throughout her opening remarks that in no way has the threat of nuclear war diminished. She made it clear that only by changing the underlying axioms that continuously lead to failed geopolitical solutions to the war danger, and adopting a new paradigm of development exemplified by the Oasis Plan, is there any hope for peace.

The next speaker, Colonel Richard Black (ret.), former chief of the Pentagon’s Criminal Law Division, characterized the current historical dynamic as “moving closer to our 1914 moment,” referring to the events which triggered World War I, leading to the deaths of 14 million people. Based on various political moves being made in Europe and the U.S., he sees the emergence of a “war consensus” with the potential of NATO troops entering into direct conflict with Russia. “This is World War III,” he said. Despite the impossibility of Ukraine winning the war, the Western “elites” are determined to “snatch victory from the jaws of defeat … which will inevitably lead to a nuclear exchange.”

Terry Lodge, an attorney from Ohio and long-time member of Veterans for Peace, discussed the open letter he authored warning State Department officials that they are engaged in criminal activity by providing Israel weapons to carry out its genocide against the Palestinians. He aptly expressed the “dissonance” of the current period with his opening statement:

As dark and difficult as the last couple of years have become from an international human rights and war-making perspective, what has happened is that planetary citizens are coming together in gatherings like this, to talk sanely and talk rationally, and kind of reawaken awareness to the fact that humanity is struggling and trying to provide guardrails for the conduct of human behavior at a societal and national level.

He called the Biden administration’s arming of Israel a “ghastly, dark comedy,” but believes that “there are cracks that are occurring in this facade; that people like the numbers of you on this Zoom meeting can take some credit” for having caused those cracks.

Richard Sakwa, Professor Emeritus of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent in the UK, began his remarks with an analysis of the now-ongoing Russian elections. Prof. Sakwa recounted an interview by well known Russian media figure Dmitry Kiselyov with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which Putin expressed his belief that the “Western vampire ball” is ending and that 500 years of Western dominance is over. Putin believes that a new epoch has started and that Russia—as in the Soviet days—is the leader of the new, anti-colonial era. In regard to Ukraine, Putin stated:

“For us, the Ukraine conflict is a matter of life or death. For them [the U.S. and NATO], it’s a matter of improving their tactical position globally and in Europe…. If the U.S. tries to play chicken, Moscow is prepared to use nuclear weapons and considers its arsenal more advanced than anyone else’s.”

Sakwa’s assessment is that the current strategic situation is far more dangerous than the first Cold War. Essentially, the West is playing nuclear chicken and as Putin made clear, the Russians don’t play that game.

Zepp-LaRouche asked Prof. Sakwa, given the gravity of the situation, What must be done to “penetrate the mainstream brainwashed population”? Sakwa, although not having a definitive answer, pointed to the peace movement of Sahra Wagenknecht in Germany and the election of George Galloway in the UK as a sign of hope.

Zaher Wahab, a prominent Afghan-American and Professor Emeritus of Education at Lewis and Clark College in the United States, began by thanking the Schiller Institute for its relentless efforts on behalf of humanity to promote peace and development everywhere. Prof. Wahab expressed his belief that because of the “deep economic, political-diplomatic, moral and social crises” in the West, while the Global South continues to rise, this heightens the danger of nuclear war. He endorsed the Oasis Plan, and enthusiastically called for its extension into Central and South Asia.

Jack Gilroy, a member of Veterans for Peace and Pax Christi, announced a very important initiative: On March 18, Pax Christi, in collaboration with a coalition called “Christians for a Free Palestine,” are spearheading a national day of action to deliver letters to all U.S. Senators and Representatives on the failure of Christian churches to speak out on the atrocities in Gaza.

In her closing remarks, Helga Zepp-LaRouche stated that the enemy of humanity is not nation states, but what she called “super-national structures”; structures of the neoliberal financial system which rely on war to maintain their existence. She fully endorsed the March 18 day of action and suggested the IPC mobilize for May Day demonstrations in Europe and elsewhere. She also urged everybody to encourage parliamentarians everywhere to endorse Mexican Congressman Robles’ letter against nuclear war.

Zepp-LaRouche concluded by stressing the urgent necessity of implementing the new international security and development architecture, “because it throws out the idea of geopolitics, by putting the idea of One Humanity first, and that the new architecture has to take into account the interest of every single country on the planet.”


Mexican Congressman Robles Issues Open Letter: “More Urgent than Ever: Stop the Danger of Nuclear War!”

March 12, 2024 (EIRNS)—Congressman Benjamín Robles Montoya of Mexico issued the following “Letter to Current and Former Legislators of the World,” on his letterhead of the Chamber of Deputies, LXV Legislature. It is datelined Mexico City, March 13, 2024.

Current or former legislators, public officials or candidates for public office, can endorse the Open Letter ‘More Urgent than Ever: Stop the Danger of Nuclear War!’ by adding their signature here.

More Urgent than Ever: Stop the Danger of Nuclear War!

Dear colleagues from around the world:

A year and a half ago, a group of current and former legislators of Mexico and other countries around the world held a series of international seminars on the subject: “Stop the Danger of Nuclear War!” In November of that year, we circulated an urgent call to our colleagues, current and former legislators of the world, “to join this effort that we have launched, in order to urge all world citizens to also unite to create a new international security and development architecture, which respects the security interests of all nations and which guarantees the right to welfare and economic development of all people on the planet.”

Today, 18 months later, it is more urgent than ever that we mobilize to stop the danger of a nuclear war, and that we redouble those efforts before it is too late. The war in Ukraine is at the point of turning into a direct confrontation between, not just weapons, but NATO troops directly deployed on Ukrainian territory, and Russia. And now Netanyahu’s genocide against the Palestinian people has unleashed such great human suffering that the entire planet is shaken, a genocide which threatens to expand that war throughout the region.

In a speech I delivered at the March 6, 2024 session of Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies, I stated:

“The expansionist drive of the powers, the monstrosities of a voracious economic system that has generated inequality and misery, are a breeding ground for conflict.

“Economic sanctions have only served to aggravate conflicts, to produce more suffering for the people, to provoke shortages of medicines and energy, as well as to drive world inflation.

“How valid is the famous phrase of the Hero of the Americas, President Benito Juárez, that `among individuals as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace!’…

“Today the threat of nuclear war is again looming, with the United States sending weapons to Ukraine and Israel, where what is happening is an atrocious genocide; with meddling in the China-Taiwan conflict; with Russia, pulling out of strategic arms reduction treaties and nuclear test bans.

“Colleagues, we have reached the very precipice of nuclear war and it is imperative that all nations raise their voices—not the voice of one nation, nor of several nations, but of all humanity—for peace and against nuclear war.

“Let all the citizens of the world also unite in pursuit of a new international security and development architecture that guarantees the right to welfare and economic development of the people of the planet. Achieving peace through development, that is the path.”

For all of these reasons, we reiterate more urgently than ever our call to you, current and former legislators of the world, to join forces—above our different political and ideological orientations—in the necessary deliberation around a new security and development architecture.

With fraternal greetings,

Benjamín Robles Montoya

Federal Congressman

Congress of the Union of Mexico

Current or former legislators, public officials or candidates for public office, can endorse the Open Letter ‘More Urgent than Ever: Stop the Danger of Nuclear War!’ by adding their signature here.


International Experts Warn of Danger of Nuclear War Today

Read the transcript International Experts Warn of Nuclear War

International Experts Warn of Nuclear War

 

          From the International Peace Coalition meeting, March 8, 2024

Helga Zepp-LaRouche:[Founder of the Schiller Institute, Germany] Let me all greet you and express my gratitude that so many experts are on this call because, I think a few thinking people in various parts of the world are getting really, extremely concerned about the fact that we are closer to nuclear war than at any time in history before. And given the breathtaking irrationality of many Western leaders, it is requiring an extraordinary effort of the International Peace Coalition and other peace movements, which we have to unite, to really get a change in the situation.  First of all, we have the ongoing NATO maneuver, Steadfast Defender. This is 90,000 NATO troops deployed already now since February into May, exercising for the first time the idea that there is an attack by Russia on a NATO country, and large numbers of troops are being moved in this maneuver. There is a Russian publication which comments on that, saying that such maneuvers give a very good cover and a pretext for an actual attack, so in that sense, we are in a heightened alert situation for that reason. And the same goes, naturally, for the overall strategic situation, where the idea to have an international security and development architecture on the international agenda, which would take into account the interest of every single country on the planet, that is also coming more and more into the discussion because, as you will hear in a few minutes, a congressman from Mexico has made a very important speech with exactly that demand.

          So I will stop here, at this point, but I can only say we are in a situation where we could lose civilization at any moment—it is that tense, and I think the discrepancy between what we know is going on, and what the awareness of the population is, there couldn’t be a greater gulf. And that is what we have to urgently remedy, and get people mobilized to change the policy, into a new paradigm, for a shared community of the one future of humanity, because that’s what we have: We are one humanity, sitting in one boat, and if this goes wrong, there is nobody going to be left to discuss why. That is why we have to increase our efforts tremendously.

          Thank you.

Col. Richard A. Black (ret.):[Former head of the U.S. Army Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon, former Virginia State Senator] The writing is on the wall: Ukraine is a slaughterhouse. They’re losing the war, and the time is now that NATO, if they want to do something, they’re going to have to step in and do it themselves. Keep in mind, that there are a tremendous number of people in all NATO’s countries, whose lives and reputation, whose family wealth, depends on war-connected activities, and they do not intend to let Ukraine go down.

          So it’s an extremely dangerous time. We need to do whatever we can to resist the possibility of American and NATO troops becoming directly involved in the Ukraine war to a greater extent than they already have. Thank you.

Lt. Col. Ulrich Scholz (ret.):[Former NATO officer, former Tornado pilot, Germany] What I think is the war has to end, because it’s leading nowhere. On the very first day it was leading nowhere. Now, the question is, really, why do they keep on doing it? And for me, I would say, it’s a face-saving exercise now. They want to get out, but they don’t know how.

          And the poor Ukrainians, I think, nobody is asking them, because officially we have their President, who is always very belligerent, but how do the Ukrainians feel?  So, I think they are exhausted, and they are bled out, and I think just from this point of view, whoever is going to win on the political end, whoever is going to win, the Ukrainians are going to lose. So, I think this is the issue, that we somehow get talks, in Türkiye or wherever, where we can find, in the area of both sides, the West and Russia, we come to an area where we have common interests.  I think that’s just diplomacy: Look for an area where we have common interests, and then focus on that one, and stop the shooting. That’s the only way to get out it.

Graham Fuller:[former U.S. diplomat, CIA analyst, and Islamic scholar]As long as the United States simply cannot face the reality that it is no longer able to call the shots in the world, then we are still faced with a very dangerous situation. It’s almost like a tired boxer, who insists on climbing back into the ring, and showing that he can still fight and still be number one. It’s harsh to say that, but I fear that that is the reality at this point. Perhaps the truth in the United States is slowly sinking in, with the rise of China and the rise of the BRICS powers and the Global South; maybe it’s gradually sinking in. But it cannot happen too soon, because otherwise we are in a very dangerous game of “chicken” in Ukraine, with the United States determined to prove that its side will win.

          And I hope, if some kind of voice of rationality can emerge at end, and bring this war to a close, this could, hopefully, influence other very ugly and tragic situations, like the one in Palestine and Gaza, today.  Thank you.

Prof. Richard Sakwa:[British political scientist, former professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent, U.K.] First point, I do agree that we are now in the foothills of a Third World War. It’s not, in a nuclear age, this sort of war is not going to be immediately declared, but we are—so far, we actually haven’t hit the first ladder on the escalation precipice or escalator, but we are very close to doing so. There are plenty of people in Moscow who are suggesting that, perhaps, some sort of a salutary warning, perhaps a small nuclear strike on a European town has been mentioned.

          So once the taboo on even talking on a limited nuclear war is out there, and the way this is being dismissed by Western commentators, shows just how dangerous this moment is. This says precisely, which I know that the LaRouche Organization and all of us are emphasizing peace and development: In other words, a framework for commonwealth. We see it in all of the statements of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the enlarged BRICS-Plus organization, and indeed, the Russo-Chinese alignment, which is so important, and,indeed, with India and so many other states.

          So, the Global South, the political East, simply refuses and hopefully can act as a moderating voice, and hold us back, escalating and climbing up further from the foothills to the peaks of the Third World War. That’s a little note of optimism, but I think in these dark times, we have to cling to the idea that the rest of the world simply isn’t playing this game.

Prof. Steve Starr:[Professor at the University of Missouri, former director of University of Missouri’s Clinical Laboratory Science Program] There’s a false narrative that you can use a tactical nuclear weapon, to stop the Russians, you can make them back down. Well, Russia has nuclear weapons, just as the United States does. And once we introduce nuclear weapons into a war, if you’re fighting another nuclear power, you want to bet that they won’t use them against you? I  think that’s another false narrative.The Russians made fun of the idea of winning a limited nuclear war back in the 1980s.

          So I think the danger of nuclear war is greatly exacerbated by these narratives, that “we can make Russia back down,” that “we have nuclear primacy over Russia,” and if we have leaders who are delusional and accept these narratives, then it’s a very strong likelihood that we can wind up being victim to them.

Dr. George Koo:[retired business consultant specializing in U.S.-China trade and Chairman of the Burlingame Foundation] All of the previous speakers have spoken about the danger of a nuclear war, as a result of the Ukraine-Russia conflict. I just want to mention that the Pacific is also a spark, a sensitive point, because the United States is sending the signal to Philippines, to Taiwan, and trying to encourage, and trying to encourage them to start a proxy war.

          In the United States, we have learned since we withdrew from Afghanistan, it’s much better go get others to do the actual fighting for us, and we just provide the wherewithal, the arms and the military weapons. But I want to point out to the American public, that if the United States has successfully provoked a firefight between China and the Philippines, or between China and Taiwan, the P.R.C. government fully recognizes who’s actually behind such conflict. And I predict, and I feel the first thing that will happen, if such conflict were to start, the first thing they would do, would be to take out all the U.S. naval vessels in the Pacific, so that, whether it’s the Taiwan people or the Filippino people can see that China is fully capable of destroying the military backing, and that will cause them to think twice.

Ray McGovern:[former CIA analyst, co-founder of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)] The next year, President Kennedy—actually less than a year later—in his speech to American University on June 10, 1963, warned: Look, the thing we have to remember is not to give another nuclear power a choice, between humiliating defeat and using nuclear weapons.

          Now: Why do I mention that? Well, there is going to be a humiliating defeat in Ukraine. The Russians are not even going to have to consider using nuclear weapons, but the acolytes and the sophomores that are advising Biden, might just say to the President, “Look, you know, we only have several months before the election. We’re going to lose, it’s going to be a humiliating defeat in Ukraine. Technically, if we don’t get that $80 billion more from Speaker Mike Johnson, we’ve got these other weapons—why don’t we try these mini-nukes? That would show ‘em, that would show the Russians, and that would last us, maybe, right to the election.”

          Now: Am I imagining something? No! These people have done the unimaginable, time after time after time.

Congressman Benjamín Robles Montoya:[incumbent Member of Congress, Mexico] [addressing the Mexican Congress, translation from Spanish] Today, the threat of nuclear war is again looming— with the United States sending weapons to Ukraine and Israel, where what is happening is an atrocious genocide. And meddling in the China-Taiwan conflict, with Russiapulling out of strategic arms reduction treaties, and nuclear test bans.

          Colleagues, we have reached the very precipice of nuclear war, and it is imperative that all nations raise their voices—not the voice of one nation, nor of several nations, but of all of humanity—for peace and against nuclear war. Let all the citizens of the world also unite in pursuit of a new international security and development architecture that guarantees the right to welfare and economic development of the people of the planet. Achieving peace through development, that is the path.

          That is all, Madame President.

The 40th consecutive weekly online meeting of the International Peace Coalition on March 8 opened with a warning from Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche that we are continuing to flirt with nuclear war. She cited the currently ongoing NATO “Steadfast Defender” exercise where 90,000 troops are explicitly rehearsing a war with Russia as an example of the supercharged environment. The mainstream media, rather than looking at the increasing danger of World War III, marked by the recent scandal of the leaked audio in which German military officers discuss covert means of directly entering the Ukraine war, are focusing their attention on speculation over who leaked the audio file.

Turning to the situation in Southwest Asia, she said that the conflict in Gaza is being driven by geopolitical motives and cannot be looked at separately from Ukraine. Several UN Special Rapporteurs are now calling it genocide, calling attention to the growing danger of starvation, and saying that it is intentional on the part of the Netanyahu regime. Investigation of genocide will inevitably bring us to the question of U.S. and German involvement and culpability. The Oasis Plan, as proposed by Lyndon LaRouche in 1975, provides the only way out of this ghastly situation.

Zepp-LaRouche’s strategic overview was followed by military and intelligence experts who expanded on the nature of the war danger.

Col. Richard Black (ret.), former chief of the U.S. Army’s Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon, observed that the Ukraine war was the lead item in President Biden’s “State of the Union” address, underscoring that whenever a President says he won’t send U.S. troops, it’s almost a promise to do the opposite.

German Lt. Col. Ulrich Scholz (ret.), a former NATO planner and lecturer on air warfare, warned: “NATO nations have not trained together for decades, and are not capable of going to war. If the Americans don’t do it, nobody’s going to do it.” Regarding the war propaganda in Europe, he said, “All the war talk is a face-saving exercise. They want out.” His advice? “Look for an area where we have common interests and stop the shooting.”

Helga Zepp-LaRouche interrupted the proceedings to report that the U.S. Embassy in Moscow has now advised Americans that they should avoid large Moscow gatherings for 48 hours, as extremists plan to attack such events. Numerous countries that routinely ape U.S. foreign policy gestures have followed suit.

Former U.S. diplomat, CIA officer, and vice-chair of the National Intelligence Council, Graham Fuller told the gathering: “The fundamental problem of world stability today lies in the inability of the United States to read the tea leaves, to understand the geopolitical shifts in the world today.”

He said that the U.S. is no longer the sole superpower; the U.S. can’t face this reality, and this is the danger. “One of the problems of democracy is that you have to galvanize the entire population to go to war…. You’ve got to demonize the enemy, demonize Putin, make it a struggle between absolute good and absolute evil.” Fuller asserted that advocacy of democracy is being used as a weapon, but we don’t support democracy when it is inconvenient. “We have a United States today which is perhaps the most ideologically driven nation in the world.”

Prof. Richard Sakwa, British Emeritus Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent, warned: “We are now in the foothills of the Third World War.” He said that we should distinguish between two levels: the world as it was structured in response to the horrors of World War II, with the UN and international law in the spirit of “Never Again”; and the paradigm which replaced this after 1989, or what he termed the “Second Cold War.”

In the first Cold War, diplomacy continued. But when Obama expelled the Russian diplomats in response to unproven allegations, diplomacy was being destroyed. “A political West emerged based on Cold War thinking.” Sakwa said that there is an emerging consensus against this in the “Political East.” They promote an idea of commonwealth, in opposition to the imperialism of the West. “The Global South and Political East can hold us back from moving from the foothills to the peaks of a Third World War.”

Mexican Congressman Benjamín Robles Montoya’s statement March 6 on the floor of Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies, was shown to all assembled. The Congressman emphasized, “We have reached the precipice of nuclear war…. Achieving peace through development, that is the path.”

Prof. Steve Starr, the former director of the University of Missouri’s Clinical Laboratory Science Program and published author in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists warned that the war danger is heightened by the fact that Joe Biden is up for re-election, and can’t be seen to be losing the war in Ukraine. He said that “the danger of nuclear war is greatly exacerbated by false narratives,” such as the one where we can use tactical nukes to make Russia back down. The electromagnetic pulse generated from a single nuclear weapon, detonated above the U.S., could take out our entire electrical power grid, all solid-state circuitry and computers. An 800-kiloton nuclear weapon detonated directly over a target such as Manhattan would ignite a firestorm over an area of 100-150 square miles. Each side has thousands of nukes, and the resulting smoke and soot created from their nuclear detonations would form a global stratospheric layer reducing the sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface and halting agriculture for 10 years, in what is called “nuclear famine.”

George Koo, retired specialist in U.S.-China trade, concurred with Colonel Black: The U.S. has a tendency to say one thing and do the opposite. He said that the U.S. is sending a signal to the Philippines and Taiwan, encouraging them to start proxy wars with China. The P.R.C. government fully recognizes who is behind this. They will take out U.S. naval forces in their neighborhood in response.

Humanity for Peace coordinator Anastasia Battle presented a report on the March 2 meeting in Detroit, “Emergency Conference for Peace in Gaza: The Children of God Cry Out for Justice,” at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, the historic church of C.L. Franklin, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a speech in 1966. Nine videos of the speakers are now available on YouTube.

Ray McGovern, co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, reminded the participants that President John F. Kennedy, during his June 10, 1963 speech at American University, warned that we should never give an adversary a choice between humiliating defeat, and nuclear war. Now this very choice is being presented to Russian President Vladimir Putin at re-election time. He presented his assessment of Vladimir Putin: “I would say he’s a statesman, and he’s a pretty cool customer.” McGovern went on to wryly quote former President George W. Bush: “Don’t ‘misunderestimate’ the Russians.”

McGovern presented some provocative speculation about the recent resignation of State Department harpy Victoria Nuland. He pointed out that we haven’t seen the entire leak from the German officers. If Russia intercepted it, so did the U.S. National Security Agency. Maybe Nuland was working behind everyone’s back with German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius to transfer Taurus missiles to Ukraine. McGovern emphasized that this is speculation, but as likely an explanation as any.

This was followed by a discussion session in which many new participants introduced themselves. In conclusion, Helga Zepp-LaRouche recommended that the Americans ally with the Global South. “The signs of hope are small, but sometimes when you are in a crisis, even small signs of hope can cause a shift.” She reported, as such a sign of hope, the growing number of leaders who have endorsed Lyndon LaRouche’s Oasis Plan for peace in Southwest Asia.


40th International Peace Coalition Meeting: ‘In the Foothills of a Third World War’

by Daniel Platt

March 9, 2024 (EIRNS)—The 40th consecutive weekly online meeting of the International Peace Coalition on March 8 opened with a warning from Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche that we are continuing to flirt with nuclear war. She cited the currently ongoing NATO “Steadfast Defender” exercise where 90,000 troops are explicitly rehearsing a war with Russia as an example of the supercharged environment. The mainstream media, rather than looking at the increasing danger of World War III, marked by the recent scandal of the leaked audio in which German military officers discuss covert means of directly entering the Ukraine war, are focusing their attention on speculation over who leaked the audio file.

Turning to the situation in Southwest Asia, she said that the conflict in Gaza is being driven by geopolitical motives and cannot be looked at separately from Ukraine. Several UN Special Rapporteurs are now calling it genocide, calling attention to the growing danger of starvation, and saying that it is intentional on the part of the Netanyahu regime. Investigation of genocide will inevitably bring us to the question of U.S. and German involvement and culpability. The Oasis Plan, as proposed by Lyndon LaRouche in 1975, provides the only way out of this ghastly situation.

Zepp-LaRouche’s strategic overview was followed by military and intelligence experts who expanded on the nature of the war danger.

Col. Richard Black (ret.), former chief of the U.S. Army’s Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon, observed that the Ukraine war was the lead item in President Biden’s “State of the Union” address, underscoring that whenever a President says he won’t send U.S. troops, it’s almost a promise to do the opposite.

German Lt. Col. Ulrich Scholz (ret.), a former NATO planner and lecturer on air warfare, warned: “NATO nations have not trained together for decades, and are not capable of going to war. If the Americans don’t do it, nobody’s going to do it.” Regarding the war propaganda in Europe, he said, “All the war talk is a face-saving exercise. They want out.” His advice? “Look for an area where we have common interests and stop the shooting.”

Helga Zepp-LaRouche interrupted the proceedings to report that the U.S. Embassy in Moscow has now advised Americans that they should avoid large Moscow gatherings for 48 hours, as extremists plan to attack such events. Numerous countries that routinely ape U.S. foreign policy gestures have followed suit.

Former U.S. diplomat, CIA officer, and vice-chair of the National Intelligence Council, Graham Fuller told the gathering: “The fundamental problem of world stability today lies in the inability of the United States to read the tea leaves, to understand the geopolitical shifts in the world today.”

He said that the U.S. is no longer the sole superpower; the U.S. can’t face this reality, and this is the danger. “One of the problems of democracy is that you have to galvanize the entire population to go to war…. You’ve got to demonize the enemy, demonize Putin, make it a struggle between absolute good and absolute evil.” Fuller asserted that advocacy of democracy is being used as a weapon, but we don’t support democracy when it is inconvenient. “We have a United States today which is perhaps the most ideologically driven nation in the world.”

Prof. Richard Sakwa, British Emeritus Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent, warned: “We are now in the foothills of the Third World War.” He said that we should distinguish between two levels: the world as it was structured in response to the horrors of World War II, with the UN and international law in the spirit of “Never Again”; and the paradigm which replaced this after 1989, or what he termed the “Second Cold War.”

In the first Cold War, diplomacy continued. But when Obama expelled the Russian diplomats in response to unproven allegations, diplomacy was being destroyed. “A political West emerged based on Cold War thinking.” Sakwa said that there is an emerging consensus against this in the “Political East.” They promote an idea of commonwealth, in opposition to the imperialism of the West. “The Global South and Political East can hold us back from moving from the foothills to the peaks of a Third World War.”

Mexican Congressman Benjamín Robles Montoya’s statement March 6 on the floor of Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies, was shown to all assembled. The Congressman emphasized, “We have reached the precipice of nuclear war…. Achieving peace through development, that is the path.”

Prof. Steve Starr, the former director of the University of Missouri’s Clinical Laboratory Science Program and published author in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists warned that the war danger is heightened by the fact that Joe Biden is up for re-election, and can’t be seen to be losing the war in Ukraine. He said that “the danger of nuclear war is greatly exacerbated by false narratives,” such as the one where we can use tactical nukes to make Russia back down. The electromagnetic pulse generated from a single nuclear weapon, detonated above the U.S., could take out our entire electrical power grid, all solid-state circuitry and computers. An 800-kiloton nuclear weapon detonated directly over a target such as Manhattan would ignite a firestorm over an area of 100-150 square miles. Each side has thousands of nukes, and the resulting smoke and soot created from their nuclear detonations would form a global stratospheric layer reducing the sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface and halting agriculture for 10 years, in what is called “nuclear famine.”

George Koo, retired specialist in U.S.-China trade, concurred with Colonel Black: The U.S. has a tendency to say one thing and do the opposite. He said that the U.S. is sending a signal to the Philippines and Taiwan, encouraging them to start proxy wars with China. The P.R.C. government fully recognizes who is behind this. They will take out U.S. naval forces in their neighborhood in response.

Humanity for Peace coordinator Anastasia Battle presented a report on the March 2 meeting in Detroit, “Emergency Conference for Peace in Gaza: The Children of God Cry Out for Justice,” at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, the historic church of C.L. Franklin, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a speech in 1966. Nine videos of the speakers are now available on YouTube.

Ray McGovern, co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, reminded the participants that President John F. Kennedy, during his June 10, 1963 speech at American University, warned that we should never give an adversary a choice between humiliating defeat, and nuclear war. Now this very choice is being presented to Russian President Vladimir Putin at re-election time. He presented his assessment of Vladimir Putin: “I would say he’s a statesman, and he’s a pretty cool customer.” McGovern went on to wryly quote former President George W. Bush: “Don’t ‘misunderestimate’ the Russians.”

McGovern presented some provocative speculation about the recent resignation of State Department harpy Victoria Nuland. He pointed out that we haven’t seen the entire leak from the German officers. If Russia intercepted it, so did the U.S. National Security Agency. Maybe Nuland was working behind everyone’s back with German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius to transfer Taurus missiles to Ukraine. McGovern emphasized that this is speculation, but as likely an explanation as any.

This was followed by a discussion session in which many new participants introduced themselves. In conclusion, Helga Zepp-LaRouche recommended that the Americans ally with the Global South. “The signs of hope are small, but sometimes when you are in a crisis, even small signs of hope can cause a shift.” She reported, as such a sign of hope, the growing number of leaders who have endorsed Lyndon LaRouche’s Oasis Plan for peace in Southwest Asia.


Mexican Congressman Robles Calls for New International Security and Development Architecture

Speaking on the floor of Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies on March 6, 2024, federal congressman Benjamin Robles Montoya delivered a three-minute statement denouncing the danger of nuclear war and the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and stressing the need for a new international security and development architecture.

Back in 2022, Congressman Robles had been one of the founding members of a grouping of current and former legislators from around the world demanding a mobilization to stop the danger of nuclear war.


The Growing Danger of Nuclear War as NATO Declines – Col. Richard H. Black (ret.)

Col. Richard H. Black (ret.), former head of the U.S. Army’s Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon, former Virginia State Senator, addresses the International Peace Coalition on March 8, 2024. A summary of the event follows below.

The 40th consecutive weekly online meeting of the International Peace Coalition on March 8 opened with a warning from Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche that we are continuing to flirt with nuclear war. She cited the upcoming NATO “Steadfast Defender” exercise where 90,000 troops will explicitly rehearse a war with Russia as an example of the supercharged environment. The mainstream media, rather than looking at the increasing danger of World War III, marked by the recent scandal of the leaked audio in which German military officers discuss covert means of directly entering the Ukraine war, are focusing their attention on speculation over who leaked the audio file.

Turning to the situation in Southwest Asia, she said that the conflict in Gaza is being driven by geopolitical motives and cannot be looked at separately from Ukraine. Several UN Special Rapporteurs are now calling it genocide, calling attention to the growing danger of starvation, and saying that it is intentional on the part of the Netanyahu regime. Investigation of genocide will inevitably bring us to the question of U.S. and German involvement and culpability. The Oasis Plan, as proposed by Lyndon LaRouche in 1975, provides the only way out of this ghastly situation.

Zepp-LaRouche’s strategic overview was followed by military and intelligence experts who expanded on the nature of the war danger.

Col. Richard Black (ret.), former chief of the U.S. Army’s Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon, observed that the Ukraine war was the lead item in President Biden’s “State of the Union” address, underscoring that whenever a President says he won’t send U.S. troops, it’s almost a promise to do the opposite.

German Lt. Col. Ulrich Scholz (ret.), a former NATO planner and lecturer on air warfare, warned: “NATO nations have not trained together for decades, and are not capable of going to war. If the Americans don’t do it, nobody’s going to do it.” Regarding the war propaganda in Europe, he said, “All the war talk is a face-saving exercise. They want out.” His advice? “Look for an area where we have common interests and stop the shooting.”

Helga Zepp-LaRouche interrupted the proceedings to report that the U.S. Embassy in Moscow has now advised Americans that they should leave Russia, or if they are unable to leave, they should remain in their homes. Numerous countries that routinely ape U.S. foreign policy gestures have followed suit.

Former U.S. diplomat, CIA officer, and vice-chair of the National Intelligence Council, Graham Fuller told the gathering: “The fundamental problem of world stability today lies in the inability of the United States to read the tea leaves, to understand the geopolitical shifts in the world today.”

He said that the U.S. is no longer the sole superpower; the U.S. can’t face this reality, and this is the danger. “One of the problems of democracy is that you have to galvanize the entire population to go to war…. You’ve got to demonize the enemy, demonize Putin, make it a struggle between absolute good and absolute evil.” Fuller asserted that advocacy of democracy is being used as a weapon, but we don’t support democracy when it is inconvenient. “We have a United States today which is perhaps the most ideologically driven nation in the world.”

Prof. Richard Sakwa, British Emeritus Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent, warned: “We are now in the foothills of the Third World War.” He said that we should distinguish between two levels: the world as it was structured in response to the horrors of World War II, with the UN and international law in the spirit of “Never Again”; and the paradigm which replaced this after 1989, or what he termed the “Second Cold War.”

In the first Cold War, diplomacy continued. But when Obama expelled the Russian diplomats in response to unproven allegations, diplomacy was being destroyed. “A political West emerged based on Cold War thinking.” Sakwa said that there is an emerging consensus against this in the “Political East.” They promote an idea of commonwealth, in opposition to the imperialism of the West. “The Global South and Political East can hold us back from moving from the foothills to the peaks of a Third World War.”

Mexican Congressman Benjamín Robles Montoya’s statement March 6 on the floor of Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies, was shown to all assembled in which he stated, “We have reached the precipice of nuclear war…. Achieving peace through development, that is the path.”

Prof. Steve Starr warned that the war danger is heightened by the fact that Joe Biden is up for re-election, and can’t be seen to be losing the war in Ukraine. He said that “the danger of nuclear war is greatly exacerbated by false narratives,” such as the one where we can use tactical nukes to make Russia back down. The EMP generated from a single nuclear weapon, detonated above the U.S., could take out our entire electrical power grid, all solid-state circuitry and computers. An 800-kiloton nuclear weapon detonated directly over a target such as Manhattan would ignite a firestorm of 100-150 square miles. Each side has thousands of nukes, and the resulting smoke would form a global stratospheric layer, halting agriculture for 10 years, in what is called “nuclear famine.”

George Koo, retired specialist in U.S.-China trade, echoed Colonel Black: The U.S. has a tendency to say one thing and do the opposite. He said that the U.S. is sending a signal to the Philippines and Taiwan, encouraging them to start proxy wars with China. The P.R.C. government fully recognizes who is behind this. They will take out U.S. naval forces in their neighborhood in response.

Humanity for Peace coordinator Anastasia Battle presented a report on the March 2 meeting in Detroit, “Emergency Conference for Peace in Gaza: The Children of God Cry Out for Justice,” at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, the historic church of C.L. Franklin, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech in 1966. Nine videos of the speakers are now available on YouTube.

Ray McGovern, co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, reminded the participants that President John F. Kennedy, during his June 10, 1963 speech at American University, warned that we should never give an adversary a choice between humiliating defeat, and nuclear war. Now this very choice is being presented to Biden at re-election time. He presented his assessment of Vladimir Putin: “I would say he’s a statesman, and he’s a pretty cool customer.” McGovern went on to wryly quote former President George W. Bush: “Don’t ‘misunderestimate’ the Russians.”

McGovern presented some provocative speculation about the recent resignation of State Department harpy Victoria Nuland. He pointed out that we haven’t seen the entire leak from the German officers. If Russia intercepted it, so did the NSA. Maybe Nuland was working behind everyone’s back with German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius to transfer Taurus missiles to Ukraine. McGovern emphasized that this is speculation, but as likely an explanation as any.

This was followed by a discussion session in which many new participants introduced themselves. In conclusion, Helga Zepp-LaRouche recommended that the Americans ally with the Global South. “The signs of hope are small, but sometimes when you are in a crisis, even small signs of hope can cause a shift.” She reported, as such a sign of hope, the growing number of leaders who have endorsed Lyndon LaRouche’s Oasis Plan for peace in Southwest Asia.


A New Approach Is Needed For Gaza — The Oasis Plan

Watch, study and share the Oasis Plan: thelarouche.org/oasis

We must answer the question, “Are we an intelligent species, or not?” If so, the answer is to bring forward more voices for the Oasis Plan, based on the principle that development is the name of peace.


Paris Schiller Institute to Stage Afghan Civil Society Protest Exposing UNESCO Sanctions Against Cultural Heritage Cooperation

Paris, Feb. 13, 2024 – On Thursday February 22, between 10:00 am and 1:00 pm CET, members and supporters of the International Schiller Institute, founded and presided by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, will gather peacefully in front of one of the main buildings of the headquarters of UNESCO in Paris (1, rue Miollis, Paris 75015). An appeal, endorsed by both Afghans and respected personalities of four continents, will be presented to the Secretary General and other officials of UNESCO.

How it started

Following a highly successful conference in Kabul last November by the Ibn-e-Sina Research & Development Center on the reconstruction of Afghanistan, a group of senior archaeologists of the Afghan Academy of Sciences (ASA), in discussion with the organizers and the invited experts of the Schiller Institute, suggested to launch a common appeal to UNESCO and Western governments to “lift the sanctions against cultural heritage cooperation.”

The call

We regret profoundly, says the call, “that the Collective West, while weeping crocodile tears over destruction of the world’s cultural heritage, has imposed a selective ban of scientific cooperation on nations mistakenly considered as ‘opposed to its rules and values.’ The complete freeze of all cooperation in the field of archaeology between France and both Syria and Afghanistan, is just one example of this tragedy.”

The dramatic neglect of international cultural institutions and donors to Afghanistan, the lack of sufficient funds in the field of cultural heritage protection, and the political treatment of international cultural heritage institutions have seriously endangered Afghanistan,” underscores the petition.

Specifically, “UNESCO, which should raise its voice against any new form of ‘cultural and scientific apartheid,’ has repeatedly worsened the situation by politicizing issues beyond its prerogatives.” To conclude, the signers call “on the international community to immediately end this form of ‘collective punishment,’ which creates suffering and injustice, promotes ignorance, and endangers humanity’s capacity for mutual respect and understanding.”

Living Spirit of Afghanistan

To date, over 550 signatures have been collected, mainly from both Afghan male (370) and female (140) citizens, whose socio-professional profiles indicate they truly represent the “living spirit of the nation”. Among the signatories: 62 university lecturers, 27 doctors, 25 teachers, 25 members of the Afghan Academy of Sciences, 23 merchants, 16 civil and women’s rights activists, 16 engineers, 10 directors and deans of private and public universities, 7 political analysts, 6 journalists, 5 prosecutors, several business leaders and dozens of qualified professionals from various sectors.

International support

On four continents (Europe, Asia, America, Africa), senior archaeologists, scientists, researchers, members of the Academy of Sciences, historians and musicians from over 20 countries have welcomed and signed this appeal.

Professor Pino Arlacchi, a former member of the European Parliament and the former head of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), was the first to sign. Award-winning American filmmaker Oliver Stone is a more recent signer.

In France, Syria, Italy, the UK and Russia, among the signers one finds senior researchers suffering the consequences of what some have identified as a “New Cultural Cold War.” Superseding the very different opinions they have on many questions, the signatories stand united on the core issue of this appeal: for science to progress, all players, beyond ideological, political and religious differences, and far from the geopolitical logic of “blocs”, must be able to exchange freely and cooperate, in particular to protect mankind’s historical and cultural heritage.

Testifying to the firm commitment of the Afghan authorities, the petition has also been endorsed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Culture and Arts, and the Minister of Agriculture, as well as senior officials from the Ministries of Higher Education, Water and Energy, Mines, Finance, and others.

The 46th session of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, to be held in New Delhi in July this year, offers UNESCO the opportunity to announce Afghanistan’s full return into world heritage cooperation, if we can have our voice heard,” says Karel Vereycken of the Paris Schiller Institute. “We certainly will not miss transmitting this appeal to HE Vishal V Sharma, India’s permanent representative to UNESCO, recently nominated to make the Delhi 46th session a success.”

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Complete list of names of signers

Complete list of names of signers

A. FROM AFGHAN CIVIL SOCIETY:

Hussain Burhani, Archaeologist, Numismatist, Afghanistan;

Ketab Khan Faizi, Archaeologist, Director of the Academy of Sciences at the International Centre for Kushan Studies in Kabul, Afghanistan;

Stora Isham Mayar, Archaeologist, member of the Academy of Sciences at the International Centre for Kushan Studies in Kabul, editor in chief of the journal of this mentioned center, Afghanistan;

Mahmood Jan Drost, Senior Architect, head of protection of old cities of Afghanistan, Ministry of Urban Development and Housing, Afghanistan;

Ghulam Haidar Kushkaky, Archaeologist, associate professor, Archaeology Investigation Center, Afghanistan ;

Shawkatullah Abed, Chief of Staff, Afghan Science Academy, Afghanistan;

Sardar Ghulam Ali Balouch, Head of Afghanistan Balochs Union, Afghanistan;

Daud Azimi Shinwari, Ibn-Sina Research & Development Center, Germany;

Abdul Fatah Raufi, Ibn-Sina Research & Development Center, Kabul, Afghanistan;

Mirwais Popal, Dip, Master, Ibn-Sina Research & Development Center, Germany;

B. FROM ABROAD:

(Russia, China, USA, Indonesia, France, Angola, Germany, Turkiye, Italy, Mexico, Sweden, Iran, Belgium, Czech Republic, Syria, Congo Brazzaville, Yemen, Venezuela, Pakistan, Canada, Democratic Republic of Congo.)

– H.E. Mr Mohammad Homayoon Azizi, Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Paris, UNESCO and ICESCO, France;

Julio Bendezu-Sarmiento, Researcher at the National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS), Archaeologist specializing in Central Asia; Former director of the Delegation of French Archaeologists in Afghanistan (DAFA) (2014-2018), France;

Inès Safi, CNRS, Researcher in Theoretical Nanophysics, France;

Pierre Leriche, Archeologist, Director of Research Emeritus at CNRS-AOROC, Scientific Director of the Urban Archaeology of the Hellenized Orient research program, France;

Nadezhda A. Dubova, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Dr. in Biology, Prof. in History. Head of the Russian-Turkmen Margiana archaeological expedition, Russian Academy of Science (RAS), Russia;

Raffaele Biscione, retired, associate Researcher, Consiglio Nazionale delle Recerche (CNR); former first researcher of CNR, former director of the CNR archaeological mission in Eastern Iran (2009-2022), Italy;

Dr. Razia Sultanova, Professor, Cambridge University, UK;

Dr. Houmam Saad, Archaeologist, Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums, Syria;

Estelle Ottenwelter, Institute of Archaeology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Natural Sciences and Archaeometry, Post-Doc, Czech Republic;

Didier Destremau, author, diplomat, former French Ambassador, President of the Franco-Syrian Friendship Association (AFS), France ;

Wang Feng, Professor, South-West Asia Department of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), China;

Dr. Engin Beksaç, Professor, Trakya University, Department of Art History, Turkiye;

Bruno Drweski, Professor, National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO), France;

Maurizio Abbate, National President of National Agency of Cultural Activities (ENAC), Italy;

Patricia Lalonde, Former Member of the European Parliament, vice-president of Geopragma, author of several books on Afghanistan, France;

Pino Arlacchi, Professor of sociology, Former Member of the European Parliament, former head of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Italy;

Oliver Stone, Academy Award-winning Film director, Producer, and Screenwriter;

Graham E. Fuller, Author, former Station chief for the CIA in Kabul until 1978, former Vice-Chair of the National Intelligence Council (1986), USA;

Prof. H.C. Fouad Al Ghaffari, Advisor to Prime Minister of Yemen for BRICS Countries affairs, Yemen;

Irène Neto, president, Fundacao Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto (FAAN), Angola;

Luc Reychler, Professor international politics, University of Leuven, Belgium;

Pierre-Emmanuel Dupont, Expert and Consultant in public International Law, Senior Lecturer at the Institut Catholique de Vendée, France;

Dr. Ririn Tri Ratnasari, Professor, Head of Center for Halal Industry and Digitalization, Advisory Board at Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia;

Dr. Clifford A. Kiracofe, Author, retired Professor of International Relations, USA;

Bernard Bourdin, Dominican priest, Philosophy and Theology teacher, Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP), France;

Dr. jur. Wolfgang Bittner, Author, Göttingen, Germany;

Annie Lacroix-Riz, Professor Emeritus of Contemporary History, Université Paris-Cité, France;

Mohammad Abdo Al-Ibrahim, Ph.D in Philology and Literature, University Lecturer and former editor in chief of the Syria Times, Syria;

Jean Bricmont, Author, retired Physics Professor, Belgium;

Syed Mohsin Abbas, Journalist, Broadcaster, Political Analyst and Political Justice activist, Pakistan;

Eduardo D. Greaves PhD, Professor of Physics, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela;

Dora Muanda, Scientific Director, Kinshasa Science and Technology Week, Democratic Republic of Congo;

Dr. Christian Parenti, Professor of Political Economy, John Jay College CUNY, New York, USA;

Diogène Senny, President of the Panafrican Ligue UMOJA, Congo Brazzaville;

Waheed Seyed Hasan, Journalist based in Qatar, former Special correspondent of IRNA in New Delhi, former collaborator of Tehran Times, Iran;

Alain Corvez, Colonel (retired), Consultant International Strategy consultant, France;

Stefano Citati, Journalist, Italy;

Gaston Pardo, Journalist, graduate of the National University of Mexico. Co-founder of the daily Liberacion, Mexico;

Jan Oberg, PhD, Peace and Future Research, Art Photographer, Lund, Sweden.

Julie Péréa, City Councilor for the town of Poussan (Hérault), delegate for gender equality and the fight against domestic violence, member of the Sète Agglopole Méditerranée gender equality committee, France;

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Founder and International President of the Schiller Institute, Germany;

Abid Hussein, independent journalist, Pakistan;

Anne Lettrée, Founder and President of the Garden of Titans, Cultural Relations Ambassador between France and China for the Greater Paris region, France;

Karel Vereycken, Painter-engraver, amateur Art Historian, Schiller Institute, France;

Carlo Levi Minzi, Pianist, Musician, Italy;

Leena Malkki Brobjerg, Opera singer, Sweden;

Georges Bériachvili, Pianist, Musicologist, France;

Jacques Pauwels, Historian, Canada;

Farhat Asif, President of Institute of Peace and Diplomatic Studies (IPDS), Pakistan;

 

C. FROM AFGHAN AUTHORITIES

Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, Deputy Foreign Minister, IEA;

Mawlawi Muhibullah Wasiq, Head of Foreign Minister’s Office, IEA;

Waliwullah Shahin, Member of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, IEA;

Sayedull Afghani, Member of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, IEA;

Hekmatullah Zaland, Member of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, IEA;

Shafi Azam, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, IEA;

Atiqullah Azizi, Deputy Minister of Culture and Art, Ministry of Information and Culture, IEA;

Ghorzang Farhand, Ministry of Information and Culture, IEA;

Ghulam Dastgir Khawari, Advisor of Ministry of Higher Education, IEA;

Mawlawi Rahmat Kaka Zadah, Member of ministry of Interior Affairs, IEA;

Mawlawi Arefullah, Member of Interior Affairs, IEA;
Ataullah Omari, Acting Agriculture Minister, IEA;

Mawlawi Hussain Ahmad, Head of office in Ministry of Agriculture, IEA:

Musa Noorzai, Member of Ministry of Agriculture, IEA;

Mawlawi Hussain Ahmad, Head of office, Ministry of Agriculture, IEA;

Mawlawi Shar Aqa, Head of Kunar Agriculture Administration, IEA;

Matiulah Mujadidi, Head of Communication of Ministry of Finance, IEA;

Zabiullah Noori, Executive Manager, Ministry of Finance, IEA;

Akbar Wazizi, Member of Ministry of Finance, IEA;

Nasrullah Ebrahimi, Auditor, Ministry of Finance, IEA;

Mir M. Haroon Noori, Representative, Ministry of Economy, IEA;

Abdul Qahar Mahmodi, Ministry of Commerce, IEA;

Dr. Ghulam Farooq Azam, Adviser, Ministry of Water & Energy (MoWE), IEA;

Faisal Mahmoodi, Investment Facilitation Expert, Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, IEA;

Rustam Hafiz Yar, Ministry of Transportation, IEA;

Qudratullah Abu Hamza, Governor of Kunar, IEA;

Mansor Faryabi, Member of Kabul Municipality, IEA;

Mohammad Sediq Patman, Former Deputy Minister of Education for Academic Affairs, IEA;

COMPLEMENTARY LIST

A. FROM AFGHANS

  • Jawad Nikzad, Ibn Sina R&D Centre, Kabul, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Akram Azimi, Ibn Sina R&D Centre, Kabul, Afghanistan ;

  • Najibullah Totakhel, Ibn Sina R&D Centre, Germany 

  • Ghulam Farooq Ansari, Professor, Ibn Sina R&D Centre, Kabul, Afghanistan ;

  • Imran Zakeria, Researcher at Regional Studies Center, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Ibn Sina R&D Centre, Kabul, Afghanistan ;

  • Subhanullah Obaidi, Doctor, Ibn Sina R&D Centre, Germany ;

  • Ali Shabeez, Ibn Sina R&D Centre, Kabul, Germany ;

  • Mawlawi Wahid Ameen, Ibn Sina R&D Centre, Kabul, Afghanistan ;

  • Shar M. Amir Zadah, Ibn Sina R&D Centre, Kabul, Afghanistan ;

  • Sayed Rafiullah Halim, Professor, Ibn Sina R&D Centre, Kabul Afghanistan ;

  • Nazar Mohmmad Ragheb, Ibn Sina R&D Centre, Kabul, Afghanistan ;

  • Ali Sina Masoumi, Ibn Sina R&D Centre Kabul, Afghanistan ;

  • Faisal Mahmoodi, Ibn Sina R&D Centre, Kabul, Afghanistan ;

  • Fatima Basir, Ibn Sina R&D Centre, Kabul, Afghanistan ;

  • Muneera Aman, Ibn Sina R&D Centre, Kabul, Afghanistan ;

  • Abdul Shakoor, Ibn Sina R&D Centre, Kabul, Afghanistan ;

  • Abdul Waris Ebad, Employee of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Afghanistan ;

  • Waisullah Sediqi, Ibn Sina R&D Centre, Kabul, Afghanistan ;

  • Sayed Hakim Aria, Employee of Ministry of Information and Culture, Afghanistan ;

  • Nayebuddin Ekrami, Employee of Ministry of information and Culture, Afghanistan ;

  • Latifa Azimi, Former Employee of Ministry of Education, Afghanistan ;

  • Latifa Noori, Former Employee of Ministry of Education, Afghanistan ;

  • Habibullah Haqani, Employee of Kabul Municipality, Afghanistan ;

  • Shafiqullah Baburzai, Cultural Heritage, Afghanistan ;

  • Abdullah Kamawal, Cultural Heritage, Afghanistan ;

  • Abdul Rashid Lodin, Cultural Heritage, Afghanistan ;

  • Asef Nang, Cultural Heritage, Afghanistan ;

  • Awal Khan Shekib, Member of Afghanistan Regional Studies Center, Afghanistan ;

  • Mohammad Anwar Fayaz, Lecturer, Afghanistan Science Academy, Afghanistan ;

  • Farhad Ahmadi, Lecturer, Afghanistan Science Academy, Afghanistan ;

  • Fayqa Lahza Faizi, Lecturer, Afghanistan Science Academy, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Hakim Haidar, Lecturer, Afghanistan Science Academy, Afghanistan ;

  • Rahimullah Harifal, Lecturer, Afghanistan Science Academy, Afghanistan ;

  • Sharifullah Dost, Lecturer, Afghanistan Science Academy, Afghanistan ;

  • Eshaq Momand, Lecturer, Afghanistan Science Academy, Afghanistan ;

  • Khalil Rahman Barekzal, Lecturer, Afghanistan Science Academy, Afghanistan ;

  • Ghulam Haidar Kushkaki, Lecturer, Afghanistan Science Academy, Afghanistan ;

  • Ghulam Nabi Hanifi, Lecturer, Afghanistan Science Academy, Afghanistan ;

  • Marina Bahar, Lecturer, Afghanistan Science Academy, Afghanistan ;

  • Sayed Muhaidin Hashimi, Lecturer, Afghanistan Science Academy, Afghanistan ;

  • Abdul Majid Nadim, Lecturer, Afghanistan Science Academy, Afghanistan ;

  • Elaha Maqsoodi, Lecturer, Afghanistan Science Academy, Afghanistan ;

  • Khadim Ahmad Haqiqi, Lecturer, Afghanistan Science Academy, Afghanistan ;

  • Shahidullah Safi, Member, Afghanistan Science Academy, Afghanistan ;

  • Abdul Wahab Hamdard, Member, Afghanistan Science Academy, Afghanistan ;

  • Burhanullah Niazi, Member, Afghanistan Science Academy, Afghanistan ;

  • M. Alam Eshaq Zai, Member, Afghanistan Science Academy, Afghanistan ;

  • Ghulam Hasan Farmand, Member, Afghanistan Science Academy, Afghanistan ;

  • Zalmai Hewad Mal, Member, Afghanistan Science Academy, Afghanistan ;

  • Abdul Rahman Atash, Head of Afghanistan National Development Company (NDC), Afghanistan ;

  • Obaidullah, Head of Public Library, Afghanistan ;

  • Sayed Abdul Maqdam, Head of Khawar construction company, Afghanistan ;

  • Zaki Zarifi, Head of Zarifi company, Afghanistan ;

  • Jamshid Faizi, Head of Faizi company, Afghanistan ;

  • M. Yasin Farahman, Head of Agriculture Center, Afghanistan ;

  • Mawlawi Nik M. Nikmal, Head of Planning in Technical Administration, Afghanistan ;

  • Abdul Wahid Rahimi, Member of Bashtani Bank, Afghanistan ;

  • M. Daud Mangal, Head of Ariana Afghan Airlines, Afghanistan ;

  • Mostafa Yari, entrepreneur, Afghanistan;

  • Gharwal Roshan, Head of Kabul International Airfield, Afghanistan ;

  • Eqbal Mirzad, Head of New Kabul City Project, Afghanistan ;

  • Najibullah Sadiq, Vice-president of Afghan Chamber of Commerce and Indunstry (ACCI), Afghanistan ;

  • M. Yunis Mohmand, Vice-president of ACCI, Afghanistan ;

  • Khanjan Alikozai, Member of ACCI, Afghanistan ;

  • Mawlawi Abdul Rashid, Kabul Municipality, Afghanistan ;

  • Atiqullah Safi, Employee of Kabul Municipality, Afghanistan ;

  • Abdul Jalil Safi, Employee of Kabul Municipality, Afghanistan ;

  • Hujat Fazli, Head of Harakat, Afghanistan Investment Climate Facility Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Mehrab Hamidi, Member of Economical Commission, Afghanistan ;

  • Hamid Pazhwak, Economist, Afghanistan ;

  • M. Awaz Ali Alizai, Economist, Afghanistan ;

  • Shamshad Omar, Economist, Afghanistan ;

  • Helai Fahang, Economy Specialist, Afghanistan ;

  • Maryam Alikozai, Economy Specialist, Afghanistan ;

  • Dunya Farooz, Economy Specialist, Afghanistan ;

  • Soman Khamoosh, Economy Specialist, Afghanistan ;

  • Drs. Shokoria Yousofi, Bachelor of Economy, Afghanistan;

  • Sharifa Wardak, Specialist of Agriculture, Afghanistan;

  • M. Asef Dawlat Shahi, Specialist of Chemistry, Afghanistan;

  • Pashtana Hamami, Specialist of Statistics, Afghanistan;

  • Asma Karimi, Master of Management, Afghanistan;

  • Dr. Ahmad Zaki Afghanyar, Vice-President of Herat Health committee, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Hashem Mudaber, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Hekmatullah Arian, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Abdul Wahab Rahmani, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Karima Rahimyar, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Sayeeda Basiri, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Emran Sayeedi, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Abdul Hadi Dawlatzai, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Ghani Naseri, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Nafisa Naseri, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Abdul Ghani Naseri, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan;

  • Dr. Mohammad Younis Shouaib, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Halima Akbari, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan;

  • Dr. Manizha Emaq, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan;

  • Dr. Shafiq Shinwari, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Akbar Jan Foolad, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Haidar Omar, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Ehsanuddin Ehsan, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Abdul Wakil Matin, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Abdul Matalib, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Azizi Amer, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Nasr Sajar, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Humayon Hemat, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Humaira Fayaq, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Sadruddin Tajik, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Abdul Baqi Ahmad Zai, Surgery Specialist, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Beqis Kohistani, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan;

  • Dr. Nafisa Nasiri, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan;

  • Dr. Aziza Yousuf, Head of Malalai Hospital, Afghanistan;

  • Dr. Yasamin Hashimi, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan;

  • Dr. Zuhal Najimi, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan;

  • Dr. Ahmad Salem Sedeqi, Medical Doctor, Afghanistan;

  • Dr. Fazel Raman, veterinary, Afghanistan;

  • Khatera Anwary, Health, Afghanistan;

  • Rajina Noori, Member of Afghanistan Journalists Union, Afghanistan ;

  • Sajad Nikzad, Journalist, Afghanistan ;

  • Ahmad Suhaib Hasrat, Journalist, Afghanistan ;

  • Shar Aqa Karimi, Journalist, Afghanistan ;

  • Sayed Mohammad Suhrabi , Journalist, Afghanistan ;

  • Mohammad Nasir Kuhzad, Journalist and Political Analyst, Afghanistan ;

  • Fazel Menallah, Political Analyst, Afghanistan;

  • M. Wahid Benish, Political Analyst, Afghanistan ;

  • Mahmood Jan Shafizada, Political Analyst, Afghanistan ;

  • Fazel Rahman Orya, Political Analyst, Afghanistan ;

  • Zarghon Shah Shinwari, Political Analyst, Afghanistan ;

  • Abdul Ghafor Shinwari, Political Analyst, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Ahmad Yousufi, Dean, Kateb University, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Yayia Balaghat, Scientific Vice-President, Kateb University, Afghanistan ;

  • Chaman Shah Etemadi, Head of Gharjistan University, Afghanistan;

  • Dr. Mesbah, Head of Salam University, Afghanistan;

  • Dr. Pirzad Ahmad Fawad, Kabul University;

  • Dr. Nasir Nawidi, Dean of a Private University, Afghanistan;

  • Zabiullah Fazli, Dean of a Private University, Afghanistan;

  • Ramish Adib, Vice of a Private University, Afghanistan;

  • M. Taloot Muahid, Dean of a Private University, Afghanistan;

  • Ebrahim Ansari, School Manager, Afghanistan;

  • Abas Ali Zimozai, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • Arshad Rahimi, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • Fasihuddin Fasihi, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • Waisuddin Jawad, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • M. Murtaza Sharzoi, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • M. Matin Monis, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • Mohammad Wahid Benish, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • Hussian Iqbal, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • Muhsin Reshad, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • Mohammad Sadiq Baqori, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • Mohammad Zahir Halimi, Univ. Lecturer , Afghanistan ;

  • Rohla Qurbani, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • Murtaza Rezaee, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • Ghulam Rasoul Qarluq, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • Najim Wahidi, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • M. Rashid Iqbal, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • Abdul Rahman Matin, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • M. Mujtaba Amin, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • Amanullah Faqiri, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • Abuzar Khpelwak Zazai, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • Belal Tayab, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • M. Adel Hakimi, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • Wasiqullah Ghyas, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • Faridduin Atar, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • Safiullah Jawhar, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • Amir Jan Saqib, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • Ahmad Shekib Rahmani, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • M. Gulzar Hashimi, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • Taj Mohammad, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Hekmatullah Mirzad, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Abdul Haq Atid, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan ;

  • M. Fahim Momand, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Ahmad Fawad Ehsas, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Naqibullah Sediqi, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Maiwand Wahidi, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • M. Nazir Hayati, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Najiba Rahmani, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Abeda Baba Karkhil, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Dr. M. Qayoum Karim, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Sayed Sharif Shabir, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Ahmad Walid Howaida, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Zalmai Rahib, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Dr. Sadiq Baqori, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Mir Zafaruddin Ansari, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Atta Mohammad Alwak, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Dr. Zabiullah Iqbal, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Dr. Hasan Fazaili, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • M. Jawad Jalili, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Mukhtar Ali Nasto, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Namatullah Nabawi, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Ghulam Abas Noori, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Mustafa Anwari, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Fakhria Popal, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Shiba Sharzai, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Marya Hashimi, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Nilofar Hashimi, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Munisa Hasan, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Nazifa Azimi, Univ. Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Sweeta Sharify, Lecturer; Afghanistan;

  • Fayaz Gul, Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Zakia Ahmad Zai, Lecturer, Afghanistan;

  • Nigani Barati, Education Specialist, Afghanistan ;

  • Azeeta Nazhand, Teacher, Afghanistan ;

  • Sughra, Teacher, Afghanistan;

  • Nadia Sharif, Teacher, Afghanistan;

  • Maryam Omari, Teacher, Afghanistan;

  • Masoud, Teacher, Afghanistan;

  • Zubair Ahmad, Teacher, Afghanistan;

  • Khalil Ahmad, Teacher, Afghanistan;

  • Khadija Omid, Teacher, Afghanistan;

  • Haida Rasouli, Teacher, Afghanistan;

  • Hemat Hamad, Teacher, Afghanistan ;

  • Wazir Safi, Teacher, Afghanistan ;

  • Mohammad Qasim, Teacher, Afghanistan ;

  • Zamin Shah, Teacher, Afghanistan ;

  • Sayed Qayas, Teacher, Afghanistan ;

  • Mehrabuddin, Teacher, Afghanistan ;

  • Zahidullah Zahid, Teacher, Afghanistan ;

  • Akmal Mahros, Teacher, Afghanistan ;

  • Sadia Mohammadi, Teacher, Afghanistan;

  • Mina Amiri, Teacher, Afghanistan;

  • M. Sajad Nikzad, Teacher, Afghanistan ;

  • Mursal Nikzad, Teacher, Afghanistan ;

  • Abdul Qadir Shahab, Teacher, Afghanistan;

  • M. Hasan Sahi, Teacher, Afghanistan ;

  • Mirwais Haqmal, Teacher, Afghanistan ;

  • Leeda Khurasai, Teacher, Afghanistan ;

  • Karishma Hashimi, Instructor, Afghanistan;

  • Majeed Shams, Architect, Afghanistan;

  • Azimullah Esmati, Master of Civil Engineering, Afghanistan;

  • Najibullah Hussaini, Engineer, Afghanistan ;

  • Burhanuddin Nezami, Engineer, Afghanistan ;

  • Abdul Hafiz Hafizi, Engineer, Afghanistan ;

  • Bahir, Engineer, Afghanistan;

  • Wali Bayan, Engineer, Afghanistan;

  • Abdul Khaliq Najir, Engineer, Afghanistan;

  • Diana Niazi, Engineer, Afghanistan;

  • Imam Jan, Engineer, Afghanistan ;

  • Khalil Ahmad Nadem, Engineer, Afghanistan;

  • Sayeed Aqa, Engineer, Afghanistan ;

  • Edris Rasouli, Engineer, Afghanistan ;

  • Raz Mohammad, Engineer of Mines, Afghanistan ;

  • Nasrullah Rahimi, Technical Engineer, Afghanistan ;

  • Ehsanullah, Helmand, Construction Engineer, Netherlands;

  • Ahmad Hamad, Technologist, Afghanistan ;

  • Akmal Ahmadi, Technologist, Afghanistan ;

  • Ershad Hurmati, Technologist, Afghanistan ;

  • M. Akram Shafim, Technologist, Afghanistan ;

  • M. Akbar Ehsan, Technologist, Afghanistan ;

  • Raziullah, Technologist, Afghanistan ;

  • Zaki Khorrami, IT Officer, Afghanistan ;

  • Osman Nikzad, Graphic Designer, Afghanistan ;

  • Maryam Ayani, Carpet Weaver, Afghanistan ;

  • Be be sima Hashimi, Tailor, Afghanistan ;

  • Maryam Masoumi, Tailor, Afghanistan ;

  • Roya Mohammadi, Craftsman, Afghanistan ;

  • Nadia Sayes, Craftsman, Afghanistan ;

  • Nazdana Ebad, Craftsman, Afghanistan ;

  • Sima Ahmadi , Bachelor of Biology, Afghanistan;

  • Sima Rasouli, Merchant, Afghanistan ;

  • Khatera Nawabi, Merchant, Afghanistan ;

  • Haji Noor Agha Haqyar, Merchant, Afghanstan;

  • Husna Anwari, Merchant, Afghanistan ;

  • Nargis Hashimi, Merchant, Afghanistan ;

  • Shakira Barish, Merchant, Afghanistan ;

  • Nasima Darwish, Merchant, Afghanistan ;

  • Wajiha Haidari, Merchant of Jawzjan, Afghanistan ;

  • Shagul, Merchant, Afghanistan ;

  • Fatima Nik Rasoul, Merchant, Afghanistan ;

  • Haji Farid Alikozai, Merchant, Afghanistan;

  • Nigina Nawabi, Merchant, Afghanistan ;

  • Masouda Nazimi, Merchant, Afghanistan ;

  • Najla Kohistani, Merchant, Afghanistan ;

  • Kerisma Jawhari, Merchant, Afghanistan ;

  • Hasina Hashimi, Merchant, Afghanistan ;

  • Husna Anwari, Merchant, Afghanistan ;

  • Maaz Baburzai, Merchant, Afghanistan ;

  • Freshta Safari, Merchant, Afghanistan;

  • Yalda Azimi, Merchant, Afghanistan ;

  • Azim Jan Baba Karkhil, Merchant, Afghanistan ;

  • Akhtar Mohammad, Merchant, Afghanistan ;

  • M. Haroon Ahmadzai, Merchant, Afghanistan ;

  • Azizullah Faizi, Former head of Afghanistan Cricket Board, Afghanistan ;

  • Wakil Akhar, Prosecutor, Afghanistan ;

  • Akhtar M. Azimi, Prosecutor, Afghanistan;

  • Shabnam Noori, Prosecutor, Afghanistan;

  • Be be Abeda Wayar, Prosecutor, Afghanistan;

  • Madina Ahmad Zai, Prosecutor, Afghanistan;

  • Shakila Joya, Former Employee of Attorney General, Afghanistan;

  • Sardar M. Akbar Bashash, Member, Afghanistan Balochs Union, Afghanistan ;

  • Eng. Abdul Dayan Balouch, Spokesperson of Afghanistan Balochs Union, Afghanistan ;

  • Shah Mahmood Lahoti, Member of Afghanistan Balochs Union, Afghanistan ;

  • Abdul Khaliq Barekzai, Advisor, Afghanistan Balochs Union, Afghanistan ;

  • Salahuddin Ayoubi Balouch, Advisor, Afghanistan Balochs Union, Afghanistan ;

  • Faizuddin Lashkari Balouch, Member, Afghanistan Balochs Union, Afghanistan ;

  • Sayed Ishaq Gilani, head of the National Solidarity Movement of Afghanistan, IEA;

  • Haji Zalmai Latifi, Representative, Qizilbash tribes, Afghanistan ;

  • Gul Nabi Ahmad Zai, Former Commander of Kabul Garrison, Afghanistan ;

  • Ghulam Hussain Rezaee, Member, Habitat Organization, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Amani Adiba, Doctor of Liberal Arts in Architecture and Urban Planning, Afghanistan;

  • Ismael Paienda, Afghan Peace Activist, France;

  • Mohammad Belal Rahimi, Head of Peace institution, Afghanistan ;

  • M. Mushtaq Hanafi, Head of Sayadan council, Afghanistan ;

  • Sabira Waizi, Founder of T.W.P.S., Afghanistan ;

  • Majabin Sharifi, Member of Women Network Organization, Afghanistan;

  • Shekiba Saadat, Former head of women affairs, Afghanistan ;

  • Atya Salik, Women rights activist, Afghanistan ;

  • Fatima Mahmoodi, Women rights activist, Afghanistan;

  • Diana Rohin, Women rights activist , Afghanistan;

  • Amena Hashimi, Head of Women Organization, Afghanistan;

  • Fatanh Sharif, Former employee of Gender equality, Afghanistan;

  • Sediq Mansour Ansari, Civil Activist, Afghanistan ;

  • Sebghatullah Najibi, Civil Activist, Afghanistan ;

  • Naemullah Nasiri, Civil Activist, Afghanistan;

  • Reha Ramazani, Civil Activist, Afghanistan ;

  • Lia Jawad, Civil Activist, Afghanistan;

  • Arezo Khurasani, Social Activist, Afghanistan ;

  • Beheshta Bairn, Social Activist, Afghanistan;

  • Samsama Haidari, Social Activist, Afghanistan;

  • Shabnam Nikzad, Humans Rights Activist, Afghanistan;

  • Mliha Sadiqi, Head of Young Development Organization, Afghanistan;

  • Mehria, Sharify, University Student;

  • Shiba Azimi, Member of IPSO Organization, Afghanistan;

  • Nadira Rashidi, Master of Management, Afghanistan;

  • Sefatullah Atayee, Banking, Afghanistan;

  • Khatira Yousufi, Employee of RTA, Afghanistan;

  • Yalda Mirzad , Employee of Breshna Company, Afghanistan;

  • Izzatullah Sherzad, Employee, Afghanistan;

  • Erfanullah Salamzai , Afghanistan;

  • Naser Abdul Rahim Khil, Afghanistan;

  • Ghulam Rasoul Faizi, Afghanistan;

  • Dr. Mir Agha Hasan Khil, Afghanistan;

  • Abdul Ghafor Muradi, Afghanistan;

  • Gul M. Azhir, Afghanistan;

  • Gul Ahmad Zahiryan, Afghanistan;

  • Shamsul Rahman Shams, Afghanistan;

  • Khaliq Stanekzai, Afghanistan;

  • M. Daud Haidari, Afghanistan;

  • Marhaba Subhani, Afghanistan;

  • Maazullah Nasim, Afghanistan;

  • Haji Mohammad Tayeb, Afghanistan;

  • Ali Sina Masoumi, Afghanistan ;

  • Sweeta Sadiqi Hotak, Afghanistan ;

  • Khatira Anwari, Afghanistan ;

  • Fatima Sharzad, Afghanistan ;

Momen Shah Kakar, Afghanistan ;

  • Shah Rukh Raufi, Afghanistan ;

  • Hanifa Rasouli, Kabul, Afghanistan ;

  • Qudsia Ebrahimi, Afghanistan ;

  • Mahmood Haqiqat, Afghanistan ;

  • Nasir Abdul Rahim Khan, Kabul, Afghanistan ;

  • Abdul Hamid Ahmadzai, Afghanistan ;

  • Sardar Khan Sirat, Afghanistan ;

  • Zurmatullah Ahmadi, Afghanistan ;

  • Yasar Khogyani, Afghanistan ;

  • Shar Sha Lodi, Afghanistan ;

  • Ahmad Shah Omar, Afghanistan ;

  • M. Azam Khan Ahmad Zai, Afghanistan;

  • Nadia Farooq Sharzoi, Afghanistan;

  • Shar Ali Tazari, Afghanistan ;

  • Mayel Aqa Hakim, Afghanistan ;

  • Khatira Hesar, Afghanistan ;

  • Tamim Mehraban, Afghanistan ;

  • Lina Noori, Afghanistan ;

  • Khubaib Ghufran, Afghanistan ;

  • M. Yasin Farahmand, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Mir M. Ayoubi, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Namatullah Nabawi, Afghanistan ;

  • Abozar Zazai, Afghanistan ;

  • Atiqullah Rahimi, Afghanistan ;

  • Fahim Ahmad Sultan, Afghanistan ;

  • Humaira Farhangyar, Afghanistan ;

  • Imam M. Wrimaj, Afghanistan ;

  • Masoud Ashna, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Yahia Baiza, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Besmila, Afghanistan ;

  • Ehsan Shorish, Germany;

  • Irshad, Omer, Afghanistan;

  • Musa Noorzai, Afghanistan;

  • Lida Noori Nazhand, Afghanistan;

  • Dr. Abdul Masood Panah, Afghanistan;

  • Gholam Sachi Hassanzadah, Afghanistan;

  • Dr. Sayed Ali Eqbal, Afghanistan;

  • Hashmatullah Atmar, Afghanistan;

  • Ahmad Matin Safi, Afghanistan;

  • Ahmad Helmand, Afghanistan;

  • Ehsanullah Helmand, Afghanistan;

  • Izazatullah Sherzad, Afghanistan;

  • Hafizullah Omarzai, Afghanistan;

  • Hedayatullah Hilal, Afghanistan;

  • Edris Ramez, student, Afghanistan;

  • Amina Saadaty, Afghanistan;

  • Muska Hamidi, Afghanistan;

  • Raihana Ahmadi, Afghanistan;

  • Zuhal Sherzad, Afghanistan;

  • Meelad Ahmad, Afghanistan;

  • Devah Kubra Falcone, Germany;

  • Maryam Baburi, Germany;

  • Suraya Paikan, Afghanistan;

  • Abdul Fatah Ahmadzai, Afghanistan ;

  • Dr. Mohammad Zalmai, Afghanistan ;

  • Hashmatullah Parwarni, Afghanistan ;

  • Asadullah, Afghanistan;

  • Hedayat ullah Hillal, Afghanistan;

  • Najibullah Zazai, Afghanistan;

  • M. Yousuf Ahmadi, Afghanistan;

  • Ahmad Reshad Reka, Afghanistan;

  • Sayed Ahmad Arghandiwal, Afghanistan;

  • Nooria Noozai, Afghanistan;

  • Eng. Fahim Osmani, Afghanistan;

  • Wafiullah Maaraj, Afghanistan;

  • Roya Shujaee, Afghanistan;

  • Shakira Shujaee, Afghanistan;

  • Adina Ranjbar, Afghanistan;

  • Ayesha Shafiq, Afghanistan;

  • Hajira Mujadidi, Afghanistan;

  • Abdul Zahir Shekib, Afghanistan;

  • Zuhra Mohammad Zai, Afghanistan;

  • Razia Ghaws, Afghanistan;

  • Abdul Sabor Mubariz, Afghanistan;

  • Abdul Khaliq Ferdows, Afghanistan;

  • Abdul Shakoor Salangi, Afghanistan;

  • Nasir Ahmad Basharyar, Afghanistan;

  • Mohammad Mukhtar Sharifi, Afghanistan;

  • Mukhtar Ahmad Haqtash, Afghanistan;

  • Yousuf Amin Zazai, Afghanistan;

  • Zakiri Sahib, Afghanistan;

  • Mirwais Ghafori, Afghanistan;

  • Nesar Rahmani, Afghanistan;

  • Shar M. Amir Zadah, Afghanistan;

  • Yasin Farahmand, Afghanistan;

  • Faizul Haq Faizan, Afghanistan;

  • Khaibar Sarwary, Afghanistan;

  • Ali Sina Masoumi, Afghanistan;

  • Hamidullah Akhund Zadah, Afghanistan;

  • Dr. Benish, Afghanistan;

  • Hayatullah Fazel, Afghanistan;

  • Faizullah Habibi, Afghanistan;

  • Abdul Hamid Lyan, Afghanistan;

  • Abdul Qayoum Qayoum Zadah, Afghanistan;

  • Qazi Qudratullah Safi, Afghanistan;

  • Noor Agha Haqyar, Afghanistan;

  • Maryan Aiany, Afghanistan;

B. FROM ABROAD

  • Odile Mojon, Schiller Institute, Paris, France ;

  • Johanna Clerc, Choir Conductor, Schiller Institute Chorus, France ;

  • Sébastien Perimony, Africa Department, Schiller Institute, France ;

  • Christine Bierre, Journalist, Chief Editor of Nouvelle Solidarité, monthly, France ;

  • Marcia Merry Baker, agriculture expert, EIR, Co-Editor, USA ;

  • Bob Van Hee, Redwood County Minnesota Commissioner, USA ;

  • Dr. Tarik Vardag, Doctor in Natural Sciences (RER), Business Owner, Germany;

  • Richard Freeman, Department of Physical Economy, Schiller Institute, USA ;

  • Liliana Gorini, chairwoman of Movisol and singer, Italy;

  • Ulrike Lillge, Editor Ibykus Magazine, Berlin, Germany ;

  • Michelle Rasmussen, Vice President, Schiller Institute in Denmark, amateur musician;

  • Feride Istogu Gillesberg, Vice President, Schiller Institute in Denmark;

  • Jason Ross, Science Department, Schiller Institute, USA ;

  • Dennis Small, Director of the Economic Department, Schiller Institute, USA ;

  • Robert “Bob” Baker, Agriculture Commission, Schiller Institute, USA ;

  • Dr. Wolfgang Lillge, Medical Doctor, Editor, Fusion Magazine, Berlin, Germany ;

  • Ulf Sandmark, Vice-Chairman of the Belt and Road Institute, Sweden ;

  • Mary Jane Freeman, Schiller Institute, USA ;

  • Hussein Askary, South West Asia Coordinator, Schiller Institute, Sweden ;

  • David Dobrodt, EIR News, USA ;

  • Klaus Fimmen, 2nd Vice-Chairman of the Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität (Büso) party, Germany;

  • Christophe Lamotte, Consulting Engineer, France ;

  • Richard Burden, EIR production staff, USA ;

  • Rolf Gerdes, Electronic Engineer, Germany;

  • Marcella Skinner, USA ;

  • Delaveau Mathieu, Farm Worker, France ;

  • Shekeba Jentsch, StayIN, Board, Germany;

  • Bernard Carail, retired Postal Worker, France ;

  • Etienne Dreyfus, Social Activist, France ;

  • Harrison Elfrink, Social Activist, USA ;

  • Jason Seidmann, USA ;

Letter of the minister of Information and Culture (Afghanistan)

Letter of the minister of Information and Culture

As Western researchers, based on what happened in the past, wondered about the current Afghan government’s actual policy on the issue of preservation of cultural and historical heritage, the Ibn-e-Sina Research and Development Center questioned the relevant authorities in Kabul.

At the end of January 2024, the Minister of Arts and Culture, in a hand-signed letter, provided them and the world with the following response, which completely clarifies the matter.

Transcript below, with bold as in the original.

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

Ministry of Information and Culture

Letter N° 220, Jan. 31, 2024

To the attention of Ibn-e-Sina R&D Centre, International experts and cultural organizations and to those it concerns:

The ministry of Information and culture of the Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has, among others, the following tasks in its portfolio:

–To establish a suitable environment for the growth of genuine Afghan culture;

–To protect national identity, cultural diversity, and national unity;

–To preserve tangible and intangible cultural heritage;

–To support the development of creativities, initiatives and activities of various segments of the society in general and of the Afghan youth in particular;

–To support the freedom of speech;

–Development of tourism industry;

–Introduction and presentation of Afghan culture regionally and internationally, to transform Afghanistan into an important cultural hub and crossroads in the near future.

We would like to confirm that with preservation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage we mean all Afghan cultural heritage belonging to all periods of history, whether it belongs to Islamic or non/pre-Islamic periods of history.

This ministry expresses its concerns that due to insufficient means it is not able to preserve the Afghan cultural heritage sufficiently.

Therefore this ministry asks UNESCO and other international organizations, working on preservation of the world’s tangible and intangible cultural heritage, to support Afghanistan in preservation of its tangible and intangible cultural heritage, including the ones belonging to Islamic and non/pre-Islamic periods of its history. The cultural heritage of Afghanistan does deserve to be preserved without any political motivations.

Besides, this ministry also confirms it is ready for all kind of cooperation with all national and international organizations, working on preservation of world cultural heritage.

The ministry of Information and culture of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) supports and appreciates all efforts of the Ibn-e-Sina R&D centre and their international experts in appealing for urgent attention of national and international organizations and experts to resume their support and cooperation with Afghanistan to preserve its cultural heritage, an important part of world cultural and historical heritage.

Sincerely,

Mowlavi Atiqullah Azizi

Deputy Minister of Culture and Art

moicdocymentsliaison@gmail.com


International Peace Coalition March 1 Meeting Warns, ‘We Are Sitting on a Powder Keg’

by Daniel Platt

March 1, 2024 (EIRNS)—The International Peace Coalition (IPC) met today for its 39th consecutive weekly organizing discussion. Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche warned that “the situation is moving from horrible to worse….” Reviewing the events of the previous few days, she called attention to the massacre where Israeli troops opened fire on hundreds of starving Palestinians who were waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City, killing 120 and wounding 750 on Feb. 29. In response to Israel Defense Forces statements that their soldiers felt threatened, she said, “I can’t imagine how starving people can be a threat to a highly weaponized army.”

This event occurred a few days after Aaron Bushnell self-immolated outside the front gate of the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C, in protest against the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Also during the past week, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague heard from 50 nations on the legal consequences of Israel’s “prolonged occupation, settlement and annexation” of the occupied territories, including the West Bank and East Jerusalem, but will not render judgement until the summer.

Discussing the Likud regime’s apparent objective of driving the Palestinians over the border into Egypt, Zepp-LaRouche warned that this violates the tenets of the Camp David Accords and opens the door to a wider war. Under these circumstances, the implementation of the Oasis Plan, as proposed by her late husband, Lyndon LaRouche, in 1975, becomes more urgent than ever before, because if you don’t inject hope into the situation, she said, there is no remedy for the rapidly worsening regional conflict.

Turning to the Ukraine war, she said that the danger there was greatly escalating, bringing us even more quickly to a possible global war. French President Macron has proposed to send NATO troops into Ukraine, while retired German General Harald Kujat recently charged that there are already NATO troops in Ukraine (in the role of “advisors,” as was the case with the initial American involvement in the Vietnam War.) German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has refused to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine, because their 500-km range would enable direct attacks on Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin warns of possible nuclear war, but the Western press pooh-poohs his warnings. Russia Today has released the full text of what is claimed to be a discussion by senior German military officers on how to attack the Crimean Bridge in Russia. Russia’s government press spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, is said to have demanded an explanation.

Zepp-LaRouche concluded by saying that the only good news she could offer was the election victory of George Galloway, who just won a seat in British Parliament on the issue of opposition to the war in Gaza.

Jacques Cheminade, who leads the Solidarity and Progress Party in France, commented on the declaration by Macron on sending NATO troops to Ukraine, saying that it has been judged insane by a majority of French population. “He’s like a little dwarf playing with fire,” said Cheminade. Illustrating the absurdity of the situation, he reminded the discussion participants that Europe is still importing Russian LNG and enriched uranium. According to experts, the French, and probably also the German, armies are capable of fighting a war with Russia for only seven days.

Dr. James Cobey, who shared in the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for the International Campaign to Ban Land Mines, described his project to create a “Palestinian Embassy” in Washington, D.C., which he called a potential “AIPAC for Palestine.” His partner in this effort is Miko Peled, the son of an Israeli general who fought in the 1967 Six Day War, but then became an advocate for an Israeli dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization after the Israeli cabinet ignored his investigation of a 1967 alleged Israeli war crime.

Next the participants viewed a video presentation by Nazih Musharbash, President of the German Palestinian Society. He said that the Jan. 26, 2024, ICJ Order of provisional measures to prevent genocide is being rejected by Israel. Israel is pushing the Palestinian population from one place to the next, bombing them, cramming them into impossibly small places. Prime Minister Netanyahu thinks that if UNRWA is cancelled, the Palestinian “Right of Return,” as guaranteed under point #5 of the Oslo Accords, will no longer be a problem. The IDF’s destruction of Hamas means that there is no functioning government. Regarding the massacre near Gaza City, he wryly observed that “warning shots are normally fired into the air.”

IPC Coordinator Anastasia Battle presented a report on the upcoming Interfaith , “Emergency Conference for Peace in Gaza” in Detroit. In the Michigan Democratic Party presidential primary elections, a campaign was launched for voters to vote “uncommitted” rather than endorse Biden’s enabling of genocide in Gaza. This resulted in 101,000 uncommitted votes. The next step being planned is a National Day of Action on March 2, to coincide with the Interfaith Meeting.

Executive Intelligence Review Ibero-American Intelligence Director Dennis Small called attention to Brazilian President Lula’s charge that Israel was committing genocide, and his stalwart refusal to “walk back” this accusation. He read an excerpt from a recent statement by the Brazilian Foreign Ministry: “Even so, the inaction of the international community in the face of this humanitarian tragedy continues to serve as a veiled incentive for the Netanyahu government to keep targeting innocent civilians and ignoring basic rules of international humanitarian law.”

Two activists from the UK explained the significance of the landslide victory of George Galloway and the Workers’ Party, who campaigned in opposition to the genocide in Gaza. The British government is trying to suppress growing public protests, calling them a threat to public safety, but there has been no violence. Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman tried to ban them, saying they are antisemitic. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is saying that the demonstrations support terrorism. One of the activists charged that the UK is “a creeping police state.”

An organizer for Veterans for Peace reported on their campaign to circulate a letter, which demands that the U.S. State Department terminate weapons shipments to Israel, and calls on the Inspector General to investigate alleged criminal acts by senior Biden administration officials.

A ghastly video was shown to the discussion participants, a one-minute animation that is being broadcast on German state public television and is targeted at German children, in which talking cartoon representations of cruise missiles debate which of them would be the most effective weapon against Russia. Helga Zepp-LaRouche characterized it as part of the complete indoctrination of the population to prepare them for a coming war.

In concluding remarks, Zepp-LaRouche said that many people think the Zionist Lobby controls the U.S. But, as her late husband always said, the U.S. establishment uses Israel as a hand grenade to destabilize the region. The reason is geopolitical, a scheme to destabilize the region in order to contain the rising global majority.

Returning to the grim situation in her native land, she said, “Germany is right now like a hermetically sealed country. You cannot say anything…. We are sitting on a powder keg, and the ordinary population has no clue.” She urged all participants to organize prominent individuals to endorse the Oasis Plan.


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