Having concluded a visit to Germany, Chinese Premier Li Qiang arrived in Paris for the second leg of his European tour. It was his first foreign trip since he took office in March as Chinese premier, a trip widely believed to help push China-Europe ties in the right direction. What is the impact of Europe “de-risking” with #China? What are the views of European business leaders on engagement with China? And how are Berlin and Paris dealing with China with constant pressure from Washington? Guests in this edition of Dialogue are Professor Joav Toker from the American Graduate School in Paris, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, and Cui Hongjian, director of the Department for European Studies at China Institute of International Studies.

 If you are interested in working with the International Peace Coalition, please contact questions@schillerinstitute.org

June 16, 2023 (EIRNS)—The second meeting of the International Peace Coalition, launched on June 2, was held today with 29 participants from peace-oriented organizations from about a dozen countries. The two-and-a-half-hour discussion generated enthusiastic support for the idea of uniting the growing sentiment of the people across the world against the war policy now dominating the Western governments, which is being fed by mainstream media outlets.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche opened the event, emphasizing the successful Schiller Institute event of June 10, “The World Needs JFK’s Vision of Peace!” honoring the famous JFK peace speech of June 10, 1963 at American University in Washington, D.C., which called for a “paradigm of peace for all nations of the world and for all generations,” and “a treaty to outlaw nuclear [weapons] tests.” She said the world is devolving into two opposing systems, with a greater division and greater danger than the conflict during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, with the push to expand “Global NATO,” targeting as enemies the BRICS nations and others of the Global South, while most of the world is working toward a final end of the colonial system and a new architecture based on development and security for all nations. She called for investigations into the acts of terror which destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines and the Kakhovka Dam and hydroelectric power plant.

Speakers from Argentina, Australia, Germany, Guyana, India, Italy, Sweden, Spain, the United States, the UK and more, offered numerous proposals on how to awaken the conscience of people internationally, on both the extreme danger of global war, perhaps nuclear war, but also the potential to bring the world together in ending the war policy and building a new understanding of cooperation for a better system of human civilization. Helga Zepp-LaRouche took note of the many proposals, encouraging everyone to take them up both within their own countries, but also speaking out in international fora.

It was agreed that these meetings would continue to be held, and expand, on a weekly basis. It was also agreed to establish a new platform which would be established for discussion and reporting on developments among the participants of the Coalition. A new Day of International Activation was proposed, with various dates proposed, including Nov. 22 (the 60th anniversary of the JFK assassination) and August 6 (the anniversary of the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima). Further discussion and deliberation will follow.

Following are excerpts from some of the participants in the discussion:

Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), Founder, Schiller Institute
“I have from the very beginning, at least since the war in Ukraine broke out, made the point that we have to urgently move to a new paradigm. That is ‘the coincidence of opposites’, where you can arrive through philosophical reflection in the tradition of Nicolus of Cusa, on the idea of the one humanity. That the ‘one’ which has a higher power than the many. That’s a method of thinking that was the basis of the solution of the Peace of Westphalia, which I think can be the model of arriving at peace today…

We have a number of proposals that we should highlight from the discussion and have an agreement coming out of this discussion on these suggested initiatives.
1. Platform of daily accessibility with new developments, documentaries, initiatives which coordinates all parts of the Peace Movement…
2. Suggest that we have this meeting on a weekly basis…
3. Interventions…
4. Look at the constitutions in every country and see if there are legal basis to forbid weapon sales to war areas…
5. Urgent documentaries. Idea of a mistake leading to Nuclear War. Also, exposing the Romanticism of the EU.”
6. We need our own media. Like an internet radio or TV station. We actually have a network of correspondence on this discussion.
7. White House Demonstration suggested by Martin Schotz.”

Sam Pitroda (U.S./India) Telecom and IT Innovator
“At times I feel frustrated. I feel that our voices are not heard, and we need to find a new way to start a conversation. We need to find a new way to have a conversation with power brokers, with the defense lobby. Killing people is not about economy… We spend $2 trillion a year on defense, and we know we only need $200 billion a year to eliminate hunger.”

Prof. Enzo Pennetta (Italy)
“We have a total detachment between the will of the population and the will of the government, which is the problem. … Sixty percent of Italians are against sending weapons to Ukraine, but only 10% know of the referendum we are doing (to stop Italy from sending weapons to Ukraine) because the mainstream media is not reporting on it! We are clashing with the control and manipulation of the population…”

George Koo (U.S.) International business advisor, retired
“It’s becoming increasingly obvious to everybody in the world that the prestige, the credibility, in the United States has been going downhill. More and more countries around the world are disillusioned by the leadership of the United States. So if we are really hoping to achieve World Peace, we need to change the attitude in the government in Washington…”

Dr. Balkrishna Kurvey (India) President of the Indian Institute for Peace, Disarmament and Environmental Protection
“Our main aim is to work toward Peace at the grassroots level, get more collaboration of peace-loving people around the world. Peace in one country will not do. Peace should be normal… We must try our best to successfully work on the Mahatma Gandhi Non-Violence principle, the Jesus Christ principle, so there may be Peace in the world. I’m optimistic.”

Johan Nordquist, (Sweden) Publisher against Nuclear Weapons:
“How can we inspire and get people engaged? That’s the question. Only the heartfelt sincerity of people on the street demanding change from politicians, telling them what to do … Scott Ritter wrote about near incidents that almost escalated into nuclear war. We need to highlight these mistakes into a documentary…so people will understand.”

David Macllwain (Australia) Peace Activist
“I would just like to say a little about Peace groups… They are filled with many good people; they take a good stand against NATO, but they don’t understand Russia… Also, I see the UK as a major force for evil against the Global South and against Russia. They have been for decades”

Juan Carrero, (Spain)
“I want to thank you (everyone here) because I feel at home after many struggles and feeling very lonely… We have had in Spain two million people in demonstrations, but they are not listening to the people… This meeting is even more important than the demonstrations in the streets… I think the fundamental part of what we need to do is to show the real face of NATO. Expose everything that is behind the romantic image of the EU… Gandhi would say that ‘the truth will lead us.’”

Ray McGovern (US), former senior analyst, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); founding member, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS):
“I’m serious folks, it’s not just a time for young people, but a time for old people, like me, like many of you. To stand up and speak out at every venue we can we possibly can. The only way that we are going to change this is if we recruit enough people together with us who see the light and understand what’s at stake and will be able to act on it. Gandhi was not only a non-violent idea person, but he was a man of action.”

Ruben Dario Guzzetti (Argentina) international affairs analyst, Argentine Institute of Geopolitical Studies (IADEG)
“I think we have to consider what each of us has in our countries. Each one of us has a historic point that can be transmitted to society. We have in my country the Malvinas topic, the Human Rights topic, and we can access that to promote this idea to save humanity.”

 Jimmy Gerum, (Germany) LightHouse Media:
“I think there is one weak spot, and that is the public opinion. In Europe we have a special situation where part of the Main Stream Media is paid for by the normal citizens because we have quite a good working public broadcasting system. It is quite influenced by international powers… Our strategy is to network with German and international initiatives. We want to work with other independent journalists. Just imagine if we would challenge this hypocrisy by applying this pressure.”

Martin Schotz, (US) author, “History Will Not Absolve Us: Orwellian Control, Public Denial, and the Murder of President Kennedy”:

“I propose a demonstration be held in front of the White House demanding that Biden, Blinken and Nuland look at President Kennedy’s American University Speech and return to the policies President Kennedy was advocating.”

Jack Gilroy (US), Organizer, Pax Christi, NY State/ Pax Christi International; Board Member, New York Veterans for Peace:
“I wanted to follow up on an appropriate day to bring people together (for the demonstration), this was demonstrated today by a number of speakers about a need for a grassroots movement. I think that November 22nd would be very good, but we probably should be moving much faster on that. August 6th and 9th are momentous days of the beginning of the nuclear age (bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki). August 6th would be a Sunday and a day that people would have an easier chance to get to Washington DC.”

Dennis Small, (US) Executive Intelligence Review Magazine:
“I think some of the frustration around getting things going against the war comes from not fully taken into account that the vast majority of humanity, 80-85% of it, is already in a state of advanced, not just rebellion, but rejection of the entire global security and economic architecture which is producing wars — the underlying cause.”

Jose Vega, (US) Interventionist, Organizer Schiller Institute:
“If you want people naturally manifesting in the streets, is you need more people recruited to do interventions. The more people we have doing these interventions, the more the manifestation in the streets will become natural… Here (in the US) we have an idea called ‘take back your government’ where we want people in every district to stand up for the truth, at least 1 person each of the 435 congressional districts.”

H. E. Donald Ramotar, (Guyana) former President of Guyana:
“I think that when we are talking about world peace, we cannot divorce it from immediately demanding nuclear disarmament. I believe it has to be the center of what we do. The old theory that justified, particularly during the old Reagan period and Thatcher, that argued nuclear weapons were keeping the peace is something I always had problems with. I believe more with Einstein’s position, that ‘you cannot prepare for war and hope to have peace.’”

Rev. Dr. Terri Strong, (US):
“I love the concrete things that you can do that Helga brought up. I came up with the ‘The Truth and Peace Network of Independent News’ while she was speaking, because if you can capture the news you can herd the news consumers to your truth platform. There should be a partnership with news outlets if they are independent, to create our own documentaries. And when you put those things together, you have a way of marketing your truth and your network that you will herd the masses of news consumers to your platforms.”  

Others in attendance:
Nick Brana, (US) Chair, People’s Party and Rage Against the War Machine Organizer
Angela McArdle (US), Chair, Libertarian Party and Rage Against the War Machine Organizer
Reverend Robert Smith (US) New Bethel Baptist Church, Detroit, MI, Chair, Foreign Mission Board, National Baptist Convention
Diane Sare, U.S. Senate Candidate, New York
Joyce Hall (US) Pax Christi
Karen Ball (US) Pax Christi
Chris Fogarty (US/Ireland) Irish American Leader
NO2NATO UK Representative
Frank Kartheiser (US) Catholic Workers
Mari Correggio (Italy), No to Nato Italy
Alessia Ruggeri (Italy) Trade Unionist
Anastasia Battle (US) Organizer, Interventionist and Editor-in-Chief, Leonore Magazine, USA
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Saturday, June 10, 2023 · 10 a.m. EDT, 4 p.m. CET

Conference proceedings

• Mozart Requiem, Kyrie Eleison; performed by the Schiller Institute, January 19, 2014
• JFK American University “Peace Speech,” June 10, 1963 
• JFK address to the UN General Assembly, September 20, 1963
• Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder Schiller Institute
• JFK comments on Robert Frost, Amherst College, October 26, 1963
• Address to the conference by Dr. Andrey Kortunov (Russia) Director General, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)
• Comments by Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. on the JFK assassination
• Comments by MLK on the JFK assassination
• Comments by Oliver Stones on the June 10, 1963 speech by JFK
• Donald Ramotar, former President and former member of parliament
• JFK “Civil Rights Speech” of June 11, 1963
• Pino Arlacchi, former head of the UN Office for Drug Control (1997-2002), professor at Sassari University
• Mozart Requiem, Confutatis
• Diane Sare, U.S. Senate Candidate (New York)
• JKF on the Arts, November 29, 1962
• Ray McGovern, former senior analyst, CIA; Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
• Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, founder and President, JUST International

Q&A

• “What is it going to take to initiate peace talks between Ukraine and Russia?”
  
• JFK private dictation following the overthrow and assassination of Vietnam President Diem, November 4, 1963
• Responses to the above recording of JFK
  
• “It seems your view is one-sided against the West. Why don’t you direct your criticism and cry for peace to Putin? Who funds and supports you financially?”
  
• “It was reported opium production plummeted in Afghanistan plummeted since the U.S. pull-out. Do you think this could be the beginning of a lasting decline in opium production worldwide?”
• **correction to the answer of the above question concerning opium production**
  
• Further comments by Oiver Stone on the significance of JFK’s June 10, 1963 speech
  
• “How can nation-states promote culture to raise the cognitive levels of their population in order to combat the social engineering by the forces of empire?”
  
• “What is the vision of the Schiller Institute for prompting ending the Israel/Palestine conflict?”

Add your name to our Urgent Appeal by Citizens and Institutions from All Over the World to the (Next) President of the United States!

On June 10, 1963, eight months after the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and peering into the abyss of thermonuclear self-destruction, President John F. Kennedy gave a world-historical speech at American University. He said: “Total war makes no sense in an age when great powers can maintain large and relatively invulnerable nuclear forces and refuse to surrender without resort to those forces. It makes no sense in an age when the deadly poisons produced by a nuclear exchange would be carried by wind and water and soil and seed to the far corners of the globe and to generations yet unborn.”

Nearly 60 years later, the Russian Ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov said, “Whereas the consequence of the Cuban Missile Crisis was the recognition of the possibility of peaceful co-existence of two great powers, now, over the past decades, Washington has set out to subvert Russia, bring it to its knees, or even better—to dismember it into several separate principalities.” Further, China and other nations’ Ukraine peace proposals have been rejected by London and Washington. Worse, China/Taiwan is to be the next theater in which world war is to be provoked.

In the last month, mad drone attacks have been launched directly into Russia, including on the Kremlin itself. These attacks are coming, either from an unhinged Zelensky regime, or from NATO special forces masquerading as “anti-Putin freedom fighters” who are being “passively supported” by the London-Washington military-intelligence establishment. Whatever their origin, they are criminally insane, and must be stopped.

No nation has the right to bring the world to the brink of annihilation; every citizen of the world has not only the right, but the obligation to act against such madness. This cannot be done through war. As Martin Luther King in his opposition to the Vietnam War put it, “The choice is no longer between violence and non-violence. The choice is between non-violence and non-existence.”

Helga Zepp-LaRouche wrote an “Urgent Appeal by Citizens and Institutions from all over the world, including the U.S., to the (next) President of the United States!” which says: “Today we are faced with a strategic situation which is much more dangerous than that at the height of the Cuban missile crisis; offensive NATO weapon systems are much closer to the border of Russia than Cuba was to the U.S., the destructive power of the weapons even greater, the warning time before their launch shorter, and the trust between the leaders of the big nuclear powers much below that between Kennedy and Khrushchev. The doomsday clock is set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at 90 seconds before midnight, and that may be overly optimistic.”

The Schiller Institute therefore calls upon all sane forces either already proposing pathways to immediate peace, or inclined to do so, to convene on June 10, the 60th anniversary of the JFK American University “Peace Speech,” an international assembly of the people of the world to deliberate on what Zepp-LaRouche has called “Ten Principles for a New Security and Development Architecture” and what we must each and all do, to bring that about. As JFK said at American University: “Our problems are man made—therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Man’s reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable—and we believe they can do it again.”

Speakers include

• Helga Zepp-LaRouche, President of the International Schiller Institute, Germany
• Zhang Jun, Dean of the School of Economics at Fudan University in Shanghai, China
• Charles Liu, Senior Fellow of the Taihe Institute, China
• Ole Döring, Professor at Foreign Language Studies College of Hunan Normal University

In the current geopolitical environment, Western leaders are moving away from referring to
China as a “partner” and emphasizing China more as a “rival”.
For example, the EU Commission recently promoted “de-risking” to reduce Europe’s alleged
dependence on China in certain economic sectors. The United States “decoupling” strategy
seeks to cut China off from technology supply chains. And the German government has declared
China a security risk and is working on a plan to impose import and export controls, investment
barriers and other sanctions on China.

China, on the other hand, emphasizes that if countries want to reduce risk, they should trade
more with China. What are the options and potentials of both views?
Western sanctions against Russian energy commodities and goods have already shown the
opposite effect and have largely backfired on Europe. Will Western leaders learn from this failure
and prevent another serious miscalculation?

In reality, China is the world’s most important market and production center, and its Belt and Road
Initiative is bringing infrastructure development to the majority of countries in need. Will the West
reflect on this fact and create a new paradigm of peaceful win-win cooperation?
Since the mainstream Western “narrative” leaves no space for such a debate, we want to provide
a platform for a broad alliance of international thinkers, entrepreneurs, and policy strategists to
have a public conversation.

 If you are interested in working with the International Peace Coalition, please contact questions@schillerinstitute.org

June 7, 2023 (EIRNS) — A zoom meeting with over 25 representatives of peace organizations from about a dozen nations was held on June 2, with the aim of bringing the diverse peace movements around the world together to counter the rapidly escalating threat of a U.S.-NATO full-scale war with Russia and potentially also China. Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche opened the meeting, noting the extreme danger of the NATO escalation toward war: Defender 23 now ongoing, the largest multinational air operations exercise in NATO’s history;  the drone attacks on Moscow; and the virulent proposals for dismantling the Russian Federation. She said there were significant peace rallies in the U.S. and Europe in February and in March, but since that time the war escalation has rapidly increased, and the peace movement clearly needs to increase much more. So it is urgent to launch a much more integrated form of organization to unify and expand the world’s peace movements to end the march to war, before it is too late.

The discussion included the urgent need for the diversion of military spending to development, contrasting the cost of a single F-16 (in the tens of millions of dollars each) to the massive need for development financing in most parts of the world.

The challenge of mobilizing large numbers of Americans to become a voice for peace is one priority, and joining with the Global South, which is experiencing a renaissance of the Non-Aligned Movement to finally overcome all forms of colonialism, another. The voice of the majority of the human species must be heard, since the existence of all of us is at stake.

Over 25 “world citizens” from a dozen nations — France, Guyana, Germany, Italy, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago, the UK and the U.S .— participated in the two-and-a-half hour meeting, discussing proposals for achieving these goals.

Following are excerpts from some of the participants in the discussion:

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Schiller Institute founder, Germany:

“The large demonstrations in February in Washington, D.C. and in Germany, Berlin having 50,000 people and many other local rallies since, do not match the masses in the streets which protested the Pershing II SS-20 Middle Range missile crisis in the 1980’s, with hundreds of thousands of people in the street, who were aware that we were close to WWIII then. … I think that we really have to make an effort; and I would wish that this discussion today leads to a new form of organization where we would use this group of people as a kernel to try to unify the Peace movement internationally, across five continents.”

Donald Ramotar, Former President of Guyana:

“We have to pull our minds together, and I hope this meeting will help to make a contribution in that way, to break out of this information blockade that most people in developing countries are facing.”

Richard Black, Former Virginia State Senator, USA:

“We are in a great deal of danger, and I think it makes a great deal of sense to bring all those groups together, especially those who don’t agree on many things, but where we intersect, where we overlap, this is where we need to act and join forces.”

Ray McGovern, Veterans for Peace, VIPS, and Pax Christi, USA:

“It doesn’t matter if Ray McGovern believes that Putin is right on this, what matters is that Putin thinks this is the case! What we need is whistle blowers, like my former friends in the CIA — What we need is a mass mobilization to say ‘Look, stop this Defender 23’, it can come to what the Chinese call a ‘no good end.'”

Jack Gilroy, Veterans for Peace and Pax Christi, USA:

“There is a huge education needed in the United States to teach the American people, through writings and videos and various pronouncements by people in the existing Peace communities, that people must understand that Americans did provoke Russia to act.”

Martin Schotz, author, History Will Not Absolve Us: Orwellian Control, Public Denial, and the Murder of President Kennedy, Massachusetts, USA:

“My work is primarily trying to get President Kennedy’s American University speech distributed as widely as possible. The reason for that is that Kennedy has outlined in great detail and sophistication, what the peace process is all about and the various aspects of it. If one looks at U.S. foreign policy of the last 30 years, from my point of view, the U.S. is 180 degrees from that speech. The exact opposite process, it’s been following, and that is a war process.”

Chandra Muzaffar, President of International Movement for a Just World, Malaysia

“Number 1, I think that it is extremely important to create a strong Peace movement in the United States of America…

“Number 2, I think it is also very important to encourage groups at the grassroots level in different parts of the world. I come from the Global South, and I think it is quite possible to do this, not through Peace groups, since there are not many in the Global South, but there are other types of civil society movements, they should be enthused to act…

And the third, we have to try to get some voices within the corridors of power to act.”

Angela McArdle, Chair, Libertarian Party and Rage Against the War Machine Organizer, USA:

“What I hope is what we do is really laser focus on the anti war movement. What can we do to advance an agenda of Peace and how can we do it that makes room for as many people as possible? I don’t believe that the bloods of monsters of the war machine, like Mitch McConnell or the McCain/Cheney types will have any interest in what we’re doing, but I would hope that people who are regular ‘low-information’ voters on the right and left will see what we are doing, be inspired by it and want to join with us.”

Nick Brana, Chair, Peoples Party and Rage Against the War Machine Organizer, USA:

“I have a format that I think would be really good for the next meeting, that I think would really help us work [on] this enormous challenge we face, and work backwards from our goal to end the war… to what are the possible solutions? There have been Peace negotiation proposals by the Vatican, by Brazil, by China. There have been mass demonstrations to stop the war in the U.S., mass demonstrations to stop the war in Germany… and then we can identify a number of different possible win conditions for us as an international Peace movement, that these are the routes by which the war can be ended. And then work backwards from those.”

Alessia Ruggeri, Trade Unionist, Italy:

“I remember very well our mobilization with the Schiller Institute to unblock Afghan funds being frozen by the Federal Reserve, funds which were needed to feed starving children. And I share Helga’s view; peace means also economic development, as the BRICS countries are demanding right now. It is very important that all peace movements come under a single cap, a single direction, thanks to this initiative of the Schiller Institute. This way we can be stronger”.

Maurizio Abbate, Chairman of ENAC, Ente Nazionale Attività Culturali, Italy:

“I’ve heard a lot of reports of large demonstrations: 300,000 people or so in important cities. But this reaches only people who know the problem, who are committed. But the great majority of people who listen to the mainstream media will not understand… So it’s important to reach the people who do not know and do cultural work… One should start from culture: Schools and universities.”

“No2NATO” Representative, UK:

“It’s clear that the mainstream media narrative across the West is the same. People listen to their television. They are hearing the same narrative day in and day out. We need to try to change that narrative… George Galloway and Chris Williamson send their apologies for not being able to attend the meeting, saying, ‘We do hope to attend any future events that you do.’ ”

Bernie Holland, SGI-UK National Culture Centre, UK:

“I am very touched by your sincerity regarding these problems. Now this word sincerity is important here in the context of statecraft and diplomacy. I’m putting emphasis on this because for many years, we have seen the great lengths that President Putin and Secretary Lavrov have gone to build an ‘entente cordiale’ with Western partners, only to be met with dissent and deceit.”

Ulf Sandmark, President, Schiller Institute, Sweden:

“What I want to bring up is the NordStream issue. Because the Swedish prosecutor is sitting on the proof, taking the material from the bottom of the sea. They are saying that all traces on those materials are from explosives. They are not releasing the proof at all, but they are actually doing a cover up of the crime scene. We in Sweden don’t have the power to force the prosecutor to release these things. So we need international pressure.”

Johan Nordquist, publisher, Truth Guardian, Sweden

“The ignorance is monumental amongst ordinary people. And I think we have to overcome that. One way to do that, which has inspired me, is Scott Ritter’s effort to counter Russophobia. In Sweden, it is very difficult to speak because of the widespread Russophobia… One very simple message to reach people who are not aware, or are still in the mainstream media bubble — and that would be to ban nuclear weapons.”

Diane Sare, U.S. Senate Candidate, New York, USA:

“I was just thinking about this challenge ‘why aren’t people in the streets, why don’t we have millions of people in the streets?’ I think there are two reasons. One is that Americans had believed that you change things through the electoral process. But many Americans, from both sides, have lost faith in their electoral system, with good reason. So they are at a loss. The other is a despair… If things get really bad, and worse, or that people realize they are worse, will this cause them to go out in the streets? I don’t think so. I don’t think it’s going to work that way.”

Jacques Cheminade, former Presidential Candidate France:

“What we have here (France) at this point is the highest form of social demonstrations, I think probably in the developed sector. These demonstrations are against the pensions reform, the counter reform of the French government. So as such, if it’s limited against pensions, it becomes a single issue and it doesn’t work. And what we have to do, is to transform this social ferment into a mobilization for Peace.”

Steve Starr, Professor at the University of Missouri, former Director of the UM Clinical Laboratory Science program, USA

“The hallmark of the Biden regime is irrationality. I think we have to find a way to get these people out of power. We can’t wait for elections and whether the elections would be rigged or not would be another question. There is a man named Francis Boyle, who wrote up articles of presidential impeachment; and I think it would be worthwhile to get someone to bring those up to the House of Representatives. Because the neo-cons running foreign policy, are entirely corrupt and delusional. I think some of them think they can get Russia to back down and I think some think they can win a nuclear war.”

In attendance were also:

Former Mexican Congresswoman María de los Ángeles Huerta
Chris Fogarty, Irish-American leader
Marinella Correggia, Eco-peace activist, journalist, Italy 
Christer Lundgren, Sweden
Kirk Meighoo, former Senator in Trinidad and Tobago
Juan Carrero, Fundación S’Olivar, Spain
Jose Vega, Activist, Interventionist and Schiller Institute organizer, USA
Anastasia Battle, Activist, Interventionist and Editor-in-Chief, Leonore Magazine, USA

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TRANSCRIPT

 HARLEY SCHLANGER: This is someone who is circulating the statement for signatures. She asks: “Can you say what you hope to accomplish with the statement the Schiller Institute issued, ‘Urgent Appeal by Citizens and Institutions from All Over the World to the (Next) President of the United States!’ What is the intent of circulating that?”

ZEPP-LAROUCHE: Well, on the 10th of June is 60th anniversary of the famous speech by John F. Kennedy at the American University, which is generally called the “Peace Speech.” And if you haven’t don’t that yet, you should read that speech, or even listen to him on YouTube, because it is a beautiful speech, where Kennedy says that the world needs peace, coming from America, but not a Pax Americana, where the United States would enforce with weapons to subject all others and that way have a “peace of grave.” But to have a peace where each country can flourish and work together.

And it’s a very beautiful, poetical speech. And it is so important that people listen to that speech—there are also other, incredible speeches by Kennedy, for example, one where he talks about the importance of art and culture, which I can only underwrite every word he is saying there, that it is the culture of a country which is what makes it human and what makes it beautiful.

First of all, many young people have no real idea who Kennedy was, because they were born long, long after he had been assassinated, and therefore they don’t have a vivid idea any more that he represented a completely different paradigm of American politics. And this is very important, because what I want to accomplish with that statement is, as I mentioned before: We are in an unbelievable historic transformation right now, of which people in the West are hardly aware. The Global South is shifting—first of all, they have a completely new self-assurance; they have the economic ties, especially with China, but also among each other, Brazil, India, Indonesia—these are all major countries that are now rising. And the danger would be that the West remains arrogant, and basically says, “who are these people from the South? They should be submitting to the unipolar world,” because they will not.

And it would be very dangerous if you would have a complete separation into two blocs, a Western bloc, and a bloc of Russia, China, and the Global South, because you can’t solve the problems of the world by this separation. And if the dynamic would continue, that it would all turn anti-America, which is clearly a tendency, because the United States—there was just a report by Brown University; and they made a study and they said the interventionist wars in which the United States was involved after 9/11, resulted in 4.5 million deaths! Now, that is an unbelievable figure! And naturally, there are many people in the Global South also, who are not exactly friendly to the United States, and that’s probably the understatement of the year. And it would be very devastating if that would remain like that. Because I think if that is the tendency, World War III is unfortunately very likely down the road, or sooner or later.

So, since Kennedy represents a completely different paradigm of American politics, more like it was meant to be with the Founding Fathers, the American Revolution, the War of Independence against the British Empire, John Quincy Adams’ conception of foreign policy; Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and then Kennedy, who, after all, defused the Cuban Missile Crisis, together with Khrushchev, and who had a very optimistic idea about the ability of man to solve any problems through science and technology.

So, it’s a different paradigm. And by making this appeal, by saying, that what the whole world wishes, is that the United States would go back to that kind of a paradigm, which Kennedy represented. I think that first of all, it will help to educate people around the world to look at the United States in a more differentiated way, and hopefully, inside the United States also causes Americans to review their own history. Because, as my late husband, Lyndon LaRouche, emphatically always said, that things went wrong with America after the assassination of Kennedy, and especially the cover-up through the Warrant Commission. Because, if you assassinate the President of a country, which, obviously, the “lone assassin” theory does not hold for one minute, and then you have a cover-up and the institutions of that country are not able to remedy that, or find out the truth and find justice, this is an extremely—this was a break in the history of the United States. And the last 50, now 60 years, that is something one has to work through and find back to the kinds of values that existed with Franklin Roosevelt, with Kennedy, and I think that that’s the purpose.

And I always think one should relate to the best tradition of the other, and not the worst. When I founded the Schiller Institute in 1984, the main purpose was to contribute to a just, new world economic order, and the idea that this is only possible if one has a renaissance of Classical culture and a dialogue of the best traditions of all cultures, with the idea that peace is really possible when you relate to the best of the other person, or the other country, or the other tradition, and vice versa. Because, when you bring forth what is good in the other, then that is the basis for peace.

So I hope with that, and the memory comes back, that America should become, again, a force for good in the world, and then the whole world would be peaceful, and happy.

Register for the June 10, 2023 Schiller Institute conference, “The World Needs JFK’s Vision of Peace”

On June 10, 1963, eight months after the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and peering into the abyss of thermonuclear self-destruction, President John F. Kennedy gave a world-historical speech at American University. He said: “Total war makes no sense in an age when great powers can maintain large and relatively invulnerable nuclear forces and refuse to surrender without resort to those forces. It makes no sense in an age when the deadly poisons produced by a nuclear exchange would be carried by wind and water and soil and seed to the far corners of the globe and to generations yet unborn.” 

Nearly 60 years later, the Russian Ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov said, “Whereas the consequence of the Cuban Missile Crisis was the recognition of the possibility of peaceful co-existence of two great powers, now, over the past decades, Washington has set out to subvert Russia, bring it to its knees, or even better—to dismember it into several separate principalities.” Further, China and other nations’ Ukraine peace proposals have been rejected by London and Washington. Worse, China/Taiwan is to be the next theater in which world war is to be provoked.

In the last month, mad drone attacks have been launched directly into Russia, including on the Kremlin itself. These attacks are coming, either from an unhinged Zelensky regime, or from NATO special forces masquerading as “anti-Putin freedom fighters” who are being “passively supported” by the London-Washington military-intelligence establishment.  Whatever their origin, they are criminally insane, and must be stopped.

No nation has the right to bring the world to the brink of annihilation; every citizen of the world has not only the right, but the obligation to act against such madness. This cannot be done through war. As Martin Luther King in his opposition to the Vietnam War put it, “The choice is no longer between violence and non-violence. The choice is between non-violence and non-existence.”

Helga Zepp-LaRouche wrote an “Urgent Appeal by Citizens and Institutions from all over the world, including the U.S., to the (next) President of the United States!” which says: “Today we are faced with a strategic situation which is much more dangerous than that at the height of the Cuban missile crisis; offensive NATO weapon systems are much closer to the border of Russia than Cuba was to the U.S., the destructive power of the weapons even greater, the warning time before their launch shorter, and the trust between the leaders of the big nuclear powers much below that between Kennedy and  Khrushchev. The doomsday clock is set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at 90 seconds before midnight, and that may be overly optimistic.” 

The Schiller Institute therefore calls upon all sane forces either already proposing pathways to immediate peace, or inclined to do so, to convene on June 10, the 60th anniversary of the JFK American University “Peace Speech,” an international assembly of the people of the world to deliberate on what Zepp-LaRouche has called “Ten Principles for a New Security and Development Architecture” and what we must each and all do, to bring that about.  As JFK said at American University: “Our problems are man made—therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Man’s reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable—and we believe they can do it again.”