Live from Caracas, Venezuelan researcher and columnist for “Misión Verdad” (“Truth Mission”), Diego Sequera, spoke with EIR’s Dennis Small on Jan. 8. Sequera concluded the discussion by explaining that the armed attack on Venezuela, and kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro, was “so self-destructive to the United States.” It not only means a return to imperial Gunboat Diplomacy against Venezuela and the whole Western Hemisphere; it also marks “a policy overhaul along the lines of Trump’s National Security Strategy document.”
We are witnessing “deeper trends” of a broader global fight, which centers on expelling the interests of China, especially, from the Western Hemisphere, in order to “control supply chains, key assets, resources, chokepoints.” Sequera noted that Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodriguez today visited the Chinese embassy in Caracas. “That’s about as clear a message as it gets,” Sequera commented.
He emphasized that support for Venezuela against the naked aggression is coming not only from expected countries, but also from other players, such as Spain, that had previously been cool. “That’s new,” he stated.
Small asked Sequera about the Trump administration’s domino theory – that after Venezuela, other dominoes will follow, such as Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, and others. “But has Venezuela fallen?” Sequera answered: “That’s an easy answer: no, not at this point.” There has been social breakdown. Nations are also history, ideas, and principles.
Sequera concluded by supporting the upcoming Jan. 12 EIR Emergency Round Table, “It’s Worse Than You Think: The Strategic Implications of the Attack on Venezuela and How to Bring the World Back from the Brink.”
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The United States plans to station intermediate-range missiles (such as the SM-6, the Tomahawk, and hypersonic weapons such as Dark Eagle) in Germany as of 2026. These systems are to be deployed by the 56th U.S. Artillery Command, which was reactivated in November 2021 in Wiesbaden. The SM-6 has a range of 370 to 500 km; the Tomahawk cruise missile is capable of penetrating enemy territory at low altitude, and taking out command centers, bunkers and radar installations; while Dark Eagle is a hypersonic weapon with a range of up to 2,700 km, that flies at up to 17 times the speed of sound and is maneuverable as it approaches target. These systems are nuclear-capable and can be launched from Germany against strategic targets deep inside Russian territory, to hit Russian command centers, among other targets.
The decision to install these systems in Germany is a “cuckoo’s egg,” foisted upon then-Chancellor Olaf Scholz on July 10, 2024, at the NATO summit in Washington by President Joe Biden, and then put in President Donald Trump’s nest. Now, it threatens, at the very least, to sabotage the diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine and it could, in the worst case, lead to war in Europe.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin warned at the time, in July 2024, that Russia would take “mirror-image” steps and deploy its own intermediate-range weapons. This could create a situation even more dangerous than what existed in the early 1980s during the medium-range missile crisis, when both Pershing II and SS-20 missiles were permanently put on “launch on warning,” and the warning time from launch to target was reduced to only 4-10 minutes. At that time, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Germany, because they recognized the threat that, with such extremely short warning times, a Third World War, this time a nuclear war, could wipe out the entire human race “by accident.”
Today, the situation is even more dangerous because the communication channels that were in place even during the Cuban Missile Crisis have been reduced to a handful of people. The deployment of these systems will make Germany a prime target for a first strike in any escalation. In that case, Germany will be wiped off the map.
The stationing of such U.S. weapons systems would represent a danger all the greater, as the so-called “Coalition of the Willing” (United Kingdom, France, and Germany), as well as the EU Commission, are on a sweeping militarization drive, ostensibly because Russia is preparing an attack on NATO member states. This assertion is in total contradiction with the statement of U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who said that U.S. intelligence assesses that Russia seeks to avoid a larger war with NATO, which would trigger implementation of NATO’s collective defense clause, under Article 5. She further wrote on X that U.S. intelligence also assesses that Russia’s battlefield performance shows that it “does not currently have the capability to conquer and occupy all of Ukraine, let alone Europe.”
Therefore, the stationing the U.S. weapons systems would have the effect of destroying the chances for a successful outcome of the negotiations between the Trump administration and the Russian government on normalization of relations.
Given the current rapid escalation of the disintegration of the international legal order—in which the principle of “might makes right” has replaced international law, where a genocide identified by the International Court of Justice is committed before the eyes of the world, and drone attacks are occurring, while censorship threatens freedom of expression, civil rights are suspended, and a state of overall lawlessness threatens—this deployment could be the last straw of strategic destabilization.
America is celebrating this year, in 2026, the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence, which sealed its victory in the first anti-colonial war against the British Empire. The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution represent a historic watershed that established the general welfare for the American people and the right to a government committed to that general welfare. In one of the most famous speeches ever given in America, then-Secretary of State John Quincy Adams declared on July 4, 1821:
“Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence, has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will recommend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example.”
America not only established, with its Revolution of 1776, the model of a sovereign republic, but also created, with Alexander Hamilton’s “American System of economics,” an economic model that serves the general welfare and has been applied in all countries that have successfully carried out an industrial revolution. Not least, the German economist Friedrich List took up in his writings the fundamental difference between the “American system” and the “British system,” which is solely based on profits for speculators and the financial oligarchy. The history of America since its founding has been marked by the British Empire’s attempts to reverse the success of the American Revolution. After the War of 1812 and the Civil War, in which Great Britain was allied with the Confederate states, proved that this was impossible by military means, British imperial circles repeatedly attempted to persuade the American establishment to adopt the model of the British Empire and establish a unipolar world order based on the special Anglo-American relationship.
The proud occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Republic of the United States should be taken as the occasion to revive the ideals in the tradition of the American Revolution, and in the tradition of John Quincy Adams, to support a partnership of sovereign republics around the world.
We, the undersigned, as German citizens and citizens of other nations, appeal to the sovereign power of the United States of America, the American people, as well as to President Trump and the U.S. Congress, to reverse the Biden administration’s highly dangerous decision, and to not install any new weapons systems on German soil!
Let us revive the German-American friendship in the tradition of Baron von Steuben, Friedrich List, and John F. Kennedy, which applies to all nations on this planet:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
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The follow-on continues to the Jan. 3 U.S. attack on Venezuela and abduction of its President Nicolas Maduro and his wife from Caracas. The two were arraigned today on 12 counts before a Federal judge in New York City, each declaring their innocence; the next court action is March 17. Maduro’s Vice President Delcy Rodriguez was sworn in today as Acting President, and has made mild statements about “cooperation” in the context of terror in her nation and the Caribbean. The death count from the U.S.’s Jan. 3 airstrikes and action in Venezuela is reported as 80, with 32 of them being deceased Cuban nationals.
Drilling and conveyance of oil in the nation is now near standstill, because the tank farms, and tankers at anchor, have reached their limit to be able to store any more, given the U.S. blockade of shipping. Later this week, the White House intends to host U.S. oil executives in Miami, Florida, to take over in the name of “rebuilding” in Venezuela.
President Donald Trump indicated last night that Colombia and Mexico are in line for U.S. intervention if Washington so decides, along with the takedown of Cuba. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the same. This evening Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller likewise declared on CNN that, “The United States should have Greenland.”
Trump said that Colombia “is run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States. And he’s not going to be doing it very long, let me tell you.” He said of Mexico, that “in every single call I have offered troops” to President Claudia Sheinbaum.
This whole situation shows, as described on Jan. 5 by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Schiller Institute leader, that the world is in a new, “different phase” of breakdown. She also referred to the continued horror imposed on Gaza, the suppression of free speech in Europe, the operations against Iran, and more, as well as the U.S. being on a rampage in the Western Hemisphere.
On the particular looming danger of the United States placing nuclear-capable, long-range missiles in Germany this year, the International Peace Coalition, initiated by Zepp-LaRouche, released a statement on Jan. 5 for wide circulation and endorsement. Headlined, “International Peace Coalition Statement: Appeal to the American People, To President Trump, and To Congress!” the full text is below.
As of the time of preparation of this bulletin, a classified briefing on U.S. actions in Venezuela is being given, for the first time, by the Trump Administration to the Eight-Plus Congressional leaders of their two chambers, in particular, Armed Services and Intelligence. Many lawmakers are highly critical of Trump’s intervention, but unfortunately, only because Congress wasn’t briefed in advance, nor had it given authorization to the U.S. military buildup, and not because the lawmakers oppose the takeover of Venezuela and other nations.
In dramatic distinction, Diane Sare, twice former U.S. Senate candidate from New York, is providing briefings this week, in the course of organizing for her Jan. 10 kick-off campaign event in New York City for running for President of the United States as a LaRouche Independent.
On the Garland Nixon podcast today, Sare said that the U.S. attack on Venezuela “is an affront to the judgment of the world,” and explained why, and what are the responsibilities of the world to roll back the danger. She said, “I can’t believe you have Congressmen, such as my former Congressman Mike Lawler, saying, ‘This was absolutely required, and of course the President should not have told the Congress.’ That is so far from our Constitution, I find that absolutely astounding.”
• Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Founder, The International Schiller Institute (Germany) • Dr. Naledi Pandor, chairperson, Nelson Mandela Foundation and former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of the Republic of South Africa • Jacques Cheminade, President, Solidarité & Progrès (France) • H.E. Ambassador Beryl Sisulu, Ambassador of the Republic of South Africa to Mexico • Alain Charlemagne Pereira, former Chief of Staff of the Senegalese Air Force; former Ambassador and Permanent Representative
Dialogue Period and Greetings
• Shamsudeen Hassan, Yhunich Mentors Academy (Nigeria) • Dabe Nogbo, Pan African Patriot Front (Côte d’Ivoire) • Retaj Aldar, BRICS Youth Parliament (Yemen) • Alan Rivera, Schiller Institute (Mexico)
Panel 2
• Martin Kaptein, Schiller Institute (Netherlands/Russia) • Mahdi Mohammed, United Community of African Students, Wageningen University (Nigeria) • Maisam Rahamtalla, Association of Students of African Heritage, Netherlands (Sudan) • Inez Zengue, Association of International Studies Russia-Africa (Cameroon) • Megumi Itaya, Kyoto University (Japan) • Fajer Fouad Al-Ghaffari, BRICS Youth Parliament (Yemen) • Fadel Abdul Hussein Al-Dhayani, Youth Development Association and First Scientific Conference for Youth (Yemen) • Kynan Thistlethwaite, Jose Vega for Congress (USA) • Alima Touré, Lawyer and Journalist (Mali) • Jusper Machogu, Fossil Fuels for Africa (Kenya) • Timothy Ninsiima and Emmanuel Mungatihe, Makerere University (Uganda) • Jesus Holguin Cazares, Kansas Cattlemen’s Association (USA) • Estevão Demacena, Schiller Institute (Brazil)
Dialogue Period
International Youth Movement Emerges, a New Strategic Flank for the Good
A new strategic flank has emerged for those who demand a new, just security and development architecture: an international youth movement dedicated to the common interests of the one humanity.
This youth movement is growing at an accelerating rate, guided by such world leaders as Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute; Dr. Naledi Pandor, chairwoman of the Nelson Mandela Foundation and former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa; Jacques Cheminade, president of the French party Solidarité & Progrès; Ambassador Beryl Sisulu, Ambassador of South Africa to Mexico; and Alain Charlemagne Pereira, former Ambassador and former Chief of Staff of the Senegalese Air Force. These mature voices of reason spoke in dialogue on Dec. 14, 2025, with an assembly of over 200 youth from across 37 nations from all five continents, including 20 different African nations, during the Schiller Institute international youth conference, “Young People of the World, Unite!”
That dialogue served as the first panel of two, followed by a remarkable session featuring 17 recorded statements from young people from Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Yemen, Mexico, the Netherlands, Russia, Sudan, Cameroon, Japan, United States of America, Mali, Kenya, Uganda, and Brazil, as well as a dozen live statements contributed by young leaders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger, and many other locations. These statements covered such matters as the use of AI to eradicate mycotoxin contamination of food in Africa; the organizing of the population of Mexico in support of cooperation with the BRICS; the historic memory of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the 255th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven as seen by a Yemeni youth; the urgent need for young people to help stop the horrific crises in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gaza; the legal fight for the economic and political sovereignty of Mali; the common need for a just world agricultural system, as seen from the standpoint of a Kansas cattleman; and the need for fossil fuel development and great projects to eradicate poverty in Africa and the world.
Following those statements came further dialogue among the assembled youth, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, and Jacques Cheminade, during which the demands of the future and the present were discussed from the standpoint of the strategic danger of a new kind of universal fascism, the intersection of the malign use of Artificial Intelligence, crypto currency, and the military industrial complex, engineered to prevent the consolidation of a new just paradigm. Against this backdrop, punctuated by the particularly insane outlook of NATO, as expressed in a recent propaganda video, “From Foresight to Warfight!” what intervention must this global youth collaboration make?
Zepp-LaRouche challenged the youth leaders that, in fact, “we are not barbarians. We are not like this NATO image of man. We are the creative species, and we can come up with solutions for every man-made problem. And war is a man-made problem. That’s why I think the need to have a powerful international youth movement is the key to solving the present conjuncture in human history. Only if we have young people on all continents—in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and hopefully then, inspiring the youth of the United States and Europe—who will fight for a new economic system, a new world economic order, and an end to war, will this tragedy which is potentially facing humanity possibly be avoided.”
The enthusiastic responses of the young participants of this conference indicates that many are ready and willing to build this movement, and to answer Zepp-LaRouche’s’s long-standing call to learn and implement the method of the coincidence of opposites, invented by Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa in the 15th century as a means of solving intractable problems by ascending to the higher one.
Nations represented during the conference included Ghana, Ethiopia, Canada, Uganda, Yemen, France, Australia, Palestine, South Africa, Kenya, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Bangladesh, Brazil, Nigeria, U.S.A., Mexico, Madagascar, Gambia, Japan, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, Saint Lucia, Argentina, Algeria, India, Sudan, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, and Iran.
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Dec. 15, 2025 (EIRNS)—“NATO has definitely outlived its legitimacy. We must urgently replace it with a new security and development architecture which this time must take into account the security and development interests of every single country on the planet,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche told an international gathering of youth on Sunday, Dec. 14. “I think that is absolutely the only way out of this crisis.”
The tension between two simultaneous and opposite trajectories in the world serves to underscore those wise words: On the one hand, we see a world of the Global Majority that is moving to consolidate relationships of cooperation, mutual respect, and win-win agreements for development; and on the other, a completely hysterical freakout from an increasingly irrelevant, yet nuclear-armed, elite class that would do anything to prevent peace in Ukraine—or to stir up a new conflict somewhere else on the globe.
Take the recent flurry of diplomatic activity on the part of the BRICS nations. Within the past week alone, leaders from China, India, Russia, Brazil, Iran, U.A.E., Saudi Arabia, and Jordan have met in various constellations to discuss bolstering bilateral relations, economic development perspectives, and how to strengthen the role of the BRICS and SCO in shaping a stable and prosperous world system.
Contrast that with the E3 Coalition of the Killing leaders, Starmer, Merz, and Macron, who are determined to sabotage efforts to bring peace in Ukraine—no matter the cost. Those three dwarfs convened in Berlin on Dec. 15, joining U.S. and Ukrainian delegations who had just concluded two days of discussions on a possible peace deal, in order to figure out how to, in the words of Russian Senator Vladimir Dzhabarov, “make every effort to stall and torpedo the peace plan,” despite the fact that strategic defeat of Russia—the largest nuclear power on the planet—is impossible.
But even if one conflict is brought to a resolution, as we may be nearing in the case of Ukraine, the crumbling system of geopolitics has still not been abolished, and as Helga Zepp-LaRouche has repeatedly warned, as one crisis is brought toward resolution, expect that other crises will break out. In Iran, fear is mounting that the psychotic Netanyahu government in Israel will use the recent tragic mass murder of Jews in Australia as the pretext for launching new strikes in Iran.
In the Western Hemisphere, which the recent “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine declared to be the U.S. zone of influence, the situation in the Caribbean remains extremely tense: On Friday, Dec. 12 a midair collision just 40 miles from the Venezuelan coast was narrowly avoided by an astute commercial airline pilot who spotted a U.S. Air Force refueling plane flying towards Venezuela without its transponder on, in just enough time to avoid disaster. Elsewhere in Ibero-America, leaders of nations are being installed—through elections or otherwise, and much to the delight of “Narco” Rubio—which promise to weaken or renounce their relationships with China’s Belt and Road Initiative and step into line with the Western financial interests. The Dec. 14 election of Pinochet admirer and ultra-monetarist José Antonio Kast in Chile, along with promises of Bolivia’s Foreign Minister to replace Chinese mining companies in his country with American ones, are recent examples.
But, thankfully, there is no solution other than to change the entire system.
“If you have a world which is in such disarray, you cannot try to solve these problems one by one,” Zepp-LaRouche said in her address to the youth. “Even if they have their historical and factual specificity—each crisis has its own reasons and dynamic—they are all part of this overall development where you have the end of the system of 500 years of colonialism, and the emergence of a new system whereby the countries the Global Majority are trying to create a new, more just system. That conflict is the deeper reason behind all these regional expressions of conflict. Therefore, you have to try to resolve this in totality.”
Dec. 13, 2025 (EIRNS)—The International Peace Coalition (IPC) met online on Friday Dec. 12 for its 132nd consecutive weekly meeting, featuring a dramatic discussion on the turning point in history caused by the release of the National Security Strategy (NSS) by the Trump Administration, dated November 2025, which, as Dennis Small put it, has “kicked over the chessboard.” The opening speakers were Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Schiller Institute leader and initiator of the IPC; Alastair Crooke, diplomat and nearly 30 years in MI6; Graham Fuller, 20 years in the CIA and former vice-chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council; former President of Guyana Donald Ramotar; and Dennis Small, Ibero-American Intelligence Director of Executive Intelligence Review. Crooke and Fuller had been collaborators through their work in the Arab world.
Alastair Crooke noted that the NSS marks a U.S. turn, away from the focus on China and the war in Ukraine, and openly attacks policies of the European leaders and NATO. He said what was needed was for the United States to acknowledge that its sanctions policies had utterly failed in their intent to drive China and Russia out of their leadership role in world affairs.
U.S. Tariffs Are a ‘Shakedown’
In regard to Trump’s use of tariffs, he said that this was claiming to be based on Alexander Hamilton’s promotion of tariffs for the new United States, but that Trump was using them as a “shakedown,” intended to coerce nations to invest in the United States or buy the U.S. debt. This will not work, he said, because of the massive growth of the debt bubble in the U.S.
On the Ukraine war, Crooke is concerned that Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner do not represent the Congress nor any other institutions, but that one is a real estate fiend, and the other is a personal family member of Trump. This is part of the fact that Trump is looking at the relations with Russia and Ukraine in terms of money, over “who gets the money, be it BlackRock or the EU,” as demonstrated by the insane European seizure of the Russian reserves. The Europeans have become “psychotic,” he said, in their wildly false contention that they could “defeat Russia.”
On Venezuela, Crooke noted that President Nicolás Maduro had offered to allow the U.S. oil and mining companies to essentially take over the natural wealth of the country, but Trump said “No.” Why would he turn this down, Crooke asked? It must be seen in the context of China’s counteroffer during the Shanghai Expo in November, to implement a zero-tariff trade policy and invest in the Venezuela oil and mining sector itself, without the conditionalities demanded by the U.S., insisting on being an “ally” and maintaining dollar hegemony. The U.S. now wants to establish something like a blockade, keeping China (and others) out. Crooke doubts that China will simply accept this.
Graham Fuller said that he was “shocked” by the NSS as the biggest shift in world affairs since the fall of the U.S.S.R., and yet, he said, there had been no warning that this was in the works, not from the press nor from the pundits. He also was amazed that Europe appears to have lost its sense of history and is ignoring the dramatic shift in Asia. He asked for Crooke’s view.
‘Davos Values’ Took Over NATO
Crooke responded that it began with the NATO bombing of Belgrade in 1999, without any approval from the United Nations. That led to the transformation of NATO as a force for military defense into an offensive force based on political criteria, which Crooke called “liberal values, the Davos values.” That became universal, with the leaders of NATO and Western nations all coming from the same clique. This was reinforced when U.S. President Joe Biden gave his “Manichean” speech in the UN, followed by EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen giving an almost verbatim speech. Thus, the mention of “good vs evil,” “light vs. darkness,” “autocracy vs. freedom” became the standard replacement for serious intelligence and diplomacy, a “lever” for a conflict with Russia—“irrational, and dangerous.” The irony is that Europe now has no democracy at all. Even the EU European Commission leadership is unelected.
Crooke reported that he had been in both Russia and China over the past weeks, and they know this about the West. The Russians, in particular, know that Europe has no money, no weapons nor manpower to fight a war with Russia, yet they promote war all the time. Crooke says he believes they can’t fight such a war, “but they can provoke a war,” and even small countries like Estonia can do so. The intention is similar to Winston Churchill’s use of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to bring the U.S. into a war against Germany. The population in Europe is not ready for war—“they are more interested in holidays and designer shoes.” The preconditions for a solution have been taken down. They are the autocracy they complain about.
Zepp-LaRouche expressed agreement with both Crooke and Fuller. Europe suffers from the neoliberal system, which is getting worse. There are attacks on the Classics, against truth and beauty, and instead, attention is paid to minor things that are “interesting.” The West has become “more and more insane, pornographic.” She referenced Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s comment that the West has turned against the morals of their grandparents, adopting a “post-Christian ideology.” The great poets and scientists are gone. Our friends in the Global South “can’t understand why the West is destroying itself.” We must be more like Asia, which is reaching back to its best (Confucian) traditions for a new cultural era: “We must look back to the Italian Renaissance, the German high culture, to rediscover our earlier contributions to the human species.”
Danger of the U.S. in the Caribbean
Former Guyana President Donald Ramotar then spoke, posing the great danger inherent in the NSS concept of America throwing out international law and threatening to take over South America and the Caribbean. He said that the leaders in the region are terrified, afraid to speak out for fear of American economic or military attacks. “The silence is deafening,” he said. The effort is to push China out, even though it is China that is “building the infrastructure which we have been denied for so long.” It appears that the oil and mining companies are running policy in Washington. Trump’s approach to Russia is admirable, but he doubts that any future President will sustain it. He appreciates the migration problem, “but they must understand that they created this themselves.”
EIR’s Dennis Small pointed out that the virtue of the NSS is that it is “kicking over the chessboard,” putting a hold on the rush to nuclear war. But it lacks any idea of “how to put it together again.” He pointed to Crooke’s emphasis on the debt crisis. He reviewed his work on the massive debt of the U.S. and worldwide, in addition to the $2 quadrillion in derivative debt, demonstrating that the Western financial system is bankrupt. Either this is put through bankruptcy reorganization or there will be collapse and war. That is the story behind the attack on Venezuela: The real target in South America is Brazil and the BRICS.
Crooke noted that China and others are trying to find a way to work with the West to deal with this debt crisis, but they can’t find the means for discussion. If the U.S. bubble bursts, it will cause political and economic crises around the world. Russia and China, in the meantime, must consider means of defending themselves from this threat. “I saw in China that they could easily expand their successful development system to the rest of Eurasia, to everyone’s benefit, while the West simply replies that should they move to do that,”they are attacking the dollar.” Given that Trump changes his mind every day makes it difficult to work with him.
In the Q&A session, Zepp-LaRouche answered questions on Nicholas of Cusa, and another on the Tenth Principle of her Ten Principles.
She stressed in conclusion that the Peace of Westphalia followed 150 years of war and general chaos, until the belligerents recognized it must stop or there would be no one left. That is more real today, in the nuclear age. “Putin’s patience will eventually come to an end.” If the West would get together with Russia and China “all the problems of the world could be solved.” She proposed a global Glass-Steagall based on FDR’s policies.
The following article by Helga Zepp-LaRouche was published today on CGTN:
The fourth visit of Emmanuel Macron in his capacity as president of France comes at a moment of strategic turmoil at several crisis spots around the world, on which China and France don’t have identical views. But since the strategic stability in the world requires stable and mutually beneficial relations between China and the European Union, Macron’s visit could help to improve the overall dynamics.
France has a special importance for China ever since several leaders of the Communist Party of China (CPC), such as Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping, studied in France in the early 20th century. At that time, some 4,000 Chinese young men went to France to study, inspired by the wish to modernize China. Many of them went to study and work in the city of Montargis. Deng Xiaoping was among them. It is there that politicized by the Russian revolution, they decided, in discussion with Mao Zedong, to launch the CPC in 1921.
Such a historical foundation of relations could be beneficial when Europe is struggling for its true identity, divided between the so-called Coalition of the Willing — those who want to continue the war in Ukraine, and the countries that see the advantage of strengthening relations with the BRICS countries as a whole, such as Spain, Italy, Portugal, Iceland, Hungary and Slovakia.
France has gone through five different prime ministers in the last two years, while Macron’s approval rating has recently hit a historic low of below 20 percent. The country is overindebted, and has difficulties agreeing on a budget for the coming year, due to social cuts in various areas. Macron therefore will seek to improve cooperation in economic and trade matters, encouraging more investments from Chinese companies and improved market access for French exports.
During the visit, officials from both nations are expected to sign several agreements in the energy, food industry and aviation sectors.
Given the ambitious orientation of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030), with its emphasis on innovation as the driver of the economy, the increased budget for basic research and development and advances in so-called disruptive technologies will open potentially interesting perspectives for more cooperation with France.
France has traditionally been a leading country in aviation, space, nuclear energy and fusion technology, but in recent years has been falling behind. Cooperation with China in these fields could be a welcome boost for the French economy to overcome its present difficulties.
This could also involve third countries. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, where more than 30 states including China are cooperating, is located in south of France. It is an excellent example of international cooperation in the high-tech sector, benefiting all participating states.
The recent opening of the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia is another example of such multinational cooperation and successful joint ventures in third countries. For this project, Chinese, Ethiopian, Italian and French firms cooperated successfully to not only provide electricity to Ethiopia, but also to enable it to export electricity to neighboring countries.
With European economies being interwoven, the French economic difficulties are closely related to those of the other European economies, especially Germany’s. The head of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) has just published a report, describing the national German economy as being in “free fall.”
According to BDI President Peter Leibinger, the German economy is “experiencing its deepest crisis since the founding of the Federal Republic,” and he expects production to slump by two percent this year, marking the fourth consecutive year of decline.
With France and Germany, the two largest economies of Europe which are closely tied and both in an existential crisis, Macron’s visit could potentially represent a turning point. China’s success and breakthroughs in many of the most advanced high-tech areas could be an inspiration for Europe. They offer many areas of cooperation, particularly in Africa.
It will also be important to improve and upgrade people-to-people relations, especially an increased exchange of youth, since the young people of Europe can benefit from the optimistic outlook of the young people in China.
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What sort of madness would lead people, in the face of the collapse of nearly every single global arms control and verification treaty—today only New START remains, until it too expires in February 2026—to explicitly and publicly propose to further proliferate nuclear weapons to the nations of Germany, Japan, and Canada? To argue that this will “strengthen the global order,” and provide “dependable protection against the threats of regional foes, such as China and Russia”?
The madness of those who speak for the bankrupt London-New York financial Establishment, is who, including their policy mouthpieces, such as Foreign Affairs magazine of the New York Council on Foreign Relations.
What sort of madness would cause them to propose to give nuclear weapons to a Germany which, under Chancellor Friedrich Merz, has announced it is girding for war against Russia within years, at most? To argue for nuclear arms to be under the control of a Takaichi government in Japan, which has just announced it could take military action against China to defend Taiwan?
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova drew out the implications of such madness: “We know how Japanese militarism ended. It would be good if those politicians who come to govern Japan remember this, understand where irresponsible statements lead, and refrain from making them.”
This is the same madness which is driving London and its European allies apoplectic over U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest effort to return U.S.-Russian negotiations over Ukraine to the approach both sides had agreed upon in the Aug. 15 Trump-Putin summit in Anchorage, Alaska. They are describing those efforts as “nauseating,” “worse than we thought,” and a “nightmare”—all because Trump and Putin have agreed that the issues which caused the war in the first place must be addressed.
It is also the madness behind Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s obsession with overthrowing the Maduro government in Venezuela, in order to embroil the Trump administration in another bloody forever war of exactly the sort he promised to never launch.
All of this is the madness borne of the desperation of the owners of the financially bankrupt system, who are trying to keep their system afloat through wars and economic looting—when it is no longer possible to do so.
“The economy of the United States of America, and also that of the trans-Atlantic political-economic regions of the planet, are, now, under the immediate, mortal danger of a general, physical-economic, chain-reaction breakdown-crisis of that region of this planet as a whole.”
The pathway LaRouche specified leading to the reorganization of the global physical economy around scientific drivers such as fusion energy and space colonization, begins with a return to the 1933 Glass-Steagall law of FDR. This would put the $2 quadrillion in speculative assets today asphyxiating the Western financial system through bankruptcy reorganization, and open the door to issuing productive credit in volumes needed to create physical economic conditions worthy of the dignity of Man—all 8 billion plus of us!
On Saturday, November 8, in Paris, we invite you to an international gathering.
In this context, we invited representatives from a delegation of the International Schiller Institute.
Committed citizens and young people from around the world will then come to defend their vision of the world to come and their solutions for achieving peace, bringing with them the voices of Africa, the countries of the Global Majority, and every other nation fighting for the true emancipation of peoples, for peace, solidarity, and progress for all.
To achieve this, France’s true sovereignists must come together and unite their efforts to stop the war. By organizing a peace movement with sovereignists from other nations, patriots, and citizens of the world, we can build an architecture of mutual development and security, what Charles de Gaulle called “détente, entente, and cooperation.” This vital challenge will be at the heart of the debates during these days—defining a future for our country and for all of humanity.
Starting in the morning at 9:30 a.m. (CET) and continuing until 7:30 p.m. (CET), three round tables will be held to present the roadmap for this mobilization and discuss it with you.
The day before, on Friday, November 7, the General Assembly of the Solidarité & Progrès party will take place in Clichy (92).
On Sunday, November 9, we are organizing a “cadre school” to explore the topics discussed at Saturday’s conference in greater depth, followed by two days of activism in Paris and the surrounding region. It’s all about combining action and ideas !
We invite you to register now to be the first to know, when the time comes, the exact program and location of this conference and the events being organized around it.
And don’t hesitate to tell your friends and family about this event !
Saturday, November 8, 9:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m., Paris 13th arrondissement
International conference with 3 round tables :
Public, open to all.
Panel 1 from 3.30 a.m. (ET)
Responding to the Cry of the People
Moderator :
Sébastien PERIMONY
Speakers :
Jacques CHEMINADE – President of Solidarity & Progress (France)
Our legislative candidates with Solidarity & Progress (France)
Jose Vega – Independent candidate FOR cONGRESS in the Bronx and member of the LaRouche Youth movement (United States)
Diane SARE – Activist with the LaRouche Organization. Former U.S. Senate candidate in New York State (United States)
Jacques Cheminade will call for mobilization against the military-financial occupation of France, alongside our legislative candidates and Diane Sare, former U.S. Senate candidate. In their speeches and during a Q&A session with the audience, they will address this essential question : How can we “respond to the cry of the people” and the ferment of mass strikes brewing today, in France and elsewhere ?
Panel 2 from 9 am (ET)
The Emancipation of Africa and the Global Majority, a Challenge for Europe
Musical Introduction : song Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika performed by the Schiller Institute choir
Moderator :
Sébastien PERIMONY
Speakers :
Helga Zepp-LaRouche – (Germany), Founder and Chair of the Schiller Institute: For A New World Economic Order based on the Coincidence of Opposites!
Princy MTHOMBENI (video) – Founder of Africa4Nuclear, Nuclear Energy Specialist (South Africa)
Filomène EBI N’GODO (video) – Doctor of History of International Relations Professor and Researcher at Alassane Ouattara University (Côte d’Ivoire)
Zenobita MAGANGA – Activist for peace and the cause of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Dora MUANDA (video) – Advisor on Reforms, Pedagogical Innovations and Assessments, Ministry of National Education and New Citizenship (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Mariano Nguema ESONO MEDJA – Professor of International Relations at the National University of Equatorial Guinea (Equatorial Guinea)
Odile MOJON – Representative of the Schiller Institute (France)
Several of our international guests, leaders (politicians, historians, scientists), and our partners from the Schiller Institute will demonstrate how to envision the future and emancipation of Africa and the Global Majority, ensuring a radical change in the policies of Europe and the West. They will demonstrate how the latter must assume their responsibilities in building a new architecture of security and mutual development. An architecture that is taking shape today around the structures of win-win relationships embodied, among others, by the BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
Panel 3 from 12.15 pm (ET) p.m.
Youth from around the world for peace and mutual development
Moderator :
Odile MOJON
Speakers :
Chérine Sultan – Representative of the Solidarity & Progress Party (France)
Carolina Dominguez – Representative of the Schiller Institute Youth Movement (Mexico)
Daniel Burke – Representative of the LaRouche Organization (United States)
Jonathan THRON – Representative of the Bueso (Germany)
Jose Vega – Independent candidate FOR cONGRESS in the Bronx and member of the LaRouche Youth movement (United States)
Megan Dobrodt – Representative of the Schiller Institute (United States)
In dialogue with our international guest and Jacques Cheminade.
Representatives and young activists from Solidarité & Progrès and the Schiller International Institute, hailing from several continents, will present their recruitment and training work to other young people, politicians, and institutional leaders in their respective countries. Whether they are candidates for election, researchers in the field of physical economics, or committed to promoting a dialogue among civilizations and a universal culture of discovery, their commitment to building a new economic system aimed at peace and the mutual development of peoples will be the common thread running through the final roundtable of our training and mobilization day. They will be invited to ask questions of the other speakers and answer questions from the audience, in a spirit of emulation and mutual understanding.
Evening from 8:15 PM to 9:00 PM : Musical moment
Concert
Artist introductions by Johanna CLERC, choir director of the Rebel Canto choir
Feride GILESBERG – Opera singer, Schiller Institute (Denmark)
Leena MALKKI – Opera singer (Sweden)
Sunday, November 9, 10 a.m. – 8:30 p.m., Clichy-la-Garenne
Political Training Day
Faced with the threat of a financial crash and nuclear war, Sunday will be devoted to political training to mobilize us. A “management school” for everyone. For the young and the most motivated among you. What is the physical economy and why should we study and teach it ? What does a culture of life and discovery mean ? How can we enable everyone to develop their creativity and use it as a tool for the common good ? What could a culture of beauty and truth be ? We will answer these questions through a series of presentations as well as several classical music recitals throughout the day. Lunch and coffee break included !
Panel 4 from 4 a.m. (ET)
Explain Lyndon LaRouche’s science of physical economics by exploring the concept of fundamental discovery through the scientific approach of great thinkers such as Pierre Fermat and Georg Cantor
Jason ROSS – LaRouche Organization (United States)
Benoît Odille – Solidarity & Progress (France)
Panel 5 from 7:30 am (ET)
Explore the true political and revolutionary nature of thought in art, culture, and history through the study of the works of great geniuses such as Rembrandt, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Schiller, and many others. Draw inspiration from Louis XI and Mazarin on the great principles they implemented to transform the course of history.
International Guest
Jacques CHEMINADE – Solidarity & Progress (France)
Karel VEREYCKEN – Solidarity & Progress (France)
Megan DOBRODT – Schiller Institute (United States)
Kynan THISLETHWAITE – Schiller Institute (United States)
Rémi LEBRUN – Solidarity & Progress (France)
Johanna CLERC – Solidarity & Progress (France)
Panel 6 from 12.30 pm (ET)
Experience beauty through classical musical works performed by our professional musicians and activists.
Artist introductions by Johanna CLERC, choir director of the Rebel Canto choir
Schiller Institute Choir – Schiller Institute International
Feride GILESBERG – Opera Singer, Schiller Institute (Denmark)
Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), founded by Lyndon LaRouche, is hosting a roundtable discussion on Thursday, November 20, from 11am to 1pm ET, on the topic “‘President Trump: Don’t Do It! An Alternative American Policy for the Caribbean’”
Speakers include:
Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), EIR Editor-in-Chief Diego Sequera (Venezuela), researcher and columnist for misionverdad.com Donald Ramotar (Guyana), former President of Guyana Ray McGovern (U.S.), former CIA analyst, co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professions for Sanity (VIPS) Beto Almeida (Brazil), Director of Telesur; Advisory Board, Brazilian Press Association Dennis Small (U.S.), EIR Ibero-American Editor Commentators: Morella Barreto López (Venezuela), historian and Venezuelan diplomat; Diane Sare (U.S.) former candidate for U.S. Senate from New York
