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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Step Back From The Brink of World War III!!

June 2, 2025—As you are reading this, financial forces associated with the City of London and Wall Street are careening the world to an appointment with thermonuclear Hell. It is not only sane, but essential, to ask the question: Has the world, with the June 1 attacks “by Ukraine” on four Russian airfields, including the destruction of nuclear-capable aircraft that are part of Russia’s thermonuclear triad, crossed a red line beyond which there lies the immediacy of species-annihilating thermonuclear warfare? During the entire Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, nothing so dangerous as what we are living through right now, ever occurred.

On the eve of the June 2 Istanbul talks, the June 1 Sunday’s destruction of at least 9, and possibly more (the Ukrainians have claimed 40) Russian military aircraft at bases in various parts of Russia (Olenya Airbase in Murmansk, Diaghilev Airbase in Ryazan, Belaya Airbase in Irkutsk, Ivanovo Airbase in Ivanovo) could not have been carried out, various analysts contend, without the supervision of NATO, and the involvement of either Britain, the United States, or both.

Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter puts it this way: “This would be the equivalent of a hostile actor launching drone strikes against U.S. Air Force B-52H bombers stationed at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, and B-2 bombers stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.” Consider: What would the United States do if, in a military border dispute with Mexico, that nation, using Russian and Chinese made weapons, satellite, surveillance and guidance systems, and even in-person trainers, blew up even one plane at an American Air Force base?

There is a larger, even more terrifying consideration. The Sunday attack on June 1, somewhat reminiscent of “9/11” in its surprise, coordination and complexity, also begs the question as to whether American President Donald Trump did, or did not know this attack was in the works. In the case that he did not know, we could be witnessing the beginning of a coup against Trump by those who set the attack up. Former U.S. National Security Advisor Michael Flynn said, “It appears Zelenskyy gave the go-ahead to attack parked Russian nuclear-capable bombers without informing President Trump. (If true that our President was not consulted nor informed, this isn’t simply a breach of protocol, it’s a geopolitical insult and a warning sign…)

Alternatively, if Trump did know about the attack, and authorized it, that would mean that he has given up on a diplomatic relationship with Putin and Russia, and world war would be imminent. In either case, we are heading for war, and fast. And that means, in any case, we will have to mobilize ourselves and your neighbors to “rise up on our hind legs,” declare independence from war insanity, and reverse course by acting like free citizens in the republic of world-history.

We must rise up and stop the deployment of Germany’s Taurus missiles to Ukraine. If, as some journalists believe, they have already been deployed into Ukraine, then the German government must immediately withdraw them. Russia, which lost 27 million people in the Second World War in battles against Germany, would be prepared to destroy the production facilities located in the cities of Germany which made the missiles. Only a New Security and Development Architecture—what China’s President Xi Jinping calls a “Win-Win” dedication to “the benefit of the other”—including development projects such as the LaRouche Oasis Plan for Gaza and Southwest Asia—can forge a narrow path forward and away from species-destroying warfare.

If we do nothing, then the morons of American foreign policy will take over. The psychotic bipartisan charade being carried out by Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal right now in Ukraine, is undermining any prospect for peace. “At the heart of their push is a bipartisan sanctions bill, backed by nearly the entire U.S. Senate but still facing uncertain odds in Washington. It would impose 500% tariffs on countries that continue buying Russian oil, gas, uranium and other exports—targeting nations like China and India that account for roughly 70% of Russia’s energy trade and bankroll much of its war effort,” wrote Politico.

Graham called it “the most draconian bill I’ve ever seen in my life in the Senate.”

In the age of thermonuclear weapons, war as a means of conflict resolution is suicidal madness. The Global Majority, the nations of Africa, Asia and Ibero-America, want peace through economic development. Civilization will not survive, if it is fought. Yet, there are many in the City of London and Wall Street “billionaires club” that desire perpetual war. We must stop them. The first thing to do, is not to act, but to think. What can you best contribute to reverse this direction?


There are interventions, standing up in public and denouncing those that are perpetuating war in high place; there is street presence, talking to people face to face, and making sure they are not overlooked; there is the appeal to Pope Leo XIV, the first American Pope in history, whose first words upon taking his position were “Peace be with all of you” (see link below); there is circulating, studying and working our LaRouche Oasis Plan for Gaza to the United Nations prior to the special session on Palestine (see link below); there is stopping the Blumenthal-Graham sanctions bill from passing the Congress; there is building the International Peace Coalition, a worldwide organization that has met every week for two years. Finally and most importantly, read and comment upon the Ten Principles for a New International Security and Development Architecture, the document, written by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, which inspired the creation of the International Peace Coalition. It falls to this generation to be the one that abolished thermonuclear war, so that humanity might live. Otherwise, we will likely be among the last generations of a human race that looked in the mirror and did not find itself morally fit to survive.


Conference Invitation—A Beautiful Vision for Humanity in Times of Great Turbulence!

Schiller Institute International Conference, May 24-25, 2025
A Beautiful Vision for Humanity in Times of Great Turbulence!

In Person and Online — New York City Metropolitan Area

SATURDAY, May 24, 10:00 a.m. EDT

10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Panel One: Strategic Challenges and the Emerging New Order

Music: Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue 3 C sharp major, BWV 872, Dura Jun, piano

Video: Lyndon LaRouche

Moderator: Dennis Speed (U.S.), The Schiller Institute

  1. Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), Founder, The Schiller Institute
  2. H.E. Naledi Pandor (South Africa), former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, South Africa
  3. Prof. Zhang Weiwei, Professor of International Relations at Fudan University, China,
  4. Prof. Dmitri Trenin (Russia), Director of the Institute of World Military Economy and Strategy at the Higher School of Economics University (HSE) (Moscow)
  5. H.E. Donald Ramotar (Guyana), Former President of Guyana
  6. Ambassador Jack Matlock (U.S.) former United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1987-1991
  7. Ambassador Chas Freeman (U.S.), former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1993-1994
  8. Ray McGovern (U.S.), former Senior Analyst, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); Founding Member, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
  9. Scott Ritter (U.S.), former USMC Intel. and former UN Weapons Inspector)

2:00-5:00 p.m.
Panel Two: The Beauty of the Diversity of Cultures

Moderator: Jen Pearl (U.S.), The Schiller Institute

  1. Video: Lyndon LaRouche on Jesu, Meine Freude
  2. Jesu, Meine Freude BWV 227 by J.S. Bach. Schiller Institute Festival Chorus, conducted by John Sigerson.
  3. Megan Dobrodt (U.S.) President, Schiller Institute U.S.A.
  4. Elvira Green (U.S.) Mezzosoprano, formerly with the New York Metropolitan Opera
  5. Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), Founder, The Schiller Institute
  6. Feride Istogu Soprano, Schiller Institute and Founder of Lola Gjoka Project,  “Little Halit”  and “Sara” (Albanian folk songs arranged by Lola Aleksi Gjoka), Martin Kaptein, piano
  7. Nader Majd Director, Center for Persian Classical Music and Alireza Analouei Founder of the SAMA music ensemble (Iran)
  8. Ruijia Dong (China) mezzo-soprano; Louis Arques, clarinet; Dura Jun, piano. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,  “Parto, ma tu ben mio,” (I go, but you, my treasure” aria from {La Clemenza di Tito} ({Titus’s Clemency}).
  9. Yulin Wang (China) tenor, Dura Jun, piano. Confucius: “在水一方” (“By the Waterside”) On the Other Side of the River”   – “O wie ängstlich, o wie feurig,” (Oh how fearfully oh with what fire”) Belmonte’s aria from Mozart’s {Die Entführung aus dem Serail} ({Abduction from the Seraglio})
  10. Everett Suttle (U.S.), Internationally known Opera and Concert Tenor, Dura Jun, piano: Jayme Rujas de Aragón y Ovalle: “Vai, azulão” (“Fly Away, Bluebird”), Op. 21.;
    Everett Suttle, tenor; Dura Jun, piano: Sergei Rachmaninoff (Aleksander Pushkin): “Не пой, красавица” (“Don’t Sing, My Pretty One”), Op. 4, No. 4.
    Michelle Erin, soprano; Everett Suttle, tenor; Dura Jun, piano: Johannes Brahms: “Schwesterlein” (“Sister”), WoO 33, Vol. 3, No. 15.
  11. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, motet Ave Verum corpus (Hail, true body) presentation by John Sigerson (Music Director, Schiller Institute)
    Ave Verum Corpus by Mozart

7:00-10:00 p.m.
Panel Three: The LaRouche Oasis Plan — Driver for the LaRouche Program for 3 Billion New Productive Jobs

Moderator Anastasia Battle

Music: John Sigerson, tenor, and Dura Jun (piano): Three settings of Ludwig Uhland’s poem “Frühlingsglaube” (“Faith in Spring”) by (a) Conradin Kreutzer (1780–1849), (b) Franz Schubert (1797–1828), and (c) Josephine Lang (1815–1880)

  1. Harley Schlanger (U.S.), Vice-Chairman of the
    Board of The Schiller Institute
  2. Jason Ross (US) Science Advisor to the Schiller Institute
  3. Sergei Glazyev, 2001 video address to Schiller Institute conference (Russia), State Secretary of the Russia-Belarus Union State; Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS): “Reconstruction After the Financial Crash”
  4. Paul Gallagher (U.S.), Economics Co-Editor, Executive Intelligence Review
  5. William DeOreo (US), civil engineer
  6. Robert Baker (U.S.), Schiller Institute Agriculture Commission; Joe Maxwell (U.S.) Missouri farmer and former Lt. Governor, and state legislator, co-founder of Farm Action Mike Callicrate (U.S.) Kansas cattleman, and founder Ranch Foods Direct, Colorado;  Alberto Vizcarra (Mexico), spokesman for the National Front for the Rescue of the Mexican Countryside. Joint Topic: Principles for Food & Agriculture Security

SUNDAY, May 25, 9 a.m. EDT

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Panel Four: The LaRouche Legacy Foundation on the Actuality of LaRouche’s Ideas

Music: Schubert B flat Piano Sonata 1st movement, Martin Kaptein, piano

Moderator: Dennis Small (U.S.), LaRouche Legacy Foundation

  1. Diane Sare (U.S.), President, The LaRouche Organization, former Independent Candidate for the U.S. Senate in New York: Lyndon LaRouche: The Power of the Individual in a Republic
  2. Lyndon LaRouche, video excerpts
  3. Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), Founder, The Schiller Institute

1:00-4:00 p.m.
Panel Five: Shaping the Earth’s Next 50 Years

Music: Franz Schubert Impromptu in G flat, Martin Kaptein, piano

Video: Lyndon LaRouche

Moderator: Daniel Burke (U.S.), The Schiller Institute

  1. Jason Ross (U.S.), Science Advisor to the Schiller Institute
  2. Mike Campbell (U.S.)
  3. Adrian Pearl (U.S.)
  4. Robert Castle (U.S.)
  5. Carolina Domínguez (Mexico), Schiller Institute
  6. Kynan Thistlethwaite (U.S.)
  7. Anastasia Battle (U.S.)
  8. Ashley Tran* (US)
  9. Jose Vega (U.S.), LaRouche Youth Movement Leader, Independent Congressional Candidate, Bronx, New York
  10. Megan Dobrodt (U.S.), President, Schiller Institute

6:15-9:30 p.m.
Panel Six: The Power of Reason to Change the Universe

Music: Beethoven Trio #4, Op. 11: Dura Jun, piano; Jungwon Yoon, violin and Sam Chung, cello

Video: Lyndon LaRouche

Moderator: Dennis Speed (U.S.),The Schiller Institute

  1. Jacques Cheminade (France), Former Presidential Candidate, President of Solidarité et Progrès
  2. William Happer (U.S.), Professor Emeritus of Physics, Princeton University; former member, U.S. National Security Council and the U.S. Department of Energy
  3. Kelvin Kemm (South Africa), Nuclear Physicist, Past Chairman, South African Nuclear Energy Corporation
  4. Steve Durst (U.S.), International Lunar Observatory Association
  5. Cody Jones (U.S.), High School Teacher
  6. Jason Ross (U.S.), Schiller Institute Science Advisor

Invitation

Following President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the trans-Atlantic relationship very quickly shattered, with a deafening burst of noise. “The U.S. is now the enemy of the West,” screamed London’s Financial Times, in a front-page article which concluded: “The West is dead.” The special relationship between the U.S. and the U.K., which was the pillar of the unipolar order, has been broken, never to be restored.

It is now coming to light that the pro-EU forces in Europe were allied with the very same “deep state,” sometimes called the “permanent bureaucracy,” under attack by the Trump administration. Vice President J.D. Vance’s remarks at the Munich Security Conference about the lack of democratic practices in Europe struck a raw nerve in the European “permanent bureaucracy.”

If President Trump succeeds in not only ending the Ukraine war, but also permanently banning the species-threatening use of nuclear weapons, through a process of cooperation and dialogue with Russia and China, he will deserve a place on Mount Rushmore. This would mean nothing less than replacing the practice of geopolitical confrontation against the BRICS states and the Global South with cooperation for the mutual benefit of all.

The second tectonic change is marked by the process in which the nations of the Global South are presently overcoming 500 years of colonialism with the help of China and moving to become middle-level income countries in the near term. Instead of regarding this development as a threat, European nations and the United States should happily welcome the elimination of grinding poverty for billions of people now being liberated to achieve their full potential. The only way the danger of global nuclear war and the subsequent annihilation of the human species can be overcome, is by cooperation with the Global Majority.

The conference will also reflect on the life work of Lyndon LaRouche. The LaRouche Legacy Foundation (LLF) will present ample evidence that Lyndon LaRouche, as early as the 1960s, had forecast the present crisis of the liberal system with astounding accuracy. If the world had listened to LaRouche’s analysis, and his warning of Nixon’s destruction of the old Bretton Woods system, by the introduction of floating exchange rates, the world would never have entered the present existential crisis—a crisis characterized by a zooming speculative financial bubble, collapsing physical economy, and an unquenchable drive for war and the Schachtian militarization of the economy associated with it.

The scientific method of LaRouche’s physical economy is most closely approximated today by China, which is why that country is so enormously successful, a success which can be replicated by any nation that chooses to do so.

The major challenge facing the world as a whole, is to finally create a just, new world economic order, and to apply the concept of peace through development. At the conference, there will be an important discussion of the campaign by the Schiller Institute to put the Oasis plan, first proposed by LaRouche in 1975, on the agenda for all of Southwest Asia. There will be a special focus on a development plan for the African continent in line with the African Union’s Agenda 2063, which shares the spirit of the Oasis Plan.

We need to catapult the entire world out of the present misery of geopolitical confrontation, out of the barbaric conception that everything is a zero-sum game, and that one always needs an enemy. We have reached a moment in history in which we absolutely need to reach a new paradigm that proceeds from the idea of the one humanity first, and then brings into cohesion the interests of all nations with that of the one humanity. We must create a new era in human history, based on completely new axioms, not those of the old order which has just imploded. For that, we need a new global security and development architecture that takes into account the existential interest of every single nation on the planet. It is the quality of a degraded, or a sublime character of culture, which determines how we think. The needed new paradigm requires that we replace the present ignorance, indifference and outright chauvinism with respect to other cultures, with curiosity, interest, knowledge and even love for the different cultures of the planet. The Schiller Institute conference will feature a dialogue of cultures and civilizations, whereby the uniqueness, as well as the universal principles uniting art, will be brought forth.

Mankind is at its most important branching point ever. If we continue as barbarians, we will suffer the fate of the dinosaurs and troglodytes. But we also have hope because man is capable of the limitless perfection of his reason and beauty of character. This must inform our vision of the future.


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The five initiating signatures:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche and the LaRouche Movement and become an active participant in the creation of the New Paradigm.

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


Amid U.S. tariff war, expert urges renewed China-EU cooperation

As the U.S. tariff war intensifies, China and the European Union have recently increased high-level contacts. Some observers suggest the EU is turning to China as an alternative to Trump’s America. At a CGTN roundtable marking 50 years of China-EU relations, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, president and founder of Germany’s Schiller Institute, urged both sides to defend the global order and develop the Global South.


Wielding Development As the ‘Weapon of Peace’

May 2, 2025 (EIRNS)—For nearly two years, the International Peace Coalition, which was organized to unite peace movements from around the world without regard to ideology, has been holding weekly online conferences with over 55 nations represented and thousands of participants. On May 2, the Coalition celebrated a milestone with its 100th consecutive meeting.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Founder of the Schiller Institute, presented a sobering progress report. Despite the growing influence of the Coalition, “We are seeing a very disturbing increase in conflicts.” Though there may be regional causes to these conflicts, the underlying basis is the tension created by the decline of the old, colonial system, and the emergence of the new one. She addressed the new outbreak of hostilities between India and Pakistan, calling for an independent investigation of the terror incident which sparked it. The situation there is escalating. The use of nuclear weapons is being discussed on both sides.

A new deal was announced in Ukraine, where the U.S. can exploit raw materials and some U.S. troops will remain in Ukraine, which may be “not to the liking of the Russians.” Unfortunately, “some crazy Europeans are committed to keep this war going.”

On the trade war front, she warned that tariffs could trigger a default by developing nations and/or collapse of the financial system. President Trump has not thought this through.

Since March 2, Israel has blockaded Gaza, and using food as a weapon of war is a war crime. We have called for an international mobilization to put the LaRouche Oasis Plan on the agenda of a high-level conference which the UN has scheduled on the two state solution, to take place on June 2-4, 2025 in New York. The late Pope Francis called development “the weapon of peace,” making him an implicit supporter of the Oasis Plan.

As important as regional measures may be, we need to end geopolitics for a lasting solution. We need a new paradigm that puts the one humanity first. We continue to call for the Ten Principles of a New International Security and Development Architecture.

Col. Richard H. Black (ret.), former head of the U.S. Army’s Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon and former Virginia State Senator, warned that “during the Biden administration, the U.S. became wildly provocative toward China.” He offered a timeline of provocative acts, such as the visit by Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and others to Taiwan for the express purpose of provoking China. “Consider the enormity of a possible war with China, and compare that to Vietnam,” said Black. The Vietnam War was costly to the U.S. and ended in defeat. China is 29 times the size of Vietnam, with a vastly larger population and far more advanced technology.

Ambassador Hossein Mousavian, former ambassador from Iran to Germany, described how Iran had endeavored to compromise with the West; they agreed to cooperate with the IAEA, and to export uranium enriched to 60% to Russia, in order to allay fears that they intended to develop nuclear weapons. The Trump administration had made some progress with negotiations, but then the U.S. technical team that was to be sent to Oman was canceled, apparently due to an intervention by Netanyahu, who said that Israel would only accept the “Libya model” (which culminated in the utter destruction of Libya.) U.S. Secretary of State Rubio claims that the only use of uranium enrichment is for bombs, which is a ridiculous untruth. Mousavian offered a long list of states that have enrichment programs but no nuclear weapons.

Ofer Bronchtein, a former advisor of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and President of the Paris-based International Peace Forum, is presently an advisor to French President Emmanuel Macron on the Israeli situation. He believes that the French/Saudi initiative for a two-state solution can succeed, and is trying to build a coalition to support it. Zepp-LaRouche asked him to join the mobilization for the Oasis Plan. He replied that Rabin understood the importance of water: “Without water, there won’t be peace.”

International Law Under Threat

Jonathan Kuttab, International Human Rights Lawyer, Executive Director of Friends of Sabeel North America and Co-Founder of Nonviolence International, spoke on the problem of Israel’s “utter impunity of ignoring international law,” no longer even bothering to offer “the excuse of military targets.” More than 230 journalists have been killed by the IDF, more than in any previous conflict. “We now see a deliberate attack on international institutions, on international courts, and on international law itself.” This has implications that go far beyond the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Excerpts were shown of a video interview by EIR’s Gerald Belsky with Maoz Inon, an Israeli peace activist and leader of the peace demo in Jerusalem May 8-9, the People’s Peace Summit. He said that “the only way to change reality is in the field of dream.” We need to shout it, dance it, sing about it, to legitimize the dream. We need diplomacy, dialogue and negotiation. The current wildfires in Israel are a consequence of investment that should have gone into water management being diverted to military use.

LaRouche activist Robert Castle gave a youth outreach report. He has been working with the Jose Vega congressional campaign in the Bronx, intersecting students on the way to classes and “challenging the young citizens of our republic to ask themselves whether they have a moral responsibility to intervene in this crisis.”

Zepp-LaRouche fully agreed with Kutab: it’s not just about Gaza, the larger issue is the non-response of the world community to the Gaza genocide, which can lead to a complete collapse of international law and descent into barbarism. International law did not exist before the Peace of Westphalia, which made it necessary.

Discussion

Zepp-LaRouche answered a question on the India-Pakistan conflict by asking, cui bono? Many nations that aspire to join BRICS have been targeted with economic/financial warfare or violent destabilization.

Kutab was asked, what can civil society do when governments fail to take action? He endorsed BDS, and said we should organize football and cultural organizations (which played a big role in ending apartheid in South Africa.)

A German participant renewed his plea that solar energy be used in place of nuclear energy for the Oasis Plan. He was invited to participate in the upcoming conference, where that topic will be discussed. Co-moderator Dennis Small reminded him that energy flux-density is the metric for evaluating energy sources. Because the Iberian Peninsula went entirely for solar and wind, there was a complete collapse of their energy grid last week.

A question was posed: Was the November 1995 assassination of Rabin the tipping point for the current crisis? Kutab responded, “There’s no question that Rabin himself was trying to deal with that situation in a new way.” But there were problems both before and after Rabin.

Moderator Anastasia Battle reported that there has been an attack on the Freedom Flotilla in international waters, which some IPC participants have been on board the flotilla. We hope for their safety and well-being.

In response to a question from the Chinese Media Group on the trade war, Zepp-LaRouche said, “President Trump is presently vacillating and responding to pressure.” She cited Nicholas of Cusa, who said that if you have a systemic problem, you cannot solve it by addressing side issues. The human creative mind always has the capacity to resolve the problem on a higher level than the level on which the problem arose. In conclusion, she renewed her plea for people to join forces with us in working to put the Oasis Plan and Ten Principles on the agenda for the upcoming conference in June.

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