Feb. 27, 2026 (EIRNS)—The 143rd consecutive weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition on Friday, Feb. 27, put a spotlight on the creation of the United Nations and the ongoing sabotage of the system of law that it begat. The meeting began with remarks by IPC initiator Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who opened with the assessment that “Unfortunately, the clouds of war are massing over our heads.” She noted that U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee advised U.S. embassy personnel to evacuate Israel immediately. Other nations did the same. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has admitted that the United States has intentionally provoked the crisis in Iran via economic warfare measures. There is talk of a British-French initiative for providing Ukraine with nuclear weapons, an insanely provocative move.

There have been additional resignations by European leaders who are implicated in the Jeffrey Epstein files. Zepp-LaRouche pointed out that it is not merely depraved sexual activities that are at issue here; these activities betray a mindset which does not respect human life and human reason, and this mindset is integral to their support for neocon brutality toward Iran, Gaza, Cuba, etc. Alluding to the “America First” slogan, she emphasized, “National interest is fine, but it must be coherent with the idea of the One Humanity First…. We will not allow that the image of Man is dragged into the mud.” She reminded the participants of her longstanding proposal for a New International Security and Development Architecture. EIR is organizing a special emergency conference of the Movement of World Citizens on Monday, March 2 to address the urgent actions needed now.

Jonathan Kuttab is a Palestinian-American international human rights lawyer, expert on international law, and Executive Director of Friends of Sabeel North America, as well as Co-Founder of Nonviolence International. He bemoaned the “collapse of international law and international institutions,” and acknowledged Zepp-LaRouche’s proposal for a new security and development architecture. But he said that he has a different view. He reviewed the history of the creation of the UN and related institutions, and said the structure created at the end of World War II has actually worked quite well for 70 years. Admittedly there are some flaws in it, such as the veto granted to members of the UN Security Council. “I don’t think we should be in a hurry to give up on international law,” he said. “We need to find ways to put some teeth in it.”

Zepp-LaRouche hastened to correct the record, stating that the IPC and Schiller Institute are not recommending an end to international law, but seek to preserve and strengthen it.

Elisabeth Martens, organizer of the petition “For an Immediate Reactivation of the UN Charter In Favor of Multilateralism”, described her organization’s efforts to stop environmental crises, proxy wars, and the danger of nuclear weapons. She said that some people join mystical or spiritual movements to escape the reality of the situation, but we must address that reality. “We can no longer allow the interference of the United States into the affairs of the UN,” she said, and we reject their unipolar world. She also addressed the question of economic policy and the need to restrict financial speculation. With the end of the Cold War, she said, the Western nations created a mafioso-type economy and imposed it on the world. “When money does not serve the real economy, it becomes an uncontrollable machine which spawns wars … the tyranny under which millions of lives are pulverized.”

Father Harry Bury of Minnesota is a member of Twin Cities Nonviolent and the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests; he is also the author of Maverick Priest: A Story of Life on the Edge. He described the murder by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operatives of two Americans in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Members of his organization have invited Pope Leo XIV to go there to provide spiritual leadership. They learned that, due to prior commitments, he is unable to come; they had hoped to discuss the Schiller Institute’s Oasis Plan with him. Father Bury praised the dialogue process, and said that he has learned much from those who disagree with him. Addressing the assembled activists of the International Peace Coalition and the Schiller Institute, he said, “We’re joyful that we can work with you!”

Discussion Among the Featured Speakers

Zepp-LaRouche reviewed the history of the Schiller Institute’s 40-year campaign to rectify the underdevelopment of the Global South, something which the UN has failed to do. “In the West, people have to abandon the idea that the West is somehow superior to the Global South,” she said. “There can be no peace without development.”

Zepp-LaRouche discussed the concept of natural law, the idea that there are laws implicit in the universe which are higher than positive law established by humans. We root our campaign for a new architecture in these ideas, she said.

Kuttab said that the advocates for international law are weak and disorganized, while its opponents have the money and influence. “This is a huge challenge, and I think about it all the time.” The powers-that-be used to insist that they were for human rights, but now they have dropped the pretense.

Diane Sare, an independent U.S. Presidential candidate, recounted recent news reports of a refugee from Myanmar, Nurul Amin Shah Alam, who was nearly blind and could not speak English. He was detained in Buffalo, New York by ICE operatives, and then released at night in front of a closed coffee shop, where he subsequently froze to death. In order to avoid accountability, they classified his death as due to “natural causes.” This is the downfall of American culture, Sare insisted. We have embraced the idea that you cause people to change their behavior through force. President George Washington warned that if the citizenry, after becoming politically empowered by our Constitution, became debased, immoral, and obsessed with revenge, then the nation could fail. We must bridge the gap between the general state of mind of the population, and the true, fully matured nature of humanity.

Martens said we are moving from one system, from one world, to another. There is an economic change which must happen and is happening in other parts of the world. China has shown that it is possible to end poverty. The BRICS organization, the Belt and Road Initiative, these will lead the world forward. Zepp-LaRouche said that China is now the “American System” country, the country of Friedrich List. The Chinese model of cooperation is succeeding; the United States has 800 military bases around the world, and they are becoming more unpopular day by day. Britain’s King George III lost his marbles because he could not live with the success of the American Revolution, and we are seeing a similar phenomenon among the “Epstein class” today.

General Discussion

Sare insisted that “If we fail to prosecute anyone in the Epstein files, our nation will cease to exist,” because the moral depravity of the “Epstein class” is consistent with a willingness to accept the consequences of nuclear war.

A participant asked why the UN General Assembly Resolution 377, “Uniting for Peace” option has not been exercised in the current crisis, why is there no move to relocate the UN Headquarters, when the U.S. refuses visas to people they don’t like, and why there is no effort to enforce UN resolutions regarding Israel? Sare responded that diplomats have received mafia-style threats that prevent them from taking action. But Zepp-LaRouche said that she is totally convinced that these reforms can still happen in the short term.

Zepp-LaRouche concluded by expressing her belief that people will come to recognize that China’s practice of win-win cooperation is much more successful than the “zero-sum-game” model of geopolitics. We must first go through the vale of tears to reach a higher level of development. [eir]

Report on IPC #141

Feb. 14, 2026 (EIRNS)—The 141st weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition on Friday, Feb. 13 again brought together hundreds of people from dozens of countries to strategize on ending the depravity of the on-rushing strategic and economic breakdown, and to build a movement of world citizens to create a new architecture of strategic and economic development for all nations. Helga Zepp-LaRouche opened the conference with an overview of the crisis spots currently driving the world to war, noting that the Epstein perversity demonstrates the “mindset” of genocide in Gaza, the multiple wars, and the financial bubble.

Harley Schlanger presented the third part of his profile of the Epstein class of perversity, as it is now threatening to bring down the British institutions which run the British Empire. He emphasized that this must serve as the necessary awakening for world citizens to end imperialism and the treatment of human beings as cattle.

Professor Cliff Kiracofe addressed the role of the British Empire, long a target of the LaRouche movement, as now being exposed as the force at the center of the global crisis.

Luiz Erthal, the editor-in-chief of the Brazilian newspaper Toda Palavra, discussed the role of Brazil and the BRICS in the current process of the Trump Administration’s effort to take control of Ibero-America, and to stop Russian and Chinese development projects in the region.

Further discussion addressed the extreme danger of Cuba being given the “Gaza treatment”; of the history of Franklin Roosevelt’s collaboration with Brazil and others in South America in great development projects; and the de-humanism of the British Imperial mentality of Adam Smith, John Locke and David Hume.

Questions from around the world brought up the necessity to end the imperial policy driving the Trump Administration and the European oligarchs to new wars in the Americas, the Middle East and Asia. Everyone was encouraged to attend the upcoming Schiller Institute meeting of a Roundtable of World Citizens on March 2.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche closed today’s 139th consecutive weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) with the saying “What you love, you own; What you hate, you lose”  by Friedrich Schiller, the namesake of the international institution she had founded in 1984. She reviewed the “incredible danger” of the potential for a war in Iran, which could expand both regionally and globally. Equally dangerous is the explosion of the $2.4 quadrillion debt bubble, being driven by the intentional devaluing of the U.S. dollar, which could facilitate the collapse of the entire world financial system. The newly released US Defense and Security Policies demonstrate that the U.S. policy has dropped the pretense of “democracy and human rights,” and is now purely global hegemony, the power of the strong against the weak. The European economies are now in free fall, and there is a clear danger of a new fascism to meet the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution.

A clip of the presentation given by Graham Fuller at an earlier meeting of the IPC was played in tribute to our dear friend who died this past week. Graham was also eulogized by Dennis Speed, who described Fuller’s development as a leading foreign policy thinker and “world citizen” through his work as a leading CIA official, and later as a member of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

The next speaker was Lt. Col. Anthony Aquilar, who, after serving in the Special Forces for 25 years went to work in Gaza with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), supposedly to help feed the Palestinian people being killed and tortured in Gaza. Aquilar distinguished himself by becoming a whistle blower around the world, exposing that the GHF was serving as part of the continuing genocide against the people of Gaza. He said he had just returned from Minneapolis where he had campaigned for the abolition of ICE and the abolition of the Patriot Act. The killing and brutal suppression of citizens taking place in Minneapolis was a “boomerang” effect from the multiple wars being carried out around the world, just as Malcolm X had warned that the War in Vietnam was “coming home to roost.” The violence he saw by ICE in Minnesota, he said, was just like the violence he saw in Gaza against the Palestinians. He blamed the poor training and the incompetent leadership, warning that there were already plans under way to extend the operation to Ohio, Georgia and elsewhere. He said he is now running for Congress in North Carolina, because he wants to “serve the people.” He had been speaking and meeting with members of Congress and found them wanting, and that people must try to serve the people, not the military industrial complex or the financial institutions. He said the Patriot Act had opened the gate to expansion, through executive orders, to an emerging police state.  “It is time to replace the government,” he said, and called on everyone to take action, to run for office, to speak out, to write – to see this as a “great moment of opportunity.”

Josephine Guilbeau, a retired Army intelligence officer, and a member of the Eisenhower Media Network, has also spoken out against the genocide in Gaza, and also travelled to Minneapolis to protest the brutality and killing by the ICE operation there.  She reported that she was arrested in Minneapolis, but was never charged, and was never read her rights, contrary to the Constitution. She said there was essentially no rioting, no damage, yet the ICE response was “military style operations designed for foreign wars, counter insurgency, military suppression before any dialogue.” She warned that there was a “fear society” being created, which was “incompatible with a free society.” The global war on terror was being applied within the U.S.. “I am not speaking out of anger, but out of responsibility,” she said, to prevent the U.S. becoming a “police state, like Gaza.”

Diane Sare of the Schiller Institute, who is a declared independent presidential candidate, reported that she is holding a press conference, the day that the New START treaty expires, noting that Russia’s Medvedev said that this will be the first time in 50 years that there will be no arms control in effect, allowing for a “nuclear gain of function.” Joining her in the press conference will be Scott Ritter and Garland Nixon. She will call for the U.S. to accept Vladimir Putin’s offer to extend the New START treaty for one year while a new treaty is worked out. Trump has given no response to this offer. She is also calling for a “No First Strike” pledge, for the U.S. and for all countries, “including Israel.”

Helga responded to the reports by Aquilar and Guilbeau by asserting that the problem is “vision of man.” It was the British so-called “philosophers” like Thomas Hobbes who argued that man was an animal who required to be restrained by a “Leviathan,” which is why the American Revolution was fought against the British Empire. The ideas of the American Founding Fathers were based on Leibniz, that every man had the right to live a fulfilled, productive life.

Jose Vega, an independent candidate for Congress in the Bronx, which is the “poorest Congressional district in the U.S. ,” asked Aquilar and Guilbeau to comment on the town hall meeting they attended with Jose in the Bronx the night before. Aquilar said that seeing the destruction of the living conditions in the Bronx, while billions of dollars are being spent on war and killing people in Gaza and elsewhere, is “a betrayal of the American people. “Just stop funding wars,” he said, and “audit the Department of Defense.” Guilbeau added that the people attending the meeting understood this.

Diane Sare quoted from an article written by Lyndon LaRouche in 1999 at the time of the Columbine High School mass shooting by two students, titled “Star Wars and Littleton”. There were two factors involved, he wrote – one was the dehumanization that was inculcated in the population through Hollywood, such as the movie Star Wars with non-human characters, the second was the idea of a “rules based order,” in which the “rules” were dictated from authorities, with the idea that breaking the “rules” could be punished, even by death. She compared this to the use of tariffs and sanctions against countries, like the sanctions on Cuba which are intended to starve them and leave them without electricity. America was intended to be governed by Natural law, as embedded in the Constitution.

Former president of Guyana Donald Ramotar praised the former members of the military who were standing up, adding that he perceives that people are changing, they don’t want war or the military industrial complex.

A question was submitted asking why the IPC praises the American Revolution, since it was based on slavery and the genocide against the Indians.    

Diane Sare said that was not the basis of the Revolution, but part of the reason people think that is that the histories have generally been written by the “losers – the British.” Hamilton and others knew the nation could not develop with a slave society, and encouraged people to read Hamilton and other Founders.  Helga added that the view from the Global South could be seen in the Bandung Conference, where Sukarno said that the American Revolution was “the first anti-imperialist revolution in history.” The British never forgave the colonials for their revolt, and tried to destroy it militarily in the War of 1812 and then by supporting the Confederacy against President Lincoln. “This is also why the German Friedrich List promoted the American System against the British System.

Dennis Small reviewed the catastrophic condition of the global debt bubble, now over $2.4 quadrillion in debt and derivatives, and ridiculed the Trump claim that tariff income will bail out the nation, showing both that the total tariff income is a fraction of the amount Trump was claiming, and that  a full 96% of that tariff was actually being paid by the American people through increased prices, while manufacturing continues to collapse.