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
Helga Zepp-LaRouche said in a discussion with international collaborators on Monday that: “We are in a situation where it is not yet clear if it will lead to a complete escalation to a global war, and therefore the annihilation of the human species, or, if forces of reason can intervene in time, before that happens. But I can only say, it is extremely serious, because the degree of madness and incompetence and criminality on the side of various parties, is so overwhelming, that I would really warn against that you develop a feeling that this is somehow a limited conflict, because there is no guarantee that it is.”
What can be done?
As you read this, the Schiller Institute’s statement “It Is Not Too Late to Avoid a ‘Doomsday Scenario’ in the Middle East” is being distributed by members and supporters of the LaRouche movement at the United Nations in New York City. The statement was released after the 106th meeting of the International Peace Coalition, on June 13, the day Iran began its retaliatory strikes responding to Israel’s illegal attack.
Be part of the international mobilization and distribute the statement wherever you are.
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
Even as Iran was counter-attacking with massive missile strikes against Tel Aviv today, in response to the early morning June 13 Israeli attack against Iran’s nuclear program and scientific and military command structure, an urgent and extensive policy discussion was underway among leading U.S. and international strategic analysts at the 106th consecutive weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC).
The IPC was initiated over two years ago by Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche. Today’s participants included M.K. Bhadrakumar, a retired ambassador and 30-year career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service, including serving in Moscow; Dr. Theodore Postol, professor emeritus of Science, Technology and International Security at MIT; Larry Johnson, former CIA officer and outspoken member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS); Ray McGovern, a former Senior Analyst for the CIA and a Founding Member of VIPS; and Helga Zepp-LaRouche.
There was broad discussion of Zepp-LaRouche’s call for the establishment of a new international security and development architecture – which ensures the security and development of {all} nations, not just some. We need a totally new approach to create a new paradigm to replace the dying system based on British geopolitics, she stated. That is the only viable war-avoidance policy.
M.K. Bhadrakumar proposed that the entire issue of uranium enrichment – the supposed basis of Israel’s illegal war of aggression against Iran – could be solved by creating a regional consortium of countries to enrich uranium and allow all countries, including Iran, to have access to the peaceful use of nuclear technology. This could be done under strict international scrutiny to ensure that no weapons-grade enrichment occurs. Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered his country’s good offices to facilitate such an arrangement. And in fact, when Putin spoke with President Donald Trump on June 4, at the height of the crisis created by Ukraine’s provocative drone attack on Russia’s strategic bomber fleet, he offered to help Trump find a negotiated solution to the Iran crisis in this and other ways.
If Trump and Putin would work on this together, Mr. Bhadrakumar emphasized, it would still be possible to avoid a “Doomsday Scenario” in the Middle East.
Zepp-LaRouche added that if China’s President Xi Jinping were also brought into such a project through his conversations with President Trump, broader cooperation could occur with the United States and regional powers such as Saudi Arabia to add transportation, water, and other energy infrastructure projects into the mix. In this way, the beginnings of the needed new security and development architecture for the region would fall in place.
Zepp-LaRouche located the broader context of the crisis and its solution in her remarks:
“We are right now on the brink of World War III. It may have started already, and that is not an exaggeration, because we are now in danger of an escalation spiral which, if not changed by some intervention, could indeed lead in the relatively short term to a global nuclear war in which all of mankind would vanish…
“This is the kind of situation where a completely different approach is required. If you look at the larger context, we have seen in the recent period massive targeting of the Global South, namely the BRICS countries, who are trying to form a new economic system which is based on economic justice and equal chances for every country to develop. We have seen targeting of South Africa, of Egypt, of Brazil, Argentina (which is probably the most far-gone case), and naturally Russia and China. The underlying issue is the fact that the Global South is trying to get a new economic system…
“I think the motive behind a lot of these crises is the fact that there is an attempt to stop the rise of a new system—the BRICS+ and so forth… I’m absolutely certain that if it’s not Ukraine, then it will be Iran or Israel or tomorrow Taiwan or China. [This will continue] as long as we are not resolving the underlying conflict and going in the direction of establishing a new security and development architecture which, in the tradition of the Peace of Westphalia, takes into account the interests of every single country.”
Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Founder of the Schiller Institute and initiator of the International Peace Coalition (IPC), opened the 105th consecutive weekly meeting today by warning that the strategic situation has significantly worsened over the past week with the June 1 drone attacks by Ukraine deep inside the territory of Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown remarkable forbearance. It is ominous that U.S. President Donald Trump says he was not informed of the operation, despite the fact that MI6 and CIA were almost surely involved in its planning and targeting. It is important that the two Presidents spoke June 4.
It is clear that the perpetrators hoped to corral Trump into the “Coalition of the Willing,” that wishes to perpetuate the war. Neocons within the Trump administration are also agitating for some sort of provocation against Iran, and the horror in Gaza continues unabated.
Zepp-LaRouche made a point of advising everyone, in order to understand the ongoing “scenario” of madness, to read the June 5 column in the Washington Post, “Ukraine’s Dirty War Is Just Getting Started,” by senior reporter David Ignatius.
Understanding Russia
The IPC meeting, which occurred on the anniversary of the 1944 D-Day Normandy invasion, featured an intense, but grave back and forth about the nature of the attacks on Russia: Why are they occurring? What will President Putin do?
Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), said that Russia has chosen not to escalate, because its leaders hope that they can still negotiate with Trump and develop a decent relationship with the U.S. The Russians are furious over the attack, but Putin “remains calm, cool and collected, as we say in the States.” Western analysts got all worked up, but what have the Russians said? “Almost nothing.” The Ukrainians and their masters had hoped to get Russia to overreact, in order to manipulate the U.S. into joining the “coalition of the dead brains.” McGovern said that the New York Times lies when it reports that Russia is responding to attacks on its military bases. The Russians are not saying this at all; they say they are responding to “terrorist attacks” on civilian infrastructure.
Jose Vega, a leader of the LaRouche movement and independent candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in New York’s 15th Congressional District, addressed this point during the discussion, asking how, if attacks are being classified by Russia as terrorism, and Russia does not negotiate with terrorists, does this represent a change? McGovern replied that the Russians are concentrating on the attacks on the bridges, and deliberately avoiding discussion of the attack on their strategic forces. They consider the Ukrainian leadership terrorists, but they intend to negotiate. McGovern said that Putin “will surprise everybody with how much sangfroid he has.”
Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector and former U.S. Marine Corps intelligence specialist, made the fundamental point that there is no overlap between the core interests of NATO and of Russia. Russia will not tolerate a Ukraine that is being used as a proxy to sabotage Russia. Moscow will continue to insist on the demilitarization and de-Nazification of Ukraine. The West continues to hope that Russia will bend the knee. But, he said, “The root causes of this conflict will be addressed.”
In reply, McGovern said that Russia will stick to its announced objectives, but has no interest in taking possession of all of Ukraine. Zepp-LaRouche replied at one point to McGovern, commenting, “I’m probably an optimist for a slightly different reason than Ray.” She cited a German proverb, which she translated as, “the best person cannot live in peace, if the evil neighbor doesn’t like it.”
The Role of the British
In his presentation, Ritter charged that the British have been heavily deployed to “keep Ukraine in the fight…. I believe that the British have been heavily involved in trying to help the Ukrainians to kill the Russian President.”
During the discussion, McGovern recounted that his Irish grandfather once told him: “The British are responsible for every untoward thing that has happened in the world for the last three centuries.” The Brits were probably involved on multiple levels with the Ukrainian attacks, and Trump was probably kept out of the loop.
Dennis Fritz, past director of the Eisenhower Media Network and a retired Command Chief Master Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force, added that the British are “living their dream through us” in the United States. Fritz reminded the participants that then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson shot down the 2022 peace deal between Ukraine and Russia that was worked out in the first round of talks in Istanbul. He later added that he had studied the playbook of the neocons in the Pentagon, where he had served and seen it first-hand, and part of their playbook is to work behind the back of the President.
The Significance of the Assassination Threats
During the discussion, IPC co-moderator Dennis Small said that the problem with the Ukrainian attacks is that they come in the context of assassination attempts against both Trump and Putin. They represent a statement of intent. Unless we are able to implement the diplomacy and development solutions of the Schiller Institute, they will find a way to take the world to war. Zepp-LaRouche pointed out that if one of these assassination attempts actually succeeds, we could lose civilization.
McGovern went further, saying that one incentive for Putin to deal with Trump is that he realizes that both of them may not be around much longer.
Details of the Attacks on Russia
Col. (ret.) Richard H. Black, former head of the U.S. Army’s Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon, Marine Corps combat veteran, and former Virginia State Senator, said that the Ukrainian drone attack was a substantial psychological blow. It turns out that the Ukrainian claims of damage to Russian aircraft were exaggerated, but there was an initial psychological impact, and it was timed to disrupt the peace talks. NATO has a long-range plan to continue the hostilities. Clearly, U.S. satellite imagery was used by Ukraine, and it is likely that the CIA or MI6 played a leading role in planning the operation.
Lt. Col. (ret.) Ralph Bossard of the Swiss Armed Forces, a consultant on military-strategic affairs, in 2014 served as a senior planning officer for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Special Monitoring Mission (OSCE SMM). He presented key specifics of what is known about Ukraine’s June 1 Operation Spiderweb drone attack. Bossard expressed regret that there are people in the Western media, and even in the intelligence agencies, who are ready to uncritically repeat anything the Ukrainians say. “De-escalation can only be achieved if Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump agree not to take advantage of the current situation,” he said, and characterized Ukraine as “a government whose fanaticism outweighs its intellect.”
Dennis Fritz warned, “At any time, Russia could destroy Ukraine.” Russia has hypersonic intermediate-range missiles, which they could use at any time. The U.S. should be a voice for peace, but we broke the Iran deal, and we vetoed the UN Security Council resolution on Gaza on June 5, Thursday of this week.
Scott Ritter stated that, “over the past couple of weeks there have been two occasions where Russia would be within its doctrinal rights to use nuclear weapons.” One was a Ukrainian drone attack against Putin’s helicopter, a clear assassination attempt. The other was the June 1 drone attack on five of Russia’s strategic air bases.
Upcoming Actions
Ritter reported that on June 18, they will “resurrect the Space Bridge,” on the 40th anniversary of the 1985 Citizens’ Summit organized by Phil Donahue of the United States and Vladimir Pozner of the Soviet Union. Ritter is also making a film called “Thirty-Eight Minutes” about the 2018 false alarm of inbound nuclear missiles in Hawaii.
Zepp-LaRouche announced a demonstration June 6 in the German town of Schrobenhausen, where the Taurus missiles are produced.
A Spanish participant announced that there will also be a demonstration June 6 in Madrid, to “activate the anti-war mentality” in that country.
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.
“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 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
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.
During the May 27 broadcast of the“Judging Freedom” podcastof 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, 2024Manhattan 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.
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.
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
Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), Founder, The Schiller Institute
H.E. Naledi Pandor (South Africa), former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, South Africa
Prof. Zhang Weiwei, Professor of International Relations at Fudan University, China,
Prof. Dmitri Trenin (Russia), Director of the Institute of World Military Economy and Strategy at the Higher School of Economics University (HSE) (Moscow)
H.E. Donald Ramotar (Guyana), Former President of Guyana
Ambassador Jack Matlock (U.S.) former United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1987-1991
Ambassador Chas Freeman (U.S.), former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1993-1994
Ray McGovern (U.S.), former Senior Analyst, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); Founding Member, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
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
Video: Lyndon LaRouche on Jesu, Meine Freude
Jesu, Meine Freude BWV 227 by J.S. Bach. Schiller Institute Festival Chorus, conducted by John Sigerson.
Megan Dobrodt (U.S.) President, Schiller Institute U.S.A.
Elvira Green (U.S.) Mezzosoprano, formerly with the New York Metropolitan Opera
Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), Founder, The Schiller Institute
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
Nader Majd Director, Center for Persian Classical Music and Alireza Analouei Founder of the SAMA music ensemble (Iran)
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}).
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})
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.
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)
Harley Schlanger(U.S.), Vice-Chairman of the Board of The Schiller Institute
Jason Ross (US) Science Advisor to the Schiller Institute
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”
Paul Gallagher (U.S.), Economics Co-Editor, Executive Intelligence Review
William DeOreo (US), civil engineer
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
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
Lyndon LaRouche, video excerpts
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
Jason Ross (U.S.), Science Advisor to the Schiller Institute
Mike Campbell (U.S.)
Adrian Pearl (U.S.)
Robert Castle (U.S.)
Carolina Domínguez (Mexico), Schiller Institute
Kynan Thistlethwaite (U.S.)
Anastasia Battle (U.S.)
Ashley Tran* (US)
Jose Vega (U.S.), LaRouche Youth Movement Leader, Independent Congressional Candidate, Bronx, New York
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
Jacques Cheminade (France), Former Presidential Candidate, President of Solidarité et Progrès
William Happer (U.S.), Professor Emeritus of Physics, Princeton University; former member, U.S. National Security Council and the U.S. Department of Energy
Kelvin Kemm (South Africa), Nuclear Physicist, Past Chairman, South African Nuclear Energy Corporation
Steve Durst (U.S.), International Lunar Observatory Association
Cody Jones (U.S.), High School Teacher
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.
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:
Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), Founder of the Schiller Institute and co-initiator of the International Peace Coalition (IPC)
Ray McGovern (United States), Former CIA analyst, co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
Liliana Gorini (Italy), Chairwoman, Movimento Solidarietà (Movisol)
Anastasia Battle, (United States), Co-initiator of the International Peace Coalition (IPC)
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
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
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.
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
