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Will There Be Thermonuclear Fireworks by the Fourth of July?

June 22, 2025by David Dobrodt in General
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June 22, 2025—Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the founder of the Schiller Institute, stated: “Since the unprovoked attack on Iran, first by Israel and then by the United States, is not only tearing down the system of international law, but has put us on a course towards World War III, I am calling on all people of good will around the world to publish and circulate this statement by The LaRouche Organization in the U.S. in whatever form possible, and help us to mobilize an international united peace movement in all countries of the planet.”

Your life, in as little as a few days or weeks, could end in an “accidental thermonuclear war,” triggered by the dropping of a tactical nuclear device on Iran, either by a renegade Israel, or by the United States, or by Israel with the agreement of the United States. What happens next, will be determined by the reports regarding the successful, or unsuccessful, destruction of the sites. 

Here is a question: if the sites were not destroyed, or if Iran announces it is able to rebuild, what will happen then? Will the use of tactical nuclear weapons be the next step? 

The driving force for these events is not in “the Middle East.” It is in the global shift in economic power away from the bankrupt trans-Atlantic NATO “Anglosphere” nations, inhabited by the “golden billion,” to the seven billion other people in the world, typified by the BRICS nations. Iran, a member of the BRICS, wants nuclear power, not nuclear weapons. The intent of the War Party is to use the United States, once an anti-imperial nation, as a battering ram against the BRICS, starting with Iran.

With its attack on Iran, the United States has rejected what its greatest diplomat, President John Quincy Adams, characterized as its very nature: “(America) goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy…She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own…she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue…The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force.….She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.” By breaking his pledge that he would keep the United States out of war, President Donald Trump has now fallen into the policy-grip of the War Party. 

If you think that means “the Israelis,” you are mistaken. They are the match, but who sets the fires? Is that the role that Tony Blair, Jonathan Powell, Sir Richard Dearlove, Sir Peter Mandelson and others from the City Of London are playing in Washington right now? Are we watching a reprise of London’s role in starting the Iraq war, in particular giving George Bush his infamous sixteen words—“The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa”—when there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Is this similar to the role that the British Ministry of Defense, through its Project Alchemy, has played in the attacks deep into Russian territory that also threaten nuclear war? 

Israel has nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, and has had them for over 60 years. That ugly, open secret is why nations like Iran, whatever you may choose to think of their policies, have acted as they have. If the Iranian sites were in fact not destroyed, the danger is that some crazy from the bowels of the Pentagon will now propose, “The only ‘dead certain’ way forward is to use ‘tactical’ nuclear weapons.”

Stop and think about what the following report from Newsweek, June 20, actually means. “The Trump administration has not taken anything ‘off the table,’ including the use of tactical nuclear weapons, if it decides to take military action against the underground Iranian nuclear facility at Fordow, Fox News reported, citing a White House official.” In response to these reports, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the only responsible thing: “There have been a lot of speculations. This would be a catastrophic development, but there are so many speculations that in fact, it’s impossible to comment on them.” 

No matter what you are told, by the White House, by the Pentagon, or anyone else, there is no such thing as the use of one “tactical” nuclear weapon. In the words of Annie Jacobsen, author of Nuclear War: A Scenario, “If nuclear war begins, it doesn’t end until there is a nuclear holocaust. And it happens so fast. There is no quickly going to your secret bunker.” 

What does Russia do, if America, or Israel, deploys the first nuclear bomb used since Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago? Last week, America’s ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, wrote to President Trump, “No president in my lifetime has been in a position like yours. Not since Truman in 1945.” 

Let this be clear: President Truman dropping the atomic bomb in 1945 was not essential to ending the war. Dropping the bomb on an already surrendering Japan was necessary to begin the next world war, planned by Britain’s Winston Churchill one month after Franklin Roosevelt died in April 1945. In May, Churchill proposed “Operation Unthinkable,” a plan to immediately nuke the Soviet Union with American-made bombs, to “impose the will of the United States and the British Empire,” in the plan’s actual words. 

The use of nuclear weapons has always been wrong, has never been necessary, and is never other than a tool of imperial force. We, the people of the United States, and we, the people of the world, must stop the madness of governments and fanatics. The nations of the Global Majority, and especially the BRICS nations, of which Iran is a member, must have their voices heard. Nations should not be brought to the conclusion that the only way to retain and defend their sovereignty is to build nuclear weapons. 

In Southwest Asia, we need a consortium of regional countries, working with the United States, Russia and China, to create a nuclear weapons-free zone–which has to include Israel joining the IAEA and signing the Non-Proliferation Treaty, as Iran did. A crash program for the peaceful use of nuclear power as an energy source, for water desalination and other purposes, needs to involve all nations in the region. A New Security and Development Architecture, based on diplomacy, not assassinations and war, must result from actions taken in the next hours and days. 

The period ahead is more dangerous than the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Now is the time to act. Circulate this message. Discuss it in every way possible. Get on the phone to Congress and go to their offices. Read and circulate the Ten Principles for A New Security and Development Architecture proposed by Helga Zepp-LaRouche.

It is up to the people to save themselves, and civilization itself, by speaking out and acting up. The world needs to hear from free citizens that say, “No to assassinations, regime changes, and thermonuclear war!” It is time, now, to change our world, before there is no world left to change.

Stop the “Forces of Doom” – For a Vision of Peace through Development

June 13, 2025by tobi in General, International Peace Coalition

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To open the 106th consecutive weekly online meeting of the International Peace Coalition, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, warned that Israel’s attack on Iran may mark the beginning of World War III. She alluded to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s timely video on the very real threat of a nuclear exchange, and noted that the precisely targeted assassinations of leading Iranian scientists and military and political leaders suggests that Israel received technical assistance from unidentified intelligence services. It is clear that Israel’s objective is to draw the US into the war, and we must remember that Iran is key part of the BRICS and the Belt and Road Initiative. “There was nothing in the behavior of Iran which would have legitimized such an attack… From the standpoint of the UN Charter, this is a completely illegal act of aggression,” she said, and reiterated “our old demand” for a New Security and Development Architecture.

 M.K. Bhadrakumar, a former Indian diplomat to the USSR who has held leading positions in the Indian Foreign Ministry, addressed the Israeli attack on Iran: “I never believed that this was about Iran’s propensity or Iran’s likelihood to develop nuclear weapons… there is no moral ground involved here.” Iran is being asked  by Trump to give up the same stature as Japan or Germany as a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, with “full-spectrum inspection” by IAEA. Trump is singularly responsible for this situation. Unless Israel is restrained, which only the US can do, Iran might leave the NPT.

Leading nuclear weapons expert Dr. Theodore Postol, professor emeritus of Science, Technology and International Security at MIT, asserted that “Iran wants to avoid making a nuclear weapon… Iran’s policy is highly rational.” There is internal opposition to this policy, and this opposition is strengthened by the attacks on Iran. “We know from all historical experience that bombing a country brings that country together against the external adversary,” Postol said. On June 1, Ukraine violated a fundamental precept of the Cold War, that one does not attack the strategic forces of any nation. Legally, Russia would have been justified in attacking US and UK, who were clearly involved. Putin is an exceptional leader because he did not react.

Larry Johnson, former CIA officer and a cofounder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) , also commented on Iran: “This attack was carried out with the full knowledge and participation of the United States… There is a pattern emerging here that Israel cannot be trusted in any sort of negotiation whatsoever–nor can the United States.”

Regular panelist Ray McGovern is a former Senior Analyst for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a Founding Member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). He described the situation as nuanced and complex. “What I see as a silver lining here,” he said, is that this may compel more dialogue between the US and Russia. “US complicity is somewhat in doubt, despite the braggadocio… Can the Israelis be restrained when things don’t go quite their way? I don’t think so.”

Zepp-LaRouche responded that we need contextualization for what is happening in the Middle East, that being the attempt to stop the rise of a new system typified by BRICS+. We must not only analyze, but provide an alternative. As long as we are not resolving the underlying conflict with the New Peace and Development Architecture, new hot spots will continue to erupt.

McGovern thanked her for mentioning Gabbard’s unprecedented video.

Gershon Baskin is an Israeli columnist, social and political activist, and a researcher of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and peace. In a video interview conducted by EIR, he said, “We all know that President Trump is the only person who can tell Netanyahu to end the war.” He welcomed the efforts of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to influence Trump, and agreed on the need for an economic solution. “The obstacles to Palestinian development by the Israeli occupation need to be removed… It makes no sense whatsoever for Israel to want to have poor neighbors.”

Zepp-LaRouche commented that it goes beyond the suffering of the Palestinians:  “I’m afraid that impact on the moral order of the world will be devastating.”

A scheduled On the Ground Report from the ongoing March for Gaza in Egypt was not possible for technical reasons. However, moderator Anastasia Battle later provided an urgent update: there are reports that the Egyptian government is using force against the marchers. Leaders are prepared to use nonviolent methods to protest if there is repression and activists are deported.

Discussion

TLO President Diane Sare warned that the efforts to impeach Trump could lead to  a destabilization of the United States. She observed that Trump “has an enormous ego, and is not a very profound thinker.” But the people leading the campaign against Trump gave us the Ukraine coup and other neocon atrocities. Zepp-LaRouche added that “the migrant issue is being handled in a way that is antagonizing many people.” She reminded viewers that her husband Lyndon advised never to use the military against your own people. “Let’s remove the root causes for the migrant question,” she said, citing hunger, war, etc.

Question: Israel says they attacked Iran to prevent American peace talks from succeeding. Were the talks real, or a setup for the war? Zepp-LaRouche responded that she wishes she knew the answer; the only power which can restrain Israel is the US, “but then he didn’t do it… The picture which comes together is not transparent… it is very much a mixed bag.”  

In response to a questioner who raised questions about AI and suggested that we need a social contract, co-moderator Dennis Small attacked the Rousseauvian notion of a contract to reconcile divergent self-interests, as opposed to a concept of the common interests of mankind. He added that AI, like other technological advances, is a double-edged sword.

A woman from Iran asked Zepp-LaRouche whether Israel would even consider an attack on Iran without a green light from the US? She responded that complicity and even aid is very likely, but it is not a simple matter. ”Is the US controlled by the Zionist lobby, or is the Anglo-American Empire using Israel for its own strategic purposes?”

An Indian/Danish journalist cited the India-Pakistan tensions created by the way Britain divided the subcontinent, asking, How do we address the way the British fuel conflicts rather than resolving them? Zepp-LaRouche noted also how Boris Johnson sabotaged Ukraine peace deal. Russian officials are now calling out the British for their role. The story of unprovoked aggression by Russia has been widely discredited. An investigation into the British role is needed

In response to a Colombian labor leader’s question about the encyclical Rerum Novarum, Zepp-LaRouche called it a watershed decision, that the Church should not just pray, but must intervene in social policy.

Question: would there be lasting peace if the Islamic world accepted the Biblical authority of Israel over the land, and the Palestinians were displaced into other Arab states? Zepp-LaRouche declined to comment on any Biblical theories of property ownership. Should the Palestinians pay the price for what the Germans did to the Jews? It’s the perpetuation of injustice, the evil deed giving birth to more evil deeds. The two-state solution is the solution, but there is not enough water to go around without the [[Oasis Plan]] [[ https://schillerinstitute.com/the-oasis-plan-the-larouche-solution-for-southwest-asia/]].

Israel-Iran Crisis: We Must Not Only Put Out the Fire, We Must Put the Arsonist Away

June 21, 2025by tobi in General, International Peace Coalition

by EIR staffJune 20–Opening the 107th meeting of the International Peace Coalition, Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche reviewed the presently dire strategic situation, saying that “the immediate danger would be if the United States were to be drawn into the bombing of Iran.” She said that attempting to destroy Iran’s underground facility would be unlikely to succeed without resorting to the use of nuclear bombs. The neocons’ 1996 “Clean Break” policy is in play, which was designed to counter the 1993-95 Oslo Accords. “The British have a very particular interest to keep this conflict going… That should remind us that the immediate target of this operation was not just what happens in the Middle East… Regime change in the region is not the only aim.” The strategic aims include destruction throughout the region, and confrontation with the Russia, China and Global South development drive which intends to end 500 years of colonial looting.

Looking at the situation in the U.S., she said that half of the MAGA base feels betrayed, because Trump had promised an end to the neocon war policy. When Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard reported earlier this year that Iran has no nuclear weapons program, Trump dismissed her opinion, which puts her June 10 video warning of nuclear war in a different light. We must know that what we are talking about is the end of humanity, should there be nuclear war.

Israel’s Nuclear Weapons—the History, the Danger

John Steinbach, of the Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capitol Area, opened with a joke, “I’m so old that I remember that there was a time when I agreed more with Bernie Sanders than with Tucker Carlson.” He offered a concise history of Israel’s nuclear weapons program, beginning after WWII when the U.S. gave a 5-megawatt research reactor each to Israel and to Iran. But the French then played a key role in helping Israel develop a nuclear weapons capability.

Both Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy opposed Israel getting a nuclear bomb, and Kennedy sent inspectors. Israel deceived them by creating a non-military mock-up. Mordechai Vanunu worked at Dimona, Israel’s nuclear complex, and smuggled out photos and documents, after which Western analysts concluded that Israel had developed an H-bomb. Israel now has missiles capable of reaching Washington and Moscow. Steinbach offered a link to his paper on the Israeli nuclear weapons program.

Ray McGovern, former Senior Analyst for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a Founding Member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), backed up Steinbach’s history of Israel’s nuclear weaponry. McGovern observed that we now know that former chief of the CIA’s counterintelligence, James Jesus Angleton, was “the equivalent of an Israeli spy.” Any CIA report that mentioned Israel had to go through Angleton. He was also complicit in the assassination of John Kennedy, McGovern stated. Was Kennedy’s opposition to an Israeli bomb a motive for his assassination?

On the question of how to deal with someone as confused and mercurial as Trump, McGovern said that Putin and the Chinese are dealing with him the best way they know how.

Zepp-LaRouche asked: Why can’t Israel’s nuclear weapons be discussed? McGovern said it is being discussed more and more in alternative media. He recalled that even CIA head William Burns, on his way out last Fall, reiterated that Iran has no nuclear weapons program, and if they started, we would know very quickly.

Steinbach said that the concept of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was that non-nuclear states had a right to nuclear energy, and the nuclear states would pursue disarmament. Israel is the only nuclear weapons state which is not a signatory to the Treaty.

Global South Is Focused on Development

Prof. Eduardo Siqueira, from Brazil, is a retired professor of Public Health at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. He reported that the focus of the Global South is on development, and that wars are being used to sabotage that agenda. The BRICS are trying to do something similar to what Zepp-LaRouche wants to do with her proposal for a New Security and Development Architecture. It has become clear to them that what is being done in the Middle East is intended to paralyze the BRICS and the BRI. “Since Obama, there has been this so-called Pivot to Asia,” designed to disrupt China’s initiatives. The U.S. is losing hegemony, and is using Israel to paralyze the development alternative.

Diane Sare, President of The LaRouche Organization, gave a firsthand report from one of the two rallies held near the United Nations this week, on the theme, “No War against Iran.”  People at the UN are told not to even accept leaflets on the street, but they got contacts nonetheless. She said that there is massive loss of support for Trump in his base, while the billionaires who run the “No Kings” rallies behind the scenes, don’t oppose the genocide or the war drive. Sare’s recent video on TikTok has gone viral.

Discussion

Frequent IPC panelist Dennis Fritz, prominent representative of the Eisenhower Media Group, spoke of the methods the U.S. used during the Iraq War to smear Hans Blix and other uncooperative leaders of the IAEA, who were genuinely working against nuclear weapons proliferation. Fritz emphasized that if the U.S. attacks Iran, Iran and its allies have the means to respond.

Jacques Cheminade, long time leader in France of the LaRouche movement, said that people are losing their illusions. Macron is fully discredited. Trump has divided loyalties and consequently a confused policy. “The enemy is becoming naked at this point.”

Zepp-LaRouche said the only way out of this crisis would be for the U.S. and Europeans to publicly declare that they want to collaborate with the BRICS in building infrastructure. Unless the monetarist bubble is corrected, things will only get worse.

In response to a question, McGovern compared “the silence of the institutional church”—citing Catholics and Lutherans, that we see now, to what happened during the Third Reich. He quoted Bishop Tutu: “We’re not all guilty, but we are all responsible.”

Siqueira explained that most people in the North don’t realize what the Global South can offer the world. Brazil has a rich fusion of different cultures–Portuguese, African, indigenous. The world can learn from this, and the U.S, benefits from it through immigration.

In response to a comment by a Muslim-American leader, co-moderator Dennis Small said that we urgently need to put out this Israel-Iran fire, but we must also recognize that there is an arsonist running loose – British geopolitics — and the impetus is the bankruptcy of the financial system. Later in his concluding remarks, Small reported that President Putin, speaking to media at a late-night June 18 St. Petersburg gathering, told a reporter from Reuters who asked a hostile question, that it is possible to both guarantee Iran’s sovereign right to nuclear energy, while also providing full security for Israel. Small paraphrased: we can both put out the fire, and we can also put the arsonist away for good, which is the job of the true statesman.

Concluding remarks

McGovern observed that Trump is like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Will he put the lethal blow to NATO at the Summit next week? That would be a good thing.

Siqueira said that we are seeing the beginning of a new world, and the old world is resisting.

Small emphasized that the upcoming Schiller Institute [[Berlin Conference July 12-13]] [[]] is of great strategic importance, and will arm us with the ideas to solve the crisis.

Zepp-LaRouche recalled that our movement has been an integral part of this struggle for development from the beginning, since LaRouche’s International Development Bank proposal in the 1970s. In the 11 years since the announcement of the BRI, it has become the dominant dynamic in the world. Nothing short of nuclear war will stop it. The rational move for the US would be to join it. We plan to make videos to show our vision of a developing planet.

Readers are invited to share and use clips from this meeting. Please give credit to the International Peace Coalition. Please also join the Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee in partnership with Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom for a teach-in on Trinity Day, July 16, 2025, 7:00pm EDT, marking the 80th anniversary of the first nuclear test. Please register here.

Live Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Will we bring humanity back from the abyss?, June 18, 1.30 pm EDT

June 17, 2025by tobi in General, Helga Video, Helga Webcast

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.

While we cannot predict what President Trump will do, and cannot control what our neighbors will do, we can control what we are going to do, which must be to build the LaRouche movement with vigor, including signing up hundreds of people for subscriptions to EIR, and memberships in the Schiller Institute and The LaRouche Organization, and inviting them to participate in the Friday International Peace Coalition meetings. We are the “idea” people, as reflected in our conferences and in publications like Leonore and Ibykus, and our ideas are needed.

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

It Is Not Too Late to Avoid a ‘Doomsday Scenario’ in the Middle East

June 14, 2025by David Dobrodt in General
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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.”

International Peace Coalition, Week 105: Confront Madness of Attacks on Russia, Assassination Threats on Leaders

June 10, 2025by tobi in General, International Peace Coalition

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.

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

June 10, 2025by tobi in General, Helga Video, Helga Webcast

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

June 3, 2025by tobi in General, Helga Video, Helga Webcast

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, 2025by David Dobrodt in General
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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!

March 1, 2025by David Dobrodt in General

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

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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.

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