Helga Zepp-LaRouche

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What sort of madness would lead people, in the face of the collapse of nearly every single global arms control and verification treaty—today only New START remains, until it too expires in February 2026—to explicitly and publicly propose to further proliferate nuclear weapons to the nations of Germany, Japan, and Canada? To argue that this will “strengthen the global order,” and provide “dependable protection against the threats of regional foes, such as China and Russia”?

The madness of those who speak for the bankrupt London-New York financial Establishment, is who, including their policy mouthpieces, such as Foreign Affairs magazine of the New York Council on Foreign Relations.

What sort of madness would cause them to propose to give nuclear weapons to a Germany which, under Chancellor Friedrich Merz, has announced it is girding for war against Russia within years, at most? To argue for nuclear arms to be under the control of a Takaichi government in Japan, which has just announced it could take military action against China to defend Taiwan?

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova drew out the implications of such madness: “We know how Japanese militarism ended. It would be good if those politicians who come to govern Japan remember this, understand where irresponsible statements lead, and refrain from making them.”

This is the same madness which is driving London and its European allies apoplectic over U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest effort to return U.S.-Russian negotiations over Ukraine to the approach both sides had agreed upon in the Aug. 15 Trump-Putin summit in Anchorage, Alaska. They are describing those efforts as “nauseating,” “worse than we thought,” and a “nightmare”—all because Trump and Putin have agreed that the issues which caused the war in the first place must be addressed.

It is also the madness behind Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s obsession with overthrowing the Maduro government in Venezuela, in order to embroil the Trump administration in another bloody forever war of exactly the sort he promised to never launch.

All of this is the madness borne of the desperation of the owners of the financially bankrupt system, who are trying to keep their system afloat through wars and economic looting—when it is no longer possible to do so.

The cure for the problem is therefore at hand. Lyndon LaRouche’s 2014 Four New Laws To Save the U.S.A. Now! Not an Option: An Immediate Necessity begins by stating bluntly:

“The economy of the United States of America, and also that of the trans-Atlantic political-economic regions of the planet, are, now, under the immediate, mortal danger of a general, physical-economic, chain-reaction breakdown-crisis of that region of this planet as a whole.”

The pathway LaRouche specified leading to the reorganization of the global physical economy around scientific drivers such as fusion energy and space colonization, begins with a return to the 1933 Glass-Steagall law of FDR. This would put the $2 quadrillion in speculative assets today asphyxiating the Western financial system through bankruptcy reorganization, and open the door to issuing productive credit in volumes needed to create physical economic conditions worthy of the dignity of Man—all 8 billion plus of us!

That is sanity.

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Yesterday, Nov. 16, the USS Gerald R. Ford, America’s largest aircraft carrier, arrived in the Caribbean. The same day U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a statement declaring the President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro to be the head of a foreign terrorist group, the Cartel de los Soles. This puts two things in place for an imminent attack. U.S. military assets are now at full force posture in the region, including 15,000 troops, 12 destroyers, and multiple fighter jets. The U.S. legalism is now in place, that if the U.S. attacks Venezuela on sea or land, in the name of attacking a foreign terrorist individual or group, Washington will declare its actions lawful. This is based, in particular, on the statutes and practices asserted unilaterally by Washington since 9/11.

True, President Trump told reporters yesterday, that the U.S. “may be having some discussions” with Maduro, and that “Venezuela would like to talk….I’ll talk to anybody. We’ll see what happens.” What is that supposed to mean?

The danger of escalation to military action against Venezuela is of immediate concern, among a number of friction zones and hot conflicts in the world, in which the deepest fault line is the divide between the Global Majority nations, with their drive for infrastructure and economic development, and the Global North alignments of “old empire,” with their demand for dominance, and suppression of development.

EIR is hosting an emergency roundtable Thursday, Nov. 20, on the dangerous situation in the Caribbean, with expert discussion of the strategic and regional situations, including proposed solutions for the area and hemisphere. As the invitation states, “The United States has no reason to fear the BRI [Belt and Road Initiative] and the BRICS, and should instead cooperate with them in building those great projects. This approach could rapidly develop the entire Caribbean Basin region, and stop the real narco-trafficking and related migrant problems that will only be worsened by an attack on Venezuela.”

Schiller Institute leader Helga Zepp-LaRouche today, in reviewing the Caribbean and other crises, encouraged all to mobilize to understand what is taking place, and that there are solutions. “The outcome of all of that remains to be determined by, not least, our energetic intervention to put on a level of reason, which seems to be lacking for the most part, at least concerning Western policies.”

The context in which the face-off in the Caribbean has been whipped up, is that during both the Trump and Biden Administrations, and before, U.S. force and covert actions have moved through country by country in the Western Hemisphere to block economic independence and development, especially when those countries were working with China, and also Russia, on matters of economic and science projects.

In Mexico, for example, an operation was staged against the government on Nov. 15 in Mexico City, when international media used violent actions initiated by a smaller group of masked youth near the end of a “march” billed as an anti-government “Gen Z” protest to generate videos and media accounts worldwide, proclaiming that the youth of Mexico are protesting the failure of the government to take on drug traffickers. What happened was not as portrayed in the press, but rather is a text book ploy organized largely by foreign interests out to destabilize Mexico.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, however, in her morning press conference two days before the march, provided an expert to give details to the press on the networks responsible. For weeks, social media and other means were deployed, mostly from abroad, centered around the Atlas Foundation and other London-associated, radical networks, which are documented as behind other dirty operations in Central and South America. They were behind the overthrow of Dilma Rousseff and installation of Jair Bolsonaro as President in Brazil, for example. In Venezuela right now, the same networks are promoting Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado as the coming head of the hoped-for U.S. military installed government.

One instance where these dark operations got a setback yesterday, is in the elections in Ecuador. For months, American officials have visited the country, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and top U.S. military commanders, pushing the idea that the U.S. should be allowed to open a military base in Ecuador – which is currently prohibited by the Ecuadorian constitution – and otherwise imposing ongoing terms of trade amounting to looting the nation. President Daniel Noboa welcomed the U.S. intervention against Ecuador’s sovereignty, in conformity with his personal oligarchic background. But Ecuador voters yesterday roundly defeated—by over 60%—a measure that would have changed standing law to allow a foreign military base, and they voted down other nation-threatening measures as well.

On the world agenda, reconstruction in Gaza, toward full development throughout the entire Southwest Asia region, is a priority. This evening in the UN Security Council, the U.S.-circulated resolution on Washington’s plan for ongoing administration and rebuilding was passed by 13 to 0, with Russia and China abstaining. In speeches following the vote, the representative of China expressed profound disappointment at the way there has not been collaboration among nations to date, especially on the UN Security Council, but China abstained from voting, in consideration of the fragility in Gaza, and the imperative of maintaining a ceasefire.

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“The content of policy is the method by which it is made.” That was the idea of statecraft espoused by Lyndon LaRouche, founder of Executive Intelligence Review and co-founder of the Schiller Institute. The question of method in statecraft was the topic of a two-day-plus conference just concluded by the Schiller Institute in Paris. The conference, led by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, and by Jacques Cheminade, former French Presidential candidate and president of Solidarité et Progrès (Solidarity and Progress), was titled “Emancipation of Africa and the Global Majority, A Challenge for Europe.”

Why, despite the increasing potential for thermonuclear war between NATO and Russia; despite the mounting panic regarding the looming financial meltdown of the hopelessly bankrupt trans-Atlantic system; despite the depopulation of Gaza, and the destruction ongoing in Sudan and several other locations—why was it the self-development of the African continent which was chosen in Paris as the focus of deliberation for the international participants, many of them young people, including from several African nations?

To understand this, contrast two speeches given on Nov. 9. One was by the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The other was by Schiller Institute founder and chairwoman, Helga Zepp-LaRouche. Under the guise of commemorating “the significance of the date Nov. 9 in German history—in 1918 (abdication of German Kaiser and proclamation of the Weimar Republic), 1938 (beginning of the Kristallnacht/”Night of the Broken Glass” violence against Germany’s Jewish population and their various establishments), and 1989 (fall of the Berlin Wall), German President Steinmeier chose to stoke fear, claiming that there had been a rise of antisemitism since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. His remarks led to calls for constitutional bans on emerging German political parties and other forms of censorship—the politics of fear.

Fortunately for current history, there are people that actually understand the role of the Classical artist in universal history, and therefore the role of poet Friedrich Schiller in Germany—including in the events of Nov. 9, 1989. Instead of the politics of fear, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, speaking to an audience in Paris, invoked the life, the work and living presence of the poet Friedrich Schiller.

“I can only advise you to read Schiller. Schiller, apart from LaRouche and Cusa and Plato and some others, but Schiller is one of the most important, because he came to the conclusion that in his time, people were already barbaric. He said, why is it that we are still barbarians? He said the most important task of our time—meaning his time—is to develop the Empfindungsvermögen. I have never found a good English translation, because if you just say ‘compassion,’ or ‘empathy,’ it does not quite capture it. What Schiller meant with Empfindungsvermögen is that you have to be able to educate your soul and your mind in such a way that you are able to absorb the world in an all-encompassing manner and feel compassion with the whole world; which means everything. It doesn’t just mean pity or empathy with people who are suffering; it also means to be able to always take in whatever is happening in the world, in your heart and your mind. It’s still not capturing it entirely, but it’s larger than the word empathy.…”

This is the idea that must immediately become the basis and the method of international policy. This is the soul of the idea of “promoting the General Welfare” contained in the United States Constitution’s Preamble.

Schiller, born on November 10, 1759, besides being a great historian and dramatist, was also Germany’s greatest poet. The Ninth Symphony of composer Ludwig van Beethoven is a setting of the spirit and a portion of the text of Schiller’s poem, An Die Freude (Ode To Joy). During the great transformation of 1989 that would culminate in the sudden, miraculous Nov. 9 fall, “by the consent of the governed,” of the Berlin Wall, which had stood for more than 27 years at the most lethal checkpoint in the world, the Ninth Symphony was not “the soundtrack of the revolution. “ The Ninth Symphony—the whole composition, not just its Fourth Movement—was the embodiment of the idea of Hope, hope for a better humanity that chooses, as did those who brought down the Berlin Wall, to deserve that freedom which is, according to the American Declaration of Independence, “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.”

The right to self-development, particularly for youth, such as the still-living children of Gaza, the 600 million African youth today under the age of 19, and the 1.2 billion African youth under the age of 25 who will be here in 25 years, is the policy; Schiller’s mission, for humanity to develop the Empfindungsvermögen required for such self-development, is the method by which that policy would be made. Guaranteeing that right through establishing a new international security and development architecture, discussed by Zepp-LaRouche in her Ten Principles, and a vigorous campaign worldwide by youth, for that purpose, including in work in national electoral and other processes as appropriate, is the immediate task before us.

The Two Largest Nuclear Powers: Cooperation, or Confrontation? Join EIR News on our YouTube channel today, November 5, at 10am EST/ 4pm CET for a live interview of the Russian Federation’s First Deputy Permanent Representative at the United Nations, Dmitry Polyanskiy, conducted by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, editor-in-chief of EIR. 

Join EIR News on our YouTube channel today, November 5, at 10am EST for a live interview of the Russian Federation’s First Deputy Permanent Representative at the United Nations, Dmitry Polyanskiy, conducted by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, editor-in-chief of EIR. 

The danger of nuclear extinction war has not abated, as Dr. Ted Postol of MIT showed in his October 24 comments to the International Peace Coalition. Nevertheless, a new paradigm of peace through development is shining through, as reflected in the circulation of the Bering Strait Tunnel project as a solution to the crisis in US-Russia relations, by Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund. A representative of the RDIF participated in the October 22 EIR international roundtable discussion on the strategic implications of the Bering Strait Tunnel project, during which program Zepp-LaRouche shared her view:

“[T]he realization of the Bering Strait Tunnel is potentially and very likely the answer as to if we have war or peace. Because, if we get to an agreement between the two largest nuclear powers in the world, to replace confrontation with cooperation which is to the benefit not only of those two countries, but actually of all countries in the world, it can be the game changer which marks the departure from the present extremely dangerous moment in history.”

How does the Russian government view the strategic dynamic? What are the principles of the “polyphonic world order” advocated by Russian President Vladimir Putin? Join the program to learn more.

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Our present phase of history is a time of terrible tension between those promoting war, and those promoting resolution of disputes. Deliberate backing of armed conflict in an age of nuclear weapons is insane. But there are growing forces of reason and hope.

Pope Leo XIV’s raising, on Oct. 25, the breakthrough concepts of Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) is an important advance for forces seeking peace. Cusa’s concept of seeking and proceeding on the higher level of overcoming differences has repeatedly been studied, reported, and advocated by Lyndon and Helga LaRouche over decades. But most particularly, Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche formed an activist association in 2020 that she named the Committee for the Coincidence of Opposites, based on Cusa’s idea of the coincidentia oppositorum (coincidence of opposites), which organization came to be the precursor to the International Peace Coalition, founded in June 2022, at the initiation of Zepp-LaRouche, and now functioning as a critical platform for world dialogue.

At the Vatican on Oct. 27, Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban met with Pope Leo. Orban has volunteered for Budapest to be the venue for a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Orban posted on X today, “I asked His Holiness to support Hungary’s anti-war efforts. Private audience with His Holiness Pope Leo XIV.”

Other figures and associations, likewise acting on the side of humanity, include leaders of the Global Majority, the BRICS, the expanding Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and collaborating initiatives. In the Indo- and Asian-Pacific this week, there are signals of this direction. Speaking of amity, on Oct. 26 India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing the ASEAN-India Summit in Malaysia by video, pointed out that India and the ASEAN 11 nation members, now constitute 25% of the world’s population, and intend to continue to function as friends.

On the sidelines of the APEC summit in South Korea this week, President Trump reports he will meet with China’s President Xi Jinping. On Oct. 28, President Trump, now in Tokyo, Japan, is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who has expressed concern to pursue a foreign policy of stability and peace in the region. This goes against the prevailing Western insistence that China is the enemy.

The most direct threats of warfare continue to come from the Europe-centered “Coalition of the Willing,” directly charging that Russia is the enemy, bent on invading Europe. Add to this the U.S. belligerence in the Western Hemisphere, building up military forces in the Caribbean.

In the last 10 days, military spokesmen in France have called for contingency readiness that could see French forces placed directly in Ukraine. Chief of Staff of the French Army Gen. Pierre Schill told members of the Defense Committee of the National Assembly on Oct. 24: “We will be ready to deploy forces under security guarantees, if necessary—for the benefit of Ukraine.” He stated that 2026 will be the “year of coalitions,” pointing out that upcoming multinational military exercises, “Orion 26,” will test land, air, and naval contingents, wherever they have to go.

In the Caribbean, U.S. military activity and force deployment have escalated, along with homeland propaganda that fighting the dope trade means taking down Venezuela. The guided missile destroyer USS Gravely has now docked in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, within seven miles of Venezuela. The story is that the ship is carrying out training exercises until Oct. 30. The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford has been ordered to the Caribbean, from its present location in the Mediterranean. There have been nine U.S. airstrikes on boats in international waters in the Caribbean, plus two in the Pacific off the western coast of Central America. At least 43 persons were killed.

The International Peace Coalition will convene its 126th consecutive weekly meeting on Friday, Oct. 31, at 11 am (ET).

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