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Live Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Farmers, Truckers, Students March Against Austerity and War

October 13, 2026by tobi in Helga Webcast

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Wednesday, October 14th, 2026, 11am ET/ 5pm CET

Monday morning the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the economics Nobel to Robert Hall and Michael Woodford for the theory that governments and central banks, by communicating their plans, “can influence this view of the future and move the economy in the right direction.” The committee chairman said their models leave us “better equipped to deal with shocks in the economy, such as energy crises.” The shock is here. Brent oil opened the day at $105. The Strait of Hormuz is mined, and Riyadh’s airport has been hit four times in five days. China has stopped exporting fuel. The 30-year Treasury is at a 24-year high. And the prize goes to a doctrine in which talking about the economy is the way forward.

Is that doctrine already the method of government? On Sunday President Trump posted that “effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE” between Russia and Ukraine. Zelensky said it was news to him. Today Peskov would say only that “contacts continue,” and Lavrov observed that “ceasefire” has replaced “strategic defeat of Russia” as the slogan of Zelensky and his European “masters,” with the same purpose, a respite to rearm. The White House then told Axios that the ceasefire covers refineries only, a proposal its own official called “one-sided.” Something real did happen: Treasury’s license for Russian diesel runs to April 2027, while seven senators of both parties are demanding it be revoked. And Boris Johnson wants the Royal Navy to intercept Russian fuel tankers. But a ceasefire is not declared into existence. It is negotiated, and Witkoff and Kushner have put their Moscow trip on hold.

The same method runs through the week. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., with 4,080 measles cases in the country and several children dead in Pennsylvania, announced that HHS will pay doctors for every report filed to a system that records anything that happens after a vaccination and proves nothing, so that the number of reports, the anti-vaccine movement’s favorite statistic, will rise. Homeland Security agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home three weeks before the election, well inside the 60-day pre-election window during which Justice Department guidance has forbidden such actions. The War Secretary proposes to livestream a firing squad, although it’s not clear whether that will actually happen. We have announcements in place of policy.

Meanwhile the people who do real work are in the street. Italy’s steelworkers struck today in Taranto and Genoa against a court order to shut the country’s last blast furnace by Oct. 25. France’s students and teachers strike for “10 billion on the table” in a school system where more than half of secondary schools began the year short a teacher. Argentina’s students march Thursday. Italian farmers who gathered in Cosenza on Saturday will march on Rome Oct. 27. In Germany the labor minister resigned this morning and the SPD will elect a new leadership; Merz has 10% approval and his own party’s premier in Saxony says four years of weapons instead of diplomacy have led to “a catastrophe.” These are not calls for improving management of expectations. They are asking whether they have a future, and demanding concrete actions to ensure they have one.

Lyndon LaRouche wrote in 2007, when the Nobel went to three game theorists a year before the crash none of them foresaw, that the award showed the Committee “does not presently require a demonstration of what scientific tradition defined as a ‘crucial,’ or unique … proof of principle in defining its standards for awards,” and that the world needed their designs “about as much as a sufferer from the common cold needs the curative powers of a heavy dose of cyanide.” The proof of principle in economics is whether a people can feed, fuel, employ and improve itself, and raise the next generation to go further. Diane Sare’s independent campaign for President has a program of Glass-Steagall, a national bank in place of the Federal Reserve, and credit directed to production. The alternative, as she put it of Hegseth’s autonomous-warfare command, is a system that keeps “sucking the life-blood out of the real economy and the human race.” Three weeks before the midterms, in which LaRouche independent Jose Vega is a candidate in NY-15, the choice is between a government that announces and a government that builds.

Live Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Social Rumbling Shakes Euro Governments

October 6, 2026by tobi in General, Helga Webcast

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Wednesday, October 7th, 2026, 11am ET/ 5pm CET

The turmoil of the emergence of a new era in world history is upon us, as in the turbulent years of the 1980s. These are not “normal times.” This time is reminiscent of the months just before the sudden fall of the Berlin Wall, November 9, 1989, followed by the “unthinkable” dissolution of the Soviet Union two years later. Now, as then, most analysts fail to grasp the depth of what is actually going on. Their axiomatic beliefs prevent it.

There is something that unifies the popular uprisings in Spain (“housing”), France (“education”), Germany (“government collapse”), and Italy (farmers, fishermen and truckers actions.) The triggers may seem different, but the underlying process is the same. One thing is clear—all NATO economies are failing, and no NATO nation’s people support the drive for a new world war!! The trans-Atlantic’s leaders, for the most part, “have been tested in the balance and found wanting.” The multiple flashpoints of war, the electoral campaigns of the next 30 days in Brazil, Israel and the United States, should be viewed, not as “important current events,” but as embedded in something much bigger. The assembly of 800,000 people in France for Pope Leo’s Sunday Mass, half or more of whom had not ever been to such a gathering in their lives before, were seeking what they hoped would be the presence of authentic leadership, in the person of Pope Leo XIV. His recent campaign for a “Just Peace” doctrine in the Church, supplanting the opportunistic practice of citing—but not studying—St. Augustine on “just war,” and his adamant rejection of nuclear weapons, can supply a moral compass in a time of crisis.

In a discussion yesterday, EIR intelligence officer Roger Moore reminded the assembled that forty years ago, October 11-12, the Reykjavik, Iceland Summit between American President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev was held. Internet narratives that refer to Reykjavik state that it was Ronald Reagan’s refusal to abandon his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) that was the “deal-breaker” for negotiations there, that could have eliminated the use of most, if not all nuclear weapons. That “narrative” is wrong. In reality, it was that very SDI proposal, involving creating joint technological breakthroughs for an advanced laser weapons defense system, that was designed to render nuclear weapons “impotent and obsolete,” and therefore unnecessary. Gorbachev’s rejection of Reagan’s SDI proposal ended the chance for the Soviet Union to escape its own demise, accelerated by the “primitive accumulation” methods its economy was forced into to attempt to keep pace with the United States and NATO in the 1980s arms race.

The truth is that the founder of this magazine, EIR Editor-In-Chief Lyndon LaRouche, had, with the knowledge of the Reagan Administration’s National Security Council, formulated the SDI policy. LaRouche engaged in a series of negotiations with representatives of the Soviet government from December of 1981 through early 1983. Ronald Reagan famously announced the SDI policy in a speech on March 23, 1983, to the shock of governments worldwide, and many officials in the United States.

Five days before Reykjavik, as Lyndon LaRouche reported in his “The Night They Came To Kill Me”: “On October 6, 1986, a virtual army of more than four hundred armed personnel descended upon the town of Leesburg, Virginia, for a raid on the offices of EIR and its associates, and also deployed for another, darker mission. The premises at which I was residing at that time were surrounded by an armed force, while aircraft, armored vehicles, and other personnel waited for the order to move in shooting. Fortunately, the killing did not happen, because someone with higher authority than the Justice Department Criminal Division head William Weld, ordered the attack on me called off. The forces readied to move in on me, my wife, and a number of my associates, were pulled back in the morning….. This is not only my cause for complaint. The great majority of Americans are as much the intended victim as I am. They have a right to know what is being done to them in this connection. I explain….. Ironically, but not accidentally, this operation was unleashed at the time President Reagan was meeting Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland, where the President, once again, firmly restated his commitment to SDI.”  

LaRouche’s proposal was the moral opposite of multiple preceding “deep state” lunatic proposals for nuclear war, starting with Winston Churchill’s May, 1945 “Operation Unthinkable,” which sought to nuke the Soviet Union by no later than September, 1945. In 1949, Operation Dropshot, formulated by the United States Department of Defense, proposed dropping 300 nuclear weapons on the Soviet Union to destroy 85% of its industrial capacity, with “collateral damage” of tens of millions of deaths. There were more proposals, all hidden from the American people.

In 1954, the US’s “Operation Vulture” proposed using 3 “small tactical” atomic bombs to save the defeated French forces at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam. In 1958, according to the late Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, the United States had a plan to bomb mainland China with nuclear weapons in order to prevent an invasion of Taiwan. (In a 2021 interview with CBS News reporter Michelle Miller, Ellsberg said, “I was part of a plan that should never have been made, that was a crime against humanity.”) And on July 20, 1961, Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer, Gen. Curtis LeMay and others presented a plan to JFK to launch a surprise nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, by no later than December of 1963.

The following year saw the October, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and the courageous actions by the Kennedy brothers to open up back-channel negotiations with the Soviet Union. Like those JFK/RFK discussions with Khrushchev, the LaRouche discussions were carried out under duress, and on the brink of war. For example, the near-nuclear war of 1983, thwarted by the courageous intervention of one man, Stanislav Petrov, was discussed just last week in Valdai by Vladimir Putin. In that case, intelligence, not artificial intelligence, prevailed. The LaRouche-Reagan initiative known as the SDI, far from preventing negotiations in Reykjavik, was the basis for a new security and development architecture at that time, presented in LaRouche’s 1984 Presidential campaign “Draft Memorandum of Understanding Between the United States and the USSR.”

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who was with Lyndon LaRouche when they came to kill him, has proposed Ten Principles for a New Security and Development Architecture, in a time when “the tables have turned.” Today, the idea of “a Just Peace” must pervade discussions in the churches, unions, and other institutions of the United States and Europe. Those in motion and turmoil must begin to think in the spirit of  Pope Leo’s and Zepp-LaRouche’s Nicholas of Cusa, whom the Pope discussed in his Angelus speech last October 25.

The world needs a “coincidence of opposites” approach to world peace. China and Russia can help a declining trans-Atlantic world, but only if the United States Presidential system can become capable of responding. The American Presidency is an institution, not merely an individual. LaRouche Independent Presidential candidate Diane Sare will shortly release a statement that will denounce the crazed Pete Hegseth’s  Autonomous Warfare Command, as well as propose a sane approach to a just peace with Iran, China, Russia and all nations. The lesson of that October 6, 40 years ago, is that a great idea, and a great movement for great ideas advanced on behalf of humanity, can never be defeated, if you keep fighting.

Live Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Win-Win and the American System

September 29, 2026by tobi in Helga Webcast

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Wednesday, Sept. 30th, 2026, 11am ET/ 5pm CET

A quick look at the realities confronting the so-called architects of today’s “rules-based” order shows that their system is past the point of no return. The U.S.’ illegal war against Iran is failing to achieve anything other than the destruction of the global economy, and risks spreading throughout the region and beyond. U.S. President Donald Trump, one who is quick to brag about “defeating the deep state” and making everything “great,” has failed at both, and now presides over possibly the worst looming economic disaster in decades.

Take the absolutely disastrous economic shocks that are now sweeping the globe as a result of the illegal war against Iran: Global fertilizer trade is down 20-25% from the start of the war, causing farmers to shift to alternative means of cultivation and decrease the amount of land under cultivation; grain production is estimated to drop 2.5% compared to a year ago as a result of the Iran war, exacerbating an already fragile food situation where more than 2 billion do not have an adequate diet; fuel inventories have been steadily drawn down over the past six months, and are now decreasing by more than 6 million barrels of oil per day globally; and diesel prices have skyrocketed, reaching an all-time record of $6.52/gallon on Sep. 22 in the U.S., forcing a crisis for the productive sectors of every nation in the world.

The Trump administration is now mulling a diesel export ban or related measures to try to lower fuel prices before the midterm elections. The news has already sent shockwaves around the world, particularly in European countries such as Germany, whose fuel reserves are extra low and rely heavily on U.S. imports.

At the same time, U.S. Treasury rates are soaring to their highest levels in decades, with 10-year notes surpassing 5.2% yields on Sep. 28. An article in the London Financial Times on Sept. 22 even admitted what few have dared to: The Federal Reserve has been carrying out full-on quantitative easing—printing money and building up its balance sheet by buying Treasury securities from big Wall Street banks. It began this policy in November 2025, having ended “tightening” nearly a year ago. Thus, despite the much-ballyhooed efforts to rein in inflation, the Fed has been bailing out large banks at a pace of $40 billion/month while assisting them in reducing their Treasury holdings. In case it wasn’t obvious, the underlying fundamentals are not looking good.

While the numbers clearly indicate the economic dead-end of this policy, they also indicate the ongoing dissolution of the underlying Beast-man outlook, currently rampant throughout the Western establishment. From the illegal regime-change wars, to the policies of global economic exploitation, to the toleration of the genocide in Palestine, and the commitment to spend trillions more on military budgets—these policies are being overwhelmingly rejected, even if they still hold sway over a portion of the world.

One only has to look at the recent visit of Pope Leo XIV to France, where he told the audience, “I urge you… never to grow resigned to the prospect of war or to consider it ‘inevitable,’ but instead to persevere in the promotion of dialogue and diplomacy.” He was met by a crowd of 300,000 in Paris and separately by 80,000 youth, in an overwhelming response to the kind of moral leadership lacking in the West today. A similar phenomenon was seen at the New Delhi BRICS Summit, where, for example, the President of Iran was welcomed by a community representing over 50% of the world’s population. This is also evident in the fact that Russia’s Sergey Lavrov participated in a full 50 meetings during his three-day stay in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. Or, in another expression, consider the outpouring of excitement seen at the Schiller Institute NYC Chorus’ recent performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on the 25th anniversary of September 11. Even though infrequently experienced in the world today, Beethoven’s and Schiller’s call that “All men shall become brothers” is ringing in the hearts of a growing portion of humanity.

In discussion with associates on Sep. 28, Helga Zepp-LaRouche characterized the situation as follows:

“If one looks at the process going on at the strategic level, I think it is important to not get stuck in this event or that event, but to actually recognize the fact that we are in the most gigantic transformation of the world order since at least the end of the Second World War—and it is not yet clear what the new order will be. What is clear, however, is that the old order, based on Western dominance and imperial ideas about the superiority of the West—that order is gone indefinitely and for sure.”

This is how to locate the state visit between Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, which the Chinese called a “milestone.” President Xi is optimistic that the so-called Thucydides Trap can be overcome, Zepp-LaRouche continued, because he knows that the majority of the world has “a completely different sense of what security means, namely development,” and is “clearly, consciously” setting about to create entirely new institutions and “a new kind of international cooperation.” Therefore, “if the world is supposed to get out of the dilemma where a Damocles sword of nuclear extinction hangs over us, the only way that will be accomplished is if we can convince the significant forces in Europe and the United States in particular to join with that Global Majority.”

Live Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: UNGA Session Offers Opportunity to Consolidate a New Paradigm.

September 22, 2026by tobi in General, Helga Webcast

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Wednesday, Sept. 23rd, 2026, 11am ET/ 5pm CET

To the Heads of State and Delegations participating in the UN General Assembly in September 2026

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The following statement was released today by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and leader of the Schiller Institute.

This institution,  the United Nations General Assembly, may not be perfect and may need reform, but it does represent still, at this moment of extreme crisis, the most important institution where representatives of the entire human population come together to address existential problems.

This time, the UN General Assembly takes place at a moment of great danger to the very existence of the human species. Two regional wars, the Ukraine war and the war against Iran, are both threatening to escalate into  wider regional conflicts, and even global nuclear war. Several senior  military experts are warning that we are in a situation more dangerous than during the Cuban missile crisis.

Most recently in the United States and Great Britain, the discussion has broken out into the open about the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons, and even the idea that a “limited nuclear war” can be fought and won. Anybody who has studied the matter knows that there is no such thing as a tactical nuclear war, because even the use of a single so-called tactical nuclear weapon will escalate, within days, to a full global nuclear war, leading to the annihilation of the human species.

In the course of the last thirty-five years, after the end of the Cold War,  the world has undergone the transition from  the failed effort to to establish an unipolar world to an unfolding multipolarity, which, however, is still governed by the logic of geopolitics. Geopolitics is based on the idea that one nation, or a group of nations, has a legitimate interest that it can impose on another nation or group of nations. 

We are experiencing at the same time the end of the epoch of five hundred years of colonialism. If we, as the human species, want to prevent this tumultuous transition period from ending up in a new world war, we have to replace geopolitical confrontation with a completely new paradigm, the vision of ONE humanity. It is the same question which was discussed during the time of the young American Republic, in the Federalist Papers:  Can mankind govern itself?

If this question is to be answered affirmatively in the time of  thermonuclear weapons, we must establish an entirely new paradigm: The  idea of the one humanity first, must be put above all particular interests.

This U.N. General Assembly is the place to put the concept of a “New Security and Development Architecture” on the agenda, which must take into account the interests of every single country on the planet.  The four Global Initiatives – but especially the Global Governance Initiative – put forward by China, represent a very practical approach to establishing  the basis for such a new paradigm.

Let the “Spirit of Bandung”, and the “Spirit of Shanghai”, and the spirit of Beethoven’s Ninth symphony, that All People Shall Be Brethren, be your inspiration!

Respectfully,

Helga Zepp-LaRouche,

Founder of the Schiller Institute

Live Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: German Election Result Sends Tremors Worldwide

September 8, 2026by tobi in General, Helga Webcast

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Wednesday, Sept. 9th, 2026, 11am ET/ 5pm CET

“Truly exciting! A political Earthquake” were among the descriptions today by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and leader of the Schiller Institute, speaking of the “smashing defeat” for German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Sept. 6 state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, in which the Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party polled 43.8%, far ahead of any other party. The CDU vote, party of Merz, fell by half since the last election, down to 17.2%. The SPD (Social Democrats) fell to 9.3%. The Linke (Left) went down to 8.6%. The BSW (Alliance Sarah Wagenknecht—Reason and Justice) 5.3% (enough to place in the parliament).

Thus, not just Merz’s Germany, but Europe’s “Big Three” stand repudiated along with Merz, referring to France, led by minority President Emmanuel Macron, and the UK, led by Andy Burnham, the latest of many prime ministers. These leaders have been colluding as the Coalition of the Willing to keep funding and supplying Ukraine as a proxy against Russia, while subverting their own national economies, and all of Europe, with a wild arms build up drive and other destructive policies.

The AfD and the BSW are clear on their policy stance to stop the warfare over Ukraine, and start diplomatic and economic relations with Russia and other countries. They call for resuming the Nord Stream gas pipelines, and other economic basics. On all else, their programs vary greatly in principle and wisdom. You can call it a “mixed bag.” But with over 77% of the eligible voters participating yesterday, the mandate of the Sept. 6 German state election is clear. Their vote is in the direction of a new system of foreign and economic relations, provided there is policy intervention to help lift up the outlook of people, to a higher level of knowledge and reason, to bring about a new system. This is the call to action of people everywhere, to take up this mission.

Either we stop warfare, and we have a new economic and security system in the world, with development as the basis for peace, or we are headed down the short road to World War III, and that means nuclear annihilation. The Saxony-Anhalt vote against Merz is a reflection of, and opportunity for, a shift. …

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Live Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: The Debate Over Nuclear War Is Real

September 1, 2026by tobi in General, Helga Webcast

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Wednesday, Sept. 2nd, 2026, 11am ET/ 5pm CET

On Day One of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s 26th annual heads of state summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan today, leaders representing 3.4 billion people, from the 10 member nations, along with leaders of 17 partner nations and guests, conferred in bilateral meetings on how to proceed for the betterment of the world, stopping war and want. Tomorrow will be plenary presentations and an expected Bishkek Declaration. The official theme of the event is: “25 years of the SCO: Together Toward Sustainable Peace, Development, and Prosperity.”

Meetings in Bishkek included Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Putin and Indian Prime Minister Modi. Turkish President Recep Erdogan and Putin. Xi Jinping and Kyrgyzstan President Sadr Japarov, who is hosting Xi on a state visit, discussing, among other things, infrastructure projects affecting connectivity in all Eurasia. Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian met with Putin, with Modi, and other leaders including Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. There were many leaders and meetings.

The preliminary reports coming out of the SCO confab show that the focus of the extraordinary number of consultations taking place reiterates the need for peace and diplomacy in the world, in direct rejection of the current hallmark positions of the collective West, which is that might-makes-right in both military and economic terms.

The United States, alongside Israel, after six months of making war on Iran, with no “victory,” resumed bombing over the weekend, hitting Iran’s Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran then responded by targeted strikes on U.S. sites in Jordan and the UAE. The European war-making alignment continues its backing of Ukraine, extreme rearmament, and demonizing Russia, while the economy of Europe itself is in breakdown. EU defense ministers will meet in Ireland tomorrow, locked in this destructive mode.

But the most dramatic event of the day, is how the new economic warfare campaign launched by the United States against the world, in the name of harming Iran— “Operation Economic Outcast”—is already a non-starter after barely a week in progress. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the U.S. policy Aug. 24, and reiterated it yesterday and today at the Group of 20 finance officials, who are meeting in North Carolina, preparatory to the G20 heads of state summit set for Florida this December. Bessent told AP Aug. 30, that nations must break off relations with Iran, and if they don’t, “This is going to be financial violence if we have to. We are showing people that we know who you are, you know who you are, and this has got to stop.”

The world responds. Today, Prime Minister Modi and Pres. Pezeshkian discussed how to increase the trade and economic relations between their two nations. This follows China having already stated it will not honor the Bessent decree.

Bessent is in a flight forward at the Ashville, NC gathering. Today he thanked the EU officials present for supporting the U.S. “Operation Economic Outcast,” while media say his other support is confined to the UK, Japan, and Bahrain. What the U.S. “Outcast” initiative has done is spotlight the pending blow-out of the entire dollar system. Bessent and Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh tried to fend off questions, by saying “growth” will allow handling of debt, and minimizing the U.S. $40 trillion government debt. When a reporter asked about why the U.S. is buying-back its own Treasury notes, Bessent deflected by saying, EU Central Bank head Mario Draghi did it in Europe. Japan did it bigger than anyone.

The immediate danger amid all this glaring Western decline, and Global Majority advance, is the recourse by some still in positions of power to resort to use of the “nuclear option” in warfare. It’s for the sane to sound the alarm in all possible ways.

Join those circulating the letter for an urgent world meeting, “Appeal to Pope Leo XIV To Organize a Global Leaders Summit To Address the Questions of Peace and Nuclear Disarmament.”

Join the dialogue on the alternative to war and breakdown. The EIR will co-host this Friday Sept. 4 an online Roundtable, “An Alternative to War and Looting in the Americas.” This event features speakers for a dialogue on the kinds of projects and approach also now raised at the Bishkek SCO summit, and Sept. 1-4 in Vladivostok at Russia’s Eastern Economic Forum. Sept. 12-13 in New Delhi, India will host the annual BRICS heads of state summit.

Live Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Are Bessent’s Sanctions D-Day for the U.S. Economy?

August 25, 2026by tobi in Helga Webcast

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Wednesday, Aug, 26, 2026, 11am ET/ 5pm CET

On Thursday, Oct. 25, 1962, three days after President Kennedy announced the discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba, Pope John XXIII went on Vatican Radio and asked the governments of the world to keep talking. The next morning Pravda carried the appeal, under the headline “Save Peace!” (or “Save the World!”) quoting him at length: let leaders “heed the anguished cry which, from every point of the earth, from innocent children to the aged, from individuals to communities, rises toward Heaven: peace! Peace!” The day after the Pravda report, Khrushchev proposed to Kennedy the exchange that ended the crisis.

Consider the present situation.

Gold has overtaken U.S. Treasuries as the single largest central bank reserve asset by market value. The 30-year Treasury yield touched a nineteen-year high. The Treasury doubled the size of its own bond buybacks, and the effect lasted only briefly. On Monday the Secretary of the Treasury announced an operation whose stated terms are that any entity facilitating Iranian money laundering “will be removed from the U.S. dollar system” and named gold as one of five sectors to be sanctioned. Three American officials told a reporter that 40 tankers crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Friday night, carrying 16 million barrels. That claim is difficult to reconcile with commercial vessel-tracking data, which showed far fewer recorded vessel transits.

What that costs is counted in people. The American labor force lost about 1.3 million of them in twelve months. That decline is especially striking in an aging country whose labor-force growth increasingly depends on immigration, especially as another million are to be struck from it by early 2027.

What is a human being for? “It is not the exertion of physical force by men which rules mankind,” Lyndon LaRouche wrote in 1994, in The Science of Physical Economy as the Platonic Epistemological Basis for All Branches of Human Knowledge, published in EIR. “Mankind is ruled by the force of ideas, by the interplay of those contending ideas which, acting through the minds of men, thus control the physical conduct of society.” And in the same essay, against every doctrine that sorts human beings into the useful and the disposable: “The human race is made up of nothing but individuals who share in common that spark of creative reason which defines all persons as in the image of the Creator.”

A million people removed from a labor force are not a statistic. They are a million minds a nation’s leadership has decided it does not require.

Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States, is in Moscow. He meets Sergey Lavrov Tuesday, Aug. 25, and Yuri Ushakov, President Putin’s foreign policy aide, the next day. An open letter released Aug. 19 asks Pope Leo XIV to convene the heads of state of the three principal nuclear powers, in the spirit of John XXIII’s appeal in 1962. Leo has already made the argument himself: on July 30, 2025, marking fifty years since the Helsinki Final Act, he called it essential “to persevere in dialogue, strengthen cooperation, and make diplomacy the preferred path.”

Will we “save peace” today?

Live Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: U.S. War Hawks Push Option to Use Tactical Nukes

August 18, 2026by tobi in Helga Webcast

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Wednesday, Aug, 19, 2026, 11am ET/ 5pm CET

Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has caused a firestorm by posting on X that she is not speculating when she says that President Trump is contemplating nuclear strikes on Iran.

In a post which has now over five million views, MTG said, “They are discussing using nuclear weapons on Iran in strategy meetings. Yes you read that correctly. It’s real. I’m not speculating, I know. And it’s pure evil.”

White House spokesman Davis Ingle was quick to respond, telling USA Today: “Marjorie ‘Quitter’ Greene has no idea what she is talking about…She is completely out of the loop and should quit spreading Fake News.”

Honesty has not been a strong trait of the Trump administration’s foreign policy, but rather than speculate, given the massive destructive potential of nuclear weapons, every person should mobilize to ensure that a nuclear weapon is not used. Not in Iran and not anywhere else.

Retired German General Harald Kujat, who had been Chairman of the NATO Military Committee two decades ago, had said that the great fear of the Soviet Union, now the Russian Federation, was a Cuban Missile Crisis in reverse. Worse than that, the Russian leadership must know that even before the end of WWII, Britain’s alcoholic Prime Minister Winston Churchill was already contemplating a nuclear first strike against the then Soviet Union.

If one looks at the arc of history from the dropping of the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which had more to do with threatening Russia than defeating Japan (which had already been defeated), the world has been moving in the direction of nuclear war with a few brief exceptional periods.

The great American statesman and former presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche warned in 2011, when Muammar Gaddafi was brutally murdered in the streets, that this was preparatory to a war with Russia.

That march toward nuclear war with Russia has been pushed by the Anglo-Zionist Epstein-class billionaires behind successive American presidencies from Barack Obama to Donald Trump’s second term.

The stakes are even higher today because their multi-quadrillion-dollar bubble of speculative obligations is nearing the end of its sustainability. People who think nothing of raping and shooting children at short range will not shy away from using a nuclear weapon. As far as they are concerned, they have two highly compatible objectives:

1. Reduce the world’s population

2. Maintain their monetarist financial dictatorship

The problem they have is that human beings are not animals. As the great poet of freedom, Friedrich Schiller said in his play “Wilhelm Tell,” “There is a limit to a tyrant’s power.” Billions of people in the nations of the BRICS-plus, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Organization of African Unity, to name a few, reject the old colonial order. They do not believe that might makes right.

China has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, and India celebrated 79 years of independence from the British Empire on August 15th.

The way to avoid a thermonuclear Armageddon is for the nations of the West, in particular the United States, to recognize that they have a shared future with the entirety of mankind.

There will soon be a second letter to Pope Leo, signed by prominent peace activists, political leaders, military analysts and others, asking him to convene an emergency international peace conference. It is indeed fortuitous that the leader of the Catholic Church comes from the United States, and that he is a profound thinker familiar with the writings of Nicholas of Cusa.

Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche has convened an International Peace Coalition that has become an important meeting place for the adults in the room, as South Africa’s former Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor has said. On September 4th, the IPC will also host an EIR Roundtable: An Alternative to War and Looting in the Americas.

LaRouche congressional candidate Jose Vega is leading a national fight against the Epstein elite by targeting one of their lead ducks, Richie Torres in the Bronx. Long-time LaRouche associate independent presidential candidate Diane Sare has become a spokesperson for an appropriate presidential policy, as reflected in her interview prominently featured in TASS.

On September 11th, the Schiller Institute NYC Chorus will bring the poetry of Schiller to life with a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and the Brahms Naenie on the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks.

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Live Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Tectonic Shifts and the Science of a New Paradigm

August 11, 2026by tobi in Helga Webcast

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Wednesday, Aug, 12, 2026, 11am ET/ 5pm CET

Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s closing remarks to IPC #166:

Well, I think the crucial question was posed by you, Jack, earlier in your remarks, when you said we have to look for moral leaders. Because answering the question of the nun from Spain, I think the letter you have composed, Jack, with the letter to the Pope going through Archbishop Wester, but then basically making that a rallying point for everybody. I think that that points to the right way to go for the highest possible solution, which would be moral leadership from the Pope and to get together the three leaders of the most powerful nations in the world. That is China, the United States, and Russia. And that way, you have something to rally everybody around.

Because the problem is, and I agree with what Scott Ritter had to say about that you cannot be happy that the Anglo-American empire is clearly in a decline, because I have said many times, and I believe that deeply, that while the Soviet Union disintegrated peacefully in 1991, I do not think that the Anglo-American empire will dismantle itself as peacefully. I think that when they have the feeling that they are at the point of demise, exactly what Scott was pointing to, the danger of the use of nuclear weapons becomes the most acute.

So therefore, the question is, what can we do under the circumstances? The main problem we have is that the masses of people in the collective West, which is not so collective anymore, are either complacent, indifferent, just not informed, or too fearful to act. So, we have to do something which catalyzes emotion in those people. And I think the idea that if everybody contributes, no matter where they come from, let them come from a Catholic background, and there we have a lot to do, because the Catholic churches are not everywhere against the war. …

But in any case, it has to come from the religions, not only the Christian religions, but we should branch out to essentially all religions of goodwill, all people of goodwill. And then at the same time, basically say an ecumenical approach, which stretches the word ecumenical beyond religion, to include people who are concerned with the well-being of humanity. And that happens to include China, for example, because if you look at the record of China in the last 40, 50 years, having transformed 850 million people of their own country from total poverty to now basically being the most wealthy, prosperous country in the world. … Then you have many others. We should think about what method to use. It cannot be violence. It cannot, in any case, add to the already escalated level of violence in the world on all levels, from school shootings to the level of aggressive wars.

So, we need to go back to the theories of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, except that we do not need armed resistance for the reason of nonviolence, which I just mentioned.

But it needs to also appeal to that, and that is what this beautiful nun from Spain said, this internal better quality of man where man is the living image of God, imago viva Dei. Because if we do not evoke that absolute precious element within each human being, which does separate us from all other creatures. People can love their pets, and there’s something very beautiful in pets, but it is only the human being being in the image of God, the Creator, which makes us creative. And that is what is so precious and what is in danger of being trampled upon and eradicated with all this violence, pornography, perversion, and all of these things which are satanic in our present environment.

So, it comes to the question of elevating people, ennobling people, appealing to that which makes them participate in the eternal chain of human generations, where each of us has the absolute obligation to contribute something to make the next generations live more rich and better in wisdom, in creativity, in having access to the beauty of this universe, than the previous generations.

We have to appeal to that love for mankind. I believe that without evoking love for mankind, we will not succeed. So, I can only ask all of the participants and listeners of this discussion, take this letter to Archbishop Wester, get it around, get the program, this time we will have the entire program of the IPC as a video, get it around so that people can listen to the arguments, what we are fighting against, the danger of extinction, the memory of Hiroshima, the parallels in the present, the dangerous situation we are in, the demands of this changing world situation which does require that each of us act and not sit on the fence of history.

So, if everybody would start to become an organizer appealing to the Pope, the Pope would be surrounded by an ever more powerful chorus of voices from Africa, from Latin America, from Europe, from Asia, all demanding that he takes this role. And I’m sure that Putin would react exactly like Khrushchev did. And I think that Xi Jinping would also listen. And I think then we could convince President Trump, who set out in his second term, to bring better relations with Russia and China, that he still could do that. And hopefully, we will move the world into a secure domain.

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Live Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: On the Escalation Ladder to Nuclear War: Where Are the Responsible Figures?

July 28, 2026by tobi in General, Helga Webcast

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Wednesday, July 29, 2026, 11am ET/ 5pm CET

In her new article “On the Escalation Ladder to Nuclear War: Where Are the Responsible Figures?”, soon to be published in the EIR Magazine, Helga Zepp-LaRouche addresses the current danger of nuclear war resulting from an escalation in two volatile flashpoints—Ukraine and the Middle East.

Zepp-LaRouche writes:

The strategic situation threatens to spiral completely out of control in the short term due to two escalating regional wars—in Ukraine and the Middle East—potentially resulting in a global economic depression within weeks or, at most, months, or perhaps even leading in the short term to a nuclear Third World War. This existential concern is shared by a large portion of the population in the so-called “collective West,” yet the political establishment of the West—with few exceptions—makes not the slightest attempt to bring the war in Ukraine to an end through diplomacy and negotiation. While such efforts do exist regarding the war against Iran, they currently lack the necessary programmatic approach, and consequently, the requisite impact.

Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche for her weekly Live Dialogue and discuss her analysis and the implications for the current strategic situation.

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