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On Monday, Aug. 18, President Donald Trump hosted acting Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and seven European leaders at the White House for a series of meetings on ending the conflict in Ukraine, following up on his Alaska summit last Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In a statement following the discussions, Trump reported two primary outcomes of those meetings: 1) moving toward a bilateral meeting between President Putin and President Zelenskyy, followed by a trilateral meeting including President Trump; and 2) discussions of security guarantees for Ukraine, “provided by the various European Countries, with a coordination with the United States of America.”

Prior to and during the meeting, those security guarantees were the obsession of the European leaders who had scrambled to Washington to back Ukraine as the last bastion against “the evil Russian invader.” It isn’t known exactly what kind of security guarantees were discussed behind closed doors, and, as with many things, the devil is in the details. While Russia will never accept European and NATO boots on the ground in Ukraine—especially with long-range missile capability—that is exactly what the British have been calling for, and it is quite unlikely that the Coalition of the Willing has so quickly suffered a change of heart.

What is needed for the world is true security, which comes not in preparing for war and deterring the enemy through military might, as heard in the hyperventilating proclamations of the geopolitically minded, warmongering European leaders; the true content of security, and of peace, is development.

This indisputable fact rests upon the authority of natural law: Mankind is a one—a unified species whose fundamental characteristic is creative discovery. The maximum development of the creative capacity of our species across the entire planet is in the best interest of every person in every nation. This principle is enshrined in the American Declaration of Independence as the Leibnizian “pursuit of happiness.”

The shift in the world that began in the Aug. 15 Alaska summit between President Trump and President Putin, away from the precipice of confrontation between nuclear powers, must be seen against the backdrop of the larger, tectonic shift occurring in the world order. The geopolitical, unipolar system is over, and more and more nations of the world, such as the BRICS+ nations, are reorganizing themselves into new modes of cooperation and collaboration for long-overdue development.

This was expressed in a statement by President Putin on the website of the Vladivostok Eastern Economic Forum, whose upcoming meeting begins September 3: “We have identified the development of the Far East as a national priority for the entire 21st century. The importance and correctness of this decision has been confirmed by life itself, by the challenges we have faced recently, and, most importantly, by the real trends that are gaining momentum in the global economy, where the key business ties, trade routes, and in general, the entire vector of development are increasingly reorienting toward the East and the Global South.”

Helga Zepp-LaRouche has called for the crucial next steps to be taken coming out of the Trump-Putin summit: President Trump must go to Beijing for the September 3rd 80th anniversary commemoration of the end of World War II and there meet with Presidents Xi Jinping and Putin; to cement a new direction for the world, away from the forever wars of the British Empire, those three Presidents must agree to lead a new mode of economic development among nations, spearheaded by the Bering Strait tunnel project.

In her call to those leaders to initiate what she calls the “perfect war-avoidance policy,” Zepp-LaRouche declares: “But there is something even more elevated you can do, by not only fighting off the threats facing mankind, but by giving the whole world a beautiful vision for the future. You could agree to build a corridor across the Bering Strait, and with that rail and tunnel project unite the rail systems of Eurasia with those of the Americas. This project would open up for development the vast untapped resources of Siberia, as well as the U.S. Arctic resources of oil, gas, precious metals of all kinds, as well as fresh water. Siberia and the Russian Far East hold the largest deposits of raw materials of all the elements which one can find in Mendeleyev’s Periodic Table, and the joint development of these resources, to which many other resource-poor countries could be invited, could become the perfect war-avoidance program and greatly enhance the prosperity of the world.”

That is true security for humanity.

Join Diane Sare and Helga Zepp-LaRouche in her weekly live dialogue.
This week’s topics will include the outcome of the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, the peace process in general, and the initiatives of the international LaRouche movement.
Send your questions, comments and reports to questions@schillerinstitute.org or ask them in the next live stream.

As the world remembers the unnecessary atomic bombings and loss of lives in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th 1945, Helga Zepp-LaRouche will interview Dr. Akiko Mikamo on Wednesday, August 6, 11am EDT/5pm CET.

Dr. Akiko Mikamo is the author of the book and film “8:15 Hiroshima—From Father to Daughter,” based on a first-hand account of her father Shinji Mikamo.

Dr. Akiko Mikamo is a Japanese psychologist, author, and the executive producer of the film. The film presents the horrifying reality of nuclear war from Shinji’s perspective, but also provides the basis for which future wars can be avoided, through love, forgiveness, and compassion for the other. Such a message has never been more needed than now, as we approach the 80th anniversary of the use of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two events which have not been properly understood by the majority of the American public, but which show us the horrifying truth of nuclear warfare.

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

Events are swirling crazily beneath the persisting danger of warfare breaking out into nuclear conflagration. “The war danger is the key dynamic which remains unbroken,” was the warning given today by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and leader of the Schiller Institute. The danger is dramatically evident in Southwest Asia—in Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza, and the recent attacks on Iran by Israel and the U.S., in Ukraine, and in the madness of ReArm Europe and Global NATO. In this context three events are notable today.

First, that the Gaza carnage continues. New gestures of relief have been taken, but no intervention to stop that carnage. Today was Day Two of Israel’s announced agreement to halt military action for a few hours a day to allow some aid trucks to enter Gaza, and air drops; that little did take place, but nothing sufficient to lower the terrible, rising death toll from malnutrition, starvation and dehydration. On Sunday, July 27, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu said mockingly, “There is no policy of starvation in Gaza. There is no starvation in Gaza,” calling any reports of starvation “bold-faced lies.” His Minister of Energy Eli Levy admitted that Israel has only agreed to allow some aid, in order to avoid sanctions, threatened over the weekend by Europe.

New voices are sounding from within Israel, denouncing acting Prime Minister Netanyahu for committing genocide, but more leadership from everywhere is needed.

Secondly, today was the first of two days of the UN High-Level Conference on the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, for Palestine and Israel, in New York. For six hours, reports were given on the prior work from several roundtables, as well as speeches presented from dozens of nations.

The UN described the intent of the two-day conference as being to lay “the groundwork for sustained international engagement, accountability, and implementation in support of a just and lasting peace.” But where is the “economics”? How are the means to life to be secured? The infrastructure? The basis for hope? Even the work on Roundtable 3, whose assigned subject was “From Rubble to Renewal: Humanitarian Relief, Reconstruction, and the Promise of Peace,” gave no vision of regional economic development, indispensable to guide actions for peace.

This makes it all the more necessary to circulate the LaRouche “Oasis Plan”—the perspective of full development throughout the region, from water and power, to transportation, agro-industry, towns and countryside.

The LaRouche Organization and Schiller institute organizers were out in force on the streets around the United Nations for today’s important gathering, putting forward the Oasis Plan and why it’s a necessity.

Thirdly, President Trump, alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Scotland today, made a spectacle of announcing to the skies his triumph of concluding a U.S.-European Union trade deal, after talks with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen over the weekend. The terms are outlandishly terrible for Europe and bad for the U.S. “Europe is self-destructing by self-capitulating,” commented Zepp-LaRouche. Italian economist Michele Geraci said, “In Palermo, we would say, ‘cornute e bastinati’” (cuckolded and beaten).

The terms include that EU goods into the U.S. will have a 15% tariff imposed, but U.S. goods go tariff free into the EU. The sector tariffs of 50% will remain on European steel and aluminum entering the U.S. The EU is to invest a new $600 billion in the U.S. over the period left until the end of Trump’s term; and likewise make purchases of $750 billion of U.S. energy exports.

The White House issued a Fact Sheet today, titled, “The United States and European Union Reach Massive Trade Deal.” Another White House release is, “DEAL-MAKER-IN-CHIEF: President Trump Secures Landmark Peace, Trade Deals,” claiming many successes. Trump himself, addressing the world, said today: “We’re going to be setting a tariff for the rest of the world. They’re going to pay if they want to do business in the United States.”

Capping off his economic madness, Trump announced in Scotland that Russia has only 10 to 12 days to come to terms of ceasefire in Ukraine—not the 50 days he set two weeks ago—or face economic retaliation. Trump made comments about being disappointed in Russia, and then repeated his threat from before, that he will impose sanctions and secondary tariffs if Russia is noncompliant. Dmitry Medvedev, former President of Russia, replied on X today, “Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his [Trump’s] own country.”

Be sure to link up with the International Peace Coalition, which meets Fridays by Zoom: the next meeting Aug. 1.

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

The Bomb Is Not In Iran, But In The Financial System

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

While the Western media are filled with leaks and counter-leaks about the whereabouts of over 400 kg of enriched uranium and whether Iran’s centrifuges to enrich it were destroyed or not, what is becoming clear is that no one really cared about that. If they had, the negotiations would have continued, and the United States would have made an agreement (“a deal”), probably brokered by Russia with Iran, to allow Iran the peaceful development of nuclear energy, while guaranteeing the security of Israel.

Instead, President Trump apparently lied to the world, pretending that he had told Bibi Netanyahu to hold off bombing Iran during the ongoing negotiations, only to enable Israel to make a surprise attack, killing dozens of Iranian scientists and military leaders in their beds along with their families. On top of that, the “neutral” nuclear watch-dog IAEA, admitted after the Israeli attacks (and BEFORE the U.S. attacks) that Iran actually wasn’t building a bomb, although the IAEA had claimed just a few days earlier that Iran had “violated” certain provisions, just in time to create a pretext for Israel’s attack.

All of this hoopla about Iran has nothing to do with why certain forces are pushing for war. As Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche told her international associates on June 30, the issue is “the systemic bankruptcy of the trans-Atlantic system and the unwillingness of the establishments to correct their policies and their insistence that they want to remain in their dominant position in the world.”

Therefore, the only way to be sure that we are not on the cusp of nuclear war, whether in the Middle East or elsewhere, is to eliminate the cause of the conflict by establishing a new economic and security architecture that recognizes the right of every nation to be secure and prosperous, which will require a bankruptcy reorganization of the trans-Atlantic system and the admission that the $2 quadrillion everything-bubble simply cannot be saved.

While the world is obsessed with whether or not Trump totally or only partially, or not at all, destroyed Iran’s nuclear enrichment capability, Russia is steadfastly winning the war against NATO in Ukraine on the battlefield. Russia just announced that Lugansk has been “fully liberated” from the pro-Nazi scourge. No amount of weapons from the bankrupt Europeans will save Zelenskyy’s regime.

Over 5 billion people on the planet live in nations which have rejected the British imperial system, and are forging a new order, not based on winner-take-all, or master-slave relations, but as Russian President Putin put it, more like a symphony orchestra, where each unique voice contributes to the harmony of the whole.

As we approach the American Independence Day holiday on July 4, now would be a good time to remember that we have been in an ongoing brawl against the British Empire for more than 250 years. LaRouche put it this way in a 2004 speech entitled, “I Stand at the Bedside of a Doomed Empire:”

“We were almost crushed, repeatedly. The intention of Britain was to destroy us. This was the perpetual policy, of the British toward the United States, and the policy of the key traitors within the United States: Such as Gallatin, such as Aaron Burr, such as the leadership of many of the political parties. The controllers of agents, such as Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Polk, Pierce, Buchanan, who were agents of the enemy, determined to destroy us.

“In the process, the American patriotic tradition had a resurgence: around the tradition of Lafayette, around the personality of John Quincy Adams, and with a very significant recruit by John Quincy Adams to his cause, the Whig, Abraham Lincoln, who was Quincy Adams’ voice, in the Congress in denouncing the Polk Presidency for the war against Mexico, of that period. And that President Lincoln, later, led the United States to return to itself, as a nation.”

It is time for the United States to return to itself and stop participating in British imperial atrocities. Your neighbors and the world would appreciate that.

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

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

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

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.