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The potential of President Macron’s visit – Helga Zepp-LaRouche on CGTN

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

The following article by Helga Zepp-LaRouche was published today on CGTN:

The fourth visit of Emmanuel Macron in his capacity as president of France comes at a moment of strategic turmoil at several crisis spots around the world, on which China and France don’t have identical views. But since the strategic stability in the world requires stable and mutually beneficial relations between China and the European Union, Macron’s visit could help to improve the overall dynamics.

France has a special importance for China ever since several leaders of the Communist Party of China (CPC), such as Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping, studied in France in the early 20th century. At that time, some 4,000 Chinese young men went to France to study, inspired by the wish to modernize China. Many of them went to study and work in the city of Montargis. Deng Xiaoping was among them. It is there that politicized by the Russian revolution, they decided, in discussion with Mao Zedong, to launch the CPC in 1921.

Such a historical foundation of relations could be beneficial when Europe is struggling for its true identity, divided between the so-called Coalition of the Willing — those who want to continue the war in Ukraine, and the countries that see the advantage of strengthening relations with the BRICS countries as a whole, such as Spain, Italy, Portugal, Iceland, Hungary and Slovakia.

France has gone through five different prime ministers in the last two years, while Macron’s approval rating has recently hit a historic low of below 20 percent. The country is overindebted, and has difficulties agreeing on a budget for the coming year, due to social cuts in various areas. Macron therefore will seek to improve cooperation in economic and trade matters, encouraging more investments from Chinese companies and improved market access for French exports.

During the visit, officials from both nations are expected to sign several agreements in the energy, food industry and aviation sectors.

Given the ambitious orientation of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030), with its emphasis on innovation as the driver of the economy, the increased budget for basic research and development and advances in so-called disruptive technologies will open potentially interesting perspectives for more cooperation with France.

France has traditionally been a leading country in aviation, space, nuclear energy and fusion technology, but in recent years has been falling behind. Cooperation with China in these fields could be a welcome boost for the French economy to overcome its present difficulties.

This could also involve third countries. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, where more than 30 states including China are cooperating, is located in south of France. It is an excellent example of international cooperation in the high-tech sector, benefiting all participating states.

The recent opening of the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia is another example of such multinational cooperation and successful joint ventures in third countries. For this project, Chinese, Ethiopian, Italian and French firms cooperated successfully to not only provide electricity to Ethiopia, but also to enable it to export electricity to neighboring countries.

With European economies being interwoven, the French economic difficulties are closely related to those of the other European economies, especially Germany’s. The head of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) has just published a report, describing the national German economy as being in “free fall.”

According to BDI President Peter Leibinger, the German economy is “experiencing its deepest crisis since the founding of the Federal Republic,” and he expects production to slump by two percent this year, marking the fourth consecutive year of decline.

With France and Germany, the two largest economies of Europe which are closely tied and both in an existential crisis, Macron’s visit could potentially represent a turning point. China’s success and breakthroughs in many of the most advanced high-tech areas could be an inspiration for Europe. They offer many areas of cooperation, particularly in Africa.

It will also be important to improve and upgrade people-to-people relations, especially an increased exchange of youth, since the young people of Europe can benefit from the optimistic outlook of the young people in China.

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Live with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Military Buildup Will Not Save Collapsing EU Economies, Dec 3rd 2025, 11am ET/5pm CET

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Today in the afternoon U.S. Presidential envoy Steve Witkoff is scheduled to meet in Moscow with President Vladimir Putin, toward confirming terms that can be the basis of settlement of the Ukraine conflict. This follows upon the four-hour meeting yesterday between U.S. leaders, and the Ukrainian delegation—headed by Rustem Umerov, head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, which took place at Witkoff’s Florida golf and residential club. No definitive break nor resolution has come about for either success or failure of this process of U.S. engagement in talks, but the process is valuable, and reality has a way of intervening.

There is no use-value in prognosticating about exactly when and what may result at any exact time in this diplomatic process, which itself is nevertheless useful, in large part because of the context of reality asserting itself. Ukraine cannot continue with the mortal losses it is suffering in being used by the Western geopolitical interests as a proxy against Russia. That is the reality. Demanding Ukraine continue warfare, when a resolution can be found, is immoral insanity.

On display in Brussels today, at the EU Foreign Affairs Council (Defense) meeting of ministers, was exactly that: immoral insanity. EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas gave a mad-woman speech about how Europe must continue to back Ukraine to the hilt, and moreover, continue itself to arm and make ready against Russia. She boasted that Europe has already contributed $187 billion to Ukraine, and must continue such support. She praised the Netherlands for announcing it will build an arms production center in Ukraine. She praised the specific EU war preparation programs, “Defense Readiness Roadmap” and the “Military Mobility Package.”

Chairman of the NATO Military Committee Adm. Giuseppe Cavo Dragone (Italy) went even further. In an interview with London’s Financial Times on Dec. 1, Admiral Dragone said that even a pre-emptive strike against Russia is among the many things NATO is thinking about. Though he said, as a feint, that such a strike “is further away from our normal way of thinking and behavior,” Dragone nevertheless clearly raised the prospect as a favorable option.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, leader of the Schiller Institute, today denounced this kind of madness among “top European leaders,” reporting, “we are run by madmen.” Characterizing the world situation, she stressed that, “we have a strategic picture of maximum tension, dangers and potentials,” and the situation “requires our intervention.”

The actions of NATO can be described as “institutionalized madness.” NATO Director General Mark Rutte met with Kallas today at the time of the EU Foreign Affairs ministers meeting, supporting her crazed declarations. Moreover, Rutte spoke on Dec. 1 with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, in a 20-minute call, pledging what amounts to Global NATO expansion. Takaichi’s office afterward issued a read out, reporting: “Takaichi highlighted that the security of the Euro-Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific is inseparable and cooperation between Japan-NATO and NATO-IP4 (Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea) is strategically important. In response, Secretary-General Rutte supported such views, and both leaders concurred on working together to elevate our cooperative relationship to new heights through concrete cooperation….”

Zepp-LaRouche took the gloves off against NATO in an interview with the China Media Group, broadcast widely on CGTN Dec. 1. She identified the expansion of NATO as the fundamental cause triggering the Ukraine conflict, and then painted the broad picture. “Although NATO claims its original intention was peaceful, after the military interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and other countries, NATO’s so-called ‘peaceful conduct’ becomes untenable.”

She pointed to the solution, addressing Europe, but with a point universally applicable. “Overall, I think we need to achieve a transformation in the way of thinking in Europe, because wherever you look, whether it’s Venezuela, the Middle East, or Ukraine, all these conflicts would become much easier to resolve if Western countries could change their mindset, turn to cooperation with Global South countries and the global majority, and return to diplomacy.”

Note, as of the time of preparation of this item, that a White House meeting is underway this evening, commissioned by President Donald Trump to provide him “options” for further action in the Caribbean against Venezuela. The prospects are grim, given the known stance for brute force by the advisers he has assembled.

This is the time to expand interventions of all kinds for reason and diplomacy, not warfare. The weekly International Peace Coalition Meeting, serving international collaboration, is Dec. 5, at 11:00 a.m. (ET).


Helga Zepp-LaRouche Scores NATO, Calls for Europe-Global South Cooperation in China Media Group Interview

Dec. 1, 2025 (EIRNS)—In an interview with China Media Group, Helga Zepp-LaRouche identified the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as the fundamental cause triggering the conflict, reported Bastille Post:

“Many people are well aware that the Russia-Ukraine conflict is a consequence of NATO’s eastward expansion and its deployment of offensive weapon systems around Russia. Russia’s early warning time could be as short as five minutes. Russia has repeatedly stated this. From the perspective of Russia’s national security, this is unacceptable,” said Zepp-LaRouche.

She said that the outbreak of the conflict involves profound factors including geopolitics, security concerns, and historical and cultural identity. NATO’s eastward expansion, gradually approaching Russia, has intensified Russia’s security apprehensions, particularly given NATO’s actions in regions like the Middle East over recent decades that have plunged many countries into turmoil.

“Although NATO claims its original intention was peaceful, after the military interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and other countries, NATO’s so-called ‘peaceful conduct’ becomes untenable,” Zepp-LaRouche said.

Zepp-LaRouche said that Europe needs to change its mindset and resolve the Russia-Ukraine conflict through diplomatic channels, rather than continuously increasing military and financial support to Ukraine as is currently happening, which does not contribute to conflict resolution.

“Overall, I think we need to achieve a transformation in the way of thinking in Europe, because wherever you look, whether it’s Venezuela, the Middle East, or Ukraine, all these conflicts would become much easier to resolve if Western countries could change their mindset, turn to cooperation with Global South countries and the global majority, and return to diplomacy,” she said.


Live with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: The FDR-LaRouche Solution, Nov 26 2025, 11am ET/5pm CET

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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.


Live with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: No More Wars, No More Regime Changes, Nov 19 2025, 11am ET/5pm CET

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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.

Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche in her live dialogue and discuss the issues and solutions that move the world and its people. Send your questions, comments, and reports to questions@schillerinstitute.org or post them in the next live stream.


Live with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: So, You Wish to Learn Statecraft?, Nov 12 2025, 11am ET/5pm CET

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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.


Zepp-LaRouche: ‘A New International Youth Movement Is More Urgent Than Ever

Nov. 9, 2025 (EIRNS)—Creating an international youth movement organized around the seminal ideas of Lyndon H. LaRouche was the central subject of the second day of the Nov. 8-9 Paris conference, co-sponsored by the Schiller Institute and France’s Solidarity and Progress party. As the invitation to the event stated, the intense, day-long cadre school was designed “for the young and the most motivated among you. What is the physical economy and why should we study and teach it? What does a culture of life and discovery mean? How can we enable everyone to develop their creativity and use it as a tool for the common good? What could a culture of beauty and truth be?”

Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche had issued the challenge in her remarks a day earlier, on Nov. 8, at the beginning of the day’s third panel, whose theme was “Youth From Around the World for Peace and Mutual Development.”

“So, I think that the need to create a new international youth movement is more urgent than ever before,” Zepp-LaRouche began, “because it is very clear that we have reached, in terms of the long arc of history, that if we make it through this period, historians will look back and say this particular time was when the decision had to be made to change the system or not survive. Because never before in history was there a situation where all of civilization was at stake.”

She emphasized the central strategic issue: “As long as we keep this geopolitical confrontation between NATO on the one side, and Russia, China and possibly other countries, such as Iran and North Korea, we are sitting on a complete powder keg,” which could even bring the world to the brink of nuclear war.

“But if you look at the world as a whole, you don’t want to compete geopolitically for influence in Africa between the West and China. That’s exactly what you don’t want. What you want is a cooperative approach, including equal partners from African nations to do this.”

To address this crisis, Zepp-LaRouche explained, “what we are offering is a plan that we will build an international youth movement in Africa, and in as many countries as possible. That we will build youth movements everywhere we can, in Asia, in Latin America…. That then we will perfect this plan for the industrialization of Africa, and naturally likewise in Latin America. And then we go to the industries [in the West] and tell them these are the options where you should invest.”

Zepp-LaRouche explained that such an approach is in the interest of the so-called West, as well as the Global Majority. “If Europe would make the decision to industrialize Africa, together with China and maybe Russia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Brazil, it could be done. We could change the direction quickly.”

She concluded: “So that’s really my challenge to you, that you all join this movement, now, on the spot, and commit yourself to be part of it.”


Zepp-LaRouche Open Letter: Replicate Cusa’s Thinking and Initiate a New Renaissance for Our World Today

Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche issued an open letter on Nov. 5, calling for representatives of all religions and cultures around the world to start a dialogue to solve the strategic crises facing Mankind, inspired by Nicolaus of Cusa’s “coincidence of opposites” method of thinking, as recently emphasized by Pope Leo XIV in his Oct. 25 Jubilee Audience sermon. Zepp-LaRouche’s letter is followed by a packet of print and video documentary materials, including crucial writings on Cusa by Zepp-LaRouche and her late husband, Lyndon H. LaRouche.



Russia’s Concept of a Peace Order – Russia’s #2 UN diplomat interviewed by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

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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Live with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Revival of Cusa Opens a New Vision for Peace

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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).

Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche in her live dialogue and discuss the issues and solutions that move the world and its people. Send your questions, comments, and reports to questions@schillerinstitute.org or post them in the next live stream.


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