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In an interview with Global Times, Helga Zepp-LaRouche was asked whether China’s Global Civilization Initiative, which Zepp-LaRouche has repeatedly emphasized as the only viable solution to the global crisis, offers a new model for the interaction of different cultures in today’s world. Zepp-LaRouche replied that her institute [the Schiller Institute] was founded in 1984 with the same idea, that the world needs a new and just world economic order, but that this can only work if it is combined with the concept of a dialogue amongst all cultures, so that each nation or civilization can learn about the best cultural contributions of all other nations or civilizations. By getting to know the beauty of other cultures, all prejudices and fears would disappear and make way for the joy of discovery and even love. She said that, when she read about the Global Civilization Initiative, she was very happy and confident that this initiative would help make wars obsolete, because when you get to know the best creations of different peoples, it completely changes your perspective. By engaging with the best of other nations, one forms friendships and discovers that all these works of art are based on a human quality which unites us as a species.

Looking at the situation in Gaza, but also at the unchecked urge of European states to further escalate tensions with Russia, it is becoming increasingly clear to more and more people that the future of humanity is at stake and that only such a great civilizational leap forward can ensure the survival of humanity.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which describes itself as a system for improving food security and nutritional analysis for decision-making, already stated on August 22 that famine prevails in the Gaza Strip. Data from an internal Israeli intelligence database shows that at least 83 percent of Palestinians killed in Israel’s attack on Gaza were civilians, as revealed by research conducted by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian on August 21. And an Israeli attack hit the fourth floor of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, killing more than 20 people. Among the dead are at least four journalists, including freelancers from AP, Al Jazeera, and Reuters.

On Friday last week, Helga Zepp-LaRouche began the 116th meeting of the International Peace Coalition emphasizing the importance of the campaign to activate UN General Assembly Resolution 377 (“Uniting for Peace”) and intervene against the atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank. A person associated with the UN told her that sending blue helmets to the region in accordance with Resolution 377 would have a significant regional and global impact in countering Israel’s atrocities.

Regarding the so-called conflict between Ukraine and Russia, die-hards in the EU are trying to undo the successful summit between President Trump and Putin in Alaska to further prolong and extend the war, which will be fought not only to the “last Ukrainian” but possibly to the last human being. The relevant “heads of state” seem indifferent to the consequences of escalation, remilitarization, progressive economic collapse, and a possible nuclear war.

Following the August 3 surprise arrest in Italy of a Ukrainian citizen suspected of organizing the Nord Stream bombing, a special session of the UN Security Council will meet today, at Russia’s request, to discuss the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines.

The chairwoman of the Schiller Institute, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, supported the request and called for the establishment of an independent investigative committee.

Virtually all serious observers see the arrest as just another attempt to cover up those truly responsible for this act of sabotage, which required intelligence information, sophisticated equipment, and skill. Uncovering the truth about who ordered and carried out the international act of terrorism in September 2022 and who staged the cover-up is central to restoring trust and diplomacy in the world.

Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche and Diane Sare in their 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.

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.

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