HELGA ZEPP-LAROUCHE: Well, first of all, let me say hello to you, and especially to Your Excellency, Ambassador Pasandideh from Iran. We are very happy that you are joining our discussion, because you never hear in the Western media the side of Iran. And in the spirit of the dialogue for truth-seeking, I’m very happy that you will join us today.
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June 2, 2023
The danger of nuclear war has escalated to a point that no thoughtful person on the planet can ignore any longer. Yet, in this atmosphere, there are still some who think there should be more weapons, more sanctions and who think that a nuclear war can be won against Russia. It is very clear that those who have provoked the war, and continue to escalate it, do not care about the lives of the people of Ukraine or any other nation on the planet for that matter. This is NOT acceptable to those of us who care about the well being of ALL of humanity —Those who do not wish to see the human race wiped off the face of the earth.
We, the citizens of the world, therefore bring together all of our forces for peace, as a unified coalition above ideologies, to stop nuclear war now unfolding. We refuse to let humanity perish at the hands of insanity.
As his holiness Pope Francis recently stated : “I think that peace is always made by opening channels. You can never achieve peace through closure.”
We believe the fundamental principles to bring lasting peace is through the security of every nation and dialogue toward the common aims of humanity — the end of poverty, hunger, and the increase of development. We must bring together governments, international organizations and religious organizations to create an opening toward this lasting Peace.
We come together to accomplish these goals not a moment too soon. Let us mature humanity into a new paradigm of cooperation and peace to end the old paradigm of imperialism and geopolitics.
Below are the greetings sent in for the Humanity For Peace “Special Musical Operation” at the United Nations on International Peace Day.
Twenty-four hours of nonviolence and cease fire is the least we can ask for at this crucial time in our shared work for world peace. Let this day of commitment inspire us to make every day a day of peace.
Frank Kartheiser, Worcester. Ma. Catholic Workers Movement.
September 21st is International Peace Day! Today we a are faced with growing tensions around the world from Europe and Asia to the Middle East and Africa. Many of these tensions include the involvement or support of Great Powers and have brought us perhaps to closest to an open nuclear conflict. Let us take time this day to step back from the potential abyss, to think, to respect each other, to show leadership and true diplomacy, to resolve our disagreements and work together in joint collaboration for the betterment of all.
Earl Rasmussen, Lt Colonel (ret) U.S. Army, business consultant.
“The 17.5 million Guatemalans support peace in the world and the proposal made by Mrs. Helga Zepp-LaRouche of the Schiller Institute, where she proposes the CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW JUST WORLD ECONOMIC ORDER!”
RAÚL ANÍBAL MARROQUÍN CASASOLA, proud member of the IPC and Humanity for Peace, and Coordinator of “The Pupil of Heaven” Observatory for Peace in Guatemala
PROCLAMATION FOR PEACE TO THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD
“Brothers of the nations of this shared world.
“Today, September 21, we join in a fraternal and unanimous call of solidarity for peace. In the midst of turbulence, discord and global conflict, we raise our voices to reaffirm our commitment to peace…
“Peace, in its essence, is the fabric that binds humanity together. It is the path to coexistence, justice and well-being for all. But in these times of uncertainty and divisions, it is vital to remember that peace is not an automatic gift; it must be built through the efforts and dedication of all the peoples of the world.
“We declare that peace is not just the absence of war, but the presence of justice, social equality and mutual understanding….
The five signers on behalf of
Central American and Caribbean Critical Thought proclaim the need to
Foster Empathy.
Resolve Conflicts Peacefully, rather than by violence and confrontation.
Promote a Culture of Peace through Education:
Combat Social Inequality and Injustice: We pledge to work together to eradicate poverty, discrimination, social and economic injustice.
Protect the environment: and
Support those vulnerable peoples who suffer the consequences of conflict and displacement, to alleviate their suffering.
We affirm that peace is not a utopian dream, but an attainable goal. We must remember that each of us has a role to play in the quest that together we can weave a more peaceful world for present and future generations. Peace is not just a word, but a collective action. Let us raise our hands and hearts to be peacemakers…
For Peace, today and always!
Signing on behalf of Central American and Caribbean Critical Thought are
from Nicaragua: Bolívar Téllez Castellón, Professor, and Fernando Vargas, editor of the Newspaper Socialist Voices;
and from El Salvador’s Universidad de El Salvador:
José Guillermo Campos, Chairman of the Department of Philosophy;
Luis Alberto Guzman, Chair of Marxism and Methodology of Materialism; and
Ivis Barrera, Master in Human Rights and Education for Peace.
“CENTRAL AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN CRITICAL THOUGHT”
Rejoice and stand together, for we are winning in this struggle for humanity and for peace. This struggle is far from over, but we are winning!
I grew up in former Yugoslavia and lived through the wars of succession which broke out in the early 1990s. The experience was almost surreal as we saw the society polarize almost from one day to the next, from a firm belief that war was unthinkable and impossible to fighting the war as the society’s central obsession. That experience made me so worried about a repeat of this social transformation in the buildup of war between Russia and the west that in 2017 I published a book in which I tried to warn about it and call attention to those parts of the ruling establishment in the west who were deliberately dragging us into this World War 3 scenario. They were planning the big wiar, that much was clear. But what they did not and could not plan with is us, humanity, simply rejecting war and demanding peace.
There is no question that Russia was absolutely provoked into its intervention in Ukraine. When President Putin launched the special military operation, the west responded with a total embargo on all Russian sources of information and with heavy-handed censorship of any pro-Russian views. Recall, some universities in the west even cancelled Russian literature classes, and some theaters cancelled performances of Russian composers like Tchaikovsky.
They wanted to make sure that the western narrative about that conflict couldn’t be challenged and that we all embraced the belief that Russia’s aggression was unprovoked and that the collective west was valiantly standing up for democracy, freedom and the rule of law. They wanted us to fear and loathe Russia and to give our consent for that all-out World War 3. But that didn’t happen.
Instead, it became clear that behind the facade of unity kept up by the officialdom and corporate media, a silent majority in the west rejected the official narrative. I encountered a number of informal polls in social media where a large number of respondents expressed very contrary views – allow me to share some of them with you.
On 31 December last year, Twitter account NovElection 2022 simply asked, “Which side are you on? Russia or Ukraine?” Out of the nearly 37,000 people who responded, 78.8% said that they were on Russia’s side!
On 24 January this year, Chase Geiser asked on Twitter, “Which would you rather see win? Russia or Ukraine?” Out of the 15,670 votes, 73.6% said that they wanted Russia to win.
On 2 February David Vance asked, “…if you had to choose between Putin and Zelensky, which would it be?” Out of nearly 41,000 respondents, 77.2% preferred Vladimir Putin.
A few weeks later, George Galloway asked, “Is the west to blame for the Ukraine war?” Out of more than 15,000 respondents, 95% said, yes – they thought that the west was indeed to blame for the war.
In spite of the very large numbers of respondents, some people might object that these are not scientific polls. Well, let me share some further evidence that these polls are broadly correct. As I learned from a NATO official who shared this information with me, NATO itself has been monitoring public mood among member nations very closely. They found that in most Eastern European nations, as many as 3 out of 4 people sympathise with the Russian side in this conflict. In countries like France, Spain, Italy and Belgium 2 out of 3 individuals sympathise with Russia. And when the French polling organization IFOP (Institut Français d’Opinion Publique) asked the average Frenchman about their views on the war only two weeks from its start in February 2022, they found that 52% of the French people believed Russian justifications for war.
The silent majority in the west might indeed be silent, but it seems nevertheless to be a very large majority. That majority is us, people who have awakened and opened our eyes wide to what is truly going on in the world. The war between Russia and Ukraine did not escalate into a nuclear World War 3. For that we can thank the patience and restraint of the Russian Federation, but we should also celebrate the political awakening of the populations of western countries who have rejected the official narrative and the relentless demonization of Russia and her leadership. By withholding our consent for an all-out war against Russia we may have prevented that war and preserved peace. We have not yet prevailed in our struggle for peace, but we are prevailing so do rejoice and stand together! It may just be that we are the ones we’ve been waiting for and thus far we’ve come through!
Alex Krainer, Blogger, author, financial analyst
We need a global move towards de-escalation and away from the accelerating militarisation of international politics. Humanity is becoming increasingly trapped in a security dilemma. The Political West has been negligent in understanding the security concerns of others, thus prompting responses that only escalate the conflict. We must break this cycle, otherwise we will be on the increasingly slippery path to catastrophe. There is another way, and that is a return to the founding principles of the United Nations, above all sovereign internationalism – whereby sovereign states commit to work together to resolve the common problems facing humanity. This is the vision that inspired the creation of the UN in the first place, and we must now resist the attempt by those who wish to substitute the agenda of peace and development with their own agenda of endless deterrence and militarism. The Global South has had enough of the interminable conflicts provoked by the attempts of the Political West to maintain its pre-eminence. Its voice is demanding to be heard, and it is a view that many in the Global North share. On that basis a new peace and development movement is taking shape. There is an alternative, and we are part of it, reaching across continents and cultures. That is the only way forwards, if we are to have a future at all.
Prof Sakwa is the recently retired Emeritus Professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent in the UK. He is the author of many books on Russia, and a widely read book in 2022, Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands.
The Pillars of Peace
The philosophical position which says the engagement of war is always inevitable, is contrary to the concept of peace. God’s imparting of peace is stated in John 14:27 where it says “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” This indicates that peace is in conflict with a troubled heart. It also indicates that God desires us to be at peace with one another at all cost. That cost of war is troubled spirits of people who are engaged directly or indirectly with the actions of war. Therefore I would like to offer the pillars of peace that help us to avoid physical conflicts of war. These pillars are reason, understanding and temperance.
The pillar of reason helps avoid conflict because it helps to exhaust all avenues that lead to peace. When the wheels turn to war, reason should turn also, following the war and standing in the midst ready to continue talks of reason and peace.
The pillar of understanding is a two-way street. Both sides of a conflict should be open to make all attempts to understand the stance and feelings of the opposite side from themselves. Somehow wearing the shoes of someone else helps us to be selfless and seek to show empathy. This is the position of understanding even when we do not understand. In other words, understanding should be sought before we act on the emotions of anger and control. This leads us to our final pillar of temperance.
Temperance is simply self-restraint or self-control. This suggests that self-control over control of others is our main line of defense against war. The age-old Biblical principle found in Luke 6:31 says “Do to others as you would have them do to you.” No country desires to be drawn into war or to be the provocateur of war. Every time a war begins there is a first shot is fired which begins the conflict. It is at that moment that temperance should be exercised because remember the time to talk about peace is before a war begins. That talk must not just be had with one another, but also with the self-individual or self-country to maintain the self-control.
It is my hope that the talk of peace in relation to reason, understanding and temperance would help avoid the need for war. And in the event of conflict beginning, these would be tools utilized in the midst of conflict to minimize the impact and longevity of the conflict.
Rev. Dr. Terri Strong, Senior Pastor at Mt. Sinai AME Church, Arlington, TN
On this day while we commemorate International Day of Peace we ought to
reflect and point out root causes of Wars and aggressions that challenge
the humanity establishing the peace across the globe. We learn from past
and contemporary history that some of the reasons have been; superiority
complexes and difference of social and civic classes, racism, racial and
National arrogance, thirst of power over others and the most importantly
grabbing the material resources and economic exploitation.
Today the economic exploitation and deprivation is the main and central
root cause of Wars and military aggressions. We need to struggle and urge
that world global financial Groups such as World Bank, IMF and WTO
reconsider the terms and conditions that keeps under-developed countries
oppressed, continue to choke their economies and inflated debts.
International community of Nations need to work together in the spirit of
collective human progress and establish peace on the principals of equality
and respect for Human lives. The body of world nations shall mediate
between parties bringing the parties on the negotiating table.
American Muslims and Muslims across the globe strongly support any and all
moral and material efforts to bring the lasting peace in this planet.
Muhammad Salim Akhtar
National Director American Muslim Alliance
Pax Christi UpState New York totally supports the economic uplifting of all
peoples and nations. BRICS, now greatly expanded, will have the natural and
human resources to end poverty in the most populated regions of the world.
All nations, North and South must rally behind this just and egalitarian plan.
Jack Gilroy, Pax Christi & multiple peace and justice organizations
How Can Peace, Toppled by War, Nonviolently Reclaim
the Golden Age Mission?
Publication:
In English: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=531
In Russian: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=558
Erasmus of Rotterdam, a Dutch philosopher, theologian and humanist, more than 500 years ago wrote the world-famous “Complaint of Peace, Expelled and Defeated Everywhere” on Latin language: “Querela Pacis undique gentium ejectae profligataeque”, [s.l.], 1517, which became the pacifism humanistic pillar. But over 5 centuries, the situation with peace has practically not changed, if it has not become worse under the humanity and nature in nuclear Armageddon threat of complete incineration.
Peace remains today, as before, an outcast “everywhere expelled and defeated” by war, nullified in all infrastructural vectors of all society spheres. “The expelled and defeated peace” today is its science zero and its academies. This is its schools and universities zero. This is its professional personnel zero, if you don’t count its spontaneous and sporadic amateur-pacifists. This is its material and technical base zero. This is funding zero for it, with zero peacemaking governments and parties that would not only in words but also in practice, assert peace, creating all the necessary, permanent infrastructure for it. The most governments and parties frankly do not want peace, which prevents them from the war profiting and self-establishing themselves. Others want peace but do nothing real for it, do not know what to do and do not want to listen to those who know HOW to achieve true peace and not just another temporary truce that has filled all of history instead of true peace. The governments do not know true, eternal peace, out of ignorance recognizing as peace any temporary truce, any respite between wars.
Unlike peace, from its gaping zero infrastructure, war today is provided with an excellent, rich infrastructure of resources in abundance. It is a military science started by Adam von Bülow since 1799, more than three centuries ago, and equipped today with hundreds of military academies in all countries. These are priority budget and private investments in the war and arms race, amounting to trillions of currencies of all lears. These are thousands of military schools and universities around the world. These are hundreds of millions of professional armed forces and paramilitary forces, the total number of which is bashfully kept silent in all sources. This is a countless and innumerable material and technical, primarily weapons, military platform with thousands of military bases and an endlessly accelerating arms race. This is practically all, 99%, of governments and parties in the world that openly or silently, under one or another plausible pretext, serve the god of war. Now, the reigning war left to rogue-peace only one day a year, September 21, giving it a meager mercy-alms to remember, talk about, forget about again and return to itself for the rest days captured by war on subsequent years.
With similar ratio of zero infrastructure of the rogue peace-life and 100% infrastructure of the reigning war-death-mass murder, brought to 100% nuclear, scientific genocide and ecocide, true peace will never be established on Earth, not in any new 500 years, if first it is not finally killed by the war along with all of humanity and its only planet.
Where, when and HOW can the humanity true, eternal peace come from and BY WHOM be established not in empty endless appeals and pacifist wishes but really, practically and tangibly in the priority peacemaking infrastructure in all spheres of every country and nation? This possibility and foundation are laid in social genetics, in the eternal actors of humanity substance, discovered by Mahatma Gandhi in 1927 in its “varna-spherons”. In prehistoric times, they provided India with a “golden age” of prosperity and world cultural leadership and will create it for the future of humanity, when it masters the Gandhian science of spherons, the peacemaking science of spheronics. The Golden Age, for all its utopianism, in historical examples like India, was “golden” only thanks to the kingdom of peace, which is real as the only sociogenetic way of life for people and whole humanity.
The initial, fundamental pillars of this science, based on the Gandhian eternal actors of the true peace – spherons, ensuring the humanity survival as genetically peacemaking “mole of history”, in the form of an initial system of eight structural macro-sociological laws. They were first theoretically formulated, historically substantiated and statistically verified by world statistics in the GGHA during 18 years of hit scientific innovative research. Unfortunately, they remained unheard by anyone who could provide the development of this science with resources.
The results of scientific research of the Gandhian spherons are presented in many publications in different languages, of which the last two, the most concise and generalizing, should be mentioned, presented on their paired banner:
Their scientific, fundamental conclusion: no one partial, class or national actor is capable to provide true, eternal and global peace. only the humanity spherons can provide it covering all people from birth to death and acting on every social object and ensuring its peaceful life. Without the peace science, without its schools, academies and universities, there can be no peace. It can onLY begin since the OBJECTIVE, SCIENTIFIC TRUTH OF PEACE, one, necessary and binding for all people and nations, like Newton’s law. Without the peace science and its infrastructure, peace cannot begin. This requires, for the start, for the experiment, a meager investment of $2 million, which we, the GGHA, offer to the newly born consolidated historical actor of peace – BRICS+, which unites the global South, which makes up the majority of humanity. No other historical actor of true peace is visible today.
There is no better purpose for the International Day of Peace than to realize this simple, basic truth: “WHERE DOES TRUE PEACE START?” that will trigger the conscious construction of its entire systemic and global infrastructure. Everything else, as they say, is “All Is Vanity and Vexation of Spirit” for peace, with which the past is filled but in which the true peace grains were born and which are integrated by spheronics. only with this fundamental science will the rogue-peace revive its and the Divine providence “Golden Age” mission for the humanity.
With the hope of understanding and recognizing this basic simple truth for peace,
Dr. Leo Semashko, on behalf of 750 coauthors of the Gandhian “Spherons Global True Peace Megascience”, spheronics during 18 years,
Philosopher, macro sociologist and peacemaker from the spherons harmony,
GGHA Founder (2005) and Honorary President,
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Web: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=253,
E-mail: leo.semashko@gmail.com,
Skype: leo.semahko,
20-09-23
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Dr. Leo Semashko, Founder and Honorary President, Gandhian Global Harmony Association
July 28—The International Peace Coalition (IPC) held its eighth weekly meeting, on Friday July 28. The spirit of changing the course of history, as current developments are taking the world closer and closer to a nuclear Armageddon, was palpable in the reports from every speaker, with everyone focused on the Humanity for Peace rallies to be held on August 6, the 78th anniversary of the U.S. nuclear destruction of Hiroshima in 1945. The central rally on that day will be held outside the United Nations building in New York City, with sister rallies to be held across the U.S., in Great Britain, Germany, Canada, Sweden, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Malaysia, among other locations.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who initiated the IPC, opened the discussion, emphasizing that the danger of nuclear war is increasing, as the U.S. and its NATO allies escalate the shipment of military arms into the war zone, lyingly asserting that Ukraine is “winning” the war. Even some of the whorish U.S. press are now acknowledging that the military “counteroffensive” by Ukraine has been a thorough failure. Zepp-LaRouche emphasized that there must be a total break from this disastrous policy somewhere in the West – be it Germany, France, or the U.S. – to end the confrontation and begin cooperation between the nuclear powers, to create an architecture of security and development for all nations. Such a break appears to be a remote possibility. That means that we must expand our efforts to break through the wall of lies about Russia and China.
Ray McGovern, the former CIA analyst who used to give the daily briefing to the President of the United States, and who co-founded the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), then noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has for years asserted that U.S. domestic policy determines U.S. foreign policy, said that the Biden family is in deep trouble, due to the revelations about the Hunter Biden laptop and the global corruption now exposed, but that President Joe Biden simply continues the insane assertion that Russia has “already lost the war” in Ukraine. The neocon policy now promoted by the Biden Administration, and his leftover Obama gang (Blinken, Sullivan and Nuland) – who should be facing jail time for their multiple crimes – are more likely to launch a nuclear war than face incarceration. In his long career in intelligence, McGovern said that he had “never seen this level of danger.”
Oliver Boyd-Barrett, a professor at California State University, provided a detailed study of the actual battlefield situation in Ukraine, noting the “sheer scale of numbers dying in this infuriating and unnecessary war.” The effort to deny the failure of the Ukraine “counteroffensive” has failed, but there is still the “fog of war” which can be used to justify the escalation to a nuclear launch. The promotion of Victoria Nuland to the number two at the State Department demonstrates that the regime is “either too stupid or too evil” to stop the madness.
Anastasia Battle, who moderated the event, reported on massive outreach to independent journalists. She also reviewed the current list of scheduled speakers for the August 6 rally at the UN, which will be live-streamed from 1-4 p.m.
Former President of Guyana Donald Ramotar said that the West terribly miscalculated when they thought the sanctions would destroy the Russian economy and that modern NATO weapons would crush them in Ukraine, but that the danger of nuclear war is now even greater. He recommended that we recruit scientists to join in the peace effort.
The next speaker, scientist Steve Starr, author of “The State of the Nuclear Danger” and other articles and videos on the effects of nuclear weapons, quickly agreed to write a public letter to other scientists to join the movement, as Mr. Ramotar had proposed.
Reports by organizers from several of the planned international sister rallies provided a sense of the global nature of the movement.
Diane Sare, the founder of the Schiller Institute NYC Chorus briefed the meeting on the plan to perform the Mozart Requiem in a New York City church following the rally at the UN, to honor the hundreds of thousands of civilians killed by the U.S. nuclear bombing of two Japanese cities in 1945. A guest conductor from Türkiye, who has conducted music for several other rallies for peace, volunteered to conduct the event. There has been a surge of choristers joining, and an orchestra is being mobilized as well.
Bernie Holland, an activist from the UK, suggested that even if nuclear weapons were to be abolished from warfare, that the bombs themselves should be re-designed to serve as defense of the Earth from asteroids, a plan known as the Strategic Defense of Earth (SDE). He encouraged everyone to read the book written by Mike Billington, Reflections of an American Political Prisoner—The Repression and Promise of the LaRouche Movement, and referenced that the Chinese character for “crisis” is made up of both the characters for “danger” and “opportunity,” which he also compared to Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche’s reference to the “coincidence of opposites” from Nicholas of Cusa. He added that this is also coherent with Buddhist teaching. We must take full advantage of the opportunity of the current crisis, he said, to create a “critical mass of consciousness” among the people.
Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche closed the meeting, noting that the recently released movie about Robert Oppenheimer was bringing attention to the horror of nuclear weapons, and that the Schiller Institute had prepared a leaflet to distribute to audiences at the film, encouraging them to join the August 6 rallies. She supported the call for scientists to join the movement, but suggested that the letter be addressed to “scientists and artists,” since scientists and artists share the love of the positive vision of mankind’s future. She called for participants to spend the remaining days before August 6 mobilizing everyone, especially youth and the Global South, which is experiencing a revolutionary upsurge, turning against the call to war coming from the NATO countries in favor of peace and development in cooperation with Russia and China, convinced to end the age of colonialism once and for all.
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July 21, 2023 (EIRNS)—The International Peace Coalition (IPC) held its seventh weekly international meeting on Friday, July 21, with representatives of 17 nations, most of whom reported on the mobilizations taking place in their countries, targeting the August 6 international Day of Action on the anniversary of the genocidal U.S. nuclear destruction of Hiroshima.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the founder of the Schiller Institute, opened the call by emphasizing that the madness of the warmongers at the July 17-18 NATO summit is still escalating towards full-scale war, which will not be stopped until the truth about the cause and the intention is understood by the broad public around the world. The fact that two systems now exist, one based on the unipolar world of Global NATO, and the other based on the BRICS and nearly all of the Global South nations moving to a new system committed to ending colonialism for good.
Zepp-LaRouche held up the case of Germany, where sovereignty is completely lost, where the “rules-based order” (with no one knowing who makes these so-called “rules”) is destroying the economy. Everything that Germans built up after the destruction of World War II is now being destroyed, with businesses fleeing the country in droves—and this despite the fact that 70% of the population think that the government is doing a terrible job. The sovereignty of every country is under attack by the U.S.-U.K.-Global NATO war party—she reminded people that the sovereignty of every country is the first of her “Ten Principles.” We must make August 6 a “clarion call” for a peaceful end to the war in Ukraine. To do that we must live up to the call by Steve Leeper, the former head of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, that organizations worldwide must put aside any differences and unite on August 6 at the UN or elsewhere to stop the war drive.
Reports on organizing efforts came in from around the world:
Nicaragua: Bolívar Téllez Castellón of Nicaragua reported that a committee is being formed to mobilize support for August 6 and beyond, and several of the leaders are making short videos to rally support, which he is sharing with the IPC for worldwide use in Spanish-speaking nations. He noted that the country had been subjected to a fratricidal war for over 20 years, but is now working with Russia and China to achieve real development.
Malaysia: Chandra Muzaffar, founder and director of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST), announced that he had sent out the release announcing the August 6 event, and the Steve Leeper letter, to the 20-25,000 strong JUST mailing list. [https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2023/07/19/open-letter-to-friends-enemies-and-people-who-have-no-idea-who-i-am/] He also reported that he had written to a number of peace organizations in Asia, calling on them to join the IPC. JUST is sponsoring its own event on August 6, which is under discussion as to the format. He said that getting a million people out on the street, either in New York City or worldwide, is a very large target, but a necessary one given that what is at stake is the human race itself. The current danger is the greatest in history—in 1945 only one side had nuclear weapons, now many countries have them, and they are far more deadly than the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombs. We owe it to history, and to future generations, to succeed in our task. It is “flourish or perish.”
Germany: Jimmy Gerum, who is serving as the press secretary for Humanity For Peace coalition, declared that “every war is started with a lie,” and we must mount massive pressure from individual independent journalists to break through the lies in the mainstream media.
Guatemala: Raul Marroquin, of the Observatory for Human Peace in Guatemala, said he has been associated with Lyndon LaRouche and the Schiller Institute for many years. Now we see that the oligarchs of the world want to see the end of humanity, which we must act to prevent.
France: Karel Vereycken, a leading member of the Schiller Institute in France, described the July 8-9 Schiller Institute Conference in Strasbourg, the first in-person Schiller conference since before the pandemic, where 250 people heard from leading people from Russia, China, India, Africa, Europe, and the U.S. The French Schiller Institute is planning three events: August 6 at Notre Dame; August 9, the anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing, at the offices of UNESCO; and a later date on science, exposing the role of John von Neumann as the person who encouraged President Harry Truman to use the atomic bomb on the civilian cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Austria: a peace activist described the long-standing pride in Austria that they have maintained their status as a neutral country, opposed to war but advocating active nonviolent neutrality, which is now under enormous pressure from NATO and the NATO-influenced media. He said his associates have held demonstrations for years on August 6 and August 9, and they will again this year as part of the International Day of Action.
Sweden: Ulf Bejerstrand, who started the “Voice of the People” to allow the people to break through the media lies, said that they have 50,000 followers on social media. He said that if the people come together they can defeat the warmongers.
Sweden: Ulf Sandmark, the President of the Schiller Institute in Sweden, said they were planning an event in Stockholm on August 6. He said the collapse of the Black Sea Grain Initiative was a severe blow, orchestrated by NATO and the oligarchs, precisely because it was a small but significant step towards cooperation and peace.
Mexico: Carolina Dominguez of the Schiller Institute in Mexico, described their organizing in support of President John Kennedy’s June 10, 1963 speech seeking for U.S.-U.S.S.R. cooperation for peace and development. She said that the youth in Mexico do not believe the NATO narrative, and that they respect Russia and the BRICS countries. She quoted Mexican hero, President Benito Juárez, who defeated the Habsburg occupation of Mexico, and who insisted that “Respect for the rights of others means peace.” She said the organization had distributed thousands of copies of the “Urgent Appeal by Citizens and Institutions from All Over the World to the (Next) President of the United States!” issued by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, calling for a return to the principles of peace advocated by JFK.
United States: Elliot Greenspan, the head of the LaRouche Movement’s Outreach Task Force, described the efforts to bring the “hyphenated-Americans” from Pakistanis, Indians, Chinese, Guineans, and others, as well as Christian organizations, together for the August 6 demonstrations, further insisting that the differences which certainly exist between these layers must be put aside to prevent a nuclear war. Dennis Speed, a U.S. national leader of the Schiller Institute, said that to get a million people out on the street, as Chandra Muzaffar had indicated, is a difficult but essential task if the genocidalists are to be stopped. He noted that the NATO sabotage of the Black Sea Grain Initiative was yet another case of these Malthusians working to starve millions of people to death, and that JFK’s “Food for Peace” concept is crucial today.
Germany: Barbara Spahn, Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität (BüSo), reported about a coalition of small parties that has already held 2 peace rallies in Frankfurt. For August 5, another rally is planned, where, among others, Bundeswehr colonel (ret.) Florian Pfaff, will speak.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche closed the meeting, praising the progress made thus far in the IPC, but insisting that it must grow faster to reach the goal. Each member must take the responsibility to reach out to other organizations—peace, religious, democracy and other groups—to join the movement. She encouraged the use of the video by scientist Steven Starr on the devastation of a nuclear war, and also promoted reading Friedrich Schiller on how to “bend the tyrant’s arm.”
Attendance IPC#7:
Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), founder and leader, Schiller Institute
President Donald Ramotar (Guyana), Former President of Guyana
Chandra Muzaffar (Malaysia) JUST International/SHAPE
Abdoulaye Balde (US), Guinean and American League of Friends for Freedom
Oliver Boyd-Barrett (US), Professor Emeritus, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
Dr. Balkrishna Kurvey (India) President of the Indian Institute for Peace, Disarmament and Environmental Protection
Barbara Spahn (Germany), BüSo Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität
Mamadou Dathe Diallo (USA/Guinea) Guinean American League of Friends for Freedom
Beatriz Solórzano León (Guatemala), Lawyer, Parliamentary Technician
Bernie Holland (UK) No2NATO
Fr. Robert Cushing (U.S.), Association of US Catholic Priests (AUSCP), Pax Christi GA, former priest
Bolívar Téllez Castellón (Nicaragua), Lawyer and university professor
Carolina Domìnguez Cisneros (Mexico)
Raul Marroquin (Guatemala)
Peter Weish (Austria)
Verena Konig (Austria)
Udo Leibmann (Poland) United for Freedom
Boubacar Sidy (US/Guinea)
Ilker Özyavuz (Germany) Team Todenhöfer
Hondo Tonumaa (Estonia)
Martin Schotz, (US) author, “History Will Not Absolve Us: Orwellian Control, Public Denial, and the Murder of President Kennedy”
Ruben Dario Guzzetti (Argentina), Argentine Institute of Geopolitical Studies (IADEG)
Christine Bierre (France), Solidarity and Progress
Fr. Harry Bury (US), Archdiocese of Saint Paul in Minneapolis, MN
Jacques Cheminade (France), head of Solidarity and Progress
Jimmy Gerum (Germany), Lighthouse Media
Juan Carrero (Spain), President, S’Olivar Foundation
Juan Gómez (Chile)
Martha Rollins (US/Costa Rica) Int’l Peace Delegations: Ibero America, Columbia, Cuba and Palestine
Ulf Bejerstand (Sweden), Party leader, Musician
Liz Augustat (Germany), Peace Through Culture
Simon Miller (US) LaRouche Youth Movement
Robert Castle (US) LaRouche Youth Movement
Karen Ball (US) Pax Christi – Texas
Mike Billington (US) Executive Intelligence Review Magazine
Muhammad Selim Akhtar (U.S.) Muslim Alliance
Ulf Sandmark (Sweden), President Schiller Institute, Sweden
Wolfgang Lieberknecht (Germany) Internationale Friedens Fabrik Wanfried
Meshack Maxongo (South Africa)
Marianne Liljeholt (Sweden), Party Board member, Freedom Movement
Joyce Hall (US) Pax Christi
David Andersson, (US) Coordinator of NYC bureau for Pressenza Press Agency and hosts a talk-show, Face 2 Face, broadcast on Youtube and Facebook
Jurgen Wolf (Scotland), No2NATO UK, Workers Party BG
Mark Rolofson (US)
Chris Fogarty (US/Ireland), Irish American Leader
Fredrick Weiss (US) Classical musician
Ronald Betag (US) Schiller Institute, Texas
Dennis Small (US), Schiller Institute, Virginia
Dennis Speed (US), Schiller Institute, New Jersey
Diane Sare, (US) U.S. Senate Candidate, New York
Jose Vega, (US) Interventionist, Organizer Schiller Institute
Anastasia Battle (US) Organizer, Interventionist and Editor-in-Chief, Leonore Magazine
**Affiliations for identification purposes only
July 14—The International Peace Coalition (IPC), initiated by Helga Zepp- LaRouche, held its sixth weekly Zoom meeting today, chaired by the Schiller Institute’s Anastasia Battle, with 38 guests from 15 countries and peace organizations, in addition to members of the Schiller Institute.
At their fifth meeting, in an impassioned presentation, Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, President of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST), had described he just concluded July 4–5 conference sponsored by JUST and the Save Humanity and the Planet (SHAPE) centered in Malaysia, titled “Asia-Pacific NATO: Fanning the Flames of War.” The target was AUKUS, the Australia-U.K.-U.S. security pact whose purpose, Dr. Muzaffar said, is to “contain China.” Most Asians oppose this pact, but the political leaders want to “assure the domination of Asia by the British and the U.S.,” and undermine any peace movement. The meeting was quite successful, with speakers from Australia, China, Malaysia, the U.S China and South Korea, with several new organizations participating in the event. JUST and SHAPE will get the news on the IPC to their mailing lists. Dr. Muzaffar thanked Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche and the Schiller Institute for building the IPC, which he said he “hopes will grow and flourish, as it is key to our future.” [Read IPC#5 Press Release Here]
Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the founder and leader of the Schiller Institute, opened the sixth meeting by noting two globally important events in the week since the IPC’s fifth meeting on July 7: the two-day international conference of the Schiller Institute in Strasbourg, France on July 8-9; and the NATO Summit of July 11-12 in Vilnius (referred to as the “villainous Vilnius Summit” by one speaker at the IPC meeting). While the NATO Summit was a war cry for more escalation of the surrogate NATO war against Russia centered in Ukraine, the Schiller Institute conference provided ideas and discussion on the urgency of substituting cooperation for confrontation, preventing the current rush to an outbreak of global nuclear war, and bringing the world’s nations together in a paradigm of development.
Zepp-LaRouche pointed to the newly-announced decision by President Joe Biden to deploy cluster bombs to Ukraine—altogether 300 million bomblets—a madness that will cause thousands of deaths of innocents, as has already been demonstrated by the death and maiming of children and other civilians in Cambodia and Vietnam from the landmines and cluster bombs deployed during the Indochina war of the 1960-70s—deaths and injuries continuing even today. There is international opposition to this genocidal act, including from within the United States, but Biden is going ahead regardless.
The ugly irony of this move, Zepp-LaRouche added, is that Biden has admitted that even though he once opposed the use of cluster bombs as a war crime, now the U.S. and its NATO allies are running out of ammunition to continue the bloodletting in Ukraine, and therefore will use the cluster bombs to keep the war going. She pointed to the decision to deploy F-16s to Ukraine as yet another insane act, noting that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia will have no way to know if the nuclear-weapon capable F-16s are armed with nuclear weapons or not, and must therefore treat them as being nuclear armed.
Zepp-LaRouche also pointed to the NATO Summit’s embrace of a policy to expand the domain of NATO to the Asia-Pacific region, targeting China with the same war-policy as deployed against Russia in Europe.
As to Ukraine, she reported the intention presented at the NATO Summit to turn the country into a military production center, with the West’s major military-industrial companies setting up production facilities in Ukraine for a “forever war.” In the process, there was no discussion by any NATO participants of a peace plan, or even for negotiations for peace. At the rate of destruction of the Ukraine economy and the death of thousands of young men in the bloody cauldron of war, there will be no way for the country to rebuild even if the war can be stopped.
The lesson, Zepp-LaRouche concluded, is that the International Peace Coalition must grow and create a massive public outcry against the madness. The plan for international demonstrations on Aug. 6, the 78th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima by U.S. President Harry Truman, must be the basis for expanding this effort.
Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst and a co-founder of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), gave a situation report on the war in Ukraine, asserting that while Biden is declaring that Ukraine is winning, even that Putin has “already lost” the war, that simply demonstrates that Biden is living in an “alternative reality,” since it is abundantly clear that the opposite is the case. The much-heralded “counter-offensive” by the Zelenskyy government forces has been a colossal failure, with the mass destruction of tanks and other military equipment, as well as yet more thousands of lives sacrificed.
Col. Richard H. Black, a retired Marine officer and former Army Joint Advocate General (JAG) lawyer who headed the Army’s Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon before retiring from the military and serving in Virginia’s House of Delegates and Senate, reviewed the failure of Kiev’s “counteroffensive,” suggesting that the idea of a perpetual war of attrition is a losing proposition for Ukraine, and that they may not be able to sustain the current pace even through the end of August.
Regarding the cluster bombs, Col. Black remarked that the world agreed to ban mustard gas and other chemical weapons as war crimes, and for the U.S. to simply declare that cluster bombs are to be accepted because “Ukraine needs them” does not change the fact that their use is a war crime. Are we to declare later that nuclear weapons will stop being illegal if “Ukraine needs them,” he asked? We are heading for nuclear war, he warned, and there is far too little resistance to it in the U.S., so this Coalition must grow.
Joseph Boyd-Barrett, a professor (emeritus) at California State University and an expert on the uses of propaganda, gave further evidence of the falsification in the mainstream media about the war in Ukraine. Ukraine and its Western backers in NATO have already essentially lost the war, as their munitions are running out and the NATO countries are not able to sustain the supply, while Russia “can produce multiples” of the munitions produced by the combined NATO backers of Kiev. He also estimates that the supply of weapons to Ukraine will run out by the end of August.
The problem remains that the Ukraine government, and its backers in NATO, don’t care that the country and the population are being destroyed by the war policy, and refuse to negotiate. Zelenskyy was elected on a pledge to bring peace, but now it must be said that the Kiev regime’s policy is to see their own population murdered by continuing a war which cannot be won. The Democratic Party in power in Washington appears to believe that the only way to win the next general election in November 2024 is to keep the war going through next year.
Juan Carrero, a peace activist from Spain, said that the Western elites are suffering from dementia, as they repeat without any evidence that Russia will lose the war. He said that he had lived in Hiroshima for a year and a half, and saw the effects of the destruction, calling for the Aug. 6 demonstrations worldwide to be a turning point to stop the madness.
Moderator Anastasia Battle read four demands which the IPC will issue on its website https://humanityforpeace.net/
They are:
- 1. End the supply of weapons to Ukraine.
- 2. Begin unconditional peace talks with all parties to the war
- 3. End the NATO alliance.
- 4. Establish a new security architecture for all nations, ending the division of the world into warring “blocs.”
Bernie Holland, a peace activist from the U.K., asked Helga Zepp-LaRouche to discuss her concept of the “Coincidence of Opposites” which is the eighth of her Ten Principles of a NewInternational Security and Development Architecture.
Zepp-LaRouche replied with an in-depth discussion of the concept, developed by the 15th-century genius Nicholas of Cusa, who discovered the idea as a method of thought based on the truth that the “One” is superior to the “Many,” that only by recognizing that there is a common principle which unites all human beings, whatever their faith or ethnicity or nationality. This method of thinking made it possible for Cusa to bring about the unity of the Roman and Orthodox Christian religions at the ecumenical Council of Florence between 1431 and 1449, and later was the basis of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 ending the Thirty Years’ War in Europe. In the current age of nuclear weapons, that principle of creative thought, based on love rather than hate, is the only basis for world peace. Other speakers reported on their organizing efforts for peace in Argentina, Chile, England, France, Germany, Holland, India, Italy, Nicaragua, Scotland, and across the U.S. All agreed to build an even larger attendance, including representatives from the Global South, for the next meeting on Friday, July 21.
Rally and Concert:
Humanity for Peace is hosting a “Global Rally for World Peace and an End to All Wars!” On Sunday, Aug. 6 from 1-4 pm at the Dag Hammerskjöld Plaza (United Nations Plaza) in New York City, 47th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenue, followed by an evening concert from 6-8 pm at the Unitarian Church of All Souls, 1157 Lexington Ave. at East 80th Street, of Mozart’s Requiem, performed by a combined chorus and orchestra which will include the Schiller Institute NYC Chorus and musicians. It will be free and open to the public.
A full report on the fifth meeting of the International Peace Coalition, held on July 7, is here: https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2023/07/13/press-release-fifth-international-peace-coalition-event-reveals-growth-and-extensive-organizing/
In Attendance:
- Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), founder and leader, Schiller Institute
- Colonel Richard Black (U.S., ret), former head of the Pentagon Criminal Law Division, former Virginia State Senator
- Oliver Boyd-Barrett (U.S.), Professor Emeritus, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
Alessia Ruggeri (Italy) Trade Unionist - Anton Winter, (Austria) Nouvelle Alliance, UZG – Initiative Zivilgesellschaft
- Dr. Balkrishna Kurvey (India) President of the Indian Institute for Peace, Disarmament and Environmental Protection
- Barbara Spahn (Germany)
- Beatriz Solórzano León (Guatemala), Lawyer, Parliamentary Technician
- Bernie Holland (UK) No2NATO
- Fr. Robert Cushing (U.S.), Association of US Catholic Priests (AUSCP), Pax Christi GA, former priest
- Bolívar Téllez Castellón (Nicaragua), Lawyer and university professor
- Boubacar Sidy (USA/Guinea)
- Christer Lundgren, (Sweden)
- Ruben Dario Guzzetti (Argentina), Argentine Institute of Geopolitical Studies (IADEG)
- Christine Bierre (France), Solidarity and Progress
- Fr. Harry Bury (U.S.), Archdiocese of Saint Paul in Minneapolis, MN
- Ingo Scharpff (Germany)
- Jacques Cheminade (France), head of Solidarity and Progress
- Jimmy Gerum (Germany), Lighthouse Media
- Juan Carrero (Spain), President, S’Olivar Foundation
- Juan Gómez (Chile)
- Karen Ball (U.S.) Pax Christi – Texas
- Liliana Gorini (Italy), Movisol
- Mike Billington, (U.S.) Executive Intelligence Review Magazine
- Muhammad Selim Akhtar (U.S.) Muslim Alliance
- Ray McGovern (U.S.) former senior analyst, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); founding member, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
- Rev. Dr. Terri L. Strong (U.S.), AME minister from Memphis, TN Chair of the Actions and Global Concern Committee of the Church Women United
- Ulf Sandmark (Sweden), President Schiller Institute, Sweden
- Wolfgang Lieberknecht (Germany)
- David Andersson, (U.S.) Coordinator of NYC bureau for Pressenza Press Agency and hosts a talk-show, Face 2 Face, broadcast on Youtube and Facebook
- Jurgen Wolf (Scotland), No2NATO UK, Workers Party BG
- Jack Gilroy (U.S.), Organizer, Pax Christi, NY State/Pax Christi International; Board Member, New York Veterans for Peace
- Sonja Van den Ende, (Netherlands/Russia) Independent Journalist, covers Russia/Ukraine conflict, for Katehon
- Chris Fogarty (U.S./Ireland), Irish American Leader
- Fredrick Weiss (U.S.) Classical musician
- Dennis Small (U.S.), Schiller Institute, Virginia
- Dennis Speed (U.S.), Schiller Institute, New Jersey
- Diane Sare, (U.S.) U.S. Senate Candidate, New York
- Jose Vega, (U.S.) Interventionist, Organizer Schiller Institute
- Anastasia Battle (U.S.) Organizer, Interventionist and Editor-in-Chief, Leonore Magazine
**Affiliations for identification purposes only
“The way to look at the strategic situation is that, given the fact that we are on a trajectory towards confrontation, this will not change until we get a real break in the situation. And since we are not anywhere close to that break, which would require that either the United States or some major European countries stop the confrontation and make a clear signal to cooperate with the Global South and China and even Russia, this will continue to escalate, and that is why our activation and effort to put together an international peace coalition of everybody—not just some, but everybody—is so absolutely crucial.”
Send your questions for Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche to: questions@schillerinstitute.org
Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche tomorrow, July 18, in her weekly dialogue for a discussion about building an International Peace Coalition.
If you are interested in working with the International Peace Coalition, please contact questions@schillerinstitute.org
TO RESTORE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY’s PEACE MISSION, SPUR EXPANSION OF INTERNATIONAL PEACE COALITION
July 5, 2023 – In light of rapidly rising threat of nuclear war, the Schiller Institute releases the initial list of 186 prominent signers, from 55 countries on six continents, of Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s Urgent Appeal by Citizens and Institutions from All Over the World to the (Next) President of the United States!.
The appeal, issued May 17, calls for the Presidency of the United States to return to the peace policy of John F. Kennedy enunciated in his historic address at American University June 10, 1963. On June 10, 2023, the Schiller Institute (SI) accelerated worldwide diffusion of that speech on its 60th anniversary with this international online conference: The World Needs JFK’s Vision of Peace!
The SI urges everyone possible to add their name to the appeal, and to bring it to the attention of every organization concerned with the welfare of mankind that they can. Total current signers are 1300, with translations into 7 languages. The aim is to reach 5,000 before the worldwide peace actions on August 6, the anniversary of the U.S. nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, from 100 plus countries. The Institute particularly encourages maximum viewings of the Kennedy speech itself, by individuals, schools, and all categories of other groups, in a spreading world awakening. Here is the full 27-minute Kennedy Peace Address; here, a 4-minute set of video highlights, with subtitles.
The circulation of the Urgent Appeal and Kennedy speech has spurred the formation of a rapidly growing International Peace Coalition, initiated by the Schiller Institute on June 2. The summary press release of its most recent deliberation, International Peace Coalition Charts a Path to the New Paradigm, begins: “On Friday June 30, the International Peace Coalition (IPC) held its fourth meetings with approximately 60 organizers from Argentina, Germany, Guinea, Nicaragua, Span, Sweden Switzerland, the UK, the United States, and other nations participating in the proceedings. The meeting could be best characterized as a strategy session on how to expand the IPC through various means of direct action such as street organizing, social media, political interventions, and classes, with the goal of not only preventing the immediate threat of global thermonuclear war, but laying the foundation for a durable peace – a New Paradigm.”
Please add your efforts to the urgent expansion of the Coalition’s work. Contact the Coalition at questions@schillerinstitute.org.
The conclusion of the Appeal, and initial list of prominent signers:
We the undersigned want America to be again the America expressed in that beautiful speech of JFK. We want the United States to be again a beacon of hope and a temple of liberty. We believe that this is the basis for “peace for all time,” as JFK said.
Initiating signer
Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), founder Schiller Institute
Additional prominent signers
| Daud Azimi | Afghanistan/Germany | Dipl. Ing. (Engineer); Board Member, Peace National Front of Afghanistan |
| Tse Anye Kevin | Africa | Vice President, State 55, Afrika |
| Enrique Juan Box | Argentina | Social communicator |
| Roberto Fritzsche | Argentina | Professor, Dep’t of Economic Science, University of Belgrano |
| Carlos Perez Galindo | Argentina | Lawyer |
| Rubén Darío Guzzetti | Argentina | Argentine Institute of Geopolitical Science |
| Gustavo Russo | Argentina | Lawyer; Professor of Juridical Sciences |
| Trudy Campbell | Australia | Northern Territory secretary, Australian Citizens Party |
| Christian Dierick | Belgium | Manager, Big Science Technology Club & Lead Energy Expert |
| William Lindo | Belize | Executive member, Peoples United Party |
| Edwin Alfonso De La Fuente Jeria | Bolivia | Former Commander in Chief of the Bolivian Armed Forces |
| Osman Vladimir Escobar Torrez | Bolivia | Human Rights Secretary, Bolivian Labor Confederation (COB) |
| Max Yecid Ibañez | Bolivia | Former Secretary of Grievance Resolution, National Federation of Electrical and Telephone Workers of Bolivia |
| Jairo Dias Carvalho | Brazil | Professor, Philosophy of Technology, Federal University of Uberlândia |
| Lilian Simone Godoy Fonseca | Brazil | Professor of Philosophy, UFVJM, Diamantina campus |
| Gabriel Tincani Ramos | Brazil | President, Union of Socialist Youth — Campinas |
| Renata Welinski Da Silva Seabra | Brazil | ESG Consultant; Former UNDP Executive Director for UN Global Compact Brazil; author, “A Regulamentação International Ambiental e a Responsabilidade Corporativa” |
| Julian Fell | Canada | Former Director, Regional District of Nanaimo |
| Dimitri Lascaris | Canada | Lawyer; Peace activist |
| Mario Guillermo Acosta Alarcón | Colombia | Scientist and writer; General Director, CIFRA (Space Lab City) |
| Fernando Duque Jaramillo | Colombia | Lawyer; Master’s degree in Political Science |
| Pedro Rubio | Colombia | Union leader; public policy analyst |
| Enrique García Dubon | Costa Rica | Economist |
| Enrique Ramírez Guier | Costa Rica | Biologistç consultant |
| Tom Gillesberg | Denmark | President, Schiller Institute Denmark |
| Pernille Grumme | Denmark | Actress; peace activist; former Chair, Artists for Peace, Denmark |
| Alcibiades Jose Abreu | Dominican Republic | University professor of mathematics, English and French |
| Alexis Joaquin Castillo | Dominican Republic | Presidential candidate of Alianza Nueva República. Lawyer; former Prosecutor of the National District |
| Ramón Emilio Concepción | Dominican Republic | Attorney at Law, Presidential Pre-candidate for the PRM party (2020) |
| Ramon Cruz Placensia | Dominican Republic | Former Dean of the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) |
| Luis De León Ferreira | Dominican Republic | President of Fuerza Boschista. Educator, university professor at Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo (UASD). Politician |
| Marino J. Elsevyf Pineda | Dominican Republic | Attorney at Law; notary |
| Enrique Garcia Frometa | Dominican Republic | Industrial engineer, master’s degree in public administration, appraiser and planner |
| Ramón Gross | Dominican Republic | Post-graduate Professor, Catholic University of Santo Domingo |
| Dantes Ortiz Nuñez | Dominican Republic | Historian; Professor of History, Autonomous University of Santo Domingo |
| Oscar Daniel Pérez Quiroz | Dominican Republic | Theologian and Psychologist |
| Domingo Reyes | Dominican Republic | Former professor of economics, Ph.D. in Higher Education |
| Rafael Reyes Jerez | Dominican Republic | Journalist; TV producer, “cara a cara” |
| Enrique Antonio Sánchez Liranzo | Dominican Republic | Lawyer, author, poet |
| Caonabo Suarez | Dominican Republic | Poet; Member of the Coordinating Committee of the Institute for Analysis and Conclusions (INAC), Dominican Republic |
| Patricia Merizalde | Ecuador | Founder and President, International Feminist Poetry Movement, “Women’s Flight” |
| Ernesto Pazmiño Granizo | Ecuador | Human Rights lawyer; university professor; former General Public Defender of Ecuador; former Vice-President, Justice Center of the Americas |
| Alexis Ponce | Ecuador | Rights advocate, National Association of Patients and Vulnerable Families of Ecuador |
| Napoleon Saltos Galarza | Ecuador | University professor; Member of Parliament (1996-1998), Quito |
| Jacques Cheminade | France | President, Solidarité et Progrès; former presidential candidate |
| Dr. jur. Wolfgang Bittner | Germany | Author |
| Joachim Bonatz | Germany | Vice President, East German Board of Trustees of Associations (Ostdeutschen Kuratoriums e.V.) |
| Dr. Ole Doering | Germany/China | Professor, Hunan Normal University, China |
| Johannes Posth | Germany | General Director, Deutsche Telekom in Ukraine, starting 1996; head, Ukrainian-European Policy and Legal Advice Center, 2002-2005 |
| Dr. Rainer Sandau | Germany | Technical Director, Satellites and Space Applications, International Academy of Aeronautics (IAA) |
| Takis Ioannides | Greece | Ambassador of Peace, Hon. Dr Literature, historian, researcher, poet. |
| Dr. Maria Arvanti Sotiropoulou | Greece | Representative, Greek Medical Assoc. for the Protection of the Environment and Against Nuclear and Biochemical Threat (GMA), Greek affiliate of Internat’l Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) |
| Raul Anibal Marroquin Casasola | Guatemala | Coordinator of the Citizen Observatory for Peace “La pupila del cielo”, San Cristobal, Verapaz, Guatemala. |
| Otto Rene Quiñones Carias | Guatemala | Former Legislator (1991-1993); President, Board of Directors of Alternate Deputies |
| Beatriz Solórzano León | Guatemala | Licentiateç Parliamentary Technician, Congress of Guatemala |
| Ahmadou Diallo | Guinea/United States | Senior Member, Guinean American League of Friends for Freedom In. |
| Mamadu Djalo | Guinea/United States | Secretary, Guinean American League of Friends for Freedom Inc. |
| Khemraj Ramjattan | Guyana | Leader, AFC (Alliance for Change) |
| Donald Ramotar | Guyana | Former President of Guyana |
| Oscar Abraham Lanza Rosales | Honduras | Industrial engineer, retired; columnist for La Tribuna, Honduras |
| Andrea Szegó | Hungary | Professor (ret.), economics |
| Dr. Balkrishna Kurvey | India | President, India Institute for Peace, Disarmament, and Environmental Protection |
| Maurizio Abbate | Italy | Chairman of ENAC, National Institute for Cultural Activities, Italy, |
| Angelo Aiello | Italy | Former sport director of AC Milan |
| Prof. Bruno Brandimarte | Italy | Professor (ret.), Applied Biophysics, Univ. of Rome, Tor Vergata |
| Renato Corsetti | Italy | Prof. emeritus; Chair, Progressive Esperanto Speakers |
| Jorge Flores | Italy | Poet |
| Liliana Gorini | Italy | Chairwoman of Movisol |
| Antonio Ingroia | Italy | Former candidate for Italian Prime Minister |
| Nicola Lista | Italy | Chairman, youth organization of MDC, (Movement in Defense of the Citizen) |
| Enzo Pennetta | Italy | Organizer, referendum to end Italian military aid to Ukraine |
| Vincenzo Romanello | Italy | Senior Nuclear Researcher and Project Manager, National Radiation Protection Institute (SURO) |
| Alessia Ruggeri | Italy | Trade unionist |
| Daisuke Kotegawa | Japan | Former Executive Director for Japan, IMF; former Japan Ministry of Finance official |
| Pastor James Adundo | Kenya | Christian Outreach Ministry |
| Pastor Amos Nyambok | Kenya | Christian Outreach Ministry |
| Pigbin Odimwengu | Kenya | Youth political party leader |
| Pastor George Outa | Kenya | Christian Outreach Ministry |
| Mohd Peter Davis | Malaysia | Biotechnologist; biochemist; architect; consultant, deep tropical agriculture; Visiting Scientist, University Pertanian (retired) |
| Chandra Muzaffar | Malaysia | Founder and Director, International Movement for a Just World (JUST); Co-founder, Saving Humanity and Planet Earrth (SHAPE) |
| Adam Ouologuem | Mali | Journalist, Mali/Washington D.C. |
| Angel Coronel Beltrán | Mexico | Former Research Profesor, Physics REsearch Department, University of Sonora (UNISON) |
| Maria de los Ángeles Huerta | Mexico | Former Congresswoman |
| Dr. Enrique López Ochoa | Mexico | Angiologic Surgeon; Professor of Angiology, University of Sonora (UNISON) School of Medicine |
| Tenit Alfonso Padilla Ayala | Mexico | Professor of Effective Communication, Technological Institute of Sonora |
| Jaime Varela Salazar | Mexico | Former Director, School of Chemical Sciences, University of Sonora (UNISON) |
| Alex Krainer | Monaco/Croatia | Author, “Grand Deception: The Truth about Bill Browder, the Magnitsky Act, and Anti-Russian Sanctions” |
| May-May Meijer | Netherlands | Chair and Founder, Peace SOS |
| C. (Kees) le Pair | Netherlands | Physicist (ret.), University of Leiden; Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Djamila le Pair | Netherlands | Freelance journalist; Free Assange activist |
| Mykeljon Winckel | New Zealand | Founder, Voice Media |
| Bolívar Téllez | Nicaragua | Lawyer and university professor, Nicaragua |
| David Ajetunmobi | Nigeria | Trade union leader, auto sector |
| Adeshola Kukoyi | Nigeria | Founder, Equilibrium Perspectives in Learning and Development/University of Lagos |
| Manuel Hidalgo | Peru | PhD in Accounting and Business Sciences; Professor at Universidad Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú |
| Herman Tiu (Mentong) Laurel | Philippines | Founder, Philippine BRICS Strategic Studies think tank; TV and radio commentator; organizer, movement vs. new U.S. military bases in the Philippines |
| Leo Semashko | Russian Federation | Gandhian Global Harmony Association |
| Earl M. Bousquet | St. Lucia | Veteran Pan-Caribbean journalist/columnist; Editor, Voice of St. Lucia newspaper; President, St. Lucia-China Friendship Assoc.; Chair, St. Lucia Nat’l Reparations Cttee |
| Natasa Milojevic | Serbia | Political scientist; former Member of Parliament |
| Meshack Moxongo | South Africa | Leader, LaRouche South Africa |
| Princy Mthombeni | South Africa | Spokesperson, Africa4Nuclear |
| Ishmail Phali | South Africa | Member, LaRouche South Africa; member, Democratic Alliance – South Africa |
| Motutla Juda Phali | South Africa | Member, LaRouche South Africa |
| Hyung-Joon Won | South Korea | Violinist; Founder and Director, Lindenbaum Festival Orchestra; organizer, North and South Korean peace concerts |
| Juan Carrero Saralegui | Spain | President, Fundació S’Olivar; peace activist |
| Juan Jose Torres Nunez | Spain | Poet, published author, freelance journalist |
| Dr. George Mutalemwa | Tanzania | Global Peace Studies for Sustainable Development; Africa Peace and Development Network (Mtandao wa Amani na Maendeleo Afrika (MAMA) |
| Bishop Lubega Geoffrey Bob | Uganda | Minister |
| Ruslan Kotsaba | Ukraine | President, Ukrainian Movement of Pacifists |
| David Dabydeen | United Kingdom/Guyana | Professor; former Guyanese Ambassador to UNESCO and China |
| Bernie Holland | United Kingdom | Soka Gakkai International |
| P. D. Lawton | United Kingdom | Editor, African Agenda.net |
| Dr. Athar Abbasi | United States | Mayor (ret.), U.S. Army |
| Muhammad Salim Akhtar | United States | National Director, American Muslim Alliance (AMA) |
| Bernard Allen-Bay | United States | CEO, Project Funding Consultants; Vice President, Oklahoma NAACP |
| David Andersson | United States | Co-Director Pressenza IPA |
| Deborah Armstrong | United States | Journalist |
| Dr. Elena Bajenova | United States | Creator and Organizer, Anti-War Coalition Group, Arlington, TX; President, Russian International Culture Center |
| Col. Richard Black (ret.) | United States | Former Virginia State Senator and Delegate; former head, U.S. Army’s Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon |
| Kathleen Boylan | United States | Catholic Worker Movement, Washington DC |
| Lt. (ret.) Robert Branca | United States | Lt. (ret.) U.S. Naval Reserve |
| Ellen Brown | United States | Author, attorney |
| Malcolm Burn | United States | Host, “The Long Way Around”, WKNY Radio, Kinsgston, NY |
| Harry J. Bury | United States | Twin Cities Nonviolent; Association of U.S. Catholic Priests |
| Bob Cushing | United States | Chairman, Non-Violence Committee, Working Group for the Association of United States Catholic Priests (AUSCP) |
| T. Herbert Dimmock | United States | Founder and Music Director, Bach in Baltimore |
| Daniel Donnelly | United States | Libertarian Party, New York |
| Brian Earley | United States | Captain (ret.), U.S. Army |
| Trevor Fitzgibbon | United States | President, Silent Partner Inc. |
| Christopher Fogarty | United States | Friends of Irish Freedom |
| Graham Fuller | United States/Canada | Former Vice Chair, National Intelligence Council for Long-term Forecasting, CIA; writer; political commentator |
| David George | United States | Professor of Economics (Emeritus), LaSalle University |
| Jack Gilroy | United States | Pax Christi, Upstate New York |
| Bennett Greenspan | United States | Physician; expert in nuclear medicine; Past President, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) |
| Ephraim Haile | United States/Eritrea | Eritrean Cultural & Development Center (ECDC) , Eritrean Diaspora Boston |
| Joyce Hall | United States | Coordinator, Dallas Pax Christi, TX |
| Cathy Helgason | United States | MD ;Professor of Neurology. (Retired) |
| Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Dana Hicks | United States | composer, musician, minister |
| Liz Hill | United States | Liz Hill Public Relations, LLC |
| Diana Hope | United States | D & D Radio Show,”Delivering the Truth”, NYS, and Beyond |
| Ivan Jones | United States | Shop Steward, Local 783, AFSCME (retired) |
| John Jones | United States | Boston Ward 14 Democratic Committee |
| Frank Kartheiser | United States | Mustard Seed Catholic Worker, Worcester, MA |
| Bishop Reginald L. Kennedy | United States | President, Ministers Conference of Baltimore and Vicinty, MD |
| Dr. George Koo | United States | Chairman, Burlingame Foundation; retired business consultant, U.S.-China relations |
| Janice Kortkamp | United States | Citizen journalist, “American Housewife in Syria” podcasts |
| Igor Lopatonok | United States/Russian Federation | Documentary film director and producer, “Ukriane on Fire” |
| Jeff Mahn | United States | Nuclear Engineer (ret.), Sandia Labs, science educator at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History. |
| Joseph Marcinkowski | United States | Pax Christi. Veterans for Peace; Houston Peace and Justice Coalition |
| Imam Radwan Mardini | United States | Interfaith leader, American Muslim Center |
| George McGowan | United States | Former Town Councilman, Lake George, NY; former Republican County Committee, Warren County, NY |
| David Meiswinkle | United States | Attorney-at-law; Past President and Executive Director, Lawyers Committee for 9/11 Inquiry |
| Suzzanne Monk | United States | Chair, Patriot Action PAC |
| James Moore | United States | Executive Committee- ATA, NSRAA, AKI (fisheries and aquaculture) |
| Darrell Nichols | United States | Bishop; Former President, NE Ohio NAACP; Former Vice-President, SCLC, Toledo, OH; Captain (ret.), U.S. Army |
| Nestor Oginar | United States/Macedonia | Retired Professor of English language and literature, New York; Representative, World Macedonian Congress at the UN; Leade, Macedonian Diaspora in North America ; Member, Macedonian Orthodox Church – Ohrid Archepiscopy |
| John OLoughlin | United States | Author, “McDuff Lives! The life and untimely death of Thomas F. O’Loughlin, Jr.” |
| Jeff Philbin | United States | Nuclear Engineer, Technical Consultant, Independent Contractor |
| Cynthia Pooler | United States | Broadcast journalist, peace activist, NY |
| Earl D. Rasmussen, P.E. | United States | Lt. Col. (Ret.), U.S. Army; International consultant |
| Coleen Rowley | United States | FBI Intelligence (ret.); FBI special agent and intelligence expert; whistleblower and author |
| Stephen Salchow | United States | Violinist, violist; member, Solchow Bow Maker and Repair family |
| Diane Sare | United States | LaRouche candidate for U.S. Senate – NY |
| Martin Schotz | United States | Coordinator of JFK Peace Speech Committee, Massachusetts Peace Action, Traprock Center for Peace and Justice |
| John Shanahan | United States | Dr. Ing. civil engineer; founder of website AllAboutEnergy.net |
| Paul Shannon | United States | MA Peace Action |
| John C.Smith | United States | Professional Engineer; Senior Project Engineer; PhD candidate, Colorado School of Mines |
| Steven Starr | United States | Professor, University of Missouri |
| Jack Stockwell | United States | Morning Radio Talk Show Host (1995–present), Salt Lake City, UT |
| Barbara Suhrstedt | United States | Concert pianist; President, Board of Directors, Framingham Lomonosov Association for Mutual Exchange (F.L.A.M.E.) |
| Dr. Mohammad A. Toor | United States/Pakistan | Chairman of the Board, P:akistani American Congress |
| Bob Van Hee | United States | Redwood County Commissioner, Minnesota |
| Zaher Wahab | United States/Afghanistan | Professor Emeritus of Education, Former Advisor to the Afghanistan Ministry of Higher Education |
| Frederick Weiss | United States | Musician |
| Javier Araujo | Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | Bolivariano; former Councilman; current Alternate Councilman |
| Luisa Báez Catari | Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | President, Diocesan Union of Confraternities, Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar of Guarenas, Miranda state |
| José Bustamante | Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | Sociologist |
| Reinaldo Cróes Arias | Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | Economist and public accounting professional |
| Andrés Ramón Giussepe Avala | Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | Former member, Latin American Parliament |
| Marco Antonio Hernández | Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | Social media organizer; Bachelor’s degree in education; professor |
| Alberto Mendoza Uribe | Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | Fundamaraisa Foundation |
| Emil Guevara Muñoz | Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | Former member, Latin American Parliament (2006-2011) |
| Thaidy Terán | Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | Coordinator, Music Ministry, Our Lady of Copacabana Cathedral Church, Guarenas |
| Kelvin Chifulumo | Zambia | Founder, Educating Girls and Young Women for Development (EGYD) |
| Munashe Chiwanza | Zimbwabwe | Civil Engineer |