{"id":119895,"date":"2026-08-25T15:19:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/25\/live-dialogue-with-helga-zepp-larouche-are-bessents-sanctions-d-day-for-the-u-s-economy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T15:19:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:19:30","slug":"live-dialogue-with-helga-zepp-larouche-are-bessents-sanctions-d-day-for-the-u-s-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/blog\/2026\/08\/25\/live-dialogue-with-helga-zepp-larouche-are-bessents-sanctions-d-day-for-the-u-s-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Are Bessent&#8217;s Sanctions D-Day for the U.S. Economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche in her live dialogue and discuss the issues and solutions that move the world and its people. Send your questions &amp; comments to&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:questions@schillerinstitute.org\">questions@schillerinstitute.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Please share the YouTube link with your friends, acquaintances, and colleagues to increase the reach of the solutions presented by the LaRouche movement.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, Aug, 26, 2026, 11am ET\/ 5pm CET<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Are Bessent&#039;s Sanctions D-Day for the U.S. Economy?\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-YRxYCVzfo4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>On Thursday, Oct. 25, 1962, three days after President Kennedy announced the discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba, Pope John XXIII\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eir.news\/2026\/08\/news\/full-text-of-pope-john-xxiiis-1962-famous-radio-message\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">went on Vatican Radio<\/a>\u00a0and asked the governments of the world to keep talking. The next morning\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/1962299_3437\/page\/n4\/mode\/1up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Pravda<\/em><\/a>\u00a0carried the appeal, under the headline \u201cSave Peace!\u201d (or \u201cSave the World!&#8221;) quoting him at length: let leaders \u201cheed the anguished cry which, from every point of the earth, from innocent children to the aged, from individuals to communities, rises toward Heaven: peace! Peace!\u201d The day after the\u00a0<em>Pravda<\/em>\u00a0report, Khrushchev proposed to Kennedy the exchange that ended the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the present situation.<\/p>\n<p>Gold has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eir.news\/2026\/08\/news\/gold-overtakes-u-s-treasuries-as-the-worlds-leading-reserve-asset\/\">overtaken<\/a>\u00a0U.S. Treasuries as the single largest central bank reserve asset by market value. The 30-year Treasury yield touched a nineteen-year high. The Treasury doubled the size of its own bond buybacks, and the effect lasted only briefly. On Monday the Secretary of the Treasury\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eir.news\/2026\/08\/news\/speak-loudly-and-carry-a-mid-sized-stick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced an operation<\/a>\u00a0whose stated terms are that any entity facilitating Iranian money laundering \u201cwill be removed from the U.S. dollar system\u201d and named gold as one of five sectors to be sanctioned. Three American officials told a reporter that 40 tankers crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Friday night, carrying 16 million barrels. That claim is difficult to reconcile with commercial vessel-tracking data, which showed far fewer recorded vessel transits.<\/p>\n<p>What that costs is counted in people. The American labor force lost about 1.3 million of them in twelve months. That decline is especially striking in an aging country whose labor-force growth increasingly depends on immigration, especially as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eir.news\/2026\/08\/news\/alarm-the-american-labor-force-continues-to-disappear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">another million<\/a>\u00a0are to be struck from it by early 2027.<\/p>\n<p>What is a human being for? \u201cIt is not the exertion of physical force by men which rules mankind,\u201d Lyndon LaRouche wrote in 1994, in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/larouchepub.com\/lar\/2018\/4548-the_science_of_physical_econom.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Science of Physical Economy as the Platonic Epistemological Basis for All Branches of Human Knowledge<\/a>, published in\u00a0<em>EIR<\/em>. \u201cMankind is ruled by the force of ideas, by the interplay of those contending ideas which, acting through the minds of men, thus control the physical conduct of society.\u201d And in the same essay, against every doctrine that sorts human beings into the useful and the disposable: \u201cThe human race is made up of nothing but individuals who share in common that spark of creative reason which defines all persons as in the image of the Creator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A million people removed from a labor force are not a statistic. They are a million minds a nation\u2019s leadership has decided it does not require.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican\u2019s Secretary for Relations with States,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eir.news\/2026\/08\/news\/vatican-envoy-begins-moscow-visit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">is in Moscow<\/a>. He meets Sergey Lavrov Tuesday, Aug. 25, and Yuri Ushakov, President Putin\u2019s foreign policy aide, the next day. An open letter released Aug. 19 asks Pope Leo XIV to convene the heads of state of the three principal nuclear powers, in the spirit of John XXIII\u2019s appeal in 1962. Leo has already made the argument himself: on July 30, 2025, marking fifty years since the Helsinki Final Act, he called it essential \u201cto persevere in dialogue, strengthen cooperation, and make diplomacy the preferred path.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Will we \u201csave peace\u201d today?<\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche in her live dialogue and discuss the issues and solutions that move the world and its people. Send your questions &amp; comments to&nbsp;questions@schillerinstitute.org. 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