{"id":104037,"date":"2024-08-24T08:03:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T12:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=104037"},"modified":"2024-08-24T08:03:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T12:03:37","slug":"international-peace-coalition-we-have-to-jump-over-our-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/blog\/2024\/08\/24\/international-peace-coalition-we-have-to-jump-over-our-shadow\/","title":{"rendered":"International Peace Coalition: \u2018We Have To Jump Over Our Shadow\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Aug.\u00a023, 2024 (EIRNS)\u2014Helga Zepp-LaRouche<\/strong>, founder of the Schiller Institute, opened the proceedings of today\u2019s 64th consecutive Friday meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) saying that her earlier view of the danger facing all of us in the next six months has been confirmed by developments of the last week. She described as \u201ceye-opening\u201d a report in the Financial Times<\/em> of Aug.\u00a013, on the recent discussion of a nuclear demonstration strike by Russia on an uninhabited area, to show that they mean business if NATO provocations continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kursk invasion, which she described in great detail, has increased the danger of nuclear war. It has been timed to exploit the \u201chot phase\u201d of the U.S. presidential campaign, when candidates make a public show of military \u201cresolve\u201d in order to win votes. The fact that Russia has thus far refrained from using nuclear weapons is being used by British think-tanks and media to dangerously argue that there are no \u201cred lines\u201d that we should hesitate to cross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She characterized Secretary of State Blinken\u2019s recent trip to Southwest Asia as \u201ccaving in to everything that Netanyahu is demanding.\u201d \u201cIt is a nightmare that the whole world is watching this and not intervening,\u201d she said. She reported that Ronen Bar, chief of domestic Israeli security agency Shin Bet, just issued a warning, made public on Aug. 23, that settler terrorism in the West Bank is leading to a global delegitimization of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the U.S., the secret \u201cNuclear Employment Guidance\u201d of President Biden, written in March but leaked to the New York Times<\/em> this week, puts the recent NATO summit in a completely new light; we now know that preparations are underway for nuclear war with Russia, China and North Korea. Regarding the Democratic National Convention, Zepp-LaRouche observed that \u201can amazing Hollywood performance was conducted,\u201d where there was no debate, no discussion, and everything was orchestrated. \u201cCan we expect anything different from Kamala Harris?\u201d she asked, and then presented a ghastly excerpt<\/a> from Harris\u2019 convention speech, in which she promises that the U.S. military will be the \u201cstrongest, most lethal fighting force in the world,\u201d to roars of approval from the assembled minions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The meeting concluded with pointed proposals, which emerged from an intense discussion among participants from across the world. Zepp-LaRouche asked participants to find ways to circulate and promote the Chandra Muzaffar resolution<\/a> to invoke UN Resolution 377(V) and put the issue of the genocide in Gaza before the UN General Assembly, since the UN Security Council has been paralyzed by U.S. vetoes. On the urgency of retooling the military-industrial complex for peaceful purposes (including independent Congressional candidate Jose Vega\u2019s proposed \u201cSpace Civilian Construction Corps<\/a>\u201d), she recommended that we review all the many such proposals, and issue a fresh, comprehensive plan. And in an answer to a comment by one of her countrywomen from Germany about unifying the peace movement, she said we should wake up our fellow citizens to the fact that the implications of the Ukraine\/NATO invasion of the Kursk region in Russia should make us put aside our ideological differences and fight to ensure the survival of us all. To do this, she concluded, \u201cWe have to jump over our shadow, as we say in Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stopping the Terror from the Billionaires<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr.\u00a0Marino Elsevyf<\/strong>, professor of Constitutional and Criminal Law at the University of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, thanked Zepp-LaRouche for remaining faithful to the principles of her late husband, \u201cthe great American leader, Lyndon LaRouche,\u201d principles which he shares as well. He had attended the September, 1995 Independent Commission hearings on the LaRouche trials. Concocting criminal charges against a political adversary, to avoid the appearance of a political prosecution, is a well-known tactic. He added that in Latin America, \u201cwe call this \u2018prevarication.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Elsevyf\u2019s remarks were followed by brief video excerpts from the 1995 hearings. Helga Zepp-LaRouche was shown saying that the biggest crime committed by the permanent bureaucracy of the Justice Department was not the unjust imprisonment of Lyndon LaRouche, but rather the denial to the world of access to his ideas, which were so badly needed. LaRouche himself was shown discussing what led to the prosecutions, including his back-channel discussions during the Reagan administration with officials of the U.S.S.R., which were \u201csomewhat fruitful but ultimately aborted.\u201d Henry Kissinger\u2019s faction felt that \u201cI was getting too big for my britches.\u201d When President Reagan endorsed LaRouche\u2019s proposal for the Strategic Defense Initiative, \u201cthere were a lot of people out for my scalp.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Col. Richard H. Black<\/strong> (ret.), former chief of the Army Criminal Law Division, Office of the Judge Advocate General at the Pentagon, elaborated on the March \u201cNuclear Employment Guidance\u201d of President Biden, which envisions a nuclear war simultaneously or sequentially against Russia, China, and North Korea. Colonel Black emphasized that this is not framed as a response to an attack, but rather as \u201cemployment.\u201d He pointed out that this was supposedly prepared to counter China, whose nuclear arsenal is only slightly larger than Israel\u2019s, not in the same category as the U.S. Black insisted that the saber-rattling increases talk of nuclear war \u201cand is designed to move us inexorably in that direction.\u201d The U.S. has a first use doctrine, and \u201cthe President is not constrained by law.\u201d U.S. policy toward China \u201chas become mercilessly provocative,\u201d he said. He concluded by reporting on the appalling comments<\/a> of USAF Gen.\u00a0Mike Minihan, who said that \u201cwhen you can kill your enemy, every part of your life is better. Your food tastes better. Your marriage is stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For All of Humanity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr.\u00a0Chandra Muzaffar<\/strong>, president of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST) in Malaysia, reviewed the history of the Zionist project in Palestine, calling it \u201cone challenge which stains our conscience.\u201d \u201cZionism is a racist ideology, which has nothing to do with Judaism \u2026 it is actually a betrayal of the Jewish religion,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cin principle, I support this notion of linking peace to development,\u201d as promoted by Helga Zepp-LaRouche and the Schiller Institute. \u201cMost of all, anchoring this development in the goodness of the human being.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steven Starr,<\/strong> former director of the University of Missouri\u2019s Clinical Laboratory Science Program, provided a timeline of Ukrainian attacks on Russian bases where nuclear weapons are stationed, as well as attacks on strategic radar systems. He stressed that these attacks cannot be carried out without technical assistance from the U.S. Russian nuclear plants are also under attack. \u201cBasically, NATO has invaded Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jack Gilroy<\/strong> of Veterans for Peace read the \u201cPeace Pledge,\u201d which is being initiated at New York\u2019s Binghamton University, asking students to reject recruitment to any job that feeds the war machine. The Pledge reads as follows: \u201cI renounce and reject all allegiance to any firm that produces, sells, or gives weapons or weapons systems or hardware or software to any entity. I shall never interview for or accept any offer to work for any such firm.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of the discussion, Zepp-LaRouche elaborated on the idea of transforming our militaries into a cadre for development. She had once forced herself to read all 800 pages of Samuel Huntington\u2019s The Soldier and the State<\/em>, and he promoted having the soldier being \u201can adjunct of the weapons systems.\u201d Rather than militarization of Europe, she said, we should retool and rebuild. China has 40,000 km of high-speed rail, whereas the U.S. has a grand total of zero, and Europe is in comparable bad shape. Instead of squandering the remaining industrial and technological capabilities on senseless neocon wars, we must be careful to transform the planet for the better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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