{"id":102971,"date":"2024-06-16T19:15:41","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T23:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=102971"},"modified":"2024-06-16T19:15:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T23:15:43","slug":"international-peace-coalition-it-may-alter-your-servility-toward-the-hegemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/blog\/2024\/06\/16\/international-peace-coalition-it-may-alter-your-servility-toward-the-hegemon\/","title":{"rendered":"International Peace Coalition: \u2018It May Alter Your Servility Toward the Hegemon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The International Peace Coalition (IPC) continued its second year of weekly international online meetings today, with opening comments by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, who reported on the Emergency Press Conference<\/a> that was held in Washington, D.C. on June 12. She had monitored the responses to the conference, and noted the worldwide concern about the decline of diplomacy, which has been superseded by violence and extortion as instruments of foreign policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advice for Peace Activists<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Political analyst Garland Nixon provocatively asserted that, in a sense, nuclear weapons are already in use; he gave the example of the use of depleted uranium rounds, and urged his listeners to \u201cresearch Fallujah.\u201d He added that similar weapons were sent to Ukraine, but many were apparently blown up in a weapons depot before they could be used. He told the participants that the ruling elites will not respond to reason, so they must be forced by the masses to act. He referred to \u201cthe puppet avatars whom they put out, such as Joe Biden.\u201d He recommended to peace activists that they build a long-term infrastructure for activism, because \u201cthey\u2019re planning their next conflict\u2026. This is about getting Russia out of the way, so they can get to China.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jack Gilroy, a long-time peace activist and member of Pax Christi, described how that organization started in March 1945. He said that the religion of Christianity preaches nonviolence, but regrettably \u201chas become the greatest killer of any religion in the world.\u201d He emphasized the importance of maintaining the intensity of the recent student activism in the U.S., saying that students \u201cmay be away from their campuses, but they\u2019re not away from their phones.\u201d He recommended a focus on social media, where there are now 25-30 major platforms. Although there is good work being done on stopping the genocide in Gaza, \u201ceven the students are not awake on the issue of nuclear weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gilroy provided colorful anecdotes from his life of peace activism. He described life as a school teacher during the 1960s, when people were more conscious of the threat posed by nuclear weapons. His young students who participated in \u201cduck and cover\u201d drills knew that these were nonsensical and were offering no real protection; one of his students became so frightened that she swallowed a bottle of aspirin in the restroom and had to be rushed to the hospital. But in those days, at least there was an open channel of communication between the U.S. and the Soviet Union; today we don\u2019t have the red phone, nor any cultural exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disillusioned by the U.S. government, Gilroy\u2019s family moved to Australia, where Jack found himself organizing students to protest French nuclear testing in the Pacific. He later resumed his work in the U.S., where Jack was videotaped dressed as Santa Claus, climbing over the fence at an armaments factory with a bag of gifts for defense workers. He concluded by praising the Schiller Institute\u2019s June 12 emergency press conference and urging the widest possible circulation of its press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helga Zepp-LaRouche responded to Garland Nixon by saying that we must convince the people of the U.S. and Europe that the nations of the Global South are our natural allies. If we can work with the BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and related bodies, then there is reason for optimism. She then invited Jack Gilroy to come to Germany and straighten out the wayward Catholics and Protestants there, including many of their top leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the discussion period, one guest who described himself as a \u201cSimple German\u201d reported that he has become remoralized to learn that he has co-thinkers around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York independent congressional candidate Jose Vega gave a report on the Nov. 5 elections. He mentioned that in the Bronx congressional district that borders his own, AIPAC is spending over $11 million in an effort to \u201cprimary\u201d Rep. Jamaal Bowman. Vega stressed that he is not endorsing Bowman, who is very wrong on Ukraine, but praised him for taking a stand on Gaza. \u201cNobody should be allowed to just buy a congressional district.\u201d said Vega. \u201cThese elections should be decided by voters, not by people who have deep pockets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A report came from a German participant who had worked in a senior position for the NATO political affairs division, during which he had participated, beginning in 1979, in the Wintex \u201ccrisis management\u201d exercises, which included nuclear war gaming. He reported that each time the scenarios were \u201cgamed,\u201d Europe was always destroyed. He recalled one exercise where an American general was heard to say, \u201cUnfortunately, in the Fulda Gap, the German villages are only half a kiloton away from each other.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A correspondent for Unity News in the U.K. reported that the mainstream media and government all say that soon there will be conscription there, and British youth will go to Ukraine to fight. She said that the majority of Britons have no idea and think that this is a joke. \u201cAs independent media, we find it very difficult to speak outside of our bubble \u2026 to get any traction,\u201d she said, and she also praised the June 12 press conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IPC co-moderator Dennis Small recommended that everyone watch the 22-minute exchange<\/a> between Putin and the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) moderator Sergey Karaganov on the issue of Russia\u2019s nuclear arms policy. He added that the greatest danger is that if nuclear war proceeds, everything beautiful that humanity has created will disappear. He quoted from Nikolai Ostrovsky\u2019s book, How the Steel Was Tempered<\/em>: \u201cMan\u2019s dearest possession is his life, and since it is given him but once, he must live so as to feel no regrets for years without purpose; so live as not to be with shame of a cowardly and trivial past.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her concluding remarks, Helga Zepp-LaRouche underscored the importance of the report given by a German, who had participated in NATO war games in Europe, describing the actual thinking in these nuclear games that Europe does not play a role. \u201cThat is absolutely something which people should really come to grips with, because once you realize that you are just a pawn on a chessboard, dispensable to be thrown away, it may alter your servility towards the hegemon.\u201d She added that because nuclear war threatens everyone in the world, \u201cit makes everyone automatically a world citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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