{"id":103950,"date":"2024-08-17T10:20:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T14:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=103950"},"modified":"2024-08-18T16:13:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T20:13:15","slug":"international-peace-coalition-meeting-no-63-on-the-eve-of-world-war-we-speak-out-without-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/blog\/2024\/08\/17\/international-peace-coalition-meeting-no-63-on-the-eve-of-world-war-we-speak-out-without-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"International Peace Coalition Meeting, No. 63: On the Eve of World War, We Speak Out without Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"On the Eve of World War, Speak Out! featuring Scott Ritter\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tWu8C74P1IU?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><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aug.\u00a016, 2024 (EIRNS)\u2014The 63rd consecutive online meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) met today amidst what Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the founder of the Schiller Institute, described as an \u201cescalation step-by-step closer to a point of no return.\u201d She said, \u201cThere is now an active discussion\u2014maybe already a decision\u2014to deploy the stealth Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles, JASSMs, to Ukraine.\u201d Ukrainian jets would then be able to launch these highly accurate long-range missiles. And with this move, the U.S. intends to \u201cinfluence the German decision\u201d to make available the Taurus cruise missile, which Germany has so far refused to do because of the fear that this would escalate the situation to possibly World War III. She further stated, \u201cThe entering of Russian territory in the Kursk region would not have been possible without technological advice by NATO. The decision was, in all likelihood, made by NATO,\u201d which is making the option of a diplomatic solution close to impossible according to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/russiaun.ru\/en\/news\/130820244\" target=\"_blank\">Dmitry Polyanskiy<\/a>, the Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Likewise, Israel has made clear its rejection of diplomacy, by assassinating the chief negotiator for Hamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking at how we got here, Zepp-LaRouche noted that August 15 was the anniversary of the 1971 demise of post-World War II Bretton Woods system, with U.S. President Richard Nixon\u2019s move on that date to floating international exchange rates and vicious austerity. Lyndon LaRouche had forecast the inevitably of such an event, and warned that it would lead to a resurgence of fascism and a new world war. The precision of his forecast and the urgency of his warnings had a global impact, leading to a second important event: The October 6, 1986 Leesburg raid by 400 federal, state and local law enforcement officers, who surrounded the LaRouches\u2019 home with orders to kill if the opportunity presented itself. LaRouche and his supporters warned that if that effort to silence a dissenting voice were not vigorously opposed, actions of this type would continue and no one would be safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lyndon LaRouche\u2019s warnings turned out to be prophetic, as was borne out most recently by the Aug.&nbsp;7 FBI raid on the home of former UN weapons inspector and U.S. Marine intelligence officer Scott Ritter, who was the next to speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ritter said, \u201conce nuclear weapons become mainstreamed,\u201d once the genie is out of the bottle, there will be no limits to their use. As a weapons inspector, he was proud to have been involved, not only in non-proliferation, but in an actual reduction of nuclear weapons. Today, proponents of arms control are mocked and vilified. \u201cWe are a nation addicted to war,\u201d he said, which must \u201cconstantly search for conflicts that feed the military-industrial complex.\u201d Ritter continued, \u201cThose who raided my house last week are enemies of the United States and the Constitution.\u201d He agreed with Zepp-LaRouche that, had people rallied around Lyndon LaRouche when his home was raided, maybe we would not be seeing these abuses today. Later, in response to another speaker, he replied: \u201cI\u2019m not a politician, I\u2019m a Marine\u2026. The First Amendment is the battle I will fight and die for,\u201d if it comes to that. \u201cI take violent umbrage at the notion that disinformation and misinformation are a threat to democracy\u2026. I believe that the average American is capable of discerning fact-based truth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moderator Dennis Small remarked about some of what made Lyndon LaRouche such a target. In 1982, LaRouche met with world leaders to promote a reorganization of the financial system to reverse the catastrophe which followed the end of the Bretton Woods system. After he met Mexican President Jos\u00e9 L\u00f3pez Portillo, who shortly afterward attempted to implement his proposals, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger asked then FBI Director William Webster to take action against LaRouche. What followed were covert operations, the Leesburg raid, and ultimately, the jailing of LaRouche and a number of his colleagues on spurious conspiracy charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Video excerpts about those 1986-1989 events, featuring remarks by LaRouche and former United States Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, who served as LaRouche\u2019s attorney on appeal, were broadcast. LaRouche said that there were groupings inside the permanent bureaucracy of the Department of Justice which act like hit teams. Ramsey Clark spoke of a combination of government agencies, media and NGOs which connived to destroy the LaRouche movement, which he described as a \u201cfertile engine of ideas.\u201d Clark had seen similar operations, but \u201cthis case takes the prize.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and co-founder of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), recounted the story of the First and Fourth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing freedom of speech and freedom from illegal search and seizure, both big concerns for those who had suffered under British Empire rule. Speaking of the illegal search of Ritter\u2019s home, McGovern said, \u201cYou can persuade a magistrate in upper New York State to sign anything if you\u2019re the FBI.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zepp-LaRouche briefed the meeting that when she founded the Schiller Institute in 1984, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.schillerinstitute.com\/economy\/phys_econ\/2014\/larouche_40_year_record-1.html#c22anchor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">its charter<\/a> was inspired by the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Today, Germany is passing legislation that permits secret searches of homes and electronic devices. \u201cThis is a real danger to democracy in the so-called rules-based order.\u201d The global crisis could be easily resolved if the U.S. were to return to the ideas of President John Quincy Adams, who presented a <a href=\"https:\/\/loveman.sdsu.edu\/docs\/1821secofstateJQAdmas.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vision of America<\/a> that \u201cgoes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jack Gilroy of Veterans for Peace invited participants in the IPC to the Aug.&nbsp;16-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vfpconvention.org\/schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Veterans for Peace convention<\/a>, where he will be speaking on a panel, Sunday Aug.&nbsp;18 at 12noon, on the war industry. They will be on college campuses this fall to oppose recruiters from the war industries, asking students to sign a pledge never to work for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prof.&nbsp;Henry Baldelomar, Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires of the Bolivian Embassy in Washington, reported that the culture of peace is a key feature of Bolivia\u2019s constitution, and it is for that reason that Bolivia has applied to join the BRICS. The U.S. has attempted to impose a unipolar world order, but Bolivia prefers the multipolar alternative. The IMF measures have created a state of dependency which has aggravated income disparities, exacerbating the tensions which lead to war. BRICS creates an alternative which will move Bolivia from a role as raw materials exporter, to a producer of capital goods. No longer a mere observer of decisions taken by the great powers, Bolivia will become a participant. Later, in the discussion, he wryly observed that the \u201c\u2018migration problem\u2019 which so concerns the Republican candidate\u201d is a result of the exploitation of the South, \u201cthe use of resources by some at the expense of others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jonathan Kuttab, executive director of Friends of Sabeel North America and co-founder of Nonviolence International, expressed his indignation that retiring Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan, in his swan song, asserted that Israel is \u201cthe most moral country in the world.\u201d How is such a thing possible? Kuttab demanded to know, in view of Israel\u2019s wanton killing of civilians and rape of prisoners. He blamed \u201cthe absence of international law \u2026 that applies to friend and foe alike.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In concluding remarks, Dennis Small endorsed the comments of Professor Baldelomar, saying that Bolivia speaks for the majority of humanity. Co-moderator Dennis Speed provocatively asserted that Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have a better understanding of the tradition of the American Revolution than people living in the U.S. today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug.\u00a016, 2024 (EIRNS)\u2014The 63rd consecutive online meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) met today amidst what Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the founder of the Schiller Institute, described as an \u201cescalation step-by-step closer to a point of no return.\u201d She said, \u201cThere is now an active discussion\u2014maybe already a decision\u2014to deploy the stealth Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":93571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[798],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-103950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-peace-coalition","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103959,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103950\/revisions\/103959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}