Dennis Speed

March 17, 2023—“[T]he world monetary financial system is actually now currently in the process of disintegrating. There’s nothing mysterious about this; I’ve talked about it for some time, it’s been in progress, it’s not abating. What’s listed as stock values and market values in the financial markets internationally is bunk! These are purely fictitious beliefs. There’s no truth to it; the fakery is enormous. There is no possibility of a non-collapse of the present financial system—none! It’s finished, now! The present financial system can not continue to exist under any circumstances, under any Presidency, under any leadership, or any leadership of nations. Only a fundamental and sudden change in the world monetary financial system will prevent a general, immediate chain-reaction type of collapse. At what speed we don’t know, but it will go on, and it will be unstoppable!”

March 12—The power of reason is on the march in world affairs. The triumph for humanity in the recently-concluded Beijing-Iran-Saudi Arabia negotiations is only “humiliating” to the United States, or for NATO countries, for those that think like inhuman predators, like John Bolton, Samantha Power, Liz Truss, Tony Blinken, Boris Johnson, Victoria “cookie” Nuland, and most of the present incarnation of the State Department.

March 10—The Global Security Initiative delivered an important victory to humanity yesterday, with the announcement, from Beijing, of the resumption of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Representatives of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran made the announcement that they would reestablish diplomatic relations two months from now. This was done, as the Saudi News Agency official statement put it, “in response to the noble initiative of His Excellency President Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, of China’s support for developing good neighborly relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Consider the role of the United States in Iran from the CIA-orchestrated coup in 1953 until 1979. Consider the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia, from the end of World War Two until now. Then, think more deeply about the colonial relationship of the British Empire to both Iran and Arabia, over centuries, and over the period since especially the 1916 Sykes-Picot Treaty. What has just happened to the Anglosphere’s geopolitical “Great Game?”

March 3—The worldwide Schiller Institute initiative for a dialogue for the creation of a new security and development architecture is beginning to take shape in several different nations, and in many different ways. Proposals in the last days from Italy, France and Hungary have joined Brazil’s and the Vatican’s earlier statements. The G20 foreign ministers and other meetings have seen resistance, if sometimes only passive resistance, to the Anglosphere’s “Ukraine Rodeo and Cattle Drive” to stampede “all responsible nations of the world” to denounce Russia—since it is increasingly clear that most of the world does not support the NATO sanctions policy. Street actions, from mass demonstrations to individual organizing tables, have engaged people in many nations. Our interventions continue. The pulsed effect of the Seymour Hersh Nord Stream revelations will be with us for weeks to come, demanding an international investigation of his charges. At the catalytic center of all of this is the Zepp-LaRouche “Ten Principles” document, now in circulation for months.

The cultural determinants of a different language culture and nation’s approach to policymaking can sometimes produce, as from the outside, an ability for humanity to see a solution to an apparently insoluble problem in a completely different way, than others are able, or choose to see it. As with solving the problem of doubling the square, posed by Socrates in Plato’s Meno dialogue, once the solution is discovered, it is “completely obvious,” where moments before, it was “completely insoluble.”

A transformation is taking place

Feb. 17—The following statement by Helga Zepp-LaRouche has been prepared for international organizing activities, including demonstrations occurring in the next week, devoted to stopping World War Three, now focused in Ukraine. As of today, this statement should receive the widest possible circulation. It proposes a solution, in its section “Principles for a Durable Peace,” which arms its readers with the one thing without which they must fail in their attempt to prevent humanity’s catastrophic self-destruction: optimism. “It is high time that we bring the political, economic, and social order on Earth into cohesion with the actual physical laws of the universe, which will also give rise to an unbounded optimism about the creative lawfulness which underlies creation.”

Speakers: Harley Schlanger, Janice Kortkamp, Ray McGovern, Cliff Kiracofe

Feb. 6—The Schiller Institute conference, “The Age of Reason or the Annihilation of Humanity,” now transitions to a second phase. This will involve various forms of international actions, from demonstrations to “Zoom call teach-ins,” from letter-writing to lobbying. Most importantly, however, it will involve new, unexpected alliances, “coincidences of opposites” that will make people uncomfortable, in the way advocated by St. Paul: “Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by renewing your mind.”

Feb. 5—The Schiller Institute has won a victory with its conference of Feb. 4. We brought together 25 highly qualified and experienced speakers from 16 nations around the world, all focused on success of the initiatives of the Pope and the President of Brazil, as well as Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, for negotiated peace to stop a spiral of escalation toward nuclear world war. But the conference also distinctly represented Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s principle that any such presentation to a worldwide audience must be “two-thirds devoted to the solution,” which is development. As Guyana’s former President David Ramotar, one of the half-dozen high-level representatives of Latin American and Caribbean nations, said, “Broaden this opposition to the war! The Global South must have a place at the table in a new international development architecture.”