Marcia Merry Baker

July 8—Today was the first of a two-day international conference held by the Schiller Institute, titled “On the Verge of a New World War: European Nations Must Cooperate with the Global South!” Today’s proceedings, organized in three panels, and an evening concert, featured 22 speakers, from 14 different countries. The dialogue took place before more than 200 attendees. Another two panels are set for tomorrow.

June 26—Look at the world situation. On one side, there are the Global NATO leaders and forces pushing confrontation in every way, to bring down—end—Russia. On the other side, you have the government of Russia—a nuclear power, making clear that, “we will not be extinguished.” The stakes are nuclear annihilation.

June 24—As of nighttime in Moscow Saturday, June 24, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Group, the mercenary army, had given the “turn back” order to a column of his armed forces and equipment heading north from Rostov-on-Don to Moscow, which he called his “march for justice.” This was, in fact, an armed insurrection; and Prigozhin is under charges filed against him yesterday for treason.

June 15—At this time of extreme world peril of the threat of nuclear war, the words that President John F. Kennedy gave at presentations on many occasions 60 years ago, ring true with guidance and inspiration in the anniversary year of his heinous assassination. On Sept. 10, 1963, when he addressed the United Nations General Assembly, he spoke of how, among all weapons, the “power of peaceful cooperation” is the strongest. He spoke of nations together having “agreements which spring from our mutual interest.”

The press release for an International Peace Coalition Must Grow To Stop World War III was posted today by the Schiller Institute, whose founder and leader Helga Zepp-LaRouche is a participant in the process reported.

May 22—We are seeing the escalation of both the danger of all-out nuclear war over Ukraine, and of initiatives towards a resolution of the conflict. The situation makes it imperative to move the U.S. towards the wisdom and morality clearly stated 60 years ago this June, by President John F. Kennedy. He said, speaking just months after the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis, “Total war makes no sense in an age when great powers can maintain large and relatively invulnerable nuclear forces and refuse to surrender without resort to those forces….”

May 20—Today in Japan, the drums of war and economic conflict beat loudly for the leaders of the Group of Seven and eight guest nations attending the second of the three day G7 Summit in Hiroshima.

May 13—The doings at the two just-concluded meetings of units of the emblematic institutions of the Western “rules-based order”—the European Union Foreign Ministers meeting in Sweden, and the Group of Seven Finance Ministers meeting in Japan, displayed the venal dissociation from reality that constitute circumstances for both world danger of war and economic chaos, and an opportunity—if our intervention succeeds—for a shift to a new world framework that serves the good of nations and peoples.

May 4—The world watched in horror this week, at, first, the report of the two attack drones deployed against the Kremlin late May 2, targeting the official residence of President Vladimir Putin; and secondly, soon afterward, the display of insane venality by U.S. leaders dissimulating and lying about the attack.

Our "leaders" have brought us to the brink of World War III. Perhaps the only thing that would reverse this disastrous course and launch an actual peace process would be to put the rotten Anglo-American financial system through bankruptcy and implement LaRouche's Four Laws for immediate economic recovery. Demand your Representatives support Marcy Kaptur's H.R. 2714 "Return to Prudent Banking Act" and bankrupt the bastards that would risk nuclear war to save their bankrupt system. Circulate this leaflet and intervene everywhere!