March 15—The introductory remarks made today by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the founder of the Schiller Institute and the initiator of the International Peace Coalition, to the 41st session of the IPC, provide an excellent strategic overview |
March 13—Will the world survive the persistent epidemic of political mediocrities heading most Western governments? If you have become conditioned to accept small-minded and pathetic behavior from your leaders, is there a day of reckoning in your near future? |
Feb. 27—Russia, with all of its problems, did not crumble under Western sanctions. It turns out that a lot of what they could get from the West had little to do with survival, and they were thrown back to the necessity of concentrating on producing more of what they actually needed. The country did not break apart over the mobilization to free the Donbass from Kiev’s eight years of artillery shelling and political deprivations. It turns out there really are a lot of native Russians and Russian-speakers in Crimea and the Donbass, whom other Russians identify with. (It wasn’t as if they were being conscripted to fight an imperialist war.) And the supposed “isolation” of Russia has done more to isolate the West from the Global Majority of the world than leaving Russia punished in the corner. |
Feb. 20—The International Court of Justice scheduled a hearing on the 56-year-long administration by Israel of the Palestinian lands of the West Bank and Gaza. There had been a sort of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in the world, as to the responsibility for bringing stability to the area. However, once the ICJ dared to pose the question, so many countries have found their tongues that the hearing has been scheduled to span the whole week. |
Feb. 18—An ingathering of defense secretaries, pro-war think-tankers, and a motley assembly of warmongers spent three days at the annual Munich Security Conference, attempting to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Ukraine’s rout at what is perhaps their most highly-fortified area, Avdeyevka, occurred on the opening day—but it was presented as the shame of the West for not providing enough armaments. Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy explained to the assembled that Russia had won nothing, had been weakened, and the West can now come to its senses, can repent—and send lots more money and weaponry. |
Feb. 13—Will Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu really order a final solution for over a million displaced Palestinians crowded into Rafah, in southern-most Gaza? Is he serious about dismantling the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees—when around 1.7 million homeless people are sheltering in their emergency shelters or in close vicinity to their distribution sites? |
Feb. 8—On this day, 300 years ago, the Russian Academy of Sciences was born, as the key as to how to seriously run a country. Tsar Peter the Great established the Academy based upon his discussions and deliberations with the Renaissance thinker, Gottfried Leibniz. Leibniz’s original memorandum in 1697 called for the Tsar to: “Establish a general institution for the sciences and the arts” with members “well versed in science and the arts and of high genius…. Import foreign things that are worthwhile, … there will be large observatories, mills, shops, pharmacies and factories, which will contain all kinds of machines and inventions actually put into practice…. Determine the exact relations of the country to determine its needs.” And whatever is needed but lacking must be obtained by imitating and perfecting what is being done elsewhere. |
Jan. 30—It has been hard to digest the daily slaughter in Gaza, much less the foreboding sense of imminent doom, awaiting the day when the word goes out that a new epidemic has been born—born out of the lethal mixture of 1.9 million displaced Palestinians, most living through a winter exposed to the elements, trapped without proper sustenance, without clean water, without proper sanitation, living in overcrowded makeshift camps. |
Jan. 26—In a world grown accustomed to crazy, the drama that played out at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, starting at high noon today and continuing for almost an hour, was remarkable for sustained common sense. |
Jan. 18—The word has gone out in the West. When your vaunted Ukrainian counteroffensive flopped, when Russia didn’t fold up and blow away, when it turns out your farms and factories don’t do so well, when coal, natural gas, and nuclear are suppressed, and when China keeps insisting upon building long-term, science-driven projects—well, it’s just time to look into your crystal ball, push the panic button, and announce to anyone within earshot that full-scale war with thermonuclear powers is just around the corner. Take your pick, two years, five years, whatever. The point is, populations are supposed to shut the f— up and let the smart fellas throw everything into whatever military-financial drive that might keep the doors open a little while longer. |
Jan. 13—Indeed, this past week was really an absolutely dramatic week with at least two events which I would call historic game-changers insofar as the fact that they occurred in the way they did means that there is a complete new chapter in world history. |
Jan. 7—The showdown is set. South Africa’s stance—that the last three months of mass killings, the assertion of a “collective guilt” doctrine, and, really, the ugly and unlawful “blood and soil” ethnic cleansing actions of Israel must come to an end—comes to the International Court of Justice on Jan. 11. Not one expert on international law who has read the 84-page ICJ filing has found a fault with South Africa’s detailed work. From every corner of the globe, experts have weighed in on the facts of genocide and the 10 pages of quotations from Israeli officials, clearly demonstrating preceding genocidal intent. |
Jan. 5,—Today Helga Zepp-LaRouche made a key address to the International Peace Coalition. Excerpts follow: “I will give you my view that on the one side, the situation is getting more horrible in Gaza itself simply because the conditions accumulate, and now with the rainy season and the cold weather, there are reports which are absolutely unbelievable. |
Dec. 27—Next week, Russia assumes the presidency of the BRICS for 2024, and five new countries—Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates—assume full membership on January 1. The Atlantic Council has already established a so-called “Dollar Dominance Monitor,” reflecting their central fear, the inescapable moves of the BRICS-10 to de-dollarize, and to make financial arrangements around actual trade in the physical economy. The fantasy game of a dollar, issued by a country with $34 trillion of debt—and debt rising at an increasing rate—is over. Time to cut up the country’s credit cards. |
Dec. 13—There are now twelve days to Christmas. In Bethlehem, the Christian religious leaders are staging a different manger scene. The baby Jesus will lie in the midst of destruction. |
Dec. 10—There are a lot of things people try to put out of their minds as to what is happening every day in Gaza. Around 18,000 Palestinians have been killed, with the Israel Defense Forces admitting to at least 12,000 civilian deaths, but the reality is more likely to be at least 14-15,000 civilian deaths. However, little discussed is that the lack of sanitary conditions and clean water, for now over two months, was always going to rear its ugly head. That always is now. |
Dec. 5—Today pretty much laid to waste any fantasies that the Biden administration had a working relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The ‘new, improved’ so-called humanitarian way to drive Palestinians out of the homes that are going to be destroyed, and so that a lower percentage of them aren’t bombed to death, turned out to be a sick joke. |
Nov. 30—One can certainly be filled with fear and trembling that President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken will flinch, but today a message was delivered privately and publicly from Washington to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he certainly did not want to hear. |
Nov. 17—On day 42 of the so-called Gaza War, the Biden administration got their first “victory”—Netanyahu’s war cabinet acceded to the request to allow fuel into Gaza for the minimal running of the desalination plants and the sewer systems. They are allowing two fuel trucks a day, and have calculated that, at 2-4% of Gaza’s regular usage, fuel won’t get diverted or wasted by hospitals trying to restart incubators for premature babies and other such luxuries of life. They explicitly stated that mass disease and epidemics would get in the way of the war effort, endangering Israeli soldiers; and the two trucks would buy them time with international critics, allowing them to do more killing. |
Nov. 11—Israel’s claim that Gaza civilians are to blame for sheltering Hamas terrorists and, therefore, are legitimate war targets, has come to the fore over the last 48 hours, with the direct assaults upon Gaza’s hospitals. Among other things, these systematic attacks and accompanying justifications properly bring into question the previous “accidental” bombings (e.g., the Al Ahli Hospital, the 6th century Greek Orthodox church compound), where the excuse was offered that the Palestinians misfired, hitting their own people. The Israeli policy of the Netanyahu gang, it turns out, always had a policy of targeting such sites. What level of evil is upon us? |
Nov. 8—Over the last month, over 10,000 Palestinians in Gaza died from Israel’s military campaign, more than 7,500 of them women, children and the elderly. It is tough to claim that those are Hamas warriors. As the world watches in horror, the actual proportion of deaths amongst Gaza’s women, children and elderly has climbed from 67% to now greater than 73%. |
Nov. 2—President Biden was confronted by a rabbi last night, who told him: “Mr. President, if you care about Jewish people, as a rabbi, I need you to call for a ceasefire right now.” Biden could not pronounce the word, “ceasefire.” Instead, he prattled about a “pause” to get hostages out, as if the mass killing of Palestinian civilians weren’t the issue, as if the practice of “collective guilt” against innocents wasn’t destroying the Jewish people, destroying their souls, their culture, their identity. |
Oct. 25—Think back to early October of this year—scarcely four weeks ago. The Ukraine war was grinding on seemingly interminably, with London and Washington resorting to increasingly provocative Ukrainian attacks on Russia using advanced Western weapons, in light of Ukraine’s “counter-offensive” fiasco. The BRICS summit had been held in South Africa in late August, and had set in motion the seed crystal of an entirely new security and development architecture for the planet. In mid-September the Eastern Economic Forum was held in Vladivostok, Russia, where extensive economic cooperation projects solidified that drive for a new economic system. |
Oct. 24—Brazil’s President Lula da Silva put the bombing campaign in Gaza into perspective—it is the first war in human history where the greatest number of deaths “are children, who are not in the war.” He was speaking today in his latest weekly “Conversation with the President” broadcast. |
Oct. 22—Over the last 48 hours, it appears that a simple step away from the path of an expanded war in Southwest Asia was flushed down the toilet. The negotiations to trade hostages being held in Gaza for drinking water, medical aid, and at least a temporary ceasefire, long enough to get the hostages out, would have been a first step toward recognizing some normal concerns on both sides. Washington was relying upon the mediation of Qatar over the last two weeks, and on Oct. 20 the first two hostages were released—more as an act of good faith by Hamas than anything else—though, admittedly, a bit less than 1% of the Gaza population received enough drinking water for one day. |
