Dec. 2—It seems unimaginable that worse things can happen than the destruction in Gaza underway before the seven-day humanitarian pause began Nov. 24 at 7:00 a.m.; but after it ended Dec. 1 at 7:00 am, unimaginable horrors are taking place. |
Nov. 20—This week started with diplomatic initiatives on three parallel tracks, committed to ending the atrocities in Gaza, and more generally, to uprooting the causes for that and for the deadly conflict in Ukraine. |
In the tectonic shift of the Global Majority coming together against geopolitics and war, and for economic development, Afghanistan has come to the forefront of the world agenda. |
Nov. 15—Today was a day of new horrors perpetrated in Gaza, and also a day of new, if limited, initiatives toward stopping the evil dynamic behind this and other zones of terrible crisis. These initiatives, though welcome, are painfully insufficient, and pose the necessity for every individual to activate for the major shift needed to end, what Schiller Institute leader Helga Zepp-LaRouche spoke of today as, “the curse of geopolitics.” |
Nov. 1—What the suffering world now needs is a Peace of Westphalia-type, new security architecture, based on mutual economic benefit, or the thrashing old order will blow out with no replacement by anything at all, except chaos and doom. |
Oct. 28—There are three dramatic updates this weekend: The escalation of attacks on Gaza to new depths of horror; the world upsurge of millions of people in protest against allowing this horror to continue; and the Western battle forces massing in Southwest Asia, which constitute war preparation, not “deterrence.” |
Oct. 16—Without intervention, the Palestinian-Israeli situation is a cockpit for World War III. The strategic situation of Southwest Asia is one of incredible danger, now escalating in a way that the spill-over can ignite a global conflagration. |
Oct. 9—There are two reactions internationally to the terrible events of last weekend in Israel/Gaza, now worsening by the minute. There are those trying to exploit it out of geopolitical, evil intent, and there are those calling for ceasefire, calm, and for addressing and solving the factors that led to such a horror. Out of respect for the terrible personal anguish immediately involved, there is no other vantage point from which to view the crisis, except from the highest level, in order to take action to end it. |
Oct. 7—The above headline is the message already going into the U.S. Congress from activated Americans, and about to be amplified many times over in the coming hours. It is also the focus of international activity in the works for this week, from capital cities and other locations worldwide, led by networks associated with the International Peace Coalition. |
Oct. 6—It is crystal clear to the world that the weapons flow to Ukraine from the United States, the biggest supplier, has been disrupted by last weekend’s tumult in the House of Representatives, unseating the Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). There is gnashing of teeth by the NATO warhawks. |
Sept. 23—There is no let-up of the danger of nuclear annihilation—there is even a worsening threat—from either an accidental or deliberate triggering of warfare into nuclear exchange. As of this weekend, there is a renewed barrage of projectiles from Ukraine targeting Sevastopol, the Crimean headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the second barrage in two days. Whatever the military facts of the matter, the escalation danger is to be seen in the way the trans-Atlantic media establishment is portraying this maneuver: “See, Ukraine’s cunning attack shows that Russia cannot defend itself. Russia is on the way down and out.” |
Sept. 16, 2023—On Sept. 19 begins the annual week of the UN General Assembly’s “General Debate,” going through Sept. 26, during which time leaders from nearly all 180 member nations speak. Anything but routine can be expected this year. |
Sept. 15—Today was the first of the two-day Summit of the G77+China, meeting in Havana, chaired for 2023 by Cuba, whose Foreign Minister said in advance of the gathering that there will be “a call for a new economic world order.” Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on Sept. 15 to reporters that the Summit statement will underscore “the right to development in an increasingly exclusive, unfair, unjust and plundering international order.” |
Aug. 28—We are in the period in which the direction of history will be decided. Following the breakthroughs of last week—the BRICS expansion, NDB promise for development credit, India’s Moon landing—the world has before it an historic choice. |
Aug. 26—Today in Washington, D.C., a rally took place at the Abraham Lincoln Memorial to commemorate the historic mass rally 60 years ago, August 28, 1963, at which time Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous speech which came to be known as, “I Have a Dream.” |
Aug. 25—As it can sometimes happen, as if providentially, the personal and the historical come together in a moment of great happiness. Today is a special birthday of Schiller Institute founder and leader Helga Zepp-LaRouche, which caps off a week of momentous events, shifting the world onto the direction of economic development, justice and peace, which she has championed for a lifetime, alongside her husband Lyndon LaRouche. |
Aug. 11—The Schiller Institute will hold an international (online) conference on Saturday, Sept. 9. The conference title is, “Let Us Join Hands with the Global Majority To Create a New Chapter in World History!” The following is the text of the invitation to the event released today, to be followed by more particulars on the panels and speakers, over the coming days. |
Aug. 3—One of the speakers at the Aug. 6 Humanity for Peace rally at the United Nations in New York, Jose Vega, of the Schiller Institute, said yesterday on the Jimmy Dore Show, that we are seeing “one big ray of positivity” in the public response to activate and demonstrate to stop the drive to nuclear war. There are dozens of sister rallies, and contingency planning for actions in the coming weeks. He remarked that over past months, there were important personal “interventions” to publicly put individual figures on the spot for their backing for Global NATO’s warfare expansion, but now there is a new phase of people stepping up to “get in on that action” together. “It has been loose and fluid” in the past period of interventions, but now, “this is the moment” in which people are all coming together. |
July 31—On the world strategic stage, there is underway an open, brutal and needless fight between the expiring, old neo-imperialist order trying to remain hegemonic, and the Global Majority making irrepressible moves for a new system. That is the “issue” we all face, not the seemingly separate individual “issues” of Ukraine, Taiwan, “democracy,” the “rights of women and girls,” and certainly not a “climate emergency.” |
July 31—*The following is a new statement issued internationally today by scientists on behalf of Humanity for Peace. It is intended for rapid circulation to scientists (primarily). Please circulate and organize many more signatures. Consider circulating it with one of the Steve Starr videos on the horror and finality of nuclear war* |
July 17—Consider what our situation is. Given the fact that we are on a trajectory towards war, this won’t change until we force a break in the process, a stop to the confrontation, and a clear signal that there can be cooperation. Until this happens, the danger escalates. |
July 14—The very next day after the conclusion of the NATO Summit in Lithuania, cluster munitions were on the ground in Ukraine, having been delivered by the United States as a unilateral action. Since the U.S. first announced its plans to provide these weapons, on July 7, a week ago Friday, many denunciations have come forward, markedly from inside the United States, and also from a number of the 123 nations that signed the pact since 2008 against any use of cluster munitions. But, the top U.S. officials—President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and others—gave excuses and went ahead. |
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. |
