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Jan. 20—An extraordinary international event took place today, hosted by the Schiller Institute, titled, “2024 and 2074—A New Paradigm for the Next Fifty Years; International Youth Dialogue with Helga Zepp-LaRouche.” The three-hour discussion was a hybrid forum based on a live audience in New York City, with online participants, including in groups, from around the world, for an audience of real-time attendees numbering well over 250. At least 20 countries, representing all continents, were represented, from China to Afghanistan to Chile.

Jan. 14—Within less than 24 hours of the World Court presentation by South Africa of the case of Israel committing genocide in Gaza, the U.S.A. and U.K. bombed Yemen, which airstrike was repeated by the United States again the next night. U.S. Ambassador to the UN Linda Greenfield-Thomas defended their attacks, telling the UN Security Council yesterday, that the airstrikes “were consistent with international law and in exercise of the UN’s inherent right to self-defense, as reflected by Article 51 of the UN Charter.”

Jan. 6—The hearing set for Jan. 11-12 this week at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, on the case filed Dec. 29 by South Africa against Israel for genocide against the Palestinians is a battleground for survival of civilization.

Dec. 30—The NATO belligerence against Russia using Ukraine as its proxy crossed the red line today when Ukraine deployed NATO weapons (from Czechia) to strike Belgorod, Russia, killing at least 18, and wounding 108 people. The strike took place in mid-afternoon, local time. Cluster munitions were used, and Vampire missiles, made in Czechia. The strike focused on the city center, hitting a number of sites including the medical college of the state university, and the public ice rink in use.

Dec. 22—Only today did a resolution finally pass the United Nations Security Council, addressed to relieving the catastrophe in Gaza. The resolution does not call for a ceasefire, but only “to create conditions for sustainable cessation of hostilities”—wording pre-approved by the U.S. after days of haggling. Other measures in the 16 points of action address expediting humanitarian aid. The resolution passed 13 in favor, with two abstentions—the U.S. and Russia (for very different reasons).

Dec. 18—The toll of death and misery rises by the hour in Gaza, with the latest official count of 19,500 dead, dozens of thousands wounded, and over two million suffering.

Dec. 9—The first of a two-day world online forum, “A New International Security and Development Architecture,” was hosted today by the Central American and Caribbean Critical Thinking Conference (CPCCC), centered in Nicaragua, with powerful presentations and intense discussion addressing five topics. Over the day-long dialogue (with simultaneous interpretation of Spanish into French, English and German) some 250 people from over 15 countries participated, with questions and comments coming in from Belarus to Peru. The second day, in Spanish, will be a full schedule as well. The entire two-day conference will be available in video archive.

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.