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.”
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!
April 24—There is a major escalation of incidents—provocations of all kinds—underway from the world’s war faction, pushed especially against Russia and China. The sane response is to take on as a personal mission, getting the message across on how extreme is the danger, and how urgent it is to take action. The international online Schiller Institute conference April 15-16 manifests how unique and critical is the role of the Schiller Institute/LaRouche movement, in terms of both a solution orientation to the crisis, and a “network of networks” to mobilize for action. The video archive of the whole is available, as well as individual videos of each of the 41 speakers.
April 20—A draft law was introduced April 19 into the U.S. House of Representatives for re-regulating out-of-control financial entities, titled “The Return to Prudent Banking Act of 2023,” which is now a pivot point for a global shift toward a new economic architecture, to serve development, not speculation and collapse. In doing this, the bill at the same time is an initiative toward a new world security architecture, to provide for the common benefit of all nations, and bring an end to the economic and military confrontations, now at the point of risking nuclear war.
March 25—The Global Majority is on the move. This term refers to those nations and billions of people committed to respectful and mutually beneficial development, and who reject the confrontationism of Global NATO. In this new spirit, numbers of concrete actions—projects, conferences and commitments—are taking place.
Feb. 11—A huge rally of some 25,000 farmers, fishermen and the general public took place today at The Hague organized by the Dutch Farmers Defense Force (FDF) and Together for the Netherlands (SvNL).The focus was to stop the government’s shutdown of farming and food production, and denounce the fraud of the green lies that agriculture is killing the planet with nitrogen emissions and human activity.
March 9—On Monday, March 13, the heads of state of the U.S., the UK, and Australia meet in San Diego, California, to confer as the “AUKUS Partnership” on “security in the Pacific,” meaning belligerence against China and Russia. High on the San Diego agenda is submarines—building and deploying many more in the Pacific.
March 2—The world war machine bloc of nations, aka Global NATO, presented itself in certain special ways this week, but all part of the same NATO dynamic of promoting war and perpetrating genocide. At the same time, the forces gathering momentum against this—as seen in the past two weeks of mass demonstrations in the Trans-Atlantic—have the mighty strength to defeat the evil, because of the commitment to truth, and love for humanity. The stakes include preventing a nuclear holocaust.
Feb. 25—The rallies across Europe this weekend show the “No to NATO” movement has taken off. The Berlin rally in the forefront of the action had an estimated 50,000 demonstrators, in a spirit described as “like 1989.” Large or small, rallies in other cities across Europe show the same attitude, a breakout of leadership and commitment, potentially toward a new world paradigm of peace through development. Focus, collaboration and education in the methodology and knowledge provided as “political economy” by Lyndon LaRouche, can see this miracle come into being.
Feb. 18—The Washington, D.C. demonstration Sunday, Feb. 19—“Rage Against the War Machine”—organized by many co-sponsors from all points on the spectrum, has gathered momentum, which is evident not simply in the expected multi-state attendance, but in the attention across the U.S. and internationally, to act to stop the Global NATO confrontationist push, now at the point of threatening nuclear conflagration. From the speakers, to the crowds, people are responding, based on a common understanding of the threat and urgency. There are extreme differences among those mobilizing, but all share the view that stopping nuclear war is incontestably the priority.
Feb. 11—On Feb. 8, the article came out by senior U.S. investigative journalist Seymour Hersh that, as the headline stated, “How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline.” This has been described as a “truth bomb,” whose significance is reflected in the fact that it has been all but blacked out as a major media story in the Trans-Atlantic, or otherwise put down as conspiracy-theorizing, or the like. The same day that the story came out, U.S. authorities denied it completely.
Feb. 4—The February 4 international Schiller Institute conference (online)—“the Age of Reason or the Annihilation of Humanity?”—opened with moderator Dennis Speed making brief remarks in which he noted that February 2nd was the 80th anniversary of Russia’s victory over Nazism at Stalingrad, which was the largest battle in world history. His introduction was followed by a video presentation of a 1997 speech by Lyndon LaRouche in which he presented the reasoning behind his proposal for a new doctrine to be jointly shared by the U.S. and Soviet Union for Mutually Assured Survival based on new physical principles, which was initially adopted by U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Because LaRouche’s proposal was rejected in 1983 by the Soviet leadership, and undermined by the Anglophile faction in the U.S., the danger of nuclear war persists, and as one speaker at the February 4th conference noted, is now at an all-time high. Numerous speakers reminded the viewers that the Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists now reads 90 seconds to midnight.
Jan. 28—The strategic watchword of international relations over the past ten days is not “tanks” for Ukraine, but “sovereignty” for all nations. There is no such thing as national sovereignty in the West’s vaunted “rules-based” order of “democracy.”
Jan. 13—The Schiller Institute online symposium set for Saturday, Jan. 14, on the occasion of the national U.S. holiday weekend honoring the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is a critical intervention in a world with two fast-moving vectors: the Global NATO war drive threatening nuclear holocaust, and the counter to that, which is not simply “anti-war,” but is the drive for deliberate development in the interests of all humanity—the active concept of peace.
Jan. 7—As of the first week of the New Year, the escalation is dramatic for confrontation and militarization, not only in Ukraine, making general war all the more likely. It is no time to back down from sounding the alarm, and now time for organizing for the alternative: peace through development.
Dec. 15—The world remains in dangerous and escalating circumstances toward nuclear war. With the range of 2,000 nuclear warheads launch-ready on short notice in North America and Eurasia, the crazed hawk faction in Global NATO is attempting to impose a complete black-out of awareness of this reality, and of any voices sounding the alarm against it. But we can break out of the crisis.
Dec. 10—The war threat situation is worsening by the day. It is epitomized by the ceremony at Omaha, Nebraska on Dec. 9, for the changeover of command of the U.S. Strategic Command. Present were the outgoing commander Adm. Charles Richard; the new commander Gen. Anthony Cotton; and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. They each held forth, as would Dr. Strangelove, on aspects of the “tripolar” nuclear situation with the U.S., Russia and China, and that the U.S. has to “compete successfully.”
Dec. 4—In Washington, D.C. yesterday, a special Dona Nobis Pacem Vigil was held on the Ellipse in front of the tall National Christmas tree across from the White House, by Schiller Institute members and collaborators singing the universally known canon, presenting signs, and handing out a message that the name for peace is that there must be development. Although at midday, and lasting some two hours, the event reached hundreds of people, including visitors from around the world, and the import is international. The effect was not just from the beautiful music, the words of the prayer—“grant us peace”—nor just from the signs, which said, for example, “Bridges Not Bombs,” and “Peace through Development,” and “No Nuclear War.”
Nov. 21—COP27 concluded Nov. 20 as FLOP27. Formally, the release of its joint statement may have saved some pretense of continuation of the 30-year-long dirty operation (started at the UN Rio Earth Summit in 1992), but that’s all it is. The air is hissing out of the green balloon.
