July 27, 2024 (EIRNS)—On November 22, 2022, founder of the Schiller Institute and convener of the International Peace Coalition, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, issued a proposal titled “Ten Principles of a New International Security and Development Architecture.” Her statement didn’t merely take up a programmatic or step-wise approach to restoring security to a world currently experiencing the eruption of wars and chaos on a mass scale. Rather, Zepp-LaRouche insisted that her proposal be considered from the standpoint of “food for thought and a dialogue among all people concerned to find a basis for a world order guaranteeing the durable existence of the human species.” It is indeed the caliber of discussion which the world is currently searching for. |
May 27, 2024 (EIRNS)—Reckless attacks on the missile attack of warning systems of the Russian strategic forces risk the destruction of human life, globally. Russia’s policy on nuclear weapon use includes as one of the conditions, an “attack by adversary against critical governmental or military sites of the Russian Federation, disruption of which would undermine nuclear forces response actions [emphasis added].” Attacking the system designed to provide warning of nuclear missile launches is insane; there could now be a circumstance in which Russian strategic forces perceive a nuclear attack and have an extremely short window of time to decide not to launch the counterattack inherent in nuclear deterrence. |
May 21—The hypocrisy and cluelessness of the so-called West on the subject of “democracy” is so profound, that these self-proclaimed bastions of that virtue oppose, adamantly, the democratization of international relations occurring with accelerating speed across the world. |
May 17—The attempted assassination of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has shaken Europe and the world. And the intended message is clear: opposition to Anglo-American NATO and the EU will not be tolerated. Since the May 15 attempt on Fico’s life, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo have all received death threats, largely delivered on social media. |
May 16—A new world order is coming into being, which the “West” would do well to join, rather than oppose. |
May 6 Amid the horrifying news that Israel is beginning its operations in Rafah. |
April 30—How does the Global South respond to video footage circulating on social media of police arresting dozens of students and teachers participating in political demonstrations that are sometimes large, often boisterous, but so far almost entirely non-violent? What nation will not snicker at a lecture coming from the United States about free expression and democracy? How can demands for international observance of a “rules-based order” be squared with the outrageous violations of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution through the actions of political leaders—from the White House, to Congress, to state executives and legislators, to a leading presidential candidate—who demand that protests be shut down, on the basis of the views expressed? |
April 29—We are in a time of dramatic change, when humanity faces decisions in the near future whose consequences will be felt for generations. |
April 26—In today’s upside-down world, university protesters opposing the deadly military policy of a nation-state stand accused of themselves being aggressors, driven by racial or religious animus. University presidents do not condemn Israel’s destruction of every university in Gaza, but instead tell their students that participating in a protest encampments will result in arrest and expulsion. Rather than addressing the hundred thousand casualties of the war in Gaza, the emotional concerns of people made uncomfortable by political viewpoints with which they disagree are being centered by the legacy media. Mass killer Benjamin Netanyahu presents himself as the victim of anti-Semitism. |
April 18—Unless the fundamental contradiction manifesting itself in such conflicts as that between NATO and Russia or the killing in Gaza is addressed, a lasting peace is impossible. A small piece of “good news” may appear from day to day, and can represent a fulcrum for shifting the broader path of history, but the situation is fundamentally one of gathering danger. |
April 10—Although there are times when there is no apparent alternative to armed conflict—consider the American Revolution, the Allied response in World War II, or Russia’s ongoing operation in Ukraine—the most potent means for retaliating against the grave injustices and threat of war in the world today is to galvanize people around a vision for the future. Even the most careful study of the origins of the evils and foolishness besetting contemporary humanity will be useless without a clear presentation of an alternative. |
April 2—Israel has demonstrated to the world what it thinks of international law. It scorned the Vienna Convention by striking an Iranian diplomatic building in Damascus, which increases the risks of the regional expansion of the current conflict. It has thumbed its nose at the International Court of Justice by working to dismember UNRWA, the lead institution responsible for humanitarian assistance to Palestinians. Not content to rest on its laurels, it then killed several members of the internationally staffed World Central Kitchen, who were transporting food aid within Gaza. |
April 1—Israel has launched a missile strike against the Iranian Embassy in Damascus. Among those killed was a brigadier general of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. As international opprobrium against Israel grows, is this an effort to broaden the war? To force the direct participation of the United States, for example? |
March 29—The United States is uniting the world—against it. This has been the message sent by the rest of the world in response to multiple U.S. officials downplaying UN Security Council Resolution 2728, passed on March 25 and demanding a Ramadan ceasefire, as being “nonbinding.” |
March 7—If you think the elites of NATO have lost their minds, you’re right! But their fantasies endanger the entire world, by bringing us to the brink of a nuclear conflict, and to civilizational disgrace. |
March 6—“Colleagues, we have reached the very precipice of nuclear war and it is imperative that all nations raise their voices—not the voice of one nation, nor of several nations, but of all humanity—for peace and against nuclear war,” said Mexican Congressman Benjamin Robles on March 6. “Let all the citizens of the world also unite in pursuit of a new international security and development architecture that guarantees the right to welfare and economic development of the people of the planet. Achieving peace through development, that is the path.” |
Feb. 29—“And everything that they are coming up with now, how they scare the whole world, that all this really threatens a conflict with the use of nuclear weapons, and therefore the destruction of civilization…” Russian President Putin told the Russian Federal Assembly. “Don’t they understand this or what?” |
Feb. 25—The world is more and more disgusted by the establishment elites promoting the “rules-based order,” while those elites themselves seem either delusionally optimistic about their chances, or are simply indifferent to the rest of the world. It is as though people and nations are coming to inhabit two separate, parallel universes. One universe—that of Anglo-American NATO—centers on conflicts, on an endless list of enemies to overcome, on ongoing war, on supremacy through hindering the growth of others, on fear of others. The second universe—exemplified by the BRICS-Plus process—envisions a new paradigm of international affairs, where win-win cooperation is possible, where human development is more important than hegemonism, where bloc conflict becomes a thing of the past. |
Feb. 17—While the Munich Security Conference included the usual war-mongering crowd, in high dudgeon about Russia’s terrible violations of international law in Ukraine while remaining notably equivocal on Israel’s destruction of Gaza, the African Union meeting of Heads of State and Government in Addis Ababa featured a very different set of voices, focused on collaboration for peace and true development. |
Feb. 16—The possibility of achieving a peaceful resolution for Israel and the Palestinians can seem downright impossible. The saying “You can’t get there from here,” seems to apply here. Indeed, sometimes you can’t solve a problem without solving the bigger one of which it is a part. That’s the case today, where a new paradigm of international relations is required, a new geometry in which actions are taken, a new set of guiding concepts—that can work in a way that aiming to achieve specific actions cannot. |
LaRouche's vision for the region promises development, not conflict, productivity not geopolitics. |
Feb. 6—The world is undergoing transformation and experiencing tensions and upheavals at a level unparalleled in many generations. The world of the past is never returning; there will be no return to a comfortable (or not so comfortable) time of yesteryear. Whether the future path of world humanity is a path to hell or to reason, is for us to decide. |
Feb. 1—The disgusting decision by the U.S., Britain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland to suspend their funding of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which is the major supplier of assistance to the besieged people of the Gaza Strip, and the confirmation from IDF sources that Hamas tunnels are being flooded with water, combined, paint a picture of murder and forced displacement. |
Jan. 24—The contrast between the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland with the Non-Aligned Movement meeting in Kampala, Uganda, is emblematic of the divergent impulses in the world today. |
Jan. 19—“We are absolutely on a road to a global war if we don’t change,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche told the 33rd weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition today. “We know what should be put on the table … a comprehensive Middle East peace plan with a two-state solution, ceasefire, an Oasis Plan for economic reconstruction for the entire region…. The same naturally goes for Ukraine…. Ukraine needs economic reconstruction to rebuild their economy, which can only happen if we get the European countries to work with the Belt and Road Initiative and invite the United States to be part of it.” |
