Aug. 4—Executive Intelligence Review’s Mike Billington reported that at the conclusion of the ninth meeting of the International Peace Coalition yesterday, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the group’s initiator, offered the view that “she had always believed that we must ‘do the work of Providence,’ and that when we do what is ‘necessary’ then we are doing the work of Providence. At this moment, when everything is at stake, we must create a new paradigm which addresses the life of every child on Earth, and all to come.”
The ability to supersede the West’s financial economic breakdown, and physically reconstruct the United States and develop the entire world, requires mastery of the principles of mankind's development.
July 28—The “sound and fury, signifying nothing,” including a just-published “recent revelation” contained in a 9-page report (see slug) from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, saying that “China and Russia are working together much closer than we thought,” shows how deeply detached from reality the once-competent leadership of the trans-Atlantic world has become.
July 18—Now is the time for the International Peace Coalition, and all right-thinking people worldwide, to intervene to expose and reverse the latest crime against humanity being committed in broad daylight by the NATO Death Lobby.
July 11—The confederacy of dunces meeting at Vilnius have proclaimed, with dubious conviction, that someday, somehow, Ukraine will be in NATO. This displeased “Little Caesar” Zelensky, who took to the streets of the city and, speaking at a concert clearly staged on his behalf, castigated the whole Anglosphere as “weak sisters,” for being “indecisive,” for being afraid to throw caution to the winds, get some iron in the spine, and stand up to the Russians. Another Ukrainian official, Andriy Yermak, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, went further. He explained, in an ABC interview, why the West should not fear escalating toward nuclear war. “Some countries, unfortunately, don’t really understand the current Russia. It’s not the country of Pushkin, Tchaikovsky, Russian ballet, one of the strongest armies in the world. It’s the country [of] terrorists.”
July 7—While the July 11-12 Vilnius NATO conference will, in all probability, constitute a self-blinding exercise in arrogance, incompetence and hubris—continuing what historian Barbara Tuchman called “the march of Folly” into the jaws of an “unthinkable” thermonuclear Hell—today’s Strasbourg, France Schiller Institute Conference offers a form of Promethean “forethought”—an alternative to that self-destructive path. The world need not be tragic; neither wealth, nor power, nor force of arms, nor murder need triumph over those that believe in the unalienable rights of humanity. Ideas, indeed, when embodied by individuals in touch with the immortality of humanity, are more powerful than weapons—including thermonuclear weapons.
June 29—On Friday, June 30, the Schiller Institute-founded International Peace Coalition will resume its deliberations. These weekly meetings are occurring at a time when consultations between the Western and Eastern Churches are ongoing, largely in the form of Vatican diplomacy; China continues its diplomatic offensive in Europe, particularly Italy; and Brazil and several nations of the African continent deepen their commitment to assisting in finding a way to end the world’s ongoing wars and planetary conflicts, beginning with Ukraine. Last night, a subsidiary grouping, some of whose members are associated with the IPC, played the entirety of the JFK American University speech for an audience of about 40, using it as a springboard for discussion of what actions, including encouraging mass viewership of the speech during the upcoming holiday weekend, should be taken by the international Peace Coalition over the next days and weeks to inspire the United States to reverse course, for the world’s sake, avoiding a humiliating defeat resulting not in a “victory,” but in the very dissolution of Ukraine, or the usage of thermonuclear weapons in the very near future—as a growing number of both Russia and Western commentators are now suggesting.
June 25—“Those who look only at trees, and cannot see the forest, will give birth to a generation of saplings.” It is most important, as the past 72 hours of current history have shown, to, in this rapidly changing circumstance, “not be caught below the level of events,” as the late Schiller Institute founding member and thinker, Fred Wills, used to say. Several “analysts,” including Stephen Hall, current head of Russia Operations at the CIA, spouted off yesterday, hopefully, manically, about the imminent demise of Vladimir Putin. “In my view, if the siloviki—the senior intelligence, security and military folks—make the assessment that OK, this has gotten too crazy, then Putin’s done.”
June 19—Today, Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised to give a speech on foreign policy in emulation of the FDR-like declamation—in part, almost a soliloquy—uttered by his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, on the occasion of his appearance at the commencement exercise of American University on June 10, 1963. Candidate Kennedy has, on other occasions, expressed his opposition to the Ukraine war, saying in a May 13 interview with Russell Brand, "The Russians have been invaded three times through Ukraine. The last time they were invaded during World War II, they were invaded through Ukraine. One out of every seven Russians was killed—13% of the population. Russia was leveled.
June 12—As of this past weekend’s Symposium, “The World Needs JFK’s Vision of Peace!” the International Schiller Institute conference process has now provided the cultural vantage point and “placement” for a dialogue between real Western civilization, represented by President John F. Kennedy’s American University “Peace Speech,” and the new direction of the “Global Majority,” as expressed in the Feb. 4, 2022, “China-Russia Joint Statement on International Relations Entering a New Era.” With Air Defender 23, the largest military maneuver in the history of the NATO Alliance, as the backdrop, the necessary “higher ground” deliberations must begin in earnest.
June 9—Many different individuals and institutions will today call attention to the June 10, 1963 American University “Peace Speech” of the slain President John F. Kennedy. Already, yesterday, a gathering took place in Rome which featured Columbia University’s Jeffrey Sachs; Kerry Kennedy, sister of Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, Jr.; Nina Khrushcheva, adoptive grand-daughter of Nikita Khrushchev; and Gillian Sorensen, widow of JFK advisor and speechwriter Theodore Sorensen. Katrina vanden Heuvel and James Carden published an article in Responsible Statecraft titled “What Kind of Peace Do We Seek? At 60, JFK’s Speech Never Gets Old”
June 2—Yesterday, Helga Zepp-LaRouche addressed a small international gathering of co-thinkers, representing several different organizations, on the task of finding a way to rapidly change the direction of current history. While there are multiple initiatives for peace, and even for elements of a new strategic architecture, presently being organized through the world, a new element must be added for them to succeed. A “higher peace movement” is required. Immediate joint action, combining the resources of several organizations and many minds, must out-think, and therefore out-organize those that are bringing the world closer to thermonuclear ruin.
May 26—The tyranny of popular opinion, today, says that there is no “credible” threat to the human race posed by the rampant inaction of those governed, in the United States and Europe, by a bodyguard of lies, such as that told by the United States and Great Britain about the Nord Stream Pipeline terrorist action; that there is no threat posed by the Malthusian likes of the present occupants of the throne at Buckingham Palace, or the State Department amateur hour that dominates the Presidential process now in the current Washington, D.C. Administration. It is, however, the acceptance of the lie, that “snow is black”—“that the war in Ukraine was unprovoked by the illegal overthrow of the democratically elected government of Ukraine in February 2014, and its aftermath—that could soon doom the entire human race.” An interruption in the lies, by vigorously and publicly shouting the truth from the street corners, at county fairs, and in public places, is the work of true service in the cause of human freedom.
May 23—While it has been noted by former British diplomat Alaistir Crooke, commenting on the admission, both in the London Telegraph and the Spectator, of the failure of the NATO sanctions policy of “financial nuclear war” against Russia, that “delusionary hubris placed ‘blinders’ on Western policymakers; they could not see what was before their own eyes,” he, in his commentary, failed to compare this doomed outlook to that contained in Classical tragedy—for example, Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex. Crooke, like many academic commentators whose descriptive rendering of the present civilizational crisis may be accurate, tells us nothing of “the way out,” of how to defeat tragedy.
May 21—The disastrous, “thermonuclear Vietnam” policy of the United States and NATO, as just reasserted at the G7 “Hiroshima” summit in the form of the unwinnable “Ukraine” proxy war, must end not only in the defeat, but, if pursued, in the near-term systemic dissolution of the Anglosphere itself—whatever the apparent outcome on the battlefield. As Helga Zepp-LaRouche asserts in her “Urgent Appeal by Citizens and Institutions from All Over the World to the (Next) President of the United States!” “Today we are faced with a strategic situation far more dangerous than that at the height of the Cuban missile crisis. Offensive NATO weapon systems are much closer to the border of Russia than Cuba is to the United States. The destructive power of the NATO weapons is even greater, the warning time before their launch shorter, and the trust between the leaders of the big nuclear powers is virtually non-existent, compared to that between Kennedy and Khrushchev.”
May 19—Why would the Vatican, even after Zelenskyy’s apparent rejection of any rational peace plan whatsoever, send a simultaneous mission to Kiev and Moscow “in pursuit of a cease-fire?” Perhaps there are those in the Vatican who have not only an appreciation, but even a mastery of the principle of tragedy, a principle that the comedian Volodymyr “Pagliacci” Zelenskyy will probably only come to recognize in the form of Nemesis. With yesterday’s announcement by Russian Security Council head Nikolay Patrushev that the Russian military’s destruction of stockpiles of Ukrainian depleted uranium munitions had caused a radioactive cloud to begin to drift westward towards Europe, the world was reminded—including G7 members assembled in Hiroshima for their summit—how unpredictable the winds of war can be.
May 12—Even as this weekend the Pope meets with Zelenskyy, China conducts foreign policy on multiple fronts in Europe, and LaRouche forces put forth the message of a global Glass-Steagall as more and more banks collapse in the United States, it is important to keep in view the mission to which we are dedicated. “I think what is required is to really define a completely new paradigm in thinking, to start with the common interest of the one humanity, put the national interests in the context of that, and then find a way of overcoming these supposedly unbridgeable difficulties, because the Global South—that’s 85% of the human population—they want to end colonialism. They do not want anymore to be deprived of economic development. And because of the Belt and Road Initiative, which is now ten years in progress, many countries see for the first time the perspective of overcoming underdevelopment and poverty. Europe should join with China in that endeavor!”
The solution for the collapsing world financial-economic system depends not on bail-outs but on massive packages of infrastructure, machine tool building, and science and technology for the whole world, including the depressed United States.
May 5—On May 3, on a day dedicated worldwide to the freedom of speech, the freedom of thought, and the freedom of journalist Julian Assange, Helga Zepp-LaRouche issued a statement, “The Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Julian Assange Are Identical!” The statement concluded:" The heads of state who assemble this weekend for the coronation of King Charles can prove their commitment to freedom and democracy by congratulating the newly crowned King for making his first act the freedom of Julian Assange!"
May 2—There is an important, essential conception that Helga Zepp-LaRouche and Jacques Cheminade have presented in recent discussion and presentation. Referring to the 2024 Presidential election in the United States, Helga said, “this election campaign will take place in these two years of the biggest danger of history, ever. And I think that this is why we should really conceptualize this in a different way, and warn people against the danger of polarization, and the need to have the kind of national unity, instead; and not only national unity, but to try to move toward an international approach, to solve the existential crisis.”
April 28—The decomposing hand of the still-undead “Dirty Bertie” Bertrand Russell (1872-1968) seems to have authored Wednesday’s London Economist’s call for thermonuclear war with Russia.
