The cultural determinants of a different language culture and nation’s approach to policymaking can sometimes produce, as from the outside, an ability for humanity to see a solution to an apparently insoluble problem in a completely different way, than others are able, or choose to see it. As with solving the problem of doubling the square, posed by Socrates in Plato’s Meno dialogue, once the solution is discovered, it is “completely obvious,” where moments before, it was “completely insoluble.”
Feb. 17—The following statement by Helga Zepp-LaRouche has been prepared for international organizing activities, including demonstrations occurring in the next week, devoted to stopping World War Three, now focused in Ukraine. As of today, this statement should receive the widest possible circulation. It proposes a solution, in its section “Principles for a Durable Peace,” which arms its readers with the one thing without which they must fail in their attempt to prevent humanity’s catastrophic self-destruction: optimism. “It is high time that we bring the political, economic, and social order on Earth into cohesion with the actual physical laws of the universe, which will also give rise to an unbounded optimism about the creative lawfulness which underlies creation.”
Feb. 6—The Schiller Institute conference, “The Age of Reason or the Annihilation of Humanity,” now transitions to a second phase. This will involve various forms of international actions, from demonstrations to “Zoom call teach-ins,” from letter-writing to lobbying. Most importantly, however, it will involve new, unexpected alliances, “coincidences of opposites” that will make people uncomfortable, in the way advocated by St. Paul: “Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by renewing your mind.”
Feb. 5—The Schiller Institute has won a victory with its conference of Feb. 4. We brought together 25 highly qualified and experienced speakers from 16 nations around the world, all focused on success of the initiatives of the Pope and the President of Brazil, as well as Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, for negotiated peace to stop a spiral of escalation toward nuclear world war. But the conference also distinctly represented Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s principle that any such presentation to a worldwide audience must be “two-thirds devoted to the solution,” which is development. As Guyana’s former President David Ramotar, one of the half-dozen high-level representatives of Latin American and Caribbean nations, said, “Broaden this opposition to the war! The Global South must have a place at the table in a new international development architecture.”
Jan. 30—We recall today, six days before the Schiller Institute Feb. 4 conference, “The Age of Reason, or the Annihilation of Humanity?” the post-World War Two mission of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, born July 30, 1882. While FDR did not live to the end of that war, his vision was adopted and advanced through the words and actions of World War Two veteran Lyndon LaRouche. LaRouche’s entire adult life, particularly from 1945 until his death, February 12, 2019, was devoted to the eradication of British, Belgian, Portuguese, Dutch and French colonialism.
Jan. 27—“Pentiti!” “No!”…“Ah! tempo più non v’è!” “Repent!” “No!”…“Ah! Your time is up!” But the Doomsday Clock still read 90 seconds to midnight! What had happened? The explanation was simple. The clock-time was not physical time. They had all precisely miscalculated. Anglosphere geopoliticians and “strategic realists,” take heed. “Pentiti!”
Jan. 20—Under what circumstances can the deliberations of the upcoming Feb. 4 Schiller Institute conference, “The Age of Reason or the Annihilation of Humanity?” address what seem, to most nations and institutions, to be an insoluble conflict that must, whatever the protests to the contrary, lead to total self-destruction of the human race in war? Should the Anglosphere continue to attempt to define “military victory in Ukraine” as of “existential significance” to its imperial (and already doomed) future, then there is no way that thermonuclear war will in fact be avoided. Deciding to insist on the militarily impossible, is a decision to not merely risk, but to fight, whether by accident or design, end-of-civilization warfare.
Whatever you may have been told, Russia, perhaps now the world’s leading thermonuclear weapons power, believes that it is fighting the United States, Great Britain and NATO in a proxy war, one that only foolish, uninformed people in “the West” refer to as “the war between Ukraine and Russia.” Considering that the United States has, in one year, directly deployed an acknowledged $112 billion of weapons and materiel into Ukraine, an amount larger than the entire annual military budget of Russia, and that all other NATO military, logistical, and financial aid has been in addition to that, that belief seems more than justified.
During the Sunday, Jan. 8 Policy Discussion hosted by Independent United States candidate Diane Sare, and featuring Helga Zepp-LaRouche, weapons analyst Scott Ritter, Col. Richard Black (ret.) and nuclear weapons expert Steve Starr, the necessary dialogue about whether the “idea” of the Ten Principles for a new international Security and Development Architecture proposed by LaRouche could in fact change the “reality” of the geopolitical (i.e., Malthusian) situation came sharply into focus. Importantly, Scott Ritter, after his presentation/report on the state of the conflict, seemed to refute the idea that the Vatican initiative for a “pre-conditions-free” conference to stop the war in Ukraine could ever possibly work, strongly pleaded, and even insisted, to be “proven wrong.” Zepp-LaRouche heartily agreed that she would do everything in her power to oblige.
Jan. 6—In what acted as a simultaneous commemoration of (Western) Epiphany and (Eastern) Christmas Day, Russian President Vladimir Putin, following the request of Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, declared a ceasefire in the special military operation, beginning at noon on January 6, and ending midnight Christmas Day, January 7. Such a “Christmas truce” had been advocated by many religious figures in the trans-Atlantic sector as well, and featured as one expression of the anti-war, pro-economic development “Ten Principles” campaign of the Schiller Institute. Though Ukraine’s leadership refused the truce, Christians throughout the world, including the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, now being suppressed in that “bastion of democracy and tolerance,” now know who actually respects the idea, “Peace On Earth, Good Will Toward Men.”
Dec. 31—“There are sayings around the Kennedy Center, carved above the marble above the colonnades when you walk in. And on the back side toward the Potomac, there’s one; it’s a quote from President Kennedy that says: ‘I look forward to the day when America is no longer afraid of grace and beauty.’ And I thought immediately when he was shot, that that’s why he was shot. We are afraid of grace and beauty.”—Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General, quoted in the documentary “Citizen Clark”
Today's "LaRouche Manhattan Project" meeting will review the progress in this direction in 2022 and what is required to be accomplished as we enter the new year.
Dec. 18—The Executive Intelligence Review symposium “Peace On Earth, Or Humanity’s Doom? The Case For Negotiations” should be viewed as an “epistemological springboard” for our international “Dona Nobis Pacem” campaign, already well underway in certain respects. Note the increasing worldwide response, of institutions and individuals alike, to the Vatican’s proposal to host peace talks. We also can propose to organize all citizens of good will, in these next weeks, to act as a world chorus for a principled peace in Ukraine. This takes organizing which will use the inspiration of the artist to supersede the pessimism of the political pragmatist. To arrive at a superior policymaking method among nations in order to avert thermonuclear war in time will demand a poetic change in the thinking of all those involved.
Dec. 16—Margaret Mead, an avowed, and even violent enemy of Schiller Institute Helga Zepp-LaRouche, once said something which is very true—“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” It goes well beyond that, however.
Dec. 9—“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” Were discussions of the Ten Principles proposed by Helga Zepp-LaRouche to replace the chat room gossip and partisan “much ado about nothing” presently clogging up the internet, the seeming impossibility of creating a dialogue among cultures, based on the mutual, if differentiated, economic progress of all nations, would evaporate. LaRouche often stated that “the content of policy is the method by which it is made,” which should clarify why you will never get the right policy from a Samantha Power, or Blinken, or Sullivan, or even worse, a pompous Pompeo.
Dec. 2—“The notion of the sacredness of the individual person depends entirely upon that person’s potential exercise of creative powers to discover, and otherwise choose those forms of technological practice and other behavior, which have at least implicit benefit for all mankind.”—Lyndon LaRouche, “Historical Statement of Principles” 1976
In today’s dying Anglosphere, where mass killing by war is touted as the only efficient policy for ending war, it is incumbent upon the forces of The LaRouche Organization and the Schiller Institute to seize the occasion of this Advent season (the time period spanning the four Sundays prior to Christmas) to reawaken in the trans-Atlantic nations a commitment to the once-celebrated mission of Christian civilization: the voluntary redemption of mankind, without guilt, and without recrimination.
Nov. 25—Because of the accelerating, not decelerating, pace of what has now been officially characterized by Russia as the NATO-Russia conflict—exactly the war that you were assured we would never get into, but which Russia’s Maria Zakharova has now stated “is a confrontation between Russia and NATO in Ukraine”—we call attention to the first exchange in Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s webcast of today. It is an example of, not an “information-packed briefing,” but of the method of Plato’s Socratic dialogue. The method used is “thinking by negation,” revealing to the listener/questioner that, not only does he/she have the “facts” wrong. More than that, “in fact,” they will never apprehend what is actually going on, no matter how many facts they accumulate, unless they change the way they see the whole world. “How you see the world depends on how you look at it.”
Nov. 18—“I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize that the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war—and frequently the words of the pursuer fall on deaf ears. But we have no more urgent task.”
—John F. Kennedy, American University, June 10, 1963
Nov. 8—Those in the United States that today will have the privilege and opportunity to vote for Independent candidates Diane Sare (United States Senate in New York) and Joel De Jean (U.S. Congress 38th CD,Texas), or for those that have worked with them despite policy differences, such as Geoff Young (6th CD,Kentucky), are reviving what many Americans do not even realize has been stolen—not “American elections,” but the American electoral process itself. Today’s electoral process is only significant as it is subsumed in the global battle to walk the world back from the brink of thermonuclear war, and to a durable new strategic and economic architecture based on a return to the recently-abandoned ideal and practice of the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia.
Nov. 4—Today, Executive Intelligence Review hosts the press availability, “A Nuclear War Cannot Be Won and Must Never Be Fought.” Speakers will include Diane Sare, LaRouche independent candidate for U.S. Senate, New York; Ray McGovern, former Senior Analyst, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency; Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and head, international Schiller Institute; Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector, USMC intelligence officer, and military analyst; Jacques Cheminade, president/founder Solidarité et Progrès, France; Col. Richard H. Black (ret.), former head of the U.S. Army’s Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon, former Virginia State Senator, and others. Zepp-LaRouche and Sare, from the vantage point of their multiple interchanges with international media and institutions over the past ten days, determined that the pace at which the world continues to careen toward thermonuclear war has not lessened. With the recent “naming of the names” of some of the British operatives alleged to have supervised the attacks on Russia, despite Britain’s denials, the world has become even more dangerous.
