May 11—Can all of humanity think the way that the poet Friedrich Schiller forecast that it would, one day, in his poem An die Freude? Can all of humanity be called to service, not the way doomed governments call their young to die in senseless war, but for the purpose of eradicating poverty, famine, disease and war itself, as one American President—the last flawed, but truly free, and then assassinated American President—proposed in his 1961 Inaugural Address? |
May 9—Yesterday, CIA Director William Burns went to Israel for meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some of his administration. Burns had spent several days in Cairo trying his darndest to fashion between Hamas and Israel a deal to release hostages and provide a truce. |
Dressing up a corpse won't bring it back to life. Even the {Economist} admits LaRouche has been right, with its May 9 cover story, "The Old Order Is Dying". |
Beethoven’s idea of humanity must prevail, now. How can millions be brought to the threshold of “thinking like Beethoven” in time to reverse our destructive course? How can the genius of the Ninth Symphony free us from ourselves? |
May 8—There are unusual periods in human history when the entire scope of life-and-death decisions facing Mankind—short-term decisions which will take us either forward towards a new renaissance, or otherwise hurl us into the bowels of hell—are as if telescoped down into a single day. That was the case of Monday, May 6, 2024. |
War or Peace? The people must decide, as the oligarchs have chosen war to defend their collapsing neo-colonial system with war and chaos. |
The Schiller Institute and the LaRouche Organization will launch a campaign, using the 50-year-old publication Executive Intelligence Review, and its new, derivative Emergency Alert Service, to launch “special cultural operation” to get the newly awakened Americans and others, to “think like Beethoven,” and on behalf of humanity. |
May 7—In the negotiations with Hamas over a deal involving the freeing of the hostages and securing a peace, one major sticking point has been Hamas’ insistence that the war be brought to an end. Major elements of that package include Hamas dissolving its military wing and Gaza having a 3-5 year period of reconstruction. Yet, the trick has been whether, during the three 42-day phases of the freeing of hostages, the dealing with starvation and disease, and the withdrawal of Israeli forces, Washington is capable of using the facts on the ground to actually end Netanyahu’s militarism. |
It is the U.S./U.K. commitment to geopolitics that is pushing the world to nuclear war, just as the geopolitical doctrine of the British Empire caused World Wars I and II. |
May 6 Amid the horrifying news that Israel is beginning its operations in Rafah. |
With Israel's assault on Rafah apparently underway, can diplomacy based on international law overcome Israel's desire for revenge against all Palestinians? |
Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche May 8, 11am Eastern/5pm CET in her Weekly Live dialogue and help usher in the Year of the New Paradigm for all Humanity. Send your questions, thoughts and reports to questions@schillerinstitue.org or ask them in the live stream. |
May 5—President Joe Biden’s most liberal backer, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) of Vermont, warned last week that Biden may become “another LBJ,” forced not to run for a second term by his war policy. It is Biden’s arming and cheering Israel in a brutal colonialist proxy war against Palestine, which has become a genocide and turned American youth against him, after he threw hundreds of billions into NATO’s “Ukraine war” against Russia. |
May 4—*The Schiller Institute and the Fédération des associations d’amitiés Chine-Afrique (FAACA) held a three-hour video conference today on “China-Africa Cooperation in Poverty Reduction Strategy.” The FAACA is a multi-nation association, with an office in Dakar, Senegal. Speakers included Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and leader of the Schiller Institute; Assane Mbengue, President of FAACA; His Excellency Ibrahima Sory Sylla, Senegalese Ambassador to China; Zhang Hangbao, First Secretary to His Excellency Xiao Han, Chinese Ambassador to Senegal; Zhang Yun, CEO of SOMETA SA (Senegal’s leading iron and steel company); Edmond Moukala N’Gouemo, UNESCO representative in Ghana, and others. |
May 3—In the midst of the tumultuous events of this past week—some hopeful, as with the hundreds of worldwide student assemblies convened to challenge the Anglosphere’s genocide in Gaza; others, catastrophic, as were the recent disastrous legislative actions to finance war, and to suppress freedom of thought, passed into law by the United States Congress—it is important for the LaRouche Organization to call attention to that which defines the higher battle under way for the soul of what was, only a short time ago, known and defended as Western Civilization, and the sovereign nation state. |
Join us live today at 2pm EDT for the Manhattan Project. Send in questions to questions@laroucheorganization.com |
May 2—As today comes to a close, U.S. President Joe Biden and the House Republicans, led by House Speaker Mike Johnson, are locked in an ugly embrace, offering nothing of substance to the American electorate but the sick joke of crushing democracy in the name of stopping allegedly violent, anti-Semitic protesters. Yet that is what accompanies last week’s decision, with a $34 trillion national debt heading for trouble rapidly, with a militarization of the economy and of political discourse, of throwing another $95 billion installment of military hardware into the pot. |
Your right to free speech is being systematically taken away by enraged neocons who don't want to allow opposition to their permanent war policy. |
May 1—Despite over 1,600 arrests, dozens and perhaps hundreds of suspensions and expulsions of students from universities, and a number of instances of incendiary police violence—such as at Emory University and now Washington University at St. Louis—the protests at U.S. university campuses against the unending genocide in Gaza are continuing and expanding. They are the voice of morality in a world at razor’s edge of a descent into thermonuclear war. |
Backed by the Censorship-Industrial Complex, Biden and his allies are falsely calling protestors on U.S. campuses anti-Semites, to silence them. |
Tonight’s Fireside Chat, held in the shadow of both President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Lyndon LaRouche, will propose what people, who still believe in freedom of thought, freedom of conscience, and freedom of advocacy, can and must do to roll back the new fascist onslaught on the human mind, a form of “menticide” which must be vigorously confronted and defeated. |
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? |
As the western financial system suffocates under an avalanche of unpayable debt, the bankrupt establishment mobilizes for more wars. |
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. |
With the U.S. increasingly isolated, Blinken is attempting to breathe new life into the disastrous Kissinger-Brzezinski geopolitical strategy. He will fail. |
