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 28—The June 23-24 Wagner mutiny led by Yevgeny Prigozhin in Russia was brought under control in less than 24 hours, but the strategic crisis behind that revolt is not under control—and the danger of a full-scale thermonuclear war between the United States and Russia will continue to escalate until it is. The reasons for that—and what to do about it—are as follows.
June 27—Anglo-American NATO is driving an escalatory and acute danger of unsurvivable nuclear war, by demanding that Russia surrender its role as a world power and that China do likewise. Today, the most concentrated aspect of this threat is the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP). This plant is currently a central element of a plan to escalate the conflict to bring NATO into direct military confrontation with the Russian Federation.
Media reports of a "Russian plan" to blow up the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant come from British War Hawks, and are then echoed by Ukraine officials and the looney U.S. Sen. Lindsay Graham.
June 26—Look at the world situation. On one side, there are the Global NATO leaders and forces pushing confrontation in every way, to bring down—end—Russia. On the other side, you have the government of Russia—a nuclear power, making clear that, “we will not be extinguished.” The stakes are nuclear annihilation.
Proclaiming that the Wagner revolt is the "beginning of the end" for Putin, western "analysts" demonstrate they intend to go for regime change in Russia.
As we write this, a dramatic and dangerous situation has unfolded in Russia. Little is known at this time about an apparent failed mutiny by the so-called Wagner Group, but if it turns out that there was influence from Western governments in any way, the danger of a nuclear conflict has escalated even further. The reader should be prepared for a torrent of disinformation and "spin" from the corporate media in the coming days, and we suggest that you visit the LaRouche Organization website frequently, and listen to Harley Schlanger's daily updates as an antidote to the proverbial "fog of war."
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.”
Sixty years of Permanent Warfare is enough. We must return to the principles in JFK's "Peace Speech" of June 10, 1963 to achieve a real, lasting peace.
June 24—As of nighttime in Moscow Saturday, June 24, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Group, the mercenary army, had given the “turn back” order to a column of his armed forces and equipment heading north from Rostov-on-Don to Moscow, which he called his “march for justice.” This was, in fact, an armed insurrection; and Prigozhin is under charges filed against him yesterday for treason.
June 23—Significant breaks are developing in the trajectory toward war, increasing the potential to free the world from geopolitics, even as Anglo-American lunatics are promoting the scenario of a supposed Russian attack on the Zaporozhye nuclear plant as a basis for a full confrontation between NATO and Russia.
June 22—The harsh reality of thousands of Ukrainian youth dying in “killing fields” in the last 2-3 weeks of the vaunted “counteroffensive” is beginning to haunt the Western alliance. Instead of the beginning of conquering of the Donbass, of Zaporozhye, of the drive into Crimea, etc., an estimated 13,000-plus Ukrainian soldiers are casualties (wounded or killed) in 2.5 weeks of senseless battle. Not getting past even the first line of multi-layered defensive lines erected by Russia, lines built up with trenches, fortifications, minefields, questions must be asked.
The needless deaths of Ukrainians in NATO's proxy war against Russia cries out for accountability. Will this be a major issue in the 2024 Presidential campaign?
June 21—The recent article by Russian professor Sergey Karaganov which calls for Russia to launch a tactical nuclear strike against one or various European countries, and which was run on June 13 in Russia in Global Affairs and reprinted on June 17 by RT and Asia Times, has unleashed a series of responses both within Russia and in the West. For example, Russia Matters, the publication of The Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, has published their latest “Russia Analytical Report, June 12-20, 2023,” noting in their “4 Ideas to Explore” item that a “debate has reemerged among some of Russia’s best-known foreign and defense policy pundits on whether Moscow should initiate use of nuclear weapons to dissuade the West from providing further support to Ukraine.”
As reality is shredding the narratives produced by neo-con/neo-liberal War Hawks, it is increasingly likely that a real debate will break out in the 2024 presidential race.
