This weekend’s Schiller Institute conference is a critical platform to elevate the agenda from its extreme confrontationism now, and get enough forces to understand that if the military and foreign policy clashes continue, war will be the inevitable result. We need to replace the armed belligerence with dialogue and cooperation. The conference—“War Drive Towards Armageddon, or a New Paradigm United by the Common Aims of Mankind?”—is taking place at a very dangerous moment, with incidents all over the place. For conference details: https://www.schillerinstitute.com
Today, live-fire military exercises began by joint U.S. and Estonian forces, to go until Sept. 10, some 70 miles from the Russia border. The Russian embassy in Washington, D.C. denounced this strongly.
Yesterday, NATO issued a statement denouncing Russia for violating Danish airspace Aug. 28, charging that a Russian fighter jet did this while intercepting a U.S. B-52 bomber. Danish fighter jets rose up quickly, fortunately finding the skies empty again.
Schiller Institute President Helga Zepp-LaRouche wryly noted, when reviewing these latest incidents today, that it is insane to constantly risk the fate of the world, by depending on the acuity of a few jet pilots.
But this kind of contingency is inherent in what is promoted as grand strategy, under the British brand of geopolitics. It is exactly the kind of endless-war threat that President Donald Trump campaigned against and won the election over in 2016. However, such geopolitics continues.
This week, U.S. envoy Stephen Biegun, Deputy Secretary of State, is in South Asia, carrying a foreign policy message of us-vs.-them—China and Russia—parallel to last week’s visit by Secretary of State Pompeo in Southwest Asia, and Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s tour of the Pacific. Biegun in New Delhi promoted the Quad, a bloc of four nations to counter China—United States, Australia, Japan and India. Quad leaders are expected to meet soon in the fall. He said that China has to be countered “in every domain.” This is just the beginning, he said, the way NATO started small and built up.
In this context, Chinese Foreign Secretary Wang Yi was markedly plain-spoken during his tour of Europe, which finished today in Berlin. He said in Paris, that “some hardliners in the U.S. have gone to great lengths to portray China as a major rival. They have resorted to every possible means to suppress China’s development,” and coerce other “countries into choosing sides.” It is notable that Chinese world TV network, CGTN, had Schiller Institute spokesman Karel Vereycken on today, to evaluate Wang Yi’s tour. Vereycken noted that the current China-EU dialogue offers an important, though narrow, “window” which must be taken advantage of.
That is part of the purpose of the weekend Schiller Institute conference. The impact of the roster and deliberation of high level speakers can catalyze solutions and take advantage of the moment, though dangerous. It can support the prospects for the P-5 Summit (referring to the Permanent Five nations of the UN Security Council—Russia, China, the United States, France and the U.K.—to happen soon, and succeed, as designed by President Putin, who initiated the idea last January.
A special aspect of the Sept. 5-6 conference is to dispel the many Big Lies, which contribute to the present danger. There are the lies about Trump, Putin, Xi Jinping, Russiagate, the pandemic, and plenty more. As Zepp-LaRouche put it, “it’s no mystery that the population is completely bamboozled and going crazy.”
President Trump himself this week has confronted the Big Lie that the rioting and violence now in many U.S. cities, is useful “protest.” Yesterday, he announced the establishment of a new center for investigating the networks behind the violence; it will be run by the Department of Justice and the Homeland Security Administration. He said that there will be revelations soon. Today, Trump personally went to Kenosha, Wisconsin, scene of rioting and arson last week, after the Aug. 23 police shooting of Jacob Blake, who is now paralyzed. Trump held a Roundtable for Public Safety. It was pointed out that 102 of the 175 persons arrested in Kenosha were from out of state. He announced multi-millions in Federal aid to rebuild the city, and resources for public safety.
Even a first-pass cross-gridding of networks associated with promoting chaos and violence, from Kenosha, to Hong Kong, to Washington, D.C., to Berlin, will show the interconnectedness with the same top layers in British intelligence and U.S. cohorts perpetrating the coup against Trump in the U.S., and attempting regime-change operations in other target nations.
This again points up how this weekend’s conference can be a breakout. On the roster will be William Binney, former top NSA official, and expert associates, who are loudly whistle-blowing on many Big Lies, especially the core lie that the Russians hacked the Democratic National Committee, is demonstrably not true. Over the past week, Mr. Binney has done hours of internet “AMA” sessions—Ask Me Anything—and explained this. But he frequently gets asked the question: Why don’t the major media, by now, begin to cover what you are saying? Binney patiently replies: The reporters have been repeating the same Big Lie narrative so many times and so long that, “the crow they should be eating, is now too big to swallow…. Or at least they think so.” The crow is too big? Not any more.
