In the Sunday sessions of the Schiller Institute’s international conference, its extraordinary breadth of private and government experts from all over the world continued to add their voices to the Institute’s demand for a new international economic system, and a restored culture of human reason. Helga Zepp-LaRouche noted at the end of the panel on “FDR’s Unfinished Business,” the World Land-Bridge, “Some people may think there is a contradiction between trying to solve the problem at large, which is what we are trying to do with getting this international pressure, really, on the P-5 governments, that they must take the challenge and solve these problems, because they have the power to do it.” France’s Solidarité et Progrès party leader Jacques Cheminade again, opening the panel on “Building Trust in International Relations”, stated it this way: “Genuine, true optimism is to prove that the United States of America is great when it serves the cause of humanity, when it evokes the spirit of creativity of the American system of the Founding fathers or when it locates the spirit in Notre Dame or in the Duomo of Florence, as Trump did in one of his speeches, or when its logistics lead the fight against Nazism. I could say exactly the same for France.” — and of course the other Permanent Five powers as well. And the economist Dr. Natalia Vitrenko, head of the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, urged that “We must send the results of our research [presented here] to the leaders in countries all over the world.”
At least 3,000 people had watched at one or more of the four panels of the conference by Sunday night. The number of questioners participating was substantial but not known for this Briefing.
The extraordinary science panel, which brought together leading fusion and space scientists from the United States, Europe and South Africa, was a clear illustration of the purpose of the conference. Because breakthroughs in fusion power development, space exploration and development of celestial bodies is crucial to the future of humanity, these scientists are involved fully in international collaboration in all their work. Sanctions, punitive tariffs and other barriers and tensions do not affect the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), for example, as its director Dr. Bernard Bigot explained to the audience; and this large project is receiving contributions of engineering and production from scores of nations around the world. On the final panel Fred Haight of the Schiller Institute explained that Beethoven’s music, too, was composed for future humanity, and by such an artist the dictates and pretensions of empires, like the restrictions of oligarchs, were absolutely disdained.
The “FDR’s Unfinished Business” session mentioned above had the broadest scope. The requirements of full-set economic development and productive employment were presented — using China’s Belt and Road Initiative as the currently leading example — by Dennis Small of the Schiller Institute, Dr. Vitrenko, Italian former Deputy Secretary for Economic Development Michele Geraci, Pakistan’s Hassan Daud Butt who was project director of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, China business expert Marcelo Muñoz of Spain and Germany’s Dr. Björn Peters, an energy analyst who organizes the Nuclear Pride Association. Dr. Vitrenko presented an eye-opening contrast between the sad economy of Ukraine — new darling of the European Union and NATO — and the dynamic one of Belarus, which faces a NATO “color revolution” regime-change.
The same panel featured half a dozen leaders of the public health response to the COVID pandemic in Southern U.S. states, led off by former U.S. Surgeon-General Joycelyn Elders, who is organizing what she calls a “public health corps” in coordination with Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s proposal in June. Two African leaders — the ambassador of Ghana to Canada and Pan-African League leader Marlette Kyssama-Nsona of Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) extended to Africa the discussion of constructing a world healthcare system.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche said as the conference concluded: “And I think the idea to have the P-5 summit or even the P-3 summit, the three largest nuclear powers of the world: the United States, Russia, and China — I think if we mobilize the whole world as a chorus of people who demand that these strongest, most powerful governments in the world take charge now. ...So, if there is any combination of people, like the three Presidents, or the five Presidents, and they would say, ‘This is an unprecedented crisis. We never, probably in all of history, never had something like that. So, we propose a program which does take care of the needs of all people on this planet, and we will implement that,’” then that is what we must go out of this conference to be provoked and inspired to mobilize.
The entire conference is now archived at:
