The Schiller Institute will hold an international conference via internet on December 12-13 to take up the pressing issue facing all humanity: “The World After the U.S. Election: Creating a World Based on Reason.” Schiller Institute founder and President Helga Zepp-LaRouche announced that a full invitation and preliminary list of speakers will be forthcoming shortly, and that the contents of the conference will center on the following:
“Whatever the outcome of the unprecedented battle around the recent U.S. election, it is already clear that it is not only a domestic American affair, but also an event of the highest international strategic importance. After four years of a completely synchronized international campaign of demonization of President Donald Trump — but also at the same time against President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Xi Jinping of China — of Russiagate, failed impeachment, open insurrection, and now an unabashed election fraud, it is urgent that the world understand it quickly: The outcome of this battle is the choice between World War III or peace.
“Trump has attracted the relentless ire of what President Eisenhower identified as the military-industrial complex, the permanent bureaucracy, the so-called ‘Deep State’ and the financial interests controlling them, such as the City of London and Wall Street, because he dared to announce that he wanted to ‘end the endless wars’ and that he thought that a good relation with Russia and China ‘is a good thing, not a bad thing!’ If a mentally unfit Joe Biden would be put in as token President for a few weeks, to be replaced by Kamala Harris, and with that the pro-interventionist wars apparatus of the Obama/Bush years, the world will be pulled into a war against Russia and China in the short term, which would include the extension of political confrontation into space.”
The two-day dialogue and deliberation, which will have simultaneous interpretation into various languages, including Spanish, French, and German, will include the following panel discussions:
PANEL 1 (Saturday Dec. 12, 9 a.m. EST): This panel will discuss the implications of the present drama playing out in the United States, for the global struggle to replace the current bankrupt financial system with a New Paradigm designed over five decades by Lyndon LaRouche. The panel will include a report from a Special Rapporteur of an International Tribunal that will meet on Dec. 5 to hear evidence of the charges of vote fraud and other capabilities and actions which are part of a threatened coup d’état in the United States. That Tribunal will be composed of a panel of distinguished international jurists and others, who will hear testimony and receive evidence from American lawyers, intelligence professionals and others about the situation in the United States.
PANEL II (Saturday Dec. 12, 1:00 p.m. EST): What must be done to put a new international security architecture on the international agenda, which guarantees the survival of the human species. The panelists will locate the war danger in the context of the pending blowout of the trans-Atlantic financial system, and discuss the potential consequences of the plans of that system’s central banks for the digitalization of currencies. It remains a pressing need to implement the Four Laws proposed by Lyndon LaRouche, including the urgent requirement of establishing an international credit system in the form of a New Bretton Woods system, and the need for international cooperation in space exploration and for a fusion based economy. It is therefore of the utmost urgency that the G5 summit of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council proposed by President Putin be convened immediately, because at this late point in the crisis, it is the duty of the most powerful nations of the world to act together in order to avoid a geopolitical catastrophe.
PANEL III (Sunday Dec. 13, 9:00 a.m. EST): This panel will address the program needed to overcome the devastation of 50 years of neoliberal economic policies on the world, of which the COVID-19 pandemic is only the most obvious example. The world community must agree to establish a world health system, meaning a modern health system in every single country of the planet, if COVID-19 and the danger of future pandemics are to be overcome.
As the head of the World Food Program, David Beasley, has announced, 7 million people have already died of hunger this year, which could have easily been prevented, and in light of the immediate danger of 30 million more dying of starvation over the next several months, and 260 million slated to meet the same fate in the next year, there must be a complete change in agricultural policy. The objective must be to achieve food security in every nation and a doubling of food production worldwide.
To find answers to these existential threats to humanity requires thinking in terms of a new paradigm. Instead of the profit maximization for a privileged class of a financial oligarchy, the interest of the one humanity must be put first: the common aims of mankind. To this end a “Committee of the Coincidence of Opposites,” a concept developed by the great Renaissance thinker Nicholas of Cusa, has been formed, whose aim is to have forces of good will in many nations work together to solve these crises.
PANEL IV (Sunday Dec. 13, 1:00 p.m. EST): The fourth panel will be devoted to the need for a renaissance of classical culture, and to the special role of youth in bringing it about. At this moment of history, where all the foundations of society are shaken, there is an enormous hunger for the beauty of great art, for the lofty ideals of mankind, as they are expressed in the great compositions of classical music and poetry. In all major civilizations there are poets, composers and philosophers who have celebrated an image of mankind as the creative species, and it will be the dialogue among these cultures, which can and will bring about a new era of mankind. In that spirit, the entire conference will be devoted to the year of Beethoven, whose compositions give people a ray of hope of what man is capable of.
