On Thursday, October 6 the Schiller Institute and Executive Intelligence Review held a three-hour press availability addressing the geopolitical reality behind the Ukrainian “kill lists” and the threat of thermonuclear war. The following synopsis can in no way capture the power of this event which is a must watch for all those concerned with the future of humanity. The Schiller Institute with this event demonstrated why its chairwoman, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, is considered enemy #1 by the financial oligarchy, as shown by the fact that she is not only at the top of the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) blacklist but simultaneously on the Myrotvorets Center “kill list.” Only the Schiller Institute has the capability of bringing together such an array of truth seekers and truth tellers as was present at this event. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV7THiwgrX8 )
After an introduction by Dennis Speed, regular host of The LaRouche Organization’s “Manhattan Project” on Saturdays, a now-viral video of former Virginia State Senator Richard Black, a former Marine Corps combat veteran and former head of the Army’s Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon, was shown presenting his view of the explosions of the Nord Stream pipelines. In the 36 hours since the video of his remarks was posted, it racked up over 300,000 views on just the Schiller Institute channel. Senator Black, as a former military prosecutor, expresses his opinion that the Nord Stream explosions were an act of sabotage; that only a state actor would have had the means to carry out the sabotage and that only the United States or a NATO ally with prior approval from the U.S. would have had the motive to do so. He cites President Biden’s Feb. 7 warning that if Russia crosses the border into Ukraine, the U.S. has the means to stop Nord Stream 2, as what is called in the legal profession “party admission” to a crime. Much more is covered in the video which can be seen at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALb2FPXFro4&t=21s
Helga Zepp-LaRouche started her presentation by noting that October 6, 2022 is the 36th anniversary of the 1986 raid on the offices of the LaRouche movement and the home of Lyndon and Helga LaRouche in Leesburg, Virginia by a small army of 400 FBI, state and local law enforcement officials, ten times the size of the force that raided President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. She and Lyndon LaRouche were awakened early that morning by the sound of a helicopter flying outside their window. Mrs. LaRouche pointed out the irony of the fact that they had given ther residence the name of Ibykus Farm. This is because there is a higher form of justice sometimes called nemesis, best described in the famous poem by Friedrich Schiller The Cranes of Ibykus, which is now coming back to bring down the financial oligarchy behind the raid, the clear intent of which was to assassinate Lyndon LaRouche.
She then raised the question, what were the crimes of Lyndon LaRouche? First, under the heightened threat of nuclear war during the 1980s, driven by the Pershing II missile crisis in Europe, LaRouche put forward a proposal for a new security architecture based on a policy known as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), which was adopted by President Ronald Reagan, and would have changed the geopolitical order in a way not favorable to the oligarchy. This proposal was rejected by the Soviets and by the neocons in the Reagan administration. Second, LaRouche warned in 1971 that President Nixon’s act of ending the Bretton Woods system by decoupling the dollar from the gold reserve would lead to a new depression, new fascism and ultimately World War III, and that’s exactly where we are today. And that’s why LaRouche continues to be slandered to this day; to prevent his solutions to the crises from being implemented. That’s also why the first thirty-plus people on the new CCD blacklist are all friends or members of the Schiller Institute, with Helga Zepp-LaRouche at the top of the list.
Helga LaRouche ended her presentation by describing the recent warnings by Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov that the increased involvement of the U.S. in backing the Ukrainian regime is leading to World War III. She expressed her belief that the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines had to have been carried out by NATO. She also pointed out the fact that the sanctions regime is crushing Europe, while Russia is moving in a positive direction, and that the Nord Stream pipelines must be repaired and that Europe must join with Russia in creating a new security architecture.
The next speaker was Canadian-American journalist Eva Bartlett, who has spent her career courageously reporting the truth on the ground in the war-torn areas of Syria, Gaza and most recently in Donbass. She gave her presentation live from Donetsk where shelling by the Ukrainian fascist regime is a daily occurrence. Since arriving back in the Donetsk People’s Republic dozens of people have been killed in the most horrific way imaginable, being blown apart by U.S. supplied 155mm howitzers and HIMARS. She stated bluntly that this is terrorism against a peaceful civilian population. She recounted a trip she made to a small village outside of Donetsk city, which two years ago had been heavily damaged, but now is almost completely destroyed. People remaining in the village, including many elderly, have nowhere to go and who live in constant fear of the shelling.
Bartlett was an international observer of the Feb. 23-27 referendums which took place in the largely Russian-speaking areas of Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, and the regions of Kherson and Zaporozhya, seeking unification with Russia, for which she expects to be targeted with reprisals. Why? Because she exposed the lies of the Western media that people were forced to vote at the point of a gun. She made a very crucial point that people of the Donbass are not seeking revenge against their oppressors. They voted to rejoin Russia because they are tired of being dehumanized and want peace and economic stability. She doesn’t blame people in the West for being ignorant of what’s happening in Donbass for which she blames the mainstream media. She recalled that two major French media outlets were in Donetsk during one of her visits and witnessed first-hand the shelling of innocent civilians but never reported it.
A short video prepared by Dr. Cliff Kiracofe was then shown. Dr. Kiracofe is a former senior advisor of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and president of the Washington Institute for Peace and Development. He stated that psychological warfare is being used against the West in order to induce people to support the post-2014 Maidan Coup Nazi regime in Ukraine. One of his suggestions was that the Library of Congress be commissioned to conduct an investigation of the rise of Nazism in Ukraine going back to the era of the infamous Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, who is worshiped as a “Hero of Ukraine” by the current regime.
Another video was shown by Lt. Col. Ralph Bossard (ret.), who spent 25 years in the Swiss Army. His presentation focused on the Nord Stream pipeline explosion. According to Bossard, it is uncontested that the explosions were an act of sabotage and that it must have been carried out by a state actor. If it were the Russian military behind the sabotage, as many in the West contend, this would constitute an incredible show of force given that the location of the sabotage was in NATO controlled waters. Also, why would the Russians choose to blow up the pipeline in one of the most surveilled areas in the world, risking detection, when they could have done it in a more favorable area such as its terminus in the Gulf of Finland? This points to NATO as the likely culprit. However, if it was Russia, alarm bells should be ringing in the West because of their inability to defend against sabotage of critical underwater infrastructure.
The next speaker was Graham Fuller, retired CIA officer, former CIA Station Chief in Kabul, Afghanistan and ex-vice chairman of the CIA National Intelligence Council for Long-Term forecasting. Fuller started with his observation that we are witnessing a major tragedy as this proxy war in Ukraine unfolds and that unpredictable events make it more dangerous, but that the war didn’t have to happen! If the West had adhered to the Minsk Accords, there would have been no war. He personally struggles to understand what is happening on the battlefield in Ukraine which he blames on the “corporatization” of the mainstream media. Never has he seen, even in the days of the Cold War, such vilification of Russia; its people; its culture and its leadership. Fuller sees the censorship of alternative voices as particularly dangerous. The idea that the U.S. government is using the Ukrainian CCD to target Americans is shocking.
In his estimation, Fuller believes that the attempt by the West to exclude Russia is leading to a massive geopolitical shift. Russia is now forming alliances with China, the BRICS nations and the Global South. The world is dividing into blocks not seen since the Cold War. He also believes that EU policy is NATO policy. By sanctioning Russia and cutting off trade with Russia and China European nations are suffering the most and will be hard hit this winter. But will this suffering be enough to cause Europeans to wake up? By maintaining their current position they are excluding themselves from the major benefits they would enjoy by joining with China’s Belt and Road Initiative and other economic partnerships emerging in Asia.
Independent LaRouche candidate for U.S. Senator in New York Diane Sare began her presentation by warning that King Charles, Britain’s GCHQ intelligence agency, the U.S. “intelligence” community, etc. are leading the West to disaster due to their propensity for “linear deductive thinking.” She used the analogy of a man jumping off a 100-story building. He is very satisfied because he believes things are moving along just fine as he accelerates downward. But then he reaches the bottom where a “singularity” takes place which he did not intend when he started his trip. She also used an analogy of “benchmarking,” a process of computer modeling used by Mercedes to save money through simulated drive testing which resulted in producing a car model which would easily roll over when rounding a corner over 40 mph. The purpose of these analogies is to demonstrate that people have put into motion processes that may not end with the results they intended, such as the sanctions against Russia which are now destroying the West.
Sare made the point that she’s making these remarks not to imply that we’re going to win this fight and get mankind safely through the crisis to bring in a new security and development architecture but that there are so many factors at play that we could just as easily plunge into a thermonuclear war. The decision as to what direction humanity takes will be determined by what individual people choose to do. It’s impossible to overestimate the power of speaking the truth in a moment like this because you don’t know which ears your words are reaching. Sare concluded her remarks by emphasizing the urgency of everyone acting in the interest of the good of mankind because there is a universal principle of natural law and because we are starting to see a glimmer of response to our actions.
Because of scheduling conflicts, Senator Black was not able to stay for the question and answer period. He made concluding remarks by providing his global view of the current situation. According to Senator Black, the Ukraine war started in 2014 when the democratically elected government of the country was overthrown by the West and a huge army was created which subsequently started killing people in the Donbass pushing Russia’s back to the wall. He asked the question: what’s behind this war? The answer is that the globalists want war to check the growing protests and enthusiasm throughout Europe against the policies of the “Davos boys.” The growth of populist movements in Sweden, Hungary, Italy, France and the Czech Republic is a reflection of this dynamic. The goal of the globalists is to do away with religion, freedom of speech and national sovereignty which are crucial for freedom. The globalists want to silence people and reduce them to “lumps of coal” and are risking nuclear war to accomplish that goal. So to defeat these plans, people need to rise up against the New World Order of the globalists and not be afraid to raise their voices.
The next speaker was Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and co-founder of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), of which he, Graham Fuller and Senator Black are all members. He began his presentation by praising Eva Bartlett, Sophie Scholl (1921-1943), a young anti-Nazi political activist, and Helga Zepp-LaRouche for their exemplary courage in speaking the truth. He then stated that in his belief, given the current geopolitical situation, that Germany is now key. To expound on that point he used a book titled Defying Hitler, written as a diary by a German author named Raimund Pretzel (1907-1999), under the name Sebastian Haffner. In the book, published posthumously by his son, Pretzel/Haffner, recounting the events of 1933 in Germany, writes that the German people were “soft, unreliable, without backbone. That was shown in March 1933. At the moment of truth, when other nations rise spontaneously to the occasion, the Germans collectively and limply collapsed. They yielded and capitulated, and suffered a nervous breakdown. The result of this millionfold nervous breakdown is the unified nation, ready for anything, that is today the nightmare of the rest of the world.”
After reading this passage from the book, McGovern asked the question: 77 years after World War II, have the Germans changed? Are Chancellor Olaf Scholz or Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock any different than the German leaders of 1933? Will they continue to tolerate the policies of the U.S. and U.K. that are driving Germany to ruin?
McGovern then recounted his experience during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and stated that President Kennedy made far greater threats to the then-Soviet Union than the threats Russian President Putin has made to the West. Nonetheless, in the same way nuclear missiles in Cuba were seen as an existential threat to the U.S. by Kennedy, NATO missile sites in Eastern Europe are seen as an existential threat to Russia by Putin. In 2007 Putin warned that these missile sites only gave the Russian leadership 5 to 7 minutes to ascertain the nature of an incoming attack and could lead to thermonuclear war. On December 30, 2021 Putin demanded a discussion with President Biden to discuss security issues to which Biden agreed. The readout of the discussion by the Kremlin was that Biden assured Putin there would be no placement of offensive strike weapons in Ukraine. After the next discussion between Biden and Putin, there was no mention of Biden’s promise in the readout. According to McGovern, with the tacit approval of President Xi Jinping, after getting screwed one too many times by the U.S., Putin made the decision to go into Ukraine. McGovern ended with a quote by Will Rogers: “The problem ain’t what people know. The problem is what people know that ain’t so.” He then asked the question: Will the Germans wake up and change their behavior, or will they continue going along with policies which are leading the world to ruin?
Helga Zepp-LaRouche started her closing remarks by profusely thanking McGovern, wholeheartedly agreeing with his assessment. She stated that Germany is an occupied country. Zbigniew Brzezinski made the point that Europe is a colony and he was right. The European leaders are behaving like despicable scoundrels. Chancellor Scholz said absolutely nothing in the press conference when Biden threatened to shut down Nord Stream 2 if Russia invaded Ukraine. Why? Because he’s not the leader of Germany. You have a British/Venetian style oligarchy behind the scenes calling the shots. They want to ruin Russia and they want to ruin Germany. She ended by forecasting that if the pipeline between Russia and Germany is not quickly repaired there will be a social explosion in Germany as economic conditions worsen.
The next presentation was a video prepared by Mira Terada, chairwoman of the Moscow based Foundation to Battle Injustice, on the subject of the shutting down of the fascist Ukrainian regime’s infamous Myrotvorets Center and its online “kill list.” She described how the “kill list” contains the personal information of thousands of people, including children, journalists and politicians and recounted incidents where people on the list were targeted and in some cases assassinated. She talked about how the Ukrainian CCD was established in March of 2021 by presidential decree for the purpose of targeting more well known international figures that refused to follow the war propaganda and for spreading hate worldwide. She also discussed the fact that monuments in honor of Russians who sacrificed to defeat the Nazis in World War II are being destroyed in places like Poland and the Baltic States while those who try to defend the monuments are arrested and persecuted. Terada also described how Russian-speakers throughout Europe are being harassed, expelled from schools and threatened with deportation and that so-called human rights organizations are deaf and dumb to this ongoing discrimination.
The last presentation was a video prepared by David Pyne, deputy director of the National Operations for the EMP Task Force on National and Homeland Security and an author for The National Interest magazine. He spoke out against the U.S. taxpayer-funded Ukrainian CCD, the purpose of which is to threaten and blackball any Westerner who refuses to follow the pro-war narrative. He made the point that World War III is not in the interest of the American people. He also noted that President Zelenskyy of Ukraine is in a state of desperation knowing that once Russian reinforcements come to Ukraine Russia will win the war.
A partial transcript accompanies this briefing, and a full transcript of the event, will be forthcoming.
