Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, opened the proceedings of today’s 64th consecutive Friday meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) saying that her earlier view of the danger facing all of us in the next six months has been confirmed by developments of the last week. She described as “eye-opening” a report in the Financial Times of Aug. 13, on the recent discussion of a nuclear demonstration strike by Russia on an uninhabited area, to show that they mean business if NATO provocations continue.
The Kursk invasion, which she described in great detail, has increased the danger of nuclear war. It has been timed to exploit the “hot phase” of the U.S. presidential campaign, when candidates make a public show of military “resolve” in order to win votes. The fact that Russia has thus far refrained from using nuclear weapons is being used by British think-tanks and media to dangerously argue that there are no “red lines” that we should hesitate to cross.
She characterized Secretary of State Blinken’s recent trip to Southwest Asia as “caving in to everything that Netanyahu is demanding.” “It is a nightmare that the whole world is watching this and not intervening,” she said. She reported that Ronen Bar, chief of domestic Israeli security agency Shin Bet, just issued a warning, made public on Aug. 23, that settler terrorism in the West Bank is leading to a global delegitimization of Israel.
In the U.S., the secret “Nuclear Employment Guidance” of President Biden, written in March but leaked to the New York Times this week, puts the recent NATO summit in a completely new light; we now know that preparations are underway for nuclear war with Russia, China and North Korea. Regarding the Democratic National Convention, Zepp-LaRouche observed that “an amazing Hollywood performance was conducted,” where there was no debate, no discussion, and everything was orchestrated. “Can we expect anything different from Kamala Harris?” she asked, and then presented a ghastly excerpt from Harris’ convention speech, in which she promises that the U.S. military will be the “strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world,” to roars of approval from the assembled minions.
The meeting concluded with pointed proposals, which emerged from an intense discussion among participants from across the world. Zepp-LaRouche asked participants to find ways to circulate and promote the Chandra Muzaffar resolution to invoke UN Resolution 377(V) and put the issue of the genocide in Gaza before the UN General Assembly, since the UN Security Council has been paralyzed by U.S. vetoes. On the urgency of retooling the military-industrial complex for peaceful purposes (including independent Congressional candidate Jose Vega’s proposed “Space Civilian Construction Corps, she recommended that we review all the many such proposals, and issue a fresh, comprehensive plan. And in an answer to a comment by one of her countrywomen from Germany about unifying the peace movement, she said we should wake up our fellow citizens to the fact that the implications of the Ukraine/NATO invasion of the Kursk region in Russia should make us put aside our ideological differences and fight to ensure the survival of us all. To do this, she concluded, “We have to jump over our shadow, as we say in Germany.”
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Dr. Marino Elsevyf, professor of Constitutional and Criminal Law at the University of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, thanked Zepp-LaRouche for remaining faithful to the principles of her late husband, “the great American leader, Lyndon LaRouche,” principles which he shares as well. He had attended the September, 1995 Independent Commission hearings on the LaRouche trials. Concocting criminal charges against a political adversary, to avoid the appearance of a political prosecution, is a well-known tactic. He added that in Latin America, “we call this ‘prevarication.’”
