Here are the remarks that Schiller Institute founder and chairwoman, who is also the convener of the International Peace Coalition, Helga Zepp-LaRouche delivered by video to today’s indoor peace rally and classical concert of the Jose Vega & Diane Sare Peace Rally: “Build a Peace Chorus Against the Ghouls of War.” The complete transcripts of all speakers remarks are being made available today.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Dear friends of peace and humanity!
The United States of America were once considered all over the world as the beacon of hope and temple of liberty. But most Americans today are probably not aware that the Únited States has become the most feared country in the world, because it tries to remain the world hegemon in an unipolar world, at a moment when the world has long ago become a multipolar world.
There are presently two regional wars, in Ukraine and in Southwest Asia, which are threatening, each, to escalate into a regional and even a global nuclear war. If that happens, it will be followed by a global nuclear winter, and all life on Earth will disappear.
But there are also epochal changes going on worldwide: The BRICS have just expanded to 22 countries, representing 4.6 billion people and with that 57% of the world population. These nations of the Global South are already the Global Majority, and they are determined to end the period of 500 years of colonialism, by building a new world economic system which will allow them to industrialize and overcome poverty and underdevelopment. They are building a great, New Development Bank of the Global South, a new Investment platform, a new BRICS grain exchange, and other institutions, which will help them to grow.
It is the most urgent task for reestablishing world peace that the United States supports this effort. We must remember that the American War of Independence was the first anti-colonial war in history, by establishing independence of America from the British Empire. In that spirit the United States must now support the effort to establish a new, more just and equitable world economic order. If the United States would take a cooperative attitude to this emerging system and even become a part of it, virtually all problems in the world would become manageable and could be overcome!
The United States is often called a melting pot, meaning that people from all over the world have immigrated to the United States to find a better life. What is now necessary is that the United States cooperates with the 22 countries of the BRICS, and all other countries of the Global Majority, that their countries can also build up to be prosperous, middle-income countries, where people want to stay, because it is their home.
