The 112th consecutive online weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition began today with Co-moderator Dennis Speed calling attention to the fact that on July 25, 1945, then U.S. President Harry Truman made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan, an evil and needless act. Schiller Institute leader Helga Zepp-LaRouche then gave a strategic overview, beginning by noting we are also observing the 80th anniversary of the Potsdam Conference, when the victorious powers in World War II discussed their preferred post-war order in Europe.
Zepp-LaRouche stressed that there is “complete amnesia” in Europe about the horrors of World War II, as Europe rearms to prepare for another world war. She added, “But no one can say that they are not witnessing the horrors going on in Gaza.” Despite this, the UN two-state solution conference for Israel and Palestine set for July 28-29 in New York City, looks like it will not receive high-level attendance. Nevertheless, she called on everyone to continue to put forward the Oasis Plan. She added that, “The situation in Ukraine remains unsettled.”
Regarding the strategic picture in general, “the only counterweight” to this bleak situation is the recent release of classified documents by U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, but “there is a clear effort by the mainstream media to play it down.” The new material shows not only that Russiagate was a fraud, it was British intelligence associated, for the purpose of preventing any U.S.-Russia normalized relations.
Zepp-LaRouche concluded by saying, “We absolutely have to follow up what Dr. Pandor said to our Schiller Conference.” We must expand the reach and impact of the IPC.
Falk Reports on Gaza Tribunal
Prof. Richard Anderson Falk, in a prerecorded video presentation, reviewed international judicial moves against Israel’s genocide and the work of the new Gaza People’s Tribunal, which seeks to stimulate engagement by civil society. Falk is professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor’s Chairman of the Board of Trustees, and former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories from 2008 to 2014. Falk warned that despite the judicial rulings on Israel’s crimes, there is an “enforcement gap” caused by U.S. vetoes in the UN Security Council, which has come to mean that “the UN was paralyzed” in enforcement. We need “more than a verbal commitment to end this genocide,” he said, adding that the Arab governments have “proved to be passive.” (His full interview conducted on July 23, will appear in EIR weekly, Aug. 1, 2025).
Congressional candidate Jose Vega (New York CD15) reported on the rally at the United Nations on July 24, organized by The LaRouche Organization. Demonstrators met new people from the U.S. and other countries who were campaigning, and in some cases fasting, to call attention to the starvation in Gaza.
Co-moderator Dennis Small said there are important events upcoming for peace and development that the Western media are ignoring. The upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization heads of state meeting in Tianjin, China Aug. 31-Sept. 2, will include President Xi Jinping, President Vladimir Putin, and perhaps Prime Minister Narendra Modi of, respectively, China, Russia and India.
Jacques Cheminade, head of the Solidarité et Progrès party in France, reported on the mobilization by French activists to halt the genocide in Gaza. French media are beginning to pay attention. He concluded by saying that the “Oasis Plan has to be the main reference for the future.”
U.S. Policy Morass
