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Paris Conference: Emancipate Humanity Through Cusa's ‘Statecraft of Hope’
by Dennis Speed (EIRNS) — Nov. 09, 2025
In the midst of the apparent chaos careening through the minds, and therefore through the conference rooms, board rooms, war rooms, and banquet halls occupied by the lackeys of a dying trans-Atlantic “world order,” the International Schiller Institute has convened a conference in Paris, together with the Solidarité et Progrès party/organization of France. With its special emphasis on the sudden emergence of a new generation of continental leadership in Africa, several of whom spoke yesterday on a panel titled, “Emancipation of Africa and the World Majority, A Challenge for Europe,” the Schiller Institute is re-dedicating the trans-Atlantic world to the mission that the great Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1463) personified.
Pope Leo XIV referred to Cusa, and his “theology of hope” in a speech on Oct. 25 before tens of thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who has been the leading world figure to call mass attention to Cusa’s method of thought and diplomatic action since the 1970s, spoke about Cusa’s method on two panels of the conference on Nov. 8.
What appears below are a series of presentations from the panels of the Schiller Institute conference. They represent “the epistemology of hope,” the method by which all people, no matter their religion or nation, can collaborate to bring about a new security and development architecture that responds to the urgency of now. A method of hope must rapidly be introduced, as Pope Leo is attempting to now do with millions, as a counterpoint to the philosophical despair popularized over the past century. It must be done now, before all is lost in a thermonuclear nightmare from which we may be only one Palantir-generated algorithm removed.
Hungary’s Viktor Orban and America’s Donald Trump have announced, as of Friday, Nov. 7, that a summit with Russia “might take place very soon”—though it is unclear whether Vladimir Putin or anyone else in Russia knows anything about it. Russia, along with everyone else, is still trying to assess whether Trump is going to authorize a resumption by the United States of nuclear weapons testing—one giant step on a highway to Hell which may have no road back.
One possible reason for a renewed summit possibility is that Russian manifest victory, all along the battle lines with Ukraine, has become harder to hide. “Russian Forces In Ukraine Near First Major Conquest in More Than Two Years,” screams the Wall Street Journal. “Ukraine Digs In To Try To Halt Biggest Russian Win in Two Years,” yells Bloomberg. “Ukraine Insiders Fear Major Defeat against Putin,” whispers Germany’s Bild Zeitung.
Anglo-American military adventures, however, whether luridly paraded in Venezuela, the Pacific and Ukraine, or carried out clandestinely in Syria, Sudan, and a dozen other unacknowledged theaters, are seeing opposition even from the bought-and-paid-for United States Congress. As former U.S. Senate candidate Diane Sare discussed on Nov. 8 in the first Paris conference panel, the Nov. 4 New York City Mayoral election, was in part a refutation of the United States’ support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. More than 30% of the city’s Jewish vote was cast for Zohran Kwame Mamdani, the 34-year-old Muslim “socialist” son of African immigrants who has denounced the State Department’s Gaza policy in the past, and is now Mayor-elect. He is the youngest mayor in New York City since 1892, in 133 years.
“If we reflect over the span of known history to date, it is sometimes permissible, even required, that one speak apocalyptically, but without either intending, or being construed as intending to prophesy an Apocalypse.” Lyndon LaRouche began his 1994 essay, “The Truth About Temporal Eternity” with that statement. From the LaRouche Oasis Plan to the Zepp-LaRouche Ten Principles for a New International Strategic and Development Architecture, the tools exist for an immediate, but also permanent transformation of the planet away from its present course. The place is here, and the time is now, to do infinite good.
Contents
LaRouche movement
New World Paradigm
LaRouche movement
U.S. and Canada
Strategic War Danger
Collapsing Imperial System
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