Helga Zepp-LaRouche opened the 129th weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition on Nov. 21 speaking of the importance of the Nov. 20 emergency seminar on the threat of war with Venezuela titled, “President Trump, Don’t Do It!” which debunked all of the fabricated pretexts for war. Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche said that Foreign Affairs magazine “spilled the beans” as to the real objective of the Venezuelan conflict, which is to prevent any cooperation with the BRICS nations and to prevent China from having any development role in the Western Hemisphere. She spoke of the 28-point peace plan for Ukraine which has been promoted by the U.S., but is opposed by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the “Coalition of the Willing.” Some are saying that this plan is capitulation, but Zepp-LaRouche said that Ukraine can not continue the war with so few soldiers left. She said that polls show that 69% of the Ukrainian population want the war to end, and only 29% want to continue fighting. She ridiculed European leaders who call on the population to prepare to sacrifice their children for war and that all of Europe must be prepared to fight a war “tonight.” Zepp-LaRouche said that these tyrants for war can be defeated and used the recent example of a fight over whether a hospital would be used for war preparation, but the locals fought and won to keep the hospital serving the community. Several military experts have warned against allowing Ukraine to become another Afghanistan with decades of endless war. Zepp-LaRouche stated that there are many wars and flashpoints, but we must seek a higher understanding and insisted that these conflicts cannot be addressed as single issue problems. She said that geopolitics must end and the West must unite with the Global South. She said that President Donald Trump’s MAGA base of supporters wanted Trump to stop the endless wars and will not support a new war with Venezuela.
The next speaker was Diego Sequera, a leader in Mision Verdad in Venezuela. He spoke of the hope for dialogue between the U.S. and Venezuela, but cautioned that each side must be treated as equals. He pointed to recent threats by the U.S. against Nigeria over the killing of Christians, but said that the terrorists are killing everyone equally. Both countries being targeted by the U.S. are petro states with great potential. Sequera put much of the blame on Marco Rubio and his friends at the Miami think tank run by Jesus Romero who was in U.S. Naval Intelligence and has multiple ties to the U.S. military-industrial complex. Romero has published detailed reports on Venezuelan air defense systems and has said it is “our slam-dunk” for a quick military victory over Venezuela. Sequera cautioned that Romero’s reports are based on outdated information and internal opposition which is problematic. Other military experts are warning of the dangers of long-term occupations. A speaker at a CSIS event suggested only long-range attacks.
Dennis Small answered Sequera saying that he was glad that he made the comparison to Nigeria, but that the war danger has nothing to do with either country. Small insisted that Western elites were desperate due to the collapsing financial system, and cannot allow any contrary solutions to emerge. In Venezuela the only issue driving the war is to keep China out of South America, and prevent any cooperation with the BRICS. But Small said that only a Treaty of Westphalia-type higher principle could resolve these conflicts. Small was very happy that while Guyana and Brazil have had differences with Venezuela, they united around a higher principle. Small then quoted Lyndon LaRouche during a 2002 visit to São Paulo where LaRouche said that the U.S. was also in crisis and, “We either sail together, or we sink together.” He said that this was an idea from Cusa and was the spirit of the Nov. 20 round table discussion. Small emphasized that our enemies are extremely desperate with over $2 quadrillion in financial debts and obligations.
Dennis Speed returned to the issue of Nigeria, saying that in 25 years, Nigeria is expected to be the most populous country in the world, with a very young population. Speed stated that Nigeria is being targeted as part of the depopulation agenda of Kissinger, Brzezinski, and others. Sequera jumped in speaking of Kissinger’s depopulation memo NSSM-200, and that Venezuela is being depopulated by migration. Sequera said that Venezuela has been a leader in the anti-colonial fight and spoke of Simon Bolivar’s call for the 1826 Amphictyonic Congress held in Panama which was sabotaged by the U.S. and U.K. Sequera said that over the last 100 years people moved to Venezuela so the 5 to 7 million people leaving Venezuela over the last 5 years is something new. This massive migration is viewed by people at the Brookings Institution as a labor force opportunity The Venezuelan diaspora has been weaponized against Venezuela. There have been intense economic hardships over the recent years, but now Venezuela’s economy is among the fastest growing in the world.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche commented that if one were to ask people in Europe if they were racist or colonialists, they would answer no, yet they accept the demeaning of entire nations. She said that the “genie is out of the bottle” and 500 years of colonialism are over. No country will ever be denied their right to development to their fullest potential. China has become a partner in this development. This flaw is also present in the peace movement, and the solution is a dialogue of cultures.
Harley Schlanger spoke about Jeffery Epstein as an example of the desperation caused by the collapsing financial system. While the mass media diverted attention to the sordid story of Epstein, there was an economic “reset” away from a productive economy to a speculative one. Schlanger traced the downward spiral from drug-money laundering, to public private partnerships, to surveillance, to meta data collection. The powerful people who protected Epstein were the same people attacking Lyndon LaRouche.
Dennis Small said that the Venezuelan crisis could be resolved by a return of the U.S. and Russia to the Alaska approach to cooperation. This would put off the war party, and without it Trump will continue to self-destruct. Small pointed to the full interview with Sergey Lavrov that was only partially covered in the Corriere della Sera newspaper. Leaders on both sides want cooperation, but the British government and British press want to keep the U.S. and Russia divided.
