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.
