The Lead
‘Before the Violence of War and Lies, You Must Be the Sparks of a New Humanity’
by Megan Dobrodt (EIRNS) — Jun. 08, 2026
Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche did not mince words in discussions with colleagues on Monday when she repeated her warning that the world continues to sit on a powder keg, charged by the possible escalation of two regional crises—one in Ukraine and the other in Southwest Asia—both of which are ripe to erupt into the trigger of a devastating world war.
This risk was on full display over the past 48 hours, as missiles flew between Israel and Iran following Israel’s bombing of Lebanon on Sunday, despite Trump’s directives to Netanyahu to not blow up the possibility of a peace agreement; similarly in Crimea, a Ukrainian drone attacked a passenger train traveling to Moscow, the third such targeting of civilians in less than a week, all egged on by the psychotic “E3” leaders in Europe, who, the same day, announced from London renewed, unending military support for their Ukrainian proxy.
On the other hand, the vast majority of nations are moving to establish a new, more just system of global governance and development, a new paradigm, as was recently seen at the just-concluded St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, and more broadly in the win-win cooperation and dialogue processes of the Belt and Road Initiative, BRICS, SCO, and other efforts.
The extreme and very palpable tension between these two simultaneously existing futures will not and cannot be resolved—at least not in a direction that ensures the survival of civilization—without addressing the underlying, false axioms that got us into this very dangerous mess in the first place.
“Today we confirm that the decisive question remains the same,” Pope Leo XIV told an audience of thousands gathered in Madrid on June 7. “What does it mean to be truly human?”
This question is at the center of solving today’s existential crises; it is the principal issue for statecraft, economics, culture, science, education, and relations among nations.
“The desire for goodness, beauty and truth is rooted in the very DNA of humanity,” the Pope declared, as he went on to develop a concept of love-in-action to build a world based on human dignity. The goodness and creative power of the human mind recognized by Pope Leo are the basis of Lyndon and Helga LaRouche’s organizing over the past five decades for a new system of development for the entire planet, which Helga Zepp-LaRouche has renewed in her call for a new security and development architecture based on the principle “that man is fundamentally good and capable to infinitely perfect the creativity of his mind and the beauty of his soul.”
The goodness and unity of humankind was also the central issue of the American Revolution and the formation of the American republic. Why, then, would Americans tolerate that the celebration of our 250th year of independence from the slavery of empire be marked by a caged fight on the lawn of the White House? Why would we permit anything less than the highest expressions of beauty to represent the founding of our nation? Have we all become beasts?
What about the bestiality tolerated by those in the West, poor Lethean heirs of a profound history of ideas and statecraft, as we watch our nations march to impose war and poverty on other countries at the behest of a yet-to-be-prosecuted Epstein-class of elites?
“The most important thing is that we in Europe and America must rediscover our souls,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche urged at the Schiller Institute conference in Berlin on May 30. “America, as it was founded 250 years ago, was an anti-colonial and anti-imperialist bastion of freedom. And we in Europe must rekindle in our hearts and minds the love of humanity that was self-evident to Dante Alighieri, Joan of Arc, Leibniz, Schiller, and Beethoven. We must send a clear message to Russia, to China, to Africa, indeed to the whole world, that we neither intend to perish in a Third World War nor allow our magnificent cultural tradition…to continue to fade into oblivion. Rather, we must make a sacred commitment to let these pearls of human culture, through a dialogue of cultures and civilizations, together blossom into a new Renaissance of humanity.”
Answer Zepp-LaRouche’s call to action at this decisive moment in history, in which we still have a chance to decide in which direction humanity will go. Circulate the proceedings of that Berlin conference, “The End of 500 Years of Colonialism—For a Dialogue of Civilizations: The Urgency of a New Global Security and Development Architecture,” and organize.
Take what Pope Leo told a gathering of 600,000 youth on June 7 as your mission assignment: “In the face of the emptiness of indifference and compliance, before the violence of war and lies, you must be the sparks of a new humanity.”
Contents
New World Paradigm
- Pope Urges Spanish Youth to 'Be the Sparks of a New Humanity' (↓)
- Dangote Breaks Ground on World's Largest Oil Refinery (↓)
Strategic War Danger
- Israel and Iran Go Back to War (↓)
- More Controversy Over Alleged DIA Assessment of Israeli Spying (↓)
- Ukrainian Drones Strike Passenger Train in Crimea (↓)
- ‘Coalition of the Willing’ Willingness to Start WWIII Has Reached New Heights (↓)
- Pakistani Interior Minister in Tehran (↓)
Collapsing Imperial System
- Hegseth Gets Slammed for Anti-immigrant Rant on D-Day Anniversary (↓)
- CDU Calls on Baerbock to Testify on Germany's Disgraceful Failure at the UN (↓)
- Core Sectors of German Industry Report Significant Drop of New Orders (↓)
Science and Technology
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