At fifteen minutes past eight on the morning of August 6, 1945, a human being sat on the stone steps of a bank in Hiroshima, waiting for it to open. Eighty-one years later, that warning is being ignored all over again.

The strategic situation threatens to spiral completely out of control in the short term due to two escalating regional wars—in Ukraine and the Middle East—potentially resulting in a global economic depression, or a nuclear Third World War.

July 24—The 164th consecutive weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) commenced with remarks by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Schiller Institute founder and IPC initiator, who called attention to very important recent statements by retired German Air Force four-star general Harald Kujat. She noted that it is incomprehensible

A letter sent to Archbishop John Wester on July 24, 2026, urging him to appeal to Pope Leo XIV to convene an international peace conference amid the growing danger of nuclear war.

On July 7, 2026, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited Addis Ababa, marking a historic deepening of Russian-African relations and Africa’s “second awakening” toward economic sovereignty.

The July 18 Schiller Institute Youth Conference drew more than 150 participants from over 33 countries, producing the most concrete joint initiatives yet in building an international youth movement.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s address to the July 18, 2026 Schiller Institute Youth Conference, calling on young people to build a movement of world citizens capable of changing the course of history.

Dr. Naledi Pandor is the present Chancellor of Nelson Mandela University and Chairman of the Board of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, and the former Minister of International Cooperation and Relations for the Republic of South Africa. She gave the following speech to the Schiller Institute Youth Conference, July 18, 2026.

Lyndon LaRouche’s April 6, 1976 essay, first published in New Solidarity, warning that the financier factions creating fascist “Frankenstein monsters” abroad and austerity at home risk unleashing forces beyond their control.