Aug. 20—In October 1965 Paul VI became the first Pope to address the United Nations General Assembly. He quoted an American President murdered less than two years earlier: “Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.”

Aug. 21—On Friday, August 21, the International Peace Coalition (IPC) held its 168th consecutive weekly meeting. In her opening remarks, Helga Zepp-LaRouche said that this may be our most important meeting ever.

We appeal to you, Your Holiness Pope Leo XIV, as the leader who has made the greatest effort to speak for humanity as a whole, to call for an emergency international summit to guide the world away from the current path of war.

Aug. 22—Elbridge Colby, the U.S. Under Secretary of War for Policy of the President Donald Trump administration, has gained much deserved notoriety recently for advocating the lowering of the threshold for nuclear war.

August 21—Independent U.S. presidential candidate Diane Sare has faced an almost unique blackout of her campaign. Almost unique, because it echoes the treatment of her mentor, Lyndon LaRouche, in his 8 U.S. presidential campaigns.

I want to start this class with what I think is the most important question that we face, and especially you face, as young people, at this moment in history: What does it mean to be human?

August 20—The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (RST) is scheduled to launch August 30, 2026—under-budget and nine months ahead of schedule—from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, powered up by a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

Christ in the Rubble: Faith, the Bible, and the Genocide in Gaza by Munther Isaac; Foreword by Willie James Jennings Eerdmans, 2025 Paperback, 279 pages, $25.00 The only human thing is to give the lives and suffering of the dead meaning, not merely by establishing peace in the Middle

Aug. 17—The new film American Doctor, about U.S. physicians volunteering in Gaza, began showing in New York City on August 14. The doctors in the film noted the urgency of getting Americans to see what their tax dollars are funding.

Editor’s Note: This article was first published in EIR, Vol. 28, No. 37, Sept. 28, 2001. As we approach the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, EIR thought it appropriate to reproduce this interview in full.