Sept. 25—On Sept. 26, 1983, the screens at a Soviet early-warning center reported five American intercontinental ballistic missiles in flight. The duty officer, Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov, had minutes to pass the alarm up a chain of command that would likely have ordered a counterstrike, and with it

Sept. 26—The 173rd consecutive weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) began with remarks by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Schiller Institute founder and IPC initiator. She expressed her hope that the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping “could become a game-changer” in

Sept. 21, 2026—The following statement was released today by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and leader of the Schiller Institute. This institution, the United Nations General Assembly, may not be perfect and may need reform, but it does represent still, at this moment of extreme crisis, the most important institution

Sept. 27—The Schiller Institute intervened in the UN General Assembly Sept. 22-28 General Debate in New York with a widely circulated statement by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Schiller Institute founder, addressed to the assembled heads of state. The statement warns of the looming danger that today’s regional conflicts

Sept. 25—The 13th Beijing Xiangshan Forum was held Sept. 15-17, 2026, at the Beijing International Convention Center in China’s capital city and marked the forum’s twentieth anniversary. This year’s forum was titled “Build Consensus on Stability, Advance Security Governance Together.” It is China’s most

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, president of the Schiller Institute–Germany, participated in the 13th Beijing Xiangshan Forum, Sept. 15-17, a platform for international, expert dialogue on defense and security. Founded 20 years ago, the forum this year convened under the theme, “Build Consensus on Stability, Advance Security Governance Together.” The

Sept. 22—The following is the speech, as prepared, presented by Harley Schlanger to the Second World Public Assembly in Moscow, Sept. 18-19, 2026, titled, “New World: Values that Unite,” sponsored by the World Peoples Assembly. Schlanger, a member of the Schiller Institute–U.S.A. board of directors

Dr. Tatjana Ždanoka is a former member of the Latvian Parliament (1990-1993) and of the European Parliament (2004-2018, 2019-2024). She has a PhD in mathematics. Her grandmother’s family members were exterminated by the Nazi-aligned Latvian Auxiliary Police during the Holocaust in 1941. Ms. Ždanoka has

Donald Ramotar is a former President of Guyana, having served from 2011 to 2015, and a regular guest speaker at the Schiller Institute and the International Peace Coalition. Sept. 9—Latin America and the Caribbean countries are being recolonized. This time it is not by Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, France

The Schiller Institute has just published Friedrich Schiller’s most important philosophical work, The Aesthetic Education of the Human Being, in a new, improved translation by this author. Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was a historian, dramatist, poet, and philosopher—a very special, beautiful thinker whose ideas remain of crucial importance

Editor’s Note: This article was first published in EIR, Vol. 30, No. 22, June 6, 2003. This summary was prepared by Lyndon LaRouche for circulation at the May 26-27, 2003, international conference in Bangalore, India, titled “World Situation after Iraq War.” The conference was sponsored by the Center