MEDIA FORCE

04/07/2025

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04/07/2025

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Following the money behind the Bush family fortune leads down rabbit holes that most historians prefer to avoid, revealing a foundation built on transactions...

03/07/2025

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I’d seen the headlines, heard the same stories repeated again and again. But the more I looked, the more I realized: there’s an entire side of this country t...

03/07/2025

Insight into a New Future for Mankind, and the Courage To Fight for It
July 2, 2025 (EIRNS)—Human history, when we are being truly human, is a series of forecasts—not idle observations or predictions, but insights into the ultimate consequences of the underlying, moving dynamic generating so-called events. Forecasts are of two types: the first, identification of a dynamic that, if not changed, will lead to collapse; the second, insight into the transformative effect of the introduction of a new, valid principle into human society to uplift the state of affairs of humankind. The discovery of the sovereign nation-state form of government and its first realization with the American victory over the British Empire nearly 250 years ago is of the second type.

In 1971, when Richard Nixon “pulled the plug” on the dollar, ending the fixed exchange rate system established by collaborators of Franklin Roosevelt at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference, Lyndon LaRouche forecast with prophetic accuracy what the consequences would be. “He is on the record … saying,” reported Helga Zepp-LaRouche in her webcast of July 2, “‘If you continue on that course, you will end up in a new depression, a new fascism, and the danger of a new world war.’ And that is exactly where we are today.”

That post-1971 floating exchange rate financial system, a looting system used since that time as the primary mechanism of control over much of the world economy, and government policy, besides, has reached the point of utter bankruptcy and blowout. The danger of war looms before us all, as Zepp-LaRouche told her associates in a June 30 discussion, because of “the systemic bankruptcy of the trans-Atlantic system and the unwillingness of the establishments to correct their policies and their insistence that they want to remain in their dominant position in the world.”

Consider the meaning of all current events against that background, and only then ask, “What is to be done?”

It will be clear to anyone seriously considering that question, as it was to the founders of the American republic 249 years ago, that there is no piecemeal reform of the current system of geopolitics that can stop what Lyndon LaRouche forecast more than 50 years ago: An entirely new system is needed.

To that end, beginning in 2022, Helga Zepp-LaRouche put out a call for a new global security and development architecture, one which takes into account the economic and security needs of each and every country, as an urgent necessity if humanity is to survive the current global crisis.

“[I]n response to the so-called special military operation which Russia launched in February 2022 against Ukraine, which was a very limited engagement in the beginning. Nevertheless, it was clear to me, that the conflict between NATO, and the BRICS and the Global South countries cannot be remedied as long as you remain in the realm of geopolitics,” Zepp-LaRouche said in her webcast. "I proposed that the only real solution would be to establish a new security and development architecture which would really take into account the economic and security interests of every single country on the planet. Since we are in a global village …that we have to really take a global approach, if we want to settle these conflicts in the beginning. … [T]he Peace of Westphalia ended a seemingly hopeless conflict of 150 years of religious war, by agreeing on principles which would take into account the interests of every party. And that’s why it functioned. So, I can say that three and half years later, I think this idea is gaining ground.

“In the meantime, very importantly, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov has practically said the same thing. Previously, Xi Jinping and his three initiatives went in the same direction. Putin mentioned it as a global security system at one point. And I really want to say, the problem is, even if you would get a partial agreement for the Middle East, or a partial agreement for Ukraine-Russia, that still leaves the U.S.-China perceived conflict…; We saw with the India-Pakistan flare-up, how quickly two nuclear powers could get into a really serious showdown.

“And, we have the real bomb which is the bankruptcy of the trans-Atlantic financial system.”

Humanity requires that those with the courage of insight into a better future for humankind stand up now and take leadership, for it is by true and courageous ideas that human history advances. Helga Zepp-LaRouche has done so in her “Ten Principles for a New International Security and Development Architecture”:

“The basic assumption for the new paradigm is, that man is fundamentally good and capable to infinitely perfect the creativity of his mind and the beauty of his soul, and being the most advanced geological force in the universe, which proves that the lawfulness of the mind and that of the physical universe are in correspondence and cohesion, and that all evil is the result of a lack of development, and therefore can be overcome.

“A new world economic order is emerging, involving the vast majority of the countries of the Global South. The European nations and the U.S. must not fight this effort, but by joining hands with the developing countries, cooperate to shape the next epoch of the development of the human species to become a renaissance of the highest and most noble expressions of creativity!”

Human history, when we are being truly human, is a series of forecasts—not idle observations or predictions, but insights into the ultimate consequences of the underlying, moving dynamic generating so-called events. Forecasts are of two types: the first, identification of a dynamic that, if not ch...

02/07/2025

In a time of growing tension and fraying nerves, where each successive provocation threatens to trigger a civilization-ending world war, staying a step ahead of the oligarchy’s war hawks is essential for survival.
Each week, Helga Zepp-LaRouche presents a precise overview of changes in the overall strategic dynamic, the implication of those changes, and updates a strategy to outflank those running the international war party.
Send your questions to [email protected]

While the Western media are filled with leaks and counter-leaks about the whereabouts of over 400 kg of enriched uranium and whether Iran’s centrifuges to enrich it were destroyed or not, what is becoming clear is that no one really cared about that. If they had, the negotiations would have continued, and the United States would have made an agreement (“a deal”), probably brokered by Russia with Iran, to allow Iran the peaceful development of nuclear energy, while guaranteeing the security of Israel.

Instead, President Trump apparently lied to the world, pretending that he had told Bibi Netanyahu to hold off bombing Iran during the ongoing negotiations, only to enable Israel to make a surprise attack, killing dozens of Iranian scientists and military leaders in their beds along with their families. On top of that, the “neutral” nuclear watch-dog IAEA, admitted after the Israeli attacks (and BEFORE the U.S. attacks) that Iran actually wasn’t building a bomb, although the IAEA had claimed just a few days earlier that Iran had “violated” certain provisions, just in time to create a pretext for Israel’s attack.

All of this hoopla about Iran has nothing to do with why certain forces are pushing for war. As Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche told her international associates on June 30, the issue is “the systemic bankruptcy of the trans-Atlantic system and the unwillingness of the establishments to correct their policies and their insistence that they want to remain in their dominant position in the world.”

Therefore, the only way to be sure that we are not on the cusp of nuclear war, whether in the Middle East or elsewhere, is to eliminate the cause of the conflict by establishing a new economic and security architecture that recognizes the right of every nation to be secure and prosperous, which will require a bankruptcy reorganization of the trans-Atlantic system and the admission that the $2 quadrillion everything-bubble simply cannot be saved.

While the world is obsessed with whether or not Trump totally or only partially, or not at all, destroyed Iran’s nuclear enrichment capability, Russia is steadfastly winning the war against NATO in Ukraine on the battlefield. Russia just announced that Lugansk has been “fully liberated” from the pro-N**i scourge. No amount of weapons from the bankrupt Europeans will save Zelenskyy’s regime.

Over 5 billion people on the planet live in nations which have rejected the British imperial system, and are forging a new order, not based on winner-take-all, or master-slave relations, but as Russian President Putin put it, more like a symphony orchestra, where each unique voice contributes to the harmony of the whole.

As we approach the American Independence Day holiday on July 4, now would be a good time to remember that we have been in an ongoing brawl against the British Empire for more than 250 years. LaRouche put it this way in a 2004 speech entitled, “I Stand at the Bedside of a Doomed Empire:”

“We were almost crushed, repeatedly. The intention of Britain was to destroy us. This was the perpetual policy, of the British toward the United States, and the policy of the key traitors within the United States: Such as Gallatin, such as Aaron Burr, such as the leadership of many of the political parties. The controllers of agents, such as Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Polk, Pierce, Buchanan, who were agents of the enemy, determined to destroy us.

“In the process, the American patriotic tradition had a resurgence: around the tradition of Lafayette, around the personality of John Quincy Adams, and with a very significant recruit by John Quincy Adams to his cause, the Whig, Abraham Lincoln, who was Quincy Adams’ voice, in the Congress in denouncing the Polk Presidency for the war against Mexico, of that period. And that President Lincoln, later, led the United States to return to itself, as a nation.”

It is time for the United States to return to itself and stop participating in British imperial atrocities. Your neighbors and the world would appreciate that.

In a time of growing tension and fraying nerves, where each successive provocation threatens to trigger a civilization-ending world war, staying a step ahead of the oligarchy’s war hawks is essential for survival.

Each week, Helga Zepp-LaRouche presents a precise overview of changes in the overall strategic dynamic, the implication of those changes, and updates a strategy to outflank those running the international war party.
Send your questions to [email protected]

The LaRouche Organization

02/07/2025

Renewing the Revolution That Should Be!
July 1, 2025 (EIRNS)—This Friday, July 4, will mark the opening of a one-year commemoration and recollection of the 250th birthday of the United States of America. Former Congressman and Presidential candidate (2004, 2008) Dennis Kucinich released, on July 1, a statement, “July 4, 2025: The Desecration of the Declaration of Independence and a Call for Renewal.” The document begins with its own resolution: “If America is to remain what the Revolution envisioned in 1776, a nation governed by laws, then we the people must speak out, we must act and defend that vision.”

When the Schiller Institute was founded, it issued a “Declaration of the Inalienable Rights of Man”, which is almost identical to the Declaration of Independence. Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s proposal then, as now, was that the nations of the Global South, the now-expanded group of nations that had originally assembled 70 years ago in Bandung, Indonesia, then declaring themselves the Non-Aligned Movement, should co-opt the Declaration of Independence, temporarily abandoned by the United States itself, but still, as it will always be, universally valid. The principle, “that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—” is not a decree but a law of human nature. There are unalienable rights that can not be taken from any human being, because they are universal, and come from no state. These are the aspirations being spoken of in the policies associated with the BRICS nations, policies which have been given concrete physical-economic expression in works such as the 2014 EIR Special Report, “The New Silk Road Becomes the World Land-Bridge”.

In her “Ten Principles for a New International Security and Development Architecture”, Zepp-LaRouche’s Tenth Principle reads: “The basic assumption for the new paradigm is, that man is fundamentally good and capable to infinitely perfect the creativity of his mind and the beauty of his soul, and being the most advanced geological force in the universe, which proves that the lawfulness of the mind and that of the physical universe are in correspondence and cohesion, and that all evil is the result of a lack of development, and therefore can be overcome.”

There are those, in Silicon Valley and in the City of London, who vehemently disagree. These are the “new eugenicists,” who believe they can remake a “trans-humanist” race in their image. The “unfit,” particularly the poor, will simply be deleted from the human race. “Once rejected largely due to N**i atrocities, eugenics is being embraced by both the Left and Right. Yet its beating heart lies not in politics, but in tech-driven approaches,” writes author Joel Kotkin. “One big difference from 20th-century eugenics is that today’s effort is a largely private matter, at least until now, shaped not by the state, but the technocratic elite. What’s emerging is a modern version of John Calvin’s Protestant ‘Elect.’” Are these, the creatures from INCUTEL, Palantir, etc., a “new breed” of Anti-Christian soldiers, marching the human race off to war?

Who, for example, has decided on the “governance” of the United States by “the War Party”? Not the people of the United States. They are opposed to the present war policy, and voted for a President who was opposed to “forever wars—”yet the war has happened, nonetheless. Why does the United States fight continuous wars, against the people’s will, no matter whom they elect, even as its physical economy and the livelihood of its people decline at an accelerating rate?

It isn’t just war, however. Three weeks ago, on June 19, “A Chinese magnetic levitation train, using a 1.1 ton test sled, and employing an electromagnetic propulsion system, accelerated to a speed of 650 kilometers per hour (404 mph) after travelling just 600 meters—the fastest speed ever achieved by a maglev—and then braked to a crawl within 220 meters.” But American physicists James Powell and Gordon Danby of Brookhaven Laboratories in Long Island, New York got the first patent for the design of the maglev almost 60 years ago! Did the Communist Party of China stop the United States from building its magnetically levitated trains, or high-speed rail, for the past 60 years—or was it the War Party? Why has NASA, the core of the United States space program, in the “Big Ugly Bill” just passed in the United States Senate, been cut back to pre-Kennedy Moon-shot levels of funding, including the entire Artemis Moon Program being essentially killed?

Are the people that decided these things, the same people who decided that the United States would be plunged into another no-win-war on Iran, a war planned since 2001? Several commentators, from Scott Ritter to Jeffrey Sachs, have found themselves, in the last 48 hours, discussing the possibility that Israel’s Netanyahu would use thermonuclear weapons, or even, under certain circumstances, used by the United States, since Iran has, at the moment, officially decided not to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to re-enter their country.

And with good reason. Journalist Kit Klarenberg has just called attention in “Spying on Iran: How MI6 Infiltrated the IAEA,” in The Grayzone, to the case of British MI6 operative Nicholas Langman, whose name and self-description was discovered in “a trove of leaked papers detailing the activities of Torchlight, a prolific British intelligence cutout.” Langman says that he “worked to prevent WMD proliferation through … support for the [IAEA] and Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons [OPCW] and through high level international partnerships.” He also says that he “enabled [the] major diplomatic success of [the] Iranian nuclear and sanctions agreement.”

Klarenberg writes: “The influence Langman claimed to have exerted on the IAEA adds weight to Iranian allegations that the international nuclear regulation body colluded with the West and Israel to undermine its sovereignty. The Iranian government has alleged that the IAEA supplied the identities of its top nuclear scientists to Israeli intelligence, enabling their assassinations, and provided critical intelligence to the U.S. and Israel on the nuclear facilities they bombed during their military assault this June.”

Is this what the United States, on the eve of its 250th birthday, has come to? Worse than acting as “a cockboat in the wake of the British man-of-war,” are the United States’ massive military forces being deployed, not on behalf of the General Welfare of the American people, but on behalf of what is, both in Ukraine and Southwest Asia, British imperial policy for total war with Russia? When Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump meet next week in Washington, with what British operatives will they have each met beforehand? How actually independent, 250 years after its inception, is the U.S. government, or the people of the United States?

Kucinich concludes his July 4, 2025 declaration: “If America is to remain what the Revolution envisioned in 1776, a nation governed by laws, then we the people must speak out, we must act and defend that vision. Our freedom ultimately depends upon an enlightened, active citizenry. Otherwise we betray the past and surrender the future, and the nation fails.” By that citizenry, however, we must now mean a worldwide citizenry, not organized primarily by party, or nationality, but by intent."

If the world is not only to survive, but also to grow and develop, citizens, particularly young citizens from around the world, should first read the Schiller Institute’s “Declaration of the Inalienable Rights of Man” and the “Ten Principles for a New International Security and Development Architecture,” and then convene, in person or online, for its July 12-13 Conference “Man Is Not a Wolf to Man: For a New Paradigm in International Relations!” in Berlin, Germany. Also, particularly through this upcoming July 4 weekend, wherever you are, help circulate and distribute, in the streets and online, the statement “Will There Be Thermonuclear Fireworks By the Fourth of July?”

30/06/2025

Ceasefire, Or Only a Pause in the Drive to World War III?
June 29, 2025 (EIRNS)—Over the weekend, the Director General of the watch-dog International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi took to U.S. national television to demand that Iran submit to international inspections of the very nuclear facilities which the United States massively bombed on June 21. The Iranian nuclear program may have survived the attack, he stated. “If we don’t get that clarification, this will continue to be hanging, you know, over our heads,” he warned, darkly hinting at the fact that both Israel and the United States have threatened to launch further attacks to finish off Iran.

The Iranian government flat out rejected Grossi’s demand “until the safety and security of our nuclear activities can be guaranteed,” Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated. He added that Grossi’s proposal is “meaningless and possibly even malign in intent.”

Also over the weekend, the Russian Federation delivered the greatest air strikes yet of the entire war with Ukraine, including the use of Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, while making significant advances on the ground against Ukrainian forces in the Donbass.

Is there a connection between the developments in these two theaters of war, each of which can escalate to full-scale thermonuclear warfare faster than most people are willing to admit to themselves?

In comments to the plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 19, Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to a question about Russia possibly starting combat operations in defense of Iran. “Start some kind of combat operations, is that it? We already have combat operations going on against those whom we consider opponents of the ideas we defend and who pose a threat to the Russian Federation,” he said, adding that these opponents are “far behind the frontline” and are “basically the same forces—with Iran and in the case of Russia.”

How, then, to solve both crises at once? How to stop the cause of war?

Readers of this Editorial will be familiar with Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s repeated calls for the establishment of a concert of international voices to bring into being a dramatically different international security and development architecture, in order to meet the security and development needs of all nations, at the expense of none.

Readers may be less familiar with the comments to identical effect made by Russian President Vladimir Putin back on Nov. 7, 2024, speaking in Sochi at the Valdai Discussion Club:

“The rise of nations and cultures that have previously remained on the periphery of global politics for one reason or another means that their own distinct ideas of law and justice are playing an increasingly important role. They are diverse. This may give the impression of discord and perhaps cacophony, but this is only the initial phase.

“It is my deep conviction that the only new international system possible is one embracing polyphony, where many tones and many musical themes are sounded together to form harmony. If you like, we are moving towards a world system that is going to be polyphonic rather than polycentric, one in which all voices are heard and, most importantly, absolutely must be heard. Those who are used to soloing and want to keep it that way will have to get used to the new ‘scores’ now.”

28/06/2025

The Beautiful Task Before Us
June 27, 2025 (EIRNS)—It should not have come as a surprise. “Trump Warns U.S. Will Strike Again If Iran Resumes High-Level Uranium Enrichment” read the headline in the afternoon online issue of the New York Times. The Jewish Insider carried the following additional headline: “Trump Suspends Negotiations with Iran after Defiant Speech from Ayatollah—The President also said that he would require Iran to allow entry for international inspectors to ensure the regime doesn’t rebuild its nuclear program.” This particularly does not come as a surprise to those who have already been circulating the statement, issued June 23 by The LaRouche Organization, “Will There Be Thermonuclear Fireworks by the Fourth of July?” If you have not done so yet, start circulating it now!

The second paragraph of that statement, an immediate response to the bombing of Iran by the United States, asked: “Here is a question: if the sites were not destroyed, or if Iran announces it is able to rebuild, what will happen then? Will the use of tactical nuclear weapons be the next step?” In the last days, as distributors passed out the statement on street corners and at subway and bus stops, the credulous, the wishful thinkers, insisted that “it’s all over. We did the job. It’s a one-off. There won’t be any war, especially nuclear war. The war is over.” The fearful avoidance of reality—that some fool, or group of fools, could propose, or simply move to use, for example, one or more of the undeclared but very real nuclear weapons in the possession of Israel, for example—was evident, and palpable.

Seasoned organizers, however, are coming up with creative and humorous ways to “kick people in their axioms” and disturb the waters between their ears, without terrifying them. One activist in Boston “was dressed in an approximation of colonial garb with a tricorner hat, etc., and a sign, ‘Nuclear Fireworks for July 4?’ with mushroom clouds drawn on it…. He got hundreds of leaflets out in downtown Boston. The costume and sign appeared to amuse some people. He called out. ‘Don’t let nuclear war ruin your vacation,’ ‘A nuclear war will ruin summer’ and joked ‘It will be the bigliest fireworks in history. It’s going to be YUUUGE!’”

Former Ohio Congressman and United States Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich spoke to several hundred people assembled for today’s meeting of the International Peace Coalition, following opening remarks by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, transcribed in this Daily Alert. Here is an approximate transcript of portions of his comments: "I just want to say, just listening to Helga’s remarks, how important, concise, how literate her recitation of the moment is…. I want to make some observations, based on what Helga has said, and based on my own experience.

“When Lavrov called for a new security architecture, we have to recognize that the security architecture which is in place right now, has been shredded. The UN Charter—shredded. The Non-Proliferation Treaty—torn up. And the context of Lavrov’s remarks is a challenge for us to demand, even as a rearguard action, to say, ‘Look, we have to enforce these existing structures—but as we move toward trying to find structures that can ensure the survivability of the planet.’

“Now, given the pratfalls which pass for policy in Washington, the bombing—which was against our Constitution, totally; the President doesn’t have the authority, unless there is an imminent threat to the United States; I’ve sued several Presidents over this—doesn’t have the authority to go ahead and conduct this action. So they did it! Then, they claimed obliteration. Well, if what they claimed was successful, there would be radiation traveling right now, in clouds going around the world!

“So there’s this—we must keep in mind that there are elements, particularly connected to Israel, who keep pushing, pushing, pushing, for this fantasy of regime change in Iran. And what that would ultimately mean, in the States, is a full-scale invasion. Just running some off-the-cuff numbers the other day, we would need about 2 million troops. We would need a draft, and we would need to be prepared for World War Three….

“I think this meeting is really important, when you look at the condition that Trump is in right now….The narrative that’s going out right now is, ‘well you didn’t really destroy anything there, maybe a couple of buildings on the surface.’ That causes others to say, ‘well, let’s have another strike. Let’s do it again! Let’s get ’em!!’ … The unbridled use of the military is a challenge for the United States right now. And it’s something that we have to deal with.

“The callous discussion of the nuclear question—having a President yesterday, or the day before, compare his illegal action against Iran as a thing on the same level as Hiroshima. What that says, is that he doesn’t understand Hiroshima! And that whatever Truman does—which I’ve spoken against, in my assessment, I wasn’t around at that time—but whatever Truman does, or did, is now being twisted to legitimate further bombing. And it’s really dangerous.

“We’re in a very difficult time in world history, with what Helga said. The West is still up to their old colonial tricks. Still lusting for empire. At a time when the world has changed, we have a multipolar world, and there are people that refuse to accept it, and for those of us who believe in human unity, this is our task, this is our challenge, to weigh in, and to say: Stop what you’re doing, and let’s recall how we must move forward in a world which could be dangerous, but in a world which also could be a world of tremendous potential and blessings.”

The second of two Schiller Institute conferences will take place in Berlin, Germany on July 12-13. The first conference, held in the United States in Newark, New Jersey, was titled “A Beautiful Vision for Humanity in Times of Great Turbulence!” The Berlin Conference title is: “Man Is Not a Wolf to Man: For a New Paradigm in International Relations!”

The organizing for that conference has featured the work of a group, “The John Quincy Adams Brigade” of organizers from America—North and South America—who are working in Europe, as a living expression of that intention. Graham Fuller, 25-year veteran of the CIA, former U.S. diplomat, and Islamic scholar, who also addressed the meeting, said: “I just want to say I’m very hearted by hearing all these reports of various activities around the world … this is very heartening. At the popular level, we’ve got to get through, to break through the New York Times, Washington Post, and everything else, that simply either print a lot of nonsense, or simply, more to the point, ignore these very, very important developments.”

What you choose to do, in your way, to mobilize others, in these next days, is equally or more important than anything being done by most elected officials. When individual patriots and citizens around the world, combined in solidarity, choose to, they can represent a far stronger force for good, than the evil that the well-heeled few—even with their guns and computers—can commit. The world must be our responsibility to change, such that A New International Security and Development Architecture can arise. Our chosen role in changing history must be, through our conferences and actions, the subject of these next days before us.

The Beautiful Task Before Us
June 27, 2025 (EIRNS)—It should not have come as a surprise. “Trump Warns U.S. Will Strike Again If Iran Resumes High-Level Uranium Enrichment” read the headline in the afternoon online issue of the New York Times. The Jewish Insider carried the following additional headline: “Trump Suspends Negotiations with Iran after Defiant Speech from Ayatollah—The President also said that he would require Iran to allow entry for international inspectors to ensure the regime doesn’t rebuild its nuclear program.” This particularly does not come as a surprise to those who have already been circulating the statement, issued June 23 by The LaRouche Organization, “Will There Be Thermonuclear Fireworks by the Fourth of July?” If you have not done so yet, start circulating it now!

The second paragraph of that statement, an immediate response to the bombing of Iran by the United States, asked: “Here is a question: if the sites were not destroyed, or if Iran announces it is able to rebuild, what will happen then? Will the use of tactical nuclear weapons be the next step?” In the last days, as distributors passed out the statement on street corners and at subway and bus stops, the credulous, the wishful thinkers, insisted that “it’s all over. We did the job. It’s a one-off. There won’t be any war, especially nuclear war. The war is over.” The fearful avoidance of reality—that some fool, or group of fools, could propose, or simply move to use, for example, one or more of the undeclared but very real nuclear weapons in the possession of Israel, for example—was evident, and palpable.

Seasoned organizers, however, are coming up with creative and humorous ways to “kick people in their axioms” and disturb the waters between their ears, without terrifying them. One activist in Boston “was dressed in an approximation of colonial garb with a tricorner hat, etc., and a sign, ‘Nuclear Fireworks for July 4?’ with mushroom clouds drawn on it…. He got hundreds of leaflets out in downtown Boston. The costume and sign appeared to amuse some people. He called out. ‘Don’t let nuclear war ruin your vacation,’ ‘A nuclear war will ruin summer’ and joked ‘It will be the bigliest fireworks in history. It’s going to be YUUUGE!’”

Former Ohio Congressman and United States Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich spoke to several hundred people assembled for today’s meeting of the International Peace Coalition, following opening remarks by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, transcribed in this Daily Alert. Here is an approximate transcript of portions of his comments: "I just want to say, just listening to Helga’s remarks, how important, concise, how literate her recitation of the moment is…. I want to make some observations, based on what Helga has said, and based on my own experience.

“When Lavrov called for a new security architecture, we have to recognize that the security architecture which is in place right now, has been shredded. The UN Charter—shredded. The Non-Proliferation Treaty—torn up. And the context of Lavrov’s remarks is a challenge for us to demand, even as a rearguard action, to say, ‘Look, we have to enforce these existing structures—but as we move toward trying to find structures that can ensure the survivability of the planet.’

“Now, given the pratfalls which pass for policy in Washington, the bombing—which was against our Constitution, totally; the President doesn’t have the authority, unless there is an imminent threat to the United States; I’ve sued several Presidents over this—doesn’t have the authority to go ahead and conduct this action. So they did it! Then, they claimed obliteration. Well, if what they claimed was successful, there would be radiation traveling right now, in clouds going around the world!

“So there’s this—we must keep in mind that there are elements, particularly connected to Israel, who keep pushing, pushing, pushing, for this fantasy of regime change in Iran. And what that would ultimately mean, in the States, is a full-scale invasion. Just running some off-the-cuff numbers the other day, we would need about 2 million troops. We would need a draft, and we would need to be prepared for World War Three….

“I think this meeting is really important, when you look at the condition that Trump is in right now….The narrative that’s going out right now is, ‘well you didn’t really destroy anything there, maybe a couple of buildings on the surface.’ That causes others to say, ‘well, let’s have another strike. Let’s do it again! Let’s get ’em!!’ … The unbridled use of the military is a challenge for the United States right now. And it’s something that we have to deal with.

“The callous discussion of the nuclear question—having a President yesterday, or the day before, compare his illegal action against Iran as a thing on the same level as Hiroshima. What that says, is that he doesn’t understand Hiroshima! And that whatever Truman does—which I’ve spoken against, in my assessment, I wasn’t around at that time—but whatever Truman does, or did, is now being twisted to legitimate further bombing. And it’s really dangerous.

“We’re in a very difficult time in world history, with what Helga said. The West is still up to their old colonial tricks. Still lusting for empire. At a time when the world has changed, we have a multipolar world, and there are people that refuse to accept it, and for those of us who believe in human unity, this is our task, this is our challenge, to weigh in, and to say: Stop what you’re doing, and let’s recall how we must move forward in a world which could be dangerous, but in a world which also could be a world of tremendous potential and blessings.”

The second of two Schiller Institute conferences will take place in Berlin, Germany on July 12-13. The first conference, held in the United States in Newark, New Jersey, was titled “A Beautiful Vision for Humanity in Times of Great Turbulence!” The Berlin Conference title is: “Man Is Not a Wolf to Man: For a New Paradigm in International Relations!”

The organizing for that conference has featured the work of a group, “The John Quincy Adams Brigade” of organizers from America—North and South America—who are working in Europe, as a living expression of that intention. Graham Fuller, 25-year veteran of the CIA, former U.S. diplomat, and Islamic scholar, who also addressed the meeting, said: “I just want to say I’m very hearted by hearing all these reports of various activities around the world … this is very heartening. At the popular level, we’ve got to get through, to break through the New York Times, Washington Post, and everything else, that simply either print a lot of nonsense, or simply, more to the point, ignore these very, very important developments.”

What you choose to do, in your way, to mobilize others, in these next days, is equally or more important than anything being done by most elected officials. When individual patriots and citizens around the world, combined in solidarity, choose to, they can represent a far stronger force for good, than the evil that the well-heeled few—even with their guns and computers—can commit. The world must be our responsibility to change, such that A New International Security and Development Architecture can arise. Our chosen role in changing history must be, through our conferences and actions, the subject of these next days before us.