{"id":116072,"date":"2026-04-19T09:35:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=116072"},"modified":"2026-04-19T09:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:35:32","slug":"we-are-not-condemned-to-be-bestial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/blog\/2026\/04\/19\/we-are-not-condemned-to-be-bestial\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe Are Not Condemned to be Bestial\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">International Peace Coalition, Week 150<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The International Peace Coalition (IPC) arrived at its 150th consecutive weekly meeting on Friday, April 17. The session was opened by Helga Zepp-LaRouche,&nbsp;Schiller Institute founder and IPC initiator. She described the current strategic juncture as one where \u201cthe world is vacillating between hope and Hell.\u201d The ceasefire in Lebanon seems to have taken effect. The effort to invoke the War Powers Act in the U.S. Congress was defeated by only a very narrow margin, which indicates a sea change underway there, when compared to previous recent attempts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Humanity Must Grow Up\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OI9LLiM8JC8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turning to the economic picture, she reported that shortages of food in France might be enough to \u201ccause a second French Revolution.\u201d German industry is just vanishing like a \u201cSummer Sale.\u201d \u201cWe could have a repeat of 2008 at any moment,\u201d she warned, where the rising oil prices could trigger a collapse of the debt bubble. We need a global Glass-Steagall reorganization of the financial system, to compliment the proposed <a href=\"\/?page_id=107685\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/the-oasis-plan-the-larouche-solution-for-southwest-asia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oasis Plan<\/a> and the <a href=\"\/?page_id=1161\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/our-campaign\/build-the-world-land-bridge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World Landbridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diane Sare, independent U.S. presidential candidate, spoke next. Referring to her <a href=\"https:\/\/sareforpresident.com\/stop-the-iran-war-now\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sareforpresident.com\/stop-the-iran-war-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent statement<\/a>, she said, \u201cWe can\u2019t afford posturing, we have to actually prevent an escalation,\u201d and called for the U.S. Congress to withhold funding for the war\u2014which is how the Vietnam War was brought to an end\u2014rather than seeking election-campaign drama with an impeachment, or invocation of the 25th Amendment. She said that in her conversations with elected officials, she often hears the lament, \u201cI can\u2019t do anything, I\u2019m only a Congressman\u201d\u2014but the Congress has the power of the purse. The War Powers Act, which has been the subject of partisan battles, gives the President 60 days in which to ask Congress for permission and funding\u2014we are now at day 49.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sare concluded by saying, \u201cThe President clearly is insane.\u201d She analyzed Trump\u2019s latest tweet spasm, marveling at the wacky hyperbole. She said she was heartened by the fact that Democratic Representative Ro Khanna (from California\u2019s 17th congressional district) and former Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor-Greene (from Georgia\u2019s 14th congressional district) have agreed to a dialogue. This could provide relief from what Sare called the \u201csuper emotional hyped-up partisan bickering\u201d that dominates American politics, and exemplifies the \u201cdramatically shifting political terrain.\u201d Sare and congressional candidate Jose Vega\u2014who has qualified for ballot status as a Democrat and is now petitioning to also get on the ballot as an independent in New York\u2019s 15th congressional district (the Bronx)\u2014are now working with 15-20 independent candidates. These candidates need our input, because they are poorly educated on economics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Abdullah Al-Ahsan, &nbsp;Islamic scholar and Pakistani Professor of Comparative Civilization, told the meeting, \u201cI was so optimistic when the campuses woke up\u201d in opposition to the Israeli genocide, but the protests were suppressed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims to represent Western civilization, but what is that, really? Zionism\u2019s second leader, Chaim Weizmann, openly sided \u201cwith the mind-set of British colonialist mentality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garland Nixon, veteran progressive radio and television talk show host, said that there is \u201ca learning process\u201d for Americans. Some people say \u201cit\u2019s all about Israel\u201d doing bad things, if we could get them under control we could fix the other problems. Others say that Israel is a \u201ccat\u2019s paw\u201d for the United States, they can do things that we want done but don\u2019t wish to do ourselves, and we can pretend we can\u2019t control them. \u201cIsrael is just a small piece of the puzzle,\u201d he said, in the larger effort of the U.S. empire to dominate the world. Americans who voted for President Donald Trump are angry: \u201cWe voted for economic development, and we got war instead of economic development.\u201d He concluded by raising the issue of morality in foreign policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zepp-LaRouche responded: \u201cSince you addressed the issue of morality, I am very happy that the Pope is taking the role he\u2019s taking.\u201d She had recently published an <a href=\"\/?p=115190\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/blog\/2026\/03\/10\/zepp-larouche-calls-on-pope-leo-xiv-to-intervene-on-the-level-of-nicholas-of-cusa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">open letter<\/a> to the pontiff. \u201cOur western civilization is collapsing, and it is collapsing morally,\u201d she said, adding that privileges for millionaires and billionaires at the expense of everyone else, and the debased sexual activities exposed in the Epstein scandal, are both consistent with that. We need a revival of classical culture, not as art for art\u2019s sake, but for reviving real morality. China\u2019s democracy is much better than the Western model, because they have cultural morality as a goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Al-Ahsan referenced the 14th century Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldoun, who emphasized economic development as a result of human cooperation. In his time, we did not have the compartmentalization of knowledge that we have today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dennis Small shared results of the IPC mobilization to pressure Congress to stop funding the war, as demanded by Diane Sare. For the past 150 weeks, we have had 200-300 people from 30 to 45 nations engaged with IPC. We need those people to mobilize, and get your messages in to the U.S. Congress. A former Minister of Justice and Human Rights in Ecuador wrote a letter to the U.S. Congress. A director of an Italian cultural institute wrote a letter in which he said that \u201cEuropean public opinion and Italian public opinion is watching with dismay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>General Discussion Period<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zepp-LaRouche emphasized to the participants, \u201cPlease do not make the mistake to relax and say, \u201ceverything is in order.\u201d This could be the lull before the storm. \u201cWe could be at the end of civilization in a matter of days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Co-moderator Dennis Speed presented a video of a Catholic priest, speaking on the dispute between Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV. He said that \u201cWars of Choice cannot be moral.\u201d The utterances of the Trump administration cannot be reconciled with the \u201cJust War\u201d doctrine. \u201cWhat has happened to our politics that such rhetoric can be normalized?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zepp-LaRouche added that the Pope is an Augustinian. If philosophy and faith arrive at the same conclusion, then there is no contradiction or conflict between science and faith. \u201cI would just dare to have my own view on the issue of the Just War,\u201d she added. In the era of nuclear weapons, any war can annihilate humanity, and therefore must be rejected as a means of resolving problems. \u201cThe idea that you must use violence to make your views heard\u2026 belongs to the realm of children\u2019s diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Al-Ahsan added, \u201cI don\u2019t understand how a sane individual can keep silent\u201d in the face of what is happening today, and endorsed the remarks of the Pope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zepp responded to a question about the Gospel of John, saying she is more prepared to talk about her husband\u2019s conception of the Simultaneity of Eternity. She cited the revolutionary idea of 15th century Catholic Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, that Man, acting in <em>Imago Vive Dei,<\/em> must continue the process of creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Argentinian\/Italian scholar living in Colombia, informed the meeting about <a href=\"https:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/ark:\/48223\/pf0000094314\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/ark:\/48223\/pf0000094314\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Seville Statement on Violence<\/a>, a scientific statement which says peace is possible, because war is\u00a0 not a biological necessity. The Statement was written by an international team of specialists in 1986 for the United Nations sponsored International Year of Peace and its follow-up. Leading scientists debated whether violence is part of human nature, and concluded that it absolutely is not. It is learned from the outside. If violence can be learned, peace can be learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response to questions from the participants about the role of Spain, Zepp-LaRouche said, \u201cSpain has saved the honor of Europe by taking a very clear position against the genocide in Gaza.\u201d If the Atlantic nations decided to cooperate with the Global South, rather than attempting to suppress those nations, we could solve the problems of the world overnight. This is the normal condition of human beings. \u201cWe are not condemned to be bestial.\u201dIn conclusion Zepp-LaRouche thanked the people who had called attention to the Seville Statement on violence, and voiced her opposition to the Manichean idea that good and evil must coexist. More statements and calls to the U.S. Congress are encouraged. If you would like to submit a statement for promotion contact <a href=\"mailto:anastasiammares@gmail.com\">anastasiammares@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Peace Coalition, Week 150 The International Peace Coalition (IPC) arrived at its 150th consecutive weekly meeting on Friday, April 17. The session was opened by Helga Zepp-LaRouche,&nbsp;Schiller Institute founder and IPC initiator. She described the current strategic juncture as one where \u201cthe world is vacillating between hope and Hell.\u201d The ceasefire in Lebanon seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":116073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[798],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-116072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-peace-coalition","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116072"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116086,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116072\/revisions\/116086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}