{"id":102547,"date":"2024-05-25T08:07:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T12:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=102547"},"modified":"2024-05-25T08:07:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T12:07:33","slug":"international-peace-coalition-meeting-intelligence-specialists-speak-out-as-war-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/it\/blog\/2024\/05\/25\/international-peace-coalition-meeting-intelligence-specialists-speak-out-as-war-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"International Peace Coalition Meeting: Intelligence Specialists Speak Out as War Looms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Daniel Platt<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 24, 2024 (EIRNS)\u2014This week\u2019s 51st meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) saw a fruitful colloquy among some of the U.S.\u2019s foremost intelligence experts: former CIA analyst Larry C. Johnson; former U.S. diplomat, CIA official, and Islamic scholar Graham Fuller; and former CIA analyst and Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) co-founder Ray McGovern; all in dialogue with Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche\u2019s strategic analysis\u2014and proposed solutions\u2014presented in her opening remarks. (See extended transcript of opening remarks.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helga Zepp-LaRouche observed that we are in a time when \u201chistory becomes more dense,\u201d and profound change is proceeding at an accelerating pace, even as the danger of nuclear war rises. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) today issued an emergency order to halt Israel\u2019s attack on Rafah. \u201cThe question is, will that be enforced, and if so, how?\u201d Zepp-LaRouche asked. \u201cIt seems to be dawning on some people in the Western establishment that if you apply a double standard \u2026 the legality of the system may be there, but it is about to lose its legitimacy.\u201d This week Ireland, Spain, and Norway joined the list of 140 UN member nations that have recognized the State of Palestine. If Israel continues to flout the ICJ\u2019s binding orders to stop the genocide in Gaza\u2014as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has again sworn they will do\u2014then Israel could be suspended from UN membership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking at other theaters of strategic confrontation carrying the danger of escalation into nuclear war, Zepp-LaRouche asked whether the attempt on the life of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico was made by a \u201clone assassin.\u201d There are indications that he may have had assistance. Large influxes of money have flowed into NGOs, not only in Slovakia, but in Georgia, Serbia, and Hungary as well, whose leaders are all critical of Ukraine war funding, and are speaking out against the perpetrators of the destabilization operations. Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze posted on Twitter\/X that he received a threat from an EU Commission member, warning that he could meet the same fate as Fico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Asia, newly inaugurated Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te gave an inaugural address in which he insisted that Taiwan is \u201ca sovereign independent nation.\u201d In response, China held military exercises around Taiwan, as a clear signal that they will not tolerate secession masquerading as \u201cindependence.\u201d Zepp-LaRouche reminded the IPC participants that for decades, \u201cOne China<\/a>\u201d has been internationally recognized. She concluded by saying that the next six months will be decisive, and that we in the IPC, along with like-minded forces around the world, must put a different narrative, a different solution<\/em> on the agenda, in the tradition of the Peace of Westphalia, using the Oasis Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Larry C. Johnson contrasted present U.S. foreign policy with the Nixon period, when, despite the Cold War, we could actually talk to Russia and China. Now, \u201cThe United States is like a 3-year-old child with a hammer,\u201d and everything looks like a nail. He warned that if this continues, \u201cthe U.S. will implode upon itself\u2026. It is pretending that it can project military force in three theaters simultaneously.\u201d Our Navy is completely vulnerable to the hypersonic weapons that Russia and China both possess. Johnson insisted that \u201cpeople in Asia, Africa and South America are sick and tired of being bullied by the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graham Fuller followed and said, \u201cLarry and I have both toiled in the vineyards of intelligence.\u201d Fuller said that the U.S. is unable to face the reality of its relative decline in the world. Referencing the \u201ccomplicated, perhaps triangular relationship\u201d in the Middle East between Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Israel, he observed that China had remarkably defused tension between the Saudis and Iran<\/a>, which \u201ctook the wind out of the sails of the argument that \u2018The Iranians are coming! The Iranians are coming!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuller concluded by saying, \u201cIt\u2019s a clich\u00e9 to say crises promote opportunities,\u201d but he offered the hope that this will shake people up to come up with some new ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helga Zepp-LaRouche intervened to insist that it is our job to offer those new ideas. The Western nations act as if there were no tomorrow, no consequences, but \u201cthe way out would be so absolutely, breathtakingly easy.\u201d She identified the expanding BRICS organization and the Oasis Plan as the path to a solution. None of the Global South nations has called the U.S. the enemy. We could work with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ray McGovern recalled that he had started working as a CIA analyst in January 1964, as a specialist in Sino-Soviet relations. China and Russia \u201cwere squeezing each other\u2026.\u201d Now \u201cthey\u2019re in a fraternal embrace that won\u2019t stop.\u201d He has been surprised by many things, including the Russian military operation in Ukraine and the Chinese support for it; and their announcement of tactical nuclear weapons exercises<\/a>. \u201cNone were pleasant surprises; I\u2019m just afraid of what the next one might be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meeting co-moderator Dennis Speed observed that these \u201csurprises\u201d represent the essence of intelligence work: the careful examination of \u201cwhat doesn\u2019t add up,\u201d adding that the analyst must \u201cpoke reality with a stick,\u201d and change the analysis as necessary. Read the EIR Daily Alert<\/a><\/em> every day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the discussion, one of the first comments centered on the overriding importance of Lyndon LaRouche\u2019s breakthroughs in economics, and praise of LaRouche by leading Russian economist Sergey Glazyev. Independent Congressional candidate Jose Vega, who has just successfully filed three times the required number of signatures required to attain ballot access, reported on his visits to New York campus encampments protesting the genocide in Gaza. LaRouche movement organizer Bill Ferguson reported on the May 23 Harvard commencement exercises: Trucks were driving around with neon signs denouncing as anti-Semites the 1,000 students who walked out to support 13 seniors barred from graduation over their role in the Gaza protests. LaRouche organizers displayed a banner: \u201cPeace through Development: Build LaRouche\u2019s Oasis Plan.\u201d After the LaRouche organizers choral performance of peace songs, a policeman approached, saying \u201cYou\u2019ve got really killer voices,\u201d encouraging them to keep it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Indian journalist elaborated on the importance of unity among the three, largest and founding members of the BRICS\u2014Russia, India, China (RIC)\u2014and pointed to the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC), extending from St. Petersburg through Iran and Central Asia, across the Arabian Sea to Mumbai in India, as an example of regional cooperation, notwithstanding the tensions in the region. Helga Zepp-LaRouche concurred: \u201cThe anchor of stability is the connectivity projects,\u201d such as the BRICS and BRICS-Plus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other participants expressed anxiety about the U.S. presidential election. One person suggested that Biden might be the lesser evil; another stated the opposite. Co-moderator Dennis Small said that the very concept of the \u201clesser evil\u201d comes from Aristotle, who did not believe in the Good. Throw Aristotle in the trash, and read Plato, to learn how to think from a higher vantage point from which the Good is attainable, was his advice. Zepp-LaRouche suggested support for independent candidates like Jose Vega and Diane Sare, concurring with Sare that no candidate running is qualified to be President of the United States. She added, \u201cI would not bet the fate of the world on these election processes.\u201d The confiscation of Russian assets may trigger an unprecedented financial crisis which will upset the applecart. Our efforts should concentrate on the proposed new international security and development architecture<\/a> and the Oasis Plan. Echoing the comments of a participant from Mali, she said that we must \u201cput the One Humanity first.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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