{"id":112824,"date":"2025-11-04T10:32:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=112824"},"modified":"2025-11-04T10:38:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:38:21","slug":"ipc-126-report-can-the-coincidence-of-opposites-method-stop-the-headlong-rush-to-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/it\/blog\/2025\/11\/04\/ipc-126-report-can-the-coincidence-of-opposites-method-stop-the-headlong-rush-to-war\/","title":{"rendered":"IPC #126 Report: Can the \u2018Coincidence Of Opposites\u2019 Method Stop the Headlong Rush to War?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 126th consecutive weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition on Friday, Oct.\u00a031, has placed the joint roles of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) and Lyndon LaRouche (1922-2019), although separated by 500 years, at the center of the current battle to both stop the descent of civilization into suicidal global war, and to also unleash a new Renaissance based on a new architecture for security and development for all nations. This likening of the importance of Cusa and LaRouche was made in the course of discussion of today\u2019s extreme dangers by Father Harry J. Bury, for 70 years a priest and a life-long peace advocate. He is active today with the Twin Cities Nonviolent and the U.S. Catholic Priest Association.<\/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=\"Think the Higher &amp;apos;One&amp;apos; to Solve Today&amp;apos;s Crisis\u2014 IPC Meeting #126\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/taI-uIxggqg?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\">Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Schiller Institute founder and initiator of the International Peace Coalition, termed Father Bury\u2019s remarks to the IPC as one of the most significant of our time. The transcript of Bury\u2019s full statement is below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was one week earlier, on Oct.&nbsp;25, that Pope Leo XIV had stunned the Catholic world\u2014and many knowledgeable circles beyond\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/eir.news\/2025\/10\/news\/pope-leo-discusses-cusa-with-10-000-jubilee-pilgrims-in-st-peters-square\/\">by delivering<\/a>&nbsp;a five-minute allocution before 10,000 pilgrims in St.&nbsp;Peter\u2019s Square for the Jubilee Audience. The Pope identified Cusa\u2019s approach as critical to our current time in history, because his breakthrough concept of the \u201cCoincidence of Opposites\u201d calls for seeking and acting upon the common benefit, over and above any conflicting parties and perceived interests. Though \u201cunseen,\u201d this is the grounds for peace and hope. The transcript of the Pope\u2019s message is in this issue of&nbsp;<em>EIR<\/em>. Zepp-LaRouche, in reporting about the Pope to the IPC, called his Oct.&nbsp;25 speech, \u201ca real, real breakthrough.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Father Bury, an advocate of Lyndon LaRouche\u2019s \u201cpeace through development\u201d concepts, in particular the need for the LaRouche \u201cOasis Plan\u201d approach to Palestine-Gaza, explained, \u201cNicholas of Cusa and Lyndon LaRouche were saying: we can all learn; we can all grow; we can all change. There is hope for the human race.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Today\u2019s Dangers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dangers today\u2014of nuclear war, Western militarism madness, economic breakdown\u2014were touched upon in the opening remarks by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, and further elaborated in the five following reports from specialist speakers. Discussion followed, with questions from the hundreds in the audience, representing more than 30 nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite \u201crays of hope on the horizon,\u201d including the Oct.&nbsp;30 Trump-Xi summit, there are situations of extreme tension today, which Zepp-LaRouche reviewed. Some European governments are \u201cpsychotic.\u201d She cited Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken\u2019s recent cavalier remarks about winning a war against Russia by \u201cwiping Moscow off the map.\u201d Turning to the economic crisis in the NATO states, she said, \u201cThe entire bottom of the German industry is falling out \u2026 the social consequences of this collapse will be enormous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Surveying the current hotspots, she insisted that no one is fooled by the fairy tale that Venezuela is governed by a drug cartel, and the planned attempt at a regime change war there \u201ccould lead to an explosion in all of Latin America.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regarding the Palestine-Israel crisis, Zepp-LaRouche noted the importance of the Gaza People\u2019s Tribunal which took place last weekend in Istanbul, T\u00fcrkiye. The Tribunal President is former UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories Richard Falk, who has briefed the IPC. Falk stresses that when states fail to address a great injustice, it is necessary to appeal to the consciences of the people. The Elders, a high-level group of former statespersons founded by Nelson Mandela, has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eir.news\/2025\/10\/news\/the-elders-call-on-trump-to-release-marwan-barghouti\/\">called<\/a>&nbsp;for Israel to release Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti, echoing the call which&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/larouchepub.com\/other\/2024\/5101-to_end_the_killing_free_marwan.html\">appeared<\/a>&nbsp;in the January 5, 2024 issue of&nbsp;<em>EIR<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Nuclear War Threat<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), addressed the nuclear war danger head on. He recalled that it was neocon lunatic John Bolton who encouraged President George W. Bush to withdraw from the ABM Treaty in 2002. In the years which followed, the U.S. rebuffed all efforts by Russia to negotiate, while the West claimed that they were stationing missile systems in Eastern Europe because of an Iranian threat, which was actually non-existent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian President Vladimir Putin responded with his famous speech at the 2007 Munich Security Conference, describing Russia\u2019s development of new strategic weapons due to the U.S. scrapping of the arms control agreements. McGovern shared a video segment of a subsequent speech Putin gave in 2016 to Western journalists, in which he announced Russia\u2019s intention to respond by developing new offensive weapons which cannot be intercepted; this was the genesis of the Oreshnik, Burevestnik, and Poseidon systems, which represent technological breakthroughs unmatched by anything that NATO possesses, and cannot be hindered by existing ABM systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin told the journalists that he could not realistically expect them to respond honestly and professionally to his revelations, and that he was simply appealing to them as fellow humans: \u201cHow can you not understand that the world is being pulled in an irreversible direction?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, McGovern said, there is an offer on the table: The Russians are willing to keep the quantitative limits of the New START treaty, if the U.S. will do the same. This offer was made on Sept.&nbsp;22, but there has been no official answer from the United States. (See the article in this issue by Carl Osgood.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Steinbach of the Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capital Area, recalled the \u201cAnti-Imperialist League\u201d at the end of the 19th century, which welcomed people from diverse ideological backgrounds. He reminded the participants that Oct.&nbsp;28 is Vasili Arkhipov Day, named for the Soviet naval officer who prevented a potential nuclear war during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis by countermanding an order to launch a nuclear torpedo. Steinbach gives Trump credit for \u201cat least a semblance of negotiation\u201d between the U.S. and Russia, which did not exist under Biden. He closed with a quote from Baruch Spinoza: \u201cPeace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zepp-LaRouche asked McGovern to comment on the present European frenzy to prepare for war in Europe. In response, McGovern said that it seems that we no longer have the intelligence professionals we had in the 80s\u2014people with courage, like the CIA officer who warned his superiors that the Soviets believed that the Able Archer exercise was a cover for a nuclear attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jack Gilroy, a leading member of Veterans for Peace and Pax Christi, warned that the insanity of militarism has crept back, motivated by the military-industrial complex. He cited the head of Raytheon (RTX Corp.&nbsp;today), who, prior to the war in Ukraine, said that the tensions in Eastern Europe represented a \u201cprofit opportunity\u201d for his business. Gilroy proposed that public schools should teach that \u201cthe idea that the military keeps us safe and secure\u201d is as big a lie, as the ones the Nazis told, and that students should take an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.veteransforpeace.org\/pressroom\/news\/2024\/10\/09\/student-pledge\">oath<\/a>&nbsp;not to interview for a job with any firm that is part of the military-industrial complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McGovern and Gilroy, both Catholics, discussed their hopes and disappointments for the American church. Zepp-LaRouche intervened to reemphasize the significance of Pope Leo\u2019s endorsement of Nicholas of Cusa, who was so controversial during his own lifetime that she described him as \u201cthe Lyndon LaRouche of his day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cusa was put in the Index of banned books in the Catholic Church. Lyndon LaRouche was wrongfully charged with a crime and put in jail. This was pointed out by LaRouche associate Dennis Small, who was likewise jailed. Small called for the exoneration of LaRouche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, today, the Pope\u2019s action has created a possible window into the Church and to all religions around the world, to put aside their prejudices and take actions to create peace for all of humanity, Zepp-LaRouche said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr.&nbsp;Feroze Sidhwa, an American humanitarian surgeon who has worked extensively in Palestine, presented firsthand experience from Gaza, where he has volunteered at European Hospital in Khan Younis, with the World Health Organization, and later with the American NGO MedGlobal. He said, \u201cNot a whole lot has changed in Gaza since the ceasefire \u2026 the situation remains very, very dire.\u201d Israel is permitting reconstruction only in the enclaves controlled by the four gangs it sponsors, and is using this for propaganda, which Sidhwa described as \u201cone of the more cynical things I\u2019ve seen in my life.\u201d He noted the failure of various medical associations in the United States to make any comment on the genocide in Gaza, or even to the widespread killing of medical professionals by Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Conclusions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In their brief concluding remarks, Gilroy expressed the hope that Pope Leo would join Pope Francis in condemning the concept of a \u201cjust war.\u201d Father Bury emphasized that Jesus told us to love our enemies, and that it should guide us in our political activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steinbach said that Israel uses its nuclear arsenal as blackmail, as it did by threatening to use nuclear weapons in 1973, when Nixon tried to withhold military aid. McGovern added to Steinbach\u2019s story: Israel refused an offer in 1973 of a mutual defense treaty with the U.S., because mutual defense treaties require internationally recognized borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zepp-LaRouche reflected on the role of religions, which had come up repeatedly in this week\u2019s discussion. She said the problem with all religions is fundamentalism, asserting that their belief is that they know the truth and that it is superior to all others. But every religion also has a current for whom science and faith are not a contradiction. It is this latter faction which Nicholas of Cusa exemplifies, as the figure in the 15th century who made the most important discoveries about man and the universe. Pope Leo\u2019s decision to highlight his role is a breakthrough which should not be underestimated. 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