{"id":107576,"date":"2025-03-09T16:33:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T20:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=107576"},"modified":"2025-03-09T16:34:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T20:34:23","slug":"we-shall-overcome-the-cycle-of-violence-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/blog\/2025\/03\/09\/we-shall-overcome-the-cycle-of-violence-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"We Shall Overcome the Cycle of Violence for Good"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">International Peace Coalition Meeting #92<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March 7, 2025 (EIRNS)\u2014The 92nd consecutive online meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) took place on Friday, March 7. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, opened the proceedings with a focus on Europe and Ukraine, where \u201cthings are going completely haywire.\u201d President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has announced a \u201cRe-Arm Europe Plan\u201d which will cost \u20ac800 billion.<\/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=\"We Shall Overcome the Cycle of Violence for Good \u2014 International Peace Coalition Meeting #92\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0YBLl6AULnw?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\">Friedrich Merz, projected to be the next Chancellor of Germany, announced the end of the federal budget-limiting \u201cdebt brake\u201d in order to have a military budget of \u20ac400 billion. (On Feb.&nbsp;23, Merz\u2019s party, the Christian Democratic Union, won the German federal election with a promise not to undo the debt brake.) The historical precedent for such an action is Nazi Economics Minister Hjalmar Schacht\u2019s \u201cMefo bills,\u201d which were set up in 1933 to finance purchases from armament manufacturers without leaving a paper trail. It is estimated that it would take up to 100 years for Germany to reach levels of armaments, military production, and troops equivalent to what they possessed in 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are many implications of United States President Donald Trump\u2019s recent pronouncements, including a possible end to intelligence sharing by the U.S. with the British-dominated Five Eyes intelligence cartel. Although France has its own independent nuclear force, the U.K. is dependent upon U.S. technical support for use of its nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">European leaders, habituated to a litany of \u201clet\u2019s ruin Russia,\u201d cannot adjust to Trump\u2019s nascent peace initiative. If they were smart, they would reflect on how Trump\u2019s election expresses public opposition to the last 35 years of failed neocon \u201cunipolar world\u201d policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Southwest Asia, Egypt\u2019s plan for Gaza reconstruction is \u201ca baby step in the right direction\u201d of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/laroucheorganization.com\/larouche-plan-southwest-asia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oasis Plan<\/a>. \u201cYou don\u2019t get a two-state solution if you don\u2019t change the entire dynamic of the region,\u201d emphasized Zepp-LaRouche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next speaker was Dr.&nbsp;Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi, founder of the Wasatia Movement in Palestine, and director of the Wasatia Graduate Academic Institute. He grew up as a Palestinian in Jerusalem and described how, over time, he switched his attitude from \u201cus or them,\u201d because he \u201cstarted to see the human side of my enemy\u201d after witnessing Israeli doctors treating Palestinian patients. He said the current problem is that both sides of the conflict want their own state \u201cfrom the river to the sea,\u201d which is a fantasy. We need a coalition of Israelis and Palestinians for peace. His goal is to create a culture of moderation, which is the meaning of \u201cWasatia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Zelenskyy Goes to London<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garland Nixon, veteran progressive radio and television talk show host, began by saying, \u201cNATO is, shall we say, an imperial project.\u201d He shared some things that are currently being discussed in Europe. For example, MI6 is good at playing divide and rule and setting up puppet governments, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is an MI6 project; \u201cWhen he got punched around a little by Trump, he goes right to London, and they hug him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nixon listed some developments which can work to the advantage of peace activists. Elon Musk is beginning to release videos of brutal conscription practices in Ukraine. Musk has also promoted a video of U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) boasting that the U.S. was behind the 2014 Maidan coup in Ukraine. He noted that Trump has admitted complicity, in that he provided Javelin missiles to Ukraine, and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio admits it is a proxy war. It must be recognized that the reality of the Ukraine war is complex, not a simple \u201cgood guys vs.&nbsp;bad guys\u201d narrative in which former President Joe Biden created the problem and Trump will fix it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Miguel Cabrera of the Dominican Republic, a journalist, author, former university professor and current host of the weekly TV program \u201cScience, Technology, and Society,\u201d praised Trump\u2019s initiative for peace in Ukraine. He characterized the Trump Presidency as a \u201clight at the end of the tunnel\u201d because he is willing to talk to Russia. He stressed that the Ukraine war is not Russia vs.&nbsp;Ukraine, it is Russia vs.&nbsp;NATO. He also emphasized that Israel has carried out a massacre against Palestinian people. A long-time supporter of the Schiller Institute, he pointed to Lyndon LaRouche\u2019s Oasis Plan as a solution to the Middle East crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Excerpts were aired of an interview conducted by&nbsp;<em>EIR<\/em>\u2019s Mike Billington with Dr.&nbsp;M.K. Bhadrakumar, a retired career diplomat with India\u2019s Ministry of External Affairs, who held diplomatic positions in the Soviet Union, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, and T\u00fcrkiye, where he served as India\u2019s Ambassador. Dr.&nbsp;Bhadrakumar decried the West\u2019s \u201cwanton acts of motiveless malignity and hubris.\u201d In regard to the U.K., he described how British intelligence is able to persuade American officials to believe that British policies are actually their own. Ukrainian attacks on Russian targets are actually planned by British intelligence. Ukrainian leaders who now speak of assassinating Trump were trained by MI6. He presented an unusual perspective that Iran is America\u2019s natural ally in the region; the Iranian elite are pro-Western. The U.S. working with Iran could be as significant as normalization of U.S.-Russian relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An unannounced guest was Kirk Wiebe, a former senior intelligence official and whistleblower with the United States National Security Agency. He said that recent events have \u201cset the stage\u201d for the realization of Helga Zepp-LaRouche\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"\/?p=93184\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New International Security and Development Architecture<\/a>. No country today is prepared to go to war; all of our assets are stretched thin. The U.S. has $36 trillion in debt. He sees the possibility of negotiated peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response, Zepp-LaRouche said that it will not be weeks and months, but rather years before Europe will be ready for war. But, contrary to neocon propaganda, there is no proof of any inclination on Russia\u2019s part for a European war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A participant asked Dr.&nbsp;Dajani how his plea for cooperation can work when the Israelis do not operate in good faith and they have made no concessions. He insisted that there are moderates and extremists on both sides, and we must teach our children to have \u201ca heart of flesh, not a heart of stone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Discussion Period: The Continuing Problem of Colonialism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zepp-LaRouche said that we need to examine the extent to which Western outlook is still colonial. The role of the British is starting to receive scrutiny in this regard, and the powers which instigated the Sykes-Picot Treaty are the ones behind the Ukraine war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garland Nixon said that the geopolitical fixation on Russia stems from colonialism: If you\u2019re a colonial power, and you have a parasitic orientation, you are losing your hosts around the world, and Russia is the prize because of its vast resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A participant asked whether there are situations where the campaign for peace may come into conflict with the aspirations of colonized peoples, citing as examples Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Nixon said he didn\u2019t believe such a conflict were necessary, and that we must look at outside powers involved, keeping in mind the history of colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Veterans for Peace leader Jack Gilroy praised the Oasis Plan as a template for similar solutions around the world, to which Zepp-LaRouche reminded that in 2014, the Schiller Institute published&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Silk-Road-Becomes-World-Land-Bridge\/dp\/0943235243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cThe New Silk Road Becomes the World Land-Bridge\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;as a blueprint for rebuilding the world. [eir]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Peace Coalition Meeting #92 March 7, 2025 (EIRNS)\u2014The 92nd consecutive online meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) took place on Friday, March 7. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, opened the proceedings with a focus on Europe and Ukraine, where \u201cthings are going completely haywire.\u201d President of the European Commission Ursula von [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":107577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[798],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-107576","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\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107576"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107591,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107576\/revisions\/107591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}