{"id":108284,"date":"2025-03-23T08:26:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T12:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=108284"},"modified":"2025-03-23T08:26:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T12:26:59","slug":"take-the-side-of-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/blog\/2025\/03\/23\/take-the-side-of-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Take the Side of Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>International Peace Coalition #94 Report<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March 21, 2025 (EIRNS)\u2014The 94th consecutive weekly online meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) today was opened by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, who reported that March 18 was a \u201cfateful day\u201d due to two events:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which represents a return to diplomacy. \u201cAny sane person should be highly happy about this event,\u201d she said, but the Europeans are not happy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The historic vote in the German Parliament to loosen the \u201cdebt brake,\u201d not for productive purposes, but to \u201copen the sluices\u201d for a military buildup. They used \u201cparliamentarian trickery\u201d by scheduling the vote in a lame-duck session of the Bundestag, knowing that the incoming session would not vote to approve.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\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=\"The Magical Disappearance of Democracy \u2014 International Peace Coalition #94\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xPRX9VC8Ujg?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\">Zepp-LaRouche went on to debunk various neocon narratives: One narrative is that \u201cPutin\u201d is preparing to attack Europe. But, according to military experts, Russia can only mobilize 1.5 million troops, not enough to attack Europe (if that were in fact Russia\u2019s intention). Regarding the fiction that Russia\u2019s entry into Ukraine was \u201cunprovoked,\u201d she cited eyewitness reports, including by Jack Matlock, who, as Ambassador to the Soviet Union, was one of many who called attention to the broken promise of no NATO expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She reported that Israel has renewed its genocide campaign. This can lead to a blowback. We are \u201csitting on a time bomb, which is the pending financial collapse.\u201d In a war with Iran, the U.S. would lose, not for military reasons, but because it would trigger the financial collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and co-founder of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), reminded viewers that NATO was originally set up to \u201ckeep Russia out, America in, and Germany down.\u201d Regarding the German plan to re-arm in order to take on Russia, Russians have \u201cbeen there, done that.\u201d The U.S. and Russia have a mutual interest in not letting this get out of hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McGovern addressed the issue of trust between nations. Putin pulled U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s chestnuts out of the fire after the 2013 false flag chemical-weapons attack in Ghouta, Syria. But trust plummeted after the 2014 Maidan coup and the bogus Minsk Agreements in Ukraine. McGovern displayed his \u201c<em>Putin-Versteher<\/em>\u201d button, noting that being a \u201cPutin understander\u201d is no longer completely pejorative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dennis Fritz, director of the Eisenhower Media Network and Command Chief Master Sergeant (ret., U.S. Air Force), responding to McGovern on the question of trust, and Zepp-LaRouche on the role of Jack Matlock, he described an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eisenhowermedianetwork.org\/russia-ukraine-war-peace\/\">ad<\/a>&nbsp;published by the Eisenhower Media Network. He went on that the Schiller Institute and social media have begun to counteract the devastating impact of pro-Israel propaganda in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Water for Peace<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two Palestinian experts addressed the crucial issue of reconstruction for Gaza. A video was presented of H.E. Ambassador Prof.\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Manuel Hassassian, Palestinian Authority Ambassador to Denmark, interviewed by\u00a0<em>EIR<\/em>\u2019s Tim Rush. He emphasized that there is no military solution to this conflict, and we need to search for common ground in economic solutions to overcome political jingoism. He said that the reconstruction plan of the Palestinian Authority is compatible with the Egyptian plan, but strongly endorsed Lyndon LaRouche\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"\/?page_id=107685\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oasis Plan<\/a>\u00a0as a step further in the right direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fernando Garz\u00f3n, executive director of the Ecuadorian-Palestinian Union , a professor at Universities in Ecuador, and consultant on development and land use planning for international organizations, added to the Ambassador\u2019s comments, saying that reconstruction cannot be done outside of regional development (as best seen in the Oasis Plan), and requires a sovereign government for Palestine, recognized by the UN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garz\u00f3n reported that the UN has provided information as to the extent of the destruction in Gaza. More than 73% of structures have been destroyed, 68% of roads are impassable, 92% of all housing units are gone. This represents not only genocide, but terracide, the destruction of nature and the land itself. Some 95% of the water is not potable, and 90% is controlled by an Israeli private company. Billions of dollars in identified natural gas reserves belong to the Palestinians, and this will be essential for reconstruction. The BRICS New Development Bank should play a role, not the anti-development IMF. Trump\u2019s \u201cRiviera\u201d proposal is \u201can offense to common sense.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marcia Merry Baker, an agriculture expert who serves on the editorial board of&nbsp;<em>Executive Intelligence Review<\/em>, gave a presentation on water development, beginning with a satellite photo of Egypt which shows the green delta of the Nile, in contrast to the great desert around it. Egypt has been studying how to transform that desert with water and agriculture. They built the largest wastewater treatment center in the world near Alexandria. She also reported on \u201cprecision agriculture\u201d in Tunisia, successful despite lack of water, and terraforming the deserts east of the Aral Sea with canal building, which has progressed in Afghanistan despite the economic warfare against it. China has developed the concept of the Shelter Belt, made of trees and grassland, to defend against desertification. They have developed plant varieties that can tolerate desert climates. An area the size of Portugal has been reclaimed from desert, with the participation of the Chinese military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We Don\u2019t Have To Kill Each Other<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zepp-LaRouche commented that Baker\u2019s presentation shows the possibility of a positive role for the military. She contrasted the neocons\u2019 imperial conception of the military as a killing machine, typified by Samuel Huntington\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Soldier and the State<\/em>, versus the ideas of Gerhard von Scharnhorst and the Prussian Reformers. We must transform the military-industrial complex for peaceful reconstruction purposes, and establish a purely defensive role for the military, moving away from \u201cthis crazy world where people think they have to kill each other.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The role of water development in building peace was explored in the discussion session. IPC co-moderator Dennis Small presented a report from Mexico, on how a large gathering of hydraulic engineering students heard a presentation on Schiller Institute water proposals for conflict zones around the world. This may be seen as a prelude to the upcoming\u00a0<a href=\"\/?p=107277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Schiller Institute conference<\/a>\u00a0in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garz\u00f3n added that planning requires taking into account national borders, but also ecosystem borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marcia Merry Baker answered two questions which came in on this topic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Why is solar energy not included in the Oasis Plan? Solar is good for remote regions where there is insufficient infrastructure to support energy-dense sources. However, for real development, energy-dense sources are indispensable.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What about Muammar Qaddafi\u2019s water plan for Libya, and Egypt\u2019s Aswan Dam? Baker gave these endeavors her hearty endorsement.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IPC co-moderator Dennis Speed recalled Lyndon LaRouche\u2019s accurate warning that unless there was an immediate move to get \u201cshovels in the ground,\u201d the 1993 Oslo Accords for peace between Israel and Palestine would fail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York congressional candidate Jose Vega said that he sees both sides in the conflict between Ethiopia and Egypt over how to exploit the water of the Nile. Baker intervened to say that border disputes over water are never justified; there will always be plenty with proper development. She recalled the Jonglei Canal project for the White Nile in Sudan, which was suppressed by environmentalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zepp-LaRouche closed on a philosophical note: \u201cThe big challenge in front of humanity at this conjuncture is how do we use aesthetic education to get more and more people to take the side of humanity.\u201d We must stop going through the world as if everything were self-evident, and look at things with fresh eyes. In the Stone Age, we were using a stone to kill our neighbor to get his food. Now we look at the store and see iron ore or rare earths. Artificial Intelligence, for example, could be used for evil, or to free humanity for life-long learning \u201cinstead of having to labor like a mule.\u201d \u201cWe will not be miserable forever\u201d; every individual discovery enriches all of humanity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[eir]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Peace Coalition #94 Report March 21, 2025 (EIRNS)\u2014The 94th consecutive weekly online meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) today was opened by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, who reported that March 18 was a \u201cfateful day\u201d due to two events: Zepp-LaRouche went on to debunk various neocon narratives: One narrative is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":108285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[798],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-108284","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\/108284","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=108284"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108300,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108284\/revisions\/108300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}