All Eyes Are on the Schiller Institute’s April 15-16 Conference
for Solutions to the Breakdown Crisis

April 3—It’s what Lyndon LaRouche always forecast with certainty: That under conditions of a breakdown crisis (like today’s), increasingly motivated leadership circles all around the planet would turn to LaRouche’s ideas for solutions that will allow their nations to survive and flourish—as is happening today. The knowledge that that is the case, is what will shape the unified focus of the upcoming April 15-16 Schiller Institute conference. As the introduction to the conference invitation states simply:

“The world urgently needs a new security and development architecture, which represents the interest of every single country on the planet. Helga Zepp-LaRouche has suggested Ten Principles as a basis for such an architecture. The three initiatives of President Xi Jinping, the Global Security Initiative (GSI), the Global Development Initiative (GDI), and the Global Civilization Initiative (GCI) are a close representation of this concept.”

Absent such an approach, the world is indeed headed for a train wreck, either in the form of a nuclear war between the U.S., the U.K and NATO on the one side, and Russia and China on the other; or a violent collapse of the trans-Atlantic financial system and decoupling from the emerging “Global Majority,” which will bring about New Dark Age levels of physical economic collapse and depopulation.

The March 21 Putin-Xi summit in Moscow was a watershed of sorts. Coming off that summit, the Russians are responding to the airtight refusal of the U.K. and U.S. to permit negotiations to bring peace to Ukraine, and the escalating NATO military offensive to dismember and destroy the Russian Federation. They are responding as they did against Napoleon and against Hitler. On March 31, Russian President Putin unveiled the updated version of the “The Concept of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation” to deal with the new strategic reality. Russia has announced that it will deploy Russian tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. And Belarus President Lukashenko on March 31 warned that “World War III with nuclear fires is looming on the horizon.”

Yet at the same time China, Russia and allied nations of the SCO, ASEAN and the BRICS are moving with equal urgency to activate non-dollar systems of trade and investment among their nations. In most cases this is taking the form of using the Chinese yuan as a common currency, administered through clearing house arrangements. The criminal sanctions against Russia and many other nations have turned the dollar into a toxic currency that is feared, a pariah currency, for most nations on the planet. With Saudi Arabia and now Brazil joining such non-dollar arrangements; with the five-member BRICS grouping slated to expand by as many as a dozen new members in the near future; these new financial and economic agreements are picking up speed and scope.

Linking that fight of the Global Majority with the emerging, angry movements against war and economic collapse in Europe and the United States, will be one of the central tasks of the Schiller Institute April 15-16 online international conference, “Without the Development of All Nations, There Can Be No Lasting Peace for the Planet.” The conference, as of now, has speakers from: Afghanistan, Argentina, Brazil, China, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Netherlands, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, Syria, Tanzania.

SCHILLER CONFERENCE AGENDA

Without the Development of All Nations,
There Can Be No Lasting Peace for the Planet

Register here.

PANEL 1—Sat. April 15, 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. ET

The Growing Danger of World War III Underlines the
Necessity for a New Security Architecture

There is growing, extreme concern that the present geopolitical confrontation between the U.S., the U.K. and NATO on the one side, and Russia and China on the other, could lead to an escalation into a global, possibly nuclear war. This is expressed in a variety of peace initiatives addressed to the Ukraine war, from China’s Xi Jinping, Brazil’s Lula da Silva, Türkiye’s Recep Erdoğan, and Pope Francis. What is required now is to move rapidly beyond geopolitics into a new security and development architecture which takes into account the interests of every country on the planet.

PANEL 2—Sat. April 15, 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. ET

The ‘Global Majority’ and the International Peace Movement
Are Fighting for the Same Goal

The nations of the Global South, recently described accurately as the “Global Majority,” are drawing the line at the further looting of their nations and destruction of their sovereignty by the so-called “Rules-Based Order.” They are committed to putting an end to colonialism once and for all. The emerging peace movement in Europe and the United States, as it puts aside divisive ideologies, is addressing the same underlying problem: that the collapsing trans-Atlantic financial system is the driving force towards war.

PANEL 3—Sun. April 16, 9:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. ET

End the Casino Economy Before It’s Too Late

The systemic collapse of the trans-Atlantic financial system is destroying the physical economy of entire nations, and driving the world towards war. There is a renewed discussion about the need for a Glass-Steagall bankruptcy reorganization of the international financial system in order to end the casino economy, as well as the need for Lyndon LaRouche’s Four Laws. The world and every nation in it must move back to physical economy instead of monetarist values. A key example of that is the farm sector, which needs to be protected and expanded to meet the food requirements of the world’s population. A manifesto of farmers from around the world is in preparation, and will be discussed during this panel.

PANEL 4—Sun. April 16, 12:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m. ET

The Necessary Philosophical Foundations for the New Paradigm

Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche last November proposed Ten Principles as the basis for bringing about a new international security and development architecture. These include the need to put Man’s physical-economic practice, centered on scientific and cultural creativity, in coherence with the laws of the physical universe, and the underlying philosophical issues of the image of Man, including the affirmation that Man is characteristically good, and that all evil is the result of lack of development—and therefore can be eliminated.

CONCERT—Sun. April 16, 4:00 p.m. ET, tickets required

Schiller Institute Chorus: Let Us Have Peace: Handel’s Messiah Oratorio

St. Augustine stated in his book, The City of God, that “the real evils in war are love of violence, revengeful cruelty, fierce and implacable enmity, wild resistance, the lust of power, and such like.” Let us now vanquish the real enemies of mankind: poverty, disease, ignorance, and war itself, and thus bring the “prosperity of peace” to all the nations of the world. The concert will be performed before a live audience in NYC and be streamed live online. It will feature other shorter pieces including spirituals, and J.S. Bach.

Tickets, starting at $5.00, and more information are available here.