OPINION:
September 5 & 6, 2020, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
International Schiller Institute Online Conference
How should the United States and other nations resolve an out of control pandemic; an economic collapse; a pending collapse of the transatlantic financial system; and an increasing danger not only of a new Cold War, but the danger that the unthinkable might truly happen: a third, thermonuclear world war. The mistrust in governments and leading institutions to solve these crises has never been as high as today.
Lyndon LaRouche’s 1971 warning was absolutely prophetic: that Richard Nixon’s ending of the Bretton Woods system, with the last 50 years’ monetarist floating-exchange-rate system would lead to the danger of fascism, depression, and pandemics.
Decades ago he proposed a Four Power Agreement among the U.S., China, Russia, and India as the best starting point for a new paradigm including returning to President Franklin Roosevelt’s principles for Bretton Woods. Today, the visible framework for such a move is the conference of the permanent five members of the UN Security Council proposed by President Putin since January. The five nuclear powers have a special responsibility to agree upon principles that can guarantee the long-term survivability of the human species.
But these five nations must be supported by a chorus of nations, individuals and institutions around the globe demanding that we pull the world away from the edge of the abyss.
A summit process, started now, can launch a new paradigm explicitly to overcome poverty and the underdevelopment of the so-called developing countries, starting with a modern health system to fight the pandemic in every country. The Belt and Road Initiative should be seen as a beginning and developed into a system of world land-bridges of transportation, power and communications.
Scientific cooperation is essential to the goal: Powerful drivers of progress would include a crash program for thermonuclear fusion technology; international space cooperation for the building of a village on the Moon and a human travel to Mars; cooperation in medical and life sciences.
PANEL I (Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. EDT)
Overcoming Geopolitics: Why a P-5 Summit Is Urgently Needed Now
• Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), founder and President, Schiller Institute
• Andrey Kortunov (Russia), Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council
• Zhu Feng (China), Professor of International Relations and Executive Director, China Center for Collaborative Studies of the South China Sea, Nanjing University
• William Binney (U.S.), former Technical Director, National Security Agency
• Marco Zanni (Italy), chairman, Identity and Democracy faction of the European Parliament
• Edward Lozansky (U.S.), President, American University in Moscow
• Martin Sieff (U.S.), former Senior Foreign Correspondent for UPI
• James Jatras (U.S.), retired U.S. Diplomat and Foreign Relations Advisor, U.S. Senate Republican Leadership
• Col.Richard H. Black, Ret. (U.S), former head of the Army’s Criminal Law Division; former State Senator, Virginia
PANEL II (Saturday 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p,.m. EDT)
The Role of Science in Creating Mankind’s Future
• Jason Ross (U.S.), Schiller Institute Science Advisor
• Dr. Bernard Bigot (France), Director-General of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), former director of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
• Sergey Pulinets (Russia), Principal Research Scientist, Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (and other contributors)
PANEL III (Sunday 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. EDT):
The Belt and Road Initiative Becomes the World Land-Bridge: FDR’s Unfinished Business
• Dennis Small, Ibero-America Editor, Executive Intelligence Review
• Hassan Daud Butt (Pakistan), former Project Director, CPEC; CEO of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Board of Investment & Trade
• Marcelo Muñoz (Spain), founder and President Emeritus of Cátedra China, dean of Spanish businessmen in China
• Dr. Björn Peters (Germany), physicist, entrepreneur and political advisor on energy, sustainability and commodities
• Dr. Joycelyn Elders (U.S.), former Surgeon General of the United States
(and other contributors)
• Dr. Natalia Vitrenko - President, of the Progressive Socialist Party
PANEL IV (Sunday 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. EDT):
Building Trust in International Relations: The Role of Classical Culture and Combating World Famine
• Jacques Cheminade (France), head of Solidarité & Progrès party, former presidential candidate
• Marcia Merry Baker (U.S.), EIR Editorial Board
• Bob Baker and American farm leaders
• Fred Haight (Canada), Schiller Institute
• Michael Billington (U.S.), Asia Intelligence Director, EIR
• Beethoven Mass in C, performance by the Schiller Institute NYC Chorus
• www.RussiaHouse.org
(organizational affiliations for identification purposes only)
