Saturday’s discussion with youth recruits around the world, by Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche and former South Africa Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor, marked definite progress in the representation of youth, as Helga herself noted during the four hours of multiple presentations, questions, and deliberation.
Without estimating the total attendance to the call, there were at least 60 participants in groups who gathered in South American, European, and African countries and in the United States, and whose leading participants themselves contributed presentations. Beyond this, “ones and twos” from a long list of nations were recognized at one point by moderator Daniel Burke of the Schiller Institute.
During the call, Daniel Burke unveiled a new website of the Schiller Institute Youth Movement, which will enable young people around the world to sign up, ask questions or ask to be contacted, learn about meetings, subscribe to publications, etc.
Helga LaRouche proposed that due to the notable growth achieved by two such international meetings thus far this year, the Schiller Institute’s Youth Movement should henceforth meet regularly, four times a year to start.
The major presentations, by Zepp-LaRouche and Pandor, are transcribed below in this Briefing. Following them, the call progressed through multiple rounds of questions, suggested plans, and local presentations. In her concluding remarks, Helga recommended the youth take up the call for action on Transaqua, the long-planned and long-stalled great water project for Africa centered on Lake Chad and the Congo River; this proposal came from one group of African students in Europe.
And she looked forward to the United Nations General Assembly in September in New York, where China is expected to raise a resolution on global governance. Immediately, there is the Schiller Institute’s upcoming July 31 Roundtable forum on the issue of developing-nation infrastructure development vs. mass migration, in which youth speakers are expected to participate.
While this beacon of international hope was appearing, Donald Trump’s and Bibi Netayahu’s war on Iran showed tragic signs of an uncontrolled escalation, with destruction of infrastructure now openly planned by both sides—in Iran, by U.S. bombers, and in retaliation by Iran, in neighboring nations. At least two U.S. service members were killed and more than a dozen wounded or missing in Iran’s missile attacks on U.S. bases in the Gulf nations. The Gulf of Hormuz is now, once again, thoroughly closed as nations all over the world exhaust their supplies of oil products, including fertilizers.
The Trump Administration’s further response to having lost Netanyahu’s war, and to the prospect of losing his Congressional majorities in November, is now an ominous cloud hanging over the United States. His crazy speech about American elections being “fixed” by foreign countries was obviously a threat to seize elections from the states and fix them in the White House, and the rant did not fool many, even among his former base of “MAGA.” The President appears desperate to keep power for himself and fellow billionaires of the “Epstein class.”
But in America’s 250th year as a republic, the Schiller Institute and the broader LaRouche movement are determined to “keep it” a republic, for the world as a whole.
