Friday September 26, 11am ET/5pm CET RSVP to join the discussion on Zoom: ⁠https://schillerinstitute.nationbuild...⁠ In response to recent world events, we call upon you and your organizations to join the International Peace Coalition in a vital discussion. Please send reports and initiatives for the agenda ASAP. Please mobilize your organizations. In response to recent world events, we invite your organizations to the International Peace Coalition in a vital discussion with Maj. Gen. (ret) Dr. AK Bardalai, retired Indian army served for 36 years, deployed as a UN peacekeeper in Lebanon, Deputy Head of the Mission and Deputy Force Commander of United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) India; Video interview from Col. (ret.) Douglas Macgregor, retired colonel in the United States Army, former government official; reports from organizers around the world and others soon to be announced. Please send reports and initiatives for the agenda ASAP. Friends of the International Peace Coalition, The United Nations General Debate continues, with a growing chorus of voices speaking against the genocide in Gaza, and dangerously confrontational discussions, led by Europe, about Russia. In the Mediterranean, a civilian flotilla headed for Gaza reported drone attacks overnight. In response, Italy and Spain decided to dispatch warships to the flotilla—not to fight, but to help if rescue is needed. That careful phrasing says a lot. Are these countries looking for ways to show support without starting a fight they think they cannot win? Israel has closed the West Bank’s only crossing to Jordan, meaning that the only way for Palestinians to travel internationally—or to ship or receive goods—is by entering and passing through Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has announced that he is absolutely opposed to the establishment of a Palestinian state, and his actions to further destroy, isolate, and splinter the Palestinian communities in the West Bank aim to create more "volunteers" for the "voluntary emigration" he promotes, while making the establishment of a Palestinian state even more difficult. Look to Europe. Reports of drones near major airports shut down air travel in Copenhagen and Oslo, while NATO warned Moscow after alleged airspace violations into Estonia. NATO officials insist they’ll defend every inch of Allied territory, yet they also avoid stating what steps they would take. In the United States, hundreds of doctors and health workers warn that cuts and staff losses are hollowing out care for U.S. veterans. YouTube, under political scrutiny, says it’s walking back years of pandemic- and election-era content removals. As Pentagon planners talk about controlling orbital space, many Americans are asking who’s minding urgent needs closer to home, who is thinking about the economic future of the country, and the planet. Meanwhile, the Global South is not sitting around waiting for permission to act. Leaders from Brazil, China, Nigeria, South Africa, Türkiye, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and others are, in various ways, coordinating more openly—on peace talks, on development, on how to maintain their independence in a world where Anglo-American NATO demands that they choose sides. A change in strategic geometry is needed, and a new security and development architecture is needed for the world. It is time for the so-called "West" to join, and productively contribute to defining, the unstoppable new paradigm. "It is in the fundamental self-interest of the nations of the Collective West—no longer truly united—to cooperate with the states of the Global Majority and to jointly address the great challenges facing humankind: overcoming poverty and underdevelopment, ensuring lasting world peace, and securing the right of every person on this planet to fulfill their potential," writes Helga Zepp-LaRouche in the Schiller Institute’s appeal to the countries of the West to cooperate with this new world economic order.