This article appears in the April 10, 2026 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
International Peace Coalition, Week 148
One Humanity Will Not Tolerate Bombing People into the Stone Age
April 3—Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Schiller Institute founder and International Peace Coalition (IPC) initiator, started off the 148th meeting of the IPC on April 3 with an appeal to reason. She said that everyone should be aware of the dangerous situation in the world and listed some of the recent targets in the Iran War. These included Iranʼs newly built and largest suspension bridge, the B1 Bridge in Karaj, Alborz Province, northern Iran, which was destroyed by the United States. U.S. President Donald Trump has said that he intends to destroy all of Iran’s bridges, electricity generation plants and “bomb Iran back to the Stone Age, where they belong.” Iran is conducting retaliatory strikes on U.S. installations in the Persian Gulf states, including recently the natural gas complex in Habshan, United Arab Emirates and has announced it intends to target offices of U.S. high technology companies in the region. Zepp-LaRouche warned that while President Trump says Iran is defenseless, Iran reportedly still has half of its missiles, half of its drones, and other weapons. She said that Iran is not defeated and will not return to the previous status quo; that possibly only friendly nations will be allowed to transit the Strait of Hormuz.
Zepp-LaRouche noted a report from Israel itself describing Israel as a “Spartan” nation, with the false belief that its Iron Dome missile defense system will protect the country from the consequences of permanent war. She also spoke out against the racist new Israeli death penalty law, which targets Palestinians. Zepp-LaRouche was equally critical of “U.S. Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth, who is purging Pentagon leaders and has manifested a religious zeal to bring on an Armageddon. She said that President Trump is determined to rule by force, and has little interest in alliances such as NATO.
Trump may or may not know it, Zepp-LaRouche said, but his war agenda is really the same policy as that of global elites who wish to reduce the world population to one billion people. She noted that several organizations, such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Programme, are sounding the alarm of coming food shortages and price shocks that threaten over 300 million people.
However, she emphasized, the IPC is an activist organization. She called for all to participate in, and help build the April 6 EIR Emergency Roundtable to offer economic development as the only alternative to continued war, which could quickly lead to nuclear annihilation. The April 6 event will present the Extended Oasis Plan, from India to the Mediterranean, and from the Caucasus to the Gulf, to make the region a hub of production. She said that we can turn deserts into forests using as a model China’s recent success in turning two of its poor, desert areas in its northern and western regions, into lush green gardens.
Could Trump’s ‘Stone Age’ Bombing Campaign Backfire?
Zepp-LaRouche warned that only the One Humanity approach and an appeal to reason like that in the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 can save the United States. This is also the only hope for the survival of Israel. A large part of President Trump’s MAGA supporters are turning against his wars, she noted, and many participated in the March 28 “No Kings” protests across the U.S. Showing a map of the sprawling Persian Empire, which included today’s Iran and much more, Zepp-LaRouche ended her remarks saying that if President Trump truly wants to “bomb Iran back to the Stone Age,” he may not be happy with the results.
The next speaker was Stanislav Krapivnik, a former U.S. Army officer who now lives in Moscow. He spoke of the corruption inside Ukraine that has allowed exploitation by foreign interests to the detriment of the civilian population. Krapivnik said that 10,000 Ukrainian children are missing, and Ukraine is now a hub for human organ harvesting, human trafficking, drug trafficking, and weapons trafficking. Many of the world’s largest drug cartels depend upon Ukraine for weapons systems and combat training. Many insurgent groups in the Sahel also rely upon Ukraine for military hardware and training.
Krapivnik also spoke of Estonia being used as a possible flash-point for confrontation with Russia. Russia’s St. Petersburg has been attacked by drones which either originate in Estonia or fly through Estonian airspace. He said that the only good news that he had to offer was that a Russian oil tanker was able to reach Cuba without a military escort.
The final speaker was the Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi, an Iranian-American spiritual leader of the Islamic House of Wisdom from the Detroit area, who described the 34 days of the immoral, insane, and unlawful war on Iran. He said that more than 100 U.S. legal experts have signed a statement calling the Iran War a war crime. The imam pointed out that the United States and Israel claim that they want peace, but attacked during peace negotiations and targeted and hunted down everyone involved in the peace process. President Trump said that he wanted to stop nuclear weapons development, even though his own experts, including U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, had said that Iran was not pursuing a nuclear weapons program. Then on Feb. 28, 2026, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who had issued the fatwa against Iran developing nuclear weapons, was killed by U.S.-Israeli missile strikes—during ongoing U.S.-Iranian negotiations! Even the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee had confirmed that there was no evidence of a nuclear weapons program in Iran.
Imam Elahi said that Pete Hegseth believes that the war is a crusade and he has a tattoo to prove it. Trump supports the war for oil and money, he said, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supports the war for power and control. The eight million Americans who came out to the “No Kings” rallies, said Elahi, have saved the honor of the country. Iran was not looking for a war and has no problem with the American people. He asserted that it is impossible to have a “Golden Age” while bombing Iran into a Stone Age.
Zepp-LaRouche responded to the other speakers, pointing to other areas of human sufferings, such as Sudan and Haiti. She noted that during the worst days of the Cuban Missile Crisis there were diplomatic ties, back-channel discussions, and other communications; now, she warned, there is no dialogue. She noted the double standard of blaming Russia for an “unprovoked” war in Ukraine, but not admitting that the Iran War was unprovoked. We are here today, she said, to recruit enough forces to end the war and stop an escalation to nuclear confrontation. She added that, in the final months of the Biden administration, U.S. intelligence pointed to a 50% chance that nuclear weapons could be used in Ukraine as a result of U.S. policies toward Russia, and this was believed to be acceptable.
In contrast, Zepp-LaRouche spoke of the need to have a 50-year vision and to work with the BRICS nations. We humans are the only species gifted with reason, she said, and must use Nicholas of Cusa’s “Coincidence of Opposites” to see a way out of the crisis.
Declare Independence from the Epstein Class
Jose Vega, the LaRouche candidate for U.S. Congress in New York’s 15th Congressional District, the Bronx, said that he was proud of the astronauts and engineers at NASA who made the Artemis II mission possible. In the coverage of the mission, we can see the Earth in the distance, and Vega said, “We are all in that picture.” Vega called on everyone to “declare their independence from the [Jeffrey] Epstein class.” He asked people to join in non-violent actions for peace and referred to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1968 “Mountaintop” speech in which he said that the only choice was between non-violence and non-existence. Vega announced that this week he will officially be on the Democratic ballot for Congress, and called for 10,000 engineers in Gaza and 10,000 engineers in the Bronx for emergency rebuilding. Vega said that he is “excited for what is next.”
The IPC event was then opened to hear questions and reports from the audience. The first speaker was a woman from Romania who has been speaking at local peace rallies, circulating Zepp-LaRouche’s call to Pope Leo XIV, and lobbying in the parliament. She said that the idea that NATO is a defensive alliance is a cruel April Fool’s joke. Co-moderator Dennis Small responded and added that Russia’s economic envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, has recently warned of the “tsunami” that will hit both energy and food supplies. Small also spoke of the history of British interest in control of strategic choke-points such as the Strait of Hormuz.
An activist from the Netherlands spoke of her organizing of other activists, but said that while many have good intentions, we need to educate them more. An activist from Veterans for Peace thanked Helga for “keeping alive the banner of ideas” from Lyndon LaRouche. A question came in about “nationalizing” the military-industrial complex, to which Dennis Small responded by saying that even better would be to put the “military-financial complex” through a bankruptcy reorganization targeting the control by hedge funds and people like Peter Thiel.
As the IPC event came to a close, Zepp-LaRouche said that she was optimistic that we can end wars, create peace, and build the world. Many alliances like NATO may disappear, she said, but we need nations to come together and agree on economic development. She called for an end to geopolitics and warned against pure “power politics” such as President Trump’s statements that international law is no longer needed. She expressed her horror at a report that German men from 17 to 45 years old will now need to ask permission from the Bundeswehr (German armed forces) to leave the country for more than 3 months, noting that every element of the nation is mobilized for war.
The root of all these problems, Zepp-LaRouche said, is that people think without examining their axiomatic assumptions. What leads them to their conclusions? We must think like Nicholas of Cusa, and the best place to start is the April 6 EIR Emergency Roundtable, and she urged listeners to distribute the invitation and the leaflet with her Letter to Pope Leo XIV at their local churches. Co-moderator Dennis Speed added that we must not look at the world from the left or the right, but as Martin Luther King did, from the “mountaintop.”
