Change Course Now! Scott Ritter and Helga Zepp-LaRouche in Dialogue

On January 8, 2025, 12.30 PM EDT Helga Zepp-LaRouche will hold a dialogue on the current political situation with former UN weapons inspector and anti-war activist Scott Ritter.

Ritter is known internationally for his opposition to the neocon foreign policy and military policy in the United States and Europe. He served as an intelligence officer in the Marine Corps. He later served as a weapons inspector with the United Nations Special Commission in Iraq (UNSCOM mission) from 1991 to 1998. In this context, he emerged as a harsh critic of the Bush administration's claims that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, which was used to justify the 2003 war against Iraq.

Scott Ritter is an author, a member of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), and a frequent commentator on international podcasts. His latest book, Disarmament in an Era of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union, details his experience working with the Soviet Union to reduce the threat of nuclear war. He has spoken at conferences of the international Schiller Institute, including a high-level press conference on the acute danger of nuclear war in Washington in June 2024.

[jospehcrump]

Ritter should stick to geopolitics. Anyone who thinks the dollar is a forever currency doesn't understand fiat currency history.

[lesleykanofski]

Thank you kindly for your informative broadcast ... I am still not in a position that allows me to engage with any group yet ... Tribal Blessings and God Bless 🙏🏽

[judyclark]

I appreciate Scott Ritter's passionate discourse on realpolitik, as they say elsewhere: he cites some of the dangers ahead, and the challenges of a Trump Presidency in two weeks ahead....

[pj]

Great interview.
I believe that ounce America has regain its own strength and pride, as a great nation, Tremp or the next president will be co-operative in its relationship with all countries.

May be Erdogan will put pressure on Israel.

[ColdDragonPT]

In my opinion the solution isn’t to end the EU. The EU has been beneficial for their members many times. It needs to be reformed top to bottom and be a true economical union, not a geopolitical one. And it has to stop telling their members what the can or cannot do. Americans don’t like the EU because it has the potential to be an economic threat, and the American strategy to divide and conquer would love to see the EU being dissolved. NATO has to end and EU needs to be completely reformed in the interest of Europeans. Also, it would be on our interest to have good relations with Russia and China. If the US wants to isolate themselves, let them. After all, they do more harm than good to the Europeans. Europe also has to end this radical “green” agenda that’s destroying it economically.

[peterfrancisharris]

Hey, guess what? There's a great substitute for the "rules-based international order" (which, of course, was a fiction). It's call the United Nations Charter of Rights and Freedoms. An actual document, negotiated and agreed upon by UN member states.

[stevekaylor]

RFK Jr's New Bretton Woods financial Architecture may keep its dollar anchor - if a global Glass-Steagall is instituted & currencies become set with Fixed Parities. The BRICS dynamic could join this Architecture!

[geoffreyonyekwere]

PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH IS GREAT BUT NOT ON Dictate OF EVERY NATION FORWARD PERIOD, IT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPENED EVEN THREATS TO BRAZIL BY TRUMP RECENTLY IS IN RECORDS AND AT WATCH AND FOCUSE FORWARD.

[stevekaylor]

Hopefully, Trump will put aside his recent imperial confetti, and instead build the cooperation needed to establish an economic Development and Security Architecture - which will benefit all nations!

[AdamKiepul]

Time Magazine Man of the Year 1938 and 2024.

[jaydee]

You need to start covering Trump’s threats towards Greenland, Canada, Panama. Not to mention threats against Russia, China and Hamas! He’s gone full psycho!!

[brunobastijanic]

Mr Scott I admire you you are one of my favorite analaseest bat I think thet you miss major point.World is roold by corporate nasizem and US administretion as well as administration of colectiv western and a little wider then thet so we heve first of all lebeled the problem if we want to fighit ageinst

[baibamennika]

Why first start to talk about Germany? Why not start with Italy for an example? Subjectivity? Dont loose vision

[anzactrooper]

Ritter is becoming out of touch with this Messiah Trump is going to save me mentality.

[baibamennika]

Invisible and visible hand of power? Dont bi biased your belt and road with connection and taking over strategic roads is not just charity too)