Schiller Institute

rdf:langString Schiller Institute

rdf:langString Schiller Institute

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rdf:langString Washington, DC 20041-0244

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rdf:langString Expenses: $80,175

rdf:langString Revenue: $37,617

rdf:langString Harley Schlanger, John Sigerson, Fred Huenefeld Jr., Theo Mitchell

rdf:langString Washington, DC, United States

rdf:langString The Schiller Institute is a German based political and economic think tank founded by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, with stated members in 50 countries. It is among the principal organizations of the LaRouche movement. The institute's stated aim is to apply the ideas of the poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller to what it calls the "contemporary world crisis." Their constitution, adopted in 1984, rails against international financial institutions and other supranational bodies, without naming any, for causing a state of tyranny in the world, especially amongst developing nations. The website of the Schiller Institute includes transcripts of conferences that the institute has sponsored, throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, to promote the idea of what it calls "peace through development". The discussion at these conferences centers around LaRouche's proposals for infrastructure projects such as the "Eurasian Land Bridge", and the "Oasis Plan", a Middle East peace agreement based on Arab-Israeli collaboration on major water projects, as well as proposals for debt relief and a sweeping reorganization of the world monetary system. The Institute strongly opposes the "Clash of Civilizations" thesis of Samuel Huntington, counter-posing what it calls a "Dialogue of Cultures". They evince support for President Trump, who they claim is being ousted in a "seditious coup" as well as the Chinese leader Xi Jinping and the New Silk Road and Belt and Road initiatives, which they see as "shared mutually beneficial and balanced development. Allegations of antisemitism arose in 2003 following the death of Jeremiah Duggan, a student who had been attending their conference in Germany. The Schiller Institute was accused of spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories. An internal London Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard) letter, obtained by the BBC's Newsnight during a British investigation into the death says: "The Schiller Institute and the LaRouche Youth Movement... blames the Jewish people for the Iraq war and all the other problems in the world. Jeremiah's lecture notes and bulletins showed the antisemitic nature of [the] ideology." The German newspaper Berliner Zeitung categorizes the Schiller Institute as antisemitic. They also publish quarterly magazines, such as Fidelio, which is described as a "Journal of Poetry, Science, and Statecraft", and Ibykus, named after Schiller's poem "The Cranes of Ibykus."

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