As increasing portions of the world are moving in a positive direction — towards development and cooperation — the United States remains stuck in the British muck it has been wallowing in for decades, assuming the role of a new imperial power, devoted to maintaining supremacy through whatever means, including military confrontation, geopolitical suppression, and economic sanctions.At the United Nations, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken tried to direct the UN Security Council towards considering “climate change” as a major strategic threat, drawing rebuke from Russian and Indian diplomats, one of whom sharply pointed out that “To view conflict in poorer parts of the world through the prism of climate change would only serve to present a lopsided narrative when the reasons for the conflict are to be found elsewhere.” Among those reasons for conflict is the British system of geopolitics, seen in full force with the creation of AUKUS (“Orkus”) just weeks after the withdrawal from Afghanistan after two decades of disaster. In the meeting of the Quad today in Washington, while the U.S., Australia, and Japan spoke, as if reading from a British script, of a “free and open Indo-Pacific” (i.e., combatting China), Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed the Quad’s 2004 formation in response to the devastating December 2004 tsunami and urged the Quad to promote “prosperity and peace” in the Indo-Pacific, through such efforts as vaccines, supply chains, and technology. As the U.S. continues to deport, en masse, Haitian migrants to Port-au-Prince in a condition described by a Haitian Senator as a “death camp”; as the U.S. promotes conflict with China; as the U.S. maintains a commitment to the regime of bailout instituted in 2019, the question arises — will the United States change? What sort of mission can inspire it to a better path? The LaRouche Organization (TLO) is committed to transforming the United States, to break from British geopolitics and colonial economics, to return to its historical creation as a force for good, and its pamphlet, “The Coming U.S. Economic Miracle on the New Silk Road,” currently being printed and posted online, is a major new tool to achieve this goal. The introduction to the report—which will soon be available at thelarouche.org/usa—follows: Introduction: Make America Good Again On January 20, 1961, in his inaugural address at the height of the Cold War, John F. Kennedy spoke these words to the nation: “Let both sides [the U.S. and the Soviet Union] seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce…. “And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved…. “Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are—but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, ‘rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation’—a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.” “Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?… “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.” With Kennedy’s assassination, has something in us died as well? We are no longer in a cold war. How do we find ourselves on the brink of a thermonuclear war? Now, after leaving Afghanistan, we must ask ourselves: How have we been misled into one aggressive war after the next, after the next? Why do we “go abroad in search of monsters to destroy”? Why do we spend trillions destroying other nations instead of trillions developing ours? Who has convinced us that the nations of Russia and China are our enemies? Why do we fear that their development is a threat to our “power”? Why do we see the economy as a zero-sum game, where no one may gain without someone else losing? Why do we not recognize the Belt and Road Initiative of China as the furtherance of our nations’ mission against the Empire System? Why don’t we join efforts with Russia, China and other nations against the “common enemies of man”? The British Empire has infected the thinking of our policy making “elites,” manipulating the American people into seeing as enemies, those nations who were historically our friends. They have stolen from us the real American history. We have lost our way as a nation. But we can find it again. The LaRouche Organization hopes and intends to reignite in the American people the sense of historic mission our founding fathers had, to be a Temple of Liberty and a Beacon of Hope for the world, against the darkness and barbarism of the British Empire. When we are ourselves, we bring internal improvements in the physical economy and scientific progress not only to our nation, but to the world. We are Good! Lyndon LaRouche committed his life to the mission of ending “tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.” Further, he proved that unlike the cynical British Malthusian view, mankind is not a cancer on the planet, but rather a creative species capable of solving all problems that confront us. LaRouche’s mission was to reestablish that noble conception of mankind. It is our job to complete it.
On September 11, the FBI released a declassified (but redacted) report from April 2016, which provides additional conclusive information of the involvement of agents of the Saudi Arabian government supporting the 9/11 hijackers. And this is only the first of a series of declassifications set to occur over the coming six months under Biden's Sept. 3 executive order. The full story of Saudi Arabian involvement in 9/11 will become increasingly clear, but this involvement itself poses larger questions.First, who within the United States acted to cover up Saudi involvement on 9/11? This question is intimately tied with such unresolved anomalies as the lack of air defense response after it became clear at the World Trade Center that an attack was underway, as well as abnormalities about the effects of that attack itself. Second, who promoted and financed the operation, and to what end? Asking "cui bono?" points us not to Riyadh, but to London. September 11, 2001, set into motion what has been two decades of emergency rule, in which long-term planning has been replaced by responses to supposedly urgent threats, in which intelligence agencies and financial institutions have taken increasing power in the trans-Atlantic world. This two-decade change in the governance of the planet, or at least its trans-Atlantic sector, was forecast by Lyndon LaRouche, before the September 11 attacks. Responding to a question from the Congressional Black Caucus, regarding Bush's nomination of "inveterate Confederate" John Ashcroft as his Attorney General, during an EIR January 3, 2001 webcast, Lyndon LaRouche warned of the danger of U.S. government itself being replaced by crisis management, and of the threat that a Reichstag Fire event would be used to usher in dictatorial powers under the incoming Bush Administration, all driven by a collapse of the financial system. LaRouche: "We're going into a period in which either we do the kinds of things I indicated in summary to you today, or else, what you're going to have, is not a government. You're going to have something like a Nazi regime. Maybe not initially, at the surface. What you're going to have is a government which cannot pass legislation, meaningful legislation. How does a government which can not pass meaningful legislation, under conditions of crisis, govern? They govern, in every case in known history, by what's known as crisis management. "In other words, just like the Reichstags fire in Germany. "How did that happen? "Well, a Dutchman, who was a known lunatic, used to set fires, as a provocateur. And he went around Germany setting fires. And one night, with no security available for the Reichstag [the Third Reich Parliament], he went into the Reichstag building, and set the joint on fire. And Hitler came out and said, 'Well, let's hope the Communists did it.' And Göring moved, and the Schmitt apparatus, that is, of Carl Schmitt, the jurist. And they passed the Notverordnung. And on the basis of a provocation—that is, crisis management—they rammed through the Notverordnung [emergency decree], which established Hitler as dictator of Germany. "What you're going to get, with a frustrated Bush administration, if it's determined to prevent itself from being opposed--its will--you're going to get crisis management. Where members of the special warfare types, of the secret government, the secret police teams, will set off provocations, which will be used to bring about dictatorial powers and emotion, in the name of crisis management. "You will have small wars set off in various parts of the world, which the Bush Administration will respond to, with crisis management methods of provocation. That's what you'll get. And that's what the problem is. And you have to face that. You've got to control this process now, while you still have the power to do so." Several years following the attacks, an enormous scandal around a 22-year deal starting in 1985 known as "Al Yamamah" between British weapons manufacturer BAE and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia erupted. This involved enormous quantities of off-the-books cash, bribes, and weapons. On June 21, 2007, LaRouche, speaking at a webcast entitled "BAE: The World's Biggest Loose End," returned to his earlier warning: "The world has been living under a system, which is the 9/11 system, which already existed, as I warned at the beginning of 2001, before President George W. Bush was inaugurated for the first time in January of 2001. Where I said The world system has reached the point, that an onrushing collapse of the system is now in process. We can not determine exactly when or how this will occur, but we know the following two things "Number 1, we know that this President and this Presidency can not deal with this crisis. Therefore, we must expect that the entire world will be subjected to the kind of thing we experienced in February of 1933, when Hermann Göring, the man behind the throne, the sort of Dick Cheney of the Hitler Administration, orchestrated the burning of the Reichstag as a terrorist event. And this terrorist event was used on that night, or the following day, to install Hitler with dictatorial powers, which Hitler never lost, until the day he died! "And I said then, the danger is that something like this will occur, under present trends in the United States, and it did occur. And it was called 9/11." "Now, without going into the details of what we know and what we don't know about how 9/11 was orchestrated, we know that the only means by which this kind of thing is orchestrated, is found in one location in a financial complex which is centered in the identity of the BAE. Now, that's the mystery of 9/11. How it was done, the mechanics—that's irrelevant. We'll find out. And everybody in and around government, who understands these matters, knows that! And that's where the heat is here. "We've come to the point that an entire system is collapsing. That system, at this point, because of the complicity of the present U.S. government, and the complicity of the leadership of the Democratic Party, as well as the Republican Party, because of this, we are living under a one-world system, called generically 'globalization.' It's a preparation for the new Tower of Babel, under which there are no nations, and in which languages begin to become babble. Under this system, what controls it? It's called 'globalization'; it's called the 'global warming crisis'; it's called these various kinds of things, referring to these things. It's a one-world system! It is not consolidated, but every obstacle to this one-world system is crumbling." Now, 20 years later, the misguided NATO/American adventure in Afghanistan has ended in disgrace, and additional truth about the event that ushered in a global shift in governance is coming to light. Will the past two decades of geopolitics and hegemony be repudiated and reversed? Will the American people, and the world, come to know what happened on 9/11? A "big lie" created 20 years of such offenses against human rights as the Patriot Act, the Afghanistan War, the Iraq War, the Libyan disaster, the Yemen War, military intervention in Syria, and, if not stopped, war with Russia and China. If that lie is not countered, and the theft, by ongoing crisis management, of the very concept of "future" is not reversed, the human race could be decimated by the dark age conditions envisioned by proponents of geopolitical war, "green" supranational governance, and financial "regime change." Lyndon LaRouche was right when he forecast this train of development over 20 years ago. Will the world take his advice today?
The imperial establishment of the U.S./NATO/trans-Atlantic created a murderous bloodbath in Afghanistan, killing tens or hundreds of thousands, wasting trillions of dollars, destabilizing the region, and having less than nothing to show for it 20 years later.And, now, that establishment is taking out its rage on the people of Afghanistan, choking their fragile economy by withholding—either directly or through financial means—the food, fuel, electricity, and development the nation so desperately needs. The people of these trans-Atlantic powers are tolerating the denial of development assistance or even cooperation with Afghanistan, with the demand that a government more to the liking of that elite comes to power. But what 20 years of military might could not achieve, will also not be brought about by financial force. Afghanistan will have a government through the decisions and actions of its own people, and the capable nations of the world—particularly those who created its current calamity—bear a responsibility to assist that government in bringing Afghanistan into a peaceful, productive, and proud role in the region and the world. The UN Development Program released a 17-page report that details the current suffering in Afghanistan and how trans-Atlantic institutions are poised to make it much worse. External aid accounts for three-quarters of the Afghanistan budget. How will schools, hospitals, or infrastructure be funded, if it is cut off? The entire country has only 600 MW of installed generating capacity—less than 1% the per-capita level of the United States. Ten million children require humanitarian assistance to survive, with 1 million projected to suffer from acute severe malnutrition. Over 4 million school-age children are out of school. At present, 72% of Afghans live below the poverty level of $2/day. UN modeling suggests that that figure could increase by 25%, to create the specter of “near universal poverty.” Against this backdrop, the Biden administration continues to freeze the assets of Afghanistan’s central bank—over $9 billion. An IMF allocation of $450 million worth of SDRs is out of reach thanks to the Fed shutting off dollar access. The World Bank has also suspended financial support. This is murder, and it must be stopped! On May 12, 1996, Madeleine Albright, was asked by a CBS interviewer about the tremendous cost of the Gulf War against Iraq, including more than 500,000 Iraqi children under the age of 5 who died as a result of the sanctions. Albright, unfazed, responded that the price of those deaths were “worth it.” Worth what? Biden must immediately take his knee off of Afghanistan’s throat, unfreeze the nation’s assets, and play a positive role in its development. Despite the past 20 years, the Taliban has said it is open to U.S. cooperation. The solution is clear. It was laid out at the July 31 Schiller Institute conference “Afghanistan: A Turning Point in History After the Failed Regime-Change Era.” Start the development process now. To achieve this, Schiller Institute Founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche has called for putting to immediate use the experience and talents of Pino Arlacchi, former Executive Director of the UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, who made a powerful intervention at that conference. We do no honor to the American victims of 9/11 by adding piles of additional deaths across the world. May this 20th anniversary of that disaster mark the end of two decades of disastrous policy. Let Afghanistan breathe!
The American and NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the entire 20-year military occupation there, are widely recognized as the worst disaster in NATO’s history. But have the lessons from his failure been learned?Shortly following the suicide bombing that killed a dozen U.S. troops and over 100 Afghans at the Kabul airport, President Biden announced to those responsible: “We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay.” While making such a statement (and using drones for revenge) was obviously far superior to extending the date of U.S. withdrawal, that such a statement would be considered politically necessary or expedient points to a deep and widespread sickness in the trans-Atlantic establishment. This sickness is seen in far more advanced form in Britain, whose institutions are frantically trying to assure themselves of their ability to continue to project force anywhere in the world, and to continue their endless war policies, with or without the United States. The sickness comes in a denial of the nature of the human species, a denial that looks towards a future of maintaining past dominance, rather than one that looks towards an era of new development, of growth, and of changing dynamics. Aeschylus captured this tension in his Oresteia trilogy, in which a series of revenge killings, including a demand for revenge in the form of the Furies—the Erinyes—is transformed, through the mediation of the goddess of wisdom Athena herself, to a concern for the future. The furious Erinyes become the Eumenides (the Gracious Ones), and serve as a constructive force for the future of Athens. The “forever war” policy that has come to characterize the trans-Atlantic approach since the murder of U.S. President Kennedy, against which Trump inveighed in his campaigns, and against which Biden took what could be a significant step with his Afghanistan withdrawal, must be replaced with a policy of peace through development. In the Eastern Economic Forum, held in Vladivostok, Russia, aspects of this principle were raised by Presidents Putin and Xi, who insisted that development is the path forward, and that “democracy” could not be instilled at gunpoint. Will Biden’s executive order on declassifying 9/11 reveal truths that will cast the 20-year experience in Afghanistan in a new light? Terry Strada, the leader of 9/11 Families United, rejoiced: “We are thrilled to see the President forcing the release of more evidence about Saudi connections to the 9/11 Attacks. We have been fighting the FBI and intelligence community for too long, but this looks like a true turning point.” Biden’s move for declassification, following his decision, taken despite enormous pressure from media and political layers, can be a powerful flank against the intelligence agencies whose lies have been used to maintain the forever war policy. Will the momentum away from permanent warfare continue through improved relations with Russia and China? Will a growing portion of the world’s leaders and thinkers—aided by you—come to understand that the true, immortal self-interest of the human individual lies not in maintaining power over others, but in doing good? If so, this present era can be a singularity, an inflection point, a change from one geometry to another, in which we defeat empire and raise our heads from the muck of conflict to look to the stars that hold our future. Lyndon LaRouche devoted himself to fighting for such a world, a commitment carried on by Helga Zepp-LaRouche and the LaRouche movement, internationally, today. Will that movement, and its allies, succeed?
Afghanistan can become stable, and its enormous potential for growth can be leveraged to the benefit of Afghans and the world at large, through helping to shape a new paradigm on this planet.But even after two decades of U.S.-led warfare, attempts to destabilize the nation and region continue. The U.S. government has frozen the nearly $9.5 billion in assets of the Afghan central bank and halted shipments of cash to the nation. The International Monetary Fund has suspended Afghanistan’s access to IMF resources, including $440 million worth of Special Drawing Rights (SDR) reserves. A cash shortage is developing in Afghanistan, where it is used for most purchases. Germany has announced a halt to all financial aid to the country, which will affect ongoing infrastructure projects. FaceBook-owned WhatsApp has shut down a Taliban help hotline, as well as other Taliban-linked channels, in a decision attacked by aid workers as “absurd.” Are these decisions temporary, due to uncertainty of who runs the country? Or are they being used to foster ongoing chaos in a nation already suffering decades of warfare, a nation lying at a strategic crossroads — bordering or closely concerning Iran, China, Pakistan, Russia, and three of the Central Asian republics? As has been the case for over a century, the British game of geopolitics seeks to ensure that there is no world rival to their dominance, exerted today through the “special relationship” with the United States. A new “Northern Alliance” has announced its emergence in Afghanistan, seeking Western military support. What will it receive? The Belt and Road Initiative, which is overturning the world’s economic and strategic chessboard through a paradigm of infrastructure development and productivity growth, achieving, at China’s initiative, a policy that parallels the World Land-Bridge concept developed by Lyndon LaRouche, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, and their collaborators. Into this dynamic Afghanistan can be integrated, with results that would be stunning in terms of how rapidly they could transform the region, which can hardly be said to have benefited significantly from the over $1 trillion spent on military adventures there. The antidote to chaos — in addition to identifying its origin — is growth! This Saturday, the Schiller Institute, founded by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, will convene an urgent international seminar to pursue the solution of peace through development. The seminar will continue the prescient discussion held by the Schiller Institute on July 31, with many of the same panelists, as well as new ones. Zepp-LaRouche explained on Wednesday: “I do not agree with the hysteria of the Western media that this is the end of the world. … I think it is, on the contrary, the real chance to integrate Afghanistan into a regional economic development perspective, which is basically defined by the Belt and Road Initiative of China. There is a very clear agreement of Russia and China to cooperate in dealing with this situation. The interest of the Central Asian republics is to make sure there is stability and economic development; and there is the possibility to extend the CPEC, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, into Afghanistan, into Central Asia. So, I think it’s a real opportunity, but it does require a complete change in approach.” Expressing her view of the proper role of the United States, Zepp-LaRouche said, “John Quincy Adams said that the United States should have alliances of perfectly sovereign republics, and this is now the moment to really do that. The idea is to not oppose China linking Afghanistan into the Belt and Road Initiative, but rather see it as an opportunity to cooperate, and stop this geopolitical confrontation which can only lead to catastrophe. … That’s the kind of discussion which we have to catalyze.” The event will be this Saturday at noon EDT (6pm CEST), available at schillerinstitute.com
The rapidly shifting situation on the ground in Afghanistan gives increasing urgency to developing an understanding of the work of Lyndon LaRouche, who laid out, with increasing insight, his vision for the Earth’s next fifty years, and beyond. As the delta Covid variant lays bare the inadequacy of health care throughout the world, we see the profound need to develop a platform of productivity capable of sustaining billions more people with standards of physical and cultural life adequate to the creative potential of the human race.The second panel of the LaRouche Legacy Foundation’s event “So, Are You Finally Willing to Learn Economics?” took up the topic of LaRouche’s vision of “Earth’s Next Fifty Years,” with a view towards the efforts led by Helga Zepp-LaRouche to realizing those revolutionary objectives. Moderator Megan Dobrodt, Secretary-Treasurer of the LaRouche Legacy Foundation Board of Directors, launched the panel with a video of the LaRouches’ close friend and collaborator, Norbert Brainin, the lead violinist of the legendary Amadeus Quartet. Brainin began a 1995 master class in Dona Krupa Castle, Slovakia, by introducing the concept of Motivführung, or “motivic thorough-composition,” an approach to classical composition developed by Haydn and refined by Mozart and Beethoven, of thorough composition according to principle. Brainin explained to the class that he often talked about Motivführung with professional colleagues and students who recognized the term, but that the only person who understood it completely was Lyndon LaRouche. LaRouche often said that Brainin had introduced this concept to him, but he recognized it as a universal process for developing, not only great music, but natural and human compositions of any kind. Knowing this, Brainin explained that true classical composers are “scientists.” This was followed by a recording of LaRouche addressing the issue of human creativity at the July 3, 2011 European Schiller Institute conference. He asserted that human beings were the only known creative species, and explained that “classical artistic culture” can be transferred “to the department of physical science,” in the words of Riemann. LaRouche explained that he determined to build a movement, when he realized that no one but himself understood the disaster the financial disruptions of the 1960s were creating. He started by visiting universities and discussing his ideas. He briefly identified his understanding of his fundamental principle: “You get a demonstration of that in the department of Classical artistic composition, in which the mind is experimenting with the attempt to discover principles, and expresses the yearning for that experimental result as the incentive of creativity for the human mind. That is creativity. It is getting outside the ordinary habits, or habituation, of life….” He concluded with the simple statement, “It’s not magic: It’s really humanity.” The first guest on the panel was Jacques Cheminade, a long-time LaRouche associate, President of the Solidarité et Progrès party in France, and a former Presidential candidate. He described how, as a French diplomat, he first encountered LaRouche at an event in Manhattan and, while studying LaRouche’s writing, was confronted with a New York Times supplement in which he saw a photo of French soldiers in World War I with the caption, “Once again triage—Who’s going to live? Who is going to die?” Several pages later, there was a picture of an Ethiopian mother and child with their “skin floating off,” with the caption, “Who will be fed and who will die?” This led him to decide that, despite his prospects as a young diplomat, “Well, these are my people, even if to join them I have to pay a dear price.” He described his collaboration with LaRouche in writing a book, in French and English, titled France After de Gaulle (La France après de Gaulle), promoting the idea of getting France back on the path of republican development as characterized by General Lafayette’s engagement with the American Revolution. Maurice Allais, the only French citizen ever to win a Nobel Prize in Economics, wrote Cheminade a letter on November 27, 2009 saying that he was “fully associating myself to LaRouche’s efforts to generate a wide public debate to radically rebuild the credit system and the international monetary system,” and authorized Jacques to make this public. Former Prime Minister Michel Rocard, Cheminade said, also shared LaRouche’s economic outlook. In 1983 LaRouche and his wife Helga led a Club of Life event in Paris. The Club was founded by Mrs. LaRouche as a counter to the radically Malthusian Club of Rome. The Paris event was attended by world-famous oncologist Georges Mathé, resistance heroine Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, and de Gaulle’s associate, World War II hero, General Jean-Gabriel Revault d’Allonnes. All of these later wrote to request freedom for LaRouche, when he was politically incarcerated in 1989. LaRouche’s universal appeal was demonstrated by support from leading members of the French Communist Party as well as the Secretary of State under President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Pierre Christian Taittinger. Following Cheminade, two representatives from Argentina, Roberto Fritzsche and Eduardo Fernandez, used discoveries of the great Russian biogeochemist Vladimir Vernadsky to explain LaRouche’s concept of “relative potential population density” in relation to “energy flux density” and improvements in living standards. Man’s role in this complex was explained in relationship to Vernadsky’s concept of three realms of existence: the lifeless lithosphere; the living biosphere; and the realm of cognition called the noösphere. Man is the master of all three, and, as LaRouche has explained, also participates in a fourth realm, that of cognition that we can recognize in the design and growth of the Universe, but, as yet, do not know its source in the way we know how humanity can discover concepts and “laws” of the Universe. They use Vernadsky’s calculations and more advanced knowledge to demonstrate that, with new energy sources which are on the horizon, the Earth could support a human population of 3 trillion. This was followed by greetings from Carlos Gallardo, President of the Christian Democratic Party of Peru. Harley Schlanger, also a long-time leader of the LaRouche movement, followed with an ironically revealing behind the scenes report on the origins of Richard Nixon’s disastrous August 15, 1971 announcement. It happened that on January 23, 1983, a dozen years after the event, John Connally of Texas, who had been Secretary of the Treasury under President Nixon, was present as his, Connally’s, possessions were being sold off at a bankruptcy auction, and agreed to an interview. Schlanger asked about the Aug. 15, 1971 decision, and Connally proudly declared it to have been his decision, and a great success. When Schlanger challenged him with LaRouche’s declaration that the decision was the cause of the subsequent disasters, which were, among other things, the cause of Connally’s personal demise, he became despondent, and eventually slinked away. Daisuke Kotegawa, formerly a top official in Japan’s Ministry of Finance and Japan’s Executive Director at the IMF, sent a greeting backing LaRouche’s distinction between investments in the real economy as opposed to speculation, and called for restoring Glass-Steagall. Fred Huenefeld, an agricultural economist who has served in multiple government positions in Louisiana, and a long-time board member of the Schiller Institute, gave an animated description of his years of agitating for LaRouche’s ideas and hounding the U.S. Congress to wake up. Former South Carolina State Senator Theo Mitchell, a leader in the Democratic Party and a board member of the Schiller Institute, discussed his work to expose the FBI’s misjustice in the prosecution of LaRouche and in the “Fruhmenschen” campaign which targeted Black elected officials, including himself. The concluding section, on LaRouche in the Universities, gave youth leaders of the LaRouche movement an opportunity to discuss their commitment to getting LaRouche’s work into universities and elsewhere. Gretchen Small, a leader of the Ibero-American branch of the LaRouche movement and President of the LaRouche Legacy Foundation Board of Directors, began this session with video segments of the notorious 1971 City University of New York debate between LaRouche and top Keynesian economist Abba Lerner, in which LaRouche induced Lerner to admit that Nixon’s economic policy, and his own, were in keeping with those of Hitler’s Reichsbank governor and Minister of Economics Hjalmar Schacht. Sidney Hook, a leading academic “philosopher” of the day and an intelligence community operative responsible for stifling unwanted discussions, told a LaRouche supporter after witnessing LaRouche’s impact on the downed champion, Lerner, that LaRouche would never be permitted another such contest. The first youth speaker was from the Philippines, Carlos “Itos” Valdes, the son of Carlos “Butch” Valdes, the founder and leader of the Philippine LaRouche Society and many other organizations. Itos Valdes gave a sincere and moving description of how his understanding of the movement changed his life, beginning in childhood with his family’s involvement in the LaRouche movement, and continuing with his organizing others through the ideas of Plato, Leibniz, FDR and LaRouche Carolina Dominguez, an extraordinary leader of the movement in Mexico and throughout Ibero America, spoke about the campaign to make the work of LaRouche available throughout the university system, and presented videos of young colleagues from Mexico and Colombia. She described the problem by exposing an economics professor who said the purpose of education was to help students become part of the wealthy 50%, rather than to lift the poor 50% out of poverty. José Vega of the Bronx closed the presentations with a video he had made discussing LaRouche’s policy for the next 50 years, including his idea of a “Space Civilian Construction Corps” modeled on FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps, to recruit youth to participate in a revitalized space program. The prepared presentations were followed by a profound discussion among the participants on the significance of what had been done and what must urgently be accomplished. One comment by Jacques Cheminade briefly highlighted the secret to LaRouche’s success. He said he was delighted to see three generations of LaRouche Youth Movements in action: the early 1960s campus recruit, Paul Gallagher; people in their 40s and 50s who were recruited by LaRouche in the 1990s-2000s, now playing a leading role in the movement; and those in their early 20s who are ripening as a highly effective force. The full conference can be viewed at the LaRouche Legacy Foundation website.
The strategic instability of Afghanistan desperately calls out, not for unending military intervention, but for a realizable vision for future development. Fools respond to events, while geniuses create, sometimes urgently, the longer waves of thought and commitment that shape human history.On this weekend, the fiftieth anniversary of the action taken by the Richard Nixon administration to end the Bretton Woods system and adopt floating exchange rates, the world has much to learn from the economist who forecast that point of decision, understood its implications, and fought for half a century to put in place a just economic system to achieve economic development around the entire globe — Lyndon LaRouche. Because of the power inherent in the potential for human reason to respond to his ideas, he was imprisoned, attacked, but not defeated. Today, his vision of a paradigm for development capable of bringing the human race entirely out of poverty is being carried on by the movement he created, his cothinkers, and especially by his wife Helga Zepp-LaRouche. It offers the potential to build on the Belt and Road Initiative, itself inspired by his work and that of his wife, to draw further benefit from the best aspects of trans-Atlantic culture — of the Golden Renaissance and its view of man, of the creation of modern physics by Johannes Kepler, of the musical advances of J.S. Bach, and the American System of economics that so far surpassed the oligarchical system which it was developed to overcome. Join the LaRouche Legacy Foundation for an event on LaRouche’s Discovery and the Earth’s Next Fifty Years, starting today, Saturday, at 9 a.m. EDT/3 p.m. CEST.
Devastating floods in Europe, China, and India. Historic drought in the Western U.S. What do these events have in common? If you said “climate change,” you’ve been had. In fact, these problems arise from too little human intervention into our environment, not too much. Civilizations are defined by their ability to control and defend against nature’s variations and shortcomings. Those that develop an increasing ability to create improvements in their environment—a series of infrastructure platforms—flourish, while those that stagnate, fail.A power grid that relies on (or is called upon to rely on) interruptible forms of power like wind becomes increasingly susceptible to blackouts, with the loss of life and economic output that comes with them. Adopting the Green New Deal is choosing to have blackouts. Failing to invest in water management infrastructure is choosing to be vulnerable to flood damage. Tolerating poverty on the planet decades after it could have been entirely eliminated, is choosing to allow the development and circulation of pandemics. These are not natural disasters; they are man-made failures to take actions, proposed decades ago by Lyndon LaRouche, to develop a science-driven, technologically advancing economy capable of rendering ourselves increasingly immune to the vagaries of unimproved nature. On Saturday at 9 a.m. (Eastern U.S.), the Schiller Institute will be holding a conference “There Is No ‘Climate Emergency’: Apply the Science and Economics of Development To Stop Blackouts and Death.” Participate to learn how to defeat the mutually assured destruction of the Green New Deal and chart a path forward, to economic development, infrastructure growth, and breakthroughs in nuclear power that will enable the next generation of space exploration.
The United States is quite literally descending into fascism, with the creation of a new federal intelligence agency to engage in a domestic war on terror, government-directed censorship of speech in the public commons of today (social media), and comparisons by Biden between the present moment and the Civil War -- in which millions of Americans were engaged in literal military combat against each other. Reversing this descent into authoritarianism requires identifying the threat, of course. But it also requires an affirmative statement of what the mission of the United States should be. And perpetual opposition to China and Russia ain't it!As the American military departs Afghanistan, will American engineers and contractors play a useful role in planning and constructing infrastructure in that nation, as part of a global development policy?Will feisty American farmers, ranchers, citizens, and energy experts overturn the Green New Deal fraud and demand reliable energy for the future?The shared enemy of mankind is that oligarchical outlook and financial-intelligence-media power that seeks to destroy productivity through a new "green" religion while creating chaos and the threat of war through color revolutions and intelligence assessments painting the world's major powers as implacable enemies.Lyndon LaRouche spend half a century fighting to institute a just world economic system, based on the dignity of each human individual as made in the image of a living God, a system committed to the development of new platforms of infrastructure and productivity, unlocked through advancements in science and technology fostered by long-term investments in such frontier areas as space and nuclear fusion.Next weekend, on July 24, the Schiller Institute will hold an event addressing the absolute conflict between seeing the future in terms of "green" power sources -- which have been promoted with the intent of preventing development -- versus major investment in transportation, power, industry, and trade. And on August 14, the LaRouche Legacy Foundation will hold a seminar on the economic work of Lyndon LaRouche, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Nixon's end of the Bretton Woods system, about which LaRouche achieved notoriety.From the standpoint of that future orientation, the Great Reset, the push for war with China and Russia, and the drive for fascism within the United States come together as a single goal of a financial oligarchy intent on preventing it.That oligarchy can be defeated, and a beautiful future can be created, if we make it happen.
During a press briefing on Thursday, Jen Psaki explained that the White House is coordinating with social media companies to stop "disinformation" about Covid-19. "We're flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation," she said, matter-of-factly. But the White House is not just making general suggestions -- it is pressing for their enforcement. And this violates the First Amendment.She said that the White House expects the platforms to "measure and publicly share the impact of misinformation... This should be provided not just to researchers but to the public." She also stated that the White House has proposed "a robust enforcement strategy."She said that the administration is urging social media platforms to "promote quality information sources" over "low quality information."Pushing for action, she reminded that "It's important to take faster action against harmful posts. As you all know, information travels quite quickly on social media platforms sometimes that's not accurate." Joe Biden, asked on Friday for comment about Facebook's role in Covid, responded that because the only pandemic is now among the unvaccinated, "they [Facebook] are killing people." Glenn Greenwald slammed the government calls for censorship: "The Biden administration is telling Facebook which posts it regards as 'problematic' so that Facebook can remove them. This is the union of corporate and state power -- one of the classic hallmarks fo fascism -- that the people who spent 5 years babbling about fascism support." The White House is admitting that they're compiling lists of people who they claim are posting content they regard as "problematic" and that constitute "misinformation" and are demanding Facebook remove them. This is authoritarianism:https://t.co/gxrdUDblyS— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 15, 2021 While there is indeed an enormous amount of nonsense posted about Covid-19, one can ask whether banning discussion is even helpful. Given the absolute and complete discrediting of the media and expertariat generally, banning the discussion of a certain viewpoint may have the opposite effect! If a viewpoint cannot be publicly expressed on Twitter, then it cannot be met with thoughtful replies that encourage reflection (Although this is not the norm on Twitter, it does happen.) Some of the claims -- such as about VAERS figures -- are easily refuted. And the 180-degree turn on the Wuhan lab leak -- censored when Trump said it and now embraced to create a war with China -- hardly gives credibility to the would-be arbiters of truth!But more essentially, it is absolutely clear that if companies (whose private nature is much ballyhooed by censorship proponents) are taking actions due to pressure from the government, the First Amendment prohibition on limiting speech -- which applies to the government -- will apply to them as well! This not mere speculation. It comes from Supreme Court decisions:In a 1973 Supreme Court case, the Court held that Congress "may not induce, encourage, or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish." An article written by Glenn Greenwald in February -- on the occasion of social media CEOs being brought, yet again, to Congress to be scolded -- quotes an ACLU Director, Ben Wizner, "For the same reasons that the Constitution prohibits the government from dictating what information we can see and read (outside narrow limits), it also prohibits the government from using its immense authority to coerce private actors into censoring on its behalf." The ACLU had successfully defended the National Rifle Association in a 2018 suit against New York State and Gov. Cuomo on the basis that threats against business entities that facilitated the actions of the NRA constituted a viewpoint-based attack on the NRA's freedom of speech.A 1963 Supreme Court case took up the state of Rhode Island's issuing to bookstores lists of books the government considered "objectionable," with a "request" that they "voluntarily" cease selling the book. The Supreme Court ruled this a violation of the First Amendment, even though the state legislature did not directly pass a law preventing the sale of certain books: "The [Rhode Island] commission deliberately set about to achieve the suppression of publications deemed 'objectionable,' and succeeded in its aim." The threat from the state was clear to the Court: "People do not lightly disregard public officers' thinly veiled threats to institute criminal proceedings against them if they do not come around." The Court summed it up: "Their operation was in fact a scheme of state censorship effectuated by extra-legal sanctions; they acted as an agency not to advise but to suppress."What is required is either a Supreme Court ruling or new legislation to make clear the limits of government interference in social media discussions, and the limits of the social media companies themselves to censor viewpoints they consider objectionable, but which are not illegal.
The U.S. and NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan brings to an end 20 years of a misguided military operation and places squarely on the table the difference in outcomes achieved through geopolitics and through cooperative development. We never should have been in Afghanistan. The 9/11 attacks were not organized by a group of 19 individuals coordinated from a cave. The hijackers drew on external support during their time in the United States, and it came not from Osama bin Laden operating in Afghanistan, but from Saudi Arabia. There was no military mission to achieve in Afghanistan.But it served as the first in a new series of wars, based on a new paradigm of geopolitics that flouted international law and asserted a Responsibility to Protect that demanded military action to interfere in the internal affairs of other nations based on the flimsiest (and most easily faked) of pretexts. As Helga Zepp-LaRouche writes in her Afghanistan at a Crossroads: “The strategic turbulence caused by the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan, offers an excellent opportunity for a reassessment of the situation, for a correction of political direction and a new solution-oriented policy. The long tradition of geopolitical manipulation of this region … must be buried once and for all, never to be revived.” The world is not a zero-sum “Great Game.” Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan expressed the potential for U.S.-Chinese cooperation: “The biggest challenge for the United States is not China. It is in the United States itself. Its strategy toward China must avoid forming a vicious circle of misleading and misjudgment. As long as we uphold the concept of a shared destiny for all mankind, the issues between China and the United States will not be fundamentally opposed and irreconcilable, and a path of peaceful coexistence and cooperation will be found.” Finding the path towards cooperation requires thinking of the future, drawing us to look, as Hussein Askary expressed it on Saturday’s LaRouche Organization event, not at the mud under our feet, but towards the stars over our heads. International cooperation on the physical infrastructural development of the broader region will bring benefits to Afghanistan and its neighbors that far surpass what could be achieved without that integration. This will require engineering. It will require technical support. And it will require stable financing. This is an opportunity to bring neighbors to the table and to draw on expertise around the world. The how-to book has quite literally already been written—by EIR and the Schiller Institute—in the form of a program for trans-national infrastructure and large-scale industrialization and agricultural technology deployment. “For all these reasons,” Zepp-LaRouche writes, “the future development of Afghanistan represents a fork in the road for all mankind. At the same time, it is a perfect demonstration of the opportunity that lies in the application of the Cusan principle of the Coincidentia Oppositorum, the coincidence of opposites…. In Afghanistan, it holds true more than anywhere else in the world: The new name for peace is development!” It is only by abandoning geopolitics and adopting domestic policies to launch an economic renaissance and crush the power of finance, that the United States could qualify itself to play a useful role in the world. America’s urgently needed missions will be the subject of an upcoming pamphlet from The LaRouche Organization. The work of the greatest recent American thinker on the issue of development—Lyndon LaRouche—is the topic of a LaRouche Legacy Foundation August 14 online seminar, on the occasion of “The 50th Anniversary of LaRouche’s Stunning Forecast of August 15, 1971.”
On this weekend, as the United States celebrates the anniversary of its Declaration of Independence, let us each reflect on how we can bring into reality the potential represented in the presentations and discussions of last weekend’s Schiller Institute conference.Consider the backdrop: After the relatively small steps towards U.S.-rapprochement (or at least normalization) with Russia, a British naval provocation in the Black Sea drew a Russian military response and the British have unleashed a new series of claims about Russian hacking of essentially everyone. The danger of nuclear war, growing constantly with the ongoing expansion of NATO despite promises to the contrary, absolutely must be addressed head-on. Inflation continues apace, with raw materials up 31% year-to-date and prices of cars, homes, and food skyrocketing with double-digit inflation. Yet the Biden White House trumpeted its economic success with a tweet merrily announcing that the cost of a Fourth of July cookout had decreased this year … by 16 cents! Green policies that are shuttering coal plants and directing energy investment into intermittent and unreliable sources are leading to blackouts and power shortages. In major de-developing countries, purchases of diesel emergency generators are booming in the context of the unreliable electricity grid. And revelations published by Revolver News site, if accurate, point to direct lines of questioning that could reveal the events of January 6 to have been, not an intelligence failure, but an intelligence setup, to drive a new war on “domestic extremists.” Preventing war means exposing and replacing the oligarchical, geopolitical insanity that drives what Ray McGovern, a speaker on the conference’s first panel, identifies as the MICIMATT (Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-MEDIA-Academia-Think-Tank) complex. A summit among the leaders of the United States, Russia, India, and China is absolutely required to replace geopolitics with a paradigm of growth. The greatest, expanding impediment to achieving that growth was taken up in the conference’s second panel, which exposed “The Real Science Behind Climate Change,” which covered the wild exaggerations central to the climate catastrophe narrative, the enormous costs of proposed mitigation measures against this false menace, and the immense potential of the actually superior power source of nuclear science. Exposing the Malthusian lie that limits to growth truly exist and must be respected, rather than shattered and overcome, can serve a profoundly liberating role. The Sunday panels marked inflection points in the drive for a global Glass-Steagall, for the kind of cooperation required to develop health systems throughout the planet, and for the quality of discussion necessary to organize into a higher mission the many different people and groups of the world. The rotting speculative debt must be given a proper, and speedy burial, and policies for creating real physical and scientific growth must be adopted. The need to ensure health—including creative mental health—for all, can serve as a central driver from which other infrastructure and development needs flow. Join the Schiller Institute’s mobilization. Celebrate Independence Day by acting to end the legacy and reality of the British Empire.
A powerful advertisement for this weekend’s Schiller Institute conference came in the form of the brazen British naval provocation in Russian waters. Shortly after a U.K.-Ukraine $1.7 billion arms deal was signed on its deck in Odessa, and during the ongoing Moscow International Security Conference, the HMS Defender, deliberately, provocatively, and insanely ventured into Russian territorial waters off Crimea, under the guise of innocent transit through what the British claim are “Ukrainian” waters. This insane action was met with Russian warning shots from the sea and from the air and the ominous statement from a Russian official that “I have to warn the ex-‘ruler of the waves,’ that next time such a decision is taken, bombs will be dropped not ahead of the target, but on the target.”Clearly it is not international law to which the British refer in their demands for respect for the “rules-based international order,” but rather to whatever rules they devise. Why provoke Russia in a way that could lead, even by accident, to nuclear warfare? As Helga Zepp-LaRouche has stated in her conception of the first, strategic panel of this weekend’s conference, “Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Make MAD.” Speakers from Russia, China, India, and the United States will address the enormous danger of war, and the path forward to be charted through the collaboration of those four nations. Today’s afternoon panel will address the order-of-magnitude expansion of power required for the development of the world, while heaping richly deserved ridicule on the notion that such power can be achieved with low-grade sources such as wind and solar, under a commitment to rapid reduction of CO₂ emissions. The galloping hyperinflation, evident in prices for housing, food, raw materials—everywhere except in the assessments of the trans-Atlantic central banks, is the topic of the third panel, which will present the solutions required to crush Wall Street and the City of London. Sunday’s concluding panel—“The Coincidence of Opposites: The Only Truly Human Thought Process”—addresses directly the quality of thought required for creative and successful deliberation to address the world’s challenges and promote “the common good of all people.” Join the conference, and bring your friends and networks.
That even the relatively uneventful meeting between Presidents Biden and Putin in Geneva can accurately be hailed as a step forward, speaks to the absolutely terrible situation the world is in. Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of Global Times, expressed it in a tweet: “The meeting itself sends a strong signal. Both want to end the worst period of U.S.-Russian relations post-Cold War. At the very least, achieve low-level stability in their bilateral ties and avoid new uncontrollable conflicts. And this is probably the only product of the meeting.” Our aspirations must be so much greater!How can our efforts benefit from the powerful positive example of China (and Chinese-Russian collaboration) and in breaking through the censorial thought-control that has come to increasingly dominate both the legacy media and the social media of the trans-Atlantic world? The Shenzhou-12 rocket has brought three astronauts to the Chinese Space Station’s core module, Tianhe, in a happy step in China’s continued development of its space capacity—as the International Space Station reaches the end of its life. It appears that great dreams cannot be derailed by such petty (and short-sighted) actions as banning Chinese purchase of certain microchips or the 2011 Wolf Amendment banning NASA from collaborating with China on manned space projects. As Biden—and the press hyenas—harass Vladimir Putin about his grave assault on freedom, recent shocking revelations in the United States provide a potential flank to blast the burgeoning attempts at truly dictatorial control over media, communication, and thought. Those revelations center on evidence of the involvement of the FBI and other federal agencies in the events of Jan. 6. Not only were plans to storm the Capitol well known to intelligence—which could have increased security to counter them—but the plans appear to have been promoted by these federal agents! Revolver News has revealed, through analysis of charging documents, the existence of at least 20 unindicted co-conspirators—likely FBI or other agents or sources—intimately involved in the events of Jan. 6. Put this in historical context. Just a few months earlier, a dozen people were accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer—among the purported plotters were no fewer than five federal agents or sources, who, far from passively infiltrating a plot in process, actively advanced it! This is in keeping with the FBI’s modus operandi, put into overdrive with the beginning of the Global War on Terror, of participating in (through undercover agents and sources) and driving supposedly heinous acts of terrorism deftly and heroically foiled by the upstanding men and women of the FBI itself. Helga Zepp-LaRouche warned on Jan. 9 that the storming of the Capitol had to be seen in this context, writing: "There is every reason to believe that the assault on the Capitol is a direct continuation of the 9/11 attacks, the real masterminds of which have never really been named. Lyndon LaRouche had presciently predicted this terrorist act nine months earlier, on January 3, 2001, by predicting that the Bush Administration, which would take office three weeks later, would stage a ‘Reichstag Fire’ incident due to its inability to deal with the coming financial meltdown, as a pretext to implement dictatorial measures. This is exactly what happened with the introduction of the ‘Patriot Act’…. In the same fashion, the riot at the Capitol is intended to provide the pretext to eliminate any dissent towards the policies of the neoliberal establishment…. “The alarm bells must ring for all people who hold dear the constitutional state, freedom of expression, and civil rights. What this is about is total dictatorship over opinion and the elimination of any opposition to the policies of the transatlantic financial elite,” Zepp-LaRouche warned. “We are in acute danger of a new fascism!” The revelations around the events of Jan. 6 can be a powerful tool for exploding the press for dictatorial control over thought, and exposing the hungry minds of those in the trans-Atlantic to the much larger, and better world that exists beyond the bounds of “approved” discourse, in the domain of fruitful encounters with the truly amazing developments already taking place, and possible, around the world. Victories far greater for humanity than a civil discussion between the presidents of the two most powerfully nuclear armed nations lie in store!
Today’s hysterical warnings of a coming cataclysm of climate change are only the latest expression of the anti-human religion of modern environmentalism created in the 1960s and 1970s. They share with the false 1972 prophecies of The Limits to Growth both an intent to use supposedly scientific models to justify policy objectives chosen for other reasons, and a wild rejection of the most characteristic quality of the human species. That quality is the creativity that allows us to achieve over historical time—in what are essentially instantaneous transformations from the standpoint of evolutionary time—the development of new resources and an improving ability to create a more nurturing synthetic environment. Anti-entropic growth characterizes the universe as a whole.The dawning age of mammals replaced the majority of the far inferior reptiles, not because of an external event, but because the mammalian life was characterized by a higher energy-intensity than the reptiles, and by the creation of a more stable internal environment (warm-blooded endothermy) that supported more specific and powerful biochemical reactions. So too does the human species develop new resources by discovering new principles—transforming uranium from a mostly useless yellow rock to the most concentrated form of fuel. So too does the human species develop the improved synthetic environment of a platform of physical infrastructure that allows individual business and productive processes to thrive in a medium of efficient transportation, healthy people, and plentiful energy. If we are to learn from nature, it is not in seeking to maintain the present condition of the world’s (far from ideal) climates, flora, and fauna. Taking a longer view reveals a biosphere characterized by change, by an increasing intensity of life. To stop growth is to destroy society. Lyndon LaRouche brilliantly polemicized against The Limits to Growth on precisely this basis, and wrote decades later about the characteristic of economic growth: “In general, the potential productivity of an economy is limited on the higher side by the energy density of the basic modes of energy production used by that economy. The higher the energy density the cheaper the energy can be in terms of social costs of producing energy, and the more abundant the energy available for expanding the economy. The step-by-step advance from a full-scale fission energy economy into a fusion energy economy, is the unique path of development, which enables our nation and the world to increase the effective rate of capital formation into the next century and beyond. It is the only policy which leads to this successful survival of our civilization.” Nature and the human soul cry out: progress is the truest substance! The evil fools who attempt, today, to create a global imperium, as an enforcement mechanism for the crushing of energy and productivity inherent in their so-called “climate” goals, are attempting the impossible. Humanity cannot cease to grow, without ceasing to exist as humanity. Although this modern British financial-“environmental” imperialism cannot succeed, the question before us is whether we will reject its false idols and lead a renewed, impassioned cultural movement based on the human individual being imago viva Dei.
While it may be tempting to those countries adopting a new paradigm of economy and international affairs to separate themselves from the disasters of the trans-Atlantic world—physical productivity’s replacement by financialization, accelerating inflation, and increasingly unhinged and unattainable “climate goals”—the reality is that there can be success only for the entire world, not a portion of it. This lesson, made clear by the coronavirus pandemic, applies to the world’s strategic situation and to its interlinked economies.Solutions are possible, but they must be based on true economic principles. And calls for change abound: The U.S. dollar increasingly takes the role of a weapon, deployed through sanctions, rather than a stable basis for global trade. An event at the United Nations (sponsored by Iran) presented the painful costs exerted on everyday people by supposedly targeted sanctions, and gave the lie to claims that humanitarian and medical purchases are unaffected by sanctions. Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Argentine President Alberto Fernández gave a short but impassioned speech on the need to revise “capitalism as we know it,” stating that at present it creates only injustice and inequality. (His nation has finalized arrangements for domestic production of the Sputnik V vaccine.) President Vladimir Putin himself spoke in person at St. Petersburg, on the topics of equitable vaccine access, improving the Russian business environment, and his own version of actions to address “climate change.” Nuclear, hydro, and natural gas play prominently in his proposals, which also envision billions of dollars flowing into Russia to purchase carbon credits for its forests and tundra. Meanwhile, what passes for political discussion in the United States is an absolute joke—Tony Blinken castigating China for Tiananmen Square, UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield shedding crocodile tears for Syrians, Facebook offering social media convict Trump the potential of parole in two years, conditioned on good behavior. Although some in the world may wish to just abandon the United States or the “West” altogether, the actual problems must be resolved, including the beyond-bankrupt condition of the U.S. economy. Lyndon LaRouche wrote in 2000 how to address the kind of inflationary situation we face today: “The presently reigning financial and monetary institutions, are so hopelessly and profoundly bankrupt, that the world economy could not be saved without wiping several hundreds of trillions of current U.S.-dollar equivalent from the current, vastly hyperinflated, financial-asset-values account. In other words, outstanding financial claims must be brought implicitly into line with the world’s present levels of an estimated hard-commodity valuation of the world’s combined domestic product.” With such bankruptcy reorganization, what will serve as true value? “In the present situation, where the valuation to be placed on each and every currency of Europe and the Americas, among others, is increasingly in doubt, what constitutes the quality of durable value upon which medium- to long-term, hard-commodity capital formation could be rationally premised?” If “durable forms of economic value cannot be adduced from a quantity of money, where does a measurable valuation of economic activity lie?” Real value lies in the rate of increase of the potential relative population density of the human species, a change made possible only through the discovery and social implementation of physical principles. By starting with goals expressed in terms of scientific and technological advancement, and the physical baskets of commodities required to attain them, a meaningful organization of society can be achieved, one premised on growth of energy-intensity—as through nuclear power—rather than its diminution, as called for by the Green New Deal. The intention must be to grow! “The issue of economy is, therefore, not the exact price to be placed on any economy, but the good will [the shared commitment to do good] expressed in the way a reasonable estimate of a fair price is adopted.”
Just as every human individual has, by virtue of their inherent creative potential, the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, so too do the sovereign nations of the world have the right to develop for the physical, cultural, and scientific benefit of their people.This right is under attack by the “green” ideology that sees development itself as a threat to a cult-like belief in a static natural order against which human development is inherently antagonistic. This right is under attack by the oligarchical financial practices of the central banks of the trans-Atlantic world, driving hyperinflation through the creation of money disconnected from the physical economy. And this right is under attack by the militaristic geopolitical world outlook that sees sovereignty itself a threat to the British-centered financial imperial power’s ability to force anti-growth finance upon the world. But a great victory for the right to development is currently being achieved. China has achieved tremendous growth, eliminating absolute poverty within its borders, and it now plays a physically productive role in fostering development projects in other nations around the world. This economic motor gives the lie to cynical claims that development is nearing its limits. Statements from India, as well as actions by China and Russia, show that these sovereign nations will not sell out their potential in order to satisfy “green” goals. A grouping of scientists met this week in Italy, to challenge the accuracy of the IPCC’s climate models—against which they pose the relatively greater success of Chinese and Russian models—and the very possibility of making climate models that ignore influences beyond the Earth itself. The most significant example is the Sun’s role in modulating the flux of cosmic radiation, which in turn serves to catalyze cloud formation, which reflects the Sun’s heat. We are scolded that “the science is settled” (a conclusion that may have been shaken by the contradictory messaging of “scientists” during the Covid pandemic), but this meeting in Italy has directly taken on the models that lie at the basis of global warming catastrophism. It is a welcome addition to the fight to counter the jihad against reliable and affordable energy, and for the right to develop. Standing up very directly for sovereignty is Switzerland. After half a dozen years of negotiations with the European Union, Switzerland decided on May 26 not to sign the EU-Swiss Institutional Framework Agreement. Although Switzerland has numerous bilateral agreements with the EU for trade, travel, and investment, it zealously maintains its sovereignty and would not assent to being governed by future dictates from the European Union. This defense of sovereignty has a long history in Switzerland, expressed in the 700-year-old Rütli Oath sworn by a group of devoted citizens from different cantons, but all opposed to imperial rule, an oath made famous by Friedrich Schiller in his play Wilhelm Tell: “We want to be a single people of brothers / Never to part in danger or distress. / We want to be free, as our fathers were, / And rather die than live in slavery. / We want to trust in the one highest God / And never be afraid of human power.” An inflection point in the fight for the right to development—in building the anti-Malthusian resistance—will be the June 26-27 Schiller Institute conference, described in a recent Schiller Institute newsletter: “The upcoming Schiller Institute two-day online international conference on June 26-27 will provide a quickening impulse to the great hope of humanity, to rid the planet of oligarchical geopolitics once and for all. Remember that seemingly weaker forces can, and have, throughout human history, overthrown dumb cruel giants. We are at the edge of the potential to now do that worldwide.”
The legitimacy of a government in the eyes of history — its “mandate from Heaven” — is to promote the common good of its people and of humanity in general. Which governments in the world today can be said to deserve this legitimacy? In welcoming ambassadors from two dozen countries to Russia, President Putin identified, in his own way, the fundamental principle that Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche has emphasized is required for human survival — agape: “The epidemic has proved a real test for such universal human values as solidarity, mutual assistance, and love for humanity…. It is possible to ensure peace, stability and sustainable global development only through the efforts of the entire international community…. We are convinced that everything must be done to prevent the tragedy of World War II from repeating itself, so that its lessons will not be forgotten. All of us must cherish the priceless experience and spirit of allied relations during the struggle against common challenges and threats…. We must ensure the well-being and prosperity of all human beings.”The Committee for the Coincidence of Opposites, which Zepp-LaRouche co-founded, insists in its recent statement that “Health security is possible anywhere, only by provision everywhere of sufficient public health infrastructure and medical treatment capacity. This, in turn, depends directly on expanding water, power and food, which is associated with building up industrial capacity, as well as providing for adequate transportation, housing and other basics.” Against this humanist outlook stands the imperial, Malthusian model for society. It is represented in its more historical form in the City of London and Wall Street — whose increasing power over the nominally sovereign governments of the trans-Atlantic world recalls the earlier “privatization” of the British government under the British East India Company. And it has also adopted a new guise in the “synthetic left” which calls for an end to development and a redefinition of progress in identitarian and environmentalist terms — of “progressives” who think there should be fewer people, “progressives” taken in by uncontextualized appeals to effectively support fascist policies under the rubric of defending human rights. This Malthusian monster seeks to implement a worldwide Great Reset that will reduce the potential human population of the world: dramatically increasing the physical cost of providing and consuming energy (through drastically reducing the use of hydrocarbons while demanding greatly expanded mining to produce rare earth elements necessary for batteries and motors) while pointlessly and perilously heightening the danger of deadly military conflict with Russia and China, to prevent any other paradigm from taking hold. Rather than moving for the development of low-income nations in Africa, the Malthusian beast seeks to pay these nations not to develop, by essentially allowing developed nations to pay for carbon offsets, which would be transferred to poor nations to leave their resources (at least those for domestic consumption rather than export) in the ground. But human beings are resource creators, not merely resource consumers. The climate change catastrophism promoted today as a new secular (or Satanic?) religion, like such earlier studies as the 1980 Global 2000 Report, relies on the same old discredited Malthusian theorizing that has led its predecessors to make terrifying forecasts that were soon falsified by reality. Human beings are resource creators, not merely resource consumers. Every new “mouth to feed” is associated with a new “mind to educate.” It is the ability of each human individual to make enduring contributions to human history that demands peace and development throughout the world. It is for the sake of past, present, and future humanity that this view of the human individual be brought forward to guide policy, rejecting the depraved outlooks that would tolerate Israeli murder, Green destruction of productivity, and the drive to draw the United States into war with Russia and China. Will we become deserving of the praise of the future?
The Schiller Institute and the LaRouche Organization are building a multi-pronged “Anti-Malthusian Resistance Movement,” to counter the fact that the historic intention of the British Empire to systematically reduce the world’s population has taken a severe up-tick over the past months. The regime-change wars of the past two decades have proven inadequate to lower the population to the level desired by the Malthusians, although many believe, as does the head of the US Strategic Command Adm. Charles Richard, that nuclear war is now “likely”—which would indeed lower the world population—perhaps to zero. But as Bertrand Russell once said, expressing the Imperial distaste for humanity:“War has hitherto been disappointing in [reducing the population]… but perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective. If a Black Death could spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full…. The state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of it?” WIll the COVID-19, perhaps together with a COVID-22 which mutates from the current virus, and aided by the famine sweeping through major war-torn areas of the world, prove to satisfy Lord Russell’s blood lust? It were indeed possible, and those who deny it would be well advised to read Edgar Allen Poe’s Masque of the Red Death. Mark Carney, the former head of the Bank of England now running the Green New Deal for the UN, let it all out in an April 22 forum on the “African Transition to Net-Zero.” The “carbon offset markets” must be set up and running by year’s end, he said, so that the African nations can get rich and “develop”—by not developing! By not developing their resources, and not cutting down any trees to build new factories or new farmland, Carney said, the African nations can sell their “non-development” as carbon offsets to the western companies which are producing carbon. But, the good Mr. Carney added slyly, “Of course, there must be integrity around the offsets, and a degree of permanence of these offsets, with verification and monitoring of that permanence.” And who will “monitor” and “verify” the “permanence” of their non-development? We are dealing here with an open declaration that a new “Green” colonial takeover is required, to enforce backwardness, just as the British Empire did in the good old days. The return to these colonial intentions is in sharp contrast to the optimism of a growing number of nations in opposition to that evil and illegal colonial thinking, centered on China’s Belt and Road Initiative. This is clearly expressed in the two views of mankind’s exploration of space, that of the Atlantic Council, a leading Anglo-American neoconservative think tank, and that of China. The Atlantic Council today posted a piece called “Fast Thinking—Mars With Chinese Characteristics,” subhead: “Everything you need to know about China’s Mars rover landing.” Their conclusion: “The United States should respond by establishing ‘acceptable behaviors in the space domain with its allies and partners, expanding relationships like NATO to Outer Space,’” quoting Julia Siegel, co-author of an Atlantic Council report called “The Future of Security in Space: A Thirty-year US strategy.” I.e., make sure that space exploration never becomes a collaborative venture of the human race as a whole, but a geopolitical conflict between imperial powers against China and Russia. Contrast China’s view, expressed today by the Foreign Ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian: “The Mars rover of Tianwen-1 is named Zhurong after the god of fire in ancient Chinese mythology. Fire brought warmth and brightness to the ancestors of humankind, and fire lit up human civilization. Naming China’s first Mars rover after the god of fire signifies igniting the flame of China’s inter-planetary exploration, inspiring those working in this field to surpass themselves and pursue space dreams. The universe is also a dream for all humankind. China has always committed itself to peaceful use of space, carried out relevant international exchange and cooperation and shared outcomes in space exploration. With the spirit of seeking benefits for all mankind, China will continue to advance international cooperation in an open and inclusive manner and make greater contributions to the lofty cause of exploring the mysteries of the universe and promoting peace and development for mankind.” The spokesmen for Empire would deny the existence of such benevolence, or the belief in a common aim for mankind, but insist that the Chinese, and the Russians, and all other peoples, think as they do, through geopolitical glasses, as Darwinian animals who must prove themselves to be the “strongest” in order to survive. The Schiller Institute conferences in March and May were inspiring demonstrations that the harmony of interests of all mankind is both real, and is being demonstrated through leaders of nations and institutions joining with the Schiller Institute and the LaRouche Organization to build the necessary creative spirit among disparate nations to a common, higher purpose. The first step in that effort must be to counter the threat to mankind as a whole of the pandemic: to mobilize the major nations of the world, including China, Russia, and the US, and all others who will join, to stop the build-up for war, and instead unite in building a modern health-care system in every nation on Earth. If China, the US, and the UAE can each successfully deploy rockets to Mars, as has happened this year, then surely the world can unite behind such a noble cause as ending the mass death now striking India, Syria, Gaza, Yemen, Brazil and threatening all of Africa. The statement, Global Health Security Requires Medical Infrastructure in Every Country—Major Industrial Nations Must Collaborate Now!, released by the Committee for the Coincidence of Opposites, calls on all peoples to join in that crucial effort, as a step towards full development for all nations, and for “Peace Through Development.”
In the latest revelation of how close the world has come to nuclear war, Daniel Ellsberg—of Pentagon Papers fame—revealed for the first time last week that the Joint Chiefs of Staff had prepared plans for nuclear war in 1958 during the Taiwan Straits Crisis, well aware that the outcome could be the total destruction of Taiwan itself. He warned that precisely such calculations were occurring today in the halls of power, pointing to the statement from the Commander of Strategic Command, Adm. Charles Richards, that nuclear war was a very real possibility. “This is the month we have to be discussing the issue, in public, of whether we should go to nuclear war over Taiwan, or Ukraine, or Syria.”Speaking to the power of individuals to change history, Ellsberg said that it is right to be a whistleblower “when lives are at stake” and that “If a high level official—it wouldn’t have to be a cabinet official, a deputy assistant secretary would be fine—had done what Snowden and the others did, there would have been no Iraq War in 1991. We would not have been in Afghanistan for 20 years of war. These catastrophes can be changed by individuals putting the truth out, and that can be very, very powerful.” Who will stand up today? Other potentially explosive situations exist, as the tense situation in Jerusalem shows. Removal of Palestinians from their neighborhoods, the clearing of the Al-Aqsa Mosque through the use of rubber bullets and tear gas within the holy building, rockets, and air strikes are building in intensity not seen for some years. Jordan’s Foreign Minister, speaking diplomatically in his meetings in Washington DC, was more direct in his remarks to the Arab League on Tuesday, where he warned that Israel is playing with fire. And the attacks on China and Russia continue, as they will continue until geopolitics is defeated, or nuclear war breaks out. Hypocritical attacks on China in the name of “human rights” ring hollower and hollower, but they repeat nonetheless. The ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline is being blamed on Russia with the same level of evidence (essentially zero) that was presented for attributing the SolarWinds hack to that nation. As the creative, most beautiful species, we inhabit a universe without limits. The beyond-stupid Malthusian dogma which states that population growth will unavoidably outstrip limited resources, recast in supposedly scientific form by the risible 1972 book Limits to Growth, and now serving as a religious-like axiom to “green” movements around the world, does not apply to any culture committed to scientific advancement, infrastructure development, improved powers of productivity, and advancing culture. Crushing war, sanctions and geopolitics, and establishing, around the world, platforms for health, energy, transport, water, education, and culture, will ensure that we can rise to new challenges, and make this planet—and others!—a habitation in keeping with the dignity of its inhabitants.
"It seems to me that if mankind is going to survive or not as a species, are we going to go extinct or not, really depends on whether we can overcome being victimized by imperial thinking—divide and conquer—and letting ourselves be in this camp, hostile to the other camp. Or, can we somehow evoke in ourselves and in others this quality of the inner self-development in cohesion with the lawfulness of the creation of the universe?“It seems to me that this is a method which absolutely must be applied now. I think that on the question of somehow overcoming this geopolitical confrontation, or especially the divisions of identity politics which are increasing divisions by the day—we have to somehow find this inner mechanism, this inner idea which makes us all human belonging to the one human species. Given the pandemic, and the fact that we are really in an unbelievable crisis—a moral crisis, a political, medical, military crisis, an economic crisis, a financial crisis—that we have to start somewhere where we address this question of what makes us all human, and that is the sacredness of every human life on this planet…. And I think we will be able to do that, because I think human beings have the potential to be human.” With these words Helga Zepp-LaRouche opened the second panel of the Schiller Institute conference “The Moral Collapse of the Trans-Atlantic World Cries Out for a New Paradigm,” an event which brought together speakers from the United States, Europe, South America, Syria, Afghanistan, and Japan. Confronted with the deadly realities of the threat of nuclear war, of pandemic and famine, and of the neo-Malthusianism that has infected the minds of so many and stymies their acting against the very real threats to humanity as a whole. Barbaric sanctions—murder conducted in the name of “human rights”—are a disgusting tool used to crush countries into submission. The Saudi blockade of Yemen, the U.S. extension of deadly sanctions on Syria—these are clear expressions. But what of the sanctions demanded by the likes of supposedly “progressive” people? What of the Green demand that nations not develop, not utilize their resources, and not have growing populations? Whether sanctions take the form of U.S. opposition to a government (think Syria, Russia, Iran), or the Great Reset’s opposition to an atmospheric gas (CO₂), the effect of their implementation is to crush development and deprive people of their lives, livelihoods, and futures. We must not be moral failures! A world in which an accident could result in the unleashing of a barrage of hundreds of nuclear missiles and thousands of warheads, absolutely devastating civilization is not a world that can be tolerated, nor one suitable to the inherent dignity of the human individual. Share the Schiller Institute conference and rise to the level of thought and action the present demands and the future deserves.
For over half a century, humanity has been menaced by the very real possibility of self-imposed extinction through nuclear warfare, launched either intentionally or by accident. That threat has waxed and waned, with periods of almost imminent warfare, some known (the Cuban Missiles Crisis) and some unknown (the September 1983 alarm that indicated a U.S. launch of five missiles, which a Soviet Lieutenant Colonel decided on his own was a false alarm).Today the threat is extreme, but few know it, despite Adm. Charles Richards, the head of the U.S. Strategic Command, saying that there is a “real possibility” of nuclear conflict with Russia or China, demanding that the “U.S. military must shift its principal assumption from ‘nuclear employment is not possible’ to ‘nuclear employment is a very real possibility.’” Henry Kissinger—in general no friend to the human race—accurately warned April 30 that “For the first time in human history, humanity has the capacity to extinguish itself in a finite period of time.” Do you, personally, take seriously this threat? The reason for the possibility of war does not lie with supposedly “malign” actions taken by either of those two countries; it comes from the demand made by the City of London and the trans-Atlantic financial institutions that all nations must submit to the Great Green Reset. The demand that true physical development must cease, and that spy agencies, finance, and militaries must cooperate to root out carbon dioxide offenders cannot and will not be accepted by Russia, China, or India. The Schiller Institute conference to be held this Saturday, May 8, on the 76th anniversary of the defeat of fascism in Europe, is designed to pull together the leadership to avert catastrophe, and to usher in a new paradigm of relations among sovereign nations the mutual benefit of all. Join the conference: “The Moral Collapse of the Trans-Atlantic World Cries Out for a New Paradigm”
Until power is wrested from those currently exercising it over the United States and a new paradigm of economics, culture, and politics determines its policy, the threat of war will only escalate, until it becomes a deadly and irreversible reality.This drive for war, driven by the oligarchy exerting control over the governments, institutions, and prevailing culture of the U.S. and U.K., arises from an absolute commitment to crush the independence and growth of Russia and China, to prevent any challenge to the post-Soviet unipolar order. The inherent contradiction between the oligarchical commitments to geopolitical, military control internationally and to financial control “domestically” cannot be resolved by simply growing and competing, but only by crushing. The danger mounts, both with Russia and China. Consider Russia’s response to the revelations of a foiled coup d’état in Belarus, that was to include the assassination of its President, Aleksandr Lukashenko. During his April 21 speech before the Russian Federal Assembly, President Putin referred to the escalation from sanctions to murder: “Today, this practice is degenerating into something even more dangerous—I am referring to the recently exposed direct interference in Belarus in an attempt to orchestrate a coup d’0233tat and assassinate the Presidnet of that country… This goes too far. This is beyond any limits.” He warned the would-be perpetrators that “Russia’s response will be asymmetrical, swift and tough.” On Sunday, Belarusian state TV station ONT released an “anti-fake” TV show, purporting to show secret video of the planning of the plotters, their confessions, and a response to the newscaster to the State Department’s denial of any involvement in an assassination plot: “We’ll tell you where Washington can look for the truth. In Washington itself! Biden’s advisor Michael Carpenter will tell you if he wants.” Carpenter, Vice-President Biden’s foreign policy advisor, who co-authored a 2018 article with Biden entitled “How to Stand up to the Kremlin,” was a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia and Ukraine, and today works at the Atlantic Council and the Penn Biden Center. Belarus, Russia’s staunch ally in Europe, has therefore, on state TV, directly accused a top U.S. official intimately connected to President Biden, with the attempted assassination of its president. Where will this lead? Asked about China’s response to U.S. sanctions and other moves against Russia, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Wang Wenbin was sharp. He was asked: “Recently, the U.S. has imposed large-scale sanctions on Russia… In his latest State of the Union address, President Putin warned the West not to cross the red line, otherwise Moscow’s response would make the culprits feel bitterly sorry for their action. Does China have any comment on this?” Wang responded: “China has all along maintained that differences should be properly resolved through consultation as equals on the basis of mutual respect. We reject the approach of wantonly resorting to unilateral sanctions or threats of sanctions. Such behavior constitutes power politics and hegemonic bullying, which gains no support and is increasingly rejected… China and Russia are comprehensive strategic partners of coordination in the new era. We will continue to understand and support each other in safeguarding our respective sovereignty, security, and development interests.” Americans in particular must resist the divisive and important nonsense that is promoted as dominating domestic political discussion, and instead recognize the extreme danger posed by the British-directed drive for war with Russia. This demand for war was just expressed anew in the latest lunatic demands from the Royal Institute for International Affairs, this time based not on election tampering, utility hacking, ineffective poisonings, bounties, but on a 2014 explosion in the Czech Republic. The drive for war will continue to invent new pretexts as often as needed, and will only stop by being defeated. Will you take up that challenge?
The Biden White House celebrated “Dearth Day” by dragging together world leaders for a shared discussion about committing suicide by forcing the world to engage in a carbon-dioxide hunger strike. As the EU, UK, and US tried to outdo each other by cheerily announcing yet earlier dates to achieve various goals of reducing carbon dioxide emissions, John Kerry insisted that even carbon neutrality was too limited a goal. We’ll have to “suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere,” he gravely informed his bored audience.While general statements about loving nature and living in harmony with it came from all attendees, some of whom represent countries with true pollution problems that have very real health impacts, when it came time to drink the Kool Aid, many demurred. Xi Jinping pointed out that the responsibilities of the world’s nations are “common but differentiated,” continuing a theme of nations from the BRICS and the global south insisting that their growth would not be sacrificed to meet climate goals set by the trans-Atlantic nations. But the real threat to the future of the people of this planet is not climate change. It is nuclear war. Ukrainian President Zelensky, who met for hours with the head of MI6 last year, insists his nation is ready to stand up to Russia and should become a member of NATO. American think-tank lunatics insist on sending additional troops to Ukraine to counter the purported Russian threat. A thwarted coup attempt in Belarus is followed by the U.S. Ambassador to that nation meeting with the opposition leader. A Greek diplomat implores President Biden to prevent a new war by participating in a summit of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. The situation with Taiwan remains intense, with numerous hawks pushing for additional support for Taiwanese independence, an impossible course and far worse for Taiwan than to move towards negotiations on resolving the cross-Strait relations to create a single China with great autonomy afforded to Taiwan. Driving the urgency of these military provocations, suicidal climate arrangements, and domestic U.S. fascism imposed by controlled-mob rule, is the exploding trans-Atlantic financial system, whose eruption backed by endless money-pumping is being treated euphorically as a period of immense growth. But as the upper part of the explosion propels finance upward, the detonation destroys the physical economy on which actual life depends. To reverse it, the reigns of power must be seized from Wall Street, which must be put under strict control and allowed a salubrious visit to bankruptcy court. National credit towards productive (read “anti-green”) investment in science, infrastructure, and manufacturing can carry the United States—and the world—towards the kind of economic paradigm largely being implemented presently by China, informed both by the previous success of the American system and the ongoing organizing of Lyndon LaRouche, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, and the LaRouche movement. The Schiller Institute Conference of May 8 will bring together a thoughtful and active discussion on charting a course towards a Renaissance, to escape the war, banality, and ugliness of a culture which, though having abandoned the outlook that drove its past glories, insists on maintaining a now-unearned supremacy through crushing the rise of others. We must work to collectively outgrow this infantile identity.
U.S. military adventures have killed over a million people since the 9/11 attacks. American sanctions continue to starve, deny healthcare to, prevent the development of, and generally immiserate broad swaths of people around the world. And it could be far worse. Ongoing provocations against Russia threaten to unleash the kind of war that could lead to the nuclear-armed elimination of society as we know it. Why? To what end? Is Russia’s crime simply to exist as a powerful, independent force? What crimes has China committed that its very growth is seen as a threat?Hunger now menaces tens of millions of people, over a hundred million people have found themselves impoverished over the last year of Covid-19, and one billion people lack reliable access to clean water and sanitary facilities. Every year, some 800,000 children die of diarrheal diseases, themselves almost entirely preventable through sanitation and water infrastructure. Malaria claims the lives of 400,000 annually. Smoking and its effects are the cause of 8,000,000 annual deaths. The confirmed death toll of the Covid-19 pandemic has surpassed 3,000,000. But these figures exist only as comparisons against a base level of population and well-being that is itself far too low. Had the economic, scientific-technological, and cultural reforms proposed by Lyndon LaRouche (such as his Woman on Mars proposal of the 1980s) been adopted, we could today be enjoying a world in which poverty were a thing of the past, a lunar colony could be confronting humanity with the issue of the citizenship of those born on the Moon, and once-impoverished nations would be world leaders in fields of particular expertise. To take a narrower (and, as it may appear to most people in the world, a more parochial view), consider the United States, where in a recent year there were roughly 47,500 suicides and 19,000 homicides, of which 14,000 were murders and 1,000 were people shot and killed by police. Can a country that commits violence abroad achieve peace within? And can anything less than an impassioned commitment to bring our policies and culture increasingly into coherence with the creative dignity of the human individual bring justice to those deprived of their lives, or the opportunity to live in a way that contributes meaningfully to all of humanity? There’s a whole universe out there, full of beautiful mysteries, eager to share its wonders. Will humanity dethrone the currently leading powers of the trans-Atlantic world—primarily in the United Kingdom and the U.S.—to abandon the adolescent, anti-human geopolitics that guides prevailing “Western” policy, to adopt instead the promise of cooperation among governments each committed to the general welfare, to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, to discovery and progress? Lyndon LaRouche and his movement have warned for decades that the calamities inherent in the policy choices made since World War II, particularly since the assassinations of the 1960s and the undoing of the world order Franklin Roosevelt helped to shape, would confront the world in the form of economic fascism (today’s Great Reset and Green New Deal) and the threat of warfare to impose it. Charting a path out of the Dark Age we live in demands great things of us all. Will you rise to the challenge?
