The Biden administration is engaging in aggressive, thumb-in-your-eye provocations against Russia and China, almost as if to force them to respond around Ukraine and Taiwan and thereby have an excuse for war. And predictably, various U.S. media outlets are turning around and blaming Russia and China for the escalating tensions.For instance, the Wall Street Journal yesterday published an article by Ann Simmons which leads with the following whopper: “The recent deployment of Russian troops along Ukraine’s border and Moscow’s indication that it could intervene in the event of a full-scale war in eastern Ukraine are dimming hopes for a peaceful resolution of the conflict that has festered for seven years and cost thousands of lives.” No mention of the fact that the latest Russian actions are in response to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s fast-track drive to join NATO, clearly egged on by Washington and London. The Journal article then reviewed recent statements by Russian President Putin against the NATO drive, as well as comments by Dmitry Kozak, deputy chief of staff of Russia’s Presidential Executive Office, “who warned on Thursday that Moscow would be forced to defend its citizens living in eastern Ukraine in the event of all-out war, and said this would be ‘the beginning of the end for Ukraine’,” the Journal reported. The article then quotes Russian defense analyst Konstantin Sivkov: “If the United States of America and NATO begin to support Ukraine and strike at the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, Russia will certainly enter a military conflict.”
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The old, macabre joke goes: “Do you know how to make Ukrainian chicken soup? You put a bunch of Ukrainians in a pot, and then you feed them to the chickens.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, perhaps unwittingly, is placing Ukraine in a big, steaming pot, getting hotter by the minute, under the illusion that the NATO of 2021 will not behave as the Atlantic Alliance of 1956 did, in the case of Hungary. Not that NATO should even now exist: after all, even the most obsessed geopolitician will concede that the Atlantic Ocean is a long way from the Black Sea.Russian officials have almost sympathetically observed that Zelensky may not even have control over the crazies from the Ukrainian military now bombing villages near Donetsk. Sen. Vladimir Jabarov, first deputy chairman of the Federation Council’s international affairs committee, told TASS: “If ( Zelensky) thinks that NATO will agree to defend him, should he enter into a conflict with Russia, he is very wrong. May he give a call to [Georgia’s former president Mikheil] Saakashvili and ask him for advice. He will tell him how it happens.” Russian President Vladimir Putin not only made Russia’s position clear to Angela Merkel and France’s Emmanuel Macron in a phone discussion. Putin also held a phone call with Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil. Whatever else they discussed, the two presidents are known to have engaged in the type of “vaccine diplomacy” that the Schiller Institute’s Committee for the Coincidence of Opposites has encouraged. The Brazil coronavirus catastrophe, dealt with by Bolsonaro so far in the same way the doomed Prince Prospero “bid defiance to contagion” in Poe’s Masque of the Red Death, may be the single greatest crisis in that nation’s history—so far. But axioms also fall prey to plagues. A new path forward is required, and available. Yesterday, China’s Xi Jinping spoke to Germany’s Angela Merkel about his vision of economic development. He elicited her stated intention that strengthening the EU-China dialogue is beneficial to the world. Merkel said that Germany is willing to play a positive role in this regard. China’s support for El Salvador, sending more than 2 million doses of vaccine to that nation of 6.4 million, and its collaboration with Cuba in the creation of the PanCorona vaccine, one of five now being worked on in that “terrorist” nation of 11 million, is yet another example of Russia and China doing in South America what the United States, in the image of Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress and FDR’s Good Neighbor policy, might have been expected to do. The potential for a Worldwide Anti-Malthusian Alliance is also in evidence in the recent defense of the continent of Africa by India’s Minister of Power, New and Renewable Energy Raj Kumar Singh on March 31: “You have 800 million African people who do not have access to electricity. We (India) will achieve whatever has to be achieved because we get investments. What about those (African) countries?… Those countries will develop, and that will require more steel, and they will make that; it will require more cement; and they will make that…. And you can’t stop it…. They also want to build skyscrapers. They also want a high standard of living for their people.” His words echoed the words of Fred Wills at the Schiller Institute 1988 New Bretton Woods Conference, regarding the aspirations of the original 1955 Non-Aligned Movement, of which India was a leading part: “We believed in those days, and we still do, that life is the fundamental essentiality of natural processes. Life has to come into existence, life has to survive, life has to grow, life has to develop. We were sure then, and I am sure now, that the assumptions of present existence are unacceptable.” From Switzerland, Marc Chesney, head of the department of banking and finance at Zurich University, warned about a coming blowout of the financial system and called for re-introduction of bank separation. Even the Swiss GDP is now mortgaged 26,000 times over in the derivatives markets. “How can one believe that bank customers in Switzerland must cover risks for 26,000 times the national output?” Chesney also pointed out that perhaps twice the amount of financial liquidity flows into the hands of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos every day, that circulates in the hands of 1.3 billion Africans in the same 24-hour period. Not real wealth, true, but a manifestation of the true imperial/colonial nature of the financial Great Reset nonetheless. Productive credit in the trillions, flowing into the physical production necessary to rapidly assemble a multi-tier world health platform, and its coexistent water, power and transportation support capable of defeating the impending outbreaks of disease, including new strains of disease, can and must be organized. Presidents and representatives of Russia, China, and India have all asserted sovereignty and sanity in the last week. Where is the United States in all this? There must be a change in the prevailing axioms. There are two immediate ways to attack this. First, we must intensify the campaign to deploy Col. Richard Black’s courageous “J ’Accuse” with respect to the United States military’s collusion in the destruction of Syria through population war, otherwise called “sanctions.” Cardinal Zenari’s full statement is available through Vatican News, and we should continue to collect statements of support for it. Second, the rapid, surgical distribution of The LaRouche Organization’s Great Leap Backward pamphlet in the next days prior to the Biden Earth Day April 22-23 Malthusian confab, can catalyze a seismic reaction in this country to the climate change fraud that no one would right now suspect. Not that the “LaRouche effect” would “peak,” and then decline after April 22. Rather, the intent is to induce an intensifying process of deliberate rejection of the anti-Russia/China propaganda machine operated through the British Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG), a once-secret unit of the signals intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and its junior partner, the Global Engagement Center (GEC), which has targeted, using updated Tavistock Institute methods, any organization and many individuals that pose a threat to the global depopulation agenda, including the LaRouche Organization. The final words of LaRouche’s “The Science of the Human Mind” put our present challenge best: “Mental health is, like scientific discovery, always polemical in character. Truth exists only in the form of polemics against Evil and falsehood.”
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President Joe Biden has invited forty heads of state to attend a virtual summit hosted by Washington on April 22-23, to celebrate Earth Day by ringing in a new era of global Green deindustrialization and depopulation under the guise of achieving “zero carbon emissions”—whatever that is supposed to mean—by 2050. It can’t be done, and it is not going to work. Already one of India’s top climate-change experts and Member of the PM’s Council on Climate Change, Chandrashekhar Dasgupta, has stated that India should pay lip service to the global goals, but absolutely cannot be bound by them in their own country, because they are a developing nation that must grow or perish.The same holds for Biden’s $2.2 trillion “infrastructure and jobs bill,” which the Washington Post today confided has little to do with infrastructure, and everything to do with imposing a dramatic downshift of the energy technological platform, designed to bring about a new medieval era of solar and wind energy. “The linchpin of Biden’s plan … is the creation of a national standard requiring utilities to use a specific amount of solar, wind and other renewable energy.” This, the Post chuckles, “would amount to the most sweeping federal intervention in the electricity sector in generations.” But that also can’t be done, and it’s not going to work. Already the spokesman for Edison Electric Institute, the power sector’s biggest trade association, stated that they will be glad to “review any proposed clean energy standard closely,” but they will not agree to this undermining the “affordability and reliability our customers value.” You can expect all sorts of manufacturing, trade union, and other professional and business groups to oppose the Green New Deal, as it becomes obvious that it means returning the United States to medieval technologies, and associated medieval levels of population. The LaRouche Organization’s newly-released pamphlet “The Great Leap Backward: LaRouche Crushes the ‘Green New Deal’ Fraud,” reveals in detail the nightmare that the adoption of such policies would unleash. But, crucially, it also presents what none of the other critics know how to address: the substantive global solutions to the breakdown crisis, as American economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche and his associates have detailed them over decades. All of these programmatic proposals hinge on the United States joining with China’s Belt and Road Initiative to cooperate on great infrastructure projects—on this planet, and beyond on the Moon, Mars, and the rest of the Solar System. So, it would be a much better idea for Narendra Modi of India, Vladimir Putin of Russia, and Xi Jinping of China to invite Joe Biden to join them in a summit meeting of these Four Powers on the “sidelines” of the April 22-23 virtual summit. They could use the occasion to discuss the truly pressing crises facing the planet—the COVID pandemic, the economic collapse, the threat of regional and world war—and the needed solutions, including international cooperation on Mankind’s next scientific and technological frontier: fusion power-driven space exploration and colonization. That way “Earth Day” could be transformed and properly replaced by “Mars Day.”
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Through the daily din of saber-rattling against China and Russia, and the chaos and death of the spreading pandemic in most of the world, and Wall Street’s shrill cries for green depopulation, voices for sanity and development are being raised around the world—and they are being heard. They are, in fact, echoes of the voice of Lyndon LaRouche and his living movement.From China, the spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry, Hua Chunying, today tweeted in English: “Hear the voices of true scholars,” followed by this link: which is the first page of the call initiated by Helga Zepp-LaRouche of experts from all over the world demanding a policy of cooperation, not confrontation, with China. That call concludes: “The success from China’s emphasis on science and technological progress and innovation, demonstrate that China is doing well with what we in the West have seemingly forgotten, and we would do better to respond to the offer of cooperation, than seeking confrontation. We should better take up the view of the great philosopher and founder of modern mathematics, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and in a Dialogue of Cultures find a way to solve the crises challenging all of Humanity.” Spoken and heard. Likewise from Syria, a lawyer wrote to the Schiller Institute after having listened to former Virginia state Senator Richard Black’s courageous call for the United States to abandon decades of criminal British geopolitics and help develop Southwest Asia with infrastructure—as China is doing. “As a Syrian citizen, I cannot say or add any word to the presentation of Sen. Black,” the appreciative lawyer wrote, “except to thank you very much, as an institute and people who are in charge of it, for this deep and wonderful video that comes from the heart of the country that caused all these disasters to Syria and the region.” Spoken and heard. And in less than a month, President Biden will team up with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to try to impose the City of London’s policy of green genocide on the entire planet, at the April 22-23 Leaders Summit on Climate. But for the full month, The LaRouche Organization will be on the airwaves and (where possible) on the streets of the country, with LaRouche’s human alternative presented in the pamphlet “The Great Leap Backward: LaRouche Crushes Green New Deal Fraud.” The survival of every one of the 40 countries whose heads of state and government have been invited to that summit, in fact depends on the rejection of the green new deal, and on hearing the voice of Lyndon LaRouche instead.
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In one sense the central strategic issue of the day, that question does not yet have a certain answer. And as it is being fought out, Helga Zepp-LaRouche warned in her weekly webcast yesterday, “the strategic situation is becoming increasingly worrisome, because you have a real collapse of relations between the U.S. and Russia, the U.S. and China, the EU and China. So all of this forebodes nothing good, and needs some urgent change in direction.”Is it President Joe Biden who speaks for the United States? Not according to the President himself, who yesterday announced that he was naming VP Kamala Harris to head up border issues for the administration, and that “when she speaks, she speaks for me, doesn’t have to check with me.” A few weeks earlier he had similarly given Secretary of State Tony Blinken carte blanche, and told the world that what Blinken says is American policy. World leaders are well aware that Biden can scarcely carry a thought all the way across a room, let alone navigate through the most complex economic and strategic crisis in centuries. If not Biden, is it then Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who have spent the better part of the last two months denouncing Russia’s purported “reckless and adversarial actions,” and China’s “challenge to the rules-based order,” while imposing new criminal sanctions on both countries? Or, worse still, is it admirals Davidson and Aquilino, or the Dr. Strangelove-wannabes of the US Army’s “Multi-Domain Task Force,” who argue that “the line between conflict and peace is blurred,” and who therefore promote forward-basing US forces to surround China in the Pacific, and who openly call for the use of military power to forcibly split Taiwan from China? If such British imperial utopian policies prevail as the voice of the United States, then the trajectory towards full-scale thermonuclear war is indeed a short one. Fortunately, there are other voices and other policies being heard—emphatically including those of Lyndon LaRouche, “now through the voice of his wife, Doña Helga,” as former Mexican President López Portillo stated in 1998. Others in that international chorus of voices were also heard at last weekend’s Schiller Institute conference, putting together a global policy alternative to the bankruptcy of the trans-Atlantic financial system, which is the driving force towards war. The remarks of former state senator Richard Black stand out as another strong voice for the true United States. But the issue posed is actually a deeper one: What is that real United States? We were wise to turn to Gottfried Leibniz, one of the true founding fathers of the United States, whose philosophical concept of happiness or felicity—as diametrically opposed to the hedonist’s notion of pleasure—defined the substantive content of the Declaration of Independence as well as the General Welfare clause of the U.S. Constitution. But Leibniz also addressed the fundamental issue of foreign policy—the nature of justice in our relations with other sovereign nations—in his writings. Take the question he posed at the outset of his 1702 “Meditation on the Common Concept of Justice.” “It is agreed that whatever God wills is good and just. But there remains the question whether it is good and just because God wills it or whether God wills it because it is good and just, in other words whether justice and goodness are arbitrary or whether they belong to the necessary and eternal truths about the nature of things.” Leibniz himself answered that the former view “would destroy the justice of God. For why praise him because he acts according to justice, if the notion of justice, in his case, adds nothing to that of action… Moreover this opinion would not sufficiently distinguish God from the devil.” He emphasized that those who hold that view “have done wrong to the attributes which make God lovable, and, having destroyed the love of God, they have left only fear behind.” That distinction lies at the heart of a properly defined American foreign policy, especially in times of an existential crisis facing all mankind, when our very survival depends on achieving the general welfare of every other nation on the planet, as well as our own.
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In November 1996, Lyndon LaRouche published an article in EIR magazine under the headline: “The Murderous Issue of Food Policy.” He began as follows: “The following series of quotations tells its own story. “It is to be read as selections to be featured within the opening statement of an indictment, for capital crimes against humanity, to be presented to an appropriate tribunal. The clearly implied difficulty, is selecting a tribunal composed of persons untainted by complicity with persons and institutions which have been continuing parties to the crime against which complaint is made.”LaRouche then cited a series of statements calling for Malthusian depopulation, and in particular for using food as a weapon to achieve that result, by Bertrand Russell, Lester Brown, and—perhaps most notoriously—Henry Kissinger, who wrote bluntly in his “NSSM-200”: “Mandatory programs may be needed and we should be considering these possibilities now. Would food be considered an instrument of national power? … Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can’t/won’t control their population growth?” Today, a quarter-century later, that tribunal has yet to be convened, that battle against the British Malthusian world order has yet to be won. In fact, the implied mission that LaRouche called for back then is the context for the Schiller Institute’s international conference today, which will be held this weekend, March 20-21. Today’s proponents of Green Malthusianism are no less evil than their forebears. • London’s Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House) in February proclaimed that food production was the principal cause for “the loss of biodiversity” and other climate problems, and therefore must be drastically reduced. • President Biden’s Special Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, in March 9 remarks to the EU Commission threatened to impose a top-down global green dictatorship: “The market will lead the transformation in a phenomenal way in the next two to three years, believe me. In two or three years, the latecomers and climate deniers won’t have any place any more in our politics and our economies.” • That same day, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation that he fully shared Kerry’s view that “development finance is a powerful tool for addressing the climate crisis”—i.e., that countries could be financially strangled into submission; that de-carbonization was the Biden administration’s #1 priority; and that this policy “will be front and center at the [Biden] climate summit on April 22.” • In mid-March, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services proudly announced that it had pressured Brazil into not permitting the use of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, all the while refusing to provide vaccines from America’s supplies to any Third World nations, including Brazil and Mexico. Brazil today is being devastated by an uncontrolled COVID crisis, in part due to the lack of vaccination, which is already breeding new strains of the virus that threaten the entire planet. Is hoarding COVID vaccines any different from the Kissinger policy of using food as a weapon of British geopolitics and depopulation? The problem for the British, of course, is that such policies have a high probability of backfiring under conditions where nations have an alternative policy before them, such as that of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, along with a strategy for bringing Europe and the Americas into such a New Classical Paradigm—as will be elaborated at the upcoming Schiller Institute conference.
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“Anybody who does not have geopolitical spectacles on their nose can see that, unless the two largest economies in the world—the U.S. and China—work together to tackle problems such as the pandemic, poverty, and famine, the world will be a miserable place,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche asserted in her weekly international webcast today. “And therefore some of these military doctrines which declare Russia and China to be the enemy are really stupid… The end result can only lead to war.”Zepp-LaRouche referred specifically to the recent Dr. Strangelove-type rampage of Adm. Philip Davidson, the head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, who defined China as the leading strategic threat to the United States. But the dangerous policy outlook originates in imperial London and extends deep into both the Republican and Democratic parties—and also into an all-too-gullible American population. The simple fact of the matter, as Lyndon LaRouche stressed repeatedly, is that we are in the throes of a systemic breakdown crisis of the entire trans-Atlantic system, characterized by both a bankrupt financial system and plunging real living standards of most of the world’s population, which has unleashed pandemics, famine, and cruel poverty. And solving that crisis, LaRouche also insisted, requires mustering the combined physical economic capabilities of China and the United States, in a science-driven global infrastructure program such as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Whether London’s ideologues like it or not, China cannot be absent from the real-world solution to these problems. It not only launched the BRI and made it available to all nations, regardless of ideology; China has also succeeded in lifting 850 million Chinese out of extreme poverty over the last 40 years—the single, greatest contribution to the growth of physical-economic productivity worldwide, emphatically including real productivity inside the U.S. Consider the plight of Yemen, where millions—including children—are facing mass starvation, in what World Food Program director David Beasley painfully described, after a visit to that country this week, as “Hell; it’s the worst place on earth. And it’s entirely man-made.” So too with the explosion of new strains of COVID across the Americas, centered in Brazil, where the Bolsonaro government’s policy of arrogant inaction has encouraged the spread of the disease to crisis proportions. The new P1 Brazilian strain of the coronavirus is apparently twice as contagious as the original strain; and it is reportedly capable of re-infecting those who had COVID in anywhere from 25-60% of cases. Brazil, with its 211 million population, one-quarter of whom live in abject poverty, shares borders with 10 out of South America’s 12 countries. Do you really think this can be contained within Brazil? But just as the crisis is man-made, so too is its solution: the accelerated development of Southwest Asia, Africa, Ibero-America, and elsewhere, based on the extension of high-tech BRI corridors throughout these regions, in which China and the U.S. must play the keystone roles. The upcoming Schiller Institute/ICLC conference will present a detailed blueprint for such an approach. China, and Russia, are also both natural allies of those in the United States and Europe who rightly view the Green New Deal as a threat to economic development and human existence itself. As Helga Zepp-LaRouche stated in her webcast: “Behind all of this so-called ‘climate’ and anti-nuclear question, there are quite different motives: namely to reduce the population, and that is what is not being accepted by Russia and China. This self destruction of the West by deindustrializing, by reversing the level of industry and agriculture to pre-industrial times, means that the west is weakening itself drastically. And naturally, this increases the war danger, because Russia and China have no intention to do likewise.”
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“The worst famine the world has seen in decades” is the way UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres decried what is happening in Yemen. His remarks came at a March 1 international donor’s conference, which failed to raise even half of the $3.85 billion in pledges for which it had aimed. One of the more disgusting ironies was that the single largest pledge to “help” ($430 million) came from Saudi Arabia, which is principally responsible for carrying out the British imperial policy of war and economic blockade to wipe out the Yemeni nation.According to the latest UN data, more than 16 million Yemenis—about half the 29-million population—will face hunger this year, and nearly 50,000 are already starving to death in famine-like conditions. The UN warned that 400,000 Yemeni children under the age of five could die from acute malnutrition. Former U.S. congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has rightly charged that “[imposition of] sanctions similar to what the Saudi-U.S. alliance employed in Yemen is causing death and suffering for millions of innocent Syrians.” Helga Zepp-LaRouche today emphasized that these are intentional policies, just as the Green New Deal is designed to intentionally deindustrialize and depopulate the planet. There is no fundamental difference between what the bankrupt City of London and Wall Street interests are instigating today, and what those same forces did in creating Hitler and his concentration camps. It is time to take the gloves off on this matter of historical fact, Zepp-LaRouche stated. Nor will aid alone solve these problems. A massive development program linked to China’s Belt and Road Initiative is the only way to save Yemen, Syria, and the broader regions of Africa and Southwest Asia—as the Schiller Institute has long insisted. Similarly, the United States must join that Belt and Road Initiative and work with China to develop the so-called Third World, both to pull itself out of its current economic depression and to create a new global security architecture in which peace becomes possible through development. That was always the central strategic outlook of Lyndon LaRouche, as he again stated in a Nov. 19, 2002 interview with the leading Mexican daily Excélsior in response to the question: “Were you elected President of the United States, what would your priorities be?” To which LaRouche answered: “Exactly what they are at this moment, and have been since my Spring 1946 days as a U.S. soldier returned from northern Burma, in Calcutta, India: A just new world economic order among sovereign nation-states, an order consistent with objectives of what Alexander Hamilton named the American System of political-economy.” This required approach to reversing the systemic breakdown crisis of the entire trans-Atlantic region will be one of the central issues addressed at the upcoming March 20 international conference sponsored by the Schiller Institute. And then there is the madness—the sheer policy madness—issuing from the dying system. Recall that the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) argued in a Feb. 3, 2021 report that the growth of world food production was the single greatest cause of “the loss of bio-diversity,” and that a deliberate reduction of agriculture was the best way to save the planet. Now, the British Empire’s flagship publication, The Economist, has asked in a major Feb. 28 policy piece, “Is it time for ‘ecocide’ to become an international crime?” only to answer with scarcely concealed enthusiasm: “A growing movement wants destruction of the environment to be treated like genocide and crimes against humanity.” This supposedly most heinous of crimes, “ecocide,” would then be added to 1) the atrocities committed by the Nazis, the deliberate destruction of a group of people; 2) crimes against humanity; 3) war crimes; 4) and the crime of aggression, as the only crimes that can be tried by the International Criminal Court in the Hague. A study promoting this idea is being prepared by Philippe Sands, a law professor at University College London, and Dior Fall Sow, a Senegalese jurist and former UN international prosecutor, which will be presented to the ICC in June. “It could also mark a turning-point in how the relationship between humans and the natural world is understood,” the Economist pronounced. “Ecocide” can be defined as the “extensive destruction, damage to or loss of ecosystems of a given territory,” the magazine reported. Some still believe the measure of damage should be the harm it produces to people. But others, the article reports, view this as far too anthropocentric a view. Mr. Sands, for example, “thinks that ecocide should be defined by the need to protect the environment as an end in itself. This would require it to have its own free-standing basis as a new crime, rather than being slotted under existing ones.” Sands explained: “My sense is that there is a broad recognition that the old anthropocentric assumptions may well have to be cast to one side if justice is truly to be done, and the environment given a fair degree of protection.” One would be tempted to view all of this little more than a sick joke, if it weren’t for the fact that YouTube, the Leviathan of the social media world, has decreed that any talk of election fraud in 2020 is a censurable lie; that the German Marshall Fund is demanding that anyone raising the role of windmills in the Texas energy catastrophe must be similarly silenced; and moreover that the trans-Atlantic financial system is in a breakdown crisis requiring the imposition of such lunatic policies in order to survive. So either join the battle to stop the deadly lunacy, or prepare to eat your last supper, and make it a good one. Because the British Empire intends to make eating itself a crime against humanity under the Nuremberg code.
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Will President Biden follow in the footsteps of Mike Pompeo, President Trump’s obnoxiously aggressive Secretary of State, in U.S. relations with Russia and China? That is the question that the governments of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are asking, one month into the new administration in Washington. The future of war and peace for the planet hangs in the balance.The answer does not lie with personalities or public remarks—there have been many, and often contradictory statements issued in recent weeks—but with the dynamics of the underlying drive for war created by the bankrupt trans-Atlantic financial system. Helga Zepp-LaRouche addressed this issue at the very outset of her Feb. 24 weekly webcast. After noting that Biden had recently stated, both in his G7 and his Munich Security Conference speeches, that he did not want confrontation between East and West, nor a new Cold War, Zepp-LaRouche remarked: “So, while I don’t want to exaggerate this as such, one has to see it in the context that the relationship between the United States and China is the most important strategic relationship for the future of humanity. For the simple reason that these are the two largest economies, that China is involved with Russia in a strategic alliance, and that, therefore, [it is key] to not have a confrontation and not continue where it was at the end of the Trump Administration, which was completely governed by the China-bashers such as Pompeo, Navarro, and their ilk.” Zepp-LaRouche noted that Biden’s is a new administration, “so we have to see. I’m not making a judgment at this point” on his Russia and China policies. She also stressed that when President Trump first came into office, “in the beginning, in the election campaign 2016, and throughout the earlier part of Trump’s administration, he said many times, that to have a good relationship with Russia and China is a good thing and not a bad thing. But then we saw how, increasingly, under the strategic pressure, and pressure from the neocons and from the military-industrial complex, Trump more and more capitulated to their confrontational line, especially in respect to China. By April of last year, he started to blame China for COVID, and all kinds of other things. So by the end of the Trump administration, unfortunately, the relationship with Russia and China was at a historic low.” With such pressures being brought to bear on Republicans and Democrats alike in Washington by the hit-men of the bankrupt international financial system, both Beijing and Moscow have always taken special note of the clear, unambiguous voice of Lyndon LaRouche coming from the United States, for defining a new basis for U.S. relations with China and with Russia. For example, China Youth Daily, the second-most widely read newspaper in China, reaching an audience of some 10 million people, ran a lead article in its July 24, 2009, edition based on an interview they had conducted with Lyndon LaRouche. Entitled “The Present International Financial System Cannot Be Saved,” the article reported: “LaRouche proposes that the U.S. put the present financial system through bankruptcy proceedings and return to the system set up by Alexander Hamilton, and through the establishment of a national bank begin to issue credit for reviving U.S. industry. On the international level, this principle can then be extended to the world economy by means of treaty agreements among sovereign nations. Establishing an international system of fixed exchange rates among currencies would determine the price of commodities, and the treaty arrangements would provide the needed credit,” the article continued. “LaRouche believes that if the United States, China, Russia, and India, as sovereign nations which encompass the greatest area of the world, and contain the largest population in the world, were to come together around agreement on financial arrangements, this would provide immediately the basis of a new world financial system. LaRouche believes that the development of Asia will, in the future, take the lead in the development of humanity, and that China is the key to the Eurasian continent.” Today, a dozen years after those remarks, the voice for that LaRouche policy is to be found with Helga Zepp-LaRouche, and with The LaRouche Organization.
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The United States’ Mars lander Perseverance successfully touched down on Mars today at 3:56 p.m. EST, as the Mars spacecraft from China and the United Arab Emirates, which had arrived just days earlier, orbited the planet. It’s hard to conceive of a better image of the one humanity embarked on a common mission which speaks to the essence of Man’s role in the universe: Hope, Questions to the Universe, and Perseverance.In her weekly webcast yesterday, Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche spoke of this mission: “This is the future, and if mankind is supposed to live as an immortal species—and that was a notion which was coined by my late husband—because we are different from other species, because we have creative reason. We can solve any problem through scientific and technological breakthroughs, by discovering new laws of the universe. And since our mind is the most advanced part of that universe, there is all the reason for optimism that once we attune our own existence and our own practice with the laws of the universe, our chances to become the immortal species is absolutely there. But it does require space travel as a precondition, and I think this idea of nations working together to discover the beautiful secrets of the universe, that gives you a taste of what the future of man can look like, when we decide to become adults.” In your mind’s eye, contrast that image of Man as a creative, spacefaring species, with the image that has led to the current plummeting Potential Relative Population Density across the trans-Atlantic region, with all of its consequences: a planetary pandemic; forever wars and the risk of nuclear conflagration; mass unemployment and desperate waves of migration; and now a dramatic drop in the average life expectancy in the United States itself. According to a new study issued by the CDC, in the first six months of 2020 alone, average life expectancy dropped by a full year: from 78.8 in 2019, to 77.8 through June 2020. That is the single largest drop since World War II, and reflects both the direct and indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. and internationally. The point is straightforward: It’s the physical economy, stupid! And the essence of human physical economy is limitless breakthroughs in fundamental science and classical culture, of the sort portended by Man’s Mission to Mars. As Helga Zepp-LaRouche put it in her latest webcast: “At this point, the only voice of reason is really coming from The LaRouche Organization and the policies promoted by my late husband. But it needs a broad mobilization of the population to change the course of these developments.”
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