Helga Zepp-LaRouche at the Nov. 22 Schiller Institute conference, “Stop the Danger of Nuclear War Now; Third Seminar of Political and Social Leaders of the World,” offered the following ten principles, upon which a new global security and development architecture could be founded. She added in her Nov. 24 webcast, “These ideas are meant to be food for thought and a dialogue among all people concerned to find a basis for a world order guaranteeing the durable existence of the human species.”

Nov. 23—Abraham Lincoln established the national holiday of Thanksgiving in 1863, in the midst of the bloodiest conflict in American history. Yet he maintained there was so much for which to give thanks to the Creator. And a central message was, as he put it, that the great trial of a civil war, in God’s eyes, could bring forth the animation and inspiration of our hearts and minds to do what we had to do, even if we weren’t sure we were capable.