April 6—Whether it is Passover’s celebration of the victory of humanity over slavery, or the spiritual reflection of Ramadan, or Easter’s passion of the soul’s victory over death, there is something important and truthful and beautiful that could and should be driving the thoughts and actions of a major section of humanity this week. And not only this, but one would think that any Jew, Muslim, or Christian, properly moved and inspired by the best of their religion, would be enabled to discover that quality amongst their monotheistic neighbors; and that it would magnify their sense of wonder for the richness of the Creator’s world.
But the present reality includes a monstrous, a colossal mountain of sins in the form of the $2,000,000,000,000,000 financial derivatives bubble. The tremors and rumblings of the dollar-based, Western financial system are not going away. Any normal state of mind would convene an emergency strategic conference, including any country that had an interest in coming out alive on the other side of that financial bubble’s implosion.
Admittedly, there’s no shortage of abnormal states of mind to feed that nagging voice, the one saying that it is not possible to pull out of this cultural and financial tailspin. Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu is unleashing religious strife and deep-seated rage against the Palestinians—and during one of Judaism’s holiest weeks. President Zelensky’s top advisor, Podolyak, explained to Radio Free Europe, “We must eradicate everything Russian in Crimea.” He was explicit that the Russian-speaking population there is not to have books or movies in Russian. There are to be legal penalties for any Crimean with Russian citizenship—which is practically the whole peninsula. As ugly as it is, it pales in comparison with the abnormal state of mind of one who openly brags about such fantasies of his takeover of Crimea.
Then there’s the bizarre spectacle of Russia’s Minister of Children’s Rights explaining at the UN Security Council how she worked to save the 2,000 orphans (amongst the 700,000 children brought to Russia this last year as refugees by their parents), rescued from Ukrainian artillery firing into the Donbas—while the UK and US ambassadors damn her as a war criminal for kidnapping Ukrainian children! (These were orphans from the former area of Ukraine that Kiev, in killing thousands of the Donbas residents over the last nine years, had some part in turning into orphans.) And the UK and US ambassadors had the unmitigated gall to lead a walkout (followed by Albania and Malta) from the Security Council session — and then block the normal webcast of such testimony. All ugly things, but also the sort of mind-numbing craziness that can undermine the confidence that basic normal thinking still exists in the world.
Take a page from the eminent Russian economist Sergei Glazyev. He posted to his extensive and very engaged readership on Telegram the entire issue of the latest weekly edition of EIR’s Strategic Alert, and included the message: “An up-to-date review of current events on this and other topics… in a magazine founded by the famous thinker Lyndon LaRouche, who predicted the collapse of the US-European financial system a quarter of a century ago.”
Not to discount the rest of the Strategic Alert issue (on the financial bubble and related matters), but Glazyev’s posting opens with the announcement and the link for the April 15/16 Schiller Institute conference, entitled “Without the Development of All Nations, There Can Be No Lasting Peace for the Planet.” Not only does that title address why a lasting peace has been missing from this world, but it is actually a fine example of normal thinking.
That conference is critical for the drive for that necessary emergency conference of nations to bury the financial derivatives bubble, put that danger aside, and apply themselves to the much more interesting job of developing each and every nation. If it didn’t have to get done, it probably would not have a chance of getting done.
One doesn’t have to be an eminent Russian economist to organize one’s friends and family, one’s neighbors and networks, now—as three great Western religions call attention to the miraculous nature and power of the human soul—but it does take some work.
