April 5, 2025 (EIRNS)—Each day, each hour, world events—be they the unfolding of unbelievable atrocities in Gaza or the growing push to provoke the U.S. to strike Iran—demonstrate with growing ominousness what Helga Zepp-LaRouche has repeatedly asserted: There is no such thing as “security” of one nation against that of another; that is a chimera of the evil and unlawful system of geopolitics, a system which is only allowed to persist because of a pervasive, mistaken belief that man is merely another beast—a view which can only end in nuclear confrontation.
A more truthful approach is that proposed by Zepp-LaRouche at the April 4 meeting of the International Peace Coalition: “You must look at the one humanity as one entity, as a ‘hanging-together one’ first…. [F]irst, you have to do whatever is in the interest of the one humanity, and then you can define the national interests in affinity with that higher One. That is … only possible if you introduce a dynamic of development.”
The “oneness” (and implicitly the goodness) of humanity was proven decisively in the early 20th century by biogeochemist Vladimir I. Vernadsky. Vernadsky examined the anti-entropic effect of the action of living matter as an entirety—the biosphere—on transforming the chemistry of the Earth’s crust to one of a higher order, a process occurring primarily through the evolution of metabolic processes. He also studied the action of human life—the noösphere—which transforms the Earth at a rate that has overtaken that of the biosphere through the evolution of ideas and discoveries. Human life does this not as individual countries and cultures, but as a whole, across the entire planet, in a way that has become ever more integrated and coordinated.
Zepp-LaRouche’s November 2022 call for a new global security and development architecture which takes into account the security interests of all nations, rather than each against all others, is coherent with what Vernadsky showed to be the unstoppable natural evolution of life on Earth and the unity of humankind.
Nations’ economic and development interests are in no way separate from this.
Take the “America First” tariff policy of the U.S. which was announced on April 2 and is currently sending shockwaves around the world. An intended goal, according to President Trump, is to revitalize American industry; however, the whole premise is false. American industry hasn’t collapsed over the past half-century because other countries took advantage of the U.S. Rather, the U.S. was deliberately made the “importer of last resort” as part of a reshaping of the global economy which outsourced U.S. manufacturing, looted cheap labor countries, and brought enormous flows of fictitious monetary value into the financial system—all the while collapsing physical productivity.
Without correcting the monetarist way of thinking behind the entire global financial system and, as called for by Lyndon LaRouche in his 2014 “Four New Laws To Save the U.S.A. Now,” returning to a Hamiltonian system of directed credit to raise productivity—the only thing that can actually revitalize American industry—tariffs are monetary fictions and such bullying will very likely, as has been pointed out by many, hurt no one more than the U.S. itself.
The way out of economic collapse is the same path as that out of global nuclear confrontation: We must have a new paradigm of development for all nations, replacing the evil shibboleth of geopolitics. The LaRouche movement has put forward a proposal for a development drive to create billions of new jobs and the Oasis Plan for Southwest Asia as two keystone solution concepts for the formation of such a new system.
The Schiller Institute’s May 24-25 conference, “A Beautiful Vision for Humanity in Times of Great Turbulence!” will be a meeting place for all those people of good will who are determined that this historic chance to end the colonial system for good and create a new paradigm for humanity not be lost.
