May 14, 2025 (EIRNS)—While most Western political leaders and mass media remain mesmerized by their own impressive inability to solve the crises created by the bankruptcy of the British geopolitical financial system—Southwest Asia, Ukraine, and India-Pakistan, among others—the dominant global trend is contrary. It is moving instead towards an emerging new security and development architecture that will put an end to 500 years of colonialism, and its evil premise that Man is little more than a sophisticated beast.
That dominant trend towards a new paradigm was displayed by the leaders of dozens of nations, including China and Russia, at the May 9 Moscow Victory Day celebrations, and their recommitment to destroy fascism for good, and not just temporarily defeat it as was done 80 years ago. It was also evident in the deliberation process at the just concluded China-CELAC meeting in Beijing, and in the related bilateral summit between China’s President Xi Jinping and Brazil’s President Lula da Silva, which discussed China’s cooperation with the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean to build infrastructure projects to lift the population out of poverty across the region, as has famously occurred in China. “We don’t just need export corridors, but routes that are vectors for development and unity,” Lula explained.
And in the West?
“What is most remarkable is the complete detachment of the present Establishments from considering the consequences of their actions,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche stated in her weekly Dialogue webcast. “It is as if they are being pulled by some internal or external mechanism, which has nothing to do with reality, which is some kind of drive to keep doing what they have been doing, to maintain a position of hegemony, of dominance. It’s very important that the population get more active and wake up,” she insisted. “The biggest problem is the passivity—when you think what is at stake!”
There are consequences to one’s actions … and to inaction.
Case in point: The unspeakable horror which is being inflicted on the 2 million people of Gaza, with intentional mass starvation being imposed upon a population already being mercilessly bombed and driven from their razed homes for over 18 months—by the Netanyahu government of Israel, with the acquiescence, and weapons, of Washington, London, and other European capitals. At a UN Security Council meeting on May 13 to discuss the humanitarian situation in Gaza, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher asked the international community to reflect on what they will tell future generations about what they did, or failed to do, to “stop the 21st century atrocity to which we bear daily witness in Gaza.” Will we use “those empty words ‘We did all we could?’” He noted that the International Court of Justice in The Hague has again taken up the issue of genocide, and “will weigh the testimony we have shared. But it will be too late.”
Zepp-LaRouche underscored that same point: We are on a countdown to zero in Gaza. Three-quarters of that population are suffering Emergency or Catastrophic food deprivation, the worst two levels of the international five-level scale of food insecurity and nutritional deprivation. Nearly half a million people are at the point of dying right now: They are in a catastrophic situation of hunger, acute malnutrition, illness and starvation.
And yet the solution is at hand. The LaRouche Oasis Plan provides a programmatic solution which will benefit all of the people and nations of the region—from India to the Mediterranean, from the Caucasus to the Persian Gulf—by creating plentiful freshwater resources for this arid part of the planet. The technology, the infrastructure, the science, and the political will are all at hand, if the West would only join forces with China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the Global South in general. That is the urgent issue that must be taken up at the June 2-4 UN conference on Palestine; it is the urgent issue that will be addressed at the Schiller Institute’s May 24-25 international conference, as an urgent example of the kind of global policy shift required to establish a new global security and development architecture.
The consequences of inaction are unthinkable. They can be seen in the desperate eyes of the starving children of Gaza, and in the very real prospect of a nuclear mushroom cloud if British geopolitical wars are not stopped for good.
