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The Glasgow COP26 Summit, starting Halloween, is in more and more trouble to bring off its zombie jamboree for green death. Good news. But the unravelling of the financial and physical economy is so fast and bad, we face the question: What do we humans think and do? How do we meet emergency needs anywhere, and re-create nations and economies? Take the LaRouche, American System approach. Marcia Merry Baker, of the EIR Editorial Board, was on tonight's discussion.

The Green Reset policies of the bankrupt western financial Establishment have helped unleash a hyperinflationary price explosion, notably in the energy sector, coupled with a breakdown collapse of the global physical economy. This is coming on top of the already ongoing bankruptcy collapse of the entire Anglo-American financial system, which is now careening toward end-game.While most world leaders are still trying to figure out what hit them, or are frozen like deer in the headlights, Lyndon LaRouche explained the cause of the problem … over 21 years ago! In a September 2000 memo, LaRouche wrote: “Broadly, the current global inflation in petroleum prices threatens to be the detonator of a chaotic breakdown in many, if not all of the economies of the world… The underlying cause of the crisis, of which the petroleum-price crisis is but the presently leading political-economic consequence, is a general hyperinflation in financial asset-prices, which is now being expressed, at increasing rates, as a hyperinflation in commodity prices now following a trend similar to that suffered by Weimar Germany during the interval March-November 1923.” That being the cause, LaRouche also provided the cure, now needed even more urgently than 21 years ago. This week’s Fireside Chat was joined by EIR’s Dennis Small who discussed how to get LaRouche’s policies implemented immediately. And hear about what really happened in the Alexandria “Railroad” trial of Lyndon LaRouche and associates, and its connection to today’s blowout crisis.

The Wall Street Journal set off explosions yesterday with a report claiming that about two dozen U.S. military trainers, consisting of special operators and Marines, have been in Taiwan working with the Taiwanese military for at least a year. “The U.S. special-operations deployment is a sign of concern within the Pentagon over Taiwan’s tactical capabilities in light of Beijing’s years-long military buildup and recent threatening moves against the island,” the Journal claimed. “The special-operations unit and the Marine contingent are a small but symbolic effort by the U.S. to increase Taipei’s confidence in building its defenses against potential Chinese aggression.”In Taipei, officials were reported by Radio Taiwan International to be “coy” about the Journal report. Responding to questions about the report, Premier Su Tseng-chang thanked countries that share Taiwan’s values for their support. He says the government is doing all it can to defend its sovereignty and its people, and to maintain peace in the region. Meanwhile, Vice Defense Minister Po Hung-hui says that Taiwan’s military welcomes opportunities for international cooperation. However, Po declined to comment directly on the report of a U.S. military presence. In Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said “the U.S. should ... stop arms sales to and military ties with Taiwan to avoid seriously damaging China-U.S. relations and peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. China will take all necessary measures to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity.” “Why just two dozen members? Why secretly? The U.S. should send 240 servicemen publicly, in U.S. military uniform, and make public where they are stationed,” Hu Xijin, the editor in chief of China’s English-language Global Times, tweeted in response to the Journal article, concluding, “See whether the PLA will launch a targeted air strike to eliminate those U.S. invaders!”

That Facebook exercises enormous power over discourse and social interactions cannot be denied. The House Antitrust Committee considers the social media giant—along with Google, Amazon, and Apple—as monopolies, in violation of the essentially dormant antitrust laws. From this standpoint, calls for regulating the social media giants might seem to be a useful way of preventing these giant players from exerting outsized influence over speech and thought. But the vast majority of regulations and regulatory powers sought by the Congress and Biden Administration would achieve precisely the opposite effect, consolidating the monopoly status of these firms, preventing the rise of competitors, and using that power to censor speech that offends the revealed Truth of the would-be tyrants.Enter Frances Haugen, a telegenic and seemingly informed “insider” acting as a courageous “whistleblower” to inform a shocked country of the terrible effects of Instagram and Facebook. The crime of Zuckerberg? He “has allowed choices to be made where the side effects of those choices are that hateful and polarizing content gets more distribution and more reach.” The New York Times summarized her testimony as “calling for regulation of the technology and business model that amplifies hate.” The London Economist enthuses that her testimony may bring together the U.S. Senate, “united against a common enemy and promis[ing] Ms. Haugen that they would hold Facebook to account.” Haugen’s supposed act of whistleblowing appears as though coordinated by a PR firm to advance the growing calls for censorship over speech. Over the last three years, the percentage of U.S. adults who align with or lean towards the Democratic Party who want tech companies to take more steps to “restrict false info online” rose from 60% to 76%. And the percent among that demographic who want the U.S. government itself to restrict “misinformation” online soared from 40% to 65%! Nearly two-thirds of the people in this grouping now oppose the tradition of free speech, enshrined in the First Amendment, defended by the old ACLU that supported the rights even of neo-Nazis to rally, and attacked by Sen. Joe McCarthy who attempted to make certain political views essentially illegal. Today, the Congressional committee investigating the events on Capitol Hill on January 6 is pursuing a broader and broader scope of investigation reminiscent of McCarthy’s vile actions of the 1950s. Will those called to testify be asked, “Are you now, or have you ever been, a supporter of Donald Trump?” Increased regulation of the social media space would not only be an obvious violation of the First Amendment, based on a series of court rulings that when the government compels private actors to censor speech, it is effectively the same as the government doing so directly (and unconstitutional). Furthermore, it would make the monopoly powers yet more entrenched, by creating an enormous barrier to entry. Developing a comprehensive comment/posting moderation workflow is enormously expensive, and would be absolutely impossible for new entrants that could compete with Facebook and Google, which are playing in the internet space the role assumed by the legacy media. Breaking up the monopolies, demanding that Congress not legislate speech codes (either directly, or through the indirect means of threats), and reforming the Section 230 protections offered to social media companies in a way that distinguishes between truly free platforms and those that censor—these would be useful paths forward. But the intention of glorifying the testimony of Haugen, lauded by Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) as “a 21st century American hero” is precisely the opposite—designed to promote “getting tough on Facebook” in a way that would both strengthen its monopoly power and force a greater censorship of political viewpoints.

The density of crises facing every nation on Earth right now has never been greater, especially now, as a hyperinflationary breakdown stares us in the face. The most passionate and agapic statesmen and women are needed if we are to pave a path forward. This is why orienting ourselves toward the frontiers — space exploration, thermonuclear fusion, and other new scientific revolutions — is absolutely essential for our nation and the world today. Megan Dobrodt of The LaRouche Organization's Science Team discussed this and the release of our new pamphlet: "The Coming US Economic Miracle on the New Silk Road."

What are the lessons for today, taught by Dante Alighieri 700 years after his death in September 1321? How did he consciously create the Italian language, not just to free Italy from the oligarchy which dominated at that time, and establish the basis for a sovereign nation-state dedicated to the principle of the general welfare – but to breathe a spirit of impassioned poetic imagination into all of history, religion, statecraft, economics and science? How has his journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in his Divina Commedia, become a universal metaphor for Schiller’s assertion that mankind is “born for that which is better?" At this week's Midwest Meeting, Tim Rush and Denise Ham discussed this and Dante's importance for us today.English poet Percy Shelley, in his In Defense of Poetry demonstrates his understanding of the power of Dante and the power of poetry: “A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination; and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause. Poetry enlarges the circumference of the imagination by replenishing it with thoughts of ever new delight, which have the power of attracting and assimilating to their own nature all other thoughts, and which form new intervals and interstices whose void forever craves fresh food. Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.” “Dante was the first awakener of entranced Europe; he created a language, itself music and persuasion, out of a chaos of inharmonious barbarism. He was the congregator of those great spirits who presided over the resurrection of learning, … of that starry flock which in the thirteenth century shone forth from republican Italy as from a heaven into the darkness of the benighted world. His very words are instinct with spirit; each is as a spark, a burning atom of inextinguishable thought; and many yet lie covered in the ashes of their birth and pregnant with a lightning which has yet found no conductor. All high poetry is infinite… A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight; and after one person and one age has exhausted all its divine effluence which their peculiar relations enable them to share, another and yet another succeeds, and new relations are ever developed, the source of an unforeseen and an unconceived delight.”

Last night, Paul Gallagher of Executive Intelligence Review discussed the difference seen in the relatively devastating hurricanes over the past week. Contrary to most discussion about these, it was not man-made "climate change" which was the issue here, but rather man-made "sanity-change" which caused us to not learn the lessons of the necessity for adequate flood control and infrastructure. In this respect, consider the Afghanistan pivot as a decision point in world history, as Helga LaRouche pointed out 2 months ago, which can be influenced by the heavy power of ideas. Lyndon LaRouche's spectre looms large over the planet today, and is a force we should all learn to wield.

Mike Billington addresses the dramatic "phase shift" in history taking place, as the Afghan crisis marks the utter failure of the "regime change" era of the British Empire and their assets in the US, but also the opportunity it presents for Lyndon LaRouche's concept of the Four Powers to unite for global development on the model of China's Belt and Road Initiative. He will focus on the intense hysteria in the United Kingdom, terrified that the Empire could indeed come to an end were the US to break from the Empire's grip, join with China and Russia in the development of Afghanistan, and by implication the rest of the world, as LaRouche's new paradigm becomes the necessary reality for human progress.

American statesman Lyndon LaRouche repeatedly identified a U.S. commitment to help Haiti develop as a moral imperative for the United States, a test of what kind of nation the United States and its people want it to be in the world. Excerpts of two such statements follow, the first from 2004, the second from 2010, in the wake of the unprecedented earthquake disaster. Both still stand as guidelines for how to approach Haiti today, and his 2010 admonition about that no “patch the system” approach will work, being equally applicable to Afghanistan now: the goal of assistance must be to secure “a nation’s ability to maintain itself.”In March 2004, LaRouche was asked about the Haitian political crisis of the time in an interview with a New York state radio program. LaRouche answered: “…The United States has a relationship with Haiti, going back to our struggle for independence. Haiti has been essentially destroyed many times over. I mean, the country is destroyed, even compared to the adjoining region of the island. We have done the worst with that area. It’s not a problem with [recently ousted President] Aristide, or this guy, or that guy. The problem is, the United States has never accepted, in recent times, its moral responsibility to help the Haitians put their country back together again. That is our responsibility. We keep blaming them. “The way we treat the Haitians who are fleeing from that territory into Florida—it’s horrible! It’s wrong! We have to take a positive moral attitude on this thing, and we have to work with the nations of the region, to say —and to tell the Haitians—‘We are determined that you should have your independence, and you shall have development, and you shall have medical care, and the ability to live.’ “We do it not only for the Haitians, we do it for ourselves. We do it, because we want to be the kind of country that does that kind of thing: Where a great injustice exists, we are the kind of country that will offer to help…. “Remember, Haiti established itself as a Republic, which at one point was modeling itself on the idea of the United States. So, this got it special hatred…. Of course, the problems that are occurring in other parts of the Caribbean are not much better; but they’re not quite as bad, either. And the Haitian thing, is the thing that really sticks in my craw: This is the worst example of a rotten policy from the United States. There are other policies that are bad, but this is the absolute worst. “In my view, you always go to the worst case, to set a policy. In your own country, you look at the poorest layer of our population, and say, ‘Will this policy work for their children and grandchildren?’ And if it works for the poorest ones, justly, then it’ll probably work for everyone—as Franklin Roosevelt defined that: Always go to the ‘forgotten man.’ Take the person who’s the greatest victim, of injustice or neglect, and start there; and prove that you are really for the general welfare of people, by showing you’re willing to face that problem. Look it in the eye, and talk about curing it.” https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2004/eirv31n12-20040326/eirv31n12-20040326.pdf The following was LaRouche’s initial call for the U.S. to commit to a 25-year development treaty with Haiti, from a Jan. 30, 2010 webcast, only weeks after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake had killed, maimed, left homeless or displaced close to a third of the nation’s people: “What should be done is the following, in my view. First of all, the government of the United States should make a contract with the government of Haiti. And the contract is for the reconstruction of the economy and system of the nation of Haiti…. “You cannot apply a band-aid to Haiti. And you cannot bring in many other countries, because the objective is, if the country is going to be viable, coming out of this mess, you have to have a sovereign Haiti. So, the contract has to be essentially, a United States treaty agreement, a treaty agreement to re-establish the efficient sovereignty of the nation of Haiti, after the destructive effect of this and preceding difficulties. “What’s the big deal, after all? It’s a small nation, of people who have been subjected to all kinds of terrible history; who have been promised this, and betrayed, and promised that, and betrayed, and promised and betrayed. Never delivered. It’s in a group of national territories which has also tended to be somewhat of a mess, in one way or the other. So, therefore, it’s a model approach. We say, ‘Okay, we make a contract with the government, as a treaty agreement, between the United States and Haiti, to assure the rebuilding of their country, in a form in which it will actually be a functioning country which can survive.’ “It’s going to take a quarter-century to get that job done. You’ve got to change a lot of things. But the one, the most important thing to change, is the attitude which presently prevails, around the world in dealing with things like this. It’s called ‘fix-it,’ ‘patch the system.’ My view is, you have to leave a viable system behind. Don’t patch it and walk away. Make a contract and say, ‘Well, you’re a small country. We can absorb the burden. We’re going to work with you, under the protection of the United States, to make sure you come out of this successfully.’ Not merely successfully, in the sense of solving the immediate crisis, which was done before; it didn’t work too well. We have to follow through: We have to think about a nation’s ability to maintain itself, not to be maintained from time to time because of internal crises, or because of an act of nature. “And that’s the kind of relationship we should have with nations, so let’s go back and have it. We used to do this, you know, in the immediate post-Civil War period in the United States. We used to have ex-military, from both the Confederate Army and the Union Army, travel overseas, as to Egypt, to build up the system of that country. Until the British got us kicked out of there, we did a fine job, and then the British turned it into something else. “But in our Constitutional structure, in our tradition, a country right next to ours, Haiti, just a few drops across the street, is in terrible condition, as part of a divided island territory, where problems tend to run across the border. Help them! Not just because you want to help them, but because you want to reaffirm a standard of morality in international affairs. And our commitment must be, to make sure we’re not just going to promise something—we’re going to get it done. And if we get it done, and it’s successful, it will be good for all of us.” https://larouchepub.com/lar/2010/webcasts/3705jan30_qanda.html

With the US under total British Occupation how would anyone honestly think about implementing the New Bretton Woods System today. The stunning clarity of Franklin Roosevelt and his team leaves the actual method by which it can and must be done! It really is truly stunning! Listen in to this week's Fireside Chat featuring Gerry Rose from Executive Intelligence Review.

As many of us sit stunned by the condition of our country and the world, we must be at least asking ourselves how it got so bad. How have we allowed such a drastic plunge both culturally and economically? What's the driving force of destruction? As we search, we will undoubtedly confront the hypothesis of evil, or at least apathy. This week's Midwest Meeting featured Denise Ham and Carl Osgood. They looked at Dante Alighieri and his commitment to lift the people of Italy out of the cultural depravity surrounding them through the development of a unified language and the concept of a modern nation-state dedicated to the general welfare, such as the US once was. Tune in for a journey through Dante's Commedia, traveling from Hell to Heaven, to help grasp what will be necessary of us all in a moment such as ours - one equally gripped by both hope and despair.

Ancient astronomers, geometricians, and poets from the Vedic hymns to Dante to Edgar Poe have continually posed the question: Is there intelligent life on Earth? Joel DeJean discussed this question on the LaRouche Fireside Chat, along with discussing the recent flyby of the planet Venus of the Solar Orbiter and Bepicolumbo spacecraft, as well as why the recent IPCC report on global warming is just hot air.

Aug. 5, 2021 — A new Standing Repo Facility has been created by the Federal Reserve with an authorization of $500 billion subject to unlimited increase by Federal Reserve System Chairman Jerome Powell. The Fed announced the facility July 28 and activated its operation July 29, indicating some urgency to cope with a liquidity problem in the interbank lending market, according to economists Pam and Russ Martens in their “Wall Street on Parade” column of July 28.In September 2019 the Fed suddenly confronted a serious freeze-up in the interbank lending market and was forced to make emergency liquidity loans to the primary dealer banks which burgeoned up to hundreds of billions a day. There were many calls then for a standing repo facility, which was not created. Now it is set up, and will make repo loans not only to primary dealer banks, but to hedge funds, private equity funds, money-market mutual funds.... And, there is a second Standing Repo as well, for “foreign and international monetary institutions.” So, the situation has clearly gotten much more unstable and contagious. The Federal Reserve has crammed the big banks with $4.5 trillion more in reserves just since the restart of QE in October 2019; those banks are crammed with trillions in new deposits while they have withdrawn loan and lease credit, net, from the economy, doubling their speculative securities assets the while. Equally ominous, although the Martenses did not report it July 28: The Fed embarks on these new facilities to pump in liquidity, after about six weeks of reverse repo operations—where the Fed makes overnight loans of Treasuries in exchange for cash loans from banks; i.e., it soaks up liquidity from the banking system—which have run as high as $1 trillion/day! This indicates it is dealing with, or perhaps lurching around in, real volatility stemming from the very masses of deposits and stock-price gains it has caused to appear. Worst of all, in the view of the Martenses, is that the Fed announced the Standing Repo Facility on the afternoon of July 28, when it had been called for that morning by the G30 Working Group on Financial Markets, headed by the consummate bad actor in a financial crash, Tim Geithner. Geithner, as head of the New York Federal Reserve, “sluiced out $29 trillion to bail out the Wall Street banks” in 2008, as the Martenses wrote. The Standing Repo Facility will be operated by the New York Federal Reserve Bank.

LIVE NOW!Schiller Institute International Conference – July 31, 2021Watch HereSaturday, July 31, 10:00 am EDT; 16:00hrs. CETModerator: Dennis Speed (U.S.), The Schiller Institute Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), Founder and President of The Schiller InstituteKeynote Address: “Afghanistan: The Bright Future for the Coming Cooperation of the Great Powers” Pino Arlacchi (Italy), Sociology Professor at the Sassari University, Former Executive Director of the UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, and former European Parliament Rapporteur on Afghanistan“Eradicate Opium in Afghanistan, Develop Modern Agriculture, Build the Nation, Now” H.E. Ambassador Hassan Shoroosh (Afghanistan), Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to Canada“The Way Forward for Afghanistan” H.E. Ambassador Anna Evstigneeva (Russian Federation), Deputy Permanent Representative at the Mission of The Russian Federation to the UN “Russia’s Outlook for Afghanistan and Eurasia” Dr. Wang Jin (China), Fellow with The Charhar Institute“Afghanistan and the Belt and Road Initiative” Question and Answer SessionRay McGovern (U.S.), Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA-ret.), Co-Founder, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)“The Real Interest of the United States in Asia” Hassan Daud (Pakistan), CEO, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province Board of Investment “The Perspective from Pakistan: The Role of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for Afghanistan Reconstruction.” Hussein Askary (Sweden/Iraq), Southwest Asia Coordinator for the Schiller Institute“Put Afghanistan on the Belt and Road to Peace!” Discussion PeriodWe welcome questions during the conference. Please send them to questions@schillerinstitute.orgSupplementary material by Executive Intelligence Review (EIR)—Special Report Offprint: ‘Will Afghanistan Trigger a Paradigm Change?’PDF of the invitation“After the hasty withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops from Afghanistan—U.S. troops, except for a few security forces, were flown out in the dark of night without informing Afghan allies—this country has become, for the moment but likely not for long, the theater of world history.”—Helga Zepp-LaRouche, July 10, 2021 We face an extraordinary moment, of further descent into chaos, or the beautiful potential of Afghanistan becoming the seed-crystal of a new era of international cooperation so desperately needed in the wake of growing disease and famine worldwide. Afghanistan was once a hub for the ancient Silk Road, the connection between the great cultures of Asia and those of the European side of the Eurasian continent. The entire Central Asian region was once known as “a land of 1,000 cities”, showcasing advanced technologies in oasis cities, including Merv, Balkh, Kabul, and Kandahar, with large-scale underground irrigation systems. Water development will once again be crucial, and the agricultural potential is great.In the past weeks, most of Afghanistan’s neighbors have come together, in an attempt to forge a commitment to end the nightmare suffered by the people of Afghanistan, a nightmare also suffered by the military forces of many nations drawn into needless combat in the service of a British-centered oligarchy fostering the growth of drug trafficking and terrorism in the entire region. Just as the collapse of the Soviet Union marked the end of an era—the division of the world into nuclear armed blocs hostile to one another—so also the utter failure of the 20-year misadventure of the United States and NATO in Afghanistan, and in the other failed colonial wars in Southwest Asia, poses the question: Can the great nations of the world cooperate in the transformation of Afghanistan, and the other war-torn nations, into modern economies, participating in co-operative development through the New Silk Road process, exemplified by China’s Belt and Road Initiative? Leading voices, from veterans’ groups and whistleblowers, to experts on the danger of global narcotics plague and on international political relations, will join Helga Zepp-LaRouche in dialogue, to impel the United States and Europe to join the growing international cooperation that is coming together. We can use this opportunity to make the turn from 50 years of failed policies, and instead to embark on the path required to achieve a new paradigm for mankind. Watch Here

This week's Fireside Chat featured an exciting presentation from David Shavin of Executive Intelligence Review, on the history you were never told about the plot to develop Afghanistan. Think Afghanistan has always been a lifeless desert that is plagued by corruption and sectarian fighting? Think again.The Helmand Valley Authority (HVA), modelled on the US's TVA project, was launched in 1952 to develop a key area of Afghanistan's territory. As with the TVA, the HVA project involved a top-down development of the whole region, centered upon electricity, irrigation, and flood control. But it also included improvements in farm equipment and practices, canals that helped reclaim the desert lands. Grain and cotton flourished and they became the core of the nation’s economy. Also, the agricultural developments in the 1950’s pushed Helmand's opium production aside – though that was revived in the 1990’s. Unfortunately, as the US turned away from it's identity after Kennedy's assassination and Nixon's pulling the plug on the Bretton Woods System, our nation wasn't the only thing that began to go fallow fall apart. Some of the same infrastructure the US helped to construct in the 1950's fell into disrepair and was eventually added to a target list to bomb during our "war on terror" after 2001. Let's change this ugly turn of events and make Afghanistan a true turning point in history.

It is no doubt that throughout the years and throughout the world, not a soul can resist the overwhelmingly jubilant tune of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy." But why? What does it mean for a composer to strike such a universal chord? Most people today think that we can separate the artist from his creations, as they praise degenerates like Richard Wagner while neglecting the fact that he was a raging anti-Semite. Ludwig van Beethoven on the other hand was of a completely different character, and that can be heard in his music. In this week's Midwest Meeting, David Shavin, musician, researcher, and editor at EIR, presented Beethoven and his unrelenting commitment to the ideals of the newly founded American Republic, as well as his passion to bring that same love of mankind to a Europe utterly dominated by oligarchism.

The United States/NATO occupation of Afghanistan, the latest, long trail of fruitless wasting of blood and treasure in that suffering country, is now ending. There is an alternative start to peace through economic development which could now succeed, if the sine qua non which Lyndon LaRouche made clear years ago goes into action. The great powers in the region—China, Russia, and India—along with the United States, must cooperate, not with their special forces but with their engineers and their credits, to support that success.This was proposed by LaRouche’s Executive Intelligence Review in special reports already in 1997. It was sabotaged by regime-change wars throughout the region. Proposed again by Russia in 2014—an Afghan region development concept reported by EIR in its 2014 special report, “The New Silk Road Becomes the World Land-Bridge”—it was again sabotaged by Russia’s expulsion from the G8 after the Ukraine coup d’état. Behind this was the British intelligence Bernard Lewis Plan, adopted by Zbigniew Brzezinski as Carter’s National Security Advisor, to use this region as an “Arc of Crisis” permanent weapon of war and terror against Russia and China. The Belt and Road Initiative, initially a Chinese land-bridge infrastructure project across Eurasia but now involving more than 100 countries, offers economic development advantages and prospects to Afghanistan, including the Taliban, if major nations in the region cooperate on them. The obvious question is why the U.S./NATO occupation persisted for so long in blocking the government of Afghanistan from negotiating on the Belt and Road, when it clearly was open to this and in desperate need of development as we show here. Railway-technology.com, the Belt and Road News, and The Diplomat have all recently reported on the agreement reached in February 2021 by the foreign ministers of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan for a railway to be built at an estimated cost of $4.8 billion from Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s most northerly major city and its capital, through Mazar-e-Sharif and Kabul, Afghanistan, to Peshawar, Pakistan. Uzbekistan—the initiator of the plan, according to The Diplomat—proposed to ask the World Bank to make a loan for this fund, and that request was made in April. Moreover, a Peshawar-Kabul-Dushanbe highway project was recently agreed upon between Pakistan and Afghanistan representatives. As a Pakistani planned project, called the Khyber Pass Economic Corridor as an offshoot of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, this plan dates to March 2015, when a feasibility study was begun. If the rail and road developments are combined, effectively a north-south transportation and economic development corridor begins to be launched running from the main Eurasian Land-Bridge on the north, to the Indian Ocean on the south. This is true even though the core Kabul-Peshawar stretch through the Khyber Pass runs east and west. Tashkent will connect the corridor north through secondary rail lines to the dry port of Khorgos, Kazakhstan, on the main Eurasian Land-Bridge rail line from Lanzhou Port in China to Russia and Europe. Peshawar, via the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), will connect the corridor directly to Pakistan’s growing port of Gwadar on the Arabian Sea—and of course, back into China’s southern industrial heartlands. Mazar-e-Sharif in the extreme north of Afghanistan is the only Afghan city with rail connections now, largely into Uzbekistan. Within Afghanistan itself, this rail-road corridor would turn the northeast quadrant of the Afghanistan Ring Road into a protected part of that international corridor; and through Mazar-e-Sharif, it would connect the Tajik capital Dushanbe which lies to the east of that corridor. The major economic powers must turn from tensions, charges and confrontations, and cooperate for this potential to finally allow peace and development in Afghanistan. The rail line from Peshawar to Tashkent and potentially north to Russia will have serious logistical-engineering challenges, which only the Chinese rail-building companies can solve. The World Bank loan will only be made if the United States agrees to support the plan, and then the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) can become involved in providing additional credit. And development along the corridor will require a lot of new electric power, which can best be nuclear plants engineered by Russia’s world-leading nuclear exporter Rosatom. These are only the beginning of the needs for power, water management, transportation, and urgently now, healthcare. They are the way out of the constant “Arc of Crisis” warfare LaRouche first exposed in his 1998 classic video lesson, “Storm Over Asia.”

The Midwest LaRouche Organization hosted Independent LaRouche Candidate for Senate in NY, Diane Sare, for this week's zoom conference call to discuss the imminent hyperinflationary blowout of the Trans-Atlantic financial system. The Federal Reserve has 10 times more "assets" on its balance sheet today than it did in 2008, and double what it had one year ago. The big banks are holding twice as much in deposits as they are lending. Moreover, counting drug money and prostitution in the GDP will only make matters worse, and obliterate our already disintegrating cities. Happily, there is a growing revolt against the "great reset" and Green New Deal, not only in the United States, but all over the world. Not one thing is happening which Lyndon LaRouche did not accurately forecast and the solutions he proposed will work. The upcoming conference of the Schiller Institute is the rallying point for everyone who wishes to ensure a peaceful and prosperous future. Register for the Schiller Institute Conference here.

In the latter half of the 20th Century, the British Empire's policies of depopulation and enforced underdevelopment were imposed worldwide. In this week's Midwest Activist Call, The LaRouche Organization's Jose Vega discusses the notable case of El Salvador, one of the more harshly targeted nations during this period, and how it is now fighting back. In 1981, Thomas Ferguson, then-Latin American case officer at the State Department’s Office of Population Affairs, had this to say: "El Salvador is an example of where our failure to lower population through effective programs has created the basis for a national security crisis. The government of El Salvador failed to use our programs effectively to lower their population. Now they get a civil war because of it." The civil war went until 1992, with the blessings of the United States and other followers of the British imperial system. Today, a revolution is taking place in rejection of this intentional policy of genocide -- a very different picture than you're getting in the media. Let us learn a lesson from them now, and re-discover America's true identity as a beacon of hope for mankind.

At the first “Climate Dialogues” webinar on May 26, organized by the Padua Association of Engineers and by Galileo magazine, Italian climate scientists have exposed the biased climate models used by the IPCC to justify a so-called “climate emergency” and have praised more balanced Russian and Chinese climate models. They have also warned against the new IPCC report, expected to be issued soon, which is based on questionable 2019 charts. There will be seven more webinars between now and October.Prof. Nicola Scafetta, a world expert on climate models based on Sun activity, counterposed climate models based on CO2 to models based on astronomical oscillations. The former are used by the IPCC and are regularly refuted by real data. When applied to the past, they are not able to reproduce past temperatures. Astronomical oscillations (Sun, Earth and other planets) can explain climate cycles much better. Whereas polls show that 97% of scientists agree that we are in a warming phase, only 26% of them are convinced that it is due to human activity to some extent. Therefore, the famous “consensus” reported by the media is fake news. Professor Scafetta does not exclude human participation in climate change, but considers it secondary to astronomical causes. The next IPCC report, coming soon, is based on a 2019 chart which is very problematic, Scafetta said, because it puts together a series of inconsistent data for the purpose of demonstrating their hypothesis. There is a 1,000-year cycle determined by solar activity, which IPCC simply ignores, which is unacceptable. What is interesting, in his view, are the indices of climate sensitivity that measure climate variations when CO2 doubles. Here, Chinese and Russian models show much lower indices than the Western ones (in particular Canadian models). The Chinese and Russian results are converging on real historical data, and they have a higher rate of forecasting actual temperatures. Professor Scafetta was preceded by Massimo Coccato, chairman of the Padua Association of Engineers, Galileo editor Enzo Siviero and by Prof. Alberto Prestininzi, founder and chief editor of the Journal of Engineering Geology and Environment. Both Scafetta and Prestininzi are among the initiators of the 2019 “There Is No Climate Emergency” manifesto of 200 Italian scientists, which became an international group of over 500 scientists by October 2019. Since then, at least another 300 scientists have signed the manifesto. Siviero, who moderated the event, announced the cycle of “climate dialogues,” which is open to all opinions based on scientific data. In order to be a good engineer you need to be a great humanist, Siviero said. Professor Prestinizi regretted that supporters of man-made climate change won’t undertake a scientific debate with critics. The debate occurs in the media instead of within scientific forums, while hundreds of millions of people in the world, whose primary fuel source is coal, have no adequate access to electricity. He gave a short historical review of climate hysteria, highlighting the example of the “hockey stick” curve, which was ruled to be false even by a court. In 1977, the IPCC forecast a sea level increase of 6 meters by 2030. Eventually, they revised their forecast and the most recent ones say the increase will be between a half and 1 meter.

Let us not be persuaded by the clamor that beats about the ears of the credulous being taken in by the antics of the Biden climate summit. Beneath that rancorous din, can be heard the low drumbeat of war. Take the comments yesterday of United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at the summit: “Today, no nation can find lasting security without addressing the climate crisis…. Climate change is making the world more unsafe and we need to act…. The climate crisis is a profoundly destabilizing force for our world. As the Arctic melts, competition for resources and influence in the region increases. Closer to the Equator, rising temperatures and more frequent and intense extreme weather events in Africa and Central America threaten millions with drought, hunger, and displacement.” This is a restatement of the 1974 National Security Study Memorandum-200 policy, called “Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests.”Indian Minister of Power, New and Renewable Energy Raj Kumar Singh on March 31 framed the counter-argument when he stated: “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?” Though a memorandum of understanding promoting the Biden climate agenda was signed between the United States and India, the truth about the Great Reset’s depopulation agenda is well known to India. When we see the resistance to Russian and Chinese presence in Central Africa from the French, British and the United States, the use of Islamic-label terrorist networks to shut down Total’s $20 billion LNG project in Mozambique, and the assassination of President Idriss Déby of Chad, a strong supporter of the Transaqua water management project, we know that the prospects for true economic progress, and an end to the long-term effects of colonialism on the African continent are the real target of the economic hit men like Mike Bloomberg, so evident at the Biden debacle. In Germany, Helga Zepp-LaRouche noted, we have a synthetic creation called Annalena Baerbock, chancellor candidate of the Green Party. Her policies, including “ambitious climate protection” by NATO, a “transatlantic climate partnership” with the United States, and a change of German industry to create “climate-neutral steel” to oppose the “authoritarian China,” could well turn out to be the policies of the next German government. Baerbock, it should come as no surprise, put in time at the London School of Economics. Is she cut from the same British Union Jack as Hans Joachim (“Sir John”) Schellnhuber? She is also, of course, anti-“Russian authoritarianism.” She is, however, not a German, but a European project, intended as the “bright new young face” of depopulation. This is Hjalmar Schacht in greenface. Russia’s recent military actions in the Black Sea have temporarily prevented further escalation in that situation. Putin has made clear to Zelensky that no nonsense will be tolerated regarding the matter of Crimea. Meanwhile, the United States Congress has appropriated money to conduct “public diplomacy” warfare against the Belt and Road Initiative. And we must keep our eye on the situation in Central Africa, with Russia, France, Britain, China and the United States, among others, involved under the guise of shifting priorities in the era of climate change. The work of the Committee for the Coincidence of Opposites, as expressed in the Harley Schlanger interview with Col. Richard Black today, and the process of recruitment of others, including from the American military, to stand in solidarity with Colonel Black’s policy, challenges the military and other institutions to assert to the world that Americans do not believe in torture of prisoners, or of civilians, do not believe in the mistreatment or killing of civilian populations during war, do not believe in taking the food supplies of nations, or of withholding medicines and vaccines. A worldwide health program, with adequate water, power, transportation, hospitals, vaccines and medicines, medical personnel and schools, is the only solution, in the short term. This will function. not only for preventing world war, not only for maintaining our continued existence as a species free from impending, even more lethal pandemics. That commitment for a new world health platform may be the only way to deliver the trans-Atlantic world from its present state of moral collapse. Helga Zepp-Laouche’s interview on the origin and purpose of the Schiller Institute, which will be made available this weekend, is a perfect introduction for those that wish to know why we do what we do, and for what we are fighting.

Forty government heads of state and dozens of other leaders of institutions gathered (virtually) today to sing the praises of Joe Biden (“Joe” to many of them) for “bringing America back,” as most of them said — perhaps best expressed by the UK’s Alok Shama, the President of the COP 26 event planned for November in Glasgow: “We welcome America back into the fold,” clearly meaning the Malthusian death cult known as the British Empire. The meeting was chaired by climate fanatics Joe Biden, Antony Blinken and John Kerry.There was a sharp distinction between the presentations of the leaders of the western world, and those of Russia, China, Mexico, South Africa, and some (but only some) other leaders from the Global South. While Biden, Macron, Merkel, Trudeau, Draghi, et al. described the so-called “climate crisis” as the greatest existential crisis facing mankind today, they emphasized that {all countries} must join in the suicide pact of eliminating fossil fuels and shutting down major portions of industry and agriculture to save Mother Earth from the non-existent danger of carbon dioxide. But the West no longer can dictate to the nations still guided by reason, rather than by Chicken Little’s screaming, ‘the sky is falling.’ Xi Jinping spoke poetically about the harmony and balance between man and nature, but added that it must follow a “people-centered approach,” focusing on those “longing for a better life.” We must follow the UN-centered multi-nationalism (i.e., not the artificial “rules-based order” made up by the imperial powers). Most importantly, he and many others emphasized the “common but differentiated responsibilities” between the advanced sector and the developing sector, insisting that the concerns of the developing countries must be accommodated. It is of note that climate czar John Kerry, speaking on Wednesday, called on China to give up its intention to allow coal-fired energy production to “peak” only in the 2030s. Xi did not obey, stating that they would continue producing coal-fired plants, as presented in the 14th Five Year Plan. That plan made clear that moving beyond coal depends on expanding nuclear and fusion power. Vladimir Putin also insisted on UN-centered policies. He explained that Russia had reduced carbon emissions by half since the 1990s (like China, Russia has a serious real pollution problem, which they are resolving, with the side-effect of reducing carbon emissions). He said Russia is restructuring its energy and industrial sectors, focusing on nuclear power (he reminded the world that there are no carbon emissions from nuclear), as well as petro-gas and hydrogen. He noted that Russia’s ecosystem absorbs 2.5 billion tons of CO2 per year. He closed by insisting that global development must “not only be green, but also sustainable,” by fighting poverty and closing the gap between rich and poor. Nary a word about solar or wind. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) began by stating that Mexico had recently discovered three hydrocarbon deposits, all of which, he said, would be used to meet domestic demand. No longer, he said, would Mexico sell crude oil and import gasoline. Hydro plant turbines were being modernized to produce more electricity at less cost. Vast reforestation was taking place — 700 million trees, heading for a billion, and Mexico would help reforestation in the triangle countries to the south. He offered to advise the US on this successful program. He also called on the US to treat migrants as “exceptional people” who are willing to work hard, and who should have a path to citizenship if they desire. The State Department had warned AMLO in advance that the issue of migration should not be raised in the context of the environment — they are two totally different matters — but he did anyway. Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne, interestingly, barely mentioned climate, but focused on the financial disaster which, due to the pandemic, is striking countries like his dependent on tourism, and demanded that the nation’s debt must be forgiven or reorganized — it simply cannot be paid. He praised the fact that not only the US, but also China, were setting the pace on the climate issue. The session was ended by 19-year-old Xiye Bastida, a Mexican version of Greta Thunberg (who is from Fridays for the Future and was busy testifying at the US Congress), ranting and lecturing the evil white folk in the Global North who caused all the problems, and must now take direction from the brainwashed children. Blinken spent several minutes praising her as one of the “leaders of the future” who are dedicated to saving us from our folly. Xiye had been scheduled to speak in the session following AMLO’s, but she was moved up to provide a direct rejoinder to AMLO, and build her up as an international figure. One pro AMLO YouTube program, Antonio Villegas’s Guacamole News, reported on the incident: “Biden Ambushes AMLO at the Summit! They Create a Mexican Greta. She Already Attacked Him. From the Soros Group.” According to Villegas, Xiye insisted that the world has to recognize that we are at the end of the era of fossil fuels. The rest of the day included a session on Green Finance genocide with the normal suspects (Yellen, Georgieva, etc.), and another on Green Defense genocide (Sec. Austin, DNI Avril Haines, Sec. Ben Wallace, NATO’s Jens Stoltenberg, etc.). Climate is the center of all things, they all agreed, and the world must bow down or die. Friday is more of the same, ending with Michael Bloomberg and Bill Gates.

On March 16, the Permanent Representative of India at the United Nations, Ambassador T.S. Tirumarti spoke out against the humanitarian disaster related to the U.S. imposition of sanctions against Syria, the so-called Caesar Sanctions. Tirumarti said the sanctions should be “relaxed,” calling on the international community to act “with a sense of urgency” to help the Syrian people. He said there is an “urgent need to increase humanitarian assistance to all Syrians throughout the country without discrimination, politicization, and any preconditions.”The sanctions, which were a part of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, went into effect on June 17, 2020, and have plunged more than 90% of all Syrians below the poverty level. With the full backing of Secretary of State Pompeo, the U.S, Special Envoy for Syria Engagement, James Jeffrey, exposed the hypocrisy of U.S. policy in his explanation of the actual intent of the Act. While insisting that “We’re not demanding total victory, we’re not saying that Assad has to go,” Jeffrey said that the goal of the Act is to “make it clear to anyone who wants to rebuild Assad’s Syria that that cannot happen without Caesar sanctions,” until there is a government in Damascus that carries out US demands with what Jeffrey described as “real eagerness.” He later clarified that anyone, or any nation which engages in economic activities in Syria is “a potential sanctions target.” The sanctions were drafted in response to a collection of photos compiled by a defector of Syrians who were allegedly victims of the brutality of the Assad government. It was delivered to the opposition group, the “Syrian National Movement”, which passed it on to Human Rights Watch, (HRW) which released it in an 86-page report, “If the Dead Could Speak: Mass Deaths and Torture in Syria’s Detention Facilities.” Critics of the report point out that, of the 28,000+ photos included, only a “couple dozen” could be confirmed by HRW activists, who claimed to have “meticulously verified dozens of stories” of people who died in Syrian detention centers. Many of the others were Syrian soldiers murdered by terrorists, or victims of assassinations and bomb attacks done by terrorists. In passing the bill, no significant voice in Congress was raised about victims of U.S. torture in Iraq or Afghanistan, or about the civilian toll of the “War on Terror,” or about the millions whose lives are endangered by the sanctions. Also of note is that the publisher of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, who published classified U.S. documents reporting on torture and other atrocities carried out by U.S. military and security forces occupying Iraq and Afghanistan, was not hailed as a “hero” — as the defector and HRW activists have been — but is left to rot in a jail in London, awaiting extradition to stand trial in the U.S. Helga Zepp-LaRouche and the LaRouche Organization are demanding that the sanctions be lifted immediately.