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On Wednesday morning, Joe Biden and his wife will depart for his first travel abroad as President, an eight-day trip for three summits—the Group of Seven, June 11-13 in Cornwall, England; the NATO heads of state meeting, June 14 in Brussels; and the June 16 Summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva. The principle of leaders of major nations meeting for collaboration is sorely needed in today’s world of crises—the continuing pandemic, famine, and confrontation to the point of the danger of all-out war.However, the counter-forces to potential collaboration, and even to the principle involved of serving the public good, are in high gear to either sabotage the Biden-Putin Summit happening at all, or, in some fantasy-ridden way, to try to dominate the events to steer whole nations into a doomsday course of green de-construction and conflict. It was announced yesterday that Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be alongside Biden when he meets with Putin. Not surprising, but not propitious. As it happens, Blinken was the witness at marathon, day-long Congressional hearings of Appropriations and Foreign Relations Committees, in the House of Representatives all day Monday, and in the Senate today. The recurring theme, expressed with smarmy bi-partisanship, was that Russia and China are U.S. enemies; they oppose U.S. “values,” and so on and on. For example, Rep. Gerald Connelly (D-VA) asserted that NATO must no longer be only a defense organization, in the military sense in which it was founded, but now be active “for democracy,” against malign leaders. “It must be an antidote to Putin and Xi…. Democracy must be built into the architecture of NATO” itself, for “democratic resilience.” Blinken assured him, it will be. He said that in 2010—the last year of NATO’s formal “conceptual” mandate— Russia was referred to as a “partner,” and China hardly mentioned at all. Now, preserving democracy against these nations must be NATO’s official conceptual charter. There were dozens of such exchanges and kindergarten-level jingoism. As NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said this past week: NATO is no longer just a military alliance, but a “military-political” alliance, and “global,” not just in the “Atlantic” as the name may mistakenly imply. In line with all this, Biden’s first stop tomorrow will be to Mildenhall, England, to the Royal Air Force base, where the U.S. Air Force 100th Air Refueling Wing is located, the only permanent U.S. refueling site in the European theatre. He will address American personnel. Thursday, he will meet with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in what media itineraries describe as an occasion to stress the special U.S.-UK relationship. Sunday, the Bidens will go to Windsor Castle to meet with the Queen. This political alignment is as venal as it is dangerous, but it also is delusional. The monetarist financial system associated with the U.S.-U.K. special financial relationship of Wall Street and the City of London, is now in the terminal phase. It cannot continue. Look at today’s hyperinflation, worsening by the hour. There will either be a break-forward into a new paradigm of economic policy, and foreign relations, favoring peoples and nations, or there will be chaos and misery, with the likelihood of war. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Schiller Institute Chairwoman, is stressing this forcefully in recent communications, warning that the hyperinflation shows that a major phase-change is in store. “It is not endless…not a bad infinity.” One manifestation of the end-phase is that people cannot afford to eat. International prices of basic foods—taken as a group—in May are up 38 percent over their level in May, 2020, measured and weighted by different categories. This is the latest report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Food Price Index, a monthly tracking survey, issued on June 1. The FAO gives details—e.g., corn (maize) prices are up 89 percent over that period; dairy products prices are up 28 percent, etc. Look at COVID-19, now raging in the Southern Hemisphere, as well as in India and at points in Southeast Asia. The Pan American Health Organization’s latest survey reports surges from Chile to the Caribbean. Amidst this terrible picture, there are instances which stand out, of the opposite paradigm of compassion, sanity, and sound policy. On the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum last week, President Putin met with representatives of many pharmaceutical companies, investors, and nations, on plans to rapidly establish Sputnik V vaccine production facilities in many places. So far 25 firms and 14 nations are involved, plus 30 investors from 17 nations. Among the heads of state in the meeting (virtually) were those of Argentina and Serbia. Nations participating in setting up vaccine facilities include Mexico, Germany, Italy, Belarus, China, Kazakhstan, and more. This exemplifies the spirit to be addressed everywhere, in mobilizing for a new paradigm for mankind. The theme of the upcoming, two-day Schiller Institute international (virtual) online conference: “For the Common Good of All People, Not Rules Benefiting the Few!”

Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts is leading the charge in Western and farm states against the Green Reset “30×30” anti-food, anti-population plan. In May, Ricketts launched a series of town hall meetings, some of which have turned out standing-room-only crowds. The latest one, in Clay County, June 3, saw more than 200 in attendance.Denouncing this “radical climate agenda,” Ricketts told the crowd, “This fight is now in our own backyard. We are on the front lines. We are in the trenches.” He warned farmers also to beware how the new Fed policies will tell them how to farm their land. Nebraska, where 97% of the land is reportedly privately owned, has indeed become a hotbed of resistance to the drive to cut agriculture production worldwide. Since Biden signed the sweeping green Executive Order 14008 in January, Nebraska has seen 23 counties—the most in any single state—pass resolutions against it, according to media coverage. In April, Ricketts corralled governors from 14 states to sign a letter against the 30×30 plan, and the state Attorney General (along with the Kansas AG) issued his own letter. On May 18, Kansas Senator Roger Marshall, along with North Dakota Senator Kevin Cramer (both Republicans), introduced S1673, the “30×30 Termination Act,” which would block federal funds from going to the President’s executive order. Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert denounced the 30×30 plan in a stinging op-ed in the Washington Examiner on May 1, and introduced companion “30×30 Termination” legislation into the House of Representatives. Additionally, two Kansas legislators, Sen. Jerry Moran, and Rep. Tracey Mann, have taken it one step further, introducing companion bills—HR3314 and S1682, what they are calling the “No Land Grab Act 5 of 2021”—which would explicitly block the 30 by 30 portion of the Biden edict. As opposition to E.O. 14008 has quickly spread—prairie fire fashion—through the Midwestern heartland, administration officials have been forced to beat a hasty retreat, and are now virtually tripping over themselves to insist that this is, and always was, a “voluntary” program. On May 6, the Interior Department issued the America the Beautiful report, which, according to Amanda Zalucky, writing on TownTalk, mentions the word “voluntary” a ridiculous number of times. That this program is voluntary may be true, but what is not voluntary, are the intentions of its ideological sponsors, including Malthusians the likes of the late Prince Philip and his oldest son Prince Charles, who see humanity as a blight on the planet, and the reduction of food—to the point of creating famines—as one of the easiest and cheapest ways of “culling the herd.”

Fortunately, there are individuals and alignments coming forward, or about to, worldwide, in resistance to the Green Great Reset/geopolitical onslaught we now face, which, unless stopped, means obliteration from disease, famine and war. Two developments this week contribute to the process of transforming resistance into a powerful offensive to defeat the Malthusian enemy.First, there is the needed understanding of how mankind, through creative discoveries and applications, must progress scientifically and technologically. This means going forward, not backward, in successive, higher modes of power. At a conference (virtual) in Moscow May 26-27, Schiller Institute President Helga Zepp-LaRouche identified this in her presentation, “Energy Flux Density as the Criterion of Physical Economy.” Speaking on a panel at the annual Moscow Academic Economic Forum, she stated at one point: “With his science of physical economy Lyndon LaRouche developed the yardstick needed, by defining the exact correlation of the energy flux density used in the production process and the associated relative potential population density which can be maintained on each level. Since wind and solar have very low energy flux densities, and many countries, such as Germany, are exiting nuclear energy, the ‘Great Reset’ threatens to lead to a population reduction of billions, which is the result desired by the neo-Malthusian advocates of ‘green finance.’ The Green New Deal is the opposite of the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt: it is the revival of the economics of Hjalmar Schacht, with the same results: mass death and war.” Understanding the LaRouche breakthrough concept of energy flux density and potential relative population density makes it clear: morally and scientifically, the Green New Deal and Great Reset are killers. A second contribution to the anti-Malthusian alliance comes from Italy. A webinar was held on May 26, by a grouping of Italian scientists, who have exposed the fraudulent climate models used by the UN IPCC to justify the “climate change emergency” demanding economic destruction and depopulation. The event was the first in a series of eight, through October, called the “Climate Dialogues,” with the next one scheduled for June 9. The organizers are the Padua Association of Engineers, and Galileo magazine. At the May 26th kick-off, Prof. Nicola Scafetta, a world expert on climate models, based on solar dynamics, demolished the CO₂ emissions and overheating analysis, which is refuted by real data, past and present, as well as conceptually bunk. Scarfetta and others praised the more balanced Russian and Chinese climate models. These “Climate Dialogue” scientists are those who in 2019 released a manifesto titled, “There Is No Climate Emergency,” initially signed by 200 Italians, and soon by an international group of over 500 scientists. There are now more than 800 scientist signers. Again, understanding that the CO₂ emissions model is a fraud, makes it clear: morally and scientifically, the Green New Deal and Great Reset are killers. The Schiller Institute, just a month from now, will have another international (online) conference to further the world Anti-Malthusian Alliance, in all respects, and based on the expanding dialogue already in progress. The Schiller Institute newsletter (No. 22, USA) out today, previewed the June 26-27 conference weekend, stating in part, "The science of climate change is not settled, and much of what is presented is not based on science at all. Leading scientists with the integrity and courage to buck dangerous ‘popular’ dogma will discuss so-called man-made climate change, and the most-advanced science, including the galactic science of astronomical-scale oscillations. The suicidal trend in some European countries to stick with anti-nuclear attitude will also be discussed. “Space science and exploration, and recent breakthroughs in controlled thermonuclear fusion, are the science drivers for a growing and prosperous human race. Man is surely a galactic species, and the realization of that idea has profound implications for everything from education, health care, to the potential for new Beethovens and Mozarts. That issue of scientific and artistic creativity will be central to the conference….”

It is very easy to lose sight of any path forward in the existential crisis facing mankind today, especially when viewed from within the trans-Atlantic region: the financial bubble in the banking system—literally quadrillions of dollars of speculative paper, already threatening a hyperinflation which could wipe out everyone’s savings; a government issuing daily war cries against the nuclear-armed Russia and China; the insane Green New Deal already shutting down the real economy based on a scientific fraud; a pandemic which is expanding globally; and a social crisis fueled by drugs, violence, and perversity.But that is not the global reality. In fact, another paradigm is in place, and rapidly expanding around the world, and is showing signs of emerging within the US and Europe, in spite of the extreme danger—or perhaps because of the extreme danger. China’s Belt and Road is hated and demonized by the Anglo-American financial oligarchy precisely because it offers the world an alternative to the Malthusian genocide of war, pandemics, and “green finance”—and nations in Asia, Africa, and Ibero-America are seizing that alternative. When the US State Department warns them that accepting vaccines from China and Russia is a malign attempt to destroy democracy, they simply wonder what has driven the State Department mad. The eleven days of mass murder in Gaza this month has created a backlash in the US and Europe. Mass demonstrations against the slaughter have been joined by many non-Palestinians and non-Muslims, including many Jews, who are sickened by the constant harping about human rights violations around the world while offering uncritical support for the apartheid state created by the right-wing leaders in Israel. It is important to recall that the Netanyahu leadership dates back to the pro-Hitler Vladimir Jabotinsky’s “Revisionist Zionism” in the UK (Bibi Netanyahu’s father was Jabotinsky’s personal secretary, while David Ben Gurian labeled Jabotinsky “Vladimir Hitler”). It is equally important to recall that the British imperial lords who created the state of Israel, without providing for a Palestinian state, also created Hamas in the 1980s, when it was useful to have a religious-based radical Palestinian organization to oppose the secular Palestine Liberation Organization of Yasser Arafat. And, of course, when Arafat and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin launched a peace process together, the Jabotinskyites had Rabin assassinated. Lyndon LaRouche, throughout his life, identified the manufactured “unresolvable conflict” between Jews and Arabs in Palestine as central to the British imperial division of the entire world into conflicting blocs. But, he insisted, there is a solution—Peace Through Development. He devised an “Oasis Plan” for the development of the region after meetings with Arabs and Israelis in 1975. Several iterations of the plan over the years led to the publication of the Schiller Institute report Extending the New Silk Road to West Asia and Africa in 2017. In fact, this is a paradigm for the solution to the global crisis now threatening mankind. The Committee on the Coincidence of Opposites co-founded by Helga Zepp-LaRouche in June, 2020, is predicated on this principle, developed by the 15th-Century genius Nicholas of Cusa: when differences based on ideological, ethnic, religious, national, territorial or any other basis, provoke a crisis, the discussion can, and must, be lifted to a higher level of thought, based on the common creative powers unique to all human beings, and the common aims of mankind derived from their unique capacity to participate in God’s continuing creation of the universe. Impossible? Cusa created a Renaissance in Europe based on that principle, overcoming the Dark Ages of war and plague. Zhu Xi created a Renaissance in China in the 12th Century based on precisely the same principle, as did the creators of the Islamic Renaissance in the Baghdad Caliphate beginning in the 8th Century. Are we not human beings, capable of creating a future worthy of the dignity of man? It has been announced that Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin will meet in Geneva on June 16. The Kremlin states that the meeting will address the “further development” of US-Russia relations, as well as cooperation in fighting the pandemic and resolving “regional conflicts.” The White House states that the meeting aims to “restore predictability and stability” to the relationship. A White House statement following the meeting of National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and his Russian counterpart, Nikolai Patrushev, on Monday said the sides “expressed confidence that mutually acceptable solutions could be found in a number of areas,” and “agreed that a normalization of U.S.-Russian relations would be in the interest of both countries and contribute to global predictability and stability.” The Kremlin statement was quite the same. Will this lead to a new paradigm of peace and cooperation, rather than war? Will the same process take place between the US and China? We can only be certain that the British Empire and its war-mongering assets within the U.S., in both parties, and in the intelligence community and the media, will take drastic actions to prevent such a result. But the momentum in a positive direction is there, and has been significantly affected by the LaRouche movement over the past decades, and especially by the international Schiller Institute conferences held in March and May. It is not a time for speculation or predictions of success or failure. It is time for all of us to build a Renaissance.

Today in the Syria Times, a “Special Interview” with Helga Zepp LaRouche, President and founder of the Schiller institute, was posted by Editor in Chief Reem Hadad, who said in the introduction that the Institute’s “motto is ‘mobilizing globally for a New Paradigm of Mankind.’ The Schiller Institute is currently conducting a series of conferences … to try to gain support for the idea that only a ‘Peace Through Development’ approach can resolve the situation….”On Syria specifically, Zepp LaRouche said in the interview, that, “An economic development plan for all of Southwest Asia must be put on the agenda, and all neighbors from Russia, China, India to Egypt—and hopefully including the U.S.—must be won over to participate.” The interview publicizes that Mrs. Bouthaina Shaaban, the Political and Media Advisor to President Assad, will be a speaker at the May 8 Schiller Institute conference, “The Moral Collapse of the Trans-Atlantic World Cries Out for a New Paradigm.” Total opposition to this approach was shown May 6 by the U.S. State Department, which announced that U.S. unilateral sanctions against Syria will be continued for another year. This amounts to a death sentence for millions, given what is well known, that 13 million Syrians already lack food and medical supplies, and basic living conditions of shelter, water and sanitation. But in keeping with its geopolitics, the State Department rhetoric was bloodthirsty in lying about Damascus and its “backers,” including blaming them for keeping out humanitarian aid. “The United States condemns the Assad regime’s, and its Russian and Iranian enablers’ brutal violence and human rights violations and abuses.” Such rhetoric goes beyond venality, into pre-war madness. It coheres with the U.S. Strategic Command’s casual talk of preparing to win a nuclear exchange. The same day as the State Department’s sanctions decree on Syria, particulars of the dire situation in Syria were released in the new “2021 Global Report of Food Crises” by the World Food Program (WFP) and other agencies (Global Network Against Food Crises) which covers 55 nations in extreme need of food. The terrible impact of sanctions was explicitly identified. The “Forecast 2021” for Syria warned, “Continued sanctions, a war-torn economy, and the effects of a depreciated Syrian pound will also contribute to high numbers of acutely food-insecure Syrians…. Between December 2019 and 2020, food prices rose 236%…” WFP Executive Director David Beasley said on May 6 that 34 million people across some 40 nations (Syria included), are at risk of dying of starvation in the coming months, without relief intervention. He spoke to the online conference of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, (SIPRI). Beasley called for nations to mobilize “systems of support” to avert mass death. He pointed to UN Security Council Resolution 2417, passed unanimously in 2018, that says hunger cannot be used as a weapon of war. Thus, the May 8 conference, and the dialogue process it fosters and reflects, is now a critical world rallying point for voices to sound out for reason in national and human relations. We are in an emergency situation. The commitment to this outlook was stated today by Wang Yi, Foreign Minister of China, at a High Level Meeting of the UN Security Council, which China chairs for the month of May. The Zoom forum was titled, “Maintaining International Peace and Security; Maintaining Multilateralism and the International System with the United Nations at the Core.” It was attended by foreign ministers of Russia and the United States, and several other of the current UNSC 15 member states. Wang Yi chaired the meeting and stressed that, “There must be dialogue and cooperation,” and he attacked the extensive unilateral use of sanctions. In contrast, Secretary of State Blinken, while using the word multilateralism, spoke in his customary code words for geopolitical attacks on other nations, such as vigilance for “human rights.” He called for “non-traditional partnerships”—cover-term for anti-China, anti-Russia blocs. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was stern. He denounced the moves to create “narrow partnerships.” He denounced the call for a “summit of democracies”—made by President Biden for this year, as “a new club created on an ideological basis.” Lavrov reiterated President Putin’s call for a meeting of leaders of the Permanent Five of the UN Security Council. When it comes to “human rights,” Lavrov said that the right to life is fundamental. Attend and grow the ranks: May 8 International Schiller Institute Conference

Two developments this week exemplify the human response to crises, the reflex to mobilize resources to save lives and the future. Argentina has completed its first round of manufacture of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19, and sent the 21,000 doses to Russia, to the Gamaleya Institute for quality control evaluation. Argentine President Alberto Fernández expressed with pride yesterday that, “Argentina has become the first country of the region to launch the production of Sputnik V … [which] is approved in more than 10 countries of Latin and Central America, and production in Argentina will help facilitate deliveries to other partners in the region. It will be a great opportunity to advance in the fight against the pandemic,” not only for Argentina but for the entire region, he said. Mass production may begin in June.In Syria, where more than 20 million people are in dire need of food, medicine and other necessities, a combined effort is reportedly underway among Russia, Iran and the Damascus government, to supply food and fuel. Regional media report that Russia intends to provide wheat to last through 2022, to relieve the terrible bread shortage. Iran has sent four fuel shipments by sea. Russia’s naval forces are providing protection. These measures are fortunately being done regardless of U.S. sanctions on Syria, some of which have been in place since 2003, when George W. Bush imposed the Syria Accountability Act. The specifics of these two instances may be different, but they are equally outstanding as exemplifying taking action when and where needed, despite the current so-called “rules-based order” of international relations, which is a nightmare of sanctions, blockades, punitive tariffs, regime-change crimes, and geopolitical confrontations to the point of threatening all-out war. The United States has sanctions against at least 26 nations. This attempt to dominate by means of “we-set-the-rules” traces directly back to the British Empire heydays, and today is still centered in London, as well as on Wall Street and offshoots. Tomorrow starts the two-day White House Leaders Summit on Climate, which absolutely is one of the worst examples of rules-based evil—an attempted green global dictatorship, based on a fraud against science. The summit’s intent, as U.S. Presidential Climate Envoy John Kerry said today, is for the U.S. to assume leadership in muscling nations to set more “ambitious goals” for how much carbon emissions they will reduce by 2030 in each nation, in order to reach carbon neutral by 2050. That, in turn, means that new, green rules will dictate what people and nations can, and cannot do, in their farming, industry, transportation, health care, to simply continue to exist. It guarantees hundreds of millions will die. It guarantees that those suffering from the pandemic and famine today will perish, without fail. Look at the latest horrors of the pandemic, continuing in the absence of the international collaboration we need to defeat the virus. In India this week, 200,000 daily new cases were registered for the seventh straight day (and despite undercounting). Yesterday, the daily count was 295,041 new cases, and 2,023 deaths in one day. President Biden is expected to announce that he will stiffen the U.S. green rules, to set a world example, so that U.S. carbon emissions will be reduced by 50% by 2030 (from 2005,) which is up from the former lower U.S. goal for that date. Kerry praised Britain today, for upping its national goal this week to a 78% reduction of carbon emissions by 2035 (compared to 1990). Late last night, the European Commission increased its 2030 carbon reduction goal to 55% (compared to 1990). This is insane. Now is the time for voices of sanity and compassion to ring out. Ironically, though the Climate Summit is a terrible occasion, the heads of state of major nations whose collaboration for mutual benefit is vital for the world, will all speak tomorrow—China, Russia, the United States, India and many others. However, there is no watching and waiting: It is the activation of every citizen that counts. The killer green fraud can be stopped. The heritage of methodology and economic programs for development to end the carnage have been especially provided to humanity by statesman Lyndon LaRouche, in his decades of work and courage. Schiller Institute President Helga Zepp-LaRouche today is putting special focus on the moral reaction to act, we call agapē, or charity. Indifference is deadly. Today, President Vladimir Putin conducted his annual address to the Federal Assembly, live to the present audience of deputies and senators, and televised nationally. In addition to his thorough discussion of plans for economic, cultural and scientific improvement of his nation—especially for youth—he strongly denounced the geopolitical attacks on Russia and other nations, incredibly dangerous given the nuclear weapons. He scored how “everyone pretends nothing is happening.” In particular, “Everyone in the world seems to be used to the practice of politically motivated, illegal economic sanctions, and to certain actors’ brutal attempts to impose their will on others by force.” He singled out the “recently exposed direct interference in Belarus in an attempt to orchestrate a coup d’état, and assassinate the President of that country….” Putin concluded his remarks on the international situation, by reviewing the nuclear arms situation, saying, “The five nuclear countries bear special responsibility. I hope that the initiative on a personal meeting of the heads of state of the permanent members of the UN Security Council, which we proposed last year, will materialize, and will be held as soon as the epidemiological situation allows.” On May 8, attend the day-long Schiller Institute international conference, “The Moral Collapse of the Trans-Atlantic World Cries Out for a New Paradigm.”

On the occasion of Holy Week and Easter, statesman Lyndon LaRouche more than once wrote of the mission of all mankind. On March 29, 2002, he addressed it in his, “Easter, A Time For Reflection,” a substantial work, beginning with the question, that “Now, in a time of great menace … How should all peoples, of whatever religious profession, from around the world, view the leading developments of these days?” What should we do? After in-depth consideration, he wrote, "To sum up the point to be emphasized on this occasion, consider the following: “The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has a rich history, from Plato’s Socratic dialogues, through the role of the same Platonic notion of the term agapē expressed summarily by Paul’s I Corinthians 13, and permeating the Gospel of John. It is the concept, translated as promotion of the general welfare of present and future generations, in the U.S. Constitution, and, otherwise, the notion of doing good in service of the common good.”Today his words ring out. The specifics of the “great menace” he spoke of, meaning crises of all kinds—economic, cultural, warfare—have worsened in the intervening years to the point of today’s ongoing pandemic and famines. Look at just the dimensions of the food and farm crises. One year ago April, the UN Security Council received a briefing on the world hunger situation from World Food Program Director David Beasley, who told the diplomats that, unless emergency action were taken, the world would see “famine of Biblical proportions.” That is exactly what came to pass. Look at the 10 nations Beasley singled out at that 2020 UN briefing: Yemen, Syria, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria (northern), South Sudan, Sudan, Afghanistan, Haiti, Venezuela. The total number of people in dire need of food in these combined areas right now is close to 120 million, according to the March 23, 2021 “Hunger Hotspots” report of the WFP, and UN Food and Agriculture Organization. It is so bad, in fact, that there are people in these 10 nations, plus another 20 nations, who all together lack food to such a degree, that up to 34 million people are at the point of starvation in the coming weeks. At the same time, producers of food are being pressured into mass shutdown. Farmers in the world’s highest productivity foodbelts are under impossible conditions of low prices and green dictates, that unless corrected, will result in mass food shortages. On Good Friday/Passover April 2, thousands of farmers protested in the greater Paris area, after farm demonstrations otherwise took place in Lyon and elsewhere in the weeks before. In Germany, farmers also protested in February and March in Berlin, Munich and many other major cities, including holding vigils at targeted government offices, and bringing their tractors into the streets. In India, the farm protests continue for the fifth month. But who is acting for the good? Who even knows that these unheard of, desperate situations even exist? It is the same with even the COVID-19 pandemic. Although most of the world by now does know full well, with great sorrow and loss, the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, who is making an “issue” of such fundamentals for health security, as getting electricity and safe water in Africa, stopping the closure of hospitals anywhere, and building more health infrastructure on an emergency basis everywhere? Break the vaccine blockades, and go full tilt for inoculation and all measures of public health. The blackout of reality, and enforced indifference are key parts of the Green New Deal and Great Reset operations to demobilize the world into accepting mass depopulation. According to City of London/Wall Street/Silicon Valley/Big Tech and so on, you are allowed to care and comment only on saving the Earth from global warming. Nothing else. But we can break this evil spell. The Schiller Institute conference process, and publications and organizing everywhere are critical. The development programs are essential, for example, for Southwest Asia, and for the North American Belt and Road Initiative, as presented at the March 20-21 Schiller Institute international conference. Look at Africa. A week ago, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari issued a strong call for going ahead with the Lake Chad Water Transfer Project—the Transaqua plan—for the Lake Chad Basin and Central Africa—a necessary program championed for decades by LaRouche circles. Buhari met with Chad President Idriss Déby on March 27. Buhari’s press release stated, “It is imperative that there be water transfer to the Lake Chad from the Congo Basin, so that the people can resume their normal lives.” Details will be forthcoming about the next Schiller Institute international conference, planned for May 8, five weeks from now. Helga Zepp LaRouche said in conclusion of the March 21 Panel on “Southwest Asia: Pivot for War, or Peaceful Development with the New Silk Road,” after a discussion of British geopolitics, that we need, "total development for the whole Eurasian continent, including the Americas, including Africa, so that everybody has an advantage. But this needs to be put on the table as a totality. I think the lesson out of the pandemic and now the famine, is that we have to organize—and that’s what the Schiller Institute really wants to accomplish—that we put this idea of overcoming underdevelopment for everybody, for every nation, on the agenda. Then, you can see that there would be an advantage, even for the United States, [for] which the biggest problem obviously is the military-industrial complex. But they could change; they could retool and produce some useful things. “So, I think we need to have a world mobilization to have a new world economic order and the blueprint for it is the World Land-Bridge. That way, you overcome geopolitics.”

Before the end of March, The LaRouche Organization will release its first print run of thousands of copies of its mass circulation, 55-page report, “The Great Leap Backward: LaRouche Crushes the ‘Green New Deal’ Fraud.” This comes at a moment of great urgency, given the imminent blow-out of the dead monetarist system, the war danger, and the push for Doomsday, green “Great Reset” policies. This new report initiative in the U.S. feeds into the momentum shown by the dialogue at the March 20-21 international Schiller Institute conference—still reverberating ever more widely, which is in the direction of the “peace through development” path, for a world at the crossroads.Special expression of prospects for taking the right path comes from international co-sponsors joining Schiller Institute president Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s statement, released March 21 at the conference, titled, “Declaration of China Experts from All Over the World.” Today, the statement was recognized in Beijing at the Foreign Ministry press briefing by Ministry Department of Information Department Director Hua Chunying. She was asked by a CCTV reporter, referring to the Declaration appearing in France, “What is China’s comment on this?” Hua replied at some length, beginning, "We have taken note of the statement. We believe that it represents and reflects the rational and just voice of the international community, and it is also a condemnation and opposition to the crazy words and deeds of some Western anti-China forces over time, such as disregarding the facts and attacking China, and even falsely slandering. “I note that the co-signers of the statement have hundreds of experiences or objective observations of China, dwelling with, or having lived and worked in China, or who have frequently travelled and stayed in China for long periods of time. Many of them have witnessed China’s great achievements since the reform and opening-up, and observed up close the Chinese government’s ‘people-centered Chinese’ ruling philosophy, lifting up more than 800 million people out of extreme poverty, and recently witnessed the victory of 1.4 billion Chinese people in the fight against the novel coronavirus epidemic. I think their statement proves once again, that what they see is true….” [Full remarks below]. Madame Hua’s words are all the more noteworthy, given that they came in the same, super-hot briefing in which the Ministry took the gloves off, when it comes to the latest revelations of how the “issue” of Uighur human rights violations was deliberately concocted from the start, as an internal destabilization against China and its government. The briefing began with a showing of a 2018 video clip of Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (ret.), former chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, in which he gave three reasons why U.S. troops are in Afghanistan, including: “The third reason we have troops in Afghanistan is that there are 20 million Uighurs in Xinjiang, China. The best way for the CIA to destabilize China is to create unrest in China. If the CIA can take advantage of these Uighurs and work with them to keep stimulating Beijing, it will not need external forces to bring down China directly from within.” It should be noted that Wilkerson, since leaving government, has been an outspoken opponent of the “endless wars,” and he was speaking at the anti-war Ron Paul Institute, so his words were more an exposure of U.S. bad actions rather than a “confession” by an insider to those bad acts. Hua, nonetheless, drew out the significance of this exposure, summarizing that, “Facts have proved time and again that the Xinjiang issue is not a national, religious or human rights issue, but an anti-secession, anti-riot, anti-intervention issue,” and that the United States had concocted other stories and conducted destabilizations elsewhere, including in Iraq and Syria. She confronted the media for their retailing of lies and false information. Otherwise, there are expressions elsewhere of sanity in the pushback against the anti-China, anti-Russia geopolitics, and against the green reset agenda. This week the United States-China Agriculture Roundtable held two of four planned sessions (online) co-hosted by the U.S. Heartland-China Association, based in Missouri and covering the Central States. The speakers—government, business and farm commodity leaders—called for continued, expanded win-win trade and good relations between the two countries, and spoke in depth about dairy, pork and soybeans. Leaders of the sister states of Hebei and Iowa stressed economic ties, and their special friendship history, which includes personal visits to Iowa by President Xi Jinping, going back to 1985. Keynote speakers, including former Missouri Gov. Bob Holden, founder of the USDCA in 2003, declared there must be “collaboration not confrontation.” In Europe, seven of the EU nations have issued an open letter in support of nuclear power, which goes against the current green rule book for the future. What the Schiller Institute conference process of dialogue provides is the positive concept—beyond rearguard defense—of contributing to limitless advance of mankind and the universe. This is embodied in the concrete programs, as presented at last weekend’s sessions, for the North American/Western Hemisphere Belt and Road Initiative, and projects for Southwest Asia. In his current week-long tour of the region, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in Iran today, stressed that 19 countries in the greater Southwest Asia region are now part of the Belt and Road Initiative. Schiller Institute President Helga Zepp-LaRouche gave the overview, in her remarks concluding last weekend’s conference. The overriding necessity, she said, is a global Glass-Steagall breakup of banks and multinational financial creations, and a “New Bretton Woods” international credit system. The path forward.

The Schiller Institute conference scheduled for this weekend could not come at a more critical moment. As War Hawks in the West are ramping up their verbal assaults against Russia and China, and engaging in military exercises worldwide, what can be done to assure that these planned provocations can be reversed, and we can bring about peace instead? Leaders of government institutions and prominent individuals will participate in a two-day online conference, engaging in dialogue to offer ideas to reverse the drive for war and the imposition of a global banker’s dictatorship—the “Great Reset”—and to save millions of lives by defeating the pandemic and famine. This was stressed on this morning’s Daily Update by Harley Schlanger, on The LaRouche Organization’s website, making the point: “This is your opportunity to join in the mobilization to create a New Renaissance, to lift mankind out of the Empire’s death grip.”A dramatic expression of the emergency condition globally, under the impact of the pandemic and food shortages hitting an already deficient economic base, is the mass dislocation of millions of people on every continent. Refugee experts put the global total of refugees at over 80 million, including in that count those displaced within their home countries as well. These 80 million are a desperate subset of an estimated 830 million people without reliable daily food. In Yemen, ground zero for humanitarian emergencies, over 20 million people are in immediate need of aid. The report given yesterday at the monthly UN Security Council briefing on Yemen by UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths was dire; on top of the famine, warfare has again flared up. In Africa, there are corridors of migration of people fleeing impossible circumstances. Some go through Libya and across the Mediterranean; others move within the Chad Basin; others seek to reach into Asia via the Horn of Africa—passing through wartorn, already-starving Yemen! In southeastern Africa, in Mozambique, the count of internally displaced people has reached 670,000 since the outbreak in 2017 of terrorism in the north. This week the U.S. Marine Corps sent in counter-terrorism special forces to train Mozambican military specialists over the next two months, to fight the terrorists. Where are the special forces for health and food security? For electricity, water and sanitation? For development? The only approach to the world-scale multiple crises that will succeed, is the “peace through development” perspective made concrete in many programs issued over the years by economist statesman Lyndon LaRouche. Those programs are now acutely relevant, and especially for the Southwest Asian region, will be presented at this weekend’s conference. LaRouche’s “Land-Bridge” concept—of corridors of development spanning the globe—is reflected in the Belt and Road Initiative underway by China and collaborating nations. Yesterday, the prospects for this in the Caribbean Basin were praised by President Mohamed Irfaan Ali of Guyana, in a teleconference meeting with President Xi Jinping, who also spoke with Prime Minister Keith Rowley of neighboring Trinidad and Tobago. The impoverishment and dislocation of millions of people in the Americas is increasing drastically. Haiti is in a state of food emergency. In South America, over 5 million Venezuelans are outside their country. At the U.S.-Mexico border, as of this week, 4,200 children and youth—unaccompanied by adults—are in holding centers, after trying to cross the border. The perspective to overcome this, the “NABRI”—North American Belt and Road Initiative—with additional southern flanks, will be presented on the second day of this weekend’s conference. Yet, instead of anything in this positive direction, instead of immediate international collaboration on COVID-19 vaccination and food aid, in particular, we continue to see confrontation. The Anglo-Five Eyes “military-intelligence” complex—at one with the City of London/Wall Street crowd—is deployed overtime for provocation. Yesterday, a report was issued in the U.S. by the Director of National Intelligence, asserting with “high confidence” (i.e., a hot, big lie) that Russia interfered in the U.S. Presidential elections on behalf of Donald Trump, by “denigrating” Biden. The charges are a rehash of stale rubbish from last year, saying that Russia provided disinformation to pro-Trump media, on bad things Joe Biden did in Ukraine, to benefit Trump’s election prospects. Then this morning, President Biden himself, speaking on ABC News, said that, because of this, Putin will “pay a price” for interfering in the U.S. elections. When the provocateur interviewer George Stephanopoulos asked, “So you know Vladimir Putin. You think he’s a killer?” Biden responded, “Mmm-hmm, I do.” He repeated, “You’ll see shortly … [Putin] is going to pay.” Russia has now recalled its Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov, back to Moscow for consultations. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said this afternoon, “The new U.S. Administration took office about two months ago, and the symbolic 100-day mark is not too far away….The most important thing for us is to identify ways of rectifying Russia-U.S. relations, which have been going through hard times, as Washington has, as a matter of fact, brought them to a blind alley. We are interested in preventing an irreversible deterioration in relations, if the Americans become aware of the risks associated with this.” This latest sobering turn of events occurs on the eve of the important meeting in Anchorage, Alaska tomorrow, between top envoys of the U.S. and China. These developments underscore the importance of attending, and mobilizing others to attend, this weekend’s opportunity to change course. The conference: “World at a Crossroad: Two Months Into the New U.S. Administration,” March 20-21.

The comments from Moscow this morning took the high ground of principle, in responding to the U.S. late-Feb. 25 bombing of Abu Kamal in eastern Syria, which the U.S. described as a ‘proportional’ retaliation for terrorist hits on U.S. forces in Iraq last week, accusing them as having come from Iran-sponsored militia. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that the United States should, “Stop trying to settle scores through geopolitics.” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that U.S. mil-to-mil authorities gave Russia advance notice of a bare few minutes before the strike.The U.S. action all around is in the crazed tradition of neo-con Michael Pompeo, as well as his replacement neo-lib Antony Blinken, and both are in the tradition of Mother Britain’s geopolitical gamesmanship of perpetual strife—constantly playing off each against the other. The opposite policy of mutual-interest development, as the means for peace is urgent to understand and initiate. The Southwest Asia region especially is bleeding. On March 1, World Food Program Director David Beasley will speak at an event titled “Silent Emergency,” hosted by Sweden and Switzerland, to raise funding for aid to Yemeni children. The suffering and permanent damage to a whole generation in the Arabian Peninsula must be stopped. The greater Southwest Asian region is urgently in need of the “Land-Bridge” policy approach put forward over decades by statesman-economist Lyndon LaRouche, with its programs of development corridors, the “Oasis Plan” for plentiful water, and other beautiful realistic visions. Already on the ground in Syria and Iraq there are precious potential initiatives. In Iran, for example, rail lines are going ahead, despite the pandemic and foreign relations crises. Further, the entire world is in need of the same development approach—as is embodied in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, given the impact of the pandemic and famine. In 2020, Schiller Institute President Helga Zepp-LaRouche convened a Committee of the Coincidence of Opposites—named after the concept of Nicholas of Cusa, for common interest action, especially for health and food security, and for mutual cultural respect and hope for youth and the future. Look at two basic aspects of the reality of the physical economic down-spiral, accelerating in the absence of deliberate pro-development collaboration and concrete action. Electricity. On Jan. 8, the entire European power grid came within minutes of blackout, saved only by rapid, selected shedding of power usage. On Feb. 15, the Texas-centered central North American grid did fail, giving Texans long outages, and also involving days of scheduled, rolling blackouts in at least 14 U.S. and 26 Mexican states. What happens next month? In Africa, half of the population of the continent has no electricity at all. Food. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s monthly reporting shows that basic staples have been rising in price—especially grain (wheat, rice, corn), for eight months straight, and grain supplies are heading into a “tight” condition—polite jargon for shortage. The world already had too little food for over 800 million people, and now 270 million at least are in a desperate state. Many factors are hitting at the same time, not surprising in a pandemic. For example, there is the potential impact of Winterkill from recent frigid weather in the U.S. Wheat Belt. Corn prices as of last month were over 40% higher than the price level in January the year earlier. Even in these fast-worsening times, collaboration and reason can save the day. Look at the very sane decision this week from French authorities to approve a 10-year extension on its national fleet of 32 nuclear power reactors, many of which were built in the 1980s for a 40-year service life, but are very safe to continue for the next decade. The obstacle and enemy in all this is the green onslaught, which asserts, through fake science, the fake narrative that human economic activity must be cut back to save the planet, and save “nature.” An ugly example is today’s international online conference hosted by the UN, “To Boost ‘Nature-Positive’” agriculture, which states that the environment comes first, eating comes second. This is part of the countdown to a September UN Summit on “New World Food Systems,” convened by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres last year, in the drive for the Great Reset. It is a must to read and circulate the EIR Special Report, “The Great Leap Backward: LaRouche Exposes the Green New Deal.” In the section, “A Disaster for the United States,” author Paul Gallagher begins with the key principle involved. He quotes Lyndon LaRouche saying, “Man, unlike the beasts, is able to change his population density by development.” So beware of the opposite. Gallagher writes, “The human species is, we must realize, also tragically able to decrease its population density by great masses of unnecessary deaths, either by war, or by intentionally reversing development, forcing into reverse the advance of mankind’s scientific and technological capability.” We can make all the difference in preventing this reversal. Spread the word on the second in the series of Schiller Institute Virtual Roundtable Forums taking place Saturday, Feb. 27 at 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern. It is titled, “Winter Storm Smashes Green New Deal Utopia—Great Power Cooperation Instead of War.”

On and since the Feb. 18 date the U.S. officially rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement, President Joe Biden and John Kerry, his National Security Council Presidential Envoy for Climate Action, have been thumping for their planned international summit to fight climate change, scheduled for April 22, Earth Day. They pledge that between now and April 22, the U.S. will have spelled out its plans for achieving marker goals of CO₂ reduction by 2030, harping that “this decade” is the make or break. Kerry said on Feb. 19, in one of several media spots, “It’s what people will do in the next 10 years that matter. That’s what we have to talk about.” On one media event, he spoke alongside UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who added his own sour notes to the chorus, that efforts to stop carbon emissions, “must go much faster and much farther.”A media echo chamber effect is coming from many other voices chiming in. Sir Michael Anti-Coal Bloomberg held an evening call with reporters on Feb. 18 to extol his efforts with state and local governments to see that coal plants close as rapidly as possible. Never mind that it was coal and nuclear that saved the day—such as the day is going—in the central states cold wave. Bill Gates, billionaire depopulation backer, is getting extra heavy media play during the U.S. energy and breakdown crisis, to declare the Wall Street/imperial London decree that all must obey their green dictates. He said this morning that the severe storm patterns simply prove that “putting more carbon in the atmosphere” affects weather. There is “super hard evidence” on this. Only the “tactics” of our response differ, he said on Fox Morning News TV. Gates too is stressing the next 10 years. He says in a Washington Post Magazine cover story interview out today, that “The best we can do is have the breakthroughs in this next decade, so we still have 20 years to replace the entire industrial economy and all those hard things” that allegedly cause CO₂ emissions. He is pumping his new book, How To Avoid a Climate Disaster, in which he details his usual message of anti-technology and deindustrialization. The 2030 timeframe stressed for the April 22 White House climate action summit likewise applies to many other tracks of institutional insanity, from the European Union’s “Farm to Fork and Biodiversities Strategy” to “NATO 2030.”

At the present time, with such dramatic, historical events underway, as the second year of a pandemic, with a mutating virus; and in North America, with mass scale damage from power systems known in advance to be deficient, reason tells us that we should be collaborating like hell, at home and abroad, to put things right. Look at what we can do on Mars! The measures needed have been spelled out for decades, in development policies by economist-statesman Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., who, with his wife Helga Zepp-LaRouche, also showed the way for the diplomatic initiatives that can make development a reality. Now is the time.The opposition to this outlook, from the failed political-financial networks centered in the City of London/Wall Street crowd, is pushing furiously for more and rapid deindustrialization which have caused the multiple crises in the first place. Publicity is now revved up for the April 22 international summit to fight climate change, to be hosted by the White House, for Earth Day. Both President Joe Biden and John Kerry, National Security Council Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, reiterated this on Feb. 18, the day that the U.S. officially rejoined the Paris Climate Accords. They emphasize that between now and the April 22 summit, Biden will issue the measures required to achieve major U.S. reduction of CO₂ by the end of this decade. Such policies will actually mean nine years of accelerating black-outs, food shortages, floods, fires, and rapid drop of life expectancy. Kerry stressed the urgency of action on CO₂ reduction on Friday, speaking with UN Director General Antonio Guterres, “It’s what people will do in the next 10 years that matter.” Joining in, of course, are the billionaire genocidalists. Sir Michael anti-coal Bloomberg was on a reporters’ conference call Feb. 18 to stress that more coal plants must be taken down—just at the very time when it has been coal and nuclear electricity generation that kept the central states from complete black-out. Bill Gates, the man whose specialty is “philanthropy” to perpetuate deficiencies in health, education and agriculture, has been likewise stressing this 10-year timeframe. He said in a feature interview in today’s Washington Post Magazine that, “we must have breakthroughs in this next decade,” so we can use the following two decades to 2050, “to replace the entire industrial economy.” As for the science question involved in the apparent contradiction between frigid storms and global warming, Gates asserted the standard fraud this morning on Fox News, that “putting more carbon” into the atmosphere is bound to affect the weather. There is “super hard evidence” of this. The new report out this month takes these evil jokers apart—EIR’s Special Report: “The Great Leap Backward: LaRouche Exposes the Green New Deal.” Helga Zepp-LaRouche writes in her Introduction, “The New Deal for Humanity Is Not Green, But Human!” a concluding section, sub-titled, “Choose Durable Human Survival Instead.” She calls for action, stating, "Even if many institutions seem to have decided on the course outlined here [green economic disaster, geopolitics and war danger], it is not too late to take the alternative. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated how extremely vulnerable we really are as a human species, and that realistically we only have one chance to ensure our long-term survival—by coming together in a new paradigm of cooperation among all nations of this world to dedicate ourselves to the real common tasks of humanity. “The key to overcoming the crisis lies in an image of man that does not see mankind as a parasite on nature, whose activities pollute and destroy poor Mother Earth, so that it would be good to reduce the number of people as much as possible (just not so far as to leave the oligarchy without enough service personnel!). Man is simply not a manipulable, sensory being that can be kept under control by the modern form of bread and circuses and degradation by the entertainment industry. “Mankind is the only species whose creative reason conforms to the laws of the universe, and is even a developed integral part thereof. It is precisely this ability that allows humanity time and again to discover new revolutionary hypotheses about the physical laws of the universe, which are then used in the production process to define completely new platforms of the human standard of living, life expectancy, understanding of the climate change that has been taking place for millions of years, and further perspective for creating the prerequisites for future interstellar space flight through the colonization of nearer space.” For human survival, make good use of the new report, and enjoy the beautiful images now beaming to Earth from Mars, thanks to “Percy.”

The projected Feb. 18 landing on Mars of the U.S. rover Perseverance was previewed at a NASA press conference Feb. 16, where the spokesman said, “The spacecraft is focused, the team is focused, and we are all ready to go for landing.” The target site is in the Jezero Crater, an ancient delta on the Martian surface. This will be the third major Mars feat in 12 days, with the U.A.E. “Hope” taking up orbit on Feb. 9, and China’s “Tianwen-1” taking up orbit on Feb. 10.The significance of “Percy”—as engineers like to call it—was stressed to the media at the press conference by NASA Associate Administrator for Science Thomas Zurbuchen, who said, “Whether it’s on the Red Planet, or here at home on our blue marble, science can bring us together and create solutions to challenges that seem impossible.” Among the challenges we face is the dramatic, deadly failure, under predictable peak storm conditions, of U.S. and Mexican power systems all across the south-central region of the North American continent, where an extended area of 14 U.S. and 26 Mexican states have millions of residents and extensive economic activity experiencing partial or complete blackouts. Ground zero ironically, is the energy state of Texas, where millions of residents have been without electricity for over 36 hours, and enterprises from petrochemicals, to Permian shale basin drilling are stalled. In Mexico, over 3 million people continue to have rolling blackouts, after the first round of 4.7 million people had a sudden power outage Feb. 15. The frigid storm itself, of course, causes big trouble, but the electricity failures are not a “natural” disaster. The damage and hardship come from the successful implementation for decades of more and more “green” low-technology energy generation from vast wind farms and solar installations, which—as the coal state billboards like to advertise, won’t produce power “When the Wind Don’t Blow and the Sun Don’t Shine.” The turbines on the huge wind farms are either shut down preemptively, or iced up and motionless. Plus, there are the additional problems coming from the limited natural gas transport and generation systems. Nuclear power in this region has been suppressed for a half-century, and no new plants are under construction. The still extant coal plants have saved the day as much as possible. Look at the vast dimensions of the years of green madness to date. The High Plains farm states have been turned into the national “American Wind Corridor,” which has now failed dramatically. Iowa is the leading state in the nation for share of its power coming from wind—42%. Next in line is Kansas, with 36% from wind. Relatively few people live here in the farm belt. But in Texas, with a population of 29 million, the wind corridor installations account for 10% of the state’s power, and this was the failure factor to literally put over 4 million people freezing in the dark, slamming Houston and other major cities. The wind barons T. Boone Pickens, Warren Buffett, and others have had a field day degrading the energy grid of the United States. In Texas, Pickens et al. put in the largest wind installations in the nation (28,840 MW). In Iowa (second largest, 10,200 MW), Buffett pledged, after his Berkshire Hathaway bought out Mid-American Energy Holdings in 1999, to make Iowa the first in the country for its power base to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2030, through “alternative” energy. Buffett cancelled a nuclear power project that MidAmerican had previously planned. However, these evil billionaires, and the debacle we now see in North America are only a foretaste of what allowing the Green Deal to continue internationally will mean. Green Finance now aims to go in for the kill, and shut down more energy, food, and all means of life. The message of the winter storms and the power failure is for us to force a change of course. It is past time to extinguish the Green Deal madness, and internationally to collaborate on the science and infrastructure to support mankind. Begin with health care infrastructure the world over. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Feb. 16 denounced the wind and solar so-called renewables. He said, “This shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America.” Many state legislators—unlike the madness in Congress in Washington, D.C.—are likewise up for “seeing the light.” It is urgent to get out everywhere the new “Special Report: The Great Leap Backward: LaRouche Exposes the Green New Deal.” The LaRouche Organization will hold an international roundtable discussion on Feb. 27 bearing on this, including the dangers from worsening geopolitical confrontation. The invitation will be available tomorrow. The working title of the roundtable is, “Winter Storms Smash Reset Utopia; Great Power Cooperation Instead of War.”

On schedule this morning, the United Arab Emirates’ spaceship “Hope” successfully moved into orbit around Mars. The craft powered down from 121,000km/hour to about 18,000km/hour, allowing it to become captured into a Mars’ orbit, and moved into place nicely, after a 27-minute burn of its thrusters. It is now settling into position, to soon monitor Red Planet weather conditions. The Hope mission is to last for an entire Martian year (687 Earth days).Tomorrow, the Chinese “Tianwen-1” is expected to make its arrival at Mars as scheduled, with a complex program planned for the coming months. Then comes the arrival Feb. 18 of the NASA craft, Perseverance, to land a rover on the surface. This February threesome brings to five, the total number of nations which have succeeded in their Mars missions to date. Truly, if we set things right on Earth, Mars is only the beginning of a new age of advancement for mankind. Schiller Institute President Helga Zepp-LaRouche said today that, “Looking at the Mars missions all together, it shows the way out of the calamities and the geopolitical games” that are so dangerous right now. She reviewed them, beginning with the United States, where an impeachment trial that shouldn’t be happening, is being conducted as a marathon of insanity. Today there were four hours of arguments about the Constitutionality of impeaching a man who was already out of public office, which culminated in a 56-44 vote in favor of moving forward with the trial of Donald Trump. Tomorrow, 16 hours of presentations are scheduled. This is to continue through Sunday, before closing arguments are expected. It is a world spectacle of crisis in the United States, and a brainwashing operation against Americans. The charges against former President Donald Trump are an operation against the U.S. from start to finish. Every day more comes out, for example, about how the leading figures in making sure the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol incident would be violent, were all known and connected to, or covered up by, subversive intelligence agency networks. Already reported was the case of the national chairman of the Proud Boys who served as an FBI informant for years. Now it’s come to light that a leader of the paramilitary Oath Keepers’ who participated in the assault on the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 held an FBI security clearance. Another blatant case of national subversion involves plotting against President Vladimir Putin and Russia. This is being conducted by the very same networks undermining the United States—the London-centered, financial transnational networks, promoting their own dictatorship. Yesterday, a confab was held online, organized by the Polish mission to the European Union in Brussels, of various EU nations, plus the U.K., the U.S., Canada and Ukraine, to conspire against Putin, and otherwise destabilize Russia. The very same Russian aide to “dissident” Alexey Navalny, Vladimir Ashurkov, caught on tape in 2012, discussing big bucks with a suspected British MI6 agent, for the purpose of orchestrating opposition to Putin in Russia, attended yesterday’s virtual confab in Brussels. Today, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakarova blasted the meeting, describing it as a gathering of NATO countries using Navalny to organize subversive activities against Russia. The pace and blatancy of these moves against nations make clear the importance of the new series of strategic roundtables (online) to be launched this Saturday, Feb. 13, by The LaRouche Organization. Attending and supporting this kick-off is the best way to counter the insanity operations of all kinds now threatening the world. The event, which begins at 1 pm Eastern time, is titled, “Forum: Worsening U.S.-Russian Relations—Reverse Them with New Paradigm, or Face Nuclear War.” Secondly, be sure to get this week’s EIR (cover date, Feb. 12) which issue is a new “Special Report: The Great Leap Backwards—LaRouche Exposes the Green New Deal.” Now is the time to subscribe. Spread the word, spread hope.