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May 13—No More (Leo) Straussian Waltzes!

We can no longer live in a world divided against itself, using war as a common currency for the settlement of differences, no matter how intractable. A “harmony of humanity’s interests” demands a New Security Architecture based on the policy of “Peace Through Development.”

May 10—The mental laziness that accepts a supposedly inevitable collapse of food production, of trade in physical necessities, of mutual security guarantees, and really of civilization, reeks of decades of moral turpitude. But that doesn’t mean one has the excuse of sinking down into it. Calm, deliberate, focused, and passionate interventions are exactly what can carry the day.

May 6—Signs of sanity are surfacing, “and we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.” The Schiller petition; letters and calls to the United States and other national congresses; independent candidates advocating the new security and development architecture; and a vibrant youth mobilization against war and for scientific/technological and cultural development, is the way ahead.

April 29—

Percy Bysse Shelley, England In 1819

An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King;

Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow

Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring;

Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know,

But leechlike to their fainting country cling

Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.—

The moral decadence and nihilism, like a fetid mud today coursing through the veins of the doomed trans-Atlantic system, should be properly identified, not as the identity of this or that nation—such as the United States, or even England—but, rather, as the dead hand pressed upon the brain and mind of the system of nations.

April 22—The efficient truth of Percy Shelley’s famous statement, “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world,” is seen in the recent affirmation, by certain thinkers, and leaders of nations, of the central, optimistic premise of Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s keynote speech at the Schiller Institute’s April 9 “Conference for a New Security and Development Architecture for All Nations.”

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April 15—Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Rapallo Treaty, an act of reconciliation that sought to heal, like the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, the post-World War One “irreconcilable rift” between Russia and Germany. The Rapallo Agreement signed April 16, 1922 by Georgy Chicherin (Russia) and Walther Rathenau (Germany) resolved that Germany and Russia canceled all financial obligations between the two adversary nations.

April 8—On this morning of the Schiller Institute Conference To Establish a New Security and Development Architecture for All Nations, consider the situation that confronts the citizen of the trans-Atlantic world today, and the citizens of any nation confronted with the moral and intellectual decline of the policy-making establishments of the trans-Atlantic world.

April 1—There is a new system emerging throughout the world. It is not actually in reaction to the “Ukraine/Russia conflict, or any other” current events." It, if successful, will have the form of neither “multipolarity” or “unipolarity.”

March 25—The April 9 Schiller Institute international conference to Convoke A New Security and Development Architecture, and the organizing process which precedes it, can be a punctum saliens for the world.

March 18—Today we point to the re-emergence of Britain’s Tony Blair, the “Knight of the Garter” who declared at the Chicago Board of trade in 1999 the “end of the Westphalian Order” and the beginning of a set of British-inspired atrocities, from the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in former Yugoslavia, to the 2003 Iraq War, the 2011 assassination of Gaddafi and subsequent destruction of Libya, the 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, etc.

There is no such thing, either in nature, in politics, or in culture (particularly in good Classical composition,) as “equilibrium.” There is no such thing in successful global policymaking as a “balance of forces,” a “balance of terror,” or an “Earth in the balance.” There is also no such thing as “peace,” if one means by that, the “absence of tensions.”There is peace through development. The idea “peace through development,” as manifest in Franklin Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms, or the slain American President John F. Kennedy’s June 1963 American University speech proposing a joint American-Soviet exploration of space not even one year after the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, represents a type of “isochronic” action, that can take the form of a physical force, as with the technologies based on new physical principles, that were the true goal of the “beam weapons” program of LaRouche in the 1980s. Such “heavy ideas” may proposed as a policy statement, whereby a leader and the society he or she represents, upshifts, or proposes to upshift the development of the entire human race, through some specific action, in that instant in time, which is “infinitely dense” with the potential for permanent change. Those conscious of their responsibility to discover, propose and implement the specific measures that can link that society’s momentary actions to the permanent survival of mankind, can allow “average citizens” to discover, with increasing perfection the historical necessity and reason for the existence of that nation, that leader, and that society. Lacking such, that society is morally unfit to survive, and will not survive for long. Is that to be the fate of the present day trans-Atlantic world, including the badly misguided United States? Speaking in an interview on November 22, regarding the 30th anniversary of his film “JFK” and his recent release of an hours-long documentary, “JFK Revisited,” filmmaker Oliver Stone noted that had it not been for JFK and RFK, unhinged military factions in the United States would have, in Stone’s view, launched, or attempted to launch, nuclear war against Russia during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Just over a year later, President Kennedy was slaughtered in Dallas. Not only is there no way, according to Stone, that the official “narrative” of those world-shattering events can be true; it is also true that, despite the existence of laws that had required the release by now of all or most of the files related to that assassination, that was, once again this year, not done. Some, probably including President Vladimir Putin of Russia, might persuasively argue, that at this moment, the danger of thermonuclear war is either as close now, or even closer, than it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Specifically, Putin stated recently that Russia developed hypersonic weapons in order to efficiently counter the emerging danger of thermonuclear attack. “The Russian Federation is concerned to an extent over major military exercises carried out near its borders, including in the Black Sea just recently, when strategic bombers were flying just 20 kilometers away from our border, armed with precision weapons and potentially even nuclear weapons. All this poses a threat to us,” he said Nov. 30. Today Putin has also said that he now must “insist on the elaboration of concrete agreements that would rule out any further eastward expansion of NATO and the deployment of weapons systems posing a threat to us in close proximity to Russia’s territory. We suggest that substantive talks on this topic should be started. I would like to note in particular that we need precisely legal, juridical guarantees, because our Western colleagues have failed to deliver on verbal commitments they made.” The possibility of, as well as opportunity for strategic miscalculation, or the eruption of an unchecked “flight forward” impulse from another nation, like Ukraine, could, even in the short term, trigger a form of confrontation that would spiral out of control far more quickly than the credulous would expect. As dangerous, the still-prevalent idea, that “international affairs” are incidental to the day-to-day life among citizens of various nations, who think they are “faced with more pressing problems,” is the debased quality of thinking that prevents the trans-Atlantic world from mobilizing the moral fitness to survive in the face of well-known threats, let alone the unusual challenges of the pandemic, including the unknown mutations and evolutions of the coronavirus. China has given the world extraordinary good news, thanks to researchers who have identified an invariant part of the virus found in all presently-known mutations of the virus strain. An antibody called monoclonal antibody 25B5 appears to neutralize COVID-19 without mutations as well as “variants of concern” (VOCs.) This potential breakthrough may turn out to be as important in its ability to inspire a crash international program of joint research in order to resolve the coronavirus problem, as it may be in treating the disease. This is the sort of effort, given our campaign “calling all virologists and epidemiologists” as announced in the Joycelyn Elders letter, that would radiate as a form of cultural optimism. That would do more to reverse the rise in drug overdoses, suicides and serial/mass meurders in Europe and the United States than multiplying those nations’ police and detention capabilities a hundredfold. Speaking of isochronicity: Operation Ibn Sina, named for a renowned Islamic scholar and genius who saved countless lives through the radiating influence of his medical ideas and solutions over more than 600 years, also challenges insipid popular-cultural sterotypes, for example the caricature of the “violent, angry Muslim bomber.” The idea of an international health platform; the building of tens of thousands of hospitals and 10 million hospital beds worldwide; the creation of 10 million doctors, physician’s assistants and nurses; the emergency construction of the necessary water, sanitation and transportation infrastructure to supply medicines and food to those that are most in need; the provision of power by an additional 200 gigawatts of energy-capacity, largely nuclear, and largely provided to the poorest areas of the world, since they are those most likely to be the source of origin for lethal, treatment-resistant undetected infections, demonstrates that the eradication of poverty, something pioneered recently most successfully in China, is the world’s true first line of defense. But the inner life of that proposal is the change in the identity of each of us toward “the other,” a change in the mind of each and all of the ostensible adversaries that must drop their mutual animosities in order that the human race mutually prosper. That is the spirit that was seen in the November 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall, which was not merely “political realignment,” but the sudden evaporation of “the impossible.” Words failed the pragmatic politicians of the time all over the world. Only Beethoven and Schiller, and ideas of that type were able to speak to the hearts of the world’s people. In her Wednesday webcast Helga Zepp-LaRouche said, “I think the most important news, in this respect, is coming from the World Health Organization. They just announced that they are working on a global accord for pandemic prevention and response, and that should be announced by 1 March. Now, that is very late, but it means there is time to influence the global record, and that has been our concern from the very beginning.” Forty-five years ago, Lyndon LaRouche said: “Our approach depends absolutely upon applying our energies, on very short notice and in a concentrated way, at certain momentarily crucial points of current developments. Without the conceptual approach we employ, it would be more or less impossible to pre-determine which such points of access for intervention have the potentiality of translating a very small amount of concerted physical effort into a relatively massive shift in the overall political economic situation. Without that same specialized method, it would be virtually impossible to predefine the kinds of intermediate results which are the short term, direct goals of such interventions…. We have developed the capability … to direct our relatively tiny physical resources for activity to crucial points of the political-social process to such a fact that—with increasing scale and influence—we are frequently able to so alter the course of events on a national and sometimes a global scale from the course events would have otherwise followed. Because we are essentially alone, entirely dependent upon our own resources, because we have learned that there exists no other force which would duplicate our rule if we did not exist…, every major development within nations of the world as a whole forces us to place that on the agenda as a matter whose outcome will be significantly affected by either our effective intervention or failure to act.” Not October 1962, but November 1989, is our choice, not because we have the resources, or the “connections,” but because we have the isochronic power of creative reason, as that is expressed in the Operation Ibn Sina approach to “peace through development.”

Rarely, but sometimes, the “contrapuntal” intersection of many different efforts in statecraft can converge in a tangible instance, and a perceptible “instant” in time. An “increasing density of singularities” might be one way of characterizing the results of the 24- hour interval of November 22-23, with respect to the work of the International Schiller Institute and its associates. In Italy, Yemen, the Netherlands, and the United States, the solution-driven perspective for the world’s severe conjunctural crisis was notably advanced in the form of statements that were calls to action addressed to the implicit anti-Malthusian resistance among nations and networks that has been significantly strengthened following the admitted failure of the Flop 26 conference.Interestingly, these four interventions mirrored the four areas identified by Helga Zepp-LaRouche as a “four committees” approach to the present strategic crisis. This was suggested by Zepp-Larouche during the course of the two-day symposium/conference of the Schiller Institute, Nov. 13-14. Less than 10 days later, progress was registered in each area. First, Zepp-LaRouche, along with Jacques Cheminade, Marsha and Doug Mallouk, and Diane Sare, sent greetings to the nation of Yemen’s First BRICS Day, begun by Fouad Al-Ghaffari and the Yemen BRICS Youth (see slug.) (BRICS stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.) Second, “Operation Ibn Sina,” a “higher manifold” intervention into the intractable crisis in Afghanistan, both the short-term threat of famine and the long-term challenge of Southwest Asian stability and self-government, was officially endorsed by Alessia Ruggeri, trade unionist and chairman of UPI Italia, in a press release entitled “Helga Zepp-LaRouche Launches Operation Ibn Sin to Save the Afghan People.” The release was covered in the Sicilian newspaper Il Corriere di Sicilia. Third, Dr. Jocelyn Elders, former Surgeon General of the United States, issued, on behalf of the Committee for the Coincidence of Opposites, a statement entitled “Open Letter to Virologists and Medical Experts Around the World to Address the COVID-19 Pandemic. Fourth, Dr. Guus Berkhout of CLINTEL published a polemic in the de Telegraaf newspaper in the Netherlands entitled ”Help! What Is Happening With Our Universities?" which once again advanced the fight for truth in science, and the triumph of ideas over superstition. The “Four Committees” refers to the four areas of tactical-strategic intervention that emerged from the deliberative sessions of the Schiller conference, a result of the airing and higher resolution of the sometimes widely diverging views of the conference speakers, interlocutors, and questions from the virtual assembly. At times the panels had as many as 3,000 people viewing. This “systems of conferences” approach to “higher-order deliberation,” is a process that is unique to the organizations that LaRouche founded or co-founded, and was designed by the late economist and statesman to foster a deliberate examination and improvement in the very method of inquiry that people bring to ideas, to thinking, and to changing their ideas through problem-solving. The method of inquiry LaRouche used to become the foremost economist in the world, is now being employed for the purpose of applying, heuristically, the “higher statecraft” of Classical thinkers such as Ibn Sina, Nicholas of Cusa, Gottfried Leibniz, and Friedrich Schiller, all viewed from the advanced vantage point of LaRouche’s unique discoveries in physical economy, to arrive at approaches for immediate strategic action, addressing what might otherwise appear to be insoluble problems “respecting man and nature” presently confronting humanity at the close of 2021. The bankrupt geopolitics which is seen in the latest antics from Washington’s State Department, NATO headquarters in Brussels, and Ukraine’s Kiev, toward seeking military, economic, and financial provocation of Russia, has a fatal flaw: it offers nothing, no benefit, to the very populations of the trans-Atlantic sector it purports to defend. Sanctions are thrown up against Russia, and the Nord Stream 2 pipeline’s commissioning is delayed, even as it is demanded that Russia make more natural gas available. The people making the demand are the very ones actively preventing it from happening. Claims are made about Russia massing 90-100,000 troops along the Ukraine border, while Ukraine makes threats to use American Javelin missiles in the Donbas region, and the United States, as reported by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, deploys multiple sorties by American strategic bombers, armed with nuclear weapons, to within 15 miles of the Russian border. Consider, apart from its being irresponsible war-provocation: how does any of this contribute to the well-being of the population of the United States or Europe—both of which, as Global Times partially points out, face the very real threat of dire financial, economic, and medical conditions this very winter, in a month or less? Something more is needed in this global instance of time. As John F. Kennedy remarked on the occasion of eulogizing the death of poet Robert Frost on October 26, 1963, less than one month before his own: “Robert Frost coupled poetry and power, for he saw poetry as the means of saving power from itself. When power leads men towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truth which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment.” The “poetic principle” is what the Schiller Institute believes works best; it provides a means for revealing, and re-imparting that “basic human truth” to nations, governments, and people that have lost or are in danger of losing their humanity. For example, the notion of geopolitics has always been wrong, and will always be wrong, because the dignity of man, not the integrity of land, is the basis for human negotiations between human beings. If instead of geopolitics, an actual discussion of “Operation Ibn Sina’s” namesake, not merely his contributions to medicine, but to metaphysics and other areas of knowledge, were successfully introduced as a topic, even as food relief, medical care, release of funds and the easing of sanctions were implemented, a higher plane, a higher manifold of discourse would uplift the participants, turning them from opponents into collaborators. That is the advanced, contrapuntal, multi-voiced “resolution of dissonances” that as a method—the coincidence of opposites—must be the singular standard which, if used, can produce an increasing density of singularities in statecraft over the next weeks, without which it is possible that civilization might not survive.

Oct. 12 (EIRNS)—Hamlet: “Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to nature: to show Virtue her own feature, Scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure."—Act 3, scene Sometimes, it is wise to step back from the particulars of what only appears to be known, to see what is indisputable. Take the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. It has been known, and clearly seen by their deeds, that, at least since 1974, when Robert McNamara’s World Bank first “red-lined” sections of Africa, Asia, and South America—in the days when China was still a “developing nation,” but armed with nuclear weapons—and condemned one billion people to what McNamara termed “the Fourth World”—that the loan policies of the IMF and World Bank were not humanitarian, but only a veiled form of neo-colonialism. Lyndon LaRouche’s 1975 International Development Bank alternative, as presented in September 1976 by the late Fred Wills at the United Nations General Assembly, was the moral opposite of World Bank financial depopulation policy. Why should there be any surprise, therefore, in the case of Afghanistan, when the IMF, World Bank, and US Treasury not only freeze funds, but the G 20 nations all agree, at least up to this point, that there will be no recognition of the present Afghan government, and that money will flow, if at all, only through “cash drops” to “the needy?” That sanctions and “conditionalities” of many different sorts would not only continue, but may very well increase ? The proposals of persons like Shah Mehrabi, a member of the Central Bank of Afghanistan’s board since 2002, to “provide the Taliban-led government limited access to the country’s reserves or risk economic disaster,” have been ignored. He, and others, and in fact all can see that the Afghanistan “inevitable economic and humanitarian crisis” is being induced, manufactured, staged before the eyes of the world. To understand this does not require “visualizing the complex domain.” Understanding this merely requires holding up the mirror to the nature of the trans-Atlantic world’s self-doom. When Victoria Nuland showed up in Russia, it was made clear: don’t try to negotiate for a summit between Putin and Ukraine. While the Anglo-American Indo-Pacific “Orcus Alliance” has asserted that it will “back up Taiwan,” the PLA, as it performed military exercises directly opposite Taiwan’s coast, declared that “If the ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist forces dared to split Taiwan from China in any name and by any means, the People’s Liberation Army will resolutely crush it at all costs.” When military lunkheads like Maj. Gen. Brad Gericke, the U.S. Army’s director for strategy, plans and policy, fulminate that “I would argue that the land domain is the essential domain…. The point is, that it is Asia that is the prize. We call it the Pacific, but Asia is the prize. And that’s where power, that’s where economic, military, social informational power is going to primarily emanate from over the next century,” apart from the obsolescence of their 19th century geopolitics, they make British intelligence smile at the consummate brainwashing success they have achieved. The British City of London interests are at this moment, and to their knowledge, causing the United States to destroy itself, and to lose this opportunity to finally crush the historic enemy of Washginton, Franklin, Hamilton, Lincoln, and FDR, the British Empire, once and for all. That could only be done if America were strategically united with Russia, and a China that has, together with Russia, perhaps never been as nationally sovereign in history as they are today. For most Americans, though, more than a half-century of economic decay and cultural humiliation has so confused them that they no longer recognize who the enemy is, because they no longer recognize themselves. The mirror must be held up to their nature by recruiting them back to the original mission of the United States: the end of the domination of the globe by oligarchies, and the creation of self-government of, by and for the people, based on scientific, cultural and economic progress, everywhere in the world. Seeing that does require, on the part of the American people, visualizing the complex domain. It requires a metanoia, an inversion in outlook, reversal in direction, and coincidence of apparent opposites, none of which can take place without understanding what the Schiller Institute and the Clintel group have declared in the just-released statement, “A Wake-Up Call:” “The fact that the human mind, through an immaterial idea, is able to discover these principles, which then have an effect in the material universe in the form of technological progress, proves that there is a correspondence between the lawfulness of the human mind and the laws of the physical universe…. Just as the spatial expanse and anti-entropic evolution of the universe are infinite, so is the intellectual and moral perfectibility of the human mind.Therefore, every additional human being is a new source for further development of the universe and for the solution of problems on Earth, such as overcoming poverty, disease, underdevelopment, and violence.” “The Coming U.S. Economic Miracle on the New Silk Road” pamphlet, issued by The LaRouche Organization, holds up a mirror to the United States which can no longer recognize itself. “If the U.S. were to reject the Belt and Road Initiative, it would be rejecting its own historical identity,” the pamphlet warns. But the historical identity of the United States, the “who-we-are-ness” of the United States, is retrievable. If, for example, the true historic implications of Alexander Hamilton’s Constitutional approach to Haiti were acknowledged, by applying the standard of his Report On Manufactures to that nation today, nuclear power, advanced rail, and many other projects would be the conceptual starting point of intervention. That is visualizing the complex domain, and is why Joel DeJean’s Congressional candidacy, which proceeds not from the standpoint of Haiti, but from the standpoint of an “Apollo Project” transformation of the world economy through Lyndon LaRouche’s "development corridor advance upon the New Silk Road, exemplifies the solution vantage point from which, not power, but the principle of the Power of Reason originates.