Aug. 17 — In an article for Affari Italiani, Italian economist and China expert Michele Geraci blasted the Western failure on Afghanistan and explained that China will now adopt a peace-through-development approach. All the so-called Western values have evaporated overnight in Afghanistan, Geraci wrote. And this goes not only for the U.S., but for NATO, the EU, and Europe as well, as this is seen as “an indistinguishable whole” in Asia and globally. “The real winner of our disaster is China, which has won its easiest game, doing nothing, as always. A wise strategy based on two pillars: 1) no military intervention abroad, and 2) economic cooperation for development. In other words, China prefers the Silk Road approach to that of the tank route. An approach that favors the development of infrastructure, transport and investments over that of war. And it is an approach that was the basis of the MOU Silk Road that Italy itself signed in 2019, during the first Conte government, so that we too could participate in the development of countries with investments and provide prosperity to people, rather than betray them and send our soldiers to their deaths. China is smart and will not fall into the trap of military intervention, the pious hope of the West, but will enter into trade agreements with the new Afghan government, thus adding another transit point toward the Indian Ocean and the ports of Pakistan, also exploiting the Pashtun presence on both sides of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pakistan which was already economically firmly integrated with China. India is already far away and too busy with serious internal problems to have a big say. Indeed, fortunately for itself, it will be kept out and then, when the time is right, it will also bury the hatchet with China, when it has understood that it will not be able to count on any economic contribution from the West.” But not only will India, all other Asian countries draw a lesson that they cannot rely on the West. This goes for Taiwan, as well as for Japan, Korea, etc., which will presumably not fall into the trap of being used as a pawn against China. https://www.affaritaliani.it/esteri/afghanistan-meglio-la-via-della-seta-che-la-via-dei-carri-armati-753993.html?refresh_ce
The most important lesson from the chaotic retreat of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan is that we must end the era in which geopolitics determines foreign policy. The present nervous uncertainty surrounding Afghanistan is not simply the result of an intelligence failure, of Trump's negotiations with Taliban, or a mistaken decision by Biden: It is the result of the domination of U.S. and western thinking, for the last fifty-plus years, by the intentionally deadly principles of British imperial geopolitics! Will we use the crushing defeat of geopolitics as an opportunity to reject the axioms of a global imperial power, and replace them with the prospect of cooperation for development, which is the true legacy of the American revolution? For more details on what is now possible, contact us to order from the Executive Intelligence Review, “Will Afghanistan Trigger a Paradigm Change?”
Contrary to President Joe Biden’s self-justification today—“Our mission has never been nation-building” in Afghanistan—there is no conceivable reason for the military and military engineering forces of a major nation to stay in an underdeveloped country for such a long period of time unless they are on a mission to help build that nation, help it industrialize with the infrastructure for sustained economic development. What did the United States military forces under General MacArthur do for a decade and a half in Japan after World War II, if not to at least assist in relaunching the modern industrialization of that country after the disaster of war? What about assistance in South Korea’s building itself as an industrial power after war?Those times are long past when the United States was almost unique in being capable of providing such assistance. Now it must be done in cooperation with the other major economic and technological powers; and an Eurasian effort is already underway, China’s Belt and Road Initiative with projects in scores of countries. And the United States, until now, clearly has not been in Afghanistan to help build up a nation. The U.S. withdrawal is not the defeat of a campaign “for democracy,” which the NATO occupation never was. No, it is an opportunity which must be taken, with whatever government has popular backing, to foster the building of power, modern healthcare, water systems, transportation corridors—“TVA”-type development—in a country whose collapsed economy holds back the connectivity and development of an entire region. The Schiller Institute, led by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, organized a day-long conference just two weeks ago on exactly this subject, “Afghanistan: A Turning Point in History after the Failed Regime-Change Era,” with panels of real experts and representatives of other Asian nations who knew the country. The best of it was previewed in a special offprint report from Executive Intelligence Review, “Will Afghanistan Trigger a Paradigm Change?” The Schiller Institute will now be bringing many of the same experts and representatives back together to update their discussion of economic development in light of the new circumstances. One of them, Hussein Askary, today said on his Twitter feed, “It is fully possible to reach peace and stability in Afghanistan by integrating it into the Belt and Road Initiative. The regional and global context today is different from 1994” when the Taliban had previously taken power. This is already very much the approach that China and the Central Asian nations around Afghanistan are taking, and the approach Russia will take. The British may wax hysterical, as some of their Tory Parliament leaders did today, about sending Her Majesty’s very colonialist forces back into Afghanistan on their own to put things back in order! The British UN Ambassador may lament, as he did in today’s UN Security Council special session, that “what is happening in Afghanistan is a tragedy.” Shaken European ambassadors from the Irish to the Dane may have echoed him, but they are all clinging, sadly, to the beaten remains of a geopolitical policy of British origin which has been a disaster to the United States and the world. It is a good thing that the policy of regime-change wars is ending. It is that policy only which has failed, and it was never in the interest of the United States. As Helga Zepp-LaRouche stressed today, what is in American interest is to “join hands and go for reconstruction.” The NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan is a situation full of opportunity to do just that. The Schiller Institute’s July 31 conference on peace through development in the Central Asian region is now the vehicle for a drive to organize that development through joint offers by nations capable of exporting high-technology capital goods and substituting Afghanistan’s opium traffic. And the Institute will now update that vehicle for the greater opportunity which now exists.
The dramatic developments surrounding the Taliban takeover of Kabul expose the failure of this regime-change war, and the previous ones since WWII. The war was wrong from the beginning, as the continuing investigation by the 9/11 families into who was responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks are uncovering, and as Lyndon LaRouche warned that day, but more needs to be done. And there was never a viable war plan.Some western political leaders are reacting thoughtfully. German CDU chancellor candidate Armin Laschet stated that this was the biggest failure of NATO, ever. Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod called for reflection and soul-searching. Helga Zepp-LaRouche pointed out the special responsibility that the U.S. has, in President John Quincy Adams’ words, to not go abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. Now, as presented in the July 31, 2021 Schiller Institute video conference, “Afghanistan: A Turning Point in History after the Failed Regime-Change Era,” there is a potential for a new era of real nation-building in Afghanistan, and the rest of the world, if the Western nations cooperate with the Chinese-led Belt and Road Initiative, along with Afghanistan’s neighbors, and drop their geopolitical goals of preventing China and Russia from playing leading roles in the world. Many Afghan development plans are already on the drawing boards, and there is great humanitarian need, starting with building a modern health system, other infrastructure and agricultural alternatives to opium production. There will be great pressure on the Taliban from the outside, with offers of economic development contingent upon how they act.
The rapidly shifting situation on the ground in Afghanistan gives increasing urgency to developing an understanding of the work of Lyndon LaRouche, who laid out, with increasing insight, his vision for the Earth’s next fifty years, and beyond. As the delta Covid variant lays bare the inadequacy of health care throughout the world, we see the profound need to develop a platform of productivity capable of sustaining billions more people with standards of physical and cultural life adequate to the creative potential of the human race.The second panel of the LaRouche Legacy Foundation’s event “So, Are You Finally Willing to Learn Economics?” took up the topic of LaRouche’s vision of “Earth’s Next Fifty Years,” with a view towards the efforts led by Helga Zepp-LaRouche to realizing those revolutionary objectives. Moderator Megan Dobrodt, Secretary-Treasurer of the LaRouche Legacy Foundation Board of Directors, launched the panel with a video of the LaRouches’ close friend and collaborator, Norbert Brainin, the lead violinist of the legendary Amadeus Quartet. Brainin began a 1995 master class in Dona Krupa Castle, Slovakia, by introducing the concept of Motivführung, or “motivic thorough-composition,” an approach to classical composition developed by Haydn and refined by Mozart and Beethoven, of thorough composition according to principle. Brainin explained to the class that he often talked about Motivführung with professional colleagues and students who recognized the term, but that the only person who understood it completely was Lyndon LaRouche. LaRouche often said that Brainin had introduced this concept to him, but he recognized it as a universal process for developing, not only great music, but natural and human compositions of any kind. Knowing this, Brainin explained that true classical composers are “scientists.” This was followed by a recording of LaRouche addressing the issue of human creativity at the July 3, 2011 European Schiller Institute conference. He asserted that human beings were the only known creative species, and explained that “classical artistic culture” can be transferred “to the department of physical science,” in the words of Riemann. LaRouche explained that he determined to build a movement, when he realized that no one but himself understood the disaster the financial disruptions of the 1960s were creating. He started by visiting universities and discussing his ideas. He briefly identified his understanding of his fundamental principle: “You get a demonstration of that in the department of Classical artistic composition, in which the mind is experimenting with the attempt to discover principles, and expresses the yearning for that experimental result as the incentive of creativity for the human mind. That is creativity. It is getting outside the ordinary habits, or habituation, of life….” He concluded with the simple statement, “It’s not magic: It’s really humanity.” The first guest on the panel was Jacques Cheminade, a long-time LaRouche associate, President of the Solidarité et Progrès party in France, and a former Presidential candidate. He described how, as a French diplomat, he first encountered LaRouche at an event in Manhattan and, while studying LaRouche’s writing, was confronted with a New York Times supplement in which he saw a photo of French soldiers in World War I with the caption, “Once again triage—Who’s going to live? Who is going to die?” Several pages later, there was a picture of an Ethiopian mother and child with their “skin floating off,” with the caption, “Who will be fed and who will die?” This led him to decide that, despite his prospects as a young diplomat, “Well, these are my people, even if to join them I have to pay a dear price.” He described his collaboration with LaRouche in writing a book, in French and English, titled France After de Gaulle (La France après de Gaulle), promoting the idea of getting France back on the path of republican development as characterized by General Lafayette’s engagement with the American Revolution. Maurice Allais, the only French citizen ever to win a Nobel Prize in Economics, wrote Cheminade a letter on November 27, 2009 saying that he was “fully associating myself to LaRouche’s efforts to generate a wide public debate to radically rebuild the credit system and the international monetary system,” and authorized Jacques to make this public. Former Prime Minister Michel Rocard, Cheminade said, also shared LaRouche’s economic outlook. In 1983 LaRouche and his wife Helga led a Club of Life event in Paris. The Club was founded by Mrs. LaRouche as a counter to the radically Malthusian Club of Rome. The Paris event was attended by world-famous oncologist Georges Mathé, resistance heroine Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, and de Gaulle’s associate, World War II hero, General Jean-Gabriel Revault d’Allonnes. All of these later wrote to request freedom for LaRouche, when he was politically incarcerated in 1989. LaRouche’s universal appeal was demonstrated by support from leading members of the French Communist Party as well as the Secretary of State under President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Pierre Christian Taittinger. Following Cheminade, two representatives from Argentina, Roberto Fritzsche and Eduardo Fernandez, used discoveries of the great Russian biogeochemist Vladimir Vernadsky to explain LaRouche’s concept of “relative potential population density” in relation to “energy flux density” and improvements in living standards. Man’s role in this complex was explained in relationship to Vernadsky’s concept of three realms of existence: the lifeless lithosphere; the living biosphere; and the realm of cognition called the noösphere. Man is the master of all three, and, as LaRouche has explained, also participates in a fourth realm, that of cognition that we can recognize in the design and growth of the Universe, but, as yet, do not know its source in the way we know how humanity can discover concepts and “laws” of the Universe. They use Vernadsky’s calculations and more advanced knowledge to demonstrate that, with new energy sources which are on the horizon, the Earth could support a human population of 3 trillion. This was followed by greetings from Carlos Gallardo, President of the Christian Democratic Party of Peru. Harley Schlanger, also a long-time leader of the LaRouche movement, followed with an ironically revealing behind the scenes report on the origins of Richard Nixon’s disastrous August 15, 1971 announcement. It happened that on January 23, 1983, a dozen years after the event, John Connally of Texas, who had been Secretary of the Treasury under President Nixon, was present as his, Connally’s, possessions were being sold off at a bankruptcy auction, and agreed to an interview. Schlanger asked about the Aug. 15, 1971 decision, and Connally proudly declared it to have been his decision, and a great success. When Schlanger challenged him with LaRouche’s declaration that the decision was the cause of the subsequent disasters, which were, among other things, the cause of Connally’s personal demise, he became despondent, and eventually slinked away. Daisuke Kotegawa, formerly a top official in Japan’s Ministry of Finance and Japan’s Executive Director at the IMF, sent a greeting backing LaRouche’s distinction between investments in the real economy as opposed to speculation, and called for restoring Glass-Steagall. Fred Huenefeld, an agricultural economist who has served in multiple government positions in Louisiana, and a long-time board member of the Schiller Institute, gave an animated description of his years of agitating for LaRouche’s ideas and hounding the U.S. Congress to wake up. Former South Carolina State Senator Theo Mitchell, a leader in the Democratic Party and a board member of the Schiller Institute, discussed his work to expose the FBI’s misjustice in the prosecution of LaRouche and in the “Fruhmenschen” campaign which targeted Black elected officials, including himself. The concluding section, on LaRouche in the Universities, gave youth leaders of the LaRouche movement an opportunity to discuss their commitment to getting LaRouche’s work into universities and elsewhere. Gretchen Small, a leader of the Ibero-American branch of the LaRouche movement and President of the LaRouche Legacy Foundation Board of Directors, began this session with video segments of the notorious 1971 City University of New York debate between LaRouche and top Keynesian economist Abba Lerner, in which LaRouche induced Lerner to admit that Nixon’s economic policy, and his own, were in keeping with those of Hitler’s Reichsbank governor and Minister of Economics Hjalmar Schacht. Sidney Hook, a leading academic “philosopher” of the day and an intelligence community operative responsible for stifling unwanted discussions, told a LaRouche supporter after witnessing LaRouche’s impact on the downed champion, Lerner, that LaRouche would never be permitted another such contest. The first youth speaker was from the Philippines, Carlos “Itos” Valdes, the son of Carlos “Butch” Valdes, the founder and leader of the Philippine LaRouche Society and many other organizations. Itos Valdes gave a sincere and moving description of how his understanding of the movement changed his life, beginning in childhood with his family’s involvement in the LaRouche movement, and continuing with his organizing others through the ideas of Plato, Leibniz, FDR and LaRouche Carolina Dominguez, an extraordinary leader of the movement in Mexico and throughout Ibero America, spoke about the campaign to make the work of LaRouche available throughout the university system, and presented videos of young colleagues from Mexico and Colombia. She described the problem by exposing an economics professor who said the purpose of education was to help students become part of the wealthy 50%, rather than to lift the poor 50% out of poverty. José Vega of the Bronx closed the presentations with a video he had made discussing LaRouche’s policy for the next 50 years, including his idea of a “Space Civilian Construction Corps” modeled on FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps, to recruit youth to participate in a revitalized space program. The prepared presentations were followed by a profound discussion among the participants on the significance of what had been done and what must urgently be accomplished. One comment by Jacques Cheminade briefly highlighted the secret to LaRouche’s success. He said he was delighted to see three generations of LaRouche Youth Movements in action: the early 1960s campus recruit, Paul Gallagher; people in their 40s and 50s who were recruited by LaRouche in the 1990s-2000s, now playing a leading role in the movement; and those in their early 20s who are ripening as a highly effective force. The full conference can be viewed at the LaRouche Legacy Foundation website.
Thanks to an admission by former Treasury Secretary John Connally, made nearly 17 years after Nixon moved to break the Bretton Woods system, we know that the real perpetrators were not the former Texas Governor, but global operators George Shultz and Paul Volcker. Their manipulation of Connally and Nixon launched the world financial system toward its present demise, by downgrading the power of sovereign governments to invest in the physical economy. Instead, increasing power was put into the hands of central bankers, who today are running a disintegrating casino economy, based on floating exchange rates. The "inside story" of how this happened confirmed Lyndon LaRouche's late 1960s forecast of an intention to impose Schachtian/fascist austerity regimes, while turning productive industrial and agricultural centers into decaying rust heaps. For more on this, watch "So, Are You Finally Ready to Learn Economics" at the LaRouche Legacy Foundation website.
This is the transcript of the presentation delivered by Harley Schlanger to the August 14, 2021 conference of the LaRouche Legacy Foundation The conference was titled "So, Are You Finally Ready to Learn Economics?", and was dedicated to inspire the study of the rich body of work done by Lyndon LaRouche. In particular, it was to commemorate LaRouche's late 1960s forecast of the coming end of the Bretton Woods monetary system, which was launched with the decision to break the relationship of the dollar to gold, done by Richard Nixon on August 15, 1971; and LaRouche's subsequent forecasting of the accelerating devolution of the world financial system, which was done by the same oligarchs who persecuted LaRouche, in a vain attempt to eliminate his influence. You can watch the proceedings here: www.LaRoucheLegacyFoundation.com John Connally On August 15, 1971: Shultz Did It! An Eyewitness Account Of The Decision-Making Process Behind The Take-Down Of The Bretton Woods System by: Harley SchlangerAccording to the vast majority of journalistic and historical accounts of the process leading up to the Aug. 15, 1971 decision to sever the relationship between the dollar and gold, the most forceful advocate for this action was Treasury Secretary John Connally. Wikipedia, for example, says that Connally "presided over the removal of the U.S. dollar from the gold standard," and reports that President Richard Nixon "relied heavily on the advice of Connally" in reaching that decision. Economic historian William Greider, in his book, "Secrets of the Temple", writes that it was Connally, along with Paul Volcker, who "engineered the most fundamental change in the world's monetary system since World War II." Connally, a former Governor of Texas, who had built a reputation as a tough, no nonsense wheeler-dealer in the best tradition of "independent", rugged Texans, had just been appointed Treasury Secretary by Nixon, as the dollar crisis was peaking. Though he had limited experience in, and knowledge of, international financial policy, it is said that Nixon admired him greatly, and especially respected him for his self-confidence and commanding presence.
Can the human race survive the crisis now threatening mankind itself? Will we as a race continue the descent into global nuclear war, an out of control pandemic, a hyperinflationary destruction of the means of survival, a cultural collapse into a new Dark Age? Or can this existential crisis serve as a spark of human creativity in enough citizens of the world, to both end the insanity which brought us to this point, and launch a new paradigm which unites the nations of the world in achieving the common aims of mankind—peace through development? The answer lies not only in what people think, but how they think. Can we spark creativity in a population which has been degraded through scientific frauds, drugs, pornography, perpetual warfare and economic decay?This was the theme of the conference today, the first to be sponsored by the LaRouche Legacy Foundation. Helga Zepp-LaRouche was joined by leaders from around the world—political leaders, economists, musicians, scientists, and youth, from Russia, China, Slovakia, Germany, France, Austria, Argentina, Philippines, Mexico, Trinidad & Tobago, Peru, Colombia and Ukraine, for a dialogue on “LaRouche’s Discovery” and on “Earth’s Next Fifty Years,” under the theme: “So, Are You Finally Willing To Learn Economics?” The LaRouche Legacy Foundation is in the process of publishing LaRouche’s Complete Works, of which Volume 1 is now available. It was fifty years ago, on Aug. 15, 1971, that Lyndon LaRouche became quite famous, but also became the target of what former Attorney General Ramsey Clark described as “a complex and pervasive utilization of law enforcement, prosecution, media, and non-governmental organizations focussed on destroying an enemy…. The purpose can only be seen as destroying—more than a political movement, more than a political figure—it is those two; but it’s a fertile engine of ideas, a common purpose of thinking and studying and analyzing to solve problems, regardless of the impact on the status quo, or on vested interests. It was a deliberate purpose to destroy that at any cost.” On this day in 1971, President Richard Nixon scrapped the Bretton Woods system, which had sustained world development in the post-World War II era, by decoupling the U.S. dollar from its peg to gold, allowing all the world’s currencies to float, to become the subject of speculation, and for the British system of “free markets” and deregulation to replace the Hamiltonian American System, which is based on the concept of directed credit to enhance the general welfare and lift the productivity of labor. EIR Economics Editor Paul Gallagher explained to the thousands of participants in the conference from around the world (with simultaneous translation in Spanish, French, German and Russian), that the Bretton Woods which was adopted after Franklin Roosevelt’s death was not the system intended by FDR. Rather, Roosevelt had insisted that after the war, the former European colonies must be granted full independence, and that American System production of the capital goods needed to industrialize the entire world would drive U.S. production while also ending the colonial era for good. But Harry Truman, whom LaRouche denounced as a little man serving Wall Street, helped the Europeans to restore their colonies, while the U.S. was turned inward. The subsequent focus on internal consumerism through debt, rather than capital exports, LaRouche forecast—uniquely among all economists—would cause recessions and the collapse of Bretton Woods. This was but the first of LaRouche’s forecasts, all of which were proven to be fully prescient. A video of LaRouche speaking in 2001 described his many forecasts, emphasizing that he “was standing alone” among economists who were trapped in British monetarist ideology, thinking of money, not the physical transformation of nature, or the condition of the human race. Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s keynote speech provided a powerful insight into her husband Lyndon LaRouche’s capacity to inspire people from all different layers of society, from heads of state to Peruvian fishermen and Italian shoemakers, to grasp a different way of thinking,—that one cannot separate politics, science, and culture, and that all aspects of life fall under the centrality of creativity as the difference between man and beast, driving the science of physical economy as the true science of human progress. She later noted that anyone who met LaRouche would experience an awakening of their own powers of reason, through the creativity of LaRouche’s mind engaging them. Zepp-LaRouche traced her husband’s debt to Plato, Leibniz, Kepler and other giants of history, in making his own discoveries. She reviewed the new means for measuring progress which he had created—“relative potential population density,” and “energy flux-density”—and the interconnection between these crucial concepts. She explored Lyn’s initial decision to combat the statistical method of systems analysis of Norbert Wiener and John von Neumann, which treated the mind as a computer, promoting artificial intelligence as a replacement for the mind. This false concept of the nature of man has grown today into the insanity of the “models” which drive the climate hoax, financial speculation, and the oligarchical society. She concluded by calling for the “replacement of the quackery of information theory with the ideas of LaRouche in all universities.” The leading Chinese economist Ding Yifan, who has written about LaRouche’s ideas in several books, noted that LaRouche focused on two crimes from the ending of Bretton Woods: the abuse of currencies through floating exchange rates, allowing speculators to attack national currencies; and the deregulation of the financial system, which allowed the speculators to take over. He noted two events in Chinese history, once during the Han Dynasty 2000 years ago, and then in the Mongol era in the 14th century, when similar disregard for the difference between money and the real economy led to the collapse of the dynasties. Today’s QE and other hyperinflationary money printing, he said, is creating a cancer in the economy—a demonstration of LaRouche’s warning about entropy resulting from the failure to develop the real economy. Jozef Miklosko, the former Vice Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia and former Slovakian Ambassador to Italy, described his friend LaRouche as the most educated man he’d ever known, and noted that 80 pages of his book was on LaRouche and his organization. He described his trip to visit LaRouche in prison, where his optimism and agapē were undeterred. He also reviewed the injustice of LaRouche’s incarceration, and the worldwide mobilization of world citizens who united to protest that injustice. He described LaRouche as the “Sakharov of America,” calling for a new revolution of Christian agapē. He recommended that a “short book” be produced in all languages on LaRouche’s ideas, which was embraced by Helga Zepp-LaRouche and moderator Dennis Small of the LaRouche Legacy Foundation, while observing that capturing LaRouche’s ideas in a “short” book would be quite difficult indeed. Dr. Natalia Vitrenko, Chairwoman of the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine and a former Parliamentarian and presidential candidate, gave an impassioned presentation, titled “Saving Mankind: Is It a Mission—Possible?,” on her cooperation with Lyndon and Helga LaRouche. She pointed to the Biden-Putin Summit as correctly indicating the dangerous strategic crisis, but warned that it did not address the fundamental causes of that crisis, in the systemic destruction of the world economic and financial system. She reviewed the dire state of the world economy, and the necessary solutions posed by LaRouche. She called the state of the Western banking system a “speculative giant squid,” sucking the wealth out of the world. She also reviewed the destruction of Ukraine following the 2014 coup, driving the country from being one of the top ten economies in the world to now the poorest in Europe, with 10 million going hungry, and a population decline by over 20% since 1990. She closed: “Will we be a cemetery with windmills in place of crosses?” Dr. Kirk Meighoo, a former Senator in Trinidad & Tobago, an author and a political activist, described how he become a development economist through his education (in Toronto, Jamaica and the U.K.), but only when he discovered LaRouche through the internet did he realize that his profound ideas had been censored in all the universities. He described how the emergence of China, India and Russia as major economies should have led to a new world order, and that the G20 had made an effort in that direction, but failed, while the BRICS has now been torn apart. The pandemic destroyed economies around the world, he said, while money was printed up in outrageous quantities to bail out the banks, “transfering the wealth from the poor to the rich.” Resolving this crisis can only be achieved by ending the neoliberal system altogether, he noted, and commended the LaRouche movement for leading that effort. Yekaterina Fyodorovna Shamayeva from Russia, a senior lecturer, spoke on “Design and Management of Sustainable Development and an Interdisciplinary Synthesis of the Fundamental Ideas of the Schools of Lyndon LaRouche and Pobisk Kuznetsov.” The late Pobisk Kuznetsov was one of Russia’s leading scientists and philosophic thinkers, who became a close friend and collaborator of Lyndon LaRouche following the fall of the Soviet Union. He proposed that a new unit of measure of the progress of physical economies be based on LaRouche’s dual conceptions of relative potential population density and energy flux-density, and that the unit be called the “La,” after LaRouche. Shamayeva described the continuing effort in Russia to bring about a synthesis of the ideas of Kuznetsov and LaRouche, emphasizing that economics cannot be separated from the laws of nature. She called for more of LaRouche’s works to be translated into Russian (there is already a large number of LaRouche’s major writings available in Russian). The first panel closed with video presentations and readings about LaRouche from several people who have since died, among them: former Attorney General Ramsey Clark on the miscarriage of justice in the persecution of LaRouche; Dr. Enéas Carneiro, a former member of the Brazilian parliament and presidential candidate, on why LaRouche was granted honorary citizenship in the city of São Paulo; former President of Mexico José López Portillo, who in 1998 called on the world to “listen to the wise words of Lyndon LaRouche”; and former Foreign Minister of Guyana Fred Wills, who in 1976 called on the UN General Assembly to adopt LaRouche’s idea of a New International Economic Order. Fascinating dialogue during the Q&A session centered on three questions from the audience: 1) What is the difference between “forecasts” and “predictions?” 2) Do new technologies and robots threaten to cause unemployment? 3) What is the difference between Marxism, neoliberalism, and Christian socialism? The second panel, “Earth’s Next Fifty Years,” will be covered in the Monday briefing. The full conference can be viewed here.
The strategic instability of Afghanistan desperately calls out, not for unending military intervention, but for a realizable vision for future development. Fools respond to events, while geniuses create, sometimes urgently, the longer waves of thought and commitment that shape human history.On this weekend, the fiftieth anniversary of the action taken by the Richard Nixon administration to end the Bretton Woods system and adopt floating exchange rates, the world has much to learn from the economist who forecast that point of decision, understood its implications, and fought for half a century to put in place a just economic system to achieve economic development around the entire globe — Lyndon LaRouche. Because of the power inherent in the potential for human reason to respond to his ideas, he was imprisoned, attacked, but not defeated. Today, his vision of a paradigm for development capable of bringing the human race entirely out of poverty is being carried on by the movement he created, his cothinkers, and especially by his wife Helga Zepp-LaRouche. It offers the potential to build on the Belt and Road Initiative, itself inspired by his work and that of his wife, to draw further benefit from the best aspects of trans-Atlantic culture — of the Golden Renaissance and its view of man, of the creation of modern physics by Johannes Kepler, of the musical advances of J.S. Bach, and the American System of economics that so far surpassed the oligarchical system which it was developed to overcome. Join the LaRouche Legacy Foundation for an event on LaRouche’s Discovery and the Earth’s Next Fifty Years, starting today, Saturday, at 9 a.m. EDT/3 p.m. CEST.
REGISTER for tomorrow's event At the end of a fifty-year period of the deliberate dismantling of the western world's physical economy, by a criminal cabal of oligarchs and their flunkeys, now is the perfect time to "finally" learn economics. Lyndon LaRouche was defamed and persecuted during that period, not for any crimes he committed, but because he never gave up his commitment to create a new Renaissance, to mobilize people from every nation to defeat that cabal. Join us on August 14, at 9 AM EDT, here on the website, or on www.larouchelegacyfoundation.com, to learn what made LaRouche a heroic figure in the battle to overcome the oligarchy, and defeat their efforts to bestialize mankind, to preserve their self-proclaimed elite status.
The EIR weekly out today, has its cover story under the headline, “No Development, No Peace: Start with Afghanistan,” which message applies very strongly to the intense negotiations underway this week in Doha, and for which there is only a limited window of opportunity. Events are happening rapidly. Central to the Doha talks, which have taken place Aug. 10 through today, is the Troika-Plus—China, Russia, the United States, plus Pakistan, as well as the representatives of Afghanistan and the Taliban, added to which are sessions involving other nations, in differing configurations.Meantime, within Afghanistan, the Taliban as of today claims control over the capital cities of 10 of the nation’s 34 provinces, the latest of which is Ghazni, known as the “Gateway to Kabul,” for being 130 km southwest of the capital. The Pentagon announced this afternoon that it will send in thousands of additional forces to assist in evacuating the U.S. Kabul embassy and other sites. The preliminary reports from the Doha talks show little to no result, but the process itself counts greatly. China’s special representative on Afghanistan, Yue Xiaoyong, made the point to Doha News yesterday, that this is only the beginning, and the process must have different countries working together. The Russian envoy, Zamir Kabulov, is reported to have made a three-point proposal: 1) respect a ceasefire; 2) commit to an inclusive, intra-Afghanistan dialogue; and 3) establish an interim, shared power government, with elections to occur in two years. The Afghanistan government proposal, unconfirmed but widely reported as of this briefing, is for creating a shared power government. Among the participants in today’s talks, in addition to the Troika-Plus, are representatives from India, Turkey, and Indonesia. Also on hand are Norway and the UK, and the Organization of Islamic Countries. On Tuesday in Doha, envoys met from the EU, UK, and the United States. The only concept to make any plan work, is for a perspective, and action, on development, and agreement among major powers to make it happen. A variation on this truth that, without development, there can be no peace, is the added truth, that there can be no future at all without development. The process of reverse development—namely “green” destruction of the living conditions which people need to exist and be creative, the basis for advances in continuing productivity—is seen in another classic case of electricity black-out, like the February Texas Freeze, or the January European Near-Crash of the electric grid. This time, it was Down Under. On Aug. 9, thousands of people in New Zealand suddenly were in the dark, when the national electricity generation capacity could not meet demand, and the load-shedding system led to sudden, chaotic outages. Power is back on for most consumers, but politicians are shrieking about whom to blame. In fact, New Zealand was regarded as world leader in low-CO₂ emissions, because of having over 80 percent of its electricity supply from “renewables,” which meant mostly hydro-power for its small population of 4.8 million people. But when the green smarties started adding wind, reaching 6 percent share of national supply from 17 installations, plus adding a spot market for wholesale electricity speculation, and other hallmark green swindles, the stage was set for black outs. In Germany this week, it is notable that two major media are writing warnings against going too far, and too fast, with greenism. Die Zeit called for extending the life of the remaining four German nuclear power reactors. Today, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung lists ways the Green Party plans are unworkable to shunt electricity from Northern Baltic wind parks, to consumers cross country, because green lifestylers potentially en route, refuse to have the lines near their homes, etc. These are only rearguard quibbles, but indicative that reality is finally beginning to set in. This Saturday is the opportunity to go to core principles about what defines a successful economic approach, as presented so powerfully and historically by statesman-economist Lyndon LaRouche, in particular, 50 years ago, at the turning point time of August 15, 1971, when the Nixon Administration initiated floating currencies. The Aug. 14 conference, sponsored by the LaRouche Legacy Foundation, is titled, “So, Are You Finally Willing to Learn Economics?” Helga Zepp-LaRouche announced yesterday, “This will be an Earth-shattering event, and I’m not promising too much!”
Ancient astronomers, geometricians, and poets from the Vedic hymns to Dante to Edgar Poe have continually posed the question: Is there intelligent life on Earth? Joel DeJean discussed this question on the LaRouche Fireside Chat, along with discussing the recent flyby of the planet Venus of the Solar Orbiter and Bepicolumbo spacecraft, as well as why the recent IPCC report on global warming is just hot air.
The announcement by the White House that it will convene a "Leadership Summit for Democracy" in December, based on themes approved by the Davos billionaires, confirms once again, that it is unable and unwilling to leave the world of British imperial geopolitics, even as that world is undergoing an accelerating process of disintegration and plunge into new wars. Instead of addressing the question raised yesterday by Helga Zepp LaRouche, of "Why is the world in such a horrible condition?", the establishment continues to speed along a pathway toward Mutual and Assured Destruction. We have been on this path for the last fifty years, as we shall demonstrate in a conference on August 14, "So Are You Finally Willing to Learn Economics?" Find out how what LaRouche knew fifty years ago offers the opportunity to escape the world of permanent war and depression.
The LaRouche Legacy Foundation is pleased to invite you to an online seminar with leading international experts to examine the unique contributions of Lyndon LaRouche (1922–2019) to the science of physical economy. The seminar will consist of a morning and an afternoon panel, and it will be held on the 50th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s fateful announcement of the end of the Bretton Woods system on August 15, 1971. On the 50th Anniversary of LaRouche’s Stunning Forecast of August 15, 1971August 14, 20219:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. EDT Register here.
The IPCC report released this week was intended to panic government officials and populations into embracing the insanity of decarbonization. Instead, it demonstrates the panic of the imperial Malthusian supporters of the fabricated theory behind "man-made climate change", as resistance is building to their increasingly hysterical warnings. From Australia, Germany and India, and even from Great Britain, the birthplace of Malthusianism, leading officials are rejecting the narrative from the latest IPCC report.
Babylon, It Is Time To Listen To The Wise Words of Lyndon LaRouche No form of Babylonian priesthood, neither that of the original immoral Chaldeans, nor their latter-day expression in the form of the IPCC’s mathematical model mouthpieces, is actually capable of human forecasting. The idea that Grete Thunberg can be quoted at all, let alone in response to the just-released United Nations pronouncement by the hapless systems analyst Antonio Guterres that we must “sound the death knell for fossil fuels”—that is, kill hundreds of millions of the world’s poor in the next eight years, in order to save the planet—would simply have been recognized as mad 50 years ago. What, however, was not recognized a half-century ago, was the deadly Malthusian outlook that underlay the British-engineered decision to take the dollar off the gold standard, triggered by means of the November 1967 assault by the British pound against the dollar. The actual gun to the head of the Bretton Woods system had been “locked and loaded” earlier through the assassination of JFK in 1963 and the subsequent “countercultural paradigm-shift” expressed in the slipping, and then plunge into darkness known as the Vietnam War.From his work from 1948-52, his economic forecast of 1957, his piece “Depression Ahead” in 1961, and his then-increasingly famous forecast concerning the end of the Bretton Woods System, 1966-71, Lyndon LaRouche was able to see what others refused to see, or could not see. They, the political scientists, economists, and “intelligentsia,” were blinded because of their aspirations for membership in, acceptance by, or work for the modern Babylonian priesthood and financial oligarchy’s rule by pretense and dissembling. As the book of Daniel tells us: “Then came in, all the king’s wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.” The silly dissembling of Kirby regarding the American pullout from Afghanistan, extolling the “reliable” capabilities of the Afghanistan military, and berating the “irresponsibility” of Pakistan in giving safe haven to terrorists that the United States and London originally trained and financed over forty years ago; the embarrassing pretensions of Blinken, upbraiding Russia and China at the United Nations Security Council regarding their lack of respect for the “Law of the Seas Convention,” which the United States itself has never signed; the criminally silly aspersions cast at China as “the original sinner” regarding the coronavirus, when no one has died of the virus there for the past six months, in a nation of 1.4 billion people; this mental behavior, on the part of erstwhile leadership and large numbers of the population alike, strays beyond pagan hubris, requiring something Biblical as a corrective metaphor. Therefore, consider the case of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon (not Long Island, but present-day Iraq) "The king spake and said, ‘is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?’ While the word was in the King’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying,‘O King Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee. And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen..’ (In the same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar…. Nedbuchadnezzar, however, recovers from his madness. “And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honored him..whose dominion is an everlasting dominion….At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honor and brightness returned unto me….and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me.” Nebuchadnezzar’s journey from triumphalism, to madness, to reason, is a cautionary tale for our time. This time, though, the future of the entire human race hangs in the balance. Babylon, after all, did not have nuclear weapons. More positively, Russia and China are now collaborating in offering their view of humanity’s preferred path forward. India in an indirect, and Australia in a direct manner have just made it known that they do not intend to comply with the impending Glascow requirements, that is, to commit suicide for the greater glory of the City of London or Wall Street. Signs of resistance are evident in the trans-Atlantic sector, in Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands. The recent call by American doctors to manufacture vaccines in 50 nations and deploy for a comprehensive eradication of lethal pandemics in 200 nations is another indication of what sort of optimism can be generated even in the face of a mass tragedy. What is needed is an intellectual renaissance, out of the presently descending dark age. What is needed here and now is to generate the equivalent intellectual excitement worldwide, that was generated by the economic forecast, and subsequent classes given by Lyndon LaRouche in the immediate aftermath of August 15, 1971, fifty years ago. The paradoxes that fill the minds of those that would today lead the nations, from the coronavirus to cultural collapse to financial breakdown to scientific crisis, can be answered in the same way that Nebuchadnezzar did. As he listened to the wise words of Daniel, today’s Babylonians can be caused, by the power of Promethean forecasting, to listen to the certain trumpet of Lyndon LaRouche.
In reviewing the crises facing mankind, Helga Zepp-LaRouche began and ended with an appeal to viewers to join her and the LaRouche Legacy Foundation this Saturday, for an in-depth review of why we are facing a systemic collapse, and why it is finally necessary for the world to learn how Lyndon LaRouche was able to forecast the collapse, and constantly offer alternatives. The central issue for her late husband, she said, was a rejection of the approach of systems analysis, typified by his opponents, such as Norbert Weiner and von Neumann, which dominates all fields; and instead putting forward solutions derived from the approach of classical science and culture. Despite the horrendous conditions facing us since the destruction of the Bretton Woods system in 1971, LaRouche maintained his optimistic belief that solutions can be found, based on application of human creativity. Watch the conference at the LaRouche Legacy Foundation website on Saturday, August 14, at 9 AM EDT.
The latest report from the IPCC, which claims climate change is occurring at a rate "faster than predicted", is designed to panic policy makers into reaching insane decisions related to energy production and use. It was issued just days after many leading scientists decried the use of models which are producing numbers "that are insanely scary -- and wrong", according to the Director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Whether reading about climate change, or articles about "transitory inflation", keep in mind that the authors producing these reports are attempting to justify policy decisions that are wrong, and dangerous! Register for next weekends conference: ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF LAROUCHE'S STUNNING FORECAST: Now Are You Willing To Lear Economics?
The reaction of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to the latest report of the UN’s climate panel is an outburst against the economies and livelihoods of most of the nations in the world, an attempt to issue orders to these nations, which is no part of the UN’s authority and cannot be tolerated. This official, who is elected to seek reconciliation of nations and non-interference in their internal affairs, has instead handed down the brutal orders of financial elites and governments of a few advanced nations, as mandatory for all the rest, especially the developing nations for whom these orders impose economic backwardness, deaths and population reduction.“This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels before they destroy our planet,” ordered Guterres today. “Countries should also end all new fossil fuel exploration and production, and shift fossil fuel subsidies into renewable energy”—thus he demands nuclear power investments be banned as well. “As today’s report makes clear, there is no time for delay and no room for excuses,” pronounces this Secretary General, apparently, of BlackRock, Inc., the Davos billionaires and Prince Charles. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report itself, the rushed work of some 200 climatologists studying other scientists’ studies, makes some astonishing claims. All warming for 2,000 years and more is asserted to have occurred since the World War I period—a “hockey stick curve” already discredited 15 years ago. All this warming is emphatically claimed to be caused by human activity alone with fossil fuels; no natural factor plays any role. Because the warming is associated with higher atmospheric CO₂ levels, it is caused by those levels. And the climate change is “irreversible” and will breach the 1.5° Celsius rise in temperatures above the 1850 level, so long dreaded by the IPCC and all greenies, already by 2030 no matter what nations do. Just three or four years after that, the planet, in Guterres’ rant, will have been “destroyed” unless fossil fuel energy production and industrial use has been eliminated in every country, including the developing nations for which this will mean the end of development hopes and the threat of depopulation. This report is an attempt by the City of London-Wall Street-Davos forces and certain central bankers to beat down the opposition to a great economic leap backward—especially the opposition of China and India who feel responsible to defend the development needs of many other nations, but also the opposition of economic organizations and local all over the United States. They have to beat down that opposition to the “great leap backwards” before their COP26 environment summit in Glasgow. And it is far from clear that Wall Street, London and the royals and billionaires have the ability to do it. The Schiller Institute of Helga Zepp-LaRouche has been holding international conferences with scientists who really know something about energy, physical economy and the climate. Those scientists know that new and improved economic infrastructure is the way to respond to changes in climate and weather. They understand, as Prof. Augustinus Berkhout of Climate Intelligence (CLINTEL) expresses it, that humanity should be preparing for an optimistic future with nuclear power and advanced nuclear technologies, not for depopulation and despair. Economic development is a right of nations and populations, and the unique way to peace. The Schiller Institute intends to defeat this Davos Green Deal for which the UN’s Guterres tried to drive so arrogantly out of his lane today. It would be a fitting next step to carry forward Lyndon LaRouche’s 50-year battle against the financial oligarchy and for great projects of development.
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In 1993, when, through the courage of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, an agreement for peace between Israel and the Palestians was reached in Oslo (carefully avoiding any role for the British), and signed in Washington by the two leaders, Lyndon LaRouche said the following: “The urgent thing here is that we must move with all speed to immediately get these economic development projects, such as the canal from Gaza to the Dead Sea, going, immediately, because if we wait until we discuss this out, enemies of progress and enemies of the human race will be successful, through people like Ariel Sharon’s buddies, in intervening to drown this agreement in blood and chaos.”As in many, many other potential turning points in history, the wise words of Lyndon LaRouche were not heeded: The development programs were postponed while financial and stability issues were debated; the Oslo Accords were sabotaged; Rabin was murdered “by Ariel Sharon’s buddies”; and “blood and chaos” have followed for the past 28 years. LaRouche’s words echo through the decades, and are just as relevant to the crisis in Afghanistan today as they were in Palestine then—in fact, a successful resolution in Afghanistan, through LaRouche’s “peace through development” approach, is perhaps the last chance to achieve a similar peace across Southwest Asia in the near future. The consequences of failing to follow that approach are more dire today, as the world is pushed ever closer to thermonuclear war. But we can be optimistic that the potential for peace through development is greater today than anytime since the 1990s, when the opportunity for global peace following the collapse of the Soviet Union was squandered. At that time, Lyndon and Helga LaRouche proposed the New Silk Road, to unite the world in a new era of development, free of the British Imperial division of the world into wearing blocs. The British sabotaged that effort, maintaining and expanding NATO, and maintaining the “enemy image” of Russia and China. But China embraced the idea, and, 20 years later, President Xi Jinping launched the Belt and Road Initiative, taking the miraculous Chinese development process to the rest of the world. Now, the vast majority of the world’s nations have joined in that process as members of the Belt and Road. And, it is The LaRouche Organization and LaRouche’s Schiller Institute which are now at the center of that process. The Schiller Institute conferences of the past 15 months have brought together the operative forces in dialogue—from Russia, China, India, Southwest Asia, Africa, and Ibero America, together with Europeans and Americans—to formulate the required economic and political policies for a new paradigm for mankind. The EIR to be published on Aug. 13, will contain transcripts of portions of the historic Schiller Institute conference of July 31, “Afghanistan: A Turning Point in History—After the Failed Regime-Change Era,” which featured in-depth discussion of the development process which can, and must, bring about a peaceful resolution, once and for all, of the imperial “Great Game” in Afghanistan. Rather than British troops marching through the Khyber Pass, the plan is for an extension of the rail line which runs from China through Peshawar to the Gwadar port, as part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), to connect through the Khyber Pass to Kabul, and on to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, connecting landlocked Central Asia to the Arabian Sea, and restoring the ancient role of Afghanistan as the prosperous hub of the Silk Road. This great project was formulated at a February conference in Tashkent, and is already underway. Umida Hashimova, an analyst at the U.S.-based Center for Naval Analyses, who specializes in Central Asia affairs, told South China Morning Post that there are ongoing funding discussions with U.S. and Asian development agencies, and that “Construction of the 573-km long railway’s first section, between Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif, is expected to begin next month.” The design and technical documentation of the railway will be undertaken by the Russian Railways, Uzbek officials announced following talks with Russian Railways CEO Oleg Belozerov in Tashkent on May 19. The U.S. is engaged in two related institutions. The “Extended Troika,” consisting of the U.S., Russia, China and Pakistan, was established in 2019, and held two meetings this year, focused on finding a solution to the Afghanistan situation following the pullout of foreign forces. Also, there is a “Quad” arrangement involving the U.S., Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Afghanistan, focused on the railroad development project. It is crucial that the U.S. cooperate with all the countries in the region, especially Russia, China, India and Pakistan, on this crucial test of mankind’s capacity to end the era of geopolitics and create a new Renaissance. There are powerful forces in the U.K. and the U.S., including leading elements of both political parties, which will do all they can to sabotage this project, to counterpose the Malthusian insanity of the Green New Deal and depopulation, which will lead rapidly to more wars. An opportunity for Americans and citizens of the world to reflect on the seminal ideas of Lyndon LaRouche will take place on Aug. 14, marking fifty years since President Nixon ended the Bretton Woods system, confirming LaRouche’s warning at the time. Register here for the conference, “So, Are You Finally Willing To Learn Economics?”
As regional wars continue to rage, and new ones are threatened, the potential for a world nuclear war is so palpable that several world leaders are speaking out. Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, the opening speaker at this year’s Aspen Security Forum on Aug. 3, told the U.S. military-industrial community that Asian countries, and many in Europe, do not want to “choose” between China and the U.S. “No good outcome can arise from a conflict. It’s vital for the U.S. and China to strive to engage each other to head off a clash, which would be disastrous for both sides and the world…. I don’t know whether Americans realize what a formidable adversary they would be taking on if they decide that China is an enemy. China’s not going to disappear. This is not the Soviet Union. It is not the Potemkin village front. This is a country with enormous dynamism, energy, talent and determination to take its place in the world again.”Secretary of State Tony Blinken, speaking at the ASEAN Regional Forum on Aug. 6, had the chutzpah to warn the world about “the rapid growth of the P.R.C.’s nuclear arsenal, which highlights how Beijing has sharply deviated from its decades-old nuclear strategy based on minimum deterrence.” Not only does the U.S. have about 20 times the number of nuclear weapons as does China, but China is not deploying warships and warplanes along the U.S. coast, nor carrying out military exercises within miles of the U.S. border, as the U.S. and the British are on the Chinese border. Blinken made no effort to hide his intentions during the various ASEAN meetings this past week—namely, to recruit Asian nations to join in the anti-China crusade, to “show it is serious about engaging with Southeast Asia to push back against China,” as Reuters put it. Speaking at the East Asia Summit on Aug. 5, Blinken repeated the mantra about Chinese human rights abuses in Tibet, Hong Kong and Xinjiang. Foreign Secretary Wang Yi responded: “These clichés are not worth refuting, and none of the ASEAN countries agree with you.” Do Americans and their NATO partners truly believe, like Ozymandias in Shelley’s poem, that with a “frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,” that the rest of the world would “Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”? What does the rest of the world think of the regime-change wars which have left millions of innocents dead or homeless? What do they think of the hoarding of vaccines for over a year, while the COVID virus mutated to new more deadly strains in the countries denied access to vaccines? What do they think of the demand from Western governments and Western banks, that their countries must forgo industrialization, constrict food supplies, and reduce their populations in order to “save the planet” from the nonexistent danger of carbon? There are no solutions to these multiple crises if approached one at a time, or in one country at a time. Lyndon LaRouche warned 50 years ago, when Nixon shut down FDR’s Bretton Woods system on Aug. 15, 1971, unleashing unrestrained speculation and de-industrialization, that civilization itself would disintegrate, unless the dying system were replaced with one worthy of human dignity for all people. War, famine, pandemics, and economic disintegration are now upon us all, as LaRouche precisely forecast. On Aug. 14, the LaRouche Legacy Foundation conference will provide the world with the unique solution to this crisis, reviewing LaRouche’s discoveries, and the program he developed after that fateful day in 1971. We will hear from many people, from around the world, reflecting on the “wise words of Lyndon LaRouche,” with ideas that are more urgent today than anytime in history. A new Dark Age is unfolding before our eyes, and yet, such a moment can serve to awaken the suppressed creativity of mankind, to create a more perfect world “to ourselves and our Posterity.” Register for the Conference!
Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday sent a written message to the International Forum on COVID-19 Vaccine Cooperation, at which the announcement was made that China would be providing 2 billion doses, and $100 million in funds to COVAX this year. Xi made the overall point that vaccines are a “global public good,” and that health security is in the common interest of all.This is exactly the vantage point from which Schiller Institute President Helga Zepp-LaRouche initiated the Committee for the Coincidence of Opposites in the early months of the pandemic, to stress the higher, common interest involved, and also to mobilize forces to take this up as their shared responsibility. Speaking on how it can help people overcome their limited focus on lesser battles, in a presentation at the July 31 international Schiller Institute conference, she said of collaboration on health security, “who can refuse this?” Now, the necessity of collaborative action for biosecurity is seen in a new disease outbreak in the food supply. In July, Africa swine fever (ASF), a virus disease of pigs, for which there is no vaccine, showed up in the Caribbean, the first time in 40 years it has appeared in the Americas. It is in 11 provinces of the Dominican Republic. The microbe is very transmissible among animals, and also via contaminated clothes, shoes, scraps, etc. The only recourse is to mass kill and dispose of the pigs. It does not hurt humans directly, but pork is a major part of the food supply. China experienced a loss of 50% of its swineherd in 2018-2019, successfully beating back ASF; and has since rebuilt its herds. But the Caribbean—well as Africa, where ASF has been endemic—cannot do this under the current destructive economic system, which has suppressed development, and now, under the Green Deal, orders people to die off, in the name of “saving the Earth.” The point is, morality and natural law are one. With the human response of compassion and creative action, the means to not only solve crises, and also to expand in numbers and levels of living standards and creativity are ensured. Look at the dimensions of what must be taken care of, from recent CDC data: Water: Over 3 billion people are unable to wash their hands safely at home. Some 785 million have no access to basic water services; 885 million people do not have safe drinking water. Sanitation: Over 2 billion people have no access to basic sanitation services. Food: Over 800 million people are food insecure, that is, their supplies are insufficient and/or unreliable. More than 40 million are near the point of starvation this year. Electricity: More than 940 million people, 13% of the world’s population, have no electricity. Of the 87% who have electricity, millions have it intermittently, and at low power. Add to this picture the COVID-19 pandemic, which, as of 18 months ago, has infected 200 million people, with 4.2 million deaths, by official count, which understates the true numbers. Mutations and new outbreaks of other infectious diseases continue. In the United States capital yesterday, orders were given for thousands of residents to boil their water, because their District of Columbia central water was unsafe. Economic development is an imperative. The special strategic opportunity, at present, is for reconstruction and development to mark the future of Afghanistan, after decades of enforced strife and suffering. Today in Turkmenistan, there was a meeting of the five nations north of Afghanistan, at the Third Consultative Meeting of the Heads of State of Central Asia (Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan.) They discussed upgrading energy systems and corridors of transit, as well as collaboration against the pandemic. Hussein Askary, Schiller Institute liaison for Southwest Asia, struck the same theme on the significance of supporting Afghanistan as “the place where a new order can develop.” Speaking on a Hong Kong-based podcast yesterday, Askary said: “Now there is intensive diplomacy to make sure that the different parties in Afghanistan can come to the conclusion, that none of them can control the country totally. And it’s better for them to have a reconciliation process. But right now, what China, Russia and the neighbors of Afghanistan can do—and the United States can do, if they wish—what they can do, is help the Afghanis rebuild their country, and that paves the way to stability.”
Join us LIVE on Saturday at 2pm EDT. Register for the August 14 LaRouche Legacy Foundation conference here. In the next 50 years, the adoption of LaRouche’s revolutionary idea of the Development Corridor will become the dominant principle of human and planetary evolution. The export of cities, rather than commodities, to other nations, and the interaction with and movement of humanity and life to nearby planetary bodies, will mark a transition from human pre-history to the beginning of true human civilization. China’s Belt and Road Initiative, while it is an approximation of the LaRouche idea, is only the first step in establishing hundreds of new cities, powered by nuclear fission and ultimately thermonuclear fusion-centered complexes and their derivative industries. These will act as the modular centers for successive scientific and technological revolutions that provide the springboard for the exploration and navigation of the solar system, itself a prerequisite for the cultivation and civilization of humanity and the natural world as a whole.
