April 19—Last month, China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin held a summit in Moscow, which included charting their collaboration over the next eight years on economic projects. Xi’s “Belt and Road” approach over the last ten years has shown country after country that nations can mutually benefit, if they simply choose projects that, in real physical economy terms, work. And since one nation doesn’t have to push down its neighbor in order to get ahead, room is created for defining pathways in which one nation is important, even vital, to its neighbor. China’s “shocking” diplomatic successes with the rapprochement of Saudi Arabia and Iran—with the radiating effects, notably in Syria and Yemen—turn out to be a normal byproduct of sane economics. It forces to the surface the realization that insane economics were at the root of the so-called intractable conflicts we’re accustomed to.
April 18—Since last year, Western leaders have bombastically proclaimed their plans to “punish” and “weaken” Russia for its invasion into Ukraine, even threatening to “isolate” it from the global community. This included measures from sanctions against everything and everyone Russian, to the so-called “financial nuclear bomb” of kicking Russia out of the SWIFT international payments system. However, far from bringing Russia to its knees, these and other actions have increasingly backfired, catching many with their proverbial pants down.
While their Unipolar Order is facing extinction, G7 Foreign Ministers met in Japan to plot the next steps towards a world of permanent warfare and scarcity.
Over this last weekend, the Schiller Institute hosted an online international conference entitled, “Without the Development of All Nations, There can be No Lasting Peace for the Planet.”
April 17—The tremendously inspiring and demanding conference of the Schiller Institute this weekend, and the concert of the Schiller Institute NYC Community Chorus concluding it, demonstrate that there is something extremely powerful, something relevant and necessary, in the ideas of Lyndon LaRouche for the world today.
April 15—The brilliant analysis of the burning issue of a new international reserve currency, written nearly 25 years ago by Lyndon LaRouche, can be presented to any official or citizen as an authoritative “guide” to the steps that must be taken now by the BRICS nations and others, to avoid international economic collapse and thus prevent nuclear war.
April 16—As governments and leaders from all over the world prepare, either to confront, or to flinch from what could be humanity’s greatest moment of decision, the International Schiller Institute, armed with the method of scientific discovery of the physical economist Lyndon LaRouche, has used its just-concluded two-day conference, “Without the Development of All Nations, There Can Be No Lasting Peace for the Planet” to successfully place the work of four great thinkers—Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, Gottfried Leibniz, Friedrich Schiller and LaRouche—at the disposal of those governments, leaders and, indeed, the citizens of a growing, worldwide “republic of the mind.” Representatives of several governments participated in the conference-process, for several hours, and expressed an excited surprise at the quality, level and depth of the questions posed, and the discussion of solutions in which they found themselves engaged. Whether it be war or peace, or prosperity or poverty, the necessity for a new security and development architecture was strongly enough felt to allow for ground-breaking applications of the most profound philosophical concepts to the most “practical” of circumstances.
Can citizens of the West mobilize to act in their own self-interests? That was powerfully posed at last weekend's Schiller Institute Conference, linked below.
April 14—The two-day online conference of the International Schiller Institute, “Without the Development of All Nations, There Can Be No Lasting Peace for the Planet,” begins today. Over 1100 persons have pre-registered for it, and it will be live-streamed by various platforms, or re-broadcast by others. Its task is to engage citizens from around the world in the happy task of inducing their otherwise-doomed nations to adopt policies for the world’s durable survival in what has been called by many “the most dangerous moment in all of human history.”
April 13—The elected leader of a very large country with a lot of resources posed a simple question today: “Every night I ask myself why all countries have to base their trade on the dollar. Why can’t we do trade based on our own currencies? Who was it that decided that the dollar was the currency after the [1971] disappearance of the gold standard?”
De-Dollarization is now a fact of life. Is it good or bad? Can it, or should it, be reversed? How? These are the subjects of today's session of Friday Questions.
Join TLO Vice President, Dave Christie for the discussion! Listen on Rumble or Dial-in to the Fireside Chat at 9pm EST, 6pm PT (267) 807-9605, access code 536662#
April 11—In his 2004 article “Toward a Second Treaty of Westphalia,” Lyndon LaRouche writes that “often, as now, a wave of development which has been unfolding, but underrated, even usually unsuspected, unfolding over the greater part of a millennium, or even much longer, becomes suddenly … the insistent, virtually decisive, global political issue of the present moment. It were as if the fishbowl had been smashed by external forces.”
The course of international relations has taken an accelerated pace, with elements coming together quickly after years of development and negotiations, and huge internal conflicts making themselves clear within the Empire.
April 10—A special event at the Moscow Economic Forum featured Sergey Glazyev, Minister for the Integration and Macroeconomics of the Eurasian Economic Commission, addressing directly whether Russia can figure out the secret of China’s economic miracle and apply that method for Russia. The special session appeared to be designed around Glazyev’s new book, Chinese Economic Miracle. Lessons for Russia and the World.
"Let me begin with a couple of examples of why the Summit for Democracy" is nothing but hypocrisy. Take freedom of the press, for example. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday commented on the Russian arrest of a Wall Street Journal reporter for espionage"
