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In response to the complete detachment by Western political leaders
and the Establishment to respond adequately to successive global and
domestic crises, American statesman and economist Lyndon LaRouche
began his campaign for the Presidency in 1976, and continued running
until 2004. LaRouche’s own qualifications for President came from his
own intellectual work in matters related to physical economy, science,
and statecraft, which he had developed and formed as the basis for his
own organization in the early 1970s, which has exerted a significant
influence into policy-making circles internationally, including in
Russia, China, and nations of the Global South.
Like LaRouche, and like the revolutionaries in the early American
colonies who decided, 250 years ago, “to take arms against the sea of
troubles” caused by the British empire, “and by opposing, end them,”
this generation of Americans, watching the mass killing of innocent
people in Palestine, and the pursuit of a senseless war in Ukraine,
must rise up and declare their independence from the crimes being
committed once again by the British Empire, but now in the name of the
United States – their name.
Many important discussions are taking place between the U.S. and
other nations on matters of war and peace. In Istanbul, talks between
Ukraine and Russia are beginning, while delegations of the two
countries arrive. The British Empire, as they did in the Summer of
2022 in the Istanbul 1.0 talks, are now attempting to cajole Zelenskyy
ahead of talks to provide “background advice” as to how he should
handle the meeting. This means sabotaging the opportunity for peace,
and continuing the war to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, and by
extension, the possibility for a new security and development
framework.
Underneath the glitz, glitter and chatter of self-congratulation by
the Trump Administration, of facilitating talks under the pretense of
securing “America’s interests first,” what’s required in all the
hotspots of conflict—Ukraine, Southwest Asia, India-Pakistan—is a new
security and development framework which provides mutual benefit and
lasting incentives for all nations to pursue their sovereignty and
development, in harmony with each other. In his 1976 presidential
campaign, LaRouche proposed his International Development Bank (IDB)
as a means to develop the nations of the Global South against the
usurious, murderous practices of the IMF and World Bank. Today, Helga
Zepp-LaRouche is calling for a new, security and development
architecture, through her 10 Principles, which will be the central
topic of the Schiller Institute May 24-25 Memorial Day Conference, “A
Beautiful Vision in Times of Great Turbulence,” 9 days from now.
To depart from the process of confrontation and “just wars” being
committed in the name of the U.S., such as in Gaza, and to embark on a
new process of dialogue with other nations, your participation and
organizing for that conference can begin to shape that.
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