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As recent actions have shown, the world has entered a new phase
shift where the bestial law of “might makes right” has trampled any
notion of international law. The Trump administration’s apparent
willingness to take a “FAFO” approach to the Western
Hemisphere—reinforced by comments from advisors such as Stephen Miller
implying that the United States should run Venezuela simply because it
can—would have the Founding Fathers rolling in their graves. The
American Revolution was rooted in their rejection of tyranny,
imperialism, and despotism, and in the conviction that “all men are
created equal,” endowed with unalienable rights to “Life, Liberty, and
the pursuit of Happiness,” and that governments exist only to secure
those rights through “the consent of the governed.”
Those rights are not limited to Americans, but are the rights of
all human beings, wherever they are. Readopting the Declaration of
Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, is required
today to rediscover the American Revolution, and put forward a viable
alternative to foreign policy today. A new attempted “Pax Americana”
or “Pax Romana” is doomed to fail when the majority of the world seeks
to build an international order free from the chains of colonialism
and exploitation.
It was the American economist Lyndon LaRouche who had put forward a
policy consistent with the American System of Physical Economy, a
revolutionary approach to economics which placed the human creative
personality at the center of all breakthroughs in scientific progress
and economic growth. He rejected the principles of the British
imperial system and advanced ideas and projects aimed at bringing the
benefits of industrial progress to the impoverished nations of the
Global South that had long been exploited by British imperialism.
Today, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Lyndon LaRouche’s wife, is leading the
Schiller Institute and calling for an unprecedented mobilization to
the crisis in international law at hand. Executive Intelligence
Review’s Jan. 12 emergency international roundtable meeting: “It’s
Worse Than You Think: The Implications of the Attack on Venezuela and
How To Bring the World Back from the Brink,” featured 20 senior
political and strategic experts from the Americas, Eurasia, and
Africa, who agreed that governments need to immediately return to
international law. A new security and development architecture is
needed, as Helga Zepp-LaRouche has consistently put forward, to put
nations on the higher idea of the Coincidence of Opposites.
That will only come into reality with the mobilization of world
citizens, who demand that their governments be accountable and adhere
to natural law.
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