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!

Register for next weekend's conference HERE Has the situation in Afghanistan become hopeless? Are the Chinese really committing genocide against Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province? If your only source is the mainstream news, government spokesmen and Congressmen, you may have fallen for the latest lies designed to promote more endless wars. Here's the latest on the cover-ups and lies in the globalist's narratives designed to convince you that kinetic and economic warfare is necessary against Syria and China, to provide security for the U.S.