Jason Ross

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.

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.

Devastating floods in Europe, China, and India. Historic drought in the Western U.S. What do these events have in common? If you said “climate change,” you’ve been had. In fact, these problems arise from too little human intervention into our environment, not too much. Civilizations are defined by their ability to control and defend against nature’s variations and shortcomings. Those that develop an increasing ability to create improvements in their environment—a series of infrastructure platforms—flourish, while those that stagnate, fail.A power grid that relies on (or is called upon to rely on) interruptible forms of power like wind becomes increasingly susceptible to blackouts, with the loss of life and economic output that comes with them. Adopting the Green New Deal is choosing to have blackouts. Failing to invest in water management infrastructure is choosing to be vulnerable to flood damage. Tolerating poverty on the planet decades after it could have been entirely eliminated, is choosing to allow the development and circulation of pandemics. These are not natural disasters; they are man-made failures to take actions, proposed decades ago by Lyndon LaRouche, to develop a science-driven, technologically advancing economy capable of rendering ourselves increasingly immune to the vagaries of unimproved nature. On Saturday at 9 a.m. (Eastern U.S.), the Schiller Institute will be holding a conference “There Is No ‘Climate Emergency’: Apply the Science and Economics of Development To Stop Blackouts and Death.” Participate to learn how to defeat the mutually assured destruction of the Green New Deal and chart a path forward, to economic development, infrastructure growth, and breakthroughs in nuclear power that will enable the next generation of space exploration.

The United States is quite literally descending into fascism, with the creation of a new federal intelligence agency to engage in a domestic war on terror, government-directed censorship of speech in the public commons of today (social media), and comparisons by Biden between the present moment and the Civil War -- in which millions of Americans were engaged in literal military combat against each other. Reversing this descent into authoritarianism requires identifying the threat, of course. But it also requires an affirmative statement of what the mission of the United States should be. And perpetual opposition to China and Russia ain't it!As the American military departs Afghanistan, will American engineers and contractors play a useful role in planning and constructing infrastructure in that nation, as part of a global development policy?Will feisty American farmers, ranchers, citizens, and energy experts overturn the Green New Deal fraud and demand reliable energy for the future?The shared enemy of mankind is that oligarchical outlook and financial-intelligence-media power that seeks to destroy productivity through a new "green" religion while creating chaos and the threat of war through color revolutions and intelligence assessments painting the world's major powers as implacable enemies.Lyndon LaRouche spend half a century fighting to institute a just world economic system, based on the dignity of each human individual as made in the image of a living God, a system committed to the development of new platforms of infrastructure and productivity, unlocked through advancements in science and technology fostered by long-term investments in such frontier areas as space and nuclear fusion.Next weekend, on July 24, the Schiller Institute will hold an event addressing the absolute conflict between seeing the future in terms of "green" power sources -- which have been promoted with the intent of preventing development -- versus major investment in transportation, power, industry, and trade. And on August 14, the LaRouche Legacy Foundation will hold a seminar on the economic work of Lyndon LaRouche, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Nixon's end of the Bretton Woods system, about which LaRouche achieved notoriety.From the standpoint of that future orientation, the Great Reset, the push for war with China and Russia, and the drive for fascism within the United States come together as a single goal of a financial oligarchy intent on preventing it.That oligarchy can be defeated, and a beautiful future can be created, if we make it happen.

During a press briefing on Thursday, Jen Psaki explained that the White House is coordinating with social media companies to stop "disinformation" about Covid-19. "We're flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation," she said, matter-of-factly. But the White House is not just making general suggestions -- it is pressing for their enforcement. And this violates the First Amendment.She said that the White House expects the platforms to "measure and publicly share the impact of misinformation... This should be provided not just to researchers but to the public." She also stated that the White House has proposed "a robust enforcement strategy."She said that the administration is urging social media platforms to "promote quality information sources" over "low quality information."Pushing for action, she reminded that "It's important to take faster action against harmful posts. As you all know, information travels quite quickly on social media platforms sometimes that's not accurate." Joe Biden, asked on Friday for comment about Facebook's role in Covid, responded that because the only pandemic is now among the unvaccinated, "they [Facebook] are killing people." Glenn Greenwald slammed the government calls for censorship: "The Biden administration is telling Facebook which posts it regards as 'problematic' so that Facebook can remove them. This is the union of corporate and state power -- one of the classic hallmarks fo fascism -- that the people who spent 5 years babbling about fascism support." The White House is admitting that they're compiling lists of people who they claim are posting content they regard as "problematic" and that constitute "misinformation" and are demanding Facebook remove them. This is authoritarianism:https://t.co/gxrdUDblyS— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 15, 2021 While there is indeed an enormous amount of nonsense posted about Covid-19, one can ask whether banning discussion is even helpful. Given the absolute and complete discrediting of the media and expertariat generally, banning the discussion of a certain viewpoint may have the opposite effect! If a viewpoint cannot be publicly expressed on Twitter, then it cannot be met with thoughtful replies that encourage reflection (Although this is not the norm on Twitter, it does happen.) Some of the claims -- such as about VAERS figures -- are easily refuted. And the 180-degree turn on the Wuhan lab leak -- censored when Trump said it and now embraced to create a war with China -- hardly gives credibility to the would-be arbiters of truth!But more essentially, it is absolutely clear that if companies (whose private nature is much ballyhooed by censorship proponents) are taking actions due to pressure from the government, the First Amendment prohibition on limiting speech -- which applies to the government -- will apply to them as well! This not mere speculation. It comes from Supreme Court decisions:In a 1973 Supreme Court case, the Court held that Congress "may not induce, encourage, or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish." An article written by Glenn Greenwald in February -- on the occasion of social media CEOs being brought, yet again, to Congress to be scolded -- quotes an ACLU Director, Ben Wizner, "For the same reasons that the Constitution prohibits the government from dictating what information we can see and read (outside narrow limits), it also prohibits the government from using its immense authority to coerce private actors into censoring on its behalf." The ACLU had successfully defended the National Rifle Association in a 2018 suit against New York State and Gov. Cuomo on the basis that threats against business entities that facilitated the actions of the NRA constituted a viewpoint-based attack on the NRA's freedom of speech.A 1963 Supreme Court case took up the state of Rhode Island's issuing to bookstores lists of books the government considered "objectionable," with a "request" that they "voluntarily" cease selling the book. The Supreme Court ruled this a violation of the First Amendment, even though the state legislature did not directly pass a law preventing the sale of certain books: "The [Rhode Island] commission deliberately set about to achieve the suppression of publications deemed 'objectionable,' and succeeded in its aim." The threat from the state was clear to the Court: "People do not lightly disregard public officers' thinly veiled threats to institute criminal proceedings against them if they do not come around." The Court summed it up: "Their operation was in fact a scheme of state censorship effectuated by extra-legal sanctions; they acted as an agency not to advise but to suppress."What is required is either a Supreme Court ruling or new legislation to make clear the limits of government interference in social media discussions, and the limits of the social media companies themselves to censor viewpoints they consider objectionable, but which are not illegal.

The U.S. and NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan brings to an end 20 years of a misguided military operation and places squarely on the table the difference in outcomes achieved through geopolitics and through cooperative development. We never should have been in Afghanistan. The 9/11 attacks were not organized by a group of 19 individuals coordinated from a cave. The hijackers drew on external support during their time in the United States, and it came not from Osama bin Laden operating in Afghanistan, but from Saudi Arabia. There was no military mission to achieve in Afghanistan.But it served as the first in a new series of wars, based on a new paradigm of geopolitics that flouted international law and asserted a Responsibility to Protect that demanded military action to interfere in the internal affairs of other nations based on the flimsiest (and most easily faked) of pretexts. As Helga Zepp-LaRouche writes in her Afghanistan at a Crossroads: “The strategic turbulence caused by the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan, offers an excellent opportunity for a reassessment of the situation, for a correction of political direction and a new solution-oriented policy. The long tradition of geopolitical manipulation of this region … must be buried once and for all, never to be revived.” The world is not a zero-sum “Great Game.” Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan expressed the potential for U.S.-Chinese cooperation: “The biggest challenge for the United States is not China. It is in the United States itself. Its strategy toward China must avoid forming a vicious circle of misleading and misjudgment. As long as we uphold the concept of a shared destiny for all mankind, the issues between China and the United States will not be fundamentally opposed and irreconcilable, and a path of peaceful coexistence and cooperation will be found.” Finding the path towards cooperation requires thinking of the future, drawing us to look, as Hussein Askary expressed it on Saturday’s LaRouche Organization event, not at the mud under our feet, but towards the stars over our heads. International cooperation on the physical infrastructural development of the broader region will bring benefits to Afghanistan and its neighbors that far surpass what could be achieved without that integration. This will require engineering. It will require technical support. And it will require stable financing. This is an opportunity to bring neighbors to the table and to draw on expertise around the world. The how-to book has quite literally already been written—by EIR and the Schiller Institute—in the form of a program for trans-national infrastructure and large-scale industrialization and agricultural technology deployment. “For all these reasons,” Zepp-LaRouche writes, “the future development of Afghanistan represents a fork in the road for all mankind. At the same time, it is a perfect demonstration of the opportunity that lies in the application of the Cusan principle of the Coincidentia Oppositorum, the coincidence of opposites…. In Afghanistan, it holds true more than anywhere else in the world: The new name for peace is development!” It is only by abandoning geopolitics and adopting domestic policies to launch an economic renaissance and crush the power of finance, that the United States could qualify itself to play a useful role in the world. America’s urgently needed missions will be the subject of an upcoming pamphlet from The LaRouche Organization. The work of the greatest recent American thinker on the issue of development—Lyndon LaRouche—is the topic of a LaRouche Legacy Foundation August 14 online seminar, on the occasion of “The 50th Anniversary of LaRouche’s Stunning Forecast of August 15, 1971.”

On this weekend, as the United States celebrates the anniversary of its Declaration of Independence, let us each reflect on how we can bring into reality the potential represented in the presentations and discussions of last weekend’s Schiller Institute conference.Consider the backdrop: After the relatively small steps towards U.S.-rapprochement (or at least normalization) with Russia, a British naval provocation in the Black Sea drew a Russian military response and the British have unleashed a new series of claims about Russian hacking of essentially everyone. The danger of nuclear war, growing constantly with the ongoing expansion of NATO despite promises to the contrary, absolutely must be addressed head-on. Inflation continues apace, with raw materials up 31% year-to-date and prices of cars, homes, and food skyrocketing with double-digit inflation. Yet the Biden White House trumpeted its economic success with a tweet merrily announcing that the cost of a Fourth of July cookout had decreased this year … by 16 cents! Green policies that are shuttering coal plants and directing energy investment into intermittent and unreliable sources are leading to blackouts and power shortages. In major de-developing countries, purchases of diesel emergency generators are booming in the context of the unreliable electricity grid. And revelations published by Revolver News site, if accurate, point to direct lines of questioning that could reveal the events of January 6 to have been, not an intelligence failure, but an intelligence setup, to drive a new war on “domestic extremists.” Preventing war means exposing and replacing the oligarchical, geopolitical insanity that drives what Ray McGovern, a speaker on the conference’s first panel, identifies as the MICIMATT (Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-MEDIA-Academia-Think-Tank) complex. A summit among the leaders of the United States, Russia, India, and China is absolutely required to replace geopolitics with a paradigm of growth. The greatest, expanding impediment to achieving that growth was taken up in the conference’s second panel, which exposed “The Real Science Behind Climate Change,” which covered the wild exaggerations central to the climate catastrophe narrative, the enormous costs of proposed mitigation measures against this false menace, and the immense potential of the actually superior power source of nuclear science. Exposing the Malthusian lie that limits to growth truly exist and must be respected, rather than shattered and overcome, can serve a profoundly liberating role. The Sunday panels marked inflection points in the drive for a global Glass-Steagall, for the kind of cooperation required to develop health systems throughout the planet, and for the quality of discussion necessary to organize into a higher mission the many different people and groups of the world. The rotting speculative debt must be given a proper, and speedy burial, and policies for creating real physical and scientific growth must be adopted. The need to ensure health—including creative mental health—for all, can serve as a central driver from which other infrastructure and development needs flow. Join the Schiller Institute’s mobilization. Celebrate Independence Day by acting to end the legacy and reality of the British Empire.

A powerful advertisement for this weekend’s Schiller Institute conference came in the form of the brazen British naval provocation in Russian waters. Shortly after a U.K.-Ukraine $1.7 billion arms deal was signed on its deck in Odessa, and during the ongoing Moscow International Security Conference, the HMS Defender, deliberately, provocatively, and insanely ventured into Russian territorial waters off Crimea, under the guise of innocent transit through what the British claim are “Ukrainian” waters. This insane action was met with Russian warning shots from the sea and from the air and the ominous statement from a Russian official that “I have to warn the ex-‘ruler of the waves,’ that next time such a decision is taken, bombs will be dropped not ahead of the target, but on the target.”Clearly it is not international law to which the British refer in their demands for respect for the “rules-based international order,” but rather to whatever rules they devise. Why provoke Russia in a way that could lead, even by accident, to nuclear warfare? As Helga Zepp-LaRouche has stated in her conception of the first, strategic panel of this weekend’s conference, “Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Make MAD.” Speakers from Russia, China, India, and the United States will address the enormous danger of war, and the path forward to be charted through the collaboration of those four nations. Today’s afternoon panel will address the order-of-magnitude expansion of power required for the development of the world, while heaping richly deserved ridicule on the notion that such power can be achieved with low-grade sources such as wind and solar, under a commitment to rapid reduction of CO₂ emissions. The galloping hyperinflation, evident in prices for housing, food, raw materials—everywhere except in the assessments of the trans-Atlantic central banks, is the topic of the third panel, which will present the solutions required to crush Wall Street and the City of London. Sunday’s concluding panel—“The Coincidence of Opposites: The Only Truly Human Thought Process”—addresses directly the quality of thought required for creative and successful deliberation to address the world’s challenges and promote “the common good of all people.” Join the conference, and bring your friends and networks.

That even the relatively uneventful meeting between Presidents Biden and Putin in Geneva can accurately be hailed as a step forward, speaks to the absolutely terrible situation the world is in. Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of Global Times, expressed it in a tweet: “The meeting itself sends a strong signal. Both want to end the worst period of U.S.-Russian relations post-Cold War. At the very least, achieve low-level stability in their bilateral ties and avoid new uncontrollable conflicts. And this is probably the only product of the meeting.” Our aspirations must be so much greater!How can our efforts benefit from the powerful positive example of China (and Chinese-Russian collaboration) and in breaking through the censorial thought-control that has come to increasingly dominate both the legacy media and the social media of the trans-Atlantic world? The Shenzhou-12 rocket has brought three astronauts to the Chinese Space Station’s core module, Tianhe, in a happy step in China’s continued development of its space capacity—as the International Space Station reaches the end of its life. It appears that great dreams cannot be derailed by such petty (and short-sighted) actions as banning Chinese purchase of certain microchips or the 2011 Wolf Amendment banning NASA from collaborating with China on manned space projects. As Biden—and the press hyenas—harass Vladimir Putin about his grave assault on freedom, recent shocking revelations in the United States provide a potential flank to blast the burgeoning attempts at truly dictatorial control over media, communication, and thought. Those revelations center on evidence of the involvement of the FBI and other federal agencies in the events of Jan. 6. Not only were plans to storm the Capitol well known to intelligence—which could have increased security to counter them—but the plans appear to have been promoted by these federal agents! Revolver News has revealed, through analysis of charging documents, the existence of at least 20 unindicted co-conspirators—likely FBI or other agents or sources—intimately involved in the events of Jan. 6. Put this in historical context. Just a few months earlier, a dozen people were accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer—among the purported plotters were no fewer than five federal agents or sources, who, far from passively infiltrating a plot in process, actively advanced it! This is in keeping with the FBI’s modus operandi, put into overdrive with the beginning of the Global War on Terror, of participating in (through undercover agents and sources) and driving supposedly heinous acts of terrorism deftly and heroically foiled by the upstanding men and women of the FBI itself. Helga Zepp-LaRouche warned on Jan. 9 that the storming of the Capitol had to be seen in this context, writing: "There is every reason to believe that the assault on the Capitol is a direct continuation of the 9/11 attacks, the real masterminds of which have never really been named. Lyndon LaRouche had presciently predicted this terrorist act nine months earlier, on January 3, 2001, by predicting that the Bush Administration, which would take office three weeks later, would stage a ‘Reichstag Fire’ incident due to its inability to deal with the coming financial meltdown, as a pretext to implement dictatorial measures. This is exactly what happened with the introduction of the ‘Patriot Act’…. In the same fashion, the riot at the Capitol is intended to provide the pretext to eliminate any dissent towards the policies of the neoliberal establishment…. “The alarm bells must ring for all people who hold dear the constitutional state, freedom of expression, and civil rights. What this is about is total dictatorship over opinion and the elimination of any opposition to the policies of the transatlantic financial elite,” Zepp-LaRouche warned. “We are in acute danger of a new fascism!” The revelations around the events of Jan. 6 can be a powerful tool for exploding the press for dictatorial control over thought, and exposing the hungry minds of those in the trans-Atlantic to the much larger, and better world that exists beyond the bounds of “approved” discourse, in the domain of fruitful encounters with the truly amazing developments already taking place, and possible, around the world. Victories far greater for humanity than a civil discussion between the presidents of the two most powerfully nuclear armed nations lie in store!

Today’s hysterical warnings of a coming cataclysm of climate change are only the latest expression of the anti-human religion of modern environmentalism created in the 1960s and 1970s. They share with the false 1972 prophecies of The Limits to Growth both an intent to use supposedly scientific models to justify policy objectives chosen for other reasons, and a wild rejection of the most characteristic quality of the human species. That quality is the creativity that allows us to achieve over historical time—in what are essentially instantaneous transformations from the standpoint of evolutionary time—the development of new resources and an improving ability to create a more nurturing synthetic environment. Anti-entropic growth characterizes the universe as a whole.The dawning age of mammals replaced the majority of the far inferior reptiles, not because of an external event, but because the mammalian life was characterized by a higher energy-intensity than the reptiles, and by the creation of a more stable internal environment (warm-blooded endothermy) that supported more specific and powerful biochemical reactions. So too does the human species develop new resources by discovering new principles—transforming uranium from a mostly useless yellow rock to the most concentrated form of fuel. So too does the human species develop the improved synthetic environment of a platform of physical infrastructure that allows individual business and productive processes to thrive in a medium of efficient transportation, healthy people, and plentiful energy. If we are to learn from nature, it is not in seeking to maintain the present condition of the world’s (far from ideal) climates, flora, and fauna. Taking a longer view reveals a biosphere characterized by change, by an increasing intensity of life. To stop growth is to destroy society. Lyndon LaRouche brilliantly polemicized against The Limits to Growth on precisely this basis, and wrote decades later about the characteristic of economic growth: “In general, the potential productivity of an economy is limited on the higher side by the energy density of the basic modes of energy production used by that economy. The higher the energy density the cheaper the energy can be in terms of social costs of producing energy, and the more abundant the energy available for expanding the economy. The step-by-step advance from a full-scale fission energy economy into a fusion energy economy, is the unique path of development, which enables our nation and the world to increase the effective rate of capital formation into the next century and beyond. It is the only policy which leads to this successful survival of our civilization.” Nature and the human soul cry out: progress is the truest substance! The evil fools who attempt, today, to create a global imperium, as an enforcement mechanism for the crushing of energy and productivity inherent in their so-called “climate” goals, are attempting the impossible. Humanity cannot cease to grow, without ceasing to exist as humanity. Although this modern British financial-“environmental” imperialism cannot succeed, the question before us is whether we will reject its false idols and lead a renewed, impassioned cultural movement based on the human individual being imago viva Dei.