The relationship between the United States and China is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. Yet it cannot be understood purely in terms of those two nations, and it will not be decided solely by citizens of those two nations. With notable exceptions, including some useful impulses by President Trump, the United States since World War II has increasingly come to resemble and to be controlled by the British Empire against which it fought a revolution over two hundred years ago. The nation of Lincoln, which had demonstrated to the world the power of its American System of economics and a commitment not to a ruling class but to the general welfare of its population, is being rotted out from a British-inspired cultural disease. The illness takes the form of financialization of the economy, degradation of culture, and an assault on the universal principles expressed in the greatest moments of the United States—both past and to come.The expressed interests of the United States Beltway-Wall Street-Silicon Valley oligarchs are not the interest of the nation, or of the American people. Over the last few decades of Reform and Opening Up, China has produced economic growth at an extraordinary rate, and was able, by its size and sovereignty, to pursue these policies even against countervailing pressures from the decaying Western financial system, such as the World Bank. Today, it is exporting that growth model, and its engineering and manufacturing output, through a great project it calls the Belt and Road Initiative, which itself exists in a historical space shaped by the advocacy for decades by Lyndon and Helga LaRouche for a new paradigm of economic relations. What will be the outcomes of the discussions held in Alaska between representatives of the United States and China—the first visit of a foreign delegation to the U.S. during the Biden administration? That depends on the outcomes of broader decisions—those of a thinking elite of citizenry around the world. The Schiller Institute and ICLC are gathering leaders from the United States, China, Russia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and the entire world for a dialogue on how to meet the existential crisis facing mankind with the idea of “peace through development.” Lyndon LaRouche, always “looking ahead to the next fifty years,” developed a profound understanding of the inner contours of development, and of the powerful connections among science, culture, and economics. Benefitting from the method he advanced, we can create the necessary revolution in human affairs to meet our shared challenges as a human race, and to forge a world worthy of the dignity of man, now and in the future. Join the conference “Two Months Into the New U.S. Administration: The World at a Crossroad!” Panel 1: “Reversing the Cultural Wasteland—The Urgency of a New Renaissance, Creating a Planetary Culture Worthy of the Dignity of Humanity”—Saturday, 10:00 am EDT, 15:00 CET Panel 2: “The Strategic Crisis Facing the Human Race”—Saturday, 2:00 pm EDT, 19:00 CET Panel 3: “The Indo-Pacific, the Caucasus, Eastern Europe and Southwest Asia: Pivots for War, or Peaceful Development with the New Silk Road”—Sunday, 10:00 am EDT, 15:00 CET Panel 4: “The Challenge of Famine and Pandemics—The Coincidence of Opposites or Mass Extinction?”—Sunday, 2:00 pm EDT, 19:00 CET
March 18, 2021-- In advance of a flurry of meetings between U.S. officials and leaders of Asian nations, including top foreign policy officials of China, Yahoo News published on March 10 on the balance of forces in the Indo-Pacific region. U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. S. Clinton Hinote, the deputy chief of staff for strategy, integration and requirements, revealed that recent war games demonstrate that the balance of power is shifting, with China emerging as a serious threat to U.S. interests. By 2018, he said, the "trend in our war games [with China] was not just that we were losing, but we were losing faster." If the Chinese launch an attack on Taiwan, he added, "...we know what is going to happen. The definitive answer if the U.S. military doesn't change course is that we're going to lose fast. In that case, an American president would likely be presented with almost a fait accompli," that Taiwan's independent status would be nullified, and it would be fully incorporated into the People's Republic of China. The war games that Hinote referred to involved a scenario in which the Chinese attack U.S. positions in the Pacific and Taiwan, under the guise of military exercises, ten years from now. His warning echoed that of Admiral Philip Davidson, chief of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, who told Congress that, as the military balance in the Indo-Pacific "is becoming more unfavorable for the United States and our allies...we are accumulating risk that may embolden China to unilaterally change the status quo before our forces may be able to deliver an effective response." Davidson's timetable is faster than Hinote's -- he warned that China could invade Taiwan in six years. He insisted that it is urgent that defense spending on U.S. forces in the region be increased immediately, which was warmly received by War Hawks from both parties.
The extreme danger of electing a president whom the entire world knew was suffering from senility, possibly the early stages of dementia, has now been proven, as President Joe Biden was guided by George Stephanopoulos of CNN on Wednesday to respond positively to the question, “Do you think Putin is a killer?” The reaction from Moscow was immediate. The Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov was recalled to Moscow, indefinitely, with a statement from the Embassy that “certain reckless statements of U.S. senior officials pose a threat of utter collapse to bilateral relations.” Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Federation Council, said: “Such remarks can not be tolerated under any circumstances,” and called for an immediate “explanation and apology.” He added that these “boorish remarks have killed off all expectations that the new U.S. administration will pursue a new policy towards Russia,” noting that this comes from the president of a country which “drops a bomb somewhere in the world every 12 minutes,” and has been responsible for more than 500,000 deaths in illegal wars since 2001.This pending disaster is not cut in stone. Putin himself spoke playfully, saying Biden was “looking in the mirror,” and reflected on children in the playground saying: “Whatever you say [about others] is what you are yourself.” He added the pregnant greeting: “I wish him good health.” Indeed, former President Dmitry Medvedev noted that he had had several meetings with Biden over the years:: “He gave the impression of a reasonable person then. However, it seems that time hasn’t been kind to him.” This comes as Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin spent the last two days meeting their counterparts in Japan and South Korea, openly calling for joint preparation for military confrontation with China. Blinken announced 24 new sanctions on Chinese citizens over supposed human rights violations in Hong Kong, even as he was preparing for today’s meeting in Anchorage with China’s leading foreign policy officials. Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan are holding two days of meetings with Yang Jiechi, the director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party, and Foreign Minister Wang Yi. These crucial meetings could serve as a starting point in reversing the rapid descent into military confrontation, or it could be a virtual declaration of war. It will soon go one way or the other. . There is no reason for such war-mongering diplomacy. There is no threat from China. There is no threat from Russia. The threat comes from the hyperinflationary madness which has seen trillions of dollars printed up to bail out the bankrupt banks in the trans-Atlantic, as the real economies are collapsing. The danger comes from the “Great Reset” madness of Green Finance under the dictatorship of the Central Banks and the too-big-too-fail financial institutions, whose executives are seizing power from elected governments, cutting off credit to fossil fuels, industries, and agriculture, under the fake-science argument that carbon will burn up the world. The danger comes from the cultural decay which has turned western civilization into a wasteland of ugliness, violence, pornography, and drugs, devoid of any classical aesthetic or beauty. There is great urgency that the largest possible attendance be mobilized for the Schiller Institute Conference this weekend, World at a Crossroad—Two Months Into the New U.S. Administration, which will address this cultural crisis, this economic crisis, this strategic crisis, and this pandemic/famine crisis. The conference is a call for a unity of purpose, to restore sanity, through the scientific cooperation of all nations in meeting this crisis with the required new paradigm, based on the common aims of mankind. The alternative is unthinkable.
The world truly is at a Crossroad, which will be the subject of this weekend's online Schiller Institute conference. While the U.S. is downplaying the prospects for an ongoing dialogue between the U.S. and China even before the meeting of foreign policy officials opens today, that the meeting is taking place provides an opening for future dialogue. Put aside for a moment the threats and bluster about military confrontation -- who benefits from war -- The same Military Industrial Complex that is behind the Great Reset and the genocidal Green New Deal, and that is engaging in provocative actions in the Indo-Pacific region. For the Schiller Institute, "Development is the new name for Peace," and China's Belt-and-Road Initiative offers the hope of a better life to hundreds of millions, especially if it proceeds with cooperation from the U.S. Join us this weekend to map out how we can make this happen.
Mainstream headlines over the past 24 hours screamed “Russia, Russia, Russia,” all over again: “U.S. Intelligence Report Says Russia Attempted to Interfere in 2020 Election” (CNN); “Putin Targeted People Close to Trump in Bid to Influence 2020 Election, U.S. Intelligence Says” (Washington Post); “Russia Tried to Help Trump Win 2020 Election” (EUobserver). The just-declassified “Intelligence Community Assessment of Foreign Threats to the 2020 U.S. Federal Elections” asserts that the “IC,” as they like to call themselves, has determined, with “high confidence,” that “Russian President Putin authorized, and a range of Russian government organizations conducted, influence operations aimed at denigrating President Biden’s candidacy and the Democratic Party, supporting former President Trump, undermining public confidence in the electoral process, and exacerbating sociopolitical divisions in the U.S.”On cue, President Joe Biden this morning declared to ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos that he believes Putin “is a killer,” but he “will pay a price” for this. What price? “You’ll see shortly…. I’m not going to announce what I’m doing, but he’s going to understand that it’s not free,” he replied. Wiser U.S. citizens will recognize this report as another example of how, since the days of Truman, we have elected U.S. governments which come and go, but so far, our British-serving “military-intelligence complex” continues undisturbed. This “IC Assessment” just released by Biden’s Director of National Intelligence is the declassified version of the classified report produced on Jan. 7, 2021, under the Trump administration, by the same “IC” which hounded President Donald Trump for his entire administration. Furthermore, the case against Russia is pivoted around the absurd charge that Ukrainian legislator Andriy Derkach was acting as a Russian agent, when he released audiotapes in 2020 of then-VP Joe Biden muscling then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to dump Ukraine’s Attorney General Viktor Shokin, in order to protect the Ukrainian oil company Burisma for which Hunter Biden worked. In brief, Derkach had gone after a political opponent, Poroshenko, long before the 2020 election, on corruption inside Ukraine—which Biden was part of. He would have had to censor himself about internal corruption in order to “not interfere” with the 2020 election. Yet the IC report asserts: “We assess that Putin had purview over the activities of Andriy Derkach, a Ukrainian legislator who played a prominent role in Russia’s election influence activities … revolv[ing] around a narrative—that Russian actors began spreading as early as 2014—alleging corrupt ties between President Biden, his family, and other U.S. officials and Ukraine. Russian intelligence services relied on Ukraine-linked proxies and these proxies’ networks—including their U.S. contacts—to spread this narrative to give Moscow plausible deniability of their involvement.”
The Schiller Institute conference scheduled for this weekend could not come at a more critical moment. As War Hawks in the West are ramping up their verbal assaults against Russia and China, and engaging in military exercises worldwide, what can be done to assure that these planned provocations can be reversed, and we can bring about peace instead? Leaders of government institutions and prominent individuals will participate in a two-day online conference, engaging in dialogue to offer ideas to reverse the drive for war and the imposition of a global banker’s dictatorship—the “Great Reset”—and to save millions of lives by defeating the pandemic and famine. This was stressed on this morning’s Daily Update by Harley Schlanger, on The LaRouche Organization’s website, making the point: “This is your opportunity to join in the mobilization to create a New Renaissance, to lift mankind out of the Empire’s death grip.”A dramatic expression of the emergency condition globally, under the impact of the pandemic and food shortages hitting an already deficient economic base, is the mass dislocation of millions of people on every continent. Refugee experts put the global total of refugees at over 80 million, including in that count those displaced within their home countries as well. These 80 million are a desperate subset of an estimated 830 million people without reliable daily food. In Yemen, ground zero for humanitarian emergencies, over 20 million people are in immediate need of aid. The report given yesterday at the monthly UN Security Council briefing on Yemen by UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths was dire; on top of the famine, warfare has again flared up. In Africa, there are corridors of migration of people fleeing impossible circumstances. Some go through Libya and across the Mediterranean; others move within the Chad Basin; others seek to reach into Asia via the Horn of Africa—passing through wartorn, already-starving Yemen! In southeastern Africa, in Mozambique, the count of internally displaced people has reached 670,000 since the outbreak in 2017 of terrorism in the north. This week the U.S. Marine Corps sent in counter-terrorism special forces to train Mozambican military specialists over the next two months, to fight the terrorists. Where are the special forces for health and food security? For electricity, water and sanitation? For development? The only approach to the world-scale multiple crises that will succeed, is the “peace through development” perspective made concrete in many programs issued over the years by economist statesman Lyndon LaRouche. Those programs are now acutely relevant, and especially for the Southwest Asian region, will be presented at this weekend’s conference. LaRouche’s “Land-Bridge” concept—of corridors of development spanning the globe—is reflected in the Belt and Road Initiative underway by China and collaborating nations. Yesterday, the prospects for this in the Caribbean Basin were praised by President Mohamed Irfaan Ali of Guyana, in a teleconference meeting with President Xi Jinping, who also spoke with Prime Minister Keith Rowley of neighboring Trinidad and Tobago. The impoverishment and dislocation of millions of people in the Americas is increasing drastically. Haiti is in a state of food emergency. In South America, over 5 million Venezuelans are outside their country. At the U.S.-Mexico border, as of this week, 4,200 children and youth—unaccompanied by adults—are in holding centers, after trying to cross the border. The perspective to overcome this, the “NABRI”—North American Belt and Road Initiative—with additional southern flanks, will be presented on the second day of this weekend’s conference. Yet, instead of anything in this positive direction, instead of immediate international collaboration on COVID-19 vaccination and food aid, in particular, we continue to see confrontation. The Anglo-Five Eyes “military-intelligence” complex—at one with the City of London/Wall Street crowd—is deployed overtime for provocation. Yesterday, a report was issued in the U.S. by the Director of National Intelligence, asserting with “high confidence” (i.e., a hot, big lie) that Russia interfered in the U.S. Presidential elections on behalf of Donald Trump, by “denigrating” Biden. The charges are a rehash of stale rubbish from last year, saying that Russia provided disinformation to pro-Trump media, on bad things Joe Biden did in Ukraine, to benefit Trump’s election prospects. Then this morning, President Biden himself, speaking on ABC News, said that, because of this, Putin will “pay a price” for interfering in the U.S. elections. When the provocateur interviewer George Stephanopoulos asked, “So you know Vladimir Putin. You think he’s a killer?” Biden responded, “Mmm-hmm, I do.” He repeated, “You’ll see shortly … [Putin] is going to pay.” Russia has now recalled its Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov, back to Moscow for consultations. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said this afternoon, “The new U.S. Administration took office about two months ago, and the symbolic 100-day mark is not too far away….The most important thing for us is to identify ways of rectifying Russia-U.S. relations, which have been going through hard times, as Washington has, as a matter of fact, brought them to a blind alley. We are interested in preventing an irreversible deterioration in relations, if the Americans become aware of the risks associated with this.” This latest sobering turn of events occurs on the eve of the important meeting in Anchorage, Alaska tomorrow, between top envoys of the U.S. and China. These developments underscore the importance of attending, and mobilizing others to attend, this weekend’s opportunity to change course. The conference: “World at a Crossroad: Two Months Into the New U.S. Administration,” March 20-21.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced today that Russia’s Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov “has been summoned to Moscow for consultations in order to analyze what needs to be done in the context of relations with the United States.” Zakharova emphasized in her short statement that Russia’s concern is to discuss what Russia might do to prevent U.S.-Russian relations, already in a blind alley for some time, from “irreversibly” deteriorating:“The new U.S. administration took office about two months ago and the symbolic 100-day mark is not too far away, which is a good occasion for trying to appraise what Joe Biden’s team has managed to do and where it was not very successful. The most important thing for us is to identify ways of rectifying Russia-U.S. relations, which have been going through hard times as Washington has, as a matter of fact, brought them to a blind alley. We are interested in preventing an irreversible deterioration in relations, if the Americans become aware of the risks associated with this. “This is what we will talk about during the consultations that the Foreign Ministry and other relevant agencies will hold with the Russian Ambassador to the United States.” Earlier in the day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov had responded sharply to the “absolutely unfounded” charges that Russia, under orders of President Putin personally, had interfered in U.S. 2020 election on behalf of Donald Trump, as claimed in the U.S. Intelligence Community’s bogus “assessment” of foreign interference in those elections issued on March 16. The report provides “no proof,” but is based on files “far from being of high quality … most likely, as an excuse to put the issue of new sanctions against our country on the agenda,” Peskov charged. “This line is harming the already ailing Russian-U.S. relationship… [and] is far from encouraging certain efforts, the manifestation of at least some political will to normalize these relations.”
In November 1996, Lyndon LaRouche published an article in EIR magazine under the headline: “The Murderous Issue of Food Policy.” He began as follows: “The following series of quotations tells its own story. “It is to be read as selections to be featured within the opening statement of an indictment, for capital crimes against humanity, to be presented to an appropriate tribunal. The clearly implied difficulty, is selecting a tribunal composed of persons untainted by complicity with persons and institutions which have been continuing parties to the crime against which complaint is made.”LaRouche then cited a series of statements calling for Malthusian depopulation, and in particular for using food as a weapon to achieve that result, by Bertrand Russell, Lester Brown, and—perhaps most notoriously—Henry Kissinger, who wrote bluntly in his “NSSM-200”: “Mandatory programs may be needed and we should be considering these possibilities now. Would food be considered an instrument of national power? … Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can’t/won’t control their population growth?” Today, a quarter-century later, that tribunal has yet to be convened, that battle against the British Malthusian world order has yet to be won. In fact, the implied mission that LaRouche called for back then is the context for the Schiller Institute’s international conference today, which will be held this weekend, March 20-21. Today’s proponents of Green Malthusianism are no less evil than their forebears. • London’s Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House) in February proclaimed that food production was the principal cause for “the loss of biodiversity” and other climate problems, and therefore must be drastically reduced. • President Biden’s Special Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, in March 9 remarks to the EU Commission threatened to impose a top-down global green dictatorship: “The market will lead the transformation in a phenomenal way in the next two to three years, believe me. In two or three years, the latecomers and climate deniers won’t have any place any more in our politics and our economies.” • That same day, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation that he fully shared Kerry’s view that “development finance is a powerful tool for addressing the climate crisis”—i.e., that countries could be financially strangled into submission; that de-carbonization was the Biden administration’s #1 priority; and that this policy “will be front and center at the [Biden] climate summit on April 22.” • In mid-March, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services proudly announced that it had pressured Brazil into not permitting the use of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, all the while refusing to provide vaccines from America’s supplies to any Third World nations, including Brazil and Mexico. Brazil today is being devastated by an uncontrolled COVID crisis, in part due to the lack of vaccination, which is already breeding new strains of the virus that threaten the entire planet. Is hoarding COVID vaccines any different from the Kissinger policy of using food as a weapon of British geopolitics and depopulation? The problem for the British, of course, is that such policies have a high probability of backfiring under conditions where nations have an alternative policy before them, such as that of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, along with a strategy for bringing Europe and the Americas into such a New Classical Paradigm—as will be elaborated at the upcoming Schiller Institute conference.
The Schiller Institute conference scheduled for this weekend could not come at a more critical moment. As War Hawks in the west are ramping up their verbal assaults against Russia and China, and engaging in military exercises worldwide, what can be done to assure that peace will break out? Leaders of government institutions and prominent individuals will participate in a two-day online conference, engaging in dialogue to offer ideas to reverse the drive for war and the imposition of a global banker's dictatorship -- the "Great Reset". This is your opportunity to join in the mobilization to create a New Renaissance, to lift mankind out of the Empire's death grip.
The State Department announced on March 10 that U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan will meet with top Chinese officials in Alaska on March 18. China will be represented in the meeting by Yang Jiechi, Director of the Office of the Central Committee for Foreign Affairs, and Wang Yi, Foreign Minister and State Councilor, to engage in dialogue on what Blinken described as a “range of issues”, including those on which there is “deep disagreement.” The meeting will come in the midst of considerable speculation as to what Biden's policy toward China will be, especially following the worsening of relations caused by the bellicose posture of Trump's Secretary of State Pompeo, who repeatedly attacked China as a threat to U.S. security. After the announcement, Blinken lowered the expectations for a positive outcome, commenting, "This is not a strategic dialogue. There's no intent at this point for a series of follow-on engagements."While Pompeo is gone, his threatening rhetoric continues be heard from U.S. military and intelligence agencies, as in the "Interim National Security Strategic Guidance" paper released by the Biden administration on March 3. In language reflecting the continuity of policy coming from operatives of the "Military Industrial Complex" (MIC) within defense and security agencies, Russia and China are identified as growing threats to "western democracies". It states that this administration will endeavor to gather the world’s “democracies” into an alliance against Russia and China, to counter their "aggressive military deployment" and to thwart their “malign” influence on the world. Blinken confirmed this, telling a Congressional hearing that the administration is committed to a "summit of democracies" to address the threat from China before the end of the year. The Strategic Guidance paper identifies such cooperation with “allies” as key to U.S. policy, asserting that through such cooperation, the U.S. will “reinvigorate and modernize our alliances and partnerships around the world.” However, one must consider that if an “ally” crosses Washington, such as Germany’s refusal to cancel the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, they may also face U.S. sanctions. Blinken has a record as a War Hawk, from his time as deputy national security adviser to President Obama, and as Deputy Secretary of State, from 2015 to 2017. During this time, he was critical of Obama for not being more aggressive in pursuing regime change in Syria, saying this was a "failure" of the administration. As for relations with China, since his confirmation he has warned that Beijing has the economic, diplomatic, military and technical power "to seriously challenge the stable and open international system -- all the rules, values and relationships that make the world work the way we want it to." His defense of a "rules-based order" exposes what this phrase really means: one dominated by the unilateral control by the U.S. and Great Britain, with U.S. military muscle propping up a failing financial system, by crushing any nation which rejects the globalist order. Included in his recent testimony is his call for imposing more sanctions against Russia over the unsupported charges of Russian hacking in the SolarWinds case. According to the {New York Times}, the administration is committed to a cyber attack on Russian government institutions, as part of its retaliation for SolarWinds -- so much for the "rules-based order." Asian NATO The meetings with Chinese officials will follow meetings with officials from Japan and South Korea, with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin joining Blinken for those. The Pentagon noted in a press announcement that the meetings with those two nations are intended to bolster relations with allies in the region “in the face of long-term competition with China.” The State Department added that the meetings will “highlight cooperation that promotes peace, security and cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region and around the world.” Just prior to these meetings, President Biden will hold a virtual meeting on March 12 with his “Quad” allies—India, Japan and Australia.
The Texas Senate may pass a bill punishing investment funds for exiting fossil fuel investments, to counter the Wall Street megabanks and asset managers led by BlackRock which are ordering all funds to boycott oil and gas. The original report in the Texas Tribune on the bill said it would require continued oil and gas investment from some quite large funds, including the $46 billion Texas Permanent School Fund and another $62 billion in the Texas Teacher Retirement System and the Texas Municipal Retirement System. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick told OilPrice.com the bill should pass easily.If the bill becomes legislation, these public-sector funds and others will be required to exit companies “refusing to deal with, terminating business activities with, or otherwise taking any action that is intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or limit commercial relations with a company” because this company is involved in oil exploration and production. Perhaps more important, the bill would bar suits against those state and municipal funds as a result of their investments.
As the globalists among British Royals and the Davos billionaires move ahead with their genocidal plans for a Green New Deal (GND), in coordination with U.S. and E.U. officials, the resistance to this insanity grows. Russia and China are rejecting this population reduction nonsense; state governments in the U.S. are moving to overturn the rules being pushed to enforce the GND; and leading Africans are warning that imposing the GND on the continent will prevent essential economic growth from occurring. Get the truth: Read EIR's "Great Leap Backwards". And participate in the Schiller Institute conference
On this day in history, as presented dramatically by William Shakespeare, those aspiring would-be emperors would do well to heed the warning given to Caesar shortly after he was crowned, "Beware the Ides of March"! The U.S. Military Industrial Complex, backed by Boris Johnson's "Global Britain", is committed to a military containment policy of China and Russia. The "Quad", which includes Japan, India and Australia, besides the U.S., is being mobilized for such a plan. Yet, as a leading U.S. military official admitted, in describing recent war games against China, the trend is "not just that we were losing, but we were losing faster." Before launching new military provocations which could well be a flight forward into war, has anyone thought of trying DIPLOMACY? What is urgently required is LaRouche's Four Power Agreement!
The Schiller Institute Conference this coming weekend, March 20-21, will include on Sunday morning a panel on the rapidly escalating danger of war, focused on the most dangerous “cockpits” for war, which are being intentionally stoked by the trans-Atlantic war party—the Middle East and East Asia. Spokesmen from these regions, as well as American military experts who are warning against this madness, will present both the danger and the necessary solutions, based on development of the sort represented by the Belt and Road Initiative.Look at the madness: Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO (emphasis on “North Atlantic”), speaking virtually to the CFR March 11, described NATO’s importance in terms of confronting the rise of China, which, he said, “poses challenges for our security and way of life. That is why we should deepen our partnerships with countries like Australia and Japan.” President Joe Biden’s Defense Secretary Gen. Lloyd Austin (ret.), who is now travelling to Japan, South Korea and India, told reporters on March 13 that while the U.S. was focused on fighting terrorism, China was modernizing its military forces. Austin claimed the “competitive edge that we’ve had has eroded. We will maintain that edge. We are going to increase that edge going forward.” Note that China’s annual defense budget for 2020 was $178 billion, compared to the U.S. budget of $721 billion. A very wise retired French General, Grégoire Diamantidis, addressed this NATO madness in a public letter to Stoltenberg released on March 11 (see below). NATO’s new posture, called “NATO 2030,” the General says, is based on presenting Russia and (increasingly) China as severe threats to the Western nations. “Two major ideas emerge from this study,” he writes. “The first is the enlistment of Europeans against China’s planetary domination, in exchange for American protection of Europe against the Russian threat. The second is the circumvention of the consensus rule [in NATO’s command], in several ways: operations in ‘coalitions of the willing’; implementation of decisions that no longer require consensus; and above all the delegation of authority to SACEUR (Supreme Allied Commander Europe, an American general officer) on the grounds of efficiency and speeding up decision-making.” He stated that the Russian “threat” was " patiently created and then maintained, so as to ‘bring to heel’ the European allies behind the United States, in the perspective of an forthcoming battle with China for world hegemony." NATO, initially a defensive alliance, he continues, is being transformed into “an offensive alliance against an enemy that does not exist for Europe.” He concludes that the new posture “would seek to justify the military tool of this alliance in the future by transforming it into a political instrument, unavoidable, for the management of vast international coalitions, for the benefit of a true planetary governance, even going so far as to override the decisions of the UN and crushing national sovereignties!” Look then at Syria, where the Biden Administration appears to have decided to keep the American military presence indefinitely, blatantly breaking international law while also stealing the nation’s oil, and now even their food. The official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported yesterday: “During the past two weeks, the U.S. occupation forces have stolen large quantities of wheat from the silos of Tal Alou through more than 112 trucks and sent them to northern Iraq.” Syria is a nation the UN has declared to be facing famine. One is reminded of the British exporting food from colonial India during the recurring famines which killed over 60 million citizens. In China, the government party’s newspaper Global Times correctly characterizes the Biden Administration’s policy regarding vaccines as extreme selfishness. “What is widely known,” today’s editorial reads, "is that the U.S. has purchased a large quantity of vaccines. Europe hopes the U.S. could share with it some AstraZeneca vaccines, but the White House has refused. What makes the public even angrier is that the U.S. has not yet authorized the AstraZeneca vaccine and it is just stockpiling them in reserve. Many European countries have approved the AstraZeneca vaccine, but do not yet have it. Despite the enormous difference in their situations, Washington has refused to offer a helping hand, so how could developing countries count on the U.S.?… “Besides its hypocrisy, Washington also smears China’s efforts to share its vaccines with developing countries and mobilizes its opinion mechanism to accuse China of engaging in deliberate ‘vaccine diplomacy.’ China’s timely vaccine program has saved many countries and groups of people who are most at risk. Washington has not reflected on its absence in this emergency aid, but described the aid as a geopolitical competition, which is terrifying.” The final panel at the Schiller Institute Conference, on Sunday afternoon, will address the mobilization led by Helga Zepp-LaRouche to address the pandemic and the mounting famines around the world, in what she calls the “Committee on the Coincidence of Opposites.” Only if the perceived “opposites” of the U.S., Russia and China join forces, as they did in World War II, to mobilize the agricultural resources, the medical resources, and the vaccines desperately needed in the nations of the Middle East, Africa and South America, and mobilize the necessary military and other government-sponsored institutions to deliver these goods where needed, and build modern health capacities in all these regions, will the world escape from the unfolding biological holocaust, the threat of nuclear war, and the economic disintegration now being imposed under the Malthusian Green New Deal. 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Richard Freeman of Executive Intelligence Review documents the true history behind the Green New Deal and documents conclusively the genocidal nature of the policy.
Join us LIVE on Sunday at 11am EDT. Jacques Cheminade recounts his first acquaintance with Lyndon LaRouche and the subsequent increased level of harassment from the FBI. This week's LaRouche Show features an answer by Lyndon LaRouche to a question posed to him at a Schiller Institute conference in 1995 concerning how to organize a mass movement more effectively. You don't want to miss Mr. LaRouche's answer!
Helga Zepp-LaRouche said today that the world is in a state of fear over the U.S. mobilization of its military to prepare for war with China, combined with the massive propaganda barrage from the media, the government, and the military to demonize China in the minds of the citizenry—an historic means to prepare for war. She asked, what must be done to defeat this threat to civilization itself, and to bring out in the American people a sense of what the nation can contribute to a world of peace and development rather than destruction?The opening panel in the Schiller Institute conference to be held next weekend, March 20-21, will focus on this question—the degeneration of the American culture over the past 60 years, since the multiple assassinations of American leaders who were capable of thinking and speaking poetically, who understood the importance of classical culture—Jack Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, and others. Since those disastrous days of the 1960s, when Lyndon LaRouche identified the “rock-drug-sex” counter-culture as the emergence of a fascist movement in the United States, this counter-culture has taken over the institutions of the nation—education, media, entertainment, and the government itself. Its manifestation is the fascist Green New Deal, the effort to impose the British Empire’s policy of depopulation through the takeover of the banking system by Malthusian demons, willing to cut off credit to all productive activity under the rubric of the fake-science of anthropogenic climate change. This opening panel will present a picture of this degeneration, but counter this with the urgent necessity to reestablish in the American mind the the best of European culture which built these United States—inspiring works of Friedrich Schiller, the Poet of Freedom, whose statue graced every American city; the music of Handel, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, which were played in a majority of American homes and farmhouses during the nation’s first century; the power and passion of the Negro Spirituals, which sustained the slave in their fight for freedom, and inspired the civil rights movement which was stalled, but not defeated, by the assignation of Martin, of Malcolm X and others in that dark decade. This cultural battle is the baseline, the necessary precondition, to achieve the restoration of the American “Hamiltonian” system of economy, to end the “endless wars,” to establish an alliance of sovereign nations, including all the great cultures which bless this Earth, and to stop the mad rush to war unleashed under the Bush and Obama regimes, which Trump failed to stop, and which the Biden Administration appears ready to expand. The people heading Biden’s State Department, National Security Council and the Pentagon, have all declared their lock-step agreement with the evil Mike Pompeo that the U.S. must act to stop China’s development. Like Pompeo, Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, and Adm. Philip Davidson (Commander of the Indo-Pacific Command), have all declared that the economic miracle which lifted 800 million Chinese out of poverty to be “contrary to our way of life,” and the New Silk Road, which is taking that economic miracle to the rest of the poor nations of the South, to be an imperial trick to take over the world. They wish the world to believe that there is no such thing as a “common aim of mankind”—what Xi Jinping calls “win-win”—but only geopolitics, animal instincts, survival of the fittest. To defeat that evil view of Man, the Schiller Institute Conference will address that fundamental cultural issue, then proceed to address the necessary solutions to the economic collapse, the pandemic, and spreading famine in Africa and Central and South America, the danger of new wars, and the restoration of the wartime cooperation between the U.S., Russia and China to meet these challenges together. The scheduled meeting between Blinken and Sullivan with China’s leading foreign policy spokesmen, Yang Jiechi and Wang Yi, next Thursday, March 18, in Alaska, is a hopeful potential turning point away from the looming disaster, but we dare not count on it. Register for the Schiller/ICLC here.
“Anybody who does not have geopolitical spectacles on their nose can see that, unless the two largest economies in the world—the U.S. and China—work together to tackle problems such as the pandemic, poverty, and famine, the world will be a miserable place,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche asserted in her weekly international webcast today. “And therefore some of these military doctrines which declare Russia and China to be the enemy are really stupid… The end result can only lead to war.”Zepp-LaRouche referred specifically to the recent Dr. Strangelove-type rampage of Adm. Philip Davidson, the head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, who defined China as the leading strategic threat to the United States. But the dangerous policy outlook originates in imperial London and extends deep into both the Republican and Democratic parties—and also into an all-too-gullible American population. The simple fact of the matter, as Lyndon LaRouche stressed repeatedly, is that we are in the throes of a systemic breakdown crisis of the entire trans-Atlantic system, characterized by both a bankrupt financial system and plunging real living standards of most of the world’s population, which has unleashed pandemics, famine, and cruel poverty. And solving that crisis, LaRouche also insisted, requires mustering the combined physical economic capabilities of China and the United States, in a science-driven global infrastructure program such as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Whether London’s ideologues like it or not, China cannot be absent from the real-world solution to these problems. It not only launched the BRI and made it available to all nations, regardless of ideology; China has also succeeded in lifting 850 million Chinese out of extreme poverty over the last 40 years—the single, greatest contribution to the growth of physical-economic productivity worldwide, emphatically including real productivity inside the U.S. Consider the plight of Yemen, where millions—including children—are facing mass starvation, in what World Food Program director David Beasley painfully described, after a visit to that country this week, as “Hell; it’s the worst place on earth. And it’s entirely man-made.” So too with the explosion of new strains of COVID across the Americas, centered in Brazil, where the Bolsonaro government’s policy of arrogant inaction has encouraged the spread of the disease to crisis proportions. The new P1 Brazilian strain of the coronavirus is apparently twice as contagious as the original strain; and it is reportedly capable of re-infecting those who had COVID in anywhere from 25-60% of cases. Brazil, with its 211 million population, one-quarter of whom live in abject poverty, shares borders with 10 out of South America’s 12 countries. Do you really think this can be contained within Brazil? But just as the crisis is man-made, so too is its solution: the accelerated development of Southwest Asia, Africa, Ibero-America, and elsewhere, based on the extension of high-tech BRI corridors throughout these regions, in which China and the U.S. must play the keystone roles. The upcoming Schiller Institute/ICLC conference will present a detailed blueprint for such an approach. China, and Russia, are also both natural allies of those in the United States and Europe who rightly view the Green New Deal as a threat to economic development and human existence itself. As Helga Zepp-LaRouche stated in her webcast: “Behind all of this so-called ‘climate’ and anti-nuclear question, there are quite different motives: namely to reduce the population, and that is what is not being accepted by Russia and China. This self destruction of the West by deindustrializing, by reversing the level of industry and agriculture to pre-industrial times, means that the west is weakening itself drastically. And naturally, this increases the war danger, because Russia and China have no intention to do likewise.”
The real product of a growing human economy is not steel, shoes, wheat, or computers. It is the creation of new technologies and new universal principles that serve to expand the productive powers of labor and provide a platform for supporting more people at better living conditions, capable of working more effectively on the next scientific and cultural challenges whose existence is made accessible by those new principles. Without such creative production, all economies will stagnate and die, for two reasons. First, because resources become physically more expensive over time, as the best sources are exploited and production shifts to lower-quality reserves, requiring more energy and effort to extract. For this reason alone, a stationary economy is actually a contracting one. Second, because a society not oriented around developing the fruits of creative thought and progress, is one that has lost its connection to the most essentially human aspect of the individual’s soul.In the interconnected world of today, an efficient commitment to growth is the only durable basis for national, or even individual, security. Consider the case of the pandemic: Viruses, especially RNA viruses, mutate all the time. Some of those mutations have no impact on the virus’s behavior, while others reduce or prevent its functioning, and others can allow it to be more infectious or more difficult to defeat. The more SARS-CoV-2 infections there are, the greater the number of new variants. Today, there are now several variants of the coronavirus that are appreciably different from those originally encountered. Current and future variants, such as those brewing in Brazil, pose a threat to the efforts to build up immunity through vaccination. From this perspective, a purely national approach to vaccination does not provide durable security to the people of that nation. A “me first” approach—or rather a “me only” approach—fails both practically and morally. The United States has tens of millions of doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine sitting on shelves, unable to be used without the FDA’s OK. But there are dozens of countries around the world that have approved its use. Wouldn’t it make sense to make them available? More broadly, a purely national—or individual—approach to health care overall does not provide security. What is the condition of the world’s health monitoring and delivery systems? What is the condition of the world’s infrastructure required to support such systems? Could the Democratic Republic of Congo—the world’s most significant source of the cobalt used in electric vehicles—create a public health system under its current electricity production of around 10 to 15 watts per person? Of course not. The situation in Yemen is hellish, with widespread food insecurity developing under years of sanctions and war. Emergency food is needed, of course, but what about the paradigm driving the desperation? Will Saudi Arabia continue to torment this nation? Two decades into the 21st century, there still exists the threat of hundreds of millions of human beings, with their own thoughts, dreams, identities, and potentials, being unable to eat. How could this be? Against this background, how crazy is it that members of the Green religious cult (sponsored by the British military-financial-intelligence empire) propose a program of 30×30, to set aside 30% of the Earth’s land by 2030. Or even 50×50, to maintain half of the Earth free of human influence and benefit? And why stop there? Is there any reason that we shouldn’t just go for 100×100 and kill ourselves off? People proudly speak about having a child-free lifestyle, as a positive act for the environment. But what’s the point of having an environment without any people? The greatest threat facing the world is not climate change. And it is most certainly not China. It’s the British-promoted ideology that growth is bad, that nature should reign supreme, and that any mishap that may befall us should be blamed on our insufficient devotion to the Green cause. Lyndon LaRouche writes in his 1984 book There Are No Limits to Growth: “Human life is sacred, and its increase is not only an expression of the universal law of the universe, but if man fails to bring his willful practice into agreement with that law, then the society so failing becomes unfit to exist, and will collapse, to make way, sooner or later, for one which fulfills the law. That is the Law of Population.” What we see playing out before us is a society, the British Empire, which is indeed unfit to exist. But it is not simply collapsing. It seeks to prevent the rise of any other society that is committed to this law of population. And it is willing to risk war, even nuclear war. Neither powerful friends, a large retirement account, nor a hoard of water, canned goods, or vaccines can protect you from that. Will you have the personal security living, today, in a way that will allow you to pass away with a smile on your face, knowing that you are acting to live a truly productive life?
With the confirmation that top U.S. and Chinese officials will meet on March 18 in Alaska, what are the chances for improved relations between the two economic superpowers? Why does NATO still exist, and why would the North Atlantic Treaty Organization deploy troops, naval vessels and military equipment to the Pacific? And is the proposal that people who travel must have "COVID Passports" a new tactic for mass surveillance?
Since the time of the February release of the EIR Special Report, “The Great Leap Backward: LaRouche Exposes the Green New Deal,” to spur action to defeat the Malthusian policy of genocide called variously the Green (New) Deal, the Great Reset, and Stakeholder Capitalism, there are now certain important initiatives of opposition. In the U.S. on March 8, Missouri plus 11 other states filed suit in federal court, to block President Biden’s Executive Orders mandating sweeping green “reset” policies—opposing both their harmful content, and their mode of enforcement by unlawful executive decree. The lawsuit’s arguments are straightforward.First, the lawsuit charges that the green policies will cause deep damage to the states involved and nationwide, by cutting manufacturing, suppressing agriculture, decreasing energy supply and reliability, impoverishing people and other destructive impacts, now and for decades to come. Secondly, the suit charges that the White House does not have the authority to declare policy in these areas; only Congress has the power and responsibility. Schiller Institute President Helga Zepp-LaRouche today observed the importance of this initiative internationally. “This is a major break,” to be used against the green onslaught. Initiatives for the public good, in particular, should be made in Europe, ground zero for the abominable EU Green Deal, and for parallel programs in Britain, host to the next UN Climate Summit in November in Glasgow. The lawsuit charges that Biden’s Executive Order 13990, titled, “Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis,” wrongfully issues binding numbers for the “social cost” of greenhouse gases to be then used in federal regulations as an excuse to reduce essential economic activity. One section of the lawsuit states what is at stake, domestically and worldwide: “If the Executive Order stands, it will inflict hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars of damage to the U.S. economy for decades to come. It will destroy jobs, stifle energy production, strangle America’s energy independence, suppress agriculture, deter innovation, and impoverish working families….” Moreover, the suit charges that “U.S. agricultural and energy production—which these actions [the Biden orders] would stifle—have global benefits … which enrich the entire world, and yet the Biden Administration gave them little or no weight in its calculation of the ‘social cost’ of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen oxide.” The leader of the legal initiative is Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a likely Republican Party candidate for U.S. Senate, and the other states likewise have Republican Party governments, but this is not a party question, nor a mere “issue.” The co-plaintiffs are core states of the Farmbelt—Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Montana, Ohio, and Indiana, along with Missouri, plus Arizona, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah. The defendants include not only President Biden, but 10 federal departments, especially Agriculture, Energy, Transportation, Interior, and similar agencies. Another action forcefully opposing the global green “great leap backward” comes from Russia. On March 2, President Vladimir Putin held a major national meeting on the significance of coal. With all the relevant ministerial leaders present, and leaders from mining, transportation, industry, and others, Putin reviewed the economic geography and goals involved. Russia produces about 400 million tons a year, from five major regions, where some 11 million people live. He stated that half of the output is exported, and very important to the Asian Pacific region. He called for increasing coal shipments eastward from the Kuznetsk Basin by 30% between now and 2024. Putin commented pointedly about the recent energy failure in the United States, in apt remarks about how “adjustments” in energy policies should be made when needed, as they are being made in Russia. He said, “As for the long-term prospects of the global coal market beyond the current decade, I know that there are different forecasts in this regard. It is no secret that some of them suggest a significant contraction…. We also know what is happening with this. Texas froze because of the cold weather. And the windmills had to be thawed in ways that are far from environmentally friendly. Maybe this will also cause adjustments.” Meantime, the backdrop to these positive moves to defend and expand essential economic activity, is the fact that the monetarist financial system itself is crumbling and in urgent need for Glass-Steagall type financial reorganization. An indicative event in Germany is the recent failure of the Greensill Bank in Bremen. Some 50 municipal depositors, e.g., in Giessen, are in the lurch for funds they need for city infrastructure and operations. Zepp-LaRouche stressed today that in this context of imminent financial crash and the green onslaught of self-destruction of national economies, the continued pursuit of geopolitics will inevitably lead to war. There is no alternative but to get to a new paradigm. In light of this, the upcoming international Schiller Institute conference is a critical point of intervention. Spread the opportunity. Spread the momentum! It is March 20-21, titled, “World at a Crossroad: Two Months Into the New U.S. Administration.”
For those insisting that President Biden is in the back pocket of China's President Xi, remember this is the same line that President Trump's opponents used against him for his stated desire to form a collaborative friendship with Russia's Putin. This line, against both, comes from the lying War Hawks of the Military Industrial Complex, to justify a bloated defense budget, to impose the "rules-based order" of global financial institutions. Will Biden submit to them, as the previous administration did by unleashing Pompeo in a frenzied push for regime change wars in 2020? A planned March 18 meeting between officials of the Biden and Xi governments may provide some answers. Join the Schiller Institute online conference on March 20-21 to get the full story on the direction of U.S.-China relations.
