Author: adam

The new paradigm animating the world was on full display over the past few weeks, in meetings of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostock, the G20 in Hangzhou, and the ASEAN / China meeting in Laos. While President Obama doddered around with nothing to offer, an increasing portion of the world is adopting policies of economic integration and development, including such science frontiers as the Chinese space program. This paradigm is not new — the LaRouches and the LaRouche movement have been organizing for the policies now becoming dominant, for over 40 years. Meanwhile, as the fifteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, a “living memorial” is offered in a series of concerts featuring the participation of the Schiller Institute New York Community Chorus.

Jason Ross hosts a discussion with Helga Zepp-LaRouche, a participant in the T20 meeting leading into the G20 summit, and Diane Sare, founding director of the Schiller Institute Chorus, on the changes sweeping the world, and how to inspire the US to join, rather than oppose, this new paradigm.

Russian President Vladimir Putin used the occasion of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum June 16-18, to pose the existential issue facing all of mankind: Either join in what he called the “Greater Eurasian Plan” for economic development and security or face the imminent danger of a collapse of the trans-Atlantic system and a senseless global war that could become a war of extinction.

In a two-hour dialogue with participants, moderated by CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, Putin announced that the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) is about to begin negotiations this months with China for full integration into the One Belt, One Road project, emphasizing that 40 countries are seeking trade ties with the EAEU, and Russia welcomes full participation in this ambitious program by the nations of Western Europe.

In the same dialogue, he frankly took on the U.S. and NATO “bloody coup” in Ukraine and the more recent efforts to encircle Russia with NATO forces.

Putin’s actions and the madness of the Anglo-American war drive against both Russia and China have triggered a growing revolt among Western Europeans, who see the war danger more and more clearly. Not only did a number of European leaders attend the St. Petersburg Forum against the explicit demands of Obama and London. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy called for an end to the sanctions against Russia and urged Putin, who he said is in a stronger position, to unilaterally end the Russian retaliatory sanctions against Europe. Putin responded positively to the Sarkozy call, as well as statements issued by Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, but cautioned that Russia is not prepared to be double-crossed again.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier gave an interview to the widely-read Bild am Sonntag, blasting the just-concluded NATO maneuvers along the Russian border as a war provocation, demanding an end to the “war cries” coming out of NATO. Steinmeier’s actions have triggered an all-out factional brawl within the German political class, just as Sarkozy’s speech at St. Petersburg has triggered a serious debate in France. Steinmeier’s intervention has been bolstered by recent attacks on the NATO provocations by leading CDU military analyst Michael Stürmer, and statements made this week by former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, also denouncing the trend line to a new arms race and Cold War with Russia.

All of these fundamental shifts in the political landscape come just days before the June 23 Brexit vote in Britain and just weeks before the NATO heads of state and government summit in Warsaw in early July, where NATO deployments are scheduled to be ratified into the Baltic states and Poland. The Sunday Telegraph, a flagship publication of the Tory faction in Britain, came out with a strongly-worded editorial in favor of the British exit from the European Union. The editorial openly said that the EU is dead.

We have reached a punctum saliens moment, where either mankind moves fully into the new paradigm, best expressed in the World Land-Bridge idea, or plunges into a war of extinction. There is no place to hide, because the future of all of mankind hangs in the balance. Putin is fully on top of this showdown, and he can be expected to do the unexpected in the coming days and weeks to win the battle for mankind’s future.

Here in the United States, the greatest danger is that those growing forces that see clearly the danger of thermonuclear war will hold back from bringing the Obama Presidency down–before he starts a war. Leading voices within the American Committee for East West Accords, including Dr. Stephen Cohen and Gilbert Doctorow, are belatedly coming around to realize that Obama is not someone to be “pursuaded” to do the right thing. He has committed clearly impeachable crimes, including his refusal to work with Russia to crush the Islamic State, Nusra and other Anglo-Saudi-sponsored jihadist gangs. How many innocent lives have been lost because Obama refused to collaborate with Putin and the Russian services–who know how to conduct a counter-terrorist operation?

As this fight has reached a new dimension in Europe, Chinese President Xi Jinping is continuing his tour of Central and Eastern Europe, concluding major agreements with Serbia, which is a crucial hub for the Eurasian Land-Bridge.

Above all else, Lyndon LaRouche urged colleagues on Sunday to closely watch Putin’s moves. He will take flanking actions, based on his understanding of the entire global situation. He doesn’t trust others, most emphatically Obama and the British. He will act in surprising ways that will best reflect the reality of the global showdown moment. He is, LaRouche emphasized, the best reference point for action.

That was the plaque which the first astronauts brought to the Moon nearly 50 years ago. Not only they, but the whole American nation and millions of others around the world were being transformed in their thinking of the future of mankind, by those voyages which they took and engineered and witnessed.

“For the first time, human beings consciously decided to learn to live and act in environments completely different from the one in which we had evolved,” one astronaut said.

But almost overnight, the beautiful ships circling the Moon withdrew; farther space travels were forgotten. The country plunged into wars — British, French colonial-modelled wars — which have continued since, and which ultimately the United States has lost. Under Presidents G.W. Bush and Obama, these have become spreading disasters of war and terrorism across the Mideast, North Africa, and Europe.

Though unmanned space missions were named for discovery and discoverers, Americans were convinced to be “practical,” and forget living through discovery as they had often done before.

Other nations, China and India in particular, now plan and take the great steps of discovery in space, planning Mars missions, scheduling the first landings a the great platform of discovery of the galaxy — the far side of the Moon.

At the same time, the Asian powers with Russia have planned and started on challenging projects of new infrastructure, great East-West and North-South Eurasian land-bridges with high-speed rail lines, new cities, power, even magnetic levitation rail lines.

When they intervene to bring wars to resolution so that they can introduce reconstruction and new development, they mean it.

President Obama — trying to patch together military alliances, trade wars, NATO war threats and confrontations to stop Russian and Chinese leaders from these developments – is in fact organizing a “league of losers.” The threat of global war from his attempts to intimidate Russia and China is grave; but he is a loser threatening real leaders in Putin and Xi.

Forget what is “practical”: Even in fighting terrorism, what is needed to win victories is discovery, as in exposing the Saudi/British hands controlling the 9/11 mass murders and suddenly seeing the source of the last 15 years’ disastrous wars.

The more so in reviving the great American space program. In collaboration with the newly dynamic space powers, it will be a new source of living through discoveries — which is actually human, as the nation was learning 50 years ago.