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With much of the world in a dither over hourly developments around Greece, Lyndon LaRouche today cut through to the heart of the matter:

LaRouche stated that this includes the United States, which is entirely bankrupt. Wall Street is totally bankrupt; it represents no wealth, it has no real funds, and deserves zero support. The collapse of the Euro system is underway, and is having chain-reaction effects across the trans-Atlantic region—only some part of South America may make it.

The United States dollar is now in jeopardy, LaRouche warned. We have to recognize that the increase in worthless financial assets, including all of Wall Street’s debts, cannot be covered. If that is tried, a chain-reaction collapse is assured. The argument is to pretend that there is no such systemic problem, that it is all a matter of Greece refusing to pay.

The issue is, how are we going to keep the United States alive with the entire trans-Atlantic system crumbling right now? It is certainly not going to be on the basis of the Republican party, and de facto Republican President Barack Obama, who has to be removed from office immediately, if the U.S. is to survive the financial crash as well as the British Empire’s intent to launch thermonuclear warfare against Russia and China.

We need a Glass-Steagall deal for the United States right now, LaRouche said, in order to save what’s left of our crumbling physical economy. The Wall Street banks, and the entire British Empire, are filled with filth, financial and otherwise, and have to be held accountable for their crimes. “We cannot bail these bastards out,” LaRouche stated.

Germany is the other critical nation at this juncture, LaRouche stated. If Germany dumps Obama’s insane sanctions policy against Russia, and gets into business again with Russia, this could serve as a block against the severity of the trans-Atlantic collapse. It is in Germany’s national interest to do so; and it is also the best option for Europe as a whole—the advantages and implications would be tremendous.

The problem is German Chancellor Murky Merkel, along with her Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble. But the pressure is growing in Germany to escape from the trap of the European collapse, and Merkel and Schäuble’s departure from government could open the way to that path.

The time to act is now, LaRouche stated. The entire trans-Atlantic system is going down; but its replacement is at hand with a Glass-Steagall reorganization in the United States and internationally, and joining with the half of humanity represented by the BRICS process, in reconstructing Man’s commitment to science and a global physical-economic renaissance.

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In an unprecedented debasing of the Presidency, Barack Obama lowered himself to the level of TV presenter for the British Empire, interviewing Sir David Attenborough in the White House for BBC’s June 28 hour-long program on “BBC America.” His lavish praises of the genocidalist (“I grew up on your films,” “We’re honored to have you here,” etc.) were exceeded during the program only by the BBC narrator’s own exaltation of the “great man,” Attenborough.

Embellished by the most expensive, “feel-good” videos of exotic animals, fish and corals, Obama unveiled a new, right-side-floor teleprompter for his questions. He offered insightful comment, such as, “We’re not doing a very good job of dealing with climate change,” and “Climate is changing faster than our efforts to address it.” He said his two teenaged daughters “don’t have any doubts about the science of climate change”—that presumably was supposed to settle the matter. Attenborough enthused that, “young people understand that our species has no right to destroy and despoil the Earth,” and cited Kenya (pop. density: 26/sq. km compared to U.K.: 116/sq. km) as exemplary that “population growth is one of our huge problems.”

Here is the man whom the debased imposter president was interviewing so gushingly. Attenborough gave the keynote speech at the Royal Society for Music and Art conference, in March 2011, presided over personally by Prince Philip, for whom Attenborough is a senior advisor:

“It remains an obvious and brutal fact that on a finite planet, human population will quite definitely stop at some point. And that can only happen in one of two ways. It can happen sooner, by fewer human births — in a word, by contraception…. The alternative is an increased death rate, the way which all other creatures must suffer, through famine or disease or predation. That translated into human terms means famine or disease or war over oil or water or food or minerals or grazing rights or just living space. There is, alas, no third alternative of indefinite growth….

“We now realize that the disasters that continue increasingly to afflict the natural world have one element that connects them all — the unprecedented increase in the number of human beings on this planet, as Malthus warned. But no one proposes the necessary measures to curb human population, which makes every problem worse….

“There are over 100 countries whose combinations of numbers and affluence have already pushed them past the sustainable level…. It is tragic that the only current population policies in developed countries are, perversely, attempting to increase their birth rate, in order to look after the growing number of old people. The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more young people, and so on, ad infinitum, is an obvious ecological Ponzi scheme….”

What then, when the “BBC America” narrator purred, “He and President Obama agree that population growth is one of the major issues in today’s world.”

The author who sold the encyclical Laudato Si’ to Pope Francis is a Satanist working for the British Royal Family, Hans Joachim “John” Schellnhuber of Oxford. Schellnhuber is the German head of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research—knighted by the Queen in 2004 for his efforts on population control—who was brought in by the Vatican to lead in drafting the document. Another voice spoke out against the Satanic personage views of Schellnhuber, last Friday. First appearing on the “Voice of the Family” blog—”an initiative of Catholic laity formed in support of the synod on the family 2014-2015″—on June 26, it was re-posted on the Canadian, inter-denominational, and pro-family “Lifesite,” Monday morning.

After quoting Schellnhuber bragging to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of all the “hard work” it took to make sure the document would “present clearly the current state of research concerning climate issues” — meaning, to come down firmly in support of the anti-population-growth program of the Queen’s environmentalists — they dig into the shadowy background of this view, and unearth Satanhuber’s writings on, the “Gaia principle.”

Schellnhuber, they write, “is also associated with the controversial ‘Gaia principle.’ The ‘Gaia principle’ proposes that both living and non-living beings on Earth interact to form a self-regulating system that contributes to maintaining the conditions for life on the planet. This system is considered to be a living being in its own right, with even some degree of consciousness.” In 1999, Schellnhuber spoke of, “unravelling the mysteries of the Earth’s physique,” or “Gaia’s body,” in a article in Nature, titled “`Earth System’ Analysis and the Second Copernican Revolution.”

“Gaia theory is often associated with a hostile attitude towards human activity, which is considered a perpetual threat to the earth’s ecosystem.” Quoting from another article in Nature, this one co-authored by Schellnhuber in 2004, titled, “Climbing the Co-evolution Ladder,” they say he, “seems to extend this hostile attitude even to ‘the first organisms’ which ‘would have drained the environment of energetically and structurally useful compounds and replaced them with degraded waste products,’ and eventually even to human beings.” This concept of entwined evolution, they say, “leads the authors to adopt a depressing view of the future.”

Schellnhuber’s told the 2009 Copenhagen Conference on the Environment that Earth’s “carrying capacity” for the human species was scientifically agreed to be “below 1 billion.” In a recorded speech from 2008, the Satanist said, (translating from the German), “The Earth likely will be populated by at least 9 billion people by 2050. You have to imagine that these people will reach an average level of consumption that Portugal has, one of the poorer countries in Europe. When you imagine that if all these 9 billion people claim all these resources, then the Earth will explode.” The short clip, from Germany’s Phoenix TV, then targets the nations with the largest population growth: China and India.

The “Lifesite” posting closes by noting that, “Given Schellnhuber’s views on the ‘population problem’ and his membership of the Club of Rome, many Catholics are understandably seriously concerned by his appointment to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and his participation in the preparation and launch of the encyclical letter Laudato Si’.”  

Join us this Thursday at 9PM Eastern for our Fireside Chat series featuring a live Q&A session with Lyndon LaRouche!

Join us this Thursday at 9PM Eastern for our Fireside Chat series featuring a live Q&A session with Lyndon LaRouche!

We are all Greeks! That’s today’s motto. Join us at 1pm Eastern with Lyndon LaRouche and the LaRouchePAC policy committee as we discuss the upcoming collapse of the Euro System.

We are all Greeks! That’s today’s motto. Join us at 1pm Eastern with Lyndon LaRouche and the LaRouchePAC policy committee as we discuss the upcoming collapse of the Euro System.

The Economist, a mouthpiece for the British Monarchy, in its June 13 issue, is promoting yet another “revolution in military affairs” (RMA), explicitly directed at a strategic war with Russia and/or China.  The Economist provided detailed, favorable coverage of a new concept, widely circulating inside the Pentagon, called “The Third Offset Strategy,” which aims to develop a new generation of wonder-weapons to counter recent military advances by Russia and China.  The lengthy article started out with a full endorsement of what came to be known as the Wolfowitz Doctrine of permanent U.S. global military hegemony:  “Since the end of the Cold War one simple geopolitical rule has endured:  do not take on America.  The country’s armed forces have been so well resourced and so technologically superior that it would be utterly foolish for any state to mount a direct challenge to the superpower or its allies.  This rule still holds—but it is no longer quite as compelling as it once was.”  The erosion of American global military dominance, The Economist lamented, is particularly true with respect to Russia and China, who have both made significant strides during the past decade, while the U.S. was bogged down in counterinsurgency wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Economist cites a recent study, “Towards a Third Offset Strategy,” prepared for the Pentagon, which calls for a big investment in a new generation of weapons, from stealth drone fighters to mini-subs and other weapons systems, designed specifically to “offset” the recent Russian and Chinese gains.

After touting the new Pentagon RMA planning, and reviewing the first and second offset strategies of the 1950s and 1970s, The Economist came up against the one big obstacle to the new utopian schema:  The possibility that the losing side could resort to nuclear war.  “Finally, a warning,” the concluding section of the article began. “Despite the success of the second offset strategy, it never fully dealt with the possibility that a losing power might resort to nuclear weapons.  The logic of nuclear deterrence, it was assumed (or hoped), would survive an intense conventional conflict.  The cheerleaders for a new offset strategy rarely mention nuclear weapons.” 

The Economist, a mouthpiece for the British Monarchy, in its June 13 issue, is promoting yet another “revolution in military affairs” (RMA), explicitly directed at a strategic war with Russia and/or China.  The Economist provided detailed, favorable coverage of a new concept, widely circulating inside the Pentagon, called “The Third Offset Strategy,” which aims to develop a new generation of wonder-weapons to counter recent military advances by Russia and China.  The lengthy article started out with a full endorsement of what came to be known as the Wolfowitz Doctrine of permanent U.S. global military hegemony:  “Since the end of the Cold War one simple geopolitical rule has endured:  do not take on America.  The country’s armed forces have been so well resourced and so technologically superior that it would be utterly foolish for any state to mount a direct challenge to the superpower or its allies.  This rule still holds—but it is no longer quite as compelling as it once was.”  The erosion of American global military dominance, The Economist lamented, is particularly true with respect to Russia and China, who have both made significant strides during the past decade, while the U.S. was bogged down in counterinsurgency wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Economist cites a recent study, “Towards a Third Offset Strategy,” prepared for the Pentagon, which calls for a big investment in a new generation of weapons, from stealth drone fighters to mini-subs and other weapons systems, designed specifically to “offset” the recent Russian and Chinese gains.

After touting the new Pentagon RMA planning, and reviewing the first and second offset strategies of the 1950s and 1970s, The Economist came up against the one big obstacle to the new utopian schema:  The possibility that the losing side could resort to nuclear war.  “Finally, a warning,” the concluding section of the article began. “Despite the success of the second offset strategy, it never fully dealt with the possibility that a losing power might resort to nuclear weapons.  The logic of nuclear deterrence, it was assumed (or hoped), would survive an intense conventional conflict.  The cheerleaders for a new offset strategy rarely mention nuclear weapons.” 

China has agreed to set up a $20 billion joint fund with Brazil in order to improve Brazil’s infrastructure and production. According to the independent daily, BRICS Post, this agreement came about during a meeting between visiting Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang and Brazilian Vice President Michel Temer at Brasilia on June 27. Wang is in Brazil after his two-day (June 25-26) visit to Cuba. The agreement was one of the outcomes of the fourth meeting of the China-Brazil High-Level Coordination and Cooperation Committee (COSBAN).

In addition to reaching the agreement to launch the fund, Xinhua reported today, both Brazil and China have also agreed to list priority areas and specific projects in bilateral production capacity cooperation.

The Chinese commitment to Brazil came at an important moment for Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. President Rousseff is encountering increasingly strong attacks from within because of a color revolution launched by the British and their minions, whose intention is to topple the Rousseff government and pull Brazil out of the BRICS. To this end, they are making use of the slow growth of the economy and a reported corruption scandal involving Brazil’s energy giant, Petrobras. Wang has met with President Rousseff.

Last May, when Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited Brazil, he said that Chinese construction and steel companies were ready to help Brazil overhaul its infrastructure and reduce transport costs for the export of Brazilian commodities, reported the BRICS Post today.

Rousseff will be attending the 7th BRICS Summit in Russia in early July, but she will be in Washington beginning June 29 to meet with Obama and hold discussions about trade and other economics matters.

The BRICS Post reports that Obama will be stressing global warming and climate change in those meetings. Meanwhile, the nasty Lally Weymouth, senior executive editor of the Washington Post (and daughter of Katharine Graham), posted an interview with President Rousseff entitled, “Why Does Everyone in Brazil Hate Their President?” The title says everything about the spin of the article that stresses the economic downturn in Brazil, but the very stateswoman-like Rousseff answered with optimism and confidence about future economic growth for Brazil.

In 2013, Rousseff cancelled a U.S. visit in the aftermath of the NSA spying scandal, which she condemned in a fiery speech at the UN General Assembly in September 2013.

China has agreed to set up a $20 billion joint fund with Brazil in order to improve Brazil’s infrastructure and production. According to the independent daily, BRICS Post, this agreement came about during a meeting between visiting Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang and Brazilian Vice President Michel Temer at Brasilia on June 27. Wang is in Brazil after his two-day (June 25-26) visit to Cuba. The agreement was one of the outcomes of the fourth meeting of the China-Brazil High-Level Coordination and Cooperation Committee (COSBAN).

In addition to reaching the agreement to launch the fund, Xinhua reported today, both Brazil and China have also agreed to list priority areas and specific projects in bilateral production capacity cooperation.

The Chinese commitment to Brazil came at an important moment for Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. President Rousseff is encountering increasingly strong attacks from within because of a color revolution launched by the British and their minions, whose intention is to topple the Rousseff government and pull Brazil out of the BRICS. To this end, they are making use of the slow growth of the economy and a reported corruption scandal involving Brazil’s energy giant, Petrobras. Wang has met with President Rousseff.

Last May, when Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited Brazil, he said that Chinese construction and steel companies were ready to help Brazil overhaul its infrastructure and reduce transport costs for the export of Brazilian commodities, reported the BRICS Post today.

Rousseff will be attending the 7th BRICS Summit in Russia in early July, but she will be in Washington beginning June 29 to meet with Obama and hold discussions about trade and other economics matters.

The BRICS Post reports that Obama will be stressing global warming and climate change in those meetings. Meanwhile, the nasty Lally Weymouth, senior executive editor of the Washington Post (and daughter of Katharine Graham), posted an interview with President Rousseff entitled, “Why Does Everyone in Brazil Hate Their President?” The title says everything about the spin of the article that stresses the economic downturn in Brazil, but the very stateswoman-like Rousseff answered with optimism and confidence about future economic growth for Brazil.

In 2013, Rousseff cancelled a U.S. visit in the aftermath of the NSA spying scandal, which she condemned in a fiery speech at the UN General Assembly in September 2013.

BBC America is airing the White House “interview” between President Barack Obama and leading British genocidalist Richard Attenborough Sunday night at two prime time spots.  The Obama-Attenborough airing is part of a British-led offensive underway, to promote full-scale global genocide under the guise of climate change.  In the trailer for the Obama-Attenborough show, Obama made it clear that he was seeking out the British climate change propagandist’s advice on how to push the population reduction agenda forward.

According to the Sunday Observer, there is a Vatican-sponsored activists’ conference in Rome, focusing on the upcoming Copenhagen21 conference at the end of the year in Paris, and following through on Pope Francis’ encyclical on climate change.  Naomi Klein, a well-known critic of modern capitalism and the author of a recent book touting the climate change fight as the moral battle ground against capitalist corruption, is invited to participate in the Vatican conference.  Klein told the Sunday Observer, “The fact that they invited me indicates they’re not backing down from the fight.  A lot of people have patted the pope on the head, but said he’s wrong on the economics.  I think he’s right on the economics.”  Among the participants in the Vatican-hosted Sunday conference, which begins with a march from the French Embassy, are representatives of Greenpeace and Oxfam.

The Observer/Guardian coverage of the Vatican conference referenced a previous climate change event, in which the Church assembled non-Catholic activists and diplomats inside Vatican City to push the agenda.  In April, the Vatican convened a conference  to help prepare the Pope’s encyclical, which included a keynote speech by Ban Ki-moon (Schellnhuber participated in that conference).

There are two upcoming conferences in Paris, in preparation for the December COP21 official event.  Prince Philip’s henchman Martin Palmer is one of the key organizers of the July 17 Paris event.  In September, the United Nations will convene a summit on climate control, at which all nations are expected to deliver detailed plans for carbon reduction and other measures.  Pope Francis will be in New York City for the opening day of that conference, and will deliver an address before the United Nations General Assembly.  On that same U.S. visit, he will address a joint session of the U.S. Congress.

The Guardian/Observer coverage highlighted the role of Schellnhuber in the work feeding into the encyclical, and noted that the Pope had a five-person panel present for the release of the encyclical.  “Hans Joaquim Schellnhuber, who heads the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, used the time to give churchmen a lesson in climate science.”

BBC America is airing the White House “interview” between President Barack Obama and leading British genocidalist David Attenborough Sunday night at two prime time spots.  The Obama-Attenborough airing is part of a British-led offensive underway, to promote full-scale global genocide under the guise of climate change.  In the trailer for the Obama-Attenborough show, Obama made it clear that he was seeking out the British climate change propagandist’s advice on how to push the population reduction agenda forward.

According to the Sunday Observer, there is a Vatican-sponsored activists’ conference in Rome, focusing on the upcoming Copenhagen21 conference at the end of the year in Paris, and following through on Pope Francis’ encyclical on climate change.  Naomi Klein, a well-known critic of modern capitalism and the author of a recent book touting the climate change fight as the moral battle ground against capitalist corruption, is invited to participate in the Vatican conference.  Klein told the Sunday Observer, “The fact that they invited me indicates they’re not backing down from the fight.  A lot of people have patted the pope on the head, but said he’s wrong on the economics.  I think he’s right on the economics.”  Among the participants in the Vatican-hosted Sunday conference, which begins with a march from the French Embassy, are representatives of Greenpeace and Oxfam.

The Observer/Guardian coverage of the Vatican conference referenced a previous climate change event, in which the Church assembled non-Catholic activists and diplomats inside Vatican City to push the agenda.  In April, the Vatican convened a conference  to help prepare the Pope’s encyclical, which included a keynote speech by Ban Ki-moon (Schellnhuber participated in that conference).

There are two upcoming conferences in Paris, in preparation for the December COP21 official event.  Prince Philip’s henchman Martin Palmer is one of the key organizers of the July 17 Paris event.  In September, the United Nations will convene a summit on climate control, at which all nations are expected to deliver detailed plans for carbon reduction and other measures.  Pope Francis will be in New York City for the opening day of that conference, and will deliver an address before the United Nations General Assembly.  On that same U.S. visit, he will address a joint session of the U.S. Congress.

The Guardian/Observer coverage highlighted the role of Schellnhuber in the work feeding into the encyclical, and noted that the Pope had a five-person panel present for the release of the encyclical.  “Hans Joaquim Schellnhuber, who heads the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, used the time to give churchmen a lesson in climate science.”

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Dear Citizens!

It’s not Greece which has failed, but rather Chancellor Merkel, Finance Minister Schäuble, the EU Commission, the European Central Bank, and the IMF. Why should the Greek government stick with the austerity measures demanded by the EU, which have already reduced the Greek economy by a third, lowered the birth rate, raised the death rate, and increased youth unemployment to 65%? A policy that even the IMF had to admit was completely incompetent, and that the UN expert on debt and human rights condemned as a clear violation of human rights? Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s decision not to capitulate to the “shock and awe” method of the Eurogroup’s Shylocks is not only correct, but offers the chance for all of Europe to break with the insanity of the casino economy, which only serves the interests of the banks and speculators—provided however, that Germany and other countries find the courage to mobilize Europe’s moral and intellectual strengths.

If panic now breaks out on the financial markets and the European economy collapses, Greece will not be to blame, but rather the fact that the entire trans-Atlantic system is hopelessly bankrupt. Instead of using the threatened meltdown around the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and AIG in September 2008 to regulate the banking system and to ban speculative excesses, a gigantic redistribution took place, transforming private gambling debts into public debts, and the taxpayers had to pay for the bailouts. In the case of Greece, only 3% of the bailout funds stayed in the country, while the rest flowed back into the European banks, allowing the speculators to dance even more wildly around the Golden Calf. The reality is that the trans-Atlantic banks, which are supposedly “too big to fail,” are 40% larger today than they were in 2008, and the total of derivatives amounts to something approaching $2 quadrillion. And that is exactly what could disappear into thin air in an uncontrollable crash, in a “Grexit” [exit of Greece from the Eurozone—ed.].

Just in time for the explosion of the crisis, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) announced in its annual report that the world has no defense for the next financial crisis, since the central banks have already fired off all their ammunition. They even outmaneuvered themselves, since with their repeated interest rate cuts, they created all the preconditions for the next crash. In fact: “The game isch over, Mr Schäuble—but not for Greece, but for their own failed policies!”

That is precisely why the Greek government’s proposal for a debt conference—not only for Greece, but for all of Europe—is absolutely on the mark. A drastic debt “haircut,” in tandem with the introduction of a Glass-Steagall two-tier banking system on both sides of the Atlantic, must put an end to the casino economy. In its place, we need to establish a credit system, similar, for example, to the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau [Reconstruction Finance Agency], which was created after World War II to finance the real economy, generating the German “economic miracle.” Without such a fundamental reorganization of the financial system—i.e., continuing with “bailouts” or “bail-ins” ad nauseum (the Cyprus blueprint of Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem)—the impact on the savings of every citizen in Europe and the United States will be very much worse than what the Greek population is enduring today. Solidarity with Greece is the best thing you can do for yourself and for your own future!

There is a very real and immediate way out of this crisis: The “win-win” strategy offered by China, i.e., cooperation to build the New Silk Road, the so-called “One Road, One Belt” policy, which President Xi Jinping proposed at the APEC summit in Beijing last October to President Obama and the heads of other major countries, provides a real prospect for overcoming the evil of geopolitics. In the West, China’s New Silk Road policy was virtually ignored for nearly two years; now the realization is belatedly dawning, that this revival of the ancient Silk Road has picked up incredibly impressive momentum. It represents a dynamic that one could only describe as “A Grand Design in Action.” Along with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the new financial institutions of the BRICS countries [Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa], a parallel economic and financial system has evolved in the last two years, based on exactly the same economic principles as the American System of Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich List, Otto von Bismarck, and the German economic miracle in the post-war period.

The EU-China Summit on June 29 could be the beginning of such cooperation. China has already expressed its interest in generous investments in European infrastructure projects, and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced that the EUR 315 billion investment plan of the European Fund for
Strategic Investments (EFSI) so far has no investors to provide a real capital line for it. In its preparations for the summit, China expressed great interest in cooperating with this Fund for the implementation of the New Silk Road. Thus, the 2012 program of the BüSo [Civil Rights Solidarity Movement, headed by Zepp-LaRouche—ed.] for extending the New Silk Road to Southern Europe and the Mediterranean is coming immediately within reach. Greece can—along with the Balkans, Italy, Spain, and Portugal—very soon experience the same economic development that China’s economic miracle has demonstrated over the last 30 years.
Prime Minister Tsipras has, with his recent trips to Russia and China, already had extensive conversations about how Greece, which has had long historical and deep cultural ties with both nations, can cooperate with the New Silk Road and the BRICS countries and become part of the new dynamic. Europe should take up Greece’s offer to be a bridge between Europe and the BRICS. However, if the EU responds to the generous Chinese offer by trying to subvert the new Chinese institutions with the old neo-liberal monetarist and failed concepts or with the satanic climate swindle of Commander of the British Empire Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, as it just appeared in the new Encyclical of Pope Francis, then this will mean missing in all likelihood the last chance to save the world before the crash.

Germany Can Prevent World War

Germany is the country that can actually do something to overcome the acute danger of war. If Germany declares that it is lifting the sanctions against Russia, all the major states in Europe will do the same thing. Such a decisive move to prevent continental European confrontation against Russia would improve the strategic situation on the spot, and strengthen the forces in the United States that want to bring that country’s Constitution back into force. The argument that Germany can do nothing because it is an occupied country, is absurd. If the choice is whether we, as a target in a nuclear war, want to be wiped out—and that is exactly the threat we face, if we do not oppose the geopolitical confrontation against Russia and China—or whether we want to pursue our interest in survival, then it should be possible to muster the political will for the second option. And if Frau Merkel and Herr Schäuble cannot come to this realization, then ways and means must be urgently found to replace them with people who are serious about the general welfare of the German people.

The way out of this existential crisis, which can lead to the extinction of the human species in a global thermonuclear war, lies in overcoming the geopolitics that already led to two world wars in the 20th century. Former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt is right that the cause of the Ukraine crisis lies in the policy of the EU since it was created by the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, which precisely began the geopolitical expansion eastward, up to the borders of Russia. Not only the euro, but also the imperial EU, is a failed experiment that we need to end as soon as possible. As a Europe of the Fatherlands [sovereign nations—ed.], which is united by the joint mission of cooperation with the New Silk Road for global development, we will be stronger together than ever was the case in the EU of Maastricht.

We should accept XI Jinping’s offer for cooperation with the New Silk Road, in a win-win strategy for all the world’s nations. We need a completely new paradigm of thinking, oriented to the common interests of mankind.

The way out of this existential crisis is open, and the good news is that there is a clear solution. Whether this opportunity is seized depends upon us all. You all, every single one of you, can contribute to bringing it about!

Sign & share the petition for the U.S. and Europe to end geopolitics and join the BRICS

Translated from German by EIR’s Leesburg and Wiesbaden bureaus.

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and President of the Schiller Institute

Dear Citizens!

It’s not Greece which has failed, but rather Chancellor Merkel, Finance Minister Schäuble, the EU Commission, the European Central Bank, and the IMF. Why should the Greek government stick with the austerity measures demanded by the EU, which have already reduced the Greek economy by a third, lowered the birth rate, raised the death rate, and increased youth unemployment to 65%? A policy that even the IMF had to admit was completely incompetent, and that the UN expert on debt and human rights condemned as a clear violation of human rights? Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s decision not to capitulate to the “shock and awe” method of the Eurogroup’s Shylocks is not only correct, but offers the chance for all of Europe to break with the insanity of the casino economy, which only serves the interests of the banks and speculators—provided however, that Germany and other countries find the courage to mobilize Europe’s moral and intellectual strengths.

If panic now breaks out on the financial markets and the European economy collapses, Greece will not be to blame, but rather the fact that the entire trans-Atlantic system is hopelessly bankrupt. Instead of using the threatened meltdown around the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and AIG in September 2008 to regulate the banking system and to ban speculative excesses, a gigantic redistribution took place, transforming private gambling debts into public debts, and the taxpayers had to pay for the bailouts. In the case of Greece, only 3% of the bailout funds stayed in the country, while the rest flowed back into the European banks, allowing the speculators to dance even more wildly around the Golden Calf. The reality is that the trans-Atlantic banks, which are supposedly “too big to fail,” are 40% larger today than they were in 2008, and the total of derivatives amounts to something approaching $2 quadrillion. And that is exactly what could disappear into thin air in an uncontrollable crash, in a “Grexit” [exit of Greece from the Eurozone—ed.].

Just in time for the explosion of the crisis, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) announced in its annual report that the world has no defense for the next financial crisis, since the central banks have already fired off all their ammunition. They even outmaneuvered themselves, since with their repeated interest rate cuts, they created all the preconditions for the next crash. In fact: “The game isch over, Mr Schäuble—but not for Greece, but for their own failed policies!”

That is precisely why the Greek government’s demand for a debt conference—not only for Greece, but for all of Europe—is absolutely on the mark. A drastic debt “haircut,” in tandem with the introduction of a Glass-Steagall two-tier banking system on both sides of the Atlantic, must put an end to the casino economy. In its place, we need to establish a credit system, similar, for example, to the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau [Reconstruction Finance Agency], which was created after World War II to finance the real economy, generating the German “economic miracle.” Without such a fundamental reorganization of the financial system—i.e., continuing with “bailouts” or “bail-ins” ad nauseum (the Cyprus blueprint of Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem)—the impact on the savings of every citizen in Europe and the United States will be very much worse than what the Greek population is enduring today. Solidarity with Greece is the best thing you can do for yourself and for your own future!

There is a very real and immediate way out of this crisis: The “win-win” strategy offered by China, i.e., cooperation to build the New Silk Road, the so-called “One Road, One Belt” policy, which President Xi Jinping proposed at the APEC summit in Beijing last October to President Obama and the heads of other major countries, provides a real prospect for overcoming the evil of geopolitics. In the West, China’s New Silk Road policy was virtually ignored for nearly two years; now the realization is belatedly dawning, that this revival of the ancient Silk Road has picked up incredibly impressive momentum. It represents a dynamic that one could only describe as “A Grand Design in Action.” Along with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the new financial institutions of the BRICS countries [Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa], a parallel economic and financial system has evolved in the last two years, based on exactly the same economic principles as the American System of Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich List, Otto von Bismarck, and the German economic miracle in the post-war period.

The EU-China Summit on June 29 could be the beginning of such cooperation. China has already expressed its interest in generous investments in European infrastructure projects, and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced that the EUR 315 billion investment plan of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) so far has no investors to provide a real capital line for it. In its preparations for the summit, China expressed great interest in cooperating with this Fund for the implementation of the New Silk Road. Thus, the 2012 program of the BüSo [Civil Rights Solidarity Movement, headed by Zepp-LaRouche—ed.] for extending the New Silk Road to Southern Europe and the Mediterranean is coming immediately within reach. Greece can—along with the Balkans, Italy, Spain, and Portugal—very soon experience the same economic development that China’s economic miracle has demonstrated over the last 30 years.

Prime Minister Tsipras has, with his recent trips to Russia and China, already had extensive conversations about how Greece, which has had long historical and deep cultural ties with both nations, can cooperate with the New Silk Road and the BRICS countries and become part of the new dynamic. Europe should take up Greece’s offer to be a bridge between Europe and the BRICS. However, if the EU responds to the generous Chinese offer by trying to subvert the new Chinese institutions with the old neo-liberal monetarist and failed concepts or with the satanic climate swindle of Commander of the British Empire Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, as it just appeared in the new Encyclical of Pope Francis, then this will mean missing in all likelihood the last chance to save the world before the crash.

Germany Can Prevent World War

Germany is the country that can actually do something to overcome the acute danger of war. If Germany declares that it is lifting the sanctions against Russia, all the major states in Europe will do the same thing. Such a decisive move to prevent continental European confrontation against Russia would improve the strategic situation on the spot, and strengthen the forces in the United States that want to bring that country’s Constitution back into force. The argument that Germany can do nothing because it is an occupied country, is absurd. If the choice is whether we, as a target in a nuclear war, want to be wiped out—and that is exactly the threat we face, if we do not oppose the geopolitical confrontation against Russia and China—or whether we want to pursue our interest in survival, then it should be possible to muster the political will for the second option. And if Frau Merkel and Herr Schäuble cannot come to this realization, then ways and means must be urgently found to replace them with people who are serious about the general welfare of the German people.

The way out of this existential crisis, which can lead to the extinction of the human species in a global thermonuclear war, lies in overcoming the geopolitics that already led to two world wars in the 20th century. Former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt is right that the cause of the Ukraine crisis lies in the policy of the EU since it was created by the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, which precisely began the geopolitical expansion eastward, up to the borders of Russia. Not only the euro, but also the imperial EU, is a failed experiment that we need to end as soon as possible. As a Europe of the Fatherlands [sovereign nations—ed.], which is united by the joint mission of cooperation with the New Silk Road for global development, we will be stronger together than ever was the case in the EU of Maastricht.

We should accept XI Jinping’s offer for cooperation with the New Silk Road, in a win-win strategy for all the world’s nations. We need a completely new paradigm of thinking, oriented to the common interests of mankind.

The way out of this existential crisis is open, and the good news is that there is a clear solution. Whether this opportunity is seized depends upon us all. You all, every single one of you, can contribute to bringing it about!

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Translated from German by EIR’s Leesburg and Wiesbaden bureaus.