Author: David

A presentation by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, prepared on October 6, for three simultaneous events in Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru, to an assembly of economists, held on October 13.

Thank you so much for inviting me to address your conference. The world is in a very, very dangerous situation. Everyone who watches the strategic development day to day can see how the confrontation between the United States and Russia is increasing. Just a few days ago, the official coordinator for cooperation between the Russian and German government, said on Channel 2 of German TV, that a direct military confrontation between the United States and Russia can no longer be excluded. What he referred to was the complete breakdown of negotiations between Russia and the United States over the Syria crisis.

I think everybody knows that if it comes to war between Russia and the United States, it would be a global war, and it would lead to the annihilation of all of mankind in all likelihood.

Now, there is a second danger to civilization which could also lead, in the end, to a nuclear war, and that is that we are facing a total collapse of the trans-Atlantic financial system; one much, much worse than 2008. The IMF has named Deutsche Bank as the bank with the most risk in the whole global financial system, and depending on the outcome of the [request to the] Department of Justice to reduce the fine of $14 billion which the DOJ has fined Deutsche Bank for criminal manipulations regarding the mortgage crisis in 2007-2008—, because $14 billion would mean de facto the insolvency of Deutsche Bank—, the whole system can go in the coming says.

Now, Deutsche Bank is maybe the worst case, but by far not the only one. Deutsche Bank has $42 trillion in outstanding derivatives, which is about 12 times the entire GDP of the German economy per year, and it’s still about 3 to 4 times the GDP of the entire European Union. Therefore, it is obvious that if Deutsche Bank collapses, neither the bail-in law which is now law in the entire European Union, nor the bail-out would be sufficient to solve the problem. And if you look at the engagement of these derivatives with the banks which are counterparty to Deutsche Bank, it involves the entire too-big-to-fail banking system of the trans-Atlantic system, and if Deutsche Bank goes, it could be like the super-nova, evaporating in a very brief time.

A similar situation is true for the Italian banks, for the British banks after the Brexit, and we should not overlook that all of these banks have large fines to pay for crimes. Deutsche Bank had to pay because they manipulated and cheated the customers in the real estate market in the United States. Wells Fargo just had a hearing in the U.S. Congress because they set up 2 million fraudulent, fictitious bank accounts to steal. Then you have the Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), which is openly laundering the entire drug money of the Mexican drug mafia, and they were all involved in the LIBOR manipulation, which caused the three-digit billion losses for their customers.

Without doubt we are heading towards an October crisis. This is not going to be a crisis after the U.S. election: this is now! And all the means of the central banks, i.e. quantitative easing since 2008; negative interest rates, which kills the savings of the population; and now they are talking about “helicopter money” which is really the last straw. All of these tools no longer function.

There is a remedy, and that is, you have to implement immediately the Glass-Steagall banking separation law, exactly as Franklin D. Roosevelt did in 1933. Lyndon LaRouche has enlarged this concept to say that you first have to write off the speculative part of the banks; but then you have a lack of liquidity and therefore, you have to have a credit system in the tradition of Alexander Hamilton, which issues new, large credits for productive investments. You also have to increase the productivity of the economy, you have to have a science driver, and the international space program with global cooperation as well as the vanguard technologies which are developed in that process, is the pinnacle of scientific advancement.

We also need what Roosevelt did at the time, a Pecora Commission. Pecora was the New York State attorney, who investigated the CEOs of the Wall Street banks under oath at the time, to then send many of them to jail. And as a Mr. Kotegawa told us (see interview in this issue), if you don’t do that, you cannot reinstate the confidence in the banks, because people will have lost complete confidence in the system.

There is good reason that this can be done. In the United States both parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, have the Glass-Steagall Act in their platforms and despite the fact that Hillary Clinton is not for Glass-Steagall, it is important that in times of crisis such provisions are there. And there is a renewed optimism that you can mobilize the Congress—even if normal people have little hope that the Congress will do something useful—they just voted up the JASTA bill overriding the veto of President Obama, which was a major shift in U.S. policy that provided the families of the victims of September 11th [the opportunity] to sue the Saudi government. This is a tremendous victory, because what was victorious in this situation was a sense for justice. It was completely unjust that the victims of the September 11th terrorist attack would not have the ability, and the families in particular, would not have the ability to bring the criminals responsible for that terrorist act to court. This has now occurred, and there is a tremendous sense that you can move the U.S. Government when people are united for a good plan and they act together.

There is an equal yearning for justice concerning the banking system. The banking system has provided unbelievable profits for a few, while the people they are looting become more and more impoverished. So the time to act is now.

A New Silk Road, a New Financial Order

Now, the other important aspect is that the alternative financial system is already in place. Since 2013, when President Xi Jinping announced the New Silk Road, there has been an unbelievable development internationally to establish a new financial and international credit system. In the tradition of the ancient Silk Road of 2,000 years ago during the Han Dynasty, which at that time was an immense exchange not only of goods, but of culture, of ideas, and most importantly of technologies, e.g. the means to produce silk, make porcelain, and other such vanguard technologies of that time; this same kind of exchange has been occurring now for three years among the nations of the New Silk Road, and with the most modern technologies.

This is the largest infrastructure plan in all of human history: It is about twelve times larger than the Marshall Plan was which was helping to reconstruct Europe after the Second World War, in terms of actual buying power. Right now it encompasses $1.4 trillion; it already involves 43% of the world economy; and 4.4 billion people from 70 countries are participating, and it is the long-term development strategy under the leadership of China. As a matter of fact, it is the only strategic plan to overcome this present geopolitical confrontation that I mentioned in the beginning, because it is based on the idea of a “win-win cooperation” of all countries on this planet.

Very important, in respect to the financial crisis, these countries have started to set up an alternative financial system. They have started the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), where immediately 70 countries wanted to be founding members, despite enormous pressure from the United States not to do so. Even close allies of the United States, like Great Britain, Japan, South Korea, Germany, France, and Canada all wanted to be founding members of this new bank, which has a starting capital of $100 billion, and which can be expanded and will be. They have also created the New Development Bank, the bank of the BRICS countries; the New Silk Road Fund of $40 billion; the Maritime Silk Road Fund; the Shanghai Cooperation Organization has created a new bank; and they have created something called the Contingency Reserve Arrangement which began as a pool of $100 billion, helping the BRICS countries and other developing countries to fend off manipulative speculative attacks like those of George Soros and other speculators.

It is very important that this idea of the New Silk Road is expanding with an unbelievable speed, and many countries, not only in Asia, but also in for example, Eastern and Central Europe are picking up on it. There is now a cooperation between China and Greece, Serbia, Hungary, Czech Republic and even Poland, all working on high-speed trains and infrastructure cooperation. And the idea is to extend this kind of a New Silk Road into the Middle East and into Africa, to address the very, very dramatic situation there; to reconstruct the Middle East after the war, and to develop Africa, so that also the refugee crisis, which is one of the largest humanitarian crises in the world ever, that we can now create conditions where Africa and Southwest Asia are being industrialized so that people will not want to leave their home, but rather, will want to help build up their nations.

All of this is not just business. The Silk Road is by no means only infrastructure in the narrow sense, connecting A to B through trains and ships, but it is also not just a replacement of American imperialism by Chinese imperialism, which is what some media are trying to insinuate. The New Silk Road, put on the agenda by China, is truly a completely different model of cooperation among states. It is based on dialogue, partnership and cooperation; and China does not want to be a new hegemon, but wants to have cooperation with all countries based on a “win-win” mutual benefit, where each country has their own advantage.

China has said many times, as a matter of fact, Xi Jinping has used the formulation that what is needed is a “community of shared destiny.” Now, this is what the Schiller Institute has promoted for 25 years when we proposed the Eurasian Land-Bridge when the Soviet Union collapsed, and expanded it in the 25 years since, that the Silk Road must become the World Land-Bridge. We have always said that we need a completely new paradigm based on “win-win cooperation”; and that is exactly what is now pushed by China.

Now people always have suspicions, “What is the real aim of China?” But I have come to the absolute conclusion that China means exactly what they say, that the world must not be run on the basis of a zero-sum game, but on the idea of a harmony of all nations.

A Government of the Wise

Now, 2016 is the 2,567th birthday of Confucius and you have right now a total revival of Confucian philosophy, in all of China, in all schools, universities, cities, and there is right now a two-and-a-half-thousand-year-old history of Confucian tradition in China, with the very short except of the ten years of the Cultural Revolution. This has shaped the Chinese mind to a very large extent—the Confucian idea that the world should be organized in a harmonious way—by allowing the harmonious development of all nations, of all families, of all individuals; and that a country cannot do well, if their neighbors are not doing well. This idea of Confucius that politics must be based on love is now associated with the idea that politics has only one aim, and that is the happiness of people, an idea which used to belong the American Declaration of Independence, and an idea which is also very, very known in the history of European humanism.

Confucius also taught that people ought to have a life filled with learning, and that they should perfect themselves without limit, and that the highest ideal of man is the chun tzu, the wise man who perfects himself in the highest degree. And out of this comes the idea that the sage king is morally much more attractive than the hegemon. This is the same idea as Plato’s “philosopher king,” that only the wisest and most moral people should rule.

Now, while the hegemon rules by forcing the underlings into submission, the wise king and the wise leadership elevates the people through inspiration. At the recent G20 meeting in Hangzhou, which occurred for the first time under the leadership of China, they have made a wonderful proposal to put the whole world economy on the basis of innovation and to share whatever scientific and technological breakthroughs are being made, immediately, with all other nations, but especially the developing nations, so that their development is not being held up.

Since then, they have announced scientific and technological cooperation among the countries along the New Silk Road; they opened up science and technology parks, huge exchange of scientists and youth, in order to spread these ideas in the quickest possible way. All of these policies are a reflection of the Confucian philosophy.

If you study it more closely, you will realize there is a tremendous affinity between Confucian thinking and European humanism. They are much closer and much more related than most people are aware. While in China, a Confucian Renaissance is fully underway, it is the West which is in urgent need of such a cultural renaissance.

The Western world has plunged into a terrible moral degeneracy and decadence: If you look at the drug addiction, for example, well the case of Mexico, for example, is famous. The drug lords have taken over much of the country. But in the United States drug addiction is the most important cause for the rising suicide rate, which has quadrupled since 2001 since Bush came into office, with suicides in all age groups. If you look at the violence in the United States, but also in other Western parts, you have the police violence, you have the school shootings, you have pornography, you have the total brutalization of behavior, which is a breakdown of civilized relations among people.

So we need urgently, if you want to save humanity, we need a Renaissance of Classical culture. We have to go back to an image of man which emphasizes that which separates man from all other living species, and that is the creativity of the mind of the human being. The problem with popular culture is that it de-emphasizes this creativity. Pop music, for example, if young people go to discos, it almost always goes along with drug consumption, something which destroys the creative faculties of the mind.

Create a Global Classical Renaissance

We need a Classical culture which emphasizes the beauty of the best traditions of Greece, for example, Greek architecture, Greek historical dramas, Greek philosophy, but also the beauty of Dante, of Petrarch, of the Italian Renaissance; in the Spanish culture, of the Andalusian renaissance, of Cervantes, of Goya; in Germany, Schiller, Beethoven, and many other great thinkers.

Now, why is Classical culture so absolutely important? Rather than being a soap opera, where you add irrational emotions one after the other, without rhythm or rhyme, you have in Classical culture either a poetical or a musical idea, and then, according to very strict principles of composition, you develop that idea until it is exhausted, in a thorough-compositional way; and then you come to a conclusion on a higher level of reason. And when you train your mind in this way, in Classical thinking, you become more creative. It leads to an education of the emotions, because if you only rely on your senses, you are just reacting. That is why Friedrich Schiller demanded the aesthetical education of man: namely, through Classical art, the aesthetical education teaches man to feel more noble and to educate our emotions up to the level of reason, so that you can blindly follow your impulses, because then they will never differ from what reason commands. This is why we have to reintroduce beauty into art, and the great German poet Friedrich Schiller said “Art which is not beautiful should not be called art.”

In the Greek Classical period, you had the ideal of the identity of the beautiful, the truthful, and the good. And you cannot be truthful if you are not trying to develop the idea of beauty, and you cannot develop the good without being truthful. So there is an inner connection between these because they address the same faculty in the human mind.

The future of mankind very clearly will be in space. If you look at the evolution of man, or even of life as it developed through photosynthesis from the oceans to land, from lower to higher species, and eventually the creativity of mankind. Man settled at the rivers and oceans first; then through infrastructure development, opened up the landlocked areas of continents. And now with the New Silk Road we are completing that phase of the evolution, where man through infrastructure, develops the landlocked areas of all continents. And the natural extension of that infrastructure development will be the opening up of nearby space, probably first a colony on the Moon, and that will be the launching pad for future space operations as our energy sources become more dense. We will be able to even understand much better what is the position of our planet in the Solar System, in the Galaxy, and we will develop a much deeper understanding about the laws of the universe and the relationship of creative mentation to that Universe, because our mind is obviously not outside of the universe, but it’s part of the universe, and it is the most developed part.

Many more studies have to made about the connection between the mind and the universe at large, and the better we understand that connection, the more rational we will become as a human species. The great German space scientist Krafft Ehricke developed the beautiful notion of the “Extraterrestrial Imperative,” that man becomes truly adult when we understand and conquer space more deeply, because only then will man become fully rational. And Krafft Ehricke, who was a close friend of ours, said at the end of his life, that the importance of great Classical art was absolutely crucial, because even if science is emphasized and developed, this does not yet indicate whether it is applied for something good, or for something bad; it is always man who applies that science which makes the difference. And therefore, the aesthetical and moral education to beauty and to the good is what will make the longevity of the human species possible.

Now, this is why we are saying, so emphatically, that the economic development of the New Silk Road must be combined with a Classical Renaissance of Classical culture, and that we must bring forward the best traditions of each culture, of Chinese poetry and philosophy, of Chinese painting, of Indian philosophy, of African wonderful philosophical contributions from the time of Timbuktu; of other great cultures, and each had a high phase in their culture, like the Arab Renaissance of the Abbasid Dynasty at which point the Arab culture was the most developed.

We have to make the best phases of these periods known, and then have a dialogue between these cultures and out of this will generate a love for the other culture; and we will indeed reach a new paradigm of civilization.

If we make this universal cultural heritage known to all children, through universal education, I think the future will be that such geniuses as Bach, Schiller, Einstein, will not be an exception. There will not be just a second Einstein, but we will have many, many geniuses because we will provide children with a much, much better opportunity to unfold all the potentials which are embedded in them.

Now, I think we are not only on the verge of a potential global war, but with the New Silk Road we are also at the edge of entering a completely new paradigm of civilization, what I call the “Adulthood of Mankind,” where we stop behaving like stupid two-year-old little boys kicking each other in the knee.

We are really at an important historical moment, and I would ask all of you to join in a Renaissance movement, because I’m absolutely optimistic that if all good people on the planet are working together to this aim, we can succeed.

“We have to build up fast, very fast, the greatest growth of productivity inside nations, now. In other words, we have to understand what mankind is and what mankind must become, fast. We have not yet caught the idea. But we can. So, why don’t you start doing it?”
—Lyndon LaRouche

What happened to the higher mission of our space program? This very question is fundamental to our continued existence as the human species. This is the subject that subsumes Lyndon LaRouche’s “Four New Laws” to now save the United States, which he introduced in June 2014. What LaRouche presents in this economic platform is not a matter of mere banking policy or of breaking up the big banks. What he prescribes is what is needed to end Wall Street and the financial oligarchy once and for all. What is required is the unleashing of the potential for human creative progress and productivity, a principle embedded in our nation’s Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, and its Preamble, and it is expressed in the work of the first Treasury Secretary of our nation, Alexander Hamilton.

LaRouche’s Four Laws are these:

1. The immediate re-enactment of the Glass-Steagall law instituted by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, without modification, as to principle of action.

2. A return to a system of top-down National Banking, and thoroughly so defined. The precedents for this shall be taken from the banking and credit system established by Alexander Hamilton, as well as Abraham Lincoln’s action of creating a national currency (or “Greenbacks”), under Presidential authority.

3.The deployment of a new Federal Credit system to generate high-productivity trends in improvements of employment, with the accompanying intention to increase the physical-economic productivity and the standard of living of the persons and households of the United States. An increase in productive employment, as accomplished under Franklin Roosevelt, must reflect an increase in real productivity, coherent with an increase in energy-flux density in the nation’s economic practice.

4. The adoption a Fusion-Driver Crash Program. The essential distinction of man from all lower forms of life, and hence, in practice, is that it presents the means for the perfection of the specifically affirmative aims and needs of the human individual and social life.

The Passion Flows from Understanding Man

What is required at this very moment, for this nation and the world, is not merely an economic recovery. We must have a LaRouche-Hamilton vision for an Economic Renaissance. In its essence, it goes far beyond merely building infrastructure and putting people back to work. We must rekindle a passion to create the future! What is required is a complete revolution in science in the terms that LaRouche is demanding today and in what is now being set as a cultural standard in China, as exemplified by the direction of its space program and its commitment to a win-win strategy for mankind.

This revolution in science starts with a renewed conception and understanding of the true nature of mankind—what it means to be truly human. How do we advance the conception of mankind as capable of acting for the benefit of all, from the standpoint that we are thereby going to advance and share in the greatest potentials for mankind that ever existed? This is expressed most poetically in the combination of 1 Corinthians-13 and in Krafft Ehricke’s Three Laws of Astronautics.

This memorable chapter of 1 Corinthians unfolds the concept of agapic love: “Charity [agape] suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth.”

Krafft Ehricke addressed this question of the common aims of mankind in fulfilling its greatest potentials, and saw that the pathway is through “leaving the confines of one small planet” to expand our exploration and settlement to other worlds. To that end, he formulated these Three Laws of Astronautics:

1. Nobody and nothing under the natural laws of this universe can impose any limitations on man, except man himself.

2. Not only the Earth, but the entire Solar system, and as much of the universe as he can reach under the laws of nature, are man’s rightful field of activity.

3. By expanding throughout the universe, man fulfills his destiny as an element of life, endowed with the power of reason and the wisdom of the moral law within himself.

The Love of the Other

The subsuming process of all these works—and what lies at the heart of LaRouche’s proposal—is mankind’s discovery of the meaning of mankind. What is the purpose for which we exist? How do we implement and advance the creative power which is uniquely human? LaRouche developed his four laws from a Hamiltonian standard based on an underlying principle of an unconditional love for mankind to create the future—that is, agape.

The Hamiltonian principles which set the standard for our nation’s economic policies do not arise from the standpoint of money as having some intrinsic value, but from an understanding of the value of the human mind and of an increase in the productive powers of mind. Hamilton’s principles of economics come from the idea of happiness, a principle of agape adopted in our Declaration of Independence from the German philosopher and economist Gottfried Leibniz. This is what you would find when you read Alexander Hamilton’s three major reports to the Congress on manufacturing, credit, and a national bank.

This is the essence of what the British Empire and its financial oligarchy—represented by Wall Street and its stooges—have intended to destroy since the murder of Hamilton by the British asset Aaron Burr. Our nation’s greatest leaders—including John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy—understood and consciously engaged in this fight to defeat the very enemy of the creative progress of mankind.

These Presidents understood more than simply Hamilton’s conception of national credit or of banking. They understood the unique principle of the United States, i.e. the commitment to advance the productive and creative powers of every living human being in this nation and on this planet—what Lyndon LaRouche would later define in his science of physical economy as the increase in relative potential population density.

Only Yesterday

President Franklin Roosevelt, a devout student of Alexander Hamilton, was inspired by his great-grandfather, Isaac Roosevelt, who worked directly with Hamilton, to fulfill this commitment. This very principle enabled FDR’s ultimate victory over the Wall Street looters of his day and his ability to unleash the greatest productive engine the world had ever seen. The period of Franklin Roosevelt through that of John F. Kennedy was known as the Golden Age of Productivity. Today we need a golden age of productivity for the world, and this is just the future China intends to create with more than half of the world already joining in. The United States must take its rightful place and make its due contribution in bringing about this very future.

Our Golden Age of Productivity, initiated by FDR, continued with the development of our space program under the visionary leadership of great space pioneers such as the little known genius, the German-American aeronautical engineer, Krafft Ehricke.

When the National Aeronautics and Space Act was passed by Congress in 1958, creating NASA, the declaration of purpose stated: “The Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the United States that activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind.” The Act goes on to define that the aeronautical and space activities of the United States shall be so conducted as to contribute materially to one or more of the following objectives:

1. The expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the atmosphere and space.

2. The improvement of the usefulness, performance, speed, safety, and efficiency of aeronautical and space vehicles.

3. The development and operation of vehicles capable of carrying instruments, equipment, supplies, and living organisms through space.

4. The establishment of long-range studies of the potential benefits to be gained from, the opportunities for, and the problems involved in the utilization of aeronautical and space activities for peaceful and scientific purposes.

5. The preservation of the role of the United States as a leader in aeronautical and space science and technology and in the application thereof to the conduct of peaceful activities within and outside the atmosphere.

6. The making available to agencies directly concerned with national defenses of discoveries that have military value or significance, and the furnishing by such agencies, to the civilian agency established to direct and control non-military aeronautical and space activities, of information as to discoveries which have value or significance to that agency.

7. Cooperation by the United States with other nations and groups of nations in work done pursuant to this Act and in the peaceful application of the results, thereof.

8. The most effective utilization of the scientific and engineering resources of the United States, with close cooperation among all interested agencies of the United States in order to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort, facilities, and equipment.

Devotion to the exploration of space must start with a love for, and commitment to the creative development of all mankind. The vision for space exploration and settlement was never merely a race or a matter of military dominance, contrary to the wild ideas of some in the scientific community. The space program as envisioned by Krafft Ehricke was a commitment to the future of mankind. When NASA was established, Ehricke had already written profound works on the idea of space travel and what he called mankind’s extraterrestrial imperative, including an imaginary account of space travel in the year 2050, written in 1948—ten years before NASA.

Ehricke understood the unique quality of mankind that defies the oligarchy’s rejection of our creative human identity—that creative identity which is essential for mankind’s mission to develop our Universe. He states, “By expanding through the Universe, man fulfills his destiny as an element of life; endowed with the power of reason and the wisdom of the moral law within himself.”

Nuclear Power and Fusion Power

President Kennedy’s policies intersected Ehricke’s concept of mankind. At the groundbreaking ceremony for the Hanford nuclear generating plant in Hanford, Washington, on September 26, 1963, the President said, “This great, rich country of ours has a long, unfinished agenda, but it has always had that agenda in creative times, and this is a creative time in our country and throughout the world.”

LaRouche’s fourth law calls for a Fusion-Driver Crash Program. Obama’s rejection of the essential distinction of man from all lower forms of life was the very premise of his attack on our nation’s space program and his rejection of a revolution in science through a fusion driver program. His attacks on our nation’s manned space program and our fusion research programs have been brutal. Obama had the nerve to even say that, “We don’t need any fancy fusion,”!

Now we have seen not only the shutdown of our manned space program, but the termination of work towards breakthroughs in advanced scientific programs, such as the fusion research and development program at MIT, and with serious repercussions for the fusion program at Princeton, along with the U.S. rejection of cooperation with other nations on such projects, such as ITER.

It is all being shut down because we have failed to reimplement Glass-Steagall. We have not insisted on the Hamiltonian credit system to put the necessary credit into these great scientific endeavors and large-scale infrastructure projects. We chose instead to bail out Wall Street, to protect the looters, and to let more and more people die. This was not the standard of Hamilton, nor of Franklin Roosevelt, nor of John F. Kennedy.

Kennedy understood the importance of the nation’s space program as a science driver program for progress in the economy across a broad front. And he understood nuclear power production as the complement to the space program, in terms of its effects on the economy as a whole. At the Hanford groundbreaking ceremony, he said, “We must hasten the development of low-cost atomic power. I think we should lead the world in this. … Our experts estimate that half of all electric energy generated in the United States will come from nuclear sources.”

Kennedy knew that it was essential to unleash the creative powers of every person in this nation. At Hanford, he stated, “All of the trained and educated men and women who are making our country over, who are building a better standard of living for our people—this is a time when we wish to encourage the release of energy, human energy, which is the most extraordinary of all.” Today that vision for human development and cooperation is being carried out by what China is doing in the development of its space and nuclear programs.

Implement LaRouche’s Four Laws!

LaRouche is emphatic that China has to be a model from the standpoint of the space program. The standard that China has set for itself and the world reflects nothing less than a renaissance and a new paradigm for the progress of all mankind. China’s space program is organized around a national commitment to cultural and scientific advancement, and because of this, China is now embarking on a mission to the far side of the Moon, unlike any other nation—they are accomplishing something that no other nation has ever done. What does this mean? This is a breakthrough toward a revolution in science, a breakthrough for the benefit and progress of all mankind. This is the very principle of LaRouche’s Four Laws, it is the principle of agape.

What China represents for the world today is what the United States and its founding principles once represented. What is required of our nation today is the revolution in science that LaRouche is calling for—a revolution in the conception of the nature of mankind: what it means to be human, what we are as a species.

We have to pull our nation out of the depths of the dark age conditions that have dominated much of the trans-Atlantic world in the recent decades. We must stop the mass killings and reverse the upward trend in suicides in the United States and around the world. That is why we are going to implement LaRouche’s Four Laws now. It is time to shut down Wall Street now! End the financial speculation! We must redefine our national commitment to humanity. We have the potential to bring about a Renaissance for all of mankind, if we choose to do so—based on a true understanding of what mankind is, and what our future must be.

It is time to begin our nation’s revival and return to this sacred principle of agape. This starts with the implementation of LaRouche’s Four Laws, and first, by reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act. Demand that Congress get back to Washington now, to pass Glass-Steagall! It has a responsibility to this nation and to mankind, as do we all.