by Mr. X

July 11—“Man Is Not a Wolf to Man! For a New Paradigm in International Relations!” is more than the title of the Schiller Institute’s International Conference this Saturday and Sunday, July 12-13. The intention, as well as the resolve, embedded in the title-statement, is to fight for the hegemony of a higher vision of humanity than that of today’s bestial “geopolitics.” Creative non-violent direct action, through fighting for world physical-economic solutions, is a winning method by which we rise above the self-containing, self-enveloping, self-destructive tragedy of violence, war and moral indifference that is the sum total of trans-Atlantic policy toward some 8 billion people on the planet right now.

As The LaRouche Organization pamphlet, “Economic Recovery Plan 2025 in the Spirit of 1776” puts it, “We can absolutely reverse this collapse, and revive our productive economy, but it will take a cultural shift, away from the worship of Mammon toward a better understanding of mankind’s relationship to the development of our species’ future, and the development of our universe as a whole.” For example, America’s descent into an imperial outlook, burdened by a “zombie dollar” created through the destruction of American industry, agriculture and advanced science, could only be reversed by a return to productive physical economy. Monetary manipulations, whether through tariffs, through zombie “crypt currencies,” or through the other zany pseudo-ideas of the artificially intelligent trans-human moral morons of Silicon Valley, are actually accelerating America’s loss of world influence and world power in the short term, no matter how loudly the opposite is bellowed to be the case.

A falling-down drunk worth a trillion dollars is a trillion-dollar drunk. The trans-Atlantic system, including the United States, is way worse. The war-intoxicated, post-Bretton Woods “funny-monetary” system owes an unpayable two-plus quadrillion dollars! The “golden billion” persons in the trans-Atlantic sector are part of this bankrupt system, which pretends to be not only solvent, but vibrant and even lucrative. Meanwhile, “outside,” at least 6 of the other 8 billion people on the planet, particularly in Africa, South America and Asia, are making a different choice than to play along with that financial video game.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, speaking on July 7 at a post-BRICS press conference in Brazil, said: “Addressing the BRICS summit via videoconference, President of Russia Vladimir Putin said that the old-time system primarily catered to the interests of the Golden Billion. This era is receding into the past. Everyone prioritizes principles being promoted by BRICS as a foundation of a truly multilateral, equitable and mutually beneficial cooperation between all countries.”

On BRICS, U.S. President Trump on July 8 said, “BRICS was set up to degenerate our dollar, to take our dollar—take it off the standard,” and said that result would be as bad “as losing a war, as losing a world war.” BRICS was not, however, in fact, set up for the purpose of creating an alternative currency to the dollar. BRICS exists so that those nations that have been thought of as “unequal” to Europe, those nations that Josep Borrell and others have referred to, and think of, as “the jungle,” will economically work together for their own benefit, in their own way, and with nations that do not view them as inferior.

The Global Majority, particularly those of the Global South, have been through the rodeo of physically paying, with their raw materials, precious metals, food, and their blood, for debts they did not actually incur in the first place. Through “bankers’ arithmetic,” for decades they have, like sharecroppers in the American South, paid back far more than they have incurred. The United States, because its leaders do not study the idea of economics and statesman Lyndon LaRouche, does not even realize that the idea of the World Land-Bridge, developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by Lyndon LaRouche from a prison cell, was largely intended to involve precisely Africa, Asia, and South and Central America. This, in collaboration with, not in opposition to, China and other BRICS members, will be the key to an American Economic Recovery Plan for 2025-2026. It could occur just in time for the 250th birthday of the anti-colonial American Revolution, actually begun in the 1760s, which culminated in the Declaration of Independence and later, the Constitution of the United States.

Our present, tragic path has been fully outlined for us, as American “junior partners” by British intelligence and the Royal Institute for International Affairs’ Chatham House, which attacked the BRICS meeting. Chatham House was particularly disappointed that neither Xi Jinping nor Vladimir Putin were at the just-concluded BRICS Summit. It was hoped that by inducing President Donald Trump to attack the BRICS by name—which he has now done—British “intelligence” could thereby up the ante of division, especially between Trump and China. Chatham House asserted that BRICS itself was “divided” between the “anti-Western” Russia/China on the one side, and the “non-anti-Western” India and Brazil on the other. (South Africa is usually dismissed by the British for racialist reasons.)

This weekend’s Berlin Conference will demonstrate the opposite of Chatham House—instead, “A New Paradigm in International Relations!” Its nature will be very familiar to those that know about United States President (1825-1829) John Quincy Adams, previously the American Secretary of State. It will be even clearer to those who know the 1644-48 process that created the Treaty of Westphalia. Quincy Adams’ words, “Always stand on principle … even if you stand alone,” should be kept in mind in this turbulent situation, when reading Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s Tenth Principle:

“The basic assumption for the new paradigm is, that man is fundamentally good and capable to infinitely perfect the creativity of his mind and the beauty of his soul, and being the most advanced geological force in the universe, which proves that the lawfulness of the mind and that of the physical universe are in correspondence and cohesion, and that all evil is the result of a lack of development, and therefore can be overcome.” We must strive that all policy in international relations, and in this crisis, must start with that principle.