A Strategic New Deal for Humanity
Aug. 15--Today, as the Anchorage, Alaska Trump-Putin summit conference occurs, what is required of the citizens of the trans-Atlantic sector is “Action, and Action Now!” When Franklin Roosevelt spoke those words on March 4, 1933, he re-set the relationship between the American Presidency and the American people, in a “New Deal.” That is the true “Art of the Deal—” remove fear from the lives of the people, through using the economy to allow them to work and prosper at the expense of the speculators and parasites, and they will, in turn, and if called upon, fight to save the world, as they did, particularly between 1941 and 1945.
A “Strategic New Deal,” a new security and development architecture, must now supersede the last decades of Anglo-American chaos. The actions of Director of National Intelligence(DNI) Tulsi Gabbard have temporarily neutralized the British intelligence-run “Russiagate,” although Vice President J.D. Vance’s recent remarks in London [about the alleged special relationship between Perfidious Albion and its former colony, the United States) indicate the deeper vulnerability that plagues the Administration on evaluating the true, committed enemy of the United States. FDR’s presence, acknowledged or not, hovers over the Anchorage conference, wedged as it is between this year’s two great commemorations of the 80th anniversary of World War II's victory over fascism—those that have already happened in Moscow on May 8-9, and those that are about to happen in Beijing on Sept. 3.
In World War II, 420,000 Americans gave their lives, whereas Russia, however, suffered at least 27 million dead. Chinese sources, now preparing for the Sept. 3 ceremonies, have cited a casualty figure there of 35 million. They also point out that their war against the Japanese extended from 1931 (not 1937) to 1945—fourteen years, compared to the four years starting with Pearl Habor on Dec. 7, 1941, for the United States. Over 100 million people worldwide died as a direct result of the conflict. The Anchorage meeting occurs as the world has begun to now plunge into the same path of tragic self-destruction.
The specter of impending tragedy, however, must be converted to hope. We need a higher vision of humanity, which the so-called “elites” of the West, particularly California’s Silicon Valley trans-humanists, moral descendants of the British/Nazi eugenicists of the last century, hate. The LaRouche Organization has therefore mobilized to shift the thinking in the transatlantic sector to influence the underlying dynamic of the Anchorage summit process. If this first meeting is successful, it will be one in a series of such. Notably, if President Trump were to journey to China, either at the time of the Sept. 3 commemorations or slightly after, such a process can move the world, in the short term, away from Hell.
The “Action, and Action Now” available to free citizens from all over the world, is to propose an effective, elevated solution, an alternative to the march to total war that otherwise appears unstoppable. There are two ideas, offered by Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche: First, that President Trump should accept the invitation of the Chinese government, and travel to Beijing for the Sept. 3 commemorations. Second, the Bering Strait Tunnel Project, advocated for decades by economist Lyndon LaRouche and Helga Zepp-LaRouche, should be immediately discussed among the three nations as a collaborative alternative to war.
The Bering Strait Tunnel (and Bridge) is a project that would connect the U.S./North American and Russia/Eurasian land masses, and by extension, the continents of North and South America, with the continents of Eurasia and Africa. This could, within two generations, at most, of advanced technology transfer, ultimately create, not only a Eurasian Land-Bridge, but a World Land-Bridge. This is a series of “development corridors” stretching across the interiors of the Eurasian, African, and North and South American continents, completely transforming the planet.
“Ukraine,” no matter what the foolish wish to think, is, while important to resolve, not the central matter that the American delegation in Anchorage should cause to be under discussion—especially given the realities of NATO’s impending defeat on the battlefield. In taking up the aforementioned policy perspective, the United States can reverse the fateful, tragic misapplications of the powers of the American Presidency that occurred in the immediate weeks following the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt on April 12, 1945, leading to the unwarranted dropping of the atomic bomb. “Had the same wartime, Roosevelt program of 1939-1945, been adapted to the rapid, post-war, agro-industrial development of new nations freshly freed from the debilitating hand of British, French, etc. imperialism, the U.S. and its partners would have enjoyed a continuing, post-war economic growth. The policy-shaping institutions established under the first two decades of such a post-war conversion program, would have virtually ensured further, planetary growth and stability throughout the 1945-1998 interval,” wrote Lyndon LaRouche, in “Where Franklin Roosevelt Was Interrupted.”
Of course, as Col. Larry Wilkerson said in an interview yesterday, there is another path that might be taken in Anchorage. “Also a possibility is, we terminate right here, and Putin and his team go home, and Trump basks in his having stood up to the Russians, and uses that domestically and tries internationally. It could be either way. I’m hoping it’s the former.” We, choose, however, not to hope, but to act.
Consider the awesome implications of failure. On May 28, 1945, former President Herbert Hoover, visiting Harry Truman in the White House, proposed to him: “I am convinced that if you, as President, will make a shortwave broadcast to the people of Japan—tell them they can have their Emperor if they surrender, that it will not mean unconditional surrender except for the militarists—you’ll get a peace in Japan—you’ll have both wars over.”
Truman instead went along with recommendations from the British Ministry of Defense, Winston Churchill, and their American counterparts. The British as soon as they were certain that the atomic bomb would work, recommended “Operation Unthinkable,” which called for the United States to declare war on its ally, the Soviet Union, by July 1, 1945. While Truman did not adopt the entire policy, it was decided by July 25 to drop the bombs, even as the Potsdam conference was under way. After the Hiroshima bomb was dropped on August 6, Hoover wrote on August 8, “The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.” The next day, the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.
What would Eisenhower, MacArthur, and even Hoover think about the unfolding situation in Gaza, where, as Jeffrey Sachs and others have pointed out, elements now in power in Israel would not hesitate to use their undeclared but very real scores (and probably hundreds) of nuclear weapons “if threatened”? Sane Israeli elements, like former Knesset Speaker Avrum Burg, who will address meeting #115 of the International Peace Coalition today along with former CIA analyst Ray McGovern and Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, has “called on Friday for 1 million Jews, worldwide, to join a collective legal complaint at the International Court of Justice, accusing Israel of crimes against humanity in Gaza,” reported Haaretz on Aug. 10.
“Never Again!” is a choice, not a hope. A Strategic New Deal starts with the dispossessed and forgotten, the despised and rejected, with advancing the General Welfare of each and every human being on the planet, in the name of the 100 million who perished in the last world war, and the billions who will perish in the next. That is the Action, and Action Now—the choice that must be made in Anchorage, and in the hearts and minds of each of us.