The Dignity of Man, and a New Security And Development Architecture, Is in Our Hands
by Mr. X
Sept. 6—On September 5, after his plenary speech at the 70-nation Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russian President Vladimir Putin made an intervention into his own press conference. He noticed that, on the topic of the Asia-Pacific “Eastern Frontier” of economic development, including Russia’s Eastern Siberia, as well as the Arctic, questions were focused only on India, China, and Russia itself—“the Elephant, the Dragon, and the Bear.” Putin objected that the vision of the questioners was too limited. “But the Asia-Pacific region also includes, say, the United States. And there are a lot of ‘interested parties’ there who want to resume or start new work with us,” Putin observed. “We have good proposals for working with U.S. companies in Alaska. Moreover, there are resources there, and we have technologies for gas extraction and liquefaction, which are much more efficient than those that some of our American partners have. They know this, and at the level of economic participants, companies are ready for cooperation. It does not depend on us—we are also ready, but if there are political decisions there, we will move in this direction, and we can work together in the Arctic.”
If U.S. President Donald Trump had gone to Beijing this past week, the work begun on Aug. 15 in Anchorage would have been significantly advanced. No matter: It must still be done. If Trump dares to meet with Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, preferably together, in the near future, it will then become obvious—and especially painfully obvious to the British enemies of the United States, and of world economic progress—that a new just world system, with a new security and development architecture, can be inaugurated without the danger of thermonuclear war. Sixty-two years of near-fatal cultural damage to the United States, since November 22, 1963, can be arrested, and then reversed. The American people must pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and make this happen.
In his article, “Where Franklin Roosevelt Was Interrupted,” by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. (June 16, 1998), statesman Lyndon LaRouche referred to a moment, earlier than November 22, 1963, when America was first compromised: April 12, 1945, the day FDR died:
“Until the untimely death of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the post-war policy of the U.S.A. was to have been the elimination of the dominant role of what Roosevelt described as the two most obnoxious features of Britain’s imperial policies. These two leading targets of Roosevelt’s intended such reforms, were, chiefly, the elimination of the dominant ‘British Eighteenth-Century methods’ (liberal economics policy of Adam Smith) in world economic affairs, plus the eradication of the Venetian, financier-oligarchical relics of British, Dutch, French, and Portuguese imperialism….
“The U.S. objective had been, to establish an ‘American Century,’ based on the principle of cooperation among a post-imperial world of perfectly sovereign nation-state republics, each and all enjoying access to those same opportunities for benefits of scientific and technological progress, which U.S. patriots had fought Britain and its puppets, several times, to secure for ourselves….”
The United States, after FDR’s death, sided with the British imperialist outlook far too often. Rogue intelligence agencies overthrew governments and assassinated leaders. But sometimes, individuals, including in our Congress, stood up to fight, against the odds, for the true anti-colonialist interests of the United States. For example, in a similar moment to this one, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (D-NY), when the Anglophile U.S. State Department refused to attend the historic Bandung Conference, would be neither silenced nor constrained. Powell wrote: "In 1955, the Department of State deliberately and calculatedly imperiled the future of the United States of America for perhaps the rest of our lives. It did so despite advice from me which every subsequent event of history has more than supported. On April 19, 1955, for the first time in the history of the world, 29 nations of Africa and Asia met together at Bandung, Indonesia….
“I … wired President Eisenhower suggesting that a Goodwill mission be sent. On February 16, I was shocked to receive as my reply, a copy of a memorandum to the White House from the Department of State. ‘The United States will not be a participant, we will have no plans to send observers, and Congressman Powell should not be encouraged in his apparent hope to attend the conference as an observer.’ Until this moment, I had not decided to attend, but when I realized that our government’s stupidity would not allow them to send an observer to this, one of the most significant conferences in our times, I then informed the White House that I was going to Bandung anyway, and that I was going to pay my own way.”
We must now act in that same spirit: Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, at the Sept. 5 International Peace Coalition meeting, proposed a statement that wholeheartedly endorses and proposes a unity of purpose between “the West” and the Global Majority. It reads in part: "In an event of global historical significance, China and India, the two most populous nations already representing 35% of the world’s population, have now begun to cooperate closely with each other and with Russia. These countries, which are also interconnected through organizations, such as the BRICS, the Belt and Road Initiative, the Eurasian Economic Union, ASEAN, CELAC, and the African Union, collectively represent 85% of humanity.
“The emergence of this world order is a response to the collective West’s attempt after the end of the Cold War to establish a unipolar world order under Anglo-American dominance, marked by endless interventionist wars, sanctions, and regime-change efforts, which have ultimately backfired completely. The nations of the Global Majority are now overcoming an era of 500 years of colonialism and asserting their right to independent economic development…. It is in the fundamental self-interest of the nations of the collective West, no longer truly united, to cooperate with the states of the Global Majority and jointly address the great challenges facing humankind: Overcoming poverty and under-development; ensuring lasting world peace; and securing the right of every person on the planet to fulfill their potential for the realization of a shared community for the future of humanity.”
The statement is designed to be circulated, not merely for endorsements, but also for use through interventions. Some of these will be reported here in the next days. Our mission, armed with these ideas, and faced with such things as the ongoing moral atrocity in Gaza, is to qualify ourselves to become as large as current history requires us to be. This great moment requires a great people. Colonialism is dead, but the alternative has yet to take its place. Our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to join those that have begun that happy transition, and complete it.