APPEAL TO THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY
A New Paradigm for the
Common Aims of Mankind!
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Sept. 16—It is crucial that the General Assembly of the United Nations, now convening in New York, build on the progress that the G-20 Summit has achieved under China’s leadership. That summit has set a course toward a new financial architecture, and the chance is greater than ever that all nations can participate in the building of the New Silk Road on the basis of “win-win” cooperation, and that the productivity of the world economy will rise on the basis of innovation, thus overcoming poverty and the consequences of war.
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UN General Assembly hall at the UN Headquarters in New York City.
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The main problem, however, is that the West continues to cling to the status quo of a uni-polar world and the neo-liberal financial system, although both of those objectives have been unachievable for along time. The rise of Asia signifies that one nation will no longer be able to set the rules, and therefore solutions must be found through dialogue and negotiation. The neo-liberal system is in the throes of an existential crisis.
The first tactic of the globalized uni-polar outlook, the policy of regime-change and alleged humanitarian interventions, has cost the lives of millions of people, brought untold suffering to millions more, destroyed entire regions, thus creating the breeding grounds for the spread of terrorism, and has set off huge waves of refugees.
The wars against Iraq and Afghanistan alone, according to the study of Professor Neta Crawford of Brown University, have cost five trillion dollars, and have yielded this devastating result.
The second tactic of the globalized uni-polar world has been to maximize the profits for the banks which are supposedly too big to be allowed to fail (TBTF). This has led to an unbearable gap between rich and poor. The TBTF banks, with their insufficient capital base, must pay the full sum of their fines for criminal methods, and declare bankruptcy, instead of being bailed out.
Now, a new meltdown threatens, with even more catastrophic consequences than the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, because central bank schemes and methods of financial manipulations have been exhausted and are no longer effective.
In that context, two reports released in Great Britain offer an extraordinary opportunity to re-assess and correct the current policy. After the Chilcot Report, which laid the blame on Tony Blair for the illegal Iraq war which was built on lies, a commission of the British Parliament has levelled no less scathing charges against former Prime Minister David Cameron for the war in Libya, which was carried out on erroneous assumptions and led to political and economic collapse, inter-militia and inter-tribal warfare, humanitarian and migrant crises, widespread human rights violations, the spread of Qaddafi regime weapons across the region, and the growth of ISIL in North Africa.
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Prime Minister David Cameron announcing his resignation on June 24, 2016.
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On the role of the United States, the report states that, “The United States was instrumental in extending the terms of Resolution 1973 beyond the imposition of a no-fly zone to include the authorization of all necessary measures to protect civilians. In practice, this led to the imposition of a no-drive zone and the assumed authority to attack the entire Libyan Government command and communications network.”
That same overall review of the current policy should, of course, include the implications of the 28 pages of the official Joint Congressional Inquiry Report, which deals with the circumstances of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as well as the JASTA bill, which necessitate a completely new investigation.
This failed policy has caused:
• the millions of dead and injured
• the traumatized children and soldiers (including in the nations waging war)
• the destruction of cities, villages, infrastructure and irreplaceable cultural wealth.
In light of this horrendous suffering, it is not only appropriate, but a moral obligation for the countries that took part in these wars in the different coalitions of the willing, to examine the political process in their parliaments and to fully participate in the reconstruction of the regions that have been devastated. This will not bring the dead back to life, but the admission of guilt and a genuine change of policy towards development would give the people living there today hope for a future.
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Misrata, Libya, Sept. 17, 2011, during the NATO assault on Libya.
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The status quo cannot be maintained. As a result of both policies of globalization, there has been an enormous loss of trust among the populations in the trans-Atlantic world. Right-wing populist and right-extremist parties are rapidly gaining strength. The conditions of the 1930s threaten to reappear in a new form, the European Union is crumbling, and the refugee crisis will not be solved by securing the external EU borders, but will only force refugees to be relocated and removed from the news. The U.S. economy is collapsing, while the society is more than ever torn and overtaken by violence. Either this process will lead to an escalation of the confrontation with Russia and China, and to the extermination of mankind in a great war, or the leading politicians in the West will have to have the moral integrity to correct the errors of the past.
The Solution
To come back to the positive proposition at the beginning of this appeal, the course has been set toward a way out of this crisis of civilization since the G-20 summit. Not only has China presented a new level of cooperation that is not based on geopolitics, but rather on a policy that is in the mutual interest of all. It has also pledged to industrialize Africa and other low-income countries, an approach that could both solve the refugee crisis and eliminate the terrorist environment. Clearly, the extension of the New Silk Road to the Middle East and Africa both requires and will bring about growth rates of seven to ten percent.
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China standard gauge railway project in Kenya that will be part of a six-nation East African regional rail network.
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The Club of Rome has promptly stepped in with a new report under the cynical title of One Percent Is Enough, which would lead to population reduction, a fascist policy for which the Club of Rome is infamous. The UN recently emphasized that Africa needs a growth rate of at least seven to eight percent. When one of the authors of the Club of Rome report, the Norwegian Jorgen Randers, made the absurd statement that “My daughter is the most dangerous animal in the world, because she consumes 30 times more energy than a girl in a developing country,” it reveals the bestial image of man on which the Club of Rome bases its argument.
Man, in contrast to all other creatures, is able to use his creative potential to continually discover new insights into the laws of the universe. This is called scientific progress. The unlimited process of perfecting the human mind corresponds with the laws of the physical universe, which develops to ever higher energy-flux densities. We are not in a closed system on the Earth, as the Club of Rome and similar organizations claim, but rather, our planet is an integral part of the Solar system, the Galaxy, and the Universe, about which space research is discovering more and more. This research yields many advantages for Earth itself, and it is therefore excellent that China announced at the G-20 summit, that it would share with developing countries the most advanced research results of its space and lunar exploration projects.
Mankind has arrived at a crossroads. If we continue to walk the well-trodden paths with the same old policies, the world will come apart. If, on the contrary, we can agree on the common aims of mankind—an economic and financial order that serves the well-being of all mankind, and which makes possible a decent life for every person on this Earth, the securing of raw materials and energy through higher technologies such as thermonuclear fusion, the exploration of space to safeguard our planet, and a renaissance of classical cultures—then we will be able to usher in a new, better era in the history of our species.
The General Assembly of the United Nations is the fitting place, where the new paradigm of our one mankind, based on that which comes before all the differences among nations, must be established and celebrated.
This statement has been translated from German.
