This article appears in the August 23, 2019 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
A New Chapter for Humanity:
Principles for a Sustainable Future
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Aug. 17—The world has gone off the rails. We see the escalating destabilization of Hong Kong; the crisis over Kashmir is worsening; Europe is drifting apart; the second stage of the coup against President Trump is being staged in the United States; the trans-Atlantic financial system is again facing an alarmingly precarious situation, and the current status quo of the world order is falling apart, while completely new strategic alignments are forming. In the face of all this, the question arises: Is there a connection between all of these diverse events? And more fundamentally, is humanity heading for a new catastrophe, or can we adopt a common order, establishing a system of international relations among nations that guarantees the long-term survival of the human species?
Obviously, the summer 1989 “end of history” thesis of Francis Fukuyama—the idea that with the downfall of the Soviet Union there would be no more world political contradictions, but that the Western liberal system would prevail everywhere on Earth—has been refuted by reality. On the contrary, trying to subjugate the world to a unipolar, neo-liberal monetarist policy has provoked a global political backlash that has completely changed the strategic alignments. The underlying common denominator of most of the current crises, is the attempt by the forces of the old, failing system to torpedo the rise of new partnerships based on completely different principles. A glimpse into the thinking of the establishment of this old geopolitical paradigm can be found in publications of the British establishment, which sees its dominance threatened by these developments.
UK House of Lords Report
Specifically, this topic was addressed, for example, in the Summary (p. 4) of the 5th Report of the 2017-19 Session of the British House of Lords—to some extent the supervisory board of the British Empire in its modern form—published December 18, 2018, titled “UK Foreign Policy in a Shifting World Order”:
In a world where the UK’s influence can no longer be taken for granted and where the shifts in economic and political power relationships are not working to our advantage, our inquiry has brought home to us that we will need a more agile, active and flexible diplomacy to handle our international relationships to ensure that we are in a stronger position to protect and promote our interests.
Elsewhere in the Report, it is explicitly stated that this body considers its greatest challenges to be (1) a possible second term in office for Donald Trump; (2) China’s rise to global power; (3) Russia’s resurgence under President Vladimir Putin; and (4) India’s reorientation towards Asia.
By the end of the 1990s, the catastrophic consequences of the unipolar experiment had become apparent, as a world-order dominated by British imperial ideology. At that time, Lyndon LaRouche showed in a series of strategic studies, why only cooperation between Russia, China, India and the U.S. would be strong enough to replace this policy of a world empire based on the Anglo-American special relationship, with a policy in the interest of the common good.
Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the unipolar policy has given birth to “color revolutions,” regime changes, and wars of so-called “humanitarian” intervention. This has continued under the Bushes and Obama, and under British prime ministers from Thatcher to Johnson today. In response, Russia and China have consolidated their strategic partnership. India, which historically has had a profound relationship with Russia, has approached China in the context of the coming “Asian century.”
But it was above all the intent of anti-establishment President Donald Trump to put the relationship with Russia on a better footing, and his initially promising relationship with his “good friend Xi Jinping,” that threw the British-dominated, trans-Atlantic establishment into an unprecedented “huge shock,” like that of European Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen the morning after Trump’s election. There is little or nothing this establishment will not do, to block the potential for strategic cooperation among Russia, China, India and the United States.
The blatant attempt to trigger a color revolution in China with the help of a provocation in the former Crown Colony of Hong Kong, which is clearly organized by the UK and neocons in the United States, has little chance of achieving regime change in China, but its goal is to drive a permanent wedge between China and President Trump. So far, Trump has resisted massive pressure from Democrats and neocons in the Republican Party, and has declared events in Hong Kong “internal Chinese affairs.”
On behalf of an institution that likes to run the world based on the British-U.S. “special relationship,” the report of the House of Lords mentioned above also states in an amazingly unveiled fashion its hostility to Trump. In Chapter 1, Sec. 39 (p. 14) the Lords write:
Should President Trump win a second term, or a similar Administration succeed him, the damage to UK-U.S. relations will be longer lasting; and the [UK] government will need to place less reliance on reaching a common U.S./UK approach to the main issues of the day than has often been the case in the past.
Phase II of ‘Get Trump’ Coup Underway
Exactly according to this script, Trump’s Anglophile opponents are trying to rebuild their “troops” in the United States itself. Now that the two-year attempt to prove Trump’s “collusion” with Russia in his 2016 election victory has collapsed with the miserable appearance of Special Counsel Robert Mueller before Congress, Phase II of the attempted coup against Trump is underway. The Washington Examiner reported on a “crisis meeting” of the staff of the New York Times, in which executive editor Dean Baquet admitted that “Chapter 1” of the narrative against Trump, called Russiagate, did not work, and therefore, for the next two years, “Chapter 2” of the narrative must follow a new script: Trump is a white racist (and therefore responsible for the mass shootings).
Truth is not important here. It is about continuing the witch hunt against Trump by new means, to prevent him from doing what he did in bilateral summits with Putin and Xi Jinping in Mar-a-Lago, Beijing, Helsinki and Osaka—namely forging cooperation between the most important nations of the world, to solve the existential problems facing humanity today.
And only at this level can the Gordian knot of the intelligence operations be cut, from the “color revolution” in Hong Kong, to the exploitation of the ethnic and religious conflicts in Kashmir, inherited from Lord Mountbatten, against China’s New Silk Road, to the attempt to foment a color revolution against Putin, and “Chapter 2” against President Trump. The purpose of these operations is to bind and paralyze the presidents of these most important states—who all seek strategic cooperation—much as Gulliver was bound and paralyzed in Lilliput with thousands of threads and strings.
A Higher Level of Cooperation Is Needed
There must be a higher level of cooperation in solving the issues that determine the future of mankind’s existence and happiness for many generations. One of the key issues is the achievement of controlled thermonuclear fusion, which will guarantee energy and resource security, and with its help virtually every problem on the planet can be solved.
Exactly such international cooperation was suggested by President Putin at the “Global Manufacturing and Industrialization Summit” in Yekaterinburg, Russia, in July, in order to harness, as he said, this “potentially colossal, inexhaustible and secure source of energy.” However, success in controlled nuclear fusion and other fundamental tasks would only be possible if there were broad international cooperation and exchange between governments and industry, where all researchers could freely contribute the knowledge and insights of their various scientific schools and their personal expertise. Technological progress must really become global and should not be monopolized. It is about creating better living conditions and opportunities for all humanity that could unleash the greatest creative potential. Key to this is the mastery of new technologies that relate to actual processes in the universe, as is the case with the imitation of the nuclear fusion in the Sun.
Another field of research that can only be truly successful through international cooperation is space, which uniquely establishes the true identity of humanity, its dignity as the only creative species known to date, and its potentially unlimited intellectual and moral capacity for perfection.
The great German-American space pioneer Krafft Ehricke wrote in 1957:
Space travel holds perhaps the greatest general appeal for our complex and divided world. . . . Its spiritual appeal is extremely powerful, symbolizing as it does that man, after all, has not yet lost his capability of cutting the Gordian Knot, of exploding old notions which retard his development, and of overcoming seemingly invincible physical obstacles. If it can be done here, it can eventually also be done in other segments of our life today, where man seems to be hopelessly and perpetually deadlocked. A feeling of enthusiasm and genuine interest seems to prevail among all those who deal with space flight and astronautics—school children learning about it, Congressmen allotting money for it, political leaders of the East and West praising their nation’s contributions to its progress, and last, but not least, scientists and engineers blazing the trail toward its eventual accomplishment.
The LaRouche Solution
A way out of the dangerous momentum outlined above—caused by the attempt of the geopolitical forces to preserve the long-lost status quo and the associated privileges of a small upper class—can only exist if we in Europe and the USA make the leap to join forces with Russia, China, India, and other nations to reach the common goals of humanity. The potential for this is provided by the Artemis program. President Trump has directed NASA to send Americans to the Moon again, this time by 2024, and then establish international cooperation in the colonization of Mars.
In Europe, international cooperation in the ITER international nuclear fusion research project, located in Cadarache in southern France, and the European Space Agency’s cooperation with the space agencies of the United States, Russia, China, India and other countries, provide the optimistic outlook that is a model for international cooperation in a new paradigm of relations among nations.
Ultimately, humanity will only overcome our present existential crisis if we seek to understand the real laws of the physical universe not only in science, which is indispensable in nuclear fusion and space, but also to understand the universal principles of politics and economics, as Lyndon LaRouche has so beautifully conceptualized in his science of physical economy.
