EIR LEAD EDITORIAL FOR SUNDAY DECEMBER 25, 2022

Making Miracles

Dec. 24, 2022 (EIRNS)—More than 1,000 faith leaders in the United States, representing every major faith tradition and hailing from every state of the nation, have added their names to a call for a Christmas Truce in Ukraine.

“In the spirit of the truce that occurred in 1914 during the First World War, we urge our government to take a leadership role in bringing the war in Ukraine to an end through supporting calls for a ceasefire and negotiated settlement, before the conflict results in a nuclear war that could devastate the world’s ecosystems and annihilate all of God’s creation.”

Writing in the New York Daily News, Ariel Gold, who played a leading role in organizing the effort, explained that a truce could be a step towards a greater moral clarity recognizing the need for negotiations to ensure a lasting peace: “The way out of the war in Ukraine will not be a military solution.... The way to peace requires powers of a different sort: negotiation and imagination.”

At this time of year, extend the imagination to the potentially immortal purpose, and existence, of each human life. Each of us, through our actions and omissions, leaves a trace on the course of history. The miraculous coherence between our minds and the lawfulness of the universe allows us creatively to develop our talents, and to spend them with wisdom and love.

While the frantic rush towards world-ending war is seen in the mountebank actor Zelenskyy’s appearance at the U.S. Congress, in the relentless, seal-like applause directed his way by members of that body, and the fog of propaganda that has convinced, or cowed, too many citizens of the world.

But the great potential of the human species, stamped in our nature, available for expression, can spring forth, through a discussion of Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s Ten Principles of a New International Security and Development Architecture.

The Schiller Institute’s own call for a truce, “One Step Away from the Nuclear Annihilation of Mankind—A Christmas Truce for All!” is posted to its homepage.

Editor’s Note: EIR Daily Alert will skip the issues on Christmas and New Year’s, and therefore, no issues will be published on Dec. 26 and Jan. 2. Vol. 9, Issue 360 will be published on Dec. 27, 2022 and Vol. 10 Issue 2 will be published on Jan. 3, 2023.