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30/05/2026

Intervene with Needed Ideas and Debate into the ‘Historic Moment’ for Humanity
May 29, 2026 (EIRNS)—The timing and content of the May 17 “Open Letter to Governments of the United Nations: A Policy To Bring Peace and Development to Southwest Asia,” following the EIR Emergency Roundtable dialogue May 15, has contributed significantly to the discussion in and around the many international events at the end of this month, coming at what was called an “historic moment” for humanity by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in his opening remarks May 26 for the UN Security Council “High-Level Open Debate: Upholding the UN Charter and Strengthening the UN-Centered International System.”

Well over 105 countries and organizations gave presentations during this debate, held during May 26 and May 28, but even so, this UN Security Council special session was not the only important international occasion. As of the close of this month, a number of other gatherings also served as platforms for dialogue and initiatives toward steering a course away from dangerous warfare and Western “Epstein Class” breakdown, to the higher path of progress.

On May 28 in New York, the Group of Friends of Global Governance met at the United Nations, again under chairmanship of Minister Wang, who presented nine points of recommended reforms of world governance, with representatives from 60 nations in the discussion. He started with ways to restore the United Nations to the principle of serving the sovereign interests of all nations.

In Eurasia this week there were two major multi-nation conclaves. In Russia, from May 26-29 was the first International Moscow Security Conference, along with the 14th International Meeting of High Representatives Responsible for Security Issues. In Kazakhstan were meetings in Astana of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), with its plenary May 28, and today its heads of state Council session. Joining Kazakh President Tokayev and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was on an official state visit, were leaders of the three other EAEU members, and additional guest nations.

Taken altogether—including the initiative of the “Open Letter,” under the signature of Helga Zepp-LaRouche of the Schiller Institute and EIR Editor in Chief—these occasions for deliberation constitute an intervention in support of humanity. Certain public statements explicitly recognize this point, by cross-connecting what is underway in this process, especially in connection with the combined leadership of Russia and China. In Moscow, host of the International Moscow Security Conference Sergei Shoigu, Secretary of the Security Council of Russia, put it this way May 28:

“In order to strengthen coordination between countries of the Global South and East, the following is important: to comprehensively reinforce the central coordinating role of the United Nations (UN), to support the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations established on Russia’s initiative, and to avoid provoking contradictions, disagreements and confrontation in relations between countries of the Global South and East. […] Of particular importance in the current conditions are the initiatives of the President of the Russian Federation to form a Greater Eurasian Partnership and an architecture of collective security on the Eurasian continent. […] Moscow, for its part, will continue […] to provide partners with assistance through supplies of agricultural products, fertilizers and hydrocarbons and jointly work on the creation of pooled reserves of resources.”

Key points of the Open Letter provide content for debate in this spirit of getting on with tasks and decisions to serve mutual interests of nations, focused on the immediate necessity toward settling the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. One of the Letter’s four points proposed by Ahmet Davutoglu, former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Turkiye, is the offer for Turkiye to be a location for temporary storage of radioactive material from Iran. If unacceptable, in practice, there are other proposals: For example, the IAEA is offering to supervise storage in Kazakhstan. Or other alternatives must be taken up.

This same kind of approach to debate it and solve it is especially true of the Extended Oasis Plan economic development perspective for the Greater Southwest Asia/North Africa region, which is in the Open Letter. It has been put forward for decades since its outline in the 1970s by statesman and economist Lyndon LaRouche. There are many debatable sub-points, and open questions. For example, what share of the goal of total water supply in the Trans-Jordan region should be desalinated at multiple seawater locations, as opposed to desalination at a few huge complexes with multi-nation conveyance systems? Plus, what will be the new system of credit and funding for construction, transition, and operation?

Yet another conference in Eurasia this week was directly relevant to this approach, the world over. In Tajikistan, the Dushanbe Conference of the Water Action Decade (2018-2028) took place in the capital, May 25-28. Co-sponsored by the UN and Tajikistan, this year’s conference, the fourth such event, was attended by 110 countries and 75 international organizations. Until now, hung up by the drag factor of UN bureaucracy and Western anti-development finance networks, little has been accomplished on world water improvements, with the outstanding exception of China. But with the global shift to new multi-nation commitments, this can change. At present, some 2 billion people worldwide lack safe drinking water, and 3.5 billion lack water for sanitation.

Break down the world crisis by continent and the tasks are clear. In Central Asia, which was one of the topic areas of the Dushanbe conference, the Himalayan run-off resource base (Amu Darya and Syr Darya Rivers) has been insufficient for the population for decades, and “new” water needs to be diverted southward from the Arctic-flowing rivers in Russia—the Ob and Irtysh. This project was on the agenda under the U.S.S.R., and now has renewed interest. Similarly, in North America, the limited Rocky Mountain and other mountain run-off flows have been insufficient for the dry Southwest for decades. The North American Water and Power Alliance, set to go in the 1960s, must now happen. In the Southern Hemisphere there are corresponding overdue and exciting tasks.

These are the needed ideas we are called upon to bring into the world debate without delay. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, on her May 27 weekly webcast “Extended Oasis Plan Key to Development Architecture,” said of China’s UN “open debate” initiative and related deliberation, “I think this is a very important discussion process, because it pertains to the question, is the human species capable of governing itself, or are we on the path of potential self-destruction, which is not an answered question yet.”

Join the mobilization through the International Peace Coalition. Watch for early reports from the capstone event of this historic week: the Schiller Institute international conference in Berlin this weekend. Stay up to date through [https://eir.news/

28/05/2026

The Fate of Humanity Is Not Yet Decided: It’s Time for You to Act https://www.laroucheorganization.com/
May 27, 2026 (EIRNS)—“Is the human species capable of governing itself,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche asked in her webcast of May 27, “or are we on the path of potential self-destruction?” This question remains to be answered.

The dangerous and very volatile state of the world strategic picture, from the illegal aggressive war against Iran to the deranged continuation of the Ukraine war on the part of Ukraine’s Western sponsors, to countless other hot spots, “require[s] that the adults in the room get together and uphold he idea of [an] international, lawfully ordered society,” Zepp-LaRouche proclaimed.

An important effort to do just that is taking place this week at the United Nations: On May 26, China convened a Security Council open debate on the topic, “Upholding the Purposes and Principles of the UN Charter and Strengthening the UN-Centered International System,” during which Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi observed that “the challenges before us are testing the international community’s commitment to safeguarding peace, its resolve to stand up for justice, and its courage to take bold reforms.” By the time the meeting concludes on May 28, more than 100 governments will have spoken, most laying out the need for a multipolar world centered in international law in order to achieve peace—“a turn to the rule of reason,” in the words of the Panamanian representative.

Meanwhile, the government of Russia continues to warn the world, and particularly the West, that if the growing provocations from the European elites continue, including their ongoing military support for Ukrainian terrorist attacks against Russia, they are “digging their own graves,” as Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the Moscow International Security Forum on May 27.

Identifying the modus operandi of the Empire (Epstein) class, which, facing the collapse of their system, is moving to blow up any attempt to replace it, the Russian Embassy in Washington released a statement on Wednesday, May 27, in warning to the U.S. which calls out exactly this outmoded, troglodyte mentality: “EU and NATO leaders, including the masters of intrigue, the British, unwilling to sacrifice their own recruits when the Ukrainians are ground down, are trying to draw the U.S. into their doomed schemes to inflict a ‘strategic defeat’ on Russia.”

Such a strategic defeat of the world’s largest nuclear power is not possible, as Ryabkov noted to the Moscow Forum, and many other sane voices have warned that to try would mean provoking a civilization-ending nuclear conflict.

Add to this the still unresolved danger of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, the end of which might be negotiated in “a few more days,” in the words of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio—or not, including the likelihood that the Netanyahu crowd and their Epstein-class sponsors decide to blow it up.

“We need to completely change the paradigm and move to a new security architecture. You have to go back to when the whole direction went in the wrong way at the time of the German unification, when there was a chance to have a peace order. Everything which has happened since went in the wrong direction. If you want to prevent a catastrophe, I think we have to go back and start from scratch and undo a lot of things which have happened in the last 30-plus years,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche asserted.

An indispensable component of such a new security architecture is the issue of development. This was put on the table at the UN meeting by Wang Yi, who declared that “Development, as the key to all problems, must remain at the center of the international agenda.” It is also the basis of Zepp-LaRouche’s proposal for the Extended Oasis Plan for Southwest Asia, endorsed by many prominent figures as a new paradigm solution which could catapult the entire discussion, in the region and elsewhere, to a new domain, thus turning one of the most crisis-ridden areas of the world into the catalyst for a new, human world order.

Such a change will not happen automatically—especially given the culturally and morally depraved state of most of the leadership in the collective West. Citizens of goodwill in all nations must decide to act.

“If things continue, we are going to have a civilizational collapse the dimensions of which people have no inkling yet,” Zepp-LaRouche warned. “[Whether], under these circumstances, the adults in the room can keep their heads above water and shape policies is not yet decided. I think it will depend to a very large extent on how many people take the fate of humanity in their heart and mind and act. We are proposing solutions. We have candidates who are representing these solutions. So, join us.”
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24/05/2026

LET US WORK TO PREVENT THIS FROM HAPPENING!!!!
Will World War III Begin on German Soil?
May 23, 2026 (EIRNS)—It is arguably the case that the spark that could unleash nuclear World War III between NATO and Russia (and China) will not come from the war against Iran or even Ukraine—dangerous though those crises continue to be—but from Germany.

On a widely watched TV talk show on ZDF, Germany’s second public television channel, a highly-respected retired brigadier general who was Military Policy Adviser to former Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2006-2013, Erich Vad, finally gave voice to what many Germans have been scared to say out loud. “Your rhetoric is driving us into a war!” he told CDU security expert Roderich Kiesewetter, a well-known war hawk. If the anti-Russian war mobilization of Germany by the Merz government continues; if they insist on bringing Ukraine into the EU on an expedited basis; and if Germany and other NATO countries keep producing and guiding the drones that are raining havoc on Russia, “You will have Russian missile strikes on our country!” Vad warned.

Vad didn’t mince his words: “The day will come when they [the Russians] carry out retaliatory strikes against Europe, against Germany. First conventionally, and if necessary, they’ll go one level higher. Russia is the world’s strongest nuclear power. If we bring Ukraine into Europe, we will bring the war with Russia into Europe!”

Vad was not overstating the problem.

The Russian government is placing the blame squarely on the nations of NATO and the EU for what they call the “barbaric” May 22 attack on the Starobelsk trade school in the Lugansk People’s Republic, in which Ukrainian drones killed 18 adolescents (at last count) and wounded dozens more as they slept in their dormitories. “This constitutes a manifestation of neo-N**ism,” President Vladimir Putin charged. “It was a targeted strike against civilians—straight out of the German N**i playbook,” a Russian Foreign Ministry statement reported, adding: “These strikes use long-range weapons supplied to the Kiev regime by NATO countries, including drones, and are being carried out with the technical assistance of foreign specialists from well-known NATO member states. We have reliable information that Western capitals are feeding intelligence to the Ukrainian armed forces and helping with targeting.”

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a United Russia Party gathering: “The European Union is now virtually indistinguishable from NATO and has essentially become a replica of that alliance… We are also seeing instances of direct military intervention.”

Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche today described the very idea that Germany would somehow go to war against Russia as totally insane. She called on the Merz government to stop its provocative policies, and for Russia and Germany to instead return to a path of mutually beneficial economic cooperation. She also called on peace-loving forces, political groups and individuals around the world to put a spotlight on this danger, and initiate a serious international discussion of the crisis, and of the policy alternatives to war and economic depression.

Zepp-LaRouche called for the widest possible distribution of her open letter “To the Governments of the United Nations: A Policy to Bring Peace and Development to Southwest Asia”, which is designed to contribute to the policy debate around the need for a new international security and development architecture that is set to occur at the May 26 special session of the United Nations Security Council.

On May 26, China, as the rotating chair of the United Nations Security Council, will convene a meeting under the theme “Upholding the Purposes and Principles of the UN Charter and Strengthening the UN-Centered International System.” The meeting will occur with the world at a historical branching...

22/05/2026

Sanchez Effect
‘We were in bread lines, begging for work. Is it worth repeating that to defend Bibi?’ – George Galloway
https://www.rt.com/shows/sanchez-effect/640311-galloway-bibi-depression-russiagate/

19/05/2026

A Very Precious Moment To Act To Bring a New Paradigm into Existence
May 17, 2026 (EIRNS)—“This is a very precious moment in history, which must not be missed,” Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche wrote with urgency in a May 17 open letter addressed to the Governments of the United Nations, but also meant for action by all the peoples of the world.

In little more than a week, the United Nations Security Council, under the rotating chairmanship of China, will hold a special session on May 26 open to representatives of all United Nations members on “Upholding the Purposes and Principles of the UN Charter and Strengthening the UN-Centered International System.” Zepp-LaRouche is urging that body to take up an integrated proposal of former Prime Minister of Türkiye Ahmet Davutoğlu’s outline for a “comprehensive regional framework” to bring sustainable peace to Southwest Asia, combined with Zepp-LaRouche’s Extended Oasis Plan for the physical economic development of each and every nation in the region—and thereafter, the world. This approach was discussed and adopted at the May 15 EIR Emergency Roundtable, “The Iran War and the ‘Controlled Disintegration’ of the World Economy.” Speaking there, Professor Davutoğlu was more than emphatic in his support of Zepp-LaRouche’s approach: “I fully agree. The best way of peace is economic interdependency. There is no other way. You can sign peace plans, you can make many declarations, but the best way of peace is economic interdependency. Whenever you have economic interdependency, nobody will be starting a war. So, economic interdependency means development.”

“The world [is] at a historical branching point, where humanity can choose to go in one of two very different directions,” Zepp-LaRouche wrote. “The unprovoked and aggressive war against Iran, and its ensuing effects, has placed the Middle East at an impasse and threatens a potentially fatal escalation into a global economic depression or even global nuclear war. At the same time, the meetings between President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump in Beijing have opened the door to a new level of cooperation between the world’s two largest economies, creating an opportunity to implement an entirely different policy than that which created today’s crisis.”

Great historical changes do not require prolonged time to come about. They require decisive, concerted action around solution-concepts at those “precious moments in history” when a sea-change is possible. Over the next week, circulate Zepp-LaRouche’s open letter and organize around it from that standpoint.

On May 26, China, as the rotating chair of the United Nations Security Council, will convene a meeting under the theme “Upholding the Purposes and Principles of the UN Charter and Strengthening the UN-Centered International System.” The meeting will occur with the world at a historical branching...

15/05/2026

🥳Cooperation or (Un)-Controlled Disintegration: The Choice After Beijing
May 14, 2026 (EIRNS)—On May 14, Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump met in Beijing and pledged “a constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability”—a three-year framework, an institutionalized economic channel, and a high-level calendar through year’s end. The handshake at the Great Hall of the People was the opening of a possible road back from the brink. On the same day, however, the road in the opposite direction was being constructed in London and Washington. The May 15 EIR Emergency Roundtable will examine the choice between these two roads, and the program required to take the right one.

The Beijing opening was itself made possible by the strategic failure of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, which has not delivered the results its planners so confidently projected. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, on her weekly webcast on May 13, named the shift: “The fact that a middle-sized country could withstand the United States, the strongest military machine on the planet, for more than two months—that changes the chessboard strategically completely.” The American doctrine of recent decades—to prevent any country from “bypassing it economically, politically or militarily in terms of strength”—has been falsified in the real world. China watched. So did the Gulf states, which are now, in Zepp-LaRouche’s phrase, “scrambling,” because “the United States bases are not a protection, but a liability.”

The cost of the war that produced this shift, however, is staggering, and most of it is yet to be felt. The damage is the leading exhibit of where the wrong road leads. The World Food Program projects 45 million additional people pushed into acute hunger, taking the global total past 319 million—an all-time record. The total monetary cost of the war, counting destroyed productive capital and foregone output, is on the order of $4 trillion. The Pentagon’s April 29 figure of $25 billion is less than 1% of the true bill. Put another way, military spending can exact costs 100 times greater. Iran’s actions in the Strait of Hormuz, an entirely predictable response, are reverberating through the global economy.

In the mid-1970s, the New York Council on Foreign Relations published 1980s Project which explicitly called for the “controlled disintegration” of the world economy as a means of preserving establishment political control. In November 1978, then-Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker declared in England that “a controlled disintegration in the world economy is a legitimate object for the 1980s” and worked to bring it about. The model exists.

And the same road continues to be built. In Britain, the London-based Council on Geostrategy this month published a report pitching a “sub-strategic” nuclear capability the U.K. has not had since the 1990s, including the tripling of purchases of the U.S.’s nuclear-capable F-35A, in order to add a new “rung” to the escalatory ladder against Russia. In Washington, Energy Secretary Chris Wright has testified that the United States has no technical need to resume explosive nuclear testing—but might do so “for other reasons” of a political nature. The Congressional Budget Office estimates this week that President Trump’s Golden Dome missile-defense program will cost $1.2 trillion over 20 years, and would be incapable of stopping a peer-adversary attack. Each is a deliberate investment, intellectual or financial, in continued strategic escalation, incompatible with a serious reading of the Trump-Xi framework.

Beijing offers a different premise: Real cooperation between the world’s two largest economies is incompatible with controlled disintegration. The Bessent-He Lifeng economic channel, the prospect of a Trade Commission, and the parallel multilateral track at the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in New Delhi, and the New Development Bank’s Annual Meeting in Moscow are the architecture of a different road. They are the moves of states acknowledging, as Zepp-LaRouche has put it for four years, that “the present order is clearly disintegrating. So this is now the time for this conception”—a new security and development architecture that, in her words, “must take into account the interest of every single country, or it will not work.”

That conception is the central topic of the May 15 EIR Emergency Roundtable Dialogue, “The Iran War and the ‘Controlled Disintegration’ of the World Economy.” Speakers include Helga Zepp-LaRouche, an Iranian Ambassador, Princeton Professor Richard Falk, former President of Guyana Donald Ramotar, a Brazilian BRICS scholar, Nigerian investigative journalist David Hundeyin, a former Indian government official, and EIR Ibero-American Editor Dennis Small. The Roundtable will be held Friday, May 15 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time, online via Zoom and live-streamed on YouTube, with simultaneous interpretation in Spanish, French, and German.

To put the event in perspective, Zepp-LaRouche told her webcast audience: “As long as you participate, you can bring in your ideas and not be somebody sitting on the sidelines, which is a bad idea in times like this.”

The Beijing summit has created an opportunity. EIR’s roundtable provides what is needed next. Tune in; bring others. The hour is late.

May 15 at 11:00 a.m. ET Online via Zoom and live-streamed over YouTube Simultaneous interpretation into Spanish, French, and German will be available Speakers Session A (Moderator: Dennis Speed) * Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany): Editor-in-chief, Executive Intelligence Review * H.E. Abolfazl Pasandide...

14/05/2026

The Backdrop to the Trump-Xi Summit
May 13, 2026 (EIRNS)—“In the case of the actualization of the presently onrushing general monetary-financial blow-out,” Lyndon LaRouche wrote in November 2004, "all of the sundry elements of a complexly integrated world system, including the most notable nations of Asia, would be plunged into chaos in a way most nearly resembling the plunge of Fourteenth Century Europe into its notorious New Dark Age.

“What prevents most among what were presumably well-informed circles of finance and government, from seeing this fact,” LaRouche continued, “is that they are gripped, hysterically, by the fearful delusion that a crash of the type which is now onrushing simply would never happen. In fact, unless certain radical changes of the type I would propose were taken, the crash deemed unthinkable by most today will happen, very soon.”

In the 10 weeks since U.S. President Donald Trump launched the U.S.-Israeli war of aggression against Iran on Feb. 28, which led to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, gasoline prices in the U.S. have risen by about 46%. Diesel, the lifeblood of American agriculture, has jumped by 48%.

Now look at Asia. Gas prices in the Philippines (population 118 million) have leapt by 65% in the same time period. In Malaysia (population 36 million), by 55%. And in Pakistan (population 259 million), by 61%.

India (population 1.477 billion), is the third largest oil consumer in the world and imports 87% of its total consumption, with half of that historically coming through the Strait of Hormuz. Despite this extraordinary import dependency, gas prices at the pump have not gone up at all in India—but only because, at the instruction of the government, major state retailers have frozen retail rates, and the government has taken the financial hit instead. That means that India’s $175 billion spent on oil imports in 2025 will rise by at least 50% to about $265 billion in 2026. Small wonder that threats of speculative financial warfare against India are already surfacing, such as the Bloomberg report that “a widening current account deficit will put pressure on the rupee, raise external borrowing needs, and make the economy more vulnerable to global capital outflows.”

India will not suffer such attacks passively. India is this year’s rotating chair of the BRICS grouping of nations, with its 11 members and 10 partner nations, which is committed to building a new, more just global economic system. The BRICS Foreign Ministers are meeting in New Delhi on May 14-15—the same days Trump will be meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov hit the nail on the head in a May 12 interview before departing for New Delhi, when asked about the policies coming from Washington and the West:

“They put pressure on everyone, demanding that they should not purchase Russian oil, and this is unfair play. These are colonial, or neocolonial, methods. ‘You shouldn’t purchase cheap Russian oil. You should purchase my expensive oil, and buy expensive LNG from the U.S. We will rule the world by controlling global energy,’” Lavrov said, adding that not all countries “cave in to such pressure.”

One thing that Trump will find out in his summit discussions with Xi Jinping is that China is a country that will not cave in—as he found that Iran also has not caved in. Nor has Russia.

Not caving in is an important first step. The next step then has to be the construction of a global alternative to the current bankrupt system, with its in-built drive for unending wars. That will be the central topic addressed at the May 15 EIR Emergency Roundtable Dialogue, “The Iran War and the ‘Controlled Disintegration’ of the World Economy”.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche told her weekly webcast audience today: “This will be an extremely important meeting … [with] top-level government officials, acting ambassadors, former members of parliament, professors, experts. The focus will be on the effect of the danger of a new world depression coming out of the consequences of the war against Iran.”

She continued: “Because we have to get people not only the right analysis of the problem, but also what the solution is. And that has to be a new security and development architecture, which must take into account the interest of every single country, or it will not work. And I get many responses from people who realize that what they thought was a utopian idea, when I mentioned it the first time four years ago, are now saying, ‘Well, the present order is clearly disintegrating. So this is now the time for this conception.’”

May 15 at 11:00 a.m. ET Online via Zoom and live-streamed over YouTube Simultaneous interpretation into Spanish, French, and German will be available Speakers Session A (Moderator: Dennis Speed) * Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Germany): Editor-in-chief, Executive Intelligence Review * H.E. Abolfazl Pasandide...

13/05/2026

We Must Have the Wisdom To Change Our Axioms—Dump Geopolitics!
May 12, 2026 (EIRNS)—All eyes are on China as U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to begin a two-day state visit which many are hoping will provide some stability in a world situation that grows more chaotic and dangerous by the day. With topics high on the agenda such as bilateral trade (Trump arrives with a high-level business delegation) and the conflict in Iran (“I think we’re going to have a long talk about it,” the U.S. President said), and with Trump continuing to praise Xi Jinping as “an amazing man” with whom he has an excellent relationship, there is reason to hope that head-of-state diplomacy can introduce something new into the global dynamic—and not a moment too soon.

As EIR has estimated, the real financial cost for the world of the unprovoked U.S.-Israeli aggression against Iran is a staggering $4 trillion in just the first 60 days, as seen in total military expenditures, physical damage to the region, and lost global output due largely to the ongoing closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The real physical economic cost is orders of magnitude more, when one takes into account the devastation that is about to hit, given the shortage of fuels, fertilizers, chemical feedstock, and pharmaceutical supplies.

This is not an unintended consequence of the war policy, but rather an intentional, Malthusian (un)controlled disintegration of the global economy on the part of the international financial establishment centered in the City of London and Wall Street, which is rapidly losing its grip over world affairs. Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n?

“The world is moving in many different directions simultaneously,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche observed in a discussion with colleagues on May 11, “and that reflects a real lack of clarity on the side of several segments of the establishment in different parts of the world, of how to assess the failure of their policies, how to readjust, how to develop new options. And since most of these establishment figures have not become smarter since they initiated the policies which just failed, one cannot assume that the outcome of such running around will be any better.”

That view is only reinforced by the seeming shift in attitude of several European leaders who are coming to accept the necessity of talking with Russian President Vladimir Putin—a change in tactic rather than strategic goal. “They … started cranking up the confrontation with Russia,” Putin recounted at a May 9 press conference, “which is continuing to this day. I believe that this business is coming to an end, but nonetheless, it is a serious thing. The question is, why they are doing this? First, they expected a ‘crushing defeat’ of Russia…. It did not work out. And then they got stuck in that groove, and now they cannot get out of it.”

Einstein famously said that the definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”; we have reached a moment in human history when it is only a profound change in the behavior of society, a fundamental shift in the axioms underlying the world system, that can prevent a collapse. Many nations in the Global Majority are shifting in that direction in their rejection of geopolitics. An editorial in Global Times on the eve of Trump’s visit to Beijing looks toward U.S.-China cooperation as a keystone in such progress for humanity: “True wisdom between major powers lies not in treating the other as an adversary that must be defeated, but in placing differences within the broader framework of coexistence among civilizations, keeping competition rational and manageable, and turning cooperation into outcomes that benefit the world.”

The urgent next step in stabilizing both the economic and security situations in the world is for a new security and development architecture for the world, one which rejects the axioms of geopolitics and takes into account the interests of all countries, to be put on the agenda of nations, as Helga Zepp-LaRouche proposed in 2022.

The West must come onboard, and this will not be led by the failures currently occupying elected (and non-elected) office in those nations. A movement of citizens must decide to lead and demand that their nations join the rest of humanity.

In the United States, LaRouche Independent candidates Diane Sare and Jose Vega are rallying those potential leaders around the needed solutions, as are collaborators around the world. The next opportunity to join them will be Friday, May 15, at 11:00 a.m. ET, as Helga Zepp-LaRouche convenes an EIR Emergency Roundtable, “The Iran War and the ‘Controlled Disintegration’ of the World Economy.” Join them, and organize everyone you know to be there.

It is now two and a half months since the Feb. 28 closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a predictable—some would argue intended—result of the unprovoked U.S.-Israeli war of aggression against Iran. If this war continues for another few months, it is likely that the world economy will enter into a spi...