Insight into a New Future for Mankind, and the Courage To Fight for It

July 2, 2025 (EIRNS)—Human history, when we are being truly human, is a series of forecasts—not idle observations or predictions, but insights into the ultimate consequences of the underlying, moving dynamic generating so-called events. Forecasts are of two types: the first, identification of a dynamic that, if not changed, will lead to collapse; the second, insight into the transformative effect of the introduction of a new, valid principle into human society to uplift the state of affairs of humankind. The discovery of the sovereign nation-state form of government and its first realization with the American victory over the British Empire nearly 250 years ago is of the second type.

In 1971, when Richard Nixon “pulled the plug” on the dollar, ending the fixed exchange rate system established by collaborators of Franklin Roosevelt at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference, Lyndon LaRouche forecast with prophetic accuracy what the consequences would be. “He is on the record … saying,” reported Helga Zepp-LaRouche in her webcast of July 2, “‘If you continue on that course, you will end up in a new depression, a new fascism, and the danger of a new world war.’ And that is exactly where we are today.”

That post-1971 floating exchange rate financial system, a looting system used since that time as the primary mechanism of control over much of the world economy, and government policy, besides, has reached the point of utter bankruptcy and blowout. The danger of war looms before us all, as Zepp-LaRouche told her associates in a June 30 discussion, because of “the systemic bankruptcy of the trans-Atlantic system and the unwillingness of the establishments to correct their policies and their insistence that they want to remain in their dominant position in the world.”

Consider the meaning of all current events against that background, and only then ask, “What is to be done?”

It will be clear to anyone seriously considering that question, as it was to the founders of the American republic 249 years ago, that there is no piecemeal reform of the current system of geopolitics that can stop what Lyndon LaRouche forecast more than 50 years ago: An entirely new system is needed.

To that end, beginning in 2022, Helga Zepp-LaRouche put out a call for a new global security and development architecture, one which takes into account the economic and security needs of each and every country, as an urgent necessity if humanity is to survive the current global crisis.

“[I]n response to the so-called special military operation which Russia launched in February 2022 against Ukraine, which was a very limited engagement in the beginning. Nevertheless, it was clear to me, that the conflict between NATO, and the BRICS and the Global South countries cannot be remedied as long as you remain in the realm of geopolitics,” Zepp-LaRouche said in her webcast. "I proposed that the only real solution would be to establish a new security and development architecture which would really take into account the economic and security interests of every single country on the planet. Since we are in a global village …that we have to really take a global approach, if we want to settle these conflicts in the beginning. … [T]he Peace of Westphalia ended a seemingly hopeless conflict of 150 years of religious war, by agreeing on principles which would take into account the interests of every party. And that’s why it functioned. So, I can say that three and half years later, I think this idea is gaining ground.

“In the meantime, very importantly, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov has practically said the same thing. Previously, Xi Jinping and his three initiatives went in the same direction. Putin mentioned it as a global security system at one point. And I really want to say, the problem is, even if you would get a partial agreement for the Middle East, or a partial agreement for Ukraine-Russia, that still leaves the U.S.-China perceived conflict…; We saw with the India-Pakistan flare-up, how quickly two nuclear powers could get into a really serious showdown.

“And, we have the real bomb which is the bankruptcy of the trans-Atlantic financial system.”

Humanity requires that those with the courage of insight into a better future for humankind stand up now and take leadership, for it is by true and courageous ideas that human history advances. Helga Zepp-LaRouche has done so in her “Ten Principles for a New International Security and Development Architecture”:

“The basic assumption for the new paradigm is, that man is fundamentally good and capable to infinitely perfect the creativity of his mind and the beauty of his soul, and being the most advanced geological force in the universe, which proves that the lawfulness of the mind and that of the physical universe are in correspondence and cohesion, and that all evil is the result of a lack of development, and therefore can be overcome.

“A new world economic order is emerging, involving the vast majority of the countries of the Global South. The European nations and the U.S. must not fight this effort, but by joining hands with the developing countries, cooperate to shape the next epoch of the development of the human species to become a renaissance of the highest and most noble expressions of creativity!”