Beauty is Truth, and Truth, Beauty: The Artful Pathway Out of War
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The danger the world faces today is the most extreme in its known history. Human civilization is closer to the brink of thermonuclear annihilation than ever before. In one sense, the alarm was sounded by former ardent Trump supporter and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. She put out a statement on Monday, warning that there is now an active discussion within the Trump Administration about using nuclear weapons against Iran.
Greene said, “Yes you read that correctly. It’s real. I’m not speculating, I know. And it’s pure evil.
“The last time a nuclear weapon was used was August 6th and 9th of 1945 on two cities in Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, immediately killing 110,000 people, vaporizing people at ground zero, and total deaths reached 214,000 by the end of the year from severe burns and trauma.”
There are those within the Trump Administration who have openly called for the use of what they term “low-yield” tactical nuclear weapons, such as the Pentagon’s Elbridge Colby, who said at Strategic Command’s Deterrence Symposium on Aug. 5 that the U.S. is reviewing new strategies of nuclear employment in order to establish “credible nuclear options” for the President.
That dangerous madness is not just limited to President Trump and his team, however delusional he may be. It also reflects a deeper policy, as Schiller Institute Founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche noted in her international webcast yesterday, “of certain imperialist oligarchical layers in the West,” where the financial power in the City of London is concentrated.
Their desperation, she remarked, comes from the bankruptcy of the trans-Atlantic financial system: “There is a huge crisis on the bond market, there is a huge crisis with the AI bubble. And the awareness is clearly that this system is about to go into a systemic crisis, and it seems that some circles think that the only way to avoid that is by going to war. But that will lead to a catastrophe, because Russia is still the strongest nuclear power on the planet. And if pushed to the wall, they have said very clearly—and they have a nuclear doctrine (to that effect)—that when the existence of the Russian Federation is threatened, that they will respond with a nuclear strike, and that nobody will survive. Europe will be eliminated, so will the United States, but Europe for sure; and Great Britain has put itself up front right now on the target list.”
There are many who must be awakened to this danger, in the United States and elsewhere in the world. There are those who may have an inkling of the danger, but are too paralyzed by fear to do anything about it. That fear must be overcome by taking responsibility, not only for your family, but for mankind as a whole, and by thinking clearly about what your role can be. For example: Zepp-LaRouche urged people, in her Wednesday webcast, to circulate and support an open letter to Pope Leo XIV, “Appeal to Pope Leo XIV to Organize a Global Leaders Summit to Address the Questions of Peace and Nuclear Disarmament,” signed by many prominent leaders and activists. It urges that “A papal appeal for an emergency summit to end the current wars and reverse the growing dependence on nuclear weapons and warfighting might give global leaders the chance to select a new course of action and get us off the current drive toward planet-destroying nuclear war. We urge you, Pope Leo, to use your unique moral authority to convene such a meeting of the world’s leaders, including the heads of state of the three principal nuclear powers, to meet and respond to the pleas of humanity to take our world in a fundamentally different direction before it is too late.”
That initiative, and many others, have arisen from the leadership taken by the International Peace Coalition (IPC) which meets every Friday. Other work, which people can mobilize around right now, includes a September 11th performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Brahms’s Naenie on the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. The pathway out of war, and to freedom, is through what Friedrich Schiller, author of the poem, “An Die Freude,” which Beethoven set to music, described as the "education of the emotions."
Making a beautiful conception of humanity beauty available to ourselves and others as the basis of a new security and development architecture is a task before us now.
Greene said, “Yes you read that correctly. It’s real. I’m not speculating, I know. And it’s pure evil.
“The last time a nuclear weapon was used was August 6th and 9th of 1945 on two cities in Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, immediately killing 110,000 people, vaporizing people at ground zero, and total deaths reached 214,000 by the end of the year from severe burns and trauma.”
There are those within the Trump Administration who have openly called for the use of what they term “low-yield” tactical nuclear weapons, such as the Pentagon’s Elbridge Colby, who said at Strategic Command’s Deterrence Symposium on Aug. 5 that the U.S. is reviewing new strategies of nuclear employment in order to establish “credible nuclear options” for the President.
That dangerous madness is not just limited to President Trump and his team, however delusional he may be. It also reflects a deeper policy, as Schiller Institute Founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche noted in her international webcast yesterday, “of certain imperialist oligarchical layers in the West,” where the financial power in the City of London is concentrated.
Their desperation, she remarked, comes from the bankruptcy of the trans-Atlantic financial system: “There is a huge crisis on the bond market, there is a huge crisis with the AI bubble. And the awareness is clearly that this system is about to go into a systemic crisis, and it seems that some circles think that the only way to avoid that is by going to war. But that will lead to a catastrophe, because Russia is still the strongest nuclear power on the planet. And if pushed to the wall, they have said very clearly—and they have a nuclear doctrine (to that effect)—that when the existence of the Russian Federation is threatened, that they will respond with a nuclear strike, and that nobody will survive. Europe will be eliminated, so will the United States, but Europe for sure; and Great Britain has put itself up front right now on the target list.”
There are many who must be awakened to this danger, in the United States and elsewhere in the world. There are those who may have an inkling of the danger, but are too paralyzed by fear to do anything about it. That fear must be overcome by taking responsibility, not only for your family, but for mankind as a whole, and by thinking clearly about what your role can be. For example: Zepp-LaRouche urged people, in her Wednesday webcast, to circulate and support an open letter to Pope Leo XIV, “Appeal to Pope Leo XIV to Organize a Global Leaders Summit to Address the Questions of Peace and Nuclear Disarmament,” signed by many prominent leaders and activists. It urges that “A papal appeal for an emergency summit to end the current wars and reverse the growing dependence on nuclear weapons and warfighting might give global leaders the chance to select a new course of action and get us off the current drive toward planet-destroying nuclear war. We urge you, Pope Leo, to use your unique moral authority to convene such a meeting of the world’s leaders, including the heads of state of the three principal nuclear powers, to meet and respond to the pleas of humanity to take our world in a fundamentally different direction before it is too late.”
That initiative, and many others, have arisen from the leadership taken by the International Peace Coalition (IPC) which meets every Friday. Other work, which people can mobilize around right now, includes a September 11th performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Brahms’s Naenie on the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. The pathway out of war, and to freedom, is through what Friedrich Schiller, author of the poem, “An Die Freude,” which Beethoven set to music, described as the "education of the emotions."
Making a beautiful conception of humanity beauty available to ourselves and others as the basis of a new security and development architecture is a task before us now.