Can Humanity Mature Beyond Its Present Axioms?

Despite what President Trump may be claiming about the U.S.-Israel war against Iran coming to an end, there is serious doubt to be cast about the success of such negotiations, given the disintegrating mental state of the Trump Administration.

Take, for example, President Trump’s open brawl with Pope Leo XIV. The Pope has provided leadership to the world, countering the hedonism of the Epstein Class and their Satanic destruction being waged in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran, where civilians have been the target of missile strikes. During his visit to Algeria, Pope Leo XIV pointed out that Africa, along with the Global Majority which are outside of the West, have experienced 500 years of colonialism to the detriment of their own peoples, and must act to secure a new chapter in human history, based on win-win cooperation and the absence of war. He said, “Africa knows all too well that people and organizations that dominate others destroy the world.... By respecting the dignity of everyone and allowing yourselves to be moved by the pain of others, instead of multiplying misunderstandings and conflicts, you can surely become protagonists in a new chapter of history. Today this is more urgent than ever in the face of continuous violations of international law and neocolonial tendencies.”

The Pope has intervened in the spirit of Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, the great diplomat of the Catholic Church in the 15th Century who organized the Council of Florence which united the West and Eastern churches briefly. A campaign to restore morality to politics must be implemented with the support of more voices joining in the spirit of the Pope’s recent actions. That includes all religious voices, regardless of their different beliefs, and world citizens who are fed up with the policies of their governments. The attitude that peace comes from strength, and imposing one’s will over those who are weaker, must be replaced with peace through economic development for all nations of the world.

That higher perspective, as the Pope has expressed, was expressed in a different way by the astronauts who just returned from NASA’s Artemis II mission to place human beings in lunar orbit for the first time in nearly 50 years. In the press conference which followed their mission, astronaut Christina Koch shared the reflection that all of mankind must come to see itself as a “crew” of the planet Earth.

Today’s discussion of the Manhattan Town Hall Project will feature Harley Schlanger, spokesman for the LaRouche Organization, and Claudio Celani, head of Executive Intelligence Review’s Italian Desk. They will discuss the required axiomatic shift people must take in this revolutionary moment, along with the substance of Pope Leo XIV’s initiatives in the recent weeks.