Do We Have the Courage to Break Our Axioms?
On Friday, EIR and the International Peace Coalition convened an emergency roundtable discussion titled, “Solve the Immigration Crisis with Development; What You Need to Know About the Strategic Significance of Pope Leo's Encyclical,” featuring more than a dozen experts, including diplomats, religious leaders, professors, and activists who joined to discuss how a rapid, or even instant thermonuclear confrontation between the United States and Russia, or the United States and Russia and China, must be avoided in the coming weeks.
A speech by Lyndon LaRouche in São Paulo, Brazil, June 2002, played in the opening to the first panel of the roundtable, illustrated the kind of thinking needed to break away from the looming catastrophe of nuclear World War III. In that speech, LaRouche told his Brazilian audience, “The problem today is denial. People are afraid. They’re afraid of power… And therefore, they say we have to play by the generally accepted rules among the nations of the IMF and the United States. Therefore, when you try to solve a problem, you say, ‘We have to find a solution within the rules.’”
Today, those rules have led precisely to the current strategic crises unfolding in Iran and Ukraine. It has led to an economic breakdown of the nations of the trans-Atlantic sector, including the loss of oil, fertilizer, wheat, and other products as a result of continued policies of war. It has led to an increasing dominance over policy-making by a clique of international financiers and bankers—the Epstein billionaire class—as Father Harry Bury spoke to in his remarks to the EIR Roundtable.
Of the Epstein Class’ Malthusian bent towards humanity, Father Bury said, “The people who are billionaires, this Epstein crowd and the like, the oligarchy, they not only want to continue to make profit, but they want to use their money to their own advantage. And the way to do that, they believe, is to limit the number of people in the world. They would like to move the world population from some 8 billion people, I understand, to about 2 billion. They are the ones who are encouraging and making possible wars, because wars kill a lot of people. You get rid of a lot of people through wars. You get rid of a lot of people through disease, like Ebola and COVID, they want to see that not healed, but killing more people. And so vaccinations are not encouraged, but rather people would die, not only from war and disease, violence, and disease, but also from starvation, as we have learned here in this program today. And so their concern is to get rid of as many people and go from perhaps 8 billion to about 2 billion people in the world. This is really saddening. It is heartbreaking, and that is the reason why we are not empathetic, the reason why so many of us are not compassionate.”
There is no solution that will come from inaction or apathy. We cannot cling to the axioms which presently govern our lives.
Schiller Institute Founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, in her keynote, made the bold statement that, “If we get our act together,
I can see that we could eliminate hunger in half a year. If all the nations would put their minds and acts together,…we could have a
mass mobilization to produce a lot of food; we could end this poverty in five years; we could have reasonable living conditions for
every human being on the planet in…much less than one generation. If we then would reach the next scientific breakthroughs, like
getting thermonuclear fusion as a source of energy, we would have energy security for tens of thousands of years, if not more, and one big cause of war would disappear.”
That is the future of a humanity with the courage to break its present axioms, and build a new paradigm of peace and economic development.
Given the extraordinary nature of yesterday’s roundtable, and the importance of many of the speakers’ remarks, today’s Manhattan Town Hall will feature highlights from yesterday’s presentations, and an overview of the roundtable itself.
A speech by Lyndon LaRouche in São Paulo, Brazil, June 2002, played in the opening to the first panel of the roundtable, illustrated the kind of thinking needed to break away from the looming catastrophe of nuclear World War III. In that speech, LaRouche told his Brazilian audience, “The problem today is denial. People are afraid. They’re afraid of power… And therefore, they say we have to play by the generally accepted rules among the nations of the IMF and the United States. Therefore, when you try to solve a problem, you say, ‘We have to find a solution within the rules.’”
Today, those rules have led precisely to the current strategic crises unfolding in Iran and Ukraine. It has led to an economic breakdown of the nations of the trans-Atlantic sector, including the loss of oil, fertilizer, wheat, and other products as a result of continued policies of war. It has led to an increasing dominance over policy-making by a clique of international financiers and bankers—the Epstein billionaire class—as Father Harry Bury spoke to in his remarks to the EIR Roundtable.
Of the Epstein Class’ Malthusian bent towards humanity, Father Bury said, “The people who are billionaires, this Epstein crowd and the like, the oligarchy, they not only want to continue to make profit, but they want to use their money to their own advantage. And the way to do that, they believe, is to limit the number of people in the world. They would like to move the world population from some 8 billion people, I understand, to about 2 billion. They are the ones who are encouraging and making possible wars, because wars kill a lot of people. You get rid of a lot of people through wars. You get rid of a lot of people through disease, like Ebola and COVID, they want to see that not healed, but killing more people. And so vaccinations are not encouraged, but rather people would die, not only from war and disease, violence, and disease, but also from starvation, as we have learned here in this program today. And so their concern is to get rid of as many people and go from perhaps 8 billion to about 2 billion people in the world. This is really saddening. It is heartbreaking, and that is the reason why we are not empathetic, the reason why so many of us are not compassionate.”
There is no solution that will come from inaction or apathy. We cannot cling to the axioms which presently govern our lives.
Schiller Institute Founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, in her keynote, made the bold statement that, “If we get our act together,
I can see that we could eliminate hunger in half a year. If all the nations would put their minds and acts together,…we could have a
mass mobilization to produce a lot of food; we could end this poverty in five years; we could have reasonable living conditions for
every human being on the planet in…much less than one generation. If we then would reach the next scientific breakthroughs, like
getting thermonuclear fusion as a source of energy, we would have energy security for tens of thousands of years, if not more, and one big cause of war would disappear.”
That is the future of a humanity with the courage to break its present axioms, and build a new paradigm of peace and economic development.
Given the extraordinary nature of yesterday’s roundtable, and the importance of many of the speakers’ remarks, today’s Manhattan Town Hall will feature highlights from yesterday’s presentations, and an overview of the roundtable itself.