The Power of Truth, as LaRouche Understood, Can Stop the Spiral Into War

As the disastrous war in Iran continues to unfold, more and more deadly scenarios are being considered as the U.S. and Israel wreak havoc in the region. The idea that the Iran would be liberated from the Khomeini Regime, as a result of the brutal assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has turned out to be a complete failure. Assassinating leaders has only served to unify the Iranian people behind the regime, despite whatever grievances they held previously.

As is the case in the Gaza Strip, where there are no military targets, Iran has become the target for a population war campaign, with civilian infrastructure, including critical regional energy facilities, getting attacked. As a result of Israel’s attack on Iran’s South Pars gas field on March 18, Iran has retaliated by oil and gas facilities in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the U.A.E. with missiles and drones. Serious economic disruptions threaten the globe due to these attacks, along with present closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

There is a path to survival, which Helga Zepp-LaRouche outlined in the 146th consecutive meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC). In her opening presentation, she made clear that leaders in the West must be made to realize that their own existence depends on building a new security and development architecture with the Global Majority—represented by the BRICS, SCO, and other institutions which have taken on the mantle of providing sane leadership to the world. In the United States, Independent Presidential Candidate Diane Sare, Congressional Candidate for NY-15 Jose Vega, and others, have taken responsibility of creating an Independent Candidates Movement for Peace Through Development to mobilize the population to not only oppose war, but grasp the physical-economic solutions which can replace the present trend of endless wars, underdevelopment, and death, with a future based on win-win cooperation, global investment in productive projects, and human creativity.

Today, is the job of American citizens, heirs of the 1776 Declaration of Independence, to create a new international dynamic, and a new national electorate, which can realize this new paradigm. In such crises, there are moments in human history where, as poet Percy Shelley said, “there is an accumulation of the power of communicating and receiving intense and impassioned conceptions respecting man and nature.” Provided we do not become intellectually lazy, indifferent, or pessimistic, we can move people to act for higher purposes, to achieve for ourselves and our posterity great enterprises which they did not know they were capable of. That is the welcome task of the LaRouche Organization, independent candidates, and the American people as a whole.