Toward a Just World Economic Order—Or a New Dark Age?
Against the backdrop of an impending global depression—which would be on the scale of the economic and social devastation of the 14th-century New Dark Age, during which nearly half of Europe’s population perished—Executive Intelligence Review convened a critical and substantive meeting titled, “The Iran War and the ‘Controlled Disintegration’ of the World Economy.” That meeting put, in concrete form, how a new security architecture could be realized for Southwest Asia, in the form of regional-based proposals for the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s nuclear program, and the Palestinian question, but more importantly, an economic-development based perspective which would guarantee a peace based on shared interests and mutual prosperity.
This was the result of a discussion between Former Turkish Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, who reiterated the proposal he made in Project Syndicate for a comprehensive regional framework including Türkiye, Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia, and others to administer the Strait of Hormuz, and Schiller Institute Chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who intervened to ask him whether the mediator nations previously proposed could be contacted to put forward on the global stage Lyndon LaRouche’s Oasis Plan for economic development of Southwest Asia. Other participants, such as Professor Richard Falk, endorsed that approach.
The path of escalation being taken by the United States, Europe, and others with respect to war in Iran, Russia, China, and others can be stopped, provided that citizens recognize the consequences of not acting as qualified statesmen, who, while not in elected positions of power, can nevertheless act to change the course of history for the better. A stunning example of that was on display during the Executive Intelligence Review Roundtable last night, which also notably featured H.E. Abolfazl Pasandideh, the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Mexico.
Will the path of escalation be taken, which will inevitably lead in the short term to global nuclear war, or will a new harmony of interests be established between all nations? The latter was suggested to Chinese President Xi Jinping during the state visit of President Trump, in which the two largest economies in the world would work towards mutual benefit, solving all problems through diplomacy and dialogue. On Oct. 2, 2008, in an event delivered to Washington, D.C.-based foreign diplomats, American economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche called for a “four powers” agreement between the U.S., Russia, China, and India to stabilize the global financial system: “So therefore, we need order in the system, which means we have to put the world system through bankruptcy reorganization, and we have to restore something comparable to Franklin Roosevelt's intention in 1944, with the Bretton Woods system. The only way, in practice—being practical, not just abstract—is that there are four nations which must agree, in order for such a reform to occur rapidly enough, to save the world from Hell… Now, the four nations, as I indicated yesterday, are: the United States must agree; second nation must be Russia; the third nation must be China; the fourth must be India. If those four nations agree to a suitable type of agreement, most of the rest of the world will immediately join them in reform.”
Lyndon LaRouche’s 2008 call is still relevant for today, as we call on the world to move beyond geopolitics, to the higher idea of a new security and development architecture, based on Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s “Ten Principles.” Today, Harley Schlanger will discuss Lyndon LaRouche’s policies and why we must move into them today. Another special guest will be featured.
This was the result of a discussion between Former Turkish Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, who reiterated the proposal he made in Project Syndicate for a comprehensive regional framework including Türkiye, Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia, and others to administer the Strait of Hormuz, and Schiller Institute Chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who intervened to ask him whether the mediator nations previously proposed could be contacted to put forward on the global stage Lyndon LaRouche’s Oasis Plan for economic development of Southwest Asia. Other participants, such as Professor Richard Falk, endorsed that approach.
The path of escalation being taken by the United States, Europe, and others with respect to war in Iran, Russia, China, and others can be stopped, provided that citizens recognize the consequences of not acting as qualified statesmen, who, while not in elected positions of power, can nevertheless act to change the course of history for the better. A stunning example of that was on display during the Executive Intelligence Review Roundtable last night, which also notably featured H.E. Abolfazl Pasandideh, the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Mexico.
Will the path of escalation be taken, which will inevitably lead in the short term to global nuclear war, or will a new harmony of interests be established between all nations? The latter was suggested to Chinese President Xi Jinping during the state visit of President Trump, in which the two largest economies in the world would work towards mutual benefit, solving all problems through diplomacy and dialogue. On Oct. 2, 2008, in an event delivered to Washington, D.C.-based foreign diplomats, American economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche called for a “four powers” agreement between the U.S., Russia, China, and India to stabilize the global financial system: “So therefore, we need order in the system, which means we have to put the world system through bankruptcy reorganization, and we have to restore something comparable to Franklin Roosevelt's intention in 1944, with the Bretton Woods system. The only way, in practice—being practical, not just abstract—is that there are four nations which must agree, in order for such a reform to occur rapidly enough, to save the world from Hell… Now, the four nations, as I indicated yesterday, are: the United States must agree; second nation must be Russia; the third nation must be China; the fourth must be India. If those four nations agree to a suitable type of agreement, most of the rest of the world will immediately join them in reform.”
Lyndon LaRouche’s 2008 call is still relevant for today, as we call on the world to move beyond geopolitics, to the higher idea of a new security and development architecture, based on Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s “Ten Principles.” Today, Harley Schlanger will discuss Lyndon LaRouche’s policies and why we must move into them today. Another special guest will be featured.