Helga Zepp-LaRouche set the focus of today’s nearly three-hour event, “Any policy consideration that does not start with consideration of the danger of nuclear war, is worthless.” She and the next speakers then elaborated on different aspects of how we got in this situation, in the spirit of a video clip of Lyndon LaRouche making the point that, “No event contains its own cause.... You must start from the world as a whole.”
The Schiller Institute founder drew a vivid picture of the war’s insanity, from current examples of who is discussing nuclear weapons as part of a “winnable” strategy, to the history of demonizing Russia and China as the enemy, against whom war is supposed to make sense. She then presented the “Peace of Westphalia” approach as the way out of this. She used the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence from the 1950s national sovereignty period. She discussed global economic and scientific priorities, from the need for a “global Glass-Steagall” to end the casino economics, to related measures of a public-good bank in every nation, and plentiful credit for science and technology priorities. In the discussion, she reported seeing “an emergence of a non-aligned spirit” among many nations today, rejecting the attempted, deadly Global NATO world rule.
