In order for humanity to do what it needs to do, it should be focused at its highest cognitive capability and inspired by the work of the poet Friedrich Schiller. There’s nobody on the planet that is more capable of getting that across to humanity, and to you, than Helga Zepp-LaRouche. Enjoy this dialogue between Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche and an audience gathered in Manhattan.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche discusses the following matters:
How Macron’s vanity prevented an opportunity for a crucial discussion between Trump and Putin taking place, during Nov. 11 Armistice commemoration: Macron put forward a new “European Empire” as opposed to “nationalism”, precisely as the European project is collapsing: Brexit, Italy versus EU.
There is NO threat from China: contrasting the positive developments from the Singapore summits, and the reopening of U.S.-China talks (Kudlow, Ross) with the insane war mongering from Rubio and Congressional neocons.
The Democratic Party, caught between the Obama-Hillary tradition, favor of impeachment and war, and those who wish to do something about the collapse of living standards, etc.— especially now, as the devastating fires in California call for a reconstruction policy above parties.
A final appeal to join the Schiller Institute to address the deep moral crisis confronting mankind, with a new Renaissance, based on cooperation for mutual benefit.
The French edition of the Schiller Institute report New Silk Roads, World Land-Bridge —
For an End to Geopolitics, was presented on Nov. 6 at a Paris seminar. Among the 100
participants were representatives of 10 embassies from Europe, Africa and Eurasia,
Chinese and Russian media, strategic analysts, and African associations particularly
interested by the industrialization perspective for their continent.
This dossier will help to counter the negative propaganda about the New Silk Road
promoted by many of the national think tanks and media in France, including the French
Institute of International Relations (IFRI), which just published a very hostile report. While
the French government is open to participating in the Belt and Road Initiative, it is so far
only involved in small joint projects in the area of artificial intelligence, and a couple of joint
projects in Namibia and Cambodia.
Schiller Institute President Helga Zepp-LaRouche opened the seminar, followed by
representatives of the French Schiller Institute who gave brief outlines on the contents.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche noted that the Schiller Institute’s dossier, with its development
projects for Africa, the Middle East, and the rest of the world, offers the solutions to the
major crises of today, including the threat of a new financial crash, the refugee flows, and
world peace. In the same vein, the Belt and Road Initiative, based on the principle of win-
win cooperation, proposes an alternative to geopolitics, which seeks to impose the
interests of one country or group of countries (empire) on others.
Zepp-LaRouche drew a parallel between Xi Jinping's idea of a "shared community of
principle for the future of humanity" and the philosophy of Nicholas of Cusa of the
“coincidence of opposites”, where humanity is thought of as a “One”, which is of a higher
magnitude than the “Many”.
Odile Mojon went through the 40-year historic role of Lyndon and Helga Zepp-LaRouche in
the emergence of this Eurasian perspective, going back to the fights of the non-aligned
movement in the 70s and the 80s and up to the emergence today of the BRICS group and
China's New Silk Road. Karel Vereycken presented the secrets of the Chinese
development model, which has nothing to do with British free trade, but much more with
centralized long-term planning that regulates the market, such as guided the New Deal in
the US and the French planning tradition.
Sebastien Périmony went through the rapid industrialization occurring in Africa as a result
of Chinese investments, a situation that is creating panic in France whose market shares
plunged from 11% to 5,5% between 2000 and 2017, while the Chinese share rose from
3% in 2001 to 18% last year. Périmony debunked the “debt trap” campaign designed to
discredit Chinese initiatives, and concluded by presenting a few large infrastructure
projects like the Trans-Sahelian Noukchott-Ndjamena railway, which would give France an
excellent opportunity to engage with China in joint African projects.
Nov. 12 – The proposal to build a Eurasia Canal for ships to traverse between the Caspian and Black Seas was presented to the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Shortsea Shipowners Association in Piraeus, Greece, on Nov. 8. The idea was depicted by Dean Andromidas, representative of the Schiller Institute and the EIR Strategic Alert, who spoke for 20 minutes and then fielded questions from board members.
The Eurasia Canal was first proposed by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2007. The project calls for a 750-km cement-lined canal across the Manych Depression in the Russian Caucasus. It would have five locks and accommodate ships of the Handymax class of up to 35,000 DWT, thus for the first time introducing ships of this class to the Caspian Sea.
According to studies by the Chinese Sinohydro company, a potential of 120 million tons of cargo could pass through the canal, including hydrocarbons from the Caspian Sea region, which accounts for 6-10% of the world’s oil reserves. It would also carry other bulk cargo, including grain and mineral resources. The container traffic from China could amount to as much as 24-30 million tons. This compares with the 101 km Volga-Don Canal, which has a capacity of only 15 million tons, accommodating ships no larger than 5,000 DWT.
By opening up all of Central Asia to maritime shipping, the Eurasia Canal would create a new economic development corridor stretching from the port of Lianyungang in China on the Yellow Sea, through Urumqi in China’s westernmost Xinjiang province, to the port of Aktau on the Caspian in Kazakhstan, through to the Black Sea and into the Aegean Sea, right on Greece’s maritime doorstep. This is a region comprising more than 11 countries and more than 1 billion people. The canal would be an important contribution to the ongoing Belt and Road Initiative composed of the Economic Silk Road Belt and Maritime New Silk Road integrating Eurasia and Africa.
Questions posed by the participants demonstrated a lively interest in the project. Many of them, who were already active in the shipping sector on the Caspian and also the Danube, quickly grasped the potential for such a channel. While one might have expected concerns about the costs of such a project, none were raised. One participant said, the real issue is the will among the concerned nations to build the project. As for financing, the participant pointed to China and how it is able to mobilize financing for major projects after it had made the decision to go ahead.
On Oct. 29, Hussein Askary, Southwest Asia Coordinator of the Schiller Institute,
addressed the Belt and Road International Food Industry Conference, sponsored by China
People’s Daily, Global Times and China Food News and supervised by the official state
Belt and Road Portal. The conference addressed the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative
(BRI) and China's development model on food security in China and globally.
The main panel was opened by such senior officials as former Director of the State
Council Office of Poverty Alleviation Liu Jian, who also earlier served as deputy Agriculture
Minister. He was followed by the former spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and member of the Public Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sun Yuxi,
who is currently Member of the Public Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Hussein Askary, in his speech, first outlined the past 24 year' efforts of the Schiller Institute
to promote the global connectivity now associated with the New Silk Road and the
Eurasian-African Land-Bridge. He expressed his and the Schiller Institute’s gratitude to
President Xi Jinping for launching the BRI in 2013, which has “already changed the world,
ushering in a new set of international relations based on economic cooperation and mutual
development, which will have great implications for food security in the world.” That would
not have been possible, Askary stressed, “without China’s amazing industrialization
process of the past three decades.”
He went on to review the immense positive changes in the living conditions of the Chinese
people, including the increase in food production and consumption, with a more diversified
diet for the people. However, this new diet, with greater emphasis on proteins, is a more
capital-intensive process. “You can expect that this process will be replicated in every
country and part of the world that the BRI reaches, with the increase in living conditions
and, consequently, in food consumption.” Askary reviewed the UN-produced “Hunger Map
of the World” showing that 800 million people lack adequate food today. However, the most
hungry nations, especially in Africa and West Asia, are now joining the BRI to alleviate this
terrible situation, and "we have to imagine how much land and technology will be required
to achieve this goal". With the world population poised to double by 2050, only such
massive initiatives as the BRI can address this challenge, Askary concluded.
The conference, including Askary’s speech received wide coverage in Chinese media,
including postings of Askary’s speech in full on several websites. According to China Daily,
the “Belt and Road” Food Industry International Summit is a world-class food industry
conference with the participation of the food industry and the food industry related trade
associations, industry associations, well-known enterprises and social organizations.”
(The official website of the conference, that of The Belt and Road Global Chambers of
Commerce and Associations, is http://www.msdnba.com/topics?id=15.html)
Following Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s recent trip to Moscow, RIA Novosti (the Russian language state news agency) published two short reports covering Helga’s analysis of the world situation (translated below).
The first wire is headlined “American expert suspects Britain of interfering in the US elections:”
“MOSCOW, October 24 – RIA News. British intelligence agencies may have interfered in the US elections in 2016, said Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the US-based Schiller Institute, a research NGO.
“According to her, employees of the team of then-President Barack Obama and of British MI6 could have interfered in the US presidential election.
“’The reason is that (Donald) Trump during the 2016 election campaign promised to improve relations with Russia. But the British did not want this, because they saw a threat to their position, in that they would not be able to manipulate the situation if the United States and Russia joined forces. The Skripal case and the Syrian chemical dossier emerged in this connection,’ she told reporters.
“According to Zepp-LaRouche, if the intervention of the British in the elections is proven, this scandal will be the biggest in US history.
“This scandal will be bigger than Watergate, the greatest in US history. The midterm elections will show this,” she said.
“An investigation of alleged Russian interference in the US elections, as well as Trump’s supposed ties with the Russian Federation, which are denied by the White House and the Kremlin, is being conducted by independent special prosecutor Robert Mueller, as well as in both houses of the US Congress. A spokesman for the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, called the accusations of interfering in the elections ‘absolutely unfounded.’”
RIA News, https://ria.ru/world/20181024/1531406869
The Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s charges against British intelligence created such a stir in Russia, that journalist Vladimir Solovyov brought it up during his popular evening talk show, citing at length the above-mentioned RIA Novosti quotes on the British role. His guest, American neoconservative Ariel Cohen of the Atlantic Council, quickly offered an explanation, in which he attempted to dismiss Lyndon LaRouche and his Helga Zepp-LaRouche as unreliable “conspiracy theorists.” Cohen’s intervention, in turn, was forcefully countered by Natalia Vitrenko, the chairwoman of the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, in a video rebuttal she released.
The second wire ran under the headline “Trump could improve relations with Russia, expert believes:”
“MOSCOW, October 24 – RIA Novosti. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, a non-governmental organization in the United States, believes that, thanks to a meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Paris and the G-20 summit in Argentina, U.S. President Donald Trump could improve relations with Moscow….
“’In the near future there will be a meeting between President Putin and President Trump in November in Paris, followed by the G20 summit in Argentina. If President Trump can, shall we say, ‘free himself’ from the conspiracy taking shape around him, then he will be able to return to those election promises he made in 2016 (on the development of relations with the Russian Federation – ed.),’ she told reporters.
“According to her, if Trump does this and thereby improves relations with Russia, and also tries to improve relations with China, then this ‘will bear fruit, and we can talk about the beginning of a new era, there will be a cardinal jump’ in the global conjuncture.
“As Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko noted earlier, Russia has a positive assessment of the prospects for the upcoming November 11 talks in Paris between Russian and US leaders Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, and expects new prospects for Russian-American cooperation to be outlined there.”
Forget what the pundits and anti-Trumpers say. The midterm election was no victory for Democrats, but changes, for the better, the situation in the U.S. Helga discusses this, with its implications for U.S. politics, and for Europe, in this week’s webcast. Ironically, as a result of Trump’s success, he will be coming to Paris this week in a stronger position than either Macron or Merkel!
She also identified the enormous potential of the Shanghai expo, with its implications both for resolving trade problems between the U.S. and China, but also to move towards a New Bretton Woods.
Speaking of Paris, Helga emphasized the urgency of using the Nov. 11 commemoration of the end of World War I, to learn the lessons of why the era of British geopolitics must be brought immediately to an end.
She called on viewers to study Xi’s speech in Shanghai, as an example of what Lyn has spoken about for years, on how creativity and innovation must be a continuous process, for the betterment of mankind.
On the occasion of the release of the French version of the Schiller Institute’s report “The New Silk Road becomes the World Landbridge,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche presents the urgency of making this new paradigm a reality.
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Nov. 4 -Jose Graziano da Silva, Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), gave an interview to Xinhua on Nov. 3 which lavishes praise on China’s role in both alleviating hunger and advancing agricultural science. “China has made great achievements in curbing hunger and increasing food security, both domestically and globally, since the launch of its reform and opening-up 40 years ago,” Graziano da Silva told Xinhua.
Most interesting, Graziano da Silva totally debunks the 1995 book by Lester Brown titled {Who Will Feed China? Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet}, one of the major propaganda tools for the depopulation movement. “But China did succeed,” Graziano da Silva said. China lifted 80 million people out of hunger in what Graziano da Silva called “the most successful program that I know of in the world.”
Xinhua quotes the FAO 2018 World Food Security report, which states that the world produces enough food to feed everyone, yet one in nine people goes hungry and 821 million people are chronically undernourished. In 2007 over 15% of the chronically undernourished were in China, but that is now down to 9%. Graziano da Silva said this is “closely related to what China is doing to eradicate poverty, especially in rural areas.”
Xinhua reports that Graziano da Silva designed and implemented a Zero Hunger program that lifted 28 million people out of poverty in 10 years in his native Brazil, and that China’s program using reforestation to combat poverty along the Mongolian desert became “an example for my country.”
Graziano da Silva said China is helping the FAO with its South-South cooperation programs in Africa, including Chinese scientists helping to develop drought-resistant varieties of rice. He notes that in 2006, China was the first country to establish a strategic alliance with the FAO on South-South cooperation, and today more than 1,000 Chinese experts and technicians have supported 37 countries in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean on agricultural issues.
On the Belt and Road, Graziano da Silva said: “The BRI is providing support for countries such as Malawi, for example, they produce enough food, but they lose half of it due to lack of storage. So we believe that infrastructure (projects) that are part of the BRI can help a great deal to improve food security and reduce food loss and waste, which in turn will also reduce pressure on natural resources.”
Graziano da Silva announced on Nov. 2 that the FAO will establish an International Center of Excellence for Agriculture Innovation and Rural Development in Beijing, aimed at helping to reach the FAO’s Zero Hunger goal by 2030.
Nov. 2, 2018 -In a major address to the 22nd World Russian Peoples Council, organized under the aegis of the Russian Orthodox Church for the past 25 years, Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized the basis for peaceful global coexistence among nations and cultures–perhaps providing a preview of topics that will also be on the table in his upcoming meeting with President Trump on Nov. 11. He said mankind must organize its affairs so that each “unique civilization supplements and enriches the others,” specifying the role to be played by Russia, “India, China, Western Europe, America and many others.”
Putin began by praising the World Russian Peoples Council: “You never set narrow ethnic or other limits and are always open for an interethnic, intercultural and interfaith dialogue. These traditions–the traditions of mutual understanding–have always strengthened our large family, the people of Russia.” He counterposed such an apporach to the fact that “efforts are being taken today to `reformat’ the world and destroy the traditional values and the cultural and historical spaces that have been forming for centuries. The goal is to create various bleak `protectorates,’ because it is easier to rule peoples who are disconnected, have no national memory and are turned into simple vassals, and to use them as bargaining chips. Crude nationalism and anti-Russian sentiments are also used.”
Putin then presented his view of the alternative: “These issues are undoubtedly very relevant today. It is now being decided how the world will look in the future, in the coming decades. Will this be a world of monologue and the rule of force, or a world of dialogue and mutual respect? How well will technology combine with ethical and moral values? There are more questions than answers so far. But there is one thing I am certain about: the voice of Russia will resound with dignity and confidence in the future world.
“It is defined by both our tradition and internal spiritual culture, our identity and finally, by the history of our country as an authentic civilization, a unique one, but one which does not assertively and aggressively claim its exceptionalism. Because it is impossible to imagine the history of humanity without such unique civilizations as India, China, Western Europe, America and many others. It is really a multifaceted complexity where each facet supplements and enriches the others.”
