Lead of the EIR Daily Alert for July 15 “The countdown for the P5 Summit is clearly on,” stressed Schiller Institute President Helga Zepp-LaRouche today, though the exact date and agenda are not at all specific. Such a summit of the permanent five members of the UN Security Council—China, U.S., Russia, France, U.K.—is on the level of deliberation absolutely required in today’s historic crisis. She took note of the July 13 phone call between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who conferred on various topics, including preparation for the meeting.
The prospect of such a summit demands that we escalate all possible efforts at home and internationally to address how to overcome the financial and economic breakdown crisis underway, especially in the context of the necessity to combat the pandemic, which is now escalating. This is the global agenda. The most basic necessities for life now require determining the right policies, and collaborating across all boundaries, domestically and among nations. Defeating the pandemic requires this by definition in the fields of health care, medicine and bioscience; the virus must be stopped everywhere, or it will resurge. E.g., in the U.S., an interstate mobilization is now on to rush medical staff and aid to many of the Southern states, to deal with the resurgence in Texas, Florida, and elsewhere. Internationally, this is required, especially in Southern Asia, Africa, South and Central America.
The food supply crisis is similar. The world needs to collaborate on logistics for mustering and delivering supplies to priority food-short locations, on an emergency basis, and also to initiate the longer term projects for agro-industrial development everywhere. The dimensions of the emergency were presented at a virtual summit yesterday of all major UN food and humanitarian agencies, plus the UN Secretary General and the President of the UN General Assembly. World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley said that we face a global food crisis worse than World War II. We are heading for 265 million people in acute need of food; and in all, 2 billion people without means for a reliable diet.
Look at the question of education. How do we school the young in the midst of a pandemic?
The mustering of the necessary resources, for safety and content, call the question on establishing a sound economy, just as do health care and food.
We have the how-to discussion already underway with the report, “The World Needs 1.5 Billion New, Productive Jobs.”
A big boost to this process came yesterday, with an act to expose the ongoing coup attempts against Donald Trump and the institution of the Presidency of the United States, whose powers are crucial at this moment in history. Long-time Trump associate Roger Stone, who was framed and convicted in the dirty oust-Trump Russiagate operation by British intelligence and U.S. cohorts, and had his sentence commuted July 10 by the President, spoke out on television Monday evening. When asked about Russian collusion, Stone said that the key charge in that hoax—that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee, was a fabrication. He said that former NSA technical director Bill Binney and former CIA Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst, have the goods on that, but the judge in Stone’s case wrongfully disallowed it from coming out. And he said more.
Things can change fast. The situation is dangerous, but not static. A special means to get out the word on the dialogue process underway, comes from new Schiller Institute short videos, three of which were posted today, giving people the gist of the discussion. They are titled: “International LaRouche Youth Movement Calls for the Exoneration of Lyndon LaRouche”; “Let’s End War, Famine, Poverty and Disease;” and “Why A U.S., China, Russia and India Summit Is Urgently Needed Now.” (All now posted to the Schiller Institute YouTube channel.)
Helga Zepp-LaRouche ends the last video with the message, looking ahead, “This summit is not only going to be one summit, because the problems are so deep and many, that you probably need a whole summit process, where you start to put the kinds of mechanisms, like for a New Bretton Woods system, into motion. You start to take up the cultural questions, the health systems. But it should be open. We are organizing countries such as Japan or Germany, Italy, France, and countries from Africa—they should absolutely support that. The best is to do it now, to add your voice, that such a summit must take place. And I think it can be done. I think it’s absolutely doable. But we need a worldwide mobilization to accomplish it.”
