The profound hunger crisis in the world, threatening a level of death surpassing that of the Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazis, cries out for redress, and points to the devastating effects of decades of genocidal economic policies that have prevented physical economic growth while swelling the financial profits of a small oligarchy. The durable solution requires that we apply the greatest scientific and technological advances to ensuring an expanding platform of economic infrastructure able to supply the means for achieving breakthroughs in the capital intensity and energy flux density of manufacturing, agriculture, and other production around the world. This requires rejecting the reductionist approach to economics as well as the Green policies that would mean a systemic downshift in human potential. Green policies are precisely the genocidal destructive outlook of a U.S. government administered by a nominally Biden presidency, which is attempting to be forced on the American people through a police-state-style suppression of freedom of speech, complemented by training for violent actions on the streets of the United States.
David Beasley, the Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), gave a short but impassioned address yesterday, October 16, on the occasion of World Food Day. The WFP has drawn additional attention in light of its winning the Nobel Peace Prize under the guidance of Beasley, who was installed as Executive Director through the initiative of President Trump, who himself also increased U.S. funding by the better part of a billion dollars.
Beasley called on the nations of the world — and the world’s two thousand billionaires — to immediately provide the several billion dollars urgently needed to protect the 270 million people in the world currently facing “acute food insecurity,” a number that is double the 135 million in that perilous condition before the Covid pandemic. Consider that $17 trillion dollars have been put into national stimulus programs, and the world’s billionaires having increased their net wealth by over a trillion dollars since the pandemic began. Beasley called on them to help: “My God, we just need a few billion to save millions of lives and save humanity from one of the greatest catastrophes since World War II. It’s not too much to ask. Lord have mercy! If you go from 500 billion to 495 billion, I don’t think you’re going to miss a meal.”
He spoke of the particularly urgent needs in the Sahel region of Africa. As one example, the ranks of people helped every month in Burkina Faso by the WFP was 300,000 a year ago. Now, the number has exploded to 1,800,000. Some 300 hospitals and clinics and 2600 schools have closed in that nation, and the WFP funding will run out in November. The combination of locusts with the pandemic itself and the economic and social effects of both illness and the public health measures taken to arrest the spread of the disease has created a situation where there are over a million displaced persons in this country of 20 million. He urged for the Covid pandemic to be seen in context: “When I went to the Security Council back in April, I told them that you can’t take on the Covid health crisis in a vacuum, otherwise the cure will be much more devastating than the disease. People in these countries live hand to mouth; they don’t have a pantry with three weeks of food.”
The leader of the LaRouche movement in South Africa, Philip Tsokolibane, issued an emergency appeal to President Trump: “Right now, many millions of my fellow Africans are starving. They are starving thanks to a combination of deliberately enforced underdevelopment of my continent—enforced by the neocolonial power of the British Empire, acting through their financial power in the City of London and Wall Street—now intersecting both a global pandemic and locust plagues and other natural disasters affecting food production on the continent…
“I appeal to the American President, Donald Trump: Take up this challenge. Give America’s farmers the mission to produce the food to feed the starving, while deploying the vast resources of the U.S. military on this mission of mercy to bring food to those who need it on my continent…
“This should be sufficient reason to convene that international great power summit called for the great lady, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, chairwoman of the Schiller Institute. We can save lives, but it will take an international effort to do so… My African sisters and brothers can be saved if the will is there, and if people see themselves as acting in the spirit of caritas (agapē), rising above petty differences to do something good and great.”
The United States has a unique role to play in doing “something good and great,” a role that it can only play by rejecting the fascist assault on democratic rule seen in the coup attempt against President Trump, which has operated non-stop since before he announced his candidacy, through to the present outrageous actions to shut down free political discussion and deliberation among the citizenry via the social media platforms that have monopoly control over national discourse and have increasingly been ensconced as arbiters of truth in a process that stretches back over years. Will you act to defeat the effort to turn the U.S. into a 1984-style world in which words have taken on meanings that are essentially their opposites — where “defending democracy” means preventing voters from freely discussing their views and electing representatives, and a president, of their choosing? The fate not only of the United States, but the safety of the world, and the lives of billions of people, currently living and soon to be born, depend on the brave and creative actions that we are called upon to make.
