Margaret Mead, an avowed, and even violent enemy of Schiller Institute Helga Zepp-LaRouche, once said something which is very true—"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” It goes well beyond that, however.
“A young slave boy stood one day before the greatest ruler of his day. And God said to Moses, ‘What’s in your hand?’ And Moses said, ‘Lord, I’ve got only a stick, that’s all.’ He said, ‘Well, let me use what’s in your hand!’ And God used that slave boy with a stick in his hand to divide the Red Sea, march through a wilderness, bring water out of rocks, manna from Heaven, and bring his people to freedom land! What’s in your hand?”
Harlem Congressman Rev. Adam Clayton Powell’s famous sermon tells us why he had the courage to defy the United States State Department in 1955, despite threats, and go to the Bandung Conference of Non-Aligned Movement nations as the only representative of the United States. He returned to a standing ovation on the floor of the Congress. Who in the Congress today has the courage to defy the State Department and advocate the Belt and Road Initiative, joint space and fusion energy programs with Russia, China, and other nations, and ally with the “new Spirit of Bandung” expressed in Africa, rather than new imperial schemes wrapped up as “human rights” and “climate change” campaigns?
Let’s say that we have no Adam Clayton Powells in the United States Congress today—no Cornelius Gallaghers, no Eugene McCarthys, no Mike Gravels, no Shirley Chisholmses, no Frank Churches. But “what’s in our hands?” Look beyond America, beyond Europe; look beyond 2022; look at a principle just shown to us by the swift apology issued by the Vatican, and the response expressed immediately by the Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman. “The incident is over. The matter is closed.” Is that not the power that is required to bring about a new trust, a new deliberation among nations? Is that power in our hands?
What would Mahatma Gandhi say, and do? What would Martin Luther King say, and do? What did Lyndon LaRouche say, and do? And for those who oppose the Vatican “on principle,” what would St. John Paul II say, and do? A new security architecture must be simultaneous with a new development architecture, a “New Bretton Woods” process that includes over 100 nations that did not exist on the planet at the time of the old Bretton Woods arrangement. But if “the name for peace is development,” what better way is there to create that idea of development, than what was just demonstrated in the agapic interchange between the Vatican and Russia? Change can, in fact, be instantaneous.
One of the speakers at the Dec. 17 Schiller Institute conference, “Peace on Earth, or Humanity’s Doom? The Case for Negotiations” intends to discuss “The Iago Syndrome: The Weaponization of Self-Destructive Rage in Ukraine.” The reference is to Shakespeare’s character, the Venetian Iago, and his use of the Venetian intelligence method to destroy the great African warrior, Othello. It would do well for all that truly wish to end the plague of spreading conflict—what Pope Francis has referred to as “piecemeal World War III”—to read, and more importantly, listen to the message of that tragedy. In doing so, you will discover the fatal mistake that is presently driving the world to an “inescapable” thermonuclear catastrophe.
London’s “Venetian methods” are the source of the problem. There have been multiple sightings of “Perfidious Albion” in recent days, apart from the earlier Nord Stream 2 and Crimea capers. The London Economist delivered, not marching orders, but kamikaze orders to the United States and Europe, calling for “more missiles, more weapons, more money and more killing” of Ukrainians, Russians, and anyone that can be induced to join the fight—including British and American “boots on the ground.” British commandos are already there.
British and American nuclear-armed submarines, the USS Tennessee and a Vanguard class submarine of the Royal Navy, surfaced in the Atlantic in a show of solidarity and force “which strengthens the relationship between uniquely close Allies in support of deterrence and collective security.” In South America, in Peru, Argentina and Brazil, each an area of ongoing destabilization of those nations’ presidencies, there are signs of intelligence agency involvement on the part of Washington and London, playing the “left” versus “right” ideological divide to deadly, murderous effect. Even in important breaking stories, such as in Tucker Carlson’s challenge to “our good friend, (former CIA head) Mike Pompeo” (regarding the latter’s primary role in breaking the law, by insisting that the Kennedy assassination files, mandated by law in 1992 to be fully released by the year 2017, were suppressed then; the same was done again two days ago on Dec. 15 by the Biden administration), the British role is missed.
For example, Carlson accurately reported that CIA-employed psychiatrist L. Jolyon West visited and diagnosed Lee Harvey Oswald’s killer, Jack Ruby, as insane—a “unique” diagnosis reached by no one else—but West never identified himself as an employee of the CIA. Carlson did not, however, report that West had been trained at Britain’s infamous psychiatric Tavistock Institute, well known from 1974 to the LaRouche Organization as a central component of British intelligence. When it comes to British intelligence, the hegemonic financial role of the City of London, including over Wall Street, and the centrality of Britain as the source of MK-ULTRA, which was later mainstreamed to become the rock-drug-sex counterculture, and has now morphed into the “virtual reality cyberculture,” there is an Othello-like denial among “Anglopsphere” nations. It brings to mind the Greek tragedian’s admonition that “There are no mysteries—there is only blindness.”
There is, however, a “Iago-busting” higher power. Water has to put out fire; Love has to quench rage, and violence, including poverty, one of the most insidious forms of violence. Absent rage, there is nothing there for Iago to manipulate.
Let us return to the beginning, and to the purpose of today, in the context of this much-defamed and much-debased “holiday season.” Whatever one thinks of the Catholic Church, a mobilization of its 1 billion members is in part under way, including those in Central and Eastern Europe, to teach the lesson that Jesus taught Paul in the Garden of Gethsemane, when Paul cut off the ear of one of Christ’s assailants: “When Jesus’ followers saw what was going to happen, they said, ‘Lord, should we strike with our swords?’ And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. But Jesus answered, ‘No more of this!’ And he touched the man’s ear and healed him.”
What’s in your hand? The power to heal is in the hands of everyone. When the October 16,1995 Million Man March successfully brought 1.7 million people out onto the streets of Washington, D.C., the most ostensibly violent population in America convened without a single incident of violence. The theme was “The Day of Atonement,” supplied to Minister Louis Farrakhan by the Rev. James Luther Bevel, 1992 Vice-Presidential candidate with the then-incarcerated Lyndon LaRouche. The Vatican is now demonstrating, before any assembly has happened, the principle of negotiation, recognition and acknowledgment of wrongdoing. That is what King called the “strength to love.” That needs to be supported, whatever the flaws that may exist. That strength must be found, and shown, by all of us, to walk the world, not only back from self-destruction, but forward to self-development and prosperity. That power is what is in our hands.
