The calls for a new global security and development architecture, growing in number and issued by government officials at the highest level, are the key, whether you know it or not, to your and your children’s survival. Either we succeed in establishing new agreements among sovereign nations which recognize and guarantee the legitimate security interests of each nation in harmony with all others, or we will find ourselves at the logical conclusion of the system of geopolitics: thermonuclear confrontation, “accidental” or otherwise.
If anyone thought this was hyperbole, the recent actions of President Trump in dropping bombs on Iranian nuclear sites offered vivid proof to the contrary. Were the sites actually destroyed? If not, will dropping a “tactical” nuclear weapon be the next step? The fact that the British government, whose openly declared enemy number one is thermonuclear-armed Russia, just arranged to join NATO’s nuclear sharing program, shows the intended trajectory of those elites whose ideology can’t abide the loss of control over the world system.
What is to be done? Humanity can no longer carry on as if we’re not a mere hair-trigger away from nuclear annihilation.
Shortly after the February 2022 Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine began, Helga Zepp-LaRouche insisted that the world had reached the point at which new security guarantees must be drafted, ones which could overcome geopolitical conflict by explicitly taking into account the concerns of all nations—defying the Hobbesian lie of a war of each against all. She followed that up in November 2022 with her discussion document, “Ten Principles of a New International Security and Development Architecture.” The opening of that document states the essential principle at hand:
“The new paradigm which will be characteristic of the new epoch, and towards which the new global security and development architecture must be directed, therefore, must eliminate the concept of oligarchism for good, and proceed to organize the political order in such a way, that the true character of humanity as the creative species can be realized.”
This puts on the table in precise terms the fact that security and development are one and the same, and that in a system which is coherent with natural law, the end goal of both must be to foster the creative development and power of humankind in and over our developing universe.
The Global Majority, as exemplified by the BRICS nations—of which Iran is a member—and the partners of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, is pulling in exactly that direction, of overthrowing the neocolonial system and pursuing their rights to develop as equals within the human family. In Peru, for example, where in November 2024 the transformational Chancay Port was inaugurated in cooperation with China, the San Marcos University just announced the establishment of a railroad engineering program—the first in Peru—in partnership with China’s CREEC engineering group. This comes just one month after the long-proposed Bioceanic Railway project to connect the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America by rail was put back on the front burner in discussions among China, Peru and Brazil.
The task at hand, though perhaps overwhelming, is also quite simple: We citizens of the world must force a fundamental change in orientation of governments of the West, the United States in particular, to join with the Global Majority for a new system of security and development. While this may feel far fetched to some of you, that feeling will dissipate when you help to circulate The LaRouche Organization’s statement, “Will There Be Thermonuclear Fireworks by the Fourth of July?” and realize that the majority of Americans are also desperately seeking a way out of the thermonuclear trap that decades of British imperial policies have gotten us into. We—you—must make them smarter and organize them to demand a new world system. You must present them with a vision of what the world can look like on the other side of the era of geopolitics.
The upcoming July 12-13 Schiller Institute conference in Berlin, “Man Is Not a Wolf to Man: For a New Paradigm in International Relations!” will present just such a vision. Plan to participate in that conference, and in the meantime, mobilize others to rise to the higher level of thinking that such a new paradigm requires.
