The Lead
It All Starts with Intention
by Jason Ross (EIRNS) — Aug. 07, 2025
Trump says he wants to make America great again. What would be the fifty-year perspective for achieving that? Deporting every person present in the country illegally, ending such “woke” excesses as bizarre drag queen story hours, lowering interest rates, imposing high and unpredictable, wildly fluctuating tariffs on imports?
On the latter point, Trump is scoring a massive own goal: His use of tariffs to stop the BRICS grouping is having the effect of strengthening the appeal of non-Western groupings!
What sort of reasoned, committed drive could create a meaningful future for a child born today?
A U.S. infrastructure renaissance, as part of a global economic development drive, represents a path forward, a goal that would energize, revive and expand industries, drive exports, spur capital investment, and put into place a higher platform of infrastructure on which a higher level of economic productivity can be supported. High-speed rail, regional and continental-scale water projects, new nuclear power plants, new mass transit systems (including new subways), dozens of entirely new cities.
As Pierre de Fermat demonstrated over 350 years ago, in developing what has become the universal principle of least action, the universe operates based on intention. You can’t get to a new future by responding to current events, but, instead, by putting into place the principles of growth, the operative changes, that will result in the future you desire.
The world as a whole stands poised to make a decisive shift in its political and economic organization. The trans-Atlantic financial-military system that has been dominant for the last century is giving way, not to a replacement hegemony, but to a polyphonic world driven not by conquest and supremacy, but by mutual advantage and improvement.
The LaRouche movement has for thirty years been promoting such a system under the vision of, first a Eurasian Land-Bridge, and today a New Silk Road and a World Land-Bridge.
The British Empire, true to its historical pedigree, refuses to go quietly in allowing such a new paradigm to take hold. It seeks to start and expand wars and chaos around the world, to hinder cooperation and block regional development.
It was such an approach that empowered Lyndon LaRouche to offer this prescient forecast on July 24, 2001:
[T]he only way to prevent China, Russia, India, and so forth, from cooperating in Eurasian economic cooperation, is to do what? Is to start a war between Islam, and the West. And how do you trigger such a war? You trigger it by getting a religious war started in the Middle East.
That is, if the war in the Middle East explodes, as it’s about to explode—it could explode on Sunday—if that war explodes … then the madmen who will take over in the heat of battle in Israel, will not hesitate to use weapons of mass destruction, against targeted cities, such as Damascus, Baghdad, and Tehran, which are already targeted.
If that were to happen, and were to happen in the context of an Israeli seizure of the mosque site in Jerusalem, you would have a general religious war—which would rage in repercussions throughout Eurasia, and could destroy Eurasia, and lead to incalculable results.
This analysis finds a parallel in World War I, created through entanglements and alliances designed to offer a way of preventing Eurasian development, as in the Berlin-to-Baghdad rail and development plans.
Humanity deserves better than fighting over who gets to be the top “dog.”
Ask yourself: Why does every human being on this planet deserve respect? What is the basis of their dignity? Is it because we all look the same, in the sense that we walk on two legs, and we don’t have a whole lot of hair, and we can all mutually reproduce and create fertile offspring? (This is the animal definition of a species.)
No! That’s not why people are deserving of dignity and respect and a love for and urge to develop them. It’s because of this ability that every person on this planet has, the ability in their lifetime to contribute something of enduring value.
On this basis, all people deserve human rights. You can enumerate them: A right to shelter? Yes. People should be able to eat enough? Yes, of course. People should have clean water? Yes, we can all agree on that. Electricity? Yes.
But what about the highest right, to know that when you die, you’re not dead? In a real way, to be able to know “I did something; I was able in my life to do something that’s going to have meaning beyond it.”
Contents
New World Paradigm
- Trump's Tariff War Inadvertently Drives Russia-India-China Cooperation (↓)
- Brazil's Lula Plans Joint Discussions with BRICS Nations on Trump's Tariffs (↓)
- U.S. Tariffs Don't Prevent Chinese Growth (↓)
- India's Modi Confirmed for China Trip, as India-Russian Ties Strengthen (↓)
- Norway Orders Review of Sovereign Wealth Fund's Investments in Israel (↓)
Strategic War Danger
- Netanyahu's New Master Plan To Save Gaza (↓)
- After Call with Trump, Zelenskyy Gives an Unusually Muted Nightly Address (↓)
- Bombing of Civilians Provokes Screaming Match Amongst IDF Commanders (↓)
U.S. and Canada
- Washington Post's CIA Sources Decry Tulsi Gabbard's Declassification of Their Secrets (↓)
- Russia Accepts U.S. Proposal for Putin- Trump Meeting, but Contingent on Preparations (↓)
Collapsing Imperial System
Science and Technology
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