In capitals around the world, all eyes were on Islamabad, Pakistan this weekend, deeply concerned that the fragile ceasefire in place between the United States and Iran since April 8 would fall apart and all-out war would resume, if rumored negotiations between the two countries failed to materialize. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi did arrive in Islamabad on Friday night; he met with Pakistani authorities and reiterated Iran’s position that they would not negotiate so long as Trump maintained his maritime blockade of Iran; and he then left for the remainder of his trip to Oman and Russia.
President Trump then announced on Saturday morning that he had suspended the mooted trip to Islamabad of the American negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, stating that the 18-hour flight was pointless—true enough, since Trump showed no inclination to lift the blockade.
What will happen next? Will all out war resume, with its attendant risk of escalation to global thermonuclear exchanges? That may well depend on the relative influence inside the Trump administration of the British hardline warmongers, and their American neocon and Israeli assets. Exemplary of the problem are the comments of Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz who stated April 23: “We are awaiting a green light from the United States… to return Iran to the Dark Age and the Stone Age.”
Perceptive eyes will also have taken note of the fact that, also on Friday night, as the world awaited Araghchi’s arrival in Islamabad, English-language Pakistan TV (PTV) chose to feature Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche on their evening news program, interviewing her at some length about the prospects for upcoming negotiations. “I think that the only way you can find a solution is to address that deeper-lying issue,” she stated, “and that means we have to have a new security and development architecture which has to take into account the interests of every single country on the planet, or else it does not work.” Zepp-LaRouche insisted that, “in the time of thermonuclear weapons, we have to overcome geopolitics and go to the idea that there has to be the interest of the one humanity first, and then you can define your national and regional interests.”
How then shall we bring about such a dialogue of civilizations to achieve those goals, in today’s complex and dangerous world?
Lyndon LaRouche addressed that problem in an October 16, 2001 presentation to a conference in Rome on a Dialogue of Civilizations:
“What has to be done is to address the real problem, which is the financial, monetary crisis… In order to do that, we have to reach agreements on economic development in Eurasia, and then we face the problem of how do we transform a perception on the part of Japan, of China, of India, of Southeast Asia, how do we have an understanding on their part, as well as ours, of how we are going to work together? What principles, what ideas are we going to have, which are positive ideas of cooperation, not just trade? We must then have a conception of the issue of man. We must have a dialogue of cultures, but a dialogue not within a Pantheon, but a dialogue of cultures on the subject of the nature of man.”
For the United States, that underlying issue of our role in the world will be called this coming Tuesday, April 28, when King Charles III is scheduled to address a joint session of Congress, followed by a state dinner with President Trump at the White House. These honors are to be bestowed on the King who, besides being an insider of the repulsive “Epstein Class,” is the heir and modern representative of centuries of imperial crimes against humanity: the genocide carried out in colonial India; the rape of Africa and Ibero-America; the British Opium Wars against China; the butchery of Ireland.
Charles will add insult to injury to Americans and our history by emphasizing our two countries’ supposedly close, special relationship—on the 250th anniversary of our independence from their strangulating colonial grip, and the bestial concept of Man that they continue to promote!
If Americans allow Charles to get away this, and everything else he has planned for his trip, then the entire mission established by the American Revolution will have been undone—and with it, our ability to participate in a Dialogue of Civilizations of the character prescribed by LaRouche.
So act accordingly.
