“Truly exciting! A political Earthquake” were among the descriptions today by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and leader of the Schiller Institute, speaking of the “smashing defeat” for German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Sept. 6 state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, in which the Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party polled 43.8%, far ahead of any other party. The CDU vote, party of Merz, fell by half since the last election, down to 17.2%. The SPD (Social Democrats) fell to 8.9%. The Linke (Left) went down to 8.6%. The BSW (Alliance Sarah Wagenknecht—Reason and Justice) 5.3% (enough to place in the parliament).
Thus, not just Merz’s Germany, but Europe’s “Big Three” stand repudiated along with Merz, referring to France, led by minority President Emmanuel Macron, and the UK,led by Andy Burnham, the latest of many prime ministers. These leaders have been colluding as the Coalition of the Willing to keep funding and supplying Ukraine as a proxy against Russia, while subverting their own national economies, and all of Europe, with a wild arms build up drive and other destructive policies.
The AfD and the BSW are clear on their policy stance to stop the warfare over Ukraine, and start principled foreign and economic relations with Russia and other countries. They call for resuming the Nord Stream gas pipelines, and other economic basics. On all else, their programs vary greatly in principle and wisdom. You can call it a “mixed bag.” But with over 77% of the eligible voters participating, the mandate of the Sept. 6 German state election is clear. Their vote is in the direction of a new system of foreign and economic relations, provided there is policy intervention to help lift up the informed outlook of people, to a higher level of reason, to bring about a new system. This is the call to action of people everywhere, to take up this mission.
Either we stop warfare, and we have a new economic and security system in the world, with development as the basis for peace, or we are headed down the short road to World War III, and that means nuclear annihilation. The Saxony-Anhalt vote against Merz is a reflection of, and opportunity for, a shift.
The current conflict zones are lands of horror. For Gaza, there was a call last week by two cabinet ministers of Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu, for extinction of the Gaza population, by “voluntary emigration,” a polite euphemism for extermination or departing Gaza. On Sept. 6, eight Muslim nations issued a joint statement, in the name of their foreign ministers, condemning this: “We ministers reaffirm their unequivocal rejection and condemnation of any attempts or plans aimed at displacing the Palestinian people….
The sporadic back-and-forth of strikes between the United States and Iran, since the U.S. re-started its offensive Aug. 30, is continuing. Meantime Israel continues to strike Lebanon, and terrorize the West Bank. The immediate damage and suffering are bad, and the international economic impact is terrible from shock after shock.
But President Trump continues his new “Operation Economic Outcast” against Iran, by decreeing to the world that all nations must break all relations with Iran. He ignores that no one is paying any attention to him, except the UAE, and he claims, the EU.
On Sept. 4, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a new target for sanctions by the U.S., the Golden Global Bank in Istanbul, charged with handling China trade payments to Iran, fulfilled by the Turkish bank. Bessent repeated his finger-wagging warning to the world, against dealings with Iran: “We know who you are, you know who you are, we will come and get you.”
The damage of Washington and Israel causing world economic disruption is seen by the hour within the U.S. economy. For example, the new school year hast just begun; local districts everywhere are slammed by facing school bus diesel costing 45% higher this month than a year ago, for the 490,000 school buses in the country. U.S. farmers paid an estimated $1.5 billion more for diesel during planting season earlier this year, and now will pay at least that much for harvest over-and-above what the harvest costs were same time last year. This cannot continue.
We are profoundly thankful for the guidance to get out of this epic disaster process given by Lyndon LaRouche, economist-philosopher-statesman, whose birthday is Sept. 8, xx years ago. He provided the understanding, the method, the programs, and as he often said, the “fun,” to fight for the good. Tomorrow, on his birthday, a protégé of LaRouche, Diane Sare, candidate for U.S. President, campaigning for emergency policies now, will be interviewed on the Utah-based Jack Stockwell broadcast, the very same one on which, 25 years ago, Lyndon LaRouche was interviewed live as the 9/11 attacks occurred on the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania. EIR weekly this week will re-print that transcript in full, giving LaRouche’s deep insight on what we were up against then, and now.
As it happened, 10 days before that interview in 2001, Lyndon LaRouche gave a Labor Day address("You Have Nothing To Fear So Much as Denial Itself"). His message, given at the conclusion of a full-scope review of the world situation, ended with the following call to action, equally moving on U.S. Labor Day today:
“And, therefore, it comes to the point, as now, that sometimes upon us, falls a responsibility of leadership. That happens to all of us, in some way or another, or many of us. Every physician will face that, because every sick person is a different person, with a different disease, no matter what their diagnosis is. And, the physician has to face the responsibility of dealing with that problem. A great teacher, teaching a class of students, faces the same thing, about saving these young minds; a responsibility for saving them under these conditions, today. It’s a great, awesome responsibility.
“For some of us, the responsibility of the same singular variety, comes in a a different way—each in a different way. But to all of us, one thing is in common: When destiny has given you a vocation, and you have a mission, especially when you’re the only one to play a key part in realizing that mission, you’d better accept it, and do it.”
