The Schiller Institute (USA) yesterday posted a new report titled, “Development Drive Means Billions of New Jobs, No Refugees, No War,” as an urgent policy intervention against both the worsening Western economic breakdown, and the fast-escalating war danger from the new Western-backed missile strikes into Russia.
The 28-page document places the migrant crisis—especially on the U.S.-Mexico border, and in the Mediterranean Basin—into this same picture. With charts and graphics, it shows that the solution to today’s unprecedented emergency is for the Global North to collaborate with the Global South and East in economic projects, to the mutual benefit of all. The Global Majority (such as represented in the BRICS grouping) already has major infrastructure projects underway, such as the new Pacific deep-water port inaugurated Nov. 14 in Chancay, Peru, important for the whole Western Hemisphere. The impact of this approach will end mass dislocation and refugees, as people build their homelands.
This development focus is also the theme of the Schiller Institute’s international (online) conference on Dec. 7-8, titled “In the Spirit of Schiller and Beethoven: All Men, Become Brethren!” Schiller Institute founder and leader Helga Zepp-LaRouche on Nov. 10 commissioned the report as a pre-conference discussion document to be prepared by an international team, who will release versions of the study in multiple languages in the coming days.
Zepp-LaRouche states in her conference invitation, and in the introduction of the report: “Consider the potential if the United States and Europe were to cooperate with the BRICS, and with China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), to unleash science-driven industrialization worldwide. There are now 151 nations from all continents that have joined the BRI…. The obvious and easy way to overcome the danger of war and confrontation is to convince the countries of the Collective West—the European nations and even the U.S.—to stop confrontation and adopt a mode of cooperation with this growing Global Majority.”
Spreading this solution-concept in the United States is an urgent task. The Schiller Institute will distribute its new report as a mass circulation pamphlet, beginning in the New York region, with a 5,000 copy print run, at the time of the Thanksgiving holiday.
Earlier this month, the American electorate voted against war, and for restoring the economy. But they are now confronted by the outgoing Biden Administration doing the opposite, along with several of the incoming Trump nominees proposing the same. The U.S. has approved for Ukraine to use U.S. ATACMS for deep strikes into Russia, along with the U.K. approval of its Storm Shadow and French use of its SCALP missiles. U.S. forces are heavily deployed in Southwest Asia, backing genocide in Gaza. Economically, Washington wants to “defeat” China, Russia and the Global Majority—a fool’s errand when that Global Majority is intent on throwing off the shackles of 500 years of colonial servitude and underdevelopment.
All the while, there are chain reactions of industrial shutdowns in the U.S. and Europe. Examples: Suppliers to John Deere in the U.S. and Volkswagen in Germany are closing down, as these two giants downsize, ending thousands of jobs. Retooling for world industrialization will reverse this.
“Showcase” projects are described in the report, such as the Grand Inga Hydropower Project in Africa, and the Chancay Port hub in South America. The Table of Contents of the Schiller Institute report is summarized below.
The Schiller Institute encourages participating in the upcoming Dec. 7-8 conference (including co-streaming), collaborating with the International Peace Coalition against the war danger, and for deliberations for a new world economic and security architecture.
Table of Contents
Introduction
• Development Drive Means Billions of New Jobs, No Refugees, No War
The Actual Migration Issue: Genocide
• The Americas
