A NEW START, FOR PEACE OR WAR

Our reports below, this morning, illuminate two realities:

The world economy is being broken down by wars, embargos, sanctions, punitive tariffs, even genocide—every form of economic and military punishment which leaders of major nations can impose on others; heavily armed on less armed; nuclear nations on non-nuclear.

Humanity is on the verge of a world war as terrible, or worse than any before. Economically, it will get worse at least for months, before having any chance for recovery.

And numbers of young people, still relatively few but growing in number and presence around the world, are beginning to wake up to what that reality demands of them, and to think of supplanting war and devastation with economic development and cultural revival.

We in The LaRouche Organization and the Schiller Institute’s International Peace Coalition are committed to those young people, especially those in the developing sector and in the depressed areas of the United States and Europe.

While reading these reports below, think, if you can, of the leadership provided the world in the aftermath of the last worldwide war 80 years ago, by an American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt; and 60 years ago, by President John Kennedy. What plans would those Presidents, or a prospective President with their outlook and feelings for humanity, have on his or her drawing board to escape from these years of war and economic destruction today and begin to reconstruct the worst-hit nations with the help of other survivors more fortunate?

Would that President not start, as FDR did, with the then-undeveloped countries of Southwest Asia, the “Middle East,” after flying over those countries and seeing the empty expanses of desert? Would that President not envision plans to find and develop the sources of fresh water, the sources of petrochemicals to restore energy, agriculture, and industry, the driving sources of peaceful nuclear power to electrify transportation and work? Would he or she not seek out cultural links to bring peoples together? Would he or she not heed the call of the Papal Foundation in Rome, again today, for “Peace through Development”?

Across all of South and Southwest Asia and North Africa, this is the Oasis Plan, designed some 75 years ago by the American economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche, and reintroduced today for peace and the survival of peoples, by LaRouche’s widow, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, and the Schiller Institute.

It’s very clear what American President we are not speaking about here. That President, receiving a negotiation proposal from battered Iran, said “They have not yet paid a big enough price for what they have done to Humanity, and the World, over the last 47 years.” Imagine such hatred of an entire people!

But a President like FDR would have made those peace plans. And we, in the Schiller Institute, have revived and developed this Oasis Plan for peace in Southwest Asia now, and held conference after conference to spread the idea, built a worldwide International Peace Coalition around it. Diane Sare, The LaRouche Organization’s Presidential candidate for 2028, plans, as FDR did, to bring industrialization back to America and development to the world.

We give it to these young people to take forward and prevent a new world war.