Friday September 5, 11am ET/5pm CET
International Peace Coalition #118: The Emergence of a New Era of Mankind
Join the International Peace Coalition with Pedro Paez, Rafed Aljoboury, organizing reports from around the world, and other leaders. Please send reports and initiatives for the agenda ASAP.
Friends of the International Peace Coalition,
We are experiencing "the emergence of a new era of Mankind, an era of peaceful cooperation based on the rapid economic development of each and every nation on the planet," Helga Zepp-LaRouche stated today on her weekly webcast. The results of the two-day summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Tianjin, China, coupled with the Sept. 3 commemoration in Beijing of the 80th anniversary of the defeat of fascism in the Pacific in World War II, have ushered in that new era. The Vladivostok Eastern Economic Forum, running from Sept. 3-6, will deepen the process; as will the Sept. 8 BRICS video-conference summit called on short notice by Brazilian President Lula de Silva, who holds the 2025 Presidency of the BRICS, to discuss a coordinated response to Trump’s tariff warfare.
The expanded SCO and BRICS now represent a total of 38 countries (8 of them are in both groupings), whose combined population is about 6 billion people, or 75% of Mankind’s total population of 8 billion. They have proclaimed an end to 500 years of colonial exploitation, run today by the financial centers of London and Wall Street, and the intention of that Global Majority to create a "path of peaceful development, and join hands with the rest of the world to build a community with a shared future for humanity," as Chinese President Xi Jinping stated in his brief address to the 80th anniversary commemoration. "Humanity rises and falls together," Xi also stressed.
Xi presented his Global Governance Initiative at the SCO meeting as a policy approach to guide this forward motion, and Russian President Putin stressed its significance in summarizing his evaluation of where things stand: "I believe they are extremely positive. The documents that have been adopted by all participants look to the future. In this context, I would like to point out China’s Global Governance Initiative. I believe that it has been advanced at the right time. More importantly, this initiative is aimed at promoting positive sentiments between the countries that attended the summit in China and our potential partners among the countries that are not willing today to proclaim their readiness for this partnership."
Zepp-LaRouche emphasized today that "this emerging New International Economic Order represents a solution for the crises of war and underdevelopment, including for the United States and Europe." She stressed that these are precisely the policies which, for over 50 years, she and the LaRouche movement have been fighting for, policies designed by her husband, Lyndon LaRouche.
What will such a new international security and development architecture look like? Putin special envoy, Kirill Dmitriev—who played an important role in the Aug. 15 summit between Presidents Trump and Putin in Anchorage, Alaska—told Zvezda television on Sept. 2: "Certainly, Russia is eyeing the opportunity of joint Russia-China-US projects, including in the Arctic region, specifically in the energy sector also. We exactly see that projects should not be divided there into Russian-Chinese or Russian-US," he added. "We see joint investments are possible, including for Chinese and American investors, into joint projects, including in hydrocarbon projects in the Arctic."
Such joint projects will be at the center of the discussion at Vladivostok, including the proposal to build a tunnel under the Bering Strait to unite Russia and the United States with a high-speed rail network. Another topic will be the agreement signed at the SCO meeting between Russia, Mongolia and China to build the mammoth Power of Siberia 2 natural gas pipeline which, as RT characterized it, will be a "seismic redirection" in global energy and geopolitics. The Yamal gas fields which are the northern source feeding the pipeline, lies on a Russian peninsula in the Arctic Ocean which is directly on the Northern Sea Route which Russia and China are cooperating on developing.
This rapid shift in dynamic in the world underscores the importance of what we do with our forces of the International Peace Coalition. Join us this Friday at 11am ET/5pm CET to mobilize. Feel free to invite your organizations.
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