MEDIA FORCE

Intervene with Needed Ideas and Debate into the ‘Historic Moment’ for Humanity
May 29, 2026 (EIRNS)—The timing and content of the May 17 “Open Letter to Governments of the United Nations: A Policy To Bring Peace and Development to Southwest Asia,” following the EIR Emergency Roundtable dialogue May 15, has contributed significantly to the discussion in and around the many international events at the end of this month, coming at what was called an “historic moment” for humanity by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in his opening remarks May 26 for the UN Security Council “High-Level Open Debate: Upholding the UN Charter and Strengthening the UN-Centered International System.”

Well over 105 countries and organizations gave presentations during this debate, held during May 26 and May 28, but even so, this UN Security Council special session was not the only important international occasion. As of the close of this month, a number of other gatherings also served as platforms for dialogue and initiatives toward steering a course away from dangerous warfare and Western “Epstein Class” breakdown, to the higher path of progress.

On May 28 in New York, the Group of Friends of Global Governance met at the United Nations, again under chairmanship of Minister Wang, who presented nine points of recommended reforms of world governance, with representatives from 60 nations in the discussion. He started with ways to restore the United Nations to the principle of serving the sovereign interests of all nations.

In Eurasia this week there were two major multi-nation conclaves. In Russia, from May 26-29 was the first International Moscow Security Conference, along with the 14th International Meeting of High Representatives Responsible for Security Issues. In Kazakhstan were meetings in Astana of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), with its plenary May 28, and today its heads of state Council session. Joining Kazakh President Tokayev and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was on an official state visit, were leaders of the three other EAEU members, and additional guest nations.

Taken altogether—including the initiative of the “Open Letter,” under the signature of Helga Zepp-LaRouche of the Schiller Institute and EIR Editor in Chief—these occasions for deliberation constitute an intervention in support of humanity. Certain public statements explicitly recognize this point, by cross-connecting what is underway in this process, especially in connection with the combined leadership of Russia and China. In Moscow, host of the International Moscow Security Conference Sergei Shoigu, Secretary of the Security Council of Russia, put it this way May 28:

“In order to strengthen coordination between countries of the Global South and East, the following is important: to comprehensively reinforce the central coordinating role of the United Nations (UN), to support the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations established on Russia’s initiative, and to avoid provoking contradictions, disagreements and confrontation in relations between countries of the Global South and East. […] Of particular importance in the current conditions are the initiatives of the President of the Russian Federation to form a Greater Eurasian Partnership and an architecture of collective security on the Eurasian continent. […] Moscow, for its part, will continue […] to provide partners with assistance through supplies of agricultural products, fertilizers and hydrocarbons and jointly work on the creation of pooled reserves of resources.”

Key points of the Open Letter provide content for debate in this spirit of getting on with tasks and decisions to serve mutual interests of nations, focused on the immediate necessity toward settling the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. One of the Letter’s four points proposed by Ahmet Davutoglu, former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Turkiye, is the offer for Turkiye to be a location for temporary storage of radioactive material from Iran. If unacceptable, in practice, there are other proposals: For example, the IAEA is offering to supervise storage in Kazakhstan. Or other alternatives must be taken up.

This same kind of approach to debate it and solve it is especially true of the Extended Oasis Plan economic development perspective for the Greater Southwest Asia/North Africa region, which is in the Open Letter. It has been put forward for decades since its outline in the 1970s by statesman and economist Lyndon LaRouche. There are many debatable sub-points, and open questions. For example, what share of the goal of total water supply in the Trans-Jordan region should be desalinated at multiple seawater locations, as opposed to desalination at a few huge complexes with multi-nation conveyance systems? Plus, what will be the new system of credit and funding for construction, transition, and operation?

Yet another conference in Eurasia this week was directly relevant to this approach, the world over. In Tajikistan, the Dushanbe Conference of the Water Action Decade (2018-2028) took place in the capital, May 25-28. Co-sponsored by the UN and Tajikistan, this year’s conference, the fourth such event, was attended by 110 countries and 75 international organizations. Until now, hung up by the drag factor of UN bureaucracy and Western anti-development finance networks, little has been accomplished on world water improvements, with the outstanding exception of China. But with the global shift to new multi-nation commitments, this can change. At present, some 2 billion people worldwide lack safe drinking water, and 3.5 billion lack water for sanitation.

Break down the world crisis by continent and the tasks are clear. In Central Asia, which was one of the topic areas of the Dushanbe conference, the Himalayan run-off resource base (Amu Darya and Syr Darya Rivers) has been insufficient for the population for decades, and “new” water needs to be diverted southward from the Arctic-flowing rivers in Russia—the Ob and Irtysh. This project was on the agenda under the U.S.S.R., and now has renewed interest. Similarly, in North America, the limited Rocky Mountain and other mountain run-off flows have been insufficient for the dry Southwest for decades. The North American Water and Power Alliance, set to go in the 1960s, must now happen. In the Southern Hemisphere there are corresponding overdue and exciting tasks.

These are the needed ideas we are called upon to bring into the world debate without delay. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, on her May 27 weekly webcast “Extended Oasis Plan Key to Development Architecture,” said of China’s UN “open debate” initiative and related deliberation, “I think this is a very important discussion process, because it pertains to the question, is the human species capable of governing itself, or are we on the path of potential self-destruction, which is not an answered question yet.”

Join the mobilization through the International Peace Coalition. Watch for early reports from the capstone event of this historic week: the Schiller Institute international conference in Berlin this weekend. Stay up to date through [https://eir.news/

We Must Have the Wisdom To Change Our Axioms—Dump Geopolitics!
May 12, 2026 (EIRNS)—All eyes are on China as U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to begin a two-day state visit which many are hoping will provide some stability in a world situation that grows more chaotic and dangerous by the day. With topics high on the agenda such as bilateral trade (Trump arrives with a high-level business delegation) and the conflict in Iran (“I think we’re going to have a long talk about it,” the U.S. President said), and with Trump continuing to praise Xi Jinping as “an amazing man” with whom he has an excellent relationship, there is reason to hope that head-of-state diplomacy can introduce something new into the global dynamic—and not a moment too soon.

As EIR has estimated, the real financial cost for the world of the unprovoked U.S.-Israeli aggression against Iran is a staggering $4 trillion in just the first 60 days, as seen in total military expenditures, physical damage to the region, and lost global output due largely to the ongoing closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The real physical economic cost is orders of magnitude more, when one takes into account the devastation that is about to hit, given the shortage of fuels, fertilizers, chemical feedstock, and pharmaceutical supplies.

This is not an unintended consequence of the war policy, but rather an intentional, Malthusian (un)controlled disintegration of the global economy on the part of the international financial establishment centered in the City of London and Wall Street, which is rapidly losing its grip over world affairs. Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n?

“The world is moving in many different directions simultaneously,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche observed in a discussion with colleagues on May 11, “and that reflects a real lack of clarity on the side of several segments of the establishment in different parts of the world, of how to assess the failure of their policies, how to readjust, how to develop new options. And since most of these establishment figures have not become smarter since they initiated the policies which just failed, one cannot assume that the outcome of such running around will be any better.”

That view is only reinforced by the seeming shift in attitude of several European leaders who are coming to accept the necessity of talking with Russian President Vladimir Putin—a change in tactic rather than strategic goal. “They … started cranking up the confrontation with Russia,” Putin recounted at a May 9 press conference, “which is continuing to this day. I believe that this business is coming to an end, but nonetheless, it is a serious thing. The question is, why they are doing this? First, they expected a ‘crushing defeat’ of Russia…. It did not work out. And then they got stuck in that groove, and now they cannot get out of it.”

Einstein famously said that the definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”; we have reached a moment in human history when it is only a profound change in the behavior of society, a fundamental shift in the axioms underlying the world system, that can prevent a collapse. Many nations in the Global Majority are shifting in that direction in their rejection of geopolitics. An editorial in Global Times on the eve of Trump’s visit to Beijing looks toward U.S.-China cooperation as a keystone in such progress for humanity: “True wisdom between major powers lies not in treating the other as an adversary that must be defeated, but in placing differences within the broader framework of coexistence among civilizations, keeping competition rational and manageable, and turning cooperation into outcomes that benefit the world.”

The urgent next step in stabilizing both the economic and security situations in the world is for a new security and development architecture for the world, one which rejects the axioms of geopolitics and takes into account the interests of all countries, to be put on the agenda of nations, as Helga Zepp-LaRouche proposed in 2022.

The West must come onboard, and this will not be led by the failures currently occupying elected (and non-elected) office in those nations. A movement of citizens must decide to lead and demand that their nations join the rest of humanity.

In the United States, LaRouche Independent candidates Diane Sare and Jose Vega are rallying those potential leaders around the needed solutions, as are collaborators around the world. The next opportunity to join them will be Friday, May 15, at 11:00 a.m. ET, as Helga Zepp-LaRouche convenes an EIR Emergency Roundtable, “The Iran War and the ‘Controlled Disintegration’ of the World Economy.” Join them, and organize everyone you know to be there.

May 15 EIR Roundtable: The Iran War and the ‘Controlled Disintegration’ of the World Economy | It is now two and a half months since the Feb. 28 closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a predictable—some would argue intended—result of the unprovoked U.S.-Israeli war of aggression against Iran. If this war continues for another few months, it is likely that the world economy will enter into a spi...