Citizens Electoral Council of Australia

Media Release Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Craig Isherwood‚ National Secretary
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BRICS & friends at UN push development alternative to permanent war on terror

Last week’s U.N. General Assembly witnessed the BRICS nations and their close collaborators championing their agenda of peace between sovereign nations through economic development, in direct opposition to the Anglo-American folly of permanent war on “terrorism”.

The 24 September UNGA turned into a forum for challenging the fraudulent premise of Obama’s war on terror, the supporters of which include not just Australia and the U.K., but Arab Gulf countries such as Saudi Arabia which are notorious for funding such terrorism.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was blunt: “The use of force is incapable of eliminating the profound causes of conflicts,” she said, as is seen in the Palestinian conflict, Syria, Iraq, Libya, the Sahel, and Ukraine. “With each military intervention, we do not walk towards Peace, but, rather, we witness the worsening of these conflicts.”

In an earlier 22 September Pravda interview Rousseff had criticised the doctrine of “responsibility to protect” as a pretext for military interventions, and counterposed the developing BRICS order (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) as “a pole of stabilisation for the world”.

Only one seat away from Obama at the U.N. meeting, Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner aggressively challenged the effectiveness of the U.S. method of combating terrorism, alleging that the only thing the current policy seems to produce is more “permanent bloodshed” with large numbers of innocent victims.

“We are living a Third World War, as the Pope says—not a conventional war of the 20th century, but now more targeted wars,” Fernández warned.

The President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi stressed the institution of the nation-state which acts to protect the rights of its citizens, especially the fundamental “right to development”, which terrorism is aimed at undermining.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a Development Agenda to eradicate poverty, and for increased cooperation and friendship between neighbouring countries. Foreshadowing the upcoming November G20 Summit in Brisbane, Modi said:

“Today, we still operate in various ‘Gs’ with different numbers. India, too, is involved in several. But, how much are we able to work together as ‘G1’ or ‘G-all’? On the one side, we say that our destinies are inter-linked, on the other hand we still think in terms of zero sum game. If the other benefits, I stand to lose. It is easy to be cynical and say nothing will change; but if we do that, we run the risk of shirking our responsibilities and we put our collective future in danger.”

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute and chairwoman of the Civil Rights Solidarity Movement (BüSo) in Germany, intervened on the same theme in a 20 September article in Executive Intelligence Review magazine entitled, “We Need a New, Inclusive World Security Architecture”.

Mrs LaRouche made an urgent appeal to all nations to convene an emergency conference to discuss and resolve the current threats to peace: “We immediately need a global emergency conference with only a single theme: How should a global, inclusive security architecture be designed which guarantees the existence and security of all nations on the planet?”

Citing the remarkable breakthroughs in collaboration and development between nations such as China and India, and other BRICS nations, Zepp-LaRouche elaborated: “[Chinese] President Xi has repeatedly argued that there can be no security structure that grants security only to a few states, while others remain in chaos and danger; only an inclusive security architecture can guarantee world peace. Precisely such a security architecture, which encompasses all States, must urgently be placed on the agenda, if we do not want to collectively kill ourselves off.

“The obvious economic basis for such an inclusive security approach is the New Silk Road program, which China is working to bring about and whose spirit the aforementioned alliances have embraced. The Chinese government has repeatedly stressed that this New Silk Road is an open concept, which every nation can join.”

Such a strategy would also act to prevent other threats to peace and security, such as that now being witnessed in Africa. On 18 September, the first-ever United Nations Security Council emergency meeting to address a public-health crisis was held, in which all one hundred and thirty member-nations agreed that the current Ebola outbreak—the worst in history—“constitutes a threat to international peace and security”.

To address this threat over the long-term requires a change in approach across the board. “We must replace this imperial, oligarchical approach with a new paradigm: that the common aims of mankind are the priority for everyone”, Zepp-LaRouche concluded.

The rival agendas on display at the UNGA—economic development vs. permanent imperial war—will clash again at the November G20 Leaders Summit in Brisbane, which otherwise is scheduled to finalise the City of London-Wall Street demand for a global bail-in regime to perpetuate too-big-to-fail banks.

Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood today echoed the BRICS leaders who’ve called for changing the G20 agenda to include reining in the rampant financial speculation of London and Wall Street that suppresses development and destroys nations. “The G20 is an opportunity for the world to take a different path from that which has given humanity economic crisis, austerity, and terrorism, which is collaborative economic development between sovereign nations. The immediate future of humanity depends upon it.”

Click here for a free copy of the CEC’s 2002 New Citizen special report which foreshadowed today’s crisis: “Facing the Depression: A Fascist Police State, or Economic Development?”

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