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220141027_BRICS_Cover_Final_A4.indd0141027_BRICS_Cover_Final_A4.indd 1 228/10/20148/10/2014 11:41:48:41:48 PPMM For regular updates on the material covered in this pamphlet watch Subscribe to the Australian Alert Service Establish a New, Just Please direct all enquires to the author: Citizens Electoral Council of Australia World Economic Order! Citizens Electoral Council of Australia CEC Australia is a national political party, estab- Copyright © 2014 Citizens Media Group P/L PO Box 376 Coburg Vic 3058 lished in 1988 in Queensland. In the early 1990s, 595 Sydney Rd the CEC became closely associated with the Coburg Vic 3058 Web: http://www.cecaust.com.au LaRouche organisation in the U.S., based upon ABN 83 010 904 757 Email: [email protected] physical economist Lyndon LaRouche’s concepts All rights reserved. Printed by Ego Print Mt Waverley Victoria of achieving peace and national sovereignty First Printing: November 2014 Cover : Glen Isherwood through economic development, both for Australia, Typesetting: Craig Isherwood and for all regions of the world. Do You Want to Defeat Terrorism? Establish a New, Just World Economic Order! Table of Contents Letter of Transmittal 2 1. Th e New Silk Road Leads to the Future of Mankind! 5 2. Egypt Mobilizes to Build the New Suez Canal 11 3. Can Egypt’s Development Spur African Economic 17 Renaissance? 4. Th e Nile Basin: Egypt’s Role in Africa’s Development 23 5. A Revolutionary Development Plan for the Near and 31 Middle East 6. BRICS Initative 2014 —Fulcrum for Planetary 49 Development 7. LaRouche’s 40-Year Record: A New International 56 Economic Order 220141027_BRICS_0141027_BRICS_ FFinal.inddinal.indd 1 227/10/20147/10/2014 33:21:43:21:43 PPMM Letter of Transmittal ear Reader, ects have been agreed upon DMankind stands today at the greatest crossroads in throughout the world…. known history. “Th ere is a sudden ex- In the opening article of this pamphlet, founder plosion of optimism, where and head of the Schiller Institute Helga Zepp-LaRouche countries dare to assert their summarises the choices before us: either to enter a New sovereignty, and start realis- International Economic Order, a system of sovereign ing projects which have been nation-states collaborating on rapid scientifi c and tech- on the shelf for decades, but nological progress for their Common Good, such as the which were discouraged be- BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South fore by the conditionalities of Africa) have initiated; or, to follow the failed policies of international fi nancial insti- Craig Isherwood the Anglo-American-led trans-Atlantic powers into a tutions; [this is] even coming nightmare of fi nancial and economic collapse, endless from countries which are not wars and terrorism and “wars against terrorism”, police- yet formally part of the BRICS or the Silk Road, such as, states, and the danger of a thermonuclear showdown for example, Egypt, which has unleashed a spectacular with Russia and China. From the European Central program of national economic build-up; or Argentina, Bank’s desperate employment of ever greater hyperin- which has courageously resisted an attempted assault by fl ationary Quantitative Easing, to the BIS Financial Sta- the vulture funds. “Th ere is a completely new, culturally optimistic bility Board’s frantic eff orts to make all countries adopt sense of identity of the larger part of mankind, based on “bail-in” (confi scation) mechanisms, the world fi nancial the idea that mankind, as the only known creative spe- oligarchy, centred in the City of London and Wall Street, cies, can think and do things it has never done before.” signals foreknowledge that the latest money bubble will soon burst, with far greater force than the Global Finan- Zepp-LaRouche emphasises that China’s present cial Crisis of 2008. leaders are animated by a deep Confucian outlook that Will a Dark Age of war and terrorism be the out- is coherent with the principles upon which modern come of that crash? Th is pamphlet says that there is an nation-states were established in Western Europe dur- alternative. Th e fi rst six chapters comprise articles writ- ing the 15th-century Golden Renaissance, particularly ten by Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche and her collaborators, on through the work of Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, who in- elements of the global economic, cultural, and spiritual sisted that individual nations, as well as relations among renaissance to which her Schiller Institute is dedicated. nations, are premised upon the reality of imago Dei: Zepp-LaRouche is well qualifi ed to present this hopeful man is created in the image of God. perspective, based on her 40-year-long eff orts, together Th ose principles were renewed, aft er Europe’s dev- with her husband, the American physical economist astation in a century of religious wars, in the 1648 Peace and statesman Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., towards bring- of Westphalia. Th at treaty, designed by Cardinal Jules ing a new, just international economic order into being: Mazarin, affi rmed the basis for political order among that history is the subject of Chapter 6 herein. the previously warring powers, as follows: “Th ere shall Helga Zepp-LaRouche has in-depth knowledge of be a Christian and universal peace, and a perpetual, true, China, the country spearheading the current BRICS and sincere amity…. Th is peace and amity [shall] be ob- process. Since her advocacy of the Eurasian Land- served and cultivated with such a sincerity and zeal, that Bridge program during visits to China in the 1990s, she each party shall endeavour to procure the benefi t, honour has been known there as “the Silk Road Lady”. Speak- and advantage of the other”. (Emphasis added.) China’s ing on 5 September 2014 at the Beijing conference “One President Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Belt, One Road”, she contrasted the optimism of the Modi, and other BRICS leaders have strongly voiced the current cultural outlook in China, to the dog-eat-dog Westphalian idea of mutual benefi t. geopolitical clashes of the Anglo-American-led powers, Th e New Face of Imperialism including Australia: Th us, our message here is “good news”. But the blood- “Th e New Silk Road, as it was proposed by Chinese red images at the top of this pamphlet’s cover are deadly President Xi Jinping one year ago, and as it has developed serious. It is beyond the pamphlet’s scope to detail the momentum through the BRICS Summit in July in Brazil, relationship between the powers who run the imperial followed by the BRICS-Latin American Heads of State fi nancial-economic looting schemes known as “globali- Summit the next day, has already changed the world. As a sation”, and the authors of today’s version of imperial result of this New Silk Road dynamic, numerous large proj- “geopolitics”, so I shall assert here: they are the same. 2 Establish a New, Just World Economic Order! 220141027_BRICS_0141027_BRICS_ FFinal.inddinal.indd 2 227/10/20147/10/2014 33:21:43:21:43 PPMM Today’s “liberal imperialism”, typifi ed by so-called “co- and Barack Obama, should be supported. Th ose redact- lour revolutions” for “democracy”, “the fi ght against ter- ed pages are understood to contain evidence of offi cial rorism”, and “the right to protect” (R2P), aims to force Saudi involvement with the 9/11 hijackers, including all countries to stay under the globalised “free market” the role played by then-Saudi Ambassador to the USA system of looting the real economy for the sake of fi nan- Bandar bin Sultan and his wife. One can also fully share cial fl ows, either by peaceful submission or by conquest. the desire of people in the United States and Great Brit- A leading protagonist of this brutal process is for- ain for complete transparency concerning Prince Ban- mer British Prime Minister Tony Blair, against whom dar’s relations with ex-President George W. Bush and many in the UK want to bring charges of contempt of the Prince of Wales, respectively. Th e Saudi Ambassa- Parliament, minimally, for lies told in order to get the dor was so close to the President, that he was known in 2003 Iraq War launched. It was Blair, now a senior of- White House circles as “Bandar Bush”. Th e same Prince fi cial of JPMorgan Chase, who in a 1999 speech at the Bandar was a guest at the wedding of Prince Charles, Economic Club of Chicago proclaimed the end of the his friend of long standing, and Camilla Parker-Bowles Westphalian era of national sovereignty. Speaking on in April 2005. Another Saudi fi gure named by 9/11 vic- 5 March 2004, he amplifi ed the new Anglo-American tim families, in court papers, as a key fi nancier of the imperial policy of “humanitarian interventions” as a hijackers’ support network, is Abdullah Omar Naseef, guiding principle of an anti-Westphalian world order: who has long been associated with the Prince of Wales “So, for me, before 11 September [2001], I was already at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS), which reaching for a diff erent philosophy in international rela- Naseef co-founded and chairs, while Charles is the pa- tions from a traditional one that has held sway since the tron of OCIS and has raised major Saudi funding for it, Treaty of Westphalia in 1648; namely, that a country’s including through Bandar. internal aff airs are for it, and you don’t interfere unless it threatens you, or breaches a treaty, or triggers an obliga- Th e Way Forward tion of alliance.” I believe there must be a thorough house-cleaning We have to ask: with all this “Responsibility to Pro- within the Anglo-American establishment, with re- tect”, where was the mobilisation by Britain, the United spect to those who have, at the very least, turned a blind States, or other powers to stop the deadly Ebola virus eye to the Saudi fi nancing of terrorism, typifi ed by the in Africa? Who has taken “responsibility to protect” the 9/11 cover-up in the USA or the stonewalling of inves- 805 million human beings worldwide who suff er from tigations into the Al-Yamamah arms-for-oil scandal in chronic undernourishment? Where is the “humanitar- the UK.