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Why the United States Must Join the Brics a New International Order for Mankind WHY THE UNITED STATES MUST JOIN THE BRICS A NEW INTERNATIONAL ORDER FOR MANKIND SUGGESTED $20 CONTRIBUTION LAROUCHE PAC The Pacific Ocean is broad enough to accommodate the development of both“ China and the United States, and for our two countries to work together to contribute to security in Asia. These are mutually complementary efforts instead of mutually exclusive ones. China and the U.S. should continue to enhance dialogue and coordination on Asia Pacific affairs, and respect and accommodate each other’s interests and concerns in this region, and develop inclusive coordination.... We welcome the active participation of the United States and other relevant countries so that together we can promote and share prosperity and peace in Asia Pacific. China is ready to work with the United States to make efforts in a number of priority areas and putting into effect such principles as non-confrontation, non-conflict, mutual respect, and win-win cooperation. And with unwavering spirit and unremitting efforts, we will promote new progress in building a new model of major-country relations between the two countries, so as to bring greater benefits to our two peoples and two countries. Chinese President Xi Jinping Beijing, China · November 12, 2014 Joint Press Conference with President Obama Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee LAROUCHE PAC larouchepac.com facebook.com/larouchepac @larouchepac A New International Order for Mankind WHY THE UNITED STATES MUST JOIN THE BRICS Table of Contents 2 Introduction: There Are Only Two Alternatives For Mankind 4 I. The BRICS: A New International Order Has Emerged 11 II. The Imperial System Is Dead and Must Be Eliminated 13 III. Concrete Opportunities for the U.S. to Join the BRICS 16 IV. A New System: Man’s Future as a Vernadskian Species 18 Appendix: LaRouche’s Role in Shaping Current History Cover Image: Roberto Stuckert Filho, Agência Brasil LLPPA-2014-1-0-0-STD | COPYRIGHT © DECEMBER 2014 | LYNDON LAROUCHE PAC, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Why the United States Must Join BRICS page 1 INTRODUCTION LaRouche: There Are Only Two Alternatives for Mankind The following is a transcription of remarks made by certain kind of accord with these other nations which Lyndon LaRouche on December 1, 2014. dominate the planet right now, which essentially are the dominant features of the planet, in Asia, in South The United States’ establishment under its Consti- America, and so forth. tution is unique. There is nothing in the rest of the world So therefore, what we want to do, is we want to which corresponds to the intention of the U.S. Federal clean up our mess at home. But we have to also find out, Constitution. We are an entity of our own making, our how are we going to relate to these BRICS-types of na- own type, as contrasted with practically every other na- tions; how are we going to relate to the Russia-China tion on the planet. agreement, and so forth; how are we going to take all But what has happened is, there’s been a change these large entities which will largely dominate the plan- in the process, a global change, that the United States et, and include the United States, as a very important el- is now, essentially, ruined by bad Presidents, especially ement of that combination of nation-states? And that’s the past two sets of Presidencies. What we need to do what we have to do. is return the United States to being the United States in Therefore, we have to clean up the United States, its original Constitutional form. We don’t need to make to return it to its principle, get rid of all this stuff, like any changes from that principle. what the present Republicans seem to be doing right But now, the rest of the world is a little bit differ- now—get rid of that! Get rid of Obama. Get rid of that ent: What you have, for example, with the role of Russia, stuff! And once we do, we simply have to reestablish the and its relationship to the BRICS formation. What’s hap- principle of the national Union. pened is, that large nations, and to some degree smaller Because we will find then, that what will happen, ones, as opposed to Europe in general, have emerged as is we will be a relative minority on the planet, relative major forces. That is, those nations as a group, repre- to the large complexes such as in South America, what sent a power, one of the greatest powers on the planet, will come up in Africa eventually, what will happen in in terms of political power. And that power is growing. Eurasia generally. And Europe, old Europe, and so forth, What China’s doing, for example, in terms of space, in will be small; the United States will be a very large en- terms of the development of the organization of the tity, but not the biggest entity on the planet politically space system, within Johannes Kepler’s specifications, or otherwise. that’s unique. So, we have to recognize that the United States is A New Conception of Sovereignty actually a very large part in its own right of what the new So we’re going to have to come to a new arrange- world order ought to be. But right now, we have a col- ment in which we have a new conception of what national lection of nation-state systems which are very large, and sovereignty is. That question has not been posed clearly, they vastly outnumber us. as far as I can see, thus far. It’s important that we fore- What’s happening with the British Empire’s role, see where we’re going, or where we should be going. And is, we were creating a pseudo-world system, and that’s that’s my concern. From my standpoint, I can see clearly what the problem is. If we in the United States get rid of where the United States must be going right now. Obama and the Bushes and so forth, get rid of that kind Just simply take this new arrangement, which is not of filthy government, then we can readily come into a a simple sovereignty. It is something new. It is not the page 2 A New International Order for Mankind Lyndon LaRouche also addressed this topic during a discussion which he led on November 29, 2014. The international system as it has been heretofore, is dying, and there are only two alternatives: general thermonuclear war, or a kind of unity among nations which we see coming out of the BRICS and similar kinds of fora. In other words, the only way that you can main- tain society, now, on a global scale, is on a global scale. And that means you have to affirm the fact that the -na tions are all working, very much as Russia and China are. The Russia-China alliance is a measure of what’s coming, and we’re just a click away from that result. If you want to be sane, with the bankruptcy of the United States, the bankruptcy of Canada, the bank- ruptcy of the European nations, the Western European nations—they’re all bankrupt! And they’re never going Lyndon LaRouche has provided the intellectual and politi- to come out of that bankruptcy, as the kinds of nations cal leadership in the fight for a new international economic they’ve been treated as so far. order for the planet. The profound impact of LaRouche’s What’s going to happen is, you’re going to have the leadership is clearly reflected in the current actions being taken by the BRICS and others to create a new global fi- kind of system which the BRICS represents. The world nancial architecture and strategic alliance among nations. system will be, in languages and so forth, language prac- tice and so forth, will be somewhat differentiated. But old notion of sovereignty. It’s a notion of a certain char- the intention, to be accomplished, of what is to be ac- acteristic right of people, to have their own government, complished, will be more and more unified. Languages their own system, and to have these systems of govern- will still be used, as such, but the principle, the inten- ment, the new systems typified by the BRICS, to come tion will be unified. You’re getting that tendency in South into concert with the United States under what I’ve been America now. It’s much stronger there than other places. pushing for now: And let it flow! The Russia-China relationship is typical of this. Because we’re going to find that, as is shown to us The present system, which dumb Americans believe by what is being done by China in its space program, in in still, is dying, and it’s waiting to be pushed off the boards, which China has taken steps into nearby space in the di- into maybe an empty swimming tank, which would prob- rection of Johannes Kepler—we’re going to find out that ably make a mess of things. We’re going into a new system the idea of what a human being is, as opposed to an ani- where mankind will be a unified system, unified in prac- mal, which is not clear generally, yet, is going to change. tices, by means of practices which effect that. What China is doing especially with the space program, There will be a dividing line in which the distinc- is going to change the way we define the meaning of man- tion is clear.
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