05/30/2026
Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Director Sergei Naryshkin, while addressing the International Security Forum in Moscow, in which 150 delegations from various countries participated, said that a planetary war may have “already begun.” There are numerous examples which justify this description of the world. The illegal war of aggression launched against Iran by the United States and Israel; the Israeli genocide being conducted against the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza, combined with the recent attacks against civilians in Lebanon; and the NATO-sponsored attacks by Ukraine against schools and other residential areas in Russia, are merely the best known examples.
The just-concluded meeting sponsored by the UN Security Council’s rotating chairman, the People’s Republic of China, on the topic of “Upholding the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations Charter and Strengthening the UN-Centered International System,” addressed the need to restore sovereignty and dialogue in a world faced with a greater risk of thermonuclear annihilation than during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. In that respect, people should review Pope John XXIII’s encyclical “Pacem In Terris” (“Peace On Earth”), written in 1963, just after that near-catastrophe, to remind ourselves, how a crisis, such as that, and the one that we are right now confronted with, must be addressed.
This week, the forces of the Schiller Institute deployed at the UN to put the Extended Oasis Plan of Lyndon LaRouche and Helga Zepp-LaRouche on the table, a policy which would provide the basis for a regional comprehensive framework in Southwest Asia, torn by endless wars, and the world as a whole.
Another important event which occurred this week has placed back onto the world stage the Classical conception of the dignity of Man so eloquently embodied in the July, 1776 American Declaration of Independence. Current history was changed this week with the release of Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” or “On the Grandeur of Humanity.” In one of the encyclical’s sections, Pope Leo XIV made reference to his predecessor, Pope Leo XIII, and his work, “Rerum Novarum,” the 135th anniversary of which is being celebrated this year, and which clearly laid down for the first time the Catholic Church’s stance on the rights of labor, human development, and the obligation of all governments towards promoting the General Welfare.
This action by the Pope also follows in the footsteps of an earlier dialogue that his predecessor, Pope St. John Paul II, had embraced from the 1970s through the latter years of his papacy, and in which the late economist and statesman, Lyndon LaRouche, had been involved, and which continued in one form or another until the Pope’s death in 2005. The importance of Pope Leo XIII’s work, Rerum Novarum, was indicated by Lyndon LaRouche, then writing in a prison cell in 1991, in the preface to his work, “The Science of Christian Economy.”
He states:
“A hundred years ago, Rerum Novarum treated the remedying of the evil then being run by a ‘“devouring usury,”’ which, ‘“although often condemned by the Church, but practiced nevertheless under another form by avaricious and grasping men, has increased the evil”’ effected by the handing over of workers, “each alone and defenseless, to the inhumanity of employers and the unbridled greed of competitors.” LaRouche goes on, “At the time of the assasination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy at the end of 1963, approximately three-quarters of a century had passed. It appeared to most observers then, that the pleas for economic justice in Rerum Novarum, if not yet successful, were assuredly on the way to becoming so.”
Though that mentality of overcoming underdevelopment in most strata of the populations has been lost among the trans-Atlantic nations, that commitment has been taken up by the nations of the Global South, including in the BRICS+, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, ASEAN, and other multilateral platforms which represent the majority of the world. This notion of mankind’s power to harness technology to improve living conditions, rather than stifle them, is reflected in Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical, which, together with the Schiller Institute’s “Ten Principles for a New Security and Development Architecture,” along with the Extended Oasis Plan, and other programs, are the basis to act and intervene to put an end to planetary warfare, and reaffirm the dignity of humanity.
LaRouche forces are now acting on both sides of the Atlantic to move mankind into this new paradigm, through the independent campaigns of Presidential Candidate Diane Sare and Congressional Candidate Jose Vega. In Europe, the Schiller Institute is hosting a two-day conference this weekend to put forward this concept of humanity. Act with us now, before it’s too late, and join our initiatives!
