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Volume 35, No. 21, May 27, 2021 

Global Health Summit Issues  

a “Rome Declaration” Cloaked in Green The Global Health Summit on May 21-24 in Rome was more  of a propaganda stunt for the EU and global multinational  institutions than anything else. It was co-sponsored by the  Italian Presidency of the Group of 20, and the EU Commis sion, with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Commis sion President Ursula von der Leyen presiding.  

At the end, the so-called “Rome Declaration” of principle  was issued. It is a verbose five-page statement, full of com mendable intentions such as “large-scale, global, safe, effec tive and equitable vaccination in combination with appropriate  other public health measures remains our top priority,” or  “achieving Universal Health Coverage with primary healthcare  at its center,” but the document utterly lacked the sense of  urgency required to defeat the pandemic over one year after  its outbreak. 

Pharmaceutical companies Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson  & Johnson announced they will provide 2.3 billion COVID 19 vaccine doses for low-income countries at not-for-profit  pricing, as well as for middle-income nations at “low cost”  by 2022. Additionally, Germany, France and Italy announced  donations of vaccines from their stocks this year. However, all  this does not fill the gap in funding for anti-COVID-19 action,  which is estimated at $18.6 billion worldwide, e.g.of $6 bil lion for oxygen, and so on.  

In the final press conference by Draghi and von der Leyen,  the latter proclaimed that “climate change, the loss of biodi versity and human activity” are one of “the breeding grounds  for the forces that bring forth the pandemic”. More than  once, she lauded the Rome Summit for producing, for the  first time, a multinational agreement on a “One Health” ap proach.  

Though that latter expression can have several meanings,  von der Leyen’s is “ultra-green”, referring to the combined  condition of human, animal, plant, Earth and climate consid erations, in which human lives do not come first. In fact, in  this view, human activity must be cut back, because it has  extended too far into the animal and plant world, and harms  diversity, while breeding disease. 

Promising to help poor countries to defeat the Covid-19  pandemic while at the same time pushing a green agenda that  

includes a scheme to finance African countries that agree to  forego economic development lacks any credibility (cf. SAS 18/21). 

As to the aid pledged at the conference, international  health operators and organizations exposed their inadequacy.  The summit, overall, provided “too little, without the needed  urgency of action,” said Krishna Udayakumar, founding direc 

tor of the Duke Global Health Innovation Center, in an email.  “Commitments should be brought forward to enable sharing  and delivery of doses in days to weeks, not months to years,”  he continued. 

Anna Marriott, Oxfam Health Policy Manager and Policy co lead for the People’s Vaccine Alliance noted that “World lead ers talked eloquently about the bottle-necks that are limiting  vaccine manufacturing and supply, and the gross inequalities  today of global vaccinations, but their solutions remain the  same tired ones that have failed billions of people who remain  unvaccinated and vulnerable to infection ahead.” 

Israel, Hamas, Iran: What Is U.S. Policy  for South-West Asia?  

One day before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken began a  tour of the Middle East on May 25, a spokesman for the State  Department announced that he would be “focused primarily  on ensuring that the cease-fire sticks”. Blinken himself had  told CNN on May 23 that the goal of the U.S., with “President  Biden leading the effort”, was “to end the violence”. If that is  the goal, one must ask why Joe Biden waited eleven days be 

fore increasing the pressure on the Netanyahu government to  stop the devastating air assault on Gaza. Israeli attacks killed  more than 260 Palestinians, including more than 60 children,  destroyed the housing of over 77,000 people, and left most  residents with no electricity and more than 800,000 with no  access to clean water.  

Blinken is to visit Israel, the West Bank, Jordan and Egypt  on his tour. According to a statement made by President Biden  on May 24, his secretary of state will spearhead a “coordinat ed international effort to ensure immediate assistance reaches  Gaza in a way that benefits the people there and not Hamas.”  Given that Hamas is the elected government for the residents  of Gaza, it is not clear how reconstruction of the bombed out  city can take place without coordination with that govern-

ment and if Israel opposes any effort that would benefit it!  Biden also stated that he would make no effort to restart a  “peace process”, with an aide saying this is because there is  little prospect that such an attempt could succeed. 

The matter of what to do about Hamas brings into focus a  larger problem facing the current U.S. administration, directly  related to the issue of Iran. President Biden is pursuing the  prospect of reviving the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action  with the Islamic Republic, which Donald Trump walked out  of in 2018.  

Republican opponents of Biden say that his openness to  renew the agreement has emboldened the “radicals” there,  which freed them to unleash Hamas, described by them as an  Iranian proxy force. The Republicans are therefore accusing  Biden of being weak in his support of Israel against “Iranian 

backed terrorism.” Meanwhile, the majority of Democrats  also insists that the U.S. must give full backing to Israel, which  is consistent with Biden’s strong pro-Israel stance through his  long political career. 

The Name of the Game  

Is Geopolitics and Status Quo 

Major media, including the Washington Post, the New York  Times and the Guardian for example -- which align with the  war hawks in both parties – imply that Joe Biden’s his seem ing disinterest in the Middle East stems from being “wrapped  

up in domestic issues”, and by the continued “pivot to Asia”.  But this is a diversion, away from the “bigger picture”,  which reveals that the instability in the whole of southwest  Asia, including the Israel-Palestine question, results from the  hegemony of British geopolitics in defining U.S. policies in the  region. The “endless wars” since the 9/11 attack on the U.S.  are a continuation of the geopolitical doctrines which have  shaped the region since the British intervention in the last  decades of the 19th century. The destruction in recent years  of nationalist regimes in Iraq and Libya, the continuing drive  for regime change in Syria and Iran through murderous sanc tions, and support for Saudi genocide in Yemen -- all with  full backing from Biden and his foreign policy team (with the  exception of a minimal pullback of some military aid to the  Saudis in regard to Yemen) -- are consistent with London’s  efforts to prevent sovereign governments from emerging in  the region. 

The biggest threat to those London-Washington forces  comes from the prospect that Russia and China will support  nationalist governments in the region that reject the “Rules Based Order” that is being imposed by U.S.-U.K.-NATO mili tary power. Russia has done so in aiding Syria, and China may  do so in extending the Belt and Road Initiative into the region  as the basis for reconstruction. Joe Biden has thus far com mitted himself to the “status quo”, not only in defending the  war hawks’ policy against Syria and Yemen, and in supporting  Israel and the Saudis, but in moving more aggressively for  regime change against both Russia and China.  

Antony Blinken’s tour this week thus seems to be more  about optics than a substantive change in the unilateral poli cies coming from Washington, in league with London. In the  absence of a break with geopolitics and the failure to engage  in serious projects of real economic development, the cease fire will likely have a short shelf-life, and the fuse is waiting to  be lit for another explosion. 

Net Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050:  The Unworkable Goal of the Davos Elite The Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) has just  issued a report outlining how the world can meet the goal of  reducing carbon emissions worldwide to a net zero by 2050,  which is the goal expected to be set at the COP26 conference  next November. The IEA describes itself as an “autonomous  intergovernmental agency operating within the OECD frame work,” but its director, Turkish economist Fatih Birol, is hardly  independent: he is the head of the Energy Advisory Board of  the World Economic Forum, that elitist group of bankers and  oligarchs pushing the Great Reset under the guise of “saving  the planet”.  

The report entitled Net Zero By 2050, a Roadmap for the  Global Energy Sector was requested, according to the official  press release, by the British government, in order to “inform  the high-level negotiations that will take place at the 26th  Conference of the parties (COP26)” (https://www.iea.org/ reports/net-zero-by-2050). Its fundamental premise is that  even if governments were to fully achieve the pledges they’ve  made to reduce carbon emissions, it wouldn’t be enough to  reach the goal of net zero emissions by 2050. In order to  tackle the “greatest challenge humankind has ever faced,”  Birol says, dramatic action must be taken immediately--no  time to waste. The path to achieve these goals is “narrow but  achievable.”  

Indeed, the measures proposed are drastic. Among the  400 “milestones” cited are “no investment in new fossil fuel  supply projects, and no further final investment decisions  for new unabated coal plants. By 2035, there are no sales  of new internal combustion engine passenger cars, and by  2040, the global electricity sector has already reached net 

zero emissions.” 

That will require the “immediate and massive deployment of  all available clean and efficient energy technologies”. Among  them, “annual additions of solar PV to reach 630 gigawatts  by 2030 and those of wind power to reach 390 gigawatts.”  That represents “four times the record level” set in 2020. In  terms of solar power, it means the “equivalent to installing the  world’s current largest solar park roughly every day.”  

That shows (unintentionally) just how unworkable the  whole project is. But then again, for the World Economic Fo rum and its co-thinkers, the purpose is not really to reach zero  emissions, but to implement murderous cutbacks in energy  consumption and economic development now, while pumping  up a new “green bubble” to “save” the financial system. 

The G7 is more than ready to play along. At the Environ ment Ministers meeting on May 21, the seven countries (Brit ain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United States)  plus the European Union, committed to “take concrete steps  towards an absolute end to new direct government support  for unabated international thermal coal power generation by  the end of 2021...”  

BüSo Economic Seminar  

Exposes the Insanity of the Green Deal  The alternative to the Green Reset policy pushed by the World  Economic Forum (Davos) was discussed on May 19 at an on line seminar of the Civil Rights Movement Solidarity (BüSo).  This webinar was the first in a series of important policy  forums, leading up to the German national elections to be 

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held in September, aimed at defining a new, just world eco nomic order. The four speakers - economic consultant Gerd  Marks, BüSo federal chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche, and  two state chairs, Alexander Hartmann in Hesse, and Michael  Gründler in Saxony - addressed various aspects of energy and  economic policy to this end.  

The webinar opened with a presentation by Gerd Marks,  an industry consultant with decades of experience, who de scribed how the Merkel government’s march out of nuclear  and coal energy into the nowhere of “renewables” threatens  Germany’s future energy supply. 

Helga Zepp-LaRouche focused her presentation on the  evil Malthusian ideology underlying the trans-Atlantic policy  today, which represents an existential threat for the entire  world. The “Great Reset” and the “Green Deal”, she said, are  intended to ensure not only that the underdeveloped sector be  denied development under the pretext of climate change miti 

gation, but also that the so-called developed countries agree  to a suicidal policy of deindustrialization and the elimination of  modern farming, with depopulation being the ultimate goal.  

The alternative to this policy, it was shown, includes recon struction projects for the whole world, such as the creation  of a global modern health care system with all the necessary  infrastructure. In his presentation, “A credit system for re construction”, Alexander Hartmann, editor-in-chief of Neue  Solidarität. addressed the question of how such a system can  be financed.  

Michael Gründler’s topic was “The progress of nuclear en ergy worldwide”. After presenting the key concept of energy  density developed by Lyndon LaRouche, he explained why real  economic development requires high energy densities such as  nuclear power.  

The videos of the speeches are available (in German) on the  BüSo Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list =PLRi0mq2jMwGVWDVuiPEdJ-SMbBef7cdBW 

Motion Against the Great Reset and for  Fusion Energy Introduced in the Bundestag A group of parliamentarians from the Alternative for Germa ny (AfD) party introduced a motion into the Bundestag, which  was debated last week, calling on the government to reject  the “Great Reset” and to refuse to participate in any projects  associated with it. That agenda as well as other schemes to  achieve so-called “climate neutrality”, the motion states, are  not only harmful for the environment, but also represent “an  enormous threat to prosperity, freedom and the security of  supply in German”, and will aggravate the economic crisis and  increase poverty. 

The MPs further assert that the “energy transition” and  so-called climate protection policy pursued by the federal gov ernment have cost enormous amounts of money over the past  20 years, and caused “massive economic and social damage”,  but produced no benefit. 

The most interesting aspect of the motion is the call for  allocating “funds for research into the future-oriented field  of nuclear and nuclear fusion technology”, in particular on a  national level, while “international cooperation must be stabi 

lized or strengthened”.  

Specially, the motion calls for changing the current law so  that new nuclear facilities, “especially those that are suitable  

for the end of the nuclear fuel cycle in order to avoid geo logical disposal for the commercial generation of electricity,  can once again be approved”. The federal government is also  urged to create “additional funding programs for the research  and development of new nuclear and fusion technologies,  especially Generation IV, and thus enable participation in rel evant projects abroad.”  

The BüSo, as our readers know, has been the only party in  Germany to openly campaign for fusion energy as well as for  the new generations of nuclear energy, while attacking from  the very beginning the “Great Reset”. Helga Zepp-LaRouche  welcomed the fact that AfD parliamentarians have belatedly  echoed those themes. But, she added, one can only hope that  the party will distance itself from the untenable positions held  by some of its leaders, that are squarely in the tradition of the  reprehensible Conservative Revolution.  

Presidents Putin and Xi Launch Construction  of Four Nuclear Plants in China  

On May 19, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping participated in a vid eoconference hookup to to launch the beginning of construc tion of four new nuclear plants in China, based on Russian  technology. These are two units each at the Tianwan nuclear  power plant in the city of Lianyungang, and at the Xudapu  

nuclear plant in Huludao district in northeastern China. The two Presidents used the occasion to underscore the  growing bilateral cooperation, and its global focus on the role  of innovation and scientific and technological cooperation in  achieving development. As Vladimir Putin stressed, “Russia China relations have reached their highest level in history.” Xi Jinping reiterated that the two countries had agreed “to  make a sizable intellectual contribution to the innovation-driv en development of the global nuclear sphere.” The Chinese  president asserted that “our countries have been providing  each other with solid support and have been engaged in close  and effective cooperation” in many areas, and that “energy  has always been the biggest and most successful branch in  our practical cooperation while nuclear energy cooperation  has been its strategic priority. We are jointly upgrading our  cooperation in this area and have already put into operation a  host of major projects.” 

Vladimir Putin, in response, emphasized that “Russian and  Chinese specialists are working on this flagship joint project  which is truly a milestone. They are building powerful, mod ern Russian-designed nuclear reactors that meet all safety and  environmental standards. It is planned that they will start op erating as soon as in 2026-2028, which, as President Xi just  said, will be a solid contribution to China’s energy security.” 

The Russian leader recalled that it was during his state visit  to China in June 2018, that he and Xi determined the main  areas of a genuinely close partnership, including the coopera tion on nuclear technology. 

In addition to the four new units at the Tianwan and Xudapu  nuclear power plants, many other large Russian-Chinese ini tiatives are being implemented. One of them, Putin pointed  out, is for an experimental fast neutron reactor built in China  with Russia’s participation. Moreover, Russia had supplied  China with radionuclide thermal blocks for the Chang’e 4  spacecraft -- the first in history to land on the far side of the  Moon in 2019.

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The Russian president noted that, in addition to nuclear  power, the two countries plan to develop an “innovative part nership” in “the implementation of low-carbon and other  technologies.” 

Ghana President Akufo-Addo Calls  for Comprehensive Debt Relief for Africa  A Summit on Financing African Economies was hosted by  French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on May 18. This  is undoubtedly a crucial topic, in particular after over one year  of the devastating effects that the Covid-19 pandemic has had  on developing countries -- – both directly and even more so  indirectly through the economic repercussions from a locked down developed sector. Unfortunately, the conclusion was  disappointing. 

The decision was made to provide the continent with $33  billion more Special Drawing Rights issued by the International  Monetary Fund, of which $24 billion for sub-Saharan Africa.  Emmanuel Macron expressed confidence that that sum could  be increased to at least $100 bn if other countries contribute  part of their share, but the IMF itself estimates that Africa will  suffer from a funding gap of about $290 billion by 2023.  

The problem for Africa was presented quite forcefully, by  the President of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo, who pointed out  that the current global financial architecture has proven to be  “incapable of supporting lives and livelihoods, and allocating  sufficient long-term resources to support Africa’s economic  transformation”.  

And now, including as a result of the pandemic, “the total  fiscal deficit of Africa rose from 4.7% of GDP in 2019 to  8.7% in 2020”. At the same time, overall debt levels “have  increased from 57% of GDP in 2019 to 70% in 2021”. 

To prevent Africa from truly becoming “the forgotten con tinent”, he said, “there is urgent need for comprehensive debt  relief and debt cancellation”. 

President Nana Akufo-Addo noted that by 2050, Africa  will have become home to a quarter of the world’s popula tion and more than half of the global youth population – and  could potentially become an economic powerhouse. Thus, he  told the gathering, it is “in our collective interest to create the  conditions that will enable such a development to be of benefit  to the entire globe.” 

Despite the call from Ghana, there was reportedly no seri ous discussion during the summit in Paris of debt cancellation.  The G20, which had agreed to suspend the reimbursement of  the debt of the poorest countries last year due to the pandem ic, has agreed to extend the suspension until the end of 2021,  but that only covers a very small fraction of the total debt. 

A big part of the problem is that all the calculations are  made in monetary terms. The challenge is to ensure the de velopment of the physical economy, which concretely raises  the standard of living. Real wealth comes not in the form of  money, whose value can fluctuate wildly, but in terms of infra structure, agriculture, education and healthcare.  

A Beautiful Tribute to Beethoven  

and A Rebuke of “Cancel Culture” 

In celebration of his own 88th birthday, and of Beethoven’s  250th birthday, the leader of the Nation of Islam, Minister  Louis Farrakhan, released on May 11 the video recording of  his performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto in D Major,  

which he had done in 2002, but which, for various reasons,  could not be released earlier. (https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=l-iE9uNKwU0).  

 While there may have been some technical shortcomings,  the musical quality and the truthful, non- pretentious intent  of the message, as concertmistress Ayke Agus pointed out,  transcended all of them. The performance shocked many  who never knew Louis Farrakhan as an accomplished musi 

cian, only as a controversial and most often misunderstood  religious leader. 

The video was introduced by Farrakhan’s grandson, Leon ard Farrakhan Muhammad Jr., followed by Professor Cornel  West, a powerful critic within the Afro-American community  of the “cancel culture” movement and defender of the classics.  who spoke about the power of Beethoven’s music to unite  people.  

From the various contributions, the story emerged that  when Louis was five years old, his mother insisted that he  master the violin, for which he developed a passion. A turning  point then came in his musical studies at the age of nine, when  he attended a live Boston Symphony Orchestra performance,  in which violinist Jascha Heifetz performed Beethoven’s Violin  Concerto in D Major, in a way which profoundly moved the  young boy. He clearly had enormous talent as a child, but at  the time the nation, as Minister Farrakhan recognized, was  not ready for a black Classical violinist, and he put his instru ment away for 42 years. 

He attributes his return to the violin as an adult to Syl via Olden Lee, a master musician, pianist, and music coach to  Metropolitan Opera singers, who was a dear friend of Lyndon  and Helga Zepp-LaRouche and also worked closely with the  Schiller Institute. His teacher then became Elaine Skorodin  Fohrman, herself a student of Heifetz, who assisted him in  preparing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, which he later  performed in concert in 1993.  

In Farrakhan’s post-performance comments in 2002, which  are included in the video, he introduced two young Black vio linists who were part of the orchestra. He told the audience  that it were necessary to bring such classically trained Black  musicians to the front of American stages in order to reach  out to the Black community to become more engaged in clas sical culture. His approach is thus the opposite of the woke  campaign to eliminate so-called “dead white males” from edu cation altogether. 

Minister Farrakhan addresses racism as the crime it is,  while showing that the means to defeat it, is to foster in ev ery person, beyond whatever differences there may be, his  or her truly human identity and inherent creative powers, as  expressed in classical music. 

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