Despite the two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, the world still stands at the precipice of war crimes to destroy an entire civilization, and possibly even nuclear war.
From every nation, every sector must act, and act now. We are calling on you—whether you are a congressman, a doctor, a professor or an engineer—to join with other colleagues from around the world to contact and urge your American counterparts—congressmen, doctors, professors, etc.—to bring maximum pressure to bear on the U.S. Congress, the U.S. President, and civil society to stop the madness! America need not be the enemy of humanity; it can and must return to the role its founding fathers set for it, to foster the sovereign development of every nation on Earth.
On April 6, Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) sponsored an Emergency Roundtable with “world citizens” from around the world under the title: “A Dialogue of Civilizations: Is There Still Time To Prevent the War Against Iran from Escalating into a Global Nuclear Conflict?”
One of the speakers at this roundtable, Chandra Muzaffar, founder and president of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST) based in Malaysia, proposed that the level of danger were so great that all citizens be mobilized and activated to reach out to members of their nation’s parliament and related political organizations to contact members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate to take the required actions to stop the war—which does, in fact, lie within the power of the U.S. Congress. He added that a similar call should be made to members of their nation’s military, active and retired, to contact members of the U.S. military institutions to call on them to speak out against the war.
We are calling on you to take this urgent action, as proposed by Chandra Muzaffar. It is not intended to act against the nation of the United States, a nation which in earlier eras has served (as its Founding Fathers had intended) as a “beacon of hope and temple of liberty” to the world. But the open rejection of the existence of international law, the adoption of the war of the jungle and that “might makes right,” even claiming that this is done in God’s name, cannot be accepted. Reach out to your American colleagues, and you will find—and help create—a powerful international movement for peace in civil society.
That is urgently needed to stop the headlong rush to annihilation; but it will not eliminate the root causes of war. This will require replacing the threat to “destroy Iranian civilization” with a policy of dialogue of civilizations, and a concrete plan to achieve “peace through development” for the entire Southwest Asia region, through an Oasis Plan, as proposed by Schiller Institute Founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, to build a network of canals and water desalination plants, electricity and transportation projects, some of which have already been planned or begun, from North Africa, through Israel-Palestine, to the Gulf states, across to India, and north to the Caucasus, which turns the entire region into a zone of peaceful cooperation for a better future, instead of a zone of war and destruction.
If the U.S. were to agree to permanently end this war and agree to this policy of peace through development instead, as it has in its better moments in history, the Oasis Plan in Southwest Asia could serve as a “phoenix arising from the ashes,” as another of the speakers at the EIR April 6 Emergency Roundtable, Chas Freeman, former U.S. Undersecretary of Defense and former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, characterized it, instead of the world turning into ashes from a nuclear war.
Here are the links to the two panels of the April 6 Emergency Roundtable, and note that at the beginning of Panel 1, Helga Zepp-LaRouche outlines how the Oasis Plan can create, through the connectivity of massive water and development projects in Southwest Asia, the basis for a new international security and development order:
Panel 1: “Can the Iran War Be Stopped Before Nuclear Escalation?”
Panel 2: “Global Infrastructure Development Is the New Name of Peace”
