End the Rule of the ‘Epstein Class’

The partial release of more than 6 million pages of files relating to disgraced financier, intelligence operative, and arms dealer Jeffrey Epstein has provoked a tidal wave of discussion, so far, but little action. The “story behind the story” remains hidden—namely, the true nature of the trans-Atlantic establishment’s “failed financial system,” and their desperate attempts to preserve it, even as it collapses. The enormous instabilities facing the world today—including the outbreak of regional wars, the escalation of existing conflicts, the physical-economic collapse of the United States and Europe, and the breakdown of arms agreements, such as the expiration of the New START Treaty this week—are the consequences of the predatory practices, from the boardroom to the bedroom, of the “Vampire’s Ball” called the “rules-based international order.” It’s not merely a lack of leadership; it’s a lack of humanity.

Despite the repeated offer by Russian President Vladimir Putin to extend the New START treaty by one year, a gesture of good will by Russia to the Trump Administration, no action was taken by the latter to preserve the treaty, and by extension, prevent a new arms race from erupting. In a similar fashion, no one on the U.S. side appears to be interested in securing a just diplomatic settlement on the issue of Iran’s nuclear program, instead seeking to threaten the Iranian regime into submission. This risks, not only provoking another war far worse than the so-called “12 Day War,” it leads us, together with the New START expiration, down a certain path to thermonuclear war, whatever the State Department geniuses wish to pretend to be the case.

In a press conference this past Thursday, Independent Presidential candidate Diane Sare was joined by investigative journalist Garland Nixon and arms control expert Scott Ritter, the first to set foot in Russia to inspect its nuclear arsenal following the implementation of the IMF Treaty. Sare quoted from General Douglas MacArthur’s Sept. 2, 1945 speech aboard the USS Missouri, delivered after receiving Japan’s surrender. After witnessing the terrible power of the atomic bomb—the use of which he had vehemently opposed, along with other top U.S. military brass—MacArthur admonished, “If we do not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door. The problem basically is theological, and involves a spiritual recrudescence and improvement of human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advance in science, art, literature and all material and cultural developments of the past two thousand years. It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.”

It is clear from the Epstein “sewage dump” of files, that the question of a ‘spiritual recrudescence’ among the U.S. population—not its present leadership—is the essential matter confronting us today. It is what Schiller Institute Chairwoman and IPC convener Helga Zepp-Larouche has posed to all nations and peoples of the world concerning a new security and development architecture, which would respect the peaceful coexistence and sovereignty of every nation, and uphold the dignity of man by creating a new just economic order.

To provide an alternative to the march to doom within the existing trans-Atlantic leadership structure, or the ‘Epstein Class,’ people who have been cast out of any participation in self-government must confront their own axioms, and determine what they are willing to do to save the human race, and therefore the United States and themselves, from death by corruption. That will benefit not only themselves, but future generations. That is the purpose of The LaRouche Organization Today’s Manhattan Project, which will provide the conceptual basis for people to act in the image of the American Declaration of Independence, which states that whenever any government becomes destructive of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, it is the right, and the duty of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.

Speakers: Harley Schlanger and Prof. Cliff Kiracofe