How to Think and Act in a Time of Crisis

 

As NATO continues its Strategic Defender exercises, involving 90,000 military personnel, the largest in over 30 years; the EU votes for 50 billion Euros ($54 billion) more for Ukraine; U. S. Patriot missile systems are used to shoot down planes over Russian territory; the United States launches an unacknowledged war against Iran, by bombing multiple sites in Syria and Iraq; and 18 nations withdraw life-support from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, immediately threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands, including 50,000 yet unborn Palestinian children— an urgent question is posed for all thinking people. How should one, in this time of world crisis, think about what must be done, and then act to {do}it? How can individual independent rigorous thought, and consequent action, based on proposals such as Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s Ten Principles of a New Strategic and Development Architecture, be effective and efficient in moving the world forward toward a just economic and political order, even in the midst of chaos?