Reports of Lyndon LaRouche’s recent death prompted a flurry of responses on the internet, most asking the same question:

“Are they sure??”

You may not have heard of LaRouche, but you might have seen some of his followers camped out in front of your local post office at one time or another over the past few years, sharing their conspiratorial views on the world with anyone who would listen. LaRouche spun an elaborate and ever-shifting narrative about politics, finance, history and current events—one that managed to encompass everything from the British royal family to fusion reactors.

One of his biggest bugbears, of course, was something that has been a common trope among conspiracy theorists since the time of John of Patmos: the imminent establishment of an overarching one-world government that would eradicate religion, squash freedom and enslave humanity. Organizations from the Catholic Church to the United Nations, and individuals from Napoleon and Nero to George Soros and Barack Obama, have at one time or another been depicted as the evil masterminds behind this dastardly scheme.

But here’s the funny thing: during all this time, and despite all these frantic warnings, a real transnational government has slowly been establishing itself—not as the result of any bizarre occult conspiracy, but “right out in front of God and everybody.” If by “world government” you mean an entity more powerful than any nation—one that could tell otherwise sovereign nations what to do, enforce its will and expect to be obeyed—then I submit that the international finance system fills the bill. Not only does this system punish those who try to defy it, it has also managed to make itself practically immune to outside control.

A recent article on a website run by the Transnational Institute goes into more detail. Titled “Offshore Finance: How Capital Rules the World” (http://bit.ly/offshorefinanceTRR), the article explains how this system evolved—one might say inevitably—from the basic imperatives of capital: to endlessly expand itself and exploit whatever resources are available. It does everything it can to remove “stifling” government regulations at every level. In democracies, this means controlling political discussion as much as possible, influencing elections, lobbying and pressuring elected officials, and dangling the hope of rewarding employment at the end of one’s time of “public service.”  And when these means don’t provide the desired effects, it just moves somewhere else. “Offshore finance,” say the authors, “is not solely about capital moving beyond the reach of states, but involves the rampant unbundling and commercialization of state sovereignty itself… Capitalism only triumphs when it becomes identified with the state, when it becomes the state.”

Such a system would seem at first glance to be invulnerable. But it isn’t.

And that is because there is another “world government.”

In this case, when I say “world government,” I mean a set of laws to which all humans must follow. Acting in defiance or ignorance of these laws carries severe and unavoidable penalties, without appeal or mercy. This other “world government” predates the first one, and is inherent in Creation itself. I refer, of course, to the laws of nature: physics, chemistry, biology, geology and all the rest.

These two “governments” are now on a collision course. The government of global capital has in effect declared war upon the natural world.  It is a war that spans the globe but being fought for control of one entity—the planet itself. It is, in a sense, a civil world war.

More about it next month.