Editorial

Remember Bertrand Russell?

In 1946, and throughout the following period, until the Soviet Union had gotten its own atomic weapons, British oligarch Lord Bertrand Russell publicly advocated thermonuclear brinkmanship against the Soviet Union: Either the Soviets submit to a world government which would uniquely have nuclear weapons, or the West would carry out a preventive nuclear war against it. Russell said he hoped that the Soviets would give in, but noted that you cant threaten unless youre prepared to have your bluff called. Fast-forward to the current strategic situation, and you will nd an eerie, civilization-threatening dj vu. Russells British Empire still exists, although now largely in the form of a global nancial imperium headed by the Queen Empress, and it is demanding that Russia capitulate to its program of genocidal looting, or face nuclear war. The Western installation of the Nazi coup in Ukraine was a provocation intended to advance that imperial intention of world domination and Zeus-style depopulation. Unlike President Eisenhower, however, who repeatedly refused the advice of some of his military advisors to use nuclear weapons, and repeatedly bucked British demandsas in the Suez crisisBarack Obama is playing by the British script, moving step-by-step to the threshold of Armageddon. And the Russians know it. Nor will the Russian government give in, as the Zeusian grouping in the British oligarchy fantasizes. Well aware that the Obama Administration, like that of Cheney-Bush before it, is moving systematically to encircle it and render it defenseless, the Russians are seeking war avoidance through cooperation, but also repeatedly making their red line very clear. Take the statement by then Russian Chief of General Staff Nikolai Makarov at a Moscow conference on the NATO ballistic missile defense system in early May 2012: Considering the destabilizing nature of the BMDS, specically the creation of the illusion of being able to inict a disarming rst strike without retaliation, a decision on the preemptive use of available offensive weapons will be taken during the period of an escalating situation.. . . Deployment of new offensive weapons in southern and northwestern Russia, capable of ring on the anti-missile installations, and including the emplacement of Iskander missile units in the Kaliningrad region, is one possible option for destroying the BMD infrastructure in Europe (emphasis added). Russia cannot give in without surrendering its sovereigntyand only lunatics believe that it will do so. As Lyndon LaRouche has pointed out time and time again, the alternative couldnt be clearer. Remove the British inuence over the Presidency by impeaching Barack Obama; neuter the bankrupt British Empire itself through implementing the Glass-Steagall law just as FDR had done; and start a new world system of collaboration on the basis of extending long-term credits for Great Infrastructure Projects at the highest energy-ux densities possiblesuch as the North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA). Need we remind you again of the Hitler precedent? His genocidal intent was always clear, but those who decided to wait until it played out often didnt survive to defeat him. With the stakes of human civilizations survival before us today, we cant wait. Impeach Obama and ram through Glass-Steagall now!

March 21, 2014

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