While you were being encouraged by “the independent media” to look elsewhere this week–at the various judicial sideshows, such as the Jussie Smollet and Ghislaine Maxwell cases, for example – the world stood poised to walk another few steps down the ladder into thermonuclear hell. What actually happened in the two-hour exchange between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, plus Biden’s chaperones, Anthony Blinken and Jake Sullivan?

Perhaps the strongest evidence that President Biden may indeed be attempting to head off World War III was a headline today in London’s preeminent newspaper, the Daily Telegraph: “Joe Biden’s Offer of NATO Talks To Avert Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is Big Win for Vladimir Putin.”

The financial elite, and political leaders driven by them, want to distract with anger, hatred, and in some cases even hysteria, against the "adversaries" Russia and especially China, who continue to push for economic development in underdeveloped countries as well as at home, and which stiffen resistance in the developing world to “climate colonialism.”

Now, as Helga Zepp-LaRouche said, we go to a Putin-Biden video conference “summit” midway between peace and war, “that gives you an idea how close we are actually to a brushfire which could go all the way up to nuclear war.” Insisting on development in the countries which have suffered the worst crimes from the war party—she is focused on Afghanistan—is the way to fight that threat.

Join Paul Gallagher on this week's Fireside Chat to discuss the Green New Deal as the danger of world war.

Friday questions -- What is the Summit for Democracy?  Do you think that it is inevitable that the U.S. will go to war against Russia and China?  What is the alternative to war, how can the War Hawks be stopped?  Who or what is behind the War Hawks, and the drive for more wars?  Is there a strategy to take power from the hands of the corporate cartels?  (Hint -- study LaRouche's Four Laws, and fight for their implementation) 

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Since the COP26 flop, along with the inevitable economic breakdown from the casino-monetarist system, and the green madness to-date, the geopolitical confrontationist hysteria against China and Russia from the U.S./UK/NATO alignment has reached the stage of war provocation. This is exactly the dynamic that the Schiller Institute has warned of, and its process of international dialogue sought to prevent. More voices are now sounding the alarm. The urgent task is to create a mighty chorus.

In her weekly webcast, Helga Zepp-Larouche said that in spite of a potential for de-escalation of tensions between Russia and U.S./NATO resulting from Tuesday's video summit between Putin and Biden, we are "still sitting on a powder keg."  Biden said he will speak to allies about Putin's request for a guarantee of no further NATO expansion, and putting pressure on Kiev to stick to the agreements they signed at Minsk.  However, Sullivan and Blinken, who flanked Biden during his talk with Putin, continued to make threats against Russia, including that there would be a "blistering response" if Russia invades Ukraine.  This was backed up by threats to Russia from Democrats and Republicans, including one Republican Senator who called for considering a first strike with nuclear weapons against Russia.  In contrast, Tucker Carlson called such talk a "bipartisan sort of insanity."  Zepp-LaRouche concluded her comments by calling for reasonable voices to speak up now, and join her in pursuing multilateral cooperation through such projects as "Operation Ibn Sina."

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Both President Joe Biden and President Vladimir Putin made public comments today about the actual content of their summit discussion yesterday. Biden announced that he is working on a further meeting to address Russia’s red-line concerns regarding Ukraine and NATO. “The positive news is that, thus far, our teams have been in constant contact,” Biden said, adding that he hoped to announce by Dec. 10 that there would be a meeting in short order involving Russia, the U.S., and at least four major NATO allies, to address “Russia’s concerns relative to NATO,” and to try to “bring down the temperature along the Eastern Front.”

Helga Zepp-LaRouche presented a sobering assessment of the global strategic situation following the Dec. 7 video summit between Presidents Biden and Putin, warning that what preceded the summit -- a war-time like propaganda campaign accusing Russia of preparing to invade Ukraine -- is continuing, with potentially disastrous consequences