On April 21, Russian President Putin warned that certain "red lines" are being crossed by actions of western forces, which threaten Russia's security and sovereignty.  If this continues, it will force Russia to respond in an "asymmetrical, swift and tough" way.  Yet, as he stated, as such hostile actions toward Russia have become commonplace, "Everyone pretends nothing is happening."  Fortunately, there are some voices in the West speaking out, including Tulsi Gabbard, Dr. Lyle Goldstein, and Helga Zepp LaRouche.  A Schiller Institute online conference will be held on May 8, to bring you up-to-date on the strategic crisis, and give you an opportunity to join our mobilization to break out of the present trajectory, which is shaped by City of London and Wall Street geopoliticians and neoliberals.  Sign up to participate here:  https://schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.com/20210508-conference

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European Conference Call Excerpt with Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Helga Zepp-LaRouche: I think we have to wake up the international population much more than even we have been doing so far, because in going through the intelligence in preparation for this phone call, when you are looking at the picture as a totality, it is absolutely horrifying. To start with what I think could be really a detonator of the situation, you remember that when Putin gave his speech on April 21 to the Federal Assembly, he said there are red lines which cannot be crossed, and then he said there was an assassination attempt against Lukashenko and a coup attempt against Belarus, and that that had really gone too far.

In her weekly dialogue, Helga Zepp LaRouche expanded on the warnings given by Russian President Putin in his April 21 National Address. Putin warned of the danger of crossing "red lines", which would force Russia to act to defend its security and national sovereignty. Among the threats he identified was western involvement in a coup attempt planned for Belarus, and the assassination of its President. Instead of taking Putin at his word and engaging in dialogue to resolve differences, War Hawks in the west are escalating tensions, calling on governments to "raise the costs" on Russia for such alleged bad behavior, while inventing new justifications for punishing Russia, such as the charge that Russia was behind an explosion at an ammunition depot in the Czech Republic in 2014! As usual, British propaganda operations are at the forefront, including Chatham House and The Economist.

An article under the above title was published on March 20 in the National Interest by Lyle Goldstein, but not noted by EIR at the time. Goldstein, an Associate Professor in the China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI) at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, is fluent in both Chinese and Russian, and is a frequent critic of the imperial U.S. thinking and policies.

The Belarus State TV station reported that a top Biden adviser, Michael Carpenter, was involved in the plans for a regime change coup in Belarus, including the assassination of President Lukashenko.  At the same time, leading mouthpieces of British intelligence call for "raising the cost" imposed on Russia for its alleged continued "malign behavior," arguing that failure to do so "convinces Russia it is free to carry out attacks across Europe with impunity."  Now they are blaming Russia for a 2014 explosion in the Czech Republic, despite Czech President Zeman saying state security found no evidence of Russian involvement.  The anti-Russia cabal responded by introducing impeachment proceedings in the Czech Senate.  Sound familiar?

Until power is wrested from those currently exercising it over the United States and a new paradigm of economics, culture, and politics determines its policy, the threat of war will only escalate, until it becomes a deadly and irreversible reality.

On April 23, I interviewed Col. Richard Black (ret.), on his view of the inhuman sanctions the U.S. has imposed on Syria, to provoke a change in regime there. Col. Black, the former chief of the U.S. Army's Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon, was blunt in his condemnation of this policy, which he described as "brutal" to the extent it makes him ashamed of what the U.S. is doing. He called on all citizens, especially leaders of religious institutions, to join with the Schiller Institute's mobilization to end the sanctions. Today's Update is of the last exchange we had. You can see the full video here.

The devastation unleashed throughout central Europe by the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) was ended by an agreement, called the Peace of Westphalia.  This treaty included a declaration of non-interference in the domestic affairs of sovereign states.  In 1999 and for the next five years, British PM Tony Blair ran an aggressive campaign to move into a "post-Westphalian world", based on a doctrine of the "Responsibility to Protect", to justify regime change against sovereign nations which don't accept "our values."  Iraq, Libya, Ukraine and Syria have already been subjected to mass murder, and Russia and China are targeted.  Why? -- Because they don't share Mr Blair's "values", especially when those values include support for assassination of leaders (Libya), support of neo-Nazi militias committed to ethnic cleansing (Ukraine), and the arming and training of Jihadists, followed by famine-inducing sanctions, as in Syria.

Russian President Vladimir Putin reserved what were perhaps the sharpest words of his April 21 speech to the Federal Assembly, for the matter of the foiled assassination and coup attempt against Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko. Putin began by making the speech’s only direct allusion to the financial declaration of war against Russia issued by President Biden on April 15: “Everyone in the world seems to be used to the practice of politically motivated, illegal economic sanctions and to certain actors’ brutal attempt to impose their will on others by force. But today, this practice is degenerating into something even more dangerous—I am referring to the recently exposed direct interference in Belarus in an attempt to orchestrate a coup d’état and assassinate the President of that country.”

Join us at live on Sunday, April 25 at 12pm EDT. Today's show features an address by Lyndon LaRouche in 2003 to students at Plymouth State University.