Join us LIVE on Saturday, May 1 at 2pm EDT. 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 mobilize the forces to intervene into the strategic crisis, and allow the population to break out of the present trajectory, which is shaped by City of London and Wall Street geopoliticians and neoliberals.  This Saturday's Town Meeting is preparatory to that conference and will equip you to organize others to attend.  

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“Anybody in Western Europe or the United States, who is proposing a war against Russia, or takeover in Ukraine, is going to ensure a global thermonuclear war, from which the probability that within about a day and a half of such a war, there may be almost no one left living on this planet.” Lyndon LaRouche issued this stark warning in February of 2014, identifying that it was the British Empire’s “intention to have a thermonuclear war, … governed by the fact that the entire trans-Atlantic region is about to go in the biggest bust that history has ever seen!”

The widespread application of waterboarding, electroshock, and other forms of torture have rightly been denounced as a barbaric form of conduct, dehumanizing to both the victim and the perpetrator, which meet the Nuremberg code criteria of true crimes against humanity. What shall we say, then, about a collapsing global system which is hell-bent on applying the economic policy equivalent of torture to entire nations, and even to nuclear superpowers like Russia and China, in a vain effort to “modify their behavior” to the point of capitulation to the diktats of London and Washington?

There is an adage common to many cultures, ‘those who have eyes, let them see,’ and yet, millions of fellow citizens are blindly stumbling along, as the world tilts to nuclear war, along with the worsening pandemic and famine. In the discussion, we will take up the urgency to re-connect with reality in all respects, as required to stop the drive toward war, and as seen in the physical economic questions of daily food for eight+ billion people. Why are the world’s biggest, baddest banks, financial and agro-cartels dangling the buying and selling of “carbon footprints” as the “transition to green farming and a new world food system”? Use your eyes! Use the method of the ‘Coincidence of Opposites,’ referring to the approach set forward by Nicholas of Cusa (15th c,) which was embodied in so many concrete economic programs spelled out by statesman Lyndon LaRouche, and which are strategically up to date still today. Joining Dennis Speed will be Marcia Merry Baker, who is actively involved in projects with the Committee for the Coincidence of Opposites of the Schiller Institute.

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?