The Narrow Path Away From World War Three

As the LaRouche Organization and the Schiller Institute mobilize internationally with the leaflet “Will There Be Thermonuclear Fireworks By the Fourth of July?” It becomes clearer, with each passing day, that the July 13-21 “preventive war” actions taken against Iran are proving to have produced the opposite effect to what was said to have been intended. Instead of fracturing the Iran government, for the purposes of what some fanatics called “regime change,” the attacks have instead caused the people to rally around it. Instead of destroying the Iranian nuclear program, the attacks have probably produced a commitment by Iran to procure a nuclear weapon. Instead of full inspection availability, the International Atomic Energy Agency is now thrown out of Iran, probably permanently.

But were either of those objectives—“regime change,” which is a fancy way of saying, “overthrow the government;” or destroying the Iranian nuclear weapons program (which was shown by American intelligence to have not been actively pursuing the building or deploying of a weapon at this time)—the actual objectives? Was the intent, perhaps, to create in the popular mind a cover story for the “regrettably necessary” deployment of a tactical nuclear weapon by Israel against an Iran “that is now even more dangerous than before?” Is the purpose to normalize the discussion about, leading to the insane attempt at “limited nuclear war?”

It is a fact, little remembered today, that the Shah of Iran, originally installed by Great Britain and the United States as the head of state in Iran in 1953 after the Anglo-American “CIA ”overthrew the democratically elected Mossadegh government, was then himself overthrown—not by Islamic militants, as is claimed, but by London and Washington! Under Anglo-American pressure, The non-Islamic radical government of Shapour Bakhtiar was appointed by The Shah himself in December of 1978; he then left the country in January 1979. Why was he overthrown? The Shah wanted to build 20 nuclear power plants in 20 years, 8 of them to be built by the United States. He was insisting on transitioning from oil to nuclear power for energy generation. He threatened the entire “petrodollar” speculation in oil that began in 1973. Therefore he had to go, and he did.

Will British intelligence, or the renegade factions in the bowels of the Pentagon that planned attacks on seven nations in five years right after September 11, 2001, including Iran, use this as an opportunity to pursue a nuclear chicken game with Russia and China? London Telegraph columnist Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, in a June 23 article, “Putin Will Be Quaking in His Boots Today. Iran-Israel Has Shown He Is Vulnerable,” wrote: “Operation Midnight Hammer, an incredible demonstration of U.S. military power—and Israeli operations before it—have made plain the fragility of Russian air defense systems.” It was only June 1 that NATO, code-named “Ukraine,” struck at Russia’s nuclear-capable plane capacity. Are we about to see another attempt, in Ukraine, Israel, or both, to move one more step into toward thermonuclear Hell?

Join us tonight to find out the latest, and to find out what you can do to assist in our leaflet distribution and awareness campaign to take back the Presidency from the disastrous course it is now on—before, in the short term, the whole situation “goes nuclear.” Speakers: Mike Billington, Carl Osgood