Will We Choose the Age of Epstein, or the Age of Peace Through Development?
In the sixth week of the unprovoked warfare initiated by the United States and Israel against Iran, civilian targets, economic infrastructure, food, and other means of life for hundreds of millions of people are being destroyed in a war with no clear strategic objective other than the absolute bombardment of 92 million in a nation, of whom President Trump said in a blood-curdling speech on April Fools’ Day, should be “sent back to the Stone Age.”
The Malthusian nature of the war against Iran has been illustrated in a most recent report by the Iranian Red Crescent Society, which said, “115,193 civilian units, including 91,498 homes and 22,580 commercial facilities, have suffered severe damage or been completely destroyed,” in the nation. Despite this barbaric conduct displayed by the United States, Israel, and its allies in Europe who have permitted the use of their air bases to coordinate drone and missile strikes against the country, the people of Iran have remained steadfast against the Satanic imperialism of the Epstein Class, and are prepared to absorb a great amount of suffering to defend the sovereignty of their ancient nation.
Therefore, will the same geniuses who have plunged us into no-win wars over the past three decades—Iran, Ukraine, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, etc.—come to the conclusion that we should use a nuclear weapon in order to bring Iran to its knees? Has the Epstein class decided that a single nuclear weapon, or even two, five or ten relatively smaller tactical nuclear weapons can be deployed without provoking the risk of global thermonuclear warfare? That’s the insanity, which if people turn off their brains and allow it to be discussed, will end the human race. Even the use of a single, low-yield nuclear weapon, as has been demonstrated by leading nuclear weapons expert and MIT Professor Ted Postol, has the characteristic of escalating into global nuclear war, and therefore would lead to the extinction of civilization. In a recent interview, Ted Postol has also suggested that as a result of the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Iran has developed the capability over the subsequent weeks of a nuclear deterrent capability to an Israeli nuclear strike. According to Postol, they already have enough nuclear material to build ten nuclear weapons.
How are people to reflect and act to end the increasing likelihood of the extinction of civilization? In this Holy Week, where people are observing Easter and Passover, it is appropriate to reflect on the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., the man most quailed to be President, who was assassinated 58 years ago on April 3, 1968.
The day before his death, Martin Luther King spoke “from the Mountaintop” to a group of sanitation workers gathered at Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee. He told that group of workers that if one were to take a panoramic view of the whole of human history up until that point, from the Egypt of Moses’ time, to the Greece of Plato, to the heyday of the Roman Empire, to the day of the Renaissance, up until the day President Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation declaring the slaves of the South free, and more important dates in human history, he wouldn’t stop there. King said, “Strangely enough, I would turn to the Almighty, and say, "If you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the 20th century, I will be happy."
Now that's a strange statement to make, because the world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around. That's a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century in a way that men, in some strange way, are responding.”
That is the quality of leadership people must take now, in order to avert the crisis in which we now find ourselves. As Pope Leo XIV has over this Holy Week raised the urgency of the ending the warfare raging across the planet and acting for peace, and declaring that God “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war,” now is the time for people to circulate Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s letter to the Pope calling on him and his fellow religious leaders to act on the level of Nicholas of Cusa. That must also be done while building the international political forces to end the war drive in Southwest Asia, through a dialogue of civilizations, as will be the agenda for the EIR emergency dialogue on April 6, starting at 10:00 a.m. EST. Take up these initiatives now, especially during this weekend, to act on the level of universal history.
The Malthusian nature of the war against Iran has been illustrated in a most recent report by the Iranian Red Crescent Society, which said, “115,193 civilian units, including 91,498 homes and 22,580 commercial facilities, have suffered severe damage or been completely destroyed,” in the nation. Despite this barbaric conduct displayed by the United States, Israel, and its allies in Europe who have permitted the use of their air bases to coordinate drone and missile strikes against the country, the people of Iran have remained steadfast against the Satanic imperialism of the Epstein Class, and are prepared to absorb a great amount of suffering to defend the sovereignty of their ancient nation.
Therefore, will the same geniuses who have plunged us into no-win wars over the past three decades—Iran, Ukraine, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, etc.—come to the conclusion that we should use a nuclear weapon in order to bring Iran to its knees? Has the Epstein class decided that a single nuclear weapon, or even two, five or ten relatively smaller tactical nuclear weapons can be deployed without provoking the risk of global thermonuclear warfare? That’s the insanity, which if people turn off their brains and allow it to be discussed, will end the human race. Even the use of a single, low-yield nuclear weapon, as has been demonstrated by leading nuclear weapons expert and MIT Professor Ted Postol, has the characteristic of escalating into global nuclear war, and therefore would lead to the extinction of civilization. In a recent interview, Ted Postol has also suggested that as a result of the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Iran has developed the capability over the subsequent weeks of a nuclear deterrent capability to an Israeli nuclear strike. According to Postol, they already have enough nuclear material to build ten nuclear weapons.
How are people to reflect and act to end the increasing likelihood of the extinction of civilization? In this Holy Week, where people are observing Easter and Passover, it is appropriate to reflect on the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., the man most quailed to be President, who was assassinated 58 years ago on April 3, 1968.
The day before his death, Martin Luther King spoke “from the Mountaintop” to a group of sanitation workers gathered at Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee. He told that group of workers that if one were to take a panoramic view of the whole of human history up until that point, from the Egypt of Moses’ time, to the Greece of Plato, to the heyday of the Roman Empire, to the day of the Renaissance, up until the day President Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation declaring the slaves of the South free, and more important dates in human history, he wouldn’t stop there. King said, “Strangely enough, I would turn to the Almighty, and say, "If you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the 20th century, I will be happy."
Now that's a strange statement to make, because the world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around. That's a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century in a way that men, in some strange way, are responding.”
That is the quality of leadership people must take now, in order to avert the crisis in which we now find ourselves. As Pope Leo XIV has over this Holy Week raised the urgency of the ending the warfare raging across the planet and acting for peace, and declaring that God “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war,” now is the time for people to circulate Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s letter to the Pope calling on him and his fellow religious leaders to act on the level of Nicholas of Cusa. That must also be done while building the international political forces to end the war drive in Southwest Asia, through a dialogue of civilizations, as will be the agenda for the EIR emergency dialogue on April 6, starting at 10:00 a.m. EST. Take up these initiatives now, especially during this weekend, to act on the level of universal history.