26 October 2012—"An Anglo-
American-led thermonuclear
bombardment … against leading
nations of Asia including
Russia and China: this danger
now exists, for at least as long as
a London-controlled U.S. President
Barack Obama remains as
President of the United States of
America." (U.S. statesman Lyndon
LaRouche, "Stop the Nuclear
Holocaust!", Dec. 2011.)
Did you think we were exaggerating,
if you read that frontpage
quotation in the June/July
2012 New Citizen? That issue,
featuring the report "Australia
Prepares for World War: Tragedy,
or Just Plain Farce?" as part of our
overview of today's global showdown,
circulated in 250,000 copies.
In less than half a year, the
threat to your survival—to the
survival of every nation, and
of mankind—has become even
more perilous. Listen to leading
military and political figures
from the two world powers
which have the greatest arsenals
of nuclear weapons, the United
States and Russia.
In New York to address the
United Nations General Assembly,
Russian Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov appeared 25 Sept.
on the American TV interview
show hosted by Charlie Rose,
who asked him about the "Arab
Spring" process of unrest and regime
change in Southwest Asia.
Said Lavrov, "I think we are now
in the Arab Autumn. … I hope
it's not going to nuclear winter."
The term nuclear winter refers to
one of the worst-case scenarios
for utter devastation of the planet
in an exchange of thermonuclear
barrages.
A week later at the 4 Oct.
opening plenary session of the
Rhodes Forum-Dialogue of Civilizations,
held in Greece, that organisation’s
chairman Vladimir
Yakunin, who is also the president
of Russian Railways and a
close ally of President Vladimir
Putin, warned about the escalating
crises around the world: "Fifty
years after the brutal Cuban
Missiles Crisis, we may again
witness the very same kind of
development of events."
On this month's anniversary
of that 1962 U.S.-Soviet showdown,
newly released papers
from the archive of U.S. President
John F. Kennedy's brother
Robert F. Kennedy, who negotiated
with the Soviet Ambassador
to defuse the crisis, drove
home how close the world came
to nuclear war. One document
was a draft speech JFK might
have given after a U.S. bombing
of the Soviet missile sites in Cuba—
a scenario urged on Kennedy
by his military advisers. Then,
as repeatedly in the 1950s when
senior U.S. military officers had
pushed President Dwight Eisenhower
to attack the Soviet Union
militarily, such nuclear "brinksmanship"
could have led within
hours to a spiral of escalation to
global nuclear holocaust. …
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