Dec. 17—It is one week to Christmas.
Today’s EIR conference, “Peace on Earth, or Humanity’s Doom: The Case for Negotiations,” had the specific mission of a clear trumpet call, to send a wakeup call to a sleepwalking world. As Helga Zepp-LaRouche put it: “This program is actually a call for people to really wake up to the incredible danger in which mankind finds itself…. Putin on Dec. 9th, in a press conference in Bishkek, at a meeting of the Eurasian Economic Union, where he basically said that Russia has to rethink its nuclear doctrine.