Nov. 27, 2024 (EIRNS)—So far, the lunatics still running the asylum at the State Department, and its spiritual headquarters at London’s Chatham House, have flunked “Reality 101,” and are proceeding with haste to the plains of Armageddon. While Russia has, with its highly effective Nov. 21 deployment of the IRBM “Oreshnik” hypersonic missile, warned NATO against further escalation in the clearest possible way, as former Israeli diplomat and Deputy Prime Minister Abba Eban once said to the late economist and statesman, Lyndon LaRouche, “Never underestimate the factor of insanity in politics.”

In such a moment as we find ourselves, with the suffering nearly unbearable to contemplate in Gaza, which is perhaps the most disturbing because of the gleeful cruelty with which the torture and genocide is imposed; but also in Haiti, South Sudan, and even in Ukraine, where men are being kidnapped to be used as cannon fodder in the dying Empire’s war – a war on the brink of crossing the threshold into a land of no return – one might ask, “Why should we pause to give thanks?”