June 22, 2025 (EIRNS)—With the initiation by the United States of war on Iran this weekend, the final military objective of the 2001 “seven countries in five years” plan revealed on March 2, 2007 by Gen. Wesley Clark in an interview with Amy Goodman, the War Party is on the move once again. Journalist Glenn Greenwald pointed out yesterday that “Iran just became the eighth Muslim-majority country that the U.S. has bombed in the last 15 years, from Obama to Trump to Biden to Trump.” The list comprises Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Pakistan, Yemen, and now Iran.
The point of Saturday’s attack on June 21, whatever is said to the contrary, was not the Iranian nuclear facilities. The point was also not “regime change.” For the trans-Atlantic financial oligarchy, the point is existential—the perpetuation of a dying European imperial order through perpetual war. The warriors for this order believe in what is called “permanent revolution, permanent war.”
Iran, a BRICS nation, must be bombed back to the Stone Age as the first beach-head in a global war of the “golden billion” against the rest of humanity, the Global Majority, for the greater glory of the bankrupt square mile City of London and Wall Street. What was the living standard, literacy rate, and physical condition of Iraq before the two American invasions, and what is it now? How about Libya, before and after? Syria?
These have been, over decades, de-industrialization and depopulation wars—but on whose behalf? Is this done in America’s interest, really? Is this really being run by President Donald Trump, no matter what he says? Don’t point the finger at Othello, though he, the Moor of Venice, committed the crime of being induced to murder his wife. Find Iago, his closest, trusted advisor, with whom he had the closest of “special relationships.” Look there, where you are not supposed to look: Then, you will see the true evil we face.
The first place to look, as Shakespeare would agree, is in London. Let us step back from the heated myopia of the past several days, Consider this lead story for London’s The Economist on May 9, 2024, written by Editor-in-Chief Zanny Minton Beddoes: “When I joined The Economist in the 1990s, the liberal international order was at its zenith and the golden age of globalization was propelling economic integration, co-operation and financial freedom. Those days are over. Global capital flows are now fragmenting, the world’s governments are imposing sanctions more than four times as often, and Western-led institutions are either decaying or defunct. Our cover story on most of the world is frank in its message: the old order is dying. Its sudden collapse could be sudden and irreversible.”
Second, consider a much-earlier “thought piece” in The Economist from March 17, 2007, “The European Union at 100.” Set in the year 2057, it “looks backward” on the surprising way that history turned out—or was arranged to turn out—as opposed to “what people thought would happen in our present time. A turning-point was the bursting of America’s housing bubble and the collapse of the dollar early in the presidency of Barack Obama in 2010.” Who even knew about Obama’s candidacy in March of 2007, much less believed he would be President of the United States? And who, other than economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche, was admitting, much less stating in March of 2007, that the housing bubble was collapsing?
Then, there is this passage: “In the dangerous second decade of the (21st) century, when Vladimir Putin returned for a third term as Russian president and stood poised to invade Ukraine, it was the EU that pushed the Obama administration to threaten massive nuclear retaliation.” Think about the Biden Administration-authorized attacks with long-range weapons into Russia in November of last year by “Ukraine,” which we now know was NATO, spearheaded by various projects of the British Ministry of Defense, such as “Project Alchemy.”
Remember Adm. Thomas Buchanan, Director of the Plans and Policy Directorate of the U.S. Strategic Command, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Nov. 20, 2024, who stated that a nuclear exchange would be acceptable as long as the U.S. emerged with enough nuclear capability to hold post-war dominance?“I think everybody would agree if we have to have an exchange, then we want to do it in terms that are most acceptable to the United States. So it’s terms that are most acceptable to the United States that puts us in a position to continue to lead the world, right?”
President Abraham Lincoln famously continuously read Shakespeare to his cabinet during the War of 1861-65. It was this, he knew that would qualify them to assist him in not only saving, but re-establishing the Union on a higher, non-tragic principle. If Americans now read and understand Shakespeare’s Othello, not as entertainment, but a warning, they will more clearly understand what is happening to the American Presidency right now.
Through his breaking his pledge that he would keep the United States out of war, President Donald Trump has now fallen into the policy-grip of the War Party. Like John F. Kennedy, who allowed the order to be given for the assassination of President Diem of Vietnam by the same assassination bureau that would kill Kennedy himself three weeks later, Trump has now enabled, whether he recognizes it or not the “international assassination bureau.” This is the group, of no particular national allegiance, that killed Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin 30 years ago, after which Benjamin Netanyahu came to power. Another danger to Trump—and the United States—are those NATO post-Nazi assets in the Ukrainian apparatus, from many countries, that have carried out assassinations in Russia, and may have targeted the President in Butler, Pennsylvania—not “Iranian assassins.”
Helga Zepp-LaRouche has written her Ten Principles for a New Security and Development Architecture based on her successful studies of the tragedies of poet and historian Friedrich Schiller. The idea is to change a tragic outcome, by doing what Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said: “Here’s to those who have the courage to change their axioms.” The United States Declaration of Independence admonishes its citizens to not be tragic. All over the world, independent citizens should volunteer to immediately distribute the statement, Will There Be Thermonuclear Fireworks by the Fourth of July? In this way, we need not be unwilling accessories to the crime of perpetual war.
