From the Editors: Helga Zepp-LaRouche provides the crucial strategic overview in this issue of EIR, posing with up-to-date predicates the crucial con-juncture mankind faces: nuclear war on the one side, versus the future being offered by the BRICS nations' steps toward a new just world economic order, on the other. Citizens of the United States, and the world, have to act to determine which future they want, she stresses, with the passion to ensure that a beautiful mankind survives (Feature). The rest of the issue contains substantial backup for her thesis, much of it from material blacked out of the mainstream Western media. Take the recent warnings from top Russian military and political figures, which we report in our International lead. If these don't scare you, you are not in reality. Then look at what the Ukrainians and the State Department's Victoria Nuland are up to, with plans to arm Ukraine. Face the fact that the Western media spin that Russian President Putin is behind the assassination of liberal oppositionist Boris Nemtsov is not only a fraud, but possibly a deliberate sacrifice, to get a martyr for those who wish to overthrow the Russian President. In reality, Putin himself is a target of this vile murder. And this insanity is not confined to Russia, as you can see in our coverage of recent anti-Chinese rantings by top U.S. military planners. On the BRICS option, we also have a number of significant developments the Establishment wishes to bury. First, the moves forward by the BRICS nations in setting up their financial infrastructure. Second, the moves forward by Greece toward auditing the illegitimate debt imposed on it by the murderous Troika. Third, a report from the European Parliament, where two parliamentarians, one Greek and one Italian, have teamed up to push for adoption of a real Glass-Steagall (all three in Economics). Our Iran story, featuring an interview with one of the nuclear negotiators for that country, also touches on that nation's potential to join the BRICS dynamic (International). In the (National) section, we feature the opposition, led by Rep. Walter Jones, to Obama's unconstitutional war policy. This week's Science section offers an exciting discussion on the Kepler principle, and how this is being applied by the Chinese to their space program, particularly toward exploration of the Moon. LaRouche's Scientific Research Team, as usual, goes to the fundamentals: What is mankind, that we should wish to preserve it as a species?
