Gilbert Doctorow, one of the founders of the American Committee for East-West Accord, published on his Substack page an article on both the war danger and the collapsing dollar-based financial system. He begins with the opening passage from Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities ("the best of times, the worst of times"), saying he was inspired by an article by Indian analyst M.K. Bhadrakumar and by the Schiller Institute’s June 12 emergency press conference.
“I will start with the bad news,” he writes, “which was set out in great detail at the conference held in The National Press Club, Washington, D.C. under the heading: ‘The Danger of Nuclear War is Real.’ Allow me to be forthright about the organizer: I am not a supporter of the LaRouche movement, which stands behind the Schiller Institute. They espouse an ideology which has a heavy dose of economic philosophy which I do not agree with. For these reasons I have turned down invitations to their many events, including the one that took place on 12 June in Washington. It is a price of my insisting on being an independent as opposed to captive analyst.”
With that demurral, he nonetheless calls the Schiller Institute press conference a very important event. He states that two of the speakers, in particular, delivered timely and well-articulated messages about the perils of nuclear war that the American government is courting today by treating Russia with casual disdain, by crossing its red lines, and by insisting that Russia’s threats to defend its sovereignty are a bluff. “It would be excellent if the broad American public would listen to and act upon what Scott Ritter and Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson had to say. Here is a case where genuine American patriotism is fully aligned with saving the world for all of its peoples. Though I call out these two speakers, it is well worthwhile to watch at least the first hour of this event. So far, the video has attracted 43,000 viewers. It needs another 4 million to gain traction. May that happen!”
Doctorow adds that the “Doomsday Clock readings issued by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists have just lurched several more seconds closer to midnight.”
