The Lead
Curiouser and Curiouser
by Diane Sare (EIRNS) — Mar. 24, 2026
Have you ever been inside what they call a “fun house” at the state fair? You go inside, and the floor is slanted. The mirrors are wavy, balls appear to be rolling uphill, and you lose your bearings. This is the propaganda-induced psychological warfare being deployed, particularly against the American people but also anyone who is unfortunate enough to read Western “mainstream” media or the Epstein-class-controlled social media.
It’s hard to know whether former-reality-TV-star-turned-president Donald Trump is part of the illusion, has been taken in by the illusion, or has some other role as yet to be revealed.
Whether President Donald Trump has just announced a new 48-hour deadline or a new alleged ceasefire proposal, in such a moment it is good to first take a discerning look at concrete facts “on the ground,” but to also view those “facts” from the standpoint of knowledge of universal principles and universal history.
We know that, since October 7th, 2023, when 1,200 Israelis were killed in an attack which should not have occurred, well over 73,000 Palestinians have been killed by the American-armed IDF in Gaza. The Lancet and other publications estimate that the actual number of Palestinian dead surpasses 200,000, as entire families have been wiped out, and no one knows how many bodies remain under the millions of tons of rubble. We know that in the last three weeks, Israel has taken the opportunity of the U.S./Israel-unprovoked war of aggression against Iran to invade southern Lebanon, killing more than 1,000 people and displacing 1 million more, and we know that in Iran, according to the head of the Iranian Red Crescent, 62,200 residences and 19,100 commercial units have been struck. Some 275 health care and treatment centers have been hit, and 22 Red Crescent workers and medical staff are among the 1,500 Iranian dead, who also include nearly 200 young girls and their teachers at a school that was hit by an American Tomahawk missile. According to the U.S. media, 13 Americans have also died in what should be called Operation “Epstein Fury.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a “Statement on Western Countries’ Unlawful Actions in the World’s Oceans,” which opens: “The recent developments in the world’s oceans have reached the point where they have become outright unacceptable.” The report goes on to itemize thousands of “terrorist” attacks on Russian ships and territory, including attacks on residential areas as well as on energy infrastructure. As many as 1.8 million Ukrainian soldiers may have died as NATO’s canon fodder since February 2022.
It is important to recount these facts to refute those who claim that President Donald Trump is merely carrying out a brilliant scheme to “liberate the world from the British Empire.”
It is more likely that Donald Trump has become the hand grenade, or (hopefully not) the nuclear bomb, deployed by the remnants of the dying British Empire, today known as the Epstein class, in a last-gasp effort to try and maintain global hegemony and to prevent the rise of 7 billion people on the planet who are rejecting the colonial system.
Former MI6 leader Sir Richard Dearlove doesn’t seem to be concerned that President Donald Trump has gotten out of control. Rather, he thinks that the U.K. should work more closely with him.
While most people watching the crisis cannot figure out what President Trump is going to do next, and Israeli dissident Avram Burg told Tucker Carlson that he doesn’t believe that Bibi Netanyahu has a plan either, somehow, according to British podcaster James O’Brien, on LBC Radio, a popular show with over 1 million listeners, eight accounts were created on March 21st which then placed massive “bets on a U.S.-Iran ceasefire with obvious insider knowledge.” Will that ceasefire now materialize? Wise people do not gamble.
Who is running this show?
In 2006 Lyndon LaRouche wrote, “The significance of Iran as a targetted locality within the
broader, global scheme, is principally two-fold: to trigger a collapse of the present world economy, by creating a devastating, global petroleum crisis within the general region of Southwest Asia, while spreading the forces of chaos, through the Caucasus and Central Asia and Ukraine, to wreck that current revival of Russia’s influence with which the government of President Putin is currently associated.”
LaRouche said in 2002 in a speech at the Zayed Center in Abu Dhabi that the most important thing to recognize about the region of Southwest Asia was its location as the crossroads between Europe, Asia, and Africa. He proposed a regional development plan expanding on his 1975 Oasis plan, which would involve the development of nuclear-powered desalination plants and high-speed-rail corridors for trade and manufacturing.
When the Berlin Wall fell, both Lyndon and Helga Zepp-LaRouche warned that the collapse of the Soviet Communist system did not mean a victory for the British liberal free trade model. They warned that a new kind of collapse/revolution would sweep the globe when that system failed. That moment has arrived. Thanks to the work of Lyndon and Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who called for an International Development Bank in 1975, amplifying the spirit of Bandung, which was itself an amplification of the spirit of the 1776 American War of Independence, the principles for such a revolution have been defined. Helga Zepp-LaRouche has stated repeatedly that the only way of actually resolving all of the crises in an enduring manner will be to establish a completely new security and economic development order for the planet as a whole. This is not a globalist system or George Bush’s “one world order” but is a system based on respect for the sovereignty of nations and the dignity of man and the inalienable right of every person on this planet to maximize the development of his or her talent.
“Keep your hand on the plow, hold on.”
Contents
LaRouche movement
- Is Pre-Assassination Surveillance Being Conducted Against Bronx Congressional Candidate Jose Vega? (↓)
- Chandra Muzaffar: Human Individuals Must Confront Hegemony (↓)
Strategic War Danger
- Iranian Presidency Appoints New Secretary of Supreme National Security Council (↓)
- The Bombing Will Continue (↓)
- Israel Made Promises It Couldn't Deliver (↓)
- Netanyahu Sends Dermer To Stop Trump from Making a 'Bad Deal' (↓)
- Lavrov Warns 'Third World War' Is Taking Shape (↓)
- Sir Richard Dearlove Confident Brits Can Drag Trump's U.S. into WWIII (↓)
Collapsing Imperial System
- Hungarian FM Wiretapped and Slandered (↓)
- German Supreme Court Rules for Automakers, Against Greenies (↓)
- After Substantial Vote Losses, Will the SPD Finally Bury the Green Agenda? (↓)
Harley Schlanger Update
Watch The Daily Update with Harley Schlanger, a short video update available every weekday morning from The LaRouche Organization.
