March 31-During the last fifteen consecutive months we have witnessed an ongoing, continual, escalating effort on the part of the British establishment and its friends in the United States to prevent President Donald Trump from pursuing a path of normalizing relations with Russia and China-to find means, despite the difficulties and disagreements, to move the world away from super-power confrontation and to explore avenues of peaceful cooperation. The entirety of the so-called "Russiagate" affair and all of the hoopla surrounding Special Counsel Robert Mueller's efforts to "pin something" on Donald Trump must be correctly viewed within this framework, and not simplistically-and incorrectly-as a product of "partisan politics." Similarly, the latest unhinged efforts by the unstable Theresa May to use the alleged poisoning of Sergei Skripal to agitate for an escalated crusade against Russia, fall within the same oligarchical playbook. At the time of Donald Trump's election to the Presidency, Lyndon LaRouche insisted that Trump's unexpected victory must be understood as part of a growing international revolt against the policies of the trans-Atlantic power structure, not simply as a result of a domestic U.S. political phenomenon. As we have seen in the results of the recent Italian elections-as well as in the receptivity of many European nations to China's Belt and Road Initiative-this revolt against the financial, economic and foreign policies of the European Union and the Anglo-American establishment is continuing to spread and is gaining momentum. Circles around the British Crown are now so desperate that the British Prime Minister herself has taken the public lead in this latest anti-Russia screed. The fact that the charges now being leveled against Russia are such transparent falsehoods that many nations are refusing to go along with them, is a clear indication of just how desperate the British are. All of their post-1989 plans for a global New World Order of trans- Atlantic hegemony are crumbling. The New Clash of Civilizations As the pressures against Donald Trump mount, all stops are being pulled out in trans-Atlantic establishment media to inundate the populations of Europe and the United States with a political analysis which goes something like this: "We are now facing a period of crisis, the worst since the end of the cold war and perhaps even the most dangerous since the end of World War II. The world is now dividing between 'free' and 'non-free' states. On the one side are the 'Western Democracies, '-sometimes called 'liberal democracies'-those nations committed to human rights, liberal economics, and personal freedom. These nations-particularly Great Britain and the United States-bear a responsibility to defend 'freedom and democracy.' Opposed are the growing forces of totalitarianism-closed nations that are aggressive, anti-democratic, and corrupt, and which routinely restrict freedom and violate human rights. These nations are now challenging the benevolent post-World War II hegemony of the Western Democracies, and for the sake of all humanity they must be opposed.