The British Empire's operation to launch Jeb Bush's presidential candidacy has to be shut down now, as fast as possible, Lyndon LaRouche stated today. And a reorganized Democratic Party, in the post-Obama period and with Bill Clinton playing a key leadership role, has to provide the crucial steps for the government to pull the United States, and the world, back from the brink of looming catastrophe.

On the current course, we are on a trajectory for financial blowout of the entire trans-Atlantic system, and for escalating provocations against Russia and China that could lead to global thermonuclear war in the very short term. Russia and China have made it abundantly clear that they are girding for such a war, both militarily and financially. But, along with the other BRICS nations, they have also spelled out a positive policy of global economic development which the United States is also invited to join.

The United States has to change course, from the disastrous 15 years under Bush and Obama. The revelations about CIA torture —on Bush's watch, but covered up and protected by the Obama administration—has now given us a chance to remedy the great evil that has wrecked the United States. Our image before the world is in shambles, as people across the planet read in horror what Sen. Feinstein reported; and this branching point must be seized as an opportunity to turn the U.S. back into the republic it was founded to be. It is a short moment in history, and it must be used wisely.

The first step, LaRouche emphasized today, is to get Jeb Bush down quickly, because with him comes the entire Bush dynasty of grandfather Prescott, who helped finance Hitler's rise to power, and the disastrous presidencies of George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. We must also destroy the entire apparatus in the Republican Party that sanctions these policies, and that has protected the Obama presidency from necessary impeachment—the way House Speaker John Boehner has done.

That also means that Hillary Clinton will be in no position to maintain her prospective candidacy in the Democratic Party. She will have to take her hat out of the ring, and leave the path clear for Bill Clinton to provide needed leadership for Democrats to regroup around a program for recovery. That means Wall Street will have to be put out of its misery; the physical economy geared back up, based on cooperation with the BRICS nations; and a lasting war-avoidance policy put in place with Russia and China, in particular—along the lines sculpted by Lyndon LaRouche and his Russian interlocutors, such as the late Stanislav Menshikov.