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The agreements which are now being reached at the Sept. 3-5 BRICS summit in Xiamen, China, which are tied into the immediately subsequent Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, in Russia’s Far East, will do much to shape the future history of humanity for the remainder of this century. The BRICS itself, as China’s President Xi Jinping pointed out there, is a totally new feature of world politics—it is not an alliance, but a partnership, in behalf of the mutual interests of the partners as well as the non-partners.

And although its members are all developing countries, it is now responsible for 60% of all the growth in the world economy by official measures—and much more by true scientific measures. The BRICS, like the Belt and Road Initiative with which it is intimately linked—as well as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization—exemplifies the New Paradigm for which Lyndon and Helga LaRouche have been the intellectual pioneers for decades. Geopolitics has totally failed. The BRICS is the wave of the future. How unfortunate that Americans and Western Europeans are not allowed to hear anything about this! If only Americans were allowed to read about this, and learn about it, then the strong tendency towards remoralization and unification of the nation which is breaking loose on the heels of the Hurricane Harvey disaster, would be even much stronger.

It is by no coincidence that another dangerous Korea crisis intrudes at exactly this moment of hope signalled by the BRICS summit and these moment-to-moment changes in the U.S. Look at its location—on the borders of China, and of Russia, and of the U.S. treaty-partner South Korea, and right next to Japan. Will we allow this potential to be blown up?—perhaps with a lot else? In discussion of this latest Korea crisis today, Lyndon LaRouche said that it was the direct result of the destruction, “by outside forces,” of the successful war-avoidance policy, through development, which he had put in place in the 1990s.

In discussion today, LaRouchePAC Policy Committee member Diane Sare pointed to the suddenly sensed potential in the U.S., for the Congress, the President and the American people to come together urgently in behalf of the real needs of this country, as expressed in Lyndon LaRouche’s Four Laws of June 2014, and in the U.S. joining in the great world mission for the advancement of humanity now being led by China and Russia.

We are approaching the historic moment of fundamental change for which we have been preparing for so long.

A world threatened with the present danger of nuclear war, as newly accentuated by North Korea’s sixth nuclear weapon test this weekend, and with economic devastation wrought by failure to invest in needed infrastructure and scientific advance, as in Texas and the entire Gulf Coast, would do well to rivet its attention on the Sept. 3-5 BRICS Summit, which has begun in Xiamen, China.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, the summit’s host, stated that “peace and development,” and not “conflict and confrontation,” are the policies the planet needs. He pointed to the “rising financial risks” the world faces under the current system, and urged instead that “we should pursue innovation-driven development.” To achieve that, he held up the example of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and blasted the gossip that this is just one more geopolitical scheme for domination:

“Let me make this clear: The Belt and Road Initiative is not a tool to advance any geopolitical agenda, but a platform for practical cooperation. It is not a foreign aid scheme, but an initiative for interconnected development which calls for extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits. I am convinced that the Belt and Road Initiative will serve as a new platform for all countries to achieve win-win cooperation.”

And for the Doubting Thomases, there is China’s phenomenal, and ongoing, achievement in pulling over 700 million of its own people out of poverty, and their efforts to do the same in the planet’s most challenging impoverished areas—Africa, Haiti, etc.

Russia under Vladimir Putin fully shares that win-win policy commitment of Xi Jinping’s—and the underlying concept of Man’s creativity which drives it forward. In a Sept. 1 dialogue with more than 1 million Russian youth in school classrooms in 24 regions across the country, Putin made the point with eloquence and simplicity:

“Your goal is not just to do something new. That goes without saying. It will, indeed, be something new based on what was created earlier. Your goal is to take a new step forward…. You who are entering a new life, need to bear this in mind, be aware of it and not just do better than previous generations, but do better on a new level…. For us to be able to maintain our sovereignty, and to make the lives of our people and future generations, your children and grandchildren, better than today, it is imperative to make qualitatively new advances.”

There is, thus, a reason that Lyndon LaRouche continues to point to the global leadership role being provided today by Russia and China, and to the need for the United States to fully integrate with the Belt and Road Initiative. Just as there is a reason that the British Empire is hell-bent on targeting those two nations for annihilation, and on also targeting the Trump administration in Washington for destruction, lest he follow through on his commitment to improve ties and cooperate with China and Russia. Because the concept which Putin presented to those million Russian youth, is the very cornerstone on which the United States itself is founded.

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The catastrophe in Texas is a man-made disaster accomplished by the criminal negligence of this nation’s elected officials, who have continued to support Wall Street’s speculative economy and imperial ambitions while arguing that the nation cannot afford to rebuild and replace its ancient and broken-down economic infrastructure. For the third time since 2005, major American cities have been flooded and their people devastated, because the plans for new infrastructure to protect the people, requiring tens of billions in investments, have been ignored and turned down. Hurricane Harvey now looms as the worst national disaster in our nation’s history and it is a disaster which did not have to happen.

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina killed nearly 2,000 people and wreaked $130 billion in economic losses. Only then, slowly, new flood-control and seagate infrastructure was built—at last—for New Orleans, at a fraction of the human and monetary costs of the damage inflicted by the storm. How many unnecessary deaths and suffering could this project have averted?

Four years later, the American Society of Civil Engineers met in Manhattan to discuss several storm surge barrier options for the New York City region. The estimate for the largest of these was $9 billion. The government decided to do nothing. Then, in 2012 Superstorm Sandy killed more than 100 people and caused $65 billion in economic losses. New York area residents now are going through a “Summer of Hell” as the 100-year-old regional transportation system, flooded and damaged five years ago, also was not repaired or replaced at the necessary pace.

The staggering economic and human suffering caused by Hurricane Harvey in the Texas and Louisiana Gulf region are not yet known, and will grow in magnitude as the water recedes; but, what has been known for many years, is that Texas Gulf cities are flood-prone, and have repeatedly flooded. Yet, no flood control or storm protection infrastructure has been built since the end of World War II. Plans for a new system for the Houston area had been drafted, but their $25 billion cost was deemed “too high” a price tag for our Wall Street–dominated agencies and elected officials. Now, hundreds of billions of dollars, and priceless human lives, are lost.

All of these disasters, and others in the recent period, could have been averted for a fraction of their eventual cost in lost wealth, let alone in lost lives. The media insist to Americans that each city’s disaster is caused by its particular economic habits, its choice of location, its squabbling jurisdictions, its ignoring of climate change, or its being close to water! This is nonsense. Wall Street, which has been bailed out repeatedly to the tune of trillions of dollars, with nothing but increased impoverishment of the American people to show for it, must no longer be allowed to dictate the economic policy of the United States of America.

“The nation calls for action, and action now!” in President Franklin Roosevelt’s words. During his presidency, and through the 1940s, the new infrastructure to prevent such “natural disasters”—such as the Tennessee Valley Authority—was funded by national credit, as through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the Works Progress Authority.

Hurricane Harvey drowning cities in East Texas should be the national alarm which ends 70 years in which the country has been without any such national credit institutions.

A Sea-Change is Required

Lyndon LaRouche on August 30 called for a “sea change” in policy “right now.” He called for the immediate creation of a national credit institution for new, high-technology infrastructure, like that employed by Franklin Roosevelt when the vast majority of our current infrastructure was built. There is no alternative to creating a national credit institution, like that employed by Alexander Hamilton and in accord with our Constitution, to fund the necessary trillions in new infrastructure investment.

There must also be action on reinstating Glass-Steagall banking separation right now, as a new financial crisis looms and Wall Street speculation continues to prevent actual productive investment. Allowing Wall Street to eliminate the Glass-Steagall Act in the 1990s led to a crash that caused $10 trillion in lost wealth, mass unemployment, and untold loss and shortening of human lives.

LaRouche insists that his “Four Economic Laws to Save the Nation” must be implemented right now if this country is to recover from Hurricane Harvey and prevent similar disasters stemming from our rotting physical economy now ticking like a time bomb:

• Re-institute Glass-Steagall: break up Wall Street and its power;
• Create national credit institutions based on FDR’s Reconstruction Finance Corporation and Alexander Hamilton’s national banks;
• Invest the credit in new infrastructure with frontier technologies, including high-speed rail, fourth-generation fission and fusion power technologies, and modern storm protection and water management systems;
• Adopt a fusion-driver “crash program”: let a great expansion of NASA space exploration provide a driver for productivity and productive employment.

A New Paradigm Takes Hold

China’s Belt and Road Initiative, an international program of new rail “land-bridges” and great projects of infrastructural development, offers immediate cooperation for the credit and the building of a new infrastructure in the United States. This initiative is now moving on great projects they have long identified as absolutely essential, such as the Kra Canal in Southeast Asia and the revival of Lake Chad in sub-Saharan Africa, projects long championed by Lyndon LaRouche and his wife, Helga Zepp-LaRouche.

Helga and Lyndon LaRouche are leading a national mobilization focused on moving President Trump to immediately bring America into the China-initiated Belt and Road Initiative of worldwide building of new infrastructure. That “win-win” initiative, and the United States joining in its worldwide projects and also building its own new infrastructure, means the revival of the United States as an industrial power.

On Aug. 26, Helga Zepp-LaRouche addressed a Manhattan conference on the infrastructure emergency in the United States, making the following proposal:

“Just think what enormous potential is opening up if the United States would cooperate with the Belt and Road Initiative,” Zepp-LaRouche told the conference. “I think it is really important to imagine a completely different system. If the United States would now do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did—a New Deal, Glass-Steagall, cooperate with China—the United States could experience an industrial revolution bigger than any time in its own history. People just have to imagine that we are right now at the end of a system, a system which cannot be saved. We need to replace it with a completely new system, and most people have just a hard time to imagine that, but there are examples of such changes. For example, the Marshall Plan in Europe was such an example, and the Meiji Restoration in Japan was such an example—what Roosevelt did with the New Deal; so people have to just think that such a dramatic change is absolutely possible today.”

LaRouchePAC has taken the responsibility to drive President Trump and the Congress into this action. But this is also the responsibility of all Americans that think of themselves as citizens: those who have been actively supporting the President, or supporting Sen. Bernie Sanders; those who supported no one, out of disgust at the manipulation, and continued manipulation of the election, but who have wanted a drastic change in the deindustrialization and Wall Street speculation policy ruling the country; those who know people killed, or made homeless and impoverished by Wall Street’s induced “natural disasters.” All must now act and make their voices heard.

Because, watching what is happening, again, to great American cities, leads anyone sane to the same conclusion: there is no alternative.

In the next 48 hours, the LaRouche Political Action Committee will issue a policy statement on the necessary action that must be taken by the United States—its people, and its government—to address the existential crisis which has been brought to the fore by the multi-state disaster wreaked by Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath. The United States can no longer live in the delusional domain of soaring speculative assets and a collapsing physical economy. We can no longer act as if we can somehow survive without bothering to invest in bridges, dams, railroads, nuclear energy, canals, levees… and people.

The requisite policy measures were laid out by Helga Zepp-LaRouche in her remarks to the Aug. 26 Manhattan Project meeting, and they are contained fully in Lyndon LaRouche’s Four Laws. A sea-change in national economic policy is required, and it has to happen now.

The Belt and Road Initiative is already bringing a hopeful future to some of the most benighted and war-torn regions of the planet. The Transaqua project in central Africa has a green light, and it will proceed with the participation of the same Chinese company responsible for the Three Gorges dam. So too the Kra Canal, one of the great World Land-Bridge projects needed to create a single world ocean for trade and development, as Lyndon LaRouche has long specified. And in Syria—where Russian military/diplomatic action combined with China’s Belt and Road initiatives have begun to turn the tide away from genocidal war and terrorism—the Schiller Institute is bringing the full scope of LaRouche’s World Land-Bridge policy to the highest level of that country’s government and educational institutions, as we report below. This is a true proof of principle of LaRouche’s policies and method.

If central Africa, Thailand, and Syria can wake up and act, can we not do the same? Is that not the real message and lesson of Hurricane Harvey? By getting the United States to adopt LaRouche’s Four Laws, and cooperate fully with the Belt and Road Initiative, we can catapult the nation—and with it, the world— onto an entirely different plane. Now.

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The ongoing destruction of lives, livelihoods, economy, and productivity by the hurricane in Texas is a signal to the country: The elected officials of the United States must have refused and stalled for the last time, on rebuilding and replacing the nation’s ancient and broken-down economic infrastructure.

Let the words “natural disaster” not be misused. A major city is being destroyed because it is flood-prone, floods repeatedly, and its flood-control infrastructure — designed and built 70-80 years ago — is no longer worthy of the name. Yet the plans to completely rebuild it, requiring tens of billions in investments, have been ignored and turned down.

Hurricane Katrina killed nearly 2,000 people and wreaked $130 billion in economic losses for the same reason. Superstorm Sandy killed more than 100 people and caused $65 billion in economic losses for that same reason. These disasters could have been averted for a fraction of their eventual cost in lost wealth, let alone in lost lives. New York area residents are going through a “Summer of Hell” as the regional transportation system breaks down, for that same reason. We don’t yet know how many will lose their lives in Houston and East Texas, but the economic and human losses there are going to be staggering.

“The nation calls for action, and action now!” in President Franklin Roosevelt’s words. There is no alternative to action on a Hamiltonian national credit institution that funds the necessary trillions in new infrastructure investment.

LaRouchePAC has taken the responsibility to drive President Trump and the Congress into this action. But this is also the responsibility of the citizens who have been actively supporting the President, or supporting Sen. Bernie Sanders, who have wanted a drastic change in the deindustrialization and Wall Street speculation policy ruling the country.

In thinking about the terrible costs of inaction, it should not be forgotten, that allowing Wall Street to eliminate the Glass-Steagall Act in the 1990s led to a crash that caused $10 trillion in lost wealth, mass unemployment, and untold loss of life.

There must be action on reinstating Glass-Steagall as well, and on the entirety of what Lyndon LaRouche has called his four economic laws to save the nation, including large “science driver” investments in fusion power technology breakthroughs and revived NASA space exploration.

China’s Belt and Road Initiative, an international program of new rail “land-bridges” and infrastructure great projects, offers immediate cooperation for the credit and the building of a new infrastructure in the United States. Promoted for decades by Lyndon and Helga LaRouche, this initiative is now moving on great projects they have long identified as absolutely essential, such as the Kra Canal in Southeast Asia and the revival of Lake Chad in sub-Saharan Africa.

Action in the United States is just as urgent, immediately. Watching what is happening to Houston, there is no alternative.

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As Charles Dickens wrote in A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

Today it is not two cities, but two visions of the future of mankind, and of the fundamental nature of man.

The world is watching the devastation in Houston — a natural disater, of course, but one which found a “little people” (as Schiller said of the French population at the time of Dickens’s tale), who have allowed the nation’s infrastructure to decay to the point of collapse. Houston is notoriously unprepared to deal with flooding during even annual storms, let alone hurricanes or the current 1,000-year flood. Already in 2012, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave the city a C- on its “report card” regarding flood control. The two primary flood control dams for Houston, both on the verge of overflow or even collapse in the current storm, were built in the 1940s and are 20 years past their life expectancy.

But Houston is no different than essentially every part of these United States. Our greatest city, New York, is undergoing a general breakdown in transportation, sanitation, water, and more — a reality addressed on Aug. 26 at a Schiller Institute forum in Manhattan. The infrastructure deficit has created powder kegs across the nation, only needing a spark to set them off, as we saw with Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, with superstorm Sandy in New York City, or with the drought in the Southwest.

On the other hand, the “spring of hope” vision of the world is becomming a reality, as the New Silk Road is bringing large- scale infrastructure across Asia, Africa, and Ibero-America, infrastructure which was denied them throughout the colonial and post-colonial eras. In particular, two of the Great Projects proposed by Lyndon LaRouche over the past decades — the Kra Canal in southern Thailand, and the replenishing of the nearly- depleted Lake Chad in Africa through diversion of water from the Congo — are now close to realization. These projects have been fiercely opposed by the former colonial powers, and are still opposed in the West under the fraudulent guise of environmental damage and unprofitability. In both of these Great Projects, the role of China’s Belt and Road Initiative is the central driving force, viewing mankind not as subjects of an oligarchy, but as the reason for the existence of governments.

Why can’t the U.S., and Europe, participate in this world-changing development process? The only reason is the continuing power of the bankrupt financial empire centered in London and New York. The degeneracy of the Western banking system into a sprawling gambling casino, only willing to “invest” in speculative binges, driving ever-greater decay of the physical economy and the standard of living of the “lower 90%” of the population — this is the reality which brought about the election of Donald Trump. This is the reality which is driving the ongoing coup attempt against him by the powers of London and Wall Street and their slavish, totally-owned political leaders and media whores. “The US must not be allowed to join the New Silk Road,” bellows the modern day Ozymandias, from Shelley’s poem. “The government must not interfere in Wall Street,” he adds. “The U.S. must prepare for war with Russia…. My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”

Houston must serve as a wake-up call. Of course the American people will awake from their slumber to help the people of Houston in this disaster — but they must also, finally, act to restore the American System, to demand the end of the casino mondial, and the creation of a Hamiltonian credit system, immediately, to generate the credit needed to rebuild our cities at a modern level, our transporation networks, our water systems, our power generation, our schools, and hospitals. As Helga Zepp- LaRouche said at the Manhattan forum on the infrastructure crisis Aug. 26, “Why not build 50 new cities?” China has done it, and is taking it around the world through the Belt and Road. We can, and must, join them.

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Helga Zepp-LaRouche today yesterday that Trump’s supporters must mobilize for the President to bring America into the China-initiated Belt and Road Initiative of worldwide building of new infrastructure. The issue of that “win-win” initiative, and whether the United States joins in its worldwide projects and also builds its own new-technology infrastructure, is central to peace between the United States and Russia and China; to Trump’s surviving the ongoing coup against him; and to the revival of the United States as an industrial power.

On Aug. 20 both China Daily and People’s Daily ran major articles highlighting Lyndon and Helga LaRouche’s role both in conceptualizing the New Silk Road or World Land-Bridge policy decades ago, and in bringing that policy to the United States and Europe as China adopted it. Their movement is the power to bring the Trump Presidency to it. Helga LaRouche said that movement must now mobilize Trump supporters to get Trump into the Belt and Road. British-driven efforts by Steven Bannon, for example, to poison Trump’s base against the Belt and Road Initiative, have to be countered by this movement.

On Aug. 26, Helga LaRouche addressed a Manhattan conference on “Reviving Alexander Hamilton’s American System through LaRouche’s Four Laws,” which itself brought together overlapping circles of Trump activists and Chinese-American activists, along with engineers and citizens organizing to rebuild the New York region’s crumbling transportation system.

“Just think what enormous potential is opening up if the United States would cooperate with the Belt and Road Initiative,” Helga told the conference. “This could rebuild its own middle-level industry. They could invest in all of the projects in Latin America, Africa, and along the Eurasian Land-Bridge. It would just completely change the situation and also rebuild the United States. You could have complete change in the United States. You could have 50 new cities. Why not build 50 new cities? Basically, between the coasts, there are many states which are completely thinly populated, almost no cities; you could connect those cities with those of the coasts with the fast train system, you could have science cities….

“I think it is really important to imagine a completely different system. If the United States would now do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did — a New Deal, Glass-Steagall, cooperate with China — the United States could experience an industrial revolution bigger than any time in its own history. People just have to imagine that we are right now at the end of a system, a system which cannot be saved. We need to replace it with a completely new system, and most people have just a hard time to imagine that, but there are examples of such changes. For example, the Marshall Plan in Europe was such an example, and the Meiji Restoration in Japan was such an example — what Roosevelt did with the New Deal; so people have to just think that such a dramatic change is absolutely possible today.”

The real problems the President must deal with — whether the opiate addiction scourge, or now the worst Gulf storm ever to hit Texas, requiring many thousands of rescuers, widespread rebuilding of housing, infrastructure — demand the principle of the general welfare, the common good of humanity. Trump cannot do this on his own and under attack. Americans must mobilize so that “dramatic change is absolutely possible today.”

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Helga Zepp-LaRouche today yesterday that Trump’s supporters must mobilize for the President to bring America into the China-initiated Belt and Road Initiative of worldwide building of new infrastructure. The issue of that “win-win” initiative, and whether the United States joins in its worldwide projects and also builds its own new-technology infrastructure, is central to peace between the United States and Russia and China; to Trump’s surviving the ongoing coup against him; and to the revival of the United States as an industrial power.

On Aug. 20 both China Daily and People’s Daily ran major articles highlighting Lyndon and Helga LaRouche’s role both in conceptualizing the New Silk Road or World Land-Bridge policy decades ago, and in bringing that policy to the United States and Europe as China adopted it. Their movement is the power to bring the Trump Presidency to it. Helga LaRouche said that movement must now mobilize Trump supporters to get Trump into the Belt and Road. British-driven efforts by Steven Bannon, for example, to poison Trump’s base against the Belt and Road Initiative, have to be countered by this movement.

On Aug. 26, Helga LaRouche addressed a Manhattan conference on “Reviving Alexander Hamilton’s American System through LaRouche’s Four Laws,” which itself brought together overlapping circles of Trump activists and Chinese-American activists, along with engineers and citizens organizing to rebuild the New York region’s crumbling transportation system.

“Just think what enormous potential is opening up if the United States would cooperate with the Belt and Road Initiative,” Helga told the conference. “This could rebuild its own middle-level industry. They could invest in all of the projects in Latin America, Africa, and along the Eurasian Land-Bridge. It would just completely change the situation and also rebuild the United States. You could have complete change in the United States. You could have 50 new cities. Why not build 50 new cities? Basically, between the coasts, there are many states which are completely thinly populated, almost no cities; you could connect those cities with those of the coasts with the fast train system, you could have science cities….

“I think it is really important to imagine a completely different system. If the United States would now do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did — a New Deal, Glass-Steagall, cooperate with China — the United States could experience an industrial revolution bigger than any time in its own history. People just have to imagine that we are right now at the end of a system, a system which cannot be saved. We need to replace it with a completely new system, and most people have just a hard time to imagine that, but there are examples of such changes. For example, the Marshall Plan in Europe was such an example, and the Meiji Restoration in Japan was such an example — what Roosevelt did with the New Deal; so people have to just think that such a dramatic change is absolutely possible today.”

The real problems the President must deal with — whether the opiate addiction scourge, or now the worst Gulf storm ever to hit Texas, requiring many thousands of rescuers, widespread rebuilding of housing, infrastructure — demand the principle of the general welfare, the common good of humanity. Trump cannot do this on his own and under attack. Americans must mobilize so that “dramatic change is absolutely possible today.”

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“This is really a grave moment,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche stressed in a discussion with associates yesterday, “and we have to get people to understand that the coup against President Trump is still ongoing, and must be reversed by changing the agenda completely,” by organizing a dramatic national mobilization for physical economic recovery based on full-scale cooperation with China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

“The game is obviously to box Trump in, so that he cannot fulfill his domestic agenda of job creation, and so that he cannot stick to his promises concerning the international policies of stopping these wars,” Zepp-LaRouche said. Certain military circles in the U.S. are clearly attempting to get Trump to back off on his stated policy of ending the Bush-Obama era wars; but “if we stick with geopolitics, we are all doomed,” Zepp-LaRouche stated.

The policies now being implemented regarding Ukraine, Afghanistan, and elsewhere are terrible; only in Syria is there an example of the right policy of cooperation with Russia to jointly combat ISIS terrorism.

Both Russia and China, continue to extend their hand to the Trump administration to offer ways out of the box, including cooperation on economic and political issues internationally. And the Belt and Road global economic development program continues to move forward, now focused on two key international meetings in early September: the BRICS summit in Xiamen, China (Sept. 3-5); and the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia (Sept. 6-7).

But the key to solving the strategic crisis remains in the United States, where it is urgent to turn the tables on the ongoing attempted coup against Trump, by getting the President and his team to think outside the box, and act outside the box. Trump hasn’t felt sufficient backup so far from his base of supporters, Zepp-LaRouche commented, to be able to break free from the negative pressures he is receiving from those trying to oust him from the Presidency. Trump’s base of support in the American population remains strong, but far too many of them have allowed themselves to be manipulated into getting all worked up over silly, tertiary issues—the wall, Obamacare, a barroom brawl over statues.

These are distractions. Don’t debate such issues; dismiss them. The life-and-death policy matter facing the country is to get the Trump administration to join with China and Russia to build the World Land-Bridge (which will require bankrupting Wall Street and the City of London with Glass-Steagall), and putting an end to British geopolitics and wars once and for all.

Doing that—just starting to do that—will do wonders to stop the attempted coup d’etat in its tracks.

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The U.S. situation is extremely dire and dangerous. The coup operation is in high gear to box in President Trump, to do the very opposite of what he promised, and that for which he won the election: to restore the economy (specifically beginning with reinstating Glass-Steagall,) and to stop the foreign policy of wars — the British Empire policy.

Trump’s rally last night in Phoenix fortunately turned out not to be the bloody battleground the color revolutionists were gunning for. As the crowd was departing, a street fracas, instigated by an attack on police by a few protesters (likely antifa,) was held to a minimum. Undeterred, the coup crowd used the event as the occasion for hysterical accusations that Trump is unfit, demented, unhinged, and must be put out of office, if not by impeachment, then by the 25th Amendment.

Leading the charge was James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence (2010-2017) under Obama. Clapper, who treasonously covered up for the Saudi networks behind 9/11, appeared on CNN in the wee hours of Aug. 23, to comment on the Arizona rally, and speak against Trump remaining President! “I really question his ability to be — his fitness to be — in this office…. How much longer does the country have to — to borrow a phrase — endure this nightmare?” CNN’s host Don Lemon denounced Trump at length, as “unhinged.” CNN’s commentator Ana Navarro tweeted that Trump, “maybe” is displaying “early-on-set [sic] dementia.”

Obviously, the danger in all this, lies not in the future; i.e., not, “if and whether” the enemy operations will succeed in ousting Trump and taking down the national institutions of the U.S. along with him. The danger is here and now.

Look at the U.S. economy. Millions are suffering from the breakdown. But Trump is under pressure to stay in Wall Street’s grasp; especially, that there be no Glass-Steagall. In Arizona last night, Trump rightly reiterated his goal of creating jobs; he again stated that this will have a “tremendously positive impact on race relations….” But apart from a few jobs here and there, such as in West Virginia and Pennsylvania coal country — saved by exporting coal to Europe, the situation remains bleak. A dramatic reflection of the collapse is seen in the worsening performance of the entire freight rail system east of the Mississippi River. On CSX (one of the two main operators,) a train run that might have taken a few days, which is already a long ride, to go from Chicago to western Tennessee, recently took 18 days! The delays and jam-ups are now spreading throughout the 21,000 miles of the CSX grid.

Look at the international conflict zones. In Afghanistan, the only approach that can build up the nation and create peace, requires collaboration among all in the region: Iran, Pakistan, India, the nations of Central Asia, Russia, and China. But Trump is under pressure to pursue unilateral action, and even to give in to ploys to try to play off India against the BRICS.

The means to lift us up and out of this collapse and geopolitics is to go with the New Silk Road perspective, and in particular in the U.S., to go for emergency action on the “Four Laws” put out by Lyndon LaRouche. Go for mass jobs creation. As Helga Zepp-LaRouche spoke of this yesterday, the crucial issue remains replacing the old paradigm with the new paradigm for development and peace. Remember, Donald Trump’s election victory Nov. 6, 2016, was not a “national” matter, but an international event of great and historic import.

Look at today’s affairs in the long arc of human history. The danger of Maidan II in the United States is akin to the danger in the U.S. and Europe at the time of the Weimar Republic. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt got the U.S. out of the Depression, with his New Deal. But Europe sank, and saw the rise of fascism. People must learn from history.

In discussing this yesterday, Lyndon LaRouche issued a call to action: “I am deeply concerned about the situation we’re discussing here…. But the point is, we have to take responsibility for backing up what I’ve been talking about, and what my associates are doing. If we don’t do it, we will be destroyed by what [the enemy] is doing…. We have to win this …. the existence of the U.S. depends on doing that job. It’s not making suggestions, but getting a victory over the things that are destroying the U.S. from doing its mission.

“And good luck to us all!”

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America is experiencing a descent into chaos, as vulnerable youth and/or desperately poor people, of all races and of all political persuasions, are being driven to take sides in a pre-conditioned violent conflict in which there can be no winners, and all will lose. It is a classic British imperial tactic, called “Gangs and Countergangs” by British Brigadier Frank Kitson in a book by that name, a method the British have since acknowledged was used to crush opposition to their colonial rule in Kenya, in Malaysia, in Northern Ireland, and more. The concept is for an artificial conflict to be constructed which turns factions within the targetted populations against each other, with agent provocateurs running both sides, leading to many deaths, stirring bestial passions, and destroying any capacity for a united fight against the actual enemy—the British Empire.

An editor and journalist for China’s People’s Daily, the official paper of the Chinese Communist Party, wrote an article in Monday’s edition asking: “Is America engulfed in a Cultural Revolution?” The writer, Curtis Stone, describes the nightmare of China’s Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, in which enraged mobs of youth (the Red Guards) were instigated to join in mob violence against the institutions of the country, which “plunged China into chaos for years, during which many of the country’s cultural and historical artifacts were removed or destroyed.” He continues: “Recent racial tension in the U.S. has left many Chinese wondering if a country once known as the world’s ‘Melting Pot’ is undergoing its own Cultural Revolution, and perplexed over how such an eerily similar event could unfold in America. The chaos in America is deeply troubling. The American cultural revolution, as it has been termed in some Chinese media, has all the hallmarks of China’s turbulent experience…. From a Chicago pastor’s call to remove a statue of George Washington…, to U.S Congresswoman Nancy Pelosis’s call to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol immediately; and to discussion over whether it is time to blow up the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota, there is a push to get rid of at least some of the country’s cultural and historical artifacts.”

Helga Zepp LaRouche added another deeply troubling image — the last days of the Weimar Republic in Germany, when nazis battled communists on the streets, driving the chaos that led to the collapse of legitimate government and the horror of the nazi dictatorship.

The attempt to portray the pathetic, impotent grouplets of white supremacists and neo nazis as somehow supported by President Trump, or to portray the black-masked antifa anarchists throwing Molotov cocktails as “non-violent protesters,” is not only insane, but ignores the fact that these groups are precisely what Brigadier Kitson described: totally controlled gangs and counter-gangs, diverting the attention of the citizenry from the economic decay of the past decade, and the financial and economic collapse rushing toward us. The fact that the controllers are the same elements of the FBI, CIA and other corrupt intelligence agencies from the Obama administration who have run the “Russiagate” fraud against the President, should remove any doubt that it is all part of the same “color revolution” launched by George Soros and Barack Obama, aimed at deposing the President, destroying any potential for the United States to join in the New Silk Road as Trump has indicated he would, and driving a military confrontation with Russia which would be the end of civilization as we know it.

President Trump’s much advertised speech on a new policy for the Afghanistan War Monday night was statesman-like, while intentionally lacking in content. While it is widely reported that he has approved a new “surge” in troops to Afghanistan, what he actually reported was that he is leaving decisions on military deployments to the generals, but that he will not pre-announce military decisions. He strongly denounced Pakistan for harboring terrorists, and called on India to take a bigger role in Afghanistan.

But Secretary of State Tillerson immediately issued a statement, and held a press conference on Tuesday, which made clear that the intention of the new Afghanistan policy is two-fold: use the military methods which have proven successful in Syria and Iraq to defeat ISIS; and facilitate negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban for a negotiated peace agreement. “Our purpose is to convince the Taliban that they can not achieve a victory on the battlefield,” Tillerson said yesterday, adding: “we may not win a victory either.” The official State Department statement issued Monday night says: “The Taliban has a path to peace and political legitimacy through a negotiated political settlement to end the war. We stand ready to support peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban without preconditions.”

Note that under President Trump, the U.S. has worked closely, and successfully, with Russia in defeating terrorism in Syria, and, in the case of Afghanistan, the new Trump policy approach, negotiating with the Taliban toward a negotiated settlement embracing all ethnic factions in the country, is precisely what the Russians have promoted.

It is this policy — working together with Russia and China to create a new paradigm, based on the common aims of mankind for peace through development, ending Empire once and for all — that the British and their assets in the U.S. can not tolerate, and are willing to conduct a coup and provoke a nuclear war to prevent. This is a moment of great danger, but even greater opportunity. The President must be defended, and the new paradigm brought into being.

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President Trump, Investigate British Subversion of the USA

America is experiencing a descent into chaos, as vulnerable youth and/or desperately poor people, of all races and of all political persuasions, are being driven to take sides in a pre-conditioned violent conflict in which there can be no winners, and all will lose. It is a classic British imperial tactic, called “Gangs and Countergangs” by British Brigadier Frank Kitson in a book by that name, a method the British have since acknowledged was used to crush opposition to their colonial rule in Kenya, in Malaysia, in Northern Ireland, and more. The concept is for an artificial conflict to be constructed which turns factions within the targetted populations against each other, with agent provocateurs running both sides, leading to many deaths, stirring bestial passions, and destroying any capacity for a united fight against the actual enemy—the British Empire.

An editor and journalist for China’s People’s Daily, the official paper of the Chinese Communist Party, wrote an article in Monday’s edition asking: “Is America engulfed in a Cultural Revolution?” The writer, Curtis Stone, describes the nightmare of China’s Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, in which enraged mobs of youth (the Red Guards) were instigated to join in mob violence against the institutions of the country, which “plunged China into chaos for years, during which many of the country’s cultural and historical artifacts were removed or destroyed.” He continues: “Recent racial tension in the U.S. has left many Chinese wondering if a country once known as the world’s ‘Melting Pot’ is undergoing its own Cultural Revolution, and perplexed over how such an eerily similar event could unfold in America. The chaos in America is deeply troubling. The American cultural revolution, as it has been termed in some Chinese media, has all the hallmarks of China’s turbulent experience…. From a Chicago pastor’s call to remove a statue of George Washington…, to U.S Congresswoman Nancy Pelosis’s call to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol immediately; and to discussion over whether it is time to blow up the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota, there is a push to get rid of at least some of the country’s cultural and historical artifacts.”

Helga Zepp LaRouche added another deeply troubling image — the last days of the Weimar Republic in Germany, when nazis battled communists on the streets, driving the chaos that led to the collapse of legitimate government and the horror of the nazi dictatorship.

The attempt to portray the pathetic, impotent grouplets of white supremacists and neo nazis as somehow supported by President Trump, or to portray the black-masked antifa anarchists throwing Molotov cocktails as “non-violent protesters,” is not only insane, but ignores the fact that these groups are precisely what Brigadier Kitson described: totally controlled gangs and counter-gangs, diverting the attention of the citizenry from the economic decay of the past decade, and the financial and economic collapse rushing toward us. The fact that the controllers are the same elements of the FBI, CIA and other corrupt intelligence agencies from the Obama administration who have run the “Russiagate” fraud against the President, should remove any doubt that it is all part of the same “color revolution” launched by George Soros and Barack Obama, aimed at deposing the President, destroying any potential for the United States to join in the New Silk Road as Trump has indicated he would, and driving a military confrontation with Russia which would be the end of civilization as we know it.

President Trump’s much advertised speech on a new policy for the Afghanistan War Monday night was statesman-like, while intentionally lacking in content. While it is widely reported that he has approved a new “surge” in troops to Afghanistan, what he actually reported was that he is leaving decisions on military deployments to the generals, but that he will not pre-announce military decisions. He strongly denounced Pakistan for harboring terrorists, and called on India to take a bigger role in Afghanistan.

But Secretary of State Tillerson immediately issued a statement, and held a press conference on Tuesday, which made clear that the intention of the new Afghanistan policy is two-fold: use the military methods which have proven successful in Syria and Iraq to defeat ISIS; and facilitate negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban for a negotiated peace agreement. “Our purpose is to convince the Taliban that they can not achieve a victory on the battlefield,” Tillerson said yesterday, adding: “we may not win a victory either.” The official State Department statement issued Monday night says: “The Taliban has a path to peace and political legitimacy through a negotiated political settlement to end the war. We stand ready to support peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban without preconditions.”

Note that under President Trump, the U.S. has worked closely, and successfully, with Russia in defeating terrorism in Syria, and, in the case of Afghanistan, the new Trump policy approach, negotiating with the Taliban toward a negotiated settlement embracing all ethnic factions in the country, is precisely what the Russians have promoted.

It is this policy — working together with Russia and China to create a new paradigm, based on the common aims of mankind for peace through development, ending Empire once and for all — that the British and their assets in the U.S. can not tolerate, and are willing to conduct a coup and provoke a nuclear war to prevent. This is a moment of great danger, but even greater opportunity. The President must be defended, and the new paradigm brought into being.

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The President of the United States, yesterday a tool of Putin’s Russia, is today a racist and white supremacist supporter of neo-Nazis, not to mention mentally ill. This crazed propaganda flows in torrents: from the Obama/Podesta-run “Resist” which has taken over much of the Democratic Party; from the British and American intelligence agencies which have collaborated to eliminate President Trump since he first announced for President; and from all the Wall Street media operations. The President is being publicly threatened — by members of Congress! — if he dares to speak publicly in Phoenix Tuesday night, and his supporters there threatened if they dare come out to hear him.

The nation is being manipulated toward chaos and possibly its own destruction. The ferocity of the propaganda barrage originates in London’s and Wall Street’s fear of another impending financial collapse. They remain afraid that President Trump — never under their policy control — might go against Wall Street and cooperate with China’s global infrastructure initiative for a real “shovels in the ground” U.S. recovery.

Not like Barack Obama, who entered office armtwisting Members of Congress to vote for the massive Wall Street bailouts by TARP and the Federal Reserve, and who followed London’s lead in making the G7 into a vast bank bailout machine. His and “W” Bush’s wars, bailouts, mass unemployment and manufacturing collapses have led since to mass addiction, rising American death rates — a true national emergency.

Going against Wall Street and the City of London is exactly what President Trump must now do, and on an emergency basis.

He has just made one step: “Millions of jobs is the way to unite Americans,” he said on Aug. 18. Andrew Young — former UN Ambassador, veteran Civil Rights leader — said the same in an NBC interview Sunday. “Most of the issues that we’re dealing with now are related to poverty. But we still want to put everything in a racial context…. Our job was to lift everybody up together, so that we would learn to live together as brothers and sisters rather than perish together as fools.”

The measures to “lift everybody up” are there, in the “Four Economic Laws to save the nation” of Lyndon LaRouche, the pre-eminent economist of the “American System of economy” — which Trump has spoken about, but not grasped. Starting immediately by pushing a reinstatment of Glass-Steagall through Congress to break up Wall Street, and beginning to issue Federal credit through a Hamiltonian infrastructure bank, the United States can join with China’s “New Silk Road” infrastructure boom, to generate trillions in investments in renewing America’s economic infrastructure. As with China’s investments, science — space science and fusion power — must be the drivers.

LaRouche, who said the current phony racial warfare being thrown against Trump threatens chaos and national destruction, today emphasized, “The economic solution is what must be pushed forward.”

China Daily on Aug. 18 featured Helga Zepp-LaRouche and Lyndon LaRouche in a long profile, which described how the current global “Belt and Road Initiative” of China developed over decades. Now it is at full steam across Eurasia, Africa, and potentially even in the war-devastated Mideast. EIR has published The United States Joins the New Silk Road in pamphlet form. With LaRouche’s “Four Laws,” this is the economic solution.

Trump has spoken often of the “American System of Alexander Hamilton, Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln.” The first American organization dedicated to ending slavery and to equal opportunity without respect to race or ethnicity, was founded in 1788, and run until his death, by Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton also launched the economic development of the United States into the world’s greatest industrial nation, ultimately creating literally millions of jobs, of increasing productivity, by inventing national banking credit for infrastructure, and promotion of manufacturing. His two objectives were really one: Create a united nation by developing all its human capacities and creativity, and productively employing all who lived in it or came to it.

That must be revived now, by an emergency intervention into this political crisis with LaRouche’s proposed economic laws, and by a link-up with China’s New Silk Road.

Let Trump be forced out, and an immediate war confrontation with Russia and China will face us, fueled by the anti-Russia, anti-China hysteria which has overtaken Congress and the Democratic Party.

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The Russiagate effort to depose President Trump is close to dead. Two leaders of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), Ray McGovern and William Binney, spoke at a LaRouchePAC forum in Manhattan, Saturday, reviewing their forensic proof that there was no hack of the DNC computers, and that corrupt Obama intelligence officials had fabricated evidence to point at Russia, to stop Trump’s effort to bring the US and Russia and China together for peace.

But the coup-plotters have not given up — they have moved on to race-bait the President, using provocateurs, on both sides, and using the media, to stir up racial hatred, also on both sides, creating the potential for civil war and an environment conducive to a “lone assassin” hit on the President.

The fact that President Trump was absolutely right in his declaration that there were violent provocateurs on both sides of the Charlottesville disaster, is becoming more and more clear by the day. The attempt to reproduce the Charlottesville chaos in Boston, on Saturday, resulted only in a handful of conservatives marching for free speech, being met by about 10,000 “anti-nazi” and “anti-fascist” counter demonstrators. The police did their job, keeping the two sides separated (not as in Charlottesville), but there were 33 arrests of violent “antifa” and “Black Lives Matter” militants who challenged the police. Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said there were three categories on the street: “Those who came out for the rally, those who came to protest it, and those who wanted to start some trouble.”

Former UN Ambassador and civil rights leader Andrew Young cut through the maze of lies in an NBC interview Sunday: “Most of the issues that we’re dealing with now are related to poverty. But we still want to put everything in a racial context,” Amb. Young said.

“The reason I feel uncomfortable condemning the Klan types is, they are almost the poorest of the poor. They are the forgotten Americans. And, they have been used and abused and neglected. Instead of giving them affordable health care, they give them black lung jobs…. Our job [in the Civil Rights Movement] was not to put down white people. Our job was to lift everybody up together, so that we would learn to live together as brothers and sisters rather than perish together as fools.”

Helga Zepp-LaRouche agreed that Amb. Young had identified the problem, but insisted that he, and all well-meaning people, must also identify the solution, to bring about the development and the job creation he calls for in the only way possible — to join with the LaRouche movement effort to get President Trump to proceed with his intention to join in the Belt and Road Initiative created by China, now, and implement LaRouche’s Four Laws — Glass Steagall, National Banking, Hamiltonian federal credit creation, and a science policy centered on crash programs for space exploration and fusion power. There are increasing numbers of Democrats who reject Russia-gate, who reject the controlled “gang-counter gang” push for civil war, and who will join with Trump supporters to demand such real development as the only solution. This is the time for action.

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