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A signed editorial yesterday in “Global Times,” an English-language newspaper owned by China’s “People’s Daily,” said, “Trump’s team, despite a constant stream of negative news, is gradually consolidating its grip on power. Constant stories about his Russia connections are beginning to sound like background noise.”
In fact, the arrogance, the brashness and the loudness of these British-steered Russia-gate stories are in inverse proportion—not only to their truthfulness, but to their plunging credibility among the American people.
Americans recognize the truth of what Russia expert Stephen Cohen told Tucker Carlson of Fox News on July 7, the day of the Trump-Putin summit. Carlson asked Cohen, “Professor, the first thing you notice is just how much the press is rooting for this meeting between our President and the Russian President to fail. Why would they want it to fail?”
Cohen answered, “It’s a kind of pornography. Just as there is no love in pornography, there is no national interest in this bashing of Trump and Putin.” He said that his caption for the summit would be, “Potentially New Historic Detente Anti-Cold War Partnership Begun by Trump and Putin, but Meanwhile Attempts to Sabotage it Escalate.”
In an article in “The Nation” yesterday, Cohen wrote that the summit’s four main achievements were: 1) formalizing and symbolizing the new detente partnership between the American and Russian Presidents; 2) agreement to cooperate in Syria against terrorist forces there, not only in the limited ways announced, but in more expansive ways, which meant agreeing with Moscow that Syrian President Assad must remain at least until ISIS is fully defeated; 3) creating a bilateral US-Russian channel for negotiating a settlement of the Ukrainian civil and proxy war, thereby bypassing, or reducing, the role played thus far by Germany and France, which has largely failed; and 4) agreeing to discuss ways to limit the dangers of cyber technology in international affairs.
Cohen has not always been right, but he’s right about this. This was indeed “potentially historic.”
Now will Americans submit to these Russia-gate scandals which aim to reverse what the summit achieved, and go back towards confrontation and war with Russia? Of course not. The point is emphasized by a university study reported today in “The Nation” by James Carden: “Communities Most Affected by War Turned to Trump in 2016.” Recall that the U.S. has been continually at war for fifteen years, but “the vast majority of citizens have no direct connection to those soldiers fighting, dying and returning wounded from combat,” in the Forever Wars in the Middle East. The study finds that “there is a significant and meaningful relationship between a community’s rate of military sacrifice,” like deaths and maimings, “and its support for Trump.” Of course there is.
The British-sponsored journalists and “talking heads” are making the same fatal mistake they made in the November election. They’re talking up a storm between themselves—and they all agree, so it must be true. They get louder and louder, and more and more extreme—and then they went to bed on Nov. 8, and when they woke up the next morning, they had all been completely wrong.
In discussing this today, Mike Steger of the LaRouchePAC Policy Committee wrote, “In our discussion here yesterday, we assessed that our language is far too limited and restricted by confining ourselves to the tactical events, and not focused towards capturing the epoch-level developments which are at issue for mankind.”
A signed editorial yesterday in “Global Times,” an English-language newspaper owned by China’s “People’s Daily,” said, “Trump’s team, despite a constant stream of negative news, is gradually consolidating its grip on power. Constant stories about his Russia connections are beginning to sound like background noise.”
In fact, the arrogance, the brashness and the loudness of these British-steered Russia-gate stories are in inverse proportion—not only to their truthfulness, but to their plunging credibility among the American people.
Americans recognize the truth of what Russia expert Stephen Cohen told Tucker Carlson of Fox News on July 7, the day of the Trump-Putin summit. Carlson asked Cohen, “Professor, the first thing you notice is just how much the press is rooting for this meeting between our President and the Russian President to fail. Why would they want it to fail?”
Cohen answered, “It’s a kind of pornography. Just as there is no love in pornography, there is no national interest in this bashing of Trump and Putin.” He said that his caption for the summit would be, “Potentially New Historic Detente Anti-Cold War Partnership Begun by Trump and Putin, but Meanwhile Attempts to Sabotage it Escalate.”
In an article in “The Nation” yesterday, Cohen wrote that the summit’s four main achievements were: 1) formalizing and symbolizing the new detente partnership between the American and Russian Presidents; 2) agreement to cooperate in Syria against terrorist forces there, not only in the limited ways announced, but in more expansive ways, which meant agreeing with Moscow that Syrian President Assad must remain at least until ISIS is fully defeated; 3) creating a bilateral US-Russian channel for negotiating a settlement of the Ukrainian civil and proxy war, thereby bypassing, or reducing, the role played thus far by Germany and France, which has largely failed; and 4) agreeing to discuss ways to limit the dangers of cyber technology in international affairs.
Cohen has not always been right, but he’s right about this. This was indeed “potentially historic.”
Now will Americans submit to these Russia-gate scandals which aim to reverse what the summit achieved, and go back towards confrontation and war with Russia? Of course not. The point is emphasized by a university study reported today in “The Nation” by James Carden: “Communities Most Affected by War Turned to Trump in 2016.” Recall that the U.S. has been continually at war for fifteen years, but “the vast majority of citizens have no direct connection to those soldiers fighting, dying and returning wounded from combat,” in the Forever Wars in the Middle East. The study finds that “there is a significant and meaningful relationship between a community’s rate of military sacrifice,” like deaths and maimings, “and its support for Trump.” Of course there is.
The British-sponsored journalists and “talking heads” are making the same fatal mistake they made in the November election. They’re talking up a storm between themselves—and they all agree, so it must be true. They get louder and louder, and more and more extreme—and then they went to bed on Nov. 8, and when they woke up the next morning, they had all been completely wrong.
In discussing this today, Mike Steger of the LaRouchePAC Policy Committee wrote, “In our discussion here yesterday, we assessed that our language is far too limited and restricted by confining ourselves to the tactical events, and not focused towards capturing the epoch-level developments which are at issue for mankind.”
The latest frenzied outbursts of “Russiagate” are not over a meeting with a Russian lawyer; they are over a summit meeting with the Russian President.
President Trump’s policy has been consistent and courageous — “Cooperation with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing; we both have huge nuclear arsenals; we can fight terrorism, we can end the constant wars” — in the face of ever more hysterical McCarthyism from the media and both parties in the Congress.
What was at stake in that Trump-Putin summit: peace in the Mideast and North Africa regions destroyed by Bush and Obama’s “regime change” wars; or more war, and possibly nuclear war. Some Democratic leaders in the Congress have become as crazed Cold Warriors as Sen. Joe McCarthy, or J. Edgar Hoover, the fanatical FBI Director whom four successive Presidents never managed to fire.
Their latest outbursts find Senate leader Chuck Schumer saying, “The time of claiming there is no evidence of collusion with the enemy is over” [emphasis added]; and Hillary’s running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine, saying, “We are now beyond obstruction of justice, in terms of what is being investigated. This is moving into perjury, false statements, and even into, potentially, treason.”
Other Democrats, who oppose the Russiagate obsession, complain it is not good for the Democratic Party. That is not the issue. It is a policy of war. Schumer, Kaine, et al. are opposing cease-fire in Syria, success in the Geneva negotiations, stabilization of Libya, potential peace and reconstruction (for which China is ready) in the whole area, peace in Asia.
President Trump’s policy of cooperating with Putin and with Xi of China is courageous. He is facing down what is essentially a British imperial policy establishment who insist the “sole superpower” can order around nuclear superpowers Russia and China, and all other nations, and “regime-change” whoever won’t obey. Trump’s having the nerve to fire a power-hungry FBI Director is also important.
What is not courageous, is the President’s inability to take any steps against Wall Street, toward carrying out the economic recovery policies on which he ran. Rather, Wall Street, led by the likes of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, is running all over him.
The American people demand a Glass-Steagall breakup of Wall Street’s megabanks, before the next financial blowout, now likely this Fall. A Hamiltonian national credit institution for new economic infrastructure can’t be postponed any more; critical but decrepit infrastructure systems are breaking down even without hurricanes or floods. Repair will not suffice: Technologically and scientifically new infrastructure platforms are needed, such as high-speed and maglev rail systems, research into fusion power technologies — such as China is building across the expanding New Silk Road! And the “driver” of such progress must again be NASA, the expanding exploration of space.
The President can’t organize this alone. The American people have to organize for the “four laws” formulated by Lyndon LaRouche, and for the United States to join that New Silk Road.
President Trump is fighting the British imperial policy, and it is British intelligence which launched “Russiagate” against him a year ago and has driven the Congressional leadership into McCarthyite madness.
But neither he, nor either party in Congress, is fighting Wall Street. That is up to the rest of us, and it can’t be delayed, or the next looming crash will wipe us out entirely.
The latest frenzied outbursts of “Russiagate” are not over a meeting with a Russian lawyer; they are over a summit meeting with the Russian President.
President Trump’s policy has been consistent and courageous — “Cooperation with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing; we both have huge nuclear arsenals; we can fight terrorism, we can end the constant wars” — in the face of ever more hysterical McCarthyism from the media and both parties in the Congress.
What was at stake in that Trump-Putin summit: peace in the Mideast and North Africa regions destroyed by Bush and Obama’s “regime change” wars; or more war, and possibly nuclear war. Some Democratic leaders in the Congress have become as crazed Cold Warriors as Sen. Joe McCarthy, or J. Edgar Hoover, the fanatical FBI Director whom four successive Presidents never managed to fire.
Their latest outbursts find Senate leader Chuck Schumer saying, “The time of claiming there is no evidence of collusion with the enemy is over” [emphasis added]; and Hillary’s running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine, saying, “We are now beyond obstruction of justice, in terms of what is being investigated. This is moving into perjury, false statements, and even into, potentially, treason.”
Other Democrats, who oppose the Russiagate obsession, complain it is not good for the Democratic Party. That is not the issue. It is a policy of war. Schumer, Kaine, et al. are opposing cease-fire in Syria, success in the Geneva negotiations, stabilization of Libya, potential peace and reconstruction (for which China is ready) in the whole area, peace in Asia.
President Trump’s policy of cooperating with Putin and with Xi of China is courageous. He is facing down what is essentially a British imperial policy establishment who insist the “sole superpower” can order around nuclear superpowers Russia and China, and all other nations, and “regime-change” whoever won’t obey. Trump’s having the nerve to fire a power-hungry FBI Director is also important.
What is not courageous, is the President’s inability to take any steps against Wall Street, toward carrying out the economic recovery policies on which he ran. Rather, Wall Street, led by the likes of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, is running all over him.
The American people demand a Glass-Steagall breakup of Wall Street’s megabanks, before the next financial blowout, now likely this Fall. A Hamiltonian national credit institution for new economic infrastructure can’t be postponed any more; critical but decrepit infrastructure systems are breaking down even without hurricanes or floods. Repair will not suffice: Technologically and scientifically new infrastructure platforms are needed, such as high-speed and maglev rail systems, research into fusion power technologies — such as China is building across the expanding New Silk Road! And the “driver” of such progress must again be NASA, the expanding exploration of space.
The President can’t organize this alone. The American people have to organize for the “four laws” formulated by Lyndon LaRouche, and for the United States to join that New Silk Road.
President Trump is fighting the British imperial policy, and it is British intelligence which launched “Russiagate” against him a year ago and has driven the Congressional leadership into McCarthyite madness.
But neither he, nor either party in Congress, is fighting Wall Street. That is up to the rest of us, and it can’t be delayed, or the next looming crash will wipe us out entirely.
by Barbara Boyd
The latest hot dummy bombshell directed at the U.S. population about President Trump concerns— hold your breath—the fact that Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner met for 20 minutes soon after Trump won the Republican nomination with a Russian lawyer who, it was claimed, would offer damning information on Hillary Clinton’s illicit Russian contacts. As Trump Jr. noted, why wouldn’t he be interested in such information about Clinton, if it was true, in the midst of the Presidential campaign? In short, the “hot” bombshell is a very smelly fraud.
Ah, but in the world of who is actually trying to steal the election by disposing of the duly elected President, Donald Trump, namely, the British, Obama’s intel chiefs, and the FBI, nothing is quite so simple and everything here positively reeks of a British/FBI entrapment attempt against the Trump Campaign. The motive remains consistent: blow the world up, if necessary, to prevent the consolidation of a positive relationship between the United States, Russia, and China as proposed by Presidents Trump, Xi, and Putin. It is completely corrupt, cowardly, and insane that the Democratic Party, the Party of John F. Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt now says it is “treasonous,” for Putin and Trump to stop the genocide in Syria and the Middle East in order to save lives. They say it is treasonous to seek peace. The Republicans, with few exceptions, still reek of the Bush family legacy and have always been controlled by the City of London and Wall Street. It’s well past time for the American people to say enough—back off. If you don’t do so, you won’t be in Washington come 2018.
We face a collapse of infrastructure throughout the country, a population which has been devastated by drugs and mental collapse — all based on the fact that Wall Street has been allowed, through two presidencies, to completely loot the economy. Financial experts point to a bubble in corporate debt which could collapse at any moment, producing devastating chaos unless Glass-Steagall is in place. Trump has set the basis for solving this by collaborating with Russia and China to ensure peace. China’s One Belt, One Road project provides a model for investment and thousands of productive U.S. jobs and the U.S. is negotiating its role in this grand design right now. To facilitate recovery, Congress should be debating and passing LaRouche’s Four Laws for Economic Recovery. Instead, what we are hearing from Washington most emanates from the corrupt alliance of many politicians with Wall Street and the City of London whose dominance has been effectively challenged. There is an old farmer’s saying in the MidWest: “A stuck pig squeals.” Others, who know better, are indulging their cowardice.
The meeting at the center of the present “scandal” took place in June 2016, when, it is to be recalled, Hillary Clinton, had already hired British agent Christopher Steele to produce a totally fake dossier on Trump which cited sources “deep within and at the highest levels of the Russian government.” The FBI and Clinton were about to blame Russia for the DNC email hacks. The Steele dossier from Britain was in addition to Clinton’s admitted use of the intelligence services of Ukraine and Estonia in her efforts to smear Trump. As the Clinton case shows, along with numerous other foreign forays by other presidential campaigns, there is no law against obtaining information from foreign governments and there is no law concerning “collusion,” NONE WHATSOEVER, despite today’s TV lawyer fantasies to the contrary.
There are laws, however, against governments trying to entrap and falsely prosecute presidential candidates. Here is the “come hither” email for the meeting, as released by Donald Trump Jr.: “The crown prosecutor of Russia met with [Emin’s] father Aras this morning and . . . offered to provide official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia… as part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.” (Emphasis supplied.) If this very awkwardly worded and planted setup note wasn’t dictated by British intelligence or the FBI, then sue me.
Emin is an Azerbaijani pop star, Aras is his real estate developer father, both of whom got to know Trump when the 2013 Miss Universe pageant was held in Moscow. The email writer is one Ron Goldstone, a British former tabloid writer and publicist for Emin. Goldstone’s Facebook and Instagram accounts reveal him to be a single, obese, and infantile personality wearing a T-Shirt prominently labeled “Russia” in case you missed the point. Goldstone was living in New York at the time. According to veteran intelligence analyst Pat Lang, the New York Times states that three people other than Trump Jr. or Goldstone leaked this private email chain between two U.S. residents to the Times for its Monday story. Since it’s a private email chain in the U.S., it was probably collected under FISA and its leaking to the Times is a felony. Lang believes Susan Rice, or John Brennan, or James Comey are good targets for prosecution based on this leak. Both Emin and Aras were well known to British intelligence based on their 2013 dealings with Trump. Aras appears in the Steele dossier, and both were featured as Trump “Russian” confidants by the Washington Post in an article at the same time —June, 2016.
At the meeting, Trump Jr. and friends met with one Natalia Veselnitskaya who was not the “crown prosecutor of Russia.” This position does not exist. Instead, many years ago she was a junior Russian prosecutor, having left the government long since for private practice. She was, at the time of the meeting, representing Denis Katsyv, who had been sued by the U.S. Department of Justice in the Southern District of New York. She had been denied a visa, had been paroled into the U.S. for purposes of the lawsuit, and was under observation by the FBI. Also involved in the defense of Denis Katzyv and Prevezon Holdings was the U.S. lawfirm BakerHostetler and the “investigative firm” Fusion GPS which, of course, was the employer of Christopher Steele and shopper of the dodgy dossier. Veselnitskaya offered in a statement Tuesday that she never offered Russian government information about Clinton (Russia has its own espionage laws) but perhaps the Trumps were “longing” for such.
According to all concerned the meeting went nowhere and Veselnitskaya spoke nonsense. So, failed British/FBI entrapment attempt, a negative nothing burger. But, it was, clearly, an entrapment attempt by British and/or FBI operatives against a Presidential candidate and the planted email evidence has been used to light things up again in the wake of the Trump/Putin meeting.
The lawsuit which got Veselnitskaya to the U.S. is, itself, a twisted British/FBI intelligence saga. A product of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (funded by Geoge Soros and USAID) and British intelligence asset Bill Browder, it sought forfeiture of Katsyv’s properties in New York, claiming that they were bought as the result of money laundered to Katzyv from a massive tax fraud in Russia allegedly involving “individuals close to Putin.” The fraud was allegedly discovered by Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitzky who died in a Russian prison. Magnitzky worked for Hermitage Capital. Hermitage Capital was a joint vehicle for the notorious Edmond Safra, now deceased, and Browder, son of Earl Browder, former head of the CPUSA. Browder renounced his U.S. citizenship, moved to Britain, and with Safra began investing huge sums to loot the former Soviet Union. He was later banned from Russia on security grounds and has become a leading British anti-Putin fanatic, claiming he is Putin’s foremost opponent. A documentary about Browder and Magnitsky, and the U.S. and European Magnitsky Act sanctions against Russia by Andrei Nekrasov, a prominent critic of Russia and Putin, was effectively banned in the U.S. and Europe because it concluded that Browder was the fraudster and that Magnitsky was not abused by Russian authorities.
The sense of the present moment was addressed by Helga Zepp-LaRouche yesterday morning, after she participated in a Schiller Institute event in Berlin which featured Zhang Weiwei, well known for his 2012 best-seller, The China Wave: Rise of a Civilizational State. She said that the nature of the current extraordinary period is that it is wide open for us to put on the agenda what must be done in the West: collaborate with the AIIB and join the New Silk Road. Put the LaRouche Four Laws into effect in the United States. We can win this battle. We are in it to win—you can tell this by the freak-out!
“Freak-out” precisely describes the latest color-revolution stunt against the U.S. Presidency, to blame Donald Trump, Jr. for a 20-minute, 2016 meeting with a Russian attorney, which charge is repeating non-stop on U.S. media, as a crime. In fact, the incident smells to high heaven of a failed entrapment ploy run by the British and the FBI. Playing it up now is for the purpose — besides being a bogus “legalistic” attack on President Trump — of disgusting and de-mobilizing the American population.
We have to move, as Zepp-LaRouche said in Berlin, with the power of the assumption that we can win the day. Invoke the divine spark in people. It is a “Shelley” moment, in which people are capable of “the power of communicating and receiving intense and impassioned conceptions respecting man and nature.”
An important meeting occurred Sunday in Beijing. The Syrian Ambassador to China, and others, discussed China’s involvement in reconstruction for Syria. Reports are out today that a delegation of Chinese business leaders is expected to visit Syria from August 15-22, to see about what projects can be started immediately. Primarily focused on energy supplies, they will look at Damascus, Aleppo and Homs. The state-owned giant China Energy Engineering Corporation and China Construction Fifth Engineering Division Corporation will be in the group. There is a plan under discussion to create a Chinese-Syrian industrial park for 150 companies, creating 40,000 jobs.
There have been prior delegations in Syria, but the new re-building impetus comes directly as a result of the new Russian-United States ceasefire deal in Southwest Asia concluded last week at the meeting between Putin and Trump.
There is no time to lose. The suffering and devastation is huge. A new report out this week gives the latest quantification of the horrors in effect in Yemen, because of the London/Saudi/U.S. atrocities. The worst cholera outbreak in the world is now occurring there, with over 297,000 cases since April, and many deaths. Over 7 million people need emergency food relief, which is not forthcoming.
We are called to make a new future. This pertains to the nature of modern China, as explained by author Zhang today in Berlin. He said that China is not an ordinary country, but is a “civilizational” state, with a 5,000 year history. The model of China today, is that it is ideas that determine the system, not the reverse, as occurs in the West. You decide what to do, based on the future. You decide what future you want, and you invent the system to get there.
The historic meetings of President Trump with President Putin, and then with President Xi Jinping, on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Hamburg, have set in motion a new potential power in the world — not a geopolitical power to impose itself on others, but a power for the Good, bringing nations together to advance their common humanity. While Trump and Putin are now working together to end the terrorist insurgency in Syria, and potentially across the Mideast, Trump and Xi Jinping have rededicated themselves to cooperation internationally as part of the New Silk Road.
This is viewed with horror by the enemies of peace, who are in a state of panic to sabotage the “new detente” (as one scholar put it) between the U.S. and Russia. The corrupt former CIA chief John Brennan railed that Trump proclaiming he was honored to meet President Putin was a “dishonorable thing to say.” Nikki Haley, despite the fact that she was appointed to be Permanent Representative to the UN by Trump, said after his productive and friendly meeting with President Putin that “we can’t trust Russia and we won’t ever trust Russia.”
Not ever? “Such venom is insane,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche said yesterday in a conference call with members of the EIR intelligence team. “We must engage in a dialogue of cultures. Each country is an entity, with a language and a culture. It may not be perfect, but it is made up of people, which make up humanity.” To say that we can never trust Russia, she added, “is worse than the KKK insisting that Black people should never have political rights. Each nation has a history, with periods of development and periods of decay, but nations are made up of human beings.”
Trump, she said, “has demonstrated that you can talk to people, both in the U.S. and in other nations, in a way that they do not feel they are being run over. We are in a situation where we can now fight for humanity as a whole.” The U.S.-China Comprehensive Economic Dialogue, scheduled to meet on July 19 to discuss the results of the “100 day plan” set in motion by Trump and Xi at the Mar-a-Lago Summit on April 6, “can demonstrate what a new economic reality can look like internationally,” Zepp-LaRouche said.
There is unquestionably an upsurge of anger in the U.S. at the attempt to overthrow President Trump, and at the Russophobia which is at the center of that effort. This anger can and must be turned into optimism, based on the fact that the new Russia-China-U.S. cooperation provides a basis for bringing the United States back to its historical role as a “Beacon of Hope” to the world, rather than its role under Bush and Obama as a tool of Wall Street austerity and British neo-colonial warfare.
Lyndon LaRouche, in the same conference call yesterday, said that to bring this to fruition, there must be a national movement, an organized process to deal with the ongoing breakdown of the nation’s financial institutions and the decrepit infrastructure of our nation. July 10, yesterday, was Day One of the “Summer from Hell,” as New York Governor Cuomo called it, as sections of the Penn Station rail hub for regional trains and the New York subway system are shut down for desperately overdue repair, setting off even greater chaos than what has become the normal course of de-railings, delays, and breakdowns throughout the system. Only a “New Silk Road”-style approach to rebuilding the New York transportation system, and the other decrepit infrastructure in New York and other American Cities, can reverse the cascading collapse now unfolding across the nation.
The necessary program is spelled out in LaRouche’s Four Laws: Glass-Steagall, national banking, directed credit for the physical economy, and the required science drivers centered on fusion power and the space program. The defense of Trump’s presidency and the consolidation of the partnership with Russia and China requires this national focus by a mobilized citizenry.
The G20 meeting held in Hamburg, Germany on July 7-8 did not produce anything resembling the kind of policy initiatives required to defeat the deadly crisis facing humanity, and the trans-Atlantic sector in particular. It did not address the global financial crisis, with its $1.5 quadrillion in bankrupt derivatives speculation. It did not discuss implementing a global Glass-Steagall policy, nor a Hamiltonian credit system, which alone can reverse the deadly collapse of the Western physical economies, as Lyndon LaRouche has conclusively shown in his Four Laws. Nor did it pose the issue of replacing geopolitics and war with a new approach to global relations. So in that sense, the G20 summit fell completely short of what it should have accomplished.
But a very positive outcome—in fact, breakthrough strategic progress—did emerge from that summit, largely as a result of a set of history-making bilateral meetings held on the sidelines of the summit, particularly the productive meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin—despite every effort by the British Empire and its American allies to stop it from happening.
It is highly significant that the Russian news agency TASS chose to feature the evaluation of Schiller Institute President Helga Zepp-LaRouche regarding that meeting of the two Presidents, in an article headlined “Expert View: Anti-Russia Campaign in U.S.A. Failed To Block Success of Putin-Trump Meeting,” which emphasized Zepp-LaRouche’s view that the two Presidents “have similar views in their non-acceptance of wars and interventions, and interference in other countries affairs.”
Sharing Zepp-LaRouche’s outlook, Russia-expert and prominent historian Stephen Cohen told Fox TV that the headline he would place on the Trump-Putin summit is: “Potentially historic new détente, anti-Cold War partnership begun by Trump and Putin, but meanwhile attempts to sabotage it escalate.” Cohen said Trump had been “politically courageous,” and that “maybe today we witnessed President Trump emerging as an American statesman.”
In a discussion with associates today, Helga Zepp-LaRouche recalled that Trump and China’s Xi Jinping had held a very successful meeting in Mar-a-Lago back in April; and that immediately prior to the G20 summit, there had been a strategic meeting between Xi Jinping and Putin in Moscow, which both sides characterized as the most important diplomatic event of the year, describing the relationship between their two countries as the best ever. Now, Zepp-LaRouche said, there has been a very promising first meeting between Trump and Putin. So if these three Presidents can indeed work together, the world will move a gigantic step forward, away from the abyss and in the direction of a New Paradigm.
Obviously, a lot of more work has to be done. The British Empire still has to be defeated. The Wall Street and City of London crowd—and their errand-boys in the Obama camp of the Democratic Party, and the Republican neo-cons—can be counted on to go ballistic over their failure to stop the Trump-Putin summit, and escalate their campaign to overthrow the Trump government. There is the danger of provoked wars in numerous theaters across the planet. But victory is within view.
Zepp-LaRouche called on the LaRouche movement internationally to escalate our campaign to put those issues on the agenda which the G20 summit officially evaded: namely LaRouche’s Four Laws, and for the U.S. and Europe to officially and fully join the Belt and Road Initiative. Get people to move behind us, as the source of the decisive ideas which are driving this process forward.
As the scheduled summit on Friday between Presidents Trump and Putin draws near, there is great potential for a breakout from the British-orchestrated drive to sabotage cooperation between Russia and the United States. Yet, as Helga Zepp-LaRouche warned today, this is no time for complacency — “Everything can fall into place, or could fall apart.” The North Korean situation is being driven to the brink and blamed on China, while the British are manufacturing fake-news of a chemical attack in Syria and blaming it on Russia. The issue of war or peace is immediately before us.
The British, and the neo-cons in both the Republican and Democratic parties in the U.S., cheered on by the lying media, want to take the U.S. back to the Obama-projectory for war with Russia and China. The level of hysteria and desperation in campaign to bring down the President was displayed today in the press conference between President Trump and Polish President Andrzej Duda following their meeting in Warsaw, when a reporter tried to trap Trump, saying: “Answer yes or no, did Russia interfere in the U.S. election?” Trump rose to the occasion, saying, in paraphrase: “It could have been Russia, and it could have been other countries. I think it has been going on for many years.”
Trump did not mention the British, but, of course, he is quite familiar with the scurrilous dossier of lies prepared by MI6 agent Christopher Steele (on the payroll of British assets in both the Republican and Democratic parties, and possibly also by Mr. Comey’s FBI), painting Trump as a dupe to the Russians, blackmailed and controlled by Putin.
Pressed by the degenerate journalist, who said that the U.S. intelligence community blaming it squarely on the Russians, Trump responded, accurately, that the intelligence community and the journalist’s fellow reporters were recently exposed as peddling fake news in claiming that “all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies agreed” that it was the Russians, and that the media had been forced to admit they were wrong, on this and several other fake news stories regarding Russia. “Remember Iraq?” Trump asked. “Everyone agreed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, 100% agreement, and they were wrong, and we ended up in one big mess.”
Secretary Tillerson, on his way to the G20 meeting which starts Friday, told the press that the most important part of the Trump-Putin summit Friday “is to have a good exchange between President Trump and President Putin over what they both see as the nature of this relationship between our two countries.” He noted that in Syria, “We began an effort … to rebuild confidence between ourselves and Russia at the military level, but also at the diplomatic level. I think this is an effort that serves both of our interests, as well as the broader interests of the international community.”
Trump will also be meeting with Xi Jinping on Friday. He has already stated publicly that he wants America to cooperate with China in the Belt and Road Initiative, the New Silk Road. At the same time, a large group of China’s leading agricultural experts will be speaking at an event in Manhattan on Friday, co-sponsored by the Schiller Institute, together with Helga Zepp-LaRouche and a number of leading American farmers and agriculturalists, on the urgency of global cooperation to meet the growing crisis of hunger in the world. The FAO reported this week that the number of malnourished people in the world was again rising, demonstrating the need for cooperation to expand the science and technology needed to feed every citizen of the world.
Trump has pledged to end “regime change” wars, to work with Russia in defeating terrorism, and to work with China on the New Silk Road. He has also pledged to implement Glass-Steagall, to end Wall Street’s gambling operations and return to the American System of Hamiltonian directed credit for the physical economy and the general welfare. Will he do it? This question will be significantly clarified by the historic events of the coming days.
There is a sense of the world being ‘in suspense’ right now, pending the events of the July 7-8 meeting of the Group of 20 in Hamburg, Germany. This is certainly not because there are grounds for presuming a miracle will drop from the sky to save the day. The likelihood is for a formal papering-over of rotten splits and policies. But there are individuals and powers in action, to force a change for the good.
There is no time to lose; dangers are great. As Russian President Vladimir Putin said recently at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, “we must not—have no right to—waste our efforts and time on squabbles, feuds and geopolitical games.” This was cited last Friday by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at a Moscow event (the Primakov Forum), who warned, “What we need are wise and balanced approaches…”
This is urgent right now, regarding the situation with North Korea, where the U.N. Security Council was meeting yesterday, under the chairmanship of China. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Putin just recently mandated their Foreign Ministers to issue a policy statement on what to do towards a good resolution.
President Xi is doing his part in the countdown to the Group of 20. In Germany, on July 4, he released a signed article, carried in the mainstream media, titled, “To Make the World a Better Place.” This came in advance of his meeting yesterday with Chancellor Angela Merkel and other German leaders. Xi stated that the “Belt and Road Forum for international Cooperation, recently held in Beijing, is aimed at stepping up the synergy of development strategies and connectivity” among nations, and that, “It chimes with the theme of this year’s Hamburg Summit, ‘Shaping an Interconnected World.’ The Belt and Road Initiative and G20 cooperation could complement and reinforce each other…” Xi said that China hopes to work with all parties at the Hamburg Summit for global growth.
In Xinhua’s Chinese-language coverage of the ensuing hot debate in Germany over Xi’s remarks, Helga Zepp-LaRouche was quoted, described as, “Germany’s well-known Schiller Institute think tank chairman and founder.” She strongly endorsed Xi’s efforts to build a “community of common destiny,” and she, too, stressed the importance of the BRI International Cooperation Summit. Further, Zepp-LaRouche said, “The development of Africa is one of the important issues of the G-20 Summit. China has really solved the refugee problem at the source, through investment and construction of railways, dams, power stations, industiral parks and training of the African labor force. If Europe wants to solve the refugee crisis in a humane way, it should be involved in ‘building all the way.'” (Translated roughly from the Xinhua news wire, which has also appeared in Sina, on CGTN, and on the site of the Chinese Ministry of Defense.)
The lack of action in the spirit of the the Belt and Road, is showing up dramatically in many situations. Look at New York City. On Monday, July 10, starts the “Summer of Agony,” when there will be planned outages of track at Penn Station, to make overdue repairs, but there is no overview plan for the entire region, nor associated contingency measures for the population. This time next week could be fraut with chaos, hysteria, and suffering.
Yet the Federal Department of Transportation just pulled its representative off the board of the “Gateway Project,” a program of merit, to build new crossings of the Hudson River between New Jersey and Manhattan. The proposed 2018 Federal budget also has no funding for Portal Bridge works, the lone Hackensack River crossing that handles all the north-south rail from New Jersey into Manhattan.
Internationally, look at the food situation. On July 3, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization released a statement that world hunger is on the rise. The emergency needs in Yemen, Nigeria, and South Sudan, and elsewhere, are the most severe since World War II.
On July 7, as the G20 opens, there will also be an international conference, co-sponsored by the Schiller Institute, in New York City, on “Food for Peace: The New Name For Peace Is Economic Development,” where participants, including diplomats, agriculture experts, and U.S. farm representatives, will confer on solving emergencies, and moving ahead to a world of food in abundance, and a “common destiny” of development. One farm organization leader’s conference statement says, “We have no idea of the wonderful advances ahead, if we get on track with deliberate development policies, and get off the track of the lies that we are to ‘trust the market forces…'”
The means to this are at hand: LaRouche’s “Four Laws.”
Helga Zepp-LaRouche had said that the July 4 Moscow summit of China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, would in effect be the first event of the forthcoming July 7-8 Group of 20 Summit. In fact, yesterday’s Moscow summit began the Group of 20 meetings on an incredibly high level. If the Group of 20 summit and its many side meetings could succeed in maintaining the high level of Presidents Xi’s and Putin’s meeting today, then the G20 leaders would have virtually insured a flourishing and peaceful future for humanity.
Putin, Xi and their delegations concluded numerous agreements—so numerous, in fact, that most of them seem not yet even to have been listed in English. But at the center of them, as President Putin noted, was the coordination of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) with the Belt and Road Initiative launched by China. Referring to the May 14-15 Belt and Road Initiative Forum in Beijing (at which Helga Zepp-LaRouche was a guest), President Putin said, “This initiative of the Chinese leader deserves the closest attention and will be supported by Russia in every possible way.”
President Xi noted that this was his sixth trip to Russia as President, and his third meeting with President Putin this year.
During a break between the meetings of the two delegations, President Putin awarded President Xi the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle, Russia’s highest decoration, inaugurated by Peter the Great in 1698. Putin said that he did this in recognition of Xi Jinping’s special services in the development of partnership, strategic cooperation, and also of friendship between the two states.
This award ceremony was a deeply personal moment which also lawfully brought out what was most universal between the two leaders. President Xi said that the present period is “probably the best period in the history of Chinese-Russian comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation.” He noted in different ways that the two are pursuing this partnership in the interests of not only their own, but of all nations.
Then came the statement which many have found so remarkable—which has produced freakouts. The statement that they have left geopolitics completely behind them, as Helga Zepp-LaRouche has called for this for decades. On being presented the Order of St. Andrew, President Xi Jinping said, “Mr. Putin and I fully agree that Chinese-Russian relations must remain free of any external influence despite any changes on the international stage.”
Be sure that Lyndon LaRouche and also Gottfried Leibniz are smiling today.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche had said that the July 4 Moscow summit of China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, would in effect be the first event of the forthcoming July 7-8 Group of 20 Summit. In fact, yesterday’s Moscow summit began the Group of 20 meetings on an incredibly high level. If the Group of 20 summit and its many side meetings could succeed in maintaining the high level of Presidents Xi’s and Putin’s meeting today, then the G20 leaders would have virtually insured a flourishing and peaceful future for humanity.
Putin, Xi and their delegations concluded numerous agreements—so numerous, in fact, that most of them seem not yet even to have been listed in English. But at the center of them, as President Putin noted, was the coordination of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) with the Belt and Road Initiative launched by China. Referring to the May 14-15 Belt and Road Initiative Forum in Beijing (at which Helga Zepp-LaRouche was a guest), President Putin said, “This initiative of the Chinese leader deserves the closest attention and will be supported by Russia in every possible way.”
President Xi noted that this was his sixth trip to Russia as President, and his third meeting with President Putin this year.
During a break between the meetings of the two delegations, President Putin awarded President Xi the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle, Russia’s highest decoration, inaugurated by Peter the Great in 1698. Putin said that he did this in recognition of Xi Jinping’s special services in the development of partnership, strategic cooperation, and also of friendship between the two states.
This award ceremony was a deeply personal moment which also lawfully brought out what was most universal between the two leaders. President Xi said that the present period is “probably the best period in the history of Chinese-Russian comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation.” He noted in different ways that the two are pursuing this partnership in the interests of not only their own, but of all nations.
Then came the statement which many have found so remarkable—which has produced freakouts. The statement that they have left geopolitics completely behind them, as Helga Zepp-LaRouche has called for this for decades. On being presented the Order of St. Andrew, President Xi Jinping said, “Mr. Putin and I fully agree that Chinese-Russian relations must remain free of any external influence despite any changes on the international stage.”
Be sure that Lyndon LaRouche and also Gottfried Leibniz are smiling today.
The Carnegie Hall concert and symposium celebrating the work of Sylvia Olden Lee at the end of last week, and the upcoming Food for Peace conference at the end of this week, are the two LaRouche movement “bookends” providing conceptual leadership and programmatic direction, to what is shaping up as one of the most dramatic weeks of international diplomacy in recent history.
First, there is the July 4 summit meeting in Moscow between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, with expected results that have led both sides to characterize the meeting as “the event of the year.” They plan to consolidate coordination between China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union; they will open up new areas of scientific cooperation, including in the Arctic; and they intend to work closely together to combat terrorism, the drug trade, and other threats to global security.
As Helga Zepp-LaRouche noted today, the Xi-Putin summit is shaping up as the defining issue at this strategic conjuncture. The July 7-8 G20 meeting in Hamburg, on the other hand, is threatening to be more of a street carnival than a serious summit: U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble have teamed up to try to ban any discussion of serious financial reform, such as Glass-Steagall and Lyndon LaRouche’s Four Laws, which alone would give meaning to the G20 summit, and make the trans-Atlantic sector fit to join the Belt and Road Initiative.
But the so-called “sidelines” of the G20 summit are looking far more productive than the formal agenda that the Merkel government has set for the summit itself. The heads of state of China, Japan, South Korea, and of course the U.S., have scheduled multiple meetings on the sidelines of the summit. Russia’s Putin has scheduled no fewer than 11 bilateral meetings on the summit sidelines—and that is without counting his expected meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, the meeting which “is crucial and everybody has been waiting for,” in the words of Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov.
If the U.S., Russia, and China can work together, Helga Zepp-LaRouche commented, then there is a pathway out of the current breakdown crisis. That will require defusing the multiple provocations that the bankrupt British Empire is placing in their path—from Syria, to the South China Sea, to the Korean Peninsula—and they will have to address the breakdown financial crisis, which is the Sword of Damocles hanging over the West, with the only programmatic and conceptual tools that will work: those provided by Lyndon LaRouche.
Just as the week of American Independence Day started, the Chinese in Hong Kong celebrated the blessings of 20 years of real independence from the British Empire.
During those 20 years since the British reluctantly relinquished Hong Kong, it has become merely obvious to say, that China has made the most astonishing progress of any nation, by adopting the credit, infrastructure and productivity policies which once were called “the American System of economy.”
Now it is exporting that tremendous progress through the great projects of the Belt and Road Initiative, the “New Silk Road.”
The issue this week is whether the United States under President Donald Trump will join this process. Will we again adopt the American System of Hamilton, Washington, Lincoln, and of FDR, against what is still the British imperial system — free trade globalism, environmentalism, post-industrialism, wars to install and remove heads of state?
Trump is continuing to fight off the attempt to force him out of office which was begun 15 months ago by certain British intelligence “dossiers” against Russia. More broadly, the issue this week, going into the July 7-8 meeting of the G20 nations, is that same free trade/environmentalist policy still traced to British royal entities, which will be pushed by the European Union at the G20. The alternative is cooperation of the United States, China, Russia and India in scientific and economic progress and peace.
The President on Sunday night talked by phone with Prime Minister Abe of Japan and President Xi of China, who meets on Monday in Moscow with Russia’s President Putin. The next steps in the progressive reduction of war in Syria, whose refugees are starting to return home, will be taken in meetings July 4 and 5 involving Russian, United States and UN representatives. And President Trump should have bilateral “summits” with Xi, Abe, and Putin at the G20 meetings over July 7-8.
A new era of economic progress began with the 130-nation summit of the Belt and Road Initiative in Beijing in mid-May, an advance for which Lyndon and Helga LaRouche had organized for four decades. This new economic order vastly increases the potential for Trump’s United States to return to the American System and “make America great again.”
The policy shift, and the American System, are embodied in LaRouche’s “Four Laws” on bank separation, national bank credit, expansion of the space exploration and fusion energy frontiers.
The Schiller Institute, the China Energy Fund Committee, and the Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture will hold a crucial conference, “Food for Peace: The New Name for Peace Is Economic Development,” in New York on July 7, during the two days the G20 are meeting in Hamburg.
There is great potential this week, but also considerable danger from strategic confrontations and even new acts of war. Every effort and support has to be thrown into the balance for real independence, and the American System of economy.
