Author: Alicia

“Putin Must Be Stopped. And Sometimes Only Guns Can Stop Guns,” wrote Oxford University’s Timothy Garton Ash in the London Guardian on Monday.

“Diplomacy’s time will come again, but it is not now…. Ukraine needs modern defensive weapons to counter Russia’s modern offensive ones.”

Since the European Union is too divided to step up to that task, “it is now up to President Obama to determine the timing and composition of those supplies.” If that occurs, other NATO countries would also arm Ukrainian forces, on an individual basis, he wrote.

So much for the pretense that “color revolutions” are not simply another form of military warfare, as Russian military doctrine now recognizes. Garton Ash is not simply the latest voice to endorse the war program issued this afternoon by the Atlantic Council, etc. in Washington, D.C.; he is one of the top strategists of Oxford University’s “color revolution” project behind the notorious Gene Sharp. (See EIR‘s explosive Feb. 3, 2012 dossier, “Destabilizing Russia: The ‘Democracy’ Agenda of McFaul and His Oxford Masters.”)

On cue, the Wall Street-Confederate New York Times joined the war drive by Tony Blair’s “liberal interventionist” squadristi, with a front-page story Monday making its case that a “shift” is underway in the Obama administration towards providing “defensive” weapons and equipment to Kiev. National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan confirmed that the administration Obama-ites are preparing to give the go-ahead to crossing this tripwire for war with Russia, telling the Times that

“although our focus remains on pursuing a solution through diplomatic means, we are always evaluating other options that will help create space for a negotiated solution to the crisis.”

Senior administration officials, all unnamed, assured the notoriously-lying Times that Secretary of State John Kerry and Susan Rice are “open” to providing “lethal” aid to Ukraine, as is NATO military commander, U.S. Gen. Philip Breedlove. An unnamed “Pentagon official” is also cited, claiming Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, and JCS Vice Chairman Adm. James Winnefeld—who had adamantly rejected such madness—now believe the weapons policy should be reconsidered.

Wartime propaganda is a British specialty, as Garton Ash declared in concluding his “guns to stop Putin” rant. He called for BBC’s Russian- and Ukrainian-language services to gear up their anti-Putin propaganda, with the British government footing the bill, bragging:

“The U.S. may have the best drones in the world, and Germany the best machine tools, but Britain has the best international broadcaster.”

Barack Obama stated matter-of-factly to CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria in a Sunday interview that the United States had installed Arseniy Yatsenyuk—Victoria Nuland’s infamous “Yats”—in power in Ukraine in February 2014 (“…Yanukovych then fleeing after we’d brokered a deal to transition power in Ukraine”). An astounding, if not surprising admission from a U.S. President.

That admission came within a blustering, lying, threatening rant against Russian President Vladimir Putin, which ominously made reference to possible activation of NATO’s Article 5 collective defense clause against Russia, in discussing U.S. military deployment into NATO states which border on Russia, and complaining that “dissent,” protesting thousands, has been “quelled.”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answer to Obama’s tirade, delivered in a press conference in Beijing following meetings with his counterparts of the two Asian giants, India and China, was featured on Russian national TV last night, punctuated with an image and quotations from the Atlantic Council war plan released yesterday in Washington, as well as images of Obama talking to CNN.

Lavrov was asked about Obama’s statement that the United States “facilitated the change in regime in Ukraine.” Lavrov answered:

Lavrov added that Russia is convinced—

He again called for “Western colleagues” to stop supporting every action by the Kiev regime.

Barack Obama stated matter-of-factly to CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria in a Sunday interview that the United States had installed Arseniy Yatsenyuk—Victoria Nuland’s infamous “Yats”—in power in Ukraine in February 2014 (“…Yanukovych then fleeing after we’d brokered a deal to transition power in Ukraine”). An astounding, if not surprising admission from a U.S. President.

That admission came within a blustering, lying, threatening rant against Russian President Vladimir Putin, which ominously made reference to possible activation of NATO’s Article 5 collective defense clause against Russia, in discussing U.S. military deployment into NATO states which border on Russia, and complaining that “dissent,” protesting thousands, has been “quelled.”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answer to Obama’s tirade, delivered in a press conference in Beijing following meetings with his counterparts of the two Asian giants, India and China, was featured on Russian national TV tonight, punctuated with an image and quotations from the Atlantic Council war plan released today in Washington, as well as images of Obama talking to CNN.

Lavrov was asked about Obama’s statement that the United States “facilitated the change in regime in Ukraine.” Lavrov answered:

Lavrov added that Russia is convinced—

He again called for “Western colleagues” to stop supporting every action by the Kiev regime.

In its latest issue The Economist — the publication which often speaks for the City of London banks — reports that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) “has indicated that there would be a new bailout package for Ukraine,” the second such loan package in less than a year. Moreover, The Economist itself editorializes that the package must be big:

This is the very figure proposed two months ago by financier George Soros, who stridently declared “Europe is at war,” and demanded that Ukraine get $20 billion to fight Russia.

Not only that, The Economist says that the Kiev regime now admits it can’t pay its existing debts, so it must have a writedown or writeoff of debt:

The contrast with the current London-enforced European hard line against any debt relief for Greece, could not be more shocking. The new Greek government has proposed a European Debt Conference to consider the debts which the most-indebted “peripheral” countries of the European Union obviously cannot pay. It proposes the principles of the 1953 agreement on German debt, which wrote off 60% of then-existing German loans and helped unlock the “German economic miracle” which followed.

The answer to Greece from the same IMF, the European Central Bank, and the major European countries, has been no to debt relief.

Ukraine is to get $20 billion and debt relief to fight Vladimir Putin’s Russia, as Soros made crystal clear. Greece is denied debt relief to recover and develop its economy.

This is London imperial policy. The cynicism involved would be repulsive even if it did not involve the threat of triggering a global thermonuclear war.

But the policy also triggers a breakup of the Eurozone — and, it is being fought by a growing anti-austerity mass movement in a number of European countries. The BRICS — specifically China — are offering credit, investment, and construction of infrastructure in Greece and the Balkans regardless of debt relief or no, return to the drachma or no.

The mass movement for the Silk Road may defeat the London movement for self-extinction.

In its latest issue The Economist — the publication which often speaks for the City of London banks — reports that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) “has indicated that there would be a new bailout package for Ukraine,” the second such loan package in less than a year. Moreover, The Economist itself editorializes that the package must be big:

This is the very figure proposed two months ago by financier George Soros, who stridently declared “Europe is at war,” and demanded that Ukraine get $20 billion to fight Russia.

Not only that, The Economist says that the Kiev regime now admits it can’t pay its existing debts, so it must have a writedown or writeoff of debt:

The contrast with the current London-enforced European hard line against any debt relief for Greece, could not be more shocking. The new Greek government has proposed a European Debt Conference to consider the debts which the most-indebted “peripheral” countries of the European Union obviously cannot pay. It proposes the principles of the 1953 agreement on German debt, which wrote off 60% of then-existing German loans and helped unlock the “German economic miracle” which followed.

The answer to Greece from the same IMF, the European Central Bank, and the major European countries, has been no to debt relief.

Ukraine is to get $20 billion and debt relief to fight Vladimir Putin’s Russia, as Soros made crystal clear. Greece is denied debt relief to recover and develop its economy.

This is London imperial policy. The cynicism involved would be repulsive even if it did not involve the threat of triggering a global thermonuclear war.

But the policy also triggers a breakup of the Eurozone — and, it is being fought by a growing anti-austerity mass movement in a number of European countries. The BRICS — specifically China — are offering credit, investment, and construction of infrastructure in Greece and the Balkans regardless of debt relief or no, return to the drachma or no.

The mass movement for the Silk Road may defeat the London movement for self-extinction.

We are in a crisis period. The crisis has a twofold significance. First is, it is a crisis, it’s a major crisis globally. We’re on the threat of thermonuclear war. The second crisis is the blindness of people in the United States and to some degree, a lesser degree in Europe. People do not understand reality. Lyndon LaRouche, LPAC Policy Committee Feb. 2

What can have made Barack Obama declare he’s thinking of pulling Ukraine de facto into NATO and arming Kiev for war against Russia? And suicidally putting U.S. arms and military personnel into six other countries on Russia’s border, under NATO Article 5 as he said, which requires the United States to defend those countries as if itself.

Does Obama think he’s going to provoke a war and win it, against Russia, with a NATO “forward brigade”?

Obama is pushed along this crazy path by a group of former administration has-beens, acting through the Atlantic Council and Brookings Institution, who put out a report Feb. 1 demanding the U.S. and NATO arm the Kiev government for war against Russia. Media editorials and articles are beating this drum from the British daily press to the New York Times, which claims that the opposition of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff has been suppressed.

Starting a war with Russia on the strategic basis of a six-page report by a gaggle of former government officials? Michele Flournoy, Ivo Daalder, Strobe Talbott, James Stavridis …. remember the names. Timothy Garton Ash of Oxford, planner of “color revolutions” against allies of Russia and China, who writes “Putin must be stopped with guns” in the London Guardian. Call them “the self-extinction movement.”

If they succeed in provoking Russia and China to war, they’ll bring an end to human life on this planet — all of us. Are they clinically insane? The answer is that Wall Street, and the City of London financial powers, insist on this war policy, because they are bankrupt. Their bankruptcy comes from two decades of unbridled speculative bubbles and crashes, retarding and ruining the trans-Atlantic economies while the BRICS — particularly China — developed theirs apace and took scientific leadership of space exploration.

Now the megabankers insist on financial warfare against BRICS-allied nations, provocations, even the threat of thermonuclear war against Russia and China, to force them to let London and Wall Street continue to run the world.

Proof? The Kiev regime in Ukraine is now being offered a second IMF package of loans in one year, and The Economist — which speaks for the City of London banks — demands that it be a $20 billion package, and write-off of previous loans Ukraine admits it can’t pay.

The same banks, the same IMF, the same London-allied political leaders like Cameron, Mrs. Merkel and Obama, refuse — with a furious hard line — the same debt relief to Greece.

Kiev is to get the $20 billion loans and debt writeoff to go to full-out war with Russia. The Greek government, publicly opposed to the sanctions against Russia, is to be refused debt relief to develop its economy — even if this refusal means, as it does, breaking up the so-called Eurozone.

Wall Street and the City ARE clinically insane.

The BRICS-allied nations have their own movement, a “mass movement for development,” as Indian Prime Minister Modi calls it. A movement to rebuild the Silk Road, to bring fusion power fuel from the Moon. China has directly asked the United States to join the new international development banks of the BRICS and jointly create the credit and construction of this economic development.

That is the choice we must make. As Lyndon LaRouche concluded his discussion with the LPAC Policy Committee yesterday:

Sign the Petition to end Geopolitics and for the U.S. to Join the BRICS

We are in a crisis period. The crisis has a twofold significance. First is, it is a crisis, it’s a major crisis globally. We’re on the threat of thermonuclear war. The second crisis is the blindness of people in the United States and to some degree, a lesser degree in Europe. People do not understand reality. Lyndon LaRouche, LPAC Policy Committee Feb. 2

What can have made Barack Obama declare he’s thinking of pulling Ukraine de facto into NATO and arming Kiev for war against Russia? And suicidally putting U.S. arms and military personnel into six other countries on Russia’s border, under NATO Article 5 as he said, which requires the United States to defend those countries as if itself.

Does Obama think he’s going to provoke a war and win it, against Russia, with a NATO “forward brigade”?

Obama is pushed along this crazy path by a group of former administration has-beens, acting through the Atlantic Council and Brookings Institution, who put out a report Feb. 1 demanding the U.S. and NATO arm the Kiev government for war against Russia. Media editorials and articles are beating this drum from the British daily press to the New York Times, which claims that the opposition of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff has been suppressed.

Starting a war with Russia on the strategic basis of a six-page report by a gaggle of former government officials? Michele Flournoy, Ivo Daalder, Strobe Talbott, James Stavridis …. remember the names. Timothy Garton Ash of Oxford, planner of “color revolutions” against allies of Russia and China, who writes “Putin must be stopped with guns” in the London Guardian. Call them “the self-extinction movement.” If they succeed in provoking Russia and China to war, they’ll bring an end to human life on this planet — all of us. Are they clinically insane?

The answer is that Wall Street, and the City of London financial powers, insist on this war policy, because they are bankrupt. Their bankruptcy comes from two decades of unbridled speculative bubbles and crashes, retarding and ruining the trans-Atlantic economies while the BRICS — particularly China — developed theirs apace and took scientific leadership of space exploration.

Now the megabankers insist on financial warfare against BRICS-allied nations, provocations, even the threat of thermonuclear war against Russia and China, to force them to let London and Wall Street continue to run the world.

Proof? The Kiev regime in Ukraine is now being offered a second IMF package of loans in one year, and The Economist — which speaks for the City of London banks — demands that it be a $20 billion package, and write-off of previous loans Ukraine admits it can’t pay.

The same banks, the same IMF, the same London-allied political leaders like Cameron, Mrs. Merkel and Obama, refuse — with a furious hard line — the same debt relief to Greece.

Kiev is to get the $20 billion loans and debt writeoff to go to full-out war with Russia. The Greek government, publicly opposed to the sanctions against Russia, is to be refused debt relief to develop its economy — even if this refusal means, as it does, breaking up the so-called Eurozone.

Wall Street and the City ARE clinically insane.

The BRICS-allied nations have their own movement, a “mass movement for development,” as Indian Prime Minister Modi calls it. A movement to rebuild the Silk Road, to bring fusion power fuel from the Moon. China has directly asked the United States to join the new international development banks of the BRICS and jointly create the credit and construction of this economic development.

That is the choice we must make.

Sign the Petition to end Geopolitics and for the U.S. to Join the BRICS

Daily Telegraph columnist Liam Halligan, a firm proponent of Glass-Steagall who is normally measured and even understated in his commentary, penned an unusually agitated column on Jan. 31 over the Greek crisis.

“Greece and its official creditors are now issuing full- blooded threats and counter-threats regardless of the impact on financial markets… There is concern the Syriza-led coalition could take direct control of Greek lenders and write off billions of euros in household loans, destroying bank balance sheets in a frenzy of populist contractual vandalism.”

Lyndon LaRouche commented in response:

Halligan went on to warn that

“the current [greek] bail-out package expires at the end of February. After that, Greek banks won’t be able to borrow from the ECB—which would result in a bank run, a shut-down of depositors and almost certainly, widespread civic unrest. A new deal simply must be done by month-end.”

Halligan added that the new Tsipras government in Greece said it had not been consulted on the latest EU statement on Russian sanctions, and that it was therefore not “unanimous,” as reported.

“This amounts to a diplomatic hand grenade, lobbed directly at Brussels. EU sanctions against Russia will expire in March unless renewed by the unanimous decision of member states, giving Greece an effective veto.”

Halligan then concluded: “If these Greek debt negotiations go wrong, and positions become so entrenched and tempers unchecked that the madness of an outright default prevails, or even looks very likely, financial markets across the Eurozone and the entire world could endure a Lehman- style systemic lurch.”

Daily Telegraph columnist Liam Halligan, a firm proponent of Glass-Steagall who is normally measured and even understated in his commentary, penned an unusually agitated column on Jan. 31 over the Greek crisis.

“Greece and its official creditors are now issuing full- blooded threats and counter-threats regardless of the impact on financial markets… There is concern the Syriza-led coalition could take direct control of Greek lenders and write off billions of euros in household loans, destroying bank balance sheets in a frenzy of populist contractual vandalism.”

Lyndon LaRouche commented in response:

Halligan went on to warn that

“the current [greek] bail-out package expires at the end of February. After that, Greek banks won’t be able to borrow from the ECB—which would result in a bank run, a shut-down of depositors and almost certainly, widespread civic unrest. A new deal simply must be done by month-end.”

Halligan added that the new Tsipras government in Greece said it had not been consulted on the latest EU statement on Russian sanctions, and that it was therefore not “unanimous,” as reported.

“This amounts to a diplomatic hand grenade, lobbed directly at Brussels. EU sanctions against Russia will expire in March unless renewed by the unanimous decision of member states, giving Greece an effective veto.”

Halligan then concluded: “If these Greek debt negotiations go wrong, and positions become so entrenched and tempers unchecked that the madness of an outright default prevails, or even looks very likely, financial markets across the Eurozone and the entire world could endure a Lehman- style systemic lurch.”