Author: Spencer

Chinese Vice Premier Ma Kai met in Berlin on March 17th with German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble for the First High-Level Financial Dialogue, agreed upon a year ago during Xi Jinping’s visit to Germany, and their meeting resulted in a 21-point memorandum, which among other issues stresses cooperation against money-laundering and the concomitant financing of terrorism, as well as cooperation on banking control, renminbi-denominated deals, and, very important, the German commitment to become a founding member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Ma Kai is said to be staying in Germany, having begun his tour in Bavaria on March 16, for the entire week.

Their memorandum welcomes China’s hosting the G20 Summit in 2016, and the “G20 agenda of promoting productive investment.” Furthermore, it states: “Both sides will explore the possibility of investment cooperation in third countries in line with the interest of German and Chinese enterprises,” and, most important: “China and Germany agree that the AIIB as a new Investment Bank could play an important role to provide funds for infrastructure in Asia. Germany intends to join the AIIB as a prospective founding member. China welcomes this intention.” The AIIB, a release from the German Finance Ministry declares, “could play an important role to provide funds for addressing the large infrastructure needs in Asia…. The AIIB will thus promote economic and social development in the region and contribute to global growth.”

Lyndon LaRouche welcomed the German decision to join the AIIB, but cautioned that that step is not conclusive, because Germany’s overall policy has not been resolved. This can be seen in the German government’s terrible policy on the Greek situation, led by Finance Minister Schaeuble, whom LaRouche described as the pilot of the fraud on Greece.

Chinese Vice Premier Ma Kai met in Berlin on March 17th with German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble for the First High-Level Financial Dialogue, agreed upon a year ago during Xi Jinping’s visit to Germany, and their meeting resulted in a 21-point memorandum, which among other issues stresses cooperation against money-laundering and the concomitant financing of terrorism, as well as cooperation on banking control, renminbi-denominated deals, and, very important, the German commitment to become a founding member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Ma Kai is said to be staying in Germany, having begun his tour in Bavaria on March 16, for the entire week.

Their memorandum welcomes China’s hosting the G20 Summit in 2016, and the “G20 agenda of promoting productive investment.” Furthermore, it states: “Both sides will explore the possibility of investment cooperation in third countries in line with the interest of German and Chinese enterprises,” and, most important: “China and Germany agree that the AIIB as a new Investment Bank could play an important role to provide funds for infrastructure in Asia. Germany intends to join the AIIB as a prospective founding member. China welcomes this intention.” The AIIB, a release from the German Finance Ministry declares, “could play an important role to provide funds for addressing the large infrastructure needs in Asia…. The AIIB will thus promote economic and social development in the region and contribute to global growth.”

Lyndon LaRouche welcomed the German decision to join the AIIB, but cautioned that that step is not conclusive, because Germany’s overall policy has not been resolved. This can be seen in the German government’s terrible policy on the Greek situation, led by Finance Minister Schaeuble, whom LaRouche described as the pilot of the fraud on Greece.

Chinese Vice Premier Ma Kai met in Berlin on March 17th with German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble for the First High-Level Financial Dialogue, agreed upon a year ago during Xi Jinping’s visit to Germany, and their meeting resulted in a 21-point memorandum, which among other issues stresses cooperation against money-laundering and the concomitant financing of terrorism, as well as cooperation on banking control, renminbi-denominated deals, and, very important, the German commitment to become a founding member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Ma Kai is said to be staying in Germany, having begun his tour in Bavaria on March 16, for the entire week.

Their memorandum welcomes China’s hosting the G20 Summit in 2016, and the “G20 agenda of promoting productive investment.” Furthermore, it states: “Both sides will explore the possibility of investment cooperation in third countries in line with the interest of German and Chinese enterprises,” and, most important: “China and Germany agree that the AIIB as a new Investment Bank could play an important role to provide funds for infrastructure in Asia. Germany intends to join the AIIB as a prospective founding member. China welcomes this intention.” The AIIB, a release from the German Finance Ministry declares, “could play an important role to provide funds for addressing the large infrastructure needs in Asia…. The AIIB will thus promote economic and social development in the region and contribute to global growth.”

Lyndon LaRouche welcomed the German decision to join the AIIB, but cautioned that that step is not conclusive, because Germany’s overall policy has not been resolved. This can be seen in the German government’s terrible policy on the Greek situation, led by Finance Minister Schaeuble, whom LaRouche described as the pilot of the fraud on Greece.

The military exercises ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 16 continue at a high pace, involving a greater scale of Russian forces each day. Western media outlets are nearly hysterical about the deployment of Iskander missiles to Kaliningrad (via amphibious ships, according to Defense Ministry statements) and of nuclear-capable Tu-22M Backfire bombers to Crimea. In reporting on this, March 17th, Reuters notes that Moscow is refusing to even consider returning Crimea to Ukraine and is “militarizing” the Arctic while also militarily reinforcing Kaliningrad—and doing all of this despite U.S. economic sanctions, which State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki yesterday vowed would not be lifted.

Lyndon LaRouche commented yesterday that the deployment of the Iskanders to Kaliningrad was to be expected, and is permanent: just look at the map, he noted; it’s set. The Russians have stated their approach clearly and repeatedly. None of the recent maneuvers or statements are surprising; it’s what they have been saying they would do, LaRouche said.

Readers of EIR will recall that, in a dramatic Nov. 23, 2011, nationwide TV broadcast, then President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev had warned specifically, that, if the U.S. and NATO continued with their deployment of their missile defense system on Russia’s borders, “the Russian Federation will deploy modern offensive weapon systems in the west and south of the country, ensuring our ability to take out any part of the U.S. missile defense system in Europe. One step in this process will be to deploy Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad Region.” Medvedev then concluded: “We are open to a dialogue and we hope for a reasonable and constructive approach from our Western partners.”

In that broader sphere of strategic policy, Moscow again repeated its public warnings this week. Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov told a Moscow press conference on March 17th, “It seems to be unlikely to reach new agreements between Russia and the United States in the near future, if ever. Russia’s security now depends not only on the balance of strategic nuclear weapons of Russia and the United States. It depends on many other factors, such as U.S. global missile defense plans, the situation in the area of sea-based long-distance cruise missiles, and other types of long-distance high-precision systems.”

Similarly, Deputy Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Department on Security Affairs and Disarmament Vladimir Leontyev said last week:

As for Russia’s military exercises, in addition to the Iskander and Backfire bomber deployments, the Russian Defense Ministry reported today that at least one of the Delta IV-class nuclear ballistic missile submarines of the Northern Fleet also deployed and was visited by Chief of the General Staff Gen. Valeriy Gerasimov. The Defense Ministry said that “the results of the training confirmed that ballistic missile crews were ready to perform their combat tasks,” reports Sputnik News.

Other aspects of the exercises include the following, all reported by TASS:

• The Western Military District announced, today, that more than 20 ships of the Baltic Sea Fleet are engaged in anti- submarine and anti-aircraft drills.

• About 30 assault and attack helicopters from airfields in the Leningrad and Smolensk regions are being deployed to the Arctic.

• Paratroopers from Russia’s northwestern Pskov region have been put on high combat alert as part of the command and staff exercise. They will march to their airfields before being deployed to shooting ranges.

• 1,500 ground troops will be conducting live fire exercises at the Mulino training range, about 360 km east of Moscow, with T-72 tanks and BMP-2 fighting vehicles.

The military exercises ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 16 continue at a high pace, involving a greater scale of Russian forces each day. Western media outlets are nearly hysterical about the deployment of Iskander missiles to Kaliningrad (via amphibious ships, according to Defense Ministry statements) and of nuclear-capable Tu-22M Backfire bombers to Crimea. In reporting on this, March 17th, Reuters notes that Moscow is refusing to even consider returning Crimea to Ukraine and is “militarizing” the Arctic while also militarily reinforcing Kaliningrad—and doing all of this despite U.S. economic sanctions, which State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki yesterday vowed would not be lifted.

Lyndon LaRouche commented yesterday that the deployment of the Iskanders to Kaliningrad was to be expected, and is permanent: just look at the map, he noted; it’s set. The Russians have stated their approach clearly and repeatedly. None of the recent maneuvers or statements are surprising; it’s what they have been saying they would do, LaRouche said.

Readers of EIR will recall that, in a dramatic Nov. 23, 2011, nationwide TV broadcast, then President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev had warned specifically, that, if the U.S. and NATO continued with their deployment of their missile defense system on Russia’s borders, “the Russian Federation will deploy modern offensive weapon systems in the west and south of the country, ensuring our ability to take out any part of the U.S. missile defense system in Europe. One step in this process will be to deploy Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad Region.” Medvedev then concluded: “We are open to a dialogue and we hope for a reasonable and constructive approach from our Western partners.”

In that broader sphere of strategic policy, Moscow again repeated its public warnings this week. Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov told a Moscow press conference on March 17th, “It seems to be unlikely to reach new agreements between Russia and the United States in the near future, if ever. Russia’s security now depends not only on the balance of strategic nuclear weapons of Russia and the United States. It depends on many other factors, such as U.S. global missile defense plans, the situation in the area of sea-based long-distance cruise missiles, and other types of long-distance high-precision systems.”

Similarly, Deputy Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Department on Security Affairs and Disarmament Vladimir Leontyev said last week:

As for Russia’s military exercises, in addition to the Iskander and Backfire bomber deployments, the Russian Defense Ministry reported today that at least one of the Delta IV-class nuclear ballistic missile submarines of the Northern Fleet also deployed and was visited by Chief of the General Staff Gen. Valeriy Gerasimov. The Defense Ministry said that “the results of the training confirmed that ballistic missile crews were ready to perform their combat tasks,” reports Sputnik News.

Other aspects of the exercises include the following, all reported by TASS:

• The Western Military District announced, today, that more than 20 ships of the Baltic Sea Fleet are engaged in anti- submarine and anti-aircraft drills.

• About 30 assault and attack helicopters from airfields in the Leningrad and Smolensk regions are being deployed to the Arctic.

• Paratroopers from Russia’s northwestern Pskov region have been put on high combat alert as part of the command and staff exercise. They will march to their airfields before being deployed to shooting ranges.

• 1,500 ground troops will be conducting live fire exercises at the Mulino training range, about 360 km east of Moscow, with T-72 tanks and BMP-2 fighting vehicles.

The military exercises ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 16 continue at a high pace, involving a greater scale of Russian forces each day. Western media outlets are nearly hysterical about the deployment of Iskander missiles to Kaliningrad (via amphibious ships, according to Defense Ministry statements) and of nuclear-capable Tu-22M Backfire bombers to Crimea. In reporting on this, March 17th, Reuters notes that Moscow is refusing to even consider returning Crimea to Ukraine and is “militarizing” the Arctic while also militarily reinforcing Kaliningrad—and doing all of this despite U.S. economic sanctions, which State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki yesterday vowed would not be lifted.

Lyndon LaRouche commented yesterday that the deployment of the Iskanders to Kaliningrad was to be expected, and is permanent: just look at the map, he noted; it’s set. The Russians have stated their approach clearly and repeatedly. None of the recent maneuvers or statements are surprising; it’s what they have been saying they would do, LaRouche said.

Readers of EIR will recall that, in a dramatic Nov. 23, 2011, nationwide TV broadcast, then President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev had warned specifically, that, if the U.S. and NATO continued with their deployment of their missile defense system on Russia’s borders, “the Russian Federation will deploy modern offensive weapon systems in the west and south of the country, ensuring our ability to take out any part of the U.S. missile defense system in Europe. One step in this process will be to deploy Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad Region.” Medvedev then concluded: “We are open to a dialogue and we hope for a reasonable and constructive approach from our Western partners.”

In that broader sphere of strategic policy, Moscow again repeated its public warnings this week. Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov told a Moscow press conference on March 17th, “It seems to be unlikely to reach new agreements between Russia and the United States in the near future, if ever. Russia’s security now depends not only on the balance of strategic nuclear weapons of Russia and the United States. It depends on many other factors, such as U.S. global missile defense plans, the situation in the area of sea-based long-distance cruise missiles, and other types of long-distance high-precision systems.”

Similarly, Deputy Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Department on Security Affairs and Disarmament Vladimir Leontyev said last week:

As for Russia’s military exercises, in addition to the Iskander and Backfire bomber deployments, the Russian Defense Ministry reported today that at least one of the Delta IV-class nuclear ballistic missile submarines of the Northern Fleet also deployed and was visited by Chief of the General Staff Gen. Valeriy Gerasimov. The Defense Ministry said that “the results of the training confirmed that ballistic missile crews were ready to perform their combat tasks,” reports Sputnik News.

Other aspects of the exercises include the following, all reported by TASS:

• The Western Military District announced, today, that more than 20 ships of the Baltic Sea Fleet are engaged in anti- submarine and anti-aircraft drills.

• About 30 assault and attack helicopters from airfields in the Leningrad and Smolensk regions are being deployed to the Arctic.

• Paratroopers from Russia’s northwestern Pskov region have been put on high combat alert as part of the command and staff exercise. They will march to their airfields before being deployed to shooting ranges.

• 1,500 ground troops will be conducting live fire exercises at the Mulino training range, about 360 km east of Moscow, with T-72 tanks and BMP-2 fighting vehicles.

A LaRouchePAC team was on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., yesterday, bringing LaRouche’s statement on the historic significance of the interventions last week by the three statesmen, Schmidt, Steinmeier and O’Malley, to the attention of the members of Congress.

Some 20-30 congressmen and half a dozen senators were briefed directly, given copies of LaRouche’s article “On the Subject of Germany’s Role” and the LPAC pamphlet “Why The United States Must Join the BRICS”, which resonated with the debate which has now been sparked by the world-shaking decision by Germany, France, Italy, and Great Britain to join the Chinese-initiated Asia Infrastructure Investment Back (AIIB). Whereas prior to this week, most of these members of Congress had barely been aware of the offer by Chinese President Xi Jinping that the United States join the AIIB (let alone even knowing what the initials AIIB stood for) and would have been oblivious to the significance of this emerging new economic order emanating from the initiatives of China, they were now eager to discuss the implications of America’s four leading European allies announcing their realignment towards this Chinese initiative, in defiance of Barack Obama’s now disgraced attempts to suppress Western participation in the AIIB — a clinical example of the endemic incompetence of these members of congress who perpetually live in the world of yesterday’s “news” only to be caught flat-footed by those who rather act on the future as true leaders to make history.

The effect of Martin O’Malley’s interventions to reinvigorate the fight for Glass-Steagall was similar. Prior to this past week, members of Congress had let themselves be pulled into irrelevant side issues. But with the news of O’Malley’s intervention, even long-time supporters of Glass-Steagall were refocused and inspired to hear that someone was challenging the banal talking points of popular debate dominating the mass media’s coverage of the presidential election cycle and rather inserting the truth about the reality of the financial breakdown crisis, demanding focused and immediate action to restore Glass-Steagall, even at the expense of denouncing his own party for crawling into the pockets of Wall Street by becoming the party of “Dodd-Frank Lite.” The news of this initiative was generally well received — that is, except by Obama’s Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, who when briefed on O’Malley’s calls for Glass-Steagall and the developments pertaining to the AIIB, was rendered literally speechless by rage, realizing the impotence of the Obama administration to control the forward march of history.

A particularly significant response came from Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) at a luncheon sponsored by the Progressive Democrats of America, where he was speaking to the audience on what a disaster Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement will be for an already struggling US economy. LaRouchePAC’s Alicia Cerretani raised the obvious counterpoint to the “contain China” Asia pivot approach of the TPP, briefing the gathering on the BRICS revolution, the decision by the four leading European nations to join the AIIB, and Xi Jinping’s offer to the U.S. to join the BRICS, and urged Ellison and the entire Progressive Caucus to demand that the U.S. take up Xi Jinping’s offer and join the AIIB. Ellison concurred heartily, and said that he thought that it was something that the whole Progressive Caucus should take a stand on. He said that the Progressives have long advocated for an infrastructure investment bank in the U.S., but while it’s not been acted on by the United States, now the Chinese have taken the initiative.

Afterwards in discussion, Ellison reported that he’s been hearing a buzz about the AIIB over the last 24 hours and was very excited to receive the background material contained within the pamphlet “Why The U.S. Must Join BRICS”. Other members of the Progressive Democrats organization also engaged in extended conversation about the implications of the BRICS revolution, the growing list of endorsements for the Schiller Institute petition, the danger of war and the necessity of an immediate national mobilization for Glass-Steagall.

A LaRouchePAC team was on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., yesterday, bringing LaRouche’s statement on the historic significance of the interventions last week by the three statesmen, Schmidt, Steinmeier and O’Malley, to the attention of the members of Congress.

Some 20-30 congressmen and half a dozen senators were briefed directly, given copies of LaRouche’s article “On the Subject of Germany’s Role” and the LPAC pamphlet “Why The United States Must Join the BRICS”, which resonated with the debate which has now been sparked by the world-shaking decision by Germany, France, Italy, and Great Britain to join the Chinese-initiated Asia Infrastructure Investment Back (AIIB). Whereas prior to this week, most of these members of Congress had barely been aware of the offer by Chinese President Xi Jinping that the United States join the AIIB (let alone even knowing what the initials AIIB stood for) and would have been oblivious to the significance of this emerging new economic order emanating from the initiatives of China, they were now eager to discuss the implications of America’s four leading European allies announcing their realignment towards this Chinese initiative, in defiance of Barack Obama’s now disgraced attempts to suppress Western participation in the AIIB — a clinical example of the endemic incompetence of these members of congress who perpetually live in the world of yesterday’s “news” only to be caught flat-footed by those who rather act on the future as true leaders to make history.

The effect of Martin O’Malley’s interventions to reinvigorate the fight for Glass-Steagall was similar. Prior to this past week, members of Congress had let themselves be pulled into irrelevant side issues. But with the news of O’Malley’s intervention, even long-time supporters of Glass-Steagall were refocused and inspired to hear that someone was challenging the banal talking points of popular debate dominating the mass media’s coverage of the presidential election cycle and rather inserting the truth about the reality of the financial breakdown crisis, demanding focused and immediate action to restore Glass-Steagall, even at the expense of denouncing his own party for crawling into the pockets of Wall Street by becoming the party of “Dodd-Frank Lite.” The news of this initiative was generally well received — that is, except by Obama’s Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, who when briefed on O’Malley’s calls for Glass-Steagall and the developments pertaining to the AIIB, was rendered literally speechless by rage, realizing the impotence of the Obama administration to control the forward march of history.

A particularly significant response came from Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) at a luncheon sponsored by the Progressive Democrats of America, where he was speaking to the audience on what a disaster Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement will be for an already struggling US economy. LaRouchePAC’s Alicia Cerretani raised the obvious counterpoint to the “contain China” Asia pivot approach of the TPP, briefing the gathering on the BRICS revolution, the decision by the four leading European nations to join the AIIB, and Xi Jinping’s offer to the U.S. to join the BRICS, and urged Ellison and the entire Progressive Caucus to demand that the U.S. take up Xi Jinping’s offer and join the AIIB. Ellison concurred heartily, and said that he thought that it was something that the whole Progressive Caucus should take a stand on. He said that the Progressives have long advocated for an infrastructure investment bank in the U.S., but while it’s not been acted on by the United States, now the Chinese have taken the initiative.

Afterwards in discussion, Ellison reported that he’s been hearing a buzz about the AIIB over the last 24 hours and was very excited to receive the background material contained within the pamphlet “Why The U.S. Must Join BRICS”. Other members of the Progressive Democrats organization also engaged in extended conversation about the implications of the BRICS revolution, the growing list of endorsements for the Schiller Institute petition, the danger of war and the necessity of an immediate national mobilization for Glass-Steagall.

A LaRouchePAC team was on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., yesterday, bringing LaRouche’s statement on the historic significance of the interventions last week by the three statesmen, Schmidt, Steinmeier and O’Malley, to the attention of the members of Congress.

Some 20-30 congressmen and half a dozen senators were briefed directly, given copies of LaRouche’s article “On the Subject of Germany’s Role” and the LPAC pamphlet “Why The United States Must Join the BRICS”, which resonated with the debate which has now been sparked by the world-shaking decision by Germany, France, Italy, and Great Britain to join the Chinese-initiated Asia Infrastructure Investment Back (AIIB). Whereas prior to this week, most of these members of Congress had barely been aware of the offer by Chinese President Xi Jinping that the United States join the AIIB (let alone even knowing what the initials AIIB stood for) and would have been oblivious to the significance of this emerging new economic order emanating from the initiatives of China, they were now eager to discuss the implications of America’s four leading European allies announcing their realignment towards this Chinese initiative, in defiance of Barack Obama’s now disgraced attempts to suppress Western participation in the AIIB — a clinical example of the endemic incompetence of these members of congress who perpetually live in the world of yesterday’s “news” only to be caught flat-footed by those who rather act on the future as true leaders to make history.

The effect of Martin O’Malley’s interventions to reinvigorate the fight for Glass-Steagall was similar. Prior to this past week, members of Congress had let themselves be pulled into irrelevant side issues. But with the news of O’Malley’s intervention, even long-time supporters of Glass-Steagall were refocused and inspired to hear that someone was challenging the banal talking points of popular debate dominating the mass media’s coverage of the presidential election cycle and rather inserting the truth about the reality of the financial breakdown crisis, demanding focused and immediate action to restore Glass-Steagall, even at the expense of denouncing his own party for crawling into the pockets of Wall Street by becoming the party of “Dodd-Frank Lite.” The news of this initiative was generally well received — that is, except by Obama’s Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, who when briefed on O’Malley’s calls for Glass-Steagall and the developments pertaining to the AIIB, was rendered literally speechless by rage, realizing the impotence of the Obama administration to control the forward march of history.

A particularly significant response came from Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) at a luncheon sponsored by the Progressive Democrats of America, where he was speaking to the audience on what a disaster Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement will be for an already struggling US economy. LaRouchePAC’s Alicia Cerretani raised the obvious counterpoint to the “contain China” Asia pivot approach of the TPP, briefing the gathering on the BRICS revolution, the decision by the four leading European nations to join the AIIB, and Xi Jinping’s offer to the U.S. to join the BRICS, and urged Ellison and the entire Progressive Caucus to demand that the U.S. take up Xi Jinping’s offer and join the AIIB. Ellison concurred heartily, and said that he thought that it was something that the whole Progressive Caucus should take a stand on. He said that the Progressives have long advocated for an infrastructure investment bank in the U.S., but while it’s not been acted on by the United States, now the Chinese have taken the initiative.

Afterwards in discussion, Ellison reported that he’s been hearing a buzz about the AIIB over the last 24 hours and was very excited to receive the background material contained within the pamphlet “Why The U.S. Must Join BRICS”. Other members of the Progressive Democrats organization also engaged in extended conversation about the implications of the BRICS revolution, the growing list of endorsements for the Schiller Institute petition, the danger of war and the necessity of an immediate national mobilization for Glass-Steagall.

The total strategic shift signaled by last week’s intervention by Steinmeier, Schmidt and O’Malley—a shift which Lyndon LaRouche characterized yesterday as “not yet secured, but is very promising”—is expanding this week on both the global economic and strategic fronts. This includes Greek moves towards Russia and other BRICS nations; the expansion of China’s AIIB, despite the hysterical opposition coming from the Obama administration; and further sharp warnings from Russia about their intended response to the military/strategic threats coming from the U.S. and NATO.

The broadest possible circulation—and discussion!—of Lyndon LaRouche’s March 15 document, “On the Subject of Germany’s Role,” is essential to securing that strategic shift. It is the centerpiece of all LaRouche movement organizing both in the U.S. and internationally, and its wide direct circulation began today in Washington, even among the intellectually- and morally- challenged Members of Congress. But don’t hold your breath waiting for them to act.

The immediate political action needed at this point, Lyndon LaRouche stressed today, is to get Barack Obama out of the U.S. Presidency. The central issue, the only issue, is getting rid of Obama, LaRouche stated. If you do that, then all of the other “issues” collapse, and you can begin to get the situation under control. Obama is a creation of the British Empire, and that is the problem. Combined with the Bush family, that is the center of all evil in this country. And when you talk about the Bush family, you have to go back to Prescott Bush, who helped usher Adolf Hitler into power.

LaRouche elaborated that these more recent expressions of evil need to be traced back to the terrible changes that happened in the U.S. after FDR’s death. That produced a policy change, which is the crucial factor and the key point of reference for all “current events.” It is that which defines the 20th Century, the century that the British Empire moved in on all fronts, killing American Presidents and overturning everything involving the best achievements of the 19th Century on all fronts– economic, scientific, cultural, etc.

History, LaRouche said, is a process, not a series of events which can be approached deductively. Mankind is a global phenomenon, and history is a global process. It is that, and not categories, which are reality, and reality has consequences. “I don’t care how many times idiots in Congress want to approach issues and categories: that is not how the world works,” LaRouche stated.

On the contrary, we in the LaRouche movement have to assert our policy firmly and clearly: We have to denounce everything Obama represents as crap. Obama’s view is that he can impose one state over another, that he can constitute the U.S. as the global arbiter to impose his views, as he is trying to do with China and elsewhere. But the U.S. is not the ruling empire of the world, LaRouche stated. Obama’s Kingdom is not the Empire, and he simply has to be thrown out of office. His efforts on behalf of the British Empire to trigger conflict points among nations—as with Israel, Iran, or Venezuela—are all part of a single, global drive towards World War III, not individual regional issues.

So get rid of Obama, LaRouche concluded. One good flush, and we will dispense with a multitude of sins—and it will help purify the atmosphere as well.