Dmitri Trenin, the first Russian Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center (linked to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington), published an article in China’s official Global Times yesterday which thoroughly repudiated the massive ly…
Russian President Vladimir Putin dropped a bombshell, when asked yesterday by students at St. Petersburg’s Mining University how Russia could help students at their partners in the Donestsk Technical University.
“We often speak of the Ukrainian army, b…
Remember former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachov’s Jan. 10 warning, echoing repeated statements of U.S. statesman Lyndon LaRouche, that any U.S.-Russia confrontation over Ukraine “would inevitably turn into a nuclear war.”
Now consider the cascade of developments since Victoria Nuland’s Nazi-dominated government in Ukraine re-initiated its attempt to retake control of Eastern Ukraine militarily, which is being turned into an British/Obama-led NATO showdown with Russia. On Sunday, during a state visit to India, President Obama immediately charged, without hesitation or evidence, that Russia was responsible for the Jan. 24 attack on civilians in Mariupol, in the eastern region of Ukraine, which he declared to have been carried out by Ukrainian resistance, misnamed “separatists.” Charging that “separatists” carried out that aggression “with Russian backing, Russian equipment, Russian financing, Russian training and Russian troops,” Obama ominously declared that he will “rachet-up pressure” on Russia, looking “at all additional options that are available to us short of military confrontation.” Greater sanctions against Russia will also be on the table at the emergency meeting of European Union Foreign Ministers convoked for Jan. 29.
At the conclusion of an emergency meeting held on Jan. 26., the OSCE Permanent Council expressed:
“deep concern about the increase in violence in Donetsk and Luhansk regions…[and]…stressed the need for all parties to immediately return to peace consultations in order to achieve a sustainable ceasefire and to implement all provisions of the Minsk agreements,”
But belligerent confrontation against Russia dominated the emergency meetings of NATO and the UN Security Council, convoked yesterday also at the request of Nuland’s Ukrainian government. Like Obama, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power grandstanded at the UN meeting that
“this offensive is made in Moscow. It is waged by Russian-trained and Russian-funded separatists, who use Russian missiles and Russian tanks, who are backed up by Russian troops.”
UN Under Secretary General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman asserted that the Mariupol shelling of civilians came from rebel-controlled territory. Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin’s appeal to Western governments to “stop egging on the Ukrainian hawks. The only thing that will lead to is an even greater catastrophe,” was ignored.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg emerged from the NATO ambassadors meeting to likewise charge that the Mariupol attack came from territory controlled by the “separatists” which are backed by Russia. Stoltenberg reported that Ukrainian Gen. Mykhailo Koval briefed the Ukraine’s security and defense council yesterday and will meet with NATO defense councilors today, but claimed NATO only provided “political” support, along with financing (“trust funds”) for modernizing their armed forces and medical aid for wounded soldiers. Ukraine’s Ambassador to NATO Ihor Dolhov indicated Kiev’s request for additional military assistance was made to “individual countries” of NATO.
Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov responded that the new threats of sanctions against Russia will prove
Igor Ivanov, Russia’s Foreign Minister from 1998-2004 and chair of the Russian International Affairs Council, warned in a Moscow Times article yesterday that the Ukraine crisis is more dangerous than any crisis during the Cold War, urging political lea…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has gone where Obama has refused (in his State of the Union speech, for example) to go: calling for a $1 trillion investment to repair our disintegrating infrastructure.
Sanders, a potential 2016 Presidential candidate, and now the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, produced the report in advance of hearings sure to be dominated by a Republican bloodlust for budget cuts, with a fresh Congressional Budget Office annual report on the state of the U.S. economy out yesterday afternoon, focused on deficits and the national debt. In his report, Sanders compiles his own list of “deficits,” starting with the Jobs deficit; Infrastructure; Income and Equality (both the lack thereof and the unequal distribution of); Retirement Security (where workers are forced to work longer and retire with smaller pensions); Trade and Education deficit.
Sanders’ report on infrastructure reads:
“For many years we have underfunded the maintenance of our nation’s physical infrastructure. That has to change. It is time to rebuild America. Investing $1 trillion over five years to modernize our country’s physical infrastructure would create and maintain at least 13 million good-paying jobs that our economy desperately needs. We need to get this done.
“For most of our history, the United States proudly led the world in building innovative infrastructure — from a network of canals, to the transcontinental railroad, to the interstate highway system. We launched an ambitious rural electrification program, massive flood control projects, and more.
“These innovations grew our economy, gave our businesses a competitive advantage, provided our workers a decent standard of living, and were the envy of the world. Sadly, that is no longer the case.”
A warning that the oil debt crisis is likely to repeat the financial crash of 2008 appeared in the Financial Times Jan. 25; actually the more serious for its comical attempts to disguise itself as a “reassurance” that this is not likely to occur. “Oil Price Slide Is Not Akin to Subprime Fiasco” was the name of the column, also republished in Oil & Companies News Jan. 26 and elsewhere. Most notably, the article was clearly based on a worried presentation by a Bank of Canada governor at a recent “energy markets” meeting in Wisconsin.
“Last decade, investors learnt a nasty lesson about contagion,” the article begins.
“Could the same thing happen again, as a result of plunging oil prices? Timothy Lane, deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, told an energy conference in Wisconsin that it could, and that central bankers are alert to the possibility that financial linkages could transmit stress from oil markets to the financial system.
“Meanwhile, big investors are pondering those parallels with subprime. Chris Flanagan, head of securitization at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, recently compared the trajectory of the Brent crude oil price to the ABX index of subprime mortgage derivatives in 2007. He found that the patterns were almost identical. ‘As mortgage analysts, our concern with the disorderly downside scenario [to oil prices] perhaps is heightened by our experience with the subprime crisis,’ he wrote. `We feel that we may have seen this movie before.'”
The nature of the “reassuring statements” offered, is indicated by this one: After citing “big differences” from 2008, the article proffers that regulators are much more mobilized now; the Bank of Canada is doing stress tests on $35/barrel oil. This is laughable after the Wall Street banks’ roughshod ride over the U.S. Congress and “regulators” regarding derivatives in December.
Then this:
And if that doesn’t let the reader whistle past Lehman’s grave, this: “Whereas the banks that got into trouble in 2007 were the bedrock of the entire financial system, energy companies and commodity trading houses are not. True, if oil companies start defaulting on their bonds, the effects will ripple through the financial system….”
And finally: “The pattern could become more pernicious if it turns out that there are big financial interconnections that regulators cannot see. This scenario cannot be ruled out, given that these two corners of the financial system are murky. There is limited public data, for example, about what is happening inside the gigantic trading houses or how they are entwined with investment banks.”
The Wall Street system of banks is again facing a bankruptcy crisis — this time triggered by collapsing oil and commodity debt and derivatives — and even central bankers know that it will be as bad as a second 2008 crash, or worse.
These banks have been generally bankrupt since the impact of the elimination of Glass-Steagall. Wall Street’s bankruptcy crisis is made worse by the free fall of the euro and the fact that all the biggest European banks, most definitely including the London banks, are loaded to the gills with toxic debt securities of more and more varieties, and have never written any of it off since 2008.
A financial crash worse than 2008 is looming over this whole bankrupt London-Wall Street system of banks. The United States must act immediately to generate a buffer against this crash for its economy and citizens.
The Wall Street banks should effectively be shut down, put through a bankruptcy reorganization so that they may continue some limited function as commercial banks. Their ability to manage things in the U.S. economy must be terminated now, or the economy faces a terrible crisis.
Launch the bankruptcy reorganization of these megabanks by reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act to separate the doomed speculative divisions from their insured, regulated commercial banks — and let the former go.
As a substitute, a buffer of credit must be created — Federal credit — to put people into productive, well-paid work. That means above all, work related to crucial new projects of modern infrastructure.
Provide a source of Federal credit to be used by states and Federal governments to provide skilled employment and economic development. The United States must incur a limited debt to do so, but devoted entirely to this purpose. This has been done before; it must be done again.
Create a Reconstruction Finance Corporation with initial government capital and issue RFC bonds to the public and to commercial banks, to support national and state projects.
And, create a National Bank with an initial capital of new Treasury debt, and provide the great majority of that Bank’s capital by the voluntary trade of existing 3- to 30-year Treasury debt. If $500 billion of U.S. debt is voluntarily invested in the National Bank, the Treasury can issue $500 billion in Treasury notes to the Bank to start providing credit for productivity and employment.
Aid the states in a national high-speed rail network. Give credit support to state and municipal bond issues for new economic infrastructure. Provide western drought measures, from large-scale water diversion to a large network of nuclear desalination/power plants. Restore and replace the ancient national network of locks and dams, water navigation and water management, flood and storm protection. Restore cutbacks in medical care, firefighting, sanitation, water purification and build anew. Restore the nation’s historic levels of investment in NASA projects.
Most crucial for this new National Bank and RFC: Join the BRICS! Accept China’s President Xi Jinping’s offer to Obama at the APEC Summit last November.
Use the National Bank and RFC to join with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the other new international development banks and funds for Silk Road and Maritime Silk Road infrastructure which have been created since the BRICS-allied nations summit in Brazil last July. In the process, multiply the buffer of Federal credit for new infrastructure and productivity investments in America.
Create a new economic platform for America’s economy, “driven” by development of fusion technologies and thermonuclear fusion power. Relaunch America’s presence in the Solar System in competition and cooperation with China’s lunar program, now the world’s leading space program.
Wall Street blowing out again will hit the economy like a major war. And Wall Street’s desperation is turning to escalating financial and other warfare actions against “enemies” China and Russia, which is leading toward actual, thermonuclear war.
That’s why the new institution, and the new economic platform, must be supplied immediately.
We need to put everything we have into making it happen.
A trio of experts, including two former U.S. Senators, have published serious warnings about the growing danger of thermonuclear war as the Ukraine crisis remains unresolved, and both Russia and the United States modernize their strategic nuclear triad under conditions of great tension.
Ted Postol, a well-known nuclear expert, published a warning in the Sunday Boston Globe under the headline “How a nuclear near-miss in ’95 would be a disaster today.” The article cited a 1995 missile test by Norway that the Russians detected as a possible U.S. launch of a high-altitude nuclear detonation to “blind” Russian defenses to a possible U.S. thermonuclear first strike. Postol noted that, fortunately, in 1995, relations between Washington and Moscow were on a positive enough footing that the Russians took a second look before deciding on whether or not to launch a second strike, which would be the standard response to a genuine thermonuclear threat. At that time, there were gaps in Russia’s radar detection system which was a factor in the near-miss.
Postol noted
Postol noted that, at the time in 1995, Russian military commanders and top political leaders took a cautious approach. Not so now.
Postol then warned that
“On top of this, the relentless modernization of U.S. nuclear forces continues unabated. The current situation has become so dire that only four days ago the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists decreased the time to Armageddon on their doomsday clock from five minutes to three minutes.”
Postol concluded that the United States must curb any foolish decisions that could provoke a full-scale showdown. He recommended that NATO take a cautious approach to building up military force, drawing a line between deterrence and provocation.
Postol concluded by calling for the U.S. and Europeans to share with Russia the specialized satellite sensor technologies that will “correct this dangerous shortfall [in Russia’s early warning system] by equaling the nuclear playing field.”
Postol’s warnings were echoed by former U.S. Senators Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), who penned a joint op-ed in yesterday’s Sunday Washington Post under the headline, “A Nuclear Rift Worth Fixing.” The two Senators authored the 1991 Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Act, which has provided American funds to assist Russia in dismantling and securing its nuclear arsenal and stockpiles of enriched uranium and plutonium for the past 24 years. In December, the U.S. Congress de-funded the program and in response, Russia, as it had warned, cut off most nuclear security cooperation with the United States. Nunn and Lugar warned that this is a dangerous situation.
After documenting the tremendous accomplishments of the Nunn-Lugar program, the authors called for a new approach—”a real nuclear security partnership guided by the principle of reciprocity and mutual interest.”
They concluded with a dire warning: “Failing to cooperate in this area is a ‘lose-lose’ proposition that would damage the vital interests of both nations and vastly increase the risk of nuclear terrorism. The US and Russia must recognize the imperative to provide global leadership. The consequences of inaction are simply too great.”
Greece has elected the first anti-bankers-bailout government in Europe since the European oligarchy launched its nightmare policy of bailing out the banks no matter how many people had to die for it to happen. The question now on everyone’s mind is whether Spain, Portugal, or even Italy and Ireland will be far behind. The real issue is that the battle lines have to be drawn: Either the ideas of Solon and Alexander Hamilton triumph, or Europe sinks with the British Empire.
The official election returns from the Interior Ministry in Greece, as of midnight East European Time (23:00 CET; 17:00 EST), show a stunning victory for Syriza and its left-wing anti-austerity policy, with 36.12% of the vote, giving the party 149 of the Greek Parliament’s 300 seats (the winner of the election receives 50 extra seats). The Independent Greeks won 4.69% which will give them 13 seats. The next government of Greece will most likely be led by Syriza in a coalition with the Independent Greeks.
In a statement following the release of exit polls showing they would win, Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras declared it
In a statement given after he voted, Panos Kammenos, leader of the Independent Greeks declared that today
and defend the nation.
Reuters quoted one Antonis Balousis, a 54-year-old butcher, who said:
“This is a very important victory for Greece and Europe. We are going to prove that a different kind of politics is possible in Europe.”
The former ruling New Democracy came in second place with 28.08% giving it 77 seats. The fascist Golden Dawn came in third with 17 seats, one less than in the last elections. The fourth party was To Potami, a new countergang party formed to draw votes away from Syriza, with 16 seats. The Communist KKE came next, increasing its number of seats from 12 to 15. Pasok came next, with less than half the votes they had in the last elections and now have 13 seats. No other parties got past the 3% threshold.
Political leaders throughout Europe quickly moved to show their support for Syriza’s victory. Katja Kipping, leader of Germany’s Die Linke party, hailed Syriza’s victory as the “beginning of Europe’s spring.”
In Spain the leader of the anti-austerity Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, told a rally of supporters yesterday:
“Hope is coming, fear is fleeing. Syriza, Podemos, we will win.” Podemos has been leading in opinion polls and could very well win in Spain’s municipal and regional elections in May, and general elections in December.
In Ireland, Sinn Féin spokesman Pearse Doherty congratulated Tsipras and gave support for Syriza’s call for a European debt conference, saying
Doherty then blasted Prime Minister Enda Kenny:
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.Solon of Athens
The results of Sunday’s Greek elections, in which Syriza won a near-landslide victory and will form a new government with Independent Greeks and other parties, was a stunning and powerful repudiation of the murderous austerity policies imposed on Greece by the Troika.
Upon being informed of the Greek vote, Lyndon LaRouche called it a “profound victory that can secure a shift in the entire European and trans-Atlantic situation.” LaRouche noted that the outpouring of the Greek people to repudiate the Troika’s austerity regime was one of several recent developments that can rapidly bring down the failed euro system altogether. He cited the recent decision by the Swiss National Bank to decouple the Swiss franc from the euro, which triggered significant derivatives losses by major Wall Street and City of London banks.
LaRouche noted that the Greek vote will have a
This is great, the enemy of humanity is being damaged and everyone should be happy.”
As of midnight Sunday, the final results of the Greek vote showed that Syriza received 36.12 percent of the vote, giving it 149 seats out of 300. The Independent Greeks received 4.69 percent of the vote, giving them 13 seats. The two parties are expected to form a coalition government with a 162 seat majority.
All of the European finance ministers will be meeting today to decide what to do in the face of the dramatic Greek election results, which further discredit European Central Bank head Mario Draghi’s Thursday announcement of a one trillion euro quantitative easing hyper-inflationary bailout of the bankrupt European banks. Greece’s action could very well be the catalyst of a stampede for the door, with Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, and even Italy leaving the euro system to return to sovereign currency and anti-austerity policies.
The implications for Wall Street are equally dramatic. The hopelessly bankrupt Wall Street banks are reeling from massive derivatives losses, triggered by the Swiss National Bank’s sudden ending of the peg to the euro. Those same banks, along with their City of London counterparts, are holding more than $600 billion in junk bond loans to the shale oil and gas sector, and those debts are about to blow out. This could very well be the trigger for the disintegration of the entire trans-Atlantic financial system at any moment.
LaRouche has emphasized for the past months that the blowout of Wall Street and London is the single most important factor driving the world to a potential thermonuclear war showdown. Increasingly, more and more sane voices are joining LaRouche in warning of the growing danger of thermonuclear Armageddon. Over the weekend, leading nuclear disarmament expert Theodore Postol warned about the imminent danger of thermonuclear extinction, and former Senators Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar added their voices to those calling for emergency action to de-escalate the global showdown.
In discussion with colleagues on Sunday, Lyndon LaRouche focused on the urgent measures to be taken to put the Wall Street and London banks through orderly bankruptcy reorganization, starting with the cancellation of all the gambling debts. He then elaborated on the kinds of Hamiltonian measures that must be immediately implemented to put people back to work in meaningful jobs.
LaRouche explained:
“Now, the new employment means, employing people in things that they can do, or can be trained to do. Because you have to have a buffer by which you cannot leave the government and this nation collapsing. You’ve got to intervene immediately and say: Okay, we’re going to take a debt. We’re going to incur, — as the United States we’re going to incur a debt; it’s going to be a big debt, it’s not going to be excessive, but it’s going to be a big debt because we must immediately move to put people to work, and to do similar kinds of things now, immediately. And it has to be done on a credit system, which is a Federal credit system.
“Now, we have some history on this thing, which Bill Clinton can respond to, essentially, at least emotionally, because what happened, then, when Bill Clinton left office, what happened, this bail-out business, this crazy operation took over. And so, for a period of four terms of office of the Presidency, and we have ruined everything. And it was ruined by the people who tried to change the policy of the United States against what Bill Clinton had been working to do.
“Go back to what Bill Clinton had announced in the summer of the year when the attack on him came [1998], he had a policy, as a policy which he endorsed me for doing, for presenting, and that policy can work. And it was Bill’s idea, of how to organize, because the Russian system was bankrupt, totally bankrupt; and that had an effect upon Europe and everything else, and the idea was to get a recovery program based on the trans- Atlantic region, which would work, to save the economy from what was created by Wall Street at that time.
“And that’s what we have to do, we have to do that now. Because we cannot sit there without a program of that type. This thing is totally bankrupt, entirely, hopelessly bankrupt. It’s going to become worse at an accelerating rate. We have to have a buffer, a Federal buffer, and the old system of government has to take the responsibility of creating that buffer. And then, the purpose is to put people to work, in productive work. And we must have that now.”
A joint statement by the foreign ministers of France, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine (the “Normandy format,” initiated by French President Hollande last spring), after their talks yesterday evening in Berlin, called for urgent implementation of the condi…
Yesterday’s annual year-in-review press conference by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and a lengthy interview with President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, Dmitri Peskov, were timed in such a way, that each could respond to Barack Obama’s nasty bluster against Russia during his State of the Union, January 20th. Each of these Russian officials counterposed to Obama’s delusions of power, the reality of the rising strength and influence of the Eurasian nations and the BRICS alliance.
This is what Obama said:
Peskov, in an interview to the nationally circulated Argumenty i Fakty newspaper, reiterated what Putin himself said last month, that
“it is not a matter of Crimea or Ukraine; if it had not been Crimea, they would have come up with another pretext” for “being on Russia’s case.”
Peskov charged that people in the West were
Asked about a recent remark by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, that Putin would not be invited to this year’s G-7 summit, Peskov noted that Putin was not expecting that. “On the other hand,” he added,
“one could ask what the point of the G-7 is, anyway; what decisions can it take without the participation of Russia, India, and China?”
Lavrov took up Russian-American relations several times in his two-hour press conference, stating in his opening remarks:
“We hear a lot of statements by our Western partners, about the need to isolate Russia further. U.S. President Obama found it appropriate to state this yesterday in his State of the Union message.”
But, countered Lavrov,
“Such attempts are fruitless. Russia will never take the road of self-isolation, suspiciousness, and looking for enemies.”
As examples of Russia’s foreign policy outreach, Lavrov cited, besides Moscow’s diplomatic efforts related to Ukraine, its engagement in multilateral formats such as the G20, the BRICS, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. As host of the summits of the latter two organizations this summer in Ufa, Lavrov said that Russia would seek to animate their operations.
“In the BRICS framework, this means above all the coordination of economic documents such as an economic partnership strategy and a road map for investment cooperation.”
Lavrov went on to discuss Russia’s engagement with other nations of the Asia-Pacific Region, China in particular, as well as the offers from the new Eurasian Economic Union for free-trade relations with the European Union.
Returning to the problem of Obama, in answer to a question about Russia-U.S. ties, Lavrov said:
Lavrov said he thought that reality was already forcing Washington to realize that this doesn’t work, because international cooperation really is required on a whole range of matters. Furthermore, he said, returning to the theme of the rest of the world’s development,
“the objective development of the world and the appearance of powerful centers of economic growth and financial influence, and also centers of political influence, is an objective process and cannot be left out of account.”
Wall Street is on the edge of another financial tsunami, and this is driving the world towards general war, with the latest provocations in Ukraine serving as the immediate trigger for confrontation with Russia.
As Citibank was the latest of the Wall Street too-big-to-fail banks to post serious fourth-quarter losses, and as the Wall Street banks were announcing 50,000 layoffs, half-way around the globe the Ukrainian government was launching new provocations against Russia, meeting with top NATO generals and announcing a draft to call up 100,000 new troops to launch a military offensive against its own citizens in eastern Ukraine.
Russian officials have made clear that, while they are pushing for a diplomatic solution to the crisis in eastern Ukraine—starting with an immediate cease-fire and a resumption of direct talks between Kiev and the eastern Ukrainian leaders—they will not cave in to NATO blackmail. In statements on Wednesday, both Foreign Minister Lavrov and Putin spokesman Peskov made clear that they understand the NATO actions to be nothing short of an all-out campaign to overthrow Putin and make Russia the victim of the latest color revolution. This kind of madness can lead the world to thermonuclear extinction at any moment.
Russia has boosted its strategic strike capability and announced a new military doctrine, making clear that they understand the nature of the asymmetric assault on the current Russian leadership.
Lyndon LaRouche, in discussion with his Policy Committee colleagues on Wednesday, emphasized that Russia is prepared to respond preemptively to the ongoing US and NATO provocations, and this can mean the obliteration of the United States if the current Obama trajectory is not ended now. That, he clarified, means crushing Wall Street, which is the driving force behind the imminent war danger.
President Obama’s Tuesday night State of the Union Address contained blatant provocations against both Russia and China, and his words did not go unnoticed in Moscow and Beijing. It was a disgusting Nuremberg Rally, with Democrats groveling in front of a president who has destroyed the party and the country—on behalf of Wall Street and London.
LaRouche was blunt:
“This is why we are facing an immediate danger of thermonuclear war.”
Wall Street and London are not only bankrupt, facing an immediate blowout of their quadrillion-dollar derivatives bubble. They are driven by the belief that war can be the solution to their imminent demise, which makes them pathologically dangerous to the very survival of the human race.
It is in this context that the Wall Street rally by the LaRouche Political Action Committee on January 20 brought reality to the heart of the financial district. Thousands of passers-by were confronted with the reality of the Wall Street bankruptcy, the war danger, and the urgent need to revive the Hamiltonian alternative, starting with the immediate reinstatement of Glass- Steagall.
It is that option, alone, that can set the world as a whole, back on a course of development, which is now already underway with the initiatives of the BRICS countries, led by China. At this week’s World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, the role of China in launching a new global economic paradigm is being openly admitted.
The vital question is whether the reality of the imminent war danger and the role of Wall Street and London in pushing the planet to the brink of annihilation will be acknowledged and acted upon in time.
The role of Saudi Arabia, and implicitly London, in funding international terrorism, continues to remain in the international media spotlight.
We will relate here several of the most recent echoes of our efforts to place Saudi Arabia and the British Empire under the international microscope for their role, over decades, of continuing to be the main sponsors of international terrorism.
Terry Strada spoke to CNN International on January 19th, where she said “Yes, Saudi Arabia funds terrorism.”
Senator Bill Nelson spoke to reporters about Saudi duplicity, and he said: “[the saudis] allowed… the incubation and hatching of these radical terrorists.”
Even the right-wing Marine Le Pen in France got it right for once, when she said on her January 18 op-ed in the New York Times, that:
“…alliances formed with rentier states that finance jihadist fighters, like Qatar and Saudi Arabia—all are mistakes that have plunged France into serious geopolitical incoherence.
We at LaRouchePAC are demanding the release of the suppressed 28 Pages of the Joint Inquiry Report, and mobilizing the political support for H.Res 14, which deals with the same. Walter Jones, one of the co-sponsors of H.Res 14, delivered prepared remarks to the Schiller Institute conference, to urge your support for the legislation.
At the January 17th Schiller Institute conference in New York, Jeffrey Steinberg, an editor of Executive Intelligence Review, discussed the history of this international support for terrorism in great detail. The title of his presentation was: “A Time to Break the Silence: Reversing the Illegal Use of Secrecy from the Assassinations of MLK, RFK, and JFK to the Suppression of Sen. Graham’s 28 Pages,” and the transcript is below.
The media spotlight continues on the role of Saudi Arabia in terrorism, and the necessity to de-classify the “28 pages” of the Joint Congressional Inquiry report on 9/11. Among the developments in the last two days, are that CNN International interviewed Terry Strada on January 19th, national co-chair of the 9/11 Families and Survivors United for Justice Against Terrorism, who spoke at the Jan. 7 Washington, D.C., press conference with Congressmen demanding declassification. January 19th, Commentary magazine posted an article, “Every Presidential Candidate Should Pledge Release of Missing 9/11 Pages.”
Amidst this ongoing attention, an instance of arrogant evasion took place today, by Michael Hayden, former head of the CIA (2006-2009) and NSA (1999-2005). Hayden was speaking on Capitol Hill at a Middle East Policy Council event, where he was asked about the withheld 28 pages and the Saudi role in terrorism, by EIR’s Bill Jones. Hayden sneered in reply, that he was going to give an “unsatisfactory answer.” Namely, Hayden said that he hadn’t read the 28 pages; didn’t know what was in them; and didn’t intend to; and wouldn’t say more.
This is the immorality Terry Strada denounced roundly on CNN International. She said, “Yes, Saudi Arabia funds terrorism.” She said that, besides releasing the 28 pages, we want legal action against those responsible.
“The world has a right to know the role of Saudi Arabia in funding terrorism….”
She called on everyone to activate.
In the Commentary article, writer Michael Rubin ended his piece,
Rubin, who is at the neo-conservative American Enterprise Institute, makes the point that “Obama is no different than his predecessor,” and not only on the 9/11 cover-up. Rubin wrote, “When Navy SEALS raided bin Laden’s compound, they removed millions of files…” but they have released only 17 documents.