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Ramasimong Phillip Tsokolibane, leader of LaRouche South Africa, released the following statement on the occasion of Africa Day, May 25.

As we approach Africa Day, May 25, and the end of Africa Month, I must state clearly that the continent and its peoples stand at a crossroads.

Either we align ourselves with the emerging new economic order of the East, led by Putin’s Russia, China, and the BRICS alliance (of which South Africa is the only African member), or we continue to submit to policies of the collapsing trans-Atlantic system, led by the British Empire and its lap dog, U.S. President Barack Obama, which will lead to the genocidal slaughter of our populations, and to the likely extinction of the entire human species in a general thermonuclear war.

The choice of any sane person should be obvious. Do you choose to live, do you choose for your children to have a future? Or do you choose to die a horrible death, in a dying system of British imperialism, which has brought misery and death to Africans in recent centuries? The problem is that people refuse to confront this obvious reality, refuse to think in terms of the world as whole, or even in terms of our continent as whole, and instead focus on local or petty issues as presented by mis-leaders and lying media.

To understand our problems, you must try to live in the future, and look back, so to speak, on these current times and our actions in them, with the realisation that the future we desire must define and determine our actions today. From the future, you can see the possibility that our children and grandchildren will live in an Africa marked by great leaps in economic development, that give each person the possibility of a productive and creative life. A continent no longer dark from lack of electric power and in an underdevelopment and misery enforced by a financial imperialism, but instead dotted with nuclear plants and even fusion reactors powering new cities and industry. An Africa no longer looted of its vast resources by foreign imperialists, but one which makes use of these resources with our own industrial and processing plants, that produces food for its people and for export on fair terms to other regions of the globe.

We can see an Africa whose scientists contribute to new discoveries of physical principles that take man beyond this planet and beyond our solar system to our destiny in the stars. An Africa whose medical practitioners are armed with new weapons to conquer disease, not just for our continent, but for the benefit of all mankind. See Africa and Africans contributing mightily, as it and they should, to the progress of a mankind, which has abandoned geopolitical fighting for hegemony, and instead fights together for the common good of all, truly free to pursue happiness, in the perfectibility of our unique species.

I see that Africa unified in purpose and spirit, while diverse in cultural richness. I see an Africa progressed beyond the manipulations of tribal and national destinies such as take place now, and the bloodshed they bring, having given way to a solidarity of humanity, absent the racism of imperialism. I see an Africa at peace, derived from belief in the power of human creativity, the unique power and capability of every human child, no matter where he or she might be born.

My vision is the same that has guided the great American statesman and economist Lyndon LaRouche, whose movement I represent in South Africa. My vision is not of some distant and never-reached utopia, but something attainable in concrete policy steps that must be taken today.

We have all lived too long in an Africa and a world defined by the racism and evil of the bitch Queen of the British Empire and her retinue, including those traitors and lackeys in our own country. We have been told that we Africans are inferior to our Imperial ‘masters’, that we are animals, some higher form of ape. We have been made to perform tricks for our `masters’ on the pitch and in other arenas of sport for pay, as if trained monkeys. And as mere animals, our British ‘masters’ believe it is their right, even their obligation, to reduce our numbers, as they see fit.

But the days of the bitch Queen and her imperial system are numbered. Led from the East, by Russian President Putin and his allies in China, there is now a force for good, a force for development, a force for the dignity of man. They continually confound and outsmart the stupid imperialists, who respond by threatening all-destroying thermonuclear war.

The choice for Africa is obvious. The courageous decision by my country—to side with Putin’s Russia and with China and join the BRICS—is a statement of sanity, and it weakens the imperial enemy. The efforts to reverse this decision through regime change is an operation directed on behalf of the interests of those who will slaughter Africa, even if some of the petty and stupid people involved do not realise this.

On this day and in this month dedicated to Africa, let us make the choice for Africa’s future. Let us choose the BRICS. Let us choose life. Let us choose the dignity of man and spit in the face of the British Empire and all who bow and scrape to its decadent leadership. Let us finally walk away from the dark shadow of British imperialism and into the light, and walk to our destiny along the pathway the great Mandela envisioned for us, and all Africans. Why shouldn’t the first people on Mars be led by an African woman?

—Ramasimong Phillip Tsokolibane, 23 May 2016

Tuesday’s House Foreign Relations subcommittee hearing on Saudi involvement in international terrorism had some extraordinary moments that demonstrated that at least some Members of Congress have been listening to LaRouche’s exposes of the British ownership of the Saudi Monarchy and regime.

Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Cal.), a strong advocate for the release of the 28 pages, responded to a question about whether the United States could get the Saudis to stop sponsoring jihadist terrorism, by making the point that the Saudis listen to the British, and never defy British demands.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher openly stated that the Saudis “had to have” known in advance about the looming 9/11 attacks.  He reported that he had had sources close to the Taliban leaders inside Pakistan telling him four months before Sept. 11, 2001, that a big attack against the United States was coming, then asked whether anyone believed for a moment that the Saudi Royal Family did not know in advance of the 9/11 attacks.  He said that the Saudis are directly financing terrorism; that the intent was not just to kill 3,000 people, but to kill 50,000-100,000 people. He reminded the attendees of the Boston Marathon bombing and San Bernardino attack as but two incidents in this pattern. Rohrabacher actually asked the four witnesses to raise their hands if they believed the Saudi Royals knew in advance about the planned 9/11 attacks, and two of them, including former Rep. Tim Roemer, a member of the 9/11 Commission, raised their hands in agreement.

This week, five additional Members of Congress signed on to H. Res. 14, demanding the release of the 28 pagers:  Ryan Zinke (R—Mt.), Peter DeFazio (D-Or.), Ileana Ross-Lehtinen (R-Fl.), David Cicilline (D-RI), and Al Green (D-TX).

The Saudis are plainly hysterical over the momentum that has been built around both the JASTA bill and especially the juggernaut for release of the 28 pages and all of the remaining classified material from the two official investigations.

Not only have the Saudis been circulating a 104-page dossier, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Counterterrorism, claiming that Saudi Arabia is in the lead of the fight against ISIS, Al Qaeda, and all of the jihadist groups, and is America’s number-one partner in the Global War on Terrorism.  The Saudis have one of their big PR firms circulating a 38-page white paper, claiming to refute the evidence of their role in 9/11.  It is a pathetic, sophistic cut-and-paste of all of the statements from the earlier court rulings, and highly selective fallacy-of-composition quotes from the 9/11 Commission findings, and quotes from people like John Brennan, and turncoats Lee Hamilton and Tom Kean.  The lobbying firm that produced and is circulating the document is Qorvis MSLGroup.

Qorvis has been on the Saudi pad since the original Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.  The firm was hired at a fee of $200,000 a month to repair the Saudi reputation in Washington, after 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were revealed to have been Saudi nationals. They have been retained ever since, at higher pay.  In December 2002, Philip Shenon, who would later author a devastating expose of the role of Philip Zelikow as the Bush Administration mole assigned to sabotage the work of the 9/11 Commission in his book The Commission, wrote in the New York Times that three executives of Qorvis had resigned, largely in protest over the firm’s work for the Saudis, covering up evidence of the Kingdom’s role in promoting and financing jihadist terrorism. Qorvis also is the official registered agent of Bahrain, a virtual colony of Saudi Arabia.  As the probes into 9/11 got closer to the role of the Kingdom and leading princes and government officials, Qorvis hired Matt Lauer to handle the Saudi account. Lauer headed the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy at the State Department before joining Qorvis.

Wednesday’s New York Post headlined that Sen. Chuck Schumer, prime sponsor of the JASTA (Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act) bill which just passed the Senate, had put a significant loophole in the bill just before its passage.

The Post‘s key researcher on the case of Saudi Arabia’s role and the FBI’s complicity in the 9/11 murders of 3,000 Americans, found that an amendment in the very final draft allows the U.S. Attorney General or Secretary of State to stop litigation against the Saudis for 180-day periods. They have only “to certify that the United States is engaged in good-faith negotiations with the foreign-state defendant concerning the resolution of claims against the foreign state,” the legislation reads.

Such Congressional tricks are rarely exposed so prominently and quickly as this one, appearing on the Post‘s front page today, indicating how hot the issue of Saudi monarchy involvement in the 9/11 attacks now is in New York.

EIR Founding Editor Lyndon LaRouche — who exposed the Saudi-British role live on a radio talk show while the 9/11 attacks were occurring and consistently since — said today that Schumer’s monkey wrench will make the population, especially of New York City, furious. “It shows that there are no quick fixes,” LaRouche said; “there must be a shift in the United States overall, to crush Obama and his British controllers.

“They won again,” he said, “and the forces for this are not strong enough yet. We need a bigger authority to step in: the world;  Putin’s Russia, and China.” The U.S. Congress are “a shabby government, without real authority. China and Russia are the keystones to what’s going to happen. Some people have not recognized that yet,” LaRouche concluded.