Category: Aggregated

On April 5, The 3rd reading of the Arabic translation of the EIR Special Report The New Silk Road Becomes the World Land-Bridge took place in the capital of Yemen, Sanaa, defying the war of aggression launched by the Anglo-American-Saudi forces. The reading was organized by the Yemeni Advisory Office for Coordination with the BRICS, Al-Fouad Solutions, and the Yemen Center for Research and Studies. The roundtable was attended by more than 40 representatives of private organizations, businesses, and government agencies and the media, including Russian RT and Chinese CCTV.

Tuesday’s reading dealt with the 27 major Links and Corridors of the World Land-Bridge as presented in the EIR report. Huge posters of the back cover of the report, which shows these links and corridors, were hung in the meeting room. Representatives of the Ministry of Transport (Eng. Muhannad Al-Nabihi), Ministry of Public Works (Eng. Hasan Haidar), and General Agency for Aviation and Space Observations (Eng. Naji Al-Sahmi) took turns to read and explain these corridors and links in the world map. Fouad Al-Ghaffari, Founder of the Office of Coordination with the BRICS, and Faten Al-Usaimi (female), and Mohammed Al-Nunu coordinated and lead the discussion.

The main message in this reading, as reported by Al-Ghaffari, was that the New Silk Road project is sending a message through its links and corridors based on the idea of compressing the area needed to sustain one individual, and a message to put Yemen on this map of the New Silk Road.

“Yemen’s destiny is to become the cluster of pearls on this project, by turning it into a national project, as the New Suez Canal became a national mobilization project,” said Al-Ghaffari. He added that this will naturally make Yemen identify its true partners and its view of the BRICS philosophy in order to draw its sound and strong future.

While Yemeni intellectuals and officials in Sanaa are discussing the highest level of economic, strategic, and scientific ideas, all the while being pounded by American and British bombs hurled at them by the Saudis, other not-so-intellectual Yemenis are being hosted by the Saudis to draw up plans for dividing and destroying the country. Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, the self-proclaimed legitimate President-in-exile, announced on April 3rd from the Saudi capital, Al-Riyadh that he had fired his Advisor and former Prime Minister Khaled Bahhah, and appointed Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar in his place. Al-Ahmar is a former Army General and a top official of former dictator Ali Abdulah Saleh’s regime before the 2011 revolt, and a member of the powerful Al-Ahmar clan that is allied with Saudi Arabia and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Although Hadi declared that this decision is a preparation for the planned, UN-sponsored peace talks between all the fighting Yemeni factions, in Kuwait on April 18, many observers describe it as a Saudi-driven internal coup against the peace process, as Al-Ahmar is known for his absolute belief in resolving the Yemen crisis through military force backed by Saudi Arabia, some Gulf countries, and U.S.-British forces and mercenaries.

It is needless to mention that Al-Qaeda and ISIS have retaken almost all the areas they had lost to the combined forces of Ansarullah (Houthis) and Yemeni National Army in 2014-2015, before the Anglo-American-Saudi aggression relieved them, starting in March 2015. Most of the Southern provinces taken by the Saudi-allies, like Aden, Maarib, Abian, and Taiz, are now areas were Al-Qaeda and ISIS are very active, unlike areas that are controlled by Ansarrulah and National Army in Sanaa and north Yemen.

The tragedy in Yemen, is that the U.N. Security Council gave its blessing for this war of aggression (in the name of restoring democracy and the fugitive president Hadi) in the UNSC Resolution 2216 in April 14, 2015. All members of the UNSC, except Russia, voted for the resolution. The war has devastated whatever exists of infrastructure in the country, which is considered the poorest Arab country. According to the UN, 6500 were killed, 93% of whom were civilians, in the direct bombardment and fighting. Obviously many more were killed due to lack of food, water, and medicine, but these are not really accounted for in statistics. Millions (out of the 30 million population) are directly threatened by famine and epidemics, and many millions are already considered as refugees (internally displaced), but cannot escape the country, which is blockaded by international efforts on the land, in the sea and the air, in accordance with the UNSC resolution itself.

EIR‘s Hussein Askary posted the following statement (in Arabic and English) on his Facebook page, commenting on the picture of a young Yemeni boy standing in his home’s living room in Sanaa (shown above), which was decorated by a huge map of the World Land-Bridge from the EIR Special Report.

“The people of Yemen are not only resisting the war of aggression imposed on them by the dying Anglo-American old world order through fighting back, but also by orienting their mindset towards the future through studying the ideas that lay the foundations for the new world order. This shows the greatness of the Yemeni historic character. How often do we hear from Arabs, Africans, and even Europeans and Americans who tell us that our (Schiller Institute and LaRouche Movement) ideas are great, but the time for them has not come because there are so many political problems out there; or that they cannot support our ideas and work, because they are busy with their daily problems. How about having an American F-18 or British Tornado hovering above your home attempting to kill you and your family for a “daily problem” to deal with!  A friend of ours in Sana’a, Yemen, today was so excited by our vision of the World Land-Bridge in the 4th reading of the Arabic translation of the special report “The New Silk Road Becomes the World Land-Bridge” organized by Fouad Al-Ghaffari, that he took home the poster and hung it at his living room!

Americans, Europeans, Arabs and Africans who claim they are too busy to deal with “big” and advanced ideas should be ashamed of themselves, and learn something from the people in Yemen! There is no excuse for intellectual laziness and cowardice!

With the resignation of Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson Tuesday, the government of Iceland became the first to fall, in the wake of the orchestrated media frenzy over the so-called “Panama Papers” dumped upon the world. Their release was timely: just six weeks before an international “Anti-Corruption Summit” in London, called for by the British government for May 12, with the stated intent of creating a strengthened supranational “anti-corruption architecture” through which to overthrow designated governments of choice.

Rather shameless for an empire functioning for centuries upon the Venetian principle of “Private Vices, Public Good”!

Her Majesty’s Prime Minister David Cameron first announced the anti-corruption summit on July 28, 2015, in a speech delivered at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. Cameron baldly declared that corruption of other governments creates migration and terrorism; that many refugees are fleeing “from corrupt African states where they have no economic prospects because everything is controlled by a corrupt elite,” and Boko Haram, ISIL, Al-Qaeda, et al. demonstrate “how an oppressive and corrupt government can drive its people into the hands of the extremists in the first place.”

Cameron cited Oxford University’s infamous British colonialist (and former senior advisor to Tony Blair’s Commission on Africa), Paul Collier, in proposing that this May’s anti-corruption summit bring about “a fundamental change to the way the international community fights poverty,” by using “international aid” to enforce “better governance.”

Transparency International — created in 1993 under the direct instigation of Prince Philip — has been fleshing out the agenda for Cameron’s summit. On Jan. 27, 2016, the UK branch of Transparency published their proposals for the summit, which they envision as “a coalition of the willing.” Anti-corruption summits fail, because “serially corrupt” governments are allowed to participate, TI wrote, the only two countries mentioned by name in their proposal being China and Saudi Arabia. “Serial blockers—countries that use spurious excuses to stop any progress,” must be excluded, and if diplomatic protocol requires they be invited, “it is vital that the blockers are not allowed to dictate the terms of the debate.”

This rump caucus in London is then to agree upon such measures as adopting “a visa denial-of-entry regime for suspects of corruption;” “a corporate debarment regime between like-minded governments with the power to enforce it;” and “providing legal support for those living abroad to challenge the corruption taking place at home.”

The key to success, however, is the use of the press and “civil society” to mobilize the victims of Bertrand Russell’s cult of stupidity into Jacobin mobs which can bring down governments. In the words of TI: “Civil society and a free press are two of the (few) mechanisms that can promote transparency and accountability, particularly in countries that are not democracies.”

Ergo: “the Panama papers”