The Bush and Obama wars on sovereign states caused the refugee disaster in Europe, wrote Prof. Wang Jinglie of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in the Oct. 23 China Daily. After reviewing the refugee crisis both in Southwest Asian coutries and in Europe, Wang hit the western responsibility: “But it is indisputable that the frequent military interventions led by the West, including the United States and Europe, have fueled the chaos that has forced people from their homes.”

“On the one hand, it instigated the `Arab Spring’ to promote `democracy’ in the Arab World,” wrote Wang. “On the other, U.S.-led military actions have more than once overturned `disobedient administrations,’ such as the ones ruled by Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Muammar Gadhafi in Libya.

“These misdeeds eventually resulted in the latest refugee crisis, which to many Europeans was an unexpected outcome.”

In Syria, Wang wrote, the U.S. armed and funded the opposition forces to overthrow the legitimate government. “Unfortunately, crippling the Syrian government has not only led to endless turmoil and civil war in the country, but it also exposed the local residents to an unchained bloodthirsty monster — the Islamic State group.”

Reflecting the LaRouche policy, Wang concluded: “The refugee crisis will keep haunting all involved parties unless wars and poverty are eliminated in the war-stricken countries, which urgently need peace and stability to restore their economies and convince their nationals that seeking asylum elsewhere is no longer necessary. That being said, major Western powers have to stop intervening to their own liking in Middle East affairs before the regional situation spins out of control.”

In a written interview with African journalists at the third India-Africa Forum Summit (IAFS) in New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the BRICS’ New Development Bank was a significant initiative that can have a profound impact on the global financial order.

“I think Africa will be a major area of focus and we would also, hopefully, have an African window or regional presence of the Bank in the future,” said Modi.

The BRICS Post reported Sunday that representatives of 54 African nations, including heads of state and government of around 40 countries and the powerful African Union, are expected to participate in the four-day India-Africa Summit beginning in New Delhi on October 26.

Among powerful African leaders who have confirmed participation are South African President Jacob Zuma, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.

On Friday, Modi also asked the 54 African nations to join India in demanding an overhaul of the United Nations and other global institutions. Modi said that the world is undergoing political, economic, and technological transition on a scale rarely seen in recent history. He warned that the UN and other global bodies run the risk of losing relevance if they do not adapt. 

A newly declassified 1990 study by the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) found that the “war scare” of 1983 was real, that is, that the leadership of the Soviet Union really did fear that the U.S., under President Ronald Reagan, was seeking nuclear strategic superiority and that when it gained that superiority it would launch a nuclear first strike on the Soviet Union. The scare reached its height in November 1983, during NATO’s Able Archer nuclear release exercise, but had been building up since before Reagan’s announcement, on March 23, 1983, of his adoption of the Strategic Defense Initiative. To produce the report, the authors studied hundreds of documents, interviewed more than 75 U.S. and British officials and studied the series of national intelligence estimates and other intelligence documents from the period, according to the report’s own executive summary.

Though EIR has yet to fully review the entire 109-page document, it seems to barely mention Ronald Reagan’s adoption of the SDI policy—Soviet General Secretary Yuri Andropov’s response to Reagan’s SDI address wherein he declares that U.S. will continue the modernization of its nuclear strategic forces regardless, is quoted—nor does it say anything about the back channel negotiations between the Reagan Administration and the Soviet Union that were underway prior to Reagan’s announcement of the policy, negotiations conducted on behalf of the Reagan White House by Lyndon LaRouche, the author of the SDI policy.

The report also doesn’t emphasize the role of Soviet defector and British agent Oleg Gordievsky. Gordievsky had been the chief of the KGB residency in London for several years and had been feeding to his British handlers reports on the war scare in the Kremlin, reports that were used to cause Reagan to back off from his commitment to the SDI policy. Gordievsky’s role, in fact, was to sabotage the possibility of U.S.-Soviet collaboration that Reagan had offered as a way out of Mutually Assured Destruction, in favor of the Malthusian world view of the City of London and the heirs of Bertrand Russell. Andropov knew, all along, that the SDI policy was a proposal for cooperation to end the thermonuclear threat but he was part of the same British controlled apparatus that was also to sabotage SDI on the U.S. side.