Author: Alicia

The world is now confronted with a crisis of civilization, which can only be solved if the United States ends the insanity of the Bush/Obama degeneracy, and restores the institution of the Presidency to the service of the people of the United States — not just a new President as an individual, but, as Lyndon LaRouche stated, a new Presidency:

“What we need is not an election of a President, in a Presidential election. What we need, is a team, composed of a President, but also a Presidential system, which is something we haven’t seen for a long time. What we’ve had is racketeers.”

This new Presidency is not something to be achieved in the 2016 election, but now, before the current President, Barack Obama, is allowed to drive the world into World War III.

As LaRouche stated: “There’s only one person who’s qualified to become a President of the United States at this time: Martin O’Malley. He’s the only person who’s fit to be a President of the United States. The others all have grave defects. And it’s not the defects that they have as persons, it’s the defects they have in terms of the way they’re looking at politics.”

“Now, think about a list, of people who should be employed, to become a government, in other words, the elements of a government. This is not going to Joe Jokes gets this election, So-and-So is appointed to this power.We don’t do that. What you need, you have to have a President that’s selected, that President must coincide with a team which is the governing body of the government itself. So you don’t have any particular, single heroes. There are no heroes, in fact. Most of the experts are wrong, not because they intend to be wrong, but because they don’t know what the hell they’re doing. They don’t understand what they’re involved in.”

As of yet, O’Malley is the only prospective candidate who has qualified himself to serve as the head of this new Presidential team, responsive to the authority of a patriotic Presidential system and to the needs of the American people. He has proven this qualification by his willingness to identify the necessity of destroying the Wall Street dictatorship over the US government and both political parties, demanding a restoration of Glass Steagall, and by identifying the increasingly despondent and degenerated outlook of the American people who increasingly believe that the next generation of Americans will be worse off than their parents — if they survive at all. And that survival is gravely threatened indeed:

* The state of California, and many other Western states, including Texas, are doomed under present policies. The response of the Governor of California Jerry Brown to the drought — to mandate a 25% reduction in water usage by the population and the industries, while essentially calling for the elimination of 90% of the population — is clinically insane, and genocidal to the nation as a whole. What has been presented by Ben Deniston and the LaRouchePAC Science Team as a solution to that crisis must be applied, now, as the basis of the policy of a New Presidency. (See: “Memo to The Next President: New Perspectives on the Western Water Crisis”) What this report presents are entirely new scientific concepts to transform the access to the abundant sources of water in the biosphere, through nuclear desalination, diversion of water from areas with abundant water, and tapping into the atmospheric moisture flows by modifying weather systems themselves. As Deniston presents in his report, the flows of water evaporated from the oceans into the atmosphere is ten times the amount of water which flows through all the planet’s rivers combined – a clearly abundant aspect of the global water cycle which can be harnessed. There is no lack of water; it merely must be managed and transformed through mastering the factors which drive the planet’s water cycle as a whole, including the interaction of solar and galactic phenomena with the planet’s biosphere. China is approaching these challenges correctly, through massive water diversion programs, and by reaching out to space, while the US under Obama, under the direction of Wall Street, is shutting down its space program, refusing to build infrastructure of any sort, and now, literally, denying water to its population.

* Obama also continues to threaten war. The Saudi war on Yemen, run directly by Obama, is in fact aimed at Iran. The deal which Obama put through with Iran is a fraud, which would be workable on its own, but as LaRouche stated, “was set up to build a case for the Saudis to move in, against other forces, by creating a weak point, and then using the Saudis as a way of starting a more general war.” Obama’s refusal to neutralize this Saudi threat, as seen clearly by his continued cover-up of the 28 pages, shows clearly that he is acting as an enemy of the American people.

* And Obama is now being increasingly abandoned, as seen by the continued shift towards the BRICS countries. The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is now in Russia, meeting with President Putin. As LaRouche stated: “The Greeks will not collapse; the Greeks will go into collaboration with Russia. The Greeks do not need a foreign financial system, the euro, to live, because the Greeks can integrate themselves into Russia and China, the developing BRICS system. Because they don’t need the euro system! However, Germany does need that system, because otherwise the German economy, and the rest of the euro system, will collapse. Why will it collapse? Because they won’t be able to rape the Greeks, or the other European nations which will also leave the euro zone if the Greeks are forced out, and join forces with the BRICS.”

The world is at a decisive moment, and the future depends on what we do to change the policy of the United States. LaRouchePAC is leading the effort to assemble a new Presidency. As Lyndon LaRouche concluded:

“So, what we have is a water project, a water policy, which contains the essential element, which if integrated in the proper way, will provide us with the relatively immediate capability, of solving this problem. It will also be effective, because we will be in tandem, with a lot of powers, China for example, the world’s leading power. Then you have other nations which fall into the same category of participation; we’ve seen the BRICS phenomenon, as such, which in and of itself is a very important factor. But that is minor compared to what the effect is, if we put this application from the United States into place. If we can put this into place, the way it can be done, and has to be done, we can save civilization. If we don’t, forget it. You’re dead.

“And that’s what it is: You’re in a situation where, we can say, yes, you are virtually dead. You don’t have a chance of living, unless you change your ways — that’s the fact. But there should be no difficulty, at least among some people, to realize what must be must be changed. There are no practical solutions, insofar as mankind usually thinks of practical solutions, there are absolutely no practical solutions whatsoever. So what we aim to do politically, is immediately take the fact, that what Martin O’Malley has done, has created a possibility, of his changing from being a possible candidate, to being the unique candidate, the only unique candidate. Forget all other candidates, they’re worthless, for President that is.”

The world is now confronted with a crisis of civilization, which can only be solved if the United States ends the insanity of the Bush/Obama degeneracy, and restores the institution of the Presidency to the service of the people of the United States — not just a new President as an individual, but, as Lyndon LaRouche stated, a new Presidency:

“What we need is not an election of a President, in a Presidential election. What we need, is a team, composed of a President, but also a Presidential system, which is something we haven’t seen for a long time. What we’ve had is racketeers.”

This new Presidency is not something to be achieved in the 2016 election, but now, before the current President, Barack Obama, is allowed to drive the world into World War III.

As LaRouche stated: “There’s only one person who’s qualified to become a President of the United States at this time: Martin O’Malley. He’s the only person who’s fit to be a President of the United States. The others all have grave defects. And it’s not the defects that they have as persons, it’s the defects they have in terms of the way they’re looking at politics.”

“Now, think about a list, of people who should be employed, to become a government, in other words, the elements of a government. This is not going to Joe Jokes gets this election, So-and-So is appointed to this power.We don’t do that. What you need, you have to have a President that’s selected, that President must coincide with a team which is the governing body of the government itself. So you don’t have any particular, single heroes. There are no heroes, in fact. Most of the experts are wrong, not because they intend to be wrong, but because they don’t know what the hell they’re doing. They don’t understand what they’re involved in.”

As of yet, O’Malley is the only prospective candidate who has qualified himself to serve as the head of this new Presidential team, responsive to the authority of a patriotic Presidential system and to the needs of the American people. He has proven this qualification by his willingness to identify the necessity of destroying the Wall Street dictatorship over the US government and both political parties, demanding a restoration of Glass Steagall, and by identifying the increasingly despondent and degenerated outlook of the American people who increasingly believe that the next generation of Americans will be worse off than their parents — if they survive at all. And that survival is gravely threatened indeed:

* The state of California, and many other Western states, including Texas, are doomed under present policies. The response of the Governor of California Jerry Brown to the drought — to mandate a 25% reduction in water usage by the population and the industries, while essentially calling for the elimination of 90% of the population — is clinically insane, and genocidal to the nation as a whole. What has been presented by Ben Deniston and the LaRouchePAC Science Team as a solution to that crisis must be applied, now, as the basis of the policy of a New Presidency. (See: “Memo to The Next President: New Perspectives on the Western Water Crisis”) What this report presents are entirely new scientific concepts to transform the access to the abundant sources of water in the biosphere, through nuclear desalination, diversion of water from areas with abundant water, and tapping into the atmospheric moisture flows by modifying weather systems themselves. As Deniston presents in his report, the flows of water evaporated from the oceans into the atmosphere is ten times the amount of water which flows through all the planet’s rivers combined – a clearly abundant aspect of the global water cycle which can be harnessed. There is no lack of water; it merely must be managed and transformed through mastering the factors which drive the planet’s water cycle as a whole, including the interaction of solar and galactic phenomena with the planet’s biosphere. China is approaching these challenges correctly, through massive water diversion programs, and by reaching out to space, while the US under Obama, under the direction of Wall Street, is shutting down its space program, refusing to build infrastructure of any sort, and now, literally, denying water to its population.

* Obama also continues to threaten war. The Saudi war on Yemen, run directly by Obama, is in fact aimed at Iran. The deal which Obama put through with Iran is a fraud, which would be workable on its own, but as LaRouche stated, “was set up to build a case for the Saudis to move in, against other forces, by creating a weak point, and then using the Saudis as a way of starting a more general war.” Obama’s refusal to neutralize this Saudi threat, as seen clearly by his continued cover-up of the 28 pages, shows clearly that he is acting as an enemy of the American people.

* And Obama is now being increasingly abandoned, as seen by the continued shift towards the BRICS countries. The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is now in Russia, meeting with President Putin. As LaRouche stated: “The Greeks will not collapse; the Greeks will go into collaboration with Russia. The Greeks do not need a foreign financial system, the euro, to live, because the Greeks can integrate themselves into Russia and China, the developing BRICS system. Because they don’t need the euro system! However, Germany does need that system, because otherwise the German economy, and the rest of the euro system, will collapse. Why will it collapse? Because they won’t be able to rape the Greeks, or the other European nations which will also leave the euro zone if the Greeks are forced out, and join forces with the BRICS.”

The world is at a decisive moment, and the future depends on what we do to change the policy of the United States. LaRouchePAC is leading the effort to assemble a new Presidency. As Lyndon LaRouche concluded:

“So, what we have is a water project, a water policy, which contains the essential element, which if integrated in the proper way, will provide us with the relatively immediate capability, of solving this problem. It will also be effective, because we will be in tandem, with a lot of powers, China for example, the world’s leading power. Then you have other nations which fall into the same category of participation; we’ve seen the BRICS phenomenon, as such, which in and of itself is a very important factor. But that is minor compared to what the effect is, if we put this application from the United States into place. If we can put this into place, the way it can be done, and has to be done, we can save civilization. If we don’t, forget it. You’re dead.

“And that’s what it is: You’re in a situation where, we can say, yes, you are virtually dead. You don’t have a chance of living, unless you change your ways — that’s the fact. But there should be no difficulty, at least among some people, to realize what must be must be changed. There are no practical solutions, insofar as mankind usually thinks of practical solutions, there are absolutely no practical solutions whatsoever. So what we aim to do politically, is immediately take the fact, that what Martin O’Malley has done, has created a possibility, of his changing from being a possible candidate, to being the unique candidate, the only unique candidate. Forget all other candidates, they’re worthless, for President that is.”

The world is now confronted with a crisis of civilization, which can only be solved if the United States ends the insanity of the Bush/Obama degeneracy, and restores the institution of the Presidency to the service of the people of the United States — not just a new President as an individual, but, as Lyndon LaRouche stated, a new Presidency:

“What we need is not an election of a President, in a Presidential election. What we need, is a team, composed of a President, but also a Presidential system, which is something we haven’t seen for a long time. What we’ve had is racketeers.”

This new Presidency is not something to be achieved in the 2016 election, but now, before the current President, Barack Obama, is allowed to drive the world into World War III.

As LaRouche stated: “There’s only one person who’s qualified to become a President of the United States at this time: Martin O’Malley. He’s the only person who’s fit to be a President of the United States. The others all have grave defects. And it’s not the defects that they have as persons, it’s the defects they have in terms of the way they’re looking at politics.”

“Now, think about a list, of people who should be employed, to become a government, in other words, the elements of a government. This is not going to Joe Jokes gets this election, So-and-So is appointed to this power.We don’t do that. What you need, you have to have a President that’s selected, that President must coincide with a team which is the governing body of the government itself. So you don’t have any particular, single heroes. There are no heroes, in fact. Most of the experts are wrong, not because they intend to be wrong, but because they don’t know what the hell they’re doing. They don’t understand what they’re involved in.”

As of yet, O’Malley is the only prospective candidate who has qualified himself to serve as the head of this new Presidential team, responsive to the authority of a patriotic Presidential system and to the needs of the American people. He has proven this qualification by his willingness to identify the necessity of destroying the Wall Street dictatorship over the US government and both political parties, demanding a restoration of Glass Steagall, and by identifying the increasingly despondent and degenerated outlook of the American people who increasingly believe that the next generation of Americans will be worse off than their parents — if they survive at all. And that survival is gravely threatened indeed:

* The state of California, and many other Western states, including Texas, are doomed under present policies. The response of the Governor of California Jerry Brown to the drought — to mandate a 25% reduction in water usage by the population and the industries, while essentially calling for the elimination of 90% of the population — is clinically insane, and genocidal to the nation as a whole. What has been presented by Ben Deniston and the LaRouchePAC Science Team as a solution to that crisis must be applied, now, as the basis of the policy of a New Presidency. (See: “Memo to The Next President: New Perspectives on the Western Water Crisis”) What this report presents are entirely new scientific concepts to transform the access to the abundant sources of water in the biosphere, through nuclear desalination, diversion of water from areas with abundant water, and tapping into the atmospheric moisture flows by modifying weather systems themselves. As Deniston presents in his report, the flows of water evaporated from the oceans into the atmosphere is ten times the amount of water which flows through all the planet’s rivers combined – a clearly abundant aspect of the global water cycle which can be harnessed. There is no lack of water; it merely must be managed and transformed through mastering the factors which drive the planet’s water cycle as a whole, including the interaction of solar and galactic phenomena with the planet’s biosphere. China is approaching these challenges correctly, through massive water diversion programs, and by reaching out to space, while the US under Obama, under the direction of Wall Street, is shutting down its space program, refusing to build infrastructure of any sort, and now, literally, denying water to its population.

* Obama also continues to threaten war. The Saudi war on Yemen, run directly by Obama, is in fact aimed at Iran. The deal which Obama put through with Iran is a fraud, which would be workable on its own, but as LaRouche stated, “was set up to build a case for the Saudis to move in, against other forces, by creating a weak point, and then using the Saudis as a way of starting a more general war.” Obama’s refusal to neutralize this Saudi threat, as seen clearly by his continued cover-up of the 28 pages, shows clearly that he is acting as an enemy of the American people.

* And Obama is now being increasingly abandoned, as seen by the continued shift towards the BRICS countries. The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is now in Russia, meeting with President Putin. As LaRouche stated: “The Greeks will not collapse; the Greeks will go into collaboration with Russia. The Greeks do not need a foreign financial system, the euro, to live, because the Greeks can integrate themselves into Russia and China, the developing BRICS system. Because they don’t need the euro system! However, Germany does need that system, because otherwise the German economy, and the rest of the euro system, will collapse. Why will it collapse? Because they won’t be able to rape the Greeks, or the other European nations which will also leave the euro zone if the Greeks are forced out, and join forces with the BRICS.”

The world is at a decisive moment, and the future depends on what we do to change the policy of the United States. LaRouchePAC is leading the effort to assemble a new Presidency. As Lyndon LaRouche concluded:

“So, what we have is a water project, a water policy, which contains the essential element, which if integrated in the proper way, will provide us with the relatively immediate capability, of solving this problem. It will also be effective, because we will be in tandem, with a lot of powers, China for example, the world’s leading power. Then you have other nations which fall into the same category of participation; we’ve seen the BRICS phenomenon, as such, which in and of itself is a very important factor. But that is minor compared to what the effect is, if we put this application from the United States into place. If we can put this into place, the way it can be done, and has to be done, we can save civilization. If we don’t, forget it. You’re dead.

“And that’s what it is: You’re in a situation where, we can say, yes, you are virtually dead. You don’t have a chance of living, unless you change your ways — that’s the fact. But there should be no difficulty, at least among some people, to realize what must be must be changed. There are no practical solutions, insofar as mankind usually thinks of practical solutions, there are absolutely no practical solutions whatsoever. So what we aim to do politically, is immediately take the fact, that what Martin O’Malley has done, has created a possibility, of his changing from being a possible candidate, to being the unique candidate, the only unique candidate. Forget all other candidates, they’re worthless, for President that is.”

Carly Fiorina, who has said that she is more than 90% likely to seek the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, nailed the ideology of the greens as the cause of the California drought in an interview with Glenn Beck’s The Blaze on Monday.

The former Hewlett-Packard CEO told The Blaze radio program,

“With different policies over the last 20 years, all of this could be avoided. Despite the fact that California has suffered from droughts for millennia, liberal environmentalists have prevented the building of a single new reservoir or a single new water conveyance system over decades during a period in which California’s population has doubled.”

Fiorina said that as a result, 70% of California’s rainfall washes unused out to sea, year after year.

“It is a man-made disaster,” she said. “California is a classic case of liberals being willing to sacrifice other peoples’ lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology. It is a tragedy.

“In California, fish and frogs and flies are really important—far more important, apparently, than the 40% unemployment rate in certain parts of central valley,” Fiorina said. “So the Senate and the president could waive some of those water restrictions. They have been asked to do so, and they have refused to do so.”

But rather than providing a scientific solution, including reviving the nation’s policies of Great Projects for the Common Good, Fiorina echoed the libertarian mantra: “We must, absolutely must, get government under control, which means reducing its size and its power and its complexity in really fundamental ways…. The weight, the cost and the power of government are literally crushing the potential of the nation.”

Carly Fiorina, who has said that she is more than 90% likely to seek the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, nailed the ideology of the greens as the cause of the California drought in an interview with Glenn Beck’s The Blaze on Monday.

The former Hewlett-Packard CEO told The Blaze radio program,

“With different policies over the last 20 years, all of this could be avoided. Despite the fact that California has suffered from droughts for millennia, liberal environmentalists have prevented the building of a single new reservoir or a single new water conveyance system over decades during a period in which California’s population has doubled.”

Fiorina said that as a result, 70% of California’s rainfall washes unused out to sea, year after year.

“It is a man-made disaster,” she said. “California is a classic case of liberals being willing to sacrifice other peoples’ lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology. It is a tragedy.

“In California, fish and frogs and flies are really important—far more important, apparently, than the 40% unemployment rate in certain parts of central valley,” Fiorina said. “So the Senate and the president could waive some of those water restrictions. They have been asked to do so, and they have refused to do so.”

But rather than providing a scientific solution, including reviving the nation’s policies of Great Projects for the Common Good, Fiorina echoed the libertarian mantra: “We must, absolutely must, get government under control, which means reducing its size and its power and its complexity in really fundamental ways…. The weight, the cost and the power of government are literally crushing the potential of the nation.”

Carly Fiorina, who has said that she is more than 90% likely to seek the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, nailed the ideology of the greens as the cause of the California drought in an interview with Glenn Beck’s The Blaze on Monday.

The former Hewlett-Packard CEO told The Blaze radio program,

“With different policies over the last 20 years, all of this could be avoided. Despite the fact that California has suffered from droughts for millennia, liberal environmentalists have prevented the building of a single new reservoir or a single new water conveyance system over decades during a period in which California’s population has doubled.”

Fiorina said that as a result, 70% of California’s rainfall washes unused out to sea, year after year.

“It is a man-made disaster,” she said. “California is a classic case of liberals being willing to sacrifice other peoples’ lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology. It is a tragedy.

“In California, fish and frogs and flies are really important—far more important, apparently, than the 40% unemployment rate in certain parts of central valley,” Fiorina said. “So the Senate and the president could waive some of those water restrictions. They have been asked to do so, and they have refused to do so.”

But rather than providing a scientific solution, including reviving the nation’s policies of Great Projects for the Common Good, Fiorina echoed the libertarian mantra: “We must, absolutely must, get government under control, which means reducing its size and its power and its complexity in really fundamental ways…. The weight, the cost and the power of government are literally crushing the potential of the nation.”

Available reports indicate Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming seven-day visit (France, April 9-11; Germany, April 12-13; Canada, April 14-16) to three nations will have his “Make in India” campaign and the nuclear power generation at the top of his agenda. On Tuesday, French Ambassador to India François Richier, in an interaction with media in New Delhi, said: “We agree with the prime minister’s stand on nuclear energy and climate change. We share [the view] that nuclear energy is essential part of fighting climate change,”The Hindu Business Line reported.

During his stay in France, where Modi plans to complete a six-reactor deal (six 1650-MW reactors) with Areva, he will discuss with President François Hollande investment opportunities in India as well as civil nuclear cooperation. The other item under discussion in France will be the satellite with electronic intelligence systems (ELINT) package which could help India boost its strategic capabilities. Modi will also visit some industrial units outside Paris.

In Germany, Modi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will jointly inaugurate the Hannover Messe, the world’s largest industrial trade fair, where Modi is expected to interact with top German executives and present India as a manufacturing hub through his “Make in India” campaign. Moreover, Modi is expected to focus on discussing existing and prospective bilateral cooperation in green energy, infrastructure, affordable housing, and the Clean Ganga initiative. Modi will be accompanied by a large Indian government and business delegation representing some 400 Indian companies.

One Indian security analyst, Bharat Karnad, in his website on April 3, urged Modi to ask both France and Germany to help India set up a Mittelstand, Germany’s famous small and medium-size industry, which is historically the driver of its high-technology.

“If, as Modi has tweeted, this trip is centered on boosting the Indian economy and ‘creating jobs’ for the youth, he cannot do better than ask especially the Angela Merkel dispensation in Germany, and secondarily France, to materially assist in establishing the ‘Mittelstand’ here,” wrote Karnad. “Mittelstand is the network of small and medium-sized, often family-owned, engineering enterprises and workshops that prosper by continually producing specialized, high-quality engineering goods, and are the bedrock of the high-technology sectors (aerospace, automobile, etc.) in these countries,” Karnad said.

India’s Financial Express noted on April 6 that Modi’s visit may also see a much-awaited commercial nuclear fuel agreement getting signed, paving the way for Canada to supply uranium to India. “We look forward to resuming our civil nuclear energy cooperation with Canada, especially for sourcing uranium fuel for our nuclear power plants,” Modi had posted on Facebook. The two countries are expected to announce joint research and development in the field of nuclear energy, focusing on enhancing the size of pressurized heavy water reactors to be built in India. While the largest of India’s variation of the CANDU could produce 700 MW, Canada’s Advanced CANDU Reactor (ACR-1000) is an evolutionary, Generation III+, 1200 MW heavy water reactor.

Available reports indicate Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming seven-day visit (France, April 9-11; Germany, April 12-13; Canada, April 14-16) to three nations will have his “Make in India” campaign and the nuclear power generation at the top of his agenda. On Tuesday, French Ambassador to India François Richier, in an interaction with media in New Delhi, said: “We agree with the prime minister’s stand on nuclear energy and climate change. We share [the view] that nuclear energy is essential part of fighting climate change,”The Hindu Business Line reported.

During his stay in France, where Modi plans to complete a six-reactor deal (six 1650-MW reactors) with Areva, he will discuss with President François Hollande investment opportunities in India as well as civil nuclear cooperation. The other item under discussion in France will be the satellite with electronic intelligence systems (ELINT) package which could help India boost its strategic capabilities. Modi will also visit some industrial units outside Paris.

In Germany, Modi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will jointly inaugurate the Hannover Messe, the world’s largest industrial trade fair, where Modi is expected to interact with top German executives and present India as a manufacturing hub through his “Make in India” campaign. Moreover, Modi is expected to focus on discussing existing and prospective bilateral cooperation in green energy, infrastructure, affordable housing, and the Clean Ganga initiative. Modi will be accompanied by a large Indian government and business delegation representing some 400 Indian companies.

One Indian security analyst, Bharat Karnad, in his website on April 3, urged Modi to ask both France and Germany to help India set up a Mittelstand, Germany’s famous small and medium-size industry, which is historically the driver of its high-technology.

“If, as Modi has tweeted, this trip is centered on boosting the Indian economy and ‘creating jobs’ for the youth, he cannot do better than ask especially the Angela Merkel dispensation in Germany, and secondarily France, to materially assist in establishing the ‘Mittelstand’ here,” wrote Karnad. “Mittelstand is the network of small and medium-sized, often family-owned, engineering enterprises and workshops that prosper by continually producing specialized, high-quality engineering goods, and are the bedrock of the high-technology sectors (aerospace, automobile, etc.) in these countries,” Karnad said.

India’s Financial Express noted on April 6 that Modi’s visit may also see a much-awaited commercial nuclear fuel agreement getting signed, paving the way for Canada to supply uranium to India. “We look forward to resuming our civil nuclear energy cooperation with Canada, especially for sourcing uranium fuel for our nuclear power plants,” Modi had posted on Facebook. The two countries are expected to announce joint research and development in the field of nuclear energy, focusing on enhancing the size of pressurized heavy water reactors to be built in India. While the largest of India’s variation of the CANDU could produce 700 MW, Canada’s Advanced CANDU Reactor (ACR-1000) is an evolutionary, Generation III+, 1200 MW heavy water reactor.

On the eve of his first official visit to Russia, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras gave a lengthy, exclusive interview to TASS First Deputy Director General Mikhail Gusman. Gusman asked Tsipras what hoped to accomplish during his visit, and Tsipras replied, “It is an opportunity to lay a new basis for Russian-Greek relations” which would include cooperation in the fields of “the economy, energy, trade, and agriculture…. I do believe that Greece as a member of the European Union can work as a bridge linking the West and Russia.”

On the question of sanctions, Tsipras reaffirmed his government’s opposition to sanctions in principle, and in particular against Russia.

“I disagree with the sanctions,” he said. “I believe that they are a road leading nowhere. I maintain that there must be a dialogue, there must be diplomacy. Solutions to major problems are to be looked for at the negotiating table. An economic war as a continuation of real war is a hopeless policy. I am for diplomacy…. The first time I participated in the EU summit, I addressed all of our partners and counterparts — both prime ministers and heads of state — in these words: ‘Could you please tell me: How do you see a future architecture of security in Europe? Do you see that architecture with Russia at the opposing end, or with Russia involved in the process of dialogue and understanding?’ I failed to get a reply from many. The way I see it, the answer is clear: a new architecture of security in Europe cannot but include Russia.”

Commenting on the celebrations commemorating the 70th anniversary of the victory over the Nazis next month, Tsipras said, “This jubilee is of special importance to the Russian people and to the Greek people. As I have already told you, our peoples have forged fraternal relations, because they were fighting together at critically important moments in history. Greece and Russia are the two countries that paid more than the others with their blood in the struggle against Nazism. This is an integral part of our common basis, of the common roots of our countries and peoples sharing the same faith…. Let us see what can be done to make relations between the two countries and two peoples on crucial issues more meaningful. We share an excellent past of joint struggle and of walking along a common path, so we can have a worthy future.”

Tsipras warned that the celebration is also important because of the rise of fascism in Europe: “The threat of another rise of such dark forces, misanthropy, animosity among peoples, racism and other types of totalitarianism, is looming on Europe’s horizon again. A common front against the rise of fascism is an imperative of the day.”

In conclusion, Tsipras told Gusman, “I will have some very important meetings with President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. Also, I will address a student audience at one of the central universities. From that standpoint I believe that the opportunities for exchanges and cooperation at the education level between Greek and Russian universities is a major aspect of strengthening our mutual relations. Common roots, common struggle, common faith and also culture. Your country has a very rich culture, indeed. And Greek culture is the cradle of the world civilization. I believe that we may have very meaningful ties and strengthen bonds between the two countries in these spheres.”

The full interview can be found here.