Author: Alicia

On Feb. 29, 2012, at the height of the attempted White Revolution destabilization of Russia, and days before the country’s Presidential election, then-Presidential candidate and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned that a scenario had been reported for assassinating a well-known opposition figure and blaming it on the Kremlin. What Putin said then, closely matches the murder of former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, an extra-parliamentary opposition leader, on the night of Feb. 27, 2015.

The following is an edited excerpt of the EIRNS dispatch of March 2, 2012:

Former Russian “young reformer” and current opposition figure Boris Nemtsov was shot dead Friday night as he walked across the Bolshoy
Zamoskvoretsky Bridge, adjacent to Red Square in Moscow. Vladimir Markin, spokesman for Russia’s Investigative Committee, said that Nemtsov was hit numerous times by shots fired by a gunman or gunmen who escaped by car, and he died at the scene before emergency medical services arrived. Markin also stated that “the investigation is looking at several versions” as to who was responsible.

Western press headlines immediately declared Russian President Vladimir Putin’s responsibility for the assassination. Presidential spokesman Dmitri Peskov said:

“Vladimir Putin noted that this cruel murder has all the signs of being a contract killing, and is absolutely provocational in nature.”

Lyndon LaRouche stated today:

“The idea that he [nemtsov] was assassinated by Putin, in Putin’s interest, is crazy… Who would have the motive, to have shot this guy, in Russia? Victoria Nuland,”

Obama’s Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. LaRouche added that the question must be asked whether or not Nuland

“was part of the team that organized the assassination of this guy. It sounds like Nuland. To me, it smells like Nuland… She’s on the list of the suspected criminals, for this case, as for other cases.”

Nuland is widely recognized as the architect of the 2014 coup d’etat in Ukraine, as well as the sponsor of the neo-nazi organizations which led that coup. Just this past week, Nuland was meeting in Washington with Andriy Parubiy, who led the fascist militias during the Euromaidan coup, and is now the deputy speaker of the Ukraine Supreme Rada. Nuland and Parubiy are promoting the policy of the U.S. sending lethal weapons to the Kiev government, which would throw oil on the fire in the region and likely unleash a broader conflict with Russia.

As LaRouche and his associates have thoroughly documented, Nuland, Obama and their British sponsors are hell-bent on bringing a “Maidan revolution” to Russia as well, orchestrating regime change to topple the Putin government, and have even activated a policy of threatened tactical nuclear warfare against Russia — and China— to force them to submit to the crumbling trans-Atlantic financial empire. That submission will not happen, however, as the Russian leadership has repeatedly made clear.

More broadly, Obama and the British are frantic to stop the emerging alternative to their bankrupt trans-Atlantic financial system, which is taking shape around the newly established “new paradigm” of global development established by the BRICS nations, under the leadership of China and Russia. That BRICS process now includes nations such as Argentina, Egypt, and increasingly Greece. Obama and his City of London and Wall Street sponsors have repeatedly deployed murders and terrorist acts to target these nations, along with open military and financial warfare aimed at regime change.

For example, in Argentina, where President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, a leading collaborator of the BRICS, is being threatened with regime change orchestrated by the New York and London vulture funds, federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman was “suicided” on Jan. 18, the day before he was to announce the release of a dossier supposedly proving Cristina’s guilt in covering up for Iran in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. Cristina was immediately blamed as the architect of Nisman’s death, in much of the international media. But on Feb. 26, the judge overseeing the bombing case, after reviewing Nisman’s so-called “evidence,” threw the case out and declared that “there is not a single element of evidence, not even circumstantial, which implicates the current head of State.”

In BRICS-member Brazil, President Dilma Rousseff is also the target of a major destabilization and financial warfare, revolving around charges of corruption of the state oil company Petrobras. A national mobilization in defense of Brazil and in opposition to that operation has been launched, with leaders such as former Science and Technology Minister Roberto Amaral denouncing that “the coup is already underway.”

Another recent case of unfounded charges being leveled against Putin and the Russian government, was the case of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down over Ukraine on July 14, 2014. Obama and London immediately blamed Putin, with no evidence whatsoever. In fact, the U.S. has refused to release satellite or AWAC surveillance videos of the incident, or other relevant evidence. This was used to browbeat a reluctant Europe into joining in sanctions and related financial warfare against Russia, and to escalate the military confrontation.

Now, the timely murder of Nemtsov indicates that Obama and the British are moving to massively escalate the confrontation with Russia up to the threshold of thermonuclear war.

By Bill Ferguson

Here at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank
We serve the Queen and those of peerage rank,
Got billions of pounds, and opprobrium,
For the financing of Royal trade in opium.

Chorus:
For the financing of Royal trade in opium!

We finance all that traffic so carefullee,
That’s how we launder money at HSBC.

Chorus:
They finance all that traffic so carefullee,
That’s how they launder money at HSBC.

There is so much dope to buy and sell;
We’ve accounts of the Sinaloa drug cartel.
Some cash they got selling their cocaine
Obama got for his two thousand eight campaign!

Chorus:
Obama got for his two thousand eight campaign!

I guess that’s why we’ve always gotten off scott free,
With laundering their money at HSBC.

Chorus:
He’d guess that’s why they’ve always gotten off scott free,
With laundering their money at HSBC.

Convicting us, it seemed such a cinch,
But the DOJ sent Loretta Lynch,
She made our bargain so benevolent,
She got the nomination of the President.

Chorus:
She got the nomination of the President!

Deferring prosecution with a fine so wee,
So we can launder money at HSBC.

Chorus:
Deferring prosecution with a fine so wee,
So they can launder money at HSBC.

Bandar bin Sultan, of Arabia the Prince
To finance jihadis spares no expense,
As his Al-Yamama funding grew,
So Al-Qaeda did, and Islamic State too.

Chorus:
So Al-Qaeda did, and Islamic State too!

When assassins have there banking needs,
They can come launder money at HSBC.

Chorus:

When assassins have there banking needs,
They can come launder money at HSBC!

With Wall Street and with London crashing down,
As the raids, subpoenas, are circling around,
I am now looking forward to a prison cell;
If I’ve a soul, I fear that it will burn in Hell.

Chorus:
Had he a Soul, he fears that it will burn in Hell!

But p’rhaps while in Hell, I invited will be,
To tea, with Her Majesty, at HSBC!

Chorus:
But p’rhaps while in Hell, he invited will be,
To tea, with Her Majesty, at HSBC!

By Bill Ferguson

Here at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank
We serve the Queen and those of peerage rank,
Got billions of pounds, and opprobrium,
For the financing of Royal trade in opium.

Chorus:
For the financing of Royal trade in opium!

We finance all that traffic so carefullee,
That’s how we launder money at HSBC.

Chorus:
They finance all that traffic so carefullee,
That’s how they launder money at HSBC.

There is so much dope to buy and sell;
We’ve accounts of the Sinaloa drug cartel.
Some cash they got selling their cocaine
Obama got for his two thousand eight campaign!

Chorus:
Obama got for his two thousand eight campaign!

I guess that’s why we’ve always gotten off scott free,
With laundering their money at HSBC.

Chorus:
He’d guess that’s why they’ve always gotten off scott free,
With laundering their money at HSBC.

Convicting us, it seemed such a cinch,
But the DOJ sent Loretta Lynch,
She made our bargain so benevolent,
She got the nomination of the President.

Chorus:
She got the nomination of the President!

Deferring prosecution with a fine so wee,
So we can launder money at HSBC.

Chorus:
Deferring prosecution with a fine so wee,
So they can launder money at HSBC.

Bandar bin Sultan, of Arabia the Prince
To finance jihadis spares no expense,
As his Al-Yamama funding grew,
So Al-Qaeda did, and Islamic State too.

Chorus:
So Al-Qaeda did, and Islamic State too!

When assassins have there banking needs,
They can come launder money at HSBC.

Chorus:

When assassins have there banking needs,
They can come launder money at HSBC!

With Wall Street and with London crashing down,
As the raids, subpoenas, are circling around,
I am now looking forward to a prison cell;
If I’ve a soul, I fear that it will burn in Hell.

Chorus:
Had he a Soul, he fears that it will burn in Hell!

But p’rhaps while in Hell, I invited will be,
To tea, with Her Majesty, at HSBC!

Chorus:
But p’rhaps while in Hell, he invited will be,
To tea, with Her Majesty, at HSBC!

Tune into LaRouchepac.com this Saturday at 2pm EST for a live Schiller Institute event from Houston, TX featuring President of the Schiller Institute, Helga Zepp-Larouche, former Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, Kesha Rogers, LaRouchePAC Western States’ Spokesman Harley Schlanger and LPAC Basement Team member Benjamin Deniston. 

Civilization stands at the doorway of a new age, one that our present generation is tasked with the joy and responsibility of bringing to life. The brutal imperial policies, which are eliminating sovereign nations states, in order to impose killer austerity regimes, threaten the continued existence of human civilization on this planet. In response to these destructive aims, a mass movement for development and human creativity is taking hold everywhere. This transformation is catching fire across the planet, a breakthrough resulting from over 40 years of life’s work and conferences, organized by Lyndon and Helga LaRouche, which is now being realized by the BRICS (Brazil, Russia India, China, South Africa), and allied nations. A new paradigm for mankind and a mass movement for development is at hand, if we as Americans choose to free our nation and mankind from a rotten, bankrupt Wall Street, and London Centered financial oligarchy, and restore the intended purpose of our republic and nation states throughout the planet, to promote the general welfare of all, just as Alexander Hamilton understood and intended to do.

This new era must be self-consciously organized based on the true, innate nature of mankind, as the only willfully creative species in the known universe. Large portions of the globe are now taking charge of the future of science, culture, and industry, openly breaking from the clutches of a bankrupt and desperate financial monarchy. This process is being carried forward by the BRICS alliance of nations, which now includes approximately 5 billion people.

In response to these developments, the oligarchs of Wall Street and City of London have only one plan, to launch thermonuclear war, to prevent this new paradigm from coming into existence.

Will you join us on this stage of history, is the question. Will our founding fathers find a nation 239 years later, of Hamlets and Macbeths, or one of Dr. Kings and Gen. MacArthurs?

This is the challenge now facing us all, for our nation and the world. This will be the subject taken up at the Schiller Institute Conference on February 28th: The End of the Age of Austerity: Join the BRICS’ Mass Movement for Development!

For more information, or if you need any further details on the conference, please call (713) 830-9052 or email SchillerInstituteTX@gmail.com.

Tune into LaRouchePAC.com this Saturday at 2pm EST for a live Schiller Institute event from Houston, TX featuring founder of the Schiller Institute, Helga Zepp-Larouche, former Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, Kesha Rogers, LaRouchePAC Western States Spokesman Harley Schlanger and LPAC Basement Team member Benjamin Deniston. 

Civilization stands at the doorway of a new age, one that our present generation is tasked with the joy and responsibility of bringing to life. The brutal imperial policies, which are eliminating sovereign nations states, in order to impose killer austerity regimes, threaten the continued existence of human civilization on this planet. In response to these destructive aims, a mass movement for development and human creativity is taking hold everywhere. This transformation is catching fire across the planet, a breakthrough resulting from over 40 years of life’s work and conferences, organized by Lyndon and Helga LaRouche, which is now being realized by the BRICS (Brazil, Russia India, China, South Africa), and allied nations. A new paradigm for mankind and a mass movement for development is at hand, if we as Americans choose to free our nation and mankind from a rotten, bankrupt Wall Street, and London Centered financial oligarchy, and restore the intended purpose of our republic and nation states throughout the planet, to promote the general welfare of all, just as Alexander Hamilton understood and intended to do.

This new era must be self-consciously organized based on the true, innate nature of mankind, as the only willfully creative species in the known universe. Large portions of the globe are now taking charge of the future of science, culture, and industry, openly breaking from the clutches of a bankrupt and desperate financial monarchy. This process is being carried forward by the BRICS alliance of nations, which now includes approximately 5 billion people.

In response to these developments, the oligarchs of Wall Street and City of London have only one plan, to launch thermonuclear war, to prevent this new paradigm from coming into existence.

Will you join us on this stage of history, is the question. Will our founding fathers find a nation 239 years later, of Hamlets and Macbeths, or one of Dr. Kings and Gen. MacArthurs?

This is the challenge now facing us all, for our nation and the world. This will be the subject taken up at the Schiller Institute Conference on February 28th: The End of the Age of Austerity: Join the BRICS’ Mass Movement for Development!

For more information, or if you need any further details on the conference, please call (713) 830-9052 or email SchillerInstituteTX@gmail.com.

In line with Lyndon LaRouche’s past 48 hours’ discussion about the danger of limited nuclear war targeted against Russia and China, and contained within the Eurasian region, a fierce debate has been underway among nuclear weapon and disarmament specialists on both sides of the Atlantic.

In the aftermath of an Obama Administration decision in mid-2013 to allocate significant defense funds to the modernization of America’s nuclear triad, including the modernization of its arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe, increasing calls have been issued for the U.S. to withdraw all of its tactical nuclear weapons in Europe, because they represent a dangerous and counter-productive use of limited defense dollars.

The U.S. is upgrading the existing B-12 tactical nuclear weapons in a way that increases their range and their accuracy, blurring the lines between nuclear and conventional weapons, and violating the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force (INF) Treaty, which bars the deployment of such weapons in Europe. By adding “tail kits” to the existing B-12 tactical nuclear weapons, the accuracy of the weapons is greatly enhanced, making it possible to reduce the mega-tonnage of the nuclear explosives. The plans to deploy the new B-61-12 tactical nukes on the F-35 stealth fighters, due to be deployed to Europe in the coming years, means that the smaller-scale nuclear warheads can be launched against targets deep inside Russia.

All of this, critics have been warning, increases the possibility of a limited nuclear war being launched, which, they argue, will lead inevitably to an escalation to full-scale nuclear confrontation at the level of annihilation.

In the July/August 2014 issue of the CFR’s Foreign Affairs journal, Barry Blechman and Russell Rumbaugh wrote “Bombs Away—The Case for Phasing Out U.S. Tactical Nukes in Europe.” A similar argument, detailing the modernization of the B-61s, was presented Nov. 6, 2013 in Spiegel Online by Markus Becker, who recently wrote of the increased dangers of nuclear war coming from the Ukraine crisis. Becker’s piece was headlined “Nuclear Arsenal: U.S. to Turn Old Bombs into All-Purpose Weapons.”

Hans Kristensen, of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), has been writing warnings about the tendency to push for limited nuclear war in the European and Eurasian theater for the past several years, most recently in a Sept. 3, 2014 article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists under the title “Why NATO should eliminate its tactical nukes, despite Russian belligerence.” He was the author of a comprehensive review of the U.S. and NATO tactical and short-range nuclear weapons arsenals around the globe for the FAS in May 2012, titled “Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons.” In the study, he warned that such new weapons systems create a greater danger of the outbreak of nuclear war.

Germany, among other European nations, has been calling for the U.S. to withdraw all tactical nukes from Europe. There are currently 180 U.S. tactical nuclear bombs in NATO countries—Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, and Turkey. All of these are older versions of the B-61, which will replaced in the next years with the new versions, which effectively convert them into intermediate-range nuclear weapons.

While there have been few unclassified papers explicitly arguing for the viability of limited nuclear war against Russia and/or China in the Eurasian theater, the decision to go ahead with the “modernization fix” of the B-61 and the Obama decision to allocate $335 billion over the next decade for modernization of the U.S. thermonuclear arsenal, sufficiently makes the point.

In line with Lyndon LaRouche’s past 48 hours’ discussion about the danger of limited nuclear war targeted against Russia and China, and contained within the Eurasian region, a fierce debate has been underway among nuclear weapon and disarmament specialists on both sides of the Atlantic.

In the aftermath of an Obama Administration decision in mid-2013 to allocate significant defense funds to the modernization of America’s nuclear triad, including the modernization of its arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe, increasing calls have been issued for the U.S. to withdraw all of its tactical nuclear weapons in Europe, because they represent a dangerous and counter-productive use of limited defense dollars.

The U.S. is upgrading the existing B61-12 tactical nuclear weapons in a way that increases their range and their accuracy, blurring the lines between nuclear and conventional weapons, and violating the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force (INF) Treaty, which bars the deployment of such weapons in Europe. By adding “tail kits” to the existing B61-12 tactical nuclear weapons, the accuracy of the weapons is greatly enhanced, making it possible to reduce the mega-tonnage of the nuclear explosives. The plans to deploy the new B61-12 tactical nukes on the F-35 stealth fighters, due to be deployed to Europe in the coming years, means that the smaller-scale nuclear warheads can be launched against targets deep inside Russia.

All of this, critics have been warning, increases the possibility of a limited nuclear war being launched, which, they argue, will lead inevitably to an escalation to full-scale nuclear confrontation at the level of annihilation.

In the July/August 2014 issue of the CFR’s Foreign Affairs journal, Barry Blechman and Russell Rumbaugh wrote “Bombs Away—The Case for Phasing Out U.S. Tactical Nukes in Europe.” A similar argument, detailing the modernization of the B-61s, was presented Nov. 6, 2013 in Spiegel Online by Markus Becker, who recently wrote of the increased dangers of nuclear war coming from the Ukraine crisis. Becker’s piece was headlined “Nuclear Arsenal: U.S. to Turn Old Bombs into All-Purpose Weapons.”

Hans Kristensen, of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), has been writing warnings about the tendency to push for limited nuclear war in the European and Eurasian theater for the past several years, most recently in a Sept. 3, 2014 article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists under the title “Why NATO should eliminate its tactical nukes, despite Russian belligerence.” He was the author of a comprehensive review of the U.S. and NATO tactical and short-range nuclear weapons arsenals around the globe for the FAS in May 2012, titled “Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons.” In the study, he warned that such new weapons systems create a greater danger of the outbreak of nuclear war.

Germany, among other European nations, has been calling for the U.S. to withdraw all tactical nukes from Europe. There are currently 180 U.S. tactical nuclear bombs in NATO countries—Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, and Turkey. All of these are older versions of the B-61, which will replaced in the next years with the new versions, which effectively convert them into intermediate-range nuclear weapons.

While there have been few unclassified papers explicitly arguing for the viability of limited nuclear war against Russia and/or China in the Eurasian theater, the decision to go ahead with the “modernization fix” of the B-61 and the Obama decision to allocate $335 billion over the next decade for modernization of the U.S. thermonuclear arsenal, sufficiently makes the point.