Author: Alicia

Officials from Saudi Arabia stepped up their efforts this week to stop the public from knowing about their record as terror sponsors and killers of children in the Yemen war.

As pressure increases on the U.S., to declassify documents related to the 911 attacks—especially after the May 24th hearing chaired by Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) that exposed the Saudi hand in terror financing, the Saudis are frantic to stop the flood of exposes of their decades-long filthy role.

In one attempt, the Saudi government staged a press briefing, June 8, via conference call from Riyadh to construct an anti-terror record. Major General Mansour Al-Turki, a spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry said the Saudi government has frozen 117 bank accounts suspected of transferring money to terrorist groups and has prosecuted 240 individuals on charges related to funding terrorism, reported The Hill. The briefing was an attempt to prevent the June 9 House hearing, “Stopping the Money Flow” to terrorists from becoming a repeat of the May 24th indictment of the Saudi role in the House hearing.

Then in an open thug attack, the Saudi government threatened and blackmailed the UN, forcing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to admit that “his decision to remove the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen from the organization’s blacklist came after threats,” reported RT Friday.

Ban took out a reference to the Saudi-created coalition behind the war in Yemen from the report, “Children and Armed Conflict,” which had said that 60% of the children killed in Yemen (about 750, with more than 1100 more injured) had been killed by Saudi forces, reported RT.  Ban said that the removal was temporary, pending a review by a UN and Saudi committee, and it was “one of the most painful and difficult decisions” he has made, but he did it to prevent “the very real prospect that millions of other children would suffer grievously.” This is a sidewise reference to the Saudi threat to stop its funding of U.N. relief programs.

According to Foreign Policy, senior Saudi diplomats, including Foreign Minister Adel Al Jubeir, had warned UN officials that Riyadh would stop funding parts of the UN.  RT added to this picture citing a Reuters report that “there was a threat of clerics in Riyadh meeting to issue a fatwa against the UN, declaring it anti-Muslim, which would mean no contacts of OIC [Organisation of Islamic Cooperation] members, no relations, contributions, support, to any UN projects [or] programs.”

As reported earlier, the Saudis threatened to sell off the Kingdom’s US Treasury holdings if the JASTA bill was passed. Next week, Saudi Defense Minister and defacto Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (son of the allegedly semi-incapacitated King) is coming to Washington to shore up Saudi positioning. 

by Tony Papert

Yesterday, probable FBI interference had almost succeeded in preventing Lyndon LaRouche’s participation, via internet, in a major Northern California conference organized by his associates. LaRouche would have been unable to participate but for a timely intervention by the leadership there.

View the San Francisco Schiller Institute seminar proceedings here

Then, when LaRouche was finally able to speak, his starting point was the current acute threat to human existence.

“Well, the key thing I’m concerned about is the threats to the existence of the human species, in the total area right now. Because right now, at this time, the existence of the entire human species continues to be on the edge of jeopardy, and therefore we have to attune ourselves to understanding what the problems are that are involved in this, and what are the remedies for which we can get an escape for humanity in general.

“Humanity in general, right now, is under serious threat of jeopardy on a global scale.  This does not mean that it has to happen that way.  It means that if we do the right things, we can escape those threats, or at least have a reasonable ability to deal with those threats.  That’s where we stand, generally, right now.  And if you want to do something about it, let’s talk about it.”

But from that moment forward, the whole tenor of LaRouche’s remarks,— let’s face it,— grated badly on the nerves of many listening.  He kept coming back to the question of personal identity, but more especially of his own personal identity.  To a question about how the individual mind overcomes obstacles to winning a battle for mankind, he answered:

“I can tell you, I’m pretty good living qualities. I’m an active person, in society, and I’m a senior, and an experienced one, one of the most experienced of all people in that category. So I should think no one would have any difficulty in understanding who I am, what I am, where I came from and what I do.        

“Somebody else may be clinging to an idea of a different identity of some other person, who I don’t know, but it seems to be that.”

LaRouche turned almost every question around in this way. This may be irritating to you, but the first question for you to ask is: is it true?  Do things “just happen,” or are they “made to happen” by men and women who, as LaRouche said, are “qualified to make history?”  When MacArthur was forced out of the Philippines on 12 March 1942, was he right to say, “I shall return,” or should he have changed it to “we shall return?” Would mankind have made it to the Moon in 1969—or ever—but for the solitary figure of the first and greatest German space pioneer, Hermann Oberth (1894-1989).  Oberth spent most of his life in poverty. After fighting for his ideas of space travel for decades, he had met hardly anyone who both agreed and understood their importance. But it is precisely to that “hardly anyone,” like Wernher von Braun, that we owe the revolution which has been the space program.        

To a question on how we can determine whether our imagination is fantastic or truthful, LaRouche answered:        

“Why don’t we just say, let’s identify a truthful example, a truthful personality, a truthful identity.  I am. And anyone who would deny that, would be mistaken, misguided.        

“I am known, I am identified, I am a figure of the history of most of the 20th Century, and most people from the 20th Century should know who I am, and they should know what I do. They may not know every detail of what I do, but that’s it:  I am a prominent and most prominent figure on this planet, among the most prominent ones.”

Indeed, the later 20th Century would have been unrecognizable but for LaRouche’s victory over the British system of economy in a Queens College, New York debate in 1971, which then led by circuitous routes to his victory for the Strategic Defense Initiative in the Reagan Administration by 1983.  This in turn prepared the way for his initiative, with his wife Helga, which has now become the Eurasian Land-Bridge and the New Silk Road, which is the keystone development of the 21st Century to date.        

Why is it so irritating to hear the obvious: that LaRouche is a key figure of the 20th and 21st Centuries?  Because we were taught in school about the virtues of Democracy?  Is that the real reason, or is it rather that we close our ears because we find it more comforting to us personally, to deny that any man or woman can actually be responsible for the human condition and the fate of humanity?

If Obama has his way, mankind may well be driven over the edge of the cliff in the form of a thermonuclear war provocation by the United States and NATO against Russia and China, Lyndon LaRouche warned today.

The large-scale NATO maneuvers that began yesterday in Poland and the Baltic states, and that involve 31,000 troops from 24 countries in a 10-day exercise simulating a supposed Russian invasion of the region, in themselves are an immediate potential trigger. Russia’s ambassador to NATO, Alexander Grushko, yesterday explained the danger bluntly, in remarks that Mr. LaRouche considered very much to the point:

“What we are seeing today in the Baltic states, as a matter of fact, is nothing but attempts towards force development with the hostile policy pursued by NATO in the recent time. I would not say that it is a direct threat for Russia but, nevertheless, it obviously creates serious risks as we see an absolutely new military reality forming along our border.” Grushko elaborated that NATO warnings of a non-existent Russian threat can materialize into actions. “The policy (of NATO) lives in surrealistic reality, and the most dangerous thing is that it now starts taking shape of military planning and military preparations carried out on territories along our borders.”

LaRouche emphasized that Russia under President Putin will make their own decision in their own way, in response to these probes. If the British, Obama and NATO want war, they are going to get it, and it will be terrible: thermonuclear World War III–that’s what you are talking about.

There is a strategy, long-identified by LaRouche, to defeat this “surrealistic” policy of genocide emanating from the British Empire. It requires the immediate removal of Obama from the White House, both to get his finger away from the nuclear button, as well as to entirely kick over the chessboard of the lunatic U.S. presidential election, which is currently offering Americans a choice between cyanide and strychnine. And it also requires the U.S. and Europe joining the win-win New Paradigm of science-driven economic development, championed by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and which continues to move forward aggressively across Eurasia.

The issue before us is captured by the title of a major Schiller Institute event that the LaRouche movement will hold in San Francisco on June 8: “Will the U.S. Join the New Silk Road? A Choice of Global Scientific Development or Nuclear World War.”

The British have now directly weighed in to save their Saudi assets in the ongoing battle in the United States (now extended into Germany) to expose the direct Anglo-Saudi hand behind 9/11 and all the other jihadist terror attacks over the past decades. A Daily Telegraph article by Tory MP Tom Tugendhat, former adviser to the Chief of the Defence Staff, argues that if JASTA passes, British intelligence and the British government could be sued for “past” support for terrorists in Londonistan. The article is bluntly headlined “Why a US law to let 9/11 families sue Saudi Arabia is a threat to Britain and its intelligence agencies.”

While the JASTA bill is not explicitly aimed against Britain, which enjoys close intelligence cooperation with the US,

The author cites the case of Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, who was radicalized at Finsbury Park Mosque under the watchful eye of MI5 and MI6.

The author notes that there is a worst-case option, even under JASTA, which is for the President to invoke state secret privilege, which he can do even in private litigation. But, Tugendhat warns, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are supporting JASTA’s passage and might not be inclined to act. One more reminder that the British and Saudi Monarchies are attached at the hip—and elsewhere.

Of course, while it is true that “Londonistan” is truly the world capital of global terrorism, the British freakout is not about Richard Reid the “shoe bomber” or the Findsbury Park Mosque. The British are directly implicated in 9/11 through the BAE Systems Al Yamamah program, through which Prince Bandar was receiving enormous sums via the Bank of England, at the same time he was funding the San Diego 9/11 terrorist cell.

The real issue is that the release of the 28 pages opens the entire Pandora’s Box of Anglo-Saudi-Bush collusion in the biggest terrorist massacre ever to take place on US soil. The full expose of Bandar’s role immediately puts the entire BAE Al Yamamah issue back in the spotlight and forces a full  re-investigation of everything surrounding 9/11. 

Addressing the June 6-7, Eighth U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (SED) taking place in Beijing, host President Xi Jinping laid out the task before the world’s two largest economies. Xi said the nations should cultivate mutual trust and cooperation and take part in regular talks.

“The fundamental thing is the two sides should stick to the principles of no conflict or confrontation, mutual respect and win-win cooperation,” he said, South China Morning Post reported Monday.

Alluding to the increasingly hostile posture of the Obama administration vis-à-vis China, Xi said that “there is no reason to be scared of having differences, the key is not to adopt a confrontational attitude towards any differences,” according to SCMP. “Some differences can be solved through endeavor, and both sides should work harder to solve them. Some differences cannot be solved at the moment, and both sides should take each other’s actual situations into consideration and take a constructive approach.”

In contrast to Xi’s appeal to work together and make the Asia-Pacific a “big platform for cooperation,” the Obama administration made it a point to use this annual forum to accuse China as its only agenda. U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew dedicated his speech to pressing China “to reduce excess production capacity that its trading partners complain is driving a flood of low-cost steel into their markets, threatening thousands of jobs,” reported SCMP, then quoting Lew harping on, “Excess capacity has a distorting and damaging effect on global markets and implementing policies to substantially reduce production in a range of sectors suffering from overcapacity, including steel and aluminum, is critical to the function and stability of international markets.” 

The performance of U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter at the just-concluded Shangri-La Dialogue on Asia-Pacific security makes it clear that unless President Obama is removed from office, long before January 2017, the world is facing imminent global war. Not only did Carter actively promote the need to create a NATO-like structure in Asia to confront China. He has been a driver of similar even more immediate threats to Russia.  In a matter of weeks, when Obama joins other NATO heads of state and government in Warsaw, NATO battalions will be deployed into the Baltic States and Poland.  Already, ground-based Aegis BMD systems are installed in Romania, and some sane voices in the West have equated this all with the Nazi staging along Soviet borders before the launching of Operation Barbarossa in 1940, during World War II.

The parallels between the era of Nazism and Fascism and today go beyond that NATO planned “tripwire” deployment.  The mood of cultural pessimism and xenophobia that has swept all across Europe, in the light of the economic collapse, the Troika program of vicious austerity, the refugee crisis and the threat of repeated blind terrorist attacks, poses a grave danger in its own right.  And the mood in the United States is no better.

In dialogue with colleagues on Sunday, both Lyndon LaRouche and Helga Zepp-LaRouche strongly emphasized the need to revive the principle of individual human genius and to launch a genuine dialogue of civilizations, in which the great contributions from every culture and civilization are put forward as shining examples of what mankind can accomplish when society is organized around man’s creative capacity for discoveries of new physical principles never before imagined.  The image of the great space scientist Dr. Krafft Ehricke is a particular inspiration, as the United States faces the challenge to revive a space program that has been gutted and virtually destroyed by the anti-science ideology and policies of President Obama.  Krafft Ehricke, one of the geniuses of that past NASA program, spelled out mankind’s “extra-terrestrial imperative,” which remains the primary unfulfilled mission of mankind in the 21st century.

This theme of human genius was elaborated by LaRouche in a full hour of Manhattan Project Dialogue on June 5 as the only solution for mankind. 

In responding to Ashton Carter’s confrontation with China, Adm. Sun Jianguo, the deputy chief of the Joint Staff Department of China’s Central Military Commission, called for a fundamentally new security architecture for the Asia-Pacific region, based on cooperation, mutual understanding and dialogue. While it is clear that the majority of nations of the Asia-Pacific region reject the Obama and Carter war provocations, as reflected in the fact that Admiral Sun had 17 bilateral talks on the sidelines of Shangri-La, the danger of an eruption of actual war, whether directed against China or Russia, cannot be underestimated.  The German Ministry of Defense, according to Die Welt, is preparing a new White Paper, which will define Russia as a threat—no longer a partner.

It is not surprising that the Russian media has picked up on a petition that is now circulating in both Europe and the United States, for sane nations to withdraw from NATO altogether. Sputnik noted that the prominent French “left Gaullist” Presidential candidate Jacques Cheminade is already a signer on the call.

As Helga Zepp-LaRouche emphasized yesterday, “To avoid World War III, it is necessary for people to realize that humanity is one, and all cultures have produced gems” that demonstrate the potential for genius that holds the key to mankind’s future.  Lyndon LaRouche was even more blunt:  Unless you organize society around an understanding of human creativity as the pivotal factor, by putting it before the population, “you are nothing but a screwball.”

An article by Cui Tiankai, China’s ambassador to the U.S., published Wednesday in Bloomberg is an attempt to prevent the South China Sea issue from becoming the dominant theme in next week’s Strategic and Economic Dialogue between China and the United States which is to be held this time in Beijing.

Cui writes.  While reiterating China’s complaint that the move to arbitration by the Philippines (under the guiding hand of the U.S.) lacks legitimacy, because such a court has no jurisdiction to decide issues of territorial sovereignty, he also points out the total hypocrisy of the United States in trying to use the UN Law of the Sea Convention (which the U.S. still refuses to sign), as a tool against China’s actions while at the same time flouting its own self-proclaimed “freedom of navigation” doctrine which permits the U.S. Navy the sole right to travel uncontested in every sea on the globe.

Cui also notes that China’s policy in the region is NOT some sort of Monroe Doctrine, as it has often been characterized in the U.S. press.

  He also underlines China’s willingness to resolve the disputes through diplomatic dialogue and that the countries in the region are working toward creating a Code of Conduct to avoid any conflict while territorial claims are being negotiated.

Ambassador Cui also underlined the many issues which the U.S. and China have in common and have to deal with cooperatively. The Chinese Foreign Ministry also held a press conference on June 1 delineating the many issues, economic, political, and social, which they have to deal with together and which should comprise the bulk of the discussions in next week’s discussion. As this will be the last S&ED meeting on Obama’s watch, there is some concern that this will be an opportunity for a last-ditch thrust at confronting China on the territorial issue.

Man is making history before our eyes today, from day to day and even hour-to-hour, as all the various mutual links between Russia, China and India become ever closer and ever more numerous, drawing in 70 or more nations which comprise well over half of humanity,— as Helga Zepp-LaRouche said in her May 31 Tass interview.  It’s like a chained ring of magnets pulling themselves into ever-closer alignment. Think of the new revival of interest in the Kra Canal linking the South China Sea with the Indian Ocean (through the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman Sea). In its current incarnation, this is a Lyndon LaRouche and a Japanese project.  It will link India with Southeast Asia and China; it will revolutionize these waters; Lyndon LaRouche said it will be one of the greatest revolutions in modern history.        

On May 31, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told Asian editors that, “If China and India work together and forge synergy, it will deliver benefits not only to the Chinese and Indian people, but also to Asia and beyond.”  Referring to India’s recent announcement of a trade corridor deal with Iran and Afghanistan, through Iran’s Chabahar Port, Li said that China “welcomes” it.        

India and China are for the first time cooperating in regards to Tibet, where in the past China has viewed India with particular sensitivity, given the Dalai Lama’s presence in India and a sizeable Tibetan community there.        

Also on May 31, former Chinese Ambassador to Russia Li Fenglin was speaking at a two-day conference on China-Russia relations in Moscow.  He said that the bilateral relationship is at a 400-year high, but China wants Russia to trust it more.        

“I have a feeling that Putin and Xi have a conceptual understanding of how we should work together, but there are problems of understanding in the mid-level,” said Ambassador Li, who spoke perfect and idiomatic Russian.  “It does not matter that we have different approaches.  It’s a normal thing for such big and different countries to have different approaches. The main thing is that they do not lead to contradictions.”

All this calls to mind why it was that LaRouchePAC leader Kesha Rogers of Houston wisely chose the figure of the late German-American space pioneer Krafft Ehricke, to keynote her fight for the revival of the space program.  Krafft Ehricke’s approach is just like that of Lyndon LaRouche, in that it is not the least bit practical, but yet it is extremely effective, as has been demonstrated beyond doubt.  Krafft Ehricke was one of those leaders of space exploration like Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Hermann Oberth earlier, whose courage and intellect has brought man to new worlds, beyond even what Christopher Columbus did.

Krafft Ehricke was a scientist, but his is real science, not the disgusting mathematical substitute for science which is taught in our schools, and which is represented by Obama’s degenerate Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter.  Ashton Carter’s phony version of science brought us the F-35 airplane, at probably $200 million apiece, which doesn’t work, and will never work.

Krafft, on the other hand, among many other bold feats of science, forecast precisely the 1970 Apollo 13 mission, in a paper written in 1948.  Typically for him, his 1948 paper said that it had been written in 2400, looking back 350 years to the first manned Mars mission in 2050, called “Expedition Ares.” Terence Norton, the leader of that mission, had had to answer the objection that the limitations on the technologies available in 2050,— principally the availability of only chemical propulsion for space travel,— increased the likelihood of “a departure from the normal schedule,” and with it the failure of the mission and even the deaths of its crew.  What was his answer?  To cancel the mission?  In his report to the “Space Board,” he wrote:

Another factor was realistic, thorough and diverse training, training, training,— much of it in space.  Note that most of the redundancy built into “Expedition Ares” was identical to that found in the Apollo missions: namely, the clustering of different independently-survivable modules, each one both tailored to a specific purpose, but at the same time general-purpose.

And just like Apollo 13, “Expedition Ares” suffered a mishap and a “departure from normal schedule.”  Like Apollo 13, the mission had to be aborted, but as with Apollo 13, every one of the crewmen was rescued, and made it back alive to Earth.        

Kesha Rogers certainly knows what she’s talking about.

Tune in to this week’s Fireside Chat Thursday at 9 pm EDT, featuring Will Wertz

NATO is running exercise after exercise in the Baltics and Poland. Exercise Saber Strike, with 10,000 troops from 13 countries, kicked off on May 27 in the Baltic states. The US Army’s 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, concurrent with Saber Strike, left its base in Vilseck, Germany, last week, for a 2,200-km Dragoon Ride, meandering through the Czech Republic (where they are now), Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and, finally, Estonia, over the course of June. This and the Saber Strike exercise follow the recently concluded Spring Storm exercise, which saw 6,000 troops in Estonia. Also recently concluded is Exercise Brilliant Jump, which ran from May 17 to 26, which tested the very-high-readiness Joint Task Force and the Spanish-led NATO Force Integration Headquarters in Poland. All of this will be followed by Exercise Anakonda in Poland later in June and into July, in the run-up to the NATO summit in Warsaw on July 8-9.

NATO’s execising isn’t limited to Poland and the Baltics, however. Exercise Noble Partner concluded in Georgia, last week. UK troops participating in the exercise were treated to a visit by General Sir Adrian Bradshaw, who also met with the Georgian defense minister.

In the middle of this, notes Sputnik, sits Poland, whose right-wing government has been playing a crucial role in stoking the flames of confrontation. Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski reportedly is saying that Warsaw won’t agree to any more discussions between NATO and Russia until NATO finally approves the additional troop deployments to Poland and the Baltic states. “Only then will we give our consent to the meeting [of the Russia-NATO Council],” he said, adding that NATO has agreed to this. It’s likely that Russia will see no point in resuming NATO-Russia Council discussions under such conditions.