EIR Daily Alert Service, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2019
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2019
Volume 6, Number 135
EIR Daily Alert Service
P.O. Box 17390, Washington, DC 20041-0390
- The Broader Strategic Implications of the Darroch Affair
- Putin Urges International Cooperation on Fusion Energy To Unleash Humanity’s Potential
- Trump Tweets No More Dealings With U.K. Ambassador Darroch
- Is Bolton a ‘Trump Whisperer’ Deployed by London?
- Bolton, Pompeo, Pence Address Armageddonist Conference on Iran
- Tehran’s Foreign Minister Zarif Tweets Trump Should Dump ‘Team B’ To Resolve Iran Crisis
- Hybrid War Against Syria, Iran May Trigger ‘Massive’ Mideast War, Warns Russian Daily
- China Daily Editorial Urges Restraint on the Iran Crisis-Especially by the British
- Global Times Exhorts India To Join Belt and Road Effort in Corridor with Bangladesh, Myanmar and China
- Deutsch Bank is Not Alone
EDITORIAL
The Broader Strategic Implications of the Darroch Affair
July 9 (EIRNS)—The July 7 leak of extensive diplomatic traffic between Britain’s Ambassador to the U.S. Sir Kim Darroch and the U.K.’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, is quickly becoming a lit stick of dynamite that threatens to blow apart the entire “special relationship” between the U.S. and the United Kingdom, which has been the linchpin of the British Empire’s global control during the entire post-war period.
In a discussion with associates today, Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche commented that the prospects of defeating the bankrupt British system of financial speculation and geopolitics “are getting better by the day, and whoever is the whistleblower who revealed what happened around this British ambassador in Washington is doing humanity a big favor. But let me put in the caveat that when the power of the British Empire is about to crumble because it’s being exposed all over the place, this means we are also moving in an extremely dangerous period,because the British always like to have ‘a splendid little war’ when they don’t get their way. And right now, the situation concerning Iran is building up in a very dangerous way.”
Zepp-LaRouche further discussed the way in which these developments open the door to reverse the entire paradigm shift which has swept the Americas and Europe over the last half-century.
Crucial to the British Empire’s paradigm shift since the 1960s, towards an anti-science zero growth outlook and a view of Man as nothing but a hedonistic animal, was their orchestrated broadside against the idea of Man’s ability to bring about unending progress, and against the foremost American exponent of that idea in this era, Lyndon LaRouche. On top of his frameup and incarceration—by the same political hit-men now trying to topple the Trump Presidency—the British have conducted a decades-long campaign of vilification and ridicule against LaRouche’s central ideas, designed to make sure that no one takes them seriously enough to study them in depth and use them to forge a New Renaissance.
Two key examples suffice to make the point. First, they scoff at the idea that the British Empire continues to be a dominant planetary power, often controlling the very Presidency of the United States.
But the leaked diplomatic cables of Britain’s Ambassador to Washington Kim Darroch—whom President Donald Trump has accurately characterized as a “very stupid guy” and a “pompous fool”—confirm LaRouche’s charges against the British in spades. Darroch writes openly about setting up a system where they cultivate everyone to whom Trump speaks (“flood the zone”), so that he only gets the British view fed back to him in one form or another. As further details begin to emerge, it now turns out that National Security Adviser John Bolton is one of Sir Kim’s regular chummy interlocutors.
It should also be noted, that this approach is not only the way the British operate to control the Presidency and other targeted important individuals; it is also the way their massive cultural brainwashing operations are designed to control the population as well. They feed you a palette of options to choose from—all of which are designed by them, all of which are degrading to your actual creative capabilities. So beware of what you “like!” It’s probable that the British have “flooded your zone” as well.
Another key revelation to emerge from the Darroch cables is Britain’s intent to manipulate the United States into a military conflict with Iran—over the President’s gut objection to such adventures. In fact, the more the British Empire’s power feels threatened, politically and financially, the more likely they are to launch an orchestrated provocation in Iran or elsewhere. The danger on this front is growing.
A second key idea strongly associated with LaRouche, and despised by the British, is the idea that Man must and will return to space, and will explore and colonize the Moon, Mars and beyond. The British have for decades tried to get the entire planet to join them in cynical, snide laughter at such concepts.
But now precisely that idea is the adopted policy, to one degree or another, of the governments of the United States, Russia, China and India. True, it cannot be actually achieved without a rebuilding of the world economy based on a science- driver orientation, with a Hamiltonian credit system to match, and there are definite shortcomings in the understanding of how to do that, of the science of physical economy, in each of those four great powers.
But Lyndon LaRouche’s body of work stands ready and available to guide that task, to which end his full exoneration becomes the decisive strategic requirement.
SCIENCE AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Putin Urges International Cooperation on Fusion Energy To Unleash Humanity’s Potential
July 9 (EIRNS)—Russian President Vladimir Putin opened the Global Manufacturing and Industrialization Summit in Yekaterinburg, Russia today with a call for “detailed, meaningful discussion” on what kind of sustainable development can guarantee “better living conditions and opportunities for unleashing human potential” into the future for all of humanity. Fusion energy is key to that, he proposed, and it will only be achieved through international cooperation. Putin elaborated:
“I believe that in order to secure cleaner air, water and food, which also means a better quality of life and longevity for billions of people on our planet, we must offer up radically new technologies and more efficient and environmentally-friendly devices.”
Such as fusion energy, one of the “so-called nature-like technologies that reproduce natural processes and systems according to the laws of nature,” Putin proposed. He went on:
“It may seem strange at first, but fusion energy, which in fact is similar to how heat and light are produced in our star, in the Sun, is an example of such nature-like technologies.
“Potentially we can harness a colossal, inexhaustible and safe source of energy. However, we will only succeed in fusion energy and in solving other fundamental tasks if we establish broad international cooperation and interaction between government and business, and join the efforts of researchers representing different scientific schools and areas. If technological development becomes truly global, it will not be split up or reined in by attempts to monopolize progress, limit access to education and put up new obstacles to the free exchange of knowledge and ideas…
“The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) serves as a prime example of open scientific, technological cooperation. Scientists are now planning to use it to launch the process of controlled thermonuclear fusion.
“Our country is actively participating in this project, and is now prepared to suggest that they use Russia’s scientific infrastructure for joint research, joint scientific investigation, for the international scientific teams that are working in the sphere of nature-like and other breakthrough technologies, including unique mega-science installations.
“With their help, scientists will be able to literally see nature’s creation processes.”
In other sections of his speech, Putin also tore apart those proposing “obscurantism” and rejection of technology as a solution. Although he gave unnecessary credence to anthropogenic threats to the climate, he attacked “total rejection of nuclear or hydrocarbon energy” as the kind of “showy, but not effective solutions” that create problems.
“It comes down to appeals to give up progress, which will make it possible at best to perpetuate the situation and create local wellbeing for a select few. At the same time, millions of people will have to settle for what they have today or, it would be more appropriate to say, what they don’t have today: access to clean water, food, education and other basics of civilization.”
These “road to nowhere” approaches “only lead to new conflicts,” such as the migration crisis in Europe, and the U.S. as well, for that matter, he said.
“Of course you can’t forbid anyone from wearing animal fur or living in caves, but it is impossible and pointless to try and stop human progress. The question is, which base can this progress realistically be built upon to achieve the millennium development goals set by the United Nations.”
Over 2,500 government officials, business leaders, scientists and NGO representatives are attending the three-day summit, organized by the U.A.E. Ministry of Energy and Industry, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade, and the Roscongress Foundation.
U.S. POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC
Trump Tweets No More Dealings with U.K. Ambassador Darroch
July 9 (EIRNS)—President Donald Trump upped the ante against British conspirators against his administration in a tweet today declaring that “we” will no longer deal with the British Ambassador to Washington Sir Kim Darroch. Darroch’s brazen operations to coup President Trump or control his administration were exposed by leaks of his revealing cables in the July 7 issue of the Mail on Sunday.
“I have been very critical about the way the U.K. and Prime Minister Theresa May handled Brexit. What a mess she and her representatives have created. I told her how it should be done, but she decided to go another way. I do not know the Ambassador, but he is not liked or well thought of within the U.S. We will no longer deal with him. The good news for the wonderful United Kingdom is that they will soon have a new Prime Minister. While I thoroughly enjoyed the magnificent State Visit last month, it was the Queen who I was most impressed with!” he tweeted.
Sir Kim was also disinvited from the dinner offered by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin for the visiting Emir of Qatar, which President Trump addressed on Monday night, various media report.
The Guardian expressed what has the British Empire most hysterical:
“It is not clear from Trump’s tweets whether he personally is withholding cooperation from Darroch, or if he will instruct the entire U.S. administration, including White House staff, the National Security Adviser and the State Department, to cut ties with the ambassador….
“If such an explosive move were to take place, it would effectively render Darroch persona non grata in Washington and of no use as an interlocutor between the British and American governments.”
The British Establishment is dug in against recalling the ambassador under fire, but the Guardian warned that if Darroch is cut off entirely, Darroch may realize that “there is nothing to be gained by staying, which might put strain on the so-called special relationship”—quite an understatement!
The affair also puts Prime Minister hopeful Boris Johnson in a tight spot. Should he win that post, he will have to decide whether or not to replace Darroch. It should be noted that Johnson has said nothing about this affair. He was Foreign Secretary between July 2016 and July 2018 when Darroch’s reports came across his desk, and in December 2015, as Mayor of London, he insulted Trump, saying he was “clearly out of his mind” and “unfit for office.”
U.K. International Trade Secretary Liam Fox was in Washington, D.C. on July 8, putting the word out that he intended to attempt to smooth over relations by presenting an apology for the leak to Ivanka Trump, the President’s daughter and adviser. Fox moaned to the BBC that “this is such a damaging, potentially damaging event that I hope the full force of our internal discipline, or even the law, will come down on whoever actually carried out this particular act,” but meaning the leaks, not Darroch’s acts.
Some MPs, according to the Guardian have “circulated theories in Parliament that the culprit could be Russian government hackers or another hostile state.”
The Russophobia apparently was a bit much even for the British government: MP Alan Duncan, a Foreign Office minister, told the Commons that the government believes the leak was made “from within” Whitehall, rather than by foreign agents.
Is Bolton a ‘Trump Whisperer’ Deployed by London?
July 9 (EIRNS)—Politico’s Playbook provides links to lists of attendees at various British Embassy receptions and dinners in Washington over the past two years, with attention to members of the Trump Administration who hobnobbed at them. While those listings do not tell us much, the following item within that column calls attention to a report in the Washington Post on British Ambassador Sir Kim Darroch’s relations with National Security Adviser John Bolton, is more substantial:
“Darroch himself frequently meets with National Security Adviser John Bolton and had early-morning breakfast meetings with John Kelly, then the former Chief of Staff, according to people familiar with the matter who, like others in this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity. He has been key in working with Trump’s aides behind the scenes to arrange visits to Britain in a way that would avoid angering the President, White House and embassy officials say.”
The Washington Post story itself writes of a “coterie—including Kellyanne Conway, Stephen Miller, Mick Mulvaney, Sarah Sanders and Trump ally Chris Ruddy” who have been guests for private dinners with the British Ambassador, “where they share about the President and his decision-making.”
Early on in Trump’s first term, Sir Kim described his strategy as “flooding the zone” around the U.S. President in order to control all channels of advice. His memo to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office after President Trump’s state visit with the Queen in June 2019, reported with glee that key members of Trump’s team who accompanied him had been “dazzled” by the official visit to London. “These are close contacts, with whom we have spent years building relationships: they are the gate keepers and the ‘Trump Whisperers’—the individuals we rely upon to ensure the U.K. voice is being heard in the West Wing,” he boasted.
Bolton, Pompeo, Pence Address Armageddonist Conference on Iran
July 9 (EIRNS)—The neo-conservative faction of the Trump Administration was well represented at the Christians United for Israel (CUFI) conference yesterday. Vice President Mike Pence, National Security Adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo all addressed the conference and all practically cheered for regime change in Tehran. “We will continue to increase the pressure on the Iranian regime until it abandons its nuclear weapons program and ends its violent activities across the Middle East, including conducting and supporting terrorism around the world,” Bolton said. “As we pressure the Iranian regime, we will also continue to stand with the long-suffering Iranian people, who as President Trump has said, are the ‘rightful heirs to a rich culture and an ancient land,’ ” he ranted further. Pompeo similarly bragged that “We’ve implemented the strongest pressure campaign in history against the Iranian regime and we are not done,” and that U.S. sanctions have deprived Iran of funds it would have used “to destroy the state of Israel.”
Pence claimed that the JCPOA simply delayed Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon by “roughly a decade” and gave away billions in economic relief that Iran could then use to wage terrorist attacks. “Iran must choose between caring for its people and continuing to fund its proxies who spread violence and terrorism throughout the region and breathe out murderous hatred against Israel,” Pence went on. He claimed that the U.S. actions have succeeded in “cutting off” Iran’s ability to support terrorism in the Middle East, but he also charged that the Islamic Republic had increased its “malign activity and violence in the region” over the past several months.
Christians United for Israel was founded and is led by evangelist pastor John Hagee, who once preached, according to numerous reports, that the Holocaust actually helped bring about the state of Israel. Hagee, as reported in EIR in February 2005, has also preached that the end times are near, but urged his followers not to worry because all that matters is personal salvation.
STRATEGIC WAR DANGER
Tehran’s Foreign Minister Zarif Tweets Trump Should Dump ‘Team B’ To Resolve Iran Crisis
July 9 (EIRNS)—Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, in a July 9 posting on Twitter, said that President Donald Trump was sold a bill of goods by the “B Team,” his reference to U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and U.A.E. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, who Zarif sees as working in common against Iran. “#B_Team sold @realDonaldTrump on the folly that killing #JCPOA thru #EconomicTerrorism can get him a better deal. As it becomes increasingly clear that there won’t be a better deal, they’re bizarrely urging Iran’s full compliance. There’s a way out, but not with #B_Team in charge” he wrote on his @JZarif Twitter page.
Hybrid War against Syria, Iran May Trigger ‘Massive’ Mideast War, Warns Russian Daily
July 9 (EIRNS)—The Russian daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta warned on that a new stage of hybrid warfare against Syria and Iran has been unleashed by the United Kingdom and the U.S., which could escalate into a “massive war in the Middle East,” reports TASS, in its July 8 press review. The article argues that “The U.K. Royal Marines seizure of Grace 1, an Iranian supertanker carrying oil last week, was most likely a move, which had been thoroughly engineered by both London and Washington. It’s no coincidence that U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton was one of the first to react to the tanker’s seizure, describing it as ‘excellent news’….
“Apparently, a turning point has dawned,” the article continued, “and the U.S. and its close allies have decided to crank up maximum pressure on Iran and Syria. The July 4 incident in the Strait of Gibraltar can be considered as a new stage of a hybrid war waged against Syrian President Bashar Assad and the Iranian leadership.” The article urges caution on the Iranian side in responding to these provocations: “Any military action by Tehran in response may spiral into real combat actions and even into a massive war in the Middle East…. Iranian media claim that a Russian company owns the vessel carrying Iranian oil, although there is no official evidence of the fact.”
China Daily Editorial Urges Restraint on the Iran Crisis—Especially by the British
July 9 (EIRNS)—A July 8 China Daily editorial headlined “Restraint, Diplomacy Only Way To Defuse Iran Crisis,” warned there could be an “unintended conflict” which would open a “Pandora’s box” throughout the region.
“By now, it is more than obvious that Washington is doubling down on its ‘maximum pressure’ on Tehran, and the latter is desperately trying to divert such pressure,” the editorial stated. “The escalation of mutual threats between Tehran and Washington appears inevitable. While doing nothing to advance their respective agendas, it may greatly boost the likelihood of an unintended conflict. Washington certainly deserves blame for its withdrawal from the hard-earned nuclear deal, based on unsubstantiated claims that Iran has breached the conditions of the deal. It was this rash decision that opened Pandora’s box.”
The editorial reported Iran’s decision to increase the amount and concentration of its enriched uranium, as a means to pressure Europe to fulfill its obligations under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal with Iran. “In doing this, Tehran risks depriving itself of an otherwise powerful argument for international efforts to ease the sanctions against it, and offers Washington an excuse to further ratchet up the pressure, hence exposing itself to more severe ones. That the United States President ultimately called off an approved strike following the [Iranian] shooting down of a U.S. drone should not be read simply as weakness. Washington may be poorly prepared, unwilling, even ambivalent about entering a conflict with the Middle East power, the outcome of which is difficult to predict. But there’s no guarantee both parties will remain as sensible as they have been and immune to dangerous misjudgment.”
The editorial ends with a particular warning to Great Britain about the provocative role it is playing:
“Our advice, however, is that all parties be very careful, so that the state of affairs doesn’t slide back to the precarious pre-deal tensions. By all parties, we mean every player in the game, perhaps especially Britain, whose Royal Navy just seized an Iranian oil tanker. And of course Tehran, which just threatened to reciprocate.”
THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMIC ORDER
Global Times Exhorts India To Join Belt and Road Effort in Corridor with Bangladesh, Myanmar and China
July 9 (EIRNS)—A July 8 article by Hu Weijia in China’s Global Times makes the straightforward point that “China and Bangladesh have agreed to advance cooperation on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), but in order to reach its full potential in the region, it will need support from New Delhi.” India has so far declined to join the China-led BRI.
The article notes that Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid an official visit to Beijing last week, “reaffirming the country’s intent to push forward the BRI and the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar economic corridor.” It continues:
“China’s promotion of the initiative in the region is not meant to dilute New Delhi’s influence on Bangladesh. China will never pursue leadership in the region, on the contrary, China hopes India can play a more important role in developing the economic corridor.
“Those who underestimate the importance of India in the region might think China’s growing presence in South Asia allows Beijing to ignore New Delhi as it pushes forward the BRI in the region. But in this globalized time, no bilateral relationship is exclusive. China values its relationship with India while the nation develops ties with Bangladesh. India has wide clout in South Asia. The development of the BRI needs New Delhi’s support if the initiative is to run smoothly in South Asia. South Asia cannot build a prosperous economy in the absence of India…. We hope New Delhi can actively participate in the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar economic corridor…. India will gain sustainable benefits from pushing forward the economic corridor to facilitate regional economic integration. Those efforts will make India a more important player in regional affairs.”
COLLAPSING WESTERN FINANCIAL SYSTEM
Deutsche Bank Is Not Alone
July 9 (EIRNS)—Deutsche Bank shares plunged 5.4% yesterday and ended at €6.51, as fired employees from the investment banking division started to leave their offices in London and New York. Market capitalization is now at €13.5 billion. In a normal situation, Deutsche Bank’s decision to shut down its investment operations and go back to commercial lending would be a healthy one. However, this occurs in a world of negative interest, in which traditional banking has no chance. The perspective is made even gloomier by the ongoing global recession, which is hitting Germany hard.
A symptom of that is the chemical giant BASF, whose shares plunged of 5% in pre-market negotiations today, after BASF issued a profit warning yesterday evening. BASF announced a ˗30% profit warning, whereas last May they were still optimistic. BASF is strongly hit by the crisis of the auto industry. One-fifth of its income comes from the auto sector. This feeds expectations of bad figures coming from other chemical industries soon.
