Thursday, October 2, 2014

BRICS create "New World"

The following articles from the current issue of EIR capture the truly historic transformation of human history now sweeping the planet, since the BRICS Summit in Brazil in July. The speeches at the United Nations General Assembly this year demonstrated that national leaders from the BRICS countries and many others who are associating themselves with what Helga LaRouche calls the "New World," have the courage to name the crimes of the British and their assets on Wall street, and especially President Obama, while insisting that the world need not bow down to the austerity, bankruptcy and poverty demanded by the "Washington Consensus," but can move ahead with real development with the BRICS alliance.            Mike Billington 

October 3, 2014 EIR International 31
Sept. 28—Although the UN Security Council unanimously
passed a resolution against terrorism Sept. 24,
the vote was by no means a victory for President Barack
Obama, who chaired the special session. All told, representatives
of 50 governments addressed the terrorism
crisis during the session, with Argentine President Cristina
Fernández de Kirchner stealing the show with a
persistent interrogation of Obama.
Fernández assailed Obama’s fatally flawed and
deeply hypocritical terrorism policy in a series of nonstop
questions, all of which Obama attempted to ignore.
She made reference to the recent statements by Pope
Francis, who warned, in her words “We are living a
Third World War, as the Pope says—not a conventional
war of the 20th Century, but now more targeted wars.”
She then asked: “What are the most effective tools to
combat terrorism?” She added that the current policies
of leading governments seem to be producing nothing
but “permanent bloodshed.”
Fernández went on to
attack the U.S. policy, predating
the 9/11 attacks, of
constantly redefining the terrorist
enemy. When Osama
bin Laden was fighting
against the Soviet occupation
in Afghanistan in the
1980s, for example, he was
branded a “freedom fighter,”
she recalled. Similarly, at the
outset of the Arab Spring,
rebels targeting the Assad
government in Syria were
branded as “freedom fighters,”
but later turned out to
be members of the Islamic
State or other radical jihadist
groups.
Fernández called on all
governments with sophisticated
intelligence capabilities to address some crucial
questions: Who funds the Islamic State? Who provides
the training and weapons, and purchases its oil, providing
the terrorists with millions of dollars a day in revenue?
She noted that the United States and other Western
powers clearly have the resources to answer these questions.
In a press conference following the special Security
Council session, President Fernández gave her full support
to the positions adopted by Russia and China: “I
agree with what the Russian, and then the Chinese foreign
ministers said: There are no good terrorists or bad
terrorists; there are just terrorists.”
While the U.S.-sponsored Security Council resolution
was adopted, the implementation of its Chapter VII
provision was left to sovereign governments. Chapter
VII requires that all UN member states take measures,
consistent with international law, to halt the flow of foreign
fighters and funds to terrorist groups, including the
Obama’s Fake War on Terror
Under Attack at UN and at Home
by Jeffrey Steinberg
YouTube
Argentine President Fernández confronted President Obama at the UN General Assembly
session, citing Pope Francis: “We are living a Third World War, as the Pope says—not a
conventional war of the 20th Century, but now more targeted wars.” The two are shown here in
2011, at the G20 Summit in Cannes.
32 International EIR October 3, 2014
Islamic State, the al-Nusra Front and al-Qaeda. The
measure made no provision for implementation, oversight,
or penalties against those states that failed to
comply.
One Washington source deeply involved in the
shaping of U.S. counter-terror strategy noted that the
focus on halting the flow of funds and foreign fighters
was clearly aimed at Saudi Arabia, Britain, Turkey,
Qatar, and other states that have been fueling growth of
the jihadists in Iraq and Syria.
Congress Speaks Out
The hypocrisy of the Obama counter-terrorism
policy has been most clearly shown in the President’s
refusal to release the classified 28 pages from the 2002
Joint Congressional 9/11 Inquiry report, which detailed
the role of the Saudi Kingdom in supporting the hijackers.
Despite repeated promises to family members of
the 9/11 victims, Obama, in his six years in office, has
refused to declassify those pages. A growing number of
Congressmen, led by Reps. Walter Jones (R-N.C.), Stephen
Lynch (D-Mass.), and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.),
who are the sponsors of HR 428 calling for release of
the 28 pages, have demanded the declassification,
warning that no war on terrorism can be successfully
waged as long as the secrets of 9/11 remain sealed.
Instead of fully exposing and probing the roles of
Saudi Arabia and of Great Britain, which is notorious as
“Londonistan”—the global headquarters of jihadism
and narco-terrorism—Obama’s anti-IS strategy is
based on an alliance anchored in Saudi Arabia and other
Sunni Gulf states which are deeply implicated in the
growth of the Sunni jihadists, such as IS.
President Obama has also come under searing attack
for his refusal to go to Congress for authorization to go
to war. Before Congress recessed on Sept. 18, six resolutions
were introduced, all giving the President authorization
for the use of military force with clear restrictions,
while repealing the 2001 and 2002 authorizations
that approved the Afghan and Iraqi wars following the
9/11 attacks.
Appearing on “Face the Nation” Sept. 28, Sen. Tim
Kaine (D-Va.), the author of one of the six resolutions,
assailed the President for his refusal to come to Congress
for authorization for war. Kaine cited Article I,
Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, which gives Congress
the exclusive authority to declare war, as a cornerstone
of the entire U.S. system of government; he also
criticized Congress for leaving town without acting to
defend the Constitution. Before the August recess, the
House of Representatives, by a vote of 370-40, had demanded
that the President come to Congress for a new
authorization.
Those actions, however, fall far short of what is required.
The President has now brought the country into
two wars without going to Congress for authorization.
In 2011, Obama led the war to overthrow Libyan dictator
Muammar Qaddafi; and this year, he has ordered
military actions in both Iraq and Syria without Congressional
approval. These are impeachable crimes
under the Constitution and the President should be removed
from office for these violations.
President Obama has not only violated the Constitution
and ignored the will of Congress. Washington
sources confirm that the entire Obama Cabinet, along
with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, argue that the President
should go to Congress for authorization for war against
the Islamic State. The President and key White House
aides, however, have refused. This is nothing short of a
drive for dictatorship, as warned this week by Lyndon
LaRouche.
Furthermore, the failure to go after Saudi Arabia,
which is at the center of the promotion and funding of
global Sunni jihadist terrorism, is a crime committed by
first, the Bush-Cheney Administration, and now, the
Obama Administration.
Saudi Scholars’ Statement
While President Obama refuses to touch the Saudi
factor in jihadist terrorism, dating back to the original
9/11 attacks and earlier, a group of prominent Sunni
scholars took up the issue this week (see below). In an
open letter to Islamic State head Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,
126 leading Muslim scholars, led by the Al Azhar University
in Cairo, Egypt, issued a comprehensive statement
showing that the IS has distorted and violated the
fundamental teachings of Islam. The Wahhabi version
of Sunni Islam espoused by IS is also the version practiced
by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
In a recent webcast, LaRouche enthusiastically endorsed
Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey’s
call for an all-out war to destroy the Islamic State. For
any such war to succeed, it must be based on a truthful
public exposé of the role of both the Saudis and the
British in the sponsorship and funding of global terrorism,
and it must involve cooperation with all of the nations
of the Middle East—including Iran and Syria.
Russian, Chinese, and Syrian government officials,
speaking at the UN General Assembly, all assailed the
Obama Administration for conducting war on Syrian
soil without the official consent and cooperation of the
Syrian government. This clear violation of national
sovereignty and the United Nations Charter is no way
to wage a winning war on terrorism. The difference between
failure and success will be measured by whether
the war is conducted with full respect for sovereignty,
and is based on the kind of war-winning strategy of
genuine economic development embodied in the recent
actions of the BRICS nations. For the moment, under
President Obama, the United States is failing those
tests.

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