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World Financial Collapse Looms,
British Empire Prepares Nuclear War
15 February 2014—As you
read these words, the world is
poised on the brink of thermonuclear war. Unless the present direction of world politics
and finance is suddenly, radically changed for the better by
the ouster of a Nero-like, British-controlled U.S. President
Obama and the reorganisation
of the global financial system
to wipe out the power of London and its satellite, Wall Street,
one day very soon and without
warning, all-out thermonuclear bombardments will erupt,
resulting in the almost certain
extinction of the human race.
This war will be initiated either by an Anglo-American
alliance directed by a British
Crown intent on securing permanent world rule by London
and Wall Street or, defensively, by that alliance’s intended
victims, Russia and/or China.
Each of the latter nations has
repeatedly warned in the starkest terms, that if they feel their
very existence is threatened,
they will initiate first strikes.
The driver for this war is
the crash of the British Empire’s trans-Atlantic, speculation-ridden financial system,
now plunging into a collapse
far worse than that of 2007-08.
In contrast, Russia’s economy
is relatively stable and its leaders have drafted plans for largescale development, while China’s economy, along with those
of some of its Asian neighbours,
continues to grow. China’s recent Moon landing, and its massive investments in building
new cities and high-speed transport, nuclear power, and great
water projects, illustrate that
country’s forward orientation.
While much of Eurasia thus
plans for a bright future, the Anglo-Americans and the EU are
shutting down their own physical economies, according to the
dictates of the British Crown’s
Green fascist policies whose
stated purpose is to reduce the
world’s population from seven
billion to one billion, or even
less. Given that physical economic disintegration and the acceleration of the trans-Atlantic
financial collapse, the time for
the Anglo-American empire to
launch a war of world conquest
is now, or never.
Now, turn your eyes to
Ukraine. This emergency issue of The New Citizen documents systematic Anglo-American backing of a mass fascist
movement in Ukraine, aimed
at either seizing power from
the legitimately elected government, or launching civil war.
Given Ukraine’s economic ties
and physical border with Russia, the real target is Russia itself, as under long-standing Anglo-American strategic doctrine
(Figs. 1 and 2, page 3).
Such Anglo-American sponsorship of a mass fascist movement leading to world war is not
unprecedented: in the 1930s,
London and Wall Street financed the rise of Hitler. Brown
Brothers Harriman executive
Prescott Bush, father of U.S.
President George H.W. Bush
(in office, 1989-93) and grandfather of President George W.
Bush (2001-09), for instance,
in late 1932 personally transferred the funds that enabled
Hitler’s then-fading Nazi party to come to power soon afterwards. The result was World
War II, in which an estimated
28 million of the USSR’s people died, a reality burned into
the souls of most Russians today, including President Putin,
whose elder brother died as a
child during the 872-day Nazi
siege of Leningrad in 1941-44.
Anglo-American Doctrine
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the senior
Bush’s Defence Secretary Dick
Cheney in 1992 issued a Draft
Planning Guidance for coming
U.S. President Obama, a British stooge, is pushing an “Asia Pivot” to confront China, and sponsoring a fascist insurgency in Ukraine in order to attack Russia. Why in the world is the Abbott government grovelling before this madman?
decades, saying, “Our strategy
must now refocus on precluding the emergence of any potential future global competitor.” All means were to be deployed towards that end, including “colour revolutions”
(like the Orange Revolution
against Ukraine in 2004 and
the White Revolution attempt
to oust Putin in late 2011-early 2012), and even nuclear weapons. The latter would
be launched under the protection of a global Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system,
designed to take out Russian
or Chinese retaliatory strikes.
An outraged then-Senator,
now Vice President Joe Biden
denounced neocon Cheney’s
doctrine as “a plan for literally a Pax Americana, an American empire”. The brawn was
American, but the brains were
British. Since then, the AngloAmerican empire has relentlessly advanced upon Russia,
and more recently, upon China as well through Obama’s
“Asia Pivot”.
This doctrine has provoked
a dramatic response from both
Russia and China. For example, then-Chief of the Russian
Armed Forces General Staff
Gen. Nikolai Makarov told an
18 November 2011 meeting of
the Russian Public Chamber, a
Kremlin advisory body, “I cannot rule out that, in certain circumstances, local and regional armed conflicts could grow
into a large-scale war, possibly with nuclear weapons.
Russia could become involved
in a conflict where weapons
of mass destruction could be
used.… The possibility of local armed conflicts virtually
along the entire perimeter of
our border has grown dramatically.” At a 3 May 2012 Moscow conference on BMD, attended by senior U.S. officials, Makarov amplified his
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Western Powers Back Neo-Nazi Coup in Ukraine
This research dossier is reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, 7 February
2014.
2 February 2014—Western
nations, led by the European
Union and the Obama Administration, are backing a coup in
Ukraine to install an outright
neo-Nazi regime. If the effort
succeeds, the consequences will
extend far beyond Ukraine and
neighboring states. For Russia,
such a coup would constitute
a casus belli (reason for war),
coming as it does in the context of NATO’s expansion of
its missile defense program into
Central Europe and the evolution of a U.S.-NATO doctrine
called Prompt Global Strike,
which presumes that the United States can launch a pre-emptive first strike against Russia
and China without retaliation.
The events in Ukraine are
a potential trigger for a global showdown that could rapidly and easily escalate to a thermonuclear war of extinction.
At the Feb. 1-2 Munich Security Conference, Russian For-
A Ukrainian policeman is set on fire by a street guerrilla’s Molotov cocktail, 22 January 2014 (YouTube channel Breaking News).
eign Minister Sergei Lavrov had
a heated public exchange with
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who accused Russia of “bellicose rhetoric”. Lavrov responded by describing the European missile
defense program as an attempt
to secure a first-strike capability against Russia.
In Munich and a week earlier
at the World Economic Forum
at Davos, Switzerland, Lavrov
also assailed Western governments for supporting neo-Nazi terrorist organizations, in
their zeal to place Ukraine under European Union control and
tighten the NATO noose around
Russia. If anything, Lavrov understated the case.
Ever since President Viktor Yanukovych announced
on 21 November 2013 that
Ukraine would not sign an Association Agreement with the
EU, Western-backed organizations that are heirs of the wartime and immediate postwar
Nazi collaborationist Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) and its successors have waged a campaign
of provocations, aimed at first
bringing down the government
of Prime Minister Mykola Az-
arov (this was accomplished)
and then overthrowing the democratically elected President Yanukovych.
The Association Agreement
had been promoted under the
EU’s Eastern Partnership,
initiated in December 2008
in the wake of Georgia’s war
with Russia in South Ossetia.
The Eastern Partnership targeted six countries that were formerly republics within the Soviet Union: three in the Caucasus region (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia) and three in East
Central Europe (Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine). They were not
to be invited to full EU membership, but tightly controlled
by the EU through Association
Agreements, each one centred
on a Deep and Comprehensive
Free Trade Agreement. The primary target of the effort was
Ukraine.
Under the Association Agreement negotiated with Ukraine,
but not signed, the industrial economy of Ukraine would
have been dismantled and trade
with Russia savaged (with Russia forced to end its free-trade
regime with Ukraine, so as to
prevent its own markets from
being flooded via Ukraine), and
European market players would
have grabbed for Ukraine’s agricultural and raw materials exports. The same deadly austerity
regime forced upon the nations
of southern Europe under the
bailout swindle of the Troika
(European Central Bank/International Monetary Fund/European Commission) would have
been imposed on Ukraine.
The Association Agreement
also mandated “convergence”
on security issues, with integration into European defense
systems. Under such an arrangement, the long-term treaty
agreement on the Russian Navy’s use of its crucial base in
Crimea on the Black Sea would
have been terminated, ultimately giving NATO forward basing
on Russia’s border.
While Western news accounts promoted the demonstrations in Kiev’s Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnesti) as initially peaceful,
in reality these “Euromaidan”
protests have included, from
the outset, avowed neo-Nazis,
right-wing “soccer hooligans”,
and “Afgantsy” veterans of the
Soviet War in Afghanistan, as
well as soldiers-for-hire who
fought in Chechnya, Georgia,
and other post-Soviet conflicts.
Ukrainian parliamentarian Oleh
Tsaryov has cited reports that
350 Ukrainians came from Syria around the New Year, after
fighting with al-Qaeda-linked
Syrian insurgent groups such
as the al-Nusra Front and the
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
Ukrainian sources report that
the opposition Svoboda Party
conducted paramilitary training
in Summer 2013—months before Yanukovych decided to reject the EU Association Agreement.
Already on the weekend
of 30 November-1 December
2013, rioters attacked police
with Molotov cocktails and
seized the Kiev Mayor’s Office,
declaring it their “revolutionary
headquarters”.
Svoboda, formerly called the
Social-National Party, marches
Behind the Abbott, Hockey “Reforms”: Fascist Austerity — Page 4
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Western Powers Back Neo-Nazi Coup in Ukraine
From page 1
under the red and black flag of
Stepan Bandera’s Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
(OUN-B), the Nazi collaborators who exterminated Jews and
Poles as an adjunct of the Nazi
war machine, and in fulfillment of their own radical ideas
on ethnic purity, during World
War II. Its slogan “Ukraine for
the Ukrainians” was Bandera’s
battle cry during the OUN-B
collaboration with Hitler on
the eve of the Nazi invasion of
the Soviet Union and later in
World War II. Under that slogan, mass executions of civilians were carried out by Bandera’s fascist fighters.
The neo-Nazi, racist and anti-semitic character of Svoboda
have not deterred Western diplomats—including U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
Victoria Nuland—from publicly meeting with the party’s leader Oleh Tyahnybok,
who was kicked out of the Our
Ukraine movement in 2004
for his speeches railing against
“Russians and Jews”, in which
he used offensive, derogatory
names for both.
The Bandera fascist revival has been under way in plain
sight since the Orange Revolution of 2004, when Viktor
Yushchenko was installed as
President of Ukraine through
a foreign-backed street campaign, heavily financed by
George Soros’s International
Renaissance Foundation and
other Western agencies, even
though he had lost a tight presidential contest to Yanukovych.
(The U.S. and EU funding of
non-governmental organizations has continued to be instrumental in building up the
Ukrainian opposition, with over
2,200 foreign-funded NGOs
operating in the country.) On
22 January 2010, in one of his
last acts as President after this
time losing to Yanukovych by
a wide margin, Yushchenko
posthumously named Bandera
a Hero of Ukraine, a high state
honor. Yushchenko’s wife, former U.S. State Department official Kateryna Chumachenko,
was a member of a Banderist
youth group in Chicago, where
she grew up, according to news
accounts. In the 1980s Chumachenko headed the Washington
offices of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America
(dominated by the OUN-B at
that time, according to the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine)
and the National Captive Nations Committee, before moving over to government work.
In January 2011, President Yanukovych rescinded Bandera’s
Hero of Ukraine status.
History: the OUN-B
The Bandera legacy is critical to understanding the nature
of today’s armed insurrection in
Ukraine. The OUN was founded in 1929, Bandera taking its
helm four years later. In 1934,
he and other OUN leaders were
arrested for the assassination of
Polish Minister of Internal Affairs Bronislaw Pieracki. Freed
from jail in 1938, Bandera soon
entered negotiations with German Occupation Headquarters;
the city of Lviv, now in western
Ukraine, was Lvov in Poland at
the time of the Nazi invasion of
that country in September 1939.
Bandera received funds and arranged Abwehr (German military intelligence) training for
800 of his paramilitary commandos. By the time of the Nazi
invasion of the Soviet Union in
1941, Bandera’s forces consisted of at least 7000 fighters, organized into “mobile groups”
that coordinated with German
forces. Bandera received 2.5
million German marks to conduct subversive operations inside the Soviet Union. After he
declared an independent Ukrainian state in 1941, Bandera
was arrested and sent to Berlin. But he maintained his Nazi
ties and funding, and his “mobile groups” were supplied and
given air cover by the Germans
throughout the war.
In 1943, Bandera’s OUN-B
carried out mass exterminations
of Poles and Jews, killing an estimated 70,000 civilians in the
summer of that year alone. The
ethnic cleansing program was
run by Mykola Lebed, chief
The Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists of Stepan Bandera (top
centre) collaborated with the Nazis against the Soviet Army during
World War II. Today’s Euromaidan right-wingers (bottom) wearing
Wolfsangel and “Ukraine Over All” T-shirts carry a placard of Bandera.
Social-National Party of Ukraine youth march under the swastika-like Wolfsangel in Lviv, 1999. The name and symbol, evoking the German National-Socialist (“Nazi”) party, were dropped
when the party became “Svoboda” (“Freedom”) in 2004.
of the OUN-B’s secret police
organization. In May 1941, an
OUN plenary in Krakow issued
a document, “Struggle and Action of OUN During the War”,
which stated, in part, “Moskali, Poles, Jews are hostile to us
and must be exterminated in this
struggle.” Moskal is derogatory Ukrainian slang for “Muscovites”, or Russians.
At the end of the war on the
European front, Bandera and
many OUN-B leaders wound
up in displaced person camps in
Europe. According to Stephen
Dorrill’s authoritative history
MI6: Inside the Covert World
of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service, Bandera was
recruited to work for MI6 in
April 1948. His British connection was arranged by Gerhard
von Mende, a former top Nazi
who had headed the Caucasus
Division of the Reich Ministry
for the Occupied Eastern Territories. Von Mende had recruited Muslims from the Caucasus
and Central Asia to fight on the
Nazis’ side during the invasion
of the Soviet Union. At the close
of World War II, he worked for
the British through a front company, the Research Service on
Eastern Europe, recruiting principally Muslim insurgents to
operate inside the Soviet Union
and helping to establish a hub
of Muslim Brotherhood operations in Munich and Geneva.
Through von Mende, MI6
trained agents from the OUNB and dropped them inside the
Soviet Union on sabotage and
assassination missions in 194950. A 1954 MI6 report praised
Bandera as “a professional underground worker with a terrorist background and ruthless
notions about the rules of the
game.”
In March 1956, Bandera went
to work for the German equivalent of the CIA, the BND, then
headed by Gen. Reinhard
Gehlen, a veteran commander
of German military intelligence
on the Eastern Front during the
war. In 1959, Bandera was assassinated by the Soviet KGB
in West Germany.
The OUN-B killer Lebed,
meanwhile, was recruited by
the U.S. Army’s Counterintelligence Corps in December 1946,
and by 1948 was on the CIA
payroll. Lebed recruited those
OUN-B agents who did not go
with Bandera and MI6, to participate in a number of sabotage programs behind the Iron
Curtain. Brought to New York
City, Lebed himself established
a CIA front company, Prolog
Research Corporation, under
the control of Frank Wisner,
head of the CIA’s Directorate of
Plans during the 1950s. Prolog
operated well into the 1990s,
getting a big boost when Zbigniew Brzezinski was President
Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor in 1977-80.
In 1985, the U.S. Department
of Justice launched an investigation into Lebed’s role in the
wartime genocide in Poland and
western Ukraine, but the CIA
blocked the probe. Nevertheless, in 2010, after the release
of thousands of pages of wartime records, the U.S. National
Archives published a documentary report by Richard Breitman
and Norman Goda, titled Hitler’s Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the
Cold War. It detailed Bandera’s
and Lebed’s wartime Nazi collusion and involvement in mass
executions of Jews and Poles.
The Bandera-Lebed legacy and their post-war networks
are at the centre of the current
events in Ukraine.
Speaking Out
On Jan. 25, 2014, twentynine Ukrainian leaders of political parties, civic and religious
organizations sent an open letter to the United Nations Secretary General and leaders of the
EU and the United States, decrying the Western support for
the neo-Nazi campaign to carry
out a bloody coup against a legitimately elected government
(see box).
Only in late January, as
scenes of well-organized violence by paramilitary units
among the “protesters” finally broke through the propaganda fog, did some foreign media
begin to mention the neo-Nazi
Oleh Tyahnybok (top), neo-Nazi Svoboda Party head, uses racial
slurs in railing against a “Russian-Jewish mafia” ruling Ukraine.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, is seen here
with Tyahnybok, Vitali Klitschko of the Udar Party and Batkivshchyna’s Arseni Yatsenyuk. She confers with them on every visit
to Ukraine and was caught in a January 2014 leaked phone call,
orchestrating which of them should be in the next government.
character of the ongoing destabilization. Time magazine headlined its Jan. 28 coverage from
Kiev, “Right-Wing Thugs Are
Hijacking Ukraine’s Liberal
Uprising”, profiling the especially aggressive group of neoNazi hooligans called Spilna
Sprava (“Common Cause”,
but the Ukrainian initials spell
“SS”).
The London Guardian of
Jan. 29 headlined, “In Ukraine,
Fascists, Oligarchs and Western Expansion Are at the Heart
of the Crisis”. Author Seumas Milne wrote, “You’d never know from most of the reporting that far-right nationalists and fascists have been at
the heart of the protests and attacks on government buildings.
One of the three main opposition parties heading the campaign is the hard-right anti-Semitic Svoboda, whose leader
Oleh Tyahnybok claims that a
‘Moscow-Jewish mafia’ controls Ukraine. The party, now
running the city of Lviv, led a
15,000-strong torch-lit march
earlier this month in memory
of the Ukrainian fascist leader
Stepan Bandera, whose forces fought with the Nazis in the
second world war and took part
in massacres of Jews.”
Counterpunch on Jan. 29 ran
Eric Draitser’s article “Ukraine
and the Rebirth of Fascism”,
warning: “The violence on the
streets of Ukraine is far more
than an expression of popular
anger against a government.
Instead, it is merely the latest
example of the rise of the most
insidious form of fascism that
Europe has seen since the fall
of the Third Reich.... In an attempt to pry Ukraine out of the
Russian sphere of influence, the
U.S.-EU-NATO alliance has,
not for the first time, allied itself with fascists.”
Ukrainian Leaders: “Stop the Incitement!”
L
eaders of 29 Ukrainian political organisations, including economist and former
MP Dr. Natalia Vitrenko, on
25 January addressed the UN
Secretary-General, and European and American leaders
with an appeal titled “Stop the
Guerrillas’ Marauding, Halt
the Incitement to Civil War, a
Coup, and the Disintegration
of the Country!”
Terming the current crisis
an unconstitutional and “foreign project to seize Ukraine”,
they asserted that implementation of the Association Agreement with the European Union
would destroy the national
economy, strip Ukraine of its
sovereignty, and draw the country into closer involvement with
NATO, leading to expulsion of
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet from
Sevastopol. They put world
leaders on notice about supporting neo-Nazis:
“We deem it necessary to
draw your close attention to
the nature of the political forces that have organised the Euromaidan and … are seizing
government buildings, smashing and burning the offices of
their political opponents, and
applying mob law. … You
should understand that, in supporting the actions of the guerrillas in Ukraine, by according them the status of ‘Euromaidan activists’ who are taking part in so-called peaceful
actions, you yourselves are directly protecting, inciting, and
egging on Ukrainian neo-Nazis and neo-fascists.
“None of these oppositionists (Yatsenyuk, Klitschko, and Tyahnybok) hide that
they are continuing the ideology and the practices of the
OUN. They punctuate their
speeches at the Maidan with
cries of ‘Glory to Ukraine—
to the Heroes Glory!’ This
Nazi greeting was adopted
by the Ukrainian nationalists
in April 1941.… Other regular slogans of the Maidan are
‘Glory to Ukraine—Death to
the Enemies’, ‘Ukraine above
All’, ‘Ukraine for Ukrainians’…. Wherever the Euromaidan people go in Ukraine,
they disseminate, besides the
slogans mentioned above, neoNazi, racist symbols…. Right
Sector, which coordinates the
Natalia Vitrenko
guerrillas, uses the black-andred flag in all its actions. It is a
symbol of the Nazi ideology of
‘Blood and Soil’…. Also confirming the neo-Nazi nature of
the Euromaidan is the constant
use of portraits of the bloody
executioners of our people,
Bandera and Shukhevych—
agents of the Abwehr….”
The appeal asked: “Have the
UN, the EU, and the U.S.A.
ceased to recognise the Charter and Verdict of the International War Crimes Tribunal at
Nuremberg, where the Hitlerite Nazis and their henchmen were convicted? … Is
the Ukrainian nationalists’ devotion to Hitler and his mass
murders of civilians now considered democracy?”
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The Countdown to Nuclear War
Jeffrey Steinberg, Counterintelligence Editor of Executive
Intelligence Review magazine,
delivered this briefing to a U.S.
national conference call of LaRouche movement organisers.
7 February 2014—Lyndon LaRouche has issued a warning
that we may be less than one
month away from extinction.
He does not make statements
like that as exaggeration or for
dramatic effect. In this real strategic situation, the fact sheet
(pages 1-2) we began circulating on Capitol Hill [to the U.S.
Congress] over the last three
days has had a chilling effect on
members of Congress, as they
get an inkling that we are on the
verge of a potential cataclysm.
As we are talking about the
prospect of a general war resulting from a series of provocations that are cumulative, this
outcome is obviously not written in stone. There is no guarantee that it will happen, but the
potential is so serious, that any
sane person who wishes to be
certain of seeing the spring of
this year, is obligated to press
for the immediate impeachment
of President Barack Obama.
A major, targeted destabilisation of Ukraine has been
grabbing headlines for several
months, ever since the Ukrainian government’s announcement
in November that they would
not don a straitjacket and sign
what was truly a suicide pact,
called an Association Agreement with the European Union.
To appreciate the magnitude of
what is going on here, we must
look beyond even the shocking
fact of Western governments financing and soliciting the support of overtly neo-Nazi networks which trace their roots
back to forces that collaborated with Hitler’s invasion of the
Soviet Union in 1941. The picture is worse than that.
Look at a map showing the
Black Sea area (south of Ukraine,
north of Turkey, Fig. 1), as a
starting point for understanding
what we are dealing with. Put
yourself in the frame of mind of
Russian President Putin, or Chief
of the Russian Armed Forces
General Staff Gen. Valeri Gerasimov, and then look at this map
of the Black Sea. On the Crimean peninsula, protruding into the
Black Sea on its northern side,
is the port of Sevastopol. It is located in Ukraine, but it is leased
as the principal base of Russia’s
Black Sea Fleet.
To the south-west, you will
see the famous Dardanelles
and the Bosphorus, the narrow straits that run past Turkey, giving access from the
Black Sea to the Aegean Sea
and the Mediterranean. For the
Russian Navy, this is a crucial
access route to these southern
seas, one of the utmost strategic importance to the Russians.
Earlier this week I spoke with a
retired senior American military
officer of the highest rank, four
stars, who confirmed to me that
everybody in the U.S. military
command knows that the issue
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of the Ukraine and the Black
Sea is a casus belli, a red-line
issue, for Russia. If the Russians were to lose the main base
of its Black Sea Fleet because of
a takeover of Ukraine by a fanatical, xenophobic, Westernbacked government, this would
be considered a casus belli for
general war.
One of the countries on the
western shore of the Black Sea
is Romania, where NATO and
the United States have negotiated to place critical components
of a European Ballistic Missile
Defence System (BMDS), supposedly aimed at Iran, but from
the Russian standpoint, clearly
directed at Russia. Thus, Russia sees a move to carry out an
illegal, unconstitutional coup
in Ukraine, wresting control
of that country for Europe and
NATO, with the prospect, in addition to NATO members Bulgaria and Romania sitting right
on the Black Sea, of now the
possible loss of Russia’s main
base for its Black Sea Fleet.
Bear in mind that Russia recently re-established, for the
first time since the end of the
Soviet Union, a permanent naval presence in the Mediterranean Sea, chiefly maintained
by the Black Sea Fleet from its
base in Sevastopol. There continues to be a Western and Saudi effort to overthrow the government of Syria; Russia’s only
naval facility in the Mediterranean itself—really more of a
port of call than a base—is at
Tartus in Syria.
So whether you love or hate
Vladimir Putin, the Russian
government, and the Russian
military command, anybody
who has a sober view of this
situation will realise that, from
the Russian standpoint, there is
a noose being tightened around
them, a move to strip them of
the vital naval base at Sevastopol, which they use under a
long-term lease agreement with
Ukraine. The European BMDS
is being put in place supposedly to deal with a threat coming
from Iran, but its later generations will directly target Russia’s ability to launch a retaliatory second strike, in the event
of a U.S. first nuclear strike. If
you’re a military planner, you
look from the standpoint of the
potential worst case.
Now, on top of the Euro
BMDS, comes the targeted destabilisation and move to grab
Ukraine, relations with which
are still an integral part of the
economic life of Russia. You
can’t change geography, and
therefore Ukraine understood
that it faced the choice of being looted as a colony, a satrap
of the European Union, or remaining a sovereign, independent country with appropriate
trade ties to Europe as well as to
Russia. It chose the latter option
as the right way to go.
The moment the Ukrainian
government decided to abandon the proposed colonial-style
partnership with the European
Union, the goons were poised
to move. Plans for a Phase II
of the Orange Revolution that
took place in Ukraine back in
2004 have existed for a long
time. Ukraine has been a target
of Western Europe, NATO, and
now, under Obama, of the United States, ever since the original collapse of the Soviet Union
and the Warsaw Pact in 1989-91.
There are additional elements. The Russians know perfectly well that the escalation in
Ukraine was timed to coincide
with the opening of the Winter
Fig. 1
British-, American- and EU-backed Colour Revolutions overthrew the governments of Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, on
Russia’s southern borders, in the past decade. The regime changes of the Persian Gulf wars (Iraq), the 2011 Arab Spring, and the
foreign-backed Syrian insurgency have included attacks on Russia’s allies and economic partners.
Shown in Western and Central Europe and the surrounding seas is the U.S.-NATO European Ballistic Missile Defence System. Potentially part of an attack on Russia, it is identified by Moscow as a threat to its sovereignty and a tripwire for war. Ukraine’s absorption
by the EU and NATO, depriving Russia of its Black Sea Fleet’s base at Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula in the Black Sea, would
bring this confrontation closer to Russia’s borders.
Olympics in Sochi, which also
happens to be on the Black Sea.
Similarly, Georgia’s attack on
Russian forces in South Ossetia,
in 2008, was timed to coincide
with the opening of the Beijing
Olympics, upon which the attention of many world leaders
was focused. A little war began in the Caucasus; the potential parallels to the situation
right now, for Russia, are unmistakable.
The Russians also know that
the United States has developed
a new strategic doctrine called
Prompt Global Strike, denoting
a capability to launch ICBM and
other strategic military strikes
against any place on the face of
the Earth within one hour. That is
the advertised objective. In some
of the writings about Prompt
Global Strike, there is talk that
the United States no longer has
to rely strictly on nuclear weapons, but that some of the new,
highly accurate conventional
explosives can be used instead.
Now if you are sitting at a radar
detection system somewhere in
Russia and you detect a launch
of an ICBM, whether it’s from a
land-based facility in the western states of the United States
or from a submarine hugging the
coast of Russia, you have very
little time and no luxury to operate under the presumption that,
“Maybe we’ll take a guess and a
risk that it is only a conventional warhead.”
All of these factors have been
building up cumulatively for
years, and are reaching a breakpoint. As we show in our EIR
dossier, there is an insurrection
in Ukraine, financed and organised by Western European governments and the Obama administration with the aim not
just of overthrowing the legitimately elected President, but
of promoting and even installing in power the networks of the
children and grandchildren of
Ukrainians who allied directly
with Hitler and were responsible for the murders of hundreds
of thousands of Jews, Poles, and
other central Europeans. Many
of the groups that have resorted to hardcore violence in Euro-
Fig. 2
The ultimate targets in a global showdown, beyond the Southwest Asia hot spots where the violet
dots show a strong U.S. naval presence, are Russia and China. The green dots along Russia’s
western borders show the U.S./NATO European Ballistic Missile Defence System, which Moscow
has called a casus belli. In the Asia-Pacific region, the yellow dots represent the upgraded U.S.
military presence for confronting China, with Australia’s important role. U.S. Navy Ohio-class submarines armed with Trident II D5 submarine-launched ballistic missiles are the strategic nuclear
capability for inflicting a first strike on Russia or China. Submarine locations shown are representative of their operating areas.
maidan in Kiev, and elsewhere
around the country, are openly
hoisting the flag of World War II
Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera. Some of the organisations,
like Svoboda, one of the three
main opposition parties, openly promote the Bandera ideology of “Ukraine for the Ukrainians only”.
These are the people whom
Baroness Catherine Ashton, the
foreign minister of the European
Union, visits in Kiev and touts as
the wave of the future, to bring
Ukraine into Europe and into
NATO. This is what the Russians understand to be an unwarranted and dangerous provocation, aimed at finally achieving
a 20-year-long objective of grabbing Ukraine as a colony of Europe and a NATO forward base,
and, while it is not being overtly advertised right now, driving
the Russians out of their critical
Black Sea naval base.
This is widely understood by
American military strategists
to be a casus belli. And as the
events in Ukraine and around
the Sochi Olympics escalate,
as the Russians build more and
more of a dossier on the terror
networks that carried out a recent series of suicide bombings
within Russia and have threatened the Sochi Olympics, and
they recognise that these networks are being sponsored and
financed by Britain and by Saudi Arabia, and that the main terrorist route into Russia comes
through a NATO country, Turkey, the Russians will reach a
point where they will not tolerate any more. This is known, it
is understood, and some of our
own top military planners, like
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff General Martin Dempsey,
continually make the point that
we have more issues in common
with Russia, and more urgent
strategic points for collaboration with the Russians, than reason for conflict, and that people
should cut out these provocations. It was bad enough when
it was Syria, but with Ukraine
the crisis has gone directly to
the heart of Russia’s core strategic interests.
If Barack Obama were not
President of the United States,
I think there is very good reason to believe that none of this
would be happening. Obama is
not an American. He is a stooge
of the British Monarchy. He is a
stooge of European oligarchical
factions who are terrified because their financial system is
collapsing at an accelerating rate
once again and they are doomed.
Steinberg finished his briefing with a review of the rapidly worsening global financial
situation, as also presented in
the lead article of this newspaper (page 1).
Page 4 The New Citizen Feb/Mar 2014
Behind the Abbott, Hockey “Reforms”: Fascist Austerity
By Craig Isherwood, CEC
National Secretary
“The first truth is that the
liberty of a democracy is not
safe if the people tolerate the
growth of private power to a
point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state
itself. That, in its essence, is
fascism—ownership of government by an individual, by a
group, or by any other controlling private power.”
—U.S. President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state
and corporate power.”
—Giovanni Gentile, official
philosopher for Benito Mussolini, Italy’s fascist Il Duce
U
nder the mantra of “Australia is Open for Business” and subsumed catch
phrases such as “the Age of
Entitlement is over”, to be replaced by “The Age of Personal Responsibility” and a
“smaller government”, the
Abbott/Hockey regime is preparing to ruthlessly slash the
living standard of the average Australian, transferring
wealth on a staggering scale
to the Big Four banks and the
titans of Australia’s Big Business—the ones who own the
Abbott/Hockey government.
After all, they and the think
tanks they also own wrote the
entire Abbott/Hockey program; financed the Liberals’
election campaign; and have
been awarded the commanding posts in the plethora of existing or newly formed bodies,
tasked with ramming through
this sweeping “reform”. These
institutions include the National Commission of Audit,
the Financial System Inquiry, Infrastructure Australia,
the Productivity Commission,
and the Australian Competition
and Consumer Commission,
which is to be revamped by
Abbott’s new Business Advisory Council—the fox guarding the chickens.
The Mont Pelerin Society
In 1947 a degenerate minor
Austrian nobleman, Friedrich
von Hayek, along with a handful of other retainers for the
British and ancient European
oligarchy, founded the Mont
Pelerin Society (MPS) in Switzerland. The secretive society,
with never more than 500 members worldwide from 1947 until today, soon moved to London, where it enjoyed the financial backing of the British
Crown. The Society’s avowed
purpose was to eliminate sovereign nation-states and return
the world to a feudal system under imperial rule, similar to that
of the EU today. The MPS, in
turn, spun off dozens of similar
think tanks worldwide, beginning with the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) in London.
Though founded in the early 1940s, before Mont Pelerin
itself, Australia’s Institute of
Public Affairs (IPA), with headquarters in Melbourne and Sydney, from the outset claimed
von Hayek as its guiding spirit,
as he later also became for the
Centre for Independent Studies
(CIS), the Tasman Institute, and
the HR Nicholls Society. The
IPA, a regroupment of the corporate leaders behind the New
and the Old Guards, the antinational banking mass fascist
armies in 1930s Australia, in
turn soon founded the Liberal
Party, as we documented in our
April 2004 New Citizen, “Defeat the Synarchy—Fight for a
National Bank”.
Von Hayek himself came
to Australia for five weeks in
1976 to help launch the CIS,
on whose Academic Advisory
Council he sat until his death in
1992. Among numerous other
crimes, von Hayek was a fanatical propagandist for the brutal dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet in Chile, 1973-81,
as the epitome of “free market” economics. Von Hayek’s
philosophy mirrored that of
the early 18th-century AngloDutch, Satan-worshipping degenerate Bernard Mandeville, whom he adored: “Private
vices beget public benefits.”
When he was dubbed an Order
of the Companions of Honour
by the Queen, von Hayek pronounced it as “the happiest day
of my life”.
The IEA wrote the entire
program for British PM Margaret Thatcher’s policies of the
1980s—brutal slashes to health
care and other social services,
the mass fire sale of public assets into private hands, unionbusting, and so forth. Similarly
the IPA, the CIS and their cronies wrote much of the program
for the Hawke/Keating government, almost all of the budgetslashing, mass-privatising Howard government’s policies, and,
already three years ago, 100 per
cent of the program of the present Abbott/Hockey government.
Unparalleled Influence
It was no surprise, therefore,
to find Joe Hockey in London
on 17 April 2012, delivering a
speech to the IEA titled “The
End of the Age of Entitlement”,
or that his domestic keynote
speech as Treasurer was delivered to the CIS in Sydney on 8
November 2013. There he proclaimed, “I want to declare my
gratitude to Greg Lindsay and
the CIS team for its advocacy of many values and policies
that I share.” Lindsay, a disciple
of Hayek who founded the CIS
in 1976, was later elected president of the elite MPS itself. By
8 November 2003, in an article
headlined “Ideas Powerhouse
Whose Game Is Political Influence”, the Sydney Morning
Herald observed, “Most observers … say no organisation
has ever enjoyed CIS’s influence in Australia.”
No wonder: Big Business
and the Big Four banks founded these MPS think tanks in
the first place, hold commanding positions on their boards,
dictate their “studies”, and finance the Liberals (in particular, but also the ALP) to get
them implemented. Then they
rake in the loot.
Take that raving Anglophile
Sir Rod Eddington, for instance. A board member of CIS
and head of Infrastructure Aus-
tralia (Abbott styles himself the
“Infrastructure Prime Minister”), Sir Rod has led the charge
for a new, more sweeping selloff of public assets (particularly
of the states). The proceeds are
to be used to build new, privately owned infrastructure, delivering huge fees along the way
to the investment banks that
arrange the deals. All of this
“new infrastructure”, such as
toll roads, is to be “user-pays”,
and will invariably cost far
more than when governmentowned, as has notoriously happened with electricity.
Eddington has trumpeted
the murderous Kennett reforms of the early 1990s, “Project Victoria”, which was written by the IPA and the Tasman Institute (ACIL Tasman,
now ACIL Allen Consulting),
as the model for what Abbott
and Hockey intend today. In
three years, Kennett privatised
$30 billion worth of public
assets, mainly electricity and
gas (many involving deals with
CIS director and Macquarie
Bank CEO Nicholas Moore);
he slashed the public health
budget by 10 per cent, shutting
down many regional hospitals
and sacking 20,000 health
workers; and he closed 350
public schools and eliminated
7,000 teaching jobs.
What You Can Do
1) Call Abbott’s office and demand that the Australian government call in the U.S. Ambassador to explain why President Obama—our supposed ally—is trying to put a fascist
regime into power in Ukraine, and 2) Call your MP and demand that he or she introduce Glass-Steagall banking separation into the parliament, to split our “Too Big to Fail” Big
Four banks into two: normal commercial banks and speculative investment banks. Only Glass-Steagall, in Australia
as elsewhere, can eliminate the ongoing financial meltdown
which is driving the threat of thermonuclear war.
Tony Abbott’s phone numbers
Canberra Office:
02 6277 7700
Electorate Office:
02 9977 6411
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World Financial Collapse Looms, British Empire Prepares Nuclear War
From page 1
warning: “Considering the destabilising nature of the BMD
system, specifically the creation of the illusion of being
able to inflict a disarming first
strike without retaliation, a decision on the pre-emptive use
of available offensive weapons will be taken during the
period of an escalating situation.” The U.S. is now deploying its Prompt Global Strike
system, which envisages precisely such a “first strike without retaliation”.
For its part, China’s government-supported Global Times
daily reported that Chinese thermonuclear missiles could take
out major American cities in a
counterstrike. The article was
accompanied by a map of those
U.S. cities (Fig. 3). Like the Russians, Chinese spokesmen in the
past two years have repeatedly
warned that if China’s very existence seems threatened, it reserves the right to launch a first
strike against an aggressor.
Now, as the Anglo-American
powers openly promote a fascist
coup on Russia’s very borders,
what conclusions will China
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China’s Global Times newspaper published this map of the range
of Chinese retaliatory missile strikes, with thermonuclear warheads
taking out American cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle,
Las Vegas, and Boise, and fallout reaching to the Great Lakes.
which Australia is a centrepiece?
Australia is already understood
to be a target for Russian
nuclear weapons because of
our deep integration into the
worldwide U.S. BMD and
signals intelligence apparatus.
In a 31 January 2014 webcast, American statesman and
physical economist Lyndon LaRouche called for the impeachment of President Obama as the
only certain pathway out of this
strategic nightmare. “If he were
removed”, LaRouche asserted,
“my guess is that by releasing
the British control represented by Obama, from the United
States government, … the United States would refuse to go into
a thermonuclear war.” As documented by U.S. legal scholars,
Obama has already committed
far more impeachable offenses
than U.S. President Richard Nixon, who resigned in 1974 under
threat of impeachment. Simultaneously, LaRouche emphasised,
the U.S. must enact Glass-Steagall legislation to begin to deal
with the global financial collapse
that is driving the war danger.
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Stop the Bail-In/Bail-Out Plot against Australians
Joe Hockey: Flunky for London and Wall Street
Without Glass-Steagall, Australia’s Banks
Will Crash
Australia’s Real ‘Big Four’: HSBC, JPMorgan,
National, Citicorp
The Glass-Steagall Solution
Glass-Steagall Legislation Pending in Major
Countries
Summary of Draft Legislation for an Australian
National Bank
The Economic Recovery Program: Great Water
Projects, Maglev Rail, Nuclear Fission Power
Mankind’s Future: Thermonuclear Fusion
Appendices
A. The Bail-In Plot against Australians:
The Evidence
B. The ABC’s of Bail-In: What You Must Know
C. Pope Francis vs. the “Free Market”:
“Thou Shalt Not Kill”
D. The LaRouche Record on the Financial Crisis
E. The Disastrous History of Australia’s Banking
Deregulation
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