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Volume 35, No. 37, September 16, 2021
9/11 Declassification Begins:
Will 20 Years of Emergency Rule Be Reversed? On September 11, the FBI released a declassified (but re dacted) report from April 2016, which, despite the many censored names and passages, provides additional conclusive information of the involvement of agents of the Saudi Arabian government supporting the 9/11 hijackers. And this is only the first of a series of declassifications set to occur over the coming six months under President Biden’s Sept. 3 executive order (cf. SAS 36/21).
Hopefully, the full story of Saudi Arabian involvement in 9/11 will become increasingly clear, but this involvement itself poses larger questions. First, who within the United States acted to cover up the Saudi role on 9/11? This question is intimately tied to such unresolved anomalies as the lack of air defense response after it became clear at the World Trade Center that concerted attacks were underway, and other ef
fects.
Second, who promoted and financed the operation, and to what end? Asking “cui bono?” points us not to Riyadh, but to London (rightly nicknamed “Londonistan”).
September 11, 2001, set into motion what has been two decades of emergency rule, in which long-term planning has been replaced by responses to supposedly urgent threats, in which intelligence agencies and financial institutions have taken increasing power in the trans-Atlantic world. This two
decade change in the governance of the planet, or at least its trans-Atlantic sector, had been forecast by Lyndon LaRouche, well before the September 11 attacks.
Responding to a question regarding Bush’s nomination of “inveterate Confederate” John Ashcroft as his Attorney Gen eral, during an EIR January 3, 2001 webcast, Lyndon La Rouche warned of the danger of U.S. government itself being replaced by a regime of crisis management with “emergency powers”, and of the threat that a kind of “Reichstag Fire” event would be used to usher in dictatorial powers under the incoming Bush Administration, all driven by a collapse of the financial system.
Small wars would be set off “in various parts of the world,” he said, with the government responding “with crisis manage ment methods of provocation.”
Not only LaRouche was proven right on the consequences of Sept. 11, but in the following years, he repeatedly exposed
the authoritarian rule as connected to the global financial cri sis and to the so-called climate emergency.
Now, 20 years later, the misguided NATO/American adven ture in Afghanistan has ended in disgrace, and additional truth about the event that ushered in a global shift in governance is coming to light. The question is: will the past two decades of geopolitics and hegemony be repudiated and reversed? Will the American people, and the world, come to know what hap pened on 9/11? Will the world finally take LaRouche’s advice today?
9/11: French Public Radio Still Obsessed with Lyndon LaRouche’s Analysis
France Info, the public all-news radio station in France, posted a 2 minute video on its website on Sept. 9 on the terror ist attacks against the twin towers in 2001. But rather than focusing on the attacks themselves, or their consequences, the station attempts to ridicule the unprecedented wave of
“conspiracy theories” that it continues to spawn. And the first person it mentions in that regard is.... Lyndon LaRouche.
The video accuses LaRouche of being a “conspirationist”, because he was “one of the first to claim that the attack was ordered from within, by the American government itself, to justify the wars waged by the United States in the Middle East.” The 2 minute clip is part of the 12th episode of a series of podcasts on France Info titled “Complorama” devoted to conspiracy theories.
Another radio station belonging to the public broadcaster Radio France is France Culture. Two years ago, on Sept. 10, 2019, France Culture also attacked the “paranoid vision” of Lyndon LaRouche on 9/11, but noted that “his voice is heard internationally”, and his views were “brought into France” by Jacques Cheminade.
Cheminade responded to the latest slanders in a statement which sets the record straight on what LaRouche had actually stated on that fateful day in 2001, and afterwards. Far from being “conspiracy nonsense”, what LaRouche said at the time – that the attacks could not have been organized out of a re
mote cave in Afghanistan, that they aimed at destabilizing the United States, that they showed the incompetence, if not the complicity, of certain agencies of the government, that they had to be seen in the context of the ongoing collapse of the
western financial system, etc. -- was subsequently confirmed by many reports (although not officially).
The documents which President Biden has pledged to de classify in the coming months, concerning in particular the bungled investigations of the FBI and cover-up of the role of top level Saudis, will undoubtedly bring further confirmation of LaRouche’s assessment.
China’s Attempt to Rein in Speculation Infuriates George Soros
On Sept. 2, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the cre ation of a new stock exchange board for small and medium enterprises. Its purpose, according to the Head of Research of Goldmoney Alisdair Macleod, is to insulate China “from an increasingly likely global financial crisis by eliminating depen dence on foreign financial markets”. Similar sentiments were expressed by other observers.
This measure is the latest in a series of actions showing that Beijing wants to prevent having “a twenty-year-old with suspenders press a button and bring to its knees or alter his economy rate curve“, in the words of economist Michele Ger
aci, a China expert.
The most spectacular such moves are the earlier crackdown on big giants such as Alibaba, Didi or Tencent. In the Alibaba case, for instance, the government intervened to stop what had become a threat to the government’s exclusive preroga
tive of setting the cost of money. In fact, Alibaba started as a Chinese version of Ebay, before expanding into several activi ties, including taking customers’ deposits and offering an at tractive interest rate. This had reached a large enough dimen sion to affect the general interest rate curve.
In addition, China’s State Council announced, as reported by Reuters on Sept. 4, the launching of more commodity future contracts, including a shipping contract, and the accelerated efforts to bring in more overseas investors to trade in its fu
ture markets.
In view of Beijing’s recent moves to curb speculation in com modity prices, this decision likely aims to bring global com modity prices under control. It remains to be seen whether Chinese future markets will be regulated so as to exclude or contain non-commercial traders.
Megaspeculator George Soros is not amused by all this. He and others especially fear that China will deflate the real es tate bubble, which has absorbed a lot of foreign capital, and are accusing Beijing of provoking a systemic crisis. Soros has called on the U.S. Congress to pass a law to stop financial transfers of capital to China, which ostensibly comes in re sponse to a BlackRock announcement of plans to assist and advise investors in investing more in the Chinese economy. BlackRock is the only fully foreign-owned fund authorized to operate in China.
An enraged Soros now accuses BlackRock of providing Xi Jinping with money to realize his alleged aim of becoming China’s lifetime authoritarian ruler, while continuing to op press the population (what about the 800 million citizens he has lifted out of poverty?), and to become a more aggressive player on the global stage.
However, Soros’ threats about stopping financial transfers of capital have no teeth. China does not need foreign capital, especially on its stock or bond markets, although it once did. As long as the transfers remain a minor phenomenon, it is
tolerated, but if it begins to affect macroecnomic policies, it is unacceptable.
The Debate on Bank Separation
Back on the Table in France
Pierre-Henri Leroy is a senior banking expert, who was a member of the “honorary advisory council” of Jacques Chemi nade’s presidential campaign. In May 2020, he published a book titled La Conjuration bancaire (which translates as The Banking Plot), which documents the abuses of the banking system over the past decades and the blatant misappropria tion of taxpayer money to enrich private interests. He blasts in particular the takedown of the separation (de facto or de jure) that used to exist between traditionial commercial banks and investment activities.
Mr. Leroy is well aware of the problem as the founder in 1995 of Proxinvest, a research consultancy firm created to defend the interests of all shareholders by advising them on how to vote at shareholder meetings. He has also participated in several public debates organized by Solidarité & Progrès on the urgent need for a strict, Glass-Steagall style banking separation. While his new book does not endorse a full bank
ruptcy organization of the system, as called for by Jacques Cheminade, the author thoroughly analyzes and exposes the systemic conflicts of interest that are intrinsic to the neo-lib eral model of “universal banks”.
The Journal de l’Economie published on Aug. 30 an im portant article on the “implacable” book which, it notes, will not be recommended by economists who depend for their livelihood on the major banks and insurance companies. On universal banks, the Journal explains that that while banks were basically forbidden from any activity other than collect ing deposits from savers and granting credit to companies and individuals until the 1990s, “various measures have been taken in France, in Europe and across the Atlantic to discreetly and methodically remove these prohibitions”.
Today, the state (and therefore the taxpayers) guarantees those banks will be bailed out, although they are mainly in volved in “asset management, speculation for their own ac count, real estate development, insurance, telephony or even security...”
Pierre-Henri Leroy also documents the insane policy of “quantitative easing”: since 2011, the ECB has given “sub sidized credits and asset purchases amounting to over 4 tril lion euros” to private banks, without exercising any control in return.
Germany: An Old Scandal May Come Back to Haunt Chancellor Candidate Olaf Scholz On Sept. 9, police raided the German Finance ministry in a spectacular move, in the context of an investigation by Os nabrück prosecutors into a suspected case of money laun dering. According to prosecutors, customs officials, who are under Finance Ministry jurisdiction, are suspected of covering up a bank transaction of one million euros, which might be the fruit of illegal activities, including narcotics. The officials should have communicated the information to the criminal police but they did not, according to prosecutors.
Though seemingly a minor affair, the police action, taken just over two weeks before the general elections, casts a shadow on the SPD candidate Olaf Scholz, who also happens
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to be Finance Minister. He has tried to play the affair down, declaring that the raid was not urgent as the questions posed to the ministry “could have put in writing...” But the criminal police holds that the raid was justified because of legal ob
struction by (as yet) unknown officials of the ministry, who had already been informed of the money laundering charges two years ago.
The weekly Der Spiegel leaked, however, on Sept. 10 that information on the case transmitted in Nov. 2020 was as sessed by the ministry as not necessarily requiring an inter vention by the criminal police. Did Scholz have knowledge of that fact, or not?
The leak has prompted the Bundestag groups of the Greens, the Left and the Free Democrats to request an extraordinary session of the Financial Policy Committee, but it is unlikely to be convened before the Sept. 26 election. The affair is never
theless embarrassing for Olaf Scholz and will continue to em barrass him if -- as generally expected -- his Social Democrats win the most seats in the election and he becomes the next German Chancellor. A senior politician of the CDU —who did not join the request for an investigation committee -- is also hit by the scandal: Scholz’s predecessor, Wolfgang Schäuble, who several years ago took jurisdiction away from the crimi nal police to give it to the customs office, with the argument that the criminal police was overloaded.
UN Study of Afghanistan Economy Paints a Devastating Picture
After 20 years of the U.S.-led NATO war in Aghanistan, the country’s economy is in a state of near non existence. Emer gency aid and relief is urgent for the population – whether
one “approves” of the government now in place or not. Details are provided in a new study just released by the United Nations Development Program on Sept. 9. It reports that the country’s budget, shrunken as it is, depends for three-quarters of its financing on external aid. That includes vital services such as schools, hospitals, and infrastructure. It reports that Afghanistan has only 600 MW of domestic elec tricity generating capacity (less than 1% of the per-person capacity of the United States for example) (https://www. undp.org/publications/economic-instability-and-uncertainty afghanistan-after-august-15).
According to UNICEF, “10 million children across Afghani stan require humanitarian assistance to survive, 1 million children are projected to suffer from acute severe malnu trition, and 4.2 million children are out of school.” As for the population at large, fully 72% officially live below the poverty level of $2 per day per person. The UNDP calculates that with the “fragmentation” of the economy now ongoing, and the cutoff of international trade, poverty would increase by 25% from 2020, which would make it nearly universal, at 97% of the population.
End Western Financial War against Afghans The UNDP report concludes that sanctions are causing “a se vere disruption” of the country. “The Biden administration has frozen the assets of Afghanistan’s Central Bank (DAB) -- in cluding most of the central bank reserves of over $9 billion -- which are held in the U.S. The national currency, afghani, fell as much as 6.6% to 86.14 per dollar on Aug. 17th.” In addition, the $450 millions in SDRs allocated by the IMF are inaccessible since Federal Reserve shut access to dollar liquidi
ty for the Afghan Central Bank. As for the World Bank, it “has also suspended financial support, and financial aid pledged earlier by most donors is being reconsidered.”
This bleak picture in the UNDP report was confirmed by UN Special Representative for Afghanistan Deborah Lyons in a briefing to the UN Security Council Sept. 9. She called in particular for lifting the sanctions imposed on Afghanistan to prevent “severe economic breakdown,” and an increase in poverty by “many millions more”.
She stated: “There is an additional looming crisis to which I must draw your attention…. Billions of assets and donor funds have been frozen by members of the international com munity. The understandable purpose is to deny these funds to the de facto Taliban administration. Inevitable effect, how ever, will be a severe economic downturn that could throw many more millions into poverty and hunger, may generate a massive wave of refugees from Afghanistan, and indeed set Afghanistan back for generations.
“As well, as the Afghan currency plummeted, prices of fuel and food have skyrocketed. Private banks no longer have cash to distribute, meaning even Afghans with assets cannot access them. Salaries cannot be paid. Afghanistan, heavily import dependent, will be unable to finance its imports of food and medicine, as well as fuel, electricity, and other central items.
“A modus vivendi must be found, and quickly that allows money to flow to Afghanistan and avoid a total breakdown of the economy and social order…. The economy must be allowed to breathe for a few more months, giving the Tali
ban a chance to demonstrate flexibility and a genuine will to do things differently this time, notably from a human rights, gender and counter-terrorism perspective.”
Note, however, that Ms. Lyons said nothing about the urgent reconstruction efforts needed, although they were scheduled for discussion at ta UN meeting in Geneva on Sept. 13. The Schiller Institute has called for an emergency plan to set up a modern health system in the country, ensure the development of farming, and urgently build infrastructure, in cooperation with China and the neighboring countries. While many lead
ers in the West are screeching that Russia and China are now moving to increase their influence in the region, by offering aid and engagement, they would be better advised to do the same, and drop their financial warfare schemes.
“The Path Forward from 9/11, Afghanistan and the Surveillance State”
The above title was the theme of one of the events orga nized by the American Schiller Institute to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The virtual conference began with excerpts of the interview that Lyndon LaRouche was giving to Jack Stockwell’s radio show just as the planes crashed into the World Trade Center, in which he warned of the attempts that would certainly be made subsequently to cover up those truly responsible for the attacks and for international terrorism generally, and to set up police state measures in the U.S. itself.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche then addressed the frenzy created in the U.S. following 9/11, with calls for brutal revenge and military action against the claimed culprits in Afghanistan, but leaving out the role of the Saudis and their masters who had planned the assaults. As a result, what followed was 20 years of war in Afghanistan on purely fraudulent grounds, which did not even lead to the defeat of the Taliban, as well as end-
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less wars and sanctions against several other nations in the Islamic world.
There are two possibilities in responding today to the with drawal from Afghanistan, Zepp-LaRouche said: revenge, in the tradition of Madeleine Albright saying that the death of 500,000 Iraqi children was “worth the price” of the Iraq War, or Hillary Clinton gloating over the brutal assassination of Libya’s Qaddafi. Or, we can reflect on the failure of the system which brought us to this disastrous situation, and agree to change it, ending the geopolitical divisions of the world into
warring tribes, and uniting to solve the problems facing hu manity as a whole, as her late husband Lyndon LaRouche had argued all his life.
William Binney, the former National Security Agency Tech nical Director turned whistle-blower, explained how the com puter system he and his team had designed to root out crime and terrorism, lawfully, was then usurped and used to cre ate the greatest surveillance state in history during the Bush/ Cheney administration.
Terry Strada, the heroic leader of the “9/11 Families and Survivors United for Justice Against Terrorism,” described the important victory she and her organization had achieved in fi nally getting President Biden to announce the declassification of all the 9/11 documents. We will see if it actually happens, she said, but the world deserves to know the truth.
Ray McGovern, who served for 27 years in the CIA, re sponsible for Russian intelligence, then gave a powerful ad dress on the necessity to reverse the false demonization of all things Russia. But he first made reference to his friend Julian Assange, still held unjustly in prison in London for pub lishing documents on U.S. war crimes in Wikileaks. And yet, McGovern said, had WikiLeaks were existed in the run-up to 9/11, the attacks never would have happened! In fact, agents at the FBI and other agencies who suspected something evil was being prepared before that date, later admitted that they would have leaked what they knew if such an outlet had been available.The proceedings of the conference are available at https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2021/09/11/.
Schiller Institute Commemorates 9/11 in New York City
American and Russian Officials Express Unity against Terrorism. On Sept. 12, 2021, in Bayonne, New Jersey, the Schiller Institute, with the support of the Embassy of the Rus sian Federation in Washington, D.C., and the Russian Con sulate in New York City, organized a ceremony at the Tear of Grief monument, which sits just across the Hudson River from the site of the attack on the Twin Towers in Manhattan
(https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2021/09/13/). The Tear of Grief monument, designed by Russian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli, was given by the Russian government and people as a gift to America in 2005, in sympathy and in sup port of the families and survivors of the 9/11 attack.
The master of ceremonies was Fireman Michael Pelliccio, from the City of Bayonne Fire Department, with honor guards provided by the Bayonne Fire and Police Departments, and by the New York City Police Department. Extraordinary music, including the national anthems of the United States and Rus
sia, was provided by the Schiller Institute NYC Chorus, and by soloists Kevin Maynor, and NYC police officer Kevin Shaw. A message was read from Russia’s Ambassador to the
United States, His Excellency Anatoly Antonov, who stressed that the “9/11 tragedy has shown that terrorism is a common global threat. Any attempts to create isolated ‘islands of secu rity’ in the modern inter-connected world are ephemeral and doomed to failure. The victory over terrorists can be achieved only through joint efforts of the entire international commu nity. There is no place for carelessness and double standards in this regard....”
Among the many speakers were Terry Strada, national chairwoman of 9/11 Families and Survivors, Consul General Sergey Ovsyannikov of the Russian Consulate in New York, Bayonne Mayor James M. Davis, Bayonne Fire Chief Keith Weaver, and Kirk Wiebe, former Senior Analyst of the Nation
al Security Agency. Messages were read from Schiller Institute President Helga Zepp-LaRouche and from the President of the Russian Academy of Arts, Zurab Tsereteli. The Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations re
leased 2 short videos of the event.
Beethoven’s Agnus Dei in Memoriam. The Schiller In stitute NYC Chorus continued its tradition of annual 9/11 commemorative events with a “hybrid” concert on Sept. 10, featuring both live and virtual (due to COVID) performances. The concert venue was the beautiful “Our Lady of Pompeii” church not far from the World Trade Center in Greenwich Village, New York City, where thirty choristers and instrumen talists presented a program of both European and American classical music.
After a setting of the patriotic song “America the Beauti ful” by Nathaniel Dett, co-founder of the National Associa tion of Negro Musicians, three other pieces were performed that could all be considered spirituals. The first was Harry T. Burleigh’s setting of Deep River, Robert Schumann’s Gypsy Life (Zigeunerleben), and Va, Pensiero from Giuseppe Verdi’s Nabucco.
The crowning contribution of the concert were the final sections of Beethoven’s Opus 123 Missa Solemnis: the Sanc tus-Benedictus, and the Agnus Dei, which concludes with Beethoven’s operatic Dona Nobis Pacem. As Master of Cere monies Jennifer Pearl stated in her introduction, “Beethoven’s inscription above the Dona Nobis Pacem section in the sheet music calls for inner and outer peace, a plea for both spiri tual and worldly peace. The final movement’s words end with Dona Nobis Pacem which means grant us peace. Nothing could be more fitting as a way of ending tonight’s memorial concert than a call for peace. But peace isn’t just the absence of violence or war. It has to be a principle of overcoming the cycle of violence and wars that have been perpetuated by the old paradigm of imperialism for centuries. Combine that with an active commitment to uplifting and improving the living conditions and culture of future generations.”
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