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March 27—On March 25, Col. Douglas Macgregor (USA ret.) released a no-holds-barred interview with independent candidate for U.S. Senate in New York Diane Sare. His YouTube channel is called, “Our Country, Our Choice.”Sare was able to give Col. Macgregor 30-minute instruction in the later statesman and the world's leading physical economist, Lyndon LaRouche’s science of physical economy, ranging from the real intent of the 1934 Glass-Steagall Act, the need today for a National Bank, the Hamiltonian method of extinguishing debt through productive investment, and the role today of the Global South in ending colonialism. Describing LaRouche as the most controversial political figure of our time, Sare identified his role in defining the real American tradition of creative, productive investment and the "pursuit of happiness."Col. Macgregor ended the tour d’horizon interview with Sare, telling her: “I sincerely hope you get more attention, that more Americans in New York State listen to you, and that hopefully they’ll get out and vote for you, because I think you’re someone with a mission and that’s what we need right now in Washington.”
March 27—A defiant Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu has attacked the United Nations Security Council for unanimously approving a Resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, halting his plans to reduce to an uninhabitable rubble heap the entire area of Rafah, the last city still standing in Gaza.Calling the Resolution, which was approved March 25 after the United States refused to exercise its veto, an effort to infringe Israel’s right to defend itself against the Hamas terrorists who attacked Oct. 7 slaughtering more than 1,200 innocent civilians and taking nearly 250 hostages, of which 100 are thought to be still alive. Netanyahu told the media March 25 there could be no even temporary ceasefire without a release of hostages and condemned the Resolution for its failure to insist on that and to condemn Hamas for its Oct. 7 attack.More importantly, while not recognizing the right of the UN to impose a ceasefire, even if an agreement could be reached in the negotiations taking place in Qatar, Netanyahu said he will not be deterred from “finishing the job” and eliminating the last two Hamas fighting battalions, which, he claims are hiding among the more than one million people now crowded into Rafah. Sources report that Bibi has already issued the orders for the assault on Rafah, and that the Israel Defense Forces are mobilizing in preparation for that attack, which could come as soon as next week.Netanyahu also attacked the United States for failing to defend “its ally” Israel from the Resolution, as it has in the past with its veto, stating he was “very disappointed,” by what had taken place. But sources close to the White House report that he should not have been surprised, as President Sleepy Joe Biden has, in particular, become increasingly exasperated with Netanyahu, most recently, over his refusal to rescind plans to attack Rafah.Biden has seen the result of private election campaign polls that show him losing any chance for re-election should the slaughter in Gaza continue much longer, and he has been backing away from his previous blanket support for the Israelis. Reports are that it was the President, personally, who ordered the U.S. abstention on the UNSC vote. But, thus far, the Administration has refrained from allowing any of its spokesmen to term what is happening in Gaza as genocide or to publicly threaten a halt of military sales and aid to Israel.“In some ways, what the Biden White House is doing is pure bluff,” said a source with knowledge of discussions within the Administration. “It is as if they want world opinion to stop Bibi. But Bibi does not give a rat’s ass for such opinion. He is on a crusade to make Gaza uninhabitable for years to come, making a two-state solution impossible. It has never been about Hamas. Hamas merely provided the excuse he needed to carry out his genocide. He knows that his political future is limited, and his time in power is close to ending. He sees this as his life mission, and he will not be deterred by angry words, or even shouting rants, as Biden is prone to.“You are going to need actions—actions that could impel Israeli actors in this sad tragedy to take steps to remove Bibi.”Netanyahu is calling the question on the UN, on the U.S., and on the rest of the civilized world. He has said that he believes that the UN Resolution is non-binding, just recommendation he intends to ignore. The U.S. has said as much as well, although it is not clear what the White House actually thinks.UN Secretary-General António Guiterrez has stated that the Ceasefire Resolution is binding on all parties. If that is the case, then he needs to go back to the Council and ask for authorization to implement it, including calling for the establishment of a peacekeeping force to be sent to Gaza, perhaps to be deployed at the gates of Rafah.“The White House needs to convey three things directly to Bibi,” said the source. “One: That the U.S. intends to halt all arms shipments and aid to Israel, and deny its ability to buy arms here. Two: that the U.S. will participate in a peacekeeping force if asked. And, three: That the U.S. will seek prosecution of Bibi for crimes against humanity should he carry out an attack on Rafah. Those threatened measures would send him into a blind rage, but it would also likely spur saner Israeli political leaders to take the steps necessary to remove this lunatic from office.“Let’s see if Joe Biden has the guts to do what is right. The longer he and others procrastinate on this, the more people will be threatened with death, and the more will die. Before there is even a chance to save those threatened with death in the near-term in Bibi’s genocidal war, the fighting must be stopped.”
March 27—On March 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a videoconference meeting with the heads of the government, regions, security services and law-enforcement agencies on measures being taken after the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert venue. According to the official report on the meeting by Putin's office:Today, the President further convened an expanded meeting today of the Prosecutor General’s Office Board, which he also addressed.In his opening remarks yesterday the President began: "First of all, I would like to express again my deep condolences to the families and friends of those who perished in the inhuman terrorist attack of March 22, and wish a speedy recovery to the injured and wounded….“I would like to thank everyone who saved people and helped the injured in extremely difficult circumstances. In this difficult time, our society showed an example of true solidarity, unity, and mutual support….“I would like you to report today on the course of the investigation and search to identify all those who are involved in this terrorist attack and those who ordered and organized it.“Despite our overwhelming pain and grief, sympathy, and legitimate desire to punish all perpetrators of this inhuman atrocity, the investigation must proceed with the utmost professionalism and objectivity, with no political bias whatsoever.“We know that the crime was perpetrated by radical Islamists. The Islamic World itself has been fighting this ideology for centuries. But we are also seeing how the United States is using different channels to try and convince its satellites and other countries of the world that, according to its intelligence, there is supposedly no sign of Kyiv’s involvement in the Moscow terrorist attack, that the deadly terrorist attack was perpetrated by followers of Islam, members of ISIS, an organization banned in Russia.“We know whose hands were used to commit this atrocity against Russia and its people. We want to know who ordered it.Putin posed, "We need to obtain answers to a number of questions in the course of joint work of our security services and law enforcement agencies.“For example, do radical and even terrorist Islamist organizations truly have an interest in launching attacks on Russia now that it supports a fair resolution of the escalated conflict in the Middle East? And how do radical Islamists, who present themselves as devout Muslims and follow the so-called pure Islam, justify committing atrocities and serious crimes during the holy month of Ramadan, which is sacred to all Muslims?…“One thing is absolutely clear: the heinous crime committed in the Russian capital on March 22 is an act of intimidation, as I said.“This leads to the next question: who stands to benefit from it? This act of violence is likely just one in a series of attempts by those who have been fighting against our country since 2014, using the neo-Nazi Kyiv regime as a pawn. As for the neo-Nazis, it is widely known that they have never hesitated to employ the most repugnant and inhumane methods to achieve their aims.”Putin cited the fact: "This becomes even more apparent today, as their much-touted counter-offensive has failed completely, as acknowledged by everyone and no longer disputed. The Russian Armed Forces are maintaining the initiative along the entire front line, while the enemy’s efforts to stabilize the front have been unsuccessful….“All they need to do is follow the orders of their Western patrons, fight until the last Ukrainian, obey Washington’s commands, endorse the new mobilization law, and form something resembling a new version of the Hitler Youth. To comply with all of this, they will seek new weapons and additional funds, much of which will likely be embezzled and, as is customary in Ukraine today, put into their own pockets.“Incidentally, in the 1920s, the Ukrainian nationalists had an organization called the Union of Ukrainian Nationalist Youth, which later merged with the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.“Of course, we must also answer the question of why the terrorists, after committing their crime, attempted to flee specifically to Ukraine. Who was waiting for them there? It is clear that those supporting the Kyiv regime do not wish to be implicated in acts of terrorism and be seen as sponsors of terrorism. But there are indeed numerous questions….“I would like to receive regular updates on the progress of the investigation..."
March 27—I met Murder on the way—He had a mask like Castlereagh—Very smooth he looked, yet grim;Seven bloodhounds followed him…And many more Destructions playedIn this ghastly masquerade,All disguised, even to the eyes,Like bishops, lawyers, peers , or spies. "—Percy Shelley, The Masque of Anarchy (1819)It is genocide, says the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese. She spoke from Geneva March 25, regarding the systematic mass-killing campaign now being conducted by the Israel Defense Forces, under orders from the Netanyahu regime, and subsidized and fortified by the weapons, money, and influence of Great Britain, the United States, and NATO. In testimony to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva yesterday, Albanese said (unofficial transcript): "Following nearly six months of unrelenting Israeli assault on occupied Gaza, it is my solemn duty to report on the worst of what humanity is capable of, and to present my findings: ‘The Anatomy of a Genocide.’“History teaches us that genocide is a process, not a single act. It starts with the dehumanization of a group as other, the denial of that group’s humanity, and ends with the destruction of the group in whole, or in part. The dehumanization of Palestinians as a group is the hallmark of their history—of ethnic cleansing, dispossession and apartheid.“… When the ground offensive started, the number of daily casualties had seemed to reduce, but, in fact, the level of atrocities increased. Mass disappearance and arbitrary detentions, widespread and systematic torture and inhumane treatment, add to the experience of endless death and loss…. One of my key findings is that Israel’s executive, military leadership and soldiers have intentionally distorted the rules of International Humanitarian Law—distinction, proportionality and precaution—in an attempt to legitimize genocidal violence against the Palestinian people….“In light of this, I find that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide against Palestinians as a group has been met. Specifically, Israel has committed three acts of genocide with the requisite intent, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part, and imposing measures intended to prevent birth within the group. The genocide in Gaza is the most extreme stage of a long-standing settler colonial process of erasure of the native Palestinians…. This was a tragedy foretold.“While the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will have to deliberate, the International Criminal Court (ICC) will have to investigate. It is my responsibility to remind you that the Genocide Convention includes a non-derogable obligation to prevent the commission of genocide, a reality the ICJ recognized as plausible, exactly two months ago. The time for states to act was then, and as they did not, the time to act is now. In its darkest hour, the international community cannot continue to ignore that it is Israel’s project to rid Palestine of Palestinians in defiance of international law. The world’s failure to call Israel to account has led to genocide, laid bare in Gaza. Denial of the reality and the continuation of Israel’s impunity and exceptionalism is no longer viable.“Especially in light of yesterday’s binding UN Security Council [ceasefire] resolution, I implore member states to abide by their obligations, which start with imposing an arms embargo and sanctions on Israel, and so ensure that the future does not continue to repeat itself. Thank you.”The finding of the United Nations Special Rapporteur is of particular, singular importance. It rips away the mask, not merely from Israel’s overseers, but also the mask from each and every one of us. This is the reason for the demanding crisis of conscience, first experienced and expressed by young people, most notably Jewish Voice for Peace, then other institutions and individuals, finally now affecting many of the most impenetrable, from American commentators like Candace Owens, Alex Jones, and Christiane Amanpour to politicians like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who said March 22: “As we speak, in this moment, 1.1 million innocents in Gaza are at famine’s door, a famine that is being intentionally precipitated through the blocking of food and global humanitarian assistance by leaders in the Israeli government.”Today, the world cannot claim, as it did 90 years ago, after Adolf Hitler’s accession to power in Germany, that it was not told, that the truth was hidden until it was too late to stop the crime. Rapporteur Albanese’s rebuke of the international community for not having acted two months ago, at the end of January, following South Africa’s December presentation before the International Court of Justice—“The time for states to act was then”—and her proposal for an immediate arms embargo against Israel—“the time to act is now”—is an important world reality-check. Whatever the Biden Administration is saying, the truth is that the United States is continuing to supply arms to Israel, as are Great Britain and Germany.The Biden Administration refuses to admit that the nation of Israel is committing genocide, committing crimes against humanity, judged to be such by America’s own Justice Jackson some 80 years ago at the Nuremberg Tribunals. Why do the United States, and its “special relationship partner,” Great Britain, tacitly endorse the policy of the depopulation of Gaza? Let us never forget, that, from the time of the April 1968 founding of the Club of Rome, depopulation and de-industrialization has been NATO’s middle name. China’s development projects in Argentina and Ibero-America more generally, in the African continent, and its international Belt and Road Initiative, are hated by NATO and the depopulators. In Ukraine, as in Gaza, as in the intentional and racist destruction of Haiti by the “Dope, Inc.” international financial/intelligence/drug cartel, depopulation, sometimes through genocidal means, is the willful, intentional, designed result.On March 29, the International Peace Coalition, joined by various members of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) and other organizations, will raise the standard for action to defeat these crimes, to that outlined in Principle Nine of Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s “Ten Principles for A New Security and Development Architecture”][(https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2022/11/30/ten-principles-of-a-new-international-security-and-development-architecture/): “In order to overcome the conflict arising out of quarreling opinions, which is how empires have maintained control over the underlings, the economic, social and political order has to be brought into cohesion with the lawfulness of the physical universe. In European philosophy, this was discussed, as being in character with natural law, in Indian philosophy, as cosmology, and in other cultures appropriate notions can be found.”It is urgent that we find the “common high ground,” and form the international association that, through this shared commitment to viewing all people as one humanity, can implement readily available solutions, such as the LaRouche Oasis Plan for cooperative regional development in Mideast, free from the terminal disease of thermonuclear geopolitics. We must act in time, and that time is now.
March 27—The United Nations Security Council March 25 finally approved a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, which UN Secretary-General António Guterres says is binding on all parties and must be implemented. The 14-0 vote approving the ceasefire which also calls for the release of all hostages held by Hamas and a prisoner exchange with Israeli-held Palestinians but did not make the ceasefire contingent on such a release, was made possible because the United States, which had cast its veto on three previous similar ceasefire calls, abstained.On Friday, the U.S. had submitted a less direct resolution, stating that the Council found a ceasefire imperative and urged the free flow of humanitarian aid which even the Americans have said the Israelis are impeding. That resolution was vetoed by the Russians and the Chinese, with the Algerians also voting against. After that vote, it was announced a new, more direct resolution would be submitted by the Algerians and other Council members. U.S. delegate Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield strongly implied that the U.S. would veto.That likely would have happened, had Thomas-Greenfield, who has been a slavish servant and defender of Israeli interests, had received her instructions from the State Department. But sources report that President Sleepy Joe Biden, whose rage against the bloodthirsty Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu and his oft-stated plans to carry his war of extermination against the Palestinian people of Gaza to the last city standing in the face of the Israeli onslaught, Rafah, personally ordered the abstention. If the resolution’s sponsors had accepted suggested language that condemned Hamas for their October 7 attack on Israel that slaughtered more than 1,200 innocent Israeli civilians and took another 250 hostage, of which, it is thought, less than 100 are still held alive, sources report that the American delegate had been instructed to vote for the resolution.What provoked this change, sources report, was the word sent to the White House by Director of Central Intelligence William Burns, who is leading the U.S. efforts in Qatar, along with the Egyptians and Qatar, with Saudi input, to secure a deal for a prolonged ceasefire and hostage/prisoner exchange that the Israelis were stalling on making any deal. Sources report that U.S. intelligence believes that Bibi intends to soon send the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) into Rafah, ignoring pleas from the White House to not threaten the city’s more 1.5 million current inhabitants, swelled by refugees from the rest of Israeli-devastated Gaza.Following the March 25 vote, Netanyahu immediately cancelled a trip by a special delegation to Washington to discuss plans to minimize civilian casualties in Rafah, as he proceeds with an attack that he claims is aimed at wiping out the last two battalions of so-called Hamas “fighters.” Also reported is that he has cancelled his own plans to come to Washington, on the invitation of the Christian Zionist true believer and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La) to address the House of Representatives. He was not to speak to a joint session of Congress, because the White House had ordered Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who has called for Bibi’s removal from office by the Israeli people, not to allow that.Another intelligence source with Israeli contacts reports that Bibi is in a state of blind rage against Biden and the U.S. and has no intention of heeding any calls for a ceasefire. Even if a deal is somehow reached in Qatar, the deranged Netanyahu intends to carry his crusade into Rafah, damn the consequences.“This is not about Hamas,” said the source. “It never really was. After all, Bibi helped create Hamas and definitely put them in power in Gaza, because they, like him, oppose a two-state solution. The October 7 Hamas attack—which Bibi had enough information to stop but chose to look the other way, merely provided a pretext for him to launch this war intending to make Gaza uninhabitable for years or even decade to come, brutally killing as many Gazans as possible. This, he intends as a message to the 14 million Palestinian diaspora: ‘Never come back. There is nothing here for you, except death.’”Now, there is a ceasefire resolution, agreed to by even the United States, which has the force of international law. Here is something that the U.S., the Russians and the Chinese all agree must be implemented immediately, which the UN Secretary-General also says must be implemented. Bibi must be stopped at the gates of Rafah and his killing spree ended! This, the world’s three superpowers must demand, and take the steps necessary to make that happen. Here, the U.S. must be even clearer than it has been in recent days: A ceasefire now and a move by the IDF away from Rafah; allow humanitarian aid to flow en masse to the people of Gaza—or you will suffer the consequences.For the Israelis, it is incumbent they now take the steps they must as a sovereign people to remove the murderous tyrant from office. For a viable and durable two-state solution, in which Israelis and Palestinians can live as neighbors and in peace, before any long term regional development proposal can be implemented, such as the Schiller Institute’s Oasis Plan, the rebuilding of Gaza will require a well-organized Project Return of the millions of Palestinians now living outside Gaza, as the battered and beleaguered Gazans will be unable to accomplish this rebuild by themselves.