Dare Call It Treason! It Shall Not Prosper!

by Mr. X

July 23—It is true that Director of National Security Tulsi Gabbard has just called attention, through a series of now-declassified documents, to a 9-year-old story, that she has referred to as “a treasonous conspiracy,” on the part of the 2016 American intelligence establishment, including the then-President Barack Obama. But on behalf of whom is this treason being committed? The Russiagate caper, for example, was instigated by British intelligence, in the form of then-GCHQ Chief Robert Hannigan. That is, a foreign government, the British Empire, interfered to defraud the 2016 American Presidential election, by claiming that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee.

As journalist Aaron Maté wrote on July 22: “According to newly declassified documents, U.S. intelligence leaders concealed high-level doubts about one of Russiagate’s foundational allegations: that Russia stole and leaked Democratic Party material to help Trump defeat Hillary Clinton. In a September 2016 report that was never made public until now, the NSA and the FBI broke with their intelligence counterparts and expressed ‘low confidence’ in the attribution to Russia. The previously undisclosed dissent about Russia’s alleged hacking activities in the 2016 election is among several revelations released last week by Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s Director of National Intelligence.” But it was British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) Chief Robert Hannigan and Christopher Steele’s controller, “former” MI6 head Sir Richard Dearlove, that were the instigators and the brains behind it all.

Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter responded to these revelations on July 21 on George Galloway’s show: “[W]e’re at a point right now in American British relations where we need to be calling a spade a spade. You are not our friend. In fact, you are our enemy. You facilitated active treason against the sitting President of the United States. Under some circumstances, that would be a casus belli (cause for war)…. And you’re lucky I’m not the president, because I’ll tell you what, you interfere with American democracy to that degree, you will pay a heavy price, as you should. Not you, George. You’re my friend and not the British people. And that’s why we’ll never do this. But your government is the absolute enemy of not just the United States, but all of humanity.”

When looking at “Russiagate,” it is important to see the nature of the treason under consideration; thermonuclear war, after all, is treason against the human race. The present war of NATO against Russia is a war that London’s The Economist had written a script for, in 2007, before Barack Obama was elected to the Presidency. “In the dangerous second decade of the (21st) century, when Vladimir Putin returned for a third term as Russian president and stood poised to invade Ukraine, it was the EU that pushed the Obama administration to threaten massive nuclear retaliation.”

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zhakarova July 21 expressed, in her unique way, what this British-instigated march toward folly has actually meant. "Historically, we have done everything possible to build relations with a peaceful and prosperous Germany based on mutual respect. We forgave what no person, no nation, should be expected to forgive. We forgave the deaths of tens of millions of our people. And what did we get in return? What everyone is seeing today….

“To me, the most alarming thing happening in Germany is the complete amnesia regarding its own past. The country has forgotten its recent history, including its reunification. The fact that the country was divided did not happen by some global accident, but as a consequence of the crimes it committed. Germany has forgotten who played the decisive role in making its reunification possible. It was our country, our people, those who had every right not to forgive, but did, who also helped bring the German people back together. Even that has now been betrayed. They have betrayed themselves.”

Is America about to betray itself as well? Will that self-betrayal, given America’s importance, cause a global thermonuclear war? Perhaps the way to look at what Gabbard is calling attention to is, in the context of a larger, chronic problem of “Tory” treasonous behavior in the American Presidency, citing a series of years: 1989, with the Bush 41 presidency and the fall of the Berlin Wall; 1963’s Kennedy assassination; 1945’s April death, in office, of President Franklin Roosevelt and the subsequent unjustified dropping of the atomic bomb in August.

For a moment, then, reverse this perspective. See the American Revolution as the first successful anti-colonial revolution in history, 250 years ago. Then, consider the nearly 600 years of colonialism that is now coming to an end, and the role that the international collaboration known as the American Revolution played in causing that transition to come about. Then, realize that the promise contained in the American 1776 Declaration of Independence is best expressed in the present-day economic aspirations of the true heirs of that experiment—the vast majority of the human race, as assembled in over 100 nations, now called the “Global Majority.”

Yet, the United States has been caused to regard that very grouping of nations, grouped at the moment around the formation called the BRICS, as its enemy. In upholding this wrong idea, the United States commits treason against itself. It is of this that President John Quincy Adams, who occupied that office exactly 200 years ago, warned the Congress four years earlier in his Fourth of July speech in 1821: America “well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign Independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.”

Fifty years ago, the economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche, in what is today referred to as his “Oasis Plan,” outlined how to extend justice, not “IMF/World Bank loans,” to Palestine and Southwest Asia, and more generally to the nations of Africa, Asia and Ibero-America, in the form of “advanced technology transfer.” In this way, not only would the crimes of colonialism be addressed, but a new, self-sufficient economic platform would be created, based on technology transfer as expressed in advanced machine tool production and high energy-density physical production in the fields of mining, manufacturing, agriculture, and essential infrastructure, including in the fields of health and education. That would provide the economic foundation for a real new security and development architecture. That is the fight that must be waged in the United Nations now, for the people of Gaza, and for our own souls’ sake.