http://www.larouchepub.com/hzl/2008/3514brit_empire_tricks.html
The British Empire Is Up To Its Old Evil Tricks
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
/Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche is the chairwoman of the Civil Rights Solidarity
Movement (BüSo) <http://www.bueso.de> in Germany. Her article has been
translated from German./
While Bundesbank chairman Axel Weber, over Easter, was calling his
colleague at the American Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, and other
central bank heads, hectically, but without result, in a desperate
search for measures by which the meltdown of the financial system could
somehow be brought under control, the financial oligarchy escalated its
efforts to destabilize many regions of the world, and to strengthen its
global control under a new version of the British Empire.
Before the reader rejects this short characterization of the situation
in disbelief, with the argument---"But the British Empire doesn't exist
any more!" he or she should recall that this is not the first time that
old wine was proffered in new bottles. Many apparently separate
developing daily events don't make the slightest sense, if you don't
look at them in their strategic context. In the face of Orwellian
control of the media, it is even more necessary, to judge contemporary
developments with the eye of an historian, who has not forgotten the
lessons of, for example, the 20th Century.
/Spiegel-Online/---significantly, only in its English
edition---described with rare openness, how hectically Easter turned out
for Axel Weber, [German Finance Minister] Peer Steinbrück, other central
bankers, and Ben Bernanke, who reported on his own futile attempts to
save the insolvent investment bank Bear Stearns. The central bankers
allegedly discussed whether they should publicize their secret
agreement, that they would never let a bank go under, if its failure
could result in a meltdown of the financial system. According to
/Spiegel/, they decided against it, to avoid giving the hedge funds and
speculators an incentive. But the participants all knew how explosive
this agreement was, because it would mean that the profits would be for
the private banks, whereas the general public would have to bear the
losses; the rich would be richer and the poor poorer: political dynamite.
Week after week, the outcry about the financial collapse becomes
shriller, and threatens the existence of more banks, and thus, will
exceed the capacity of the Federal Reserve for rescue actions, which, as
Carlos de Benedetti, member of the Board of Directors of the Carlyle
Group, warns, has already given out half of the funds it has on its
books as assets, namely $400-800 billion. Therefore, the only option the
Fed and the other central banks have left is printing money through
hyperinflation, in the face of outstanding obligations of hundreds of
trillions or more; this would mean hyperinflation à la Weimar 1923,
whose current phase is already affecting the poor of this world in the
most brutal ways.
When British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, of all people, and French
President Nicolas Sarkozy spoke, at their British-French summit on March
26-27, of the establishment of a new "Entente Formidable," for more
transparency of the financial markets, and better ways to assign value
to complex financial instruments, the German government should really
learn the lesson that it doesn't pay to submit to the British Empire, by
being more British than the empire itself. Because it was first and
foremost the U.S.A. and Great Britain, which blocked Germany's demand
for greater transparency at all the past G-8 summits. Now, that would be
closing the barn door after the horse has escaped. Transparency can only
bring the hopeless bankruptcy of the system to the light of day, and
prove that the valuation of the instruments only has the character of
toxic waste.
A New 'Entente Cordiale'
And what has German Chancellor Angela Merkel gotten out of so misusing
the German presidency of the European Union, by subscribing repeatedly
to the basic strategic interests of London, namely the ruinous reduction
of CO_2 emissions on account of climate change allegedly caused by man;
Gordon Brown's anti-Mugabe policy, and the transformation of Europe into
an oligarchical dictatorship by means of the Treaty of Lisbon? The new
"Entente Cordiale" between Great Britain and France, which Sarkozy wants
to turn into a "fraternity," is aimed against Germany, no less than was
the Entente Cordiale of 1904 itself, which was organized by King Edward
VII against the alleged domination of the continent by Germany. Then
Great Britain used corrupt elements in France in order to organize
France's capitulation to Lord Kitchener at Fashoda, and then to organize
the anglophile Theophile Delcassé into an alliance against Germany,
which represented one of the pieces on the chessboard on which the First
World War was staged. The British-French manipulation of the Balkan wars
before the First World War belongs to the same category.
The new edition of that Entente was between Margaret Thatcher, with her
"Fourth Reich" campaign against German reunification, and François
Mitterrand, was no less anti-German; it led ultimately to the
destructive Maastricht Treaty. That Mrs. Merkel has now made herself the
most ardent champion of the still-more-fearsome Lisbon Treaty, fits in
the tradition of the containment of Germany through self-containment, as
the involvement of Germany in the EU corset was commonly called.
Accordingly, acting government spokesman Thomas Steg assiduously
declared that he doesn't consider the British-French Entente to be
established against German interests.
In his speech in London, which was described by the British media in a
not-exactly-respectful manner as "unctuous," Sarkozy explicitly placed
himself in the imperial tradition of the European colonial powers: "What
would Europe be without France's ties with the international Francophone
organization, those of Spain with the Hispanic world, of Portugal with
the Portuguese-speaking world, and of course, the United Kingdom with
the Commonwealth and the English-speaking world?" Brown, for his part,
underscored the new imperial alignment with his vision of a "Global
Europe," which would also be held together through the integration of
the logistical and intelligence aspects of NATO with the civilian
aspects of the European Union. The danger of this development will
unfortunately not be compensated for by the farcical elements of
Sarkozy's visit to London, of which there were many. His attempt to hold
his wife's hand during the official parade, was halted by Prince Philip
with a soft tap on Carla Bruni's shoulder, while a youthful nude photo
of her was auctioned off at Christie's, and decorated the international
media.
Media Lies About Tibet
The British empire is attempting, on the one side, to manipulate the
American election campaign so that Hillary Clinton resigns, Barack Obama
is then destroyed, and then an anglophile combination is installed in
the White House; and, on the other side, to militarize the EU. Then
London wants to meld the two together into a new Atlantic Empire, an
intent which will become obvious at the NATO summit at the beginning of
April in Bucharest. But there is as yet another dimension. Condoleezza
Rice declared openly many times that (neo-con) Washington would never
allow another nation or group of nations to achieve anything like the
economic and military might of the United States, which means the
imperial special relationship of the United States and Great Britain.
Precisely this development is on the horizon, at the moment that the
systemic crisis of the global financial system arrives at its end-phase.
The economic strengthening of China, Russia, and India would lead, under
normal circumstances, to the point that these countries, in five or ten
years, would not only have world-power status, but also could pull past
the Anglo-American-centered empire, in the economic sphere. It is
absolutely understood in leading circles of these three nations, that it
is the policy of the British Empire to, by all means, destroy the
strategic partnership among Russia, China, and India---to separate them,
in order to destroy each, one by one.
The Tibet campaign, prepared over many years, serves this purpose
exactly. This publication will soon document which organizations, NGOs,
and foundations have been working for years to use China's Olympic year
for a massive territorial destabilization, and possible secession of
several provinces. The Western media are participating in this, fully
synchronized with this campaign, and are not at all ashamed to print
pictures of Nepalese or Indian troops in confrontation with
demonstrators, as if they were Chinese troops in Lhasa.
The hypocrisy of the news coverage is not to be outdone. Even though
several Western journalists, such as Geoff Dyer of the /Financial
Times/, have stated that the damage caused by the Tibetan demonstrators
was enormous, that does not stop them from condemning only the Chinese
side. According to the Chinese press, there were, in the capital Lhasa
alone, losses of $28 million, and 422 business, seven schools, 120
homes, and six hospitals were destroyed. How should China react to the
fact that Tibet, Xinjiang, Sechuan, and probably other regions have been
destabilized from the outside, and, at the same time thousands of
"Christian" fundies from the United States are visiting villages, in
order to "convert" the inhabitants? And if the president of the Tibetan
Youth Congress, Tsewant Rigzin, argues for full independence? How would
the German government react if foreign powers forcefully were seeking to
split off Bavaria, Baden Wuerttemberg, and Saxony? In India, in any
case, leading circles have understood that the campaign is intended not
only to destroy China's image, and advance separatism, but also to
destroy India's relationship with China.
In Russia, it is very well understood what lies behind NATO expansion,
and what is aimed at with the absorption of Georgia and Ukraine into
NATO: namely, to further the policy of encirclement against Russia, and,
with it, to create an unacceptable security situation. At least on this
point, Berlin has resisted the pressure of the empire faction. Russia
has made it clear, with the expulsion of 150 members of the BP oil
company due to alleged visa problems---in reality, there is suspicion of
espionage---that it understands the intention. There have appeared in
Russia a whole array of highly instructive articles, which document,
primarily, the attempted manipulation of the U.S.-Russian relationship
by the British Empire over the last 250 years.
Nuclear Power Alliances---Without Germany!
All these strategic manuevers naturally also concern raw materials and
energy. Just as the United States is seeking to get control over the
Indian nuclear energy program through the proposed U.S.-Indian nuclear
treaty, which has been fully rejected by India's Parliament and
scientists, so Great Britain wants to extend control, through its
special relationship with France at the just-concluded summit, over
nuclear energy worldwide. Industry Minister John Hutton explained that
Great Britain would take the lead in the development of nuclear energy
globally, which, however, is running into resistance in France, which
does not want to lose its own technological advantage. Meanwhile, Russia
and Japan have decided to establish a civilian nuclear energy alliance
between Atomenergoprom and Toshiba, which would make them leaders on the
world market, and has delivered a well-deserved shock to the new Entente
Formidable.
And Germany? Germany, in this respect, in spite of all its service to
the empire, is totally isolated on the question of nuclear energy, and
has just given up the Transrapid maglev project for Munich. Eight
billion euros of tax money alone was spent for bad debts at Deutsche
Industriebank (IKB), but Eu3 billion for a maglev project that could
mean abundant benefits for the whole world---this could not be spent!
We find ourselves not only in the worst crisis since 1945, or 1931, as
it now is almost commonplace to say. If we continue on this course, then
an asymmetrical global war threatens to emerge out of the systemic
crisis, a war by which the British Empire would draw the United States,
with its special relationship, as well as a militarized EU, into further
wars against Eurasia. Such a third world war would throw mankind into a
Dark Age.
The only alternative to that is the emergency conference proposed by
Lyndon LaRouche, for a New Bretton Woods System and the construction of
the Eurasian Land-Bridge, as the seed crystal for reconstruction of the
world economy.
