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Portugal Working To Put the Atlantic Ocean on the Belt and Road Map

June 5 – A three-page spread on “Portugal in China’s New Silk Road” in the May 31 issue of Portugal’s {Expresso} daily writes that “the Atlantic is missing from the current map of the initiative,” but Portuguese Belt and Road researcher Paulo Duarte tells them “the Atlantic Ocean is a space in transformation…. The trend will be for China to engage in this ocean in coming years.” Portugal offers “a string of pearls” of deepwater seaports on the European continent and on its Atlantic island such as the Azores, for this initiative, Jorge Rocha de Matos, president of the Fundacão AIP, a non-profit promoting private sector companies, told {Expresso}.

{Expresso} interviewed Portugal’s Minister of the Sea Ana Paulo Vitorino, who reported that Portugal and China are advancing on a memorandum on a “blue partnership,” dealing with everything related to the oceans and sea economy. The MOU will outline a portfolio of joint research projects on state-of-the-art maritime biotechnologies, deep-sea technologies, etc.

Portugal’s primary capital is its geography, when it comes to the BRI, she said, citing Portugal’s “strategic centrality. …. Portugal is at the interface between Europe and the Atlantic.” the reported that China is interested not only in building up Sines port, where the China Communications Construction Co. will be a bidder in the tender for expanding Sines which will be launched later this year. Increased Chinese activity here will turn this port, once considered a “white elephant” into a crown jewel, she said. But “China is not only looking at Sines;” it is also studying investments to upgrade the entire national port system, she said.


Webcast: New Asian Alignment Is Shaping the Future: Will the Foolish Europeans Be Left Behind?

Read Harley’s article: No More Doubt: It’s the U.K., not Russia, that Meddled in the U.S. Elections https://goo.gl/3yB5Xs


Developments of the last days demonstrate that the potential to bring the world into a new era of peaceful economic progress is emerging, centered around the diplomacy and physical economic advances associated with China’s New Silk Road (NSR) policy. The dynamic unleashed by the NSR, which Helga Zepp LaRouche has called the New Paradigm, has brought together the leading nations of Asia — China, India, Japan, South Korea — and Eurasian power Russia, into an alliance which is causing increasing panic among those still yearning for the days when the British Empire’s geopolitics dominated every aspect of international relations. Many nations in Africa and South and Central America have also joined the NSR. Were President Trump freed from the insanity of Russiagate, to enable him to coordinate fully with the emerging Eurasian economic powerhouse, the era of British-run geopolitical conflicts could be ended.

This potential is seen in the revival of the Trump-Kim summit, which could lead to an official end of the Korean War, and also possibly eventually to a nuclear-free, unified Korea, as well as in the reports of ongoing planning for a Trump-Putin summit, which could address the dangerous tensions between the two nations resulting from a series of recent British provocations. That these two summits are moving ahead, in spite of the persistent toxicity spawned by the made-in-London Russiagate scandal, proves that this dynamic can overcome the incessant corruption of Trans-Atlantic policies. There is a growing sense of desperation in the daily activities of legal hitman Robert Mueller, as his allies in launching Russiagate may soon find themselves before Grand Juries!

And what of Europe? With Putin traveling to Austria, and the new government coming together in Italy, the defenders of the European Union’s status quo are being directly challenged. The inevitability of change is coming to Brussels, as the old paradigm is unraveling.

Join Helga Zepp LaRouche and your host Harley Schlanger this Thursday, as she points the way forward in her weekly webcast.


Webcast: Change For the Better Is Coming, If You Fight For It

There is an ongoing transformational shift underway in the world, as the era of geopolitics, with its destruction of nations through financial manipulations and wars, is being challenged by the emergence of a new era of “win-win” policies of mutual benefit, spearheaded by China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Developments in Asia, with the Trump-Kim summit in Singapore and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Qingdao, China, provide examples which show that peaceful economic cooperation is not only possible, but is already underway. The benefits of this new era can be seen in new infrastructure projects throughout Eurasia, Africa, and in South and Central America, and the clamor to be included is also heard now in a number of nations in Europe.

The growing likelihood of a Trump-Putin summit is part of this new geometry, an indication that the U.S. President is breaking out of the containment intended by the fraudulent, so-called Russiagate allegations. For this moment of great opportunity to be realized, there must be an elevation in both the capabilities of creative thinking, and passionate activation, of citizens of all nations. Schiller Institute founder and President Helga Zepp LaRouche’s weekly webcasts are a critical part of elevating populations to the level required by this promising moment of history.

Help us organize to make these webcasts available to growing numbers of people, to bring new activists into the fight for the New Paradigm each week.

 


Webcast: Banker’s Coup in Italy Won’t Stop Rebellion Against Bankrupt Empire

 

The rejection of the new government of Italy by its President, Sergio Mattarella, is a coup, ordered by the same bankers of the City of London and the European Central Bank (ECB) whose policies have nearly destroyed the Italian economy, as well as the economies of most of the member nations of the European Union. Mattarella would not accept Paolo Savona as Finance Minister, even though he was selected by the leaders of the two parties which had the most votes in the March 4, 2018 Italian election, the Five Star Movement (M5S) and the League (Lega). Savona, a respected former government minister, had the audacity to challenge the failed policies of the European Union and the ECB. In place of the coalition led by the two parties, Mattarella named an austerity advocate, Carlo Cottarelli, a former official of the International Monetary Fund, as Prime Minister designate.

Last week, on her webcast, Helga Zepp LaRouche pointed to the Italian crisis as a moment of truth. Would the failed bankers running the ECB overturn the results of the recent election, in which the former governing parties were smashed by a revolt of the voters, who are sick and tired of austerity and lies from their government, and bailouts and bail-ins for the banks? She said the rejection by voters of the former major parties all across Europe, combined with the Trump victory in the U.S. and Brexit, have sent an unmistakable signal, one likely to again be rebuffed by the arrogant would-be Masters of the Universe, who preach “democracy” to Russia and China while running coups against democratic choices in the U.S. (Russiagate) and in Italy.

There is no guarantee that these elites will again succeed in crushing the popular will, especially as the New Silk Road policy of China continues to gain support, not just in Asia and Africa, but also in Europe. And while British-led geopolitical networks have launched one provocation after another, to bring down Trump, and isolate Presidents Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China, while risking the launch of World War III in the process, these have not succeeded in slowing down the momentum for a New Paradigm coming from Asia and Eurasia. The stakes for humanity could not be higher! Join Mrs. LaRouche and our host Harley Schlanger this Thursday, as she reports on latest developments, and presents the pathway to insure the success of the New Paradigm.


Webcast: Growing Neo-Con Hysteria over China Offers Proof that the Silk Road Spirit is Unstoppable

Tune in on Thursday, February 15, 2018 12 Noon EST, 6 PM CET!

The escalating drumbeat against China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) coming from Trans-Atlantic geopolitical institutions and their political puppets, such as U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, is a testament to the growing influence of Xi Jinping’s “win-win” diplomacy. What Helga Zepp-LaRouche first identified as a “New Paradigm” has gained adherents worldwide, as the “New Silk Road Spirit” is contagious. Nations in Africa, Asia and South and Central America, which have been looted under IMF and World Bank austerity demands, are turning to the BRI, which is demonstrating that real economic progress is possible. The BRI process offers hope that poverty can be eliminated worldwide, as it has been dramatically reduced in China.

Instead of celebrating this process, or joining it, the Trans-Atlantic elites are up to their old tricks, in a desperate effort to prevent the New Paradigm from succeeding. Their old paradigm, of regime change and wars, of deploying terror operations, of free trade deals combined with austerity that produce murderous economic devastation, continues, even as the basis for their survival has been severely weakened.

In the U.S., the regime change operation against President Trump stands exposed as a made-in-London coup attempt. New revelations coming from Senators Grassley and Graham are expected to show how deeply involved Obama administration officials — including Obama himself — were, in concocting the “Russiagate” fraud story. We are closer than ever to breaking this operation, which would free the President from the constraints imposed on him, to pursue the goals he campaigned for.

These developments, and more, will be the subject of Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s webcast this Thursday.


Webcast: With the Regime Change Coup Exposed, NOW is the Time to Crush the Coup Plotters and Consolidate the New Paradigm

Tune in this Thursday, February 8, 2018, Noon EDT, 6 PM CET!

The release last Friday of the four-page memo, produced by the chair of the House Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Representative Devin Nunes, which details FBI corruption in the “Russiagate” fiasco, and the subsequent release of an eight-page memo by Senator Grassley, have evoked howls of rage and despair from those out to remove President Trump. As the authors of the memos have stated, there will be more to come. Former NSA technical director and whistleblower Bill Binney, who was himself a target of FBI persecution, said this has “opened a crack” through which the “corruption of the secret government” is now exposed.

The deeper issue posed by these developments is not just stopping the efforts of the anti-Trumpers to overturn the result of the 2016 presidential election. Putting an end to the disruption caused by the ongoing regime change operation will free Trump to fulfill the pledges he made during his campaign, and in his first months in office. These include, most significantly, ending U.S. involvement in the endless wars launched by Bush and Obama, through strategic cooperation with Russia; bringing the United States into the New Paradigm, in full cooperation with China’s New Silk Road; and ending the speculative swindles of Wall Street and the City of London, which have created an unsustainable debt and stock market bubble, which may be on the verge of popping NOW.

The Schiller Institute has led the campaign to bring the Trans-Atlantic nations into the New Paradigm. In the last months, the New Silk Road spirit has spread throughout Africa, Asia, Eurasia (including eastern and southern Europe) and South America, and is creating opportunities to bring peace to regions, such as the Korean Peninsula and the Middle East, which have been targeted for super-power conflict by the neo-cons, with their geopolitical insanity. Join us this Thursday, for the weekly Schiller Institute webcast, as Helga Zepp LaRouche, who has personally spearheaded the battle for the New Paradigm, will provide a strategic update, and what must be done to defeat the unilateralists and their drive for new wars.

 


Webcast: Global Policy Increasingly Shaped by New Silk Road – Time for U.S. to Join!

Tune in this Thursday, February 1, 2018, Noon EST, 6 PM CET!

The discussion at this year’s just-concluded Davos conference was shaped by the keynote address given last year, by China’s President Xi Jinping, and by the continuing development of the Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI). The presentation this year, by Chinese economic adviser Liu He, provided a rallying point for those attending who were not fooled by the cheerleading of the global stock market bubble, as he made clear that the model of China’s economic development, which has dramatically reduced poverty there, can be applied to accomplish that objective worldwide.

Much of the world is not just listening, but joining with China. It is now time for the United States to fully engage in the BRI.

President Trump has made improving relations with Russia and China a priority of his first year in office, despite desperate measures taken by the imperial oligarchy and the use of geopolitical machinations to stop him. As long as geopolitics defines the Trans-Atlantic response to China’s initiative, the danger of war increases. What is the perspective now, following Trump’s January 30 State of the Union address? What must be done to bring the U.S., and European nations, into the BRI? And what can be done to expand the mobilization, led by forces associated with the Schiller Institute, to defeat the coup being run against Trump?

These will be among the topics addressed by Helga Zepp LaRouche this Thursday.


Webcast: Crazed Neo-Cons Put War on the Agenda: Russiagate Coup Effort Must Be Defeated

As the evidence needed to shut down the London-Obama “Russiagate” regime change coup against President Trump is being pulled together and hopefully released to the public, the so-called neo-conservatives within and outside the administration are escalating war provocations against Russia and China. Trump’s stated intent continues to be to forge good, cooperative relations with Russia and China; those trying to remove him are driven by a desperate understanding that, if Trump succeeds in bringing the U.S. into collaboration with Russia and China, their old paradigm, based on geopolitical manipulation, and the wars which are an essential part of it, will be swept away, and the empire of worthless financial instruments and debt will be collapsed on their heads.

Russian and Chinese leaders have issued clear warnings of the dangers implicit in the insane “national security strategy” being pushed by the neo-cons, even while continuing to seek cooperative engagement with the United States, to address problems with North Korea, the Near East and Ukraine. The fantastic progress demonstrated by China’s fight to eradicate poverty at home, and the potential for real economic development of the world’s less-developed nations, through its global initiative, the New Silk Road, are rallying nations from Africa, South America, Asia and Europe into an unstoppable alliance.

The next days offer opportunities for building further momentum for the New Paradigm, from Trump’s appearance in the Swiss Alps at Davos, and in his January 30 State of the Union address, as well as in the meeting on Syrian reconstruction at Sochi. This is not the time to be a passive spectator, when so much is at stake. Join Mrs. LaRouche this Thursday, and become part of the dynamic, inspirational force consolidating the New Paradigm.


Webcast: Time to Shut Down British Imperial Operations!

In an article in {Consortium News} on January 11, Ray McGovern, leader of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) and a former high-level CIA intelligence analyst, wrote that it is evident to all except those blinded by their hatred for President Trump, that a “soft-coup” is underway, directed by British intelligence and its U.S. allies, to drive him out of office. The purpose of “regime change” in the U.S. is to preserve the geopolitical machinations of its coordinators, even if it means putting the world on a course toward nuclear war. The “missile alert” in Hawaii last week should be a reminder of how perilously close we are to nuclear annihilation.

The Schiller Institute has been joined by leaders of the VIPS in exposing this coup, in several recent public events in New York City. In his article, McGovern points to the importance of “former” MI-6 operative Steele’s fraudulent dossier in running the coup. McGovern calls on Congress to take on the “J. Edgar Hoover-style blackmail on steroids, enabled by electronic surveillance of just about everything and everyone….” As more evidence of FBI corruption is pouring out, he says that “Russiagate is becoming FBI-gate.”

Putting an end to the fraudulent attacks of Russiagate, which target not only Trump, but the leaders and nations of Russia and China, would open the door for full U.S. cooperation with the Belt-and-Road initiative. This would put an end to the era of confrontational imperial geopolitics, which is what China’s President Xi means when he speaks of “win-win” collaboration.

Mrs. Zepp LaRouche will provide a strategic update on the advance of this process, and what is necessary to achieve this desirable result on this Thursday’s webcast.


Webcast: The “Silk Road Spirit” Inspires France’s Macron: Will It Ream Berlin and Brussels?

In opening a three-day visit to China, French President Emmanuel Macron declared that, with the reinvention of the ancient Silk Road, which he called a “treasure of civilization,” China “has accomplished a dream.” As China has lifted 700 million out of poverty, he said, the Chinese can now come to Europe, to help accomplish the same there. Remember, Macron stressed, the Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI) works both ways. “The ancient Silk Roads were never only Chinese. By definition, these roads can only be shared. If they are roads, they cannot be ‘one way.'”

With these words, Macron is echoing a call made a week earlier by Helga Zepp LaRouche on her weekly webcast, when she called on European governments to become active participants in BRI projects with China, to address the growing levels of poverty in Europe.. Mrs. Zepp LaRouche emphasized that, due to the economic policies of China’s President Xi Jinping, there are now many fewer people living below the poverty level in China than in Europe. She noted today that Macron’s message from China will send shock waves throughout the world, as it represents a reversal of policy. In particular, it puts Berlin and Brussels on notice, as these capitals remain stubbornly, and foolishly, resistant to the potential for cooperation with China’s “win-win” policy, which is overturning the imperial doctrine of geopolitics.

As the battle intensifies in the United States to defeat the neocons, with their hysterical and dangerous nostalgia for a disappearing unipolar world defined by geopolitical confrontation, Macron’s promotion of the “Silk Road Spirit” demonstrates that there is a new dynamic shaping policy in the world. The Schiller Institute, and Mrs. Zepp LaRouche personally, have been the leading advocates for this new paradigm.

For a strategic update on the implications of the transformation underway, join us for this week’s Schiller Institute webcast, featuring Helga Zepp LaRouche.


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