Citizen Journalism
Iran War Would Detonate Monetary Bomb
By Ian Overton
Alaskan Humanity: Powwow at homeless shelter restores our shared humanity
By Dennis Burke
Iran War Would Detonate Monetary Bomb
By Ian Overton
A military conflict with Iran is completely unnecessary and totally avoidable.
The current drive to provoke a military attack on Iran, orchestrated by the British “allies” of U.S. Executives, is an ages old trick of “lets you and him fight.” Banking syndicates have used that tactic of getting two of their enemies to destroy each other, long before numbskulls like Cheney and Bush or Ahmedinejad ever got into power. Because of the stupidity of the crowds in the U.S. and Iran, not only are certain British officials manipulating us into a suicidal conflict, their prodding the U.S. into a “clash of civilizations” type aggression against the entire Muslim world would be pulling the trigger for a much bigger detonation: the collapse of the free-trade monetary system.
The success of getting this British plan on the table was made possible by the weak kneed response from leaders in the U.S. Senate, on their inability to call a spade a spade, and stop the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. Mr. Alito’s legal philosophy of the “unitary executive” is the ideological grandchild of Nazi “Crown Jurist” Carl Schmitt’s “führerprinzip.” Remember, everything Hitler did was technically legal. After evading the Nuremburg Tribunal, Schmitt helped found the anti-Constitutional Federalist Society, of which Alito is a longstanding member.
Economist Lyndon LaRouche and the LaRouche PAC have launched a nationwide and international mobilization to expose the dirty frauds that were behind the Alito nomination as being the same dirty frauds that are pushing forward the Iran conflict. Last year, we succeeded in turning the tables on these traitors by mobilizing the Democratic Party. We got the Democratic Party, and even some moderate Republicans, to fight for the Constitutional values of this nation. Exposing the role of British officials like Jack Straw, Tony Blair, and Baroness Liz Symmons behind this scheme is how we reorient our nation back to policies that work for the people. Lyndon LaRouche’s recent report, “Deficits as Capital Gains: How to Capitalize a Recovery” depict how we can avoid the collapse of our national economy by returning to the Franklin Roosevelt system of “fair trade.” He will articulate this concept in depth, in an international webcast town meeting on February 23, 2006 at 9am AK Time/1pm EST, broadcast at http://www.larouchepac.com and http://www.larouchepub.com.
Ask yourself, given what happened after Hurricane Katrina, what would be the effect on world petroleum prices with an attack on Iran? What have the effects of the threats against Iran already been? What have the effects of the actions in Iraq already been? What would be the effect on the economy and your household if there were a collapse of the U.S. dollar?
There is one way to stop this: Get Dick Cheney, the pawn of British financial imperialism, out of office immediately!
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Alaskan Humanity: Powwow at homeless shelter restores our shared humanity
By Dennis Burke
This December 16th I witnessed an exorcism of sorts. It was a banishing of evil spirits from those most in need of relief. Banished were those spirits of despair and desolation that haunt the forlorn residents of Anchorage’s homeless shelters. Strangely enough it was also a new and welcomed twist on that hackneyed cliché about cowboys and Indians. For this time, when all hope was lost, it was the Indians that came riding to the rescue instead of the cavalry. At a time of year when, for some, despair reigns and winter assaults, some champions of justice arrived just in the nick of time.
The Brother Francis Shelter hosted an event that I was honored to attend. In their courageous effort to hold back the tide of humanity’s failings and society’s inadequacies, they attempted to bring solace and brotherhood to those ‘cowboys’ of Anchorage’s frozen metropolitan plains we call the homeless. These were moments of sharing and community that will set the standard in this new century. A ‘Powwow’ was held and negative spirits banished to the incessant beat of the drum.
Picture, if you will, a large, fourteen-foot high, unfinished hall, like a factory or storage facility. Now see one wall of glass looking out at a snowy Anchorage vista. In one corner are a Christmas tree and an upright piano with a manger upon it. Center-stage, upon a concrete floor which tonight will become a mattress city, native dancers are plying their skills.
Several groups of dancers performed. The dancers were both male and female and ranged in age from six to sixty. Some were in traditional garb and others weren’t. Many tribes were represented. They came from Alaska and from as far away as the American southwest. To the intense, powerful beat of the drum they did various renditions of natural species. The dances were reminiscent of birds and grazing animals. One of the residents told me that one dance reminded him of the ‘funky chicken,’ a dance popular in the early seventies (or was it the late nineties?).
Miraculously, worn sorrowful faces lost their woe and smiles returned, after long absence. It had an amazing effect, which only added to the power of the moment. An infectious spirit of gaiety took hold. We were all drawn in. Then we were all invited to dance. A dance was done in respect to the women present. They weren’t invited to dance, for it was in their honor. Then there was a dance that we all joined in. I asked one of the drummers what the words meant. Here they are, as translated from Lakota. “The red road I’m walking, thank you grandfather. With the pipe I’m praying, thank you grandfather.” Simple, but to the point. I was told that “the honorable man is a member of all tribes.” The people who shared their time at this event proved the point.