Secretary of State Blinken, as an official of the Obama administration, objected that not enough bombs were being dropped to carry out regime change in Syria. He has now endorsed the murderous sanctions policy of Trump's Secretary of State Pompeo against the Syrian people. And while the military is still stuck in "endless wars" in southwest Asia, the Biden Department of Defense announced that "climate change" will be its priority #1 -- of course, in tandem with a build-up in the Indo-Pacific region in preparation for war with China, a strategy also borrowed from the War Hawk Pompeo. Watch the videos linked below from the March 20-1 Schiller Institute conference, and join our mobilization to defeat the War Hawks and neo-liberal Greenies who are committed to destroy the U.S. as a sovereign republic.

The U.S. Army has completed yet another document outlining how it’s preparing for, if not permanent war, at least for a permanent state of confrontation with Russia and China, in the name of “deterring” “great power conflict.” The document, entitled “The Army in Military Competition: Chief of Staff Paper #2” (Chief of Staff Paper #1 was “Army Multi-Domain Transformation, released and reported last week), makes the case for the service’s role in great power competition short of war with Russia and China.”Winning matters," the document says, " and a streak of continual successes in activities from humanitarian assistance to combat operations makes a powerful statement."“I want all readers to understand that military competition is an ‘infinite game,’” Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville wrote in the preface. “We can define winning in competition in many ways: deterring conflict, upholding our interests, remaining the security partner of choice, keeping allies and partners free from coercion and subversion, and discouraging adversaries from malign actions because they know that these acts will not succeed. What we must remember is a win today is an opening for new competition activities tomorrow.” In other words, competition is neverending. War, in fact, if it comes to that, is just one form of competition in a continuum of competitions. “Military activities during competition can be either defensive or offensive; lethal or non-lethal; unilateral or multilateral; employ conventional, irregular, and special operations forces from each of the military services in multiple domains,” McConville argues. “Armed conflict is one element of … the competition continuum”—which includes even “general state conflict.” A constant component of the “continuum of competition” is the “narrative”, and in that narrative, reputation is everything. “A reputation for strength and reliability is a significant competitive benefit that might cause adversaries to seek less ambitious objectives or, in some instances, to choose not to compete at all and seek cooperation instead,” the document reads. “The Army contributes to narrative competition by being a lethal, competent, credible force and being recognized as such by key audiences among allies and partners as well as adversaries,” the paper states. “Simply being a world-class force and demonstrating that quality through successful operations conducted in a manner consistent with institutional values fosters a positive reputation for the U.S. Army,” the document goes on. For the Army, “maintaining high standards and being a partner of choice for military education, exercises, capacity building and equipment sales” is important to winning in narrative competition, according to the paper. The document is clearly an exercise in self-delusion, among other things, in that it makes no reference to the fact that Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Libya are all in chaos as a result of U.S. or U.S.-led military interventions. No narrative will cover these failures with a story of a “competent, credible force” though it has proven to be lethal to an untold number of civilians.

The Soros-linked Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), together with the various Uyghur human rights groups of dissidents, sponsored a demonstration at the Chinese Embassy in Washington, calling the rally: “Call It Genocide.” Only about a dozen people showed up. The press release rehashed all the lies now being pumped out by the media whores and U.S. politicians of both parties, calling for the State Department to make the label “genocide” official, and for passage of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.

The dire situation in Syria is becoming one of the critical junctures in the intensifying battle between the genocidal policies of the British Empire and a new paradigm based on peace through development. After ten years of warfare in Syria, instigated and orchestrated by the Obama Administration with the intention of bombing it into oblivion, arming terrorists to destroy its social and political structure, assassinating its head of state, and looting its raw materials—i.e., precisely what George W. Bush did in Iraq and Obama did in Libya—the nation is teetering on the brink of Hell. Ninety percent of the population has fallen into poverty (the highest rate in the world). There are mile-long queues for a loaf of bread or a gallon of gasoline, and electricity availability in Damascus is down to three hours a day. Although fighting is largely over, millions of refugees are unable to return home, due to unilateral US sanctions which prevent any reconstruction. President Trump’s expressed intention to end the illegal and evil war were fully rejected by the military leaders who supposedly took orders from the Commander-in-Chief. The only reason Syria even survives as a sovereign state is because Russia intervened, joining in a war against the terrorists and defending the sovereign government under President Bashar al-Assad.On Monday, the UN Security Council held a forum on the situation in Syria, in which the evil of the war party was on full display. Speaking for war and genocide was Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who, as Deputy Secretary of State under Obama, advocated all out war and regime change against Assad. At the UN he had the gall to shed a tear for the “urgent needs of the Syrian people that we’ve heard described so eloquently today. It’s clear that those needs, including having enough to eat,and access to medicine, are not going to be met by the Assad regime.” Not a soul at that meeting was unaware that the US sanctions are intended to be certain that Assad is unable to feed his people. As Col. (retired) Richard Black told the Schiller Institute conference on March 21, “Sanctions do nothing but attack the innocent, the poor, the helpless! They are the most cruel and barbaric type of warfare that we can wage.” Responding to Blinken from Russia was Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin: “The reaction of Washington and Brussels to the call of the UN Secretary General to ease and lift unilateral sanctions amid the coronavirus pandemic was, on the contrary, to tighten in an unprecedented way the restrictions adopted—bypassing the UN Security Council—including the introduction of the infamous Caesar Act in June 2020. Unfortunately, the honorable representative of the US and other Western colleagues spoke about a lot of things in today’s speeches but not the US and EU sanctions and their dramatic negative effect on ordinary Syrians.” How can a nation claiming to be concerned with human rights impose, through sanctions and war, the starvation of millions of children in Syria and Yemen? How can a nation which has killed millions of innocent Muslims in order to achieve “regime change” in Iraq, Libya, and Syria, then claim moral purity about Islam by declaring China guilty of “genocide” against the Uighurs—as both Pompeo and Blinken have done—when any one of their representativs need only travel to Xinjiang to see that it is a total lie? There has been a drastic failure of morality in the transatlantic world—failing to counter the pandemic’s course of death, failure of compassion for the victims of their wars and sanctions, failure to address the most profound human rights, those of poverty and starvation, even within their own countries. The Schiller Institute and the LaRouche Organization are creating the institutional means through which political leaders and concerned citizens can, and must, act to reverse this evil, and inspire the world to restore the dignity of man through international cooperation to restore a love of science, of beauty, of Classical culture and human progress. The Malthusian Green New Deal can, and must, be defeated. Download and circulate the pamphlet “The Great Leap Backward—LaRouche Crushes the ‘Green New Deal’ Fraud.”