Biden’s Illegal Bombing in Syria—Is the U.S. Going Back to Regime Change Wars?

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The U.S. bombing of a reportedly Iran-backed militia site in Syria Thursday night, claiming it was a defensive strike to protect U.S. forces in Iraq, has been denounced by a wide assortment of political and professional sources in many countries as a severe breach of international law and of the U.S. Constitution. Congress members from both parties have decried the deadly attack for breaching both the U.S. Constitution, which requires Congressional approval for acts of war except when the nation is under direct attack, and the UN Charter.

The question to be asked: Will the Biden Cabinet lead the U.S. back into “regime change wars?” President Donald Trump was unable to implement his intention to end the “endless wars” launched by Bush and Obama, as the military-industrial complex (which Trump directly accused of demanding new wars on behalf of the weapons producers) countermanded his orders to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Trump was successful in not allowing any new wars, but now President Biden has Antony Blinken as his Secretary of State. It was Blinken, as Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor and Deputy Secretary of State, who led the campaign to carry out a regime change war against Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, falsely accusing Assad of using chemical weapons against his population, a lie manufactured by British intelligence. Was the Thursday night attack in Syria a trial balloon for the war party to get back to serving as the military hitman for British colonial wars?

There is at the same time an effort by world leaders to convince the Biden Administration to head off the escalating danger of war against Iran, a war which would certainly escalate the potential for a wider war with Russia and China. The Democrats under Obama negotiated the original deal with Iran, the JCPOA, which even leading Israeli military and intelligence officials believe was highly beneficial for preventing nuclear proliferation (despite Bibi Netanyahu’s mad ravings against it). But bombing Iran-backed forces, who are directly collaborating with the Iraqi government in fighting the remnants of the terrorist ISIS networks, could undermine any new talks with Tehran—perhaps what the war party intended by this air assault in Syria.

The U.S. population must be freed from the Cold War mentality of “us vs them,” of the geopolitical division of the world into warring blocs. These are not questions of political parties, nor of personalities. The Pompeo fanatics are fully deployed to make sure Trump does not return to his original intention to be friends with both Russia and China and opposed to purposeless wars, a major reason for his 2016 election and the huge support he received in the 2020 election. On the other side, the Democrats support from a majority of working people and minorities will not hold if the nation returns to perpetual war, and certainly not if the Green New Deal lays waste to the industrial and agricultural workforce.

The City of London rag, The Economist, heralded this week their increasingly successful effort to impose the Royal Family’s Malthusian genocide on the American people through the Green New Deal, the “Great Reset.” Under the title “Decarbonizing America,” they promote a study by Princeton’s Center for Energy and Environment to massively increase the production of windmills and solar panels (which proved their destructive role in the disaster in Texas last week), aimed at attaining 50% of American energy usage by “renewables” by 2030. They admit that this process would eventually require the building of wind farms and solar fields covering 600,000 sq. km—more land area than Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois combined. It appears they believe we will not need this vast area of land for productive purposes any longer, since they will have reduced the nation’s population by at least half by that time.

The Schiller Institute and The LaRouche Organization will sponsor an international conference on March 20 to address the global crisis as a whole. As Lyndon LaRouche repeatedly emphasized, there is no solution to the economic crisis, nor the health crisis, nor the strategic crisis, nor the cultural crisis, one at a time. Civilization is at a turning point, a “punctum saliens,” in which either a new paradigm for humanity as a whole is implemented, through the collaboration of the great cultures of the world, or the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse will soon be upon us. Join the March 20 event, become a member of the Schiller Institute, and sign on to The LaRouche Organization mailing list.


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  • Stephen P Kaylor
    commented 2021-03-01 07:05:50 -0500
    In 2017, Trump started off by building concordance with the Chinese and Russian leaders, etc. However. since he was surrounded by imperial advisors and blaming news media – he gradually became reactionary and broke off most of his discourse with these leaders. In part he wanted to appeal to the voters by showing he was harder on China, etc. than anyone. He also figured the economy was good anyway, since the Stock Market was up. / So Trump failed to become the Brexit type leader who would readily call for a Summit with the leaders of the P-5 nations – and then construct a New Bretton Woods credit architecture. This would subsume a global Glass-Steagall Act – which would freeze $2 thousand trillion of gambled up claims run up by the casino banks and their Davos syndicate. This New System would ruin all of their parasitic leverage + influence – and allow sovereign nations to arrange investment and trade. Credit generating National Banks in each nation [ and a 3rd National Bank here ] would finance in depth health care and the construction of great infrastructure projects. Powerful energy sources would be provided by clean coal and many more nuclear power plants – until fusion power is invented and commercialized. The moon could be mined for He3 and be industrialized – as all nations participate in an Economic, Scientific and Cultural Paradigm Shift!
  • Simon Jensen
    commented 2021-03-01 06:13:07 -0500
    Whereas it is fair enough to be suspicious of the true intentions of the Biden admin, let us not forget to mention Trumps two heavy bombing campaigns in Syria including the bombing of a hospital as part of operation roundup. Also take into account Trumps responsibility for war crimes in Yemen before claiming this is a return to a regime change policy. In fact it is pretty obvious that Trump was preparing one in Tehran, despite the isolationist rhetoric.
  • Stephen P Kaylor
    commented 2021-02-28 22:17:50 -0500
    Biden has had somewhat of a rapprochement with the Chinese leadership – so the Trump branch of the Republican Party should publicly support this. Then soon, a Summit with the P-5 nations could be arranged!
  • Mike Billington
    published this page in Home 2021-02-28 11:34:52 -0500