According to the Oct. 4 issue of the Economist magazine, the mouthpiece for the City of London financial interests, "The Age of Fossil Fuel Abundance is Dead", scarcity will worsen, prices will rise, and there is nothing you can do about it. Really? Resistance to their depopulation policies is growing, as LaRouche's warnings from the early 1970s have proven to be deadly accurate. Thirty-five years ago, on Oct. 6, 1986, the "Get LaRouche" task force raided his home, sending 400 armed personnel to kill him. They failed then, and have been unable to kill his strategic and economic method, which is shaping the resistance to their intent to use artificial shortages to kill billions of people.
As genocidal Malthusians move ahead with plans to impose a global Green dictatorship at the upcoming COP26 conference in Glasgow, the LaRouche Organization has drafted a plan which presents a human alternative. "The Coming U.S. Economic Miracle on the New Silk Road" demonstrates what scientific and technological optimism, driven by courage and imagination, can accomplish, using as examples the history of infrastructure development in the U.S., and the current miracle of poverty elimination in China. Watch last Saturday's "Manhattan Project" discussion to see how the Davos and allied psychopaths can be defeated -- Returning to the American System: The Coming U.S. Economic Miracle on the New Silk Road - YouTube
Today's questions: 1.) What can be done to avoid an economic blowout? What is the Fed doing? What about the budget/debt ceiling debate -- Is there a way to avoid default? 2.) Why do you think Yahoo News ran the story about Pompeo and the CIA plotting to kidnap or kill Julian Assange? 3.) What makes you think we can trust the Taliban enough to contribute to rebuilding Afghanistan?
Two stories in the last days provide new insights into the deadly and corrupt practices of operatives of the "Deep State". Yahoo News exposed planning undertaken by then-CIA Director Pompeo to kidnap or assassinate Julain Assange, for the "crime" of exposing the dirty wars run by the military/intelligence/corporate establishment that Pompeo wanted to protect. And two Presidents of regional Federal Reserve branches resigned, when reports were published of their personal trading of financial instruments which were affected by the Fed's Quantitative Easing policy. The defenses offered by Pompeo and Fed chair Powell are unconvincing, as they move to cover-up the bigger crimes they are trying to keep hidden.
Even though there is growing international opposition to the Great Reset and the Green New Deal, globalist anti-growth policies which are part of an arc going back to 1971 are now inflicting massive damage to the physical economy, especially to western "developed" nations. The full range of speculative swindles, funded by global central banks, when combined with "free trade" and Green policies, is generating hyperinflation and unsustainable levels of debt. The election last weekend in Germany will likely bring to power a coalition government which will double down on those policies, along with a commitment to an escalation of geopolitical confrontation with Russia and China.
Remember the Crash of 2008, when the U.S. housing bubble popped? How Bush, then Obama, bailed out the speculators, while 7+ million families lost their homes? And how trillions of dollars of bailouts went to the speculators, driving inflation and increasing unsustainable debt, while credit to productive industry was choked off, to the present day??? Now, check out what China is doing in the Evergrande case -- forcing speculators to take a giant haircut, a "pre-emptive bubble popping", while protecting the homeowners, and continuing to direct money to physical production. China is putting people first, while the Federal Reserve is engaged in "socialism" for bankers and speculative swindlers, under the theme of protecting those "Too Big to Fail"!
A preliminary analysis of election results in Germany indicates that, while no party has much support, there must be a consensus among voters in favor of the Green destruction of its industrial economy, and preparation for war with Russia and China -- as that was the emphasis of all the major parties. The result is not surprising, as an alternative to the continued surrender of sovereignty to the imperial policies of London and Washington was not allowed, either not covered, or treated as "extremism". Yet, as we keep pointing out, much of the world is rejecting the City of London and Wall Street policies of the Great Reset, the Green New Deal, and a new geopolitical drive for regime change against Russia and China.
The answers to many of the economic and financial questions received for today can be found in the newly-released TLO pamphlet, "The Coming U.S. Economic Miracle -- On the New Silk Road." Questions addressed today include: 1, What is Fed Chair Jerome Powell talking about when he assures us that inflation is "transitory"?; 2. What about China's actions related to Evergrande?; 3. Is the AUKUS agreement directed against China?; 4. What is the significance of the indictment of Hillary's attorney Sussman?
The freezing of Afghanistan's national funds held in the N.Y. Federal Reserve Bank, ordered by Treasury Secretary Yellen on August 15, is setting the stage for further chaos in that war-torn country. You don't have to love the Taliban to demand the unfreezing of those funds -- they belong to the sovereign nation of Afghanistan, and are needed to feed people, provide medicine, purchase fuel, etc. By withholding those funds, the U.S. and its allies are starving children, exactly as the British colonial administrators did to their colonies. Is this what the Biden administration intends, when it says the era of endless wars is over???
As the United Nations General Assembly convened in New York yesterday, the only real issue before the members is that of Development versus Depopulation. While British PM Boris Johnson was openly pushing depopulation, President Biden made an effort to hide behind rhetoric about "diplomacy" and "no Cold War"; but his actions last week, in formally announcing a new strategic alliance with the Brits and Australia -- against China and Russia -- shows why so many nations no longer trust the U.S. In contrast, China's Xi called for a new Global Development Initiative, based on multilateralism, and non-interference in other's internal affairs.
Sept. 15 -- On September 14, the voters of California rejected the attempt by Trump supporters and disgruntled libertarians to use the state's "Recall" process to remove Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom from office. Voters were asked to decide whether they wanted Newsom removed, in which case they could vote "Yes" for recall; or whether he should remain in office, in which case they vote "No". The full count of mail-in ballots may take another week to ten days, but with more than 70% of the votes counted, nearly 64% voted against the recall. While the margin may narrow a bit, it is a decisive defeat for those who gathered nearly 1.5 million petition signatures to place the recall on the ballot. This represents a stunning reversal in the last four weeks, as polls in mid-August projected a very close vote, which Newsom could lose. He was elected in 2018 with 62% of the vote, at which point his opponents launched several petition drives to recall him, starting just after his inauguration. These initial attempts failed to get enough signatures, until organizers switched tactics to use anger against his tough measures to curb the COVID19 pandemic -- such as mask mandates and lock-downs -- to supercharge the drive for signatures to remove him. At the center of the petition drive were supporters of former President Trump. The tide shifted back in his favor in August, when Newsom decided to focus on the anti-vax, anti-mask rhetoric of his opponents, sharply contrasting his support for implementing the Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines in the battle against the COVID pandemic in California, to the deadly populism of Governors in Florida and Texas, where hospitalizations and deaths have soared, due to rejection of the CDC guidelines by the governors in those states. In California, Newsom enacted mask mandates for schools and vaccine requirements for health care workers, government employees and school staff. The state, which had seen a huge jump at the beginning of the summer in cases from the "Delta" variant, with hospitals running short of beds and personnel, now has one of the lowest rates of new positives in the country. When his leading Republican opponent, radio talk show host Larry Elder, pledged that were he elected, he would repeal Newsom's mask and vaccine mandates "before I have my first cup of tea," Newsom went on the offensive. He warned that recalling him would place public health in the hands of those whose response to the pandemic would endanger lives. This shift was highlighted by Los Angeles Times reporter David Lauter, who wrote on September 15 that Newsom's strategy succeeded by turning the issue into one of "personal freedom" versus "public safety." As long as a large majority of voters "feel that the pandemic threatens their health and their children's health, that's not an even fight." Exit polls confirmed this, showing that even among voters who have doubts about Newsom and are worried about the future of the state, the biggest concern is defeating the pandemic. Among those who voted, a large majority said they supported mask and vaccine mandates. The Collapse Of The Golden State There is no doubt that the overall situation in California, which in the past was seen as an American paradise, is undergoing a long-term devolution, which has been accelerating. As Governor, Newsom has made mistakes, including some which were very visible -- as when he cavorted, maskless, with lobbyists at a fancy restaurant, after lecturing residents to stay at home, and wear masks in public places. This act of blatant hypocrisy has been cited as a trigger for the anger against him, but there are other serious problems afflicting the state, for which his opponents blamed his administration. These include a drastic increase in homelessness, crime, drug use and trafficking, power outages, a sharp upward trend in the cost of living, and a devastating drought, responsible in part for massive forest fires and water shortages. However, these problems have been in the making for years, due to foolish, and in some cases criminal policies, implemented long before Newsom was elected -- and they are not unique to California! For example, the collapse of the physical economy is the result of neoliberal policies on a national and state level, supported by both parties, especially the refusal to invest in essential infrastructure; and by the promotion of "free market" trade policies, which undermined the agricultural sector, and which led to the outsourcing of manufacturing, gutting the state's once remarkably productive industrial sector. The 1996 deregulation of electricity markets, backed by bipartisan majorities, led to the energy crisis of 2001-2003, causing blackouts and utility price hikes that led to the ouster in 2003 -- by recall -- of Democratic Governor Davis, and his replacement by the Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who governed California on behalf of globalist corporate elites directed by George Shultz and Lord Jacob Rothschild. The state still suffers rolling blackouts today, as the deregulated markets have been made even less reliable, by the imposition of Green policies, which include the shutdown of electricity production by nuclear and coal plants. Further, there is a lack of affordable housing, as financial deregulation favored the speculative policies which created the mortgage-backed security bubble which popped in 2008, leading to foreclosures of millions of familes' homes. The situation facing homeowners and renters has worsened, as the Federal Reserve's Quantitative Easing policy of handing out free money to speculators, has driven up the average home price in the state to over $800,000. In many cities, rents are unaffordable for working families, and even those in the shrinking middle-class. This economic/financial disaster is what Lyndon LaRouche forecast in 1971, when he saw the power of elected officials tasked with defending the general welfare usurped by private corporate interests. Instead of legislation enacted by representatives who could fight for the interests of their constituents, power became concentrated in the hands of operatives of private cartels, typified by such globalist scoundrels as Shultz, Paul Volcker, and their buddies in the Trilateral Commission, who oversaw what they called the "controlled disintegration" of the western economies. The same process put both parties into dependency on funds from Wall Street, corporate cartels and Silicon Valley. As this orchestrated devolution has gathered momentum, it has exacerbated the dysfunction of the political process in the U.S., which is dominated by a virulent polarization consolidated around fake choices, e.g., "left versus right", "liberal versus conservative", identity politics, etc. This polarization, reinforced by lying narratives pushed by corporate media, has reduced most public policy debate to the level of infantile babbling. The recall process, which its advocates claim is a means of governing through "direct democracy", increases the vitriolic polarization, by playing upon raw emotions -- as, for example, the fearful anger against a public health policy such as wearing a mask, which is attacked as a "fascist" policy, which takes away one's freedom to choose. The recall policy was introduced initially by a Teddy Roosevelt "Progressive", Governor Hiram Johnson, in 1911, in league with a gang of "Tory reformers", allegedly to counter the power of "special interests". They argued that the tools of "direct democracy" gave power to the people. In reality, they allow special interests to push through policies which could not survive the rigor of a legislative process. In addition to recall, Johnson introduced ballot initiatives and referenda. One example of this was a 1920 initiative to strengthen the Alien Land Law, which denied ownership of land to Japanese and Asian immigrants. The American "Presidential System" Lyndon LaRouche denounced the recall of Governor Gray Davis in 2003, which grew out of the effects of the deregulation of electricity, a policy drafted by Bush and Cheney's friends at Enron, with the backing of both parties. LaRouche warned that recall and other "direct democracy" tools were being deployed to eliminate the American Presidential system, in favor of a British-style parliamentary system. He pointed out that policy disagreements should be fought out in the legislative process, and decided by the voters in elections -- that's how the Presidential system works, with citizens making the decisions, not parties funded by corporate cartels and special interests. LaRouche said in Burbank during the 2003 recall that the adoption of government by "direct democracy" marks a shift from the American Presidential system to a form of a British parliamentary system, sacrificing the "General Welfare" in favor of private, special interests. In an article about his intervention, I summarized his remarks as follows: Using these tools, "a confused, frightened and irresponsible electorate can be manipulated by a well-financed campaign backed by a popular figure, who can play on their confusion and fears, to remove an elected official, or pass legislation, which actually goes against their best interests and the General Welfare." It cost $276 million to run the recall, an unnecessary expense, given that there will be an election for Governor in November 2022, and Newsom will presumably be up for re-election. By rejecting his recall, the voters of California have given themselves time to take up the challenge posed by the dramatic decline of their state and the nation, to engage in real debate and dialogue, rather than succumbing to their fears. As for the supporters of the recall, they insist that they were defeated not by the will of the majority, but by vote fraud. They remain committed to tearing down the constitutional protections of the American system, in which the republican institutions of self-government are vested with the authority to make policy, and not left in the hands of a volatile electorate which can be whipped up by well-financed demagogues to act against their own self interest. Trump denounced the outcome as "just another giant Election Scam, no different, but less blatant, than the 2020 Presidential Election Scam." Typical of those supporting an American Jacobin revolution is the enraged comment of Anne Hyde Dunsmore, campaign manager for Rescue California, one of the groups behind the recall, who said, "What I'm not subscribing to is this grand mandate, that we got it shoved up our ass. Because we didn't."
Rising energy prices, exiting from safe, clean and reliable sources of electricity production -- e.g., clean coal and nuclear -- and deregulation of energy markets, are producing a perfect storm, threatening the lives of many in Europe and the U.S. this winter. The same confluence of policies, with sanctions added to the mix, is responsible for Malthusian genocide in whole sectors of the developing sector. Join us to reverse this, to defeat the Fake Science of "man-made climate change" of the Green New Deal, and the deadly neoliberal financial looting of deregulation. The LaRouche Organization pamphlet, "The Great Leap Backward: LaRouche Crushes the Green New Deal Fraud," is available HERE
The world moved deeper into an extinction mode with the announcement last week of a new Australia-UK-US geopolitical security arrangement, and with a series of upcoming conferences focusing on moving toward "nature positive" methods of production, driven by the genocidal lunatics of the Davos World Economic Forum. The former represents a direct threat to China, the latter to the food supply and production of goods essential for human survival. Will enough voices of sanity be heard to counter these absurd conceptions?
The new "strategic partnership" announced yesterday between the U.S., Britain and Australia represents a reaffirmation of British geopolitics, with the U.S. again providing the muscle to enforce an imperial world order. This is not just about selling nuclear submarines to Australia. Despite claims that this targets no nation, the Chinese know better. That this occurs so soon after the U.S.-NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan lends credence to the charge that, while the decision to leave was right, using it to free up the allies to adopt a "Pivot to Asia" sends the signal to the Chinese that they should be prepared for war.
The book "Peril", authored by Woodward and Costa, raises disturbing questions about the role of U.S. military leadership in sabotaging President Trump's efforts -- and now those of President Biden -- to end the "endless wars." The same U.S.-British military-intelligence-corporate networks behind the 9/11 terror attacks, and the subsequent coverup, ran the attempted regime change coup called Russiagate, and continue to oppose replacing geopolitical confrontations and wars with peaceful cooperation. It is now an urgent priority that citizens get behind the demand for a full investigation of the coup plots, and support the shift to a new era based on multilateral efforts to achieve peaceful economic development.
The moment of opportunity opened by the end of the war in Afghanistan, for multilateral cooperation for economic development, could close very quickly. A False Flag event, occurring in the midst of almost daily military encounters by U.S.-NATO forces with Russian and Chinese military forces, could lead to a devastating war, either by miscalculation, or intent! Dialogue is essential, as Gen. John Hyten, Vice-Chair of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressed in a speech two days ago. We also present a preliminary report on the smashing defeat of the California Recall. Lyndon LaRouche famously warned, in 2003, that Recall is dangerous, as it is designed to manipulate momentary emotions, to undermine the American Presidential System, and replace it with a parliamentary system.
It is still unknown whether the withdrawal of U.S./NATO forces from Afghanistan is the end of the era of endless wars, or a move to a new phase of geopolitical confrontations, directly challenging Russia and China. The push for continued war comes from the onrushing financial collapse, for the same reason that the wars were launched following the 9/11 attack: wars are used, by the globalist financial and corporate cartels who fund the war hawks, to justify the imposition of emergency measures, including austerity economic policies and the surveillance state. That is why it is necessary that LaRouche's economic policies, for collaborative mutual economic benefit, represent the only real alternative to chaos.
The first 9/11 documents declassified as a result of President Biden's order show active involvement of Saudi officials in the events of 9/11. What must be answered now is 1.) Who in the U.S. government covered up the Saudi role for 20 years?; and 2.) Who benefited from the coverup? The place to begin to answer these questions is with Lyndon LaRouche's forecast on January 3, 2001, in which he warned that a "Reichstag Fire" event would be used by the Bush administration to impose emergency crisis management policies.
On the eve of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, which led to the "forever wars" which he still supports, Blair reiterated all the talking points used by the Shadow Government to justify geopolitical provocations, huge military budgets, and imposing the Surveillance State. We take up the question of whether 9/11 was an "inside job"; will Biden's declassification order relating to documents on the Saudi role make a difference; and what is the significance of changes in financial regulatory policies introduced by the Chinese government? For a full, in-depth analysis of 9/11 and its destructive aftermath, and how to change the direction from geopolitics to peaceful cooperation, be sure to register for the online conference of the Schiller Institute on Saturday, September 11, beginning at 2 PM EDT.
While some irresponsible idiots, such as Sen. Lindsey Graham, are calling for the U.S. to send troops back to Afghanistan, there are developments underway that are kept out of the western media. What, for example, are the Chinese and Afghanistan's neighbors saying and doing? China has a vested interest in seeing that Afghanistan does not become a safe haven for terrorists, nor drug traffickers. China's Foreign Minister reiterated that, while China welcomes the pledges coming from the Taliban interim government, recognition depends on following through with a commitment to tolerance, and combating terrorism and drug trafficking. Did you know that the Taliban had nearly shut down opium production by 2000? Only after the 2001 U.S.-NATO overthrow of the Taliban government did drug production take off again -- not surprisingly, especially in the province of the country under British control! Join us for this weekend's 9/11 events: Friday September 10, 7pm -- 9/11 Memorial Concert, Beethoven's Agnus Dei: Peace for ourselves, and the worldSaturday September 11, 2pm -- Manhattan Project Meeting, Afghanistan and the Surveillance State. Where Do We Go From Here?
Calls from supporters to postpone the upcoming COP26 conference in Scotland indicate that the whole fragile edifice on which the global Green New Deal is built is unraveling. As we have pointed out, few developing sector nations will surrender their sovereignty, and their development goals, to comply with the demands coherent with the fake science behind "man-made climate change"; and large nations, such as China, Russia and India are intent on advancing energy systems which will increase the Energy-Flux Density of their economies, a necessary precondition for real economic growth. It is precisely these technological advances which are under attack by the City of London-Davos Malthusians, who are promoting instead "sustainable" and "renewable" energy systems, which will assure a rapid depopulation of the planet -- which is what they intend!
After 20 years of coverup of the real story of what was behind the 9/11 terrorist attack on the U.S., Pres. Biden has ordered the declassification of documents which have been hidden by government agencies, especially the FBI. LaRouche said, as the attacks were happening, that Osama Bin Laden would be blamed, but he is a "controlled entity...not an independent force." Yet, the truth about the role of the Saudis and U.S. intelligence in creating and deploying Al Qaeda has been buried, to protect the guilty. Join us this Saturday at 2 PM EDT for a forum, "9/11/2021: The Path Forward from September 11, Afghanistan and the Surveillance State." See Helga Zepp LaRouche's statement, "Can the West Learn? What Afghanistan Needs Now"
Sept. 3—On August 31, just hours after the last U.S. plane left the Karzai International Airport in Kabul in keeping with President Biden’s withdrawal deadline, he defended that decision in an address to the American people. “The decision about Afghanistan,” the President said, “is not just about Afghanistan. It’s about ending an era of major military operations to remake other countries.” Biden’s statement, if followed through, represents what the Schiller Institute’s President Helga Zepp-LaRouche called a “phase change in international politics.” Since the collapse of the Soviet Union from 1989-91, U.S. policy has been shaped by a triumphalism predicated on the belief that America was now the world’s only superpower.Those nations which refused to surrender their sovereignty to the U.S.-led post-Cold War order were subjected to crippling sanctions and the denial of credit by international financial institutions. Acting with a hubris shaped by the belief that, in a unipolar world, Americacould impose its will as it pleased, American officials, urged on by the British, and with backing by their NATO allies, launched repeated regime-change wars against those who rejected the arbitrary rules defending the “western values” of the so-called Rules-Based Order (RBO). It was in defense of this order that the “endless wars” were launched, including the 20-year war in Afghanistan which ended this week. In a separate comment on the end of the war, Secretary of State Blinken, who routinely hoists the flag of the RBO everywhere he goes, stated on August 30, “The military mission is over. The diplomatic mission has begun.” Though he was speaking about the removal of U.S. officials from Afghanistan, it seems that, in the context of Biden’s speech the next day, he could have been speaking about the end of a foreign policy in which launching destructive wars had replaced diplomacy. Whether this is true is not yet determined. Both Biden and Blinken continue to justify disengagement from the “small wars” in Southwest Asia as a necessary precondition to concentrate on the alleged threat from Russia and China, especially to fulfill the delayed “Pivot to Asia” initiated under President Obama. Starting a New Era? The “end of an era” theme has been seized upon, by many who are critical of Biden for following through with the withdrawal from Afghanistan, to insist that on the contrary, the era must {not} end, America must {continue} deploying its military power to counter the alleged “malign, authoritarian intent” of Russia and China. Ironically, Trump, who campaigned in 2016 on the slogan of ending the “endless wars”; who negotiated the deal with the Taliban signed in February 2020 setting the timetable for withdrawal; and then tried unsuccessfully to withdraw U.S. troops; has joined with his own most outspoken critics in attacking Biden, calling on him to “resign in disgrace.”War hawks among the anti-Trump crowd, such as leading neocons William Kristol and Rep. Liz Cheney, have called for Biden’s resignation or impeachment. A common theme of those in the Military- Industrial Complex, who profited outrageously from the wars, and who are already nostalgic for the “forever wars,” is that Biden’s action means the United States cannot be trusted to stand up for “western values” in the future. This line has been pushed especially hard by key figures from the United Kingdom. Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who should face a war crimes tribunal for his role in launching the wars in southwest Asia, attacked not only Biden but Trump, and the American public, saying that the decision was made “in obedience to an imbecilic slogan about ending ‘the forever wars.’”Going a step further was British Defense Minister Ben Wallace, taunting America by saying it is no longer a “superpower.” A superpower, he declared, “that is also not prepared to stick at something, isn’t probably a superpower either. It is certainly not a global force, it’s just a big power.” The present preoccupation of the War Hawks and their sponsors from what former CIA analyst Ray McGovern calls the “Military-Industrial-Congress-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank Complex” (MICIMATT) is advancing a military counterweight to Russia and China. This includes the push for NATO expansion, to incorporate Ukraine and Georgia in NATO; escalating the Color Revolution against Belarus; establishing a “Pacific NATO” to defend Taiwan and counter China in the South China Sea; continuing the regime-change drive against Syria with Caesar Sanctions and occupation of territory; continuing the war in Yemen; etc. Given the now-acknowledged failure of the 20-year war in Afghanistan, such a bold global agenda would be laughable, except that there are many indications of serious intent including statements in the last days by both Biden and Blinken on Ukraine and China.Zepp-LaRouche insists that this agenda, based on British geopolitics, must be ended now. In posing the question, “What’s next?” she has put the Schiller Institute (SI) in the forefront of the mobilization for an alternative that represents a decisive break with the British geopolitical doctrine behind these wars. She has campaigned relentlessly for a shift to peaceful cooperation for economic development. In two recent SI conferences, one before and one after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, a panel of experts was convened to discuss a development perspective, predicated on a mobilization of Afghanistan’s neighbors to support the extension of China’s Belt-and-Road Initiative into Afghanistan and Southwest Asia, with corridors of development, as the key to peace for the long-suffering war-torn region.*1
What does it mean to say that we have reached the "end of an era"? It's good we are no longer putting U.S. troops in harm's way in Afghanistan. But was this merely a way of shifting troops to beef up the military deployment to contain and confront Russia and China? Or is it possible to really end the era of geopolitical provocations, and live in a world committed to peace and economic cooperation? What the war hawks and proponents of empire fear is that the American people will rally behind a rejection of the policies of the last thirty years, of a "unipolar" world controlled by U.S. military power deployed under City of London and Wall Street direction, and instead restore the American system of physical economy at home, and collaborate with other nations for mutual benefit.
With all the hand-wringing and finger-pointing over events of the last two weeks in Afghanistan, two pivotal questions are not being discussed: Why were we there?; and what comes next? The LaRouche Organization insists that, until the truth about what happened on 9/11 becomes known, the same disastrous mistakes will be made again, next time on an even larger scale. Further, were these wars really mistakes, or instead were they deliberately designed, to keep the U.S. permanently ensnared in "endless wars"?