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- (EIRNS) -Thermonuclear World War III was moments from
breaking out on the weekend of Aug. 12-13, after the sinking of the Russian
nuclear submarine Kursk--and you, the American people, were never informed,
as a result of a "wartime" blackout and total silence on secret
war-avoidance diplomacy imposed by the White House.
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- But it is the Anglo-American financial oligarchy, grown
desperate and hysterical over the imminent demise of their power in the
world financial collapse--not some "Seven Days in May" military
putsch apparatus--that is the driving force behind the push for war, including
the thermonuclear brinksmanship in the Arctic waters of the Barents Sea.
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- Lyndon LaRouche spelled it out in an Aug. 20 statement
reading in part:
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- "At this point, no miracle could save the present
IMF-centered global financial and monetary system from collapse in the
immediate future. The system is doomed, hopelessly so. That is the good
news. The bad news is, that the presently ruling international financier-oligarchy
will not willingly accept its inevitable doom peacefully.
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- "That oligarchy, as self-caricatured by the present
editorial staff of the Wall Street Journal, is as mad as Lady Macbeth.
Under these circumstances, every crisis-spot in the world, inside the USA
itself, in the Americas generally, in Africa, and in Eurasia generally,
is the site of a local political firestorm either in flames, or about to
erupt. It is not the tinder of the local hot-spot which causes this phenomenon;
it is, rather, the heat of the global crisis of the financial system which
seeks out, and tends to ignite all available tinder, such as the case of
the sinking of the Kursk. In this state of affairs, those firestorms tend
to come together, threatening an early global conflagration of awesome,
but otherwise unpredictable, intensity, duration, and consequence."
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- LaRouche's statement was issued several days {before}
the Russian government, in "leaks" and official statements, confirmed
that nuclear war had hung in the balance Aug. 12-13.
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- - What We Know -
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- While American and European media have jumped the gun
in attributing the Kursk sinking to onboard explosions, probably caused
by a battery fire or torpedo detonation, the preponderance of evidence
in fact suggests that the Kursk collided with another vessel--a U.S. or
British submarine, or drone vehicle--or, in the extreme case, was possibly
hit by a torpedo.
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- Even now, details of the near-miss strategic showdown
have largely been kept out of the Western media, despite publicized, detailed
statements by senior Russian government and military officials, including
Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev, and an Aug. 22 Pravda.ru story with the
bold headline, "World War III Could Have Begun on Saturday."
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- In an Aug. 21 interview with Russian ORT TV, Sergeyev
reported that at roughly 6 p.m. Moscow time Aug. 12, Gen. Popov, Commander
of Russia's Northern Fleet, was informed that the submarine Kursk had failed
to establish a communication link during Barents Sea maneuvers in which
it was involved.
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- A search-and-rescue mission was immediately launched,
and early sonar data showed {two} vessels lying at the bottom of the Barents
Sea.
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- It took approximately 24 hours, until Sunday evening,
Aug. 13, for the Kursk to be located, and by that time, according to Sergeyev,
the second vessel, presumed to be a foreign submarine, was gone from the
area.
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- The Kursk, with a crew of 118 sailors and officers, was
found at the bottom of the Sea. Most of the crew were instantly killed
in what Russian officials are all but certain was a collision with the
second vessel.
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- On Aug. 21, the Russian news agency Interfax reported
that Russian rescue workers had found a fragment of a submarine, "most
likely British," near the Kursk. This followed earlier reports that
emergency buoys, also identified as British, were seen floating near the
collision site.
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- Then came the Aug. 22 Pravda.ru story: "On Saturday,
Aug. 12, an incident occurred in the Barents Sea, where the Russian Federation's
Northern Fleet was conducting exercises, which nearly led to the outbreak
of full-scale combat--a third world war.... For several days the world
hung by a thread, and one false political move could have led to an exchange
of nuclear strikes."
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- Citing hydroacoustical evidence of three explosions,
"indicating the possibility that the Kursk had suffered a torpedo
attack." Pravda.ru described the incident as a possible <cf2{casus
belli<cf1, but concluded, "Happily, the incident in the Barents
Sea was successfully resolved by political means. Agreement to `end the
affair in peace' was reached during a telephone conversation between Vladimir
Putin and Bill Clinton. The Presidents' conversation lasted 25 minutes,
and nothing of its content was reported in the mass media."
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- - And in the West -
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- A handful of Western journalists have made sane comments
about the Kursk, but only a handful.
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- On Aug. 22, John Helmer, a Moscow-based journalist who
writes frequently for the Journal of Commerce and the Moscow Times, wrote
in the Singapore-based Straits Times that "the Russian sub drama looked
like war at the start." Dismissing the harsh Western media criticism
of President Putin, who remained at the "vacation Kremlin" at
Sochi, Helmer wrote, "If you were the ruler of Russia, and you were
told late one night that one of your most powerful and secret submarine
weapons had been hit by a mysterious explosion, and sent to the bottom
without word from the crew, would it be prudent for you to suspect an attack?
An attack by a nuclear superpower and old rival?
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- "And if it is your sworn duty to defend your country
from attack, would it be reasonable for you to determine whether there
was a cause for war, or an accident?"
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- - Pearl Harbor Effect? -
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- Lyndon LaRouche observed Aug. 21 that the desperate maneuverings
by the Anglo-American financial oligarchy, to destroy Russia's remaining
strategic military capabilities through the wild actions in the Barents
Sea, and render Russia vulnerable to even more voracious raw-materials
looting by Anglo-American cartels, would not work.
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- He warned that the Russians, moving with care and deliberation,
would respond with a "counter-scare" strategy. There are already
signs that Putin, far from being destabilized by the Kursk attack, is in
the process of greatly strengthening his support.
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- On Aug. 22, Putin traveled to the headquarters of the
Northern Fleet, to hold a six-hour open session with the relatives of the
sailors killed on the Kursk. He vowed to get to the bottom of the tragedy.
Next day, in a nationwide TV address, he repeated the message.
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- Reports from Russia suggest his actions have earned him
broad public support which could backfire against the Russian tycoon-owned
media which joined NATO media in pillorying him.
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- Also noteworthy is Putin's growing alliance with former
Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov, who on Aug. 23 delivered a strongly worded
statement warning the West and the tycoons not to try to exploit the near-war
crisis.
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- As the Anglo-American oligarchy's efforts to obliterate
Russia as a military adversary were failing, the global financial crisis,
the driver for the war dynamic, was accelerating.
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- That will send the oligarchs on another war tear. Until
these fanatics are removed from influence, and their bankrupt financial
system put through LaRouche's New Bretton Woods reorganization, the threat
of world war will not abate. _____
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- This article appears in New Federalist newsweekly, Aug.
28. A large package on the topic, with full documentation, will be Published
in the Executive Intelligence Review of Sept. 1.
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- A free Copy of Sept. 1 EIR will be sent to anyone who
calls 1-888-EIR-3258 and says they "read about it on Rense.com."
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