Hamas warriors slaughtered up to 1,400 Israelis on October 7. Almost 3,000 Americans died on September 11, 2001. While it may not compare to hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths in Iraq (2003-06) or many other locations of darker-skinned peoples (and while it falls short of the slaughter of Palestinians over the last two weeks), it still is horrendous. And, worse, it is guaranteed to keep happening until the cycle is broken.
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Sept. 10, 2023, 2022 (EIRNS)—“Imitation is the best form of flattery,” it is said. It helps, however, to have, at the least, an actual idea of what you are attempting to imitate. A word to the wise, and a warning to the unwise: The creatures of Prometheus cannot be cloned. The Anglo-Americans, having flunked “LaRouche Physical Economy” several times over the past decades; having, as their erstwhile leadership, if only temporarily, and nominally, Joe Biden, a fulsome, well-documented plagiarist; and having his even-more-inept State Department minions represent to other nations a United States policy-posture that is self-contradicting at best, and self-destructive at worst, have now, been forced to “come up with something we can sell,” getting themselves into “a fine mess” which they will probably refuse to understand.
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Sept. 7, 2023, 2022 (EIRNS)—Today is the tenth anniversary of the launching of China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI). On Sept. 7, 2013, President Xi Jinping presented what he the “Silk Road Economic Belt,” in a speech in Kazakhstan early in his presidency, entitled “Promote People-to-People Friendship and Create a Better Future.” It called for an “innovative cooperation mode” in building transportation corridors, to create(*typo correction edit by peacebuilder.net) a “greater space for development,” and to make “a grand cause benefitting people in regional countries along the route.” He called for creating a “new brilliance with a more open mind and a broader vision to expand regional cooperation.” More than talk, China had walked the walk in lifting 800 million Chinese out of extreme poverty (using methods easily recognizable by Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy). Now more than 150 countries are on board.
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