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Today, Executive Intelligence Review—an international intelligence
service founded by American economist Lyndon LaRouche in 1974—hosted
an extraordinary roundtable focused on the danger of U.S. military
action against Venezuela. Such an action would be a major folly of
American foreign policy, putting the nation in yet another permanent
war. Featured in the roundtable were analysts from South America,
including former President Donald Ramotar of Guyana, and Venezuelan
diplomat Morella Barretto López, who spoke in a private capacity.
The Trump Administration—filled with a nest of vile neocons, not
the least of whom is Marco “Narco” Rubio, one of the strongest
advocates for a war against Venezuela to topple the elected government
of that country—is risking its own implosion, along with that of the
United States, with the prospect of yet another un-Constitutional
“forever” war. An alternative American policy, based on the real
Monroe Doctrine of 1823 authored by Secretary of State John Quincy
Adams, and not the 1904 Roosevelt Corollary, was a central topic that
emerged in the discussion among the panelists.
The development and integration of the South American continent
through already completed joint projects (such as the Chinese-Peruvian
collaboration to build the Chancay Port in Peru) along with future
projects (like a bioceanic corridor connecting the Atlantic and
Pacific Ocean through Peru to Brazil) can act as a viable substitute
for geopolitical warfare. This can begin the process of mutual
cooperation between the U.S. and South American nations. The “higher
order” centerpiece for the integration of the South American continent
through ports, high-speed rail, and man-made river systems, would be
their connection with other transcontinental rail systems northward
into the U.S. and Canada. This would eventually link to the Bering
Strait Tunnel between Alaska and Russia. This is the extraordinary
potential which has come into the foreground in the aftermath of the
Alaska meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on
August 16th. That is a real antidote to war, which can lead to a true
“coincidence of opposites.”
On tonight’s program of the Fireside Chat, sections from the
extraordinary roundtable discussion will be shown, along with a
follow-up discussion featuring host Dennis Speed and Prof. Clifford
Kiracofe, a former Staff Member of the United States Senate on Foreign
Relations.
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