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Scandal of the Century Rocks British Crown and the City
by Jeffrey Steinberg |
| On June 6, the British Broadcasting Corporation aired a sensational story, revealing that the British arms manufacturer BAE Systems, had paid more than $2 billion in bribes to Saudi Arabia's national security chief and longtime Ambassador in BBC revelations were further detailed on June 11, in a one-hour Panorama TV documentary, provocatively titled ``Princes, Planes and Pay-offs,'' which detailed a more than decade-long probe by the {Guardian}, BBC, and the British Serious Fraud Office (SFO), into the al-Yamamah arms contract, a nearly $80 billion, 22-year long deal between BAE Systems and the Saudi government, in which British-made fighter jets and support services were provided to the Saudi Kingdom, beginning in 1985. Every British government, from Margaret Thatcher, through John Major, to Tony Blair, has been thoroughly implicated in the BAE-Saudi scandal. In December 2006, Britain's Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, ordered the SFO probe shut down, declaring that any further investigation would gravely jeopardize British national security.... |
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March 23, 2007
—EIR News Service announced the publication of The Anatomy of Russian Capitalism, by Professor Stanislav M. Menshikov.
Translated from the Russian by Rachel Douglas, the book is an authoritative study of the Russian economy during the first 15 years after the break-up of the Soviet Union. The Preface, by EIR founder and contributing editor Lyndon LaRouche, titled, "Russia's Next Step," poses the need for U.S. policy-makers to study and grasp the "disease" presented in this book, since it represents "an economic global pandemic which we must all join to defeat." |
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Scandal of the Century Rocks British Crown and the City
The real crime is that BAE Systems and other City of London giants have created an enormous, hidden financial slush fund that has been devoted to the clandestine wars and AngloAmerican covert operations over the past two decades. Jeffrey Steinberg reports.
Feature
LaRouche to IberoAmerican Trade Union Leaders:
Globalization Equals Fascism: Organize a New Bretton Woods!
Participating in a June 14 Internet videoconference with IberoAmerican trade union leaders from Mexico, Chile, Argentina, and Peru, Lyndon LaRouche emphasized that the bankrupt monetary system will disappear, and the question to be answered now, is, what will replace it?
Stop Social Security Privatization in Mexico
Remarks by Eng. Agustín Rodríguez, secretary general of the Union of National Autonomous University of Mexico Workers.
Chile's Fight Against Social Security Privatization
Remarks by Yasmir Fariña, vice president of the National Federation of University of Chile Employees.
Labor's Success in Argentina
Remarks by Hugo Moyano, secretary general of the Argentine Labor Federation.
Conclusion: No More Concessions to Evil!
Lyndon LaRouche and Agustín Rodríguez bring the webcast to a close.
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