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Government’s recent partial hearings and debate on war, security and terrorism creates a fallacious narrative across Canada.

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CRC—Regardless of today’s mid-term elections results in the United States, there has been, for the last few weeks, a growing movement within the leadership circles of the Democratic Party and the Pentagon to rid the White House of President Obama’s closest advisers most responsible for sabotaging a competent Pentagon strategy to rid the world of IS. Of course the Canadian Armed Forces Intelligence did not inform our government of this ‘revolt’ within leadership circles in the United States against National Security’s Susan Rice’s bungling and misrepresenting the Joint Chiefs competent war plans. Intelligence reporting from the CSIS to the Canadian government on this matter was also not forthcoming, even though that intelligence was readily available to a sufficient number of Washington insiders and even circulating publicly in the online journal Politico. [1]

A competent war avoidance policy is always based on the Westphalian approach and on a policy of peace through development

The net result for Canadians: a partial hearing in the House of Commons blindsided by the lack of competent intelligence regarding the unsoundness of the military strategy as represented by Susan Rice and Obama’s White House in their request to the Canadian government to join the coalition being put toghether.

Then there is the question of the now famous classified 28 pages, which represent a suppressed chapter from the 2002 Joint Congressional Committee Inquiry into 9/11 [2]. A good number of Congressmen have now read these 28 pages but they are bound by an oath to secrecy not to reveal the specific content of the redacted 28 pages, but all agree that there is no risk to the U.S. national security to declassify those pages. What declassification would accomplish is that it would reveal, to the U.S. public and the world, the highest level of involvement and complicity by the Saudi Kingdom in the 9/11 attacks and therefore, as former U.S. Senator Bob Graham said on CBC Radio One’s “Day 6” program of October 9, [3] this would permit us to minimally question and reassess our alliance with Saudi Arabia:

“Not only has Saudi Arabia been promoting this extreme form of religion, but it also has been the principal financier, first of Al Qaeda, then of the various Al Qaeda franchises around the world—specifically the ones in Somalia and Yemen— and now the support of ISIS," said Graham. "I believe that had the role of Saudi Arabia in 9/11 been disclosed by the release of the 28 pages, and by the declassification of other information as to the Saudi role and support of the 9/11 hijackers, that it would have made it much more difficult for Saudi Arabia to have continued that pattern of behavior, and I think [we] would have had a good chance of reining in the activity that today Canada, the United States and other countries either are or are considering going to war with."

Now this past weekend our CF-18s started bombing selected targets in Iraq. Just a week before, President Putin of Russia addressed the international situation in an undiplomatic but truthful way when he spoke at the final plenary meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club on the theme “The New World Order”: New Rules or a Game without Rules”, [4] where he warned that “there is no guaranty and no certainty that the current system of global and regional security is able to protect us from upheavals. This system has become seriously weakened, fragmented and deformed."

He presented a stark picture of the Middle East and the wrong policies of the United States in that region:

“In Syria, as in the past, the United States and its allies started directly financing and arming rebels and allowing them to fill their ranks with mercenaries from various countries. Let me ask where do these rebels get their money, arms and military specialists? Where does all this come from? How did the notorious ISIL manage to become such a powerful group, essentially a real armed force?

"As for financing sources, today, the money is coming not just from drugs, production of which has increased not just by a few percentage points but many-fold, since the international coalition forces have been present in Afghanistan. You are aware of this. The terrorists are getting money from selling oil too. Oil is produced in territory controlled by the terrorists, who sell it at dumping prices, produce it and transport it. But someone buys this oil, resells it, and makes a profit from it, not thinking about the fact that they are thus financing terrorists who could come sooner or later to their own soil and sow destruction in their own countries.

"Russia warned repeatedly about the dangers of unilateral military actions, intervening in sovereign states affairs, and flirting with extremists and radicals. We insisted on having the groups fighting the central Syrian government, above all the Islamic State, included on the lists of terrorist organizations. But did we see any results? We appealed in vain.

"Essentially, the unipolar world is simply a means of justifying dictatorship over people and countries. The unipolar world turned out too uncomfortable, heavy, and unmanageable a burden even for the self-proclaimed leader.

"Joint economic projects and mutual investment objectively bring countries closer together and help to smooth out current problems in relations between states.

"I think that our American friends are quite simply cutting the branch they are sitting on”.

“…If we do not create a clear system of mutual commitments and agreements, if we do not build the mechanisms for managing and resolving crisis situations, the symptoms of global anarchy will inevitably grow.”

A Call for a global, inclusive new security architecture

Canada must heed the call issued by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, [5] for a global emergency conference with a single theme: How should a global, inclusive security architecture be designed, [6] which will guarantee the existence and security of all nations on this planet.

It is abundantly clear that a sound policy to rid the world of the IS menace requires the inclusion of Iran, Syria, Turkey, Russia and China in the solution for a secure and developing Middle East that would require massive investments in necessary large infrastructure projects [7] that lays a solid foundation for a durable and comprehensive peace agreement for the region.

Terrorism: “lone wolf terrorism” is a concept manufactured by intelligence services

The trap being set for Canada and other countries by which terrorism will increase and not diminish is illustrated by the official narrative in Canada and in other western countries about the phenomena of the lone wolf terrorist.

As was amply demonstrated throughout the 1970’s and ‘80s by competent patriotic intelligence agencies, there never existed “political lone assassins” (see Executive Intelligence Review’s “Why the British Kill American Presidents”). [8] The so-called terrorist of the 70’s and 80s were all intelligence operations,either created out of whole cloth or infiltrated and directed, as was the case for the Italian Red Brigades, the German Baader-Meinhoff Gang, the Quebec FLQ, and other groups on the left or movements on the right such as the Gladio networks.

The advent of the internet has not changed the control, only the modus operandi. It remains the case for 9/11 [9] and other large scale terrorist incidents.

In the case of the IS directed attacks on Canada, there is most probably a correlation between the publication of the English edition of the IS publication Dabiq issue #4, calling on its fanatic western aspiring jihadists to launch a global jihad against countries part of Obama’s coalition, a few days before the two recent terrorist incidents in Canada.

But overriding the inundation of details and ‘facts’ that appeared in the Canadian media in the immediate aftermath of the two terrorist incidents, it is clear that however many brainwashed individuals (be they on the intelligence surveillance list of the government or not) that can emerge and take criminal actions against the people and institutions of Canada, the important decision for Canada is not that we must now chose to implement a policy that will attempt “to draw a fine line between increased security and respect for civil liberties”.

It is the case that through the vast sharing of intelligence between the Five Eyes spying network of the combined intelligence services of the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the modern-day British Empire now has at its fingertips an unprecedented capability of surveillance (most of it illegal by nation-states legal statutes) in the history of mankind. Large scale terrorist incidents will not escape this worldwide surveillance spy web. If any large scale terrorist incidents happens, it will be because there was a policy decision by elements of this British Empire apparatus to let it happen, to further their insane geopolitical designs.

Why we require an intelligence service that defends the principles of republicanism and nation-building as opposed to the present defence of the interests of a collapsing British Empire

Already in October 2005, Jack Straw, the then Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, had signed on to a research paper “Counter-Terrorism Legislation and Practice: A Survey of Selected Countries”, [10] where in the Introduction, the Tony Blair Minister writes that “the Government of Great Britain has over the summer been assessing the practical and legislative steps needed to build on the counter terrorism measures already in place. The Government is consulting widely on the measures that are now proposed. This research paper is intended to inform that process, by providing background information on the approaches taken in a selection of other countries…it sets out some of the key elements of these countries’ legislation and practice. It is illustrative rather than exhaustive…The paper is the start of a consultative process that can be developed and supplemented in the future…” The paper reviews the counter-terrorism legislation in place already in October 2005 in three of the Five Eyes countries: The United States, Canada and Australia.

One must keep in mind that even before the shocking NSA revelations by Edward Snowden, the City, the laird of international speculative finance, was also known to intelligence services as Londonistan [11] where MI 6 was letting a large number of terrorist organizations be headquartered in London and operate freely, as so-called political refugees, or freedom fighters against the west’s own list of enemy ‘dictators’ to be overthrown!

Bill C-44, an Act to amend the Canadian Security Intelligence Act and other Acts [12] whose status as of 2014-11-04 has now reached the Second Reading in the House of Commons and therefore will be further discussed in Parliament and in Committee, with possible amendments, but, eventually down the line it must be adopted with an eye to actual and future coordination with the other four Anglo-American Five Eyes partners. And it is that policy orientation which needs to be reformed.

One could propose an amendment to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act R.S.C., 1985, c. C-23, that would cancel the SIRC (Security Intelligence Review Committee) and replace those Privy Council citizens appointed Committee members [13] by a Committee of the House of Commons, MPs with powers to subpoena directors and officers of CSIS to testify as they do in the United States Congress with their Select Intelligence Committee. While this would certainly improve the transparency of some CSIS operations, recent happenings in the United States indicates that this is far from guaranteeing elected officials full access to the truth. The most egregious example of wrongdoing is the recent scandal of the CIA spying on Senator Feinstein’s Intelligence Committee!

Abandoning the Queen’s British Empire [14] and realigning with the BRICS

If Canada were 1) to join the new development banking institutions that were recently created by the BRICS nations, [15] banks that on principle are essentially opened to all interested sovereign nations, and, 2) were to join in promoting an international conference to bring about an urgently needed global and inclusive new security architecture which could guarantee the existence and security of all nations on this planet, then it could be affirmed that Canada would have created for itself the best possible conditions for a war-free and terrorist-free future.

Over 33 years ago, in the period leading up to Pierre Elliot Trudeau’s repatriation of the Canadian Constitution, Lyndon LaRouche had written a Draft Constitution for the Commonwealth of Canada, [16] where he indicated in his letter of transmittal that this republican Constitution was “a gift to the citizens of Canada” and in which he conveyed his heartfelt best wishes … “May the Commonwealth of Canada prosper in security and sovereignty in the present and in time to come”!

Having played an active part in that 1981 period and subsequent Meech Lake national discussion era to bring alive the higher conception of the creation of a model Republic of Canada to the mutual benefit of Canadians and all of mankind, this writer believes that LaRouche’s Draft Constitution would still, today, stand as a solid reference point in any serious national debate to bring Canada to take its rightful place in the growing consensus, now affecting more than 41% of the world population "who cries out for new beacons of hope of a better, more secure order in mankind’s affairs".

Indeed, a growing portion of mankind have now come to recognize that the new BRICS-initiated worldwide dynamic for scientific and development progress represents the best possible pathway to realizing their nation’s and personal sovereignty in contrast to such plagues as the perils of nuclear warfare and vast genocide of peoples that a collapsing British Empire would bring down on mankind.

Gilles Gervais