The clash between deadly geopolitics and policies of reason and respect in government relations was shown on Dec. 1 in the clash between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and fellow American leader David Beasley, Executive Director of the World Food Program at their meeting in Washington D.C. about Yemen. It is a life-or-death issue. If Pompeo follows through on his plan to declare the Houthis in Yemen a terrorist organization, then food aid and other humanitarian relief must immediately stop to the beleaguered nation of 30 million people, who are currently almost completely food-import dependent, half of whom are going hungry now, and 3.5 million of whom are at the starvation point. Commercial flows of necessities will also stop, because the Houthis account for 70% of the population, and access to the ports, roads, and airports, so no commercial supplier firm dare do business in Yemen under the pending Pompeo blacklisting.
Beasley insists that providing food must continue. A World Food Program spokesman said that the WFP provides emergency food aid to 13 million people in Yemen; however, funding shortages at present, mean that 8.5 million have gotten aid only on alternate months since April. If that stops, there will be millions dead.
Not surprisingly, reports are skimpy on the Beasley-Pompeo meeting, with the fullest one being that of the degraded Washington Post, but the opposing stance of the two men is well known. Beasley told the Washington Post that he must be able to get aid through. “I must have as much cover and flexibility as I can … in this complex working environment, where the Houthis control access to almost every single piece of territory.”
On Dec. 3rd, Beasley put out a warning statement about Yemen, along with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and UNICEF, saying that, “Famine can still be prevented, but that opportunity is slipping away with every day that passes.” FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu appealed, in addition, for “livelihood assistance to help them resume normal food production….”
For his part, Pompeo today addressed the opening of the annual virtual meeting on Middle East policies—the Manama Dialogue, Bahrain—held by the London geopolitical agency International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). This is indicative. Pompeo’s record and policies conform to the British playbook of pitting nations against each other; even the modern borders of Southwest Asia were drawn by the British and French, for geopolitical friction purposes, in the infamous 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement. Pompeo boasted today about isolating Iran, “We’ve now leveled 77 rounds of sanctions targeting close to 1,500 individuals and entities. We have deprived the regime, according to their own words, of some $70 billion for terror….”
Overcoming the strife and misery in the Arabian Peninsula and throughout the region requires acting for the common interest of all involved in full-scale development, and providing whatever emergency aid is needed in the meantime. This was once the “American Way” in foreign policy, certain aspects of which are part of the approach of President Donald Trump, for which he was targeted for ousting from the Presidency by London, even before he took office. Trump opposes the geopolitical “endless” wars, opposes green primitivism, and backs space travel and space-era technologies for the advancement of man.
These principles, essential to integrity of government policy, are also the principles involved in the battle for the integrity of elections. President Trump will address a rally in Valdosta, Georgia on Dec. 5, Saturday evening. A Trump March was held today in front of the Georgia governor’s mansion. This afternoon, in Savannah, Georgia, Vice President Pence told a rally that, ‘We’re going to keep fighting until every legal vote is counted, every illegal vote is thrown out.”
The last nine days have seen dramatic legislative hearings in several states with citizen reports on all manner of vote fraud and irregularities, beginning with Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, up through the day-long sessions yesterday in Atlanta, Georgia; plus there have been press conferences and new legal actions. There will be another hearing Dec. 10, held by Georgia state legislators. Last night Georgia state senators concluded their marathon hearing by asserting that, “There’s a world of work to be done,” but committing to do it. At the weekly Fireside Chat of the Manhattan Project, Dennis Speed said that there is, in effect, a process of formation of a national “committee for truth in elections” underway, given the wide activation of citizens and legislators who are stepping up to the task.
The Schiller Institute conference Dec. 12-13 is a critical occasion for furthering action for truth and integrity worldwide. “The World After the U.S. Election: Creating a World Based on Reason.”
A special promise for a bright future came today, with the commissioning in China of its biggest nuclear fusion reactor, the HL-2M Tokamak, in Chengdu. Now testing can begin, preparatory to going operational . This tokamak is China’s most advanced, and at the commissioning ceremony today, it was stressed that it will be tested in collaboration with scientists at the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in France, whose Director-General Dr. Bernard Bigot spoke at the Sept. 5-6, 2020 Schiller Institute conference on prospects for “Hydrogen Fusion for the World Energy Supply.” Go all out for maximum participation at the upcoming Schiller Institute event. https://schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.com/conference_20201121
