MAY 26, 2008 (LPAC)--Lyndon LaRouche today ridiculed a column by the London Torygraph's Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, newly installed as the paper's International Business Editor, in which he purported to oppose passage of the Lisbon Treaty in the upcoming Irish referendum, while attacking those in continental Europe, who are promoting the idea that sovereign governments must overhaul the bankrupt global financial system, through coordinated efforts.

"What Pritchard's double-talk attempts to conceal,'' LaRouche explained, "is the fact that, all along, the British have never intended to be part of the Lisbon Treaty. They want to impose it on continental Europe, as a fascist straightjacket, but they have no intention of wearing the same shackles, themselves. This is typical of how the British oligarchy operates,'' LaRouche said. "They intend to turn continental Europe into an empire of beggars, while they run the show from outside the Lisbon Treaty dictatorial framework.'' LaRouche called the Lisbon Treaty "economic Kool Aid,'' explaining, "The British are preparing the poison Kool Aid for the Europeans, but they have no intention of drinking it themselves.''

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's May 26, 2008 diatribe against the "roster of EU statesmen calling for a new 'European Crisis Committee' to take the markets in hand,'' was his second freak-out in recent days, over the call, by 14 former European heads of state, finance ministers and European Commission presidents, on May 21, for the convening of an international conference, to reorganize the bankrupt global financial system. That call, signed by leading figures like former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard, former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, and former EU Commission head Jacques Delors, actually targeted the whole post-Bretton Woods system of unbridled free trade and globalization, and at least implicitly attacked the foundations of the Lisbon Treaty.

For Pritchard and his Anglo-Dutch masters, the whole effort by the 14 statesmen was seen as a "grave threat to the City of London,'' as he wrote in his earlier rant. As Helga Zepp-LaRouche responded, on May 25, "Mr. Evans-Pritchard deserves our thanks for his frankness! He couldn't have been more direct: Any impediment to vulture capitalism in defense of the citizenry, represents a threat to London, which wants to remain the undisputed headquarters of the British Empire, and certainly not a 'regional branch.'"