July 1, 2008 (LPAC)--Lyndon LaRouche's charge that British financier interests, including George Soros, are behind attempts to destabilize Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's government, has driven longtime Soros operative Horacio Verbitsky off the deep end--where this hack tends to be quite often when confronted with reality.

In the June 29 edition of the daily Pagina 12, under the headline "The Grandmother," this "journalist" pens a slander of LaRouche which, like most of his past utterings on the subject, is lifted entirely from the writings of the professional "Get LaRouche" operative Dennis King, who is financed by that most right-wing of U.S. intelligence-connected outfits, the Smith Richardson Foundation. "Leftist" Verbitsky strings together a hodge-podge of lies, some of them so unintelligible and so outlandish that any thoughtful reader would immediately ask, "what's going on here?"

What's going on is that Verbitsky is flipped out about LaRouche's attacks on his longtime benefactor George Soros, and the British Empire forces that pull his strings, which are up to no good in Argentina.
Verbitsky actually begins his article with the report that at the pro-Kirchner tents set up in front of the National Congress, "leaflets were being distributed in which `American statesman Lyndon LaRouche' accuses British imperialism of destabilizing the Argentine government, and reproaches the U.S. government for not applying the Monroe Doctrine to prevent this." He quotes LaRouche saying that "if we had a President with morality and guts, he or she would kick the British in the butt and tell them to get the hell out of there!"

But Verbitsky doesn't report that it's the LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM) members who are doing the organizing and distributing the leaflets to the Kirchnerista groups in front of the Congress--many of them young people--or the very good responses and hot political discussions with passers-by who know something of the history of dirty British operations against their country, and want some explanation of what's behind the current attacks on the President, taking the form of an "agricultural producers'" strike.

The far more glaring omission, however, is any mention of George Soros's name at all, despite the fact that LaRouche identified him in his statement as "part of the British operation against Argentina ... a British agent ... one of the thugs."

This is lawful, given Verbitsky's longtime association with the drug-legalizer and speculator, through his membership in Human Rights Watch/Americas, which Soros began generously backing financially, beginning in the late 1970s, and where he still sits on its Advisory Board today. In 1998, HRW/Americas poured money into Verbitsky's Pagina 12 operation, awarding him one of its Hellman/Hammett Grants. A year later, Soros promoted Verbitsky. He was named to the HRW/Americas Advisory Board, alongside Soros and a number of other luminaries of the U.S. political establishment, many of them closely tied to Wall Street.

That's a rather odd place to be for someone like Verbitsky, who's proud of having served in the 1970s as top intelligence chief for the terrorist Montoneros, and has dedicated years to loudly denouncing the evils of capitalism and financial speculation. It's noteworthy that the Pagina 12 editor is particularly rattled by the fact that LaRouche and EIR have exposed ties of some purported Ibero-American "leftists" to the international drug trade. He tries to dismiss this with an exaggerated claim that LaRouche's Mexican correspondents have accused "the majority of Latin America's center-left parties of [connections to] a narco-terrorist plot."