January 2, 2008 (LPAC)--On the eve of the Dec. 23 election in Thailand, and the British-orchestrated assassination of Benazir Bhutto on Dec. 27, The Economist, the journal of the liberal-fascist Fabians in the City of London, published a warning to the deposed Prime Minister of Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra, that he can expect the Benazir treatment if he proceeds with his plans to return to Thailand.

"Pakistan is not the only Asian country where a dodgy military regime is running a general election under dubious electoral rules in the hope of keeping out a similarly dodgy civilian whom it overthrew," writes Ubon Ratchathani for The Economist of Dec. 19.

Although the situations are different in character, the intention behind the British policy of maximum chaos and the undermining of sovereignty, driven by the global financial collapse, applies equally to both Pakistan and Thailand, and many other countries as well, as EIR will document in the upcoming issue.

The re-established party of Thaksin, now called the People's Power Party (PPP), won the election handily despite the "dubious electoral rules" set up by the junta, and has announced a coalition with several smaller parties which gives them a strong majority in the Parliament. Thaksin, deposed in September 2006, and still widely popular for his policies defending the general welfare of the poor, has announced his return from exile for sometime after the new Parliament is seated in February. In a New Year's Day interview with the Thai newspaper Matichon from Hong Kong, Thaksin explicitly discussed several assassination attempts against him in the weeks preceding the coup.