Volume 32, Number 46, November 25, 2005
The Tasks Before Us in the Post-Cheney Era
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The full transcript of Lyndon LaRouche’s Nov. 16 webcast, including dialogue with Senators and Congressmen, trade union leaders, and youth. “We have now won a victory,” LaRouche said. “We have in a sense recaptured our country.” The Democratic Party has reemerged as the party of Franklin D. Roosevelt; the Senate is taking real leadership, showing “there’s still the potential to rebuild and recapture this country to what it represents.”
What comes next? First, get Cheney out! But then, we have to face the larger issue, of rebuilding the globalized, looted world economy. “We can not live as the United States today, isolated in a world that’s disintegrating. Therefore, we have to think about what kind of a world system is required: Not because we impose it, like George Bush’s conception of democracy, but because other nations which may or may not agree with us on many things, know that it is wisdom on their part to cooperate with us to build this kind of a world system.”
National
Is Vice President Dick Cheney Losing It?
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The bipartisan revolt against Cheney’s Iraq war is the latest step in the movement building for the Vice President’s ouster. Washington sources have told EIR that a ferocious fight is now under way inside theWhite House, over the issue of Cheney’s future.
Murtha: It’s Time To Get Troops Out of Iraq
The Democratic Congressman from Pennsylvania has created a national uproar with his call for U.S. withdrawal.
International
Political Upset in Israel: Labor Leader To Follow Rabin
by Dean Andromidas
Amir Peretz, chairman of the Histadrut Labor Federation, won the election for the chairmanship of the Israeli Labor Party. The defeat he dealt the old guard leadership amounts to a political upheaval in the Labor Party, with profound ramifications for Israeli politics.
Documentation: From Peretz’s speech on Nov. 12 at a mass demonstration commemorating the tenth anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Peretz vows to continue in Rabin’s path of working for peace with the Palestinians—including an end to the occupation.
‘End of Cheney’ Blows Back Into Britain
by Mary Burdman
Cheney’s key international ally, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, lost a crucial vote in the House of Commons Nov. 9, on a new “Anti-Terrorism” bill, which would have allowed authorities to detain suspects for 90 days without charges. This was Blair’s first defeat in a Parliament vote since he came to power in 1997.
Departments
Report From Germany
by Rainer Apel
Coalition Is Clueless on Economics.
Strategic Studies
A Lesson From Ronald Reagan: Of British Fools and ‘Post’ Reviewers
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. critiques the review by the Washington Post’s Robert Kaiser, of The World War Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World, by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin. “Unfortunately, some, such as some of those at the Washington Post,” LaRouche writes, “are still living in a state of desperate denial of the fact that the fantasy-world of their particular choice of silly season does not exist, and never really did. They turn over, murmuring, ‘Let me sleep a little longer,’ to dream their favorite dream. Their warmed-over old dreams of the recent decade and a half, are now worse than boring, even to them. They thrash restively in their dream-world, as the dreams become sillier and sillier, even for them.”
Editorial
Reversing the Systemic Collapse
