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Published: Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2006
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Volume 5, Issue Number 49
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This Week You Need To Know:
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British Push Puppet Cheney To Trigger Global Chaos
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Within hours of Air Force II returning to Washington from Saudi Arabia, Executive Intelligence Review issued a memorandum, "Behind Cheney's Trip to Riyadh." The document revealed that the Bush Administration has launched a new berserker "diplomatic" initiative, which, if successful, would likely trigger a new Hundred Years' War, starting in Southwest Asia, but soon engulfing much of the planet in chaos.
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The Cheney scheme to promote a so-called "Sunni alliance" to counter Iran's growing Shi'ite dominance over the Persian Gulf and Eastern Mediterranean region, is the latest handiwork of a crew of outright British agents, who have employed the thuggish Vice President and his deadly wife, to wreck the United States from within, as a step towards undoing the entire nation-state system.
On the surface, the argument could credibly be made that the immediate target of the Cheney trip to Riyadhthe latest victim of a Cheney preemptive strikewas his long-time political rival cum arch-enemy, James Baker III...
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This Week's News Updates:
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Recent LaRouche Webcasts*
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"Organizing the Recovery from the Great Crash of 2007" |
Nov. 16, 2006 |
World Crisis on Eve of U.S. General Election - From Berlin |
Oct. 31, 2006 |
"A World-Historical Moment" - From Berlin |
Sept. 6, 2006 |
"Rohatyn as Satan" |
July 20, 2006 |
"Emergency Actions Required by Congress" |
June 9, 2006 |
"The Greatest Economic Crisis in Modern History" |
Apr. 27, 2006 |
"Make a Platonic Revolution to Save Our Civilization" |
Feb. 23, 2006 |
"Rebuild a Looted U.S. Economy"
video: Baltimore: from Industrial Powerhouse to Death Zones |
Jan. 11, 2006 |
"The Tasks Before Us in the Post-Cheney Era"
Videos: US Dams, US Nuclear Plants |
Nov. 16, 2005 |
"Rediscovering America: The Lessons of LaRouche's Famous Oct. 12, 1988 Forecast" |
Oct. 12, 2005 |
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Sept. 16, 2005 |
Emergency Webcast,
"Pulling This Nation Together Now!"
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Sept. 3, 2005
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"LaRouche Addresses Urgent Changes in Economic and Monetary Policy"
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Short video (WMA format)
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June 16, 2005
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April 7, 2005
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This Week in
American History
The 1856 Presidential race between the new Republican Party's John C. Fremont, the Democratic Party's James Buchanan, and ex-President Millard Fillmore, who represented the Whig/American Party, had been a lively and closely-fought contest. There were very basic issues at stake in the election, and a large proportion of the American population had taken part in the campaigning. Over the two preceding years, the Kansas-Nebraska Act had replaced the Compromise of 1850, and the resulting pro-slavery violence in the new territory of Kansas had demonstrated to many members of the old Whig Party, including Abraham Lincoln, that a new coalition of pro-American forces was needed.
Although Lincoln and many other new Republicans had attempted to show the remaining Whigs that their political beliefs were best served by the new party, enough of them voted for Fillmore to tip the balance in Buchanan's favor. However, the Republicans did succeed in electing local and national candidates, and garnered 1.25 million votes in the Presidential election. The combined Whig/Republican vote was greater than that for Buchanan, but neither the old nor the new administration paid any heed to the mandate for a change in policy from the American people.
The fight was not solely over the extension of slavery. The old British Empire ideology which had gripped a portion of America's political leadership also called for the destruction of American System policies, such as internal improvements, protectionist tariffs for American industries, and good wages for American workers. But it was the issue of slavery, with its particular view of the promise of mankind, which went to the heart of the moral question facing America in 1856.
After the election, the proponents of extending slavery became even more arrogant than they had been during the administrations of Polk and Pierce. Their "cruel attempt to conquer Kansas into slavery," as contemporary historian George Bancroft put it, had failed, but they were still in power and intended to use it. To many of this persuasion, President-elect James Buchanan was not radical enough, despite the fact that he openly supported every policy of the British Empire and the Southern pro-slavery faction.
Wrote C.C. Clay, Sr. of Alabama, "Pierce was my choice above all men in the South, North, East, or West. If we could keep him in office for four years longer, the tariff would be brought down to a purely revenue standard, the Democratic party put upon the true constitutional anti-internal improvement platform, the backbone of abolition broken, or badly strained, and the Government fixed in the old republican tack."
Then, too, as soon as the election ended, the old cry for legalizing the slave trade reared its ugly head. Only a few Southern newspapers had dared to call for it during the recent few years, but now the Charleston (South Carolina) Standard reasserted its demand, and the New Orleans Delta seconded the call, and advocated the acquisition of Cuba, Northeastern Mexico and other territories, and the importation of enough slaves so that every Southerner could acquire at least a few, and take them wherever they pleased.
Gov. J.H. Adams of South Carolina, in his annual December message to the state legislature, called for reviving the slave trade, for slavery "has exalted the white race itself to higher hopes and purposes, and it is perhaps of the most sacred obligation that we should give it the means of expansion, and that we should press it forward to a perpetuity of progress."
But the most amazing and unsettling statements came from retiring President Franklin Pierce, a native of New Hampshire who embraced British Empire philosophy. Pierce devoted half of his final annual message to Congress, to attacking the Republican Party. He stated that the recent election had been a condemnation of merely sectional parties, like the Republicans. The Republicans would never have received as many votes, except for the sinister misrepresentations of public policies working on a fevered state of the public mind.
Furthermore, said Pierce, although he believed in freedom of discussion, the Republicans had abused it by pretending to seek the exclusion of slavery only from the Federal territories, when they actually intended to destroy it in all the states! To gain their end, the new party was trying to undermine the government, and was well aware that emancipation could be bought only at the price of burned cities, ravaged farm fields, and slaughtered populations. The Republicans were actually teaching Americans to stand face-to-face as enemies, Pierce blustered; violent attacks from the North had been answered by proud defiance from the South, and now the nation was faced with an attempt by a sectional movement to usurp control of America's government, the new President spouted.
There were many Republicans who answered Pierce's outburst. "Burning cities!" exclaimed John Sherman, brother of the future general, "Why, sir, I know of none except Lawrence and Osawatomie. I know of no ravaged fields or slaughtered populations except on the plains of Kansas." But the voice that penetrated to the heart of the matter was that of former Congressman Abraham Lincoln. In a speech in Chicago on Dec. 10, 1856 he answered President Pierce's topsy-turvy allegations by developing the "central idea of the republic."
The last portion of Lincoln's speech began as follows: "We have another annual Presidential Message. Like a rejected lover, making merry at the wedding of his rival, the President felicitates hugely over the late Presidential election. He considers the result a signal triumph of good principles and good men, and a very pointed rebuke of bad ones. He says the people did it. He forgets that the 'people,' as he complacently calls only those who voted for Buchanan, are in a minority of the whole people, by about four hundred thousand votersone full tenth of all the voters. Remembering this, he might perceive that the 'Rebuke' may not be quite as durable as he seems to thinkthat the majority may not choose to remain permanently rebuked by that minority.
"The President thinks the great body of us Fremonters, being ardently attached to liberty, in the abstract, were duped by a few wicked and designing men. There is a slight difference of opinion on this. We think he, being ardently attached to the hope of a second term, in the concrete, was duped by men who had liberty every way. He is in the cat's paw. By much dragging of chestnuts from the fire for others to eat, his claws are burnt off to the gristle, and he is thrown aside as unfit for further use. As the fool said to King Lear, when his daughters had turned him out of doors, 'He's a shelled pea's cod.'
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Latest From LaRouche
November 26, 2006
A summary of some crucial recent changes in the social-political dynamics of the international situation.
Even the leadership of the Democratic Party's national campaign organization is still bemused by its surprise at the way in which a landslide victory was won in the mid-term election's vote for the U.S. House of Representatives. That is the most crucial lesson which the Democratic Party's national organization, has yet to learn, for the sake of the future of both that party, and of our republic.
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InDepth Coverage
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Strategic Overview:
JOHANNES KEPLER & THE DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGE
The New Politics
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
November 26, 2006
A summary of some crucial recent changes in the socialpolitical dynamics of the international situation.
Even the leadership of the Democratic Party's national campaign organization is still bemused by its surprise at the way in which a landslide victory was won in the mid-term election's vote for the U.S. House of Representatives. That is the most crucial lesson which the Democratic Party's national organization, has yet to learn, for the sake of the future of both that party, and of our republic.
Inside the New Democratic Majority
by Debra Hanania-Freeman
The new U.S. Congress that will take the oath of office on Jan. 4 is of a decidedly different character than any of its recent predecessors. The difference lies not only in the fact that the Democrats will be the majority party for the first time in 12 years, but also in who makes up that new Democratic majority, and how they were elected.
Feature:
ECONOMIC RECOVERY ACT OF 2006
Dollar Plunge, Fall of Housing, Auto, Demand Urgent Action
by Paul Gallagher
As the Federal Reserve-built U.S. housing bubble is disappearing, the dollar since Nov. 18 has begun a severe drop, which, if not stopped by national interventions, will accelerate to 20-25% or more, and rout the entire financial and monetary system and international trade. The simultaneous meltdown of the American household debt bubble (consumption) and shrinkage and threatened collapse of auto (the remaining center of U.S. industrial capacity) will require an urgent Federal intervention on the principles of President Franklin Roosevelt's actions to reverse the 1929-33 economic crash and Great Depression. Fortunately, there is now a Democratic majority in Congress which can reanimate that legacy of FDR.
Felix Rohatyn's PPP Swindles: The Mussolini Model for Infrastructure
by Marcia Merry Baker
In early November, the latest big-deal PPP (public-private partnership) in the United States was announced: Morgan Stanleywonthe bid for a 99-year lease, with full fee collection rights, on four Chicago municipal parking garages, in exchange for an up-front payment of $563 million to the city.
British Push Puppet Cheney To Trigger Global Chaos
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Within hours of Air Force II returning to Washington from Saudi Arabia, Executive Intelligence Review issued a memorandum, 'Behind Cheney's Trip to Riyadh.' The document revealed that the Bush Administration has launched a new berserker 'diplomatic' initiative, which, if successful, would likely trigger a new Hundred Years' War, starting in Southwest Asia, but soon engulfing much of the planet in chaos.
- Behind the Cheney Trip to Riyadh
by Jeffrey Steinberg
This memorandum was released on Nov. 27.
A well-placed and highly reliable source has provided the following account of Vice President Dick Cheney's Nov. 25, 2006 visit to Saudi Arabia. The report coincides with other evidence of a scheme to induce the United States to selfdestruct. While the source may have missed some elements of the picture emerging from the Cheney visit, the essential details appear to be accurate. As will be clear when you read below, all sane forces inside the United States and elsewhere must react to these latest Cheney actions in the most effective preemptive fashion.
Moscow Discussion
Can U.S.-Russian Relations Improve?
by Rachel Douglas
Russian media and expert commentary on the U.S. midterm elections outcome was generally dour, being laced with skepticism about how Democrats like incoming House International Affairs Chairman Tom Lantos (Calif.) will act toward Russia, and bitterness about the country's experience with the United States, NATO, and international financial institutions during the 1990s.
Interview: Shlomo Ben-Ami
Peace in the Middle East Needs a Third Party
On Nov. 16, Spanish Prime Minister Jose´ Luis Rodrý´guez Zapatero announced a new Middle East peace initiative. The plan was subsequently endorsed by French President Jacques Chirac and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, and will be presented at the summit conference of the European Union in December.
Ecuador's New President:
'Life Comes Before Debt'
by Valerie Rush
Rafael Correa, candidate of Alianza Pa´is, won the Ecuadoran Presidential run-off Nov. 26, defeating billionaire banana/ coffee tycoon Alvaro Noboa by a substantial margin, and giving added impetus to the nationalist tide sweeping the continent. In one of his first victory statements to the press, the 43-year-old U.S.-trained economist declared that he identified his political philosophy with that of Kirchner, Lula, and Bachelet, the Presidents of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile respectively, all of them key players in the informal Presidents Club that has coalesced around the urgent task of unifying and integrating the continent.
Sudan's President Bashir Defends His Nation's Sovereignty
by Lawrence K. Freeman
'Sudan will not become the first nation of Africa to be recolonialized,' Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir told a multi-city video-conference with the news media on Nov. 27. In an unusual format Bashir, speaking from Khartoum, simultaneously addressed audiences in eight capital cities, including Beirut, Berlin, Cairo, London, Paris, Pretoria, Moscow, and Washington, and took questions, many of them hostile, for over an hour and half.
- Save Rwanda and Africa
French Presidential candidate Jacques Cheminade issued the following statement on Nov. 27.
Without Leadership, India Drifts Dangerously
by Ramtanu Maitra
India's six percent-plus 'impressive GDP growth rate' over the years has drawn much praise from the West, and its 'success' has been attributed to the 'magical impact' of free-market liberalization and globalization. What it really means, is that India's low-wage-earning labor has begun to replace a section of the high-wage-earning workforce of the West. In the process, India, a nation of 1 billion-plus people stricken with utter poverty, is becoming an economic 'powerhouse' exactly the way China became one, the Indian leaders claim.
A Rail Land-Bridge For Eurasian Freight
by Rainer Apel
Very encouraging news came in from Beijing on Nov. 21: The directors of the state-run railways of Germany, Russia, and China signed an agreement on a joint project to establish a rail freight route from China to Europe, via Russia. The agreement is a statement of intent; details have yet to be negotiated.
Pennsylvania Squashes Campus Gestapo Project
by Anton Chaitkin
The crusade for fascism in colleges, publicly identified with rightist provocateur David Horowitz, but directed from the household of Vice President Dick Cheney, has been stopped cold in the state of Pennsylvania. Decisive actions by the state legislature, and by the voters, blocked the Cheneys' initiative in that state, which was considered the test case and showdown site for this national conflict.
- What Horowitz's Defeat Implies: In Crisis, Politics Must Be an Action on the Future
by Michael Kirsch, LaRouche Youth Movement
In the months leading up to the Nov. 7 midterm election, Lyndon LaRouche and the LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM) descended upon the election, from our continuing fight for the future of the nation against the enemies of the United States, including American Tory John Train, William F. Buckley, Dick Cheney, et al. We focussed on the higher level of that fight to save the nation, a responsibility which the Democratic Party refused to take; and as I demonstrate here, we made a discussion of that higher struggle, subsume and define the election.
Letter to the New York Times
The Gibberer In the 'Times'
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
November 26, 2006
Is the New York Times' Louis Uchitelle operating on LSD? That is fair question after reading Uchitelle's Nov. 26th New York Sunday Times Week in Review feature, 'Here Come the Economic Populists.'
Science and Technology:
To Combat Malaria, We Need DDT
A world expert on malaria and DDT explains why indoor spraying of house walls will save millions of lives. An interview with Donald R. Roberts.
Obituary:
The Ugly Truth About Milton Friedman
by Nancy Spannaus
'Milton Friedman is a moral obscenity, but his popularity is even more obscene. Whether or not Americans continue to tolerate him will say a great deal about whether America has the moral fitness to survive.' That was the challenge put forward by Lyndon LaRouche and a group of associates at Executive Intelligence Review back in July 1980, when they published The Ugly Truth About Milton Friedman, a 350-page book which documented for all with brains to think, that the Nobel Prize-winning economist was a fascist whose ideas had to be rejected in order for the nation to survive. Unfortunately, as the reams of adulatory prose which have been produced in praise of the just-deceased economist demonstrate, EIR's efforts to inoculate the public against Friedman were not successful. The legacy of Milton Friedman remains to be extirpated.
Editorial:
Britain's Deady Game: Religious War
It's not only the arrogance of Dick Cheney, and the mule-headed insanity of George W. Bush that has prevented any change of policy by the Administration since the Nov. 7 elections. The overriding fact is, as Lyndon LaRouche has constantly stressed, that the policy of this Administration is being run from outside the United States, by oligarchical financial forces primarily located in Great Britain. It's not a Bush-Cheney policy, it's British!
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