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Published: Monday, Mar. 17, 2003
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The following statement and analysis was written on March 12, 2003, as the news emerged that a British "compromise" had been floated to paper over the crisis faced by the United States and United Kingdom in the UN Security Council. The pro-war U.S./U.K. "duet" had found that despite intense lobbying and pressure, they did not have the ability to pass a resolution against Iraq. The statement has been circulated by Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche's campaign committee.
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The so-called Blair six-point compromise plan being circulated as of today at the United Nations is a non-starter. Any so-called concessions that still revolve around a time deadline, simply mean that at some near-future point, the world will be back at the same point of imminent war. Such a compromise, by its very nature, is no better than war, because it leads, at some point down the line, to war. What is required is an appropriate path for war avoidance.
The only basis for solving the present crisis is the following:
1. The Bush Administration must acknowledge that the world is in the end-game phase of a systemic financial collapse. This must be publicly admitted. Ari Fleischer must retract his recent foolish statements, claiming that the U.S. economy is sound. The U.S. and global economies are in shambles.
2. The President must dump the entire Chickenhawk apparatus from his Administration. This action must be accompanied by parallel action by leading circles in the Democratic Party, to dump Joe Lieberman and the entire Democratic Leadership Council. Lieberman is nothing but a tool of the Conrad Black/Hudson Institute "Bull Moose" ticket project, aimed at the destruction of the Democratic Party of FDR and Lyndon LaRouche.
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March 18, 1933 began the second phase of FDR's "Hundred Days" program, the one devoted explicitly to creating jobs. On that day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with his closest advisers and called on them to formulate major legislative measures on the job crisis, which had left tens of millions of Americans unemployed. Then, on March 21, the President sent a message to Congress, outlining his objectives.
What the President understood, is one of the major points Lyndon LaRouche has stressed today, and that anti-Hitler German economists had argued, to no avail, in their country: You have to put the unemployed to work, in productive jobs. This approach will increase the tax-revenue base, and simultaneously mobilize the population for the common good.
FDR's March 21 message called for three different pieces of legislation, aimed at attacking unemployment. The first was an immediate enrollment of workers, by the Federal government, for public works. The second was to grant the states monies for relief work. The third was the creation of a braod public works labor-creating program.
It is the first program that immediately went ahead, and became the greatest success. It was the Civilian Conservation Corps, which was devised to deal with the areas of forestry, prevention of soil erosion, flood control, and similar projects, while simultaneously employing as many as 250,000 people by the early summer. In the interest of immediate action. the President chose to use funds already appropriated, and to administer the program through emergency powers and what he called the "existing machinery of the Departments of Labor, Agriculture, War, and Interior."
At the conclusion of his Message, the President summed it up this way: "It is not a panacea for all the unemployment but it is an essential step in this emergency. I ask its adoption."
The Congress did move immediately. The Emergency Conservation Work Act was introduced on March 27, was signed by the President on March 31, and began the recruitment of young men by April 7. The first CCC Camp was opened on April 14, 1933.
Recruitment centers were set up by the Department of Labor, and, in coordination with the Departments of the Army, Agriculture, and the Interior, the enrollees were transported to camps around the country, and put to work. The criteria called for young men between the ages of 17 and 25, who were in reasonable health and unmarried, and whose families were on relief. They would be paid $30 a month, $25 of which would be sent to their families, while the youth were given room, board, clothing, and tools at the Conservation camps. The enrollment period was six months, although youth could re-enroll for additional periods, up to two years in total.
In addition to youth, separate camps were set up for World War I veterans. "Locally Experienced Men" were also hired to help in administering the projects, fulfilling the roles of craftsmen, teachers, architects, and the like.
Ultimately, this program brought in between 2.5 and 3 million men, who worked in as many as 3,000 separate camps, each of which was set up to have no more than 200 men in it. While most of the camps were in the West, many of the young men had to be transported (by the Army) to the desired locations.
And what was produced? The emphasis hereas it would be todaywas on projects that did not require any heavy capital outlay, but which improved the nation's infrastructural base. These included, first and foremost, the planting of trees, of which three billion are estimated to have been put in the ground over the life of the CCC. Beyond that, however, the CCC built over 100,000 miles of truck trails, 89,000 miles of telephone lines, and 800 new state parksas well as carrying out flood control and other drainage measures on millions of acres of farm land. Eventually, there were camps in every state of the Union.
An additional element of the program, was the concept of educating the youth who were recruited into it, an aspect which LaRouche's program today would surely include. The implementation of this aspect of the CCC was highly uneven, depending upon the local camp administrators, but it is reported that more than 40,000 men who were unable to read and write when they entered the CCC, did ultimately learn these skills.
The CCC lasted until 1942, and was among the most popular programs of the New Deal. It not only served as a means of getting money into households, and to the suppliers for the camps, but also made tangible contributions in terms of fighting fires, building recreational facilities, and carrying out water management measures. What was called Roosevelt's "Tree Army" was constantly escaping the budget ax, because even Republicans considered it a major benefit to the nation, contributing much more to economic output, and social benefit, than it cost.
Such an emergency measure, at Federal expense, and very little change in projects, would do the same today.
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During the week of March 10-16, Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche issued a series of statements through his political committee, LaRouche in 2004*. Each of these three related statements appear below as the strategic studies that provide the path through the treacherous waters of the impending Iraq war, to a true and enduring peace. As LaRouche stated in his press release last week, "What Secretary Powell Did Not Say," (see EIW, Vol 2, No. 10) "There are urgent and available alternatives to the folly of the U.S. 'Chickenhawks' ' proposed Middle East war." Not only is LaRouche the only American Democratic Presidential candidate to insist, unequivocally, that there is no reason for war against Iraq, or with North Korea, he is also the only American statesman currently taking on the issue of an American "Empire," and posing the alternative.
The Truth About U.S. Imperialism March 13, 2003
The increasing rage, from around the world, against the tyrannical follies of the current U.S. Bush Administration, tends to assume the form of a delusion among the U.S.A.'s critics...
How Liberalism Created Fascism March 14, 2003
The principal source of the difficulty which most Europeans experience in attempting to understand the present U.S. internal crisis, is that the current eruption of wild-eyed U.S. imperialist practices is rooted in the same Anglo-Dutch Liberal model admired by most popular and official opinion in today's Europe.
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Feature:
The Essential Fraud Of Leo Strauss
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
March 5, 2003
The treatment of Plato in today's U.S. academic and related gossip-circles, is premised chiefly on two competing, Plato-hating schools of interpretation. The first, the pro-Aristotelean hoaxes of Britain's Benjamin Jowett et al.; and, the second, those such as one-time Chicago University figures Leo Strauss and his Allan Bloom...
Lieberman Gang Moves To Wreck Dem Party
by Anton Chaitkin and Scott Thompson
Behind the recent boasting by Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.)crediting himself with the sabotage of Democratic Party opposition to the disastrous Iraq war adventureis an explicit, long-standing project by Lieberman's sponsors in the Democratic Leadership Council to wreck the Democratic Party, by organizing a 'Bull Moose' ticket splinter operation.
Profile: Leo Strauss
Fascist Godfather Of the Neo-Cons
by Jeffrey Steinberg
In a June 17, 1996 article by Richard Lacayo, Time magazine named the late University of Chicago philosopher Leo Strauss (1899-1973) as one of the most influential and powerful figures in Washington, D.C.the man most responsible for the Newt Gingrich 'Conservative Revolution' on Capitol Hill, and the intellectual godfather of Newtzi's 'Contract on America' blueprint for vicious fascist austerity.
(Documentation
Strauss and the Neo-Cons As Seen From Europe)
Appreciation: Marianna Wertz
One of Schiller's 'Beautiful Souls'
Marianna Wertz, a leader of the Schiller Institute founded by Helga Zepp-LaRouche and Lyndon LaRouche, died early this past Jan. 15 at 54, having fought for many years against cancer and effects of its treatment. As Vice-President of the Schiller Institute, Marianna Wertz's work included the prepa- rationtogether with her husband of 27 years, William Wertzof the three-volume work Friedrich Schiller: Poet of Freedom, by which the Institute uniquely put Schiller's great dramas, poetry, and essays together into circulation in English, some for the first time.
Economics:
Revenue Crash, War Fear Hang Over Budget Debate
by Carl Osgood
Unlike past years, this year's Federal budget process began with unanswered questions about the budgetary implications of a possible war with Iraq. More than a month after the Bush Administration submitted its Fiscal Year 2004 budget plan, questions related to the potential costs of war and its aftermath remain unanswered...
States' Fiscal Crises: A National Security Issue
by Mary Jane Freeman
"Next year, there's going to be draconian cuts in state services. We can get through this year. But next year we're going to hit the wall."
Paul Patton, Kentucky Governor and National Governors Association president
War Drive Pushes U.S. Airlines Into Free Fall
by Anita Gallagher
The drive for war on Iraq by the 'chicken-hawks' grouped around Vice-President Dick Cheney has put the entire U.S. airline industry, already on the brink of bankruptcy and liquidation, into free fall.
War Threats Trigger Japan Financial Meltdown
by Kathy Wolfe
Japan's debt-loaded financial system, brought to the melting point by the past three years' sinking of the international freetrade economy into depression, is now burning up under the global threat of 'imperial' U.S. wars in the Mideast and on the Korean Peninsula.
Fannie/Freddie Blowout Debate Reaches the Fed
by Richard Freeman and Lothar Komp
In a surprising speech on March 10, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President William Poole intensified the debate over whether the overleveraged American housing debt bubble generated by the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage corporations, threatens to set off a systemic meltdown in the U.S. financial system.
Unemployed Surge Shows Physical Economy Drops
by Richard Freeman
The sharp rise of American unemployment in February starkly highlighted the unwinding of the U.S. physical economy. In goods-production, especially manufacturing, the job firings are relentless, rendering America, month-by-month, less of a producing nation.
Reverse the 35-Year Devastation of America's Industry and Labor Force
by Richard Freeman
The following is the excerpted transcript from a class given to a LaRouche Youth Movement cadre school in Redford, Michigan on Jan. 18, 2003.
On Jan. 7, President Bush announced his 'stimulus package,' and in the course of this, he said, 'We are the most creative, powerful economy in the world,' talking about the United States. In fact, at this stage of its development, the United States' economy is not creative, it is not powerfuland I will show you that it's not even an economy....
International:
The Drive For War Becomes A Diplomatic Disaster
by Michael Liebig
If one were to summarize the diplomatic developments of the second week of March, around U.S. and British demands for UNSecurity Council endorsement of an invasion of Iraq, one could say that the imperial war policy of the Bush Administration currently focussed on Iraqhas functioned as a strategic catalyst for unprecedented cooperation in Eurasia, precisely as Lyndon LaRouche had forecast.
'Clean Break' Fuels The 'Other' Mideast War
by Dean Andromidas
Despite global focus on an invasion of Iraq, the 'other Middle East war'between Israel and the Palestinianscontinues to rage, bringing catastrophic results on both people, and fuelling the global Clash of Civilizations war sought by the 'get Iraq' warhawks.
Region's Rejection of War Shows in Tehran
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
While the world's television channels worked overtime with film footage of American GIs kissing their wives and children before being moved overseas to the Persian Gulf, and on-site reports of troops maneuvring in Kuwait's desert sands, very little attention was paid to deployments of quite another sort into the Persian Gulf...
German Clerics Meet Americans Against War
by Rainer Apel
Not too many prominent politicians from Germany are likely to travel to Washington, D.C. to repeat what Angela Merkel, chairwoman of the opposition Christian Democrats, did at the end of February, when she met with pro-war officials in the Bush Administration and affirmed her support for war against Iraq. Her popularity ratings in the polls at home promptly sank by 12%.
Cheney To Visit East AsiaDelivering War?
by Mike Billington
Vice President Dick Cheney will travel to East Asia in April, visiting Japan, China, and South Korea. His first item of business will be the crisis on the Korean Peninsula.
Brazil Tries To Evade Imperial Game-Plan
by Silvia Palacios
It will not be easy for Brazilian diplomacy to construct an independent foreign policy whose immediate objective would be to put together a South American bloc, capable of preserv- ing the independence and sovereignty of member-nations.
FARC Narcos Goad Bush To Invade S. America
by Gretchen Small
It was the classic act of a provocateur: On Feb. 13, South America's largest narco-terrorist force, the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), shot down a small U.S. airplane engaged in anti-drug surveillance over the jungles of southern Caqueta´ province. On board were one Colombian and four American civilians working as defense contractors for the U.S. Southern Command.
Australia Dossier
Sting in the Tail of Timor's Independence
by Robert Barwick
Australia has bullied tiny East Timor into giving up its resourcesto Royal Dutch Shell.
National:
Cheney and Perle To Go Down Like Ollie North?
by Michele Steinberg
New Yorker magazine and its senior investigative reporter, Seymour Hersh, have produced a devastating expose´ of the shady dealings of Defense Policy Board Chairman Richard Perle, the self-described 'Prince of Darkness' who works non-stop for a war against Iraq.
Troops Being Set Up For Gulf War Syndrome II?
by Carl Osgood
The motto engraved in stone on the outside of the Veterans Affairs Department building reads, 'To care for him who has borne the battle.' It is inspired by President Abraham Lincoln, who set it as one of the responsibilities of a government towards those who have defended the nation in war. This might imply that the government might take every precaution available for its troops before sending them to war again.
Cultural:
Exhibit at the Metropolitan: Leonardo da VinciMaster of Motion and Time
by Bonnie James
Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Jan. 22 to March 30
“If you scorn painting, which is the sole imitator of all the manifest works of nature, you will certainly be scorning a subtle invention, which, with philosophical and subtle speculation, considers all manner of forms: sea, land, trees, animals, grasses, flowersall of which are enveloped in light and shade..."
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