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Secure Peace on This Planet

by Lyndon LaRouche

The following statement was delivered by Lyndon LaRouche as the opening remarks to a group of 35-40 university newspaper editors and reporters, who participated in an international webcast press conference on April 24, 2003.

I'll take up summarily five points here. First of all, on January 2001, I gave a webcast, where I characterized the expected prospects for the early period of the coming Bush Administration. In that, I emphasized two points: the economic catastrophe, which was already in motion by the spring of the year 2000, would hit with greater force during Bush's first years in office. That has happened.

Secondly, I warned that, comparing the present situation with what happened in the world and particularly in Germany between 1928 and 1933, that we had to fear under these circumstances that some forces behind the scene, some desperate forces, would do what was done with Hitler with the Reichstag fire on the 27th of February of 1933, which made Hitler a dictatorship, and essentially caused World War II to become more or less inevitable.

On Sept. 11, 2001, of course, we had our Reichstag fire. We had the bombing in New York and in Washington, D.C. with aircraft, which were steered into those structures.
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April 28-May 4, 1789

April 30 marks the 214th anniversary of the Inaugural Address of the first President of the United States, George Washington. On April 30, 1789, General Washington, the hero of the Revolutionary War, who had retired to his farm in order to lead a private life, and was then pressed into taking leadership of the nation in peacetime, appeared on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at Federal Hall on Wall Street, New York City, and took the oath of office. He then gave his inaugural address before a joint session of the two Houses of Congress.

The event was indeed historic. The world's first nation-state republic had been founded, based on peaceful deliberations about how best to guarantee the general welfare of the population, and its posterity. This was an experiment in government, to be guided by the Leibnizian principles of a commitment to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"—something that had never before been tried by mankind.

President Washington's Inaugural is short, and punctuated by many statements of humility in the face of the task before him. It includes no specific program or agenda, but enjoins the hearers to meet the standards of virtue required of a republic form of government, instituted under God, and for the purpose of promoting that happiness which is inextricably linked with virtue. A greater contrast with the bombast, "applause lines," and other rhetoric of our more recent Inaugurals could hardly be found. The anniversary of Washington's Inaugural address was once a national holiday in the United States. We reproduce the bulk of it below:

"Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellow-citizens at large less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency; and in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities from which the event has resulted can not be compared with the means by which most governments have been established without some return of pious gratitude, along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seem to presage. These reflections, arising out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be suppressed. You will join with me, I trust, in thinking that there are none under the influence of which the proceedings of a new and free government can more auspiciously commence.

"By the article establishing the executive department it is made the duty of the President 'to recommend to your consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.' The circumstances under which I now meet you will acquit me from entering into that subject further than to refer to the great constitutional charter under which you are assembled, and which, in defining your powers, designates the objects to which your attention is to be given. It will be more consistent with those circumstances, and far more congenial with the feelings which actuate me, to substitute, in place of a recommendation of particular measures, the tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt them. In these honorable qualifications I behold the surest pledges that as on one side no local prejudices or attachments, no separate views nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests, so, on another, that the foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens and command the respect of the world. I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my country can inspire, since there is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people...
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Presidential Candidate LaRouche Has Broadest Support, Belongs in Debates
This leaflet was released April 25 by LaRouche in 2004.
The April 15 filings of the Democratic Presidential candidates with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), show that Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche is first among all the candidates in the number of individual contributions recorded by the FEC. LaRouche is also first in the dollar amount of 'un-itemized contributions,' which represents money given by persons whose cumulative contributions are less than $200.

LaRouche Youth Open Campus 2004 Campaign; LaRouche holds inaugural national campus webcast
by Paul Gallagher
Directly calling on the 'no future generation' of the nation's college-age students to build their own future 'on the idea of a general economic recovery of the world,' Lyndon LaRouche held the inaugural national campus Internet webcast of his Presidential campaign on April 24.

LaRouche Holds Dialogue with Youth Leaders — And University Newspaper Reporters

The following is a transcript of the dialogue between Democratic Party Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche and youth leaders and college editors and reporters during LaRouche's April 24, 2003 webcast. The moderator is LaRouche campaign spokesman Dr. Debra Hanania Freeman.

In Depth Coverage From Executive Intelligence Review
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Feature:

Gingrich at AEI: The Return of the Undead
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) emerged on April 22 from nearly a half-decade of political hibernation, to deliver a psychotic diatribe against U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, the neo-conservative think-tank that one astute Washington insider has dubbed 'the Temple of Doom.'

The Weird Religions of Cheney's Empire: The Pantheo-cons
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
This report was released on April 25 by the LaRouche in 2004 Presidential campaign committee.
April 6, 2003
When does a religious association qualify as an expression of fascism? With the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, European civilization escaped from a 1511-1648 period dominated by epidemic religious warfare, warfare which had threatened to lead to an outcome like that of Europe's mid-Fourteenth-Century 'Dark Age.'

The Strauss Kindergarten: Israeli Outcroppings of 'Universal Fascism'
by Steven Meyer
Several weeks before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a colleague askedmeto review a book which is causing an uproar amongst the Middle Eastern diplomatic community in Washington, D.C. Michael Oren's Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, has been characterized as the authoritative history of the Middle East, based upon its vast use of U.S. and Israeli government documentation which has been declassified in the recent years.

Economics:

California Re-Regulation: Sign Of Sanity Amid the Collapse
by Harley Schlanger
A long-overdue California electricity re-regulation bill, SB 888, was announced on April 8 by State Sen. Joe Dunn (D-Santa Ana) and a number of Democratic Party leaders in the State Assembly. It would end the state's disastrous deregulation 'experiment' which has been the target of a renewed nationwide mobilization by Lyndon LaRouche's campaign against the insanity of deregulation since August 2000, when that experiment began.

  • Feds Still Nuts Over Dereg

SE Asia Service Economy Blown Apart by SARS
by Martin Chew Wooi Keat
Those Southeast Asian nations that clung to the assumption that one could have an economic recovery without massive, long-term investments in hard and soft infrastructure, are now seeing the death of their axioms—and their people— virtually every day, thanks to the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

Talks Held in Mexico on LaRouche's 'Great American Desert' Development
by Marcia Merry Baker
Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche, visiting the northern Mexican state of Coahuila last November, participated in conferences and interviews, at which he raised the urgent need for large-scale development of basic economic infrastructure—power, water, and rail—common to the Southwestern U.S. states and the Northern Mexican states, in order to provide the basis for restoring U.S.-Mexican relations and providing needed development and employment.

International:

Why the 'Surprising' Rise of Shi'ite Power in Iraq?
by Hussein Askary
The April 22-23 pilgrimage of 2 million Iraqis to Karbala in south central Iraq, commemorated the martyrdom of Imam Hussein ibn Ali, the grandson of Prophet Mohammed, who was killed in 680 and regarded by Shi'ites worldwide as the ultimate symbol of martyrdom and selfless struggle against tyranny.Because it is both a religious ceremony and a political expression of grievances, the pilgrimage was banned by Saddam Hussein's regime for over 25 years.

  • Oil Robbery Under Way in Occupied Iraq?
    by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

Brazilians Denounce Iraq Occupation as Threat to Sovereignty of Nations
by Lorenzo Carrasco
While the Brazilian government has demonstrated excessive caution in its condemnation of the barbarous Anglo-American occupation of Iraq, out of concern over the very likely economic reprisals which the country would suffer were the government to express its view honestly, differing political and diplomatic circles in Brazil have repudiated that occupation with unprecedented vehemence.

  • Iraq War 'Aimed Against the Eurasian Land-Bridge'
    Speaking to the plenary of the Chamber of Deputies onApril 11, Congressman Irapuan Teixeira, of the PRONA party, gave this briefing on the perpetual war strategy of those who launched war against Iraq.

Philippines Becoming Just U.S. War Appendage?
An interview with Father Eliseo Mercado.
Father Eliseo Mercado, currently at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. as a Fulbright New Century Scholar, was President of Notre Dame University in Cotabato City, Mindanao, Philippines, from 1992-2002.

No. Ireland Report: Chance to Clean House
by Mary Jane Freeman and Mark Burdman
High-level British government officials—past and present—have potential cause for great concern.OnApril 17, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens, the most senior police official in Great Britain, released a summary of his still-secret 3,000-page report on collusion among British Army intelligence, Loyalist paramilitary groups, and the British police force, to murder Catholics in Northern Ireland.

National:

Justice Department Evasions on 'Patriot II'
by Edward Spannaus
In early February, someone from within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) took the risk of leaking a highly secret draft for a new anti-terrorist bill, which would give the Federal government sweeping expanded powers for secret investigations, detentions, and trials of suspected 'terrorists'—and which would enable the government to target U.S. citizens the same way that foreign nationals have been targetted since Sept. 11, 2001.

Budget Gap Grows as GOP Splits
by Carl Osgood
The Grand Old Party presented itself as the party of balanced budgets in the 1990s, took credit for the balanced budgets that emerged near the end of the Clinton Presidency, and is now in the process of splitting, over that very same question. With the collapse of the U.S. economy, the Bush Administration's expensive perpetual wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the costs of the 2001 tax cut all bloating the budget deficits, a handful of Republicans fear the potential financial consequences of the Administration's ideological direction.

Chicken-Hawks Now Prepare War on Syria
by William Jones
The drumbeat against Syria, begun by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on April 9 ...was no spontaneous eruption of 'anger' at alleged Syrian harboring of members of the Saddam Hussein regime or of Iraqi 'weapons of mass destruction.' Rather it was the next step in the chicken-hawks' plan in their broader program of 'regime change' in the Middle East.

Interviews:

Israel's Attack on the 'USS Liberty'
An interview with Tito Howard.
Mr. Howard is an American filmmaker who produced 'The Loss of Liberty,' a documentary released in 2002 about the June 8, 1967 Israeli attack against the USS Liberty, in which 34 American servicemen were killed and 171 wounded. The Israelis later claimed it was a case of 'mistaken identity,' and the affair was covered up. There has never been an investigation by Congress.

'The DLC Are Democrats Who Are Really Reactionary Republicans'
An interview with Sen. Eugene McCarthy.
Sen. Eugene McCarthy gave the first part of this interview—on his fight against a sitting President's war policy with the aid of a national youth mobilization in the 1967-68 Presidential campaign—for publication in EIR's April 11 issue. This second part of the interview was conducted by Nina Ogden for EIR on April 10, on who made the Democratic Party a 'hollow party,' and whether that can be reversed, and the party of the disenfranchised can be revived.

Book Review:

Heidegger: The Roots of War and Fascism Today
by Mark Burdman
Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse, by Richard Wolin.
As much of the world has looked on with alarm at the aggressive-war drive conducted by neo-conservative fanatics in the United States, the LaRouche movement has circulated internationally a groundbreaking report, to explain who and what is behind these mad designs and actions. The report, entitled Children of Satan, documents that these provocations emanate out of a tightly knit group of disciples of the late fascistphilosopher Leo Strauss...For those wishing to pursue this subject in more depth, Richard Wolin's book can serve as a useful companion volume...

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