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Published: Monday, Jan. 13, 2003
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The year 2003 has been ushered in with a pair of major U.S. media promotions of the bad old idea of imperialism. On Jan. 5, the New York Times Magazine ran a red, white, and blue cover with the screaming five-inch headline, "American Empire (Get Used To It)." The accompanying article, by Canadian-born, formerly London-based, Harvard professor Michael Ignatieff, was only a slightly less histrionic screed for an American Imperium, starting with the military occupation of Iraq. It is of historical note that Professor Ignatieff is the great-grandson of the founder of the Russian Tsarist secret police, and that he spent 10 years as the resident understudy and biographer of the British Fabian diplomat and Oxbridge professor Isaiah Berlin, who, along with William Yandell Elliott, mentored Henry Kissinger at Harvard. The second, more pedestrian call for a global Pax Americana appeared as the cover story of the Jan. 13, 2003 issue of Mort Zuckerman's U.S. News & World Report, under the title "The New American Empire?" by Jay Tolson. The article diagnosed the September
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2002 Bush Administration National Security Strategy, which infamously promoted a new doctrine of preemptive war against any nation or combination of nations which threatens U.S. global military hegemony.
This latest effort to spark a public "debate" over the virtues of a benign American global empire is reminiscent of the Council on Foreign Relations' 1993 spotlighting of Samuel P. Huntington's borrowed (from Bernard Lewis) call for a worldwide "Clash of Civilizations," pitting "the West against the rest," particularly the world's 1 billion Muslims and 1.2 billion Chinese.
The idea of imperialism, at the dawn of the 21st century, is one that has been long overdue for permanent relegation to the trashbin of history. It has absolutely no place in the political discourse of the United States of America, whether in the form of magazine-sparked popular debate or misguided Administration policy.
As Lyndon LaRouche has stated in numerous speeches and essays, particularly his Sept. 24, 2002 strategic study and Presidential campaign statement, "A Boldy Modest Global Mission for the United States," the United States is unique in history, as the only modern nation-state to be established on the basis of universal republican principles. LaRouche's statement was written explicitly to provide the United States with a mission to counter the disastrous Bush Administration National Security Strategy that the would-be imperialists are now trying to revive.
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It is inconceivable that the United States of America could have been established as the world's premier republic, without the nearly 70 years of effort put in by Benjamin Franklin. As we approach the anniversary of Franklin's birthday, Jan. 17, 1706, we should confront the reasons for the obscuring of Franklin's role--and proceed to make ourselves acquainted again, with the prodigious genius which he represented.
What I raise is not a question of sentiment, or even simply historical knowledge. What must be understood, once again, is that turning points in history require, unfortunate as it may be, the intervention of extraordinary individuals, figures whom Lyndon LaRouche has called historical individuals, who take responsibility on themselves to go against popular opinion, and create a future for their fellow-men. Benjamin Franklin was one of those individuals--as were George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and, today, Lyndon LaRouche.
Franklin represents everything unique and positive about the founding of the United States. A product of the republicans of Puritan New England, particularly the Mather family, Franklin developed as an ally of the Leibnizian faction in Europe, and participated in that faction's political, scientific, and nation-building work. He established institutions for the general welfare of the population, from the first circulating library in this country, to the Constitution of the United States. He pulled together and coordinated an international network of scientists and political leaders, who not only helped win the American Revolution, but played a crucial role in advancing science, and the industrial revolution, throughout Europe, and for the world as a whole.
There is an almost uncanny parallel between the role which Franklin played over the span of the 18th Century, and that which Lyndon LaRouche is playing today. Both conceived their roles strategically, and spent much time travelling and living outside the United States, in the interest of pulling together the necessary combination of forces which could secure the existence of the American republic, and the improvement of all mankind. Both corresponded with the world's leading scientific circles, and wrote prodigiously, for the common man and intellectual alike. Both can be called editor, statesman, philosopher, scientist, and humorist--and have been vilified by their enemies. Both saw themselves operating in history, not the here and now, and understand that the improvement of the life of Americans, is in the interest of all other nations. Both encouraged their fellow men to do the same.
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'The Year To Come' by Lyndon LaRouche Published in New Year's Issue of Dubai's Al-Bayan
A special political supplement for the New Year published by Al-Bayan, the leading newspaper in Dubai, featured the above-cited article by Lyndon LaRouche, with the additional subtitle, "Lyndon LaRouche: The Global Strategic, Economic Crisis Demands a New World Order."
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Feature:
Believing Is Not Necessarily Knowing
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
This statement was released by the LaRouche in 2004 Presidential campaign committee.
"The root of the increasingly catastrophic failure of U.S. education policy of practice, over the recent thirty-odd years, may be summed up in five points of a general indictment..."
Economics:
Maglev Launch in China Revives Germans' Plans
by Rainer Apel
The spectacular maiden voyage of the Sino-German maglev train in Shanghai on Dec. 31 has created a positive shock of much-needed technological optimism in Germany, where the Transrapid super-high-speed train was developed.
Commentary by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, beginning on page 17:
Germany Must Build Eurasian Land-Bridge
Helga Zepp-LaRouche spoke to a forum in Peru on Dec. 27, 2002,
on the promise of Lyndon LaRouche's concept of the Eurasian
Land-Bridge.
Bush Waves a 'Stimulus' At an Economic Breakdown
by Richard Freeman
President George W. Bush's Jan. 7 unveiling of an absurd $674 billion 'stimulus package' had two overriding qualities: its terrified refusal to face reality—the bankrupt world economic-financial is disintegrating in the biggest systemic breakdown crisis in 500 years—and its admission that the Bush economics team does not have a clue what to do about it.
New York City's Crisis Demands 'Super TVA'
by Mary Jane Freeman
New York City's $7.5 billion budget crisis is as great as many states' budget deficits. Its $43 billion budget is bigger than that of all but three states.
International:
Ariel Sharon Is Israel's 'Godfather'
by Dean Andromidas
The corruption scandal raging around Israel's Likud party has reached such depths that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is being called the 'Godfather' and 'the Mobutu of Israel.'
Why Saudi Arabia Resists The Drive for Utopian War
by Hussein Askary
Saudi Arabia is known as the land of Islam's two holiest sites: Al-Ka'aba in Mecca and the Prophet's Mosque in Al-Madinah. It is also the world's largest oil exporter with a production capacity of up to 8 million barrels per day. It is one of the United States' main allies in the Mideast since President Franklin Roosevelt established that relationship with King Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud in 1945.
'Iraq Coup' Plan Masks Chaos: Stop the War!
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
The world entered the new year with a call by Pope John Paul II for peace, but also with an escalation of both the military mobilization of forces into the Persian Gulf, and with associated psychological warfare campaigns.
'Before You Send A Single Briton To Die'
by Tam Dalyell
TamDalyell is the longest-serving member of Britain's House of Commons, and a veteran of military service. He authorized EIR to publish his letter to British Prime Minister Tony Blair on the threat of an Iraq war.
Commonwealth's Imperial Crowd Targets Indonesia
by Mike Billington
The utopian war faction within the Bush Administration may see their scenarios of war in Iraq and Korea slipping away under international pressure and factional battles at home; but the old Anglo-American imperialist guard has nonetheless unleashed a barrage of public diatribes calling for a return to Empire.
National:
Rangel's Military Draft Bill Ruffles Hawks' Feathers
by Michele Steinberg
A New Year's Eve commentary in the New York Times, 'Bring Back the Draft,' by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), the ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee and a senior member of the Black Caucus, has the pro-Iraq war 'chicken-hawks,' and their allies among the uniformed utopians 'up in arms.'
A Bigger Scandal: Illegal U.S. Funding of Sharon's Likud
by Anton Chaitkin
EIR's recent series of exposés tracing the dirty money behind Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Likud party, have helped fuel the roaring political scandal threatening to wreck what was once thought to be a certain Sharon win in the upcoming Jan. 28 election.
Rumsfeld Revives Vietnam-Era 'Phoenix' Assassination Teams
by Edward Spannaus
On Jan. 8, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced a reorganization of the U.S. Special Forces Command (SOCOM) which, he said, will give it the authority and the tools 'to plan and execute missions in support of the global war on terror.'
Opposition to Iraq War 'Won't Go Away'
by Michele Steinberg
The year-long campaign that has been led internationally by U.S. Democratic Party 2004 Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche, to prevent an imperial war against Iraq, was boosted from an unexpected quarter—a behind-the-scenes faction of Britain's policy elite—on Jan. 9, when British Prime Minister Tony Blair's office put out an official statement that 'January 27 . . . should not be regarded in any way as a deadline.'
Medical Malpractice Meltdown Preventable
by Linda Everett
With each passing month, thousands of U.S. physicians, along with hospitals and nursing homes, are being sucked into a forbidding whirlpool of vanishing malpractice insurance, the new crisis within U.S. health care.
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