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The Henry Waxman Letter: Who Knew What, and When?
by Jeffrey Steinberg

U.S. Representative Henry Waxman (Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee, sent a letter to President George W. Bush, demanding a full explanation from the Administration, as to why senior officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and the President himself 'cited forged evidence about Iraq's efforts to obtain nuclear materials.'

Informed of Waxman's June 2 letter to the President, Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche immediately seized on the significance of senior Administration officials having used a

proven forged foreign government document, to win Congressional and public support for the Iraq War, based on the fabricated claim that Iraq was attempting to purchase large quantities of uranium precursor, 'yellow cake,' from the Niger government. LaRouche insisted that it is an urgent matter of national security to determine 'who knew what, and when?'

LaRouche's own track record of challenging the wall of disinformation thrown up by the Straussian neo-conservative network inside the Bush Administration, to launch the Iraq War, puts him in a unique position to hold the other Demo- cratic Presidential candidates—as well as Bush Administration top officials—accountable for their repeated failure, up until now, to challenge the avalanche of disinformation and 'spun' intelligence products.

*Documentation: The Waxman letter, and the State Department's reply, begins on page 48 of the above linked article.

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LaRouche Says Charges Against Cheney Constitute Grounds For Impeachment
The following article was issued as a press release by Lyndon LaRouche's Presidential campaign committee, LaRouche in 2004.

LaRouche to European Youth Movement: 'Popular Opinion' Is the Enemy
This is an excerpt from a presentation given by Lyndon LaRouche to a cadre school of the international LaRouche Youth Movement in Wiesbaden, Germany, on May 31, which will also appear in the New Federalist newspaper. The complete speech is archived on LaRouche's campaign website: larouchein2004.com.

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this week in history

June 10-16

June 16, 1933 was the conclusion of what has come down in American history as the First Hundred Days of the Administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Congress finished its work on June 15, and the President signed the final pieces of legislation on the 16th.

A review of what that period meant, can best be understood by contrasting it with the process that was going on in Nazi Germany at the same time, when Adolf Hitler was moving rapidly to consolidate total dictatorial power over the state. The conceptions of policy and leadership could not have been more different. And it was only because FDR resisted the powerful bankers who had helped put Hitler into power, that the United States did not also succumb to fascism, but instead went on the path to restoring our Constitutional commitment to the general welfare principle.

What FDR accomplished in the push for emergency legislation during the Hundred Days, was a mixture of stopgap measures, re-regulation efforts, and essential boosts to the physical economy, through programs of infrastructure construction and public-works employment. Perhaps the only actual model which was passed, was the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, a major project that transformed that seven-state river valley from a Third World-like center of devastation, to a thriving, modern agro-industrial hub. Many of the other measures went in the right direction, in using Federal government power to enforce the general welfare, but would have to be adapted to different conditions today.

The "energy" of the Federal government, which Alexander Hamilton fought so hard to institutionalize in our Constitution, was one of the major characteristics of this period. In these first three months, the President sent 15 messages to Congress, guided 15 major laws through Congress, delivered 10 speeches, constantly consulted with advisers and heads of state, and took personal responsibility for thousands of decisions in domestic and foreign policy.

In addition, he initiated a direct form of communication with the public through what became known as the "Fireside Chat," an intimate direct address to the formerly "forgotten men and women" of America over the radio, to explain the measures he was taking, and why. FDR gave two of those "chats" during the Hundred Days period, out of eight which he gave during his first term in office. By the nearly universal testimony of contemporaries, these chats conveyed to the American population a sense of confidence in leadership, and increasingly, in themselves, that was critical to getting the nation out of the Depression.

The following are the landmark pieces of legislation passed, with small descriptions of their impact, or significance:

March 9—The Emergency Banking Act, which established crucial Federal regulatory powers over the bankrupt banking system, permitting its recovery.

March 20—The Economy Act, which mandated budget cuts that the Democratic Party platform had promised, but ranged from useless to counterproductive, in terms of restoring the economy.

March 31—Civilian Conservation Corps established—this had both short-term and long-term benefits in employment and land-management projects.

April 19—The gold standard (British) was abandoned, a positive move toward restoring U.S. national sovereignty.

May 12—The Federal Emergency Relief Act, a stopgap measure which supported state welfare payments, and created some public works jobs.

May 12—The Agricultural Adjustment Act, with an amendment permitting monetary expansion. This bill was misguided in its attempt to curtail production, as a means of accomplishing the legitimate aim of raising farm prices.

May 12—The Emergency Farm Mortgage Act, which played a crucial role in preventing mass farm evictions.

May 18—The Tennessee Valley Authority Act, a model for Federal-state cooperation in building crucial infrastructure projects in the areas of providing water and power.

May 27—The Truth-in-Securities Act, which took the first steps toward regulation of the Wall Street market.

June 5—The Gold Standard Act, which gave the Federal government even more control over the nation's currency and credit system.
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Investigation:

LaRouche's Pre-War Warning 'Powell Apparent Victim of Hoax'
This memorandum—now completely confirmed in its major points, and in its warnings concerning the other Democratic Presidential candidates' response to the Powell UN Speech of Feb. 5—with accompanying documentation, was first released on Feb. 9, 2003 by LaRouche in 2004, the candidate's Presidential campaign committee.

  • Heads Must Roll in the "Counter-Coup" Against Cheney Cabal
    by Edward Spannaus
    The "countercoup" against the Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz-Straussian cabal which seized the levers of power in Washington after Sept. 11, 2001, is now moving rapidly forward, to the point where insiders are forecasting that soon, "heads will roll." The immediate issue is the the scandalous intelligence fakery which was used to justify the invasion of Iraq.
  • British MP Tam Dalyell: We're Looking to Congress
    The international importance of the American Congressional hearings into the 'IraqWMD' hoax was a subject of an exclusive EIR interview with Tam Dalyell, the longest-serving member of the House of Commons and the most vocal opponent of the Iraq war in the British Parliament.

Feature:

Bangalore Conference Will Change WorldHistory
by Mary Burdman
'Some events become turning points in history, and the second Iraq war is one of them' stated T.N. Chaturvedi, Governor of the state of Karnataka in southern India, in his address as chief guest at the international conference 'World Situation after Iraq War,' held in his state's capital city of Bangalore on May 26-27.
Lyndon LaRouche's Bangalore Address, May 26, 2003
(mp3 audio, 25 minutes)

  • Auspicious Hour for Change at Bangalore
    by Ramtanu Maitra
    The May 26-27 international conference, 'World Situation after Iraq War' held in Bangalore, could not have been timed better. Beside attaining the objective of focussing on the increased instability in the region triggered by the unilateral U.S. action on Iraq, the conference sought to provide India's political leaders a fresh option to chart a new direction to the country's foreign policy.

Economics:

Italy Takes the Initiative for European Infrastructure Growth
by Claudio Celani
Even empiricism has a good side: When something hurts, Even empiricism has a good side: When something hurts, you feel pain. The international depression has badly hit Euroland's economies, and the empirically minded European Union governments realize that something must be done.

The Present and Future of Nuclear Knowledge
by Dr. Chang-kun Lee
An internationally known specialist calls on the nuclear community to 'take up the gauntlet' and move nuclear technology forward for the benefit of mankind—from desalinating water, to transmuting waste, and new methods of steelmaking.

Question Circulates: `Economic 9/11' Coming?
by Marcia Merry Baker
The same week that the President signed the $350 billion-plus tax bill, Lyndon LaRouche, in a statement issued by his campaign, called the question on the Administration's disastrous economic policies: Is this stupidity or willfulness?

Bureau of Labor Statistics Fraud Excludes Reality
by Richard Freeman

The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics steadfastly assures Americans, and people in all nations, that the average U.S. standard of living is rising. Although the BLS was founded to gather information and conduct 'objective' studies, it instead releases monthly and annual reports fit to convince even the hard-boiled skeptic that the average household is doing modestly well.

TVA in Borneo: Bakun Dam Revived
by Martin Chew Wooi Keat
In early 2003, the construction of the Bakun Dam, located in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, has been revived, following a deferral in 1997 forced by the speculative attack on the Malaysian ringgit and other Asian currencies.

India Gives German Industry Options from Report
by Rainer Apel
Indian-German relations received a big push with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's state visit to Germany, May 28-29. He was the first Indian leader in 10 years to come to Germany.

International:

`Road Map' Begins in Mideast, But Must Change Washington Map
by Dean Andromidas
After convening his first two Middle East summits, U.S. President George W. Bush has committed himself to implementation of the Road Map for a Middle East peace, which will hopefully end over two years of violence and lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state by 2005.

Iraq WMD Flap Has `Mortally Wounded' Blair
by Mark Burdman and Alan Clayton
Just as falsification of intelligence on 'Iraq's weapons of mass destruction' (WMD) has generated an American national controversy, so it has in Britain—with two differences. In the U.K., the controversy is hitting with a fury that, as of this writing, qualitatively surpasses what is happening in the United States.

Vietnam Taking Rightful Place in the World
by Mike Billington
German Chancellor Gerhard Schro¨der visited the tomb of Vietnamese revolutionary Ho Chi Minh on May 15, placing a wreath in honor of the father of post-colonial Vietnam— once vilified as a terrorist and enemy of the West.

Regional Powers Seek Afghanistan's Stability
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
The war against Iraq was billed as part of the continuing 'war against terrorism,' launched in the wake of Sept. 11, 2001, with the war against Afghanistan. Yet, as many U.S. and international critics of the Iraq War have been quick to point out, while the United States was rushing headlong into its Iraq invasion, it still had not completed the task begun with the conquest of Kabul.

National:

FCC Deregulation Is a Threat to U.S. National Security
by Edward Spannaus
On the day before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted for further deregulation of the nation's broadcast and print media, Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche warned that this deregulation scheme must be stopped, on the grounds that it is a threat to U.S. national security.

  • Rupert Murdoch and the Imperial Disease
    by Anton Chaitkin
    Rupert Murdoch, central figure in the scandal over the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), wields a $42 billion electronic and print media empire, a political agency as much as a commercial enterprise. He has grabbed control over world-wide access to public information, even while losing billions of dollars over the past two years.
  • Conrad's `Black Hole' Puts Hollinger in Red
    by Michele Steinberg and Scott Thompson
    Conrad Black—the Canadian mogul who would rebuild Britain's Empire and take over the United States in a Dick Cheney-led coup d'e´tat by Straussian neo-conservatives—took a dressing down on May 22, when he was forced to make significant concessions to the shareholders meeting of the New York-based Hollinger International, Inc., of which he is Chairman and CEO.
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