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Published: Tuesday, July 1, 2003

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The burning questions in Washington and in world capitals today are: Why hasn't Vice President Dick Cheney, the leading Chickenhawk behind the suicidal perpetual-war push of the Bush Administration, been forced to resign yet—even after he has been implicated in the use of known forged documents to manipulate Presidential and Congressional support for the Iraq War? And why are the neo-conservatives still able to wield influence over the policies of the Bush Administration—as events on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq veer toward chaos and a growing body-count of American GIs, as the direct result of their fantasy forecasts about invading Americans soldiers being greeted as "liberators"

The answer was given recently by Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche: "The only reason Dick Cheney has not been forced to resign..."
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"Our Job Is To Be the Friend of Humanity"
Lyndon LaRouche gave this address to an East Coast LaRouche Youth Movement Cadre School on June 27.

Leading Arabic Papers — Al-Ahram, Al-Bayan Cover LaRouche
On June 25, Al-Ahram, Egypt's semi-official newspaper and one of the largest Arabic newspapers in the country, published a lengthy interview with Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche.

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this week in history

July 1-July 7, 1646

This week we go back more than 350 years, to an historical event that is seldom celebrated anywhere: the birthday of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Those who read our column on the Declaration of Independence last week, will recall our argument that Leibniz's philosophy, not that of John Locke, provided the foundation for the founding principles of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Who is Gottfried Leibniz? many might have asked. This week, we answer that question.

Leibniz was the universal mind, in the Platonic tradition, of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, a giant whose work encompassed, and provided new knowledge, in all of the following fields: mathematics, physics, geology, philosophy, logic, theology, history, jurisprudence, politics, and economy. Yet, for the most part, even the educated European citizen has never heard of him. It is relevant to ask yourself how that could be so—and what it says about the control over knowledge which has been exercised by Leibniz's enemies, generally the oligarchs from the Anglo-Dutch and Hapsburg financial oligarchies. We can provide only a short biographical summary here, which we urge you to follow up on the websites of the Schiller Institute and EIR publications.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born on July 1, 1646, in Leipzig, Germany, an area devastated, as was most of divided, feudal Germany, by the Thirty Years' War of 1618-48. His father was a university professor, and young Leibniz read avidly from the age of 7, teaching himself Latin and Greek, and ultimately earning degrees in philosophy and law by the age of 20.

But Leibniz was not headed for the academic life. His passion was to establish a new political order, based upon institutions of education, and civic participation, which would provide for the happiness and prosperity of the nations of the world. He was a self-proclaimed antagonist of the British empiricists Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, believing instead in the ability of mankind to organize society for increasing perfection. His outlook is reflected, in part, in his chosen epitaph: "Provided that something of importance is achieved, I am indifferent whether it is done in Germany or in France, for I seek the good of mankind. I am neither a phil-Hellene nor a philo-Roman, but a philanthropos." Or, as he described his social philosophy at other times: "Justice is ... that which is useful to the community, and the public good is the supreme law—a community, however, let it be recalled, not of a few, not of a particular nation, but of all those who are part of the City of God and, so to speak, of the state of the universe."

Leibniz's first "job," as it were, was as an adviser to Baron Johann Christian von Boineburg, the Elector of Mainz. He went there after leaving school, and devoted himself to foreign policy and statecraft. It was there, for example, that he wrote the two memoranda on economy, "Society and Economy," and "On the Establishment of a Society in Germany for the Promotion of the Arts and Sciences," which the LaRouche movement has widely publicized, for their concept of political economy (see The Political Economy of the American Revolution). He also wrote a memorandum/proposal to the French court, putting forward the idea of an Egyptian expedition as an alternative to King Louis XIV's threatened war against Holland.

In 1672, Boineburg sent the young Leibniz to Paris, on a diplomatic mission to promote this peace-making proposal. While Leibniz was not successful in that regard, his visit there brought him into contact with the circles of scientists set by King Louis' celebrated Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, who had established the Paris Academy of Sciences, and was promoting the very kind of scientific and technological nation-building which Leibniz already had in mind.

In 1673, as part of his mission for the Mainz Elector, Leibniz travelled to London, where he shared his breakthroughs in mathematics and physics, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.

In 1675-76, Leibniz left Paris for the court in Hanover, which served as his base of operations for the rest of his life. From that court, he travelled throughout Germany, as well as to Italy and Austria, and undertook historical, language, and other scientific studies, as well as working on diplomatic projects, such as the possible unification of the Lutheran and Roman Catholic churches (he was a Lutheran), and the creation of other academic societies.
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LaRouche Targets the DLC "Protection Racket" for Cheney
by Jeffrey Steinberg and Edward Spannaus

The burning questions in Washington and in world capitols today are: Why hasn't Vice President Dick Cheney, the leading chicken-hawk behind the suicidal perpetual-war push of the Bush Administration, been forced to resign yet—even after he has been implicated in the use of known forged documents to manipulate Presidential and Congressional support for the Iraq War?

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Candidate LaRouche Abroad:
How future policy is being made,
by EIR Staff
In U.S. Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche's intensive week of public and private meetings and media interviews in Turkey June 13-18; the reflection of that visit in an interview with LaRouche on the Mideast in Egypt's government paper Al-Ahram June 24; and the returning candidate's full schedule of U.S. media interviews leading into his July 2 Washington webcast,

LaRouche Istanbul Keynote
'Eurasia: New Key for Global Development and Peace'
One highlight of Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche's June 13-17 visit to Turkey was the conference, 'Eurasia: New Key for Global Development and Peace,' co- sponsored by Yarin monthly and the Cultural Affairs Department of the Istanbul Municipality.

LaRouche in Ankara
How a Concert of Sovereign Nations Can End the Global Economic Collapse

Lyndon LaRouche gave a major economics address to the Chamber of Commerce of Turkey's capital, Ankara, on June 16. The subject was the world financial-economic crisis, and Turkey's situation within it, as well as LaRouche's personal role as Presidential candidate and leader, in solving that crisis.

Miniaturk: Tour Through History, in the Small
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

During his June visit to Turkey, Lyndon LaRouche had such a packed schedule, that visits to the usual tourist sites, were impossible. All the more fortunate, therefore, that the Demoincluding the Kalender boat built by the Turkish Maritime cratic Presidential candidate had the chance to visit Miniaturk, a brand-new park in Istanbul, which presents most of the great buildings and monuments of Turkey.

Economics:

Hemispheric Policy Debated: FTAA or LaRouche Doctrine?
by Silvia Palacios and Lorenzo Carrasco

Intense Brazilian diplomacy centered around South American integration—including the building of a strategic Brazil-Argentine alliance and a trilateral alliance of Brazil-India-South Africa, with the possibility of extending that to other nations such as China and Russia—is leading to a continental reformulation of hemispheric policy.

Euro Council Votes Up Italy's 'New Deal Plan
by Claudio Celani

The European Council, comprised of the European Union's heads of state and government, has given Italy the go-ahead for its proposal to implement a 'European New Deal' infrastructure investment plan. Starting July 1, Italy will take the rotating presidency of the European Union for six months, and will work to have the plan fully in place by the end of the semester.

International:

Vajpayee's Historic Trip Strengthens India-China Ties
by Ramtanu Maitra
The historic six-day (June 22-27) visit to China by Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee took place at an extremely crucial time. The long-term outcome of the trip will emerge over the weeks and months. What is certain, however, is that both Beijing and New Delhi considered the visit as more than strengthening the bilateral relations, but an opportunity to take measure of the grave world situation in a new and hostile environment.

Volatile post war Iraq -- Interview with Toby Dodge
by Mark Burdman

EIR had the opportunity to interview Dr. Toby Dodge, Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization, at the University of Warwick. Dodge is one of Britain's leading experts on Iraq. In the period leading up to the Iraq War, he made a number of trenchant critiques of the political and diplomatic behavior of the American and British governments respecting the Iraq crisis.

Akiva Eldar Stresses: Third Party Help Is Vital to Mideast Peace
by Carl Osgood
Akiva Eldar, senior political correspondent for Israel's leading daily Ha'aretz, warned a Washington forum that President George Bush has to keep the pressure on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to stick the to Road Map for peace, because as long as Sharon has cabinet ministers like like Avigdor Lieberman and Effi Eitam—whose sole agenda is to effect the forcible transfer of the Palestinians out of the West Bank and Gaza—there will be no peace.

Will Sharon Be Stopped From Wrecking Road Map?
by Dean Andromidas

Israel's special operations assassination of Hamas leader Abdullah Qawasme in Hebron came only hours before U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's June 21 address to the Middle East conference of the World Economic Forum in Jordan. Needless to say, the atmosphere it created was as if the Israeli special operation team had burst into the conference hall itself.

Chicken-Hawks Squawk For Iran 'Liberation'
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

Although reports confirm the analysis of Lyndon LaRouche, that the Iraq War would turn into a 'Vietnam in the Desert,' nonetheless, the same crew of chicken-hawks in Washington, which launched the march on Baghdad, are now calling for the 'liberation' of Iran.

Bush Left with Little Choice on Pakistan
by Ramtanu Maitra

President Bush's welcoming gesture to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf at Camp David on June 24, made it evident that he would like to strengthen the Pakistani President's hand, particularly in light of the rise of anti-U.S. and anti-Musharraf forces within Pakistan.

National:

'DeLantos' Democrats Attack Bush's Road Map
by Michele Steinberg

Despite an all-out war on George W. Bush's Road Map Likudnik and other ultra-right fascist parties of Israel, Chris-policy by the neo-conservative cabal of Vice President Dick Cheney, tian Zionist crazies, and their open allied House Democratic leadership, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice is due to arrive in Israel on June 26 to push the Road Map's implementation.

Is Ashcroft Protecting Iranian Terrorists?
by Nancy Spannaus
Evidence made available to EIR indicates that it is time to investigate Attorney General John Ashcroft for ties to the Iranian terrorist group, the Mujaheddin e-Khalq Organization (MEK). While Muslim groups around the United States are having their bank accounts seized, members arrested, and otherwise being harassed by the Justice Department on the basis of rumors or innuendo, the MEK, an organization which has been on the State Department's Foreign Terrorist Organizations list since 1997, is being permitted to operate openly, down the street from the White House!

Reviews:

Another Skeleton in Dick Cheney's Closet
by Stuart Rosenblatt

Metal Men: How Marc Rich Defrauded the Country, Evaded the Law, and Became the World's Most Sought-After Corporate Criminal, by A. Craig Copetas
In 2001, following the foolish pardon extorted from President Bill Clinton, for gangster Marc Rich, Craig Copetas reissued his 1985 expose´ of Rich. Despite the fact that much of the material is nearly 20 years old, the book provides a useful look at a man whose rise to power coincides with the economic collapse of the nation and the transformation of the Democratic Party into a pawn of Sen. Joe Lieberman's Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) fascists—the group linked to Rich and his business partner Michael Steinhardt.

Toffler's 'War and Anti-War'
Popularizer of Rumsfeld Information-Age Killing
by Carl Osgood
If Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington, with his Clash of Civilizations thesis, is the geopolitician for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's military transformation, and if Director of Net Assessment Andrew Marshall is the technological guru, then all the language and buzz phrases were provided by futurist Alvin Toffler and his wife, Heidi, with their ideas of 'Future Shock' and the 'Third Wave.'

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