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Israel Bombs Targets Inside Syria

In response to the Saturday, Oct. 5 suicide bombing in Haifa, which killed 19 people, Israel launched bombing raids on camps inside Syrian territory on Sunday, Oct. 6. According to one well-placed Arab source, the Israeli action was taken, after the Quartet (U.S., Russia, European Union and United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan) failed to strongly condemn Israel's continuing targeted assassinations of Palestinians, in their joint statement from New York City.

Need to Know This Week

HITLER & SCHWARZENEGGER AS BEAST-MEN

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. October 4, 2003

Many Californians and others have found it difficult to explain how and why Hollywood geek-act Arnold Schwarzenegger could have become so suddenly a prominent contender in an impromptu race for Governor. They have been caught off guard by Schwarzenegger, because they never really understood how Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. They have overlooked the fact that Schwarzenegger was chosen for politics because he is in real life the unhuman beast-man whose role has been his most lucrative Hollywood screen-role.

They do not understand what fascism really was, and is.

Schwarzenegger was thought of as only the kind of actor whose natural talent was giving Narcissus a bad name, for a co-starring role in real-life sleazy peep-shows, on or off stage. If they liked his movies, it was because they liked the smell that reaks around dirty peep-shows. How did he suddenly get into politics? Schwarzenegger was never really an actor, not a political thinker; he was, like the worst of his film characters, essentially a freak: a "Freddie," a "Jason" from "Friday the Thirteenth."

Hitler, too, was a freak, a bizarre, predatory beast from the pages of Satan-cultist Friedrich Nietzsche. It was his success in training as an actor that Hitler was trained to play the theatrical role through which he campaigned for and became the beast-man dictator of Germany. Schwarzenegger was selected because his training for film-acting had produced a type who fit the essentially satanic, "beast-man" role played by leading fascists such as Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Francisco Franco, and so on. He was another such "Dionysos" from the pages of Friedrich Nietzsche's wild rants. The role Schwarzenegger was selected to perform on the California political stage was a Hollywood "remake" of a kind of evil which modern history has met in leading figures of France's Jacobin Terror, in Napoleon Bonaparte, and in each of the whole pack of leading fascist figures from the 1922-1945 interval.

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"I admired Hitler... because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. And I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for his way of getting to the people and so on..."
—Arnold Schwarzenegger

LaRouche Warns Democratic Party National Leadership: Don't Blow California Recall Victory
On Oct. 1, Lyndon LaRouche, the tenth Democratic Party Presidential candidate, issued a stern warning to the national Democratic Party leadership in Washington: Don't blow the still-winnable California Recall fight, or there will be Hell to pay...

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Surrender of Cornwallis to Washington at Yorktown.
Edward Percy Moran, ca.1890-1910

October 6 - 12, 1781

After more than six years of shooting war—if you count from the encounter at Lexington and Concord—the final battle of the American Revolutionary War was waged in Yorktown, Virginia between Oct. 6 and Oct. 17 of 1781. While Yorktown will not go down in the annals of military history as a great strategic confrontation, it is a significant historical turning point, and should be remembered as such.

Crucial to the victory, of course, was the military, as well as political alliance between Louis XVI's France, and the young American Republic. That alliance had been forged by Benjamin Franklin in 1778, and had finally resulted in the deployment of French forces, especially the crucial Navy, to the American continent. The French fleet played a decisive role in Gen. George Washington's outflanking of the British forces.

Going into 1781, the major British force, under Gen. Henry Clinton, was located in New York City, while a force of approximately 7,500 troops under Gen. Charles Cornwallis, about one-quarter of the number of British troops in America, was in the South. Although Cornwallis had been smashing the American Army in the Carolinas, he eventually was forced by Gen. Nathanael Greene's guerrilla tactics to retreat to the Yorktown Peninsula in Virginia. Cornwallis knew he was "holed up," and looking at disaster, if he did not get reinforcements, and he sent to New York to get them.

But Clinton, thinking that Washington was going to attack New York City (which was Washington's original plan), delayed on sending troops, or the fleet which Cornwallis would need in order to break the blockade by sea, which the French Navy under Admiral de Grasse had imposed, by defeating the British Southern fleet under Admiral Graves, at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. In effect, that decision doomed Cornwallis, and the British overall effort.

General George Washington personally was commanding ground forces deployed around Yorktown, flanked by the French General Rochambeau, and his two top aides Alexander Hamilton and the Marquis de Lafayette. The joint American-French force amounted to approximately 16,000 men, as against Cornwallis's 7,500. Washington began a siege on Oct. 6, and actual bombardment of the British defenses on Oct. 9. On Oct. 14, Hamilton and Lafayette led the taking of two British redoubts (defensive barriers), and, as Washington expressed it, the battle was decided.

General Cornwallis made a list minute effort to prepare to evacuate across the York River, but a storm made the highly risky attempt, out of the question. On Oct. 17, Cornwallis received a note from Washington calling for an end to the "useless effusion of blood" (Washington was no Rambo), and decided to surrender his entire force to the Americans.

The official surrender occurred on Oct. 19. Because Cornwallis decided to stay in his tent, under the cover of illness, the final submission was made by his second in command, to General Washington's second in command, Gen. Benjamin Lincoln.

When the news of the surrender arrived in London, it hit the war party like a ton of bricks. The government of Lord North fell, and the British began to move toward serious peace negotiations with the Americans, which culminated in the Treaty of Paris in 1783, and put the United States of America on the world map, as the world's premier republic, and victor against the British Empire.

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Feature:

Shakespeare As a Scholar: U.S. Politics As Tragedy
By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

``My subject ... is politics
for a time of crisis; the real, no longer postponeable political issues facing our nation's approach to the 2004 general election today. That subject is one which could never be understood competently, except from the vantage-point of a deep insight into the essential role of Classical art in the education of the modern statesman. The contemporary, even urgent relevance of these references to Shakespeare, will be emphasized in the course of ... this report.'

Herbart and Riemann on the Mind: Overcoming Your Fears by Increasing Your Geistesmassen
A speech by Helga Zepp-LaRouche to the ICLC/Schiller Institute Labor Day conference in Reston, Virginia on Aug. 31.
This presentation was given as a keynote to the ICLC/Schiller Institute Labor Day annual conference, on Aug. 31, 2003. Mrs. LaRouche was introduced by Schiller Institute Vice- President and civil rights heroine Mrs. Amelia Boynton Robinson.


Economics:

'Vulture Funds' Descend On Dying Third World Economies
by Dennis Small

Argentine Finance Minister Roberto Lavagna used the high-profile forum of the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to unveil on Sept. 22 Argentina's long-awaited proposal to restructure some $94.3 billion in public debt, on which the government had defaulted in December 2001. Lavagna's proposed 'solution' to the world's longest-running and biggest public debt default, was to write off 75% of the debt's face value, and service the remaining 25% somewhere down the line.

`There Is New Pressure To Develop the Mekong'
An interview with Joern Kristensen.

Joern Kristensen is the Chief Executive of the Mekong River Commission (MRC). The Commission was created in 1995 by the governments of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand to deal with matters of the economic and related development of the Mekong River Basin. A delegation from the MRC arrives in the United States in October to study the management of the Mississippi River. Mr. Kristensen was interviewed by phone from Pnomh Penh by Michael and Gail Billington and Marcia Baker on Aug. 25.

`Dam-Buster'-Ideologue Hosts May Ruin Mekong River Commission Visit to U.S.
by Marcia Merry Baker

"... We were founded in 1973 to increase the number of rivers protected by the national Wild and Scenic Rivers System and to prevent the construction of large new dams on our last wild rivers. Today, in addition. . .we focus on dam removal and reform.' Andrew Fahlund, Senior Director, Dams Program, of American Rivers, lists his favorite river movie as 'Dambusters, a British film from the 1950s about a World War II bomber squadron that blows up dams on the Rhone River.'

How Will Europe Fill Its Huge Energy Gap in the 21st Century?
The latest power blackouts have made it manifest, that by 2020, more than 200 Gigawatts of electricity capacity must be replaced in the European Union countries, simply due to the aging of existing power facilities; other demands, for growth, make the ``energy gap'' nearly as large as the entire power grid of the United States.


International:

LaRouche Gives `Wake-Up Call' to Moscow Conference on China
by Karl-Michael Vitt

On September 23-25, 2003, the 14th Conference on 'China, Chinese Civilization and the World: Past, Present and Future,' took place in Moscow. The main subject of this year's conference was: 'China in the 21st Century—Chances and Challenges of Globalization.' Among the organizers were the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Academic Council for Comprehensive Studies of Contemporary China, the Institute of Far Eastern Studies, and the Russian Association of Sinologists. The conference was dedicated to 87-year-old Academician S.L. Tikhvinsky, one of the leading Sinologists of Russia during the past decades.

Mahathir, at UN, Calls For New Bretton Woods
by Mike Billington
Speaking at the UN General Assembly on Sept. 25, Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad went beyond complaints about the exploitation of the poor nations by the rich, and pointed to the crisis in the world financial system as a whole. ... The elder world statesman from Malaysia had begun to point to a new Bretton Woods monetary reform.

Is Europe Sincere?
A commentary by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Written for the October issue of the Turkish magazine of political economy, Yarin.
"...On the surface of things, Europe appears to be dropping its earlier reluctance to accept Turkey's entry into the European Common Market on conditions acceptable to Turkey. For good reasons, Turkey must wonder: is this real, this time?"

Mexico: Targetting of Cardinal Sandoval Triggers Religious Warfare Potential
by Gretchen Small

The Synarchist strategy to set off a new religious war in Mexico exploded upon the country's political scene at September's close. Once again, Mexico is being polarized on religious grounds, as it was in the 19th Century, and again in the late 1920s Cristero War, each time with devastating consequences.

Iran's Nuclear Energy: A Cheney Casus Belli?
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
'First Iraq; then come Syria and Iran.' So runs the agenda of numerous neo-conservative think-tanks in the United States, planning the radical redrawing of the map in the entire region of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf. Whether it be Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute, or a wildeyed ideologue at the Hudson Institute, among the many 'rogue nations' in the world that make up so many 'axes of evil,' the Islamic Republic of Iran is high on the list.

An Iranian View of the Nuclear Controversy
by V.B.
"The discussion between the IAEA and Iran, under pressure from the United States and Israel, reminds me of the movement in Iran for the nationalizaiton of oil..."


National:

LaRouche-Led Assault On Cheney Is Drawing Blood
by Jeffrey Steinberg
On Sept. 20, 2002, Lyndon LaRouche, the tenth candidate for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination, issued campaign statement, calling on Vice President Dick Cheney to resign from office... LaRouche has kept up the focussed exposures of the Vice President's role, as the chief architect of the disastrous Iraq war, and the intelligence fakery that led a too-gullible Congress to give the White House carte blanche to prosecute, what Cheney and his neoconservative cohorts view as a 'perpetual war'...

  • Documentation LaRouche's Record:
    Why Cheney Must Be Removed
    by EIR Staff

    For more than a year Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche has identified Vice-President Dick Cheney as the crucial character within the Bush Administration who has, 1) been pursuing his own long-term strategy of turning the United States into a new Roman Empire, and 2) been exercising Svengali-like power over President George W. Bush in order to achieve his ends....

Who Is Renting Howard Dean?
by Anton Chaitkin and Scott Thompson

Multi-billionaire speculator George Soros held a $1,000 person private fundraiser for Howard Dean's Presidential campaign over the Sept. 27-28 weekend at Soros's mansion in Katonah, New York. After years of impoverishing Russia and Eastern European economies, looting raw materials, preying on currencies in the name of 'philanthropy,' Soros is now moving millions of dollars into the U.S. Democratic Party.

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