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I deliver a specific warning, somewhat beyond the scope of the specific kind of assessments already circulating from among my own associates, and others, from around the world.
The signs are piling up virtually by the day, that the collapse of the Parmalat bubble may not be a relatively minor, Enron-style debacle, but a larger version of that type crisis, the Long Term Capital Management (a.k.a. LTC or LTCM) hedge fund, which already shook the foundations and rafters of the world monetary-financial system, during August-September 1998. That 1998 crisis already put the U.S. Federal Reserve System itself on the torture rack, during September 23-29 that year. The leading evidence today is, that what is happening now, as echoed by the explosive Parmalat case, is, most probably, the surfacing of a much greater, more deadly form of the same crisis which shook the foundations and rafters during 1998, a resurfacing of the same global crisis as LTCM, but now burst through to the surface on a much bigger scale, and far less controllable than 1998. There are strong, evidentiary reasons for following through with leading emphasis on an investigation along the lines of that highly probable hypothesis.
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Leading Arabic Weekly Covers LaRouche vs. Cheney
Al-Bayader, the leading Arabic political weekly magazine in East Jerusalem, published a lengthy article Dec. 20, detailing Lyndon LaRouche's continuing campaign to oust Vice President Dick Cheney and his gang of neo-conservatives.
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Americans have heard a lot of justifications for war over the past year, not to mention the last decades. In the end, it turned out that each of the wars since World War II, were not being fought for the noble purposes advertised, but rather, on behalf of a concept of utopian world rule, or imperialism, which led the United States, more or less, to disaster. In Korea, we still have troops there after 50 years. In Vietnam, we lost an immoral war. In Panama and Iraq I, we laid waste to two countries in order to "teach a lesson," thereby producing a lot of death and destruction in the countries involved. In Iraq II, the fraud of the so-called justification for the war is abundantly clear, both in terms of the lack of threat represented by the Saddam Hussein regime, and in terms of the clear imperial objectives of the U.S. preemptive war policy.
In this light, it is of value to go back a little more than 60 years, to President Franklin Roosevelt's Eighth Annual Address to the U.S. Congress, which occurred on Jan. 6, 1941. This speech has been dubbed the "Four Freedoms" speech, because here FDR outlines a broad outline of the objectives of U.S. foreign policy, even as he put the nation on a military-industrial mobilization to aid in preventing a global victory by the Nazis and Japan. The objectives FDR laid out remain valid today, and contrast mightilyespecially in practicewith those the current Administration seeks to implement today.
Consider the strategic situation in January 1941. Nazi Germany, by that time, had occupied a large portion of Europe: Poland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, and Belgium, to give a partial list. France had come under a government friendly to the Hitler, which came to an armistice, under pressure of German arms, and Britain was coming under Nazi bombardment. Italy, under Mussolini, was Hitler's ally. In the Pacific, the fascist Japanese government was at war with China and had occupied Vietnam.
To say that the United States as a democracy, was threatened by the military advance of fascist states, was clearly no exaggeration.
In this context, FDR came to an understanding with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, over the need for the two nations to collaborate against what would otherwise easily become a New World Order, under a Nazi-Synarchist dictatorship. And the President began to prepare the United States population for the need to join the war against the fascist military threat. It is in this context that he gave his "Four Freedoms" speech, which dealt with the domestic and foreign policy outlook of his Administration, and put forward the following perspective in its conclusion:
"The nation takes great satisfaction and much strength from the things which have been done to make its people conscious of their individual stake in the preservation of democratic life in America. Those things have toughened the fiber of our people, have renewed their faith and strengthen their devotion to the institutions we make ready to protect.
"Certainly this is no time for any of us to stop thinking about the social and economic problems which are the root cause of the social revolution which is today a supreme factor in the world.
"For there is nothing mysterious about the foundations of a healthy and strong democracy. The basic things expected by our people of their political and economic systems are simple. They are:
"Equality of opportunity for youth and for others.
"Jobs for those who can work.
"Security for those who need it.
"The ending of special privilege for the few.
"The preservation of civil liberties for all.
"The enjoyment of the fruits of scientific progress in a wider and constantly rising standard of living.
"These are the simple, basic things that must never be lost sight of in the turmoil and unbelievable complexity of our modern world. The inner and abiding strength of our economic and political systems is dependent upon the degree to which they fulfill these expectations.
"Many subjects connected with our social economy call for immediate improvement.
"As examples:
"We should bring more citizens under the coverage of old-age pensions and unemployment insurance.
"We should widen the opportunities for adequate medical care.
"We should plan a better system by which persons deserving or needing gainful employment may obtain it.
"I have called for personal sacrifice. I am assured of the willingness of almost all Americans to respond to that call....
"In the future day, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
"The first is freedom of speech and expressioneverywhere in the world.
"The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own wayeverywhere in the world.
"The third is freedom from wantwhich, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peace-time life for its inhabitantseverywhere in the world.
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Investigation:
The 'Maritornes': A Tavern of Fascist Prostitutes
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The implications of the recent Maritornes incident1 should impel us to refine and upgrade the indispensable practice of our association's counterintelligence functions, functions on which our continued existence as an association, and other important things, may depend in significant degree at this time.
- 'Maritornes' Synarchists Lash Out at LaRouche
by Gretchen Small
U.S. Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche's August 2003 exposure of the international terrorist threat represented by the efforts of former Franco official Blas Piñar of Spain, and others, to revive a new fascist international, has drawn blood.
- 'Maritornes' Whorish Defense of Rancid Feudalism
by Gretchen Small
Reprinted from EIR, Aug. 22, 2003.
In November 2001, key ideologues of the project to create a new fascist international between Europe and South America launched a new magazine as a vehicle to promote their project to reestablish the feudal empire of the Hapsburgs. The magazine, Maritornes: Notebooks of Hispanidad, is published in Argentina twice-yearly by the Nueva Hispanidad Publishing House.
- Answer to Mrs. Small on The Whore Maritornes
by Víctor Eduardo Ordóñez
This letter has been translated from Spanish by EIR.
December 10, 2003
"Mrs. Small has written a note in the publication of the Schiller Foundation [sic] regarding the magazine Maritornes, whose first issue I had the satisfaction and responsibility of composing, in large part, and directing..."
- A Christmas Gift for Víctor Eduardo Ordóñez
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
December 25, 2003
"Ostensibly on December 10th of this year, during the time the the birth of Jesus Christ was soon to be celebrated, Don Víctor Eduardo Ordóñez of Argentina sent a message which was implicitly intended to be directed to my attention. Perhaps it was his way of demanding a gift, as school children in North America often write letters to Santa Claus at about that time of the year. Since this is Christmas Day, I shall honor this day's occasion by sending him the gift he deserves, this reply..."
Economics:
To Defend Argentina's 'Heart And Soul,' Go With LaRouche!
by Cynthia R.Rush
Argentina's already tense relations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) exploded into a public brawl in December, captured in media headlines internationally. The Fund provoked the confrontation when it cancelled the three-month performance review of the agreement signed with Argentina last September.
International:
Sharon's 'Peace' Speech Raises Threat of War Against Syria
by Jeffrey Steinberg
On Dec. 18, 2003, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon delivered a major policy address at the annual Herzliya Conference of the Institute for Policy and Strategy, in which he announced that Israel would soon take unilateral action, permanently to annex a major portion of the West Bank.
Putin Echoes Economic Ideas of Rodina Bloc
by Rachel Douglas
The taxation of 'natural rent,' Russian economist and Rodina (Homeland) bloc leader Sergei Glazyev said in a Dec. 18 interview with Izvestia, 'has become a point in common, which practically all the parties support.'
Neo-Cons Ignore Korean War Lessons, Risk New One
by Kathy Wolfe
The Six-Power Talks on North Korea's nuclear program have been hanging fire for all of December, after extremist Vice President Dick Cheney intervened on Dec. 12 to reject a Chinese compromise plan for the talks, previously set for Dec. 17-18 among the United States, Russia, China, Japan, and the two Koreas.
Pakistan's Musharraf Is Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
by Ramtanu Maitra
At year's end, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf survived two assassination attemptsa harbinger of more to come, as he attempts to straddle the irreconcilable contradictions imposed upon him by U.S. demands in the 'war on terrorism.'
Sharon's U.S. Friends Try To Rescue Him
by Dean Andromidas
As indictments for fraud and bribe-taking are expected to be leveled against him, the U.S. supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon have come to save his neck. Harvard law professor and darling of the Anti-Defamation League, Alan Dershowitz, has been deployed personally to lead a desperate attempt to get Sharon off the hook.
A Trail of Two Beasts
From the forthcoming LaRouche in 2004 campaign pamphlet, Children of Satan II: The Beast-Men.
Jeffrey Steinberg reports.
It is no secret among Washington insiders, that there are two people who constantly intimidate, and, occasionally, infuriate President George W. Bush: These are Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Vice President Dick Cheney. Sharon and Cheney, while differing in personality, share the same 'Beast- man' temperament and tyrannical thirst for power.
Bad Omens for Cheney
by Edward Spannaus
In a development which is dramatically bad news for Dick Cheney, Attorney General John Ashcroft disqualified himself from any role in the Justice Department's investigation into the illegal disclosure of the identity ofCIA undercover officer Valerie Plame.
An American 'Hollow Military'? Blame Cheney
by Carl Osgood
The idea that the Bush-Cheney ticket was going to rescue the U.S. military from the paucity of eight years of the Clinton- Gore Administration, became a rallying cry for conservative Republicans in the 2000 campaign, and even gained the ticket the endorsement of a group of retired generals. However, a quick review of the historical record shows that President Clinton largely continued a policy that had been set into motion by the administration that preceded his, a policy which Cheney himself played a key role in establishing and implementing.
Culture and History:
'THE BIG KNIFE'
Hollywood's Classical Drama!
Robert Beltran Revives Odets
by Harley Schlanger
Theater-goers in Los Angeles during November and December had the privilege of seeing a live demonstration of one of the leading principles emphasized in numerous recent discussions by Lyndon LaRouche: that of the power of an effective presentation of a Classically-composed tragedy, to move an audience. Well-known stage, screen, and television actor Robert Beltran produced an excellent presentation of Clifford Odets' 1948 drama, The Big Knife in which Odets provided a penetrating insight into the socially corrupting effects of the onset of 'Trumanism' in America.
- Interview: Robert Beltran:
Approaching Classical Tragedy in American Life
'The LaRouche Show' Internet audio broadcast for Dec. 20, 2003, featured a discussion with actor, director, and Lyndon LaRouche's collaborator Robert Beltran, after the end of the run of his production of Clifford Odets' The Big Knife in Los Angeles. The dialogue on 'Trumanism and Tragedy' was moderated by Harley Schlanger, Western states spokesman for LaRouche and his Presidential campaign; and included questions and discussion from LaRouche Youth Movement organizers Freddy Coronel and Vicky Overingcurrently also students in Beltran's Classical drama workshopand others listening by phone and Internet around the country.
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