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Published: Tuesday, Mar. 23, 2004
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Seventy-two hours after Synarchist terrorists launched a new "strategy of tension" with a string of deadly bombings of commuter trains in Madrid, Spanish voters turned out in unprecedented numbers, on March 14, to bring down the right-wing Popular Party government of Prime Minister José Aznar (Aznar was not seeking re-election, but had hand-picked his successor). The defeat of the Popular Party also represents a crushing defeat for the George Bush/Dick Cheney Administration in Washington, for British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and, most of all, for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconiwho all participated in the so-called "coalition of the willing" to invade and occupy Iraq.
Evidence has now surfaced that, in the 48-hour period following the Madrid bombings, the Aznar cabinet devised two options, "Plan A" and "Plan B," for what amounted to a coup d'état. "Plan A" involved a declaration of martial law, and the suspension of the elections for the duration of the terror crisis. "Plan B" involved a several-month delay in the elections.
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Both options were presented to the Spanish King Juan Carlos, and he rejected them both, according to Spanish news accounts. Spanish television blacked out the mass demonstrations against the Aznar government, that took place all over Spain on March 13. By that point, the Popular Party knew that they would be swept out of office the next day.
Once before, in 1981, King Juan Carlos had rejected a right-wing coup attempt, this one involving a group of Spanish generals and young officers linked to the old Franco Fascist apparatus.
Prior to the March 2003 Iraq war, Spanish citizens had participated in mass demonstrations against the conflict, with an estimated 85% of all Spaniards strongly opposing the action. Nevertheless, on the eve of the election, polls showed the Popular Party ahead of the opposition Socialist Party by a narrow margin. On election day, with an 82% voter turnout, including a record-setting turnout by young voters, the Socialists won over 43% of the vote, driving Aznar's party out of power.
Lyndon LaRouche identified the Spanish vote as a "fundamental shift in geometry" in all of Europe. "This is not something that can be reversed. Berlusconi is in big trouble, along with Blair and Bush," LaRouche said.
Both the policies of Aznarparticularly his participation as junior partner in the Bush-Blair imperial war schemesand the Madrid bombing itself, represented a clear signal that the same Synarchist bankers who put Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and Francisco Franco in power in the 1920s and '30s, during a previous period of global financial collapse, intend once again to install fascist regimes, to impose slave labor austerity and bail out the financial oligarchythrough wars and genocide.
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LAROUCHE WARNS PRESIDENT BUSH ON SPANISH BOMBINGS: 'DON'T MAKE A CRAZY FUROR, GET THE INTELLIGENCE'
March 11Democratic Party Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche issued the following statement today, after being briefed on the series of bombings in Madrid this morning, which, so far, have claimed 186 lives.
LAROUCHE INTERVIEWED ON WRPI RADIO, TROY, NEW YORK
Lyndon LaRouche was interviewed on WRPI radio, in Troy, New York, March 10. He was interviewed on the program "Piecing the Puzzle." WRPI is located on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, one of the top engineering schools in the country.
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Four hundred and twenty years ago, on March 25, 1584, Queen Elizabeth I granted a charter to Walter Raleigh, authorizing him to set up an English colony in lands not under the dominion of any Christian prince on friendly terms with England. Nothing was said about the exact location of the colony, but British expeditions had been exploring the area from Spanish and French Florida up to Newfoundland for a number of decades. Elizabeth's grandfather Henry VII had agreed to sponsor the westward voyages of Christopher Columbus, but when the explorer's brother returned from England with the happy news, Columbus had already begun his first voyage under the sponsorship of Spain. So England began its own series of explorations, and by the time of Elizabeth, many of the navigators of those voyages were concentrated in the West Country of England.
Walter Raleigh grew up in the west of England, and many of his relatives were part of the exploring group. Sir Francis Drake was his cousin, and Humphrey Gilbert was his half-brother. In 1578, Raleigh had helped Gilbert plan an expedition to colonize Newfoundland, under the same kind of charter which Raleigh himself would later receive. The expedition was large and well planned, but after it reached Newfoundland, dissension began. After a fight with the Spaniards, Gilbert himself ordered the ships back to England, to try again at a more favorable time.
Spanish explorers had also been mapping the coast of North America, and in 1565, they massacred the French Protestant colony in Florida and moved up to explore the coast as far as Chesapeake Bay. Their Jesuit mission on the Rappahannock River, however, was wiped out by the Indians. Reprisals by the Spaniards against the Indians followed swiftly, but the Spaniards did not found a new mission. Thus, there were, at the time of Raleigh's expeditions, no colonies of other European nations on the east coast of North America.
The intense rivalry between European powers over colonizing America was a mirror of the devastating religious wars which were raging in Europe, and were only brought to an end by the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia. To most observers of the time, the causes were national rivalries or strong religious differences. But above these proximate causes, and "pulling their strings," was a reaction by the former feudal powers against the ideas of the Golden Renaissance, which recognized that man, created in the image of God, must not be treated as a beast. It was the Renaissance ideas which finally succeeded in shaping the colonization and eventual sovereign development of the United States.
Once Raleigh had obtained his charter, he was not one to tarry, and he had a preliminary expedition on the way to America by April 27 of the same year. Although he yearned to accompany it, the Queen insisted that he remain at court. Raleigh's two ships were commanded by Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlow, and it was Barlow who wrote an account of the expedition. On July 4, they sighted the southern part of the east coast, and "sailed along the same a hundred and twenty English miles, before we could find any entrance, or river issuing into the sea." They finally reached the Barrier Islands of the future North Carolina, where they landed and planted the Arms of England.
Barlow and his associates were much impressed with the fertility of the islands, and viewed them almost as a Garden of Eden. "We viewed the land about us, being, whereat we first landed, very sandy and low towards the water side, but so full of grapes, as the very beating and surge of the sea overflowed them of which we found such plenty, as well there as in all places else, both on the sand and on the green soil, on the hills, as in the plains, as well on every little shrub, as also climbing towards the tops of high cedars, that I think in all the world the like abundance is not to be found, and myself having seen those parts of Europe that most abound, find such difference as were incredible to be written."
The Indians appeared after two days and were very hospitable. When the expedition returned to England, it left two Englishmen there as hostages for the safe return of two Indians, Manteo, and Wanchese, who were to see London, and, it was hoped, learn the English language so that the explorers could learn their Indian language. Barlow had reported that "We found the people most gentle, loving and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as live after the manner of the golden age." However, there is evidence, which Barlow failed to report, that perhaps these Indians were not quite as pacific as Barlow represented them to be. For example, one of the tribal chiefs was recovering from a war wound, and that the most appreciated gift to another chief was a round metal object that he could use as a breastplate to defend himself against the arrows of opposing tribes.
When the two ships returned, Queen Elizabeth knighted Raleigh, and the colony was named "Virginia" in honor of the Virgin Queen. Raleigh recruited families and planned for a city to be built in the colony. In 1585, the colonists were landed on Roanoke Island, but instead of concentrating on establishing a firm base, they spent much of their time in exploration and managed to alienate the Indians.
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Feature:
Let's Have a Second American Revolution!
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Here is the speech by Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche to the Schiller Institute/International Caucus of Labor Committees conference in Reston, Virginia, on Feb. 15, 2004. Lyndon LaRouche's speech from the previous day was published in EIR on Feb. 27.
Investigation:
Strategy of Tension: The Case of Italy...
by Claudio Celani
The day of the Madrid bombings, March 11, Lyndon LaRouche issued a statement discarding the idea that the terrorist attacks had been carried out either by the Basque terrorist group ETA or by 'Islamic terrorism,' and commented that the modality of the Madrid atrocity reminded him of the 1980 Bologna train station bombing and, in general, of the terrorist 'strategy of tension' in Italy in the early seventies. In the following days, several experts interviewed by EIR, as well as some newspaper commentators, independently pointed to the same analogy.
- THE SYNARCHIST DOSSIER
'Strategy of Tension' Bombs Set Off Political Quakes in Europe
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Seventy-two hours after Synarchist terrorists launched a new 'strategy of tension' with a string of deadly bombings of commuter trains in Madrid, Spanish voters turned out in unprecedented numbers, on March 14, to bring down the rightwing Popular Party government of Prime Minister Jose´ Aznar.
- Documentation
LaRouche in August 2003 Warned of 'Hispanic 9/11'
Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche's memo of Aug. 9, 2003 was first published in EIR, Aug. 22, 2003, under the headline, 'When Cheney Spoke of Terrorism: Which Terrorists, Dick?' LaRouche analyzed Vice President Dick Cheney's obvious threat of a 'new Sept. 11' terrorist attack, announced by Cheney on July 24 in a speech to the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, and repeated in several speeches the following week.
- Licio Gelli's 'Comeback' Is Tension Strategy
by Claudio Celani
This analysis of the September 2003 public resurfacing of the notorious Licio Gelli, head of the P-2 Masonic Lodge which was at the center of the right-wing 'Strategy of Tension' of the 1970s and 1980s, was published in EIR, Oct. 17, 2003. It is excerpted here.
The EIR Record on The Nazi International
[These] excerpts were compiled by Counterintelligence Editor Michele Steinberg, from both EIR and its monthly bulletin Investigative Leads, directed to intelligence and law-enforcement experts, which was published from 1979-95.
Blas Piñar's Next Generation of Fascists
by Gretchen Small
There were many who dismissed Lyndon LaRouche's repeated warnings that Spain's leading fascist figure, former Franco official Blas Piñar, and his project to rebuild a fascist international, represented a strategic threat not just to Europe, but to the Americas, and to the United States itself. Pin'ar, EIR was insistently told, is a has-been, a fringe element, a nothing politically within Spain, and even less in the Americas. Those who so argued have been proven very wrong.
Economics:
LAROUCHE'S 30-YEAR ADVERSARY
Felix 'The Fixer' Rohatyn IsThe Modern-Day Hjalmar Schacht
by L. Wolfe
In the dark days of the 1974-75 New York City fiscal crisis, the world financial system, as it does today, stood teetering on the edge of a total collapse. In the three years since George Shultz and Arthur Burns had pushed a reluctant Richard Nixon to pull the plug on the Bretton Woods monetary system, there had been an orgy of speculative looting by Synarchist bankers that had accelerated the process of collapse.
Interview: LaMar Lemmons, III
Detroit: a Deserted Hub Of a Non-Producing Nation
LaMar Lemmons, III is a former Michigan Democratic state representative whose district was in Detroit. He was interviewed on March 12 by Marcia Merry Baker and Richard Freeman.
International:
Terror Alert Follows S. Korea 'Regime Change' EIR Warned Of
by Kathy Wolfe
South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun was suspended from office March 12 in an unprecedented impeachment vote ahead of sharply-contested April 15 elections. Prime Minister Goh Kun became interim president, calling an emergency cabinet meeting. The Constitutional Court must next rule on the legality of the National Assembly vote, but said it will await the people's will on April 15, before acting. EIR warned of this scenario precisely last year...
Rwanda's Kagame Accused Of Causing 1994 Genocide
by Uwe Friesecke
Ten years ago this April, one of the worst human catastrophes of the 20th Century happened, the genocide in Rwanda. Between April and July of 1994, more than 800,000 people were killed in that East African country.
LaRouche on Haiti
Excerpts from an interview with U.S. Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, by WRPI radio in Troy, New York on March 10, 2004.
U.S. Puts Musharraf Between Hammer and Anvil on Afghanistan
by Ramtanu Maitra
The much-heralded U.S-led Spring offensive in Afghanistan, under the code-name Operation Mountain Storm, was launched on March 15. The 13,500-strong U.S troops, storming the mountains in southeastern Afghanistan, have been joined by some 70,000 Pakistani regulars and paramilitary, who moved into the dangerous border terrain of Pakistan where fiercely independent Pushtun tribes live, and allegedly provide shelter to the al-Qaeda and Taliban militia.
New Party Seeks To Re-create Israel's 'Rabin Opposition'
by Dean Andromidas
In an effort to unite the Israeli peace camp and channel the rising ferment against the brutal economic policies of the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, a new Israeli party, Yahad, has been formed.
Right-Left Synarchists Plan 100 Years' War in Ibero-America
by Valerie Rush
The psychologically unbalanced President Hugo Cha´vez of Venezuela devoted his regular Sunday television broadcast on March 7, to a five-hour rant against what he claimed was the Bush Administration's role in trying to overthrow his government. overthrow his government. Referring to U.S. involvement in removing Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from that country's Presidency, Cha´vez warned, 'Venezuela is not Haiti, and I am not Aristide,' and threatened that, should Washington attempt such an intervention in his country, ' the Bolivarian revolution has enough allies on this continent to launch a Hundred Years' War, and not just on Venezuelan territory.' His threat is not an idle one...
National:
Scare Tactics: Ashcroft's Phony 'War on Terrorism'
by Edward Spannaus
Once described as America's 'de facto Minister of Fear,' Attorney General John Ashcroft fit that description in a statement issued on March 4, immediately after the conviction of three defendants in the 'Virginia Jihad' case. Ashcroft declared: 'Today, Americans get a glimpse of what is hiding in the shadows. Terrorists recruit, train, and finance jihad in America.' The truth is that Ashcroft's 'war on terrorism' gives no such glimpse; it is a gigantic dud.
House Finally Forced to Hearing on Halliburton
by Carl Osgood
After months of resistance, the Republican-controlled HouseGovernment Reform Committee was compelled to hold aMarch 11 oversight hearing on contracting in Iraq, focussingon overcharges and price-gouging by Dick Cheney's HalliburtonCorporation. The hearing, in front of an overflow audienceand television cameras, lasted almost four hours.
State Revolt Appears Against Computer Voting
by Art Ticknor
Catalyzed by Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche'scampaign to ban computerized voting, expert studies documentinghowserioussecurity holes in electronic/touch-screenvoting systems could be used to rig elections, and recent evidenceof computer vote fraud, more elected representatives and election officials are opposing it.
LaRouche Tells Youth Mock Convention: Founding Fathers Were No Older Than You
Lyndon LaRouche spoke to 1,000 or more students from the Northwest states of the United States, at the Northwest Model Democratic Nominating Convention in Portland, Oregon on March 11. The convention, a 40-year tradition organized by Portland State University, was addressed only by LaRouche personally among the Democratic Presidential candidates, and by Rep. Dennis Kucinich by telephone.
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