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Published: Tuesday, Apr. 20, 2004
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April 17, 2004
The very future existence of the U.S.A., and much more besides, are being put in terrible peril by current economic and military policies of both the U.S. Bush Administration and the matching, negligent follies of Senator Kerry's presently ill-advised campaign.
While the Bush Administration's policies do differ, presently, in the relatively tertiary matters of detail, both campaigns currently share axiomatically identical policy-shaping assumptions for
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practice, respecting both a.) the economy and b.) the currently escalating asymmetric warfare in Iraq and Palestine. However they may differ respecting the proposed rearrangement of the deck-chairs of our Titanic U.S.A., both refuse to say or do anything which is even merely worthwhile, or even urgent, about the fact that, under the currently proposed policies of either, the ship of our state will surely sink.
Only if Kerry were to continue his recent, pathetic "me, too" campaign postures in these areas, were Bush's reelection by any honest means a likely prospect at this present time. In Kerry's apparent efforts to placate the menacing Bush Administration, and to please prospective financier interests seen as funders of his campaign, his proclivity for shilly-shally tokenism is alienating, even angering large portions of those citizens, the "proverbial forgotten man and woman," on which a Democratic victory in November would depend. The victory is, for the moment, for Kerry to lose; at the present rate he is doing much to bring that loss about.
Whether President Bush had been actually elected, or merely injected into that office, remains obscured by the January 2001 act of anti-constitutional ejaculatio praecox by that U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, a man whose proclivities on constitutional law are often more echoes of the Confederacy's than the U.S. Constitution. We have, nonetheless adopted Mr. Bush as President, perhaps out of compassion, by some, for the fact that, since the "Keystone Cops" have gone out of business long ago, poor Mr. Bush may not be qualified for entry to any other presently available place of employment than as a dummy performing in a White House, where his performance is managed by his ventriloquist, Vice President Cheney.
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LaRouche To Russian Academy, Youth: Give Humanity A Future
U.S. Democratic Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, famous in Russia as economist, strategist, philosopher and—in the words of one recent press release written by his Moscow friends—"the conscience of America," was the lead-off speaker at the "Science and Our Future: Ideas To Change the World" conference, which took place April 14-16 in Moscow.
LaRouche in Moscow Press 'The U.S. Economy Has Become a Scandal'
The Moscow financial monthly Valyutny Spekulyant (Currency Dealer) came out April 12 with a new interview of Lyndon LaRouche, headlined "The U.S. Economy As a Whole Has Become a Scandal."
'A Very Special Quality of the Mexican Patriot': LaRouche on Monterrey TV
Monterrey's Multimedios TV on April 11 broadcast an interview of Lyndon LaRouche, by Architect Hector Benavides. ... during the candidate's three-day visit ... in which he spoke to the Monterrey Technological Institute, youth audiences, and other supporters.
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It was April 19, 1775, when the American revolutionaries fired the "shot heard 'round the world" at Lexington and Concord in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, thus starting off the process of military rebellion against the British Empire. But, as historian Graham Lowry and the LaRouche movement generally have emphasized, it is totally wrong to consider this the start of the American move for independence. That began at least 86 years earlier, on another April 19, in 1689, with the so-called Andros Rebellion.
As the name "Commonwealth of Massachusetts" implies, the founders of New England set out from the start to create a republic on these shores. They had succeeded in getting a charter of liberties which they guarded jealously, and intended to use as the basis for spreading the settlements on this shore into a continental republic.
However, there was no way to isolate developments in the Western Hemisphere from what was occurring in England. With the restoration of the monarchy after the English Civil War, steps were taken which threatened the way of life established by the Puritan founding fathers. Specifically, the monarchy appointed a governor of New York, named Major Edmund Andros, in 1675, who proceeded to violate the Massachusetts Charter by seizing lands in Connecticut.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony, still led at that time by John Winthrop, Jr., immediately challenged Andros, militarily and politically. But within a year, the conflict took on a different character, as the Crown utilized its pawns within the Indian population, to instigate what was called King Philip's War, which was a bloody conflict with the Indians which lasted for a number of years.
In 1686, however, the British Crown decided to redeploy Governor Andros to become governor of New England. At that point, a direct conflict erupted between Andros's rule and that of the Puritan fathers, led at this point by Increase and Cotton Mather. Andros had stepped all over the Massachusetts Charter, including by ordering the disenfranchisement of members of the dominant Congregationalist churches, imposing taxes not approved by the institutions of local government, and the like. Indeed, this was the first time, according to Lowry, that the term "no taxation without representation" actually surfaced in America.
Chafing under Andros's rule, the Massachusetts leadership sent the venerable Increase Mather to England, in order to seek the recall of the oppressive governor. While his petition was denied, he remained in England during the fateful intervention by Holland's Prince William. News of William of Orange's invasion arrived in Boston at the beginning of 1689, and led the Commonwealth's republic leadership to consider how it could take advantage of this instability.
Governor Andros was himself unnerved, fearing that the Mathers and Winthrops would use the occasion to restore the New England republic. In a desperate effort to gain control, Andros ordered a special council meeting for April 18—to try Cotton Mather for preaching sedition. Instead, the New England republicans amassed a contingent of the militia and, between April 18 and 19, rapidly occupied Boston, and declared their intention to arrest Governor Andros and other royal officials. Thus was the Andros Rebellion accomplished.
As a result, a Committee of Safety ruled New England, while they waited for Increase Mather to negotiate a charter in London with King William III. While the result was to get significantly less freedom than the previous charter, the precedent of rebellion had been set, and tested. As Lowry put it, the groundwork had been laid for a broader fight to come, on the continent as a whole.
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Feature:
LaRouche: It's Time To Get Out of Iraq
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Lyndon LaRouche is on record as the first prominent American political figure to call for the immediate withdrawal of all American military forces from Iraq. On Nov. 28, 2003, LaRouche issued a statement through his Presidential campaign committee: 'Declare the intention of the President of the United States, to be, to cease the U.S. military occupation of Iraq at the earliest feasible occasion, and to notify the UN Security Council of the U.S. intention to reopen the matter of Iraq's earliest restoration to sovereignty in its affairs ..."
Eisenhower on Strategic Defense
by Gail Billington
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who took office in January 1953, was faced immediately with demands from the French, and from the synarchist circles within his own administration and military, to deploy militarily into Vietnam in defense of the French colonial forces ... 'Finally, they came along with this Dien Bien Phu plan. As a soldier, I was horror-stricken. I just said, 'My goodness, you don't pen troops in a fortress, and all history shows that they are just going to be cut to pieces. . . . I don't think anything of this scheme.'
Lessons of De Gaulle's Algerian Exit-Strategy
by Pierre Beaudry
The dramatic situation facing President Bush in Iraq, is similar to what French President Charles de Gaulle faced on April 23, 1961, when he was forced to take the crucial decision of putting a stop to the military insurrection in Algeria, and decided to pull French troops out of that country. Just as today's quagmire in Iraq is under the control of the Synarchist International, so, too, was the French Algerian mess.
9/11 Probe Exposes Neo-Con 'War on Terror' Strategy That Creates Terrorism
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Nearly 20 years ago, on Oct. 25, 1984, then-Secretary of State George Shultz delivered a speech at the Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City. His remarks might have been made by Vice President Dick Cheney or Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
- Principles of Westphalia
The Treaty of Westphalia of 1648, bringing an end to the hirty Years' War, which had drowned Europe in blood in attles over religion, defined the principles of sovereignty and equality in numerous sub-contracts, and in this way became the constitution of the new system of states in Europe.
Book Review:
Rumsfeld's Killing Obsession
by Edward Spannaus
Rumsfeld's War: The Untold Story of America's Anti-Terrorist Commander
by Rowan Scarborough
Washington: Regnery, 2004
253 pages, hardcover, $27.95
If you're going to be a suck-up, at least have a sense of timing. Pity poor Rowan Scarborough, whose book puffing Donald Rumsfeld as the military genius of the age, came out just as Rummy's war in Iraq was collapsing in the face of a popular insurgency—and, as EIR has been informed, even the neocons now favor dumping him as Secretary of Defense.
Economics:
Shocks Still Spreading From Bush April 2 Jobs Fakery
by Paul Gallagher
The global plunge in bond markets, since the Bush White House's April 2 manic celebration of a blatantly faked March jobs report, drove U.S. long-term bond interest rates three-quarters of a point higher in less than two weeks, and was getting uglier by mid-April. While 'the dumbest President' careened onward to other, explosive blunders on Iraq and the Middle East, the further shock-wave effects of his whooping-up the jobs fraud on April 2, were spreading.
Rate Hikes Will Blow Out Ibero-American Debt
by Gretchen Small
Even a small increase in U.S. interest rates, of the sort now widely expected from Alan Greenspan's Federal Reserve, will blow out the entire debt bubble of the Ibero-American nations, along with the rest of the Third World.
Who Will Oversee The Death of the IMF?
by Mike Billington
A squabble has broken out among the financial elite of the world, over who will become the next managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Unfortunately, the several parties to the debate are either oblivious to the fact that the institution they are fussing over is utterly bankrupt, or they have chosen to obscure that self-evident fact in order to continue the aura of power surrounding the august institution.
Death of Detroit: Harbinger of Collapse of Deindustrialized America
by Richard Freeman
Observing the death of Detroit, as it shrinks into oblivion and its citizens are ravaged, one is struck by a fundamental transformation: In the period 1940 through 1963, Detroit was the greatest manufacturing city in the world, unmatched in real physical productivity. But during the period 1964-2004, Detroit became synonymous with blight and decay beyond imagination.
International:
LaRouche To Russian Academy, Youth: Give Humanity a Future
by Rachel Douglas
U.S. Democratic Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, famous in Russia as economist, strategist, philosopher and—in the words of one recent press release written by his Moscow friends—'the conscience of America,' was the lead-off speaker at the 'Science and Our Future: Ideas To Change the World' conference, which took place April 14-16 in Moscow. The three-day event, held at the Vernadsky State Geological Museum (SGM) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was co-sponsored by the SGM and the Schiller Institute, as well as several companies.
Entering the Economy of the Noösphere
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. gave this speech to a Moscow conference on April 14 at the Vernadsky State Geological Museum.
Hopefully, the increasing severity of the present world economic and related crises, will compel us to institute those urgently needed changes in the present world order, in which cooperation among sovereign states converges upon the great principle of the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, rather than continuing the currently widespread Hobbesian notion that nation-states must be inherently in perpetual mortal conflict among themselves.
LaRouche in Moscow Press:
'The U.S. Economy Has Become a Scandal'
The Moscow financial monthly Valyutny Spekulyant (Currency Dealer) came out April 12 with a new interview of Lyndon LaRouche, headlined 'The U.S. Economy As a Whole Has Become a Scandal.' LaRouche's answers were provided in written form on March 1, to questions from VS correspondent Ivan Zakarian, who had attended the Schiller Institute Presidents' Day conference in Reston, Virginia, on Feb. 14-15.
Iraq 'Exit Strategy' Means: Announce an Exit
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Conventional wisdom on Iraq—that the United States has 'won the war,' but not 'won the peace'—has been shown a pathetic illusion by the events of April. The fact is, the United States has lost the war, both militarily and politically. The only relevant question is: What will the dumb President Bush and his incompetent administration do now?
Where Are Castañeda's Checkstubs From Soros?
by Rubén Cota Meza
'Show me George Soros's checks to my campaign! Show me that this financing exists, and I'll give you the money,' Jorge Castañeda Gutman declared in a fit of anger to a member of the LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM) who had challenged him, before several hundred youth, on the fact that megaspeculator and drug-legalization promoter George Soros is sponsoring his candidacy for the Mexican Presidency. The confrontation occurred during Castañeda's first public campaign event, held in Mexico City on March 28, the day after he formally threw his hat into the ring for the 2006 Presidential elections.
'A Very Special Quality of the Mexican Patriot': LaRouche on Monterrey TV
Monterrey's Multimedios TV on April 11 broadcast an interview of Lyndon LaRouche, by Architect He´ctor Benavides. The interview had been taped on March 18 during the candidate's three-day visit ('LaRouche Takes Battle To Defeat Synarchism to Mexico,' EIR, April 2) in which he spoke to the Monterrey Technological Institute, youth audiences, and other supporters.
Worldwide Banking Turbulence Slams Peru
by Manuel Hidalgo
Peruvian businessman Jaime Mur declared on television on April 1, that the Banco Wiesse Sudameris (BWS), the country's third most important bank, was facing insolvency. In 2003, the BWS suffered a 72.19% collapse in profits, in comparison to 2002. Although the Peruvian press failed to give much coverage to Mur's statements, the Finance Ministry, the banking superintendency and the country's number one bank, Banco de Credito, felt obliged to respond publicly that BWS is indeed 'solvent,' and that it has 'an adequate liquidity level, to meet all foreseeable demands.'
National:
Bush and Me-Too Kerry Campaign To Beat Themselves
by Nancy Spannaus
Recent performances by President George W. Bush and his presumptive opponent in the November 2004 Presidential elections, Sen. John Kerry, have led Democratic Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche to remark that he is not running against these men as opponents; they are running against themselves. Unless LaRouche is brought into the equation, the loser is the American nation.
Delegate Harold James' Endorsement of LaRouche Inspires Fight To Save the Party
by Nancy Spannaus
'I take my hat off to you, Rep. James, to show such courage—coeur, 'heart' in French; courage; 'heart-strength'—and surely you have that strength. . . .So, I give you all the kudos, and all the praise that's due to you. And let's push out there, and let's have everybody vote April 27. Let's pull our neighbors, cousins, in-laws, everything else.' Such is the most welcome response, among many, to Rep. Harold James's (D-Phila) April 7 endorsement of Democratic Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, now sweeping through the Philadelphia area and beyond.
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National, continued:
Has 'Daddy Warbucks' Soros Double-Crossed The Democrats?
by Our Special Correspondent
The Republican National Committee (RNC) and the Bush-Cheney in 2004 election campaign are laughing all the way to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), in delight over the fact that billionaire financier George Soros is helping himself to two Presidential campaigns in 2004: the Democratic Party campaign, whose nominee is not even decided yet, and the independent campaign of Ralph Nader—and the Democrats are apparently clueless.
Bush-Sharon Summit Will 'Ignite A Fire' Throughout Middle East
by Dean Andromidas
'We say that we are facing a dangerous crossroads. No one should deceive the capital cities of the Arab world or Europe. They should tell the U.S. administration that this plan is completely unacceptable and will ignite a fire in the region more intense than the one we are witnessing now in Iraq.'
This is the comment of Yasser Abed Rabbo, former Palestinian minister, on the shameful letter released by President George W. Bush on April 14, at the summit with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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