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Need to Know This Week

The U.S. Election Process Reaches a Turning-Point

by Jeffrey Steinberg

Five months from its Presidential Election Day, the United States and its electorate is in a state of political turmoil, the outcome of which is yet to be determined. The two principal issues defining this turmoil are:

* The plummeting of support and credibility of both the Presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and John Kerry;

* The onrushing world depression, which will hit, with full force, sometime during the next 30-60 days.

As the result of these dramatic developments, no one can predict who, at this point, will win the Democratic Party Presidential nomination for 2004. The political situation in the United States has changed dramatically since that period, from the Iowa caucuses through Super Tuesday, when the apparent decision was made that John Kerry would be the Democratic Party's Presidential nominee. That decision was based on an avoidance of the most fundamental issues facing the nation and the world.

Now, those issues—and especially the $42 barrel of oil, and the deepening crisis in Iraq—are unavoidable.

This is a completely different world than the one that existed on Jan. 1, 2004. Every fundamental assumption about the 2004 elections that prevailed during the period from January through March 2004, has got to be scrapped. There are those who will, out of criminal stupidity, attempt to adjust to this new reality, by promoting a John McCain Vice Presidential option for Kerry. This would be the worst disaster imaginable, drawing the worst elements of the Republican Party behind the Democratic ticket, and alienating those who have broken, decisively, with Bush-Cheney.

The biggest shocks are yet to come. Expect new dramatic events over the months of June and July.

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this week in history

May 31 - June 6, 1945

The 60th anniversary of D-Day, the launching of the Allied Armies' liberation of France, is being widely celebrated this year. Coming as it does, with the opening of the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., this celebration turns our attention both to that war, and to the leadership which brought it to a successful conclusion.

World War II was the last just war which this nation fought. In it, we were pitted against a plan for Nazi world domination, which could indeed have resulted in the destruction of freedom worldwide, had it not been the leadership of the United States President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It was the deliberate action of that President which, first, prevented the U.S. from falling under a Schachtian economic "solution" to the Depression; second, built up the "arsenal for democracy" which provided the superior logistics that actually permitted the war to be won; and three, made the crucial decisions that led to military success.

FDR was, of course, constrained within the partnership with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin in actually implementing a war-winning plan. But his own vision was clear, in insisting that this war was intended to free the world, not only of Nazi-style militarism, but also of the oppression of all kinds of colonialism, which left people in misery. It was this vision, which FDR had conveyed throughout his Presidency, as he fought to defeat the Depression at home, as well as to forge cooperative alliances abroad, that infused the U.S. Military as it was sent into battle.

Much rhetoric will be spilled this coming week, in the attempt to compare the motivation behind the current mis-named U.S. "war on terror"—actually a war for imperial world domination—with the legendary battles of World War II. It will ring hollow, as it should. The horrible irony is that the philosophical heirs of the Nazis today, the Beast-men, inhabit the centers of power in Washington, D.C., and certain associated financial centers—not Baghdad. The continuation of Roosevelt's good fight would not lead us to escalating our efforts to kill, kill, kill in Iraq and other Muslim nations around the world, à la Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, but would call for the forming of alliances with the leaderships of the nations of Southwest Asia, in the manner Lyndon LaRouche has proposed.

A sense of this reality is evident when one reads the announcement which FDR made on June 5, 1944—the very eve of D-Day—about the liberation of Rome. In a Fireside Chat given that day, President Roosevelt described the historic significance of Italy, and declared that we had liberated the Italian people from slavery. However, unlike our postwar strategy today, FDR's first commitment to the Italian population was to collaborate with local governments, and provide them with the resources to feed and govern their people. The President did not talk about punishing the evil, and reshaping the society, but rather in using the wonderful productive capacity of the American economy to provide a better life for these people, regardless of the cost.

We conclude this remembrance with Roosevelt's D-Day prayer, which he broadcast to the American people on that very day:

My Fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far.

And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer.

Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day we have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.

Lead them straight, and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.

They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.

They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest—until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war.

For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and goodwill among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.

Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.

And for us at home—fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas, whose thoughts are prayers are ever with them—help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.

Many people have urged that I call the nation into a single day of special prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.

Give us strength, too—strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.

And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage until our sons wheresoever they may be.

And, O Lord, give us faith. Give us faith in Thee; faith in our sons; faith in each other; faith in our united crusade. let not the keenness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment—let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.

With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogancies. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace—a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.

They will be done, Almighty God.

Amen.

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Feature:

The U.S. Election Process Reaches a Turning-Point
by Jeffrey Steinberg

Five months from its Presidential Election Day, the United States and its electorate is in a state of political turmoil, the outcome of which is yet to be determined. The two principal issues defining this turmoil are:
• The plummeting of support and credibility of both the Presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and John Kerry;
• The onrushing world depression, which will hit, with full force, sometime
during the next 30-60 days.

Reply to the Washington Post: The Cause of Kerry's Problem
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
This open letter was released on May 23, 2004 by the LaRouche in 2004 Presidential political campaign committee.

Republicans Splintering Over Neo-Con Insanity
by Nancy Spannaus
Since at least the beginning of 2004, local Republican Party leaders have been delivering sotto voce complaints to leading Bush strategist Karl Rove—and, Republican sources report, in some cases, to the President himself—about the damage that abrasive warmonger Vice-President Dick Cheney has been doing to the party's electoral chances.

Democratic Party Is In Political Disarray
by Nancy Spannaus

This is not the first time that the Democratic Party's banker-run leadership has decided to ram a candidate down the party's throats early in the election year, only to see the choice blow up in their faces. One of those times was 1984, with the 'early endorsement' of Walter Mondale. This year, Terry McAuliffe's orchestration of a primary process that would pick a 'winner' by early March, has resulted in a political disaster which promises to be just as bad.

Latest FEC Report Shows It's Kerry and LaRouche
by Anita Gallagher
Lyndon LaRouche and John Kerry are in a two-way race for the support of Democratic Party's base nationwide, according to the latest 'May Monthly' Report which all Democratic Presidential Pre-candidates must file with the Federal Election Commission. LaRouche has 41,494 itemized individual contributions and Kerry has 108,523, while Dennis Kucinich is a distant third, with 8,997. The rest of the candidates have quit.


Strategic Studies:

How To Lead the United States Out of Its Current Tragedy
Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche's opening statement and some of the question-and-answer dialogue which occurred during a press availability for the candidate in New Jersey on May 21.

Thucydides' Melian Dialogue
How Athens Became An Empire, and Fell
From a presentation by Helga Zepp-LaRouche on Sept. 3, 2002, to the Labor Day Conference of the Schiller Institute.


Economics:

Brazilians See 'FDR' New Deal As Alternative to New Fascism
by Gretchen Small
As Brazil heads towards an Argentina-style social and financial blow-out, that nation's Vice President, José Alencar, and his Liberal Party (PL), took the lead in urging the Brazilian government to adopt, now, a dramatic change in economic policy, before the nation disintegrates.

Italy:
Probe of Parmalat Crash Finds Systemic Crisis
by Paolo Raimondi
On Dec. 18, 2003, the New York office of the Bank of America declared that a letter of the bank dated March 6, 2003, confirming the liquidity of 3.95 billion euros in a banking account of Bonlat Financing Corporation—a financial holding controlled by the Parmalat conglomerate, was false; the house of cards of the gigantic international fraud of Parmalat collapsed.

Water Price Inflation Was 40 Years in Making
by Marcia Merry Baker
Increases in water rates, besides fuel costs, and the many other rising expenses households and businesses face, belie the claims that 'inflation is under control.' Moreover, there are regions—such as the Lower Rio Grande Valley, where for large periods of time, there is no water to be had at any price!

Homeowning Since 1978 Shows 'Two Americas'
by Paul Gallagher
Since the bond and mortgage markets began to fall in the G-7 countries at the beginning of April, attention has been focussed on the sharp fall in new home construction and sales in the United States (21% and 11.8% down respectively, from March to May), and the looming threat of a blowup of the vast mortgage-credit bubble which has been sustaining the American 'consumer economy.'


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Maxim Ghillan:
Israel's General Staff: 'A Bunch of Dr.Strangeloves'
Maxim Ghilan, writer, journalist, and poet, is the editor of I&P, the Israel&Palestine Strategic Update, founded in 1971 by Ghilan and Louis Marton. Maxim Ghilan is also founder of the International Jewish Peace Union (IJPU), the first Jewish outfit to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as a partner in dialogue.


International:

UN Resolution Is No Iraq Exit Strategy; LaRouche Doctrine Is
by Muriel Mirak Weissbach
According to President George W. Bush, a new Iraqi government will take 'full sovereignty' on June 30 and introduce stability to the war-beseiged land. It will also provide the model for sweeping democratic reforms throughout the 'greater Middle East' region. So far the propaganda pitch made in Washington...

EIR's Neo-Con Expose´ Out in Japan: An Exit Strategy for Lost Decade
by Kathy Wolfe
Lyndon LaRouche's new book in Japanese, Neo-Con BeastMen: The Ignoble Liars Behind Bush's No-Exit War, published on April 26, is now 'selling like rice cakes' in 500 book stores around Japan, the publisher reported in late May. It was the author's pleasure to present the translation—along with LaRouche's positive policy alternative, the Eurasian Land-Bridge 'global New Deal'—in Tokyo from April 25- May 3, and to watch the shock waves roll.

Philippines Elections Show No Solution Ahead
by Mike Billington
There is widespread unrest over the conduct of the election, with accusations of fraud from several highly credible sources...

Australia Dossier:
CEC Launches Federal Campaign
by Allen Douglas
LaRouche's associates have shaken up the country.
At a dozen press conferences all over the country on May 19, the Australian associates of Lyndon LaRouche in the Citizens Electoral Council (CEC) launched their campaigns for the Federal elections expected in October.

Sharon Paves the Way For Expelling Palestinians
by Dean Andromidas
On May 25 the Israeli Military announced the official end of Operation Rainbow, its latest brutal assault on the impoverished Gaza Strip. The army left a wake of massive devastation; dozens of Palestinians, including women and children, were killed, and over a hundred houses were totally destroyed or badly damaged. Within hours of this announcement, Israeli tanks rumbled into another part of Gaza, where they killed two Palestinians and demolished yet another three homes.

Nigeria Is On a Dangerous Path
by Lawrence K. Freeman
Is Nigeria, the most populated nation in Africa, on the verge of national disintegration? This is the dangerous question that emerges from discussions with two leading Nigerians in recent months.

Mass Unemployment Costs Productivity in Germany
by Rainer Apel
Unemployment is expensive for a society: Billions of dollars are spent to support jobless workers, engineers, and scientists whose skills could generate enormous productive output, but are prevented from working in their profession. This problem in Germany was frankly and clearly addressed, in a new report issued by the Nuremberg-based Institute of Labor Market and Profession Research (IAB).


National:

The Crimes of Iran-Contra Have Never Ended
by Jeffrey Steinberg
A funny thing happened, early in May, when President Bush met with Jordan's King Abdullah II in Washington. According to news accounts, the Jordanian ruler provided the President with a dossier, revealing that Ahmed Chalabi—the head of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) and the darling of the neo-cons in the Office of Vice President Dick Cheney...was passing top secret U.S. government material to the most radical ayatollahs in Iran.

Zinni: Heads Must Roll For Debacle in Iraq
by William Jones
Gen. Anthony Zinni, the former commander-in-chief of the U.S. Central Command, practically called on May 23 for the resignations of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, for their key role in the formulation and implementation of a fatally flawed Iraq policy, which has become a strategic disaster for the United States, and has increased the danger of terrorism in the world at large.

Bush's 'No Child Left Behind' Education Law Leaves Every Child Behind
by Don Phau
In the two years since NCBLA's passage ... a massive national revolt has grown up against the Act, with many states calling for its complete repeal. For example, by a vote of 98-1, the Republican-controlled Virginia House of Delegates passed a resolution in January 2004 saying the NCLBA 'represents the most sweeping intrusions into state and local control of education in the history of the United States,' and will cost 'literally millions of dollars which Virginia does not have.'

Terror Alert: What Does Ashcroft Know?
by Edward Spannaus
When Attorney General John Ashcroft announced to a press conference on May 26 that Al-Qaeda is planning 'an attack on the United States in the next few months,' and that the terrorist network had announced that '90% of its arrangements for an attack in the United States were complete,' officials in other Federal agencies—including the Department of Homeland Security—were shaking their heads in amazement and disbelief.

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