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Published: Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2004
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Volume 3, Issue Number 33
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August 15, 2004
The issue is simple: President Bush and Dick Cheney, who successfully avoided military service in Vietnam, challenge the war record of the Senator Kerry who did serve. Bush did a state-side thing with the Texas National Guard, and Cheney managed to avoid the draft at the virtual last minute.
Admittedly, that war should not have occurred. The war was a creation of that "military-industrial complex" of Allen Dulles & Company, against which President, and General of the Armies Dwight Eisenhower had warned the nation. It was the war against which the greatest military commander of his time, General of the Armies Douglas MacArthur had rightly and prophetically warned. Nonetheless, the lunatic right-wing utopians, such as McNamara, did plunge us into a form of asymmetric warfare we did not, and could not win.
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Here are the opening remarks of Lyndon LaRouche to the East Coast Youth Cadre School on Aug. 14, 2004.
All right. As advertised, there are three essential topics today, and they are of international moment, but especially addressed to the needs of younger people, younger adults, who have to carry the burden on this. But, my main point, is to get you to understand, what life is all about, and to give you, from my personal experience, that is, aspect of my experience which are of international, historical importance today, what it is like to be a human being, and how to shape your motivations, for dealing with serious problems of society in general, that is, problems of a principled nature, as opposed to personal discomfort, in the short term.
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This Week in History
Lafayette Returns as 'Guest of the Nation'
August 16-22, 1824
The United States was just shy of 50 years old, when the leading members of the American patriotic faction extended an invitation to the last surviving general from the Revolutionary War, General Marquis de Lafayette, to tour the country whose independence he had played a critical role in winning. In late 1823, General Lafayette, then living on his estate in France, received an invitation from President James Monroe to be a "Guest of the Nation," through 1824 and 1825. The General began his tour on Aug. 16, 1824, and spent more than a full year travelling through all 24 states of the Union, before he left on Sept. 9, 1825.
General Lafayette's tour sparked the most extraordinary outpouring of celebration, and patriotism, wherever he went. It was the occasion for the revival of a revolutionary spirit, which included the re-emergence of the Society of the Cincinnati, and other historical and philosophical groupings. Most importantly, the political climate which the visit inspired, provided a crucial margin in the election to the Presidency of John Quincy Adams, who went on to carry out the mission of public improvement in domestic and foreign policy which the Founding Fathers had advocated, but which had been coming under increasing attack by subversive interests.
General Lafayette, then 67 years old, who was travelling with his son George Washington Lafayette, and his secretary, began his visit in New York City. Five days of celebration ensued, including banquets, receiving lines, plays, and concerts. There, as in every other city he visited, that dwindling generation of Revolutionary War veterans came out to meet the man who was the embodiment of the sacrifice made by French patriots, and other international republican forces, and to rekindle their resolve to defend the ideas for which he, and they, had fought. They were joined by others, down to the very young. Everybody knew and spoke about the hardships Lafayette had suffered, he having been thrown into an Austrian prison during the period of the 1790s, and rescued by his wife, and then gone on to fight a losing battle in France itself against the Napoleonic beast. The nation poured out its gratitude, including with a gift of money and land, which he could use to finance republican operations at home.
This grand tour played both a public and private role in mobilizing the nation's patriots. Among the public highlights were Lafayette's two addresses to joint sessions of Congress, one on Dec. 9-10, 1824, and the other, just before his departure, on Sept. 6, 1825.
Speaker of the House Henry Clay greeted Lafayette at the December joint session, with the following words:
"The vain wish has been sometimes indulged, that Providence would allow the patriot, after death, to return to his country, and to contemplate the intermediate changes which had taken placeto view the forests felled, the cities built, the mountains levelled, the canals cut, the highways constructed, the progress of the arts, the advancement of learning and the increase in populationGeneral, your present visit to the United States is a realization of the consoling object of that wish. You are in the midst of posterity. Everywhere, you must have been struck by the great changes, physical and moral, which have occurred since you left us."
President John Quincy Adams took a different tack, when he said farewell to the General, before the September 1825 appearance:
"Go, then, our beloved friendreturn to the land of brilliant genius, of generous sentiment, of heroic valour; to that beautiful France, the nursing mother of the Twelfth Louis, and the Fourth Henry; to the native soil of Bayard and Coligni, of Turenne and Catinat, of Fenelon and D'Aguesseau. In that illustrious catalogue of names which she claims as of her children, and with honest pride holds up to the admiration of other nations, the name of Lafayette has already for centuries been enrolled. And it shall henceforth burnish into brighter flame; for if, in afterdays, a Frenchman shall be called to indicate the character of his nation by that one individual, during the age in which we live, the blood of lofty patriotism shall mantle in his check, the fire of conscious virtue shall sparkle in his eye, and he shall pronounce the name of Lafayette. Yet we, too, and our children, in life and after death, shall claim you for our own...."
Lafayette, the person who had dubbed the victorious United States the "Temple of Liberty, ... a lesson to oppressors, an example to the oppressed, a sanctuary for the rights of mankind," back in the 1780s, expressed again his great optimism for his adopted country, and its influence in the world, during his last speech before the U.S. Congress:
"I have had proudly to recognize a result of the republican principles for which we have fought, and a glorious demonstration to the most timid and prejudiced minds, of the superiority, over degrading aristocracy, or despotism, of popular institutions founded on the plain rights of man, and where the local rights of every section are preserved under a constitutional bond of union. The cherishing of that union between the states, as it has been the farewell entreaty of our great paternal Washington, and will ever have the dying prayer of every American patriot, so it has become the sacred pledge of the emancipation of the world, an object in which I am happy to observe that the American people, while they give the animating example of successful free institutions, in return for an evil entailed upon them by Europe, and of which a liberal and enlightened sense is everywhere more and more generally felt, show themselves every day more anxiously interested...."
While Lafayette did not succeed in creating a true republican revolution in Europe, he knew he had made a lasting contribution to history by creating the United States. It was up to later generations to ensure that the United States lived up to its mission, as this great man and his collaborators conceived it.
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Feature:
As the Economy Sinks, 'Bush Doesn't Give aDam'
by Marcia Merry Baker
'President Bush's record $2.4 trillion budget for 2005, intentionally or not, continues to strangle ports and waterways, and other important programs of the Corps of Engineers,' warns a press release on an Army Corps of Engineers website. The case of the McAlpine Locks and Dam on the Ohio River in Kentucky is the latest example of the Bush Administration's abandonment of economic infrastructure, while it inflates the economy with lunatic annual tax cuts and even suggests replacing the income tax with a regressive Federal sales tax.
- Decrepit U.S. Dams Are 'A Recipe for Disaster'
by Mary Jane Freeman
Kentucky's dam woes are not limited to the Ohio River net- work. On Aug. 5, the Kentucky Herald-Leader reported that the abutment wall to Lock and Dam 3 on the Kentucky River collapsed. The Kentucky River Authority plans a $200,000 emergency fix. Spring floods are blamed for the wall's wash- out, but the dam's age cannot be discounted as a factor. It is a timber structure filled with rocks and covered with concrete, built in 1842 and refurbished in 1882! If it fails, it will threaten Lock and Dam 4, which holds the water supply of the capital city, Frankfort.
- Louisville: Decline of An American Hub City
by Richard Freeman
Two months ago, the last of the workers at Louisville Ladder, based in Louisville, Kentucky, were fired. At its height, Louisville Ladder's assembly lines hummed with activity, employing 500 workers who manufactured residential and industrial ladders made of steel, aluminum, and wood. Now the plant is empty. Louisville Ladder moved its production facility to Monterrey, Mexico, but indications are that it may shut down this operation, and move production to China, where wages are even cheaper.
Bush's 'Don't Give a Dam' Creates Poverty in the U.S.
by Paul Gallagher
Poverty in the United Statessystematically measured by the U.S. Census Bureau since 1960 and currently defined by an income of $9,573 or less for an individual, $18,860 or less for a family of fourhas been increasing sharply during the Administration of President George W. Bush. The number of Americans in poverty rose by nearly 1.5 million a year between 2000 and 2002.
LaRouche Sparks Anti-Austerity Demonstrations in Germany
by Rainer Apel
The European LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM) held its fourth Monday Rally in Leipzig on Aug. 2, to protest the German government's planned new brutal round of budget cuts (the infamous Hartz IV package), and to propose instead a complete reorientation of economic policy away from monetarism. Protest events that were not directly organized by the LYM, but inspired by the Leipzig rallies, also took place in several other cities ineastern Germany.
Great Projects To Reindustrialize Saxony
by Lothar Komp
Reprinted from Neue Solidarität, the weekly of the LaRouche movement in Germany.
Fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the unfinished job of rebuilding the eastern German economy is about to be abandoned altogether. Capital investments into industry and infrastructure had already peaked in the mid-1990s. Since then, the volume of orders and employment in the construction sector has imploded. The density of industrial jobs per capita is still extremely low; and official unemploment remains
at a very high level.
Schachtian Law Targetting Pensions and Social Security Approved in Mexico
by Benjamín Castro Guzmán
The ghost of Hitler's central banker Hjalmar Schacht walked the halls of the Mexican Congress in July and August, thanks to the efforts of the Vicente Fox government. Always quick
to comply with the wishes of international bankers, the Fox
government and its allies in the opposition PRI party presented two bills to the Congress that, together, exemplify the fascist essence of Schachtian policydestruction of the physical economy and living standard of the productive labor force through fiscal austerity and, somehow or other, prop up the speculative bubble.
Classic Tragedy Today:
The Decline of The Monterrey Group
by Benjamı´n Castro Guzma´n
In the early morning hours of Saturday, July 24, Don Eugenio Clariond Garza, the 85-year-old founder of the group Industrias Monterrey S.A. de CV, better known as IMSA, died of what the Mexican media described as 'an illness.' However, no one missed the fact that Don Eugenio's death occurred just four days after local and national newspapers announced the sale of Enermexmanufacturer of the popular LTH car batterya company Don Eugenio founded in 1947, a key part of the IMSA consortium.
Election 2004:
THE LAROUCHE SHOW
From Now to November: Prevent The U.S.A. From Going Fascist
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. was interviewed on 'The LaRouche Show' Internet radio program on Aug. 7, by Harley Schlanger, the former Western States coordinator for LaRouche's campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination. The LaRouche Show is webcast live every Saturday at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time, at larouchepub.com.
International:
U.S. Flight Forward in Iraq: Is Iran the Next War Target?
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
In the good old days of traditional geopolitics, a` la Zbigniew Brzezinski, the U.S. policy toward the two oil giants of the Persian Gulf, Iran and Iraq, was known under the rubric of 'dual containment.' Now, since the 2000 Supreme Court (s)election of the Cheney-Bush duo, this has been changed to 'dual extermination.'
Sharon Prepares To Strike Iran
by Dean Andromidas
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his generals have completed contingency plans for striking Iran's nuclear installations, and developments over the past weeks indicate that the strike date could be fast approaching. The big question is, will it occur before or after the U.S. elections.
Iraqis Order Chalabi Arrest in Murder Plot
by Michele Steinberg
On Aug. 8, warrants were issued by Iraq's interim government to arrest two of the top members of the hated Chalabi family in Iraqboth of them favorites of Vice President Dick Cheney and the neo-conservative cabal in the Bush government who are leading figures in the American occupation government.
Georgia's Saakashvili Boasts U.S.-U.K. Approval for Showdown
by Rachel Douglas
Michael Saakashvili, whose accession to power in Georgia at the end of last year was a project of mega-speculator and geopolitics dabbler George Soros, is provoking more tension around South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two districts in Georgia, bordering on Russia, which have been autonomous for the past decade.
Interview: Sen. Aquilino Pimentel
'The Americans Are Bound To Continue With This Retaliation'
by Michael Billington.
Aquilino 'Nene' Q. Pimentel is a leading opposition Senator in the Philippines, having served as both Majority Leader and Minority Leader of that institution. He is currently in the forefront of efforts to bring about an investigation of alleged fraud in the May 10 Presidential election.... Senator Pimentel was interviewed by telephone on Aug. 7
A Proposal to Actually Solve the Sudan Crisis
by Uwe Friesecke
The Sudanese government and the United Nations signed an agreement in Khartoum on Aug. 10, to create safe havens within the next 30 days, as a first step to resolve the Darfur crisis. The action plan was worked out between Sudan's Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail and UN envoy Jan Pronk, after the Sudanese government in early August accepted the July 30 United Nations Security Council resolution, demanding that the Sudanese government disarm the militias in Darfur and create the conditions for better access to the almost 1 million displaced people.
- Why the British Hate Sudan: The Mahdia's WarAgainst London
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Reprinted from EIR, June 9, 1995.
One reason that the British harbor such a visceral hatred for Sudan, is that they have never fully recovered from their experience with the Mahdist state, which lasted from the early 1880s to 1898. This was an independent, sovereign Sudanese state founded by a charismatic Islamic leaderan 'Islamic fundamentalist'which treated the colonial British as no other state had done.
National:
Senate Must Not Capitulate To Blackmail on Goss Nomination
by Edward Spannaus
Were the Senate to go along with the Administration's provocative nomination of Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.) for CIA Director, it would mark a cowardly capituation to the stonewalling of any investigation of the crimes of Vice President Dick Cheney and his cronies in the Bush Administration. The Administration's obstruction has been aided greatly by the Republican leadership of key Congressional oversight committees, and in this, no one has exceeded the role played by Porter Goss, as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
'Veterans of Watergate' Attack Kerry's Record
by Gregory B. Murphy
The so-called 'grass roots' Vietnam veterans organization that is attacking the war record of Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry in a national ad campaign should be called the 'Watergate Veterans' group. The misnamed 'Swift Boat Veterans for Truth,' is nothing but a Republican dirty tricks operation linked to the original Watergate criminals in the Nixon White House. Armed with hundreds of thousands of dollars from rich Texas supporters of the rightwing fanatic Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), the organization is running TV ads with false statements and slanders across the country.
Not Scared Yet? Try Connecting These Dots
by Ray McGovern
Ray McGovern (rmcgovern~school.org) worked as a CIA analyst from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George H. W. Bush. The following guest commentary was first published on Aug. 9, by CommonDreams.org.
Interview: Dr. Justin Frank
George Bush: 'A Puppet Who Chose His Puppeteers'
Dr. Justin Frank, the author of Bush on the Couch, a devastating professional psychoanalytic profile of President George W. Bush, was interviewed on July 26, 2004, byEIR Senior Editor Jeffrey Steinberg. Dr. Frank is a practicing psychoanalyst in Washington, and is on the faculty of the George Washington University Medical School.
- Book Review
The Ugly Truth About G.W. Bush
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Bush on the CouchInside the Mind of the President
by Justin A. Frank, M.D.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2004
219 pages, hardbound, $24.95
Dr. Justin Frank has performed a courageous and insightful mission. On the eve of the most important Presidential election of our lifetime, he has applied his decades of clinical experience as a psychoanalyst to offer an in-depth profile of President George W. Bush. To be more precise, Dr. Frank has provided American voters with a case study in what is called 'applied psychoanalysis.'
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