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Published: Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2004
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Volume 3, Issue Number 46
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The death of Chairman Arafat defines a crucial turning-point in current world history. The world at large is challenged, at this ominous moment, to face the implications for the planet as a whole, of failing to take the occasion of his passing as the moment at which the world at large must act, even for the most selfish motives of many among nations, to set into motion, at last, a peace of the kind which would set the departed Chairman's soul at rest. It must be an action for peace which begins where the unpunished murder of Israel's Prime Minister Rabin unleashed a new wave of horrors, the wrath of the fabled Erinyes, throughout the region, and beyond.
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Now, the so-called Middle East as a whole, which were more wisely named Southwest Asia, is at the verge of a great horror now spreading from the sheer, brutish insanity of sending U.S. Marines and others, to waste their lives for no just reason in the inexcusable conflagration in Iraq's Fallujah. Matters in a region of currently escalating asymmetric warfare, which includes both Egypt and Sudan, immediately, and reaches beyond Syria into Turkey and the Caucasus and adjoining places as a whole, have reached the critical moment at which any present escalation of the conflict within any part of that region unleashes an incalculable escalation of murderous chaos throughout all parts of that region, and also far beyond.
All of the tension and related dangers throughout the region center upon the long-tortured nerve-endings of the long Arab-Israeli conflict...
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November 12, 2004
It should have been obvious from the start, that, as in the circumstances leading from the Versailles Treaty through 1945, the determining feature of the U.S. and European crises of 2001-2004 has been a continuing escalation of the collapse of the physical economy of the Americas and Europe, caused by an onrushing collapse of the world's present, floating-exchange-rate monetary-financial system. It was already clear to all who actually think among leading political circles of the world, that the issues posed by the accelerating onrush of a general collapse of that monetary-financial system, would continue to be the determining factor in all serious political life for years yet to come.
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This Week in History
November 15 - 21, 1753
Young George Washington Sets Out on a Diplomatic Mission Through the Wilderness
On Nov. 15, 1753 George Washington and a small party of scouts and woodsmen left Wills Creek (now Cumberland, Maryland) for Fort LeBoeuf, a French wilderness post just 12 miles south of Lake Erie. The 21-year-old Washington had been entrusted with a diplomatic mission by Robert Dinwiddie, the colonial Governor of Virginia. He was to establish good relations with the Ohio Valley Indians, scout out possible fort sites for future Ohio Company settlements, try to discover French military intentions, and carry a message to the French, politely informing them that they were trespassing on Virginia territory.
The Ohio Company had been formed in 1747 by American patriots and London sympathizers, to colonize the area beyond the Allegheny Mountains. Lawrence Washington, George's older brother, had been one of the prime movers in the effort to break through the mountains. George Washington had become a surveyor at the age of 16, and had charted much of the Fairfax Grant which lay to the west of the Blue Ridge. Upon the death of Lawrence, he had assumed some of the responsibility for continuing the project, and Governor Dinwiddie was also a member of the Ohio Company. In 1750, the Company had sent Christopher Gist, an experienced scout, into Ohio and Kentucky to win the Ohio Valley Indians to the English side and to evaluate the fertility and resources of the land. A warehouse and arsenal were subsequently set up on the Monongahela, and settlers were brought across the mountains.
The French, meanwhile, who often acted as a surrogate for Britain by sending their Indians against the American frontiers, had been moving into the Ohio Valley in order to link up their settlements in Canada with those on the Mississippi in the Illinois Country and Louisiana. They seized any Englishmen whom their Indians hadn't killed and sent them to Canada. When Governor Dinwiddie received news of these French incursions, he sent a Captain Trent to parley with the French, but he was so terrified by tales of Indian depredations that he failed to complete his mission. George Washington, as an adjutant general in the Virginia Militia, volunteered to carry Dinwiddie's message through the wilderness. He chose the experienced Christopher Gist as his guide, and gathered a small group of scouts and translators at Wills Creek.
On the way to the meeting with Indian chiefs at Logstown on the Ohio River, Washington passed the future site of Pittsburgh. The Ohio Company had planned to build a fort two miles down the river from the Forks of the Ohio, but with the eye of a practiced surveyor, Washington saw that the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers was the more important location. He wrote that "As I got down before the Canoe, I spent some Time in viewing the Rivers, and the Land in the Fork, which I Think extremely well situated for a Fort; as it has the absolute Command of both Rivers. The Land at the Point is 20 or 25 Feet above the common Surface of the Water; and a considerable Bottom of flat well timber'd Land all around it, very convenient for Building." Although the Ohio Company workers went ahead with building the fort down the river, the French military engineers who later sent them packing back to Virginia chose Washington's site at the Forks for France's new Fort Duquesne.
When Washington and his party reached Logstown, they met with leaders of the Delaware, Shawnee, and Seneca Indians. The most important of these chiefs was called the Half-King, and he pledged his loyalty to the English. Much of the Indians' discontent stemmed from the fact that the Miami Indians, who had earlier sided with the English, had been massacred and had their villages burned by Indians loyal to the French.
Also at Logstown, Washington had the opportunity to speak with French deserters who had just come up the Ohio River from the French settlements in the Illinois Country. Because the French pronunciation of "Illinois" is similar to "Isles Noires," Washington wrote in his journal that he had been given a description of the French forts at the "Black Islands" further west.
The Half-King and several of his braves escorted Washington's party on the difficult journey through rain and snow to Venango. There, Washington had to deal with Captain Joncaire, a skilled French Indian agent who had no intention of allowing an alliance between Virginia and the Ohio Valley Indians. Joncaire plied the Indians with gifts and liquor and used every strategem to prevent them from accompanying Washington any further.
At a dinner with Washington, wine loosened the French officers' tongues, and they claimed France would take over the whole Ohio Valley in the spring with a large military force. They anticipated that the English would outnumber them militarily two to one, but that the English moved so slowly that the French would have already conquered the valley before the English could reach it.
After this alarming news, Washington pushed north as quickly as possible to deliver Governor Dinwiddie's letter to the French commander at Fort LeBoeuf. Commander Le Gardeur de St. Pierre was polite, but said that he obeyed orders only from the French Governor General in Canada, and did not feel compelled to abandon French territory. He and his officers conferred, and presented Washington with a letter for Governor Dinwiddie. But, again, the French attempted to keep Washington's Indian escort from accompanying him on the return trip. Washington wrote that "I can't say that ever in my Life I suffered so much anxiety as I did in this affair...."
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Feature:
LAROUCHE WEBCAST
It's Still the Physical Economy, Stupid!
Lyndon LaRouche's address to the Nov. 9 2004 LaRouche PAC webcast was opened by the LaRouche Youth Movement chorus singing Bach's motet Jesu, meine Freude. The Washington, D.C. event was attended by 225 people, among whom were more than 80 LYM members and 20 youth contacts, fresh from election organizing in Cleveland and Colombus, Ohio; Boston; Louisville, Kentucky; Detroit; Philadelphia; and Washington, D.C. In addition to youth from all over the United States, there were young people from Africa, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Mexico, and Italy. They planned a Week of Action/Agapé in Washington, following the webcast. Elected officials from around the country, plus other political leaders and diplomats, also attended. The webcast was moderated by Debra Freeman.
WE MUST SAVE THE X-43A
How I Defined the Scramjet
by Lyndon H.LaRouche, Jr.
Nov. 11, 2004
The rebirth of the Sa¨nger Scramjet project, as now represented by the X-43A pilot phase, was a choice made by me as part ofmycontinuing work on the design of what President Ronald Reagan adopted as his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). As part of my work on developing a feasible package-design for an actual Phase I form of the proposed SDI, I became engaged in relevant technical discussions with the now-defunct German firm, MBB, which represented one of the world's most effective works on designs for interceptor strategies against incoming flights of thermonuclear-armed missiles.
- Making LaRouche 1980s SDI Proposal a Reality
The U.S. space agency, NASA, announced on Nov. 5, 2004, the imminent launching of the final test flight of the X-43A Hyper-X scramjet. This research vehicle will fly at an airspeed of almost Mach 10, or 6,800 miles per hour. The final flight was scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 10, from Edwards Air Base in California, but delayed until no earlier than Nov. 15 because of bad weather.
- The Space Plane: Hypersonic Flight Is Ready for Take-Off
by Marsha Freeman
NASA's Hyper-X program combines aircraft and rocket technology in a system that will carry more weight into space at less cost. This report is reprinted from Fall 2001 21st Century Science & Technology.
Soy Monoculture in the Americas: Globalization Ruins Food Economy
by Marcia Merry Baker
Concentrated areas of soybean cultivation in only three countries of the Americasthe United States, Brazil, and Argentinatogether account for 188 million metric tons, which is over 80% of all world annual soy production (229 million metric tons), and account for over 90% of all soybean exports. Far from being an agronomic success story, this soy monoculturetypical of other world food monocultures equally extremereflects the degree of commodities control exerted throughout globalized agriculture, by financial interests operating through chemical, seedstock, food processing, and trading companies, over and above national governments.
- Cartels' Soy Revolution Kills Argentine Farming
by Cynthia R. Rush
In Argentina, the country known historically as the 'granary of the world,' people generally didn't die of hungerat least up through the 1980s. While pockets of hunger and poverty could certainly be found in the country, people generally had access to a nutritious and varied diet, and food production was directed to the domestic market as well as for export. The fertile 'pampas' were world famous, as was Argentina's excellent quality beef.
Interview: State Rep. Peter T. Ginaitt
Epidemic Preparedness 'Worst It's Ever Been'
State Rep. Peter T. Ginaitt (D- District 22) is a 15-year member of the House of Representatives of Rhode Island, representing Warwick, and serving on the Health, Education and Welfare Committee. Rep. Ginaitt is a firefighter, rescue captain, and registered nurse. He was interviewed on Nov. 8, 2004, by Marcia Merry Baker.
Germany Urgently Needs A New Fiscal Policy
by Rainer Apel
If panic and despair were commodities traded on the market, Germany would be a flourishing economy under Minister of Finance Hans Eichel. For weeks, hardly any day has gone by without another attempt to promote deeper cuts in yet another budget item. But things have now taken an absurd course. Eichel's problem is that he cannot think of a reasonable alternative to the European Union's Maastricht system of strict budget rules, and because he sees no alternative, he keeps trying to do the impossible: staying loyal to the Maastricht rules while at the same time violating them, continuously.
International:
Fallujah: A Turning-Point In the Iraq War?
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Just prior to the U.S. elections, a bombshell report was released, showing that 100,000 Iraqi civilians had died in the U.S.-led war and continuing occupation. The study, conducted by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, was released in the British journal Lancet. It was based on interviews with over 1,000 families in 33 districts across Iraq, which compared deaths before and after the invasion, and the causes of the deaths.
Tony Blair, Bush's 'Busted Flush'
by Alan Clayton
The re-election of George W. Bush is having a highly destabilizing effect on the political position of British Prime Minister Tony Blair.Amember of Blair's own Cabinet, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, appeared on television to say that 'the Labour Party is very disappointed that George Bush was reelected as U.S. President this week.' Until now, no member of the government has acknowledged the Labour Party's deep hostility to Mr. Bush and his Republican Administration, or the hopes that John Kerry, the Democratic candidate, would oust him.
Bush Re-Election Dismays Japan, Korea
by Kathy Wolfe
The Japanese and Korean governments, with large numbers of troops in Iraq, have reacted with caution to the re-election of George Bush. But two former heads of state and the press have been openly critical, accusing Bush of destroying the American union and the peace of the world. Japan's top daily Asahi News, Nov. 9, virtually accused Bush of vote fraud, comparing him to Josef Stalin.
France: A Timid Boost For Nuclear Energy
by Emmanuel Grenier
France has finally decided to stay on the nuclear track. It would be exaggerated, however, to speak of a 'fresh start,' as many commentators have done.Wedo, of course, welcome the decision to build the first EPR (European Pressurized Reactor), the 'third generation' French-German reactor, because it shows that France is not about to follow the German lead, by giving up nuclear energy.
India-EU Forge 'Strategic Partnership'
by Ramtanu Maitra
On board the Prime Minister's Special Aircraft, India's premier Manmohan Singh, returning from The Hague on Nov. 10 after finalizing a 'strategic partnership' between India and the European Union (EU), told reporters that the outcome of the summit 'far exceeded' the earlier meetings between the two, and it is now up to India to take decisions to move ahead.
Southern Thailand Crisis Shakes Region
by Mike Billington
The violence which has plagued the southern provinces of Thailand since January of this year escalated into a national and regional crisis on Oct. 25, when 78 detained protesters suffocated to death while being transported in Army trucks. The gruesome story of more than 1,000 protesters at the town of Tak Baimostly young Muslimmenbeing placed under arrest, bound, and literally piled up in the back of trucks, face down, some of them five-deep, for a five-hour drive to a military barracks, has caused shock and anger around the world, especially in neighboring Malaysia and Indonesia.
National:
GOP Vote Suppression: A Crime Against the U.S. Constitution
by Edward Spannaus
'The kinds of fraud which were perpetrated by the Republicans alone in this election, were sufficient to send these guys to jail, if not to un-elect them,' declared former Democratic President candidate Lyndon LaRouche during his Nov. 9 webcast. 'Voter suppression! . . . That's tyranny! That's dictatorship! And there was a lot of it,' LaRouche emphasized.
High-Tech Jim Crow: Stealing Ohio's Vote
by Michele Steinberg and Judy DeMarco
One day after Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry announced that he conceded the election to George W. Bush, there were at least 300,000 missing votes in Ohio, many of them in the heavily Democratic counties of Cuyahoga and Franklin, which had not been counted. George W. Bush was reportedly leading by only 136,483 votes at the time, and one day later, that lead was cut by about 3,800 votesfalsely recorded on a single machine in Franklin County, Ohio.
Satan and the Scopes Monkey Trial: How Do These Buttons Get Hot?
by Stanley Ezrol
Lyndon LaRouche called the Nov. 2 Presidential election a second loss of the Scopes Monkey Trial of July 1925. That trial in Dayton, Tennessee, marked the crest of the already breaking, 1920s Fundamentalist wave, in which 'evolutionism' became the hot button trigger to wildly irrational fear and rage against a scientific approach to understanding progress. This functioned much as 'pro-life' and 'gay marriage' became the leading hot-buttons by means of which tens of millions were impelled to march, zombie-like, to the polls in support of the supposed moral values of crazy, homicidal George W. Bush against the supposed immorality of abortion and same-sex marriage.
Conference Report:
Europe's National Economies Wrecked by Liberal 'Reforms'
We present here excerpts from three speeches at the Sept. 24- 26 Schiller Institute conference in Germany, delivered as part of the Sept. 25 panel on 'The State of the Physical Economies.' Two of the individuals who spoke are from the former Communist bloc country of Czechoslovakianow two countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia; and the third is from Italy, a 'Western' country. And yet, the three tell something of a similar story: That the 'red thread' showing up in the destruction of each of their nations' economies is the liberalization, the 'free market' poison of deregulation, privatization, and shock therapy austerity measures.
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