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LaRouche: Stop Brzezinski's Meddling in Ukraine

Lyndon LaRouche issued a statement on Nov. 29, warning President George Bush that, unless he wants to see the current crisis in Ukraine trigger the final collapse of the dollar system, he had better use his position to keep Zbigniew Brzezinski, Madeleine Albright, and Richard Holbrooke as far out of the picture as possible. The gang that made a mess out of the Balkan situation during the 1990s—Brzezinski and his protégés—is now meddling in Ukraine.

LaRouche emphasized that the U.S. government is going to have to work with European nations and with Russian President Putin, to avert the total destabilization of Ukraine or, even worse, its break-up. From the standpoint of Western Europe, Ukraine's descent into chaos would disrupt nearly one-third of its natural gas and oil supply, which is delivered from Russia through pipelines that cross Ukraine. From the standpoint of U.S. interests, it doesn't take a genius, LaRouche emphasized, to realize that an eruption of chaos in Ukraine at the moment that the global, dollar-denominated financial system is disintegrating, must be avoided at all costs. This, LaRouche added, means reining in Brzezinski.

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This Week in History

.December 6-12, 1863

President Lincoln Reports to Congress — On the State of the Union

On Dec. 8, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln sent to Congress both his Annual Message, and an appended Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. Coming as it did in the midst of a raging battle for the Union, the message was remarkable for the breadth of the domestic and foreign issues which it discussed. As Lincoln's secretary John Hay had written in August of that year, "The Tycoon is in fine whack. I have rarely seen him more serene and busy. He is managing this war, the draft, foreign relations, and planning a reconstruction of the Union, all at once...."

After citing the "improved condition of our national affairs," Lincoln's first focus in his Congressional message was the very important statement that, "We remain in peace and friendship with foreign powers." The fact that the European powers, especially Great Britain and France, were supporting the Confederacy and providing it with war materiel was well known. The Confederates themselves, and many of their radical Republican ideological allies, pushed any situation which could embroil the Union in controversies with Britain, hoping that the Union would have to fight two wars simultaneously. But, as Lincoln wisely said, when faced with almost intolerable incitements to resort to military measures, "One war at a time."

The possibility of foreign interference at the end of 1863 had lessened, however, partly due to the Emancipation Proclamation, and partly to Union victories. As Lincoln said in his message: "The efforts of disloyal citizens of the United States to involve us in foreign wars, to aid an inexcusable insurrection, have been unavailing. Her Britannic Majesty's government, as was justly expected, have exercised their authority to prevent the departure of new hostile expeditions from British ports. The Emperor of France has, by a like proceeding, promptly vindicated the neutrality which he proclaimed at the beginning of the contest."

What Lincoln diplomatically did not say, was that in early September, two ramming ships destined for the Confederate Navy were nearing completion at Birkenhead, Britain. Many such ships had been built already at Liverpool and other ports and had crossed the Atlantic to make up the bulk of the Confederate navy. This time, however, after the Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, Charles Francis Adams, the U.S. Minister to Great Britain, informed British Foreign Minister Lord Russell, that if the ships at Birkenhead were allowed to sail, "it would be superfluous for me to point out to your Lordship that this is war." The ships did not sail.

As for Napoleon III of France, he had withdrawn from more overt support of the Confederacy, but he would, in the coming year, install Duke Maximillian of Austria as Emperor of Mexico on the southern flank of the United States. But any plans that France and Great Britain were hatching to engage in open war with the Union were quickly put aside when the Czar of Russia sent both his Atlantic and Pacific fleets for a goodwill visit to the United States in the late fall, thus sending an unmistakable message that Russia would not allow any interference by the European powers. On Dec. 19, soon after Lincoln had sent his message to Congress, seamen from the Russian Atlantic Squadron were received by the President at an afternoon reception at the White House.

In the same message, Lincoln stated that "Satisfactory arrangements have been made with the Emperor of Russia, which, it is believed, will result in effecting a continuous line of telegraph through that empire from our Pacific coast. I recommend to your favorable consideration the subject of an international telegraph across the Atlantic ocean; and also of a telegraph between this capital and the national forts along the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico." President Lincoln had a very strong dedication to the development of science and technology, and took every occasion to support inventors whose work might help the nation. He himself in his earlier days had designed a river boat with "buoyant chambers" and "sliding spars." And in 1863, while travelling to confer with General Hooker, Lincoln wrote down his idea for the design of a fast, strong "steam-ram" which could guard a harbor, "as a Bull-dog guards his master's door." Joseph Henry, the nation's leading scientist and head of the Smithsonian Institution, said that "the most far-seeing head in this land is on the shoulders of that awkward rail-splitter from Illinois."

In another part of his message to Congress, Lincoln dealt with the slave trade: "The supplemental treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the suppression of the African slave trade, made on the 17th day of February last, has been duly ratified, and carried into execution. It is believed that, so far as American ports and American citizens are concerned, that inhuman and odious traffic has been brought to an end." On Jan. 1 of 1863, Lincoln had signed the final version of the Emancipation Proclamation. He told Secretary of State William Seward that, "If my name ever goes into history it will be for this act, and my whole soul is in it."

The Proclamation freed only slaves in the territory controlled by the Confederacy, but it also stated that Negroes "will be received into the armed services of the United States." During that year, Lincoln promoted the recruitment of black troops, and when the Confederates declared that captured Northern black soldiers would be put to death, the President issued a warning on July 30 that "the government of the United States will give the same protection to all its soldiers."

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Feature:

Unmasking the Secret War By the 'Economic Hit Men'
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
The book is a thunderbolt: John Perkins, scion of a well- known family of the American East Coast Establishment, tells the secrets, in his just-published Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, of the 'tool-box' of the international financial oligarchy —how above all, the developing countries are kept under the diktat of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, and private financial interests, through an entire repertoire of economic blackmail, the use of murder-for-hire, and finally, war.

Development Projects vs. The IMF Hit Men, 1971-91
During the 20-year period of 1971-91, there was a global drive for great development projects and for debt moratoria in the developing sector, which was met by intensive, dirty 'Hit Man' operations to sabotage these efforts. Some significant efforts—exemplified by the Eurasian Land-Bridge campaign—continued after this time, but with the 'missed opportunity' around the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the financial oligarchy had succeeded in blunting the global drive for development. The following timeline presents key events in this process. It was compiled by Edward Spannaus and the editors of EIR.

George Pratt Shultz: Profile of a Hit Man
by Scott Thompson and Nancy Spannaus
If there is any one figure who stands out as a consistent, evil representative of the philosophy of the Economic Hit Man over the last 35 years, it is George Pratt Shultz. Shultz is a second-generation operative for the international synarchist banking network; he operates largely behind the scenes, but decisively toward carrying out the global fascist agenda of those international bankers.

Book Review
'Washington Consensus' Indicted for Genocide
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization To Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions
by John Perkins
San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2004
264 pages, hardbound, $24.95
The great European republican philosopher and scientist Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz wrote that this is the best of all possible worlds. Those thoughts came to my mind several weeks back when a colleague, John Hoefle, while using the Internet for research, came upon an interview that author John Perkins had given to 'Democracy Now's' Amy Goodman. The interview text and audio-voice stream were shared with Lyndon LaRouche, who immediately concluded that the remarks by Perkins were of remarkable strategic significance— particularly in the wake of the events of Nov. 2-3, 2004, pointing towards the prospect of four more years of the Bush-Cheney abomination in the White House.

  • Interview: John Perkins
    There's a 'Tremendous Opportunity for Change'
    EIR: I want to start by asking you about the response to the book.
    Perkins: The response has been incredible. It's been amazing to me, and also gratifying. The book hasn't received what we might call 'mainstream' press coverage. In fact, I was supposed to be on one of the major networks a couple weeks ago, flew to New York to be on it: Two hours before I was supposed to be on, they pulled me, and said that one of the major producers had decided that the political ramifications were too dire, to have me on.

Strategic Studies:

A Time for Some Real Leadership: Is Fallujah a New Dien Bien Phu?
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
November 14, 2004
At this moment of the most deadly turning-point in world history, most of the people who should be thinking as commanders- in-chief, are acting, instead, like a pack of whimpering job-applicants who just received news that they had, probably, lost the job. I see in them men and women who prefer, to whimper, like poorly trained actors who had just failed at try-outs for the part of Hamlet. We need better leadership, political leadership like that which General Douglas MacArthur showed at Inchon, for example.

'Victory' in Fallujah:
A Political Disaster
by Carl Osgood
During a Nov. 16 interview on Philippines radio (EIR, Nov. 26), EIR founder Lyndon LaRouche reported that the U.S. military assault on Fallujah, launched on Nov. 9, one week after U.S. Election Day, has settled nothing in Iraq. 'You have an impossible situation, and an impossible war,' LaRouche said, 'We have a general destabilization of the entire area of Southwest Asia. We have chain reaction effects around the world.' A few days later, he commented, 'They have made all of Iraq, greater Fallujah.'

The Battle of Dien Bien Phu: The French Empire Dies in Vietnam
by Gail G. Billington
This article is reprinted from the New Federalist newspaper, May 3, 2004.
Fifty years ago, for 55 days, from March 13 to May 8, 1954, a small town in Northeast Vietnam was the scene of a battle between the forces of the French colonial occupying power and those of the pro-independence Viet Minh, led by Ho Chi Minh and his senior general, Vo Nguyen Giap.

The Issue of Effective Leadership: General MacArthur's Inchon Flank
by Steve Douglas
In the days after the Nov. 2 Presidential election, Lyndon LaRouche spoke of the special qualities of leadership that a great commander in chief represents, and how that type of leadership—which LaRouche uniquely embodies—is what is desperately needed in the United States today. He cited Gen. Douglas MacArthur's design and conduct of the Battle of Inchon in the Korean Waras exemplary of this quality. This summary of that brilliant flanking operation by MacArthur is provided for historical background.


Economics:

The Great Crash of 2004-2005 Is Here!
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
November 28, 2004
It is time to speak, in the spirit of Aeschylus, Shakespeare, and Schiller, of the Great American Tragedy of 2004. Somefeatured cartoons in the weekend British and U.S.A. press, among other relevant sources, have announced that the world's present, great monetary-financial crisis is now accelerating into its phase as a general collapse.

Argentina: Center of Global Economic Battle
by Cynthia R. Rush
Argentina is once again in the center of the strategic battle for the continued survival of sovereign nation-states. As the dollar's downward spiral accelerates along with the disintegration of the global monetary system, London and Wall Street-based financial oligarchs fear that President Néstor Kirchner's resistance to the insane demands of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and its vulture fund allies, could inspire other debtors to act similarly and bringdown the whole rotten mess.

Hans Tietmeyer's 'New Social Market-Economy Initiative'—Cui Bono?
by Elke Fimmen
In the present world financial crisis and the depression in the real economy, the simple question is: What comes first—the financial interests of the oligarchy, who want to overcome the crisis at the expense of the population, or the principle of the General Welfare, which obligates sovereign governments to care for the human beings entrusted to them?


International:

Flattened by IMF, Ukraine In Geopolitical Crosshairs
by Rachel Douglas
Economic globalization and geopolitics have come together in Ukraine, with deadly results for the people of that nation and danger for the rest of the world. The political strife that gripped Ukraine during this year's Presidential election and has paralyzed Kiev since the inconclusive run-off vote of Nov. 21 (which is unresolved at this writing), is not the clash of 'Western, Europe-oriented' Ukraine vs. 'Eastern, Russia- oriented' Ukraine, as depicted in the mass media.

LaRouche: Stop Brzezinski's Meddling in Ukraine
Lyndon LaRouche issued a statement on Nov. 29, warning President George Bush that, unless he wants to see the current crisis in Ukraine trigger the final collapse of the dollar system, he had better use his position to keep Zbigniew Brzezinski, Madeleine Albright, and Richard Holbrooke as far out of the picture as possible.

LaRouche Warns: Bush Is on Autopilot for Korea Conflict
by Kathy Wolfe
South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and Chinese President Hu Jintao have just warned George Bush and Dick Cheney, in strong terms, not to start a war in Korea. But Bush is almost on 'auto-pilot' for military confrontations worldwide, American Democratic leader Lyndon LaRouche said Dec. 1.


National:

The Vanishing American Pension Foretells Bush Social Security Gameplan
by Anita Gallagher
Today, only 50% of America's private-sector workforce is covered by any kind of savings or pension plan. And the number of private employers who offer 'defined benefit' pension plans—the 'Cadillac' type which guarantees a monthly benefit from retirement to the end of the retiree's life—has fallen from 112,000 in the mid-1980s, to only 31,000 today; none has been established for at least a decade.

Leading Democrats Take Up Vote-Suppression Fight
by Edward Spannaus
'What happened on Nov. 2 was not an election, but a not- so-cold coup d'e´tat against the United States Constitution,' former Democratic presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche declared in a Nov. 9 international webcast. And those in the Bush-Cheney campaign and the Republican Party who engaged in a widespread campaign of vote-suppression are guilty of violating the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the Constitution, LaRouche charged. 'The kinds of frauds which were perpetrated by the Republicans alone in this election, were sufficient to send these guys to jail, if not to un-elect them,' LaRouche stated.

From the Congress
Democrats Denounce GOP Omnibus Funding Bill
The Democrats on the House Appropriations committee, headed by Rep. Dave Obey (Wisc.), issued this press release on Nov. 22, titled 'Obey: 'This Bill Is a Poster Child for Institutional Failure.' '

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