The LaRouche Connection

Program Summaries: 2003
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Program No. 591
"LaRouche: Youth Movement Key to Saving Civilization"

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features an address given by Lyndon LaRouche on January 5 to the staff of EIR News Service at its European bureau in Wiesbaden, Germany. Included also is a portion from the discussion session following Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks.

Telling his audience that the survival of civilization, and its ability to recover from the current global crisis depends on the success of the international youth movement that he personally is building, Mr. LaRouche explains that only the creation of a youth movement based upon an understanding of fundamental principles--such as the distinction that makes man different from the beasts--and that is committed to fight for policies based on those principles, will have the staying power to prevent a slide back into crisis and chaos. Whenever society allows itself to be governed by the prevailing popular opinions, that society heads for tragedy and doom. The key then to saving civilization, is the rise of a leader, at a moment of crisis, who is able to lift a people above their wrong-headed popular opinions, enable them "to recognize that their culture is rotten, and to change it, in time." Such leaders "did not work alone. As far as we know, there have been youth movements, who have arisen in response to such leadership, to kick their parents in the rear end, and to make them human again."

Mr. LaRouche provides a tour d’horizon of European and American history, pointing out that civilization is marked by ebbs and flows, moving forward where leaders and movements go against popular opinion, and falling back and even collapsing, as cultures slide into decay. Using the example of the Golden Renaissance giving way to the decadence of the Enlightenment and Romanticism, he describes how a network of leaders were able to revive principles of the Renaissance, to create a new potential flowering of human knowledge and civilization: Johann Sebastian Bach, Gottfried Leibniz. Abraham Kaestner, Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, among many others.

Mr. LaRouche describes his own efforts to build a youth movement, starting, really, in the 1960s, and reviving it in the last two years, as the organization he founded has aged. "The difference of this youth movement, and those you’ve known from the past, is [that prior] youth movements have been too practical. There’s been too much enthusiasm, and too little intellect. And therefore you do not have leaders in sufficient numbers, to have a secure movement…. Therefore, we have to produce a youth movement of geniuses. We have to outnumber the enemy, so we’re not vulnerable to the loss of a few people, as we are now."

You do that by inculcating in youth leaders the principles of Classical culture, making them all capable of thinking like LaRouche. A grounding in Classical education, especially understanding the work of the great German mathematician Gauss, teaches one to grasp the idea that reality is not defined by one’s senses, but by one’s ability to think, to see with one’s mind. This is the essence of man, his ability to know, to think creatively, to discover fundamental principles, and to communicate them; no beast can willfully change its environment, no beast can make its own history.

To be a real leader, one must be willing to face one’s immortality. "My mission here, is to develop a stratum of young people – 18 to 25 year olds – who represent a broad base of capable leadership, who by being broad in their numbers, and qualities, are not so vulnerable, as those youth movements to which we are indebted from the past."

Release Date: Jan. 16, 2003

Program No. 592
"Dialogues with LaRouche: Berlin & Budapest

In mid-December, 2002, Lyndon LaRouche traveled to Berlin and Budapest

In Berlin, Germany, on Dec. 18, at a seminar sponsored by Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) magazine, Lyndon LaRouche spoke on the necessity for resolute and thoughtful action this coming year: "On the 28^th of January, about five days after President George W. Bush, Jr. will have delivered his State of the Union address, I shall issue mine, which will be webcast [live from] Washington, DC. Until those two addresses have been made, it will be extremely difficult to estimate what U.S. policy is going to be, and consequently, very difficult to estimate what the world situation will be."

Attending the seminar were diplomats from Arab, Asian, African, and East European embassies, representatives of Arab, German, and Asian media, and students from universities in France, Denmark, Berlin, and a representative from the Robert Schuman Center for Europe in Luxembourg.

This first segment of this week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features the conclusion of the discussion session following Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks to that seminar. [See The LaRouche Connection Program No. 589 for Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks.]

In Budapest, Hungary on December 12, Mr. LaRouche spoke before a Schiller Institute co-sponsored a seminar, at the St. Laszlo Academy in Budapest, entitled "How to Reconstruct a Bankrupt World." One hundred twenty friends and guest were challenged by Mr. LaRouche with the question of what quality of "moral leadership" is needed to overcome the presently unfolding world-wide tragedy.

The second segment of this week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features the conclusion of the discussion session following Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks to that seminar. [See The LaRouche Connection Program No. 588 for Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks.]

Release Date: Jan. 24, 2003

Program No. 593
"LaRouche: The State of the Union in 2003," Pt. 1

On January 28, Lyndon LaRouche delivered one of the most historic speeches of his long and distinguished career in public life, in his "State of the Union," subtitled "On the Subjects of Economy and Security." From the Bush team’s last-minute "damage control" revision of the President’s own State of the Union speech, delivered several hours later; to the diplomat and international journalists firing off e-mails to their home countries; to the on-line viewers in the world’s corridors of power and homes of ordinary citizens--the shockwaves from the speech are spreading out, and will be doing so for a long time to come. Mr. LaRouche’s intervention comes at one of the most dangerous times in history, with the dollar system hanging by a thread, and the Clash of Civilizations faction in a countdown for war against Iraq.

Representing what its former friends around the world call "the true United Sates," the historical "exception" founded by a Leibnizian conspiracy as a sovereign republic, opposed to the bestial notion of empire, Mr. LaRouche’s approach to the world contrasts dramatically from the current sitting President. LaRouche insists that the utopian drive to attack Iraq can be stopped, while Bush encourages it; LaRouche demonstrates that the current financial system is finished, and outlines economic recovery measures to save the country, while Bush ignores the collapse of the financial system and the physical economy; LaRouche outlines forceful action to stop HIV/AIDS from wiping out nations in Africa, while Bush inserts an HIV/AIDS initiative to supply drugs to Africa, at the last minute in his speech.

Constituting the live audience of over 250 in Washington, DC, were 19 diplomats representing 16 nations spanning Africa, Asia, Europe, Eastern Europe, Ibero-America, and the Middle East; as well as representatives from associations of State legislators, Middle East policy associations, American Muslim organizations, the Nation of Islam, Congressional staff, community, ethnic, and political activists, and three representatives of the press. LaRouche youth movement recruits counted for more than 20%. The speech was watched and/or listened to live on nearly 800 web connections, besides group meetings held around the audio/video Internet broadcast, from Detroit, Michigan to Lima, Peru.

Mr. LaRouche’s address is a thorough-composed overview of what he calls "the present as current history." He covers four major areas: (1) the causes and nature of the present economic crisis; (2) the emergency measures which must be taken now; (3) the global strategic conflicts which overlap this economic crisis; and (4) the urgent measures needed to correct the current panic-driven notions of "homeland defense." Mr. LaRouche uses the occasion to call for firing Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff and chief national security aide.

Mr. LaRouche concludes by saying "[T]here's no need for the problems we have today. There’s no need for their happening. But if we understand why they shouldn’t have happened, as I’ve tried to indicate as succinctly as possible, we can fix the problems now, and perhaps prevent them from recurring again in the future."

Release Date: Feb. 7, 2003

Program No. 594
LaRouche: The State of the Union in 2003," Pt. 2

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features the second hour of his opening remarks.

Release Date: Feb. 26, 2003

Program No. 595
"LaRouche: The State of the Union in 2003," Pt. 3

On January 28, Lyndon LaRouche delivered one of the most historic speeches of his long and distinguished career in public life, in his "State of the Union," subtitled "On the Subjects of Economy and Security." This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features the conclusion of his opening remarks, and the beginning of the discussion session which followed.

From the discussion session, moderated by Debra Freeman, national spokeswoman for Mr. LaRouche:

From a member of the staff of one of the Congressional Committees: Why is budget-cutting not sound economic policy?
From many questioners: On Rev. Sun Moon and the Unification Church: their role in current policy of this Administration toward Korea, in the Nation of Islam, and their general intent?
From many questioners: On Africa policy: what can we do right now?

Release Date: March 6, 2003

Program No. 596
"In the Aftermath of January 28"

Over the Presidents’ Day weekend, the LaRouche movement met in Reston, Virginia, preparing its members to take leadership in a world exploding with revolutionary change. With the theme "This is Our Time," about 750 people--more than 200 of them youth--attended the semi-annual conference of the Schiller Institute, in the midst of the worst blizzard to hit the U.S. East Coast in 40 years.

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features the keynote address given on Feb. 15 by Lyndon LaRouche, entitled "In the Aftermath of January 28."

Mr. LaRouche takes up the international situation since January 28 when he gave his State of the Union Address, [See The LaRouche Connection Programs No. 593 and 594], reviewing the tremendous progress shown in the phase shift reflected in the Feb. 14 United Nations Security Council meeting and the massive demonstrations against the war the next day. A revolution in world public opinion has been made on the question of the alleged "inevitability" of the war against Iraq, and LaRouche and his movement have played a crucial catalytic role in jamming up the war, providing time for the anti-war movement, and strong international resistance to develop. This tested leadership must now turn America away from tragedy, and onto the path of a real economic recovery.

Turning to the cause of the crisis, Mr. LaRouche reprises what has happened to the U.S. economy over the past 40 years, showing how the monetary-financial system has been driven into a state of terminal collapse. "What you’ve seen, is this transformation of the U.S., from the world’s leading producer society, into an imperial society, which lives, not by producing wealth at home, but by looting the rest of the world, using imperial military and financial muscle to force other countries to feed us, on a slave-wage production budget." The problem, he argues, is in the morality of the population, which has disintegrated, with everyone kowtowing to public opinion. What is needed, instead, is sublime leadership, to inspire. "We’ve come to a time of great potential tragedy, and great opportunity. We’ve come to a time where mankind is shaken. We find people moving. And even though the war has not yet been stopped, we have an affirmation from implicitly the great majority of humanity, saying : "This war shall not be allowed to occur!’ That is a great moment"

"In history, from time to time, in moments of crisis, there has emerged a leadership, capable of addressing a people who realize ‘We’ve been wrong.’ The danger of great, senseless wars, sweeping over this planet, convinces people that something is wrong; that drastic change is occurring." "We’ve come to a time, when it is no longer possible to fool all of the people. This is one of those periods in history of great opportunity for change, where the fate of mankind depends largely upon a relative handful of leaders; always has. And, there’s reason for it." "The most important thing, is to produce, among young people, when they are entering maturity, a sense--a true, deep sense--of immortality." If the younger generation, the "no-future" generation," can grasp that sense, then they in turn can inspire their parents’ generation with a true sense of historic mission for humanity. We can then proceed to put the economy through bankruptcy reorganization, implement a New Bretton Woods, build great infrastructure projects such as the Eurasian Land-Bridge, the Super-TVA, and the exploration of space: a real future! "I think we’ll find the world is ready for us. Its ready for us to play a leading role, once again."

Release Date: March 12, 2003

Program No. 597
"LaRouche Youth Movement: Shattering Axioms," Pt. 1

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features the first half of Panel V: The LaRouche Youth Movement: "Shattering Axioms, Fighting for Our Future!" from Feb. 16.

Presenting various "pedagogical exercises," leaders of the LaRouche Youth Movement from around the country explore the boundaries of science and art, by means of various paradoxes--known for thousands of years, but understood by few in today's world--pointing up the malicious mis-education we all have received.

Cody Jones, the panel chairman, begins by stating that "students need to stop watching the shadows on the irregular wall of their professors’ rectums, and crawl out to smell the reality behind the shadows." "If you want to run from your immortality, LaRouche will be waiting with his youth movement at the door."

Jennifer Chaine (an ex truck driver), introduces classical art, "something that today’s students are taught to rush through on their way to getting down to the ‘expressing myself’ part as quickly as possible." She leads her audience through Rembrandt’s Lucretia, as a classical tragedy in mid-motion.

Alex Getachew presents poetry, as "an act of revolution," through the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Paul Lawrence Dunbar. He shows a videotape of baritone William Warfield reciting Dunbar’s poem on Shelley, which ends, "we tingle where old poets used to storm." In revolutionary times like this, as Shelley states, the population is endowed with a non-mystical power to discuss the most profound ideas of man. Poets, Shelley says, are the "unacknowledged legislators" of Man, making people more fit to govern.

Jason Ross continues the mental fight for the sublime, and an end to "sucking shadows." "You have to get inside someone, if you want them to change, not propitiate their backwardness." Bernard Riemann’s Habilitation dissertation makes clear to all but the most blocked, that true knowledge always increases Man’s power to change the universe, and thus is only provably true through physical experiment. Jason illustrates this idea by contracting the "shadow-watchers" with Johannes Kepler, who shows how to find a new acting principle that has power over your observations. "What’s wrong with your thinking, is where you find the Truth. Common sense may be common, but its not sense. People get PhDs for studying tiny parts of shadows in the cave, but they are oblivious to the fact that they themselves are in a cave."

Anna Shavin presents the paradox of the Pythagorean Comma. Assisted by Jennifer Kreingold, she leads her audience through the divisions of the monochord, to a demonstration of piano vs. the human voice. Repeating the experiment, she makes sure the audience actually hears the paradox of the slight difference (the comma) between the voice and the piano, rather than just nodding their heads. She then shows that it was actually a paradox in the geometry of the universe, as commas occur as well on the keyboard.

Release Date: March 17, 2003

Program No. 598
"LaRouche Youth Movement: Shattering Axioms," Pt. 2

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features the second half of Panel V: The LaRouche Youth Movement: "Shattering Axioms, Fighting for Our Future!" from Feb. 16.

Presenting various "pedagogical exercises," leaders of the LaRouche Youth Movement from around the country explore the boundaries of science and art, by means of various paradoxes--known for thousands of years, but understood by few in today’s world--pointing up the malicious mis-education we all have received. Chairing the panel is Cody Jones.

Riana St. Classis, assisted by Sky Shields and Anna Shavin, perplexes her audience with a pedagogical on mapping and projection, using a series of transparent spheres, projected in different ways onto a flat screen, to show how the mapping process generates ordered singularities that occur as paradoxes to the observer. "It is the discovery and comprehension of these paradoxes which help us get at what’s really going on."

Sky Shields, continues with Riana’s mapping, shows the enlarged image of Antarctica in a Mercator Projection as a metaphor for what Bach uses to express a musical idea. "It is in the utilization of such paradoxes as irony, counterpoint, and metaphor, that the human mind is forced out of the notes and into the actual idea."

Lyndon LaRouche, invited by the youth to give some brief remarks, about the fundamental nature of Man, points out that there are three distinct phase spaces in the universe: 1) A-biotic, which does not assume Life, and which is characterized, as in crystal growth, in symmetrical geometries; 2) Life, which introduces "left-handed" distortions into the a-biotic universe; and 3) Spiritual, the cognitive powers of the human mind. Mr. LaRouche provides three "spiritual exercises," by which Man discovers the pre-existing fundamental principles of the universe, for the purpose of, and which permits him to, transform the universe: 1) the Pythagorean Comma; 2) the doubling of the line, square, and cube; and 3) the fact that there is only one regular polyhedron which can be inscribed in a sphere.

Brian McAndrews then speaks about how the LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM) sees itself as part of an historical process, comparing itself to the light cavalry of Civil War General Phil Sheridan, whose deployments were designed for strategic, not local, purposes, to win the war. "We have to amplify our effect beyond the field of battle, to win the war. Our mission is two-fold: to put LaRouche in the White House in 2004, and to launch a perpetual renaissance, creating generations of geniuses. In our cavalry, no knowledge of horseback riding is required, but we have to know about the horses’ asses that permeate the ranks of the baby boomers." Using still photos and video clips, Brian discusses the development of the LYM as an unfolding of an idea in the mind of Lyndon LaRouche four years ago, to the present, where it deploys internationally. "Profound ideas are conveyed through beautiful art." "It is ideas which shape events, not the other way around."

Release Date: April 2, 2003

Program No. 599
"Physical Geometry as Strategy," Pt. 1

On March 21-23, the Schiller Institute convened an international conference, entitled "How to Reconstruct a Bankrupt World," in Bad Schwalbach, Germany. Nearly 600 people from 45 nations--including 120 LaRouche Youth Movement activists from across Europe--came to confront the disaster of imperial "perpetual war," with a grand design for economic development, put out for worldwide circulation as "The Bad Schwalbach Declaration."

Featured in this edition of The LaRouche Connection is the first hour of Lyndon LaRouche’s keynote, delivered the day after U.S. strikes against Iraq began. Mr. LaRouche condemns the war as the beginning of a world war. "If you don’t stop it, there is no ‘after” Iraq war, because you will be going into another war, under an administration which is totally committed to a worldwide fascist imperialism. Therefore, we must stop it."

Sitting next to Mr. LaRouche on the podium were representatives from three nations of the Eurasian Strategic Triangle: Dr. Vladimir Myasnikov from the Far East Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Dr. Bi Jiyao from the Chinese State Development Planning Commission; and Chandrajit Yadav a Minister in Indira Gandhi’s government. Tam Dalyell, Britain’s anti-war parliamentary leader, known as the "Father of the House of Commons," sent a message to the conference, saying "I applaud Lyndon LaRouche’s caring serious approach toward Iraq."

LaRouche: "There is a combination of farce and tragedy in progress in Washington, DC. Its a kind of Shakespearean farce, in which the President is playing the role of King Lear, and the Vice President that of Lady Macbeth. But this is a very serious matter. Sometimes fools will do what others will not do, and sometimes, he who wishes to have a great crime committed, finds a fool to do it, because he wont shrink from it, because he doesn’t know any better. Like this poor President, who sincerely does no know what he’s doing. Has no idea what the reality is, in which he’s operating."

"What we have to understand is that, in this tragedy, as in all Classical tragedies, in all true tragedies in history, the root of disaster is not leaders of the people. It is not leading institutions. It is the people themselves, who bring disaster upon themselves, by selecting leaders, or by supporting leaders, who are the agents of that disaster. That’s what the Greek tragedy teaches. That’s what Shakespeare teaches. That’s what Schiller teaches. That’s truth."

Mr. LaRouche explains the roots of popular corruption and challenges his audience to give up those public opinions, and policy axioms, which permitted world leaders to start this war--and to mobilize for a worldwide economic recovery program which could lead to world peace. This program has been developed over years by the LaRouche movement, in the form of the Eurasian Land-Bridge and an FDR-style New Bretton Woods monetary and financial system.

Release Date: April 10, 2003

Program No. 600
"Physical Geometry as Strategy," Pt. 2

Featured in this edition of The LaRouche Connection is the conclusion of Lyndon LaRouche’s keynote, "Physical Geometry as Strategy," delivered the day after U.S. strikes against Iraq began. Mr. LaRouche condemns the war as the beginning of a world war. "If you don’t stop it, there is no ‘after the Iraq war,’ because you will be going into another war, under an administration which is totally committed to a worldwide fascist imperialism. Therefore, we must stop it."

Mr. LaRouche explains the roots of popular corruption and challenges his audience to give up those public opinions, and policy axioms, which permitted world leaders to start this war--and to mobilize instead for a worldwide economic recovery program which could lead to world peace. This program has been developed over years by the LaRouche movement, in the form of the Eurasian Land-Bridge and an FDR-style New Bretton Woods monetary and financial system.

Sitting next to Mr. LaRouche on the podium were representatives from China, India, and Russia (the three nations of the Eurasian Strategic Triangle), whose presentations, along with that of a representative from Nigeria, are also included in this edition:

Chandrajit Yadav (former Union Minister, government of India under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.): "Why We Need Peace and Eurasian Union." He spoke to the "Eurasian Land-Bridge" panel on March 22.

Dr. Bi Jiyao (Director, Institute for International Economic Research, State Development and Reform Commission of China, Beijing): "China’s Economic Development Prospects and New Measures in Opening Up [the Process]." Dr. Bi spoke to the "Eurasian Land-Bridge" panel on March 22.

Academician Vladimir S. Myasnikov (Deputy Director, Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences): "The Strategic Triangle of Russia, China, and India: the Eurasian Aspect." Dr. Myasnikov spoke to the "Eurasian Land-Bridge" panel on March 22.

Prof. Sam Aluko (retired economics professor, and former economic advisor for various Nigerian governments for more than 30 years): "Conflicts and Economic Development in Africa." Prof. Aluko spoke to the "New Bretton Woods" panel on March 23.

Release Date: April 19, 2003

Program No. 601
"The Loss of Liberty"

On June 8, 1967, during the Six Day War between Israel and the Arab States, the American intelligence ship USS Liberty was attacked for 75 minutes in international waters by Israeli aircraft and motor torpedo boats. Thirty-four men died and 172 were wounded.

The attack has been a matter of controversy ever since. Survivors and many key government officials, including then Sec. of State Dean Rusk and former Joint Chief of Staff Chairman Adm. Thomas H. Morrer, say it was no accident. Israel and its supporters insist it was a "tragic case of mis-identification," and charge that the survivors are either lying or too emotionally involved to see the truth.

American documentary film-maker Tito Howard has produced a powerful documentary on the attack, the recall of the 6^th Fleet fighter planes sent to protect Liberty, and the subsequent cover-up by the Israeli and U.S. Governments, proving beyond any doubt, that the Israeli attack was pre-medicated and deliberate. The video includes deeply moving testimony from many Liberty survivors, a number of Congressional Medal of Honor winners, and from such high-ranking Americans as Adm. Morrer, Adm. Arleigh Burke, Gen. Ray Davis, and Sec. of State Rusk.

Mr. Howard has made this documentary available to EIR News Service for distribution through The LaRouche Connection cable TV network.

[Visit http://ussliberty.org for more information about the Liberty Alliance, a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to a full investigation by the U.S. Congress.]

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Program No. 602
"Helga Zepp LaRouche: the Eurasian Land-Bridge Concept," Pt. 1

Featured in this edition of The LaRouche Connection is the first hour of Founder and Chairman Helga Zepp LaRouche’s keynote, entitled "The Eurasian Land-Bridge Concept: the Answer to the Strategic Crisis."

Referring to the U.S. strikes against Iraq, just begun the day before, Mrs. LaRouche begins: "I feel sick. What is happening is mass murder, and the whole world is watching it. If Friedrich Schiller were alive today, what would he say? Something like ‘You foolish people! Don’t you see that Nemesis is about to strike? That there is a higher lawfulness, which will come back and haunt you, for what you are doing!’" She continues: "The doctrine of "pre-emptive war," the idea of first strike--nuclear weapons against countries without nuclear weapons--if not stopped, means the end of international law, and the return to barbarism. It could plunge the world into a new Dark Age and international anarchy, which is why we have to work to reverse this, as quickly as possible."

Reflecting the vision of Leibniz and the content of the historic collaboration between Russian Finance Minister Count Serge Witte, and France’s Gabriel Hanotaux, the alternative is coming together in a new alliance for Eurasian development. "Two world wars were organized to sabotage this development. We need to look back 150 years and make sure we do not repeat the mistakes made in the past. We have to prevent a new world war."

Mrs. LaRouche then proceeds to look at the situation prior to the outbreak of World War I. Then, as now, the people who speak about the inevitability of war, are also the same people who want it, who have their own ulterior motives. It is not true, however, that war is inevitable. "In 1892 there was no real reason for war." Hanotaux and Witte had a mission to establish a ‘community of principle.’ Witte pushed the construction of railroads, setting up in 1892 the Siberian Railway Commission to industrialize Russia. Both were followers of Friedrich List, the German economist, whose ideas of a Zollvereign (customs union) helped unify Germany. "There was an alternative to war, and that alternative was Eurasian development, which was opposed on geopolitical grounds. Today, the issues are the same as at the end of the 19^th Century. Today, we need new institutional agreements which will go far beyond the Marshall Plan or the New Deal." "At the same time, we need a new cultural paradigm. We must develop a dialogue of cultures along with economic development. To do so, we must start with what is universal about man. Man is capable of improving the conditions of mankind through cognition, that which distinguishes him from the animal. International law must be developed. The concept of ‘natural law,’ which has been missing, must be re-introduced."

Mrs. LaRouche concludes by proposing a declaration be drafted and adopted at the conference--The Bad Schwalbach Declaration--with which to intervene in the world situation after the conference. "Our mission must be to bring the Age of the Folly of Mankind to an end forever!"

Release Date: May 2, 2003

Program No. 603
"Helga Zepp LaRouche: the Eurasian Land-Bridge Concept," Pt. 2

On March 21-23, the Schiller Institute convened an international conference, entitled "How to Reconstruct a Bankrupt World," in Bad Schwalbach, Germany. Nearly 600 people from 45 nations--including 120 LaRouche Youth Movement activists from across Europe and the United States--came to confront the disaster of imperial "perpetual war," with a grand design for economic development, put out for worldwide circulation as "The Bad Schwalbach Declaration."

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the last 10 minutes of Founder and Chairman Helga Zepp LaRouche’s keynote, entitled "The Eurasian Land-Bridge Concept: the Answer to the Strategic Crisis." She spoke on March 22. And, a portion from the panel given by youth organizers, including a video of a LaRouche Youth Movement intervention into a Young Democrats event in Sacramento, California.

Looking at the world situation prior to the outbreak of World War I, in Part 1, Mrs. LaRouche had said that then, as now, the people who speak about the inevitability of war, are also the same people who want it, who have their own ulterior motives. It is not true, however, that war is inevitable. "In 1892 there was no real reason for war." Hanotaux and Witte had a mission to establish a “community of principle.” Witte pushed the construction of railroads, setting up in 1892 the Siberian Railway Commission to industrialize Russia. Both were followers of Friedrich List, the German economist, whose ideas of a Zollvereign (customs union) helped unify Germany. "There was an alternative to war, and that alternative was Eurasian development, which was opposed on geopolitical grounds. Today, the issues are the same as at the end of the 19^th Century. Today, we need new institutional agreements which will go far beyond the Marshall Plan or the New Deal." "At the same time, we need a new cultural paradigm. We must develop a dialogue of cultures along with economic development. To do so, we must start with what is universal about man. Man is capable of improving the conditions of mankind through cognition, that which distinguishes him from the animal. International law must be developed. The concept of ‘natural law,’ which has been missing, must be re-introduced."

From the youth panel:

Daniel Buchmann (from Berlin): "The Bankruptcy of ‘Classroom Economics’"

Limari Navarette (from California): "LaRouche’s Unique Contribution"

Timothy Vance (from California): "LaRouche’s Campaign Doesn’t Tap-Dance"

Release Date: May 8, 2003

Program No. 604
"Classical Art: the Art of Communicating Ideas"

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features Lyndon LaRouche’s address to the Youth Cadre School which followed the main conference. He spoke on February 18. Also included is the first question from the Discussion session immediately following his opening remarks. Some quotes:

LaRouche: "The great problem in modern education systems and culture…[is that] education [has] broken down into two, almost water-tight separated cultures: one, physical science, and the other, the so-called liberal arts in general, and arts in particular. And of course, this is insanity. Its a problem, because people who are separated from art, cannot be truly competent in science, and those who are estranged from physical science, cannot be truly competent in politics, art, and so forth." "If you don’t know anything about economics, and you think you’re a physicist, you’re not really much of a physicist. Why? Because physical science is man’s mastery of the universe, in terms of the relationship of the individual mind, as an individual mind, to our capacity as mankind to master the universe, to cope with it. Now, mastery of the universe is a social relationship, even though it flows around the principle of the individual mind, in the sense that we’re dealing with the entire society, the entire planet."

"[The key question for] present-day education, and present mentality, [is] the ability to communicate effectively as human beings, to the purpose of organizing the activity of society to solve the problems of society." "Human communication, unlike computer communication, is based on ironies, on paradoxes, on metaphors, on ambiguities. So that what you say has a double or triple meaning." "[Y]ou communicate a meaning which is not located in a literal reading of the word, as a succession of object references, but a hidden meaning, which the mind of the person on the other end of the conversation is capable of recognizing."

"[Looking] again at this process of musicality, words by themselves really don’t solve the problem of communication." "The purpose [of classical drama] is to impel the mind of the hearer, as well as that of the speaker, to depart the realm of explicit sense-certainty, and to enter the domain of the imagination." "The most important thing in all aspects of human activity is how to enter the domain of the imagination, and how to communicate in such a way that you and the persons with whom you’re speaking, jointly depart the domain of sense-certainty, to enter the domain of the imagination." "The individual, in making a discovery, must enter the domain of the imagination, and must find efficient ways to prove that whatever he thinks he’s discovered in that domain, is physically efficient in the real domain."

"When you’re looking at music, poetry, oratory, painting, anything that you call art, you are looking at the same medium, and the same concepts, which should be recognized as physical science."

Release Date: May 15, 2003

Program No. 605
"Youth Dialogue with LaRouche: Feb. 18, 2003"

Over the Presidents’ Day weekend, the LaRouche movement met in Reston, Virginia, preparing its members to take leadership in a world exploding with revolutionary change. Between 250-300 people attended the historic cadre school following the main conference of the Schiller Institute, in the midst of the worst blizzard to hit the U.S. East Coast in 40 years. In addition to about 90-100 youth from the East Coast and 80 from the West Coast, there was also a group from the newly-opened Detroit office, nine from Germany, six from Australia, two from Canada, ten from Mexico and Peru, and three from Asia.

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features the discussion session with Lyndon LaRouche immediately following his opening remarks, beginning with the second question. [The first question, by Jahmal McNair, on whether the universe could be one massive communication of a profound idea, by a sovereign intelligence, and Mr. LaRouche’s response, is at the end of Program No. 604.]

Elizabeth Sopkovich: "Why is there so much fear? What is the purpose? It just seems to be here to make our job a lot harder that it has to be."

Cody Jones: On the paradox that the way to uplift people and bring about change in society is through poetry, music, etc., but there being no audience for it.

Todd Norquest: "St. Augustine said most people sort of get a glimpse of the higher joy, and it scares the Hell out of them, and they settle for lesser things. Are you trying to lift us out of this usual pleasure/pain thing we’re in?"

Ryan Milton: "What is Bach’s ‘figured bass’?" "How do you create a way to think about how somebody composes, a Bach, in particular?"

Nicole James: "How to you replicate having a good organizing day, and know that you’ve used the scientific methods, and not the same method as the oligarchy?"

Eric Thomas: How do you see mathematics, the way Gauss used it, in a poetic way, in a way of communicating ideas, as opposed to getting caught up in the particulars? Similarly, with music, how to define an approach to discover ideas, as Furtwangler did, as opposed to just becoming familiar with the notes--the particulars? Why is it that what first was experienced as emotionally terrible, can later on appear--also very powerfully--as something experienced as beautiful and profound? Can you sustain that and use that as a form of motivation, or impulse, in the political and intellectual work, as a driving force?

Release Date: May 22, 2003

Program No. 606
"Why Classical Art is the Only One," Pt. 1

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features Schiller Institute Founder and Chairman Helga Zepp LaRouche’s address to that youth cadre school.

Mrs. Zepp LaRouche begins with the question "Will there be something which will supercede classical art? Something more modern and easier?" To find the answer, she says, you have to go back to the period of the attack on what is known as the "Weimar classics," by the romantics. "But people today generally have no idea what classical art is; they don’t know what romantic is." She then presents her thesis that "the present ugliness of culture in all of its many depraved degenerated forms, is the end result of what started as the romantical period"

"Today, theater, poetry, architecture, and music are all completely romantic. How could this happen?" It began with false ideas about the Weimar classics spread by the romantics. "It is difficult to say whether the romantics were an agent operation of the financial oligarchy at the time of the Holy Alliance from the beginning, or were just a spontaneous group of crazy people picked up for a political purpose or political reaction."

Mrs. Zepp LaRouche discusses the fight during the Weimar period in Germany, over the critical ideas of "the good," "truth," and "beauty," between those on the side of classical art, such as Friedrich Schiller, Moses Mendelssohn, Gotthold Lessing, Johann Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Alexander von Humboldt, and Gottfried Leibniz; and the romantics, such as Frederick Schlaegel, Novalis, ETA Hoffman, Imanuel Kant, and Ludwig Tieck. She then says why the Greek classic, as a reference point, is so important, in which the ideas of the dignity of man, man being capable of reason, and the inalienable rights of man, first and uniquely emerged in the writings of Homer, Sophocles, Aeschelos, and Platon.

She compares the world outlooks of classic and romantic: on man and his purpose and place in the universe--becoming more perfect and developing all potentialities of his personality, or only one element in a limitless ocean of the ether; the aim of poetry--to elevate, or be popular; human emotions--the sublime vs. ecstatic; the task of drama--overcoming the conflict between freedom and necessity vs. going on forever.

"I am convinced that one of the reasons why Germany has been attacked so much, is because this period from Bach through Mozart up to Brahms, from Lessing and Mendelssohn, Schiller and Goethe, was the richest period in terms of culture." Were that culture to spread, with the prospect of every child becoming a genius, it would mean the end of the oligarchy.

Release Date: May 30, 2003

Program No. 607
"Why Classical Art is the Only One," Pt. 2

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features the conclusion of Schiller Institute Founder and Chairman Helga Zepp LaRouche’s address to that youth cadre school, arguing for the superiority of classical compared to romantic degenerated forms of art. She concludes with the statement that "Ugly and Beauty both have a lasting effect. Let us make Beauty our business, because Beauty is the necessary condition of Man. And I think America should become beautiful."

Included also is a portion from the discussion session following her opening remarks.

From a young woman: What role do you play in making sure your husband Lyndon stays on course with what needs to be done?

HZL: On what makes a successful marriage: a shared mission orientation.

From a young man: Comment on the role of historian Johann Winkelman in the re-kindling of Greek ideas in Germany.

HZL: You should take the best from the universal history of all cultures and make it your own.

From a young woman: On architecture, and the difference in how it affects people., e.g., ugly in Houston, Texas vs. beautiful in Florence, Italy. What is your vision of beautiful architecture in the future? Can we create it again?

HZL: If architecture alone would make beautiful souls, then Europe would be full of such people, but it is not. There are many other influences. In our building thousands of new cities, we must base them on beautiful designs.

Riana St.Classis: On the distinction between the Beautiful and the Sublime.

HZL: That which is beautiful is just simple, harmonious, pleasing to the senses, equal with the Truth and the Good, achieved without merit. The beautiful soul is someone who instinctively does what is beautiful without ulterior motive; whereas the sublime soul has educated his/her emotions to always blindly do what the emotions say. Sublime comes in when you’re threatened, as a physical being, when you morally have made a commitment to values and principles which are so important to the development of mankind, or to some other great cause, where you stick to those principles, even in the face of a fearful, threatening situation, because the Truth is more important than your little thing.

Release Date: June 5, 2003

Program No. 608
"Dialogue with the LaRouches: Feb. 16, 2003," Pt.1

Over the Presidents’ Day weekend, the LaRouche movement met in Reston, Virginia, preparing its members to take leadership in a world exploding with revolutionary change. With the theme "This is Our Time," about 750 people – more than 200 of them youth – attended the semi-annual conference of the Schiller Institute, in the midst of the worst blizzard to hit the U.S. East Coast in 40 years.

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features a portion of the Open Discussion (Panel IV) with Lyndon LaRouche and Helga Zepp LaRouche on Feb. 16. The panel is moderated by Jeffrey Steinberg.

Ed Hamler (Philadelphia): As a product of the counter-culture, I’m struggling with the concept of classical music. What does it mean? Where do we move on to, after we master classical music? What’s the potential for new kinds of music?

Lyndon LaRouche: [answer]

Maria Channon (Baltimore): Helga, you are restoring the soul of the U.S. in the same way that Schiller restored the soul of France in writing his play Joan of Arc. If Voltaire had not written his attacks on Joan of Arc and Leibniz, would the French Revolution have been another American Revolution? Who was Voltaire working for, and who was Schiller fighting against?

Helga Zepp LaRouche: [answer]

Darryl Dalton (Detroit): On the true meaning of human dignity.

Lyndon LaRouche: [answer]

Release Date: June 13, 2003

Program No. 609
"Dialogue with the LaRouches: Feb. 16, 2003," Pt. 2

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features another portion from the Open Discussion (Panel IV) with Lyndon LaRouche and Helga Zepp LaRouche on Feb. 16. The panel is moderated by Jeffrey Steinberg.

Darryl Dalton (Detroit, MI): On the true meaning of human dignity. [last question from Show 608]

Lyndon LaRouche: [answer]

Charles Spies (San Leandro, CA): We have found that providing elected officials, especially, with a sense of immortality, is essential to get them to change. How do you convey that sense of immortality in better and better ways?

Lyndon LaRouche: [answer]

Dean Grusky (Staten Island, NY): On the teaching of mathematics. How can the schools be changed to emphasize the rigor of discovery, rather than focusing solely on the equations as such?

Lyndon LaRouche: [answer]

Theresa Van Diest (Los Angeles, CA) [e-mail read by Jeffrey Steinberg]: Greetings from a baby boomer and a mother of a member! Its not too late to make a difference in my time here. Thank you for your never-ending dedication to all citizens of our world!

Mary Woodward (St. Croix, VI) [e-mail read by Jeffrey Steinberg]: There is much exciting talk about the youth movement bringing their boomer parents into the human race. But how can a boomer parent do the same for a cynical youth?

Lyndon LaRouche: [answer]

George Moorehead (Cincinnati, OH): I have been doing a lot of looking into the ancient history of the Hindus. How do classes of people arise, such as Statesmen, Warriors, Craftsmen, etc.? Is there really a difference among people, or is it just the roles they take on?

Lyndon LaRouche: [answer]
Helga LaRouche: [answer]

Release Date: June 18, 2003

Program No. 610
"What European Culture Ought to Mean to You"

On May 31, Lyndon LaRouche addressed a youth cadre school in Wiesbaden, Germany. Just returning from a week in Bangalore, India, with a stopover on the way back in Greece, he was soon to be on his way to France. This edition of The LaRouche Connection features his opening remarks to that cadre school.

Mr. LaRouche begins by stressing the importance of understanding European civilization--the legacy of Christianity, based largely upon the Classical Greek culture--and the national cultures within it, to be able to understand any other culture, and to help change those cultures. When we’re true to ourselves, our object is to share the benefits of our culture, with people of other cultures.

"In order to understand any part of the world, coming from European civilization, you must first understand the characteristics of European civilization, going back to about the time of Solon of Athens, and even earlier, to the ancient Pythagoreans and Thales. If you don’t understand this civilization, then you have no possibility of understanding other cultures, other civilizations."

Understanding the distinction between man and the animals is crucial to this.

"The fundamental relationship among all cultures, the one common feature, sometimes imperfectly expressed, is the difference between a human being and an ape. That should be the common feature of all cultures. Some cultures are defective in that respect. They don’t make that distinction. And, the failure to make that distinction, efficiently, is the cause of all great catastrophes in human history."

With the modern philosophy of empiricism, however, you are not allowed to tell the difference. You are only allowed to observe, and therefore understand, only what your senses tell you. Opposite to this, is the principle of hypothesis, as defined by Plato, which allows you to control the universe as no animal can.

"You find that there are errors, in your assumptions based on sense-perception, and by the power of looking at the contradictions between what sense-perception suggests, and what actually is occurring, as a process. You can hypothesize the existence of some unseen principle, which is operating beyond your sense-perception, to control the events in the universe in which you live, which you experience. You can prove your hypothesis experimentally, giving you as a human being, mastery over the universe, in that degree. Then you can call it a ‘universal principle’ of nature, because you have discovered it."

When people no longer believe in knowable physical principles, that social relations are subject to this type of knowledge, society becomes irrational, and people begin to imitate the apes. Witness that European nations today, are based in their forms of government on the decadent Anglo-Dutch parliamentary system. Witness the Venetian-style financial family fondi-controlled central banking system. Witness the British liberal hoax known as "free trade." Witness the insane Maastricht Stability Pact. Such systems survive, by corrupting the people, by means of what is called "popular opinion," or "popular culture."

"Popular opinion, by accepting these kinds of ideas, denies a principle of truth, of truthfulness, by rejecting the idea of hypothesis; by losing their mental moorings in the kinds of so-called 'popular culture,' which corrupt and destroy minds today. The population becomes its own enemy." "We have to understand that this is the enemy. Popular opinion is what has to be changed. If you can change popular opinion, you can solve the other problems."

Release Date: June 27, 2003

Program No. 611
Fight Fascism, the Way Franklin Roosevelt Did!

On June 29, Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche addressed supporters at a campaign event near LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York. Approximately 375 people attended the event, which ran for four hours.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks--a thoroughly composed exposition on two principle themes: the nature of Synarchism, both historically and in today’s crisis-riddled world; and the qualities of "Wartime President" leadership required today, why he is the only candidate possessing those unique leadership capacities.

Formerly secret U.S. military intelligence documents, OSS documents, and French intelligence documents from the World War II period, released to the U.S. National Archive in 1983-84 discuss a group of financial interests ( fondi in Italian), who when faced with the danger of a financial collapse, and the fear that in Germany as in the United States the response would be actions, such as those President Roosevelt did take, to prevent that from occurring, proposed to establish a fascist dictatorship, in Europe, which would be used to create a world empire. These people were termed "Synarchist/Nazi-Communist" in these military and intelligence files.

Roosevelt stopped them then. That’s what we have to stop today.

LaRouche: "Today’s danger of fascism, comes from [descendants and heirs] of the same people behind Hitler, some of whom are in the United States, gathered around people like [Vice-President] Dick Cheney, the man whom I am proposing to have impeached promptly."

"Today, the United States is the leading power, mostly with air power. And the theory of these guys, is to use nuclear weapons preventively, against countries which have no nuclear weapons! And, this is the way they’re trying to start a world empire: by creating chaos, economic collapse worldwide, and destroying the world by dissension, wars, and so forth." "We have to stop this kind of thing, not by simply protesting against it. Roosevelt didn’t sop it by protesting. He had to do something else. He had to organize the world around a U.S. economic recovery, and build up our industrial might, which surprised everybody in the world."

The long-term objective of the United States, as a nation, is not world power. Our objective, from the beginning, was to become, first of all a sovereign nation-state ourselves. And then to hope that we could help create a world, where our success as a nation-state would inspire other countries to set up sovereign nation-states like our own. Our aspiration has been a community nation-states, with which we cooperate for common ends, but in which each are sovereign themselves.

We have the emergence, from Iran, to Pakistan, through India, China, Southeast Asia, South Korea, to Russia, to Kazakhstan, to Turkey, to large factions of Japan, who are committed, now, to the greatest mass of infrastructure projects the world has ever seen: Three Gorges Dam and mass railroad building in China; the world’s greatest hydroelectric project now under discussion between China and India (the Brahmaputra River project near Assam near the border of India); the Mekong River water-development project. We should be doing the same thing with South and Central, and North America, and together, Eurasia and the Americas should collaborate to end the genocide in Africa by bringing about the development long awaited there.

"The crucial function of the President of the United States, as the world’s leading power, is foreign policy. The President does not engage in diplomatic discussions with other nations as mere diplomacy, but must be committed to forming agreements, of a Constitutional character, among states, to bring nations together, long-term agreements which rebuild the planet. And most nations are willing to do that."

Who has the guts to take that leadership?

Release Date: July 15, 2003

Program No. 612
We Are Now at a Turning Point in History

On July 2, Lyndon LaRouche addressed an overflow audience of more than 300 in Washington, DC. The event, including more than three hours of discussion with Mr. LaRouche, a pre-candidate for the Democratic nomination for President, was simultaneously broadcast over the Internet in both English and Spanish. This edition of The LaRouche Connection features his opening remarks and the first question directly following.

The July 2^nd webcast had been offered by Mr. LaRouche as an opportunity for all the Democratic Presidential pre-candidates to debate and discuss "What is the relevance of the policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt for today’s crisis?" Under intense pressure from the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) faction which has seized the Party and demands that Mr. LaRouche be barred from its leadership, none of the "nine" was willing to debate.

LaRouche begins: "When I rose this morning, I was reminded that today is a turning-point in world history. First of all, 140 years ago, the fate of the United States was being decided on the battlefield of Gettysburg, on the same date. [Secondly, starting June 30], there’s was a change in the policies of Europe, which will be a change in world policy. The assumption of the position of leader, for the coming six months of the European Union, by the Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, and his address which he delivered yesterday, defines a change in the world economic and financial situation, a policy change, a proposal for the implementation of a large-scale infrastructure program for Europe, as a recovery program, based on what is called the European Investment Bank."

Under conditions where 46 of the 50 States are in a virtual state of bankruptcy, and with the imminent total collapse of the present world monetary-financial system, we are indeed at a turning-point again in world history, comparable to the crises of the 1930s, but much more severe. From Capitol Hill to California, and in all the other candidates’ Presidential campaigns, Mr. LaRouche’s mass mobilization to get Vice President Dick Cheney and his flock of neo-con fascists impeached or fired now--so that the United States can join other countries in Franklin Roosevelt type "New Deal" measures to stop the economic collapse--is being closely followed and discussed.

LaRouche: "Our purpose in this election campaign is not to win a game in 2004. A great deal of my ‘first 30 days’ has to be accomplished right now. Dick Cheney represents the same kind of threat that Adolf Hitler represented in Germany in early 1933." "The reason we went to a war in Iraq, was because the Democratic Party was neutralized, by the belief, that Cheney had the evidence, that Iraq was getting nuclear weapons. Cheney knew there were no such nuclear weapons. Cheney knew the story about Niger "yellow cake" going to Iraq was a fraud. And yet, with that knowledge, he pushed the argument, in order to convince the Congress to subside, and to allow the war to go ahead. The Democratic members of t he Senate, who should have stopped the war, did not do it!" "And, therefore, we have to change the Democratic Party, at the top, by getting the present right-wing gang out of control. [T]hose candidates who will not do that, ain't worth shucks."

Mr. LaRouche proceeds to discuss what he calls the "Hamlet’ problem in American politics; the Synarchists behind Cheney and the other chicken-hawks; the value of defending the institution of the Presidency; and the real mission for the United States.

Release Date: July 24, 2003

Program No. 613
Dialogue with LaRouche: July 2, 2003, Pt. 1

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the first hour of the discussion session, moderated by Debra Freeman, immediately following his opening remarks.

From a New Yorker currently on the staff of someone who served in a previous Democratic administration, and who now serves on the board of a major U.S. bank: On a potential financial "9/11" [Question and Mr. LaRouche’s answer appear at the end of Program 612.]

From Florida State Senator Daryl Jones: "You stated that the IMF and most American and European banking institutions are bankrupt due to failing policies. What specifically are those policies, and how shall we change them? You indicated that actions by [Fed Chairman] Alan Greenspan and others could be construed as either criminal or incompetent. Assuming they do know what they’re doing, what do you believe is the motivation [and] their goal?"

From a well-known political consultant (Washington, DC): "You’ve called the Democratic Leadership Council a "Trojan Horse" designed to guarantee the re-election of George W. Bush. I disagree, because its in the immediate interest of the DLC, and very particularly in their financial interest, to elect someone who is nominally a Democrat, whose policy they would control. It would be far more difficult to organize any kind of opposition to a Democratic President who is controlled by the DLC. I’d like your thoughts on this."

From Senator Hank Wilkins of Arkansas: "What can those of us in small population states do to reverse this trend of the Trojan Horse takeover of the Democratic Party? If we launch an effective response in our state, won’t the national party people who seek to keep you on the sidelines, simply write us off and write our state off as a loss?"

From Delegate Lionell Spruill, Sr. of Virginia: "Why have you not taken the DNC to court to challenge your exclusion from the debates. What can we do to actually get you into these debates?

From Rep. Joe Towns of Tennessee: "What do we need to do to accelerate the impeachment of Dick Cheney?

From former Senator Eugene McCarthy: "I applaud your intention to expose and obliterate the DLC. I agree from experience, that the so-called neo-conservatives, these actually reactionary characters, were hiding out in the moist recesses of Scoop Jackson’s office, like mushrooms, or fungi. They were Dixicrats, Republicans. Scoop Jackson wanted nuclear war so much, I used to tell him he glowed. How can we save this Democratic Party? Can this Party be saved?"

From Rep. Billy McKinney of Georgia: "How much risk are you willing to take with the Israeli lobby? It is in fact the case that the Zionist lobby runs U.S. policy and government."

From Sen. Joe Neal of Nevada: "Many states are having special sessions right now to fund the simple operations in their states. At last count, we have up to 16 states who are currently in special session. What’s happening? Why do we have so many states, at the same time, with apparently the same problem?"

Release Date: July 31, 2003

Program No. 614
Dialogue with LaRouche: July 2, 2003, Pt. 2

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the second hour of the discussion session, immediately following Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks.

Moderator: Debra Freeman, national spokeswoman for Lyndon LaRouche:

From Clarence Murray (Virginia Democratic Party): "How would you describe your first 30 days in office as U.S. President? What would be your top three agenda items?"
From Brendan (Los Angeles, CA): "What role does the international youth movement play within the current political situation, and what’s our special role here in America in relationship to our friends overseas?"
From Peru: "What is the difference between FDR's recovery policies, and those of Keynes?"
From Councilman O. Mays (East Cleveland, OH): "could you address the delusion we are under with reference to terrorism and our mobility, from the standpoint of infringing on our Constitutional rights of mobility? Please elucidate a little further in reference to the war [against Iraq], and the mass destruction that led us there.
From Heather Detwiller (Philadelphia, PA): "What’s the role of the Youth Movement after you win the White House?"
From Brad McCoy (Baltimore, MD): "If we actually achieve the Land-Bridge policy, what comes next, or what comes after for the U.S. economy? How do we deal with the people in the U.S. right now, who have no homes or who have been in jail, and are completely unemployable?"
From a former member of the Clinton Administration: Regarding the alliance between Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, from the standpoint of the shift in the situation we face today.

Release Date: August 5, 2003

Program No. 615
Responsibilities in Running for President

About 120 youth attended an East Coast cadre school of the LaRouche Youth Movement, at a location near Philadelphia on June 27, including 60 from the Philadelphia area, 30 from Baltimore, 20 from New Jersey, and 3 from Detroit--a record turnout. This edition of The LaRouche Connection features Lyndon LaRouche’s address to that cadre school.

LaRouche: "Of my nine putative rivals for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency, officially at this time, none, so far, is morally, or intellectually qualified to be President of the United States, given the conditions which this nation and the world faces."

Vice President Dick Cheney was the man who lied to President Bush, saying there were nuclear weapons in Iraq. Cheney was fully aware of what he was doing, and deliberately. He is therefore, guilty, and impeachable.

"If we want to free the United States government and the world from the greatest danger which immediately affects the world, and the U.S., now, any person of guts, who’s running for public office, especially for President, who knows that the Vice-President is guilty of an impeachable offense, of high crimes and misdemeanors against the U.S. government, involving the worst kind of charge you could have of this nature, [must say so publicly and organize for his impeachment]." No candidate but Mr. LaRouche has done so.

The threat of war has arisen largely because the financial crisis is so severe, that people would like to make a war, in order to establish a dictatorship, so that the economic-financial collapse would not cause a revolt against the present policies of government. Meanwhile, we have great opportunities in the world for recovery: large-scale water management projects, large-scale high-speed (magnetically-levitated) and other railroad construction projects, etc.

The deepest problem is a lack of understanding of the difference between man and animal.

"[T]he human mind is capable of making discoveries, which we call universal principles, both principles of the physical world, and also principles of relations among human beings. Sometimes called culture. Sometimes called Classical art. These principles have enabled man to cooperate, to transmit this knowledge from generation to generation, in the form of what call culture, scientific discoveries and so forth. This has enabled the human race to increase its power to exist, not only in numbers, but to increase life expectancy, to shift the condition of humanity from a beast-like going in the stall, or hunting in the woods, into the ability to have an intellectual life, a human form of cultural life." So, what’s the meaning of life, what’s your goal in life, your purpose? What you contribute to the future!

"My responsibilities in running for President involve preventing war, confronting the universe in ways which enable us to discover new physical principles we don’t yet know, taking leadership to inspire your generation to commit mankind to solving the problems it faces. Not to make us richer, but to make us better. Because, if we are more efficiently committed to creating the conditions of life required by future generations, we can be happy in being ourselves, as Leibniz puts it."

"[M]y job , is to be the friend of humanity, to become the President of the United States who is the friend of humanity, and recognized by humanity as their friends. That makes it possible, for us to reach out to other nations, to engage them with trust, in joint projects of great importance, and gives you the framework, in which to adopt a mission in life, for yourself, and for this nation. You have to be a generation with a mission!"

Release Date: August 14, 2003

Program No. 616
You Youth Can Save Humanity!

More than 200 persons, 120 of them youth, gathered in Frankfurt, Germany August 16-17, to participate in a Summer Seminar co-sponsored by the Schiller Institute. The presentations spanned the range of Classical culture: physics, drama, music, astronomy, and philosophy. The nature of the program flowed from Lyndon LaRouche’s concept of the unique qualities of his youth movement: an assertion of the truth about man’s nature, as a creative being, as opposed to a beast. This kind of youth movement is the hope for reversing 40 years of cultural decline which currently threaten civilization with a holocaust of depression and war. Those attending--from Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden--represent a growing force for Mr. LaRouche’s ideas in economics and culture throughout the continent.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection, features Lyndon LaRouche’s keynote, which begins with the statement that he would address the world situation from the standpoint of the Presidency of the United Sates. Both the massive electricity blackout in the U.S., and the bizarre candidacy of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger in California, dominate the political landscape today; the present disaster we face can only be understood, however, in the context of a 40-year cultural decline, transforming our country from a producer society, to a society of consumers.

LaRouche: "The world has adopted habits of thinking, of a civilization which has lost the moral fitness to survive. And, what’s killing us now, is not the things that are being done to us, but the things we’re doing to ourselves, by accepting, as habits, the way of thinking, which has taken over the generation which came to maturity in the middle of the 1960s. That’s the problem. That’s the problem young people face, because their parents were saturated with this culture."

Mr. LaRouche then picks up the historical threads of what led to this disaster, namely, that the power of the bankers, who created the Hitler regime, has not yet been defeated.

"This same group of bankers, this same ideology, the same institutions, left over from that part of history, are still around today. And they’re ready to strike for power, again. And, in the United States, we have a group around Vice President Dick Cheney, together with the neo-conservatives, and their allies in the Israeli government today, [who] are out to pull it off, and they've organized the fascist movement, and they’re deploying it for terrorist acts, on the way to power, now." "They’re also trying to plunge the world into a preemptive world nuclear war, and we don’t know how much of the human race would survive that."

Mr. LaRouche then discusses his current approach to solving these problems. First, get rid of Cheney, in order to save the "dummy" in the White House, and the Presidency. Second, break the dominant adult population out of its fantasy-ridden, immoral state. For this, the youth movement is absolutely necessary.

Release Date: August 28, 2003

Program No. 617
Dialogue with LaRouche: Aug. 16, 2003

This edition of The LaRouche Connection, features the first hour of the discussion session with Lyndon LaRouche, directly following his opening remarks. [See Program 617 for Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks.]

Ali (Copenhagen, Denmark): "What is the necessity for irony?"

Alexander (Berlin, Germany): "Could you elaborate on Leibniz’s concept of ‘the best of all possible worlds,’ and how can we use this concept for the best of all humanity?"

Janos (Denmark): "What’s the mechanics behind deregulation? What happens, besides collapses, when you have everything in the hands of private interests?

On the history of the drive for one-world government, through the threat and/or use of weapons of mass destruction. On the complex domain. On polarized nuclear fusion.

On the Synarchists, and especially Enver Hoxha of Albania, as a puppet of Kojeve.

A French Youth: "What would be your main actions, if you are elected President in 2004? How will you avoid chaos, or panic, that can occur during a transition period, to return to a producer society from a consumer society?"

Dennis (Democratic Republic of Congo): "Is the exploration or conquest of the other plants of the solar System necessary and useful for the development of the human race? If I’m not mistaken, we have everything we need on Earth, in order to live well. Do we need to go somewhere else?"

On the game of chess, statecraft, metaphor, and Schiller's concept of Spieltrieb.

Stefan (Berlin): "What is that something that organizes people to join this movement?"

Release Date: September 17, 2003

Program No. 618
A Tale of Two Cities--Sacramento & Washington:
What the Dickens is Going On?

Over the Labor Day weekend, the LaRouche movement came together to discuss our "World at a Turning Point." For the first time ever, the conference took place simultaneously on the East and West Coasts (Reston, Virginia, and Burbank California) as well as broadcast internationally in English and Spanish over the Worldwide Web. Combined attendance was over 1000, including hundreds of members of the LaRouche Youth Movement.

Introduced by Civil Rights heroine Mrs. Amelia Boynton Robinson, as the leader who can bring our population out of its fears, and lead them to understand that we are all members of one race-- the human race--Mr. Lyndon LaRouche delivered his keynote address on Aug. 30, entitled "A Tale of Two Cities--Sacramento & Washington: What the Dickens is Going On?"

Beginning with a reference to the "epidemic of deregulation" which began to rampage across the nation about seven years ago, which has in that short time dismantled the energy system built by President Franklin Roosevelt, Mr. LaRouche states that things have devolved now to the point that California has become a re-run of the old film "Nightmare Alley," this time, starring that steroidal geek-act, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Mr. LaRouche then reviews the history of FDR’s alliance with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, to defeat the Nazi/Synarchist menace in World War II. Upon Roosevelt’s death, a Utopian tendency, typified by Lord Bertrand Russell, promoted an end-of-history worldview, with the threat of nuclear annihilation to terrify the world into submission under the threat of nuclear annihilation.

Following a brief period of "sweet relief" enjoyed under President Dwight Eisenhower, our nation soon underwent a political change for the worse, beginning with President Richard Nixon, known as the "Southern Strategy," setting our country on the way to fascism at home. By the end of the 1970s, the Democratic Party had also moved to the right, with the founding of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC). Meanwhile, personal incomes began to collapse, beginning 1977, resulting from this enforced policy change.

Mr. LaRouche then takes us back to the 1930, and the creation of the Synarchist International, and earlier still to the 1780s, and the Martinist freemasonic cult, of Lord Shelburne, then Prime Minister of Britain, which set into motion the French Revolution, whose purpose was to prevent the ideas of the American Revolution from taking root in Europe.

The issue then, as today, says Mr. LaRouche, is the sovereign nation-state. Our culture today is decadent. People today don’t even know what gave us the nation-state. In contrast to Arnold the freak show, is the idea that the human individual is sacred, made so by his ability to discover new physical principles that increase man’s power to improve the conditions of mankind. Going after "popular opinion," Mr. LaRouche says the time has come when we must change, if the nation is to be saved. Our job, he concludes, is not to win the next election; it is to win the nation back to safety. And, if we are to win, it will start with what happens in California.

Release Date: September 17, 2003

Program No. 619
Dialogue With LaRouche: June 27, 2003

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the first hour of the discussion session with Lyndon LaRouche, following his opening remarks. [See Program No. 615 for Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks.]

Nick (Philadelphia): "What causes bi-polarity? Why is it that help from other people seems to be the only way I can get out of [not always telling the truth and not challenging other people for fear of causing tensions], not just pure willpower?

Randy (Philadelphia): On problems with organizing engineering school students.

Frederick (Music student at City College in New York City): "How do you suggest going about the teaching of music? What is music’s place in education?

Release Date: September 17, 2003

Program No. 620
"Dialogue With LaRouche: Aug. 30, 2003"

Introduced by Civil Rights heroine Mrs. Amelia Boynton Robinson, as the leader who can bring our population out of its fears, and lead them to understand that we are all members of one race--the human race--Mr. Lyndon LaRouche delivered his keynote address on Aug. 30, entitled "A Tale of Two Cities--Sacramento & Washington: What the Dickens is Going On?" [See Program No. 618.]

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the first hour of discussion session with Mr. LaRouche, immediately following his opening remarks. The moderator is Debra Freeman.

John Sunde (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): "Could you help explain or clarify this business you mentioned about Athens. I’m supposed to be studying Plato’s dialogues [in school] and I see cited so many things [in your literature] about [Plato translator] Allan Bloom and Bertrand Russell. Is it the same stuff? How does this Synarchism jive with all this?

Dr. K.R. Ganesh (former Union Minister of Finance, India): Greetings read by Moderator. "I welcome Lyn’s initiatives on economic, social, and civilizational issues. I especially note the importance of Lyn’s forecasts on the U.S. economy, the Iraq war, and Eurasian developments. I wish him well and his efforts, and his organization well. Best of luck!"

A former political consultant to President Clinton (when he was President), and currently very active in the overall strategy for California: "The only way we can view the situation in California, is a direct attack on the electoral process itself.… ‘[On how to handle this fight] we looked at it, initially, as a referendum on the question of electoral government, and secondarily, as a referendum on the question of deregulation. "[Now] we think the fight in California really should e a referendum where the American people state their position on the illicit activities of Vice President Dick Cheney. Your opinion?

Councilman O. Mays (East Cleveland, OH): "Elucidate clearly [your statement] that the Democratic Party is the enemy. Tell me why they are the enemy. Secondly, its my understanding that [Britain’s] Secretary of State has resigned. What impact will that have on Cheney, and how will that affect us here? Thirdly, what will the impact be on this country if we do not change the election today, and we wait another four years?"

Erin Smith (Baltimore, MD): "How does empiricism prevent human beings from understanding their relationship to the Universe?"

Yusef Haddad (President, Arab-American Press Guild): "How can you get us out of this mess in Iraq?"

Benoit Besin (Senegal): "What is the place of a language in the development of a nation; what methods and processes can be used to develop a language, so as to parallel the development of an individual and a nation?"

Release Date: Sept. 26, 2003

Program No. 621
"Responsibilities of a Presidential Candidate"

On June 27, over 120 youth from the Philadelphia area, Baltimore, New Jersey, and Detroit attended a LaRouche Youth Movement cadre school in Philadelphia. This edition of The LaRouche Connection features Lyndon LaRouche’s address to that cadre school.

"Of my nine putative rivals for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency, officially at this time, none, so far, is morally, or intellectually qualified to be President of the United States, given the conditions which this nation and the world faces."

Vice President Dick Cheney lied to President Bush, saying there were nuclear weapons in Iraq. Cheney was fully aware of what he was doing, and deliberately. He is therefore, guilty, and impeachable.

The financial crisis is so severe, that some people would like to make a war, in order to establish a dictatorship, so that the economic-financial collapse would not cause a revolt against the present policies of government. Meanwhile, we have great opportunities in the world for recovery: large-scale water management projects, large-scale high-speed (magnetically-levitated) and other railroad construction projects, etc.

The deepest problem is a lack of understanding of the difference between man and animal.

"[M]y job , is to become the President of a United States who is a friend of humanity, and recognized by humanity as their friend. That makes it possible, for us to reach out to other nations, to engage them with trust, in joint projects of great importance, and gives you the framework, in which to adopt a mission in life, for yourself, and for this nation. You have to be a generation with a mission!"

Release Date: Oct. 9, 2003

Program No. 622
"Overcoming Your Fears by Increasing Your Geistesmassen"

Introduced on the second day by Civil Rights heroine Amelia Boynton Robinson as her "daughter," and a "problem-solver," Mrs. Helga Zepp LaRouche delivered the second keynote address of the conference on Aug. 31, entitled "Overcoming Your Fears by Increasing Your Geistesmassen: Herbart and Riemann on the Mind."

Mrs. LaRouche says she is going to speak about "how to develop one’s personality, through becoming a more perfectly harmonized human being." She then reads from a speech she had given on March 22 at a conference in Bad Schwalbach, Germany, in which she imagined what the great Friedrich Schiller would say about the drive to war against Iraq as ultimately subject to a "higher lawfulness, which would come back and haunt [the perpetrators]" Now, five months later, it is clear that the Iraq War, a war without any justification, is becoming Nemesis in action, with disastrous consequences for peace anywhere on the planet. "It is a pretty scary picture. But, as Amelia was saying, it is very important to not react with fear to that, but with the determination to act to stop it." A new cultural paradigm is required to do this

"In recent years, there has been systematical deterioration of the public consciousness. People now want to build their bodies, and forget their minds. There is a demoralization and constant dumbing down. People are gripped by a seemingly endless lust for money and by object-fixation, fun in the here and how. The other tradition is the Platonic humanist tradition: man is a cognitive being capable of hypothesis about the physical creation and the cosmic order. The state’s only legitimacy is orientation to the common good, and to man’s perfectibility. This idea existed in Plato; it became the idea of Christianity, but it was never realized until the 15^th Century Renaissance and its creation of the first sovereign nation-states."

Mrs. LaRouche then discusses Schiller’s notion of the "beautiful soul," and the Sublime. She then introduces two other important thinkers, Wilhelm Herbart, and Bernard Riemann. Herbart, citing the ancient astronomers and Kepler, attacked Isaac Newton’s hypothesis no fingo, stated instead that we must form hypotheses and think them through, until one "finds experience." He discusses the "power of conceptualization, and the fear which blocks it--a successive series of conceptions are like fibers, which build the structure of the mind, as they follow certain laws." All the fundamental conceptions we form, said Herbart, are formed internally, and not from the Sensorium. The conception in the mind is the origin of sense perception.

LaRouche: "Riemann, who described Herbart is his most important influence, with Friedrich Gauss, in developing his theory of multiply-connected manifolds, said that with each act of thinking, a new magnitude enters our mind, a new Geistesmasse. The soul grows through new Geistesmassen. They are eternal. They do not require spatial or material expression, but new Geistesmassen require spatial expression to prove them. Each such new magnitude modifies all the previously existing ones."

LaRouche: "The soul, in a way, is built up with emotionally-connected Geistesmassen. Psychology calls these cathexes, emotionally-connected memories. Today, the problem of the citizenry is not with thinking so much, as it is with feelings. People may be nice, but they’re blocked. They refuse to discuss intellectual issues, because nothing resonates. And, because nothing resonates, they are afraid to discuss issues which they feel they don’t know anything about." The task, therefore, is to educate the emotional faculty, to help our emotionally-crippled people grow up.

Release Date: Oct. 21, 2002

Program No. 623
"Preparing for the Post Cheney Era"

On October 22, Lyndon LaRouche, a major candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President of the United States, conducted an international webcast, outlining his first 100 days as President. Attending the event were close to 300 persons in Washington, DC, and hundreds more in "satellite" locations across the country, in Europe, Asia, Central and South America, Australia, and over the Internet in every part of the world. The largest segment--approximately one-third of those attending the Washington, DC event--were young people and students: members of the LaRouche Youth Movement, and those in the process of being recruited. There were also a significant number of current and former elected officials, including state legislators, city council members, and others, plus a smaller number of labor union officials, diplomats, press, and political activists.

Noting that "time is short" before the next President of the United States is sworn in, in January, 2005, Mr. LaRouche outlined a series of emergency measures he will take, in the first hour in that office.

"Its one year and a little over three months, to the next inauguration; a little more than a year form the next Presidential election. The foolishness has to stop, now. And therefore, I speak as I do, and I say without fear of exaggeration, that given the present national situation--and notably, given my special accomplishments as an economist--I'm probably the only person qualified to become President of the United States, at this time."

Mr. LaRouche then outlined two main areas of executive action he will take during the first hour upon reaching the President’s office after inauguration:

Under the topic of Health-Care Action:

Restore D.C. General Hospital, and make it a leading edge of improved national security and health-

security capabilities, and a leading national hospital-institution of its type in the world.

Restore the Hill-Burton Law as national policy, and repeal Nixon’s HMO law.
Revitalize the Veterans Hospital System.
Re-energize the Public Health System, as a first line of national-security defense.
Respond to America’s Aging Population. Restore physicians rights to treat patients, and expand preventative care medical practices. Take special measures to address diseases of aging, as one of the principal frontiers of research into better methods of health-care, as well as non-medical measures of public sanitation, taken by governments and others.

Under the topic of Military Reforms:

Honor the Veteran, by restoring national military service of qualified citizens.

Mr. LaRouche then turns to the state of the world today, as viewed from his busy first day in the Executive Mansion, addressing the three principle topics of his presentation:

The California Recall aftermath, which coincides with a deep shakeup within the Democratic Party’s followers;

The acute phase of the international monetary-financial crisis;

The continued threat of neo-conservative war policies.

"If you want to get through to next year, to the next election, get rid of [Vice-President Dick] Cheney now! Tell that man to go! ‘Go with God, but go!’"

Release Date: Oct. 29, 2002

Program No. 624
"Dialogue with LaRouche: Oct. 22, 2003"

Noting that "time is short" before the next President of the United States is sworn in, in January, 2005, Mr. LaRouche outlines two main areas of executive action he will take during the first hour upon reaching the President’s office after inauguration, in the areas of Health Care and Military Reforms, and concludes with a discussion of the California Recall aftermath, the current acute phase of the international monetary-financial crisis, and the continued threat of neo-conservative war policies, ending with "If you want to get through to next year, to the next election, get rid of [Vice-President Dick] Cheney now! Tell that man to go! ‘Go with God, but go!’"

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the conclusion of his opening remarks, plus a portion of the discussion session immediately following. The moderator is Debra Freeman.

From Abdulla el-Amin (Muslim Observer, a newspaper in Detroit): Concerning the big difference in U.S. foreign policy toward the treatment of Israel and Palestine, how do you propose to be fair toward the Palestinian people?

A combined question from three persons, including someone from a Washington, DC based institution): On the issue of Vice President Dick Cheney, particularly as it is raised in a peace that appears in the current issue of New Yorker magazine by Seymour Hersh, that Cheney’s greatest betrayal was not of the Congress or of the American people, but of the President he serves.

From a former elected official in New York: "Would you actually consider naming your government in advance, and actually submitted that to the American people as they consider your candidacy?"

From Rep. Joe Towns (D-Tennessee House of Representatives): "What should the Democratic Party, as a party, be doing, as it relates to the leaking of the name of one of our covert agents?"

From Rep. Eric Fleming (D-Mississippi House of Representatives): "There’s been a lot of talk of a federal bailout for the states, to help them deal with the current fiscal crisis that they face. Do you have a plan, an approach concerning this issue?"

From Rep. Juanita Walton (D-Missouri House of Representatives): "When the Congressional Black Caucus had their candidates’ debate, what reason did they use for not inviting you?"

Release Date: Nov. 7, 2002

Program No. 625
"Dialogue with LaRouche: Oct. 22, 2003," Pt. 2

On October 22, Lyndon LaRouche, a major candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President of the United States, conducted an international webcast, outlining his first 100 days as President. Attending the event were close to 300 persons in Washington, DC, and hundreds more in "satellite" locations across the country, in Europe, Asia, Central and South America, Australia, and over the Internet in every part of the world. The largest segment--approximately one-third attending this event--were young people and students: members of the LaRouche Youth Movement, and those in the process of being recruited. There were also a significant number of current and former elected officials, including state legislators, city council members, and others, plus a smaller number of labor union officials, diplomats, press, and political activists.

Mr. LaRouche outlines two main areas of executive action he will take during the first hour upon reaching the President’s office after inauguration, in the areas of Health Care and Military Reforms, and concludes with a discussion of the California Recall aftermath, the current acute phase of the international monetary-financial crisis, and the continued threat of neo-conservative war policies, ending with "If you want to get through to next year, to the next election, get rid of [Vice-President Dick] Cheney now! Tell that man to go! ‘Go with God, but go!’"

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the second hour of the discussion session following Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks. The moderators are Debra Freeman, Alex Getachew and David Nance.

From Dr. Abdul Ali Muhammed (Minister of Health, Nation of Islam): "What is your position on therapeutic cloning, as opposed to reproductive cloning, as the basis for regenerative medicine to deal with some of the diseases of old age?"

Councilman O. Mays (East Cleveland, OH): "Do you feel that [President] Bush has the Congress as well as the Senate kind of, I wouldn’t say baffled, but afraid, to speak out because he has said that anyone who challenges him is unpatriotic? [Secondly], Do you feel [Attorney General] Ashcroft is trampling over the Constitution?

From Mr. Isabel Moreno (Salvadoran living in Washington, DC): "How will you solve the problem of immigrants in the United States, whose rights have been restricted, and in many cases. Almost exterminated?

From Don Gonzales (political science student at the Univ. of the District of Columbia): "How would you help young people of color to turn their communities around, gain political clout, and become fully respected citizens?"

From State Sen. Joseph Neal (D-Nevada): "Many states, including the national government itself, are supporting privatization of government services. What’s your view of this issue?"

From Nicole Forrester (Philadelphia, PA): "If everyone around you was turning into cowards and consumers, how did you turn into one of the most straightforward, influential, cognitive people in the world?"

Steven Jeffrey (Philadelphia, PA): "How can you prove the actual intent of the Synarchists, to destroy what people are, what we represent, and what we can do to progress? Can you prove they’ve been deployed against certain individuals?

From Jane (Los Angeles, CA): "What is freedom?"

Release Date: Nov. 14, 2002

Program No. 626

"LaRouche Press Conference: Concord, NH"

Kicking off a campaign swing through the Northeast and Midwest, Lyndon LaRouche, Democratic pre-candidate for the Presidency, took his campaign to Concord, NH on Nov. 12, where he held a press conference in the political reading room of the state library. The room was packed with press, supporters, and library staff. Press attending were Associated Press, WMUR-TV (Ch.9), the Manchester Union Leader, the Concord Monitor, the Eagle Tribune, and CC-TV (cable access). Campaign spokesman Stuart Rosenblatt begins by introducing State Rep. Barbara Richardson, a 12-year veteran of the Legislature, who in turn introduces Mr. LaRouche.

Mr. LaRouche speaks for about 30 minutes on the three strategic issues facing the nation, and, given the student nature of his audience, the history of ideas, the challenge of German mathematician Frederick Gauss, and the origin of our nation in the philosophical traditions of Greece and Egypt. This edition of The LaRouche Connection features his opening remarks, and a portion from the lively discussion session which followed.

LaRouche: "The first issue facing the nation, prominent in the minds of most people, is the spreading war, now peaking in Iraq. We face not only that war, but we face the threatened spread of that, and similar wars, around the world, Were this process to continue, under the [Vice President Dick] Cheney doctrine of preventive nuclear warfare, we could be assured that, in the coming Presidency, we would probably face a spread of wars, of nuclear-armed warfare among nations--major nations; of asymmetric warfare, of a type which the present ongoing Iraq War, like the Indo-China War earlier, represents."

"At the same time, we have a second issue: the economy. The present world financial-monetary system is in the process of disintegration. We’re enduring the last phases of a disintegration. In such matters, you can not predict the exact time something will happen, because governments may print money, even at risk of hyperinflation, in order to try to postpone a financial collapse, for political reasons." "We must face this threat of financial crisis, using the precedent of what Franklin Roosevelt did, in facing the effects of the Coolidge and Hoover legacy, to bring the nation out of this financial crisis."

"There’s another problem, the problem of a generation gap." Beginning the mid-1960’s, a "cultural paradigm-shift" emerged around campus youth especially, shifting us toward what was called a "post-industrial society." By the 1970s, we ceased to be the world’s leading producer-nation, and we became a consumer society, increasingly depending upon the cheap labor of other parts of the world, to provide the things that we used to produce for ourselves. "So, we have degenerated, into a pleasure-seeking society," while the lower 80% of family-income brackets since 1977, have been in an accelerating decline in physical standard of living, not only in household income as such, but also in public services, basic economic infrastructure. "We are now a bankrupt society, living on virtual slave-labor rates of work in China and other parts of the world."

"The best chance for this nation, is that people of the 18-25 year age-group, be organized in the proper way: to give a kick in the pants to their parents’ generation, to get some morality back in this country, and some confidence. We can face the crisis of war. We can stop the wars. We can deal with the financial crisis--there are measures."

From the Discussion Session, moderated by Stuart Rosenblatt:

Kate (Associated Press): "The Democratic Party says you’re ineligible to run, because you’re not a registered voter. So you couldn't become President, technically, as a Democrat. Why not switch parties?"
LaRouche: On government for human beings.

Question: "Can you paint us a picture of the average person who’s giving money to the LaRouche campaign?
LaRouche: On who supports LaRouche

Question: "Can you write a fourth edition to [your pamphlet] The Children of Satan?"
LaRouche: On the nature of Man.

Question: "In running for President, what have you learned in your different campaigns? And, how has the Democratic Party changed, since you started?"
LaRouche: On how the Democrats have gone to pot.

Question: "How do you see yourself improving life for vulnerable people, such as Africa, and elsewhere?"
LaRouche: On Improving life in Africa.

Question: "Can you speak about your relationship to the Supreme Court? Could you tell us your views about jurisprudence?"
LaRouche: On the Supreme Court, the Principles of the Constitution, and the problem of getting good judges.

Question: Just as you are coming forth as an FDR type Democrat, could you speak to the conservative idea that there’s too much government; that government regulations are stopping the small businessman from doing things?
LaRouche: When people have confidence in government, when government has earned confidence of the people, then the people will fight for government.

Release Date: Nov. 21, 2002

Program No. 627
"Reviving the Sense of Mission for America," Pt.1

Three extraordinary presentations November 15-20 by Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche, speaking to hundreds of supporters in Boston, St. Louis, and Detroit, launched the "hot phase" of his 2004 Presidential campaign. At each event, Mr. LaRouche reached directly into the souls of Americans young and old, students, Baby Boomers, elected officials, World War II vets, and others, as he laid out in stark detail the dire crisis facing the world today, how it came about, and how it can be reversed, once people understand how they were duped into accepting the cultural paradigm shift which permitted not only wrong, but evil policies to be implemented by successive U.S. Presidents beginning with Harry Truman. Mr. LaRouche also laid out a mission for America: to regain its sense of immortality, as its contribution to future generations.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks in Boston on November 15, in a dramatic presentation that was simultaneously broadcast around the world via the internet. In addition to citizens of Massachusetts, the Boston audience of 80-90 came from Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Rhode Island. He was introduced by East Coast LaRouche Coordinator Dennis Speed, who also moderated the nearly two hours of discussion which followed.

Mr. LaRouche addressed three subjects:

War and the nature of the policy. "When did it start, what is the policy which has gotten us into a spreading process of war, in Asia and probably elsewhere?" Discussed is Vice President Dick Cheney’s insane "Preventive War" Drive, and "asymmetric warfare" in the age of nuclear weapons.

The economic crisis. "The economy, in its present form, is now disintegrating. Nothing can prevent the present IMF system and the present Federal Reserve system, from disintegrating-nothing. But,, it can go in one of two ways: It can go, either through intervention, as President Franklin Roosevelt-style intervention back in 1933, to reorganize the system before total chaos erupts; or, we can wait, until it simply blows up, all by itself. There’s a massive effort to postpone that blowup, now, by printing money in various ways. The best estimate is, that the blowup will occur, probably, by March or April of next year, at the latest. The ability to continue to print money, to postpone the program, will be blown out by then. It can blow out earlier. It could blow out next week; its ready to blow now. The fundamentals are all rotten." Discussed is the cultural roots of the economic crisis, the tyranny of popular opinion, and the housing crisis, as a quarter of our people move in the direction of homelessness.

The generation gap. "What the significance is, of the difference in the attitudes and roles of, principally, two generations: one, the generation which came into maturity, or semi-adult immaturity during the middle of the 1960s (the ones who are now in their fifties, who are generally running the institutions, and running government, businesses, and so forth.); and the other, which is the generation now coming largely into college age, including those between 18-25, university-eligible age." Discussed is the emergence of the LaRouche Youth Movement, which is already transforming the country.

Release Date: Nov. 28, 2002

Program No. 628
"Reviving the Sense of Mission for America," Pt. 2

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the conclusion of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks in Boston on Nov. 15 and a portion from the discussion session immediately following, moderated by Dennis Speed.

In his opening remarks, Mr. LaRouche addressed three subjects: war and the nature of the policy which has gotten us into a spreading process of war; the economic crisis and the cultural roots of it; and the generation gap and the emergence of the LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM) which is already transforming the country.

From the discussion session:

Abdul Mohammed (LYM member): On the organizing in Vermont, New Hampshire, Philadelphia.

Question: "How do you reach people, to say that there’s more than just arbitrary perceptions: there’s actually the idea of truth?"

LaRouche: On Truth vs. Perception

Question: "If you had an opportunity to restructure the United Nations system, what are those changes?"

LaRouche: On a Commonwealth of Sovereign Nation-States.

Question: "How [would] you straighten out the education in this country? I mean, we have something called the MCAS [Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System] test. What do you think of the MCAS test?"

LaRouche: On Education and Cognition.

Question: "I’d like to ask Mr. LaRouche to consider a question that was proposed by a Judge, Robert Borke, in his book, Coercing Virtue, where he says that there is no rule of law or constitution in America; there’s only the rule of judges. And that they rule by their own opinions without constraint by the law."

LaRouche: On "Borking" or the Rule of Law.

Release Date: Dec. 9, 2003

Program No. 629
"We’re Out to Change America’s Destiny!" Pt. 1

On December 12, Lyndon LaRouche, a major candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President of the United States, conducted an international webcast outlining his perspective of a world now in a crisis "fully as serious as that which Franklin Roosevelt faced in March 1933." Attending the event were close to 180 persons in Washington, DC, and hundreds more in "satellite" locations across the country, Europe, Asia, Central and South America, Australia, and over the Internet in every part of the world.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the first hour of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks on the bankruptcy of the our financial system, the collapse of our infrastructure, disintegration of our health-care system, and practical worthlessness of our educational system. With bold leadership, an inspired sense of mission, and looking to the precedent of Roosevelt’s successful policies, the crisis can still be overcome, and the nation returned to the track of recovery and peace.

LaRouche: "Since the new European currency was introduced, the value of the U.S. dollar has dropped by almost 50%, most of that directly under the present Bush Administration--and its not stopped yet." "The current account deficit of the United States brings us toward bankruptcy. The insane policies of the present administration, in terms of budgetary policy, tax policy, and so forth, have brought the nation to bankruptcy. Its worse than that."

"I’m uniquely qualified to carry out a mission, the mission of a President of the United States within the kind of emergency circumstance which we face now. My mission is rather unique to me, because of my experience, and I’ve been tested by fire a few times. I’m prepared to face the issues that others are not willing to face. I’m prepared to take the risk, which others will not take."

"We’re now at a point where we have to think about an international monetary reform, like Bretton Woods, now. And that should be Number One on the Hit Parade of any serious politician. The economic well-being of our people, and how we’re going to provide for that, ought to be Number One. Don’t talk to me about single issues. A man [or woman] running for President must deal with the issues which are of primary importance of security and future of the nation, and not get involved in all these little local social this and that affairs. But these issues are not being faced."

Mr. LaRouche also situated the current crisis facing residents of the city of Washington, within the last few millennia of history, emphasizing the decline in American culture after World War II, by which we shifted from being a "producer nation," the most powerful and innovative on Earth, to a "consumer nation," parasitizing off the rest of the world in order to buy the goods we can no longer make ourselves.

"What’s needed now in the White House is leadership with a sense of mission. What are the problems, what is the solution? What can we do? What is the potential in our people, the people of other nations, to do it? And, above all, to follow in Western European civilization, the legacy of Plato, the legacy of the apostle Paul’s I Corinthian XIII: agape. Its not the rules that are important. Its not what you achieve in this or that which is important. Do you express in your life that love for mankind which gives you a sense of mission, which is your instrument for expressing love for mankind? And that’s what these guys [my rivals] lack. Some will be useful, but they shouldn’t be President."

Release Date: Dec. 17, 2003

Program No. 630
"We’re Out to Change America’s Destiny!" Pt. 2

On December 12, Lyndon LaRouche, a major candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President of the United States, conducted an international webcast outlining his perspective of a world now in a crisis "fully as serious as that which Franklin Roosevelt faced in March 1933." Attending the event were close to 180 persons in Washington, DC, and hundreds more in "satellite" locations across the country, Europe, Asia, Central and South America, Australia, and over the Internet in every part of the world.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features the concluding 45 minutes of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, in which he touches on the bankruptcy of the our financial system, the collapse of our infrastructure, disintegration of our health-care system, and practical worthlessness of our educational system.

Also included here is the first 15 minutes from the discussion session immediately following, moderated by Debra Freeman.

From a former foreign policy advisor to President Bill Clinton: "Recent elections in Russia have been described in much of the American press as a setback for Russia. Some leading Americans, including former Vice-President Gore, have said that gains were made by a faction of the former Soviet political spectrum that he has described as reminiscent of national socialism. One of the representatives of the grouping, a gentleman by the name of Glazyev, has appeared as a guest at conferences that you hosted in Europe. Can you give us a more detailed view of what actually occurred in the Russian elections?"

Release Date: January 2, 2004

Program No. 631
"We’re Out to Change America’s Destiny!" Pt. 3

On December 12, Lyndon LaRouche, major candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President, conducted an international webcast outlining his perspective of a world now in a crisis "fully as serious as that which Franklin Roosevelt faced in March 1933." Attending the event were close to 180 persons in Washington, DC, and hundreds more in "satellite" locations across the country, Europe, Asia, Central and South America, Australia, and over the Internet in every part of the world.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features a portion of the discussion session following Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, moderated by Debra Freeman, and Delante Bess.

Barbara Lett Simmons (Democratic Party National Committee member): After discussing importance of the Washington, DC Primary, asks Mr. LaRouche to speak about "how a man with a mission feels about democracy, and the kind of economy that will give us a humane and just world; and who wants to start it here in America."
LaRouche: On the difference between populist politics and real politics.

State Representative Erik Fleming (D-Mississippi): "There has been talk, at the National Conference of State Legislators, meeting recently here in Washington, about re-establishing state infrastructure banks to improve our nation’s transportation system. What’s your opinion of this plan?"
LaRouche: We must think big. We must address the recovery of all aspects of the United States. Gives details.

Former State Representative LaMar Lemmons (D-Detroit, MI): "In the inner cities, many hospitals are inundated with people who are uninsured or underinsured. How do we address that? What is your plan to control substance abuse and its associated crime element? In other words, what is your urban agenda?"
LaRouche: We have to create a movement for immediate, urgent action on these questions. Cancel the HMO law. Restore Hill-Burton, create and implement a national re-employment policy, etc.

Samira Katib (journalist with Al Majid newspaper in Amman, Jordan): Even though Arabs were never anti-US, never waged war against the U.S., why do Arabs today find themselves and their land in military confrontation with the U.S., both in Palestine and In Iraq? Why did the U.S. suddenly take an anti-Semitic (i.e., anti-Arab, since all Arabs are Semites) stand for the past 60 years, designed to demonize Arabs here in the U.S. and back home? How can Arabs and decent Americans get out of this demonic cycle of endless death and destruction?"
LaRouche: On the fundamental interest of a nation-state. The cure is to affirm humanity.

From a local Democratic official: I have just written to the DNC, and for the first time in my life, I’ve told them that I cannot, and will not, support them or any other Democratic candidate, unless they at least recognize you, and your platform, as part of the process of this Presidential election."

From Senator Joe Neal (D-Nevada): "We’re faced with a national flu epidemic, and the news media has reported that we have a shortage of vaccine. What does this say about us as a nation?"
LaRouche: Its serious. Look at health care as a unit. Its not a doctor, its not a hospital. Its not this. Its all these things that go together, which are part of national security. And we have to treat it that way.

Rev. Cleveland Sparrow: "Around the world, 185 communities of a million people or more, like in Washington, DC, do not have their proper vote. What could be done, to address this in the United Nations?"
LaRouche: Once we get rid of this little ugly thing we have in Washington now, we will then be in a moral position to deal with the important international problems and conflicts.

Petra (LaRouche Youth Movement, Sweden): "How can we in Europe support your campaign, and also work in an efficient way to set the course of Europe for the future?"
LaRouche: On realizing an extended version of what John Quincy Adams defined, as the "community of principle" among sovereign nation-states.

Release Date: January 7, 2004

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