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Published: Monday, November 11, 2002
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LaRouche Called It! Lieberman Caused Dems' Nosedive
Precisely as Lyndon LaRouche warned, persistently, from the beginning of the year, unless the Democratic Party dumped Joe Lieberman, Michael Steinhardt's organized-crime-contaminated right-wing Democratic Leadership Council, and every personality and policy associated with what Sen. Ted Kennedy once called the "second Republican Party," the Democratic Party would self-destruct. On Nov. 5, Sen. Joe Lieberman and the DLC self-destructed.
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The election results were no mandate for President George W. Bush and his Iraq war policy. The American electorate is opposed to an Iraq war, particularly a unilateral American military adventure, and the opposition is growing by the day. Americans are deeply dissatisfied with the Bush Administration's non-handling of the deepening economic crisis. Far from being a vote of confidence in Bush, the election results were a no-confidence vote in the Democratic Party's current leadership and policy, which offered voters no alternative to the Bush folly.
In a period of national crisis, including the still-lingering effects of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, the American people will tend to give the President, even a pathetically unqualified President, the benefit of the doubtunless offered a viable alternative. When Sen. Joe Lieberman and Rep. Dick Gephardt jumped in bed with President Bush, by surrendering to the President Congress's Constitutional authority to declare war, the Democratic Party mis-leadership wrote its own political epitaph.
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This week, we turn our attention to a seldom examined, but significant event in United States history, the Nov. 15, 1777 agreement by 48 members of the Continental Congress to the Articles of Confederation. This document, which was then sent to the various states for ratification, was the first attempt to establish a "perpetual Union" among the 13 American Colonies. While it is best known for its failures, the battles that occurred over its adoption, and the reasons for its being superseded by the U.S. Constitution, should be much better understood by our citizens today.
It was Benjamin Franklin, the universal genius who should be considered the prime founder of the United States of America, who first proposed "Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union." He took that action on June 21, 1775, considerably before the Declaration of Independence, but after the Revolutionary War had already commenced in earnest. In fact, this was the second time Franklin had explicitly proposed such a union, the first being the 1754 Albany Plan of Union, which called for unification under one governor, one grand council, and common funding through a liquor tax.
In Franklin's 1775 draft, there are many foreshadowings of the later Constitution, especially in respect to establishing the purpose of the government as providing for the "general welfare." We cite articles II, V, and VI [spelling as in original]:
"II. The said United Colonies hereby severally enter into a firm League of Friendship with each other, binding on themselves and their Posterity, for their common Defense [and Offense], against their Enemies for the Security of their Liberties and Propertys, the Safety of their Persons and Families, and their [common and] mutual and general Welfare."
"V. The Congress shall also make [and propose] such general [Regulations] Ordinances as tho' necessary to the General Welfare, particular Assemblies [from their local Circum-] cannot be competent to...."
"VI. All charges of Wars, and all other general Expenses, to be incurr'd for the common Welfare, shall be defray'd out of a common Treasury...."
Franklin's draft, however, was rejected, as the Congressmen attempted to maintain independence of action for the States, and, in some cases, to avoid a final break with England. Thus it was not until the fall of 1777, a point at which the British offensive had driven the Congress out of Philadelphia, that the Congress finally battled out an agreement on a Confederation.
The changes were devastating. Franklin's Article V, the broad grant of power to the Congress to provide for the General Welfare, was no longer there. The creation of a "General Congress" (called a Council of State), to run the government, was replaced by a "Committee of the States," which depended upon at least nine out of the 13 states approving any particular action. This "committee of states," subject to this rule, was left to carry out the executive actions for the Confederation, in the absence of the Congress. This was truly a "states' rights" kind of federation, in which only limited sovereignty was given to the Confederation
Most important of all, the new Confederation had no power to raise money to do what it determined was necessary, even for the limited purposes of war and defense. It depended upon monies requisitioned from the several states. Not only were these unreliable, and slow in coming, but the Confederation itself was not approved in the states of Delaware and Maryland until 1779 and 1781, respectively.
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Nov. 9Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche is launching a major drive, to force through an FDR-style "Super-TVA" of crucial mass-employment programs now indispensable for halting the economic disaster now hitting the United States.
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Feature:
International Youth Movement Of LaRouche Is Recruiting!
Lyndon LaRouchethe electable Presidential Democrathas unleashed a new movement for change under his leadership around the world. He is recruiting hundreds of young people between the ages of 18 and 25, through his political application of the method of Plato and Socrates to the profound global economic crisis.
Do You Want a Future? Learn How To Solve the Crisis of Humanity
This is Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche's opening presentation to 100 young volunteers at the Nov. 2-3 East Coast Youth Cadre School, held in Pennsylvania.
Economics:
U.S. Third-Quarter GDP Fraud Stands Exposed by Bad October
The U.S. economy took a sharp downturn during October: Auto sales fell by 27.3%; manufacturing employment suffered a loss for the 27th consecutive month; and overall employment fell.
Gold Dinar: An Economic and Strategic Response to Chaos
Mounting concern around the world that the Bush Administration is madly threatening to drive the world into perpetual warfare, while doing nothing to address the global financial-economic collapse, has led to the introduction of a number of defensive measures by nations and groups of nations acting in concert.
Peace by 'Infrastructure And What Goes With It'
Faced with U.S. threats of war in the Mideast and throughout their region, the ASEAN+3 statesthe 10 Southeast Asian nations and their dialogue partners China, Japan, and South Koreamet in Phnom Penh, Cambodia Nov. 4-5.
Starvation Catastrophe Threatens 30 Million
While the attention of Western governments and the world media has been directed to the looming war against Iraq, an unparalleled humanitarian crisis is readying itself in Africa, which threatens to overshadow all news of disasters we have received from Africa in the past 30 years, including even the Ethiopian hunger catastrophe of 1984-85.
Different Kind of Earthquake in Turkey
The earthquake that hit Turkey on Nov. 3, was a political one, but its tremors are being felt more acutely in the country and abroad, than if it had measured 8 on the physical Richter scale.
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LaRouche's Return After 20 Years Is Big News in Mexico
For the first time in 20 years, Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. returned to Mexico on Nov. 4-6, with a visit to Saltillo, the capital of the northern state of Coahuila. His trip, while short, proved explosiveall the more so, because Wall Street had been confident that LaRouche would not set foot in Mexico again.
Will Brave Israeli Leaders Emerge To Challenge Sharon's Fascism?
The Oct. 30 collapse of the government of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and the prospect of new elections, puts Israel at a crossroads. Either Israel allows Sharon to usher in a new Middle East war and the destruction of the state of Israel, or leaders will emerge who are courageous enough to reopen the way toward peace with the Palestinians.
A Rogues'Gallery of Fascist War Criminals
On Oct. 28, the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz published an extraordinary commentary by Knesset Member and Meretz party head Yossi Sarid, 'Before Jewish Fascism Takes Over.' It warned that the Ariel Sharon-led radical right wing in Israel was evolving into a full-blown fascist movement.
National:
LaRouche 'Super-TVA' Leads, After Dems' Self-Defeat
Once again, the nation's pundits and talking heads had it wrong with their '50-50 America' nonsense-formula; and have it wrong with their now-incessant prattle about a 'Bush mandate' in the Nov. 5 election. See LaRouche's response to email on the election outcome at end of this article.
LaRouche Vote: Shape Of Things to Come?
The Democratic Party's evident national leadership vacuum has left Democrats, and sane Republicans, no place to turn but to the economic recovery policies of Democratic Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, the leader of the 'FDR' tradition internationally.
The International 'Christian Embassy' in Jerusalem and Its Terrorist Connections
On Oct. 11, President George W. Bush delivered a videotaped address to a Washington, D.C. meeting of the Christian Coalition, the organization founded by televangelist billionaire 'Diamond Pat' Robertson. The Coalition conference gathered thousands of Christian Zionists for a 'Unity With Israel' rally, whose major theme was, that there will never be a Palestinian state on the Biblical land of Israel...
Christian Zionists Are Not Christians
Just as 'Christian Zionists' were rallying in Washington, D.C., in support of the Israeli Likud government's genocidal policies toward Palestinians, and the Bush Administration itself appears to be operating in parallel with these fundamentalist lunatics, the fallacies of Christian Zionism were being thoroughly dissected and exposed at a little-noticed conference, held by Christians from Palestine and their supporters in the Western and Eastern churches.
The Strange Sources of Violence for Children
Parents and early-childhood teachers will be interested to learn that Israeli military intelligence figures created and market the number-one violent game among very young children, 'Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.' That this same grouping owns 'Christian' fundamentalist televangelist Pat Robertson's TV show, and that Robertson in return praises their violent entertainment products, is not at all as strange as it may seem.
Will Moonie Money Be Used in Netanyahu-Sharon Election Theft?
Reports are already coming in from sources in Israel that the radical right wing there is banking on massive amounts of money from the United States, to swipe the upcoming Knesset and prime ministerial elections, and consolidate a Jewish fascist garrison state.
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