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LaRouche in Berlin: 'I'm Committed — To Peace, and I'm Asking You To Help Me'

The following is Lyndon LaRouche's keynote to an EIR seminar in Berlin, held on Dec. 18, 2002.

On the 28th of January of this coming year, 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 broadcast on a webcast at 1 o'clock Washington, D.C. time, which will be 7 o'clock in the evening Berlin time. 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.

We are presently at the fag end of a global systemic crisis, without any real comparison in the most recent century. The

nearest comparison is Europe, and the Americas, between 1928 and the inauguration of Hitler in January of 1933. We have entered into a period of financial, and other crisis, in which none of the existing parties, in Europe or the Americas, have the slightest competent conception about what to do about the worst systemic crisis in modern history, at least since the French Revolution. And therefore you see, that we've entered a period, as in the fall of the Mueller government, in which governments are either technically, ministerial governments, not true parliamentary governments, or an approximation of a ministerial government.

For example, I played a key role, which is now recognized as such, in certain leading Democratic Party circles in the United States, in Russia, and elsewhere, in preventing what was going to be an Iraq war from taking place at the time it was intended. That war is not off the table entirely. Forces which are determined to have it, are still active. They wish a Middle East war, for reasons I shall indicate. But, we stopped it temporarily. And I was able to play a key role, in certain institutions in the United States, to get the United States to work with forces in Europe. And with the help of a remarkable position taken by Chancellor Schroeder in Germany, Europeans solidified their position, and the United States was inclined to move toward a United Nations security option, and pressures were put on to ensure that Saddam Hussein would make a proposal, that the United Nations would accept it, and that the United States government would accept that proposal.
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December 23- 9, 1776

This week we focus our attention on Commander-in-Chief George Washington's bold move to cross the Delaware River, on Christmas Day 1776, a move which reversed the sagging spirits of the American forces and population after a long string of defeats in the Revolutionary War. This action reflects the quality of leadership which characterized Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and which is being demonstrated only by Lyndon LaRouche, in the crucial crisis we face today.

The situation of the American colonists was desperate, as we indicated in our last week's column on the Crisis paper of Tom Paine. On top of the string of defeats, and the retreat down New Jersey, were the threat that a large portion of the Army, which was made up of colonial militiamen who had enlisted for short periods of time, was about to go home; the enticement of an amnesty which had been offered by the British Commander Cornwallis; and the miserable condition, in terms of supplies, of the Continental Army itself.

Washington, then 43, was faced with the need both to defend Philadelphia, the seat of Congress, and to remoralize his forces. Having retreated across the Delaware River, the border between Delaware and Pennsylvania on one side, and New Jersey on the other, he decided to launch a counterattack back across the Delaware River into New Jersey, to ambush the British troops which were settling in for the winter. Washington's plan called for attacking all the British posts on the Delaware, but it ended up that several divisions didn't make it, leaving the major engagement to occur at Trenton.

One reason Washington was able to do this, was that he had commandeered all the boats along the Pennsylvania side of the river, denying them to the British who had wanted to cross over into Pennsylvania, and making them available for his bold plan. In addition, he had received reinforcements from the North.

It was a daring plan, which hardly could have been popular with Washington's ill-clad Army. It called for one column to cross the river above Trenton, on the night of Dec. 25, march south, and storm the British troops' winter quarters in Trenton. These troops, 2,400 in all, were to be led by General Washington himself.

According to the testimony of John Marshall, in his biography of General Washington, "The cold on the night of the 25th was very severe. Snow, mingled with hail and rain, fell in great quantities, and so much ice was made in the river" that it was impossible to keep the original schedule Washington had devised. Thus, while the General's contingent was supposed to cross the river starting at 12 midnight, and meet the body of Pennsylvania militia coming up from the South at 5:00 a.m., Washington's troops couldn't get across the Delaware until 3:00 or 4:00 a.m..
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LaRouche Warns of Sharon War Plans
Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche issued a stern warning on Dec. 20, that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon may attempt to provoke a near-term Middle East war...

LaRouche: We Do Not Wish 'an Allende Solution' — For the Chavez Problem in Venezuela — December 21, 2002
U.S. Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche has expressed his concern over the dangerous and rapidly degenerating political situation in Venezuela...

Mexico Hears LaRouche on "The Issue of Leadership"
Lyndon LaRouche gave this presentation by teleconference from Germany, to a cadre school in Mexico City, Dec. 15, 2002. Some of the discussion which followed is included here.

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Feature:

Hungary in Crisis: LaRouche Offers New Bretton Woods
by Elisabeth Hellenbroich
Economist and U.S. Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche's Dec. 11-13 visit to Hungary was organized around two strategic events:Aconference at the Finance Ministry, 'The World Economy in Crisis: Need for a New Bretton Woods,' was held on Dec. 12, organized by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Committee on Finance, whose chairman is the well-known economist Prof. Be´la Csiko´s-Nagy.

Economics:

'NEO-COLBERTISM' OR DECADENCE
Italy Offers EU an Initiative for Infrastructure Development
by Claudio Celani
On the eve of the Dec. 12-13 Copenhagen summit of the European Union, the fight inside theEU, on whether to change the strict free-trade policies embodied in the Maastricht Treaty, took on a new dimension, involving the issue of the enlargement of the EU.

Argentina Crisis Now Hits IMF,World Bank
by Cynthia R. Rush
After almost a year of torturous negotiations with the International Monetary Fund, during which it has largely complied with Fund austerity demands, the Argentine government of President Eduardo Duhalde has finally put its foot down.

Malaysia Demands Japan Regain Economic Lead
by Michael Billington
Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad spoke in Tokyo on Dec. 12, at the 'Seminar on the 20th Anniversary of the Look East Policy,' which refers to Malaysia's policy of learning from the Japanese model of economic development.

International:

Australia:
Frantic Crown Launches New Attacks on LaRouche
by Allen Douglas
Acting for the Queen's Privy Council, the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission Inc. of Australia (ADC) has made a submission to the Australian Parliament, demanding that the Citizens Electoral Council (CEC), LaRouche's co-thinkers in Australia, be 'de-registered' as a federal political party.

Documents Show Israeli Hand in Phony Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Hamas
This document was provided to EIR following three press conferences given by Col. Rashid Abu Shbak, head of the Palestinian Preventive Security agency in the Gaza Strip, on Dec. 6, 8, and 10.

Hindu Hard-Liners Win Big in India's Gujarat
by Ramtanu Maitra
The lopsided victory of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Dec. 12 state assembly elections in Gujarat, has given mixed signals to the near-future political scene in India. The elections, held under the shadow of widespread anti- Muslim riots, which left at least 1,000 dead last spring, polarized the state population.

Israel Elections: Sharon May Sink in Likud Money Scandals
by Dean Andromidas
Speaking of 'adding hope to the United States' Middle East agenda' in Washington on Dec. 12, Secretary of State Colin Powell announced a new $29 million program aimed at promoting 'democracy' and open economic policies throughout the region.

'New Silk Road' Party Wins Korean Presidency
by Kathy Wolfe

Millennium Democratic Party (MDP) candidate Roh Moohyun was elected President of South Korea Dec. 19, in a narrow but decisive 49 to 46% vote, against opposition Grand National Party (GNP) chief Lee Hoi-chang, a victory for the New Silk Road and Eurasian Land-Bridge.
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Korea and World Peace
This statement was issued on Dec. 15 by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.'s Presidential pre-candidate political committee, LaRouche in 2004.
Challenges Ahead for Korean Foreign Policy
by Dr. Kim Sang-woo
The article excerpted here first appeared in the Korea Times on Dec. 16. Dr. Kim is Professor of International Relations at Kyung Hee University.

National:

'Southern Strategy' Sinking, With Gore and Lott's Careers
by Nancy Spannaus and Jeff Steinberg
The fall of 'Ole Miss' cheerleader Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.), from his perch of power on Capitol Hill as Senate Majority Leader, is just the most dramatic indication that both parties' shift to the political 'Southern Strategy' which took off in the late 1960s, is about to come to a screeching halt.

Black State Legislators Hear LaRouche Spokesmen
by Rochelle Ascher
Debra Freeman, national spokesman for the LaRouche in 2004 Presidential Campaign, was the lead speaker at the 'International Day' AIDS forum, sponsored as part of the 26th annual conference of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL), on Dec. 9-13 in Indianapolis.

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