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Published: Tuesday, July 22, 2003
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All the trees in the forest have not yet fallen—to use the famous Watergate analogy—but they are beginning to shake. And as they do, the secret "shadow government" operating under the direction of Vice President Dick Cheney and centered in the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans (OSP)—the driving force for war with Iraq and other countries—is coming out into the light.
Over the weekend of June 6-8, EIR founder and Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche issued a widely circulated statement charging that the growing mountain of evidence showing that Cheney had repeatedly used a forged document to corral Congressional and public support for the Iraq War, constituted grounds for the impeachment of the Vice President. The document in question was the now-famous forgery, purporting to show that Iraq had attempted to purchase uranium ore "yellowcake" from Niger.
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July 22, 1944 marked the conclusion of the Bretton Woods Conference, the singular event which established the postwar monetary system, and launched approximately 20 years of growth and prosperity internationally. A look at the principles established there, from the standpoint of the statesman who shaped them—President Franklin Delano Roosevelt—is vital to be understood today, as the world faces the need to establish a new monetary system, aimed at promoting economic growth and development, and a rescue from a New Dark Age.
Recall the stark similarities between the period of 1945 and today: While, today, the world is not emerging from a world war, nonetheless, devastation, breakdown, and enforced underdevelopment exist everywhere, just as they did 50 years ago. The old system is beyond repair, and a new financial system is required, in order to permit the long-term investment and growth so desperately needed. Today, as then, the new system must be constructed to foster peace and cooperation, in lieu of war.
There were two great objectives Roosevelt was trying to accomplish with the Bretton Woods System: 1) to free more than half the world's population from the British, French, Dutch, Belgian, and Portuguese Empires, and 2) to unleash global economic reconstruction and development, that is, to reconstruct" shattered Europe's and Japan's economies and to develop" the former colonial sector, eliminating enforced underdevelopment (this is where the World Bank's name came from). Roosevelt proceeded from the American System of economics, of anti-usury,
The means for accomplishing this which FDR proposed, were several. First, to make the environment conducive to economic growth, he insisted upon currency stability—i.e., exchange rates fixed by governments. Second, he called for two institutions to be established, which would facilitate relations between states toward the above objectives: first, the International Monetary Fund, and second, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, today known as the World Bank.
Debating these objectives were 44 nations, including China, 19 nations of South and Central America, a Committee of Liberation for France, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, the United States, and more than a dozen other nations of Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe. From the conclusion of the meeting, the proposal went back for ratification by the several states, which process was not completed until 1946.
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Feature:
MEXICO'S CRISTERO REBELLION
Synarchism, the Spanish Falange, and the Nazis
by William F. Wertz, Jr.
This article is dedicated to the memory of Carlos Cota. It was prepared with the assistance of Cruz del Carmen Moreno de Cota.
The purpose of this article is to give the potential youth leader in Mexico and elsewhere knowledge of the way in which Synarchism has been used to try to prevent Mexico in particular from developing as an independent sovereign nation-state, as part of a worldwide community of sovereign nation-states mutually committed to the promotion of the general welfare of their respective populations through economic development.
Economics:
Europe's Energy Supply: On the Way to California
by Lothar Komp
Everywhere in the European Union, the energy sectors have been hit with a whirlwind of confusion, as a consequence of electricity 'deregulation' at varying tempos.
Italian Plan for Growth Becomes European Plan
by Claudio Celani
'The Italian plan has now become the European plan,' an-nounced Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti, at the end of July 14-15 meeting of the European Union members' economic and finance ministers (Ecofin) in Brussels. Led by the Italian EU presidency, the Ecofin has given a formal mandate to the EU Commission—in collaboration with the European Investment Bank (EIB)—to elaborate a technical scheme for implementation of the 'European Action for Growth' plan.
Energy Pirate Firms Are Exposed in Mexico
by Ronald Moncayo
The clandestine attempt to privatize Mexico's energy sector, publicly exposed by EIR magazine as far back as December of 2001, was legally stalled on June 25, when Mexican Sen. Manuel Bartlett presented a formal demand to the Superior Auditor of the Federation and to the Oversight Committee of the National Congress' Chamber of Deputies, for an investigation of 225 licenses for electricity generation, that had been granted by the previous Ernesto Zedillo and the current Vicente Fox governments.
International:
A Wounded Imperial War Party May React With New Wars
by Paul Gallagher
Increasing threats of war on the Korean Peninsula, or strikes against Iran, show that the imperial 'perpetual war' faction led by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and the circles around British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, is losing its control in Washington, but is not yet decisively defeated.
LaRouche Is Best-Known Dem Candidate in Mideast
by Hussein Askary
Lyndon LaRouche continues to be the most recognized and popular American Democratic Presidential pre-candidate in the Middle East. The continued coverage in the Arabic press of his activities in the United States to remove the war party of Vice President Dick Cheney and his Straussian cabal, and LaRouche's tours in Eurasia and the Mideast to establish an alternative, just foreign policy for America, are often reported and commented upon.
Extraordinary Steps in Franco-Russian Relations
by Jacques Cheminade
'Do the French and Russian Foreign Affairs and Defense Ministers still have anything to say to each other?' Le Monde asked editorially on July 10: 'Because, according to them, they agree on all issues.' The description of French and Russian policies as converging, 'down to minute details,' came recent Le Bourget aerospace exhibition, through an arrange- both from the leading French dailies Le Monde and Le Figaro, and from within Paris political circles, after a high-level visit to Moscow by French officials on July 7-9.
New Phase Beginning In Afghanistan
by Ramtanu Maitra
OnJuly 14, the first batch of NATO forces arrived in Afghanistan's capital Kabul, to lay the groundwork for the Western military alliance to take over of command of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Aug. 11. Billed as the launch pad for NATO's most radical transformation ever, the deployment has received support of Russia. But China and India, two other major powers in the region, have remained quiet.
India's 'No' on Troops To Iraq May Be Catching
by Ramtanu Maitra
India's Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) made the offi- cial announcement on July 14: India will not send troops to help America and Britain 'stabilize' and rule Iraq. Although the CCS reached the decision in 10 minutes, the issue had been hanging fire for weeks,
Australia Dossier
Australia To Invade Solomons
by Robert Barwick
Australian Prime Minister John Howard, who enthusiastically endorsed the invasion of Iraq, is smarting from the same kind of heat that's on Britain's Tony Blair and the U.S. 'chicken-hawks' under Vice President Dick Cheney...
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