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Published: Monday, Jan. 20, 2003
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A LaRouche-Led Revolt Against The Perpetual-War Party
by Jeffrey Steinberg
While the ultimate decision on war or peace in Iraq is yet to be made by President Bush, there are growing indications that the American public, as well as key U.S. institutions, are joining the fight launched early last year by Lyndon LaRouche, to defeat the neo-conservative cabal which is increasingly desperate to steer the Bush Administration to war and 'Empire.'
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Dramatic evidence of growing opposition to the 'chickenhawk' agenda was a full-page ad in the Jan. 13 Wall Street Journal, called 'A Republican Dissent on Iraq.' The ad was taken out by a group of 500 corporate executives, all 'cardcarrying' Republican Party activists, in the name of Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities. The group boasts a military advisory committee stacked with retired flag grade officers, including Vice Adm. John J. Shanahan, former CIA Director Adm. Stansfield Turner, former Reagan Administration Assistant Secretary of Defense Lawrence Korb, Rear Adm. Eugene Carroll, and Col. David Hackworth (USA-ret.), America's most decorated living combat veteran.
The ad began, 'Let's be clear:Wesupported the Gulf War. We supported our intervention in Afghanistan. We accept the logic of a just war. But Mr. President, your war on Iraq does not pass the test. It is not a just war. The candidate we supported in 2000 promised a more humble nation in our dealings with the world...
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Sixty-six years ago, on Jan. 20, 1937, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his Second Inaugural Address, one of the most direct and poignant reassertions of the commitment of the American Republic to the principle of the General Welfare, which has ever been made from the Presidency. As we sink deeper into a new global depression, Americans would do well to look to FDR's standard of leadership, which brought us out of the last one. While Lyndon LaRouche's forecasting record, and approach toward getting us out of the current crisis, surpass those of FDR, it is actually the success of FDR's fight which provides the institutional basis for success today.
Knowing that many Americans have never heard, or read, this speech—which FDR dedicated to the 150th anniversary year of the U.S. Constitution—we are reprinting it in its entirety.
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"When four years ago we met to inaugurate a President, the Republic, single-minded in anxiety, stood in spirit here. We dedicated ourselves to the fulfillment of a vision—to speed the time when there would be for all the people that security and peace essential to the pursuit of happiness. We of the Republic pledged ourselves to drive from the temple of our ancient faith those who had profaned it; to end by action, tireless and unafraid, the stagnation and despair of that day. We did those first things first.
"Our covenant with ourselves did not stop there. Instinctively we recognized a deeper need—the need to find through government the instrument of our united purpose to solve for the individual the ever-rising problems of a complex civilization. Repeated attempts at their solution without the aid of government had left us baffled and bewildered. For, without that aid, we had been unable to create those moral controls over the services of science which are necessary to make science a useful servant instead of a ruthless master of mankind. To do this we knew that we must find practical controls over blind economic forces and blindly selfish men.
"We of the Republic sensed the truth that democratic government has innate capacity to protect its people against disasters once considered inevitable, to solve problems once considered unsolvable. We would not admit that we could not find a way to master economic epidemics just as, after centuries of fatalistic suffering, we had found a way to master epidemics of disease. We refused to leave the problems of our common welfare to be solved by the winds of chance and the hurricanes of disaster.
"In this we Americans were discovering no wholly new truth; we were writing a new chapter in our book of self-government.
"This year marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Constitutional Convention which made us a nation. At that Convention our forefathers found the way out of the chaos which followed the Revolutionary War; they created a strong government with powers of united action sufficient then and now to solve problems utterly beyond individual or local solution. A century and a half ago they established the Federal Government in order to promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to the American people.
"Today we invoke those same powers of government to achieve the same objectives.
"Four years of new experience have not belied our historic instinct. They hold out the clear hope that government within communities, government within the separate States, and government of the United States can do the things the times require, without yielding its democracy. Our tasks in the last four years did not force democracy to take a holiday.
"Nearly all of us recognize that as intricacies of human relationships increase, so power to govern them also must increase—power to stop evil; power to do good. The essential democracy of our Nation and the safety of our people depend not upon the absence of power, but upon lodging it with those whom the people can change or continue at stated intervals through an honest and free system of elections. The Constitution of 1787 did not make our democracy impotent.
"In fact, in these last four years, we have made the exercise of all power more democratic; for we have begun to bring private autocratic powers into their proper subordination to the public's government. The legend that they were invincible—above and beyond the processes of a democracy—has been shattered. They have been challenged and beaten.
"Our progress out of the depression is obvious. But that is not all that you and I mean by the new order of things. Our pledge was not merely to do a patchwork job with secondhand materials. By using the new materials of social justice we have undertaken to erect on the old foundations a more enduring structure for the better use of future generations.
"In that purpose we have been helped by achievements of mind and spirit. Old truths have been relearned; untruths have been unlearned. We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a prosperity whose builders boasted their practicality has come the conviction that in the long run economic morality pays. We are beginning to wipe out the line that divides the practical from the ideal; and in so doing we are fashioning an instrument of unimagined power for the establishment of a morally better world.
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LaRouche Calls On Youth Movement To Make a Revolution
by Carlos Wesley
Scores of youth, many of them members of the international LaRouche Youth Movement, gathered in various capital cities of the Americas and of Europe at year's end, to conduct a dialogue with U.S. statesman Lyndon H. LaRouche, and with his wife, German political leader Helga Zepp-LaRouche.
Providing Leadership For a Time of Crisis
Mr. LaRouche gave this presentation by teleconference from Germany, to the cadre school in Mexico City, on Dec. 15, 2002. We include some of the discussion that followed.
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In Memoriam:
The Exemplary Life of Marianna Wertz
On Jan. 15, 2003, the birthday of her beloved Martin Luther King, Jr., long-time LaRouche associate Marianna Wertz departed this mortal life at the age of 54. There will be much to say about Marianna in the weeks and months to come, commemorating her life and work, from the many with whom she worked. But this initial reflection is necessary, both for those of us who feel the immediate pain of her passing, and as a very personal challenge to the broader circle of Americans who read this newspaper.
LaRouche Remarks on Immortality
As the report arrived to Lyndon LaRouche about Marianna Wertz's death, he was giving a public address in Germany. Although LaRouche had not yet learned of Marianna's death, he knew of her illness, and was, at that very moment, speaking about immortality. LaRouche asked that what he said be conveyed, as a message from Helga Zepp-LaRouche and himself to Will Wertz, Marianna's husband and to everyone.
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Economics:
Deepening Depression Forces LaRouche's Super-TVA on Agenda
by EIR Staff
By its January 15 report, even the U.S. Federal Reserve had to acknowledge that large job losses, sinking consumer spending, record corporate bankruptcies, and disastrous blowouts of state and Federal budgets, show that the U.S. economy is not recovering, but still falling.
Brazil's Lula Tries To Live in TwoWorlds
by Silvia Palacios and Lorenzo Carrasco
Forming President Luiz Ina´cio Lula da Silva's government, by trying to please Greeks and Trojans alike, has led to what might be dubbed a 'tutti fruti Cabinet,' with representation of every political flavor imaginable.
Central Americans Told To Forget 'CAFTA'
by EIR Staff
With negotiations on a U.S.-Central American Free Trade Accord formally opened on Jan. 8, 2003, the drive to extend the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) south to the Colombian border is on in earnest.
War Would Accelerate Germany's Economic Fall
by Rainer Apel
Economic data published in Germany on Jan. 13, on the export performance of its export-centered economy, corroborate two basic trends: German exports to the other leading industrial nations of the Group of Seven are shrinking; whereas exports to rapidly developing 'threshold' countries like China and India are expanding.
'Islamic Banking' May Expand In a New International System
by Paolo Raimondi
Over 200 economic, banking, and government representatives attended an important conference on 'Islamic Banking,' in Rome on Dec. 19, co-sponsored by the Italian Banking Association (ABI), the Islamic Development Bank, the Islamic Research and Training Institute, and the Italian-Arab Chamber of Commerce of Rome.
Interview: Michael Sobol
Water Infrastructure: $1 Trillion Need inU.S.
Michael Sobol is a Board Member of the Metropolitan Sewer District of Asheville/Buncombe County, North Carolina, and a national activist for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure. He was interviewed on Dec. 6, 2002 by Marcia Merry Baker.
International:
Iraq Inspections Have Exposed The Hoax of the 'Dossiers'
by Michele Steinberg
After UN weapons inspectors Dr. Hans Blix and Dr. Mohammed El-Baradei gave their preliminary report to the UN Security Council on inspections inside Iraq since Nov. 27, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld held a Jan. 15 Pentagon press conference, attacking the inspectors as weak sisters.
Scott Ritter: 'J'Accuse'
by Michele Steinberg
The interview with former UN chief weapons inspector Scott Ritter that makes up the bulk of this book, should have appeared as his testimony to a joint session of the Congress. The questions that author William Rivers Pitt poses, should have been asked by a panel of Senators and Congressmen, at the beginning of public hearings whose outcome could prevent a deadly war that could shape global politics for decades to come.
Mitzna Rejects Unity Government With Sharon
by Dean Andromidas
Israeli Labor Party ChairmanAmramMitzna declared on Jan.13 that he will never join a national unity government with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (Likud), thereby refusing to be party to any scheme for saving Sharon's skin.
Once a Republic, Now an Empire?
by Gabriele Liebig
Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche was the first to stress that the events of Sept. 11, 2001 must be seen as an attempt of certain U.S. intelligence and establishment circles to launch a non-stop war against Islam; and indeed, against any nations opposed to a New World Order which would be a parody of theRomanEmpire.
Economist Issues 'Final Call to Heroism'
The following document by Philippine economist Antonio A.S. Valdes, co-founder of the Philippine LaRouche Society, was released at a dramatic moment of crisis in the Philippines. The economy is verging on collapse, and the political situation is so tense that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo announced on Dec. 30 that she will not run for re-election, calling for a viable coalition of some sort to be created with the capacity to save the nation from chaos.
Russia, Japan Adopt Partnership Plan
by Rachel Douglas
Following his own year-end state visits to India and China, Russian President Vladimir Putin began the 2003 diplomatic calendar by receiving the leader of another Asian powerhouse, Japan....While attempts to defuse the U.S.showdownwith North Korea were, inevitably, high on the Putin-Koizumi agenda, it was the scope of economic cooperation discussed, the commitment to a new 'strategic partnership,' and the agreement to work around their decades-long territorial dispute...
LaRouche Ally Cheminade Stirs Up U.A.E., Qatar
Jacques Cheminade, President of Solidarite´ et Progre`s—co-thinkers in France of Lyndon LaRouche—was in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar at the end of December, on a mission to stop the Iraq war and to advance LaRouche's Eurasian Land-Bridge strategy, already widely debated by the press and leaders in the Islamic nations.
Venezuela's Collapse Is No 'Local Affair'
by Cynthia R. Rush
Almost all participants and observers in Venezuela's ongoing crisis—the general strike begun by opponents of President Hugo Cha´vez on Dec. 2 has shut down the oil-based economy and unleashed political violence and chaos—argue that it is caused by something unique to that country, and therefore requires a local solution.
National:
For Frist, Free Market Trumps General Welfare
by Linda Everett
Since Sen. Bill H. Frist (R-Tenn.) took up the reins of Senate Republican Leader in the aftermath of Trent Lott's racist debacle, the media has fallen over one another building Frist's persona of glamour and glory as a skillful heart surgeon....The tragedy is his betrayal of that doctor's commitment to save lives, when it comes to public policy. There, for Dr. Frist, as he wishes to be called, the 'free market' trumps human life.
Congress Flees Economy As Fast as It Can
by Carl Osgood
The House of Representatives spent most of the 107th Congress doing as little work as possible—particularly after the Democrats took over the Senate in May 2001, following the departure of Sen. Jim Jeffords (I-Vt.) from the Senate GOP caucus; and particularly when it came to doing the 13 annual budget appropriations bills.
Gov. Ryan Deals Mortal Blow to Death Penalty
Illinois Gov. George Ryan's bold action on Jan. 11, commuting to life imprisonment the sentences of all 167 inmates on the state prison's death row, was intensely controversial....His blanket commutation has been intensely criticized, but it is 'likely to lead the nation toward a similar conclusion...'
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