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Published: Tuesday, Apr. 27, 2004
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Here is the hour-long video interview Lyndon LaRouche gave to EIR Arabic correspondent Hussein Askary on April 24, 2004. Subheads have been added.
HUSSEIN ASKARY: Mr. Lyndon LaRouche, the Democratic Presidential candidate and prominent economist and statesman of the United States, has put forward a proposal to salvage the
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situation in Iraq and the Middle East in general, which he has called "The LaRouche Doctrine," and which is being circulated inside the United States and internationally—that, in the context of his proposals for the reorganization of the international financial and monetary systems. So, we are going to ask Mr. Lyndon LaRouche to elaborate on these proposals, and explain the way his initiatives could work.
LYNDON LAROUCHE: Well, what I did was, among other things, I made a ten-point argument, in order to have it in the point form, which is more easily understood, and divided into three sections the ten points. The first is to emphasize that the present view of the strategic situation in the Middle East is wrong, and can not possibly lead to a successful result. Therefore, we have to redefine the question on all sides; various proposals from all sides, will not work, as previously established. For one reason, the situation [in Iraq] has gone much too far. We're now in advanced asymmetric warfare, and the United States could not stay in, and the United States could not simply get out, without leaving chaos behind. And therefore, some completely different approach has to be taken to the situation.
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At the end of April 1937, the Federal government of the United States began to send out Social Security checks to Americans 65 years and older. Today, as the representatives of predatory finance threaten to either reduce, or otherwise undercut, this established right of Americans, we do well to recall the origin and significance of what we call Social Security.
The Social Security Act of 1935 was the product of a long struggle within the United States, to implement the concept of the Federal government's powers to tax and act for the "general welfare" of the U.S. population. The Preamble to the bill was just that simple: "An Act to provide for the General Welfare," through providing for old-age assistance, old-age insurance, unemployment insurance, and the like. The bill passed under conditions of intense political struggle, with individuals like Dr. Charles Townsend, a California physician who agitated for public pensions, carrying out a petition campaign for such government aid, which resulted in 20 million signatures, and with the ideologues of Wall Street seeking to spike the plan, eventually with a court challenge which went all the way up to the Supreme Court. It was not until May 24, 1937—after the first checks had begun to be issued—that the Highest Court ruled the Old-Age provision Constitutional under the General Welfare clause.
Conditions for the elderly during the Depression years were particularly horrible. There were approximately 7.6 million people over 65, and only 3% of them were able to get help from the state programs which had been established on their behalf. President Roosevelt had been in favor of providing Federal aid before he entered the Presidency, and when he appointed Frances Perkins his Secretary of Labor, he knew he was putting someone in place who was going to fight for such programs. Perkins testified in her autobiography that FDR was passionate about the need to provide for the poor, old, and destitute, and considered it a "personal affront" that people were subject to such conditions in America.
In June of 1934, after having dealt with pressing issues around the banking system, gold, and public works programs, President Roosevelt turned his attention to helping the poor who could not work, or should not be working. He issued a message to Congress which included three subjects: housing, unemployment insurance, and "security against the hazards and vicissitudes of life." Further, the message said that "next winter we may well undertake the great task of furthering the security of the citizen and his family through social insurance." While bending over backwards to be conciliatory to business, Roosevelt said: "We must dedicate ourselves anew to a recovery of the old and sacred possessive rights for which mankind has constantly struggled—homes, livelihood, and individual security. The road to these values is the way of progress."
Immediately after issuing the message, Roosevelt appointed a Cabinet Committee on Economic Security, with Perkins as chairman. The Committee devised the bill which the President introduced into Congress in January 1935, a bill which dealt with social insurance for the aged and unemployed, as well as support for the destitute. Great pains were taken to provide the income for fulfilling the bill's mandates, through taxation on business and individuals, but the principle of a broad entitlement for all of those over 65 was never breached.
It took seven months for FDR's team to get the bill through Congress, by which time its name had been changed to the Social Security Act. Upon the signing on Aug. 14, FDR made the following statement:
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Feature:
Southwest Asia: The LaRouche Doctrine
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
This statement was released by the LaRouche in 2004 Presidential campaign committee on April 17, 2004.
The very future existence of the U.S.A., and much more besides, are being put in terrible peril by current economic and military policies of both the U.S. Bush Administration and the matching, negligent follies of Senator Kerry's presently ill-advised campaign....
LaRouche's Oasis Plan: Developing The Desert Is the Basis for Peace
by Marcia Merry Baker
Lyndon LaRouche has put forward formulations of his 'Oasis Plan' of economic great projects for Southwest Asia and North Africa since the beginnings, in 1975, of his discussions of a common policy with leading Israelis and Arabs. This 'Oasis' outline was published in EIR, Jan. 5, 1996 and excerpted in a Special Report, 'Who Is Sparking Religious War in the Middle East,' in December 2000.
Science and Culture:
Reductionism As Mental Slavery: When Even Scientists Were Brainwashed
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. examines 'the historically specific quality of mass-insanity which has brought the world at large into the presently erupting, global, monetary-financial, economic, and strategic crisis.' He treats the subject from the reference-point of the problems afflicting physical science, with the history of the Fusion Energy Foundation and its role in formulating the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) as his principal case study.
Economics:
Beware Rohatyn Reminiscing: A Coast-to-Coast 'Big MAC'?
by Marcia Merry Baker
Felix Rohatyn—the Lazard Fre`res investment banker who grabbed dictatorial powers in NewYork City's 1975 financial crisis, drastically reduced its workforce, froze its unions' wages while grabbing their pension funds to buy city bonds, and imposed brutal austerity on the city's services—proposed such a financial dictatorship for the United States as a whole on April 15, writing 'offshore' in the London Financial Times.
German Central Bank Chief ForcedOut
by Rainer Apel
Confronted with new revelations about yet another irregularity in handling personal finances (BMW picked up the tab for a trip to a Monaco racing event in 2003 for him and his wife), German Central Bank Governor Ernst Welteke, on April 16, announced his resignation.
International:
LaRouche Challenges Russian Youth To Assert Leadership
We continue our report on Lyndon LaRouche's mid-April visit to Moscow, where he addressed a scientific conference at the Vernadsky State Geological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, on the subject of 'Science and Our Future: Ideas To Change the World.' He also spoke to student audiences elsewhere.
Bush, Sharon Change The Rules of the Game
by Dean Andromidas
On April 17, within hours of his return from his love fest with President George W. Bush in Washington, Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the assassination of Abdel Azziz Rantisi, the leader of the Palestinian Hamas organization in the Gaza Strip. The 'targeted assassination' confirmed that Sharon's disengagement plan, with the backing of the President of the United States, is merely a cover for Sharon's ongoing war against the Palestinians that promises to spread throughout the region.
Will Korea Seize Its '1989-Like' Chance?
by L. Wolfe and Kathy Wolfe
In what Europeans know as the 'historical opportunity of 1989,' the peaceful people's revolutions in Eastern Europe toppled the Berlin Wall, and placed Germany and all of Europe on the threshold of a potential new era of cooperation and prosperity. Instead of taking the pathway down that road, as proposed by U.S. political figure Lyndon LaRouche, the the Europeans allowed themselves to be bullied by Anglo-American circles into a policy of looting the East of raw materials and labor; and a great opportunity to change a corrupt and bankrupt world paradigm was lost.
Strategy of Tension:
Strategy of Tension: The Case of Italy
by Claudio Celani
Part 4
The synarchist strategy of tension ripped Italy apart beginning in the 1960s, as neo-Nazi, banking, and terror networks joined forces to destabilize the nation. Part 3, in EIR of April 9, 2004, unravelled the threads of cover-up that followed the terror bombing of the Bologna train station in 1980, which killed 85 people and injured more than 200. We showed that interlinked personnel of the Propaganda-2 (P2) freemasonic organization and the SISMI military intelligence services covered up the tracks of the terrorists over many years.
National:
Rove's Problem: 'Dump Cheney, Or GetOut Of Town'
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Dick Cheney went off to Asia on a three-nation tour in mid-April, in what one Washington insider described as a desperate effort to 'improve his image.' The Vice President is now such a liability to the Bush re-election effort that pressure is mounting on White House campaign strategist Karl Rove, in the words of one longtime Republican Party strategist, to 'either dump Cheney from the ticket or get out of town.'
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