The LaRouche Connection

Program Summaries: 2001
489-540

Updated August 17, 2007


To order videotape copies of any edition of The LaRouche Connection,
send e-mail to:
Charles Notley


Return to LaRouche Connection Home Page


2001

Program No. 489
Election Crisis 2000: The Fall of Ozymandias, Part 1

Speaking by video teleconference from Germany, former Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche addressed the second of three scheduled Washington, DC seminars being sponsored by Executive Intelligence Review to address the political crisis now enmiring the country. The December 12th proceedings were webcast live in English and Spanish on www.larouchepub.com to an international audience.

Mr. LaRouche called for the implementation of the established Constitutional procedures of the Electoral College, with the Congress following up, as the only viable direction available to be taken to get a new President. Mr. LaRouche singled out the philosophy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, as a major threat to the U.S. Constitutional order. To follow Justice Scalia, he said, would be to turn an electoral crisis, into a Constitutional crisis.

Mr. LaRouche’s speech laid out the stark implications of such a Supreme Court intrusion into the electoral process. Coming as it does, in the midst of the worst financial crisis in centuries, Mr. LaRouche said, such a political action sets up a situation for a "crisis-management" government, imposing austerity and de facto dictatorship on this United States with devastating implications for the entire world. All necessary action should be taken to try to prevent such a travesty, Mr. LaRouche said.

Within hours of Mr. LaRouche’s warning, the U.S. Supreme Court unfortunately did follow Scalia’s policy direction, in a 5 to 4 ruling which fixed the election for George W. Bush.

The first seminar in the series, entitled "Now Comes the Aftermath," which took place on Nov. 14, is featured on The LaRouche Connection Program No. 483. The third seminar, entitled "Now The Incoming President: The Third But Not Final Report by Lyndon LaRouche on the Next Presidency," which took place on Jan. 3, 2001, will be the subject of future LaRouche Connection programs.

[For a full transcript of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, and selections from the question and answer session from the Nov. 14 seminar, see EIR magazine, Nov. 24, p.48-67.]

[For a full transcript of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks from the Dec. 12 seminar, see EIR magazine, Dec. 22, p. 46-58.]

Note: This program was originally released as Program No. 487 on Dec. 20, 2000

Re-released as Program No. 489: Jan. 4, 2001

Program No. 490
Save the Nation: Revive FDR-Kennedy Policies!

Speaking by video teleconference from Germany on Jan. 3rd to a packed audience in Washington, DC, and by conference-phone to a sizable group of diplomats in New York City, newly announced Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche challenged the American people: Either the base of the Democratic Party comes together to demand, and force through, a revival of the policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, under LaRouche’s leadership, or the nation will be destroyed very soon.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks to this the third of three scheduled Washington, DC seminars sponsored by Executive Intelligence Review to address the political crisis now engulfing the country. The proceedings were webcast live in English and Spanish on www.larouchepub.com to an international audience.

As Mr. LaRouche put it, "If the Bush team occupies the Presidency, and sticks to the policies which it has stated its firmly committed to, the United States will very soon be destroyed as a nation, not years down the line, but perhaps in a very short time."

The reason is the collapse of the huge financial bubble built by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, which will bring about a global economic breakdown crisis, since the U.S., as importer of last resort, will itself be unable to continue to play that role. At that point, a continuation of the "great mistake" of the New Economy and Southern Strategy policies of the last 35 years, will lead to a disaster much worse than that Roosevelt faced. "We have to go back to the legacies of the Roosevelt-Kennedy era, to solve these kind of problems."

Mr. LaRouche concluded by stressing his personal qualifications to rally action around those policies, given that he is the world’s best economist, and that he has the leadership capability to pull together the constituency leaders, especially on the state level, and develop enough clout to force through the right policy as the crisis breaks over people’s heads, and nothing else is working.

The first seminar in the series, "Now Comes the Aftermath," which took place on Nov. 14, is featured on The LaRouche Connection Program 483. The second seminar, "Election Crisis 2000: The Fall of Ozymandias," which took place on Dec. 12, is featured on Programs 487 and 488.

[For a transcript of LaRouche’s opening remarks, and selections from the question and answer session from the Nov. 14 seminar, see EIR, Nov. 24, p.48-67.]

[For a transcript of LaRouche’s opening remarks from the Dec. 12 seminar, see EIR, Dec. 22, p. 46-58.]

[For a transcript of LaRouche’s opening remarks from the Jan. 3 seminar, see EIR, Jan. 12, p. 71-78.]

Released Jan. 11, 2001

Program No. 491
EIR Video Magazine: January 16, 2001

On December 28, 2000, Lyndon LaRouche said, that unless defeated Sen. John Ashcroft (R-MO), President-elect George W. Bush’s choice for U.S. Attorney General, can lead the U.S. Senate to evidence proving that the purported interview with him in the Southern Partisan magazine was a hoax, the Senate must reject his nomination. Opening this week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection, host Tony Papert briefs viewers that the question is not Ashcroft as such, but what he represents in terms of the danger of crisis-management leading to dictatorship in America.

Next: a prison sentence of 77 years for political organizing in America? Michael Billington, a leading political organizer with the LaRouche movement, speaks about his imprisonment, and his recently released autobiography, Reflections of an American Political Prisoner, with Nancy Spannaus, editor-in-chief of the nationally circulated weekly newspaper, The New Federalist, on Dec. 12, upon his recent release after more than 10 years in Federal and State prisons.

Then: brownouts, blackouts, 50-100% increases in the price of electricity, heating oil, and natural gas--these have been the major energy stories coming out of California and other parts of the country for the last 6 months. On Dec. 4, the Boston City Council held a hearing on a Resolution on Emergency Government Action to Reduce Oil and Natural Gas Prices, [see EIR, Nov. 17, 2000, pp. 13-14 for full text of the Resolution], put forward by Councilor Chuck Turner, explicitly based on measures advanced by Lyndon LaRouche in September, to resolve the crisis on a national level in the interest of providing for the general welfare. Nancy Spannaus presents excerpts of the testimony from that hearing.

And last: an excerpt from the question-and answer session of a Jan. 3 Washington, DC seminar, sponsored by the weekly magazine, Executive Intelligence Review. Speaking from Germany, newly-announced Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche had just challenged Americans to demand and force through a revival of the policies of Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, or the nation will be destroyed. Answering a question from the Vietnam News Agency to the United Nations, on whether the Electoral College should be abandoned for direct popular vote, Mr. LaRouche defends the Electoral College as "one of the best-conceived institutions of our Constitution." And, responding to His Excellency Mark Ntataruye, Ambassador to the UN from Burundi, about his concern for the type of policy the incoming Bush Administration will have toward the horrific situation in Africa’s Great Lakes Region, Mr. LaRouche states bluntly that "the gut of the Republican Party today, the gut of the Bush Administration will be racism. This is the legacy of the Confederacy; this is the Southern Strategy." "When it comes to Africa, Africa is written off. They want one thing from Africa: natural resources, gold, minerals. Don’t expect any improvement in the situation in Africa because of a Bush Administration."

Released Jan. 16, 2001

Program No. 492
A Musical Tribute to the Dignity of Man, Pt. 1

On January 20, a Houston, TX audience was treated to a thrilling classical music concert featuring a combination of German Lieder, Italian opera arias, and Negro spirituals.

The first half of this week’s program features excerpts from that concert, sponsored by the Schiller Institute, held at the First Presbyterian Church. After opening remarks by Schiller Institute spokesman Harley Schlanger, internationally renowned opera and concert diva mezzo-dramatique Debraa Brown sings "Von Ewigea Liebe, by Johannes Brahms. Next, baritone Doreceal Duckens of the Ebony Opera Guild of Houston, sings "Un Della Mia Sorte" (from The Barber of Seville) by J. Rossini. Ms. Brown returns to sing "Jesus in Canaan" (from The Passion of Jonathan Wade) by C. Floyd. And last, baritone William Warfield, one of the world’s leading experts on Spirituals and Lieder sings "Die Beiden Grenadiere" and "Du Bist Wie Eine Blume," both by Robert Schumann; and "Erlkoenig" by Franz Schubert. All soloists are accompanied by pianist and vocal coach Sylvia Olden-Lee.

The second half of the program features an excerpt from the question-and-answer session of a Jan. 3 Washington, DC seminar, sponsored by the weekly magazine, Executive Intelligence Review. Speaking from Germany, newly-announced Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche had just challenged Americans to demand and force through a revival of the policies of Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, or the nation will be destroyed. Prof. Dr. Ernst Winter, from the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna Austria, asks Mr. LaRouche to comment on the European Union and the Eurasian Land-Bridge proposal. And, next, a series of questions to Mr. LaRouche from a group of journalists in the Dominican Republic: Is the Democratic Party sufficiently mature to accept a candidacy as innovative as LaRouche’s without collapsing? What would be the consequences of a collapse, and what are the correctives that should be adopted? And, what can small nations do to overcome the difficulties of the world economy?

Released Jan. 24, 2001

Program No. 493
A Musical Tribute to the Dignity of Man, Pt. 2

On January 20, a Houston, TX audience was treated to a thrilling classical music concert featuring a combination of German Lieder, Italian opera arias, and Negro spirituals.

The first half of this week’s program features excerpts from the second half of that concert, sponsored by the Schiller Institute, held at the First Presbyterian Church.

The second half of the program features an excerpt from the question-and-answer session of a Jan. 3 Washington, DC seminar, sponsored by the weekly magazine, Executive Intelligence Review. Speaking from Germany, newly-announced Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche had just challenged Americans to demand and force through a revival of the policies of Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, or the nation will be destroyed. Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, Minister of Health for the nation of Islam, and Director of the Abundant Life Clinic in Washington, DC, asked Mr. LaRouche for his views on the current public health crisis in Washington, DC, and especially concerning D.C. General Hospital. Next, Prof. Abegunan, from Howard University’s Dept. of Political Science, asked, from Happened this past election, does America still have the credibility to go out to South Africa, or Panama, or Nigeria, to supervise elections?

[See Program No. 392 for excerpts from the first have of the Houston concert, and more from the Q&A session of the Jan. 3 Seminar featuring Lyndon LaRouche.]

Released Jan. 30, 2001

Program No. 494
Election Crisis 2000: The Fall of Ozymandias, Pt. 2

Speaking by video teleconference from Germany, former Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche addressed the second of three scheduled Washington, DC seminars being sponsored by Executive Intelligence Review to address the political crisis now engulfing the country. The December 12th proceedings were webcast live in English and Spanish.

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features the conclusion of Mr. LaRouche’s speech, and some excerpts from the extensive question-and-answer session which followed.

Responding to Brazilian journalist Carlos Chagas, who asked about George Bush’s statement that the poor and indebted countries of the world must pay their debts with their forests, Mr. LaRouche answered, it was British colonialism. The policy Bush reflects, is the resource grab, the stealing, which is the same thing the British East India Company did in India.

Dr. Frederick Seymour, from Washington, DC General Hospital, then asked what could be done to provide assured health coverage for our citizens, considering that other hospitals are being closed, and the HMOs are putting pressure on the common welfare, which especially affects the poor. Mr. LaRouche proposed returning to the approach characterized by the 1946 Hill-Burton legislation, to mobilize the resources necessary to defend life.

When Rep. Erik Fleming, Mississippi House of Representatives, asked for an elaboration on the so-called Southern Strategy--its history, and how to defeat it, Mr. LaRouche began with a history of slavery in America from the inception of the country, coming up to 1966, with Richard Nixon’s strategy to defeat Lyndon Johnson; former DNC Chairman Don Fowlers anti-Negro writings; the Nashville Agrarians; U.S. State Dept. population policy; Global 2000; and Al Gores Earth in the Balance. The only way to defeat all this, is to have the guts to stand up and not compromise on these things, to have a sterling quality of moral leadership, to keep people from betraying themselves.

Two Congressional offices indicated they were under pressure not to pursue allegations of fraud, due to alleged considerations of international standing, and even "the markets." Mr. LaRouche responded with "First, our responsibility lies to the truth. The truth." He then called for the formation of a special Congressional Committee to investigate two issues which have been raised in the course of the Florida Presidential vote; and secondly, to look into whether the kind of ballot confusion, generated by the many types of ballot designs and methods used in Florida, is an impairment of the elections, and should it not be required that some standard of ballot, and voting be provided?

The first seminar in the series, "Now Comes the Aftermath," from Nov. 14, is featured on Program 483. LaRouche’s opening remarks to the Dec. 12 seminar is featured on Program 487. Mr. LaRouche’s address, to the third seminar, "Save the Nation: Revive FDR-Kennedy Policies!", from Jan. 3, is featured on Program 490.

[For a transcript of LaRouche’s opening remarks from the Dec. 12 seminar, see EIR, Dec. 22, p. 46-58.]

Note: This program was originally released as Program No. 488 on Dec. 27, 2000.

Re-released Feb. 7, 2001

 

Program No. 495
Who is Sparking a Religious War in the Middle East?

In 1982, Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) uncovered a major, very nasty operation, involving high-level American, British, and Israeli personalities, with profound implications for the determination of war or peace in the Middle East. After almost 20 years of continuing investigations, and in light of the ominous escalation which occurred with Ariel Sharon’s provocative visit to the Temple Mount/Al-Haram Al-Sharif on Sept. 28, 2000, the editors of EIR decided to release a major portion of its findings in the form of a special report, published in Dec. 2000, entitled "Who is Sparking a Religious War in the Middle East?" Since that time, matters have gotten worse, with the election of Mr. Sharon as Prime Minister of Israel. Jeffrey Steinberg, Counterintelligence Editor for EIR exposes the filthy networks seeking to provoke confrontation, particularly around the Al-Aqsa mosque, bringing viewers face to face with the madness which characterizes the cultists, all the way from the circles of the British Monarchy, on down to the deranged fundamentalists who wish to rebuild Solomon’s Temple, to bring on Armageddon and the appearance of the Messiah. Sane persons must come to grips with that reality, in order to stop the onrushing horror.

The second part of this week’s program features more excerpts from the discussion period of the Jan. 3 EIR seminar in Washington, DC, with Lyndon LaRouche:

Answering a question from George Weeks, of the Detroit News, about the appointment of Michigan’s former Senator, Spencer Abraham as the new Secretary of The Department of Energy, Mr. LaRouche uses the opportunity to talk about the disaster which is the Bush Administration’s energy policy, and what the nation’s energy policy must be.

Next, in response to a caller from the Namibian Mission to the United Nations in New York, who wanted to know what Mr. LaRouche’s proposals were for the electrification of Africa, Mr. LaRouche launched into a discussion of what is required in terms of a package of infrastructure of all sorts, specifying the establishment of a special facility, in which foreigners who are contributing to the effort, will engage in a technology transfer-type operation, in which they will come in and provide the lead edge of the technology, and support, for building various systems, but they will do this by employing and developing Africans to take over the projects.

State Sen. Joe Neal (D-Nevada), chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus there, wanted to know how LaRouche could get African-Americans to buy into the 1933-1965 period, when civil rights were at their worst, especially in the South, during that timeframe? Mr. LaRouche answered with the fact of large numbers of African-Americans moving out of the Republican Party into the Democratic Party, and then discussed the necessity of developing passionate leaders today who care for every human being, referencing Martin Luther King, as an example of such a leader.

And last, from Maria Shannon, from the University of Maryland at College Park: how does Mr. LaRouche propose to fix the education system, and how does one mobilize the demoralized and clueless to do what is right? This gave Mr. LaRouche an opportunity to talk about what a good teacher must do in imparting Classical education: getting students to re-experience the discovery of principles, rather than memorizing words and formulae. When a person realizes they have the power in themselves, to discover a principle, they tend to become optimistic because they know they can know.

Released: February 13, 2001 

Program No. 496
A Branch in the Road of History, Pt. 1

On February 17-18, the Schiller Institute, an international policy development organization founded by Helga Zepp LaRouche, held its annual Presidents’ Day conference in Reston, Virginia, under a banner that posed the question, "Is The U.S. Doomed Under Bush?" Keynoting the conference, with a presentation entitled "A Branch in the Road of History," Lyndon LaRouche began by examining the context for the intention and the action on the matter of the U.S. and Britain resuming Desert Storm against Iraq. The Bush Administration is desperate, said LaRouche. They are in the midst of an onrushing depression, which is increasing day by day. The new President, and the machine behind him, have a dream in which Bush and Enron loot the whole world—a dream that will never be.

Mr. LaRouche then proceeded to discuss how this all came about, going back to the assassination of President McKinley, the necessity to return to the policies of 1933-65, and dump the 1966 Southern Strategy road to Hell. The American people must change quickly, away from the outburst of fundamentalism, the fake religion of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. The quality of the human individual, distinguishing us from cattle, said Mr. LaRouche, is the ability to discover a valid universal physical principle, or at least to re-experience a discovery made by someone else. That is made possible by Reason—cognition, the quality that sets people apart from monkeys. Instead of barking like dogs, we can then say about ourselves that we are made in the image of God. We can then think of our rights, and obligations, to do something good, and make a difference in the lives of those who came before us, those presently living, and those who come after.

Mr. LaRouche concluded by emphasizing that we can win by returning to policies that worked before; that deals and arrangements with especially Western Europe will enable us to solve the problems of Central and South America, and Africa. He called for a moral movement in the United States, and urged his listeners to get the message out around the world that such a movement exists. Then we will see a response: the lifting up of eyes and hopes, saying, "We have a friend inside the United States; let’s hope he takes over."

Mr. LaRouche’s remarks were webcast, live in English and Spanish, to an international audience via the internet at www.larouchepub.com.

Released: February 21, 2001

Program No. 497
 Branch in the Road of History, Pt. 2

On February 17-18, the Schiller Institute, an international policy development organization founded by Helga Zepp LaRouche, held its annual Presidents’ Day conference in Reston, Virginia, under a banner that posed the question, "Is The U.S. Doomed Under Bush?" Keynoting the conference, with a presentation entitled "A Branch in the Road of History," Lyndon LaRouche began by examining the context for the intention and the action on the matter of the U.S. and Britain resuming Desert Storm against Iraq. The Bush Administration is desperate, said LaRouche. They are in the midst of an onrushing depression, which is increasing day by day. The new President, and the machine behind him, have a dream in which Bush and Enron loot the whole world—a dream that will never be.

Mr. LaRouche then proceeded to discuss how this all came about, going back to the assassination of President McKinley, the necessity to return to the policies of 1933-65, and dump the 1966 Southern Strategy road to Hell. The American people must change quickly, away from the outburst of fundamentalism, the fake religion of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. The quality of the human individual, distinguishing us from cattle, said Mr. LaRouche, is the ability to discover a valid universal physical principle, or at least to re-experience a discovery made by someone else. That is made possible by Reason—cognition, the quality that sets people apart from monkeys. Instead of barking like dogs, we can then say about ourselves that we are made in the image of God. We can then think of our rights, and obligations, to do something good, and make a difference in the lives of those who came before us, those presently living, and those who come after.

This week’s program features the conclusion of Mr. LaRouche’s presentation in which he emphasizes that we can win by returning to policies that worked before; that deals and arrangements with especially Western Europe will enable us to solve the problems of Central and South America, and Africa. He calls for a moral movement in the United States, and urges his listeners to get the message out around the world that such a movement exists. Then we will see a response: the lifting up of eyes and hopes, saying, "We have a friend inside the United States; let’s hope he takes over."

Several questions addressed to Mr. LaRouche were then taken from the floor. Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, national spokesman for Nation of Islam Minister Lois Farrakhan, first brought up the battle to save D.C. General Hospital; Joe Neal, State Senator from Nevada, spoke about the battle in California and nationally for energy re-regulation; Korean journalist Harry Lee asked about the new Bush Administration; Camden, NJ City Councilman Ali Sloan-El asked for help in organizing against the takeover of city governments by States, as done to Camden by Christie Todd Whitman, when she was Governor of New Jersey; former South Carolina State Sen. Theo Mitchell then gave a brief commentary on the history of the LaRouche movement.

Released: February 28, 2001

Program No. 498
EIR Video Magazine: March 8, 2001

There is a battle raging in our nation’s capital, and on Capital Hill, over the fate of D.C. General Hospital, the only public hospital in Washington. The Mayor, the D.C. Control Board, and the Congress, dominated by Stone Age Republicans, have decided to close it. This is a life-or-death issue for the poor, the uninsured, and all residents or visitors to Washington. D.C. General has advanced trauma, prenatal, and clinical services, which if eliminated, cannot be replaced by other existing institutions. Closing it is not an issue of fiscal responsibility, but a deliberate policy to depopulate Washington and increase the death rate. In this week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection, Nancy Spannaus, Editor-in-chief of The New Federalist, a nationally circulated news-weekly, presents the battle to save D.C. General Hospital, an issue of national and international implications. To give viewers a sense of the fight, and what’s at stake, a number of video clips are provided, showing leaders of the fight, including Nation of Islam Minister of Health Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, LaRouche organizer Lynne Speed, and numerous local clergy and healthcare workers speaking at town meetings called to stop the shutdown of the hospital, which were held Jan. 26 and Feb. 6.

Next, with the globalization of trade and a monstrous bursting financial bubble, we find that once again, pestilence and disease are spreading throughout the world. Whether this leads us into 14th Century levels of misery and death, depends on whether the human race can be mobilized to implement the sort of "New Bretton Woods" measures put forward by Lyndon LaRouche to turn things around and rebuild. Tony Papert reports on a growing threat to our source of animal protein, necessary for proper human growth, health, and development: the recent outbreak of Hoof-and-Mouth disease (HMD), which affects cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, and related wild animals, and kills many of the animals it affects. Coming in the wake of an epidemic of Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis (BSE), also known as "mad cow disease," which apparently causes in humans the incurable and rapidly fatal Creuetzfeldt-Jacob disease, this new epidemic, although not directly transmittable to humans, is wreaking havoc around the world.

The disclosure of the alleged 15-year espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia by a senior FBI counterintelligence specialist, once again raises crucial issues about the nature of the institutions in which the accused spy, Robert Philip Hansen, was employed. EIR counterintelligence editor, Jeffrey Steinberg, emphasizes that the FBI, as an organization, does not have any governing moral principles which could be used to set a standard of loyalty on the part of employees. The inherent corruption of the FBI, which was the subject of congressional action in 1998, in the form of the McDade-Murtha "Citizens Protection Act," runs so deep, and is so pervasive, institutionally, that a case like that of Hansen may be considered a lawful consequence of its longstanding institutional character.

And last, a segment from the discussion session of the recent Schiller Institute Presidents’ Day Conference. Responding to a question on what steps cold be taken to overcome the bad influences of video games and movies on us, Lyndon LaRouche said, "It’s a matter of identity. When the mood of the population is changing, institutional relations are changing and you can gain control of the situation. Our job is to be prepared to run society."

Released: March 8, 2001 

Program No. 499
Beauty as a Necessary Condition for Mankind

On February 17-18, the Schiller Institute, an international policy development organization, held its annual Presidents’ Day conference in Reston, Virginia.

Founder Helga Zepp LaRouche’s stirring presentation about how mankind can build a renaissance out of the rubble-field of modern "culture," began with a description of today’s cult of ugliness, and the necessity for beauty, because this is the cultural question which must be answered for mankind to come out of its present crisis. Mrs. LaRouche located a major source of the problem we encounter today, in the attack by the Romantics on the German Weimar Classics, of which Friedrich Schiller is the highest representative.

In Schiller’s "Aesthetical Letters," for example, she said, Schiller shows that the most perfect of all arts is the building of true political freedom. It is the task of the individual to bring himself into cohesion with the inner, God-given beauty, and beautiful art is the most important medium for achieving that, for the perfection of Man.

Today, a new Renaissance has to go back to Schiller, in order to counter the door to Hell which Kant opened with his attack on the cohesion of Truth, Beauty, and the Good, and which was furthered by the thesis of the irrational in art.

In True Classical art, the dark side of the soul exists, but, because Man is seen as greater than his destiny, it is demanded of him that he educate his emotions, not indulge in his problems.

Today, concluded Mrs. LaRouche, only a mass movement, in which people reject Romanticism in all its depraved forms, and embrace the coherence of Beauty, Truth, and Reason, can succeed.

Released: March 15, 2001

 

Program No. 500
LaRouche’s Policy for Worldwide Recovery"

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection provides viewers with two examples of the types of interventions being carried out by the LaRouche movement internationally, at this time of deepening economic, financial, and political crisis.

First, we present excerpts from a March 14 town meeting, called by the Coalition to Save D.C. General Hospital, as part of a continuing series of interventions and events, to stop the closing of Washington’s only public hospital. At that meeting, approximately 150 hospital employees, community activists, and LaRouche movement organizers heard presentations from the Schiller Institute’s Lynne Speed, on the "Negro Removal" project to replace the hospital with high-rise apartments and a river-front marina; EIR historian Tony Chaitkin, who gave explosive new details on the project by the secretive, elite organization called the Federal City Council; and Nation of Islam Minister of Health, Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, who chaired the meeting.

The last time Lyndon LaRouche made a public appearance in Berlin, on Oct. 12, 1988, his remarks concerning the perspective for German reunification, and the re-establishment of Berlin as its undivided capital, sounded a prophetic note. Just over one year later, the communist system came crumbling down, and German reunification was a reality soon thereafter. On March 5, 2001. Mr. LaRouche was welcomed again in Berlin, to keynote an EIR seminar. In his presentation, featured as the second part of this week’s LaRouche Connection program, entitled "What We Can Learn Today from Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Policy In the World Economic Crisis," Mr. LaRouche took up a theme that he has often treated in the past: the precedent of the FDR Presidency, in dealing with the Great Depression. But, LaRouche emphasizes, we would be fools to attempt to simply apply Roosevelt’s programs to our own time—a time in which the problems we confront will soon be far worse than what Roosevelt had to deal with. What must be considered, is Roosevelt’s intention, as it differed from the intention of his political opponents. The crucial issue, is summed up by the "General Welfare" clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Can Americans be mobilized, as the citizens of East Germany were in 1989, to put aside their petty, day-to-day obsessions, and demand their leaders act in the interest of the General Welfare? That is the challenge now being put to each and every one of us.

Released: March 22, 2001

Program No. 501

This Little Piggy Went to Market

 

On February 17-18, the Schiller Institute, an international policy development organization founded by Helga Zepp LaRouche, held its annual Presidents’ Day conference in Reston, Virginia, under a banner that posed the question, “Is the U.S. Doomed Under Bush?”

 

After an afternoon session devoted to a dialogue with Lyndon LaRouche, the final panel took up the current economic situation, under the title, “The Demise of the Importer of Last Resort.” This week’s LaRouche Connection features a presentation from that panel, by EIR magazine’s director for Ibero-American Intelligence, Dennis Small, entitled “This Little Piggy Went to Market.”

 

“We told you so!” With these words, Mr. Small began his presentation, pointing out that we have entered a new stage of the global financial crisis, which Lyndon LaRouche has been warning everyone about for quite some time. “The new stage is not simply the fact that the crisis is now hitting the United States with a vengeance, but rather, that the process which has been under way globally, is now so far gone, that it is beginning to manifest itself inside the United States as well. Up until now, to a certain degree, the bubble in the U.S. has been kept afloat by a process of looting all parts of the world. That looting process is, of course, continuing; however, that looting process is now beginning to implode inside the United States as well. And so, the United States, which has become the “importer of last resort” for countries around the world—Absorbing, through the financial bubble, huge imports from country after country—that role is now ending. And this is one of the ways in which the meltdown and disintegration of the international financial system is going to spread like wildfire throughout the globe.”

 

After providing great detail on the actual state of production and consumption, and ridiculing mercilessly academic economists, singling out for special attention Paul Samuelson, and their wacky theories of supply and demand and indifference (!) curves, Mr. Small then addressed the issue of why people fail to act on LaRouche’s forecasts, despite the fact that they can be shown to have been totally factually correct, particularly over the past year. The problem, he stressed, is the failure of people to understand the role of mankind, and human reason, in the universe, a universe which will bend to free will exercised according to the laws of reason.

 

To underscore this point, Mr. Small used Plato’s famous dialogue, the Timaeus, which, in discussing God’s creation of the universe, notes that Reason makes Necessity (the material universe) adjust to its dictates, rather than, as most people believe, “necessity being the mother of invention.”

 

Mr. Small concluded by saying that “God gave each of us a divine genius, that which, as they say, inhabits the highest part of our body, in order to uplift us from the earth toward our heavenly kinsmen, since we are an offshoot, not earthly, but heavenly. We are not a virus; we are not a worm; we’re not a piggy. We are an offshoot heavenly. And this is not a “market” out there. It’s an economy. And for that reason, there is no reason whatsoever for this little piggy to keep going to market. It’s time for a change.”

 

 

Released: April 5, 2001           

Program No. 502
The Bush Administration: The First 60 Days

 

Speaking from Germany to a crowd of diplomats and supporters gathered in New York City and Washington, D.C., via an international webcast on March 21, Lyndon LaRouche provided his assessment of the first 60 days of the George W. Bush administration. This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features Mr. LaRouche’s remarks, plus an excerpt from the discussion period which followed.

 

Defining the President’s first 60 days as “disastrous,” Mr. LaRouche proceeded to provide the pathway by which Americans can raise themselves out of the slave-like position they’ve been taking toward events, and move to embrace a policy orientation that will bring this country, and the world, out of its current crisis.

 

“What we have to have,” said Mr. LaRouche, “is a sense of national mission; the idea of the United States cooperating with Western Europe, with Eurasia as a whole, to restart the world economy; the idea of taking that one, as a 25-year long-term credit mission; rebuilding a new financial system, like the old Bretton Woods system, to handle the kind of problem we faced in the immediate postwar period—the same general kind of lesson. And then, getting a science driver policy; to expand the scientific work in our universities, to build the laboratories, to get the new projects, the new productive technologies, and the new products, in place. And, to think about rebuilding this world, to be able to tell our children, who come 25 years down the line: ‘What we’re going to do for you, is, we’re going to give you a better world. And, that’s what we’re doing now.’”

 

Mr. LaRouche concluded with the following challenge: “Let’s revive the American intellectual tradition, in which our nation was founded, in cooperation with other nations of the world. And, let the American citizen stop thinking of themselves as a poor person; but instead, as a citizen, of a nation, which is rebuilding the planet; and let him or her take pride in being a citizen of such a nation, with such a commitment. If we can mobilize that, we can save this nation; we can save this world, from one horrible mess. And, that is what I propose we ought to do.”

 

From the discussion period, the first question to Mr. LaRouche, read by moderator Debra Freeman, was from a Japanese journalist, who asked him to comment on the real cause behind today’s market crisis, and what positive role Japan could play, to help create some solutions.

           

Next, David Brode, a sheet metal worker, and vice president of a small AFL Labor Council in Western Maryland, wanted to know how to get trade unionists—rank and file as well as leadership—to support LaRouche’s policies.

 

Released: April 5, 2001           

Program No. 503

Conyers Hearing on D.C. General Hospital

 

With virtually all 700,000 residents of our nation’s capital now following the growing battle over whether the Washington’s only public general hospital will remain open and be expanded, or shut down on Congressional orders, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, dean of the Congressional Black Caucus, and a leading advocate of universal public health care, hosted an extraordinary congressional briefing at the Rayburn House Office Building March 22, entitled: “National Public Hospital Safety Net in Crisis; D.C. General in Focus.”

 

Over reported objections by Mayor Anthony Williams and D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, over 300 Washingtonians, bolstered by delegations from Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts, heard testimony on the determination and necessity to adopt policies to both protect and promote the general welfare of all Americans, particularly in the midst of the worst economic and financial breakdown crisis in modern history.

 

Every American has the right to expect access to a full-service, fully-funded public hospital. Keeping D.C. General open on this basis, an excellent place to start. It’s time to draw the line against policies which are consciously and deliberately designed to eliminate poor people, proliferate disease, increase infant mortality, and lower life expectancy among citizens who have been deemed “redundant”

 

This week’s edition features extensive excerpts from the hearing, including these speakers:

 

·        Rep. John Conyers (D-MI)

·        Lynne Fagnani, vice-pres., National Association of Public Hospitals & Health Systems (NAPH)

 

·        Dr. Debra Hanania-Freeman, Doctor of Public Health, national spokeswoman for the 2004 Presidential campaign of Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

 

·        State Rep. Harold James (D-PA), former chairman of the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus, and former President of the National Black Policy Association.

 

·        Charlene Gordon, RN--registered nurse, 18-year employee at D.C. General Hospital.

 

·        State Rep. Erik R. Fleming (D-MS)

 

·        Dr. Michal Ann Young – Medical and Dental staff of D.C. Health & Hospitals Public Benefit Corp., and director of neo-natology at D.C. General Hospital.

 

·        Dr. Abdul Alim Mumannad – founder and director of the Abundant Life Clinic, and Health Minister of the Nation of Islam.

 

Released: April 11, 2001

 

Program No. 504
“Win the Battle to Save D.C. General Hospital!”

As the world enters new depths of the Depression of 2001, with a lunatic Bush Administration committed to preserving the bank accounts of its greedy friends at all costs, there is an urgent need for a political victory that will turn the tide back toward the principle of the General Welfare embodied in the U.S. Constitution. Right now, the battle to save D.C. General Hospital, holds the promise of providing that victory.

 

The fight to preserve D.C. General as a full-service, fully funded public hospital, has reached a critical stage. Thanks to the activity of an informal coalition of clergy, hospital workers, political activists, and leaders of the LaRouche political movement, there has arisen a popular movement to resist the diktat of puppet accountant Mayor Anthony Williams, and his bosses in the D.C. Financial Control Board, the Congress, and Katie Graham’s Federal City Council. Support for the hospital has been pouring in from around the country and the world. A Congressional briefing was sponsored by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), on March 22, to explore the matter’s national significance.

 

In this week’s program, taped April 16, Nancy Spannaus, editor-in-chief of the nationally-circulated newsweekly, The New Federalist, provides viewers the history of the effort to privatize the hospital, and ultimately tear the building down, as part of a genocidal “Negro removal” re-development plan, as well as the effort to save it.

 

Released: April 20, 2001

 

 

Program No. 505
“The Demise of the Importer of Last Resort”

On February 17-18, the Schiller Institute, an international policy development organization founded by Helga Zepp LaRouche, held its annual Presidents’ Day conference in Reston, Virginia, under a banner that posed the question, “Is The U.S. Doomed Under Bush?”

 

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features the presentation of Richard Freeman, economics writer for Executive Intelligence Review magazine, who spoke on Feb. 18. Mr. Freeman presented a graphics-oriented review of the current phase of the worldwide economic collapse, particularly in the United States, dealing primarily with the collapse of production of energy, physical goods, and world trade.

 

Contrary to the myth that the United States has experienced ten years of unbroken economic expansion during the 1990s, it is the origination and growth of America as the world’s importer of last resort, which has dominated world trade during this period.

 

America’s role as an importer of last resort, which has dominated the world trade for the last decade, is coming to an inglorious and violent end,” said Mr. Freeman. “This is starting to produce a shock wave of devastation throughout the world’s trading system, while being amplified by and intensifying the disintegration of the world’s financial system.”

 

“The nations which are most at risk from this development, are those that attempted to satisfy America’s insatiable need for imported goods, to the extent that today an astounding 20-40% of world physical goods exports are shipped to the United States. These nations include many of the world’s leading economies, such as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Mexico, and Venezuela.”

 

“Under the press of the worldwide financial disintegration, the United States has entered a zone of instability, wherein it will neither be able to generate enough income internally, nor bring in sufficient funds from abroad, to finance the continued import of goods. This means that many of the nations that export to the United States will suffer sharp drops in their trade. Since many of these countries are heavy exporters, this will lead to steep cuts in their domestic production. This effect will spread to the whole trading system.”

 

Released: April 26, 2001

 

Program No. 506
 “Fight Escalates to Save D.C. General Hospital

At an extraordinary town meeting held April 18 at Union Temple Baptist Church, sponsored by the Coalition to Save D.C. General Hospital, it became obvious that the drive to save Washington’s only public hospital, has been transformed into a full-fledged movement, based in the tradition of the civil rights movement of Dr. Martin Luther King, and rooted in the principle of the General Welfare clause of the U.S. Constitution.

 

As a result of several months of Coalition efforts, the duly elected City Council had voted unanimously on April 12 to fund the hospital and make it the center of the District’s health-care system in the impoverished, largely black, Southeast section of town, defying the scheme put together by Mayor Anthony Williams and the non-elected Control Board, which would have closed down the hospital by March and put health care into the hands of Doctors Community Healthcare Corporation, an outfit exposed by the Coalition as involved in organized crimes to loot and strip the assets and cash flow of the hospitals it has taken over.

 

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features major excerpts from this meeting attended by over 400 citizens from the District, as well as from Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey and elsewhere. Special guest speakers included, in order of appearance:

 

·        Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, national spokesman for the Nation of Islam

·        Joycelyn Elders, former Clinton Administration Surgeon General

·        Kevin Chavous, D.C. City Councilman

·        Phil Mendelson, D.C. City Councilman (does not appear in the edited version of the program)

·        Dennis Speed, Northeast coordinator for the Schiller Institute

·        Rev. James Bevel, director of Direct Action for Martin Luther King, Jr.

·        Dr. Simon Wilcox, past president of the Medical Staff of Aliquippa Community Hospital of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, who led the successful fight to kick DCHC out of Aliquippa.

·        Rev. Richard Boone, creator of the 1963 Birmingham Childrens’ March

·        Dr. Michal Ann Young, president of the Medial/Dental Staff, D.C. General Hospital

·        Lynne Speed, spokeswoman for the Schiller Institute and the Coalition

 

City Councilman Chavous predicted that the City Council would override an anticipated veto by Mayor Williams of their April 12 vote, and that the hospital’s budget would go back to the Control Board and then to Congress. Dr. Alim explained that because Congress is the seat of ultimate decisions about the District, the issue of D.C. General has now become the domain of every citizen who can, and must lobby every member of the Congress to vote to save the hospital as a fully-funded full service facility.

           

Released: May 1, 2001

 

Program No. 507
 “LaRouche in Dialogue with Russian Economists”

On  May 4-6, over 400 representatives from 40 nations from all 5 continents, including numerous active and former diplomats, came together in Bad Schwalbach, Germany for the annual international conference of the Schiller Institute, under the banner, “The Ecumenical Battle for the Common Good.”

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection, the first in a series from that conference, features excerpts from:

 

·        The keynote presentation given May 4 by Lyndon LaRouche

·        Contributions from two distinguished Russian economists, Dr. Sergei Glazyev, chairman of the Economic Policy Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; and Prof. Stanislav Menshikov, of the Central Mathematical Economics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (CEMI).

·        The discussion session, in which questions were directed at Mr. LaRouche and Mr. Glazyev.

 

In his presentation, Mr. LaRouche warns of the danger of the fascist faction of the U.S. Republican Party, and that [President] “Bush is a cheap version of Hitler.” Mr. LaRouche said that the worst economic crisis in centuries is turning into a social crisis in the United States, centering around the denial of—and battle for—the principle of the General Welfare in health care and in provision of energy.

Mankind has arrived at a turning-point of history, and we are faced with a mental-case in the White house, put there on purpose, by the financial oligarchy, under the worst conditions of human history, to carry out methods of intimidation and terror, intentionally, to keep the oligarchy in charge, while the system collapses. Bush, like Hitler, has the same policy of terror to force the rest of the world to accept the oligarchy’s rule.

The remedy for the ongoing Bush administration-led plunge of the entire planet into a global new dark age, said Mr. LaRouche, must be in the form of a great ecumenical Eurasian development project, with Russia playing a key role, as the pivot of an intended global economic and moral recovery of society: A community of principle among nations for the common good of all. The moral intention of this global policy, expressed by a Eurasia-centered initiative, will give Eurasia the means to support justice for Africa in the face of the genocide being perpetrated, intentionally, against all of sub-Sahara Africa by the Anglo-American directors and supporters of the Hitler-like Christian Solidarity International of Britain’s beast-like Caroline Cox.

Taking into account the positive counterpoint of Pope John Paul II’s ongoing ecumenical mission, there exists no tolerable alternative to this policy, anywhere in the world. There exists no practicable, feasible alternative to this principled approach. Every alternative proposed form other locations, is either as evil as what is radiating from President Bush, et al., or are so foolish, as to amount to remedies with the same effect as the disease being addressed.

 

Release Date:  May 14, 2001

 

 

Program No. 508
“Celebrate Cusa’s Birthday with a Dialogue of Cultures”

On  May 4-6, over 400 representatives from 40 nations from all 5 continents, including numerous active and former diplomats, came together in Bad Schwalbach, Germany for the annual international conference of the Schiller Institute, under the banner, “The Ecumenical Battle for the Common Good.”

 

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection, the second in a series from that conference, features Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp LaRouche’s presentation, entitled “Celebrating the 600th Birthday of Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa Through a Dialogue of Cultures.” She spoke on May 6.

 

In presenting the crucial role of Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa in developing the principles of the modern nation-state, and his concept of a dialogue of cultures, which led to the golden renaissance, Mrs. LaRouche further developed the ecumenical and scientific principles required to carry out the ambitious reconstruction plans which had been laid out, especially by her husband Lyndon LaRouche, in the earlier conference panels

 

“More than ever,” Mrs. Zepp LaRouche began, “we need to clarify the principles which should define the relations of the international community of peoples. The 13th and 14th centuries were an era of great change. It was the time of a big struggle between the forces who contributed to the emergence of the sovereign nation-state through fundamental changes in the world outlook, and those who wanted to go back to the imperial structures just like the forces of globalization, today.”   Mrs. LaRouche then proceeded to outline in some detail, the forces and ideas that led to the emergence of the nation-state, and the community of nations based on international law, and how Cusa used the ideas of Plato to develop for the first time the idea of representative government, in which the individual would have the opportunity, and obligation, to speak out for the common good.

 

Mrs. Zepp LaRouche concluded with these words: “Today, the idea of a community of sovereign nation-states based on the common good, has become a life and death issue for our entire civilization. Let us celebrate Nicholas of Cusa’s 600th birthday by developing the same power of intellect, the same passion for great ideas. Let us be joyful about the cultural multitude and beauty, as being represented at this conference, because we are One, before we are many.”

 

Released: May 17, 2001

 

 

Program No. 509
“Dialogue with LaRouche: Bad Schwalbach, Germany

On  May 4-6, over 400 representatives from forty nations from all five continents, including numerous active and former diplomats, came together in Bad Schwalbach, Germany for the annual international conference of the Schiller Institute, under the banner, “The Ecumenical Battle for the Common Good.”

 

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection, the third in a series from that conference, features excerpts from the discussion session following the presentations on May 4 by Lyndon LaRouche, Dr. Sergei Glazyev and Prof. Stanislav Menshikov.

 

·        Comments from a Georgian on how LaRouche’s ideas are being used in the diplomatic high school there.

 

·        A Ugandan asks Mr. LaRouche how is Africa to make its own way to gain its freedom.

 

·        A German woman asks Dr. Glazyev about geopolitical attempts to pull Russia away from China.

 

·        A Nigerian asks Mr. LaRouche how realistic is [Alexander] Hamiltonian type credit in today’s economic environment.

 

·        A Rwandan asks Dr. Glazyev about the fate of Soviet-era-trained African intellectuals.

 

·        An American woman asks Mr. LaRouche how to get Americans face up to solving the global economic collapse, when they seem to think of themselves as on their own planet.

 

Released: May 23, 2001

 

Program No. 510
 “In Defense of the General Welfare”

On  May 4-6, over 400 representatives from 40 nations from all 5 continents, including numerous active and former diplomats, came together in Bad Schwalbach, Germany for the annual international conference of the Schiller Institute, under the banner, “The Ecumenical Battle for the Common Good.”

 

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection, the fourth in a series from that conference, opens with host Tony Papert providing a short report, taped in the studio on May 29, on the exciting news of Russian Transport Minister Sergei Frank’s announcement on May 15 that Russia has created a Eurasian Transport Union, dedicated to the implementation of international transportation corridors leading from Europe to Asia, via the territory of Russia. The corridors are planned to go across Siberia, and on a North-South route that will start at the Indian port of Calcutta and link up with North European countries through the territories of Iran and Russia. This commitment represents a giant step toward the Eurasian Land-Bridge development project, set as a global strategic priority Lyndon LaRouche, at the recently-concluded Bad Schwalbach conference.

 

Next, is an interview with Dr. Sergei Glazyev, a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Chairman of the Committee on Economic Policy and Business of the Russian State Duma (lower house of Parliament), by Rachel Douglas of EIR magazine. The interview was conducted on May 5, in Bad Schwalbach, Germany, where he had spoken the previous evening, together with Lyndon LaRouche on the opening panel of the Schiller Institute’s international conference. Dr. Glazyev makes emphatic points on the reality of the deepening global financial crisis, remarks on the fruitfulness of Mr. LaRouche’s ideas concerning the promotion of economic growth, and provides considerable detail about various large infrastructure possibilities in Russia. [See EIR magazine, Vol. 28, No. 20: May 25, 2001, p.6-11 for complete transcript.]

 

Then, the presentation by Charlene Gordon, RN. Mrs. Gordon is head of the nurses union at District of Columbia General Hospital. Mrs. Gordon, who spoke on May 5, described how D.C. General “serves the community well,” but the Mayor Anthony Williams, “a foster child who forgot where he came from”; and Eleanor Holmes Norton, “who would rather pick out the towels at the Frederick Douglass home, rather than save the people;” Washington Post publisher Katie Graham and her Federal City Council; and the D.C. Control Board, appointed not elected—all “want to close the safety net for the poor, because they want the real estate located so close to the Capitol.” “We have to fight with paper and pen, rally, boycott, educate and spread the word that they will not stop with D.C. General; they will close your hospital. Your life is at stake. Stand up and be counted. Don’t straddle the fence. This is your world. It’s time to take a stand to promote the general welfare.”

 

Concluding the program is the presentation by Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, Health Minister for the Nation of Islam, and head of the Coalition to Save D.C. General Hospital. Dr. Muhammad, who spoke on the same panel as Charlene Gordon, also gave an impassioned speech, entitled “The Indispensable Victory,” presenting the battle to save Washington’s only public hospital, as in the forefront of an international battle for the general welfare. “We’re here to resist evil,” said Dr. Muhammad. After relating some details on how the Financial Control Board was forced to sign an illegal contract on a card table in the basement of a library, to close the hospital, Dr. Muhammad spoke about how the people and institutions of Washington have been transformed by the battle, making it impossible for people to be herded to the slaughterhouse. “The stage is set. We have to challenge the Congress, that an unelected body is overturning a clear decision by a democratically elected body [The D.C. City Council, which has voted 13-0 twice to support and fund the hospital], to respond to understand that democratic ideals and the general welfare have priority, and they are duty-bound to uphold the general welfare clause [in the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution]. This is relevant to everyone on the planet.

 

Released: May 30, 2001

 

Program No. 511
“Win the Battle to Save D.C. General Hospital!”

As the world enters new depths of the Depression of 2001, with a lunatic Bush Administration committed to preserving the bank accounts of its greedy friends at all costs, there is an urgent need for a political victory that will turn the tide back toward the principle of the General Welfare embodied in the U.S. Constitution. Right now, the battle to save D.C. General Hospital, holds the promise of providing that victory.

 

The fight to preserve a full-service, fully funded public hospital in the nation’s capital, has reached a critical stage. Thanks to the activity of an informal coalition of clergy, hospital workers, political activists, and leaders of the LaRouche political movement, there has arisen a popular movement to resist the diktat of puppet accountant Mayor Anthony Williams, and his bosses in the D.C. Financial Control Board, the Congress, and Katie Graham’s Federal City Council. Support for the hospital has been pouring in from around the country and the world. A Congressional briefing was sponsored by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), on March 22, to explore the matter’s national significance.

 

In this week’s program, taped April 16, Nancy Spannaus, editor-in-chief of the nationally-circulated newsweekly, The New Federalist, provides viewers the history of the effort to privatize the hospital, and ultimately tear the building down, as part of a genocidal “Negro removal” re-development plan, as well as the effort to save it.

           

Originally released: April 20, 2001

Re-released:             June 6, 2001

 

Program No. 512
“LaRouche Address to Schiller Institute in Poland

Today, Poland is gripped by a terrible exploding unemployment crisis, and the axioms of liberalism and monetarism are shattering. As the European Union (EU) uses the stick of membership conditions to push Poland into the corner, while at the same time showing disrespect and disinterest in Poland, Poland is beginning to realize that membership in the EU is getting farther and farther away. A new thinking is arising in Poland about relationships to the East, especially Russia. Under these conditions, Lyndon LaRouche’s Eurasian Land-bridge concept is becoming a hotly debated issue.

 

Towards the end of May of this year, Lyndon LaRouche visited Poland for several days, addressing several important meetings, along with many private discussions. At  the invitation of the P