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Published: Monday, May 20, 2002
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cross the Potomac one morning, to place the U.S. Attorney-General and its minion in power, reducing the President himself to a ceremonial, or even lesser figure in the configuration.

1. The Roman Precedent

There is no stretching of the comparison in this choice of an historic parallel for the currently pending adoption of USNNORTHCOM. Following the 212 B.C. murder of Archimedes, during the Roman conquest of Syracuse, the most powerful obstacle to them in what is today's southern Italy, the Roman Legions conducted a rampage of military conquests and continually aggravated looting throughout the Mediterranean littoral.
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Northern Command: Crossing the Rubicon

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Friday, May 17, 2002

The proposal for the probably unlawful, U.S. Army Northern Command ("USNORTHCOM"), when taken in its current strategic-policy-setting, is clearly a proposal to "Cross the Rubicon," a preparation to create a Caesarian military dictatorship over both the North American continent and the Caribbean, in imitation of the 49 B.C. action of Julius Caesar's setting off that civil war among Roman military forces which led to the 31 B.C. establishment of the Empire of Augustus Caesar. In today's world, it is a preparation for the Pentagon to

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Economic reports

ECONOMICS NEWS DIGEST

Spannaus: 'Recovery' Reports Faked; 'Give It Up, Sucker!'

Statistics Used To Create 'Deliberate and Scandalous Fraud'

No FY01 'Budget Surplus,' Says New York Post Columnist

U.S. Companies Madly Restate Fake Financial Reports

Reliant Forced To 'Fess Up: Faked Energy Trades; Inflated Revenues

Treasury To Plunder Retirement Funds To Avoid Default

Stiglitz Has High Praise for Soros's New Book

Goldman Sachs Economist: Dollar Collapse May Be Immiment

The Era of Free Trade Is Over; Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish

World Exports Plummet in 2001; Largest Decrease Since 1982

Japanese Machinery Orders Down Again; Third Straight Quarter

Auto Crisis Hits Europe—Italy Worst Affected

Groundbreaking Study, 'Why FDR's Recovery Worked' Now Available on the Web

World and Nation-state
U.S. NEWS DIGEST

Bolton Threatens To Satisfy All the Whores of Havana: LaRouche

Carter Bombshell: Administration Told Him No Evidence of Cuban Biowarfare Operations

Carter Calls for U.S. To End Embargo Against Cuba

Bush Scheduled To Deliver Speech on Cuba Policy

Netanyahu Stumps in Joe Lieberman's Home State

Israeli Videogame Billionaire Funds Dem Headquarters

Ohio Election Shocker: Voters Dump 'New Dem' Rep. Sawyer

Senate Hands Bush Defeat on 'Fast Track' Trade Authority

New Police-State Powers for FBI, Intelligence Agencies?

Proposed New Northern Command Raises Constitutional Issues

Neo-Con Newspapers Hype Islamic Terror Threat on July 4

Weyrich Rallies Catholics To Join Christian Zionism's Armaggedon Army

Say Pentagon Earns Millions from GI Gambling

Dan Rather Warns of Censorship in U.S. War Coverage

WESTERN EUROPEAN NEWS DIGEST

The Euro Is Indeed a 'Teuro'

NATO Expands into Irrelevance,' Says Indian Newspaper

French Conglomerate Vivendi Barely Escaped Default

Ruling Party Loses in Dutch Elections

Slain Banker Alfred Herrhausen Cited for Solutions to Economic Crises

Chirac Warns Israel: Stop Charges of 'Anti-Semitism'

Pope Praises Reconsecration of Church of the Nativity

Film Recalls Past British Double-Crosses on Mideast

RUSSIA AND EASTERN EUROPE NEWS DIGEST

Russia/U.S. Disarmament Agreement a Complete Farce

Russian General Ivashov Opposes NATO Talks

Moscow Radio Forum: Hamas, Sharon, and Netanyahu Are Allies

Neo-Cons and Israelis Target Russia-Iran Cooperation


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Lyndon LaRouche made history with his May 1 international webcast; he intends to do the same with a Memorial Day webcast, working to turn the world back from the precipice of war.

FLASH!

LaRouche To Hold International — Memorial Day Webcast May 28

Democratic Party 2004 Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche issued a solemn statement inviting international leaders and the public to participate in his Memorial Day international webcast, which is being held Tuesday May 28, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. Coming on the heels of the candidate's historic May 1 webcast, this follow-up event will be conducted to further the process of bringing together an international combination that can turn the world back from the precipice of global religious war, and a New Dark Age. In his May 9 statement, LaRouche, a World War II veteran, said: "After the close of the first of the two world wars of the last century, our republic committed itself to remember in perpetuity those who had fallen in battles. Let us remember them today.....more

World and Nation-state
MIDDLE-EAST NEWS DIGEST

IBERO-AMERICAN NEWS DIGEST

Brazilian and Argentine Leaders Push LaRouche Solution in Their Respective Countries

Mexico's Fox Tells U.S. He Must Get Something for Home Front

Venezuela's Armed Forces Divided, Chain of Command Disintegrating

Colombian Narcoterrorist 'Paramilitaries' Offer Kill-the-Guerrillas Videogames

Land-for-Debt Schemes Threaten Argentina's Territorial Integrity

In Depth Socrates

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Toward Economic Recovery, Not Perpetual Warfare
A Dialogue With Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Danger for the Dollar

Most Israelis Want A Palestinian State

Utopians Bringing On 'War of Miscalculation' in South Asia

Argentina at 'Limits Of What's Bearable'

Mass Opposition Grows To Peru's Privatizations

Violent Video Games Reward Children for Killing People

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FDRthis week in history

May 20-26, 1933

The third major emergency powers measure enacted by the Roosevelt Administration was the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), a measure which has come down in history as evidence of the "corporatist" nature of FDR's New Deal. In fact, the NRA was a mixed bag, which adopted measures of varying endurance to accomplish the objectives of increasing employment and protecting the wages and working conditions of the U.S. labor force. The fact that some of Roosevelt's brain trust wanted to do this by restricting production, and creating mini-cartels—measures that were later ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court—does not take away from the value of the goals.

Indeed, prior to the drafting of the NIRA, a powerful grouping in the Senate had already passed a bill proposed Alabama Senator Huge Black, which would mandate a 30-hour week, in order to "spread" the work around. This measure was something which FDR's core group of advisors wanted to head off at the pass.
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