Larouche Online Almanac

Published: Monday, September 30, 2002
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Volume 1, No.30


A Boldly Modest U.S. Global Mission
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

A Preliminary Message — To the Concerned Citizen:

Contrary to that hysterical state of denial which now grips the White House, the present policies of the Presidency are impelling our already bankrupt nation into an Armageddon of avowed perpetual warfare, from which our Constitutional form of republic might never return. In such a circumstance, there are certain well-defined limits, at which point the critic's willingness to employ appropriately rude choices of language to describe such policies, become an obligatory test of that critic's usefulness, candor, and sound judgment.

As ignorance and brutishness are often intertwined, both the uttered present policies of the Bush "43" Administration, and their near-term inevitable consequences, are so awful, that it would be inexcusable not to emphasize the strategic significance of that pathetically banal, brutish prose style in sentimentalities, which permeates that President's current utterance under the title of national security.

Serious statesmen around the world must recognize that the pathetic state of mind reflected in that document's literary style, is itself a source of insight into the gruesome folly of its intention.

To speak of both that document's clinically, and strategically significant literary qualities, President George W. "43" Bush's "The National Security Strategy of the United States," would have brought a lingering, deep-red blush of shame to the cheeks of both of two among Sinclair Lewis' epoch-marking characters, "Babbit" and "Elmer Gantry." "Babbit," reading Bush's prose, might have growled, "I think he is mocking me!"
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Sept. 30-Oct. 6, 1989

There were two major turning points which occurred during this week in history— in 1986 and in 1989— and they are intimately related to the choices which now face the United States, and the world.

October 6, 1986 was the fateful day on which the largest state-Federal police force assembled since the Palmer Raids of the early 1920s, was deployed against the offices and residence of political leader Lyndon LaRouche. The 400-man team, comprised of ATF, FBI, State Police, and other assorted agents, utilized helicopters, at least one Armored Personnel Carrier, and an overwhelming show of force, to swoop down on the rather small town of Leesburg, Va., allegedly in order to seize documents pursuant to a Federal indictment for conspiracy to commit mail fraud.

In fact, as the behavior of the task force made clear, the included, if not the main, purpose of the raid was to physically eliminate LaRouche himself, whose residence just outside the town was surrounded by military hardware. The "theory," as later revealed in court proceedings, was that these forces were necessary in order to deal with expected armed resistance from LaRouche's security detail. Legally, however, the small army of Federal and state officials had no reason to enter the area where LaRouche lived, as there was no indictment or search warrant issued against him, or anyone else living on the premises, nor were the relevant documents assembled there.

The ominous standoff lasted all day Oct. 6, while FBI men with axes broke into the offices of the publishing houses associated with LaRouche's political movement, and carted away boxes of documents. Helicopters buzzed over LaRouche's residence, and the tensions ran high, as three associates of LaRouche were arrested at gunpoint, and it looked as though anything might happen. In the evening of that day, LaRouche sent a telegram to President Reagan, advising him of the danger of an assassination attempt.

At that very moment, the President was involved in a non-military strategic confrontation with U.S.S.R. chief Mikhail Gorbachov in Reykjavik, over the Strategic Defense Initiative policy which President Reagan had developed out of LaRouche's initiative. The President held firm against Gorbachov, as well as against the murder of the SDI's author.

Over the course of the next day, the military deployment around LaRouche's residence was removed. Those who had aimed to kill LaRouche, had lost this round by intervention of circles around the President.

The subsequent events, around the further indictments, the trials, and the eventual imprisonment of LaRouche and 10 associates, are well known. But this early inflection point should not be overlooked. A high-level faction in the U.S. Establishment had been determined to kill the individual whom they considered a major impediment to their plans to subvert the American republic into an empire. Others, ensconced in the U.S. government, prevented it from happening, thereby preserving LaRouche to play a decisive role in history subsequently.

The crucial moment in which that role should have been decisive came in October-November 1989, with the victory over the Communist regime of East Germany, and the breaching of the Berlin Wall. The final dismantling of that Wall came on Oct. 3, 1990.

Once again, it had been Lyndon LaRouche who forecast the collapse of the communist regime, and had called, in October 1988, for the reunification of Germany around a program of economic development. In fact, had LaRouche and his movement been able to organize freely at that time, his proposals might have been taken up at the time of German reunification— a moment of historic opportunity for reversing the decades of conflict and division that had subsisted since the Cold War was started by Winston Churchill.

Yet, by early 1989, those who had been unable to physically eliminate LaRouche, had succeeded in railroading him into prison, and the momentous events of fall 1989-1990, had to proceed without him on the scene. While LaRouche's policy input was carried forward, with the issuance of his Productive Triangle proposal in the winter of 1989, the effort was severely crippled by the fact that the author was imprisoned.
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FLASH!

Bring in the New Bretton Woods System!

On Sept. 25, the overwhelming vote in the Italian Parliament for a resolution based on the New Bretton Woods idea showed the potential for Lyndon LaRouche's economics to be adopted by dozens of Parliaments around the world. Spearheaded by the youth organization of the international LaRouche movement, such an organizing tidal wave is already underway.
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Feature:

Iraq Is a Fuse, But Cheney Built The Bomb
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

  • LaRouche Demands Cheney's Resignation
    Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. based his Sept. 22 demand for Vice President Dick Cheney's resignation on newly accumulated evidence that Cheney, and a team of his longtime underlings, have willfully lied to the American public, Congress, and the President, about the circumstances under which they have promoted war against Iraq...
  • Utopian War Doctrine: A Decade in the Making
    As the following timeline demonstrates, the so-called 'new' National Security Strategy for the United States, presented in the Sept. 17, 2002 document issued under the signature of President George W. Bush, is not new at all.
  • World Responses to U.S. Preemptive War Doctrine
  • George Pratt Shultz: The Vulcans' Godfather
    According to news accounts of Summer, 1998, a Bush family war council took place at their Kennebunkport, Maine vacation compound, where it was decided to make George Pratt Shultz (a high-ranking official in every Republican Cabinet since President Nixon's), head of then-Gov. George Bush '43's' Presidential Exploratory Committee.
  • Suspected Soviet Cell Wrote Reagan's Long-Term Strategy
    On Feb. 19, 1988, Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward published a front-page story detailing the Pentagon and CIA's futile search for 'Mr. X,' the designation for a high-level intelligence community mole who was believed to be providing Pollard with top-secret code numbers of classified military documents that Pollard, a counterterrorist analyst at a Naval Investigative Service facility in Suitland, Maryland, would then pilfer and pass on to Israeli and Soviet intelligence.
  • The Search for 'Mr. X'
    Reprinted and excerpted from EIR, June 3, 1988, this profile of leading candidates for the 'X Committee' controlling the espionage of Jonathan Pollard, exposes much of the warhawk leadership of the Pentagon today.
  • The 'Neo-Conservative' Problem
    Comments by Dr. Clifford Kiracofe, made on Sept. 9 to the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations in Washington. Kiracofe, an historian who was a senior staff member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, anticipated the contents of President George W. Bush's 'neoimperial' doctrine by several weeks.

Economics:

Italian Parliament Votes For New World Financial System
After hearing a Senator proclaim, 'Let us not let . . . a prophetic figure, like Lyndon LaRouche . . . be the only one to carry on this issue,' the Parliament of Italy on Sept. 25 became the first national legislature to mandate its government to promote internationally 'a new financial architecture able to support the real economy and to avoid speculative bubbles and financial crashes.'

U.S. Banks Lead Global Financial Collapse
Caught between rising levels of unpayable debts and a failing economy, the U.S. banking system is disintegrating. Only by ignoring the vast wasteland that the banks count as assets on their books, are the banks able to keep their doors open.

Japan's Emergency Steps Fall Short on Crisis
As another fall on Wall Street drove Japan's Nikkei index toward the 9,000 danger mark,Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Masaru Hayami made the surprise announcement on Sept. 18, that the BOJ will intervene to 'buy [stock market] shares directly from the banks, not through the market' in Japan.

Political Economy:

Ibero-American Integration And the New Bretton Woods
We continue our coverage of the historic continental seminar, 'Mexico-Brazil-Argentina: The Hour of Integration; March to a New Bretton Woods,' held Aug. 22-23 in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico (see EIR, Sept. 6, for the presentations of the first day of the seminar)...

  • We Are in the Final Phase of the System's Disintegration
    Marivilia Carrasco, president of the Ibero-American Solidarity Movement (MSIA) of Mexico, gave this speech on Aug. 23, 2002, on the second day of the seminar 'Mexico-Brazil- Argentina: The Hour of Integration; March Towards a New Bretton Woods.' The speech has been translated from Spanish.
  • National Development or Jorge Castan'eda's 'Imperial Maquiladora'
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    Since the disastrous era of Antonio Lo´pez de Santa Anna and the wretched imperial design of that puppet of the Holy Alliance, Napoleon III, and the heedless Maximilian of Hapsburg, never in our history has the existence of our nation as an independent and sovereign republic been more at risk than it is today under the co-government of Jorge Castan'eda Gutman."
  • Sovereignty, Security, And National Dignity
    From the speech by Vice Adm. Se´rgio Tasso Vasquez de Aquina, former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Brazilian Armed Forces, at the seminar on Aug. 23.
  • Lo´pez Portillo Speaks Out on State in Crisis
    With Mexico's leading daily, Exce´lsior, taking the point, the nation's media prominently, and unexpectedly, celebrated the 20th anniversary of an event that Wall Street had hoped it had killed and buried for all time: President Jose´ Lo´pez Portillo's dramatic announcement, on Sept. 1, 1982, nationalizing Mexico's banking system and Central Bank and imposing full exchange controls, to stop anti-national forces from bleeding the country by speculation and capital flight.

International:

Setback for the War Party In Germany's Elections
In the Sept. 22 national elections in Germany, incumbent Chancellor Gerhard Schro¨der's 'red-green' government coalition of Social Democratic (SPD)and Green parties secured a majority of 11 seats in the Bundestag (lower house of parliament) over the 'black-yellow' opposition camp of Christian Democrats (CDU-CSU) and Free Democrats (FDP)...the reflection of a genuine, broad sentiment against war, among German voters of all ages.

War Threat Linked to U.S. Economic Collapse
Sept. 11: 'An Attempted Coup d'E´ tat'
Gen. Leonid Ivashov: I hold to my opinion, that Sept. 11 was an internal operation in the United States.

Field of Thorns: Sharon To Expel Palestinians
Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his generals are poised to expel the Palestinian population from the 'Land of Israel.'

U.S. 'Pre-emption' Aims At Indonesia in Asia
While world leaders insist that the United States has presented no sufficient evidence to justify an invasion of Iraq, a similar process is unfolding in Asia, in regard to the recent escalation of American accusations that Southeast Asia has become a new headquarters for al-Qaeda, with Indonesia as its center.

Leading Israelis Show Iraq War Opposition
Leading Israelis have come out publicly against the Bush Administration's determination to launch a war on Iraq, at a time when Israeli intelligence sources warn that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his generals are counting on a U.S. war, in order to expel the Palestinians from the West Bank.

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