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Published: Monday, October 14, 2002
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by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Oct. 10, 2002
The big news from Brazil should remind you, that now is the time for you to act, to put the brakes on the onrushing new world depression. The first step you must take, is to force the Federal government to take immediate action to stop the ongoing collapse of the railway and air-travel systems. The second step you must take, is to help me push through a stubborn Washington, D.C., a broad set of job-creating measures in rebuilding much-needed basic economic infrastructure. The third and last, but not least thing you must do, is to back my campaign for an overdue, immediate general reform of the presently collapsing world monetary-financial system.
The big news from Brazil's elections, is that, on Oct. 6, in the biggest single election-vote victory in the history of the nation of Brazil, my friend, the highly distinguished Dr. Enéas Carneiro, has received an historically unprecedented, earthquake-making 1.5 million or more votes cast for his election to the Federal Congress from São Paulo.
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This came on top of a recent vote of Italy's Chamber of Deputies in support of my proposal for immediate steps to establish a New Bretton Woods reform of the world's present international monetary system.
The signs are, that our time yours and mine has come.
What has shocked Dr. Carneiro's opponents and my own, in both the stunned Brazilian mass media, and in official Washington, is that "Dr. Enéas," as he is known famously in Brazil, had recently hosted my June 12, 2002 nomination and inauguration as an honorary citizen of the City of São Paulo. During my visit there, I delivered three major public addresses on Brazil's situation in a currently onrushing, already extremely critical world strategic situation. I took the occasion of my inauguration as an honorary citizen of São Paulo, to deliver an address on U.S. relations with Brazil under my proposed U.S. foreign-policy doctrine.
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October 14-20, 1781
This week we commemorate, and bring to your attention, the Battle of Yorktown, the battle of the American War of Independence which resulted in the surrender of Britain's General Lord Cornwallis to America's General George Washington in Yorktown, Virginia, on Oct. 17, 1781. This victory effectively decided the War of Independence, and should be far better remembered than it is today.
The major point to be made, hearkens back to the reasons for that war. Too many of our citizens, and even our leaders, have forgotten just what forced the founders of our nation to take up arms against Great Britain: the fundamental conflict between the oligarchical and republican systems. This is obvious from the many references made today to the alleged alliance among "English-speaking" peoples. This loss of understanding is painfully evident at the site where Yorktown is commemorated today, which features a plaque, signed by President Ronald Reagan, pledging eternal friendship between the United States and Great Britain, as proceeding from that date.
What an atrocity! Yorktown did not clear the decks for future friendship between America and Great Britain. Rather, the British monarchy maintained efforts up through the Civil War, to prevent the coalescence of the United States, and/or to break the nation into parts through various secession plots, the War of 1812, and the Civil War itself. In addition to the physical assaults, the British, to this day, abhor the republican principles upon which the United States of America is based.
The British surrender at Yorktown did not end the War of Independence, either. Despite the fact that the French Navy's joint deployment with the American and French troops had decisively defeated the main force of the British Army, other sections of the Army continued to fight, and negotiations for a final treaty dragged on until 1783.
Yet, strategically, the war was wrapped up at Yorktown. Cornwallis had established a fort there, and knew he was surrounded by American and French forces. He sent word for reinforcements from the British Navy in New York, but they never came. The French fleet, led by Admirals de Grasse and de Barras, effectively blocked a British approach by sea, and any possible attempt by the British to escape. A siege by land and sea forced Cornwallis to decide to surrender, before he was overrun.
The actual surrender itself is depicted in the famous painting by John Trumbull pictured here.
But it was not straightforward. Having sent a message to Gen. Washington that they were ready to surrender, the British were not very happy. They, and the Germans fighting with them, had to be forced from their fort, and forced to bring their colors with them. The British played "The World Turned Upside Down," a popular song of the time, to express their view of events.
Meanwhile, Gen. Cornwallis stayed inside, claiming sickness. He sent out his second in command, Gen. O'Hara, to surrender. But O'Hara initially tried to surrender to the French, not the Americans! The French refused to accept this intentional slight against the sovereignty of the United States.
General Washington, equally conscious of the need to assert the dignity of the new nation, then refused to accept Cornwallis's sword from O'Hara. He instead made O'Hara, number two, surrender the sword to the American second in command, Gen. Benjamin Lincoln.
In London, the significance of the defeat of Cornwallis was well understood, and negotiations toward a peace began.
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Here is the edited transcript of Lyndon LaRouche's 70-minute dialogue on The LaRouche Show Internet radio broadcast, Oct. 12, 2002.
MICHELE STEINBERG: Good afternoon. Welcome to the LaRouche Show. This is Oct. 12, 2002, and this is your host, Michele Steinberg, counterintelligence co-director of Executive Intelligence Review, and editor of EIW, our electronic magazine.
This week, some might say, the lunatics took over the asylum, when the United States Congress, and the United States Senate, voted to give unfettered imperial power to President George W. Bush, for his war against Iraq. Is it his war, or is this a war that's been planned by a bunch of lunatics, Armageddon millennarians, and a nest of Israeli agents, who have been working on this agenda, for more than 20 years?
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Feature:
LaRouche Friend Breaks All Records in Brazil Election Win
The Brazil elections held Oct. 6 have proven to be the greatest repudiation anywhere of the insanity of globalization. Out of a possible 115 million voters, 95 million Brazilian citizens went to the polls, and only 20 million voted for the government-backed candidacy of Jose Serra... (on same link: Appendix to above article: IMF Check-Mates Itself in Brazil)
- A Citizen Who Chooses To Make History
Who is this man who won the largest number of votes of any Congressional candidate in Brazil's history, in a campaign on which he spent, at most, $22,000? Dr. Ene´as Ferreira Carneiro, known simply as 'Ene´as' Sweeps Election.' throughout Brazil, is one of those rare individuals who step forward to shape history when their country needs them. Dr. Eneas Responds: Who is LaRouche?
Economics:
Now German Government Must Act on the Economy
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IMF in Denial of Italy Vote, New BrettonWoods
International Monetary Fund First Deputy Managing Director Anne Krueger is the author of a plan which claims to deal, through IMF-controlled 'national bankruptcy' proceedings, with the growing number of nations with unpayable debt burdens.
IMF Demands on Japan Spark 'Asia Crisis II'
Newsweek, mouthpiece of Wall Street's Lazard Fre`res investment bank, renewed demands by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and its Wall Street economists last Spring, that Japan implement the same International Monetary Fund (IMF) 'shock therapy' imposed on South Korea during 1997-99.
Back to Production, Dump Globalization
Malaysia's feisty Prime Minister, Dato Seri Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, challenged 800 distinguished guests, speakers, and captains of industry, attending the East Asia Economic Summit 2002, Oct. 6-8, in Malaysia's new capital city Putrajaya, to abandon the 'ideology' of globalization and return to physical economics.
Port Lockout: Straw To Break Economy's Back?
Could the management-ordered shutdown of 29 West Coast ports have been the last straw for the U.S. and world economy?
Trouble Hits Elite Insurance Sector
The global economic meltdown, of which the stock market collapse is just the tip of the iceberg, is now visibly hitting the heart of the global financial system, the interlocked network of giant insurance companies, reinsurance companies, investment banks, and commercial banks which dominate the imperial 'casino mondiale.'
Unreality Shrouds Russian-American Energy Meeting
An air of unreality hung over the first-ever 'U.S.-Russia Commercial Energy Summit,' held Oct. 1-2 in Houston, Texas, because it grappled with neither the impending global showdown prompted by a U.S. war policy, nor the world economic crisis.
International:
Is Sharon Preparing A New Hebron Massacre?
Israeli security sources fear Israeli extremists are preparing a massacre of Palestinian worshippers at the mosque housing the 'Tomb of the Patriarchs' in the West Bank city of Hebrona repeat of the Feb. 25, 1994 killing of some 30 Palestinian worshippers by a fanatical settler, Dr. Baruch Goldstein.
Launching Aggressive War Is Nuremberg Crime
The pre-emptive (some would say, preventive) war, which President Bush and warhawks in his Cabinet and the civilian leadership of the Pentagon are in the process of launching, violates fundamental principles of international law and treaties to which the United States is a party.
Italy Pays Tribute To Amelia Boynton Robinson
In Milan and Rome, she was received as a head of statein Milan by the President of the Lombardy region, and in Rome by the Human Rights Committee of the Italian Senate.
Quiet Diplomacy on The 'Roof of the World'
Amidst many dramatic international developments, a quiet, but notable, process is going on 'at the roof of the world' Tibet.
National:
Lieberman and Cheney March In the Footsteps of Joe McCarthy
In the United States, during the 1950s, the image of the Roy Cohn-steered drunken Sen. Joseph McCarthy, railing, on the floor of the U.S. Senate, ...was the moral equivalent of Himmler and Goering's Gestapo.
41 Questions to Bush Administration On U.S.-Iraq Relations in the 1980s
...Was it U.S. policy, as early as 1981-82, to provide military intelligence, and arms and other military equipment, to both Iran and Iraq, while those two countries were engaged in a war against each other, a war in which one million were killed?...
'Nightmare Scenario': Urban Combat in Baghdad
Saddam Hussein's threat to bring any war with the U.S. into the streets of Baghdad has competent U.S. military officers asking, 'Are we prepared for urban combat?'
Admiral Blair Rebuffs Neocons' Taiwan Policy
Admiral Dennis Blair, the former commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, said on Sept. 25 that the United States must make it clear to Taiwan that, if it were to declare independence...the United States would not come to Taiwan's aid.
LaRouche Helping Defeat Nevada Pot Legalization
A Nevada ballot initiative heavily financed by 'Dope, Inc.' as a pioneer move to legalize marijuana nationwide, was initially thought a cinch to pass this Nov. 5. But three weeks from Election Day, Nevada political insiders and pollsters have told EIR, there's no way it's going to pass.
Drug Legalization: Who Is Fooling Whom?
Following Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche's Sept. 11, 2002 campaign webcast (published in EIR, Sept. 20), many listeners sent in e-mail questions and comments... {T}his interchange on the policy of drug legalization, was supplied by www.larouchein2004.com.
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Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. wrote in a Sept. 24 article, that 'the greatest single internal danger to our republic today,... quasi-psychotic pseudo-science of video-games, were better suited to the role of the Roman-imperial style cannon-fodder of global perpetual warfare.'
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