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Published: Monday, Dec. 2, 2002
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Volume 1, Issue Number 39
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Look ahead two years, to a better day, November 25, 2004, when, if you are truly fortunate, I shall have been elected the next President of the U.S.A., and will be sending a Thanksgiving message to the outgoing President, George W. Bush, Jr. The only presently debatable feature of that outcome is, which political party had lived long enough to have nominated me?
There is not a single, presently existing major political party of any nation of the Americas (excepting, possibly, Mexico's PRI)
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which is presently likely to remain in existence as still a major political party two years from now. Two facts about the U.S. situation are clear. First, I would be elected as an echo of President Franklin Roosevelt's Democratic Party mission, and also the Abraham Lincoln tradition. Second, no existing U.S. party, major or minor, presently qualifies for that mission and tradition. A similar, paradoxical situation prevails in the currently principal parliamentary parties of the Americas and in Europe. In fact, unless the Democratic Party soon abandons its current "middle way," it were likely to disintegrate over the coming year.
As Senator Ted Kennedy made the point some years back, "This country does not need two Republican Parties," a fact which his niece, running for Maryland's Governor, seems to have overlooked recently.
It is a paradox which we, including the world's leading political cartoonists, must receive in good humor. Great calamities such as that most of the world has brought upon itself today, must always be approached so, letting appropriate moments of laughter lighten and dispel the moments of darkness. That said, around Europe and the Americas today, there is hardly a single major political party which is currently worth shucks when it comes to the actually crucial issues of each passing moment.
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The document most clearly representing the thrust of American foreign policy, up until the time of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is the Monroe Doctrine, promulgated by President James Monroe on Dec. 2, 1823. Despite the forceful and successful measures by President Teddy Roosevelt, and, more recently, the Reagan Administration, to vitiate the republican principles of that document (the latter explicitly during the British war against Argentina), the Monroe Doctrine remains a bedrock of the American political system, to which our nation must return.
While the Monroe Doctrine was promulgated as an integral part of the President's message to Congress, and was ultimately composed by Monroe, the content of the lion's share of the policy—which followed on the principles set forward almost 30 years earlier by President George Washington—owes its origins to Monroe's Secretary of State John Quincy Adams. It was Adams who insisted that the United States alone, despite its military weakness, declare the policy that insisted upon no foreign interference, or colonization, by European powers in the Western Hemisphere.*
Adams' policy of the U.S. standing in defense of the South American republics, almost didn't happen. British Foreign Minister George Canning had had a different idea. Canning had offered to the U.S. the idea that the United States would join with Great Britain in declaring no tolerance of colonization and interference in the Americas. Secretary of State Adams, through the U.S. envoy in London, immediately responded with a challenge: Would Great Britain agree to recognize the independence of those South American nations which had broken with "mother" Spain?
When Canning refused, John Quincy Adams had the evidence he needed, to show that "Britain and America ... would not be bound by an permanent community of principle," if they issued such a joint statement. He convinced President Monroe, who had received contrary advice from former Presidents Jefferson and Madison, that he should not accept Canning's offer, and should, rather, make a unilateral statement.
Secretary of State Adams was not a romantic, in making such a statement. He knew as well as his fellow Cabinet members, that there was no way in which the United States had the military strength to prevent Spain, or France, or England, from coming into the Americas, and retaking these recently declared republics. However, Adams was determined to enunciate the principle upon which U.S. foreign policy should stand. And he would not agree to making a joint statement with Britain, which would turn the United States into a "cockboat in the wake of a British man o' war."
At the same time, Adams was determined to remove whatever colonial powers remained, and their future claims, from the American continent.
Historical frauds, like prominent American journalist Walter Lippmann, insisted that the Monroe Doctrine did reflect an Anglo-American agreement. This is an outright lie, born of the attempt to submerge the irreconcilable differences between the republican American System, and the imperial system of Great Britain.
We include here the excerpt from Monroe's address to Congress, covering this foreign policy pronouncement.
"At the proposal of the Russian Imperial Government, made through the Minister of the Emperor, residing here, a full power and instructions have been transmitted to the Minister of the United States at St. Petersburg, to arrange by amicable negotiation, the respective rights and interests of the two Nations on the North West Coast of this Continent. A similar proposal has been made by His Imperial Majesty, to the Government of Great Britain, which has likewise been acceded to. The Government of the United States has been desirous by this friendly proceeding, of manifesting the great value which they have invariably attached to the friendship of the Emperor, and their solicitude to cultivate the best understanding with his Government..."
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LaRouche Calls for Immediate — U.S.-Led Famine Relief for North Korea
Nov. 27--Lyndon LaRouche, Democratic Party Presidential pre-candidate in the 2004 elections, is calling on President Bush and other world leaders to conduct an immediate food relief effort into North Korea, with absolutely no political strings attached.
LaRouche in Dialogue with Youth
This is a transcript of the final part of a dialogue between Lyndon LaRouche and members of the LaRouche Youth Movement at a cadre school in California, Nov. 16, 2002. The first part appeared in this section of EIW #38, dated Nov. 25.
Solving the Dangers of Economic Crisis and War
American Presidential pre-candidate LaRouche was introduced by Catholic Press Association head Alberto Comuzzi to a Nov. 22 press conference in Milan, organized by the Association. Here are LaRouche's opening remarks to the journalists and others present.
Italy's Classical Heritage, and Its Role In Solving Today's Systemic Crisis
Lyndon LaRouche spoke to the Casa d'Europa in Milan, a national Italian business, professional, and political organization concerned with issues of economic integration in Europe, on Nov. 23. He opened the morning panel of its conference.
Amelia Robinson Returns to Italy (see p 52 in article above)
From Nov. 12-20, Amelia Boynton Robinson, vice-chairwoman of the Schiller Institute and one-time collaborator of Martin Luther King, was again in Italy for a series of public events and official receptions in Rome, Lari (Pisa), Ravenna, and the Republic of San Marino.
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Feature:
LaRouche in Italy: Keep Up Pressure To Stop Iraq War
by Claudio Celani
In his most recent visit to Italy, Nov. 21-25, American Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. addressed a conference on security in Europe and a press conference organized for him by the Association of Catholic Press; gave television and newspaper interviews; and extended the impact of his already profound influence in Italy.
Henry Carey's Battle to Save Lincoln's Economic Revolution
by Robert Ingraham
During the discussion following his speech to a Rome economic conference on July 2, 2002,1 EIR Founding Editor Lyndon LaRouche was asked by a leader of an Italian consumer organization to comment on the current nature of private central banks, such as the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Allen Salisbury, Reviver Of the American System
Nancy Spannaus
No presentation of the history of the fight for the American System of political-economy the 19th Century, would be complete without acknowledging the role of Allen Salisbury, a now-deceased leader of Lyndon LaRouche's political-philosophical association, the International Caucus of Labor Committees.
Economics:
The IMF's Coming Brazilian Waterloo
by Dennis Small
What will the government of Luiz Ina´cio 'Lula' da Silva do, when he assumes the Presidency of Brazil on Jan. 1, 2003? That is one of the hottest questions among international financial circles, given the fact that Brazil has the largest foreign debt—more than $500 billion—of any nation in the world, and that it has been teetering at the cliff-edge of default for months.
Guadalajara Forum Gains Force in Brazil Crisis
by Our Special Correspondent
Acrucial meeting on Nov. 7 in Sa o Paulo, bringing the 'Guadalajara Forum' launched in Mexico in September, to Brazil, showed the potential of a new political alliance: among the forces around new Congressman-elect Dr. Ene´as Carneiro; nationalist Brazilian civilian-military circles; and the ideas and political movement of U.S. Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche.
U.S. Budget Deficits Headed Toward Unprecedented Heights
by Richard Freeman
Unless America's policymaking is radically and quickly changed, it is likely that the United States will register, perhaps starting this fiscal year 2003, Federal general revenue budget deficits of $400-500 billion per annum, the largest in U.S. history.
Bank of Japan Warns Of 'Unprecedented' Bank Stock Crash
by Kathy Wolfe
Bank of Japan Governor Masaru Hayami said on Nov. 21 that an 'unprecedented' plunge in bank shares has the BOJ on an alert to provide cash to the banks.
Interview: Lance Endersbee
TVA, Mekong, and China's 'Heroic Civil Engineering'
Prof. Lance Endersbee was instrumental in the engineering of the celebrated Snowy Mountain Scheme for hydroelectric power and irrigation, launched in 1949, Australia's largest and most successful infrastructure work since World War II.
International:
Potential for 'Strategic Triangle' Cooperation Grows
by Mary Burdman
During November the three great Eurasian nations—Russia, China, and India—have launched new bilateral and trilateral diplomacy, featuring the unprecedented 'triangular' visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to China and India from Dec. 1-5.
Will Glazyev Lead Russia Out of Crisis?
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
As the parliamentary elections, due to be held at the end of 2003, loom larger on the horizon, to be followed by Presidential elections in 2004, the political scene in Russia has become more and more lively.
Italy: Two Provocations With Global Impact
by Claudio Celani
In less than three days, from the evening of Nov. 14 to that of Nov. 17, two provocations attempted to sabotage Italy's leading role in the international fight for a new monetary and financial order, called for in the resolution voted up by the Italian Chamber of Deputies on Sept. 25.
Australia Dossier
by Allen Douglas
Fascist Laws Back on Agenda
The government put Australia on an unprecedented 'medium security alert' on Nov. 19, based upon 'credible information' provided by the United States and Britain, that terrorist attacks on Australia were very likely within the next two months.
National:
With 'Nobody Home' in D.C., LaRouche Steps In To Lead
by Michele Steinberg
On Nov. 22, with the country in the ravages of an economic depression, with tens of thousands more layoffs being been announced for the coming months, and 46 out of 50 states reporting that they are in severe budget crisis, the Congress recessed and fled Washington.
Crisis Spreads From Health Looter's Blowout
by Edward Spannaus
As the FBI, Securities and Exchange Commission, and other agencies step up their investigation of the fraudulent operations of National Century Financial Enterprises (NCFE), the number of bankruptcies growing out of its collapse is rising, imperiling a significant section of the U.S. health-care sector.
Chicken-Hawks Rev Up Anti-Saudi Campaign
by Arthur Ticknor and Jeffrey Steinberg
Although President Bush hosted a White House celebration honoring the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, and issued a statement rejecting Christian Zionists Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson's latest blasphemous rantings against Islam, there are other ominous signs that the campaign by Vice President Dick Cheney and his Chicken-hawk faction, to destroy the 60-year Saudi-American partnership, is escalating once again.
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