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Published: Monday, Dec. 16, 2002
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I am thankful for the U.S. Government's official apology to Spain, over the attempt by some U.S. rogues to involve Spain in an attempted destabilization of the ongoing Korean election campaigning. The restoration of rail transport within Korea which will allow us to connect Pusan to Western Europe, is an essential part of the effort to rescue the U.S.'s partner Europe from the effects of a currently accelerating general economic collapse around most of the planet. The currently continuing attempts of U.S. official "Chickenhawks," such as Richard Perle and his accomplices, to trigger a war-like crisis in the Korean Peninsula, must be stepped on, hard.
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A group of Eurasian nations, including the Strategic Triangle of Russia, China, and India, is emerging as the pivot of an increasing density of far-reaching, long-term economic development projects within Asia. This includes Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia. The foundation of this ongoing economic strategy includes large-scale infrastructure projects which will serve as a critical margin of long-term stimulants to the entire region. Among the effects will be a long-term growth of large margins of exports of relevant technology from Europe, and similar opportunities for U.S. trans-Pacific trade.
Those benefits depend in significant degree upon strategically crucial cooperation among Japan, Korea, and China. Japan urgently needs the opportunity to return to the industrial-goods export orientation of the period prior to Zbigniew Brzezinski's U.S. wrecking of Japan's oil-for-technology relations with Mexico, for example. Japan's prospect for participation in cooperation among Russia, China, and Korea, is therefore a critical factor in Japan's early future. A revival of the pre-1997 industrial capabilities of Korea, and the development of the rail connection from Pusan to Europe, is therefore a critical frontier of the defense of the U.S. economy itself.
Therefore, any other meddling madmen who are seeking to disrupt the Korea rail connection, or target North Korea for U.S. Chickenhawks' attempts to use it as a nuclear alternative for warfare on Iraq, must be considered as a threat, not only to our friends in Eurasia, but, also a menace to the imperilled economic security of the U.S.A. itself.
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December 16-22, 1776
It was late December 1776, when, in the midst of the dismal full retreat from New York forced upon the Continental Army, a clarion call was raised in the form of a small pamphlet called The American Crisis. The author, who had travelled with General Washington's army, was young Thomas Paine, the author of the widely circulated, and wildly popular, pamphlet Common Sense. Paine, who had been sent to Philadelphia through the mediation of the American Revolution's key recruiter, Benjamin Franklin, in 1774, was already famous for his pro-independence pamphlet, which had begun circulating in January 1776.
Now, however, with the cause of the Americans seemingly in trouble, Paine undertook to write a series of Crisis papers, as a means of rallying the army and population as well. Ultimately there were 16 papers, spanning the period through 1783.
While the paper is too long to be reproduced here in full, we quote some substantial sections, to remind Americans, and others, of Paine's overarching polemic: that it would take the dedication and action of all, in order to prevent tyranny from achieving victory, and that those who fight when the situation seems most desperate, deserve the accolades of future generations. The threat which the abandonment of the American intellectual tradition has now brought to the very existence of the United States and humanity, is no less great today, and the challenge to personal commitment, a matter of equal urgency.
"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put the proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right, not only to tax, but 'to bind us in all cases whatsoever', and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then there is not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God....
"...I turn with the warm ardour of a friend to those who have nobly stood, and are yet determined to stand the matter out: I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state: up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake. Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it. Say not that thousands are gone, turn out your tens of thousands; throw not the burden of the day upon Providence, but 'show your faith by your work,' that God may bless you. It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all. The far and the near, the home counties and the back, the rich and the poor, will suffer or rejoice alike. The heart that feels not now is dead; the blood of his children will curse his cowardice, who shrinks back at a time when the little might have saved the whole, and made them happy. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death....
"...Once more we are again collected and collecting; our new army at both ends of the continent is recruiting fast, and we shall be able to open the next campaign with sixty thousands men, well armed and clothed. This is our situation, and who will may know it. By perseverance and fortitude we have the prospect of a glorious issue; by cowardice and submission, the sad choice of a variety of evils—a ravaged country—a depopulated city—habitations without safety, and slavery without hope—our homes turned into barracks and bawdy-houses for Hessians, and a future race to provide for, whose fathers we shall doubt of. Look on this picture and weep over it! and if there yet remains one thoughtless wretch who believes it not, let him suffer it unlamented."
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LaRouche Announces Jan. 28, 2003 Webcast, 'The Coming State of the Union'
On Dec. 10, Democratic Party 2004 Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche's campaign released a statement called "The Coming State of the Union: Now, Two Years Later."
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On Dec. 12, Lyndon LaRouche addressed a workshop on the theme: "The World Economy in Crisis: Need for a New Bretton Woods," at a conference organized by the Committee on Finance of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences...
A New Role for the U.S.A. Today
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
This paper was written on Oct. 21, 2002, upon request by the editors of the Turkish magazine Yarin, and published in their December issue.
"Turkey today is, like many other nations, primarily a victim of the follies embedded in the current policies of the U.S.A. at this moment...."
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Back in the 1970s, when the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Gnostic Sex-Cult Freak Show was in its mass recruiting phase, the 'Moonies' were the American parent's worst nightmare....Today, this lunatic leader of a mass cult is the titular head of a multitrilliondollar, worldwide apparatus of government influence-peddling and control that knows no equal.
Economics:
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As the state of California staggered under the weight of a budget deficit which could surpass $30 billion for the coming fiscal year, Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche presented his alternative, at a Los Angeles town meeting on Dec. 7, to the escalating and devastating budget cuts announced on Dec. 6 by Gov. Gray Davis (D).
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Insane Fed Promises To Bail Out Bubble
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by Ramtanu Maitra
Early in December, Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee proposed a ten-year plan to inter-link the major Indian rivers, Ganges and Brahmaputra, to bring water to drought-prone and rain-shadow regions of the country. Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, the leader of the parliamentary opposition and President of the Congress Party, quickly endorsed the Prime Minister's proposal, indicating its urgency.
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by Dennis Small and Ronald Moncayo
The Bush Administration is insanely insisting that on Jan. 1, 2003, the Mexican government of President Vicente Fox apply the scheduled activation of agricultural clauses of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), by which Mexican tariffs on all but a handful of farm products the United States wants to export to that country, will be reduced to zero.
To Save Mexico, Let Us Bury NAFTA Now
by Marivilia Carrasco, president of the Ibero-American Solidarity Movement (MSIA) in Mexico.
...The problem is neither the subsidies nor the protectionism of the United States and Canada; nor is the answer to try to gain some time so as to postpone the death of the Mexican farmer. The problem is the entirety of the free trade policy on a world scale!
Even Singapore Has Its Limits on U.S. 'Free Trade Agreement' Scam
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Since November 2000, Singapore and the United States have been engaged in negotiations which would establish the first Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the United States and an Asian nation. From the beginning, other Southeast Asian nations worried—often out loud—that the deal was calculated to be a 'foot in the door,' a precedent for the United States to impose conditions unacceptable to the other economies of the region.
International:
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...[T]he Queen's Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is facing his most serious crisis since coming to office, five and a half years ago. This centers around the scandalous, deceptive, and likely illegal behavior of his wife, Cherie.
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National:
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by Jeffrey Steinberg
Lyndon LaRouche, Democratic Presidential pre-candidate for the 2004 election, stunned an audience of Hungary's leading economists on Dec. 12, when he told them that he was optimistic that we may be on the verge of 'remarkable improvements in thinking' in Washington,on the subject of the onrushing collapse of the post-Bretton Woods floating-exchange-rate system, and the breakdown of the U.S. physical economy.
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(See: 'The Blunder in U.S. National Security Policy' from 1995, a strategic intervention by LaRouche, beginning at bottom of page 69, following the article.)
First Special Service Force:
World War II Prototype For Today's Utopians
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The unique qualities of the First Special Service Force, of The unique qualities of the First Special Service Force, of wild-eyed Utopians in and around the Bush Administration who seek to create a multinational security force that is loyal to no national government.
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