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Published: Monday, Jan. 6, 2003
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by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. January 1, 2003
We have reached the point at which the institutions of the states of the Americas and Europe will either end their hysterical denials of economic reality, or those nations which have not already plunged into an already accelerating process of disintegration will begin to do so very soon. The statistic left hanging on the drooping Christmas trees sends a simple, plain message. The world in general has now been plunged already into the greatest economic depression since 1929-1932. Up to
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now, the Congress and Presidency have shown no interest in any actually competent measures for dealing with that reality.This present world depression was no surprise to me, nor to anyone who paid attention to my published record as the world's most successful long-range economic forecaster. The fact is, we could have stopped it at any time during the past thirty-five years, had we chosen to do so. Unfortunately, none of the Congresses or Presidencies of the past thirty-odd years have chosen to do so. So, because of that indifference to economic reality, the present world depression was allowed to happen. Now, it has arrived on the Congress' and President's doorstep.
So, all of the principal causes leading into this depression have been well known over more than thirty years. It should be emphasized here, once more, that I am personally on record as warning publicly of each step toward this crisis, and have been consistently right in every forecast which I have detailed, prior to 1971, in the course of the 1976 Presidential election campaigns, and the campaigns of 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, and in 2000. At any point my warnings had been heeded, even as late as January-February 2000, the continuing march toward collapse could have been halted and reversed.
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January 6-12, 1412
We travel this week to the year 1412, when, on Jan. 6, the French heroine, later Saint, Jeanne d'Arc was born. Lyndon LaRouche has recently been stressing the sublime character of Jeanne d'Arc's leadership, in which she gave her life in order to secure the nation of France, and thereby achieved immortality as the founder and inspiration of her nation.
Why celebrate this maid, who, at the age of 17, determined to take charge of the French Army, in order to drive the English out of France, and crown the French Dauphin king? Because Jeanne d'Arc is, in the sense of universal history, a leading figure in establishing the basis for the creation of our own republic, and the nation-state institution as a sovereign body devoted to the general welfare of the population. As a leader, she deserves to be honored by all mankind, of whatever nationality.
While born a peasant girl, Jeanne d'Arc received an education from religious orders who were devoted to providing instruction for children from all classes.* Thus, it is not from nowhere that she sprang, when she stepped forward in 1429, to rouse the French people into battle against the English occupiers.
With a large portion of Northern France, including Paris, under the occupation of the British, with their French collaborators, the French population was in dire straits. France was not a nation, but a collection of principalities, which had been at war among one another since 1337, and whose power dwarfed that of the nominal king. The power of the English princes and their allies was growing, and was, in 1429, bent upon opening up the entire south of the country, by winning the siege of the city of Orleans.
Realizing that the British had to be stopped at Orleans, Jeanne conceived a three-part strategy. First, was to pull together an army which was still loyal to the Dauphin, the son of the former King of France, with permission of the only military chief in the North still loyal. Second, was to travel to the residence of the Dauphin, Charles VII, through enemy territory, and convince him, and his entourage, to put her in charge of the army, in order to lift the siege of Orleans. The third, was to get to Reims, the traditional location for kings in France to be crowned, and have Charles VII officially crowned King of Francedespite the fact that Reims was in the middle of enemy territory.
To accomplish this, Jeanne would have to exercise an iron, and inspired, will, against a battery of generals and princes who had shown themselves to be cowards, simply looking out for deals for themselves. Even the Dauphin had given up the idea of embodying the nation of France. There is good reason to believe that, when he agreed to give Jeanne the authority to lead his forces to liberate Orleans, he fully expected that she would fail. Indeed, many of his princes wanted her to do so.
Upon arriving at Orleans, Jeanne sent a letter to the English, demanding they surrender all the cities they had captured, or be prepared for unrelenting warfare until victory. When the British refused, Jeanne then had to confront her generals, who advised caution and delay. She didn't hesitate, but rather got on her horse, gathered the army, and led it personally to break the siege. After a three-day confrontation, during which she was wounded, Jeanne deployed the French army in such a way that the British conceded and withdrew.
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'Stop The Fibrillations'; Save the U.S., Global Economies
(This is Lyndon LaRouche's statement on the Jan. 4, 2003 edition of the weekly audio webcast, "The LaRouche Show," in answer to host Michele Steinberg's opening question to "the next President of the United States," on how to get out of the crisis of the weeks of January ahead.)
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Conflict Is Not the Natural Condition Among Men and Nations
The following is Mr. LaRouche's keynote to the EIR seminar in Berlin on Dec. 18, 2002.
"On the 28th of January of this coming year, about five days after President George W. Bush, Jr. will have delivered his State of the Union address, I shall issue mine, which will be broadcast on a webcast at 1 o'clock Washington, D.C. time, which will be 7 o'clock in the evening Berlin time."
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Iran's Diplomacy Aims At Eurasian Cooperation
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One of the thorniest questions in international politics has been, how tensions between nuclear powers Pakistan and India can be relaxed, and an adversary relationship transformed into one of cooperation. Now, prospective progress on this front is emerging from what might seem an unexpected quarter: the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Khatami Hails Role for Pakistan's National Poet
By David Cherry
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