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Published: Monday, May 5, 2003
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LaRouche's U.S. Foreign Policy:
A WORLD OF SOVEREIGN NATION-STATES
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The following is a summary statement of the U.S. Foreign Policy of one of the currently leading candidates for the 2004 U.S. Presidential nomination by that nation's Democratic Party. Although this statement will be widely circulated inside the U.S.A., it is intended to serve as a compact summary, as suited for translations, which might be desired as information by governments and citizens of other parts of the world at this time.
The candidate is currently the leading Democratic Party contender in number of contributors who have supported his campaign to the present date.
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The 1989-1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, created a state of world affairs in which the U.S.A., then under President George H. W. Bush, Sr., assumed the role of a virtually unchallenged world power.1 Unfortunately, this occasion was used to unleash a strategically motivated, looting-down of the physically productive aspects of the economies of not only both the former Soviet Union and former Eastern European Warsaw Pact members, but also the intent, aided by Balkan wars, to bring about a cumulatively significant weakening of the so-called "rival" economies of pre-1989 European continental allies, Germany most emphatically.
This combination of developments encouraged the presently continuing insurgence of two varieties of imperial intentions already lurking among some of the most powerful political factions within the United States. One of these factions represents a U.S. liberal-imperialist impulse copying the British tradition known by that name. The second is an echo of the Roman imperial legions and Nazi international Waffen-SS. The latter, fascist impulse, was pushed unsuccessfully, during 1991-92, by then U.S. Secretary of Defense Richard "Dick" Cheney and his so-called neo-conservative ("neo-con") associates. However, later, that same policy has been pushed, since Sept. 11, 2001, by the same Cheney, now Vice-President, and also by the same set of associates of Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld as then.2 The utopian Cheney-Rumsfeld clique's nuclear-airborne parody of the international Waffen-SS, has been known otherwise, during recent decades, as the U.S. "Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA)."
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In this day and age of insane privatization, deregulation, and collapse of basic infrastructure, it is only right that we turn our attention to that great accomplishment of American government-industry partnership, the Transcontinental Railroad. Initiated by President Abraham Lincoln in the form of the Pacific Railroad Act in 1862, this crucial linkage between the eastern and western United States, was finally completed with the driving in of a golden spike on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah.
President Lincoln himself, who had run for office as early as 1832 on the program of building a transcontinental railroad, provided the top-down leadership for implementing this great project. He is reported to have told Union General Grenville Dodge, later a chief engineer on the project, that the road had to be built, "not only as a military necessity, but as a means of holding the Pacific Coast to the Union." The unifying function of the railroad was directly reflected in the statement engraved on the golden spike: "May God continue the unity of our Country as this Railroad unites the two gold great Oceans of the world."
The story of the building of the Transcontinental Railroad is a story of how the Federal government fulfilled its responsibility for developing vital infrastructure, by providing the means for financing, and the other prerequisites for the construction of a major national project, which would serve to promote the general welfare, and advance the culture, of the entire nation. The cross-country railroad was, in fact, a vital part of President Lincoln's conception of "binding up the wounds" of the nation after the Civil War.
Under the original 1862 law, which was amended numerous times later, provision was made for creating two quasi-public corporations. One was the Central Pacific Railroad, which was an already extant corporation based in California, and which was mandated to start construction from Sacramento eastward. The other corporation created was the Union Pacific Railroad (as historian Stephen Ambrose points out, a polemical title in itself, in the midst of the Civil War), which had the task of building the rail-line westward, from Council Bluffs, Iowa, right at the point of the Missouri River.
The engineering tasks to be accomplished, of course, were gigantic, particular the need to forge a pathway through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The surveying needs were also daunting, as significant errors in mapping could end up with the two railroads failing to connect!
To meet the financing needs, the Federal government pledged a certain amount of money in low-interest Federal bonds for every mile of track that each rail company completed, and which had been certified as having been constructed up to par, by government inspectors. The amount of bonds provided ranged from $12,000 per mile for flat track, to $48,000 per mile for especially challenging areas, such as routes through the mountains. The rail companies were also given land grants along side the track, which served to provide the space for the building of living facilities, water and repair facilities, and the nuclei for towns. This was possible because most of the land in the West was in fact public land.
But there was another aspect to the Transcontinental Railroad, which underscored Lincoln's concept of this project as a development corridor, which would unify, and contribute to the development of, the nation. That was the fact that, along with the rail track, the rail companies were mandated to lay telegraph lines, which would provide for vastly enhanced communication from one part of the nation to the other. Thus, when the Golden Spike was actually driven on May 10, 1869a good seven years before the link-up was scheduled, according to the national legislationword immediately went out by telegraph all over the world: "DONE!"
Festivities, already well-prepared, broke out all over the country, as Americans from all walks of life celebrated what was recognized as a politically significant, and virtually heroic feat, to the benefit of the entire country. Former slaves, and former soldiers from both sides in the Civil War had worked side by side, along with Chinese immigrants and others, to bind the nation together.
In this respect, the Transcontinental Railroad is a model today, as a project turned national mission, which can mobilize the American people, along with others, to achieve both the economic development and political unity which is so needed today.
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LaRouche Campaign, Leading in Contributors, Breaks Blackout
by Paul Gallagher
News of the Federal Election Commission's (FEC) April report, showing Lyndon LaRouche with more campaign contributors than any of the nine other Democratic Presidential candidates, has 'put the fox among the chickens' in the race for the Democratic nomination, as LaRouche's campaign is breaking the blackout and containment which the media and Democratic National Committee were trying to keep around it.
THE END OF THE IRAQ WAR'S BEGINNING
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.April 23, 2003
The following paper by Lyndon LaRouche was commissioned by the editors of Yarin for their May issue. The paper has been translated into Turkish and published.
LAROUCHE AS NUMBER-ONE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE REPRESENTS A STRATEGIC PHASE-SHIFT GLOBALLY:
LaRouche Addresses West Coast Youth Cadre School
Here is the transcript of Lyndon LaRouche's opening remarks to a California cadre school, on April 26, 2003.
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Bad Schwalbach, Germany, March 23, 2003... Photo: Chris Lewis
Feature:
LaRouche Youth Movement: 'A Second American Revolution'
At the Schiller Institute's conference in Bad Schwalbach, Germany, LaRouche Youth Movement leaders presented a panel on the intellectual discoveries required to stop the world's plunge into a Dark Age, and to create, instead, a new Renaissance. Intertwined themes included the historic role of the sublime Joan of Arc, the axiom-busting discoveries of Carl Gauss, and the physical economy of Friedrich List.
Presented at the Same Conference:
Economics:
Vernadsky and the Biogeochemical Development of N. America's Desert
by Dennis Small and Richard Freeman
To reconstruct U.S.-Mexican relations on a sane basis, this in-depth economic study proposes the two countries to jointly develop the Great American Desert, with water projects, high-speed rail lines and other transportation systems, and power. The conceptual framework for such an ambitious enterprise was provided by the Russian biogeochemist V.I. Vernadsky
- LaRouche Posed U.S./Mexico Task of Blooming the Desert in Visit Last Year
Interviewed by Hipatia magazine of the Autonomous University of Coahuila, during a visit to Mexico in November 2002, Lyndon LaRouche discussed the idea of V.I. Vernadsky's 'Noo¨sphere,' acting through the Biosphere to transform the Earth, and said that real national economies should be measured 'like planetary orbits.'
Nuclear Desalination
Fourth-generation nuclear reactors are now ready for mass-scale introduction, with designs that are mass producible, super-safe, and nearly 50% more efficient than conventional reactors. These reactors are ideal for supplying the energy to produce potable water from seawater.
International:
Dick Cheney Has a French Connectionto Fascism
by Jeffrey Steinberg, Tony Papert, and Barbara Boyd
The ``Straussian cabal'' of warhawks in and around the Bush
Administration is linked to a network of World War II and postwar Nazi collaborators. The central figure in {EIR'}s investigation is the lifetime collaborator of neo-conservative ``godfather'' Leo Strauss--the Paris-based Russian emigré, Alexandre Kojève.
- Where the Chicken-Hawks Got Their Love of War
by Tony Papert
Thanks largely to expose´s by the LaRouche Presidential cam- paign, which have been picked up and echoed in electronic and print media worldwide, many of the inner workings of Vice President Dick Cheney's ongoing 'cold coup' in Washington since Sept. 11, 2001, are now very well known internationally.
Palestinian-Israeli Peace Road Map Under Pantheo-Cons' Attack
by Dean Andromidas
The Palestinian Legislative Council overwhelmingly approved the government of the new Palestinian Prime Minister, Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) on April 29. The move fulfilled the last precondition for the release, on April 30, of the international peace plan, and the 'road map' is now in the possession of both Prime Minister Abu Mazen and Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon...
India, Pakistan Pressed To Hold Kashmir Talks
by Ramtanu Maitra
In an unexpected move, Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, while visiting the India-held part of Kashmir in mid-April, said that India would send a top Foreign Ministry official to Pakistan to draw up a schedule for negotiations, if Pakistan announces an end to its support for the anti-India terrorists, and closes training camps for Islamic guerrillas on its territory.
Indonesia and Russia Make 'New Beginning'
by Gail G. Billington
After bruising battles in the United Nations, in both the Security Council and the General Assembly, followed by the 'shock and awe' campaign waged predominantly by British and U.S. military forces in Iraq, nations great and small are testing the resilience of institutions and relations, and seeking to regain, or, to create anew, ties of mutual cooperation and support.
LaRouche Movement Intervening into Germany's Economic, Political Crises
by Rainer Apel
Day by day since its full outbreak in mid-April, the struggle between Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, and his critics in the Social Democratic Party (SPD) left and the trade unions who reject over the planned deep budget cuts in Schröder's 'Agenda 2010,' has escalated.
National:
Indecent Exposure: Newt And New McCarthyites
by Michele Steinberg
'Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left, no sense of decency?'
Joseph Welch to Sen. Joe McCarthy, June 9, 1954.
No one ever accused Newt Gingrich of having a 'sense of decency,' even rhetorically. The above question, thrown against Sen. Joe McCarthy at the Army-McCarthy hearings, was the beginning of the end of McCarthy's four-year reign of terror....a massive McCarthyite propaganda machine has been geared upas in the case of the Iraq warto use lies, political blackmail, phony terrorist incidents, and any means necessary to get their new policies through. This time, the rallying cry of 'terrorism' replaces Joe McCarthy's 'communism.'
Ritter: Iraq War Like Nazis' Poland Invasion
by Carl Osgood
While many pre-war opponents of the Bush Administration's invasion of Iraq have been muted since the fall of Baghdad on April 9, Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector, is not among them. Speaking on April 25 at the Palestine Center in Washington, D.C., Ritter showed that he is still determined to hold the Bush Administration accountable for what has happened.
Open Letter to Bush
Intelligence Vets Ask: Probe Iraq 'WMD' Fraud
by Edward Spannaus
A group of former intelligence officers sent an open letter to President Bush on May 1, asking the President to order an immediate investigation into the performance of the special Pentagon intelligence unit, the CIA and other intelligence agencies, that resulted in what they term a 'policy and intelligence fiasco of monstrous proportions' evident in the failure to uncover weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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