'Anatomy of a Collapse'

Cheney and Rumsfeld Imperial Obsession

The Truth About September 11: An Inside Job

Today's Economy a Throwback to the Roman Empire

Two Possible Choices for the World Economy

From Volume 2, Issue Number 21 of Electronic Intelligence Weekly, Published May 27, 2003

LATEST FROM LAROUCHE

Reply to a New DNC Abortion: — McAuliffe's Menstrual Cycle

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

This statement was released by LaRouche's Presidential campaign committee, LaRouche in 2004, on May 21.

In what is clearly an expression of Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Terry McAuliffe's simple lack of gentlemanly guts to face me in public debate, he proposes to gag all of the DNC's nine approved Presidential pre-candidates, by limiting their appearances in debates to once a month; that, on a controlled setting arranged by the right-wing DNC mafia.

Before I tell you what I intend to do about McAuliffe's latest tantrum, I prepare for my announcement with a quote from the New York Times' description of one man's spin on McAuliffe's latest antics.

"Well, these forums are a lot more complicated than they might appear to be. It is not just a matter of a candidate hopping on a plane with an aide or two and stepping out in front of the klieg lights. In South Carolina, for example, it was not unusual to see candidates show up with a dozen aides to help them prepare for, and then get through, the big night. For campaigns keeping an eye on spending, that is a lot of hotel rooms, plane tickets, meals and, of course, bar tabs.

"For a nationally televised debate, a candidate spends two days out of public sight, running through practice sessions, and resting up for the big night. These days, there is already enough for a candidate to do, from raising money to hiring staff members, to figuring out what they stand for.... The more debates, the fewer new things there are for the candidates to say—which means that the only things that tend to draw attention are mistakes and miscues, as one campaign advisor said today."

If I could not walk into an impromptu debate, with no more than a few words from one of my associates, and deal competently with anything to which I should respond, I would not have started this campaign for the Presidency. With no more preparations than that, I would be prepared to respond on almost any relevant question of substance, any day of any week. A person who would require the kind of pre-grooming described by the New York Times' source, is not intellectually or emotionally fit for the office they seek.

Perhaps that is what really frightens the DNC's right-wing mafia—or, is it, perhaps, the mafia's DNC right wing?

If any among those candidates were fools enough to go along with McAuliffe's proposed menstrual cycle, I shall be waiting to reply to each and all as soon as I have seen the broadcast performance. I shall schedule a webcast, from anywhere in the world I happen to be, as promptly after the McAuliffe show as it is physically possible to arrange.

They are now all fairly forewarned. Think fast, fellows. It isn't McAuliffe; it is Michael Steinhardt's buddies, and perhaps, also, Vice President Cheney's I. Lewis Libby of Marc Rich fame, who are trying to make fools of you, just as Libby helped to set up outgoing President Bill Clinton.

Italy's No. 1 TV Channel Features Lyndon LaRouche

Italy's RAIUNO broadcast a lengthy interview with U.S. Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche on May 20. The showing was especially appropriate given new developments around the LaRouche-initiated intervention in Italy calling for "A New Bretton Woods" (see INDEPTH).

'Anatomy of a Collapse'

The interview, taped in January 2003, was presented as LaRouche's policy for reconstruction of the collapsing world economy, as spelled out in LaRouche's call for a New Bretton Woods accord, among sovereign nations, focussed on great infrastructure projects, led by the Eurasian Land-Bridge.

Program directors piqued viewer interest by staging the reconstruction theme as a crime scene, including short film clips of mega-speculator George Soros and Bush family members, juxtaposed to the outline of a corpse on the floor, suggesting the assassination of the economy.

LaRouche was presented as a world-reknown economist, on whom many try to stick more or less colorful labels, but who has the most insightful analysis so far on the world financial collapse.

Cheney and Rumsfeld Imperial Obsession

In his May 21 interview on RAIUNO, Lyndon LaRouche declared: "We have come to an end of the current financial and monetary system, and at this point, these people want to impose their model of world empire.

"Islam has become the target to start a clash of civilizations, and destroy Asia or Eurasia, before the latter succeeds in developing an alternative model to the empire. That is the target. Persons like Cheney and Rumsfeld are nothing but a reflection of these kinds of monsters."

President Bush, LaRouche said, "is not realizing what is happening to the U.S. economy. His attention is totally turned on the 2004 Presidential elections. He is a man of no intellectual depth; he is a man of passion, a man who uses a number of fixed expressions, charging them with a significant amount of passion.

"Bush is somewhat like a ball, kicked by the various forces present in the Administration, which make the ball spin in all directions. The hope of many in the United States, is that Secretary of State Powell wins the highest number of strikes and that Cheney, instead, misses them."

The Truth About September 11: An Inside Job

"My idea on 9/11," LaRouche said, "is the same one as that morning, when I got the news by watching television. It is something done by somebody inside the United States, at a high level; something which required maybe one and a half to two years planning.

"Since that day, the government has never produced any evidence of the real involvement of any Arab country in that attack ... my impression is that it was an operation entirely organized inside the United States, by persons who were seeking a pretext to start a war.

"The fact that the New York buildings had already been hit by terrorists is just a way to turn suspicions on Osama bin Laden as author and organizer of the attacks. It is not an opinion that I have developed now; it is something I said that very same day of the attacks: 'I hope that nobody tries to raise his finger against bin Laden for what is occurring.' "

Today's Economy a Throwback to the Roman Empire

In his RAIUNO interview, LaRouche explained that the current world economic crisis goes back to the turn away "from a producer society, a society based on agriculture and industry, to a consumer society," which started in 1964, with the Indochina war and the Harold Wilson government in the U.K.

"The change is very similar to the one which occurred in ancient Rome, after the end of the second Punic war; in that case, the shift brought slavery into Italy, and brought Rome to depend on the looting of other countries."

Similarly, "starting in 1964, the United States and Great Britain, instead of boosting production, have shifted towards a policy of looting other countries. The result has been the collapse of world production.

"If we exclude India, China, and a few other nations, in fact, the physical product of the world has been decreasing, and therefore we are facing a collapse of the system, because the fundamental elements supporting the system do not allow a recovery. A recovery is possible only if we go back and invert that 1964 shift."

Two Possible Choices for the World Economy

Asked by the interviewer to make "one of your famous economic forecasts," LaRouche answered: "There are two possibilities, and we must choose. There is nothing pre-determined; it is a choice.

"In Asia, Eurasia, there is a quite interesting development: China, Russia, Southeast Asia, India, Korea and Japan are oriented towards a convergence, on a greater expansion represented by what China has done with the Three Gorges Dam or with the maglev connection between the Shanghai Airport and the city of Shanghai, and similar projects, the Mekong development projects, etc....

"This is the largest market in the world; Europe is now bankrupt. To escape a hopeless bankruptcy of the Euro system, countries such as France, Germany, and Italy need larger markets. In the long term, these larger markets can be found in India, China, Southeast Asia etc., which are already important markets for Europe.

"Russia will play a role, as economic partner of Western Europe, through the reorganization of the Russian debt, which can be transformed into credit for industry and joint ventures between Russia and Europe.

"Given these circumstances, the world can come out of the depression, on the condition, however, that there is the capacity to create a new monetary system, able to manage the problems, through long-term, 25- to 50-year investments, through tecnology-sharing operations rather than tecnology export.

"If we, in the United States, decide to reach an agreement with Europe and Asia, collaborating with Asia and Europe, freeing Africa from genocide, reconstructing Central and South America and similar things ... if we succeed in reaching an agreement on these questions, we will be able to come out of the impasse, and within one generation we could count on one of the most solid economies the world has ever seen.

"If we do not do that, if we try to collect debts, like the Lombard bankers did in the 14th century, then we will sink in a new dark age. That is the situation."

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