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Published: Tuesday, June 24, 2003
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Volume 2, Issue Number 25
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Lyndon LaRouche in Turkey, June 2003
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On June 14, Lyndon LaRouche addressed a conference in Istanbul, Turkey, called "Eurasia: New Key for Global Development and Peace," co-sponsored by Yarin [Tomorrow] monthly and the Cultural Affairs Department of the Istanbul Municipality. LaRouche was introduced by A. Altay Unaltay of the Yarin Editorial Board, who included references to LaRouche's roots in the tradition of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and LaRouche's proposal for a New Bretton Woods monetary system.
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LaRouche: Since I am standing for the position of the U.S. President, I shall stand here.
I want to focus primarily on the situation that confronts Turkey, both in dangers, and opportunities, in the present world economic and strategic situation.
I shall begin by referring to an address I gave shortly before the inauguration of the present President of the United States, in January of 2001. I was then an announced candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination for 2004, but I made some observations about what was going to happen in the intervening period, especially in the years immediately ahead. And I said that since the President of the United States was not a particularly intelligent person, he was going to follow certain economic policies, which would mean that the already unravelling world monetary-financial system, and the U.S. economy, would continue to unravel at an accelerating rate, during 2001 and 2002. Which they've done.
But I also said in this kind of crisis, one must look back, to 1928-33, and the effect on Germany, in particular, of the great economic crisis of that period. And during that time, a [grouping] centered in London, but with financial backing from New York circles, adopted Adolf Hitler as their project. Their intent was to bring Adolf Hitler to power, in order to prevent a natural, or democratic, response to the great financial collapse which was then already in process.
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This week we look to that unique, seminal event in world history, the proclamation of the American Declaration of Independence, on July 4, 1776. Rather than review, as we did last year,* the sequence of events which led to this Declaration at this time, we will focus on the character of the revolution in statecraft which was being put into effect.
First, focus on the revolutionary character of this document.
Back in 1990, a rather revealing opinion poll was published, in which a copy of the Declaration was circulated house to house in American neighborhoods, with the participants asked what they thought of the content of the document. Shockingly, a large percentage found it to be "communist"!
The fact that Americans today could have such a judgment of their nation's founding document, reveals the fact that they have lost touch with their revolutionary roots. The revolution in thinking about government which the Declaration put into effect is expressed right up front:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness...."
What is so radical about this that would have led Americans today to find it offensive? The idea of abolishing a government? The idea of the consent of the governed? The idea that all men are created equal?
Shocking, isn't it, that these phrases, which are so often cited ritually as part of our heritage, are seen as a challenge to our actual way of life today? Something is very wrong about the way we think about our republic, if this is the case.
Second, let's hone in on what is the underlying principle behind the Declaration, which makes it so different, and more advanced, than every other national founding document in human history. That principle can be best identified in the concept that all men are created equal, and endowed by God (their Creator) with unalienable rights, which are the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The principle pointed to here is one specifically identified with the Platonic German philosopher-jurist-scientist Wilhelm Gottfried Leibniz, whose ideas had a major, but usually unacknowledged, influence in shaping the American Republic, against the concepts of the much-touted English philosopher John Locke. Leibniz's philosophy was based on the idea of man created in the image of God, and thus endowed with reason. Man's fulfillment, therefore, Leibniz said, was to achieve happiness, which he defined as a state of wisdom, or felicity, in carrying out God's work. In other words, happiness was not momentary pleasure, sensual or otherwise, but fulfilling man's nature as doing good for others.
Yet today, the interpretation of inalienable rights, almost invariably substitutes "property" for the "pursuit of happiness." This is the concept which John Locke, a British official who put forward a Constitution for South Carolina which enshrined chattel slavery, advocated, and it totally coheres with the degraded notion of man which the British imperial systemand many othersdemanded. Under the Lockean system, man is out to get, and hold onto, as much property as he can, not to achieve happiness through wisdom, and doing good.
When you confront the idea that our Founding Fathers, of whom Benjamin Franklin, who sat on the committee which was responsible for the Declaration, was the leading one, actually chose the "pursuit of happiness," over "property," you will begin to fathom how far we have degenerated today in our understanding of our revolution. Ours was a revolution against the degradation of man, on behalf of all mankindand it is long past time we returned to those principles of the Declaration of Independence which made us great, and uniquely can make us fulfill our mission again today.
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InDepth:
LaRouche Speaks for America to Turkey's Leaders
Addressing a nation hard-hit by the political ramifications of the Iraq War, Lyndon LaRouche was able, during his June 13-18 visit, to shift the mood in the country from pessimism to hope that U.S.-Turkish relations can be repaired, not through Ankara's capitulation to imperial dictate, but through a fundamental shift inside the United States, spearheaded by LaRouche's Presidential campaign. He was the keynote speaker at a conference in Istanbul, co-sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Department of the Istanbul Municipality, on the theme ``Eurasia: New Key for Global Development and Peace''; and another, on the same theme, hosted by the Ankara Chamber of Commerce. Among the 700 people attending the two events were government ministers, members of Parliament, intellectuals, professors and students, and the media.
Feature:
Asia Can Be the Motor of Economic Recovery for Europe
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
``Could the economic development process, now occurring in China and its neighbors in Southeast and Southern Asiatogether accounting for over half the world's populationoffset the effects of the profound economic crisis gripping most of the rest of the world? Could Asia's growth prevent a full-scale `Great Depression' from taking hold of the global economy, and provide a way out for Germany and other export-oriented nations in Europe? Our answer, developed here, is a resounding `Yes!'|''
From a Special Report of EIR Nachrichtenagentur, {The Lautenbach Plan and Eurasian Development: Measures To Overcome Mass Unemployment}.
Economics:
Tony Blair's `Great Deception' Unmasked
by Mark Burdman
In the ten days following the heated June 4 British House of Commons debate on whether the Tony Blair government had falsified intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, in order to manipulate Britain into joining the United States in war against Iraq, Blair and his entourage, as well as compliant elements of the British media, went into a total mobilization, to bury the issue.
U.S. Pressures India To Send Troops to Iraq
by Ramtanu Maitra
There exist convincing indications that in recent weeks Washington has stepped up a diplomatic offensive to drag India into the Iraq quagmire. On June 15, a Pentagon team, led by Peter Rodman, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (ISA), arrived in New Delhi armed with arguments to convince the government that it is necessary for India to send troops to Iraq and help the U.S.-U.K. troops to stabilize that country.
ASEAN Warns U.S. on Myanmar Sanctions
by Mike Billington
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretary General Ong Keng Yong, a Singaporean, issued a very strongly worded statement on June 14 against calls for sanctions and other measures against Myanmar, coming from the United States and others in the past weeks. Ong warned that the effort would severely injure the peace and security of the region, including China and India.
Mexico: LaRouche's Friend Wins Debate in Nuevo León
by Zaid Jaloma
The political battle against U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and his chicken-hawk faction in Washington, became one of the central issues of the June 16 televised debate among the seven candidates for governor of Nuevo Leo´n state in Mexico. The candidate of the Social Alliance Party (PAS), Benjamí´n Castroalso a leader of the LaRouche-associated Ibero-American Solidarity Movementplaced the fight between U.S. Presidential candidate LaRouche and Cheney, as a key questions affecting the security of Mexico.
Peru `Truth Commission' Oversees Terror Revival
by Manuel Hidalgo
A column of more than 100 Shining Path narco-terrorists assaulted a workcamp of the Argentine company Techint on June 8, in the Ayacucho region of Peru, and took 71 workers hostage, several of them foreigners. The zone has been plagued by terrorists and drug traffickers, but the Alejandro Toledo governmentimposed on Peru by Wall Street and the U.S. State Departmenthas withdrawn from many of these areas the counterinsurgent military bases that were established there in the 1990s.
National:
LaRouche Turns Up the Heat on Cheney's Iraq Intelligence Hoax
by Jeffrey Steinberg
One measure of the impact of the LaRouche campaign exposé of the network of neo-conservatives, Leo Strauss protègés, and fellow travellers of Israel's Likud party in and around the Bush Administration, is the spate of hysterical media admissions that LaRouche was the source of the ``Leo-con'' revelations.
Wolfowitz Grilled at Congressional Hearing
by Edward Spannaus
The Bush Administration's military policy and the increasingly disastrous occupation of Iraq came under sharp, unreported criticism at a June 18 hearing of the House Armed Services Committee.
Gen. Shinseki Retires, Hits Rumsfeld's Leadership Failure
by Edward Spannaus
The highly respected U.S. Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Eric Shinseki, retired from the Army on June 11, after 38 years of service. He had entered the Army as an enlisted man...In his farewell speech, delivered in front of a large, appreciative gathering of military and civilian officials, Shinseki made some very pointed comments about leadership and the military, which were widely interpreted as directed at the current Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, who had treated Shinseki contemptuously, in a very public manner.
DOJ Inspector General Blasts Ashcroft on 9/11
by Edward Spannaus
On June 2, the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice issued a scathing report, criticizing the Department's detentions of many hundreds of immigrants after the Sept. 11 attacksbut Attorney General John Ashcroft has reacted totally unapologetically, as if he could care less.
California Careens Toward Ungovernability
by Harley Schlanger
The State of California has a constitutional provision that the legislature must complete a budget by June 15. But June 15 came and went, with no agreement in sight to close the record $38.2 billion budget shortfall... ..California already has the lowest credit rating of any state in the nation, just two steps above junk bond status. Moody's report warns investors to be wary of California bonds, due to the 'politically polarized nature' of the budget debate.
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