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Published: Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2003

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A Slight Shift in the Flanking Approach
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Always situate the part in its functional position within the whole. Never start from the local, or other particular, as an approach to the whole. Always define processes in terms of changes in the physical geometry of the ongoing processes. Shift the way the emphasis was placed on Cheney's "yellowcake" connections slightly, but without dropping the "yellowcake" issue, by headlining what we have established as fact until now, with the terrorist threat to the internal U.S.A., from the current Blas Pinar-pivotted operations of the Synarchist International.

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On Immortality — Losing Precious Friends
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

August 4, 2003

Over the course of a rich experience of life, I have lost many friends to death. For a time, from three older generations, then, more and more, from my generation, and, lately, the generation in their fifties and sixties. The news of those deaths keeps coming, often as a personal loss which seems impossible to bear. Share my moment of my own experience of that pain with me.

Getting the Nation Safely Through the Crisis

Lyndon LaRouche was interviewed Aug. 3, on "Sunday Live with Barry Farber," on Talk Radio Network. The 50-minute interview aired nationally on 80 stations.

Argentina TV: LaRouche Interviewed in Neuquen

Lyndon LaRouche was interviewed Aug. 7 by host Alejandro Polizzo of the popular "Ten Minutes" program on Channel 7 TV in Neuquen, Argentina. The 20-minute interview aired at midnight that night, which is prime time in Argentina; an estimated 150,000 viewers tuned in to the program.

Choose Gray Davis
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
August 8, 2003

LaRouche Says:
If you know someone in California...

Modern Korea Needs No 'Salem Witch Trials'

The tragic death in Seoul Aug. 7 of Hyundai Asan Co. Chairman Chung Mong-hun, "should finally shame the corrupt Korean media, and old regime elites, to end to their politically biased witch-hunt against the modern development of Korea," U.S. Democratic Party pre-Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche said Aug. 4.

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this week in history

August 11-17, 1935

On Aug. 14, we mark the anniversary of one of the landmark pieces of New Deal legislation enacted by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Social Security Act of 1935. This Act marked a decisive commitment to the Federal government's playing a role in securing the general welfare of the unemployed, the elderly, the disabled and the poor—against the Social Darwinian ideology of the "free market" which had characterized the 1920s, and other periods of American history.

The Social Security Act was enacted in the face of an enormous assault by the "free marketeers," and reflected a compromise in many respects. The Act was immediately challenged in court, and the case ended up in the U.S. Supreme Court in 1937. In May of that year, however, the Court's majority ruled that the provisions for unemployment insurance and old-age insurance were Constitutional on the basis of the General Welfare clause of the U.S. Constitution. Associate Justice Benjamin Cardozo cited the magnitude of unemployment, noting that the states had been unable to give the requisite relief, and that the unemployment problem "had become national in area and dimension."

"There was need of help from the nation if the people were not to starve," Cardozo wrote. "It is too late today for the argument to be heard with tolerance that, in a crisis so extreme, the use of the moneys of the nation to relieve the unemployment and their dependents is a use for any purpose narrower than the promotion of the general welfare."

At the same time, again citing the General Welfare clause, Justice Cardozo expressly adopted the Hamiltonian view of the general welfare power, as opposed to that of Madison. "The conception of the spending power advocated by Hamilton and strongly reinforced by Story has prevailed over that of Madison," Cardozo wrote. He said that in response to the nationwide calamity that began in 1929, Congress had enacted various measures conducive to the general welfare, including old-age benefits and unemployment compensation. Only a national, not a state, power can serve the interests of all, Cardozo declared.

The Provisions

Let us review the provisions of the Social Security Act now, before making a few more analytical remarks.

In a June 8, 1934 message to Congress, Roosevelt spoke of a "national social insurance system," to protect against "misfortunes which cannot be wholly eliminated in this man-made world of ours." After commissioning and receiving the recommendations of a Committee on Economic Security, Roosevelt issued a message to Congress on Social Security on Jan. 17, 1935, presaging legislation which would achieve "the security of the men, women, and children of the nation against certain hazards and vicissitudes of life."

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Professor Grigori L. Bondarevsky Killed In Moscow
by Mark Burdman

A terribly shocking event occured in Moscow Aug. 8: the murder of Professor Grigori L. Bondarevsky. He was found comatose in his apartment by his daughter, and died in the hospital several hours later. One of Russia's foremost authorities on Islam, the Middle East, and Eurasia in general, Professor Bondarevsky was a long-standing associate and collaborator of the LaRouche movement and personal friend of Lyndon and Helga LaRouche. Those in the LaRouche movement who have known him, feel enormous pain and grief over his death, but also outrage, at what has been done to this 83-year-old good soul and Russian patriot.

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Beauty Is a Necessary Condition of Man
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Helga Zepp-LaRouche gave the following presentation to a two-day cadre school of the LaRouche Youth Movement on Feb. 18, which following the International Caucus of Labor Committees/Schiller Institute annual Presidents' Day weekend conference. Her presentation was followed by several animated hours of discussion. She was introduced by LYM leader Michelle Lerner. The transcript has been edited for publication.

Economics:

Bond Plunge Sign of Systemic Economic Crisis
by John Hoefle
Aug. 5 (EIRNS)—Trying to walk the line between inflation and deflation, Federal Reserve chairman Sir Alan Greenspan finds himself in a no-win situation: If he lowers interest rates further, the system will explode in a hyperinflationary supernova; and if he raises rates, the system will implode into a deflationary black hole. Any way he turns, he loses.

The Tremonti Plan:
'Euro New Deal': A Fight for Survival
by Andrew Spannaus

MILAN, Aug. 5 (EIRNS)—The battle for a policy centered on infrastructure-building and investments in the productive economy continues to dominate debate in Europe, as the Italian Plan known as the Euro-New Deal has begun to provoke open challenges to the free-trade policies of the past decade.

International:

The World Needs a Cultural and Moral Renaissance
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche gave the following presentation by telephone to the national conference of the Citizens Electoral Council (CEC), the Australian branch of the LaRouche Movement, on July 27, 2003.

Korea Settlement Possible — If Cheney Gang Shut Their Mouths
by Kathy Wolfe

Aug. 5 (EIRNS)—Developments on the Korean peninsula show that South Korea, Japan, Russia, and China are moving to bring the U.S. and North Korea to a settlement of their weapons dispute which is threatening the nuclear incineration of millions of people in Seoul and Tokyo. A settlement can hold, however, only if Vice President Dick Cheney and his lunatic neo-conservatives are kept out of the process and shut up.

Chickenhawks Beat The Drums On "China Threat"
by William Jones

Aug. 5 (EIRNS)—Just as the Bush Administration is learning the value of the U.S.-China relationship, at the point when Chinese diplomatic efforts appear to have succeeded in getting the North Koreans to agree to sit down with the U.S. in a multilateral forum acceptable to both parties, the neo-cons have resumed their drumbeat about a Chinese military "threat" to the United States.

Iran and Syria Targetted for War by Cheney-Sharon 'Disinformation Units'
Special to EIW

President George W. Bush's gutlessness toward Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon represents the greatest security threat to the United States at this time, stated Lyndon LaRouche, candidate for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination in 2004.

Fox Tells Mexicans: 'Let Them Eat Cream'
by Gretchen Small

Aug. 6 (EIRNS)—Following the official announcement that unemployment in Mexico is at its highest since he took office in 2000, President Vicente Fox asked his Secretaries of Labor and Economy to join him on his July 26 Saturday radio show, where he announced, with great pomp, that "we have left aside the idea of a neo-liberal economy.... Starting now, our absolute priority is the strengthening of internal markets."

National:

Bush Has A Chance to Dump Cheney Before It's Too Late
by Jeffrey Steinberg

On Aug. 4, the Washington Post printed a front-page leak alleging that Secretary of State Colin Powell and Deputy Secretary Richard Armitage had recently informed Condi Rice that they would leave the Bush Administration the day after the 2005 inauguration, if Bush is reelected. While Powell's office immediately issued a carefully worded disclaimer, denying the purported Armitage-Rice meeting where the resignation message was delivered, Lyndon LaRouche has identified the significance of the Powell maneuver.

Ashcroft Gestapo Tactics Under Fire
by Edward Spannaus

Aug. 1 (EIRNS)—As the record of violations of the rights of U.S. citizens and immigrants by Attorney General John Ashcroft under the so-called USA-Patriot anti-terrorism law, is piling up—and is now the subject of a major lawsuit just filed in Detroit...

Tom Delay: How the Texas Bum Became a Top Fascist
by Anton Chaitkin

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) visited Israel in late July, to destroy the U.S. "Road Map" plan for Mideast peace and promote all-out war. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon stayed in Israel to confer with DeLay, putting off Sharon's own scheduled trip to Washington to meet with President Bush. Informed sources report that DeLay told Sharon not to take seriously what the President or Secretary of State Colin Powell would say, that DeLay and his allies had them under control. To various Israeli groups, DeLay used "end-times" rhetoric, called for new arms shipments, and ruled out a Palestinian state. He declared, "There is no middle ground, no moderated position worth taking," and demanded war "until the last terrorist on Earth is in a cell or a cemetery."

Wolfowitz Grilled by Senate Committee
by Carl Osgood

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (EIRNS)—The rough treatment that Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz received at the hands of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on July 29, may be an indication that the Pentagon Chickenhawks are beginning to lose their credibility on Capitol Hill.

Joe Lieberman: The Darling of the DLC

Washington, Aug. 4 (EIRNS)—At the National Press Club here today, Democratic Presidential hopeful Joe Lieberman (Senator from Connecticut and Al Gore's 2000 running mate), gave a speech in which he said he was charting out the future of the Democratic Party.

Hospital Closings Hit Detroit's Poorest
by Stuart Lewis

Aug. 4 (EIRNS)—In a time of epidemics both looming and already here—from AIDS, to West Nile virus, to SARS, to who knows what else—another epidemic is hammering the country; that of hospital closings, especially hospitals that serve non-wealthy, inner-city populations without health insurance. Fully 20% of the nation's community hospitals have been shuttered in the past 10 years.

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