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Highly placed Mideast sources have warned this news service that the Israeli government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is planning a massive military raid into the Gaza Strip in early October, as the latest effort to crush the Road Map and all related peace efforts. The sources say that the Sharon Cabinet has decided on the Gaza bloodbath, as an alternative to the
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assassination of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, and that Israeli Defense Force reservists are already being called up, in preparation for the October offensive.
The same sources contend that the United States veto of the United Nations Security Council resolution, condemning Israeli threats to expel or assassinate Arafat, was part of a deal with the Sharon government that involved a personal pledge by the Prime Minister that Arafat's status would remain unchanged. Sharon's goal is to destroy the Road Map and stall, for years to come, any progress towards what President Bush has called the "two-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
By launching a massive military incursion into the Gaza Strip, which is one of the world's most densely populated areas, Sharon would certainly trigger an enormous amount of bloodshed and destruction, making it impossible for any Palestinian leader even to be seen in the presence of an Israeli official for years to come. This, the sources say, is Sharon's and the Israeli right wing's objective.
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LaRouche To Speak on 'The Post Cheney Era'
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., the eleventh Democratic Presidential candidate for the 2004 elections, will outline the prospects for the post-Cheney era in an internationally broadcast webcast, scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2003. The webcast will be aired from Washington, D.C. beginning at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight time.
LaRouche in California: Dialogue with Youth and Activists
On Sept. 11, 2003, Lyndon LaRouche answered questions at an extraordinary town meeting of more than 450 people in Burbank, California, following his keynote address. That dialogue appears here.
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This week marks the 197th anniversary of the return of Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark from their successful transcontinental expedition. It was September 23, 1806 when the two returned from their journey of approximately 7,000 miles, from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon. That journey, which took 28 months, definitively opened up the United States as a continental republic.
Like the U.S. space adventures of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, the Lewis and Clark Expedition represented the highest strategic and scientific aspirations of our nation. President Thomas Jefferson won official (although secret) authorization for the trip from Congress in early 1803, and released his personal secretary, Meriwether Lewis, to head the group. The Corps of Discovery, which was comprised of 29 men, and whose interpreter was the famous Indian woman Sacajawea, was officially sponsored by the U.S. Army, and had four major purposes: 1) to effectively lay claim to the territory from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean; 2) to establish the basis for trade in that region: 3) to carry out the equivalent of a geographical/botanical/biological survey of the region; and 4) to study, and establish friendly relations with, the Indian tribes who lived in the region to be traversed.
While President Jefferson had expressed interest in the trip well before the consolidation of the Louisiana Purchase, that event of 1803 clearly made it even more relevant. The President was also extremely mindful, at least by 1802, of the danger of the British, America's chief enemy, taking control of the area. A Canadian fur trader from the North West Co., named McKenzie, had made a trip to the Pacific, and published a book about it in 1802, in which he recommended an aggressive British stance toward controlling the territory. The Russians, Spanish, and French also had footholds in the area. Jefferson felt he had to move soon.
The multifarious nature of the trip is underscored by the fact that Lewis, once charged with this mission in early 1803, spent more than a month in the Philadelphia area, meeting with members of the American Philosophical Society, and gaining instruction in using scientific instruments for studying and reporting on the astronomy, botany, zoology, and the like. This crash course then informed his readings of longitude and latitude, and his famed descriptions and drawings of flora and fauna. An additional scientific, and diplomatic, objective was his charge to report on the cultures of the Indian tribes he met, whom he was to seek to befriend and develop trade with, but with whom he was to avoid violent confrontation, if at all possible.
Having gathered up their men and supplies, Clark and Lewis wintered and prepared in the St. Louis area in the winter of 1803-04. They left Camp Wood on May 14, 1804, heading up the Missouri River, in hopes of finding a water passage to the Pacific Ocean. In that respect, they ended up being sorely disappointed, but, after 18 months, they did reach the mouth of the Columbia Riverwith the loss of only one of the original crew to illness. Arriving in November 1805, the crew camped for the winter, and did not embark upon their return until March of 1806. Going back East, with the current on their side, they reached St. Louis in a matter of only six months.
In most respects, the Expedition was successful beyond Jefferson's wildest dreams. Through incredible ingenuity, they had safely navigated through Indian territories and wilderness and treacherous mountains, developing their own food supply and transportation as they went. Many had given them up for dead, when they returned to St. Louis, where they were feted and cheered. They had basically established good relations with the Indian tribes they had met, and some of the chiefs had been brought to Washington to meet with the "great chief," President Jefferson. The drawings and observations which came from the journals of both Lewis and Clark, were often definitive, and the success of the trip helped to open up the region to Western settler expansion.
The United States government is currently in the midst of an official celebration of the Expedition, a celebration kicked off by President Bush on July 3, 2002, and scheduled to last between 2003 and 2006. In the spirit of regaining our nation's commitment to scientific adventure, the expedition of Lewis and Clark is well worth revisiting, for the breakthrough that it was.
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Feature: In Memoriam
The Murder of a Legend: Who Was Grigori Bondarevsky?
by Mark Burdman
The Aug. 22 EIR reported the brutal Aug. 8 murder in Moscow of Prof. Grigori L. Bondarevsky, in an article which briefly expressed his importance both to our association, and among historians worldwide. In response to the tragic loss of 'The Professor,' Lyndon LaRouche asked that an 'In Memoriam' testimonial be published to the life and work of this man, a friend of Lyndon and Helga LaRouche and a regular contributor to the work of EIR. Correspondent Mark Burdman, a friend of Professor Bondarevsky, begins it on the theme, 'Bondarevsky the Man.'
- Intelligence and History: Grigori Bondarevsky's Passion for Eurasia
by Mary Burdman
During his long career, Prof. Grigori L. Bondarevsky emerged as one of Russia's senior intelligence experts. This involved certain special missions; but the nature of his intelligence work was far broader. It involved a grasp of crucial historical processes and precedents...
- India and Russia's Strategic Partnership
by Grigori Bondarevsky
Excerpts from an article... published in Mainstream Weekly, one of India's leading strategic journals, on March 22, 2003. The journal noted in its introduction that 'Professor Bondarevsky, an honored scientist of the Russian Federation, is a recipient of Padma Shri and the Jawaharlal Nehru Award.'
- Interview: Grigori L. Bondarevsky The Strategic and Economic Importance of Eurasian Integration
On the occasion of his 75th birthday in 1995, Professor Bondarevsky participated in an EIR seminar on Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, in Wiesbaden, Germany, where he was interviewed on Feb. 16, by Mark and Mary Burdman (EIR, April 7, 1995).
- Scholarly Wealth Robbed of Life
by Tatiana Shaumian
One of Russia's greatest scholars, winner of the Jawaharlal Nehru and the Padma Bhushan awards among many others, and a dear teacher and friend of mine, died last week. It is a matter of special pain, symbolizing much that's wrong with post-Soviet Russia, that Grigori Bondarevsky, 83, was apparently murdered by a burglar who broke into his Moscow flat.
- 'Mrs. LaRouche, You Absolutely Must Do This'
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
The news of the brutal death of Professor Bondarevsky shocks and grieves me still. In an extraordinary way, his loss makes clear that human individuals are unique and irreplaceable; and even though this saying is always true, so much more huge is the gap in the ranks of his contemporaries, which he leaves behind.
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Economics:
Halliburton Is Houston's 'Greater Hermann Göring Werke'
by John Hoefle
In his farewell address to the nation in 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower warned about the dangers of 'the acquisition of unwarranted influence' by the 'military-industrial complex,' noting that 'the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.'
Sovereign States of the Americas: Great Infrastructure Projects
The LaRouche in 2004 Presidential campaign committee on Sept. 16 released a pamphlet titled 'The Sovereign States of the Americas,' on the conceptual foundations for a new American foreign policy toward the Western Hemisphere, in the footsteps of John Quincy Adams.
Cheney Helps Schwarzenegger Backer Buffett Loot With New Gas Pipelines
by Marcia Merry Baker
What happened to their pipelines and other hard infrastructure when Enron, Dynegy, Williams, and the other big-name energy swindlers went bust after 2001? A new, higher-level crowd of shysters moved in and took control of themthose now involved in pushing the California recall election for muscle-geek Arnold Schwarzenegger, in order to enjoy still another round of looting of the economy of the West.
Fox Demands Mexico Deregulation Crusade
by Ronald Moncayo Paz
On the evening of Sept. 1, the now-discredited Mexican President Vicente Fox went before the Congress to deliver a pathetic Third Report to the Nation, in which he listed his supposed 'achievements.' The truth, on that evening, was that 70% of the Mexican population is daily becoming poorer, and small and medium-sized businesses are being wiped out by deep depression that puts another 2,500 new unemployed on the streets every day.
International:
LaRouche to Bush: Stop Israeli Plan To Kill Arafat, Road Map
by Dean Andromidas
On Sept. 16, the Bush Administration came one step closer to giving Israel the green light to assassinate Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, when it vetoed a UN Security Council resolution demanding Israel retract its threat to 'expel' Arafat from the Palestinian National Authority. The U.S. vetoed the resolution, even after the outrageous statement on Sept. 14, by Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, that Israel considers killing Arafat as 'definitely one of the options.'
Synarchist Strategy of Terrorism Hits Europe
by Rainer Apel and Jeffrey Steinberg
As U.S. Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche warned in widely circulated campaign statements since mid-August, Eurasia is being hit with a wave of 'strategy of tension' terrorism; it is coming from the Synarchist International right-wing terror cells that LaRouche pinpointed, describing their regroupment meetings in Fall 2002 in Spain and Italy..
Mexico's LaRouche Youth Make Castañeda Crawl
by Gretchen Small
The growing LaRouche Youth Movement in Mexico delivered a potentially mortal blow to one of the International Synarchists' principal projects to rip that country apart, when they derailed the Presidential campaign of former Secretary of Foreign Relations, Jorge Castañeda, Jr. In back-to-back interventions, the young activists deflated campaign events in mid-September, in the industrial city of Monterrey and the capital Mexico City
Why Sharon's India Visit Fell Short
by Ramtanu Maitra
The truncation of the two-day (Sept. 9-10) visit of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to India indicated that the trip fell significantly short of what was anticipated. The hype of a potential strategic alliance between India and Israel was not even on New Delhi's agenda. On the other hand, it is a near-certainty that arms and commercial relations between the two will flourish in the coming days.
Australia Dossier
by Robert Barwick and Allen Douglas
Politics of Fear: The draconian sentence handed out to populist political leader Pauline Hanson is aimed at the LaRouche movement.
Populist icon Pauline Hanson was sentenced to three years imprisonment on Aug. 20, following her conviction for fraudulently registering her political party, Pauline Hanson's One Nation, in 1997. For an essentially technical violation of electoral law, the sentence was draconian. One government politician, Bronwyn Bishop, called Hanson a 'political prisoner' ...
National:
Cheney's Sept. 14 'Big Lies' Backfire; Refuted Even by Bush
by Edward Spannaus and Jeffrey Steinberg
After lying low for months, Vice President Dick Cheney came out of the bunker and the Republican campaign fundraising circuit on Sept. 14, to make his first appearance since March on a Sunday talk showNBC's 'Meet the Press.' Cheney did his best to 'out-Goebbels Goebbels,' claiming that the Iraq reconstruction was going well, that the budget-busting costs were anticipated in advance, and that Saddam Hussein had been linked to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
LaRouche Redraws Lines Of Calif. Recall Battle
by Harley Schlanger
One of the major political stories of the California Recall fight, is the impact of Lyndon LaRouche's Presidential campaign and its intervention here to 'repeal the Recall' of Gov. Gray Davisan intervention LaRouche vows to continue, notwithstanding legal uncertainties such as those surrounding the date of the vote.
Ashcroft Smears Critics, While Pushing for More Police-State Laws
by Edward Spannaus
While Attorney General John Ashcroftwith some help from President Bushis trying to ram new legislation through Congress giving him still more police-state powers, Ashcroft has also gone on the offensive against his critics, labelling them as 'hysterics' wanting to tip off the terrorists.
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