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LaRouche in California Proves Victory Possible, and Kennedy Signals A Shift

Lyndon LaRouche announced in an Oct. 12 campaign statement that the "Democratic Party would have carried the state," in the California recall election, "had any second leading Democratic Presidential candidate, or former President Bill Clinton,

associated himself with me in my fight to bring about the defeat of recall in California..."

LaRouche, the second of only two of the nine Democrats to be certified by the Federal Election Commission for Federal matching funds, said that "In effect, when faced with a brutally nasty adversary—George Shultz's muscle-bound Hitler, Arnie "the Beast-man" Schwarzenegger—the Democratic National Committee Chairman reacted like a scared rabbit, and, figuratively, froze and died a political death, on that spot."

LaRouche noted as "proof of the pudding," so to speak, that in areas of California where the LaRouche Youth Movement deployed heavily, there were positive results, showing that his approach worked. This was particularly obvious in the results in Los Angeles County, the only major county in southern California where the recall was defeated, and the area in which the deployment of the LaRouche Youth Movement was the most intense.

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October 20 - 26, 1953

It was 50 years ago, on Oct. 20, 1953, that renowned CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow took up the matter of Senator Joseph McCarthy, and began the challenge which ultimately ended the career of that infamous witch-hunter. Murrow's campaign against McCarthy began with his show, called "The Case Against Lt. Milo Radulovich, AO589839."

A review of how Murrow, who clearly was deployed by a section of the Establishment, sparked the movement which finally finished off McCarthy, is especially relevant today, as we look forward to the growing movement against Vice President Dick Cheney, Attorney General John Ashcroft, and the crowd of neo-conservatives who have usurped the Bush Administration, and demonstrated their determination to squelch any opposition. Today, as then, the traditionalist institutions kicked in to save the United States from being destroyed as a republic.

Radulovich was a reserve Air Force weather officer, in Dexter, Michigan, who had been dismissed from service because he was considered a "security risk." Senator Joe McCarthy, as head of the Senate Operations Committee, and its subcommittee on investigations, had stirred up a massive search for such "traitors," to be identified not only by relations with communists, but what they read, and whom they knew.

The source of the charge against Radulovich was the fact that his father, an immigrant who read newspapers from his native Serbia, and his sister, who had attended a civil rights rally for the great African American singer Paul Robeson, were considered "communist sympathizers." When Radulovich refused to dissociate himself from them, he was dismissed from the Air Force Service. A legal fight by Radulovich failed to change the decision.

But the legal fight did yield an article in the local press, which Murrow and his CBS partner Fred Friendly, came across. Murrow immediately pursued the story, interviewed Radulovich, and personally publicized the upcoming show. That program served as a "little picture," in Murrow's words, which exposed McCarthy's evil mode of destroying people, without regard to truth or law. One month later, Radulovich was reinstated in the Air Force.

Attacks on McCarthy began to pick up somewhat after that, especially since the Wisconsin Senator had now turned his attention from the State Department to the military, including the Secretary of the Army. It is known that President Eisenhower was, himself, enraged by what "Republican" McCarthy was doing, but Ike had chosen to publicly ignore the charges, rather than take them on.

The next major attack on McCarthy after Murrow's, came from another famous Establishment journalist, Drew Pearson, who received leaks from the Army, and proceeded, in December 1953, to accuse McCarthy's chief counsel, Roy Cohn, of having illegally run interference for his "friend" David Schine, in respect to military service. This attack ultimately led to the famous Army-McCarthy Hearings, which ran from April 22 to June 17, 1954. The climax of those hearings occurred on June 9, when the Army's Chief Counsel, Joseph Nye Welsh, confronted the Senator: "Have you no sense of decency, Sir, at long last? Have you no sense of decency?"

While the hearings failed to condemn McCarthy, they created a climate in which Senators began to go after him, ultimately censuring him, and stripping him of his chairmanship, in December 1954.

But before these hearings happened, Murrow had launched another direct charge at McCarthy, which hit like a bombshell, and emboldened others to move against him. This occurred on March 29, 1954.

Following the Radulovich broadcast, Murrow was aware that Senator McCarthy's committee was amassing evidence against him, to show his "communist" connections. A decision was made at CBS that Murrow should strike first. The 30-minute broadcast, to which the Senator was invited to reply, was entitled "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy," and it featured a series of film clips of the Senator himself, counterposed to trenchant analysis by Murrow, exposing the lies and absurdities behind what McCarthy said. The exposure of McCarthy's baiting of witnesses provided devastating evidence of his lack of credibility.

Murrow's conclusion, printed below, should have a familiar ring, as we observe the mounting cry against the lies and police state tactics of Cheney, Ashcroft, and the neo-cons:

"No one familiar with the history of this country can deny that Congressional committees are useful. It is necessary to investigate before legislating, but the line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one, and the junior Senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly. His primary achievement has been in confusing the public mind, as between internal and the external threats of Communism. We must not confuse dissent with disloyality. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men—not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

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Strategic Study:

Europe and the U.S.A. Today
By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
"There is no allowable excuse for any sane government to gloat over what is happening to the U.S.A. today. The abrupt collapse of the U.S. economy by about one-half, as occurred during the prior world Depression of 1928-1933, would be a social and political, as well as economic catastrophe for, among others, China and the rest of the world in general."


Feature:

LaRouche Addresses Swiss, Italian Leaders on Chance To Solve Crisis
by EIR Staff
Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche visited Switzerland and Northern Italy on Oct. 9-12, organizing industrialists, EIR readers, and youthful supporters to see how Europe can intervene to help solve the global economic and political crisis—at a time when most Europeans are deeply dismayed at the present imperial course of U.S. foreign policy.

  • LaRouche in Italy:
    The Man Behind The 'Beast-Man'
    "As you probably know, there was recently an election in the state of California. It was a recall election, a rather fraudulent form of election, which due to the credit of the Democratic Party, elected a Republican as Governor. What they elected was a Nazi. That's the only fair description of the actor, our dear friend, Arnie Schwarzenegger. ..."

Economics:

'Walking Dead' WTO Is Ruining World's Agriculture Producers
by Rosa Tennenbaum and Marcia Merry Baker

Developing countries, taking a stand at the September World Trade Organization (WTO) conference in Cancu´n, Mexico, demanded protection against commodities-dumping prices, and removal of agricultural subsidies in European, U.S. and other so-called 'First World' farming sectors. But the long, long-discussed worldwide parity price would be a solution which would serve all.

Mexicans See Threat in Schwarzenegger Victory
by Valerie Rush
Prominent voices in Mexico are using many of the arguments that have been circulated on both sides of the border by the international LaRouche movement, to warn of the new fascist threat to Mexico that Arnold Schwarzenegger represents.


International:

'Beast-Men' Cheney, Sharon Plan New, Nuclear Mideast Wars
This release was issued on Oct. 14 by the LaRouche in 2004 political committee.
Lyndon LaRouche, one of only two Democratic Party Presidential candidates certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) as qualified for Federal matching funds, issued a strong warning on Oct. 14 that the world is facing a major eruption of war in the Near East in the immediate weeks ahead, unless President Bush can be made to intervene forcefully and publicly, to curb Israel's breakaway-ally regime under Ariel Sharon.

  • Israel Adds Nukes to Subs
    While Israel's Ha'aretz on Oct. 10 and Germany's Der Spiegel on Oct. 11 carried reports that an Israeli military attack on Iran is imminent, the Los Angeles Times on Oct. 12 reported that Israel now has an operational, nuclear- armed cruise missile capability.

Syria, Iran Brace for U.S. or Israeli Attack
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Since Lyndon LaRouche warned of new Israeli attacks— even nuclear attacks—against Syria and Iran (see lead article in this section), the neo-conservative drumbeat for such a war has gotten loud in Washington. The Oct. 15 veto by U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Negroponte, of a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel's new assault against Gaza, signalled support for such a scenario by the U.S. war party led by Vice President Dick Cheney.

  • Hyping the 'Iranian Bomb'
    As if on his cue, the Mujahideen-e-Khalq Iranian terrorist group beloved of U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, has come out with new 'evidence' of Iran's nuclear program. The MEK, also known as the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), charged that Iran has a hidden nuclear facility, and could have the nuclear bomb by 2005.

Straussian Beast-Men Descend on Jerusalem
by Dean Andromidas

In the first two weeks of October, the Bush Administration made it clear that it would not stop the war plans of Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon—Vice President Dick Cheney's 'hand grenade.' Sharon bombed Syria for the first time in three decades, orchestrated blunt threats to use nuclear weapons against Iran, and escalated a brutal military campaign against the Palestinians with targetted assassinations and the destruction of hundreds of Palestinian homes.

New Peace Initiative Aims To Outflank Sharon
by Dean Andromidas

A new Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative was launched in mid-October to revive the peace movement and outflank Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his hardline government. An Israeli team led by former Israeli justice minister Yossi Beilin, and a Palestinian team led by Palestinian negotiator Yasser Abad Rabbo, drafted an agreement which could form the basis for a final settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Although the draft peace treaty, dubbed the 'Geneva agreement,' has no official standing, it has been boisterously attacked by Sharon and his right-wing government.

  • Heads of the Agreement
    The main provisions of the 'Geneva Agreement' worked out by a team of Israeli and Palestinians, as published in the Israeli daily Ha'aretz on Oct. 15, include:...

South Korea: Target for Cheney 'Regime Change'?
by Kathy Wolfe
Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld are forcing South Korea to send troops to Iraq, turning President Roh Moo-hyun's youth base against him, in what may be a deliberate attempt to paralyze the South Korean government.


National:

LaRouche Campaign vs. Cheney Rocks Washington, D.C.
by Michele and Jeffrey Steinberg

Cheney's office is becoming very nervous, as more political forces seem to be saying that it is Cheney—not Bush, and not even Rumsfeld—who is behind the Iraq debacle, behind the massive economic troubles and deficit of the United States, and behind Enron-style corruption.

Arnie's First Acts Show Cheney/Shultz Ownership
by EIR Staff
California's newly-elected Hitler, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has made it immediately clear that his Recall election was a project of Vice President Dick Cheney's, Warren Buffett's, and Bush Administration power broker George Shultz's electricity-merchant conglomerates—who bankrupted the state with deregulation in 2000-2002, then blamed the bankruptcy on Gov. Gray Davis to force Schwarzenegger's seizure of power.

  • 'Proof of Principle': Defeating the Recall
    by Cody Jones

    California LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM) leader Cody Jones briefed an internet radio webcast on Oct. 11 on the LYM's mobilization which turned around and defeated the Recall in Los Angeles County, in particular. The entire webcast is archived at www.larouchepub.com/radio.
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  • LaRouche: Dems Could Have Won California
    Lyndon LaRouche, now the ninth candidate for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination in 2004, and one of only two candidates certified by the Federal Election Commission as qualified for Federal matching funds, issued the following statement on Oct. 12, through his campaign committee, LaRouche in 2004.
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