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Volume 2, Issue Number 44
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The Passion for Truth Is the Key to a Republic
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Mr. LaRouche gave this speech to a cadre school of the LaRouche Youth Movement in Pennsylvania on Nov. 1.

There are going to be some very significant changes in some of the ways we do politics. Our changes will be less, in some respects, than the changes we're going to impose upon the fools who are on the other side.

Now, the key thing here, as I said last night, is the question of emotion: that people view what they call "logic," which is generally meant by them, deductive or deductive/inductive argument, as logic and as rational. It may be, but it's often insane. The problem lies in an area called emotion, or passion. For example, did anyone ever say to you, something which you knew they were lying; you knew that what they were saying was a complete lie? And they were saying it very assertively, very aggressively.

And you say, "Well, that's a lie. Where do you get that misinformation from?"

"I get it from the press! Don't you believe in the news media?! I got it from a man who is very authoritative, very well informed. And I know he's sincere—therefore, I have to believe him." Even if you claim you know it's false.

Did you ever have such experiences? Does that tell you something about our society and our culture? It tells you, look for where the real problem lies.

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LaRouche: U.S. Is Losing War in Iraq, Like Indo-China
In a strategic briefing to the LaRouche Youth Movement on Nov. 1, Democratic Presidential primary candidate Lyndon LaRouche said, "the Iraqi military is in the process, now, of winning the war, against a U.S. invading force! This is not a mismanagement problem: The United States is losing the war! And, it's losing that war, in the same degree that it lost the war in Indo-China."

'Vote for Street: Defeat Ashcroft,' Says LaRouche
Lyndon LaRouche issued the following statement on Oct. 28, which was read at press conference held at State Senator Harold James and other legislators the same day. See this week's EIW InDepth for a report on the Philadelphia fight.

LaRouche on Democratic Presidential Ballot in Missouri
Lyndon LaRouche, one of only two Democrats to qualify for federal matching funds for the 2004 Democratic primary elections is now officially on the Missouri Democratic Presidential primary ballot. LaRouche's name is posted on the State of Missouri website as a Democratic Party Presidential candidate.

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this week in history

November 3 - 9

On November 4, we mark the eighth anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister and statesman Yitzhak Rabin, which occurred in 1995, two years after the consummation of the Oslo Accords. This was a murder from which the Middle East, and emphatically Israel, has not yet recovered, as the cycle of revenge killings has proceeded with increasing violence, since at least the fall of 2000.

There are two significant features to keep in our minds, as we commemorate the life of Rabin. First, there is the quality of leadership which he showed, in turning to peace-making after decades of wars. Such leadership, which Rabin described as a "changing of axioms" during a toast in July of 1995, is sorely needed today. Second, there is the constellation of political forces, both within Israel and the United States, which conspired successfully to murder him—forces which still must be defeated today.

Rabin's Courageous Leadership

Yitzhak Rabin was no "peacenik." Born in Jerusalem in 1922, he had fought for the independence of Israel from Great Britain in 1947-48, and played a commanding role in the 1967 war. During his tenure as Prime Minister, between 1984 and 1988, the Israeli government fought bitterly against the Palestinian Intifada; and over those years and those that followed, he showed no sign of softening toward the recognition of a Palestinian state. He became Prime Minister again in 1992.

Yet in 1993, Rabin braved the wrath of the fanatics of his country, among others, in order to forge the Oslo Accords with the Palestinian Authority, and to sign a treaty with Yasser Arafat. His words at the signing ceremony, held under the eyes of President Clinton, deserve to be etched in our memories: "Let me say to you, the Palestinians, we are destined to live together on the same soil in the same land. We, the soldiers who have returned from battles stained with blood; we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes; we who have attended their funerals and cannot look into the eyes of their parents; we who have come from a land where parents bury their children; we who have fought against you, the Palestinians; we say to you today in a loud and a clear voice, enough of blood and tears. Enough!

"We have no desire for revenge, we harbor no hatred towards you. We, like you, are people—people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, live side by side with you in dignity, in affinity, as human beings, as free men. We are today giving peace a chance and saying to you, and saying again to you, 'Enough.' Let us pray that a day will come when we all will say farewell to arms. We wish to open a new chapter in the sad book of our lives together, a chapter of mutual recognition, of good neighborliness, of mutual respect, of understanding. We hope to embark on a new era in the history of the Middle East."

Two years later, when Oslo was under increased assault by those he called the Israeli "ayatollahs," Rabin encapsulated his thoughts on the change that was required to reach a peace. In a toast to President Clinton and King Hussein at the conclusion of the negotiations on Middle East peace on July 25, 1995, Rabin said: "If I raise my toast, I will raise it for those who have the courage to change axioms, to overcome prejudices, to change realities, and those who make it possible to them—for you, Your Majesty (King Hussein of Jordan); to you, President Clinton; to all those who believe and support and are ready to assist the continuation of peace in the region. Le Chaim. Le Chaim."

Rabin, basically a military man, had changed axioms, and he was leading his nation, along with others, toward building the peace.

The Fanatics

But, less than four months after Rabin made that toast, he was murdered, by a representative of the fanatical "Jewish underground," which was committed to preventing any peace. Profiles of the networks within which Rabin's assassin, Yigal Amir, operated, reveal that they were, and are, linked to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud party, the National Religious Party, and an international protection racket, which spans the Likudnik wing of the international Zionist movement, to the rabid Christian Zionists, and neo-conservatives.

According to a prime source on the Rabin murder, entitled Murder in the Name of God: The Plot to Kill Yitzhak Rabin,* the network of rabbis, settlers, political operatives, and their supporters in the United States, who conspired to kill Rabin, were very public, and well-known. One of the most prominent "respectables" was none other than Benjamin Netanyahu, a man who holds office in the Sharon Administration to this day. This network brazenly targeted Prime Minister

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Feature:

The Geometry of the Henry Wallace Nomination
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. pinpoints the reasons for the British-led campaign to prevent Henry A. Wallace's July 1944 Democratic Party nomination for a second term as President Franklin Roosevelt's Vice-President.

  • Henry Wallace Would Never Have Dropped the Bomb on Japan
    By Robert L. Baker
    In 1944, Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States, was, next to President Franklin Roosevelt, the most popular New Deal Democrat; the number-one promoter of FDR's New Deal programs; and was poised to become the post-war President to carry on FDR's anti-colonial world economic development vision.

Economics:

Manufacturing Workforce Dying, Amid Phony 'Recovery'
by Richard Freeman
A linked series of developments speak volumes about America: Between July 2000, and September 2003, the U.S. manufacturing workforce lost jobs each and every month, over 38 consecutive months. The most important sub-sector of the manufacturing workforce, the manufacturing production workforce—which directly alters nature to provide for man's existence—lost 18.3% of its workers.

U.S. Pension Funds Are Looted and Melting Down
by John Hoefle
With the soaring rise of the U.S. stock markets in the 1990s, came a boom in the values of pension funds. The sharp appreciation of the values of the stocks in America's pension portfolios made any corporate pension funds appear, then, to be temporarily overfunded. Observing this apparent surplus, many corporations began looking for ways to grab some of that cash.

SPD,CDU Both Go For Pension and Jobless Cuts
by Rainer Apel
Since the national party executive of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) adopted, at the beginning of October, the Herzog Commission's neoconservative proposals for abolition of the traditional public social insurance system the public debate on the issue has turned into a political divide through the middle of the parties and other institutions.

Interview: Antonino Galloni
'Face and Solve the Real Economic Problems'

Economist Antonino Galloni was the Director General of the Italian Labor Ministry during the 1990s. ... Galloni is the author of several books, the latest of which is dedicated to a critical analysis of 'sustainable development.'

French Economy
Are the Poor Still With Us? Off With Their Heads!
by Jacques Cheminade
While in foreign policy, the French President Jacques Chirac and his Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin continue to cleave to the notion of natural law—Jacques Chirac has yet again confronted the U.S. government, on the matter of Ariel Sharon's bombing of Palestinian camps in Syria—nevertheless, French domestic policy remains an unmitigated disaster.


International:

Soros Wins Bolivia Round; Area Slides Toward Drug Empire
by Dennis Small
...Are Bolivian developments of the recent period thus to be construed as yet another 'failure' for the IMF—as we are being told—having virtually handed the country over to the cocaleros? Absolutely not. This is precisely the intention of the IMF and the financial oligarchy that deploys it: Bolivia constitutes a success for their policy of promoting drug legalization, and creating social and economic institutional chaos on a global scale, in order to maintain political control.

  • Soros' Army of Legalizers
    'Many cocalero brothers . . . after what happened in Bolivia . . . are asking to take up arms,' Peru's leading cocalero Nelson Palomino told Correo daily Oct. 27. Palomino's Peruvian Federation of Coca Growers coordinates tightly with Evo Morales, the leader of the Bolivian uprising...
  • Now, Colombia Is Threatened by Debt Bomb
    by Javier Almario
    The increase of old taxes and creation of new ones; a brutal reduction of government expenditures; a wage freeze for public employees; ceilings and cutbacks of retirees' pensions; and other austerity measures contemplated by the Alvaro Uribe government in Colombia to be able to sustain payment on the growing foreign debt, could trigger unprecedented social explosions...

U.S., Israel Militaries Caution on Syria War
by Dean Andromidas
The escalation of tensions along the Lebanese-Israeli border signals that Syria is still in the crosshairs of Vice President Dick Cheney's war party in Washington and their 'hand grenade,' Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

Russian President Backs Crackdown on Oil Magnate
by Rachel Douglas

Neither his monetary fortune, nor his status as darling of the Wall Street Journal and the London- and U.S.-based oil multis, could protect Yukos Oil CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky from arrest by Russian authorities on Oct. 25.


National:

DEMS' NEW DISASTER:
Soros' Drug Money Funds a 'Protection Racket for Cheney'
by Michele Steinberg
At a two-day Washington conference, 'New American Strategies for Security and Peace,' held Oct. 28-29, drug pusher and offshore speculator George Soros unveiled his 'Center for American Progress' (CAP), a so-called progressive thinktank, created with $10 million worth of Soros' blood- and drug-money...

  • Why You Don't Want To Take George Soros's Money
    Recent reports that mega-speculator George Soros is putting millions of dollars into funding think-tanks for the Democratic Party (Center for American Progress, and America Coming Together are two notable recipients), in a not-soveiled effort to buy up the party, should raise the question: Just how does George Soros make his money?

Military Morale: Casualty of Iraq War
by Carl Osgood
Recent news stories have thrown a spotlight onto the suffering of U.S. soldiers participating in the U.S. occupation of Iraq. From collapsing morale to the growing numbers of injuries and deaths, the stories indicate a possible political problem for President Bush's re-election.

Cheney Coverup of Iraq Intelligence Fakery Unravels
by Edward Spannaus and Jeffrey Steinberg

Vice President Dick Cheney—whose heavy-handed pressure on intelligence analysts to 'cook the books' on the Iraq threat has already been widely exposed—has now been caught red-handed trying to orchestrate a coverup of his own role, by shifting the blame away from himself.

LaRouche Leads Fight vs. Ashcroft in Philadelphia
by EIR Staff
An Oct. 28 call from Lyndon LaRouche to 'deliver a devastating blow to [Attorney General John] Ashcroft's Gestapo methods, by a massive turn-out to re-elect Mayor John Street' of Philadelphia, led to a shock-wave mobilization which began the very next day against the Attorney General's blatant interference in that city's elections.

Rumsfeld vs. LaRouche: 'Military Transformation' Or Strategic Defense
by Carl Osgood
In July of 1942, Gen. Douglas MacArthur was faced with
the task of preventing a Japanese invasion of Australia with almost no forces, and little promised in the way of reinforcements, such that many lower ranking officers in his own command felt that the invasion was inevitable. MacArthur decided that the only way to defend Australia was to attack the Japanese before they could consolidate a strong position...

A Note on Principles Of Strategic Defense
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Formally, the concept of strategic defense dates from Lazare Carnot's paper known as the 'Homage to Vauban.' This was developed from that point on by Carnot; and by the Gerhard Scharnhorst who was a graduate of Moses Mendelssohn's program for training of candidate officers...

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Rabin as a "Nazi dog," put a curse on him, and killed him—in hopes of killing the peace process as well. But the sickest part, is those in the Israeli establishment, and in the international political arena, who simply sat back and allowed it to happen, virtually without repercussions.

Today, as a new peace initiative surfaces on the Israeli side, and leading Israeli institutions are starting to revolt against Sharon's perpetual war and genocide policy against the Palestinians, it is all the more crucial that those in high places in Israel who condoned, and organized, the murder of Yitzhak Rabin, be exposed and rejected. It's past time his advice be taken: "Enough of blood and tears, enough!"

* For a full review of this book, see Michele Steinberg, "Can Israel Save Itself from Fascism?", EIR, March 8, 2002. review by Michele Steinberg.

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