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Published: Monday, Feb. 3, 2003
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LaRouche's Approach on Iraq
On Jan. 28, the leading American economist and Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche presented his "State of the Union" address in Washington, D.C. to a live audience, plus a worldwide audience listening and watching on an Internet webcast.
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LaRouche's address, which kept the large audience in rapt attention, lasted for two and one-half hours, with an additional hour and one-half of questions. It covered four major areas: 1) the causes and nature of the present economic crisis; 2) the emergency measures which must be taken now; 3) the global strategic conflicts which overlap this economic crisis; and 4) the urgent measures needed to correct the current panic-driven notions of "Homeland Defense."
Toward the end of the question period, LaRouche responded to the many questions which had come in, asking him to further address the matter of the drive for a war against Iraq, and wanting to know what his instructions were. LaRouche responded as follows.
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We go back this week all the way to 1690, to colonial Massachusetts, where, on Feb. 3 of that year, the first paper money in America was issued. This act, which occurred during a brief period of uprising against the English Crown's crackdown against Massachusetts' freedoms, represented a step toward sovereignty. It is an action that Americans should come to understand today.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts was established by men with a vision of building a continental republic from the very start.* Around great intellects such as John Winthrop and his son, John Winthrop, Jr., was created a tradition of republicanism, which was then picked up by the family of Increase and Cotton Mather, and eventually by Cotton Mather's protégé, Benjamin Franklin. These men believed in developing a nation on the basis of science, progress, and man made in the image of the Creator. Yet Massachusetts' charter of freedoms had to be constantly fought for, especially after the restoration, in England, of the monarchy under Charles II.
In 1684, Charles declared the Massachusetts charter of self-government null and void, and put the Commonwealth under a royal Governor. The second of those governors, Sir Edmund Andros, proceeded to move toward dictatorship, imposing heavy taxation, establishing the Anglican Church and discriminating against the dominant Congregationalists (descendants of the Puritans), and eliminating the traditional town meeting. The Mathers, as the republican leadership, were also in danger of losing life and/or freedom.
Then came the Revolution of 1688, when the Dutch William of Orange took control of the English throne. Amidst the turmoil, the republican leadership of New England decided to move. The patriots not only launched an armed revolution, but they proclaimed an independent New England, with sovereign court systems, trade governance, coinage, and a new system of credit for productive economic improvements. They set up a Committee for the Safety of the People, which, in turn, established another body to issue bills of public credit.
We know how Cotton Mather was thinking about this matter, because in 1691, he produced a pamphlet to defend the move. Under the title Some Considerations on Bills of Credit, Mather asserted that the public bills of credit—the paper money—represented the "Credit of the whole Country." His father, Increase Mather, also published a defense of the measures, in which he agreed with their critics, that such public credit would allow New England to develop its own mining and industry, and increase the wealth of the Commonwealth.
Similar arguments would be raised decades later by Cotton Mather's protégé Benjamin Franklin, when he was fighting for a system of public credit in Pennsylvania—and by Alexander Hamilton later, as he devised a system for the newly won nation.
What the Mathers, Franklin, and Hamilton understood, which many Americans fail to comprehend today, is that sovereign control over credit, and currency, is a primary tool for the development of the future of one's nation. Those who scream and yell about "hard currency," confuse the ownership of things, with real economics. Economics means investing in the increase of man's power over nature, per capita and per hectare, for future generations. That means pledging the resources of the society for the benefit of posterity—and that can only be done through credit secured by a trustworthy institution, such as government.
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How To Build a Truly Good Youth Movement
What follows are remarks made by Lyndon LaRouche to a LaRouche Youth Movement retreat and cadre school Feb. 1.
"Well, greetings to students, den-mothers, and resuscitated retirees. This is an interesting world, and when you come to the conference, don't only bring your faces, bring the other parts of your body along with you..."
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Feature:
LaRouche State of the Union Presents Solution to Crisis
by Anita Gallagher
Lyndon LaRouche, the American economist and statesman running for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2004, presented his 'State of the Union' address on Jan. 28 in Washington, D.C.—an address which history should record as the toughest, yet most optimistic address ever made to a nation on the verge of destruction.
Economics:
First Casualty of an Iraq War Will Be the U.S.Dollar
by Edward Spannaus
While President George W. Bush thinks he's going to war in the Middle East, he's being warned that the U.S. economy may not come back. U.S. forces may return, but the dollar won't. This is the admonition that has been directed at the United States from a number of sources recently.
Global Jobless Rise Is Grim Sign of Depression
by Paul Gallagher
'The world employment situation is deteriorating dramatically,' announced the International Labor Organization's general secretary, Juan Somavia, on Jan. 24; he released a new ILO report which made his somber judgment into an understatement.
Panic Spreads Through Europe's Insurance Firms
by Alexander Hartmann
As stock markets worldwide have plunged back to the multiyear lows reached in Autumn 2002, the reserves of insurance companies and pension funds across Europe have melted down below legal requirements, forcing them to sell even more stocks to limit losses for their clients.
Congress: An Ominous Omnibus Spending Bill
by Carl Osgood
The Congressional debate on an omnibus spending bill, finally to complete a budget for a Fiscal Year 2003 (Oct. 1, 2002-Sept. 30, 2003) which is nearly half over, is doomed to irrelevance. House and Senate are trying to ignore an ominous collapse of Federal tax revenue...
Vicente Fox Government Has Begun To Collapse
by Rubén Cota Meza
Mexico's currency has depreciated by 20% in recent months, since the U.S. dollar and economy is bringing the peso down as it falls. Before the economic, and even physical, disintegration of Argentina began, President Vicente Fox had insisted Mexico was immune to the 'contagion' from the South, because Mexico 'belongs more to North America.'
International:
Sharon's Victory Means More Bloodshed for Israel
by Dean Andromidas
'Israelis voted with their guts, not with their minds,' was the reaction to Ariel Sharon's Jan. 28 election victory, by one senior Israeli peace activist. He warned that Israel is in for a bloody future, if Sharon is not stopped.
Investigate Sharon's Corruption, War Crimes
by Dean Andromidas
Will Ariel Sharon be going from his newly re-elected post as Prime Minister, to becoming the prime suspect in six criminal investigations, involving violations of campaign finance laws, bribe taking, partnership with organized crime, and crimes against humanity?
The Elysée Treaty
France and Germany Take New Leadership
by Christine Bierre
The ceremonies organized in France and in Germany for the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Elyse´e Treaty, constituted an important shift in European politics. In the original friendship treaty of Jan. 22, 1963, President Charles de Gaulle and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer formed a bond between the two nations that healed the wounds of war.
Ivory Coast
No Development, No Peace
by David Cherry
The refusal of Ivory Coast's army to accept the peace deal imposed in Paris 'puts the President in a seemingly impossible position,' said Tom McKinley, the BBC's Sherlock Holmes in Abidjan, on Jan. 28...
India-Iran Relations Expand to Central Asia
by Ramtanu Maitra
The world's geopoliticians shifted on their seats last week when the chief guest at India's Republic Day (Jan. 26), Iranian President Syed Mohammad Khatami, and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee signed an agreement on Jan. 25 to step up work on transport projects that would link the Indian Subcontinent with the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, Central Asia, and Europe.
"Europe Must Risk More"
This guest editorial is by Max Kohnstamm, an associate of the late Jean Monnet, who remains a participant in European policy discussions. It has been translated from German and slightly abridged.
"It is the highest priority that Europe raise its voice. We must prevent our closest and most important ally, the United States, from committing an historical mistake..."
National:
LaRouche Points to Marc Rich's White House Mole: Lewis Libby
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Democratic Party Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. punctuated his Jan. 28 State of the Union webcast with a call for the immediate ouster of Lewis Libby from his post as chief of staff and top national security aide to Vice President Dick Cheney.
- Rich and 'Operation Spiderweb'
Lewis Libby's client, fugitive swindler Marc Rich, is now the target of an international law enforcement crackdown on money laundering. 'Operation Spiderweb,' a European and American joint effort to shut down a Russian Mafiya money-laundering operation in a half-dozen European countries, arrested 50 top Russian Mafiyosi in June 2002...
What Rumsfeld Knows About Iraqi Bioweapons
by Edward Spannaus
Numerous Administration officials, including President George Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, have recently asserted that Iraq has not accounted for large quantities of anthrax, botulinum toxin, and other biological and chemical agents....At the Jan. 27 White House press briefing, EIR's White House correspondent asked spokesman Ari Fleischer, 'If Saddam Hussein indeed does have chemical or biological weapons, isn't it the case that we helped him get these weapons?...
States' Medicaid Cuts Hurt the Economy
by Art Ticknor
Cuts in spending on Medicaid programs, carried out by 49 states since July 2002 in panic over growing budget shortfalls, are not just an attack on the health of the poorest Americans. They would also significantly reduce jobs, wages, and business activity, and hasten the ongoing breakdown of the U.S. economy, according to a new study.
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