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TERROR ON WORLD-WIDE MAIN STREET: — PRESIDENT BUSH'S APRIL 2

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

April 3, 2004

April Fools' Day came a day late this year.

On Friday, April 2, the pack of ghouls and goniffs otherwise known as President George W Bush, Jr.'s campaign strategists, pulled one of the dumbest publicity stunts in modern history, with the way in which they, and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, orchestrated the fraudulent reports intended to convince the world's dumbest suckers that there is an ongoing uptick in the already stumbling, bumbling, broken-down U.S. economy.

Some days the official hangman called in sick, but, he did not neglect his duties for long. The world financial system might not blow up on Monday, but poor silly Bush has pulled the pin on the detonators; the world's financial mine-field could blow this coming week, or it might not; but, it is now ready to blow on almost any week, or day. The delusion that the blow-out of the world's monetary-financial system could be postponed until after the November U.S. general election, has left the department of economics, and moved over to the department of clinical psychopathology.

Notable, is the pathetic reaction to this news by presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Senator John Kerry. Whether the foolish statement issued by Senator Kerry was his own idea, or that of influential pressures on his campaign from DNC circles, is not settled. However, the fact that he would utter such a foolish statement, warns us that he is not yet up to the challenge of being the next President of the U.S. Unless I am allowed to take over the direction of the 2004 Democratic campaign, Kerry, with his present advisors, will be assuredly a disaster. Not only candidate Kerry, but the entire current pack of the Democratic Party's 2004 campaign bosses have also goofed, big time. President Bush is clearly a basket-case, but the current Democratic Party leadership is not that much better. The question is: Is the judgment of the voters currently much better?

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LYNDON LAROUCHE RETURNS TO ARKANSAS RADIO — 'MY JOB, AND OUR JOB, IS TO CREATE A VOLCANIC ERUPTION'

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April 4 - 11, 1968

Martin Luther King and 'The Sublime'

Perhaps among our nation's fallen heroes, only Abraham Lincoln compares with Dr. Martin Luther King in the quality of the Sublime: the deliberate decision to risk certain death in order to stand for a principle. In both cases, the principle they died for was, as they believed, absolutely crucial for the survival and progress of our nation.

We print here the majority of Dr. King's speech, given April 3, 1968, the night before he was shot and killed, which indicates his prescience that he would be killed, but that he knew that the cause for which he died, was right.

Read it carefully, over and over, to judge how you spend your own life, in this current vale of crisis.

'I've Been to the Mountaintop'

by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy in his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about. It's always good to have your closest friend and associate say something good about you. And Ralph is the best friend that I have in the world.

I'm delighted to see each of you here tonight in spite of a storm warning. You reveal that you are determined to go on anyhow. Something is happening in Memphis, something is happening in our world.

As you know, if I were standing at the beginning of time, with the possibility of general and panoramic view of the whole human history up to now, and the Almighty said to me, "Martin Luther King, which age would you like to live in?" I would take my mental flight to Egypt through, or rather across the Red Sea, through the wilderness on toward the promised land. And in spite of its magnificence, I wouldn't stop there. I would move on by Greece, and take my mind to Mount Olympus. And I would see Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Euripides and Aristophanes assembled around the Parthenon as they discussed the great and eternal issues of reality.

But I wouldn't stop there. I would go on, even to the great heyday of the Roman Empire. And I would see developments around there, through various emperors and leaders. But I wouldn't stop there. I would even come up to the day of the Renaissance, and get a quick picture of all that the Renaissance did for the cultural and aesthetic life of man. But I wouldn't stop there. I would even go by the way that the man for whom I'm named had his habitat. And I would watch Martin Luther as he tacked his 95 theses on the door at the church in Wittenberg.

But I wouldn't stop there. I would come on up even to 1863, and watch a vacillating President by the name of Abraham Lincoln finally come to the conclusion that he had to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. But I wouldn't stop there. I would even come up to the early thirties, and see a man grappling with the problems of the bankruptcy of his nation. And come with an eloquent cry that we have nothing to fear but fear itself.

But I wouldn't stop there. Strangely enough, I would turn to the Almighty, and say, "If you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the 20th century, I will be happy." Now that's a strange statement to make, because the world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land. Confusion all around. That's a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the 20th Century in a away that men, in some strange way, are responding to something happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee, the cry is always the same: "We want to be free."

And another reason that I'm happy to live in this period is that we have been forced to a point where we're going to have to grapple with the problems that men have been trying to grapple with through history, but the demand didn't force them to do it. Survival demands that we grapple with them. Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence.

Human Rights Revolution

That is where we are today. And also in the human rights revolution, if something isn't done, and in a hurry, to bring the colored peoples of the world out of their long years of poverty, their long years of hurt and neglect, the whole world is doomed. Now, I'm just happy that God has allowed me to live in this period, to see what is unfolding. And I'm happy that He's allowed me to be in Memphis.

I can remember, I can remember when Negroes were just going around as Ralph has said, so often, scratching where they didn't itch, and laughing when they were not tickled. But that day is all over. We mean business now, and we are determined to gain our rightful place in God's world.

And that's all this whole thing is about. We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live.

Now, what does all of this mean in this great period of history? It means that we've got to stay together. We've got to stay together and maintain unity. You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite, favorite formula for doing it. What was that? He kept the slaves fighting among themselves. But whenever the slaves get together, something happens in Pharaoh's court, and he cannot hold the slaves in slavery. When the slaves get together, that's the beginning of getting out of slavery. Now, let us maintain unity.

Secondly, let us keep the issues where they are. The issue is injustice. The issue is the refusal of Memphis to be fair and honest in its dealings with its public servants, who happen to be sanitation workers. Now, we've got to keep attention on that. That's always the problem with a little violence. You know what happened the other day, and the press dealt only with the window-breaking. I read the articles. They very seldom got around to mentioning the fact that one thousand, three hundred sanitation workers were on strike, and that Memphis is not being fair to them, and that Mayor Loeb is in dire need of a doctor. They didn't get around to that.

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Feature:

(AND, IT AIN'T SO YOUNG NO MORE)
His Only Endearing Young Charm
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
March 29, 2004
"Some leading Democrats are just so silly, it makes you won
der. They are so het up, fretting themselves half to death over all those millions in the re-elect Dubya campaign war-chest, that they overlook the most obvious of all facts about the coming election. The leading political issue of 2004, after the onrushing depression, that is, is the question: are the U.S. voters so silly that they would re-elect a President whose one and only endearing charm, is that he is rightly perceived, more or less world-wide, as the dumbest man in the history of the Oval Office..."

  • Clarke Makes the Case:
    Vulcans Run Dumb Bush
    by Edward Spannaus

    Richard Clarke, the former U.S. counter-terrorism coordinator who served in four administrations, has made the case against George Bush and Dick Cheney: Even though Clarke is too polite, explicitly to say it, it is clear from his book and interviews, that George W. Bush is as dumb a President as you'd ever want to find, and that Vice President Dick Cheney is the figure who controls the President.
  • Cheney: He Can Run, But He Can't Hide
    by Jeffrey Steinberg

    ... but Bush can't function without a script, or without Cheney. Bush is head of state; Cheney is head of government....

Ahmad Chalabi's Bay of Goats
by Michele Steinberg

On March 31, Fallujah, Iraq, was a scene out of Hell. Associated Press reported: "Jubilant residents dragged the charred corpses of four foreign contractors including at least one American through the streets Wednesday and hanged them from the bridge spanning the Eurphrates River. Five American soldiers died in a roadside bombing nearby. . . . It is reminiscent of the 1993 scene in Somalia, when a mob dragged the corpse of a U.S. soldier through the streets of Mogadishu. . . ."

European Governments Falling Left and Right
by Rainer Apel
Starting in mid-March, with the decision of the Spanish electorate to vote conservative Prime Minister Jose´ Maria Aznar out of office, European governments have gone into a period of intense instability.


American Culture:

WE MUST EXIT THE SUICIDE CLUB
How the Counterculture Ushered in Fascism
by Michelle Lerner, LaRouche Youth Movement

The Imp of the Perverse
In the consideration of the faculties and impulses—of
the prima mobilia of the human soul, the phrenologists have failed to make room for a propensity which, although obviously existing as a radical, primitive, irreducible sentiment, has been equally overlooked by all the moralists who have preceded them. In the pure arrogance of the reason, we have all overlooked it. . . .


International:

EIR Strategic World Map:
Synarchist 'Strategy of Tension' and Terror

With the March 11 Madrid train bombings, the world entered into a new phase of global terror, of precisely the sort which EIR Contributing Editor Lyndon LaRouche had warned back in August 2003. We present here a global overview of the recent hotspots in this Synarchist war against nation-states around the world, which is intended to create conditions of worldwide chaos and ungovernability.

U.S. 'Reform' Sabotages Arab League Summit
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
The Arab League, representing the 22 governments of the Arab world, was hit by a bombshell on the eve of its March 29-30 summit in Tunis. Not a terrorist attack, but an event with potentially comparable consequences occurred. For the first time in the organization's 57-year history, the summit was called off—or rather, postponed—during final preparations.

Taiwan: Election Stolen To Provoke a Crisis?
by Leni Rubinstein

The only way to understand the current election crisis in Taiwan, is to see it in the context of the international financial, economic, and strategic crisis, as part of the eruption of global 'strategy of tension' to prevent a constructive 'Eurasian' solution of that crisis. This strategy of tension is documented in this and recent issues of EIR; Taiwan is one several of its flashpoints in Asia.

Are Sharon's Troubles Harbinger for Bush?
by Michele Steinberg and Nancy Spannaus

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon could be going to jail, as an outcome of one of the longest-running political organized crime investigations in the history of the 'free world.'...the Israeli strongman's political demise may well have devastating consequences for George W. Bush as well.

Kirchner Walks Into Trap Of Argentine Synarchists
by Cynthia R. Rush
When Argentine President Ne´stor Kirchner stood up to the International Monetary Fund in early March, and insisted that human needs come before debt payment, he threw the synarchist financiers who stand behind the IMF and the predatory vulture funds for a loop, and won the overwhelming support of the Argentine people. But now, only a month later, Kirchner has walked into a trap laid by these same fascist bankers, with dangerous implications for the nation's stability, and the future success of their war against the IMF.

France
Neo-Cons' 'Perben Law' Is Police-State Step
by Christine Schier

Under the influence of a neo-conservative faction in the government around Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkhozy, France has recently adopted a new law on fighting 'serious crime' which is in keeping with international moves toward police state measures, on the background of the worsening financial and monetary crisis and the Synarchist-inspired international terror wave.


STRATEGY OF TENSION:

Strategy of Tension:
The Case of Italy
by Claudio Celani
Part 3
The Synarchist strategy of tension ripped Italy apart beginning in the 1960s, as Parts 1 and 2 of this series have shown. The combination of neo-Nazi, banking, and terrorist networks active in the Italian case, is paradigmatic of the Synarchist capability, which resurfaced in Europe with the Madrid bombings of March 2004.

Terror's Legacy: Schacht, Skorzeny, Allen Dulles
by Michael Liebig

In response to the March 11 Madrid train bombings, Lyndon LaRouche stated that widely trumpeted assertions that the Basque separatist ETA or 'Islamic terrorists' were responsible for the attack, were utterly groundless, and noted that instead, there are parallels to the train station bombing in Bologna, Italy in 1980, which was the high point of the 'Strategy of Tension' aimed at Italy during the 1969-82 period....


Economics:

Is 'History's First Global Property Bust' Coming Soon?
by Lothar Komp

Since the 'LTCMcrisis' of 1998 and the start of the meltdown of global stock markets in March 2000, central banks around the world geared up their money printing machines to postpone a systemic collapse. Within two years, starting in January 2001, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan pushed down U.S. short-term interest rates from 6.0% to 1.0%, with European central banks following...

Interview: O. Mays
Ohio Is 'Devastated' By Industry Shutdown

Mr. Mays is the President of the East Cleveland City Council. He was interviewed by Marcia Merry Baker on March 27, 2004.


National:

NATIONAL MOVE UNDER WAY
'Bring in LaRouche,' Say Dems In Pennsylvania, South Dakota
by Paul Gallagher

The prominence of John Kerry and Lyndon LaRouche as the leading figures contesting and shaping economic-recovery policy, in the Democratic Party's Presidential campaign from this point forward, was underlined at the end of March by events in Pennsylvania and South Dakota...

FEC Reports Show Kerry, LaRouche Two-Way Race
by Anita Gallaghe
r
The March 2004 Monthly Reports filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) again place Lyndon LaRouche first, among all current candidates for the Democratic Party's Presidential nomination, in the total of itemized individual contributions to his campaign.

Book Review:
The Ugly History of The Cheney Warmongers
by William Jones
The Rise of the Vulcans: the History of Bush's War Cabinet
by James Mann
New York: Viking Press, 2004
448 pages, hardcover, $25.95
The story of the Bush War Cabinet as presented by former Los Angeles Times Beijing correspondent James Mann, now a senior writer-in-residence for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, will not be totally unfamiliar to EIR's readers, or to those Americans who for several years have been exposed to the public lambasting of these 'children of Satan' in the publications associated with EIR's founding editor Lyndon LaRouche.

Interview:
Gen. Anthony Zinni
'The Cycle of Violence Is Going To Be Accelerated' in the Mideast
by William Jones

U.S. Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni (ret.) was from 1997 to 2000 Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Central Command. A highly decorated veteran, he joined the Marine Corps in 1961 and served two tours in Vietnam. He was involved in the planning and execution of Operation Proven Force and Operation Patriot Defender in support of the Gulf War.

Time for an Israel Accountability Act
by Carl Osgood
The March 22 assassination of Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin by the Israeli Defense Force, under orders from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, puts a sharp point on a growing irony in Washington, D.C....The Yassin assassination can...only be seen as calculated to increase the level of violence between Israel and the Palestinians, rather than as an act of self-defense, as the Israelis are claiming.

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