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Published: Tuesday, June 15, 2004

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LaRouche in 2004 Press Release

New Release To Hit Cheney Hard — by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

The third of the series of "Beast-Man" reports exposing the U.S. and British pro-imperialist forces behind the crimes of Lynne Cheney's carpet-chewing husband, Vice President Dick Cheney, will hit the streets of Washington, D.C. by Thursday, but will also be posted on my campaign's international website locations earlier in the week.

The report, aptly entitled "The Sexual Congress for Cultural Fascism," traces, with hard fact, the political origins of the current connection of Cheney and his accomplices to an operation launched back during the 1940s, by Franklin Roosevelt-hating circles from locations including London, New York City, and Nashville, Tennessee. This subversive operation against our republic was opened at the close of World War II, by rogue elements of our establishment who were working in concert with selected remnants of the Nazi apparatus. This operation was intended to be a campaign of fascist-like culture warfare against the Classical traditions of the United States and other nations. There is no mere coincidence in what is now the obvious fact, that Nazi precedents have been copied, wittingly, by agents of the Cheney-Bush Administration for the Hitler-like crimes which that Administration has authorized and perpetrated in prison-camps in Gitmo, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

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LaRouche to Berlin Cadre School:

The Fight Is Ours To Win or Lose

Lyndon LaRouche gave the following address to members of the LaRouche Youth Movement in Berlin, Germany, May 30, 2004.

"Let me just summarize what our situation is in the United States...
"What happened over the course since the abortive election of 2000, was, if you recall, I got into action immediately, and there was a significant shake-up in the Democratic Party, as elsewhere, on this. As a reaction to that, in the course of time, under the present National Chairman, Terry McAuliffe, there were accelerated efforts to exclude me from the campaign, from the primary campaign, by every means possible. This was objected to in some circles, but they went ahead with it nonetheless..."

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Books:

Bush-Cheney Presidency: Worse Than Watergate
by Edward Spannaus
The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush
by John W. Dean
New York and Boston: Little Brown and Company, 2004 269 pages, hardcover, $22.95
This timely book were more accurately subtitled “The Secret and Deceptive Co-Presidency of Dick Cheney and George W. Bush”—for that is precisely what John W. Dean documents. Dean, the one-time Counsel to President Richard Nixon, knows whereof he speaks, when he characterizes the Bush- Cheney co-Presidency as “worse than Watergate,” and he presents a compelling case that the abuse of power by this Administration is far, far worse, than that of the Nixon Administration. And this was before the Abu Ghraib scandal came to light, with the evidence now piling up day by day that top Administration officials are responsible for war crimes committed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

President McKinley Made a Victim Of Character Assassin
by John Ascher
William McKinley
by Kevin Phillips
New York: Times Books, 2003, 208 pages, hardcover, $20
LaRouche’s assessment of the McKinley assassination led this reviewer to examine McKinley’s life from that standpoint (see “Remembering William McKinley, 100 Years After His Assassination,”NewFederalist Sept. 3, 2001). Such a study must examine the ongoing struggle of American patriots of the American Intellectual Tradition against the British Empire, and how that struggle was weakened in the aftermath of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
Phillips rejects the concept of intention by individuals acting in history, and therefore, the way in which the individual leader acts upon certain principles in a specific historic context...

this week in history

June 14-June 20, 1858

'A House Divided'

On June 16, 1858 Abraham Lincoln, the just-nominated Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Illinois, gave an acceptance speech to the Republican Convention in Springfield, which helped decisively shape the history of the nation. It came to be entitled "A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand." The oft-quoted opening to this speech went as follows:

"If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.*

"We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated, with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation.

"Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented.

"In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached, and passed.

" 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.'

"I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

"I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided.

"It will become all one thing, or all the other.

"Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as newNorth as well as South."

When put into historical context, this speech represents the launching of a great public debate over the threat which the "popular sovereignty" Democrats, allied with the hard-core slaveholders of the South, represented to the principles upon which the United States was founded. Lincoln sought throughout this election campaign, including the famous debates between himself and his opponent, Democrat Stephen Douglas, to demonstrate that Americans had to return to the principled commitments of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, whereby all men are judged to have been created equal, or face the destruction of the American republic as it was originally conceived.

The context of the speech is crucial to understanding it. The 1850s had seen an escalating series of compromises and decisions that were all ostensibly aimed at restricting the spread of slavery, but ultimately were resulting in its expansion. Most crucial within this process was the 1857 Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court, which resulted in the validation of the Fugitive Slave Law's (1850) application anywhere in the nation, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Kansas-Nebraska, which passed by a close 113-100 margin in the House, permitted each territorial government to decide by "popular sovereignty" whether to permit or prohibit slavery.

Yet, as Lincoln pointed out in the body of the "House Divided" speech, the argument for popular sovereignty was then totally vitiated by the Dred Scott decision. In fact, the Dred Scott decision prevented a state from exercising its popular sovereignty against slavery, because there was no way to protect free black people from being re-enslaved. The fact that the Congress voted down an amendment seeking to permit a state to explicitly exclude slavery, made it clear to Lincoln, if it had not been clear before, that the Democrats, who controlled the Presidency in the person of James Buchanan, were intending that slavery be spread, unstoppably.

(I am reminded, in writing this, of our ignominious Democratic Party leadership today, which shares the slaveholder values of those Democrats of yore. They too, claim to champion the idea of "popular sovereignty"—the people's will—but then move to exclude those who would challenge their pro-banker ethic, in this case, Lyndon LaRouche and his supporters. "What the people want" is almost always a fraudulent ruse, used to cover up clashes of principle.)

As is well known, of course, Lincoln lost the 1858 Senate election to Douglas, although he went on to mobilize and build the Republican Party, to the point that it won the 1860 election, in which Lincoln was the successful candidate for President. Immediately, the pro-slavery forces challenged President Lincoln's willingness to defend the Union, a challenge which he successfully rebuffed, both militarily and eventually, by means of enacting the 13th Amendment, in January 1865, banning slavery altogether.

But, contrary to popular opinion, Lincoln's victory was not simply one of using superior might to impose a solution. As our greatest President said in his "House Divided" speech, what we were looking at is a clash of principles which could not coexist forever. Having taken the principled position that slavery was against our nation's very raison d'etre (although not its practice), Lincoln fought and prevailed.

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Feature:

A PERSONAL REFLECTION: I Remember Ronald Reagan
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
June 6, 2004
This morning’s press broughtmestunning news: the death of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Although we actually met on but one occasion, at Concord, New Hampshire for a candidates’ night, in January 1980, that meeting between us changed world history in ironical ways which are reverberating still today.

  • The Power of Ideas: SDI Changed the World
    by Jeffrey Steinberg
    The tenth anniversary of President Reagan’s announcement of the Strategic Defense Initiative was marked by this presentation by EIR Counterintelligence Editor Jeffrey Steinberg— “The Power of Ideas: LaRouche’s SDI Changed the World”—to the ICLC/Schiller Institute conference of March 21-22, 1993.
  • Soviets’ Fatal Reaction To LaRouche and Reagan
    by Rachel Douglas
    ... adapted from the address of EIR Eastern Europe editor Rachel Douglas—“The Andropov/Gorbachev Regime’s Attacks on LaRouche”—to the March 21-22, 1993 ICLC/Schiller Institute conference. The presentation made extensive use of slides and other illustrations. This text first appeared in an EIR White Paper shortly thereafter.

Strategic Studies:

THE ALGERIA PARADOX:
Will Bush or Kerry Learn a Lesson from Charles de Gaulle?
by Pierre Beaudry

The clearest exemplar of a modern national leader who was capable of realizing when not to “stay the course,” and acting forcefully on that decision, was French President Charles de Gaulle, who ended France’s bloody attempt to keep colonial control over Algeria. De Gaulle realized that that course would have led to national destruction of France as a republic, and overcame right-wing resistance and a threatened coup to withdraw French forces. Pierre Beaudry examines the right-wing synarchist force which was responsible for the Algerian war—launched at virtually the same time as the French defeat in Vietnam at Dien Bien Phu—and the threat to France’s national existence.


Economics:

Argentina:
Financial Vultures Try to Topple Kirchner
by Cynthia R. Rush
When Argentine Finance Minister Roberto Lavagna presented on June 1, his government’s final offer on restructuring the $81 billion in public debt on which the country defaulted in December of 2001, representatives of the speculative vulture funds and other financial predators who have spent the last 15 years savagely bleeding Argentina, went berzerk.

IMF Caused Killer Flood In Hispaniola
by Jorge Luis Meléndez Cárdenas

The devastating floods and mudslides that killed more than 2,000 men, women and children, and wiped out entire towns on both sides of the Haitian/Dominican Republic border on the island of Hispaniola in late May, might have been triggered by week-long torrential rains; but the tragedy was no “natural disaster.” It was the entirely predictable consequence of decades of looting on the part of the international banking elites,

Oil Gets Germans To Rediscover Nuclear Power
by Rainer Apel
The shock at the drastic increase of crude oil and gasoline prices over the last few weeks... have caused two political responses in Germany:... the immoral announcement by the ecologists that high oil prices were good for the development of “alternate” energy sources...on the other, new initiatives to revive nuclear power technology, as a real alternative to fossil fuels.


Science and Technology:

In Africa, DDT Makes A Comeback To Save Lives
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
Spurred by the dramatic and life-saving results in a few African nations that persisted in using DDT, a larger group of nations, now malaria-ravaged, want to use the banned pesticide.


International:

Sharon’s Generals Plan a New Six-Day War with Egypt
by Dean Andromidas
The hawks on the General Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces may be planning a new Six-Day War, while Israeli politicians and the world dither over Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s so-called Gaza disengagement plan. This was revealed in a signal piece by Israeli military commentator Amir Oren, in the daily Ha’aretz on June 5.

  • ‘Project Daniel’ Is Issued By Israel’s Dr. Strangeloves
    by Dean Andromidas

    The hawks in the Israeli military security establishment have signaled that they are prepared to launch nuclear war against all Arab States as well as Iran and Pakistan, issuing a report which for the first time publicly flaunts Israel’s nuclear weapons, and aggressively adopts the “pre-emptive war” doctrine from U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney’s September 2002 manifesto.

Unchanging Afghanistan; Whither Karzai?
by Ramtanu Maitra
Afghanistan’s beleaguered interim President Hamid Karzai was a guest at the June 8-10 Group of Eight summit at Sea Island, Georgia. Before that, he was at Fort Drum, New York to thank the 10th Mountain Division for their help in Afghanistan. President Karzai, the Bush Administration’s man-in- Kabul entrusted with the unenviable task of ushering in democracy in Afghanistan, is now a prisoner of the United States.

Australia Is in the Middle Of the Iraq Torture Scandal
by Allen Douglas
For the second time within a month, the Australian government is beset with allegations that it has carried out, covered up, and/or condoned torture against defenseless human beings.

Interview: Maxim Ghilan
Part 2
‘To Be Ethical and Still Succeed’
Rarely do international, especially American, audiences hear directly from Israelis who have dedicated their work and their lives to a finding a just solution for peace. With 60 years of experience in Palestine and Israel, Maxim Ghilan brings an insider’s view of the pulse-beat of the region. In the first part, he discussed the danger to global stability posed by the alliance between the current regimes in Israel—run, in effect, by fanatics in the Army General Staff—and in Washington, run by Dick Cheney.

Italicus Train Bombing: Was Aldo Moro the Target?
by Paolo Cucchiarelli
Following the warnings of Lyndon LaRouche and EIR about the danger of a new, global “strategy of tension” by the international synarchist networks, such as the bombs placed aboard of several Spanish trains all destined to come into Madrid at the same time on March 11, our correspondents have sought the expertise of anti-terrorist experts, historians, and political leaders in Italy, which was a major target of the original “strategy of tension” in the 1970s and ’80s.

Malaysia, China: Ties Of Centuries Celebrated
by Gail Billington
Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi made his first state visit as Malaysia’s Prime Minister to China from May 27 to May 31. The state visit in itself reflects a history of ties between the two ancient countries that date back 600 years, to the historic visit of China’s famous Admiral Zheng
He, who visited Malacca, then the capital of Malaysia, during his fleet’s years-long journey of world exploration.

Who Benefits From Chaos?
In recent weeks, major neighbor countries of Iraq— Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey—have been targetted by destabilization. The same is true for Pakistan and Afghanistan. The terrorist attacks inside the Saudi kingdom have been widely reported, and automatically attributed to the “Al-Qaeda” terror network. But strategic experts in Europe, consulted by EIR, have hypothesized that the neo-conservative apparatus in Washington and London, run by the synarchist banking network, may be deliberately orchestrating a “chaos scenario” for the Southwest Asia region...


National:

‘Super-Watergate’ Hits Bush and Cheney
by Edward Spannaus
“A Super-Watergate is now underway,” Lyndon LaRouche said on June 9, remarking on the intensifying pressure on the Bush-Cheney Administration, and the escalation of the obstruction and coverup by the White House. The Watergate- type pattern is striking—and the overall process is readily understood by those who are familiar with the fight that LaRouche and his associates have been waging against the neo-conservatives in the Administration, and against Vice President Dick Cheney in particular, for the past two years.

Unravelling Ravelston: RICO and Richard Perle
by Scott Thompson
Richard Perle, the neo-conservative warmonger and former adviser to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, has recently been doing his utmost to defend his old friend and operative, the Iraqi National Congress’s Ahmed Chalabi, since the May 20 raid upon Chalabi’s home office in Baghdad. But Perle, who finds himself in deeper and deeper financial and political difficulty, may soon be consumed with defending himself.

LaRouche Challenges Kerry To Show Some Guts
by Nancy Spannaus
On June 3, the senior Democratic members of eight committees of the House of Representatives sent an open letter to President George Bush, demanding his cooperation in getting information to hold a public House investigation of the Abu Ghraib torture scandal. The phalanx of ranking Democratic committee members said: If the House Republican leadership continues to block such hearings, the Democrats are determined to carry out an investigation themselves...

  • House Democrats’ Letter To the President
    This is the letter sent, by ranking U.S. Democratic Congressmen, to President G.W. Bush on June 3, 2004, requesting his assistance in obtaining 35 key documents, for purposes of investigating the prisoner abuse scandal.

LaRouche Youth Movement Pokes at Soros’ Dems
by Matthew Ogden
Lyndon LaRouche has dedicated his youth movement to the study of knowable truth, through historical discoveries such as Gauss’ proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra. As a Platonist, he teaches that if you run across something furry in your path and you want to know what it is, you don’t stand and objectively look at it; you poke it with a stick and see what it does...

Rumsfeld Hits a Buzzsaw in Singapore
by Mike Billington
If U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld believed that his trip to Asia in early June would provide some relief, from the escalating exposure and condemnation of his role in the Iraq fiasco, and in instigating the systematic torture of military detainees around the world, he was sorely mistaken.

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