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Published: Tuesday, July 6, 2004

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From the LaRouche in 2004 Committee...

You are cordially invited to attend a webcast hosted by LaRouche in 2004 on July 15, 2004. The subject of the discussion, which will be keynoted by Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche, is encapsulated in the following statement, issued by LaRouche on June 20.

The webcast will begin at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, and will be accessible through the campaign website, www.larouchein2004.com. Those wishing to attend the event, which will occur in the Washington, D.C. area, must pre-register. Please call 1-800-929-7566 for more information.

LAROUCHE ADDRESSES MONTREAL AND NEW JERSEY CADRE SCHOOLS — AMERICA GIVES CHENEY A BRONX CHEER

Here are Lyndon LaRouche's opening remarks via teleconference to simultaneous cadre schools in Montreal and New Jersey on July 1, 2004.

Now this is a very interesting period of life, you know. We have people, some two years ago, thought that when I was going after Cheney, that that was a fool's errand and that I could never, possibly get Cheney thrown out of power. But, we have a couple of incidents—he made a sexual offer to his members of the Senate, which got all over the place. And he went up to the sports event in New York, in the Bronx Stadium, where the Yankees are playing baseball, and his picture was flashed on one of these large screens, and the whole stadium broke out in bo-o-o-s! against Cheney.

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LaRouche Interviewed in Pole Star on U.S. Elections

The Russian Internet publication Polyarnaya Zvezda (The Pole Star), in late June, posted Lyndon LaRouche's replies to a set of questions about the U.S. elections. The publication is posting the replies of various experts, including, so far, one from the New York Council on Foreign Relations.

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World and Nation State

This Week in History

July 5-11, 1755

Braddock's Defeat

The Battle of the Monongahela Results in Defeat for Britain but Future Possibilities for America

On July 9, 1755, Gen. Edward Braddock and his British and American troops were decisively defeated by a small force of French soldiers and Indians in the forests of Western Pennsylvania. The events leading up to the battle, and those that resulted from it, were crucial to the future independence of the United States. And a very large number of the participants in the conflict also played important roles in the American Revolution which was to follow two decades later.

From the early period of American colonization, England had worked through a faction of ideological co-thinkers in France, to use the French as a surrogate power to keep the colonists in check. French control of Canada and the upper and lower Mississippi River meant that they could hurl their Indian allies at the Americans whenever they tried to expand across the Appalachian Mountains. England was afraid that American expansion would strengthen the colonists' republican tendencies, and end England's policy of looting the colonies for cheap raw materials. Thus, the British government opposed any effort by the Americans to end French rule in North America. Time and time again, when England was at war with France on the European continent, any English expedition against French Canada, despite all-out support efforts by the Americans, would fail for lack of soldiers and supplies, or through "mistakes" by its British leaders.

But, beginning in the late 1740s, the iron-making Washington family and its allies founded the Ohio Company, whose goal was the settlement of families in Western Pennsylvania and the Ohio Country, and the provision of infrastructure such as grain mills and iron foundries and forges. When the French started building a string of forts down from Lake Erie toward the strategic crossroads of the forks of the Ohio River, the Governor of Virginia, whose colonial land charter extended west to the Mississippi River, sent 21-year-old George Washington on a perilous mission to warn the French to stop their incursions on American territory. Washington completed his mission through hundreds of miles of wilderness, in the winter of 1753-54, and reported to Governor Dinwiddie that the French had no intention of pulling back their forces.

The Ohio Company redoubled its efforts to build a settlement in western Pennsylvania, the Colony of Virginia began building a fort at the forks of the Ohio, and Washington led a small military force to widen an old buffalo and Indian trail that led to the west and would eventually become the National Road. The French sent out a detachment to determine what the Americans were doing, and its commander carried double orders—one presenting the group as negotiators, and the other admitting their military reconnaissance purpose. Friendly Indians warned Washington of their presence, and he surprised them at Jumonville Glen, where some of them, spotting the Americans, ran for their guns and a short engagement began. When the French received the news that some of their soldiers had been killed or captured, they sent a detachment which destroyed the American fort at the forks of the Ohio, and pulled down the settlement and the supply depot of the Ohio Company. Washington and his small force made a stand inside a hastily built stockade at Great Meadows, but they were no match for the larger and well-equipped French and Indian force. After a grueling siege in a pounding rainstorm, the French offered terms of surrender. Since England and France were not at war, Washington and his officers signed the surrender document by candlelight, their translator of the rain-soaked document unable to see that they were admitting to having "assassinated" the supposed French envoys at Jumonville Glen. Washington and his men marched out of the stockade on July 4, 1754, and returned east to unexpected opprobrium.

While Washington and his soldiers had been facing the French in the wilderness, Benjamin Franklin had been organizing for an unexpected outcome to a colonial meeting with the Iroquois Indians in Albany, New York. The delegates from seven American colonies were presented with Franklin's Albany Plan of Union, which proposed that the several colonies should select delegates to a general council, which would be headed by a president-general who would be appointed by the British Crown. The council, working with the president-general, would direct matters relating to Indian affairs and colonial defense. The Albany delegates ratified the proposal, but both the King and the various colonial legislatures rejected it as infringing too much on their prerogatives. When the French started using Washington's capitulation agreement as propaganda against British so-called "assassination" of their soldiers, the British reacted by calling George Washington a French agent who was trying to get them into a war. They applied the same label to Benjamin Franklin, who had recruited an effective militia company in Philadelphia to counter the French and Indian threat. Nevertheless, stung by the defeat in western Pennsylvania, the British dispatched a large force of British Regulars under Gen. Edward Braddock to displace the French from their newly-built Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh) at the forks of the Ohio.

Both George Washington and Benjamin Franklin met with General Braddock at Frederick, Maryland to try to ensure the success of the expedition. Franklin recruited large farm wagons and their drivers from Pennsylvania, which included Daniel Boone and future Revolutionary War General Daniel Morgan. Washington signed on as volunteer aide to Braddock and advised him, when the going became painfully slow over the Alleghenies, to leave his heaviest baggage and supplies behind and move forward with light infantry. This Braddock did, but when he was only a few miles from Fort Duquesne, disaster struck.

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Political Economy:

Hans Koschnick Poses A Question Which the July Democrats Must Also Answer
This release was issued on June 30 by the LaRouche in 2004 Presidential campaign committee.
The June 23rd edition of Germany's prominent conservative daily, Die Welt, featured a June 17th interview with a former Vice-President of that nation's Social-Democratic Party (SPD), Hans Koschnick, in which he delivered a challenge to his SPD which must also be taken very much to heart by the U.S. Democratic Party's coming July, Boston convention.

  • What Koschnick Said
    Hans Koschnick's lengthy interview with in the leading German daily Die Welt appeared on June 23. Koschnik, 75, is a former deputy chairman of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), a former mayor of the city of Bremen, and one of the 'grand old men' of the SPD. During the 1990s, Koschnick was European Union Administrator for the city of Mostar, in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Feature:

The Nazi-Instigated National Synarchist Union of Mexico
Part 1, by William F. Wertz, Jr
When in July 2003, the leaders of the Ibero-American Solidarity Movement (MSIA)—founded in 1992 as a Trojan horse within the LaRouche movement— resigned from association with LaRouche over the issue of synarchism. Lyndon LaRouche warned that the MSIA's controllers centered around Spain's leading Francoist, Blas Piñar, represent an Hispanic terrorist threat against the United States in behalf of the circles of Vice President Dick Cheney.


Science and Technology:

Unlocking the Secrets Of Mysterious Saturn
When the Voyager spacecraft flew by Saturn in the early 1980s, they revealed a complex of rings and moons that scientists could not explain. Marsha Freeman reports on the Cassini mission now observing the ringed planet.


Economics:

LaRouche: Build Up the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
by Marcia Merry Baker
American Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, in a recent conversation with a commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, said that among the first actions LaRouche would take as President, would be to build up the Corps, as part of the re-institution of national military service, to carry out the founding mission of the Corps for infrastructure construction.

  • Modernize Navigation on The Upper Mississippi
    EIR submitted testimony to the June 24 hearing of the Sub-Committee on Water Resources and Environment of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, on the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. The Subcommittee's hearing was on recommendations for navigation improvements and ecosystem restoration.
  • Interview: Jeffrey L. Stamper
    'Lean Times' Harm Water Infrastructure

    Jeff Stamper, P.E., is a structural engineer with the St. Louis District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He was interviewed on June 17 by Marcia Merry Baker, at the Corps public briefing in Washington, D.C., on the newly proposed Corps plan for the 'Integrated River Management for the Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway System.'

International:

The Friends of Blas Piñar Send the Andes Up in Flames
by Luis Vásquez Medina

See hordes of unemployed, primarily former soldiers, beaten down by a horrific economic crisis, wearing black shirts in imitation of a military uniform, boasting on the street that if they get to power, 'there won't be enough bullets for all the corrupt ones,' threatening retaliation against a neighboring country for a war that occurred more than a century ago, and speaking of the superior race that will rule the country. Although the similarities are great, we are not talking about Weimar Germany, or of the nascent Nazi Party in the early 1930s; this is Peru today.

Bolivia Is Targetted To Redraw S. America Map
by Gretchen Small
The arrogant neo-conservatives at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) have taken upon themselves to trumpet the imminent extinction of Bolivia, the nation which lies in the heart of the South American continent.

Bush Sets Up New Government in Iraq
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
June 30, the long-awaited date for the transfer of power from the US-led occupying forces to an Iraqi interim government, had become a symbol, at least in U.S. political iconography, for the restoration of sovereignty to Iraq and the advent of an era of peace, democracy, and freedom. But the harsh reality of a widening asymmetric guerrilla war against the occupation forced even the publicity-hungry Paul Bremer, outgoing head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, to abruptly alter plans, and effect the handover almost in secret, two days earlier than scheduled.


National:

Dick Cheney's Imminent Political Crash Landing
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Dick Cheney's 'Go f**k yourself' flip-out at Senate Judiciary Committee ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) in June 22 on the floor of the U.S. Senate, was but the most public display of the Vice President's mounting hysteria over accelerating pressure for his ouster from the 2004 Republican ticket.

  • High Court Jams Cheney, Bush Imperial Presidency
    by Edward Spannaus
    In rulings which took many, including the Defense and Justice Departments, by surprise, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 28 rejected the Bush Administration's claim—most forcefully advocated by Vice President Dick Cheney—that it has unlimited war-time powers, against which the Federal courts can say or do nothing.
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