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Published: Tuesday, July 13, 2004
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Volume 3, Issue Number 28
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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.
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David Addington, the General Counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney, was the actual author of one of the now-infamous White House "torture memos" that claimed for President Bush the authority to violate the Geneva Conventions on the Treatment of Prisoners of War, in the so-called "war on terrorism." The immediate result of this Hitlerian document was the scenes of inhuman torture at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, and the as-yet untold tales of similar torture at other secret prison locations in Afghanistan, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in other countries around the world.
The revelation that Addington was the author of the Jan. 25, 2002 draft memorandum for the President, first appeared in a July 3 report
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in Newsweek online. An unnamed aide to White House General Counsel Alberto Gonzales told the magazine's Daniel Klaidman, "The memo was actually penned not by Gonzales but by Dick Cheney's top lawyer, David Addington, a hard-charging hawk."
This news service has independently confirmed the accuracy of the Newsweek story, through several intelligence and legal community sources, familiar with the deliberations that preceding the writing of the January 2002 document, which President Bush approved.
According to one specialist in military law, familiar with the proceedings, Addington participated in all of the meetings that led to the drafting of the memo. Another intelligence community source confirmed that Newsweek had obtained on-the-record statements from Bush White House officials close to General Counsel Gonzales, in anticipation of an Administration effort to spike or discredit the story. One week after the Newsweek release, the Bush White House has made no effort to challenge the account of Addington's role.
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Lyndon LaRouche and Helga Zepp-LaRouche were the guests for 90 minutes on The LaRouche Show internet radio broadcast on July 3. The program was hosted by Harley Schlanger, and included LaRouche Youth Movement leaders Cody Jones in Los Angeles and Michelle Lerner in Philadelphia.
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This Week in History
July 12-18, 1787
The Northwest Ordinance
Congress passes the Northwest Ordinance, and endorses a development policy for the new nation.
On July 13, 1787, while the Constitutional Convention was meeting in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress, in session in New York, passed a momentous piece of legislation entitled, "An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio." By that document, the territory of the present Midwest was added to the original 13 states, under a republican form of government which was dedicated to the agricultural and industrial development of the nation.
By the Treaty of Paris in 1783, which formally ended the American Revolution, the Northwest Territory was admitted to belong to America. The Kentuckians, led by Daniel Boone, had first secured its southern flank after the French & Indian War, and then George Rogers Clark and his men had captured the former French towns in the Illinois Country. But the British, even after the Treaty, refused to evacuate their major northern posts at Niagara, Oswego, and Detroit, as well as several other more minor forts. Instead, they aimed their Indian allies at the American frontiers, still hoping to limit the new republic to the Atlantic seaboard.
Even during the uncertain days of the American Revolution, the idea of creating a Federal territory which would help to unite the nation was being voiced. Over the years 1781-1786, the four states which claimed land to the westNew York, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Connecticutceded their claims to the Confederation Government. At the same time, while the Continental Army was encamped at Newburgh, New York, General Washington and his officers developed a plan for the settlement of the Ohio Country. George Washington had traversed it extensively before and during the French & Indian War, and had travelled as far as the Falls of the Ohio (between Indiana and present-day Louisville, Kentucky), after peace was declared. When military affairs seemed hopeless during the early days of the Revolution, and soldiers would ask him what the alternative to surrender would be, Washington answered that the Continental Army could cross the mountains and set up a base in the Ohio Valley.
So when Congress, because of its limited powers under the Confederation, was unable to raise enough funds to pay the Army during the difficult encampment at Newburgh, many of the soldiers agreed that they would accept western land instead, and emigrate there together to set up a new state. In June 1783, two hundred and twenty-eight officers of the Continental Line signed a memorial to the Continental Congress indicating their willingness to settle the Ohio Country. George Washington seconded their memorial, and as soon as the Treaty of Paris took effect he embarked on a project to develop the transportation infrastructure which would link the Northwest Territory with the settled eastern states. His efforts included the Potomac Canal, plans for a canal to link the Ohio River with Lake Erie, and the sponsorship of James Rumsey's steamboat experiments.
In 1784, Thomas Jefferson presented an ordinance for governing the new territory. It provided for its erection into states and their entrance into the Confederacy on equal terms with the rest, but a provision prohibiting slavery there after 1800 was defeated. In 1785, an act was passed by Congress which laid out how the western lands would be divided and sold after they were purchased from the Indians. Included was the famous provision that Lot 16 of each township would be used to finance the erection and maintenance of public schools.
In parallel with these government efforts, the veterans of the Continental Army published notices inviting all those interested in settling the Northwest Territory to meet in Boston. On March 3, 1786, at the Bunch of Grapes Tavern of Revolutionary War fame, the officers founded the Ohio Company of Associates, naming Gen. Rufus Putnam as chairman and Major Winthrop Sargent as secretary. The group proposed to use both the veterans' certificates from the Confederation government and a fund of $1 million, raised from subscriptions, to buy a large tract of land in southeastern Ohio and to settle it with Revolutionary War veterans and their families.
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Announcing: New DVD
Produced by The LaRouche in 2004 Committee,
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Feature:
The Vital Role of the Schiller Institute In Shaping History
by Nancy Spannaus
A crucial part of the hidden history of the last 20 years is the story of the Schiller Institute, the international republican think-tank established in 1984 by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, a German political leader and wife of U.S. Democratic Party Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche. The shocking truth is that, without the energetic work and leadership of this institution in spreading the concepts it has championed of the American Revolution and the Weimar Classic, the world would be a much different, and worse place today.
The Nazi-Instigated National Synarchist Union of Mexico
Part 2, by William F. Wertz, Jr.
Part 1, which appeared in last week's EIR, traced the origins of Synarchism in Mexico, including the founding of the National Synarchist Union (UNS) by the Nazis and the Spanish Falangists, and its wartime role in support of the Axis cause.
Here, a new chapter begins, after Pearl Harbor and the Mexican declaration of war against the Axis powers: An anti-Roosevelt Anglo-American imperialist faction, acting through the Dulles-Buckley networks associated with Cardinal Spellman and Bishop Fulton Sheen of the United States, moved in to control the UNS.
Economics:
Against Malacca Piracy, S. Thailand Violence: It's Time for the Kra Canal
by Mike Billington
'The prospect of establishing a sea-level waterway through the Isthmus of Thailand, ought to be seen not only as an important development of basic economic infrastructure both for Thailand and the cooperating nations of the region; this proposed canal should also be seen as a keystone, around which might be constructed a healthy and balanced development of needed basic infrastructure in a more general way.'
Lyndon LaRouche, addressing a Bangkok conference in 1983
Hartz IV: Failing SPD Shocks Germany with Schachtian Cuts
by Rainer Apel
Everyone in his right mind should have assumed that after the election disasters of the past four weeks, Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) would think of some policy innovations aimed at winning back voters. But quite the opposite has happened: The SPD-led German government and the SPD party leadership gave the go-ahead for a 'reform' of labor market and social welfare legislation that represents the deepest cutthe worst threat to existing living standards of millions of German citizenssince the founding of this republic in 1949.
Tremonti's Resignation Dooms Berlusconi
by Claudio Celani
With the resignation of Finance and Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti on July 3, the Italian government led by Silvio Berlusconi has entered a turbulent phase which could end in an early dissolution of the ruling coalition. No figure is in sight whocould replace Tremonti in the role of imposing controversial budget decisions on the coalition squabbling partners.
International:
Eurasia Powers Losing Patience With Cheney's Korea Crisis
by Kathy Wolfe
Voices in Moscow, Beijing, Seoul, and even Tokyo are being raised against U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's policy of permanent confrontation with North Korea at the Six-Power nuclear talks, whose third round was in Beijing June 21-26.
Synarchists Declare Mexico 'Ungovernable'
by Benjamín Castro Guzmán
If Mexican patriots do not awaken from their strategic slumber, Mexico could be transformed, rapidly, into yet another of the 'failed states' which U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld hopes to create throughout the continent, to justify intervention by a multinational force spearheaded by the U.S. Army.
Time to Consolidate China-India Relations
by Ramtanu Maitra
The ease with which the newly-elected coalition government in New Delhi has begun to interact with Beijing, makes it evident that Sino-India bilateral relations have reached stability, and are quite capable of absorbing minor shocks such as change of leadership in either country.
Australia Dossier
by Allen Douglas
Covering for Fascist Laws: The 'Anti-Defamation' lobby has its roots in the notorious Congress for Cultural Freedom.
Lyndon LaRouche's associates in Australia's fastest-growing political party, the Citizens Electoral Council CEC), sponsored an ad in the Melbourne Age newspaper on June 15, which blasted the latest in a series of police-state laws proposed by the Liberal Party government of Prime Minister John Howard. Entitled 'Stop the Police-State Anti-Terrorism Bill 2004!' the ad concluded: 'Enough of this fascist legislation!
Interviews:
The Pre-Emptive War Against Iraq Is an Evil Example
Aziz Alkazaz was born in Iraq and lives in Germany.
He is an economist and a leading expert on Iraq, working with the Deutsches Orient-Institut (German Institute for Middle East Studies) in Hamburg. He was interviewed on June 29, by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach.
French General Looks At U.S. Iraq Policy
General Christian Quesnot (ret.) was Chief of Staff of French President François Mitterrand, in the crucial period between April 1991 and September 1995, during which the Rwandan genocide and the Serbian genocide against Srebrenica occurred.
National:
Cheney's Lawyer Addington Penned Key Torture Memo
by Jeffrey Steinberg
David Addington, the General Counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney, was the actual author of one of the now-infamous White House 'torture memos' that claimed for President Bush the authority to violate the Geneva Conventions on the Treatment of Prisoners of War, in the so-called 'war on terrorism.' The immediate result of this Hitlerian document was the scenes of inhuman torture at the Abu Ghraib prison...
- Abu Ghraib MP's Lawyer Targets DoD Chiefs
Paul Bergrin is the civilian attorney for Sergeant Javal S. Davis, one of seven soldiers from the 372nd Military Police Company who have been charged by the U.S.Army with abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Bergrin was interviewed by EIR Law Editor Edward Spannaus on June 30; a follow-up on July 6, is appended.
Halliburton, KBR and The Nigeria Slush Fund
by Michele Steinberg
The Department of Justice is investigating the operations of Halliburton's subsidiary KBR in Nigeria, and the investigation could well require the convening of a grand jury and the appointment of a special prosecutor, just as was required in the leak of the identity of CIA covert agent, Valerie Plame.
Chairmen Hunter, Goss Block Probes of Torture
by Scott Thompson and Carl Osgood
In early June, Democratic Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche called for the ouster of the Republican committee heads in the House of Representatives who are obstructing, in a manner 'worse than Watergate,' investigations into the Abu Ghraib and other military prison torture and the Cheney corruption scandals.
Cheney Cat's-Paw, Porter Goss, As CIA Director?
by Ray McGovern
Ray McGovern, a CIA analyst for 27 years, is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. He is also the author of A Compromised CIA: What Can Be Done?, and authored Chapter 4 in Patriotism, Democracy and Common Sense, to be published in September by the Eisenhower Foundation.
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