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Published: Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2004

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Volume 3,
Issue Number 31

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New LaRouche PAC Aims To Mobilize the Lower-Income 80% To Act

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Lyndon LaRouche held a press conference and webcast from Boston on July 30, the morning following Sen. John Kerry's acceptance of the Democratic nomination, to announce the launching of a new political action committee. Here are LaRouche's opening remarks.

"Thank you. Now, obviously, we have a situation in which the nominee, Kerry, must occupy the White House by election in November. There are many problems involved, so far, with the Kerry team, which is not actually ready to deal with the many of the problems which are going to hit the United States during this period. But when you look at the alternatives, you realize that Kerry is a decent person, with, for all ordinary purposes, a credible background, and credible commitments; but he just needs some touching up on a lot of very important issues which he does not yet, presently, understand. But apart from those particular differences—which is our responsibility, and mine in particular, to set forth the alternative to some of the more weak points in his address last night, particularly the latter 30 minutes of it—we've got to get him elected. Because the alternative is unthinkable..."

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From the Democratic Convention:
LaRouche Holds Dialogue with His Youth Movement

Lyndon LaRouche's opening remarks to his historic webcast from the Boston Democratic Convention site July 25 (see EIW #30), were followed more than two hours of discussion with the audience present at the John Hancock Center, as well as with those listening over the Internet, who submitted questions by e-mail. Here is the major portion of that dialogue.

LaRouche to West Coast Cadre School:
Beyond the Convention: Mobilizing the Resistance to Fascism

Lyndon LaRouche spoke to a cadre school in Los Angeles via teleconference, on July 17, 2004.

The Economy

World and Nation-State

This Week in History

August 2 - August 8, 1864

Adm. Farragut 'Damns the Torpedoes'; Enters Mobile Bay

Just at daybreak on Aug. 5, 1864, the Union fleet in the Gulf of Mexico, commanded by Adm. David Farragut, moved into battle formation to enter Confederate-held Mobile Bay. The attack was part of Gen. Ulysses Grant's much larger strategic plan to bring the Civil War to a close, and, although it took awhile, it worked.

Grant's overall plan was to move a number of Union armies to converge in Virginia, cutting off Lee's communications with other parts of the Confederacy, and forcing him into a decisive battle in open country. Now that Union control of the Mississippi River had cut the Confederacy in two, Grant focused on an enveloping movement east of the Mississippi which would make it difficult for the Confederates to use their internal lines. One Union army from the deep South was to cut the James and Appomattox River line of communication, while General Sherman's army would execute a wide wheeling march 7through the South to complete the envelopment. The capture of Mobile, Ala. would deprive the Confederacy of its last major ocean port and would shorten the supply lines to Sherman's army.

Admiral Farragut (1801-1870), entrusted with the capture of Mobile Bay, was a 63-year-old veteran of the War of 1812, a distinction he shared with Army Generals Winfield Scott and John Wool. Scott, before resigning as commanding general of the army in November 1861, had laid out a plan similar in conception for enveloping the South. Although it was derisively dubbed "Operation Anaconda" by those who thought Richmond could be taken in a month or two, that concept actually was used by the Union in blockading Southern ports and attempting to prevent the resupply of the rebel armies.

The capture of Mobile Bay presented a difficult problem, for the bay had two entrances—one for shallow-water boats, and the other with a deep channel which ran between several well-equipped forts. The main entrance was extensively mined with "torpedoes," forcing any entering ships to run right under one of the guardian fort's guns. But Farragut was the man for the job, not only because of his earlier capture of New Orleans, but also because of the character and bravery he had developed when just a young boy.

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Feature:

LaRouche's Boston Platform:
A Real Democratic Platform for November 2004
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
This Platform was issued on July 30 by the LaRouchePAC political action committee.
For the sake of the Democratic Party, and for all of the citizens of the U.S.A. and their posterity, an unusually tough Platform —the attached Platform! — must be placed in general circulation at the time of the Boston nominating convention. In presenting and adopting this, I am resolved that we must defeat the attempted continuation of the Bush-Cheney (or, is it not the Cheney-Bush?) Administration, by, first, dumping Cheney from government immediately (otherwise, there might not be a November 2004 election), and by, second, providing a new President and a new, bipartisan coalition within the Congress, without DeLay.

  • July 25 Webcast: LaRouche Issues His 'Real Democratic Platform': 50,000 Go Out at Boston
    Lyndon LaRouche gave an Internet webcast from the John Hancock Hotel and Conference Center in Boston on July 25, speaking to a packed audience of leaders of the LaRouche Youth Movement, Democratic Party National Convention delegates and elected officials, and Boston area LaRouche supporters. The candidate announced the release of his own 'real Democratic Party Platform For November.' Here are LaRouche's opening remarks, introduced by his national spokeswoman, Debra Freeman.

New LaRouche PAC Aims To Mobilize The Lower-Income 80% To Act
Lyndon LaRouche held a press conference and webcast from Boston on July 30, the morning following Sen. John Kerry's acceptance of the Democratic nomination, to announce the launching of a new political action committee. This is his opening statement, introduced by spokeswoman Debra Freeman.

Elected Dems Blast DNC Dirty Tricks Against LYM at Boston Convention
LaRouche Youth Movement and Democratic elected officials met the press on July 25 in Boston, to denounce the dirty tricks operations intended to bar the LYM from participating in the Democratic Convention. Those dirty tricks, consequently, proved unsuccessful.

LaRouche Launches Drive for Democrats To Win in November
by Jeffrey Steinberg and Nancy Spannaus
Just hours after the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention in Boston, former Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche held a July 30 press conference at the city's historic John Hancock Center, to announce the formation of 'LaRouche PAC,' a political action committee dedicated to assuring the crushing defeat of the Bush-Cheney Republican ticket in November.


Economics:

UNAIDS Conference Shows Bush Administration's Imperial Attitude
by Colin Lowry
The United Nations AIDS program released its annual report on July 6, before the opening of the 15th International AIDS conference; it shows that in the last year, 3 million people died of AIDS, and 5 million became newly infected with HIV—more than in any previous year. The report documents what EIR forecast as early as the late 1980s: The epidemic is accelerating rather than slowing down under containment policies which have remained essentially the same for more than a decade.


International:

Interview: Jürgen Hübschen
How Iraq Must, and Can, Become A Sovereign Nation Once Again
Born in 1945, Colonel Hübschen (ret.) was an active duty officer for almost 40 years, including one year of training in the United States and 10 years of daily cooperation with American fellow officers. Following a general-staff education, he became a colonel of theGermany army, and, an expert on the Middle East.Hübschen served as military attache´ at the German embassy in Baghdad for three years, has travelled extensively in the region, and maintains contact with individuals and aid organizations in Iraq.

Philippines President Arroyo Stands Up
by Mike Billington
Except for Great Britain and Australia, the two intimate partners of the Bush/Cheney imperial vision, no nation has been more subservient to the pre-emptive war policies in Washington than the Philippines under President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. It was therefore a great shock, and a promise of hope to that desperate nation, that President Arroyo stood up to the would-be Gods of Olympus in Washington, unilaterally withdrawing the token Philippine military force serving in Iraq, more than a month before the scheduled end of their tour of duty on Aug. 20.

Western Powers Seek Sudan Disintegration
by Uwe Friesecke
The United Nations Security Council is debating a resolution on Sudan, in preparation for a vote, which blames the Sudanese government as being responsible for the humanitarian disaster that has engulfed its Western Darfur province for more than one and a half years. Other governments, and members of the U.S. Congress, are pushing to threaten Sudan's government with sanctions and military intervention if it fails to stop the crisis. This is combined with a massive international press campaign accusing the Sudanese government of genocide and ethnic cleansing in Darfur.


National:

Army Whitewashes Abu Ghraib Torture Scandal
by Carl Osgood
The Defense Department's strategy of burying the Abu Ghraib torture scandal under a blizzard of investigations that will pin the blame for abuse and torture of Iraqi detainees on the 'aberrant behavior' of a few soldiers, was put into action on July 22. That was the day the Army released an Inspector General (IG) report on detainee and interrogation operations in Iraq that concluded that the abuses 'were unauthorized actions taken by a few individuals,' the result of inadequate supervision.

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