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Published: Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2004

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This Week You Need to Know:

THE WORLD MONETARY SYSTEM HAS CRACKED IN GERMANY TODAY!

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
August 18, 2004

The address delivered today in Berlin by Germany's Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, marks the actual beginning of the collapse of the rotten-ripe world monetary-financial system. This began, a few weeks ago, with seemingly small, easily overlooked events, beginning in a way which is ironically comparable to the way in which the issue of freedom to travel for vacations abroad, triggered the series of events leading quickly to the already inevitable 1989 collapse of the (East) German Democratic Republic (DDR). That irony aside, it is the biggest, most dangerous global monetary-financial crisis in modern world history. It is not something about to happen; it is something already under way, a crisis which can not be stopped unless certain emergency measures which I have prescribed are taken immediately.
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MANIFESTO FOR THE MONDAY DEMONSTRATIONS

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
August 17, 2001

Today, only 15 short years after the historic Monday demonstrations of 1989 which ushered in the end of the German Democratic Republic, demonstrations are once again taking place in many cities across Germany. The immediate trigger has been a protest against extreme injustices mandated by the Hartz IV law, a law which would plunge millions of so-called long-term unemployed into outright poverty. But Hartz IV was merely the proverbial last straw. As the Econometric Institute in Halle once again confirmed in August, actual unemployment in Germany is at least 8.6 million, if we include entire categories of people who are not even counted in the official unemployment statistics. That's over 2 million more unemployed than in 1933.

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The Doom of the Would-Be Gods of Babylon

— August 14, 2004
Already, with the ugly impasse which erupted around the abortive U.S. Presidential election of November 7, 2000, there was the smell of an ominous sickness in not only the U.S.A., but a sickness of the U.S.A. as the capstone of a self-doomed world monetary-financial system. Now, nearly four years since that mis-election, the words I spoke shortly prior to the actual January 2001 inauguration of President George W. Bush, Jr. must seem prophetic to all whose memories are sufficiently lucid to remind them of my words....
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BOOK REVIEW
Lacey Baldwin Smith; Henry VIII: The Mask of Royalty; (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971, 328 pages, hardcover) (out of print); $17.95

Even a Bad Book Is Useful—Sometimes
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

The sum of the parts, is sometimes worse than the whole. More than thirty years ago, a certain Professor Lacey Baldwin Smith wrote a book about the mind of England's lunatic King Henry VIIl; the author left out the part about history. The trouble was, Professor Smith obviously had overdosed on an intellectually fatal dose of empiricism. The result of this labor of his was not worth much except as an object-lesson which contemporary critics and politicians need very much, even, today, desperately, to learn.

World and Nation-State

This Week in History

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August 23-29, 1935

FDR & Youth:
FDR Addresses the Young Democratic Clubs of America

On Aug. 24, 1935, President Franklin Roosevelt was scheduled to travel to Milwaukee to address a convention of the Young Democratic Clubs of America. But he was forced to make his speech via radio, because, as he explained, "the closing days of a far-reaching and memorable Session of the Congress of the United States keep me here in Washington." That memorable session had included legislation on Social Security, increased Federal supervision of electrical utilities, and, of special relevance to the Milwaukee convention, the establishment of the National Youth Administration on June 26.

Roosevelt later described why he had launched this initiative: "The young people of the United States who had been caught in the Depression had special problems in addition to those shared with their elders. Their needs were greater and more far-reaching than the immediate demands of food, clothing, and shelter. They were confronted with the problem of an education, a beginning in a trade or a career, and, above all, the prevention of the natural effects of long idleness and continued frustration. Theirs was a spiritual as well as a physical problem...."

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Feature:

German Monday Demonstrations Expand
From Our European Bureau
The Monday night demonstrations against the German government's austerity program, and for more jobs, dramatically expanded on Aug. 16, increasing from about 34 cities and 40,000 people a week before, to an estimated 150 cities and more than 100,000 people. Unless the government decides to withdraw its "Hartz IV" program of social service cuts, some rally leaders are promising that millions will march against the murderous "reform" in Berlin on Oct. 3, German Reunification Day.

  • MANIFESTO FOR THE MONDAY DEMONSTRATIONS
    by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

    August 17, 2001
    Today, only 15 short years after the historic Monday demonstrations of 1989 which ushered in the end of the German Democratic Republic, demonstrations are once again taking place in many cities across Germany. The immediate trigger has been a protest against extreme injustices mandated by the Hartz IV law, a law which would plunge millions of so-called long-term unemployed into outright poverty.
  • Necessity for a National Debate
    Because the global economic and financial crisis will certainly come to a dramatic head in the short term, it is urgently necessary that representatives of different organizations and institutions, who are participating in the protest against Hartz IV, come to an understanding as quickly as possible about the principles of a positive alternative to the austerity policy.

International:

The Fight in Al-Najaf Can Blow the Whole Region
by Hussein Askary
Aug. 19 (EIRNS)—As the Islamic tradition states, "all acts are effects of intention"; the Cheney-Bush Administration's intended war-policy in Southwest Asia is the source of the ongoing, bloody asymmetric warfare in Iraq. The illegal invasion of Iraq aside, the post-invasion policy of stripping the nation of Iraq of all its national military, security, economic, and cultural institutions has led to the chaos raging in Iraq today. The rise of religious forces in Iraq to assuming a controlling political-military status was a result of that policy.

Venezuela On Course for Civil War, Despite Referendum
by Gretchen Small
Aug. 19 (EIRNS)—A great moment has found a very little people indeed, in Venezuela. The fact that the national referendum to recall President Hugo Chavez has failed to stop the plunge toward civil war, exemplifies the horrors lack of national leadership can bring upon a country—and a continent—under conditions of global breakdown.

Financial Predators Seek New War of the Pacific
by Cynthia R. Rush
Aug. 18 (EIRNS)—The nation of Chile is arming itself to the teeth, and on Aug. 4, engaged in provocative war games against Bolivia and Peru. Venezuela's Jacobin President Hugo Chavez continues to say how much he'd like to swim at a "Bolivian beach," a reference to Bolivia's demand that Chile return the strip of territory on South America's Pacific coast that Chile seized during the British-orchestrated 1879-81 War of the Pacific, which left Bolivia landlocked.

Terrorism in India: Alive and Well
by Ramtanu Maitra
While the world has long been attuned to the militancy and terrorism in the Islamic countries, terrorism in India's northeast, bordering Myanmar, Bhutan, Nepal, and Bangladesh, had remained mostly unreported. That changed on Aug. 15, India's 58th Independence Day, when 16 schoolchildren were killed, and 40 injured, in Assam's Dhemaji district. Based on what the authorities claimed, and looking at the modus operandi itself, there is little doubt that the suspects—the militants of the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA)—triggered the killer blast.


National:

The Stench of Watergate Haunts Dick Cheney
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Aug. 19 (EIRNS)—Approximately eight weeks ago, faced with mounting pressure from traditional Republican activists for his removal from the 2004 GOP ticket, Vice President Dick Cheney—along with his wife Lynne—launched a full-court counterattack, aimed at bullying, cajoling, and blackmailing his party rivals into abandoning the fight.

Is McGreevey Scandal an Ashcroft Sting Operation?
by Edward Spannaus
Aug. 19 (EIRNS)—Shortly before New Jersey Governor James McGreevey's Aug. 15 press conference announcing his resignation, he filed a complaint with the FBI charging his former Homeland Security advisor Golan Cipel with extortion. In so doing, McGreevey may have short-circuited an entrapment operation being run against him by John Ashcroft's Justice Department and the local U.S. Attorney.

U.S. Sending Medically Unfit Soldiers to Iraq
by Carl Osgood

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (EIRNS)—The Defense Department has gone to great lengths in recent weeks, to deny any story that the U.S. military, the Army in particular, is stretched far beyond its capacity to handle the missions it is being called upon to carry out. While threatening vetoes of any Congressional measure to increase end strength, the Army has resorted to such measures as mobilizing soldiers out of the Individual Ready Reserves, instituting stop-loss to keep soldiers in the Army up to 18 months beyond the end of their obligations and even recruiting personnel recently separated from the Navy and the Air Force to join the Army.

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