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Published: Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005
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Volume 4, Issue Number 47
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This Week You Need To Know:
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On the Washington Post's Robert G. Kaiser on The World War Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World, by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin
November 6, 2005
Kaiser? "... Phoebus! What a name to bear the weight of future's fame!" from Byron on Amos Cottle.
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The collapse of the Soviet system, from the close of 1989 onward, became the opening of the silly season for a U.S.A. which had been, thus, suddenly released from the grip of the kind of deadly seriousness which had held the attention of the leading powers, and others, of the planet, since the onset of the Great Depression and the rise of the Hitler regime. For the triumphant leading powers of the U.S.A. and what had been formerly "western Europe," the collapse of the Soviet system encouraged their wishful delusion, that the fearful "outside world" was no longer there. For some, real history had ended. For them, the world had become a doll-house world in which we of George H.W. Bush's U.S.A. and Margaret Thatcher's London had Europe in her handbag, such that we, as the leading powers, could make up children's stories we wrote, and games we would invent, tunes to which the rest of the world must now dance.
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This Week in History
On November 25, 1758, the American goal of recapturing France's Fort Duquesne at the Forks of the Ohio River became a reality. The terrible defeat of Gen. Edward Braddock's expedition in 1755, as it marched to attack the fort, had postponed any immediate return to the future site of Pittsburgh. As the French and Indian War raged in America, the Seven Years War in Europe saw Britain's East India Company fighting France for control of a worldwide empire. But in the beginning years of that war, Britain suffered defeat after defeat, and the French hurled their Indian allies against the American frontier with impunity.
George Washington, who had assumed command of the Virginia Militia on the frontier, established a chain of forts up and down the Shenandoah Valley, but Indian raids directed by the French had pushed the majority of American settlers back across the Blue Ridge in the aftermath of Braddock's defeat. Those who stayed clustered around Washington's forts for protection, and members of the militia camped and drilled at Greenway Court, the residence of Lord Thomas Fairfax, who had also refused to seek the safety of the Tidewater...
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Latest From LaRouche
This is a transcript of the full text of Lyndon LaRouche's Nov. 16 webcast in Washington, D.C. He was introduced by Debra Hanania Freeman, who moderated the event. Subheads have been added. The video is archived at www.larouchepac.com.
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Feature:
Is Vice President Dick Cheney Losing It?
by Jeffrey Steinberg
One day after a bipartisan Senate majority passed legislation holding the White House accountable for its disastrous Iraq policy, Vice President Dick Cheney appeared at an awards dinner for former Sen. Malcolm Wallop, on Nov. 16, and used the occasion to stage a psychotic outburst against anyone daring to question the Bush Administration's motives for going to war in Iraq.
Political Upset in Israel: Labor Leader to Follow Rabin
by Dean Andromidas
In a stunning political upset, Amir Peretz, chairman of the Israeli Histadrut Labor Federation, won the Nov. 9 election for the chairmanship of the Israeli Labor Party. The defeat he dealt former chairman Shimon Peres, and the old guard leadership, amounts to a political upheaval in the Labor Party, with profound ramifications for Israeli politics. Peretz's election is clearly one of the aftershocks of the ongoing political earthquake in Washington against Vice President Cheney.
- Documentation
Amir Peretz: 'I Have a Dream'
Martin Luther King was the inspiration for the speech of Amir Peretz at the Nov. 12 mass demonstration commemorating the tenth anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Peretz has remoralized the Israeli peace movement, and contributed to bringing 200,000 people to Rabin Square, the biggest peace demonstration of the last decade. Although only former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Shimon Peres were scheduled to speak, Peretz's name was added to the speakers' list at the personal request of Yitzhak Rabin's daughter, Dalia.
'End of Cheney' Blows Back Into Britain
by Mary Burdman
The scandals about the lies and deception used to launch the Iraq War—the real reason U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney is on the way out—are reverberating into Britain. Cheney's key international ally, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, lost a crucial vote in the House of Commons Nov. 9. The issue was the most extreme measure in Blair's new 'Anti-Terrorism' bill, which would have allowed authorities to detain terrorism suspects for 90 days without charges. This was Blair's first defeat in a Parliament vote since his 'New Labour' came to power in 1997, and the third big political blow Blair suffered in a week. More are coming.
Report From Germany
Coalition Is Clueless on Economics
by Rainer Apel
Within the straitjacket of the Maastricht system, the new Berlin government has no options for economic recovery. The three parties that will form the new Grand Coalition government of Germany—the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Christian Social Union (CSU), and Social Democratic Party (SPD)—have negotiated a coalition agreement that amounts to a smorgasbord of some 50 'investment' measures that will do nothing to shore up a sinking economy.
Strategic Studies:
A LESSON FROM RONALD REAGAN
Of British Fools And 'Post' Reviewers
by Lyndon H.LaRouche, Jr.
On the Washington Post's Robert G. Kaiser on The World War Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World
by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin
(Please refer to the bookmarks in the PDF file for the following sections...)
- Fenimore Cooper, Allan Poe, and Lafayette (p. 49)
- The World System Seen As Flatland (p. 56)
- As the SDI Must Be Revisited (p.68)
- The Future Toward Which We Must Build (p. 75)
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