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Published: Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2006
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This Week You Need To Know:
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February 18, 2006
To play a useful role in history, influential leaders of institutions are those, like President Franklin Roosevelt, who act to prevent, or to prepare for a crisis before it has happened, while it could still be prevented.
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Now, the U.S. Democratic Party approaches a new general election, when that party has a pressing need for the immediate circulation of a platform which represents an actually programmatic approach to the crucial policy-decisions with which the presently oncoming world crisis already threatens us.
This crisis is expressed, on the one side, by the failure of the Party, so far, to speak openly, with sufficient clarity, resolution, and force, on the deeper implications of even the obvious issues which are presently under discussion among some of the Party's leading circles....
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This Week in History
On Feb. 28, 1860, Abraham Lincoln boarded a train in New York City and headed for New England. He had just made his memorable speech at the Cooper Union the night before, and was now looking forward to visiting his son Robert, who was studying at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. During the round trip, Lincoln would also make nine major speeches in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire, all of them at the request of Republican Party leaders in those states.
During the past year, Lincoln had stood firm on principle, while others wavered or capitulated. During 1859, Lincoln had travelled from state to state, combating the sophistry coming from both Sen. Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois and pro-slavery Southerners. Douglas was using the soothing phrase "popular sovereignty" to mask the spread of slavery to every part of the nation, including the Federal territories. The pro-slavery faction, strongly encouraged and supported by Britain and other European oligarchies, who aimed to thus destroy the American Republic, repeated the mantra that everything would be fine if they were just left alone.
On Oct. 16, 1859, the nation was stunned by John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, Va. Southern members of Congress immediately accused the Republicans of having masterminded this "invasion of Southern territory." Senator Douglas, the leading Democratic Presidential hopeful, agreed with them, and stated that the violence at Harper's Ferry was the "natural" and "logical" outcome of the policies of the Northern Republican Party.
Many Republicans began waffling and back-peddling, but not Lincoln. A Chicago editor wrote to Lincoln that he and his colleagues were worried about "the moral health of the Republican Party," and Lincoln agreed. In November and December, he was making almost daily speeches in Kansas, and on Dec. 3, the day after John Brown died on the gallows, Lincoln addressed an audience in Leavenworth, Kansas.
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Lyndon LaRouche addressed an international webcast on behalf of the LaRouche Political Action Committee (LPAC) on Feb. 23, 2006.
Over the past three weeks, my wife has been checking with people in France and in Germany on the so-called bird flu problem. Now, recently, there were a number of dead swans, who turned up on the island of Ruegen, which is off the North Sea coast of Germany. And this typifies a pattern, in which Europeans, European leaders, in France and in Germany, have put the issue of bird flu, as one of the three great strategic problems which Europe faces at this time.
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Franklin Roosevelt's Legacy
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
To play a useful role in history, influential leaders of institutions are those, like President Franklin Roosevelt, who act to prevent, or to prepare for a crisis before it has happened, while it could still be prevented. Now, the U.S. Democratic Party approaches a new general election, when that party has a pressing need for the immediate circulation of a platform which represents an actually programmatic approach to the crucial policy-decisions with which the presently oncoming world crisis already threatens us.
Make a Platonic Revolution To Save Our Civilization
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.'s opening presentation to a Washington webcast on Feb. 23. Outlining the manifold crises that threaten us— bird flu, economic breakdown, and war—he declares: 'In Europe, and in the United States, in particular, there is no sane response to the situation which now exists, and the conditions which threaten to break out. This is an unusual part of our history. And you have to think back, as to how this came about, and what we do about it.' The essential problem is Sophism, and the solution is to learn from history, and return to the respect for truth and creative discovery that was embodied in the work of Plato's Academy.
Economics:
India Adopts 'Chinese Model'—With Some Variations
Despite the high praise from the International Monetary Fund and others, for India's rate of economic growth, as many as 400 million Indians live in dire poverty. Ramtanu Maitra reports, following a trip to New Delhi.
Argentina: 'When We Speak of Greed, We Speak of Monsanto'
Argentina's Agriculture Secretary has characterized as 'extortion' and 'abuse,' the confiscation, by European authorities, of shipments of Argentine soy flour, acting on orders of the biotechnology giant, Monsanto. Documentation: From 'The State's Action Against Monsanto's Coercion,' a chronology issued by the Agriculture, Cattle, Fishing and Food Secretariat of the Argentine Finance Ministry.
- Interview: Pat Trask
Monsanto's Power Grab: 'An Evil Objective'
On Feb. 16, 2006, a lawsuit was filed in the Northern District of California, calling on the court to rescind the deregulated status—that is, permission for commercial sale—of Monsanto's Roundup Ready alfalfa, that was granted in 2005 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Named are Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns; Ron DeHaven, Administrator of the Animal Plant Health and Inspection Service (APHIS); and Steve Johnson, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Calling the USDA's action on behalf of Monsanto 'arbitrary and capricious,' the suit was brought by a grouping including two farmers, one from Oregon, the other, Pat Trask, from South Dakota.
International:
Threat of Pandemic Requires Crash Bio Defense Initiative
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Since the beginning of February, 13 more nations on three continents have announced the outbreak of bird flu, of the highly contagious strain H5N1. After the discovery of dead wild fowl on [the northern German island] Ru¨gen and the neighboring territory, now the first European Union cases of infected commercial animals have appeared in Austria. According to information from the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 170 cases have been reported worldwide, in which human beings have been infected with this virus, and so far there have been 92 deaths; but the scientists also report that the virus, through the course of its mutation, has become more resistant and more dangerous. It is, in all probability, only a question of time, before the H5N1 virus mutates into a virus which can immediately be communicated from person to person, 'growing together' with the normal flu virus.
British Promote Religious War in Iraq
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
The Feb. 22 bombing of the Imam al-Askari mosque in Samarra immediately raised the specter of civil war in Iraq. To be more precise, what is threatened is civil war along sectarian lines—full-fledged religious warfare, in the infamous tradition of the Crusades, the religious wars which wracked Europe from the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 to the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, and, in modern times, the Lebanese civil war and so on. Like those wars, the threatened conflict in Iraq is 'an imperial tactic,' as Lyndon LaRouche put it in his Feb. 23 webcast, to wit, a British imperial tactic aimed at wreaking chaos in the entire region.
National:
LaRouche: What We Need Is A Groundswell Against Cheney
by Edward Spannaus
When asked, during his Feb. 23 webcast about the issue of foreign ownership of ports, which has triggered a Republican revolt against the Administration and a huge furor in Congress, Lyndon LaRouche answered in a manner that must have surprised many of his listeners. First, LaRouche said, the issue is globalization and deindustrialization, and it's not going to be straightened out until someone has the guts to raise the issue of the return of nuclear power. LaRouche declared that we must reverse the policy shifts that took place between 1971 and 1981, under Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, and he stressed that without confronting the question of nuclear power, you can't deal with the petroleum crisis in the United States.
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