Executive Intelligence Review, Volume 31, Number 31, August 6
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EIR Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editorial Board: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, Antony Papert, Gerald From the Associate Editor Rose, Dennis Small, Edward Spannaus, Nancy Spannaus, Jeffrey Steinberg, William Wertz Editor: Nancy Spannaus Associate Editors: Ronald Kokinda, Susan Welsh n last week’s letter to our readers, I warned you to expect the Managing Editor: John Sigerson I Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht unexpected at the Democratic National Convention. This week’s Technology Editor: Marsha Freeman issue “delivers.” From Lyndon LaRouche’s webcast address in Bos- Book Editor: Katherine Notley Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis ton on July 25; through a week of innovative and determined organiz- Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol ing by the LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM), supported by a group INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: of Democratic elected officials; to LaRouche’s press conference on Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Michele Steinberg July 30 launching the new “LaRouche PAC,” countless interventions Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, occurred that can change the course of history. Lothar Komp History: Anton Chaitkin There is plenty that one could criticize about the Convention; but, Ibero-America: Dennis Small as you will see in the press conference transcript on page 7, LaRouche Law: Edward Spannaus Russia and Eastern Europe: takes the high road. Terry McAuliffe’s Democratic National Com- Rachel Douglas mittee excluded him from the Convention, while vetting and censor- United States: Debra Freeman ing the speeches of other leading Democrats who were granted per- INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: Bogota´: Javier Almario mission to speak; but the DNC could not keep the LYM from breaking Berlin: Rainer Apel the controlled environment inside the Fleet Center, and transforming Caracas: David Ramonet Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen the city outside it. Nor can they exclude the reality of the global Houston: Harley Schlanger economic-financial collapse, which they are determined to ignore and Lima: Sara Maduen˜o Melbourne: Robert Barwick LaRouche is determined to solve. By their Baby-Boomerish appeal to Mexico City: Rube´n Cota Meza “the great middle class” (such of it as remains), they have forgotten New Delhi: Ramtanu Maitra Paris: Christine Bierre what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called “the forgotten man.” Rome: Paolo Raimondi That is the constituency that the LaRouche forces will now proceed United Nations, N.Y.C.: Leni Rubinstein Washington, D.C.: William Jones to mobilize, in strategic locales, behind the Democratic ticket—as Wiesbaden: Go¨ran Haglund the banner in our cover photo shows. We’ll get Kerry-Edwards EIR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (50 issues), elected, save the world from another term of Cheney-Bush—and by EIR News Service Inc., 217 4th Street, S.E., then, as LaRouche said in his July 25 webcast, “When we win it, . Washington, DC 20003. (202) 543-8002. (703) 777- 9451, or toll-free, 888-EIR-3258. we will take our right: We will tell the winner, he works for us.” World Wide Web site: http://www.larouchepub.com e-mail: [email protected] In this special issue of EIR devoted mainly to the Boston proceed- European Headquarters: Executive Intelligence Review Nachrichtenagentur GmbH, Postfach 2308, ings, the core is LaRouche’s “A Real Democratic Platform for No- D-65013 Wiesbaden, Bahnstrasse 9-A, D-65205, Wiesbaden, Federal Republic of Germany vember 2004,” some 50,000 copies of which circulated in and around Tel: 49-611-73650. the Convention. If you think it’s not easy reading, you’re right! 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EIRContents 12 LaRouche Issues His ‘Real Democratic Platform’: Cover 50,000 Go Out at Boston This Week LaRouche’s opening presentation to his July 25 webcast. The LaRouche 17 A Real Democratic Youth Movement’s Platform for November singing of Classical 2004 music captured the hearts of Bostonians and Convention 45 Elected Dems Blast DNC delegates alike. Dirty Tricks Against LYM at Boston Convention A July 25 press conference by the 4 LaRouche Launches Drive for Democrats To LaRouche Youth Movement and Win in November Democratic elected officials. After the conclusion of the Democratic Convention in Boston, Lyndon LaRouche held a July 30 press conference 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. The only way this can be done, he said, is to return the Democratic Party to the tradition of FDR, and to implement LaRouche’s program for reorganizing the bankrupt global financial-economic system. 7 New LaRouche PAC Aims To Mobilize the Lower-Income 80% To Act LaRouche’s July 30 press conference. www.larouchepub.com Volume 31, Number 31, August 6, 2004 News Analysis Interviews 52 Western Powers Seek 59 How Iraq Must, and Can, 59 Ju¨rgen Hu¨bschen Sudan Disintegration Become a Sovereign Nation Colonel Hu¨bschen (ret.) was an The humanitarian crisis in the Once Again officer in the German Army for Darfur region confirms the cynical An interview with Ju¨rgen almost 40 years, and served as nature of the West’s Africa policy. Hu¨bschen. military attache´ at the German For decades, the global financial Embassy in Baghdad. He has institutions, led by the IMF and 67 Philippines President written several books on the history World Bank, blocked development Arroyo Stands Up of the Mideast and on Western policy toward it. for countries in the region, making Her decision to withdraw the token social and political conflicts Philippine military force serving in unavoidable. Iraq, more than a month before the scheduled end of their tour of duty Editorial 54 Sudanese ‘Peace’ Deal on Aug. 20, came as a surprise to Could Spell Disaster Washington, which is accustomed 72 The Youth Are Your Prof. Ibrahim A. Nasr El Din of to subservience from Manila. Future Cairo University gave EIR a detailed briefing on four scenarios 68 Army Whitewashes Abu which could unfold in neighboring Ghraib Torture Scandal Sudan. The Army Inspector General’s report on detainee and interrogation 56 UNAIDS Conference operations in Iraq concluded that Shows Bush the abuses “were unauthorized Administration’s Imperial actions taken by a few individuals.” Attitude The Bush Administration cut the 70 Congressional Closeup U.S. delegation attending the conference in Thailand by 60%, and reduced its contribution to the UN Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria to just $200 million this year—one-fifth of what was requested by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, to deal with the epidemic which took 3 million lives in the last year. Photo and graphic credits: Cover, EIRNS/Sylvia Spaniolo. Pages 5, 8, 10, 13, 15, 16, 17, 45, 47, 48, 50, 51, EIRNS/Stuart Lewis. Page 19 (Roosevelt), Library of Congress. Pages 19 (map), 20, 21, 43, 53, 65, EIRNS. Page 25 (Bush), White House Photo/Paul Morse. Page 25 (Blair), NATO Photo. Page 37, 39, U.S. Bureau of Land Reclamation. Pages 57, 58, UNAIDS/WHO. Page 60, DoD/Air Force Staff Sgt. Ashley Brokop. Page 63 (Polish troops), DoD/Staff Sgt. Ricky A. Bloom. Page 63 (electric grid repair), Thomas O’Hara. EIRFeature 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. “Obviously, we have a situation in which the nominee, Kerry, must occupy the White House by election in November,” LaRouche began. “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 . we’ve got to get him elected. Because the alternative is unthinkable.” LaRouche has made it clear, in a series of public addresses and press interviews over recent weeks, that the only way that the Democratic Party can defeat the GOP ticket is by returning to the tradition of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and by truthfully addressing the pressing issues of the day—the systemic global financial and eco- nomic breakdown, and the danger of perpetual war embedded in the Cheney-Bush doctrine of preventive nuclear war, and in the genocidal March 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq. The full text of his July 30 statement, outlining his perspective as to how this can be done, is printed below. Even before the Convention was gavelled to a close, with the nomination of John Kerry and John Edwards, LaRouche had thrown down the gauntlet on the FDR issue by releasing a “Real Democratic Party Platform for November 2004” (see full text below).