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 ur last issue of 2005 is oriented toward Lyndon LaRouche’s web- Managing Editor: John Sigerson O Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht cast on Jan. 11, 2006, titled “Rebuild a Looted Economy.” He will Technology Editor: Marsha Freeman address a Washington audience, and the event will be broadcast live Book Editor: Katherine Notley Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis at www.larouchepac.com, starting at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol This is an especially crucial intervention. Though the Congress INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: is out of session, it is essential that the political momentum that is Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Michele Steinberg now building, for a shift to a Franklin Roosevelt-style economic Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, policy and an end to the Cheney “Imperial Presidency,” gather steam Lothar Komp History: Anton Chaitkin in the first weeks of the new year. Ibero-America: Dennis Small Our cover photo captures the spirit of what is required. The World Law: Edward Spannaus Russia and Eastern Europe: War II generation remembers well, how the nation’s auto factories Rachel Douglas were quickly retooled to produce military mate´riel, unleashing the United States: Debra Freeman greatest productive potential the world had ever seen. It was this INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: Bogota´: Javier Almario American superiority in logistics that made victory over fascism pos- Berlin: Rainer Apel sible, under FDR’s inspired leadership. 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Canada Post Publication Sales Agreement #40683579 Postmaster: Send all address changes to EIR, P.O. Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. EIRContents National 18 Cheney and His Patsy, Bush, Face Impeachment Cover Furor This Week “Impeach, impeachment, and impeachable are words now back in prominent usage, as the result of the Production of antics of Dick Cheney and his B-24E bombers at patsy, George W. Bush,” Lyndon Ford Motor Co.’s LaRouche commented on Dec. 22, reconverted Willow in reference to the firestorm of Run factory during reactions to the Vice President’s World War II. assertion that there are no Howard R. Hollem, National Archives Constitutional limits on the power of the U.S. Presidency. 4 Auto Reconversion Can Lead the Way to U.S. Recovery 21 Documentation Just as in World War II, the U.S. automotive/machine- Administration officials defend tool industry converted at breakneck speed to produce illegal spying; Rockefeller hits planes, tanks, and guns, at rates never before imagined, Cheney and NSA spy program; so today, our urgent mission is on the terrain of public, or Senators of both parties speak out, publicly regulated infrastructure. seek hearings; “impeachable offense?” 6 Rebuilding the U.S.A.: Travel Among Cities 27 Cheney Suffers Setbacks as A memorandum by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Congress Ends the Year 10 The Auto Industry Can Help Build New 30 Cheney and DeLay: Joined Nuclear Plants at the Hip 14 Building a High-Speed Railway Network 36 The LaRouche Show: Art and Science: Charting the Course for the Post- 15 Sales Drop, Strike Threat Leave Auto One Cheney Era Way Out The Internet radio show hosted Lyndon LaRouche, along with 15 Black Legislators Pass ‘Retool Auto’ LaRouche Youth Movement panelists Riana St. Classis, Cody Resolution Jones, and Jason Ross. 16 Critical Auto Capacity To Be Saved: Announced and Threatened Shutdowns 2005-08 www.larouchepub.com Volume 32, Number 50, December 30, 2005 Economics International In Memoriam 46 How Not To Build a 54 Argentina, Brazil Pay Off 34 Eugene McCarthy: He Recovery: A Tale of TwoDebt to IMF; Bankers Acted To Restore Our Bozos Nervous Nation’s Purpose Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. dissects The governments of Brazil and the piece of chicanery contributed Argentina unexpectedly announced 35 Back to the Bestiary by Felix Rohatyn and Warren that they would pay off the balances EIR interviewed Senator McCarthy Rudman to the Washington Post on owed the International Monetary right after the 2004 Presidential Dec. 13. Fund before the end of this year. So, election. why are the bankers sweating? 48 More on Rohatyn LaRouche replies to European 56 Israel: ‘The Guy Upstairs’ Interviews critics. Doesn’t Take Polls 35 Sen. Eugene McCarthy 49 Britain’s Economy: Going, 57 Italy: The Flagellants of The U.S. Senator and 1968 Going . Val di Susa and the Danger Presidential candidate, in this 2004 of Bonapartism interview, gave a hilarious 52 German Leaders Call for characterization of “The Bestiary” Reregulation of George Bush, Karl Rove, and their supporters. 53 Business Briefs Book Reviews 60 New Research Sheds Light on Prussian-American Relations Preussen und die USA 1850-1867: Transatlantische Wechselwirkungen (Prussia and the USA 1850-1867: Mutual Influences Across the Atlantic), by Enno Eimers. Editorial 64 We Can Create a U.S. Recovery EIRFeature Auto Reconversion Can Lead the Way To U.S. Recovery by EIR Staff In Spring 2005, economist/statesman Lyndon LaRouche publicly warned the U.S. Senate to prepare now to avoid the consequences of the forthcoming likely bank- ruptcy of General Motors Corporation. Not only the losses of jobs and homes, and effective bankruptcies of cities and counties, even states; worse, without the machine-tool design capability centered in the automotive (and aerospace) indus- try, the United States will be condemned to virtual “Third World” status for at least a generation. This, amidst a world depression crisis which, like that of the 1930s, cannot be mastered except with the help of American world leadership. Instead, LaRouche proposed that the Senate prepare to handle the automotive crisis through arrangements for “strategic bankruptcy,” under which the Federal government would assert the overriding vital national interest that the automotive labor force and plant continue to be employed in place, especially its critical ma- chine-tool sector, through which highly skilled labor creates employment for hun- dreds of times their numbers of skilled, semi-skilled, and unskilled labor. Let us face the fact that demand for private automobiles will not grow to absorb the industry’s full productive capacity at any time in the near future, LaRouche said. As during the period of the pre-war buildup and World War II, so today there are urgent, unpostponable national missions—now peacetime missions—for which the capabilities unique to our automotive industry are irreplaceable. Back then, the industry converted at breakneck speed to produce planes, tanks, and guns, at rates never before imagined, in place of automobiles. Today, our urgent mission is on the terrain of public, or publicly regulated infrastructure. Time To End Illusions Unfortunately, the U.S. Senate failed to respond to this question last Spring, under the comfortable illusion that a bankruptcy of General Motors was unthink- able. Others did respond, though, including mayors and other local government officials, and United Autoworkers locals, some of which brought several hundred 4 Feature EIR December 30, 2005 The Yongwang nuclear power complex in South Korea: An example of the large-scale nuclear facilities that are vital in the 21st Century, and which American auto plants could be retooled to produce.