Volume 32, Number 1, January 7, 2005
The Dialogue of Eurasian Civilizations: Earth’s Next Fifty Years
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
“My purpose here is chiefly to correct a menacing lack of general awareness of certain among the most urgent, and potentially deadly of the practical implications at issue in current, probably failed efforts to conduct a needed dialogue of cultures. That need is indicated by the great likelihood that the effort on behalf of that dialogue would turn out to be a catastrophic failure for mankind today, unless certain relevant, wrong, but presently popular assumptions about that dialogue were pinpointed, and some among those errors corrected by aid of some painstaking attention to detail, as I do here.”
Economics
Pinochet and Pinocchio: President George ‘Enron’ Bush Lies About ‘Enron II’
by Paul Gallagher
An excerpt from the LaRouche PAC pamphlet “Bush’s Social Security Privatization: Foot in the Door for Fascism,” a call to action to prevent the looting of the U.S. Social Security Trust Fund, in what would be a futile attempt to bail out the collapsing financial system. How do you tell when Bush is lying? Easy: His lips are moving!
Who’s Looting Peru’s Privatized Pensions?
by Manuel Hidalgo
The Peruvian Congress will now force all retirees to join the privatized pension system (created in 1992). The pension funds are primarily controlled by foreign banks, which will make out like bandits because of the new law.
International
Flood Catastrophe Shows Need for New, Just Economic Order
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
The staggering death toll from the Dec. 26 tsunami that hit the Indian Ocean Basin, exposes the massive guilt of international financial institutions that have looted the region by “globalization,” while leaving national infrastructure vulnerable to catastrophic events such as this. A seven-point program of what must be done.
Tsunami Hits a Stupefied Washington
by Laurence Hecht
How is it possible that a nation which is capable of conducting a remote-controlled assassination of its enemies by drone aircraft from a military command center in Florida, 6,000 miles from the target, was not capable of warning its friends of this looming disaster?
Swiss Think-Tank Exposes ‘NATO’s Secret Army’
by Claudio Celani
Daniele Ganser is leading a research project on NATO’s secret armies at the Center for Security Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. His book, NATO’s Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, sheds new light on the “Strategy of Tension” which EIR has been exposing for many years. Now, the Swiss bankers’ organ, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, is playing up the story.
Rabbi, Prosecuted by Sharon, Tours U.S.
Rabbi Arik Ascherman is on trial in Israel, for standing in front of bulldozers about to demolish Palestinian homes in April 2003.
National
Alberto Gonzales: Bush’s ‘Nazi Lawyer’
by Edward Spannaus
Most charges against Gonzales, President Bush’s nominee for the post of Attorney General, miss the larger point: his obsequious willingness, even eagerness, to provide President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney with a legal rationalization for the untrammelled exercise of executive powers and the egregious abuse of those powers.
More Election Crimes Surface in Ohio
by Edward Spannaus
Documentation: Rep. John Conyers (Mich.), the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee who has been conducting an aggressive investigation of the Ohio vote, zeroes in on the potential rigging of the recount, in letters to political and government officials.
Editorial
Victory Over Fascism
