Volume 32, Number 8, February 25, 2005
George Shultz: Godfather of Bush and Schwarzenegger
From a new LaRouche PAC pamphlet, Bush’s Social Security Fraud—Stop George Shultz’s Drive Toward Fascism!
Schwarzenegger Threatens Democrats, Escalates Attack on Californians
by Harley Schlanger
Shultzies Want Iranian Group Off Terror List
by William Jones
Look who’s behind the new Iran Policy Committee, which is gunning for “regime change” in Tehran.
Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht: Adolf Hitler’s ‘Respectable’ Banker
by Nancy Spannaus
Wall Street’s Eyes on Social Security Loot
by Richard Freeman
A dossier on one of Wall Street’s main command centers in the privatization drive, the Cato Institute; what Wall Street intends to gain from privatization; and the 19 financial institutions most actively promoting the looting of Social Security.
Economics
Dollar Crisis Evokes Panic Among World Financial Elite
Since the press is generally ignoring the panicked statements of experts who recognize the breakdown crisis in process, we provide a glimpse of some of the discussions “behind closed doors”—from the World Economic Forum to the Council on Foreign Relations.
Brazil’s Agricultural ‘Success’ in the Cerrado Is a Disaster
by Marcia Merry Baker and Dennis Small
LaRouche on Vernadsky and ‘The Future of Brazil’s Agriculture’
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Reprinted from EIR, Oct. 26, 2001 .
Private Pension Funds Also Failed in Colombia
by Maximiliano Londoño Penilla
Business Briefs
International
Lebanon’s Hariri Killed To Make a ‘Clean Break’
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Though it is not yet known who killed the former Prime Minister, it is clear that to understand why it happened, one must look at the 1996 policy paper prepared for Israel under the supervision of Dick Cheney, “Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.”
Wehrkunde Conference Report: Schröder Drops ‘A Munich Bombshell’
by Rainer Apel
Afghan Drugs Spiral Out of Control
by Ramtanu Maitra
Grigori Bondarevsky: Remembering a Great Scientist of History
by Mary Burdman
A Scientific Strategy for Eurasian Development
by Dr. Yuri Gromyko
A presentation to EIR’s Jan. 12-13 Berlin seminar.
International Intelligence
National
Democrats Take Leadership To Expose Administration Crimes
by Carl Osgood
The Senate Democratic Policy Committee held a hearing on contracting abuses in Iraq. Chairman Byron Dorgan concluded: “Judging from a number of scandals involving mismanagement of funds, U.S. taxpayers and the people of Iraq were often not well served.”
Rumsfeld Reorganizes Pentagon for Fascism
by Carl Osgood
Bush’s Medicare ‘Reform’ Is Back To Haunt Him
by Mary Jane Freeman
‘They Haven’t Thought of 2006 at All’
by Linda Everett
A discussion with Mississippi State Rep. Credell Calhoun (D).
Book Reviews
Gold and Treason
by Anton Chaitkin
Rebel Gold: One Man’s Quest To Crack the Code Behind the Secret Treasure of the Confederacy, by Warren Getler and Bob Brewer.
Science & Technology
The Fraud of Bush’s ‘Pro-Nuclear’ Policy
by Nancy Spannaus
The contrast between the Chinese program to build the next generation of nuclear plants, and Bush’s energy plan, shows the “pro-nuclear” label to be a fraud.
China’s 21st-Century Nuclear Energy Plan
by Marsha Freeman
Save the Fast Flux Test Facility! The United States Must Go Nuclear
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
Investigation
The Ibero-American Solidarity Movement (MSIA): Anatomy of a Fascist Intelligence Operation
by William F. Wertz, Jr.
Editorial
Stop the New Thirty Years’ War
