Volume 32, Number 10, March 11, 2005
Social Security: No, It’s Not the Demographics, Stupid
by Dennis Small
The lies coming from the Bush Administration on its privatization plans may actually reflect its intent to impose draconian austerity on the U.S. population. But the fundamental lie, about so-called inexorable demographics leading to a crisis, can also easily be refuted, if the nation returns to the economic principles of the American System.
Mexico’s Privatization: A José Piñera Disaster
by Dennis Small
While Mexico has not privatized all its government pensions, the record so far has brought disaster to millions.
Plan to ‘Kill Amtrak’ Meets Bipartisan Opposition
by Mary Jane Freeman
The Bush Administration budget will literally zero out funds for Amtrak, and leave the world’s “only superpower” without a national rail system.
Argentine Bond Deal: ‘Revolt’ Against the IMF
by Cynthia R. Rush
Argentina successfully put through a substantial reduction in its debt obligations, setting an important precedent.
Italian Banks Unload Argentine Bonds In Italy; Investigation Blocked
by Claudio Celani
An interview with Luigi Olivieri.
National
Former Military Lawyers Join Lawsuit Against Rumsfeld
by Edward Spannaus
The lawsuit filed by Afghan and Iraqi torture victims documents the chain of command coming directly from the Secretary of Defense.
Documentation: High-ranking retired military figures, Brig. Gen. James Cullen, and Rear Admiral John D. Hutson, have joined the lawsuit against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Part of the lawsuit is reproduced here.
Scientists: White House Ignores Public Health
by Marcia Merry Baker
Documentation: Researchers’ Open Letter.
Mobilization To Stop Shultz’s Fascism
The LaRouche Youth Movement mobilization has created the environment for an aggressive Democratic Party stance.
Cheney’s Perpetual War Doctrine Revived
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The new Bush Administration confrontational stance against Russia and China has roots in Cheney Doctrine.
Dick Cheney/Baroness Symons Dirty Tricks Revived
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
U.S. National Studies
Bring Back FDR’s Democratic Party
by Debra Hanania Freeman
Lyndon LaRouche’s leadership through the election campaign, and beyond, set the stage for transforming the Democrats into a fighting force. LaRouche’s National Spokeswoman reports.
Hitler on Steroids: Nietzschean Roots of the Governator
by Harley Schlanger
The LaRouche Youth Movement’s battle against Arnie Schwarzenegger, Shultz’s real Nazi threat.
A Strategic Mission: Make Bush a Lame Duck
by Jeffrey Steinberg
International forces, and sane Republicans, can play a vital role in bringing Bush down now.
International
Will Lebanon and Syria Resist Regime Change?
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
The Bush Administration’s “Clean Break” strategy is arousing opposition in both nations.
Hariri Stood for Unitary Nation-State
by Christine Bierre
An interview with Gilles Munier.
Bankers, Bush Put Squeeze on Philippines
by Mike Billington
Strategy of Tension is escalating against the Philippines.
Ibero-America Wants Integration, Not War
by Valerie Rush and Gretchen Small
Feature
Put Out the Flames Of the Oligarchy’s Thirty Years’ War
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
In her keynote to the Schiller Institute’s Presidents Day Conference, Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche gave a strategic review of war crises now headed toward world war, and then used Friedrich Schiller’s study of the Thirty Years’ War to illuminate the principles that must be used in order to prevent such a disastrous calamity today.
A Brief Chronology of the Thirty Years’ War
Interviews
Luigi Olivieri
Italian Parliamentarian Luigi Olivieri is a member of the Left Democratic Party, and recently visited Argentina.
Brig. Gen. James Cullen
Brigadier General James Cullen, now retired, last served as the Chief Judge (IMA) of the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals. He is a retired Brigadier General in the United States Army Reserve Judge Advocate General’s Corps, and currently practices law in New York City.
Gilles Munier
Gilles Munier is the Secretary General of the Franco-Iraqi Friendship Association, and author of Guide to Iraq (Jean Picollec Publishing-2000) and Iraq, an Illustrated History (Northampton, Massachusetts, www.interlinkbooks.com, 2004).
Editorial
Greenspan Spills the Beans
