Volume 32, Number 11, March 18, 2005
World on the Verge of a Dollar Crash
by Jeffrey Steinberg
A breaking pattern of international developments led Lyndon LaRouche to warn that the world is now on the verge of a collapse of the entire dollar-based post-Bretton Woods floating-exchange-rate system. While this does not guarantee the immediate crash of the dollar, and the evaporation of the entire global financial superstructure, it does mean that governments must be prepared to act now, to put the system through bankruptcy reorganization.
Economics
Soaring Commodity Prices Show Threat to Dollar System
by Lothar Komp
As a result of central banks pumping liquidity into the financial system, and the control of raw commodity prices by futures exchanges in London and New York, the prices for a wide spectrum of raw materials have gone to stratospheric levels.
Economy and Ideas
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Foreword to the forthcoming book The Earth’s Next Fifty Years.
Italy Reps. Debate New Bretton Woods
GMAC Is a Big Soft Spot in Global Debt Bubble
by Paul Gallagher
Auto Leader: ‘We Face an Economic Collapse’
by Paul Gallagher
Interview with Eugene Morey.
India Puts Energy Security on Fast Track
by Ramtanu Maitra
Change the Assumptions to Growth, and Social Security Is in Fine Shape
by Richard Freeman
Fascist Chile Model of Pension Privatization
Can You See José?
by Dennis Small
José Piñero is on the run.
Business Briefs
International
U.S. Administration’s Lebanon Ploy Is Blowing Up in Its Face
by Nancy Spannaus
Bush’s demand for “democracy” in Lebanon, as in Iraq, is bringing forward a mobilization of precisely those political forces which the Administration wanted to destroy, and even the local collaborators with the U.S. plan are nervous.
U.S. Killing of Intelligence Official Shakes Italian-U.S. Relationship
by Claudio Celani
Italy Paid No Ransom to Kidnappers
An interview with Luigi Ramponi.
Dirty-Money Scandal Points to Sharon, Mega
by Dean Andromidas
The case of Israel’s Bank Hapoalim.
Behind the Kelly/Wilson/ Duggan Affair: Anatomy of a Defamation Campaign
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Discontinuity in Current World Affairs
by Maj. Gen. Vinod Saighal (ret.)
Presentation to EIR’s Jan. 12-13 seminar in Berlin.
International Intelligence
National
John Bolton Will Push Preventive War at the UN
by Michele Steinberg
Coming at the time that the Bush Administration is in a full court press for regime change in Damascus, the appointment of the Administration’s leading WMD disinformation specialist, and the architect of the passage of the Syrian Accountability Act, is a particularly provocative gesture.
Washington Post Hits Dems on Social Security
The paper spreads lies against the Democracy Corps group of James Carville and pollster Stanley Greenberg.
War Crimes Was the Policy
by Edward Spannaus
The report by Navy Inspector General Vice Adm. Albert Church, on Defense Department detention and interrogation policies, continues the cover-up, but Congressmen and others are demanding the truth.
Documentation: From the hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on March 10, in which Senators asked Admiral Church about a secret Justice Department memorandum.
Arnie’s Lies Can’t Hide Shultz’s Fascism
by Harley Schlanger
Supreme Court Majority Bars Death Penalty for Minors
by Nancy Spannaus
DeLay Is Nervous; Pals’ Legal Troubles Mount
by Harley Schlanger
National News
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
Civil Rights
LaRouche Youth Join Amelia Boynton Robinson
by Bonnie James and KRN
The commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Selma, Alabama’s “Bloody Sunday.”
‘A Vote-Less People Is a Hopeless People’
Interview with Amelia Boynton Robinson.
Interviews
Eugene Morey
The president of United Auto Workers Local 849 in Ypsilanti, Michigan, represents employees of Visteon Corporation.
Luigi Ramponi
Representative Ramponi heads the Defense Committee of the Italian House of Representatives. A four-star general, he was head of the SISMI in 1991-92.
Amelia Boynton Robinson
Mrs. Robinson, a fighter for civil rights for nearly a century, is vice chairwoman of the Schiller Institute in the United States. A participant in the events of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, she and her late husband S.W. Boynton had been fighting for voting rights for 30 years before the Selma march.
Departments
Report from Germany
by Rainer Apel
Schröder Visits Arabian Peninsula.
Editorial
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