Volume 33, Number 14, April 7, 2006
Halliburton’s War
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Explosive new reports document how Coalition Provisional Authority proconsul Paul Bremer, during his tenure in Iraq, wrecked the potential for a viable exit strategy, and gave a license to steal to Dick Cheney’s Halliburton and other “private military corporations” (PMCs).
What Rohatyn Wants To Hide
Halliburton’s Gross Profiteering Record in Cheney’s Iraq War
by Carl Osgood
Today’s Neo-Feudalism and the Crusades
by Gerald Rose
When the advocates of privatizing U.S. military functions today speak of “a return to neo-feudalism,” they are not being metaphorical. Their actual model is the Crusades—the medieval wars by private armies against what were then incipient nation-states.
National Economy
LaRouche Brings Water, Power Proposals to Mexico
by Gretchen Small
Lyndon LaRouche visited Monterrey, Mexico on March 29, to address the 27th Symposium on International Economics: “Visionomics: Challenges and Proposals for Mexico,” held on the campus of the Monterrey Technological Institute.
Power, Water, and Transport: The Prospect for Mexico
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon LaRouche’s speech in Monterrey. Calling for a return to nuclear power, LaRouche said, “We can no longer live as primitives, going back to nature. We must now begin to create the environment we require to maintain a higher quality of life. And Mexico’s a good place to do it. I think Mexicans would appreciate doing that.”
National
Growing Backlash to ‘Coup on the Installment Plan’
by Edward Spannaus
The Constitution-be-damned attitude of the Bush-Cheney Administration has provoked significant institutional opposition.
George Bush Is a Very Destructive Man; He Needs To Be Removed from Office
An interview with Dr. Justin Frank.
Economics
Congress Reads ‘My Pet Goat’ As Planes Hit U.S. Auto Towers
by Paul Gallagher
The U.S. auto sector is collapsing, and Congress is making no effort to retool this industrial capability for the major, modern infrastructural tasks and projects which are vital for the nation.
‘LaRouche’s Solution Will Work for Us’
An interview with Mark Sweazy.
State Leaders Move To Save Auto Industry
Walter Reuther’s 1940 Plan: Using the Machine-Tool Principle To Save the U.S. Industrial Republic
by Richard Freeman
Documentation: Reuther’s retooling plan to build rail and housing.
Reuther’s ‘Atoms for Peace’
Rohatyn’s Suez Booted Out of Argentina
by Cynthia R. Rush
A Felix Rohatyn-linked French water company took over a privatized Argentine water company, in order to loot it.
Documentation: From a press conference by Argentine Planning Minister Julio De Vido.
After LYM Intervention: Rohatyn Repudiates FDR on Infrastructure
International
Destabilization Spreads Over Europe, Both East and West
Instability is sweeping through Europe, threatening to topple governments, and creating the danger of fascist regimes.
The British Monarchy and Hitler
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Unfair Sanctions Against Belarus Won’t Stop Our Independent Development
An interview with Mikhail Khvostov.
Voters Lash ‘Orange’ President in Ukraine
by Rachel Douglas
Defend Germany Against Globalized Fascism!
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Berlin Conference Puts on the Table a Bold New Proposal for Iran
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
A report from a conference of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, on “The Nuclearization of the Broader Middle East as a Challenge for Transatlantic Policy Coordination.”
The ICG Proposal for Negotiation with Iran
An interview with Dr. Tim Guldimann.
Iran’s Position on Nuclear Controversy
An interview with Dr. Ali Soltanieh.
Netanyahu Smashed: It’s the Economy, Stupid!
by Dean Andromidas
Russia, India, China Seek ‘Mechanism’ for Trilateral Cooperation
by Ramtanu Maitra
Interviews
Mark Sweazy
The president of UAW Local 969, in Columbus, Ohio, Sweazy is mobilizing pressure on Congress to retool the auto industry, to rebuild collapsing infrastructure.
Mikhail Khvostov
His Excellency Khvostov is the Ambassador of Belarus to the United States. He earlier served as Ambassador to Canada, an advisor to the President of Belarus, served as Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Dr. Tim Guldimann
Dr. Guldimann is the former Swiss Ambassador to Iran. He presented the International Crisis Group’s proposal for solving the conflict with Iran, at the Berlin conference of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt.
Dr. Ali Soltanieh
His Excellency Dr. Soltanieh is the permanent representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna.
Dr. Justin Frank
Dr. Frank, a Washington, D.C.-based psychoanalyst and Professor of Psychiatry at George Washington University Medical School, is the author of the bestselling book, Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President.
Editorial
Stop the Occupation of Iraq!
