Volume 34, Number 8, February 23, 2007
LaRouche in Rome Revives Fight for New Bretton Woods
by Liliana Gorini
Members of the Italian Parliament invited Lyndon LaRouche to speak on “The Upcoming Tasks of the New U.S. Congress.”
LaRouche Brings ‘Spark of Optimism’ to Italian Parliamentarians in Rome
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Discussing the resistance that is growing in the United States to Bush-Cheney policies, LaRouche described his own function as “largely associated with doing the analysis of what the international monetary-financial system is, and to present proposals, and designs, for what we can do to deal with the crisis which is coming on now.”
Rep. Andrea Ricci Calls for New Monetary System
Rep. Gennaro Migliore: Today, We Need a New Peace of Westphalia
by Gennaro Migliore
‘Cheney’s Resignation Would Be Appropriate’
An interview with Sen. Silvana Pisa.
International
Putin Delivers Reality Shock at Munich Conference
by Rainer Apel
President Putin’s speech was not an attack on the United States at all—indeed, it began by invoking the policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Rather, it was an attack on the perversion of American policy by traitors to the real identity of the U.S.A., and a call for cooperation among nations to solve the world’s problems.
‘The Security of Each Is the Security of All’
by Vladimir Putin
Substantial excerpts from President Vladimir Putin’s speech at the Munich Conference on Security Policy, Feb. 10, 2007.
Franklin Roosevelt in Post-Soviet Russia
by Rachel Douglas
Documentation: Russians Honor FDR’s ‘Historic Immortality’
Russia Returns to the Middle East
by MurielMirak-Weissbach
Eurasian Triangle Leaders: Cooperation, Not Confrontation, Should Govern
by Mary Burdman
Cheminade Campaigns for ‘Soul of France’
An interview on The LaRouche Show with French Presidential candidate Jacques Cheminade, joined by LaRouche Youth Movement members Elodie Viennot in Paris and Natalie Lovegren in Leesburg, Virginia.
Economics
The ‘Financial Locusts’ Are on the Defensive
by Paul Gallagher and Richard Freeman
While an explosion in the hedge funds’ globalized speculative markets was beginning in mid-February, a fight against hedge-fund looting intensified in several European countries,
South Korea Battles Financial Locusts
by Mike Billington
India Takes Its First Step To Put a Man Into Space
by Marsha Freeman
Resurgent Tuberculosis: Deadlier Than Ever
by Christine Craig
Two epidemiological reports released in the last six months on the extent of XDR-TB—extensively drug resistant tuberculosis—in South Africa, are critical warnings of the global threat of this virtually incurable disease, and also of its “companion” ailments, in particular HIV/AIDS.
American System Can Protect Germany From ‘Predator Capitalism’
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
National
The Smell of Impeachment Keeps Getting Stronger
by Nancy Spannaus
The House of Representatives’ four-day debate on President Bush’s war in Iraq, which concluded with a decisive 246 to 182 vote of disapproval for the “surge” now under way, marks the beginning of the reassertion of the Congress’s Constitutional authority. Documentation: Excerpts from the House debate on the Iraq War resolution (House Concurrent Resolution 63).
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
Interviews
Sen. Silvana Pisa
Senator Pisa is a member of the Defense Committee in the Italian Senate, and belongs to the group Parliamentarians for Peace.
Book Reviews
Britain’s Assault on America Revisited
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The Anglo-American Establishment, by Carroll Quigley.
The American System
When President-Elect Franklin Roosevelt Narrowly Escaped Assassination
by Pamela Lowry
A new regular column by historian Pamela Lowry.
Editorial
Britain’s New War
