Volume 35, Number 9, February 29, 2008
Return to the 14th Century: Rohatyn, Bloomberg Peddle ‘Post-Nation-State’ World
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The leading figures who are working overtime to install London’s favorite son, New York City’s billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg, as President of the United States in January 2009, are determined to return Europe and the Americas to the 14th-Century nightmare that they call a “post-Westphalian” order, where nation-states no longer exist, and where warring city-states dominate a greatly depopulated world, all in hock to private financier cartels.
Demand a Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty! Abolishing Democracy by Stealth: Constitution for Feudalism in Europe
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Helga Zepp-LaRouche shows that the Lisbon Treaty’s deliberately impenetrable text is intended to conceal the fact that this treaty portends a fundamental revision of Germany’s constitutional system: If enacted, only the Council of the European Union can decide on changes in law on virtually all matters; national parliaments will have no say.
Italy’s Amato Wants Return to Middle Ages
by Claudio Celani
Fascist in an Armani Suit: Bloomberg Channels Mussolini’s Corporatism
by L. Wolfe
Britain’s Cooper Promotes Imperial EU
by Mark Joseph Burdman
Sir Oswald Mosley: The Fascist Roots of the Lisbon Treaty
by Scott Thompson
Churchill Boosted Oligarchical ‘Pan-Europe’
How the 14th-Century Lombard Banks Created the Dark Age
by Paul Gallagher
Economics
Fascism and the Project for a World Company
by John Hoefle
The process by which the carcass of the now dead fraud-based financial system decomposes is far less important than the fight over what type of system will replace it. While the financiers seek to have the taxpayers bail them out, the replacement for the defunct system that is being put forward by Bloomberg’s backers is a form of Mussolini-style corporatism.
The Aesthetical Education of America
by Sky Shields and Peter Martinson
Organizing the population to support the an FDR-style solution to the crisis, faces the challenge of a population whose culture has been degraded since FDR’s death. In response, the LaRouche Youth Movement “basement” team has completed an 80-minute documentary video, titled “Firewall: In Defense of the Nation-State.”
Business Briefs
International
Pakistan’s Elections: Prospects for the Future
by Ramtanu Maitra
President Musharraf was weakened by the elections, because he stuck Pakistan’s neck out on behalf of the foreign occupying troops in Afghanistan. It is unlikely that the new power centers in Pakistan, believe that they will have to make a similar commitment to the U.S. and NATO presence there.
Shultz’s Boys Are Running Yet Another Coup in the Philippines
by Michael Billington
International Intelligence
National
Arnie Demands Budget Blood: ‘This Is Only the Beginning’
by Harley Schlanger
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a favorite of fascist Pinochet promoter George Shultz, has signed the first of many budget cuts, that are part of a budget-cutting plan he is pursuing, under a declared state of fiscal emergency, that amount to cuts to kill.
Austerity Threatens Veterans, Too
by Carl Osgood
The First Inaugural: FDR Addresses ‘A Stricken Nation in the Midst of a Stricken World’
Science & Technology
Global Warming Scare Rests on Hot Air—Literally
by Gregory Murphy
The poor location and condition of temperature monitoring stations worldwide make their data unreliable for climate modeling. Yet, the data are used as the basis for the theory of global warming.
Editorial
The Real Issue Is the Peace of Westphalia
