Volume 35, Number 10, March 7, 2008

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LaRouches in Rome: Financial Crisis Threatens Return of Fascism Today  

by Claudio Celani

Lyndon LaRouche and Helga Zepp-LaRouche addressed a forum in Rome on “The International Systemic Crisis and a Roosevelt-Like Solution.” Both speakers delivered a shock to the audience, warning of the twin threats posed by financial collapse and a drive for corporate-style fascism, in both the United States and Europe.

LaRouche: FDR Methods Can Lead the World Out of the Nightmare  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Lyndon LaRouche’s speech to the forum. The world faces the prospect of a New Dark Age, he said, like that which wiped out much of Europe during the 14th Century. But there are solutions for it, as the Renaissance showed. Europe must draw on the best of its own cultural history, in alliance with a United States reviving the methods of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Demand a Referendum on EU Lisbon Treaty  

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Her speech to the seminar. The Lisbon Treaty, if ratified, would destroy the sovereignty of Europe’s nation-states.

Dialogue with LaRouche: Revive the Principles of the Renaissance  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

National

Bloomberg Lies: ‘I Am Not Running,’ Only Dripping Copiously  

by Jeffrey Steinberg

Despite New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s denials, the City of London-centered financial oligarchy, and its Wall Street allies, have designated him as their man to be installed in the White House in January 2009.

Media Gear Up: Promoting Bloomberg, Setting Obama’s Trap

LaRouche Said Giuliani Was Set Up for Bloomberg  

‘The Second Coming of Felix Rohatyn’

by Anton Chaitkin

The Partnership for New York City is the high council of the Bloomberg Fascism Project.

Obama’s Last Hurrah: LYM Fights for the Souls of America’s Youth

by Ivan Corpus

A report from the LaRouche Youth Movement in Boston.

Economics

The Federal Reserve Has Become Irrelevant  

by John Hoefle

Financiers, technocrats, and elected officials are putting on a clown show, as they push to bail out the already dead financial system, trying to shift the huge asset losses to the taxpayers.

Ethanol Won’t Solve Food Price Inflation

by Marcia Merry Baker

Uproar in France over Food Price Inflation

by Christine Bierre

Restructuring the Banking System

by Michael W. Sperry

An open letter to U.S. bankers from a South Carolina banker and collaborator of the LaRouche movement.

Special Economic Zones: India’s Land Scams Hurt Poorest the Most

by Ramtanu Maitra

Business Briefs

International

British Imperial Strategists Push EU To Confront Russia

by Rachel Douglas

Rising acrimony in British-Russian bilateral relations has been carried over into relations between the European Union and Russia. British politicians and strategists most committed to cementing the EU’s Lisbon Treaty are simultaneously leading a drive to put Russia in its place—never again to be a great power.

‘Economist’ Editor Slams Westphalia; Lauds Lisbon

Israel at a Crossroads: War in Gaza, or LaRouche Plan for Peace with Syria

by Dean Andromidas

Pakistani Elections: Is U.S. Blackmailing the PPP; If So, Why?

by Ramtanu Maitra

Merkel Ignores Crisis, Supports EU Treaty Reviews

by Rainer Apel

The Dangerous Babblings of a French Neocon

by William Jones

Savage Century: Back to Barbarism, a book by Thérèse Delpech.

Exposé of Cheney’s War Crimes Wins Oscar  

by Edward Spannaus

Taxi to the Dark Side, a film by Alex Gibney.

Science

Ocean Temperature and CO₂: Global Climate Change Has Natural Causes

by Lance Endersbee

Professor Endersbee, a civil engineer from Australia, writes that the widespread belief in man-made climate change, is an example of a public delusion—like the belief during Europe’s Middle Ages that witches caused crop failures. He describes the actual causes of climate variation, and demonstrates that the oceans are presently cooling, not warming.

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