Volume 38, Number 48, December 9, 2011
Why Obama Has To Go: To Risk Thermonuclear War Is Clinically Insane
by Nancy Spannaus
“We’re right on the edge of thermonuclear war,” Lyndon LaRouche told Internet radio host Alex Jones. “As to whether that will happen or not, that’s another question. But the likelihood that it could happen, is great.” This reality is dawning on more and more U.S. policymakers, and some are finally speaking out.
Medvedev Addresses Russian Armed Forces
by Dmitry Medvedev
China: ‘Something Out of Kilter in the World’
U.S. Deployments in the Mideast Cockpit
by Carl Osgood
What Are A-Bombs vs. Thermonuclear Weapons?
by Charles B. Stevens
International
The Oligarchy’s ‘Solution’ for the Euro: World War III
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
The spark plug for the acute war danger is the fact that the trans-Atlantic financial system—including the Euro-experiment—is disintegrating.
Israeli Patriots Need U.S. Support Against Netanyahu and His Fascists
by Michele Steinberg
The fight that is raging publicly in Israel to stop the Netanyahu government from going to war against Iran has been almost totally blacked out of the U.S. press.
Space Technology Has Improved the Lives of Millions of Nigerians
Interview with Dr. Seidu Oneilo Mohammed.
Economics
Fed to the Rescue! But the System Can’t Be Saved
by Claudio Celani
The new rate cut in the U.S. Federal Reserve’s swap agreement with European central banks is a continuation of the failed bailout policy. It throws bad money after bad, debasing the U.S. currency and setting up the world for a hyperinflationary catastrophe.
New FAO Report: Genocide Lobby Refutes Need for Emergency Food Production
by Marcia Merry Baker
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s new report, “State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture,” blames “human pressure” (i.e., population growth), global warming, and fixed resources for the lack of security of the world food supply. What about the food cartels and speculators?
National
Desperately Seeking Hillary
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Our sources say there is quiet talk among some worried Cabinet members, that President Obama may be mentally unfit to continue to serve. Meanwhile, there are Democratic Party insiders calling for a write-in campaign for Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary.
First Barney, Then Obama: On the Retirement of Barney Frank
by Rachel Brown
Rachel Brown is the LaRouche Democrat who campaigned against Frank in the 2010 Democratic Primary in Massachusetts. Frank’s decision to retire from Congress, she writes, “is the only decision he has ever made which I agree with.”
Feature
Schiller Showed the Way To Cope with a Time of Crisis
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
From her speech to the annual conference of the Schiller Institute in Germany on Nov. 27. Describing the current danger of World War III, she asks, “How can one find the strength in oneself to cope with such a terrifying reality, and to launch the mobilization that is absolutely necessary to prevent this danger?” Germany’s Poet of Freedom, Friedrich Schiller, provides inspiration.
Editorial
Pearl Harbor Day and the Will To Fight
Interviews
Dr. Seidu Oneilo Mohammed
Dr. Mohammed is head of the Nigerian Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) and an elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics. He spoke to EIR at the 2011 International Astronautical Congress held in Capetown, South Africa.
