Volume 33, Number 6, February 10, 2006
Iran Showdown Is the Fuse
for a Global Monetary Bomb
Lyndon LaRouche issues a sharp warning that a military strike against Iran is being manipulated by the British, in order to trigger global war, chaos, and the collapse of the world monetary system. If it happens, the U.S. will be destroyed as well.
Shades of Sykes-Picot Accord
Are Cast Over Southwest Asia
"The shattering calamities hitting the U.S. Bush-Cheney Administration," wrote Lyndon LaRouche recently, "have brought the role of the United Kingdom's Blair government more prominently into focus. Shades of Sykes-Picot, the British Foreign Office, flanked by France, have assumed a controlling role in the regional developments of the Southwest Asia region." Muriel Mirak-Weissbach reviews the history of the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, by which France and Britain redrew the map of the Middle East.
International
Palestinian Elections:
Honest, Fair, Safe and Without Violence
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's upbeat assessment of the elections points the way to a positive potential for the region. Many foresee that victorious Hamas will seek to shift toward negotiation with Israel, now that it is leading the Palestinian government. How will Israel respond?
Youth Candidate:
Renew Leipzig's Heritage
Karsten Werner, a member of the LaRouche Youth Movement in Germany, is campaigning in Leipzig's mayoral election, bringing a breath of fresh hope to the discouraged people of the largest city in Saxony, the state which has Germany's highest unemployment rate.
National
After Alito Fight, The War Continues
The Senate's failure to defeat the nomination of Judge Alito brings the U.S closer to the imposition of fascist dictatorship, but that was only one battle in the war which must be continued.
Schmitt Set Precedent,
Leader Can Change Law
Sam Alito's Presidential signing statements and Nazi "Crown Jurist" Carl Schmitt's "law-substituting decrees."
Carl Schmitt's Hobbesian State
Congress To Fight
On Patriot Act, Spying
The Administration is stonewalling Congress, but the fight over the Patriot Act's most egregious provisions, and illegal NSA spying, is going to merge together as Congress takes up these issues in the next few weeks.
LaRouche Dialogue With Youth:
The General Welfare Is the Constitution's Core
Lyndon LaRouche replies to a question at a cadre school of the LaRouche Youth Movement in Los Angeles, Calif. on Jan. 28.
Cheneyacs Militarize U.S.-Mexican Border
Congressional Closeup
National News
Science & Technology
South Africa's PBMR:
World's Most Versatile Nuclear System
Jonathan Tennebaum reports on an international conference in London to discuss the fantastic economic potential worldwide of South Africa's Pebble Bed Nuclear Reactor.
PBMR Is `Perfect' for Africa's Development
An interview with Alex Erwin.
A Safe, Foolproof Nuclear Reactor
An interview with Dieter Matzner
How the U.S. Plans To Use the PBMR
An interview with Dr. Regis Matzie.
Economics
West Virginia Coal Crisis
a Matter of Criminal Negligence?
The drive to double and triple production from old, heavily worked mines is playing havoc with safety regulations, and killing miners, leading Governor Manchin to announce a "mine safety stand-down."
British Reconsider New Nuclear Plants
Russia's Putin Charts Nuclear Power Revival
The Real Danish Model:
Building Infrastructure
Interviews
Alex Erwin
The Minister of Public Enterprises for the Republic of South Africa discusses the potential for nuclear power generation in Africa.
Dieter Matzner
Mr. Matzner is General Manager of the Power Plant Division of PBMR.
Regis Matzie
Dr. Matzie is Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, Westinghouse Electric Company.