Volume 32, Number 42, October 28, 2005

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A Strategic View of European History Today: Globalization, the New Imperialism  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

“There is the growing popular sense of things, among those of us who represent the relatively economics-literate circles of Europe and the Americas, that the strategic and economic situations ... are now verging upon a highly explosive state of over-ripeness for a general collapse. The most menacing feature of this present crisis, is the widespread lack of competent strategic insight, even among most relevant specialists and political authorities, alike, into the causes and underlying character of the complex, general global situation which the immediately recognized crisis-developments only reflect. The true, deeper origins, causes, and probable historical outcomes of these looming catastrophes, are not yet generally understood, even among the relatively best-informed leading circles of governments in North America and Europe....

“It is my intention, in this present report, to correct the widespread ignorance of the deeper causes for today’s actual, currently rapidly worsening world situation.”

LaRouche Warned Congress To Confront Auto Crisis

National

A New ‘Halloween Massacre’ Will Sink Cheney-Rumsfeld  

by Jeffrey Steinberg

Thirty years after President Ford’s Cabinet shakeup, we are on the verge of another, and Lyndon LaRouche has declared that the “post-Cheney era” in American politics has already begun.

Top Republican Evokes Eisenhower, Blasts ‘Cheney-Rumsfeld Cabal’  

by Edward Spannaus

Excerpts from a speech by Col. Larry Wilkerson (ret.), who served as chief of staff for former Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2001 to early 2005.

LaRouche Continues Dialogue with Congress

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Questions sent to Lyndon LaRouche after his Oct. 12 webcast, by Congressional and other leading Washington figures, and his written answers.

Veterans Administration and the Nation: The Policy Fight Over VA Benefits

by Pamela Lowry

Close VA Hospitals As Flu Pandemic Threatens?

by Patricia Salisbury

Economics

Derivatives Trader Refco Files for Bankruptcy

by Lothar Komp

Another earthquake is hitting the worldwide casino of financial derivatives, as a financial institution collapses that represented the intersection point for access to the futures exchanges for thousands of clients.

Should Hedge Funds Be Regulated?  

by Jochen Sanio

A speech given by the president of the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, at the “Top Ten Financial Risks to the Global Economy” Conference in New York.

Greenspan Shrugged—LaRouche vs. Greenspan: An 18-Year Fight over Financial Derivatives  

A chronology from 1987 to the present of what Lyndon LaRouche said, what Alan Greenspan did, and what actually occurred, as the world economy continued to collapse—just as LaRouche warned that it would.

Germany: Will New Government Re-Industrialize?

by Rainer Apel

International

The Neo-Cons Are British Liberal Imperialists

by Mary Burdman

Tony Blair’s rampage against the nation-state and the Treaty of Westphalia demonstrates why it’s past time to end the influence of the British Liberal Imperialists on the United States.

LaRouche: Blair the Fascist

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Palmerston, Canning, and Tony Blair

Science Behind the Killer Earthquake: Why South Asia Must Be Prepared

by Ramtanu Maitra

Report from the UN: Earthquake Toll Mounting

Editorial

For a New Atlantic Alliance

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