Volume 33, Number 1, January 6, 2006

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The Case of Baltimore: Deindustrialization Creates ‘Death Zones’

The takedown of Baltimore’s industry since the 1960s has turned a vibrant center of innovation and production into a decayed shell, where poverty becomes the breeding ground for disease. Expectations that tourism and other “services” could effectively replace the manufacturing jobs that were lost, are exposed as a delusion.

LaRouche on Epidemiology in the City of Baltimore

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

‘Death Zone’ Profiles

Poverty Kills

by Ned Rosinsky, M.D.

A statistical analysis of the “excess deaths”—above the national norm—in Baltimore’s poorest neighborhoods.

‘These Kids Are on a Death March’

An interview with Ted Smith.

Strategic Intelligence

Cheney and the ‘Schmittlerian’ Drive for Dictatorship  

by Edward Spannaus

The Vice President is blatantly defending the concept of Executive power that derives from Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt’s Führerprinzip, or Leader Principle.

The ‘Torture Trio’

Profiles of David Addington, Timothy Flanigan, and John Yoo.

Dick Cheney’s Éminence Grise  

by Barbara Boyd

A profile of Carl Schmitt.

Fascist ‘Feddies’ March Through the Institutions  

by Jeffrey Steinberg

A profile of the misnamed Federalist Society, promoters of a Carl Schmitt revival.

What’s a ‘Rohatyn’?  

by Tony Papert

The Synarchist financial interests who sought to turn France fascist in the 1930s, are trying to do the same to the United States today.

What Is Synarchism?

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Felix Rohatyn, New York Dictator, 1975-82

by Richard Freeman

Economics

The Global Real Estate Bubble Is Beginning To Blow

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Helga Zepp-LaRouche reports from Germany on the outbreak of the crisis at Deutsche Bank Real Estate, and the international repercussions.

International

LaRouche Defines the Fight To Save Civilization Today

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. gave this briefing to an assembly of his political movement in Europe on Dec. 29, 2005.

Implications of the Iraqi Elections

by Hussein Askary

The relatively peaceful elections did not mean that dangers are past. Unless the Iraqis are liberated from the rule of Dick Cheney in Washington, things will continue to remain in suspension.

Is Cheney Setting Up Turkey Against Iran?

by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

Moscow Paper Covers LaRouche Berlin Meet

by Rachel Douglas

Amelia Boynton Robinson Brings Fight for the ‘Real, True America’ to Europe

We Must Fight To Overcome Obstacles

by Amelia Boynton Robinson

Amelia Boynton Robinson’s speech in Berlin on Dec. 7 to a meeting of the Civil Rights Movement Solidarity.

Interviews

Ted Smith

A Baltimore teacher, Smith is also the director of a community center for at-risk teenagers in one of the city’s poorest and most crime-ridden neighborhoods.

Editorial

Now, Are You Ready To Learn Economics?

Correction

In last week’s EIR, the article “Cheney and His Patsy, Bush, Face Impeachment Furor” referred, on p. 20, to the Pentagon’s “Quarterly Defense Review.” The correct name is “Quadrennial Defense Review.”

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