Volume 36, Number 8, February 27, 2009

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Britain’s Dope, Inc.: Marker for Humanity’s New Dark Age  

by Dennis Small

Introduction to an EIR special report: The British Empire is wielding Dope, Inc., today, just as it waged its Opium War against China in the 19th Century, with an eye towards menticide. Indeed, it is the drug economy that is propping up what remains of the global financial system.

A Note on EIR’s Methodology

by Dennis Small

Message from Afghanistan: Get Rid of Opium, or Perish

by Ramtanu Maitra

Mexico’s Descent into Hell Can Be Stopped

by Cynthia R. Rush

Soros and the British Drug Lords: How the Empire Created ‘Decrim’

by Michele Steinberg

The British oligarchy’s invention of the campaign for decriminalization of narco-drugs; a profile of George Soros’s drug legalization operations in the United States: and, the backlash against “Marijuana, Inc.”

LaRouche: ‘Medical Marijuana’ Is a Fraud

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Soros’s Narco-Politicians Demand Drug Legalization

by Cynthia R. Rush

The Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy (LACDD) calls for legalizing marijuana for personal consumption.

The Soros/Malloch-Brown Factor in Afghanistan

by Ramtanu Maitra

Drug Money Laundering Keeps the Banks Alive

by Richard Freeman

George Soros Nailed in Dope Banking

by Anton Chaitkin

The Opium War: 200 Years of British Drug Wars

by Michael Billington

Afghanistan Heroin Drives Drug Epidemic in Russia

by Rachel Douglas

Russia’s Policy will Determine the Path to Peace in Afghanistan

Excerpts from a report by the Institute for Demography, Migration and Regional Development and the Development Movement, Moscow 2008. The authors are Yuri Krupnov (project leader), Ilnur Batyrshin, Andranik Derenikian, Boris Krupnov, and Serafim Melentiev.

Economics

Nationalization and Expropriation? The World Economy Is in Free Fall  

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Report from Germany on the “financial tsunami” hitting Europe.

Fascists, Then and Now, Stalk the FDR Legacy  

by Jeffrey Steinberg

The American Liberty League was founded in 1934 with the objective of destroying the New Deal, defeating President Roosevelt in his 1936 reelection bid, and imposing a Fascist regime in America. Their ideological descendants are active today, in the campaign against FDR.

International

Don’t Permit an ICC Crime Against Africa  

by Douglas DeGroot

The International Criminal Court, created and funded by the Anglo-Dutch imperial financial cartel, wants to indict Sudan’s President, to plunge the country deeper into bloody chaos. The fact that this would wreck the peace agreement that ended a 40-year civil war, is of no interest to the ICC.

Time Is Running Out for Mideast Peace: Marwan Barghouti Must Be Freed

by Michele Steinberg

Documentation: Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the Chicago-based Electronic Intifada activist network, spoke at the Middle East Policy Council on Jan. 14, with a grim assessment of the future of Israeli-Palestinian relations.

National

To Save His Administration, Obama Must Revise Stimulus  

by Nancy Spannaus

Lyndon LaRouche said that President Obama must take a “top-down, physical science” approach, with emergency measures to regenerate basic infrastructure, essential functions, and agro-industrial capacity.

Congress’s Mission for Bankrupt Auto: Build U.S.A. Electrified Rail Network

by Richard Freeman and Hal Cooper

Reprinted from EIR, June 10, 2005.

Editorial

Reversing a Crime

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