Volume 31, Number 26, July 2, 2004

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The Failed State of Continental Europe  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

“The name of that ill-fated political minestrone now being cooked on the continent, is the enlarged, would-be imperial European Union. The not-so-many Europeans who turned out for those elections, have apparently decided to protect their sovereignty from U.S. arrogance, by the curiously clever method of destroying their own nations’ sovereignty, as a way of preventing President George Bush from stealing it.”

The ‘Uro-Socialism’ Threat to the U.S.A.  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Britain’s Cooper Promotes Imperial EU

by Mark Burdman

Blair: ‘Britain’s Role’ To Push Pre-Emptive War

Americans Must Ask Themselves: ‘Is the Present European Union Doomed?’  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Russia Is Wary of Liberal Imperialism  

by Rachel Douglas

What Is Europe?

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

A post-election assessment the chairwoman of Germany’s Solidarity Civil Rights Movement (BüSo) party.

Economics

Empire Strikes Back: Spanish Banks Recolonize Ibero-America

by Dennis Small

Under the by-word of “globalization,” and driven by the shockwaves emanating from a string of financial earthquakes since 1997, the banking systems of the nations of Central and South America have been forcibly transformed along lines imposed by a synarchist international financial oligarchy. National banking systems have shrunk, while foreign control has sharply increased, and total lending has collapsed. Dennis Small reports.

Record Derivatives Growth Ups System Risk

by Richard Freeman and John Hoefle

Business Briefs

National

Bush and Hitler: What the ‘Torture Memos’ Reveal  

by Edward Spannaus

Adolf Hitler’s 1941 “Commissar Order,” governing the conduct of German armed forces on the Eastern Front, provides a precedent for the rationalizations found in recently declassified Bush Administration legal memoranda, justifying the torture of so-called “unlawful combatants” in Iraq and Afghanistan, in violation of the Geneva Conventions.

9/11 Commission Findings Affirm Key LaRouche Assessments

by Jeffrey Steinberg

Desperate Neo-Cons Launch Third ‘Committee on the Present Danger’  

by Michele Steinberg

Top GOP and Dems Agree, Time To Dump Cheney

by Jeffrey Steinberg

EIR’s Record in Exposing Dick Cheney’s Halliburton

It’s Not Possible to Implement President Bush’s Moon/Mars Program

by Marsha Freeman

Congressional Closeup

by Carl Osgood

International

Hersh Exposé: Israel Out To Blow Up Southwest Asia

by Jeffrey Steinberg

EIR’s investigations confirm the report of New Yorker magazine’s Seymour Hersh, exposing Israeli clandestine operations in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq— provocations which could explode in warfare and chaos throughout the region.

The Tragic Modern History of the Kurds

by Hussein Askary

Germany’s SPD Becoming a Failed Party?

by Rainer Apel

Iran Fights for Right to Nuclear Technology

by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

Military Leaders Expose Sharon’s Lies

by Dean Andromidas

Editorial

Lessons from the Torture Memos

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