Economics:

Congress Begins Debate on Changing Economic Course
by Nancy Spannaus
Congressional hearings on aspects of the profound economic crisis facing the United States began the week of Jan. 22, in a new political environment shaped by the intensive intervention by the LaRouche Youth Movement, and there were definite signs of progress. While no sweeping FDR-style solutions, as required, were put on the table, a number of Congressional committees featured testimony that went directly after the disastrous free-trade axioms that have been destroying the world economy over the past 30 years.

House Ways and Means Hearings
EIR Tells Congress: Establish Federal Capital Budget for Infrastructure
Executive Intelligence Review presented the following testimony to hearings by the House Ways and Means Committee, Jan. 23-24 on the State of the Economy.
The political evidence of the November election's results, and the nature of the campaigns in which the new Members were elected, is that the American people want not only an end to a war policy; they also want an end to globalization and de-industrialization of their economy by 'free trade,' low-wage outsourcing, and deregulation...

Universal Health-Care Proposal Reintroduced In Congress
by Patricia Salisbury
On Jan. 25, less than 48 hours after President Bush included a fraudulent health-care proposal in his State of the Union Address, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), joined by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) held a press conference to announce their reintroduction of HR 676, the United States National Health Insurance Act, or the 'Medicare for all' legislation, as it has come to be known.

Debunking the Myths About Nuclear Energy
by Marsha Freeman
As the U.S. Congress debates energy policy, EIR provides this summary review of the answers to frequently raised objections to the only feasible solution to the U.S. and worldwide power shortage, nuclear energy.

Interview: Ian McCreary
Free Trade Is Wrecking Canadian Agriculture
As EIR reported last week ('British Crown Assaults Canadian Wheat Board in Grab for World Grain Control'), the Canadian government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in league with Queen Elizabeth II's Canadian Governor General, are out to strip the CWB of its 'single desk' authority.

NATO's Commitment to Afghan War: Is It Wearing Thin?
by Ramtanu Maitra
Having inherited two 'unwinnable' wars from Donald Rumsfeld, the new U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, recently took a short trip to Afghanistan, en route to Iraq, to convey President Bush's commitment to the Afghan war. What he found instead was a group of NATO commanders who do not want to lay down their lives in a war fought on behalf of the Bush Administration. These commanders complained bitterly about the duplicitous role of U.S. ally Pakistan—Afghanistan's neighbor and the country that was honored by the Bush Administration in 2004 as the Major Non-NATO Ally.

While the War Party Raves, Regional Mideast Diplomacy Seeks Peace
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
War-mongering statements from Vice President Dick Cheney and President George W. Bush were echoed at an important conference in Herzliya, Israel, the week of Jan. 22, where American neo-cons joined with Israelis to issue threats military aggression, even as the U.S. military buildup in the Persian Gulf proceeded. It is thus clear, that without decisive Congressional action to oust Cheney, his plans for the next war will go ahead.

Anglo-Dutch Offensive Takes Aim at Germany
by Rainer Apel
Had the German elites, or at least considerable sections of them, been smart, they would have made use of the fact that the political situation had changed dramatically with the results of the U.S. midterm elections Nov. 7. They would have allied with the winning side of the elections, the Democrats, and especially would have established direct contact with the chief dynamic factor of the Democrats: the LaRouche movement.

Alexander Hartmann on The LaRouche Show
German Mayoral Candidate Campaigns For High-Skill Jobs, Development
Alexander Hartmann, who is running for mayor of Wiesbaden, Germany on the slate of Germany's Civil Rights Solidarity Movement (BüSo), was interviewed for 'The LaRouche Show' Internet radio on Jan. 13 by host Marcia Merry Baker. We publish an edited version here. The BüSo was founded and is chaired by Helga Zepp-LaRouche.

How To Constitute a New Mexico
The LaRouche Youth Movement in Mexico on Jan. 18 released this pamphlet, 'Preamble for Our Constitution; A New Politics Begins.' This pamphlet by the LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM) is a critical flank in the battle over whether Mexico's government shall answer to its people, or to the financiers.