Volume 28, Number 5, February 2, 2001

A New Voyage to Laputa:
California Takes a Swift Look at Today's Economists

By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. The trigger-event known as "the California energy-crisis" poses the question most sharply: Why have nearly all among today's ostensibly leading economists failed so miserably? The defective mentality behind their policy failures, is a pervasive cultural disease. To understand it, study Jonathan Swift's famous Gulliver's Travels. His book suggests the explanation for the follies of today's middle-aged economic-policy Laputians.

California Crisis Could Trigger a Global Financial Crash

Economics

Deregulation Introduces America to a New Dark Age

As the case of California shows, the purpose of this new energy hoax, is to set up the mechanism by which the income stream from energy consumption can be grabbed by the financier oligarchy, after a financial crash.

Debt Relief and New Bretton Woods:
Italy's Leadership Discussed in Milan

LaRouche on Urgent Debt Reorganization

A memo to the Milan Conference.

Rep. Bianchi: `There Is No Time To Lose'

From the speech by Italian parliamentarian Giovanni Bianchi.

Minister Toia: Students Must Debate the International Debt

From the speech by Italian Minister for Relations with the Parliament Patrizia Toia.

LaRouche to Nader: Voodoo Won't Save California

Free-Market Economics Is the Last Thing
American Agriculture Needs

EIR's "Testimony to the Agriculture Committee of the U.S. Senate in Opposition to the Confirmation of Ann M. Veneman as Secretary of Agriculture."

Business Briefs

International

Manila's `EDSA II' Coup Is a Wake-Up Call for Asia

The military-backed coup in the Philippines--praised by the U.S. State Department as an example of democracy in action--is a threat, by London and Wall Street, to all the nations of Southeast Asia that are exercising their national sovereignty, in the interests of national survival.

LaRouche to Philippines:
`We Know How To Rebuild the Economy'

Lyndon LaRouche is interviewed on RMN radio in the Philippines.

Dr. Mahathir: Asia Must Forge
`Model for Mutual Good for Rest of the World'

From a speech by the Malaysian Prime Minister in Osaka, Japan.

New Tactics in Blair's Election Project

Economic Cooperation Outflanks
Political Differences in Mideast

National

Stopping Ashcroft Is Key to Sane U.S. Economic Policy

Only Lyndon LaRouche has made the most crucial argument against the nomination of John Ashcroft as Attorney General: that stopping him is key to preventing the emergence of a fascist regime, using the pretext of "crisis-management" methods to deal with the onrushing financial and economic collapse.

How Ashcroft Engaged in Character Assassination:
The Henry Foster Case

An interview with Dr. Henry Foster.

Pennsylvania NAACP Wins Vote for Ex-0ffenders

`This Decision Will Be Cited'

An interview with Earl Trent.

Right-Wing Zionist Bushmen Say That
Oslo Peace Accord Is Dead

Congressional Closeup

Interviews

Dr. Henry Foster

Dr. Foster's 1995 nomination by President Clinton as Surgeon General was defeated, in a filibuster led by Sen. John Ashcroft.

Earl Trent

Attorney Trent argued the NAACP's friend of the court brief in the suit brought by a group of incarcerated Pennsylvanians in 1999, which argued that all felons should have the right to vote upon release from incarceration.

Departments

Australia Dossier

Australia Aligns Itself with Bush.

Editorial

After Kabila, an African World War?