The Schiller Institute and International Conference of Labor Committees met for their Presidents' Day weekend conference, in Northern Virginia and near Los Angeles, to analyze the process whereby, during the 2004 Presidential campaign and its aftermath, Lyndon LaRouche mobilized the Democratic Party under his increasingly visible leadership, and to plan how to build on that breakthrough to defeat George W. Bush's murderous agenda.
Keynote speech by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
A document by Lyndon LaRouche, prepared for discussion at the Schiller Institute conference.
"At the present brink of the world's greatest monetary-financial crisis," writes Lyndon LaRouche, "the principal challenge to leading governments of the world at this moment, is to master and apply the lessons to be learned as the remarkable successes of the U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt Administration."
Economics
Social Security:
Even Bush's `Math' Lies;
a Jobs Boom Would Perpetuate Surplus
Contrary to Bush's "do the math" claims about the imminent bankruptcy of the Social Security system, a long-term "Super-TVA"-type infrastructure recontruction and recovery program, creating millions of new productive jobs, would perpetuate the Social Security surplus for decades.
`Ready-To-Go' Projects
An interview with Isabel Márquez Lizana.
Italy's Tremonti Hits `Suicidal'
Free-Market Policies in EU
A speech to EIR's Jan. 12 Berlin seminar by Jacques Cheminade.
Will France Become a
Farming and Perfume-Exporting Nation?
National
LaRouche Youth Lead Democrats in
Mobilization Against Bush
Congressmen are holding town meetings around the country to discuss President Bush's plan to privatize Social Security, and the LaRouche Youth Movement is out in force.
Support Slipping for Schwarzenegger
Bush-Cheney `Torture-by-Proxy' Policy
Under Growing Exposure
Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here
A commentary on the nomination of John Negroponte as Director of National Intelligence, by Ray McGovern, co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
Congressional Closeup
International
While Arab countries are seeking to defuse the Syria-Lebanon crisis, and the Europeans restressed their commitment to diplomacy with Tehran, Russia is issuing signals that it will not tolerate another unilateralist U.S. military adventure in Southwest Asia.
Bush, Schröder,
Keep Disagreements Quiet
Sharon Talks Peace, But Prepares for War
Interviews
Mrs. Márquez is the Director of Research for the Chilean government's Institute for Social Security Normalization, a researcher at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Chile, and is affiliated with the Development Studies Program at the same university.
Book Reviews
A Defense of the Economic Royalists
For the Survival of Democracy Franklin Roosevelt and the World Crisis of the 1930s, by Alonzo L. Hamby.
Editorial
Bush in Europe:
He Came, He Saw, He Didn't Conquer