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Volume 32, Number 10, March 11, 2005

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Social Security:
No, It's Not the Demographics, Stupid

The lies coming from the Bush Administration on its privatization plans may actually reflect its intent to impose draconian austerity on the U.S. population. But the fundamental lie, about so-called inexorable demographics leading to a crisis, can also easily be refuted, if the nation returns to the economic principles of the American System.

Mexico's Privatization:
A José Piñera Disaster

While Mexico has not privatized all its government pensions, the record so far has brought disaster to millions.

Plan to `Kill Amtrak'
Meets Bipartisan Opposition

The Bush Administration budget will literally zero out funds for Amtrak, and leave the world's "only superpower" without a national rail system.

Argentine Bond Deal:
`Revolt' Against the IMF

Argentina successfully put through a substantial reduction in its debt obligations, setting an important precedent.

Italian Banks Unload
Argentine Bonds In Italy;
Investigation Blocked

An interview with Luigi Olivieri

National

Former Military Lawyers Join
Lawsuit Against Rumsfeld

The lawsuit filed by Afghan and Iraqi torture victims documents the chain of command coming directly from the Secretary of Defense. Documentation: High-ranking retired military figures, Brig. Gen. James Cullen, and Rear Admiral John D. Hutson, have joined the lawsuit against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Part of the lawsuit is reproduced here.

Scientists: White House
Ignores Public Health

Documentation: Researchers' Open Letter

Mobilization To Stop Shultz's Fascism

The LaRouche Youth Movement mobilization has created the environment for an aggressive Democratic Party stance.

Cheney's Perpetual War Doctrine Revived

The new Bush Administration confrontational stance against Russia and China has roots in Cheney Doctrine.

Dick Cheney/Baroness Symons
Dirty Tricks Revived

Congressional Closeup

U.S. National Studies

Bring Back FDR's Democratic Party

Lyndon LaRouche's leadership through the election campaign, and beyond, set the stage for transforming the Democrats into a fighting force. LaRouche's National Spokeswoman reports.

Hitler on Steroids:
Nietzschean Roots of the Governator

The LaRouche Youth Movement's battle against Arnie Schwarzenegger, Shultz's real Nazi threat.

A Strategic Mission: Make Bush a Lame Duck

International forces, and sane Republicans, can play a vital role in bringing Bush down now.

International

Will Lebanon and Syria Resist Regime Change?

The Bush Administration's "Clean Break" strategy is arousing opposition in both nations.

Hariri Stood For Unitary Nation-State

An interview with Gilles Munier.

Bankers, Bush Put Squeeze on Philippines

Strategy of Tension is escalating against the Philippines

Ibero-America Wants Integration, Not War

Feature

Put Out the Flames of the
Oligarchy's Thirty Years' War

In her keynote to the Schiller Institute's Presidents' Day Conference, Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche gave a strategic review of war crises now headed toward world war, and then used Friedrich Schiller's study of the Thirty Years' War to illuminate the principles that must be used in order to prevent such a disastrous calamity today.

A Brief Chronology of the
Thirty Years' War

Interviews

Luigi Olivieri

Italian Parliamentarian Luigi Olivieri is a member of the Left Democratic Party, and recently visited Argentina.

Brig. Gen. James Cullen

Brigadier General James Cullen, now retired, last served as the Chief Judge (IMA) of the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals. He is a retired Brigadier General in the United States Army Reserve Judge Advocate General's Corps, and currently practices law in New York City.

Gilles Munier

Gilles Munier is the Secretary General of the Franco-Iraqi Friendship Association, and author of "Guide to Iraq" (Jean Picollec Publishing-2000) and "Iraq, an Illustrated History (Northampton, Massachusetts, www.interlinkbooks.com-2004).

Editorial

Greenspan Spills the Beans