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Volume 32, Number 11, March 18, 2005

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World on the Verge of a Dollar Crash

A breaking pattern of international developments led Lyndon LaRouche to warn that the world is now on the verge of a collapse of the entire dollar-based post-Bretton Woods floating-exchange-rate system. While this does not guarantee the immediate crash of the dollar, and the evaporation of the entire global financial superstructure, it does mean that governments must be prepared to act now, to put the system through bankruptcy reorganization.

Economics

Soaring Commodity Prices
Show Threat to Dollar System

As a result of central banks pumping liquidity into the financial system, and the control of raw commodity prices by futures exchanges in London and New York, the prices for a wide spectrum of raw materials have gone to stratospheric levels.

Economy and Ideas

Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.'s foreword to the forthcoming book The Earth's Next Fifty Years.

Italy Reps. Debate New Bretton Woods

GMAC Is a Big Soft Spot in
Global Debt Bubble

Auto Leader:
`We Face an Economic Collapse'

An interview with Eugene Morey.

India Puts Energy Security on Fast Track

Change the Assumptions to Growth,
and Social Security Is in Fine Shape

Fascist Chile Model of
Pension Privatization

Can You See José?

José Piñero is on the run.

Business Briefs

International

U.S. Administration's Lebanon Ploy
Is Blowing Up In Its Face

Bush's demand for "democracy" in Lebanon, as in Iraq, is bringing forward a mobilization of precisely those political forces which the Administration wanted to destroy, and even the local collaborators with the U.S. plan are nervous.

U.S. Killing of Intelligence Official
Shakes Italian-U.S. Relationship

Italy Paid No Ransom to Kidnappers

An interview with Luigi Ramponi.

Dirty-Money Scandal
Points to Sharon, Mega

The case of Israel's Bank Hapoalim.

Behind the Kelly/Wilson/Duggan Affair:
Anatomy of a Defamation Campaign (PDF)

Discontinuity in Current World Affairs

A presentation by India's by Maj. Gen. Vinod Saighal (ret.) to EIR's Jan. 12-13 seminar in Berlin.

International Intelligence

National

John Bolton Will Push
Preventive War at the UN

Coming at the time that the Bush Administration is in a full court press for regime change in Damascus, the appointment of the Administration's leading WMD disinformation specialist, and the architect of the passage of the Syrian Accountability Act, is a particularly provocative gesture.

Washington Post Hits Dems
on Social Security

The paper spreads lies against the Democracy Corps group of James Carville and pollster Stanley Greenberg.

War Crimes Was the Policy

The report by Navy Inspector General Vice Adm. Albert Church, on Defense Department detention and interrogation policies, continues the cover-up, but Congressmen and others are demanding the truth. Documentation: From the hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on March 10, in which Senators asked Admiral Church about a secret Justice Department memorandum.

Arnie's Lies Can't Hide Shultz's Fascism

Supreme Court Majority Bars
Death Penalty for Minors

DeLay Is Nervous; Pals' Legal Troubles Mount

National News

Congressional Closeup

Civil Rights

LaRouche Youth Join
Amelia Boynton Robinson

The commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Selma, Alabama's "Bloody Sunday."

A Vote-Less People Is a Hopeless People

An interview with Amelia Boynton Robinson.

Interviews

Eugene Morey

The president of United Auto Workers Local 849 in Ypsilanti, Michigan, represents employees of Visteon Corporation.

Luigi Ramponi

Representative Ramponi heads the Defense Committee of the Italian House of Representatives. A four-star general, he was head of the SISMI in 1991-92.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

Mrs. Robinson, a fighter for civil rights for nearly a century, is vice chairwoman of the Schiller Institute in the United States. A participant in the events of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, she and her late husband S.W. Boynton had been fighting for voting rights for 30 years before the Selma march.

Departments

Report from Germany

Schröder Visits Arabian Peninsula.

Editorial

Stop the Avian Flu Pandemic!