Volume 32, Number 30, July 29, 2005
Memo on `the Pericles Syndrome':
The Case of a Vice-President's
Mass Insanity
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. writes that "if we are to avoid that peril for our nation and its posterity which the Bush-Cheney pair implies, the unifying, underlying, scientifically principled intent of the totality of the U.S. Constitution must be applied to the totality of the present, existential threat to the nation, rather than merely seeking the removal of some among the admittedly important, currently defective elements of the current Presidency."
International
Zepp-LaRouche Demands Germany
Choose a Sovereign Solution
Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the Chancellor candidate of the Civil Rights Movement Solidarity party (BüSo) in Germany, issued this statement upon hearing Federal President Horst Köhler's July 21 decision to hold early elections in September.
Last Chance To Save Iraq from Civil War?
Interviews
Michael Obuchowsky
State Representative Obuchowsky represents Vermont's Windham legislative district.
Lourdes Alvarado-Ramos
Ms. Alvarado is the assistant director of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington state and the president of the National Association of State Veterans Homes.
Yasmir Fariña Morales
The president of the Chilean Public Employees' Group to Redress Social Security Harm describes the outcome of Chile's disastrous 1981 social security privatization.
National
`Plamegate' Can Bring Down Cheney
A joint panel of Senate and House Democrats convened a hearing on "National Security Consequences of Disclosing the Identity of a Covert Intelligence Agent," in which explosive information was released from expert witnesses, in the case of CIA covert operative Valerie Plame. Documentation: "White House Breached Security Eleven Times," a Fact Sheet from Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), Ranking Minority Member of the House Committee on Government Reform.
What's Behind Bush's Frenzy Over
The Supreme Court Nomination?
GOP Senators Assert Congressional
Control Over Detainee Policy
Documentation: U.S. Navy Adm. John D. Hutson (ret.) tells the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, at its July 14 hearing, "I think we've got a serious problem."
Fed, State Revenue Rises
Much Touted, But All Smoke
Can't Build a Budget on Real Estate `Boom'
An interview with Michael Obuchowsky.
VA Cuts Would Force Veterans on Medicaid
An interview with Lourdes Alvarado-Ramos.
Economics
Germany Cannot Survive
Under the Euro System
When governments hand over the sovereignty of their monetary policy—a key tool for overcoming economic crises—to a supranational institution like the European Union, which is supposed to operate rigorously according to a set of fixed rules, a monstrosity will always be the result.
Pentagon Base-Closing Plan
Takes Down Northeast Submarine
Industrial Base
Base-Closing Plans Would
`De-Construct' Economy
BRAC Targets Another `National Asset':
Army Research Office in North Carolina
A U.S. Tradition:
Military Work on Infrastructure
BRAC's Proposed Northwest Closures
Would Gut Defense, Science, and Jobs
Britain Set for a `Super-Enron'
Say `No' to Privatized Pensions,
Chilean Unionist Advises U.S.
An interview with Yasmir Fariña Morales.
Berlin Seminar
Facing the Coming Crash
of the Financial System
We continue our coverage of EIR's June 28-29 strategic seminar in Berlin, which brought together representatives of 15 nations, to discuss what had to be done to address the impending collapse of the world financial system.
The New American Imperialism:
Some Historical Light
Speech by Dr. Clifford A. Kiracofe, Jr., former senior professional staff member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
LaRouche's Role in Mobilizing the U.S.
Speech by EIR editor Jeffrey Steinberg.
Give Europe a Vital Mission for the Future
Speech by Jacques Cheminade, chairman of the Solidarity and Progress party in France, and the long-time leader of the LaRouche movement there.