Volume 32, Number 32, August 12, 2005
Greenspan, Seneca, and Their Baths
By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. "Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan once reported that he spends much of each day in the bathtub, a practice which does not appear to have improved that inflated aroma which hovers over our nation's political and financial capital. There are precedents for that: Nero's teacher, Seneca, drained his life away in his tub, without actually coming clean. Notwithstanding all that, it might help the aroma and economy of Italy and other parts of the world's present situation, were the Siena Group's Robert Mundell to be scrubbed."
National
Backlash Builds Against
Cheney's `Guns of August'
EIR's sources confirm published reports that the Bush Administration is developing contingency plans to stage a pre-emptive military strike against Iran—possibly using nuclear weapons. A significant number of horrified U.S. government officials—from Senators on both sides of the aisle, to military officers, diplomats, and spies—have privately expressed their dismay at the strategy.
EIR Confronts McClellan
on Iran War Scenario
Cheney's `Guns of August':
A Timeline
LaRouche on British Radio:
Stop Cheney's `Guns of August'
Nuclear War Plan
An interview conducted by James Whale of talkSPORT radio.
Is Rumsfeld Playing
Divide and Conquer
With BRAC Base Closings?
Larry Franklin Case:
AIPAC Leaders Snared
Ohio `Pay-for-Play' Scandal Probed
International
Zepp-LaRouche Presents
Election Program in Berlin
The Chancellor candidate of the Civil Rights Movement Solidarity party (BüSo), Helga Zepp-LaRouche, presented her election program, emphasizing the need for Germany's return to its national currency, the deutschemark, and the danger of a global "asymmetrical" war.
The German Army Must
Pull Out of Afghanistan!
A statement by Helga Zepp-LaRouche.
Will Terrorism in Nuevo Laredo
Be Cheney's Pretext To Attack Iran?
Edward Heath:
Stepping From the Shadows
An obituary for the former British Prime Minister.
Bankers Hit Argentina With `Kirchnergate'
Economics
LaRouche to Congress:
`Pass New Amtrak Bill
With a Veto-Proof Majority' (PDF)
A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators trumped President Bush's plan to kill off Amtrak, introducing a bill to authorize $1.9 billion a year for six years to ensure operations and critical infrastructure investment, and another $13 billion bonding authority over ten years for a Federal/State grant program to build rail projects.
Bird Flu Is Spreading in and From Asia
Why the `Euro' System Is Unsustainable
An interview with Dr. Wilhelm Hankel.
Colombia Must Build Railroads
To Link Up With World Land-Bridge
Interviews
Dr. Wilhelm Hankel
Prof. Dr. Hankel, Professor of Economics at Frankfurt University, is one of four German professors who had tried to stop the replacement of the deutschemark by the euro, by means of a legal procedure against it at the German Federal Constitutional Court. He was a board member and chief economist at the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (Reconstruction Finance Agency) in the 1960s, and later was president of the Hessische Landesbank.