Volume 30, Number 21, May 30, 2003
Synarchism: The Fascist Roots of the Wolfowitz Cabal
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The Synarchist movement, born in France in the 19th Century, sought to create a one-world tyranny, modeled on the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte. Synarchism was alive and well in Vichy France, and continued after World War II through financial elites like Hjalmar Schacht and Carl Schmitt, and through such “philosophers” as Alexandre Kojève, the propagandist of “purgative violence” and his friend Leo Strauss—godfather of the neo-conservatives in the Bush Administration.
The Mexico Case: The Fascist Philosophy That Created Synarchism
by Dennis Small
Mexico’s Cristero War in the late 1920s pitted “right-wing” Catholic masses against the “left-wing” anticlerical government—with both sides being ideological Synarchists and their dupes.
Economics
Italy Moving on LaRouche’s NBW? Candidate on National TV
by Paul Gallagher
Twenty-eight Italian Senators have submitted a resolution demanding that the Italian government convene the “New Bretton Woods” monetary conference Lyndon LaRouche has campaigned for since 1997.
Documentation: Text of the Senate resolution; chronology of the fight for a New Bretton Woods.
WHO Warns of Post-SARS Threats, Lack of Public Health Defenses
by Marcia Merry Baker
TOPOFF 2: Public Health Gaps Are Real Disaster
by Linda Everett
U.S. Northwest Losing Its Aluminum Industry
by Marcia Merry Baker
An interview with Dr. Hal B.H. Cooper, Jr.
Business Briefs
Feature
The Economic Policy That Made the Peace of Westphalia
by Pierre Beaudry
The 1648 Westphalia Peace only succeeded because of an economic policy of protection and directed public credit—dirigism—aimed to create sovereign nation-states, and designed by France’s Cardinal Jules Mazarin and his great protégé Jean-Baptiste Colbert. Colbert’s dirigist policy of fair trade was the most effective weapon against the liberal free trade policy of central banking maritime powers of the British and Dutch oligarchies.
Interviews
Dr. Hal B.H. Cooper, Jr.
A transportation engineer, Dr. Cooper is based in Seattle, and has consulted for many years on the LaRouche “Land-Bridge” development corridor perspective.
Book Reviews
The Wrong Book at the Wrong Time
by Nancy Spannaus
Alexander Hamilton, A Life, by Willard Sterne Randall.
Departments
Report From Germany
by Rainer Apel
Walking a Tightrope.
Editorial
No Controlled Descent for Dollar.
International
Iraq Chaos Confronts the Region: What To Do?
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Iraq’s internal situation is characterized by the “Catch-22”—that the Iraqis will not accept occupation, and the occupiers will not allow an independent sovereign government.
What Middle East Leaders Can Do Now
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
A report from a symposium at the Center for Asian Studies at the Cairo University.
Some Rays of Sanity Show on Korea Policy
by Kathy Wolfe
“Korea is a land of surprises,” as wise men say. So too, apparently, is the United States.
Philippines President Gives a War to Bush
by Michael Billington
Dr. Kirchner, Life Is Impossible with the IMF!
by Gerardo Terán Canal
The strategic choices facing Argentina’s new President.
International Intelligence
National
Nemesis Stalks Chicken-Hawks: Iraq Failure Fuels Countercoup
by Michele Steinberg
There is tremendous anger in Washington against the neo-conservative coup put into place after Sept. 11, 2001. The mass resignations from military and government posts foreshadow what Lyndon LaRouche forecast would be a “countercoup.”
Pro-Sharon Rally Flops, Discrediting Neo-Cons
by Scott Thompson
Reply to a New DNC Abortion: McAuliffe’s Menstrual Cycle
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
U.S. Admits Most Afghan Detainees Not Al-Qaeda
by Edward Spannaus
Rumsfeld’s ‘Notverordnung’: ‘Transformation’ Bill Hits Bumps in Congress
by Carl Osgood and Edward Spannaus
Army War Game Shows ‘Pre-emptive’ Disaster
by Carl Osgood
Halliburton Looter: Shouldn’t Dick Cheney Be Impeached?
by Scott Thompson and Michele Steinberg
National News
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
Corrections
In “Problems of U.S. Policy on Radiation Protection,” by Zbigniew Jaworowski and Michael Waligórski, EIR, May 16, p. 20, there was a misplaced decimal point in the report of cancer incidence in the Kiev region. The correct figure is 0.005%.
In “LaRouche’s Youth Movement: ‘A Second American Revolution,’” EIR, May 9, p. 49, the name of a speaker in the discussion period was misspelled. He is Andrei Kobyakov, the editor of the Russian economic monthly Russky Predprinimatel.
