Volume 39, Number 10, March 9, 2012

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Principle vs. Populism: The U.S.A.’s Last Chance  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

As the U.S.A. plunges into what is, so far, the 2012 election debacle, Lyndon LaRouche looks back at some of our earlier Presidents—some scoundrels, some sublime, and some who combined elements of both—and concludes that at no time in our history have we been confronted with such a daunting challenge in choosing a President. “The case of the misguided personal voter,” LaRouche writes, “is among the most crucial of those dangers to our republic which must be faced in the current approach to the coming U.S. general election of 2012.” The existential challenges we now face to the continued existence of humanity on this planet demand that the political parties and the voters reject populist sophistries, and adopt the fundamental principles that will guide us out of the looming catastrophe.

International

Empire Enters March with a Roar for Global War  

by Nancy Spannaus

EIR Editor Nancy Spannaus covers the “extraordinary anti-war mobilization” being carried out in the U.S. and Europe, and points beyond, by the extended LaRouche movement, which is bolstered by the outspoken resistance to war coming from high-level military and political circles.

London Clearly States Its Intention To Wipe Out Sovereign Russia

The British imperial crowd has its sights centered on Russia’s President-elect Putin: A Chatham House report confirms what we have been warning for sometime, i.e., that London is determined to destroy a sovereign Russia, and therefore has made Putin a target for the immediate period ahead.

Robert Kelley: IAEA Should Investigate November 2011 Report on Iran for Forgeries, Lies  

by Michele Steinberg

The former chief inspector for the International Atomic Energy Agency in Iraq lambastes the fraudulent IAEA report on Iran’s nuclear program, and asks, have we learned nothing from the Iraqi experience?

International Intelligence

Economics

Ritual Sacrifice Spreads from Greece to Spain

by Dennis Small

Fresh from the murder of Greece, with its 11 million people, the Euro-gods are now demanding a similar sacrifice from the nation of Spain, with its 46 million population, on behalf of the British imperial bankers.

The 25th Amendment Is the First Step in Doubling Food Production

by Dennis J. Mason

A look at the USDA’s Agricultural Outlook Forum 2012, where LaRouche organizers challenged the attendees: “Will we Americans have the guts to chuck Barack Obama from the Presidency, and create the conditions for doubling food production?”

Tornados Show Killer Obama Food Policy

by Marcia Merry Baker

Extreme weather events, such as last week’s devastating tornados that ripped through the central states, are hitting a farm sector already reeling from the ongoing financial blowout. Mass starvation is threatened.

National

British Hedge-Fund Project: The ‘Americans Elect’ Hoax  

by Gretchen Small

In the name of creating a “third pathway” for choosing a Presidential candidate, an outfit calling itself “Americans Elect,” the brainchild of the British-owned hedge-fund speculator Peter Ackerman, has already secured ballot status in 17 states for its as yet undetermined “nonpartisan ticket.”

An Alternative: LaRouche Slate Offers ‘The Competent Candidate’

LaRouche PAC issued this leaflet, titled, “The Competent Candidate for the Presidency Is the LaRouche Federal Slate,” on Feb. 18.

Senators Demand Probe of Saudi-9/11 Ties

by Edward Spannaus

Two former U.S. Senators who had access to top-secret information on the 9/11 attacks are asking a Federal judge to allow a full investigation of evidence that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia played a direct role in those attacks.

Conference Report

Overcoming the Existential Threat of Thermonuclear War  

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s keynote speech to the Berlin conference of the Schiller Institute on Feb. 25. Only by realizing our true nature as creative humanity in a self-developing universe will we be able to confront and defeat the British empire’s policies of war and genocide.

Mohammad Mahfoud: Truth vs. Propaganda: The Situation in Syria

by Mohammad Mahfoud

The president of the Danish-Syrian Friendship Society presents an eye-witness account to the Schiller Institute conference in Berlin Feb. 25.

Interview

Robert Kelley: IAEA Should Investigate November 2011 Report on Iran for Forgeries, Lies  

The former IAEA chief weapons inspector is interviewed by Michele Steinberg.

Editorial

One Year After Japan’s Mega-Quake

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