EIR Volume 33, Number 6, February 10, 2006

Volume 33, Number 6, February 10, 2006

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Iran Showdown Is the Fuse for a Global Monetary Bomb

by Jeffrey Steinberg

Lyndon LaRouche issues a sharp warning that a military strike against Iran is being manipulated by the British, in order to trigger global war, chaos, and the collapse of the world monetary system. If it happens, the U.S. will be destroyed as well.

Shades of Sykes-Picot Accord Are Cast over Southwest Asia

by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

“The shattering calamities hitting the U.S. Bush-Cheney Administration,” wrote Lyndon LaRouche recently, “have brought the role of the United Kingdom’s Blair government more prominently into focus. Shades of Sykes-Picot, the British Foreign Office, flanked by France, have assumed a controlling role in the regional developments of the Southwest Asia region.” Muriel Mirak-Weissbach reviews the history of the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, by which France and Britain redrew the map of the Middle East.

International

Palestinian Elections: Honest, Fair, Safe and Without Violence

by Dean Andromidas

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s upbeat assessment of the elections points the way to a positive potential for the region. Many foresee that victorious Hamas will seek to shift toward negotiation with Israel, now that it is leading the Palestinian government. How will Israel respond?

Youth Candidate: Renew Leipzig’s Heritage

by Rainer Apel

Karsten Werner, a member of the LaRouche Youth Movement in Germany, is campaigning in Leipzig’s mayoral election, bringing a breath of fresh hope to the discouraged people of the largest city in Saxony, the state which has Germany’s highest unemployment rate.

National

After Alito Fight, the War Continues

by Edward Spannaus

The Senate’s failure to defeat the nomination of Judge Alito brings the U.S closer to the imposition of fascist dictatorship, but that was only one battle in the war which must be continued.

Schmitt Set Precedent, Leader Can Change Law

by Steve Douglas

Sam Alito’s Presidential signing statements and Nazi “Crown Jurist” Carl Schmitt’s “law-substituting decrees.”

Carl Schmitt’s Hobbesian State

by Anno and Elisabeth Hellenbroich

Congress To Fight On Patriot Act, Spying

by Edward Spannaus

The Administration is stonewalling Congress, but the fight over the Patriot Act’s most egregious provisions, and illegal NSA spying, is going to merge together as Congress takes up these issues in the next few weeks.