Volume 41, Number 50, December 19, 2014
LaRouche PAC Webcast: The Beginning of the End of the Post-9/11 Era
An extensive excerpt from the Dec. 12 LaRouche PAC weekly webcast, in which Dennis Small and Matthew Ogden conveyed Lyndon LaRouche’s evaluation of the game-changing release by Sen. Dianne Feinstein of the “Torture Report,” and the political upheaval it has triggered. The enemy is taking a real beating, LaRouche said, and thus, we now have a true moment of opportunity, to move beyond the horrors of the past 14 years, and into the post-9/11 era.
The U.S. Must Purge Itself
by Col. Patrick Lang
Senator Warren: Pass Glass-Steagall Bill
by Sen. Elizabeth Warren
International
War Provocations Mount Against Russia, China
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The Obama Administration and leading European NATO allies continue to drive toward global confrontation. The targeting of Russia has intensified over the past week, with the House of Representatives passage of the Ukrainian Freedom Support Act, calling for new sanctions against Russia, the arming of Ukraine, and other actions driving NATO right up to Russia borders.
The Modi-Putin Summit: More Than Meets the Eye
by Ramtanu Maitra
The Dec. 11 summit in New Delhi between President Putin and Prime Minister Modi resulted in the signing of 16 bilateral agreements, including one that ensures supply of more Russian nuclear reactors to India over the coming years. The summit issued a joint statement by the two leaders, asserting the arrival of a polycentric world.
Counterintelligence
EIR Fact Sheet: Who Is Behind the Drive To Dismember Russia?
The increasing tensions between the NATO nations and Russia, have nothing to do with the “Ukraine conflict,” and the fact that Crimea has rejoined Russia. Rather, they stem from the fact that the U.S. and NATO have adopted a policy of strategic confrontation against Russia, including “regime change,” which is intended to force the world’s second greatest nuclear power into subservience to the West. We present the documentary evidence of this international open conspiracy.
Economics
Oil Plunge Can Trigger ‘Subprime’ Debt Crash
by Paul Gallagher
What began as a British-Saudi financial warfare weapon against Russia and Iran—the so-called “oil sanction”—is turning into an unpredictably bouncing hand grenade, which may blow out a large debt bubble over the bankrupt U.S. economy.
Fracking—A Stupid Move by the ‘Global Players’
by Andrea Andromidas
What is happening to American energy policy, very much like the German exit from nuclear power, is a radical departure from the principle of security and economic viability, in favor of a gigantic inflation of financial market profits.
Nature: Study Sees Fracking Fall-Off
by Paul Gallagher
Fracking Exacerbates U.S. Drought Crisis
by Marcia Merry Baker
National
Schiller Institute Events: The BRICS and Hamilton: What Americans Need To Know
by Dennis Speed
The Institute’s Dec. 13 conference on in New York City, titled “Alexander Hamilton’s New BRICS Paradigm Can Save the United States,” is part of a series aimed at mobilizing Americans to join the drive of the BRICS nations for technological progress and development, in opposition to the bankrupt trans-Atlantic system.
Bring Americans into the BRICS Paradigm!
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche prepared this video address on Dec. 6 for the Institute’s meetings in New York and other cities.
Egyptian Consul General on Suez Canal Project
by Khaled Rady
The Consul General’s address to a Dec. 11 Schiller Institute meeting in Houston.
Editorial
LaRouche Presents the Solutions
