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As part of the campaign to re-tool the capacities of the “military-industrial-financial complex” for productive manufacturing purposes, The LaRouche Organization in the United States has prepared draft legislation to be submitted to Congress. A vast mobilization has been launched to gather support for the measures from all constituencies over and above party lines. The legislation begins with the following Findings: […]

Should the IMF-approved radical free-market policies announced by Argentina’s Libertarian President Javier Milei remain in place, the Argentine people will experience an unprecedented level of hardship and death. Indeed, he has declared war on his fellow citizens, announcing savage “shock therapy,” and demanding Congressional passage of an “urgency and necessity” decree (DNU) and an “Omnibus” bill which together will allow […]

The New Year has been ushered in amid great tumult and uncertainty. The headlines are full of reports on wars and destruction, combined with news on the “inevitable” economic decline to expect in the West. Despite the immediate emotional reaction to these events, one should not lose sight of the larger underlying process at work. That is, the end of […]

“No one will be able to claim, as historians said of World War I, that we sleepwalked into World War III. The war cries today are so deafening that they threaten to awaken from the dead all of the victims of previous wars, including the First and Second World Wars.” This is the opening observation of a Christmas and New […]

The holiday season and transition to the new year brought no respite for the population of Gaza, where the death toll now exceeds 30,000. The bombing continues, as the lack of water, food, medicine and electricity only worsens. What is most troubling for people in the West is how their governments can condone – or even worse approve of — […]

The new year is re-introducing the debt rules for the European Union, which had been suspended due to the COVID pandemic. The reformed rules of the Stability and Growth Pact, decided by the European Council on Dec. 20, are a revival of the pre-pandemic austerity a la Brüning (the German Chancellor who helped pave the way for Hitler), and of […]

France and Germany decided on the new debt rules in a meeting between their foreign ministers, without taking into account Italian requests for counting capital expenses in a separate budget. As a result, the Meloni government adopted Plan B, which envisioned a veto to the reform of the EU bank-bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism. The day after the decision […]

Of all the different protest actions in Germany in 2023, the tractorcades of the farmers in the weeks before Christmas have been the most effective, in particular the pattern of road and highway blockades. The ferment in Germany may very well spread to neighboring countries, both East and West, where the agricultural policy imposed by Brussels threatens the existence of […]

In his “2024 New Year Message,” China’s President Xi Jinping detailed the achievements of China during the course of the year and congratulated the Chinese people on their accomplishments: “In 2023, we have continued to forge ahead with resolve and tenacity. We have gone through the test of winds and rains, have seen beautiful scenes unfolding on the way, and […]

The Julius Nyerere Hydroelectric Power Project (JNHPP), one of Tanzania’s mega projects, is to be completed and commissioned by mid-February 2024. Under construction since 2019, it aims to produce 5,920 GWh of electricity annually, in addition to improving overall water management. Even more impressive, the 94%-completed project is truly an all African project. Financed by the Tanzanian government, its major […]