From the Editors: As we put the final touches on this issue of EIR, the central conception behind LaRouchePAC's Oct. 10 webcast, "Overcoming the Imperial Drive for a New Dark Age," our Feature, is coming even more sharply into focus. Mankind is threatened with a New Dark Age of unprecedented proportions, marked most dramatically by the rampaging expansion of two deadly scourges-the ISIS barbarians, and the deadly Ebola virus. Both come to you, directly or indirectly, courtesy of the British Empire.We draw your attention specifically to one crucial aspect of that webcast discussion, Lyndon...

From the Editors: Mankind lost a golden opportunity back in 1974-76, when, faced with the stark choice between the murderous, epidemic-causing policy of the IMF, and the New World Economic Order being proposed by Lyndon LaRouche and a host of leaders from the developing sector, the world's leading governments stuck with the IMF. From that time forward, the world economy has been a ticking time bomb, coming closer and closer to an explosion of pestilence, famine, and war. This issue of EIR presents an in-depth picture of that choice, from the perspective of the threshold of choice where we...

From the Editors: This issue of EIR begins our coverage of the Oct. 18-19 conference of the Schiller Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, a conference which epitomized the spirit of optimism and determination to rid the world of geopolitics, which has been sweeping the world with the BRICS de-velopments, beginning Summer 2014 (Feature). The scope of the first panel, which was devoted to the New Silk Road, gives you the idea of this conference's importance, which was also underscored by the high-level participation of several of the nations in that project-especially China, India, and Iran. The...

From the Editors: As most Americans know, the just-concluded elections did nothing to resolve the crucial issues facing humanity in the immediate days ahead-except opening further the potential for the removal of Barack Obama from office. In this issue of EIR, we focus on those crucial issues. First, there's the issue of war or peace, which has come to the fore with the recent escalation by NATO and Obama against Russia and China. In our lead package (Strategy), we present the current war danger, backed up by a discussion of the strategy to defeat it, which occurred in the Oct. 31 LaRouchePAC...

From the Editors: A "political impeachment" was the spot-on characterization, by a Washington insider, of the Nov. 4 U.S. Presidential elections, which, as even top Democrats ruefully admitted, was a spectacular drubbing of Obama and his party. That it took place on the eve of the equally historic APEC summit in Beijing last week, where the emergence of a striking counterpole to the rapidly imploding trans-Atlantic financial imperium was further consolidated, was not lost on either side. This week's EIR examines both sides of this unbridgeable divide, beginning with our Cover Story. The...

From the Editors: Although the media in the trans-Atlantic world is doing its best to suppress the news, writes Helga Zepp-LaRouche in our Cover Story, "the world has fundamentally changed in the past three weeks." China and the other BRICS countries have been forging ahead, since their summit in Brazil in July, putting together a new world economic order that prioritizes the common aims of sovereign nations, especially the development of infrastructure and science. The BRICS interventions continued at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Beijing during the first week of...

rom the Editors: Lyndon LaRouche has been emphatic: There has not been an ounce of growth in the real U.S. economy since the death of President John F. Kennedy. In our Cover Feature, Economics editor Paul Gallagher elaborates the basis for LaRouche's judgment, with a devastating review of exactly how we have been destroying ourselves by adopting British monetarist methods. If you can understand what went wrong with our economy, you will understand why Americans must not only appreciate what the BRICS nations are doing, but why it is urgent that we join them in realizing mankind's global...

From the Editors: "The international system as it has been heretofore, is dying, and there are only two alternatives: general thermonuclear war, or a kind of unity among nations, which we see coming out of the BRICS and similar kinds of fora," stated Lyndon LaRouche on Nov. 29. This issue of EIR provides ample evidence of the promise which the momentum around the BRICS dynamic represents-as well as the unmistakable evidence that the NATO nations are going for war. Our Feature comes from EIR's just-released Special Report, "The New Silk Road Becomes the World Land-Bridge," and provides an...

From the Editors: Helga Zepp-LaRouche took the LaRouche movement's campaign for the BRICS new paradigm, to Washington, D.C. last week, shocking her audience of diplomats, policymakers, and citizens with her presentation of what the BRICS nations have put on the table in terms of development projects which will transform the Earth (Feature). The United States must join this process, or else the already ongoing war dynamic will bring global catastrophe.This issue of EIR includes Zepp-LaRouche's entire presentation-which should whet your appetite for the full "New Silk Road" Special Report which...