From the Editors: Our first issue of 2015 looks forward to our adopted mission for this year: Defeating the British Empire and bringing the United States and Western Europe into collaboration with the BRICS. This mission is coherent with two major anniversaries that the world will celebrate this year. First, the United States' victory over the British Empire and its Confederacy in 1865-which led to the takeoff of U.S. industrial might, and the spread of its model throughout the world. Anton Chaitkin's History feature in this issue, on the battle in the 1870s U.S., brings this period to life...

From the Editors: "In view of the existential dangers that threaten humanity today, one thing is certain: We must make the leap to overcome the purported interests of geopolitics, and to unite around the higher vantage point which all astronauts, cosmonauts, and taikonauts have expressed. With the perspective of astronauts viewing the Earth from space, it is in fact possible to regard humanity as a unity, which lives on a tiny planet in a very large Solar System, which is part of a much larger galaxy, among billions of galaxies. "The above perspective, expressed by Helga Zepp-LaRouche in the...

From the Editors: On the same day that global terrorism attacked in Europe Jan. 7, EIR and the LaRouchePAC unleashed a revolutionary capability which can utterly defeat that terrorism and destroy its sponsors. This superweapon against global terrorism is not new police-state legislation in the style of Cheney, Bush, and Obama. It was, first, the Jan. 7 indictment from the highest Congressional level, featuring Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 co-chairman, former Sen. Bob Graham, of the leading role of the Saudi monarchy in all global terrorism (Feature). Then, in the Jan. 9 webcast, EIR...

From the Editors: What do you need to know, and how do you have to think, in order to bring mankind out of the current seemingly insolvable crises that have put us on the edge of World War III? In this issue of EIR, we do our best to supply those necessities. Helga Zepp-LaRouche provides the strategic overview, emphasizing what must be done to halt the war threat. The excerpt from Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov's speech at the Munich Security Conference backs up her case, countering the Western media lie that "Russia created the crisis." We also note recent Russia media coverage of Mrs....

From the Editors: What do you need to know, and how do you have to think, in order to bring mankind out of the current seemingly insolvable crises that have put us on the edge of World War III? In this issue of EIR, we do our best to supply those necessities. Helga Zepp-LaRouche provides the strategic overview, emphasizing what must be done to halt the war threat. The excerpt from Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov's speech at the Munich Security Conference backs up her case, countering the Western media lie that "Russia created the crisis." We also note recent Russia media coverage of Mrs....

From the Editors: The resistance of the Greek government to the British Empire's scorched-earth policy, has the potential to catalyze a movement to sink the whole bankrupt London/Wall Street system, and that's what should be done, Lyndon LaRouche has stressed. Otherwise, these British lunatics are pushing us straight toward World War III. Our Feature outlines the case for Greece dumping the debt: it's been a gigantic swindle on the part of the international bankers, who now demand the country further destroy itself. Even the United Nations has shown that the Troika conditionalities have been...