From the Editors:
There is a global process underway, in which "new ideas, not habits and precedents from before, but completely new ideas," are in the process of shaping history, stated Lyndon LaRouche in his discussion with the individuals preparing the March 20 LaRouchePAC webcast (Feature). That process, which portends "a major shift which is not yet secured, but is promising," was demonstrated in the interventions of two German leaders, and U.S. prepresidential candidate Martin O'Malley, against the Obama policies of war confrontation and financial looting last week. It continues to pick up speed, as this issue of EIR demonstrates. The major news developments along these lines are in our Economics section, which leads with the extraordinary momentum behind China's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which European nations are now moving to join. Complementary is the motion against the EU dictatorship itself, seen in our coverage of the recent intervention in the Italian Senate, by former Prime Minister Giulio Tremonti. But the most exciting exempliflcation of this global process is presented in our special report from Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where EIR's Arabic-language editor Hussein Askary provides the first of two first-hand dispatches from the Egyptian Economic Development Conference (Physical Economy). Askary, who has authored numerous programmatic articles on Egypt and Southwest Asia, provides an indepth evaluation of Egypt's progress. In our National section, you will also see how O'Malley is following up his campaign for Glass-Steagall-and how Lyndon LaRouche defines what must be done to move this process forward in U.S. politics.The Obama-British attempts to quash this motion are highlighted primarily in our International coverage of both the war drive against Russia, and the global campaign by British agents to try to crush the nations of the BRICS. Last week Argentina, this week South Africa-but the genesis and process of these efforts at regime change are the same. Under History we offer an inspiring reflection on the immortality of President Abraham Lincoln, the 150th anniversary of whose assassination we commemorate this year. Lincoln represented the best of the Leibnizian tradition which directly shaped the United States, and which the world desperately needs to see revived today.