Volume 28, Number 18, May 4, 2001
Launch a Sudden Recovery
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. "It is ideas which have been placed on the table at a time when their adoption seemed most unlikely, which are, usually, the indispensable first step toward securing their sometimes early adoption. I explain the deep principle involved in making such preemptive policy-proposals, and, after that, add some vital information on the actual implementation of an economic-recovery proposal such as my own."
What Is the `General Welfare'?
Edward Spannaus traces the history of the U.S. Constitution's General Welfare clause, from Benjamin Franklin to Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Economics
Americas Summit:
Shotgun Marriage to Globalization
The Quebec City Summit of the Americas had the quality of theater of the absurd, as 34 heads of state and government agreed to wed a Free Trade of the Americas Agreement . . . but wouldn't acknowledge that the groom was quite dead.
White House Changes Tune in Turkish Crisis
Current Strategic Studies:
The Vernadsky Strategy
By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. "The figure of biogeochemist V.I. Vernadsky, should serve as a key unifying figure, for the contribution of the science of Russia and Ukraine to the unified development of Eurasia as a whole."
Relentless Economic Crisis Pounds East Asia
Electric Power Plants:
Sold Down the River into Deregulation
State Budget Crises Escalate into Disaster
Documentation: Budget cuts, revenue shortfalls hit states.
States Cannot Solve Crisis on Their Own
U.S. Spring Grain Crop Falls Far Short
International
Bush and Sharon Put Nuclear Warfare Option on the Table
Until Ariel Sharon is removed as Prime Minister of Israel, the perception given by the media and U.S. government officials that the Bush Administration is "constraining" Sharon, is wishful thinking.
The Insanity of Bush and Sharon:
The Bentham Syndrome
By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Nuclear War Now?
By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
British Direct Unholy Alliance To Topple Sudan
Is Britain Preparing A Future `Human Cull'?
`Soros Shock' Up-Ends Peru Election,
Proves EIR and LaRouche Were Right
Teddy Goldsmith's Jacobin Terrorists Strike Worldwide
AIDS Victims in South Africa Beat Back the Multinationals
India Is Ready To Exploit Outer Space
Books
Behind Gore Vidal's Tirade Against FDR
The Golden Age, by Gore Vidal.
How To Generate a New Financial Bubble
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, by Hernando de Soto.
National
Saving D.C. Hospital Is Watershed Issue for Congress
The mobilization to save the only public hospital in the nation's capital has reached a critical inflection point.
`This Is a Movement . . . Based on Love'
Opening remarks by Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad of the Coalition to Save D.C. General Hospital, at a rally on April 18.
`We Will Fund the Hospital'
Speech by Kevin Chavous, Member of the Washington, D.C. City Council.
`Don't Be Afraid of Failure'
Speech by Dr. Joycelyn Elders, former Surgeon General of the United States.
School Killings Lawsuit Takes Aim at Hollywood
Hire Satanists To `Protect' Your School?
Departments
Editorial
World Bank Liar!