Volume 34, Number 31, August 10, 2007
Democratic Party Platform 2008—
LPAC Speaks!: This Global Tragedy!
This foreword by Lyndon LaRouche to his proposed platform for the 2008 election campaign, warns that the world monetary system is "currently in the process of disintegrating," which none of the putative Presidential candidates even admits is happening, let alone offer a solution for the crisis. The solution: LaRouche calls for a return to the anti-monetarist, American System of political-economy, a return to those principles which informed President Franklin Roosevelt's recovery from the 1930s world depression. Without that solution, "the worst outcome imaginable were about to happen to the world at large."
Greed Turns to Angst:
The House of Cards Is Collapsing
Helga Zepp-LaRouche reports that while the media is not talking about the fact that the world financial sytem is melting down, the near collapse of the German "industrial credit bank" IKB has shocked some in Germany into recognizing the severity of the situation .
Financial Bubble Bursts in Germany
LaRouche Addresses Youth Cadre School:
The Political Economy of Creativity
In an address to LaRouche Youth Movement members in several locales in Ibero-America, and Loudoun County, Virginia, Lyndon LaRouche emphasized that the collapse of the world financial-monetary system can only be successfully dealt with by "going outside the rules of the game as they are accepted now."
International
War on Iran Will Trigger
`Hundred Years' Conflict
Lyndon LaRouche warns that Vice President Dick Cheney is pushing for a "Gulf of Tonkin II"—a pretext to attack Iran. This scenario can only be understood by looking backwards, to Cheney's Nov. 25, 2006 visit to Saudi Arabia, arranged by former Ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin-Sultan.
Is Washington Setting the Stage
for a Breakup of Pakistan?
Musharraf Can't Wage War on His People
An interview with Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg (ret.).
National
Has Dick Cheney Gone a Bridge Too Far?
The Bush Administration remains hell-bent on conducting wars abroad, while delivering massive tax cuts to the super-rich at home—and yet the nation's physical economy, including bridge and water infrastructure, has collapsed to its lowest level since the Great Depression.
Italian Senators Say,
Impeach Cheney Now!
Revolution in Military Affairs:
The Shape of Nasty Things To Come
`Spacewar':
Welcome to the `Post-Human' Era
Two pillars of assault on the American Intellectual Tradition were cybernetics and the drug counterculture.
Video Games and the Wars of the Future
Thanks to a recently consummated marriage that has been dubbed the "Military-Entertainment Complex," the computer games of today are preparing today's youth for the wars of tomorrow.
A Policy for Universal Military Training
From a policy paper issued by Lyndon LaRouche on Aug. 15, 1979.
`Oldboy,' Columbine,
and the VA Tech Massacre
Addicting Our Children To Killing
An interview with Lt. Col. David Grossman (ret.)
Economics
Foreclosure Crisis Demands
Congress Take FDR Approach
A Congressional hearing by the Joint Economic Committee failed to provide guidelines on how Congress should act to reverse the U.S. housing foreclosure crisis, which is hitting levels that have not been seen for decades.
Senate Hearing on Crisis:
`Cleveland Under Siege'
Cleveland Activist:
`A Devastating Decade'
Home Foreclosures Slam
Formerly Industrial Cleveland
An interview with Jim Rokakis.
Fifty-Year Program Inspires Denmark
Business Briefs
Science & Technology
Time for Next-Generation
Nuclear Plants in U.S.A.
A call for a crash program: The U.S. budget for nuclear R&D is only 11% of what it was in 1980!
A Practical High-Temperature Reactor
An interview with Phil Hildebrandt.
Fourth-Generation Reactors
Are Key to World's Nuclear Future
Computer Climate Models:
Voodoo for Scientists
Interviews
Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg (ret.)
General Beg is former Chief of Staff of the Pakistani Army, and currently director of the FRIENDS think-tank.
Lt. Col. David Grossman (ret.)
Colonel Grossman is an expert on violent video games. Excerpts from a 1999 interview with EIR.
Jim Rokakis
Mr. Rokakis has been treasurer of Cuyahoga County, Ohio (which includes Cleveland) for ten years. He testified to the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Senate on July 25, on the devastating housing foreclosure crisis in his county.
Phil Hildebrandt
Mr. Hildebrandt is the Project Director for the Idaho National Laboratory, which has been designated by the U.S. Department of Energy as the project integrator for the Next- Generation Nuclear Plant. It will be built there.