Volume 32, Number 7, February 18, 2005

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Using the Vernadsky Principle To Save the World Economy  

by Nancy Spannaus

There is no way that the bankrupt world economy and financial system can be restored to health, without a breakthrough on what Lyndon LaRouche has called the Vernadsky principle—with reference to the Russian- Ukrainian scientist Vladimir I. Vernadsky (1863-1945).

Current Strategic Studies: The Vernadsky Strategy  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Reprinted from EIR, May 4, 2001.

Principles of Physical Economy: Eurasian Infrastructure and the Noösphere  

by Jonathan Tennenbaum

Speech by Dr. Jonathan Tennenbaum, Schiller Institute science advisor, in Moscow in November 2001.

Appendix

Vernadsky and the Future of Biophysics

by Jonathan Tennenbaum

Living and Nonliving Bodies of the Biosphere

by Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky

From a 1938 article by Vernadsky.

The Biosphere and the Noösphere

by Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky

From a 1943 article by Vernadsky.

National

Wall Street May Lose Bet on Bush To Loot Social Security  

by Paul Gallagher

Democrats from the Senate and House are mobilized in town meetings around the country, to defeat Bush’s Social Security theft.

Documentation: From a report by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Center for Policy Analysis and Research, “The Social Security Privatization Crisis—Assessing the Impact on African American Families;” an open letter from Rep. Xavier Becerra to his colleagues; Rep. Charles Rangel grills Treasury Secretary John Snow.

Bush Budget Proves Greenspan Is a Liar

by Carl Osgood

Dems Demand: Give Veterans Healthcare; Cancel Bush’s Cuts

by Marcia Merry Baker and Judy DeMarco

Documentation: From Senate bill 13, “Fulfilling Our Duty to America’s Veterans Act of 2005.”

As Torture Accounts Proliferate, Senators Seek Independent Commission

by Edward Spannaus

Economics

LaRouche Youth Campaign To Reindustrialize Germany

Elections are scheduled in what used to be Germany’s industrial heartland, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, for May 22, and the LaRouche movement is campaigning there to reverse the national government’s suicidal austerity policies.

Germany Needs 10 Million New Productive Jobs!  

An open letter to voters, from Helga Zepp-LaRouche, chairman of the Civil Rights Movement Solidarity (BüSo) party in Germany.

The Pension System Must Be Tied to the Productive Economy  

by Paolo Raimondi

An interview with Nino Galloni.

Mexican Trade Unionists Support LaRouche Effort

International

Sharm el-Sheikh Summit: The Calm Before a New War?

by Dean Andromidas

A cease-fire has been declared between Israel and the Palestinian National Authority, but the substantive issues are not being addressed.

Iran Is Not, Must Not, Be Another Iraq

by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

China and India Aim To Extend Cooperation  

by Ramtanu Maitra

Outflank the Push for Colombia-Venezuela War

by Maximiliano Londoño Penilla

Russian Diplomat on FDR Post-War Design

by Mary Burdman

Berlin Seminar Debates UN Role in ‘Westphalian’ Community of Nations

What Kind of New, Just, Economic Order?

by Dr. Mahander Kumar Saini

International Rule of Law and the UN

by Dr. Hans Köchler

Anglo-Dutch Liberalism Is the Real Problem

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Dialogue with Lyndon LaRouche.

Interviews

Nino Galloni  

An Italian economist, Mr. Galloni has served in several government ministries, dealing with economics and labor issues. He is currently the auditor of INPDAP, the main institute coordinating pension funds for public-sector retirees in Italy.

Departments

Australia Dossier

by Robert Barwick

Australia Ravages Timor-Leste.

Editorial

No Break from ‘Clean Break’

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