Volume 32, Number 34, September 2, 2005

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LaRouche Comments on Professor Hankel and Himself  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. addresses the question posed by Prof. Wilhelm Hankel, respecting the return from the collapsing system of the euro to national currencies such as the deutschemark. “There are much deeper issues of scientific method involved,” he writes, “in what that seemingly relatively simple question implies.”

Economics

Why America Needs To Build Nuclear Power Plants—Fast  

by Paul Gallagher

The same White House which has exhaustively mounted a desperate bully pulpit trying to undo 70 years of Social Security, has done nothing more to revive nuclear power, than occasionally to indicate its generally favorable views on the subject.

How Electricity Dereg Causes Blackouts  

by Marsha Freeman

Power Engineers Supporting Truth (PEST) has released an explosive report which affirms what EIR has uniquely been saying: that “deregulation and the concomitant restructuring of the electric power industry in the U.S. have had a devastating effect on the reliability of North American power systems, and constitute the ultimate root cause of the Aug. 14, 2003 blackout.”

Corruption in America: Big Three Execs Get Huge Pay To Ruin Auto Sector  

by Richard Freeman

Housing Bubble Means Workers Can’t Afford a Home Where They Work

by Mary Jane Freeman and Richard Freeman

Business Briefs

National

Will Senator Warner Move To Block BRAC Atrocity?  

by Carl Osgood

The Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) approved most of the Pentagon’s recommendations, including the most egregious real estate scam: the shutdown of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and the removal of a massive amount of Pentagon office space out of one section of Northern Virginia, into another.

National News

International

BüSo Rallies Berliners To Stop Cheney’s War Drive

by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the Chancellor candidate of Germany’s Civil Rights Movement Solidarity party (BüSo), joined with Col. Jürgen Hübschen (ret.), a former military attaché at the German Embassy in Baghdad, in a Berlin forum on “Requirements for German Foreign Policy.”

Zepp-LaRouche: ‘I Know What Has To Be Done!’

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

The candidate’s television ad for the Sept. 18 Federal elections.

FDR Wanted UN To Ensure Rule of Law

Interview with Prof. Anton Giulio de’Robertis.

Russia Warns of Lower Nuclear Threshold

by Rachel Douglas

President Vladimir Putin took the opportunity of his participation in Russian strategic force maneuvers Aug. 17, to state bluntly his opposition to the increasing readiness to use nuclear weapons.

Brazil Has Cards of Its Own To Play, Too

by Gretchen Small

President Lula, besieged by corruption scandals, should tell Brazilians and the world the truth of why their country is under attack. Which, after all, is more bankrupt: the Brazilian government, or the global financial system to which it is indebted? Why not join the fight for a New Bretton Woods?

Interview

Anton Giulio de’Robertis

Professor de’Robertis teaches the History of Treaties and International Relations at the University of Bari, Italy, and is senior analyst at the National Research Center in Rome. He is the author of several books on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Editorial

Target Cheney, the Spoon-Bender-in-Chief

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