Volume 40, Number 3, January 18, 2013
2013: The Year of Glass-Steagall
A growing international movement has emerged in favor of the adoption in all countries of the Glass-Steagall law, which President Franklin D. Roosevelt established in the United States in 1933, and which imposes a separation between commercial and investment banking. Initiated by Lyndon LaRouche, the international calls for Glass-Steagall have spread from the United States, to Russia, to the United Kingdom, to the majority of countries of continental Europe, and to numerous nations in the developing sector.
Documentation: Worldwide Glass-Steagall Legislative Initiatives
Legislation to implement Glass-Steagall has so far been introduced in the legislatures of six countries.
International
Russia, China Respond to BMD; Syria Conflict Deadlocked
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Warnings from Russia and China about the U.S. installation of ballistic missile defense systems, and actions such as the largest Russian naval maneuvers since the end of the Cold War, are the latest indications that these two powers are prepared to coordinate their responses to President Obama’s strategy of encirclement and the “Asia pivot.”
Prince Bandar’s al-Nusra Terrorists in Syria
by Ramtanu Maitra
Syrian War Is Being Steered from Abroad
LPAC-TV interviewed Mother Agnès-Mariam de la Croix of Syria, who has been on an international tour.
Ex-Shin Bet Chief Diskin: ‘There Are Worse Things Than an Iranian Bomb’
Fact or Fiction? What Senator Graham Really Knows
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Will France’s Bombing of Mali Lead to a New Thirty Years War?
by Lawrence K. Freeman
France’s military assault on northern Mali, supported by the U.S. and the U.K., will likely lead to continuing war, chaos, and destruction in Africa.
National
Congress Faces Countdowns on Economy, Expanded War
by Nancy Spannaus
LaRouche PAC’s drive for Glass-Steagall is finding fertile ground, particularly among the growing ranks of Congressmen disgusted with the President’s and the Republican leadership’s austerity agenda.
Drone Strikes as Strategic Folly: Obama Is al-Qaeda’s No. 1 Recruiter
by Edward Spannaus
What President Obama has accomplished with his widespread use of drone missile strikes in Pakistan, has been to vastly accelerate recruitment to al-Qaeda and other jihadist groups.
Failure of Health Care for Profit: Americans Die Younger, Live Sicker Their Entire Lives
Science
Asteroid Apophis Update: No Impact; a Call for Action
by Benjamin Deniston
The “pinging” of Apophis by NASA’s Goldstone antenna is helping to provide a more accurate understanding of its orbit, which will be essential for any future efforts to knock an asteroid off a course of Earth-impact.
Heavy-Launch Vehicles and Planetary Defense
Hypervelocity Asteroid Deflection
Physical Economy
To Go Ahead, Look Back to When New Jersey ‘Worked’
Marcia Merry Baker gave this speech to New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Diane Sare’s campaign kickoff event on Jan. 5. That state, ravaged by Hurricane Sandy, is in dire need of the kind of flood-control and other projects that worked in the past, and will work again.
Book Reviews
Fact or Fiction? What Senator Graham Really Knows
Keys to the Kingdom, by U.S. Senator Bob Graham.
The Remaining Secrets of 9/11
BAE Financing of al-Qaeda
Re-Open the 9/11 Investigation Now
Editorial
Preempt Obama with Glass-Steagall
