Larouche Online Almanac
Published: Monday, March 11, 2002
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Bush announced, on March 5, that he would impose 30% import tariffs on most categories of steel.

This dramatic development came in response to the cumulative effect of decades of free trade and globalization. Over the past five years, 31 American steel companies had

filed for bankruptcy, over 40,000 unionized steelworker jobs had been lost, and steel prices had reached a 20-year low, virtually assuring the near-term extinction of the entire industry.

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The Bush Administration Confronts Depression and War

U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill spent last week sparring with U.S.Federal Reserve Bank chairman Alan Greenspan, over which of them could publish the more preposterous lies about the non-existent recovery of a collapse-stricken U.S. physical economy. However, other U.S. decision-makers,in both the Bush Administration and the Congress, were reacting to the onrushing depression by initiating seismic changes in U.S. trade and infrastructure policy. In a belated response to the grave collapse of the U.S. physical economy, President


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The USWA and AFL-CIO unions mobilized an estimated 25,000 steel workers for the Feb. 28 "Countdown to Justice" in Washington.


ECONOMICS

Debt Ceiling Increase Demanded by White House

Wild-eyed in Washington: They Say There Was No Recession.

Cuts in Manufactured Goods Orders Sold to Suckers as a Recovery.

More Recovery Nonsense: 1.2 Million Jobs Gone for Good.

City of London Expert Reveals Fraud Behind "Recovery"

Gephardt Challenges GOP on Social Security.

Germany's Official Recession a Part of Global Depression.

Happy Birthday to Germany's Nemax?

Epidemics Spreading as Result of Economic Collapse, War.


NATIONAL U.S. NEWS DIGEST

LaRouche Warnings on Afghanistan Fiasco Proven Right.

Franks Makes Freudian Slip.

Challenges in Congress to War, Defense Budget.

McCain, Lieberman Together Again--To Promote More Wars.

New Yorker's Seymour Hersh Details Battle Over Iraq Between Powell and Wolfowitz Cabal.

Hersch Warns of Israeli Nuclear "Blackmail" Threat.

Washington Post Obsessed with "LaRouche Factor" in Fight to Save D.C. General Hospital.

Time Magazine's Nuclear Terror Propaganda Shot Down in Senate Hearing.


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FLASH! COVERAGE OF LAROUCHE FROM IRAN

IBERO-AMERICAN NEWS DIGEST

Nationalist Leader Col. Seineldin Warns of Anglo-American Coup Threat in Argentina.

Martial Law in Ecuador Due to General Strike.

Venezuela's Chavez Offers Mediation with FARC.

New York Times Caught Lying About Senator's Call for U.S. Troops to Colombia.


EUROPEAN NEWS DIGEST

LaRouche Expose of Sept. 11 "Coup d'Etat Reported in Italian Daily.

"Has America Attacked America?" on Sept. 11, Asks Macedonian Daily in Coverage of LaRouche.

Swedish Colonel: War on Iraq Could Trigger Israeli First Strike.


RUSSIA AND EURASIA

Russian Foreign Minister: U.S. Mustn't "Frustrate" Russia.

Berezovsky's New Attacks on Putin--Implicating Him in 1999 Moscow Apartment Bombings.


AFRICA DIGEST

"Mr. Blair Should Shut Up" on Zimbabwe, Says Information Minister.

British Bid to Oust Zimbabwe from Commonwealth Fails.

Nigeria Withdraws From IMF Standby Arrangement.

Nigeria Rejoices Over Withdrawal From IMF Program.


MIDDLE EAST DIGEST

Al-Bayan Writer Calls on Arabs To Support LaRouche as "The Only Decisive Factor."

British Opposition to Iraq War Grows.

Bush, Cheney, Powell Send Gen. Zinni Back to Middle East.

Powell Criticizes Sharon's War Policy.

Annan Meets Iraqi Foreign Minister as War Party Decries UN Inspections.

Kissinger Rabid in "Axis of Evil" Attacks on Iraq.


ASIA NEWS DIGEST

Malaysia's Mahathir Warns Against War, Free Trade.

State Department Official Reports "U.S. Is Out of the Infrastructure Game."

Demise of the Taliban and al-Qaeda was 'Greatly Exaggerated.'

Afghanistan War Far From Over--Turns Deadlier.

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LaRouche on the Stockwell Show: Money-Pumping Won't Stop Industrial Collapse

Clash of Civilizations 'Left' Forces Gather.

Creating New Mideast Water Resources for Economy and Peace.

this week in history FDR

March 11-March 18, 1933

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office March 3, in a situation where more than 25% of the American workforce were officially unemployed, banks and business were failing hand over fist, and the nation was enmired in depression, both physically and in spirit. He did not wait an instant, but moved vigorously to restore confidence in the U.S. banking system, and to set the basis for reviving the U.S. economy. Under his bold leadership, this was the most dense period of executive action in U.S. history, and represented the first steps to reviving the principle of the General Welfare in the U.S. government. --more


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