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Feature:

LaRouche Keynotes ISSS Conference on World and China
U.S. Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche was the keynote speaker at a conference on China on Aug. 17, sponsored by the Institute of Sino Strategic Studies (ISSS) in Whittier, California, and extensively covered in the Chinese press.

• China in a Changing World
  by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
  This keynote address was delivered to a special meeting of the Institute of Sino Strategic Studies in Whittier, California on Aug. 17.The meeting was called by the institute specifically to hear the views of Lyndon LaRouche directly, as they have been already for some time widely discussed in the Chinese-language press in the United States, and in China.
• Eurasian Land-Bridge As an Alternative
  by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
  This address was delivered to the 'Seventh Annual Conference on the Re-Emergence of China' on Aug. 17.
• Reflections On a New Basis for U.S.-China Economic Relations
  It was hoped and expected by many from the Chinese side, that the expansion of trade with the United States, together with China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO),would help improve both economic and political relations between the two countries.

Economics:

Creditors Are Bleeding Brazil Even Drier Than Argentina
Brazil has enormous natural and human resources, which, if mobilized for an aggressive national reconstruction project, could transform that nation into one of the most productive nations on Earth.

LaRouche Hits 'Country Risk Ratings' as Corrupt
This press release was issued by the LaRouche in 2004 Presidential campaign committee on Aug. 17, 2002.
Lyndon LaRouche today condemned the fact that the U.S. and other governments regularly intervene to enforce private agreements and conditionalities, as part of the process of debt negotiations with developing sector nations.

Bold Vision Needed for Europe's Reconstruction
The August flood of the three rivers, Danube, Moldavia, and Elbe, which has hit southern and southeastern Germany, large parts of the Czech Republic, parts of Slovakia, large parts of Austria, and was on Aug. 20 beginning to reach Hungary and the other countries along the Danube in southeastern Europe, is the worst in at least 160 years, if not more. Some experts are even speaking of a 'millennial flood.'

Zepp-LaRouche: How To Repair the Flood Damage
German Chancellor candidate Helga Zepp-LaRouche spoke out on the flood damage ravaging Europe, with an Aug. 15 statement issued from Berlin, entitled 'Fight the Flood Catastrophe with the Lautenbach Plan; Put the Maastricht Treaty Out of Commission, Immediately.'

Germany: Invest 'Job Bonds' in Transport
Creating employment by issuing 'Job-Floater' bonds, the German government's new proposal as unemployment soared over 4 million, only works if the state invests in sensible projects.

National Argentine Radio Hosts LaRouche
Radio Splendid, which interviewed Lyndon LaRouche live for half an hour on Aug. 9, is one of the top five national radio stations in Argentina. The broadcast set off reverberations and generated a large number of call-ins to the radio station; in the interview, LaRouche explained that the International Monetary Fund package is a bailout of the banks, not Brazil.

India's Economic Worries Grow: Vajpayee Promises Infrastructure
The elusive monsoon, which will leave much of India's agricultural lands parched and under-cultivated this year, has added to the growing economic concern of Indians.

International:

Venezuela Marches Down The Road to Civil War
Mob followers of Venezuelan President Hugo Cha´vez, organized and deployed like paramilitary troops, attempted to assault the Venezuelan Supreme Court on Aug. 14.

Macedonian Patriots Play 'LaRouche Card'
Twenty-four hours after its first issue hit the streets of Macedonia, Manifest magazine had already become a phenomenon. People were contacting the editor, Krum Velkov, to thank him for 'clearing the air.'

National:

Iraq War-Party Is Under Attack by Republican Leaders
If the Richard Perle-Paul Wolfowitz cabal inside the Bush Administration don't succeed into dragging the United States into a war against 1 billion Muslims, they may succeed in something else: bringing down the U.S. economy.

Kucinich Forum Hears Opposition to Iraq War
Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has launched a campaign to open up the U.S. Congress to a discussion of why we should not go to war in Iraq, with a series of forums beginning on Aug. 20 on Capitol Hill.

Rumsfeld's 'Feith and Bum' Corps: What Is Defense Policy Board? To say that Richard Perle's Defense Policy Board 'advises' Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is an legend that has popped up increasingly in recent weeks, especially following the exposure of the notorious July 10 anti-Saudi briefing, where Laurent 'of Arabia' Murawiec delivered a Power Point presentation identifying the Saudis as enemies of the United States. Rumsfeld, who claimed to know nothing about the scheduling of the briefing, later called Murawiec 'a resident alien,' who had nothing to do with policy.

Why Does Perle Have Security Clearance?
The Pentagon events of July 10-11 in Richard Perle's Defense Policy Board (DPB), in which Perle reportedly plotted a campaign to fire uniformed military leaders who oppose the war in Iraq, and which featured a now-notorious discussion of waging aggressive war against Saudi Arabia—a U.S. military and political ally—again raise long-standing questions about Perle's agenda.

McCain Bill Deepens Organized Crime's Lock on Government
New Yorker magazine's resident John McCain propagandist Elizabeth Drew recently wrote Citizen McCain (duly deposited on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list), lauding the Arizona mobbed-up legislator and his Campaign Finance Reform Bill as the best things to hit Washington since Teddy Roosevelt.

Pedagogical:

Hyperbolic Functions: A Fugue Across 25 Centuries
This pedagogical exercise is part of an ongoing series on 'Riemann for Anti-Dummies.' See for example EIR, April 12, 2002 and May 3, 2002.