Volume 39, Number 45, November 16, 2012

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LaRouche Webcast: The Post-Election Prospects—Your Options Now  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Lyndon LaRouche’s first post-election Friday webcast: “What’s important about this presentation today, and about the presentations that will be made in the coming weeks, on the same schedule, is, not that we’re going to qualify what has happened—I’ve already just said that. We’re going to qualify what is about to happen.... What will happen in the United States is typified by what happened in New York City, but also the adjoining regions of that section, where people are still dying of the errors made by, in particular, the Obama Administration....”

International

British Out To Detonate Middle East Explosion  

by Jeffrey Steinberg

No sooner had President Obama secured his reelection, than British Prime Minister Cameron moved to pull the Middle East trigger on a global war, announcing plans to escalate the military campaign to overthrow Syrian President Assad.

Economics

Rebuild New York-New Jersey: Military-Scale Mobe Needed; Obama Offers Haiti Model  

by Marcia Merry Baker

Each day, the post-Superstorm Sandy suffering in the Northeast poses the real challenge: how to rebuild, with a top-down approach to deliberately create a productive region, not a real-estate rip-off.

China Is Completing the Greatest Water Project in World History

by Mary Burdman

China, the world’s most populous nation, is rapidly completing the first two man-made rivers of what will be the greatest water project ever built—the South-North Water Diversion project. Nothing like this has been done before in China’s 5,000-year history—or in the history of the world. Mary Burdman reports.

An ‘Essential’ Project

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Obama Claims a ‘Mandate’ for Fascist Austerity

by Paul Gallagher

Before the votes were even counted, Obama was moving to impose vicious austerity on the nation, à la Greece, no matter what Congress or the voters might have to say.

Policy Message: Hyperinflation Now Strikes!  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

“The new, very grave danger about to strike the trans-Atlantic regions, now,” LaRouche writes, “is the immediate threat of hyper-inflation in both the U.S.A. and the Euro Zone of western and central Europe.”

Will Hearings Break the Benghazi Coverup?

by Nancy Spannaus

At least three Congressional hearings will be held this week on the 9/11 terrorist attack on the U.S. Benghazi consulate.

British Empire’s Policy: Obama Victory Sweeps in Drug Legalization

by Gretchen Small

A Lesson from Texas: 80,000 Votes To End the Party System, with Kesha Rogers

by Alicia Cerretani

Strategy

The Ancient Roots of Chronic Modern War... On a Subject of Ancient Antiquity  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

“Warfare—as it is sometimes said, ‘for its own sake’—has been often an unnecessary, lunatic, mass-disease, the expression of an outbreak of sheer, bestial insanity....” Among the relevant precedents to the more recent outbreaks of mass insanity, was that chronicled by Homer in his “poetic, and therefore truthful” Iliad.

Editorial

Dramatic Global Shifts

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