Volume 28, Number 18, May 4, 2001

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Launch a Sudden Recovery  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

“It is ideas which have been placed on the table at a time when their adoption seemed most unlikely, which are, usually, the indispensable first step toward securing their sometimes early adoption. I explain the deep principle involved in making such preemptive policy-proposals, and, after that, add some vital information on the actual implementation of an economic-recovery proposal such as my own.”

What Is the ‘General Welfare’?

by Edward Spannaus

Traces the history of the U.S. Constitution’s General Welfare clause, from Benjamin Franklin to Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Economics

Americas Summit: Shotgun Marriage to Globalization

by Gretchen Small

The Quebec City Summit of the Americas had the quality of theater of the absurd, as 34 heads of state and government agreed to wed a Free Trade of the Americas Agreement ... but wouldn’t acknowledge that the groom was quite dead.

White House Changes Tune in Turkish Crisis  

by William Engdahl

Current Strategic Studies: The Vernadsky Strategy  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

“The figure of biogeochemist V.I. Vernadsky, should serve as a key unifying figure, for the contribution of the science of Russia and Ukraine to the unified development of Eurasia as a whole.”

Relentless Economic Crisis Pounds East Asia

by Mary Burdman

Electric Power Plants: Sold Down the River into Deregulation

by John Hoefle

State Budget Crises Escalate into Disaster

by Richard Freeman and Mary Jane Freeman

Documentation: Budget cuts, revenue shortfalls hit states.

States Cannot Solve Crisis on Their Own

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

U.S. Spring Grain Crop Falls Far Short

by Marcia Merry Baker

International

Bush and Sharon Put Nuclear Warfare Option on the Table

by Dean Andromidas

Until Ariel Sharon is removed as Prime Minister of Israel, the perception given by the media and U.S. government officials that the Bush Administration is “constraining” Sharon, is wishful thinking.

The Insanity of Bush and Sharon: The Bentham Syndrome  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Nuclear War Now?  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

British Direct Unholy Alliance To Topple Sudan

by Lawrence K. Freeman

Is Britain Preparing a Future ‘Human Cull’?

by Mark Burdman

‘Soros Shock’ Up-Ends Peru Election, Proves EIR and LaRouche Were Right

by Valerie Rush

EIR Responds to Slander in Peru

by Luis Vásquez Medina

Teddy Goldsmith’s Jacobin Terrorists Strike Worldwide

by Scott Thompson

AIDS Victims in South Africa Beat Back the Multinationals

by Ramtanu Maitra

India Is Ready To Exploit Outer Space

by Ramtanu Maitra

Books

Behind Gore Vidal’s Tirade Against FDR

by Mark Burdman

The Golden Age, by Gore Vidal.

How To Generate a New Financial Bubble

by Luis Vásquez Medina

The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, by Hernando de Soto.

National

Saving D.C. Hospital Is Watershed Issue for Congress  

by Nancy Spannaus

The mobilization to save the only public hospital in the nation’s capital has reached a critical inflection point.

‘This Is a Movement ... Based on Love’

by Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad

Opening remarks from the Coalition to Save D.C. General Hospital, at a rally on April 18.

‘We Will Fund the Hospital’

by Kevin Chavous

Speech by a member of the Washington, D.C. City Council.

‘Don’t Be Afraid of Failure’

by Dr. Joycelyn Elders

Speech by the former Surgeon General of the United States.

School Killings Lawsuit Takes Aim at Hollywood

by Michele Steinberg

Hire Satanists To ‘Protect’ Your School?

by Don Phau

Departments

Editorial

World Bank Liar!

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