EIR Volume 28, Number 18, May 4, 2001

Volume 28, Number 18, May 4, 2001

Full Issue:

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.