Volume 29, Number 26, July 5, 2002
Rollover of U.S. Debt Will Yield Weimar Hyperinflation
America’s annual combined debt service has grown to a whopping 72% of the nation’s already-inflated Gross Domestic Product. And you wonder why each week brings a new wave of bankruptcies of major U.S. corporations? Don’t blame the accountants: This has been the result of the systematic take-down of the U.S. economy since August 1971.
U.S. Economic House Burning, All But LaRouche Deny It
by Paul Gallagher
The speed of the dollar’s collapse is only somewhat slower than the collapse of the Brazilian real and the Mexican peso. And yet some fools in the Democratic Party are advising against even mentioning the economy as an election issue!
Economics
Food Shortfalls Leave 800 Million Hungry
by Rosa Tennenbaum
The industrial nations in effect boycotted the World Food Summit of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization in Rome, guaranteeing that nothing effective would come out of it, to deal with a crisis of stupendous proportions.
Demise of Maastricht Is on the Horizon
by Rainer Apel
Repatriation of Russian Capital: Investment, or More Looting?
by Rachel Douglas
False Axioms Blow Out California’s Budget
by Mary Jane Freeman
Indonesia Searches for a Mission
by Michael Billington
Lessons of the Lautenbach Plan: A Reconstruction Program for Germany in a Time of Global Systemic Crisis
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche is Chancellor candidate of the Civil Rights Movement Solidarity party (BüSo) in Germany.
Documentation: Dr.Wilhelm Lautenbach’s plan for saving the economy.
Business Briefs
Feature
Ibero-American Blowout Is Systemic, Not ‘Contagion’
by Cynthia R. Rush
Just as LaRouche forecast during his recent visit to São Paulo, Brazil’s economy has begun to implode as quickly as its southern neighbor Argentina began to do a year ago. The International Monetary fund blames the Argentine “contagion,” but the only real contagion is the IMF itself, and its lunatic policies.
LaRouche on ‘O’Neill’s Hooverville Trolley’
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
LaRouche’s Crisis Leadership Backed: Honored by World’s Third-Largest City
São Paulo City Council Discussions on Cooperation for Economic Recovery
Presentations by Dr. Havanir Oliveira Nimtz, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Dr. Enéas Carneiro, and Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
‘Crucial Moment in Brazil’s History
by Dr. Havanir Olveira Nimtz
‘A Powerful Message to the Whole World’
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
‘Who Is Mr. LaRouche?’
by Dr. Enéas Carneiro
‘We Shall All Sail, Or All Sink, Together’
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
‘Mr. LaRouche Is No Spectator of History’
by Dr. Havanir Olveira Nimtz
Stop the ‘New Violence,’ Create a New Renaissance
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Address to the São Paulo State Appellate Criminal Court.
International
Bush’s Folly May Launch Sharon’s New Middle East War
Calling for the overthrow of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, President George Bush’s June 24 Middle East Policy speech has set the stage for a war that could include the deployment of nuclear weapons.
Denuclearize Mideast To Stop War Threat: LaRouche
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Nabil Shaath: Does Stopping Vaccines For Children Help Israeli Security?
From a June 21 address by the Palestinian Authority Minister of Planning and International Cooperation.
Bush’s Perpetual War Doctrine Scares Even the Reaganites
by Michele Steinberg
French Elections: Chirac’s Landslide, or Premature Burial?
by Christine Bierre
French Book Slanders LaRouche and Cheminade
Remembering Carlos Cota Meza: A Touch of the Sublime
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
International Intelligence
National
DOJ’s Arguments Ring Constitutional Alarms
by Edward Spannaus
Can the U.S. government suddenly declare that a U.S. citizen has no rights under the Constitution? Tearing a page from the courts of Nazi Germany, that’s precisely what the Justice Department is arguing before the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court.
Ashcroft Eroding U.S. Constitutional Rights
Testimony to the House Judiciary Committee by EIR.
Warner Again Says, Revise ‘Posse Comitatus’
by Carl Osgood
Supreme Court Reverses Itself on the Death Penalty
by Edward Spannaus
Violent Video Games Rated ‘for Everyone’
by Donald Phau
The Wertham Campaign Against Violent Comics
by Richard Welsh
Congressional Closeup
Book Reviews
Gore Vidal Attacks LaRouche Over Sept. 11
by Mark Burdman
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got To Be So Hated, by Gore Vidal.
Departments
Editorial
The End of an Era.
Correction
In our last issue, Argentina’s Maj. Adrián Romero Mundani was misidentified as a colonel. And he spent eight, not four years, in prison.
