Volume 33, Number 18, May 5, 2006
LaRouche Webcast: The Greatest Economic Crisis in Modern History
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Addressing a Washington, D.C. webcast on April 27, Lyndon LaRouche laid stress on the need to act immediately to head off Weimar-style hyperinflation. Already, the speculators’ shift into commodities like copper, petroleum, and gold has begun to create a price curve that looks like that of Weimar Germany in the early months of 1923. LaRouche responded to probing questions from the audience, and from listeners over the Internet, especially on what exactly he thinks can be done to prevent a catastrophic collapse of the world economy. Using the precedent of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s actions in the last Depression, LaRouche said, it can be done. “We did it before, we can do it again.We were poor then, we’re poor now. We got better then; we can do better now. And that’s what this is all about.”
Economics
‘Upside-Down Loans’ Show End of Greenspan’s Housing Bubble
by Richard Freeman
The “red dye marker” of the fact that a national collapse is under way, is the epidemic of negative equity, known colloquially as “upside-down mortgage loans.”
Promising Signs in Germany of New, Pro-Industrial Optimism
by Rainer Apel
Lyme Disease in Loudoun County: Tick, Tick, Tick ... Time Running Out on Housing Bubble
by Marcia Merry Baker
The same county in Northern Virginia that is “ground zero” for the real-estate bubble, has the third-highest rate of Lyme disease in the United States. No coincidence!
A ‘Marshall Plan’ for the Niger Delta
by Lawrence Freeman and Lawrence Fejokwu
Business Briefs
World News
Cheney’s Ouster Is Key to U.S. Survival
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Lyndon LaRouche told his webcast audience that if Dick Cheney is not removed soon, it will not be possible to make the kind of changes that are required in economic policymaking, “which are changes that are consistent with what Franklin Roosevelt began to do in early March of 1933, at the time of his inauguration. Unless we go back to Franklin Roosevelt, and do it this year, this nation is not going to make it. We’re going to Hell—and we’re going to take the rest of the world with us.” Fortunately, there are some signs of renewed momentum to dump the Vice President.
LYM on Mexican Elections: ‘Forget the Chair; the Heads Are Empty!’
by Gretchen Small
Since Mexico’s Presidential candidates are refusing to discuss the real issues of national survival, the LaRouche Youth Movement is stepping into the gap.
International Intelligence
National News
Book Reviews
Securing the Good of the Other
by William Jones
The Battle for Peace: A Frontline Vision of America’s Power and Purpose, by Gen. Tony Zinni, USMC (ret.) and Tony Klotz.
Science & Technology
The Beauty of Completing the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
The United States pioneered the full nuclear fuel cycle, but gave it up in the 1970s, following a Ford Administration policy written under the direction of Dick Cheney. A reprint from 21st Century Science & Technology.
Editorial
Characteristics of the Current Crisis: How the World Has Changed
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
