Volume 35, Number 36, September 12, 2008

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LaRouche’s Assessment: There Is Virtually No Candidate For the U.S. Presidency  

by Nancy Spannaus

The stated policies of the Presidential candidates are fairly described as “duck-billed platitudes,” cries worthy of strange creatures of the type to be expected from putative Beaverbrook heir Rupert Murdoch, from “way down under.”

We Face a Dangerous, But Optimistic Time

Harley Schlanger, the Western States Coordinator of the LaRouche Political Action Committee, was interviewed by the French weekly Nouvelle Solidarité.

George Soros, Britain’s Imperial Torpedo

by Scott Thompson, John Hoefle, and Michele Steinberg

International

A Rudderless World: Focal Point of the Global Crisis: Pakistan  

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Pakistan is now the primary target of British destabilization, and this is having an enormous effect on Afghanistan, and India’s security, and in the medium term, on Iran.

Anwar Ibrahim: British Empire Tool To Recolonize Malaysia

by Michael Billington

Economics

Actual Production, Not Parasites, Is the Solution

by John Hoefle

When the world’s largest bond speculator and the British Empire’s Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors both feel compelled to call for governments to bail out the financial markets, you know things are not going well.

‘The Machine-Tool Principle’: Revive LaRouche’s Economic Recovery Act  

by Paul Gallagher

For Economists, Legislators, and Labor: Emergency Legislation, Now!  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Now, more than ever, the LaRouche PAC’s proposed legislation, “The U.S. Economic Recovery Act of 2006,” must become the basis for a mobilization to rebuild the economy.

CFTC Oil Data Confirm LaRouche Forecast

by Paul Gallagher

The Isotope Economy: Producing More and Better Food with Nuclear Isotopes

by Marjorie Mazel Hecht

In the early days of the U.S. Atoms for Peace program, scientists realized that nuclear fission could be harnessed for all sorts of beneficial applications, from desalinating water to breeding better plants and disinfesting food crops.

History

The American Roots of Germany’s Industrial Revolution

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Chancellor Otto von Bismarck led Germany to become an economic powerhouse, modeled on the American System of economy, as taught by Henry Carey and Friedrich List. This story has been blacked out of the history books—in Germany and everywhere else.

Book Reviews

The FDR Jobs Program That Saved the Nation

by Stuart Rosenblatt

American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA—When FDR Put the Nation to Work, by Nick Taylor.

Editorial

‘Tantamount to Treason’  

Correction

The caption to last week’s cover photo erred in saying that the Soyuz is now the only means of reaching the International Space Station. The U.S. Space Shuttle will continue to fly until 2010, at which point, unless funding policy changes, Soyuz will be the only vehicle available.

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