Volume 36, Number 24, June 19, 2009

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Economy for Scientists: Economic Science, in Short  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Lyndon LaRouche introduces his discussion: “The following report has been produced for the special benefit of those serious scientists and poets who are prepared to come directly to the crucial issue underlying the world’s presently accelerating plunge into the onrushing new dark age of general breakdown-crisis of the present world economy as a whole. The subject within which this report is situated, is what is, to my present knowledge, the still rarely considered principle which distinguishes the human mind, knowledgeably, from that of beasts. This is the same uniquely human principle, of that willful potential of the human mind which lies under the same heading, under which the notion of the ontological conception of the tensor must be situated for our study here.”

International

LaRouche: ‘The Most Stupid Thing That Can Be Done’: London Pushes Big Powers To Dump the Dollar  

by Rachel Douglas

City of London representatives directly, as well as Russian officials under pressure from London-centered financial interests, made their push to get rid of the dollar as the main international reserve currency, into the centerpiece of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum on June 4-6.

Lebanon Elections: As Good as It Gets?

by Jeffrey Steinberg

U.S. Troop Presence in Afghanistan Causes Regional Disharmony

by Ramtanu Maitra

Conflicts are growing, and none of the regional powers can figure out what Washington is really after in Afghanistan, nor what its plans are in the long or short term.

National

Obama’s Fascist ‘Health-Care Reform’ Can Be Stopped  

by Paul Gallagher

To many Democrats who had thought that they had to support the President—even in “cutting health care to reform it”—Obama’s new public demands for draconian cuts are feeding the widely discussed condemnation of the “reform” by Lyndon LaRouche and his movement, as a revival of the Nazi euthanasia program.

EIR Stuns Obama Nazi Health-Care Panel  

by Paul Gallagher

The Nazi Euthanasia Program: Forerunner of Obama’s Death Council  

by Anton Chaitkin

The denial of medical care to the elderly and chronically ill, as planned by the Obama “health-care reform” team, is chillingly familiar to students of the history of Nazi Germany.

Economics

Congressional Hearings Show: We Must Shut Down the Fed  

by John Hoefle

The Federal Reserve has thrown trillions of dollars of public funds into the greatest swindle in history, the bailout of the U.S. financial system. Thanks to hearings by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, some of the truth is coming out—including the release of damning e-mails among high-level Fed officials, regarding the takeover of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America.

Editorial

Bush Dinosaurs Stalk Mitchell Peace Mission

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