Volume 38, Number 26, July 1, 2011

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Main

A Turning-point in Current History: Drum-Beats Over Libya  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

“The only way in which Obama could manage to remain in office, would be to imitate the fascist takeover of the otherwise doomed Hitler government. So, as in Germany then, like U.S. President Barack Obama now, leading figures inside the national legislature, had declined to acknowledge the virtual treason of a sitting President.”

Obama Rips Up the Constitution

by Jeffrey Steinberg

Obama’s overt contempt for the U.S. Constitution, as seen in his refusal to go to Congress for authorization of his Libya war, is an impeachable offense.

Documentation: House Debates Libya War Resolutions

Obama’s Libya War: In Nixon’s Footsteps

The Road to Dictatorship: Hitler’s Enabling Act

National

The Second Battle of Trenton: Mass Strike Resurges in New Jersey  

by Nancy Spannaus

American history scholar Nancy Spannaus reviews the mass revolt in Trenton, N.J. against the union-busting Republican governor and the goose-stepping Democratic leadership, whose capitulation to fascist austerity inspired a New Orleans-style funeral march.

Economics

U.S. 2012 State Budget Deadline: Chain-Reaction Bankruptcies for Global Monetary System?  

by Marcia Merry Baker

U.S. state governments are in an impossible situation, which itself marks a crisis point for the collapsed world monetary system. July 1 marks the beginning of FY 2012 for 46 states, with their governments committed to the charade of devising ways to cut operations sufficiently to “manage” debts and expenditures for essential functions.

SAC-D Aquarius Satellite: Argentina Revives Its Scientific Legacy

by Cynthia R. Rush

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner declared that Argentina’s satellite launch “reflects the real nation.”

Inflation, Hot Money, and Sleaze Paralyze Indian Economy

by Ramtanu Maitra

International

The U.S.A. and Europe Are Reaching the End of the Line  

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

The euro crisis is coinciding dramatically with the de facto bankruptcy of Greece and other states, and also the imminent bankruptcy of the U.S. government: In both cases, the end of the line is here.

Documentation: Dissent Inside the System.

In Italy, Reich Calls for Glass-Steagall

by Andrew Spannaus

The former Secretary of Labor visited the textile-producing city of Prato, in central Italy, where he called for a Glass-Steagall banking system.

Russia Condemns Drug Legalizers’ Report as PR Job for Lethal Drugs

by Ramtanu Maitra

Elections in Peru: London Candidate Wins

by Luis Ernesto Vásquez Medina

Why London Hates Fujimori

Science

Our Young Existentialists: What Self-Interest?

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Lyndon LaRouche addresses the malaise which afflicts the young generation of today: “The point which I make here, is ... a reflection of my insights into the urgent need of freeing the members of that generation, in particular, from the crippling grip of the existentialist fevers of these present times.”

Editorial

Our Constitution versus Liberalism

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