Volume 40, Number 19, May 10, 2013
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The British Empire’s Concentration Camps vs. Glass-Steagall
by Dennis Small
“We are now, again, facing a situation where the majority of Europe, especially Southern Europe, is being turned into a concentration camp. It is happening again, in service of the centuries-old policy of intentional depopulation that the British Empire has long defended. It’s being done again, in such a fashion, that they are hoping that people will not fight. And, the single best way to defeat the spread of this policy today is by the application of the Glass-Steagall Law, again.”
A Note on Our Calculations of Youth Unemployment
by Dennis Small
The Eyes of the World Are Upon Us
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
From a 21st-Century Spanish Emigrant
by Amaya Moro-Martín
U.S. Role Is Key To Save Europe
by Giancarlo Giorgetti
Mexico: To the U.S. Congress: Glass-Steagall Now!
Germany: U.S. Congress Told: Europe Needs You
International
Israel Takes the Lead in Empire War Drive on Syria
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Despite fierce opposition from the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, President Obama is moving to directly arm the Syrian rebels, despite the growing power of radicals aligned with al-Qaeda in the Syrian opposition.
Obama Follows British Afghan Policy Straight Toward a New War
by Ramtanu Maitra
Bad news is pouring out of Afghanistan in buckets. President Obama and his grim-looking advisors do not have a clue how to deal with the problems and keep the schedule for withdrawal of U.S. troops intact.
LaRouche Movement Breakout: Filipinos Rally To ‘Save the Nation’
by Michael Billington
Economics
The Fake Anti-Euro Party: Anti-Euro on the Outside, National-Monetarism Inside
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
The new Alternative for Germany party, which touts itself as opposing the euro, actually doesn’t; its leading spokesmen are a gang of monetarist economics professors from the orbit of the Mont Pelerin Society. Their “cure” would be worse than Europe’s current disease.
Meeting the Challenge of Expanded Rice Production
by Dr. Robert Zeigler
Part 1 of a speech by the director of the International Rice Research Institute, based in the Philippines, to an event on Global Food Security at the Center for Strategic International Studies in Washington. “We’ve got a major challenge,” Dr. Zeigler said. “We’re going to have to increase the productivity of our existing lands just to stay where we are, let alone improve our productivity.”
National
As Week of Action Starts: LaRouche: Free the Captive Nations with Glass-Steagall
by Nancy Spannaus
The LaRouche PAC mobilization aims to provide the necessary push for immediate passage of H.R. 129, the bill by Reps. Marcy Kaptur and Walter Jones which would reinstate Glass-Steagall, and to get a companion bill introduced, then passed, in the Senate.
Impeachment Closes In on President Barack Obama
On LPAC-TV: Prof. Boyle Repeats Case for Impeachment
International law Prof. Francis A. Boyle has offered to work pro bono to develop a bill of impeachment against President Obama, for any member of Congress with the guts to proceed.
Drones Kill Innocents; Stir Hatred of U.S.A.
by Farea Al-Muslimi
Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights on “Drone Wars: The Constitutional and Counterterrorism Implications of Targeted Killing.” Al-Muslimi is a Yemeni journalist who lived in the United States as a student.
Rand Paul: End Killing of Americans Without Trial
Conference Report
The Persian Gulf: Peace and Construction, or War and Destruction?
by Hussein Askary
Speech to the Schiller Institute’s April 13-14 “Forum for a New Paradigm” in Frankfurt, Germany.
Greening the Desert
by Dr. Hassan Janadi
Videotaped remarks to the conference from Iraq’s Ambassador to the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome; he is an expert on water systems and desertification.
Editorial
The Genius of Alexander Hamilton
