Volume 40, Number 20, May 17, 2013
World Grain Shortage: Famine Ahead Without Glass-Steagall Shift
by Marcia Merry Baker
The consumption of grains of all kinds now exceeds the volume of global production, and the gap can’t be made up. Allowing the continuation of the policies—dictated by the imperial financial cartel—which have led to this disaster, and to at least a billion people worldwide already going hungry, is not an option. The solution is a shift, and fast, to Glass-Steagall.
Australia Without Family Farmers Is Not ‘Viable’
Rice—Scientific Breakthroughs To Transform Agriculture
by Dr. Robert Zeigler
International
Israel Strikes Syria: Superpowers Make 11th-Hour Effort To Avoid Global War
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Following Israeli airstrikes against Syria, high-level meetings in Moscow, involving Secretary of State Kerry, Russian President Putin, and Foreign Minister Lavrov, signalled that the superpowers are taking war-avoidance measures to prevent the Syrian conflict from blowing up into a general war.
EU Prepares Grab for Bank Accounts
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
The charade is over: The “Cyprus model” is to be forced down the throats of all EU members. But, the end of the euro is nigh, as former advocates are now abandoning the euro and the EU.
New Greek Party Formed: Call for Return to Drachma, Sovereignty
by Dean Andromidas
Glass-Steagall in Italy: National Liberation Committee Formed
by Andrew Spannaus
National
LaRouche PAC Glass-Steagall Mobilization Shakes Nation
by Leandra Bernstein
The LaRouche PAC’s Week of Action May 5-11 hit government at the national, state, and local levels, to intensify pressure on Congress to reinstate Glass-Steagall without further delay.
Glass-Steagall Support Pours into Washington
Questions To Be Answered in the Investigation of Benghazi 9/11
by William F. Wertz, Jr.
What the Congressional committees looking into the 9/11/12 Benghazi attack, should be asking, focusing on the Obama Administration’s coverup of its alliance with the terrorist forces that murdered four Americans that day.
Physical Economy
How Abandoning Science Has Led to Economic Collapse
An excerpt from the LaRouche PAC Weekly Report webcast of April 17, detailing certain crucial parameters of the collapse of the U.S. physical economy, featuring Creighton Jones and Liona Fan-Chiang of the LaRouche PAC Basement science team.
Appendix: What Creates Wealth? Production vs. Overhead
by John Hoefle
Science
Planetary Defense: Progress and Enormous Challenges
by Benjamin Deniston
LaRouche PAC’s Benjamin Deniston reports from the Planetary Defense Conference in Flagstaff, Arizona, sponsored by the International Academy of Astronautics.
Conference Report
Toward a Renaissance of Classical Music and Science
The final panel of the April 13-14 New Paradigm conference of the Schiller Institute, devoted to the question of reviving Classical culture.
An Asymmetrical Answer to the British Empire
by Andrey Fursov
Aesthetical Education and the Beautiful
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Beauty Is the Language of the Universe
by Antonella Banaudi
The Fight for Classical Music
Dialogue with Lyndon & Helga LaRouche: Finding an Identity in the Future
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. and Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Editorial
Party Politics Leads to Disaster
