Volume 40, Number 30, August 2, 2013

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FDR or Fascism: That’s the Question Before Us Today  

Glass-Steagall: How To Stop the Global Financial Meltdown Over a Weekend  

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

A July 27 webcast speech, directed at Europe and Argentina in particular. While the banksters are demanding fascism, there is an alternative to the economic/financial crisis: that chosen by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who took on the Wall Street banking system and introduced the Glass-Steagall separation of commercial and investment banks.

What Europe Can Learn from Argentina

Who’s Out To Overthrow the Argentine Government and Why?

by Cynthia R. Rush

The financier oligarchy fears that Europeans will join Argentina in adhering to the principle that people come before banks, that production must replace speculation, and that national sovereignty must prevail over globalization.

Economics

LaRouche Warned You: Detroit Could Have Been Saved in 2005  

by Jeffrey Steinberg

The House and Senate failed to implement LaRouche’s proposed Economic Recovery Act.

LaRouche’s 2006 Plan To Revive Auto Sector

End Wall Street’s Theft of Pensions: Re-Enact Glass-Steagall

What brought Detroit to the point of bankruptcy, and what has to be done.

The Tennessee Valley Authority: A Key FDR Program Under Attack  

by Marsha Freeman

An interview with Bill Johnson, the CEO of the TVA. Is the mission of the TVA “finished,” as some bean-counters on Capitol Hill claim? Johnson: “I think an interesting exercise would be to find out from the people who live there, who are served in some way by TVA, what they think. And I think that you’ll find that the mission is not finished.”

National

LaRouche PAC Demands Action on Glass-Steagall This Week  

by Nancy Spannaus

“Every city in America is Detroit this week,” the LaRouche PAC Policy Committee told Congress, “and this is why anyone who wishes to survive, knows that Glass-Steagall must be reinstated immediately.”

Sen. Folmer: ‘Banning Swaps and Bail-Ins’

by Mike Folmer

Asner Issues Letter: Restore Glass-Steagall

by Edward Asner

South Dakota Lawmakers Demand Action

NFO Backs Revival of Glass-Steagall

California, the Pacific, and the Fight for Glass-Steagall

by Harley Schlanger

Harley Schlanger’s speech to the June 29 Schiller Institute conference, demonstrates that the booming California agro-industrial economy of the 1950s and ’60s, made possible by FDR’s nation-building policies, can be revived today.

A Treasonous ‘Act of Congress’

by Stuart Rosenblatt

A book review of Robert Kaiser’s Act of Congress, How America’s Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn’t.

International

United States Must Support a Peaceful Solution in Egypt

by Michele Steinberg

Unless there is improvement in the economic situation, there will be a social explosion against whoever is in power. Despite the Army’s success on July 26 in preventing large-scale Muslim Brotherhood terrorist actions, stability is far from assured.

Reply to Yuri Tsarik: The Crux of the Europe Crisis

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

LaRouche responds to a question from the head of the Belarus Development Group, Minsk, Belarus.

Germany’s BüSo Files National Candidates

Editorial

Smash the ‘Economic Royalists’ at Last

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