Franklin Roosevelt's First Hundred Days was not a bureaucratic playbook, neither was it simply the result of effective management and political deal-making, and if it were to be reduced to such, it would add little benefit to solving our nation's immediate crisis. The essence of FDR's First Hundred Days as President was driven by nothing less than a poetic and creative impulse to act, as FDR is often quoted from his first inaugural address: "The Nation asks for action, and action now." Not simply for the immediate restoration of the nation's physical survival, which it certainly accomplished,...

July 17-The world is facing a Drama Infernale, the lead article in the economics section of today's edition of Germany's Welt am Sonntag stated in its headline. Not only is the Italian banking system about to blow apart, with 360 billion euros in non-performing loans, but the entire European financial system is bankrupt as well-with derivatives-laden Deutsche Bank at the top of the list-they report nervously. But the reality is far worse than even that alarmed account suggests. The entire trans-Atlantic financial system has come apart, Lyndon LaRouche noted in a discussion with associates...

Deutsche Bank Must Be Saved, for the Sake of World Peace Statement issued by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Chairwoman of the German Civil Rights Movement Solidarity (BuSo), on July 12, 2016. The imminent threat of the bankruptcy of Deutsche Bank is certainly not the only potential trigger for a new systemic crisis of the trans-Atlantic banking system, which would be orders of magnitude more deadly than the 2008 crisis, but it does offer a unique lever to prevent a collapse into chaos. Behind the SOS launched by the chief economist of Deutsche Bank, David Folkerts-Landau, for an EU program of 150...

July 2-While the Obama Administration is rapidly pushing the world toward nuclear war in Europe and in Asia, the leaders of China and Russia have agreed to redouble their efforts-and their partnership- in order to offer to the world the possibility of a new directionality toward peace and development and away from the present path toward war. Immediately following the summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which is now in the process of adding India and Pakistan to its membership, and represents around half of the world's population, the meeting in Beijing of the two...