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• LaRouche:
  Only Glass-Steagall Now Can Halt Global Breakdown
  Abruptly, but lawfully, the Spanish debt crisis has erupted into a systemic rupture in the trans-Atlantic financial and monetary facade, thus posing the immediate question: How much longer will the London-centered financial system survive? Lyndon LaRouche says the collapse is upon us, and outlines the remedies.
• Gordon Brown:
  Banks Need Gigantic Global Bailout
• Greek Pharmacists Strike:
  Euro Debt Collectors Deny Medical Payments
  The one-day strike was in protest over the government's refusal to reimburse pharmacists for some EU1 billion, which has created a grave shortage of medicines, and threatens the lives of the people who depend on them.
• Euro Austerity Pact:
  Gerry Adams Calls for 'No' Vote on Treaty
  Excerpts from a speech by Adams to the National Convention of Sinn Féin on the eve of the May 31 Irish referendum.

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International

• Blair vs. Putin Doctrines:
  NATO's Syria Ploy Could Start Thermonuclear War
  Even before the May 25 massacre in the Syrian village of Houla, NATO leaders were planning an escalation in the regime-change drive against President Assad. The immediate condemnation of the Syrian government by Western diplomats, despite sharp responses from Russia and China, has put the world on the brink of a potential thermonuclear confrontation.
• Obama's Afghan Exit Plan Coming Unhinged
  Obama's much-ballyhooed Afghan exit strategy is unravelling, as the LondonWashington cabal's lack of insight and endless arrogance further erodes all hopes that the U.S./NATO troops will leave Afghanistan with even a modicum of order and stability.
• Obama, British Create Failed States, as Bases for Assaults on Sovereignty
  The northern part of Mali has become a new Afghanistan-style ungoverned zone, that has been turned into a base for attacks on other nations in the region by the British-created al-Qaeda apparatus.
• International Intelligence

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