The Future of Civilization hangs in the balance
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche (LPAC)--May 26, 2008 "The battle between the proponents of ''British imperial free trade''' and the defenders of the general welfare and of food security, is the most important conflict facing us today, because the future of civilization hangs in the balance... Not a moment too soon, a group of seven former European heads of state, five former finance ministers, and two former presidents of the European Commission, including former EU Commission head Jacques Delors, former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard, and former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, have gone public with an open letter to the EU Presidency and the EU Commission. They warn that the systemic collapse of the global financial system--a collapse which had been foreseen by ``farsighted individuals''--brings with it the threat of unprecedented poverty, the proliferation of ``failed states,'' migration of entire populations, and further military conflicts. The...