rom the Editors: Lyndon LaRouche has been emphatic: There has not been an ounce of growth in the real U.S. economy since the death of President John F. Kennedy. In our Cover Feature, Economics editor Paul Gallagher elaborates the basis for LaRouche's judgment, with a devastating review of exactly how we have been destroying ourselves by adopting British monetarist methods. If you can understand what went wrong with our economy, you will understand why Americans must not only appreciate what the BRICS nations are doing, but why it is urgent that we join them in realizing mankind's global mission, a mission JFK himself would have championed.The live fight around the BRICS perspective is featured in our Economics section, with our report on "Silk Road Lady" Helga Zepp-LaRouche's address to a Mexican audience last week. This highly successful event brought the BRICS to the doorstep of the U.S., and drew significant participation from both a Chinese representative in Mexico, and a young LaRouche movement member in Spain, most of which we reproduce here. The British Empire's war against the BRICS process, with threats of regime change and war, is the subject of our International lead, and includes an abundance of documentation the Establishment media doesn't want you to know about. That is followed by a fascinating report by a member of the LaRouche movement, on his trip to Syria, as part of a delegation assembled in Sweden. Our National section serves as a complement to the Feature, in taking up the method for bringing Americans back to their historic mission. Lyndon LaRouche has identified the series of meetings, like the one we cover in-depth here, as a "Manhattan Project," capable of showing the way out of the current political crisis to the nation as a whole. Under Science, we present a highly stimulating paper by LaRouchePAC Scientific Team member Ben Deniston, entitled "Time for a Solar Noösphere." Deniston's article is part of the Vernadsky project which LaRouche has defined, to pursue with scientific rigor the implications of the great Ukrainian-Russian scientist's contributions to defining the true nature of man, as distinct from the animals. Finally, don't miss the Schiller Institute's international petition, on getting the U.S. and Europe to join the BRICS.