A round-trip human expedition to Mars, using current technology, would take two to three years. On such missions, astronauts would lose both muscle and bone mass, and would be exposed to large doses of cosmic rays and solar energetic particles. The cargo required for such a mission would require 9 launches of the largest class rocket for a manned Mars mission.

Address delivered by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, president of the Schiller Institute, at the closing plenary session of the World Public Forum's 'Dialogue of Civilizations' which took place in Rhodes, Greece October 4-7

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The era of bailouts has come to a close. In this report we review how Spain exposed that the financial system is in fact collapsing at a rate faster than can be dealt with. Now the talk of the town is, before any official announcement of Spain's promised 100 billion euro rescue: "Does Italy, too, need emergency funds?"

Members of LaRouche's Basement team Peter Martinson and Ben Deniston in a video presentation that was delivered to the recent Second International Conference on Fundamental Questions of Sustained Development in the System of Nature-Society-Man, held at the Dubna University of Nature, Society and Man, in Moscow.

Two members of the LaRouchePAC “Basement” research team participated in the IGMASS-sponsored Fourth International Specialized Symposium: Space and Global Security of Humanity, in Yevpatoria, Crimea, September 3-6.

The latest phase in Argentina's process of reclaiming sovereignty to develop their Republic is the nationalization of the historic petroleum company, YPF.