Volume 29, Number 38, October 4, 2002

Iraq Is a Fuse,
But Cheney Built the Bomb

By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. The Bush Administration's draft declaration of war against Iraq, and its new document "The National Security Strategy of the United States," represent the triumph of the persisting, mad obsession of Dick Cheney and his "Chicken-hawk" accomplices over the course of no less than the past dozen years.

LaRouche Demands Cheney's Resignation

Cheney and a team of underlings have willfully lied to the American public, Congress, and the President, about the circumstances under which they have promoted war against Iraq; and have promulgated a dangerous new national security doctrine.

Utopian War Doctrine:
A Decade in the Making

World Responses to
U.S. Preemptive War Doctrine

Suspected Soviet Cell
Wrote Reagan's Long-Term Strategy

The Search for `Mr. X'

George Pratt Shultz:
The Vulcans' Godfather

The `Neo-Conservative' Problem

Economics

Italian Parliament Votes for
New World Financial System

The Italian resolution constitutes an excellent impetus for other nations' Congresses and Parliaments to rapidly build a world coalition for a "New Bretton Woods" conference out of the systemic financial collapse, as specifically proposed by U.S. Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche.
Documentation: The Italian Parliament's Resolution.

U.S. Banks Lead Global Financial Collapse

Japan's Emergency Steps
Fall Short on Crisis

Korea Solution: `Iron Silk Road'

Business Briefs

Political Economy

Ibero-American Integration
and the New Bretton Woods

A speech by Lorenzo Carrasco at the seminar, "Mexico-Brazil-Argentina: The Hour of Integration; March to a New Bretton Woods," held Aug. 22-23 in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico.

Marivilia Carrasco:
We Are in the Final Phase of the
System's Disintegration

Rubén Cota Meza:
National Development or
Jorge Castañeda's `Imperial Maquiladora'

Sérgio Tasso Vasquez de Aquina:
Sovereignty, Security, and National Dignity

Twenty Years Later:
López Portillo Speaks Out
on State in Crisis

Documentation: From the Mexican President's Sept. 1, 1982 State of the Union address, explaining his decree nationalizing the banks.

International

Setback for the War Party
in Germany's Elections

The victory for incumbent Chancellor Gerhard Schröder reflected widespread opposition to an Iraq war, while increased votes for the BüSo party showed increased recognition of Helga Zepp-LaRouche's analysis and program.

LaRouche on Schröder's
Surge to Narrow Victory

Leading Israelis Show Iraq War Opposition

Field of Thorns:
Sharon To Expel Palestinians

Israeli Think-Tanks and U.S. War Hawks

Russian Round Table:
War Threat Linked to U.S. Economic Collapse

A discussion conducted by the Russian intelligence-linked weekly Zavtra.

Russia: Glazyev's Success
Draws National Attention

U.S. `Pre-emption' Aims at Indonesia in Asia

Sri Lanka Talks To End 19 Years of Civil War

National

Congressional Closeup

Books

Is Tim LaHaye the Anti-Christ?

Desecration: Antichrist Takes the Throne, by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.

The Bubble for Dummies

dot.con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold, by John Cassidy.

Departments

Editorial

The U.S. Strategic Situation Today