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Volume 31, Number 14, April 9, 2004

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Will Americans Re-Elect
Their Dumbest President?

His Only Endearing Young Charm

By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. "The leading political issue of 2004—after the onrushing depression, that is—is the question: are the U.S. voters so silly that they would re-elect a President whose one and only endearing charm, is that he is rightly perceived, more or less world-wide, as the dumbest man in the history of the Oval Office?"

Clarke Makes the Case:
Vulcans Control Dumb Bush

Beyond the media's "al-Qaeda or Iraq?" headlines, counter-terrorism official Richard Clarke's book and words show a President under the neo-cons' spell and control, particularly that of a vice president with power no vice president has had before.

Cheney: He Can Run,
But He Can't Hide

Ahmad Chalabi's Bay of Goats

Are Sharon's Troubles a
Harbinger for Bush?

European Governments
Falling Left and Right

American Culture

We Must Exit the Suicide Club:
How the Counterculture
Ushered in Fascism

Michelle Lerner of the LaRouche Youth Movement investigates the perverse character of American society, as seen through "Industrial Music" and other Satanic expressions that emerged out of the Futurists, Theodor Adorno, and Aldous Huxley.

Strategic World Map

Synarchist `Strategy of
Tension' and Terror

U.S. `Reform' Sabotages
Arab League Summit

Taiwan: Election Stolen
To Provoke a Crisis?

Kirchner Walks Into Trap
Of Argentine Synarchists

France: Neo-Cons' `Perben Law'
Is Police-State Step

Strategy of Tension

Terror's Legacy:
Schacht, Skorzeny, Allen Dulles

Part 1 of a series by Michael Liebig, investigating the Synarchist financial oligarchy, which, under conditions of economic and financial crisis, intends to establish a permanent "state of emergency" managed by authoritarian, or even fascist, forms of government.

Strategy of Tension:
The Case of Italy

Part 3 of a series by Claudio Celani, following the trail from the assassination of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978, through the Bologna train station bombing of 1980. Why is it that the real culprits have never been brought to justice?

Economics

Is `History's First Global
Property Bust' Coming Soon?

Representing a combined financial asset value of roughly $50 trillion in the OECD countries—for the moment holding up a private debt mountain of similar dimensions—the housing market has the potential to bring down the whole system.

Ohio Is `Devastated'
By Industry Shutdown

An interview with O. Mays.

LaRouche: Restore Midwest
`Production Capability'

National

National Move Under Way:
`Bring in LaRouche,' Say Dems
In Pennsylvania, South Dakota

LaRouche: The Agenda
From Now to Convention

Remarks to a press conference in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Rep. James:
LaRouche Needed at the Convention

FEC Reports Show Kerry,
LaRouche Two-Way Race

`The Cycle of Violence Is Going
To Be Accelerated' in the Mideast

An interview with Gen. Anthony Zinni (ret.)

Time for an Israel Accountability Act

Congressional Closeup

Book Reviews

The Ugly History of
The Cheney Warmongers

The Rise of the Vulcans: the History of Bush's War Cabinet, by James Mann.

Interviews

O. Mays

The President of the East Cleveland City Council tells how his city has been turned from part of the "rubber capital of the world," and a leading steel producer, to a shell of its former self.

Gen. Anthony Zinni (ret.)

General Zinni was from 1997-2000, Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Central Command. He has participated in presidential diplomatic missions to Somalia, Pakistan, and Ethiopia-Eritrea and was the U.S. Peace Envoy to the Middle East.

Departments

Editorial

Defend the Westphalia Principle.