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Volume 31, Number 39, October 8, 2004

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Kerry Wins the Debate, So Far

Although President Bush did not actually crack up during the Sept. 30 debate with Senator Kerry—thanks in part to the elaborate rules and regulations insisted upon by his handlers—his enraged "body language" drew attention to the question of his mental health, the issue which Lyndon LaRouche has defined as the major issue in the countdown to the election on Nov. 2.

Bush's Mental Illness the Number One Issue

A mass leaflet from LaRouche PAC.

King W's Leer

Ashcroft, GOP Gear Up
To Suppress the Vote

Former CIA Analyst Hits Back
Against Neo-Con Witchhunt

Larry Johnson responds to the Wall Street Journal's Sept. 29 editorial "The CIA Insurgency."

Senator Conrad Hits DeLay in
Indian Affairs Hearings on
Abramoff Looting

Congressional Closeup

Feature

LaRouche Briefs Europe:
`A Turning Point in History'

Lyndon LaRouche told the Sept. 24-26 European conference of the Schiller Institute: "You are now living in a time whose importance exceeds any in the memory of any living person on this planet. What will happen between now and the date of the inauguration of the next President of the United States, will be the greatest turning point in history, for better, or for very much worse, in a very long time."

The Crucial Role of the United States
in Saving Civilization Today

Lyndon LaRouche's keynote speech.

The Real Reunification of
Germany Starts Now

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, in her keynote to the conference, described the intervention her party, the BüSo, made, to stop the slide of German politics into the neo-conservative "free-market" morass of the Cheney-Bush co-thinkers. The BüSo and the LaRouche Youth Movement intervened into the state elections in Saxony, renewing the Monday demonstrations, and adding the beauty of singing, from the repertoire of the greatest of Germany's poets and composers.

Economics

In Ohio, It Is
`The Physical Economy, Stupid!'

Under Bush-Cheney in 2001-04, Ohio has lost the largest number of industrial jobs—more than 250,000—of any state; crushed by collapsing steel and other industries, Ohio has sunk into poverty.

Kentucky Governor's Health-Care Extortion
Is `a Sneak Preview' of Bush's Medicare

Kentucky Workers Facing a
`Death Care Plan'

An interview with Rep. Perry Clark.

Business Briefs

International

Cheney's Provocations
Stall North Korea Peace Talks

North and South Korea need to step back from Cheney's traps, because every predictable response the North makes to provocations, just hands Cheney ammunition to get his puppet Bush elected. Nothing could be worse for peace.

Afghan Election:
Opium and Warlords Abound

Sharon's Hit-Men Kill in Damascus,
in Countdown to Neo-Cons' New War

New Indonesian President
Faces Economic Crisis

Was Secretive Fascist Fundy Party
Created To Throw Australian Election?

Spain: Zapatero Opposes
Aznar's Crusade

International Intelligence

Interviews

Rep. Perry B. Clark

A Democratic State Representative in Kentucky explains why he has branded Gov. Ernie Fletcher's new healthcare plan, a "death care plan."

Book Reviews

A Cynical Attempt
To Destroy the United States

Dime's Worth of Difference: Beyond the Lesser of Two Evils, Edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.

Departments

Report from Germany

A New Phase for the Monday Rallies.

Editorial

Economic Fantasyland