Volume 32, Number 19, May 13, 2005
The Revolutionary Aspect of the LaRouche Method
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
“The reader should ... be forewarned that I am not simply repeating here the points I have made in earlier locations. I am, rather, situating a new subject, that of a psychopathological mass-phenomenon, this time against the background of what should be, by now, a familiar context of economic policy-shaping relevance.
The subject of this report is a specific class of mental disorders which are the most typical cause of today’s commonplace, major man-made disasters of modern economies.”
National
Bonkers in the Bunkers: Bush White House Flight Forward Is a National Security Threat
A prominent Republican United States Senator has been confronted by Karl Rove and other White House officials on his alleged “connections with Lyndon LaRouche.” This foolishness, combined with the President’s performance at his April 28 press conference, demonstrate that the entire White House inner circle has gone stark-raving mad.
Disintegrating GOP Rams Through Budget
by Carl Osgood
Arrest of Pentagon Official May Help Unravel Neo-Conservative Cabal
by Jeffrey Steinberg and Nancy Spannaus
The case of Larry Franklin.
Guantanamo Revelations Point to Rumsfeld
by Edward Spannaus
Arnie the Fascist Bashes Immigrants
by Harley Schlanger
Economics
LaRouche: Move Fast To Save Auto; GM Sliding To Bankruptcy
by Paul Gallagher
General Motors, if not also Ford Motor Co., and scores of their supplier companies, are mudsliding faster and faster towards bankruptcy and dismemberment of the most important machine-tool and related industrial capabilities remaining in the American economy.
Health-Care ‘Fundamental Infrastructure’ Threatened by Medicaid-Cuts Mentality
by Marcia Merry Baker
A review of the vulnerable condition of the major components of the U.S. national health-care infrastructure shows that the entire system is on the edge, after decades of Federally promoted downsizing, and privateering.
Business Briefs
International
China-KMT Visit Judoes ‘Taiwan Independence’ Ploy
by William Jones
The visit of Kuomintang leader Lien Chan to mainland China has dealt a serious blow to the policy of the Cheney-Rumsfeld neo-conservative faction, of maintaining a high-tension state between Taiwan and China.
Japan, India Move To Build Strategic Ties
by Ramtanu Maitra
Iraq’s Partial Government Won’t Last for Very Long
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
War, and a Big Piece Of the West Bank
by Dean Andromidas
In Memoriam: Ezer Weizman: From Hawk to Peace Advocate
by Dean Andromidas
Ecuador: Dollarization Brings Down Another Government in the Americas
by Gretchen Small
Mexico’s LYM: Ready To Change the World
by David Ramonet
Music
Communicating Real Musical Ideas: A Life-Long Mission
A conversation with Norbert Brainin, the late founder of the Amadeus Quartet and one of the world’s great violinists, translated from the German magazine Ibykus of July 2004.
Departments
From the Congress
Waxman: Bush ‘Wrong Morally And Legally.’
Report From Germany
by Rainer Apel
Debate Rips Across Political Spectrum.
Editorial
The ADL, George Bush, and the Christian Right.
Correction
Our Editorial last week, “A New Bretton Woods Now,” mistakenly referred to “$2,000 trillion worth of financial liabilities” hanging over the world financial system. In fact, there are 2,000 trillion speculative derivative contracts per year.
