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Volume 32, Number 17, April 29, 2005

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Bolton and DeLay Fiascos
Highlight Revolt Against Bush

A bipartisan Congressional revolt against the Bush Administration gained momentum, as United Nations Ambassador-nominee John Bolton and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay both appeared on the verge of being shot down.

Republican and Democratic Opposition
Blocks Bolton in Senate Committee

Fact Sheet: Why Bolton
Should Not Be Confirmed

`Behaving Like a Madman'

A letter by Melody Townsel, who was accosted by Bolton in 1994.

Bolton Behind False Fact Sheet
on Niger Uranium

A letter by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.).

Feature

Science: The Power To Prosper

"How Most of Today's Economists Became Illiterates," by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. "In earlier locations," he writes, "I have pointed out some of the essential kinds of related causes, and cures, for the failure of General Motors and other managements today. Here, in this report, I focus on the scientific principles which should be applied, instead of those flawed policies which have caused the present collapse of that industry."

National

Social Security:
Andy Jacobs and the Second
Battle of Parkersburg

California Dems Must
Shape National Agenda

`Schwarzenegger Wants
To Become a Dictator'

A speech by California State Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally to a LaRouche PAC town meeting in Los Angeles.

LaRouche Answers Queries From
National Institutions on
Rebuilding the Economy

Congressional Closeup

Economics

Argentina President Kirchner:
`There Is Life After the IMF'

Kirchner is refusing to give in to the IMF's blackmail threat not to negotiate a new agreement unless the government agrees to reopen the negotiations on its $82 billion in defaulted debt.

Financial Sharks Call for Dismantling of
General Motors, As LaRouche Warned

The Financial Dragon Must Be Tamed!

An interview with Carlos Lessa.

Colombia's Uribe Tours China, Japan

China and India Must Lead the Way
for Nuclear Power

Business Briefs

International

German State Election Could
Decide Schröder's Fate

By Helga Zepp-LaRouche, chairman of the Civil Rights Movement Solidarity (the BüSo) in Germany. Her party's campaign for a New Bretton Woods has set the tone in a political battle leading to the elections in North Rhine-Westphalia on May 22.

Malaysia's Anwar Ibrahim:
Wolfowitz's Knife in Asia's Back

In Memoriam: Norbert Brainin:
Founder and Primarius of the Amadeus Quartet

Interviews

Carlos Lessa

Economist Dr. Lessa was named president of Brazil's National Bank for Economic and Social Development when President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office in January 2003, remaining at that post through November 2004. He is a fierce defender of economic dirigism, now returned to university teaching.

Book Reviews

President Reagan Was
Fierce Opponent of
Mutually Assured Destruction Doctrine

Ronald Reagan and His Quest To Abolish Nuclear Weapons, by Paul Lettow.

Anwar Ibrahim Defends
Asia's Colonial Masters

The Asian Renaissance, by Anwar Ibrahim.

Departments

From the Congress

Rangel: Will U.S. Honor Obligations to Retirees?

Editorial

On the Election of Pope Benedict XVI