Volume 29, Number 38, October 4, 2002

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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  

by Jeffrey Steinberg

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

by Jeffrey Steinberg

World Responses to U.S. Preemptive War Doctrine

Suspected Soviet Cell Wrote Reagan’s Long- Term Strategy

by Jeffrey Steinberg

The Search for ‘Mr. X’

by Joseph Brewda

George Pratt Shultz: The Vulcans’ Godfather

by Scott Thompson

The ‘Neo-Conservative’ Problem

by Dr. Clifford A. Kiracofe, Jr.

Economics

Italian Parliament Votes for New World Financial System  

by Claudio Celani

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

by John Hoefle

Japan’s Emergency Steps Fall Short on Crisis

by Kathy Wolfe

Korea Solution: ‘Iron Silk Road’

Business Briefs

Political Economy

Ibero-American Integration and the New Bretton Woods

by Lorenzo Carrasco

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

We Are in the Final Phase of the System’s Disintegration

by Marivilia Carrasco

National Development or Jorge Castañeda’s ‘Imperial Maquiladora’

by Rubén Cota Meza

Sovereignty, Security, and National Dignity

by Sérgio Tasso Vasquez de Aquina

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

by Rainer Apel

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

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Leading Israelis Show Iraq War Opposition

by Dean Andromidas

Field of Thorns: Sharon To Expel Palestinians

by Dean Andromidas

Israeli Think-Tanks and U.S. War Hawks

by Steven Meyer

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  

by Rachel Douglas

U.S. ‘Pre-emption’ Aims at Indonesia in Asia

by Michael O. Billington

Sri Lanka Talks To End 19 Years of Civil War

by Ramtanu Maitra

National

Congressional Closeup

by Carl Osgood

Books

Is Tim LaHaye the Anti-Christ?

by Mark Burdman

Desecration: Antichrist Takes the Throne, and The Remnant: On the Brink of Armageddon, by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.

The Bubble for Dummies

by Harley Schlanger

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

Departments

Editorial

The U.S. Strategic Situation Today.

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