Volume 31, Number 36, September 17, 2004

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LaRouche Comments on Putin: The Issue Is World War III  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. stated on Sept. 6, “Russia has recognized it is under attack by terrorist methods, from sources outside Russia, which have a strategic interest in reducing Russia to impotence from its current status as a power.”

Putin Addresses Russian Nation on the Crisis

Neo-Cons Knee Deep in Caucasus Provocations  

by Jeffrey Steinberg

LaRouche’s 1999 Video: ‘Storm Over Asia’

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

The Last Warning

by Roman Bessonov

Russian analyst Roman Bessonov looks at Russian society and the challenges to its leadership, in the wake of the Beslan school massacre.

Feature

59 Days To Change History: A Moment of Epic Decision

by Nancy Spannaus

The LaRouche movement met in Northern Virginia and Southern California on Sept. 4-6, to deliberate on how to save the United States, and the world, from disaster—specifically, the re.election of George Bush and Dick Cheney on Nov. 2.

A Moment of Epic Decision  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Lyndon LaRouche’s keynote speech on Sept. 4. “What will happen 60 days from now, will determine the future of humanity. If the present Administration were re.elected, we will be plunging inevitably into wars, a continuation of what we see now in Asia.”

Economics

There Is No ‘Upswing’ in the Swing States

by Richard Freeman and Paul Gallagher

In the electoral “battleground states” of the formerly industrial Midwest and Mid-Atlantic, from Wisconsin and Missouri to Pennsylvania, campaign appeals to the “middle class” are ignoring the impoverishment and abandonment—of cities, workplaces, and decent jobs—with which globalization and deindustrialization have battered those states. EIR continues its graphic documentation of the devastation of the physical economy.

World News

How Can Intelligence Serve an Un-Intelligible President?  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

“The real question to be faced is: How could any of the presently leading proposals for sudden revision in the organization of the security institutions of the U.S.A., protect our presently self-endangered republic from those forces of inevitable self-destruction which would be surely unleashed by the mere act of re-electing President George W. Bush, Jr.?”

Spy Scandal Centers on AIPAC Role

by Jeffrey Steinberg

Retired Officers Call for Independent Commission To Probe Prison Torture  

by Edward Spannaus

GOP Convention Shows a Party in Disarray

by William Jones

GOP Newsletter Assails ‘Bush’s Party of Power’

Don’t Mess With Iraq’s Moral Authority and Historic Legacy!

by Hussein Askary

A short history of Shi’ism in Iraq.

Saxony Elections: BüSo Calls for Good Jobs, at Germany Demos

by Rainer Apel

Philippines in Crisis Turns to China

by Michael Billington

Railway Diplomacy in the Philippines

by Gary L. Satre

A guest article.

Equatorial Guinea: Maggie Thatcher’s Son and the Failed Coup

by Dean Andromidas

Editorial

The Reality Is the Crash

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