Volume 30, Number 23, June 13, 2003

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The Henry Waxman Letter: Who Knew What, and When?  

by Jeffrey Steinberg

Rep. Henry Waxman (Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee, sent a letter to President Bush on June 2, demanding a full explanation from the Administration, as to why senior officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and the President himself, “cited forged evidence about Iraq’s efforts to obtain nuclear materials.”

Documentation: The Waxman letter, and the State Department’s reply.

British MP Tam Dalyell: We’re Looking to Congress

‘Powell Apparent Victim of Hoax’  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

We republish this Feb. 9 warning memorandum by Lyndon LaRouche, circulated nationally as a mass leaflet by his Presidential campaign committee, in the aftermath of Secretary Powell’s infamous speech to the UN Security Council.

Economics

Italy Takes the Initiative for European Infrastructure Growth  

by Claudio Celani

The Rome government will propose, when it begins its semester as European Union chair on July 1, that EU member-states’ spending for infrastructure be exempted from the budget deficit limits, and therefore not regulated under the Stability Pact.

The Present and Future of Nuclear Knowledge

by Dr. Chang-kun Lee

The author, who is a Commissioner on the Atomic Energy Commission of South Korea and former chairman of the International Nuclear Societies Council, calls on the nuclear community to “take up the gauntlet” and move nuclear technology forward for the benefit of mankind—from desalinating water, to transmuting waste, and new methods of steelmaking.

Question Circulates: ‘Economic 9/11’ Coming?

by Marcia Merry Baker

Bureau of Labor Statistics Fraud Excludes Reality

by Richard Freeman

TVA in Borneo: Bakun Dam Revived

by Martin Chew Wooi Keat

India Gives German Industry Options

by Rainer Apel

Business Briefs

Feature

Bangalore Conference Will Change World History

by Mary Burdman

Part 2 in our coverage of the impact of the international conference “World Situation after Iraq War,” held in Bangalore, India on May 26-27, by India’s Centre for Social Justice and the Schiller Institute.

Build Economic Recovery and Peace Upon Universal Principles of Culture

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Speech by the chairwoman of the Schiller Institute.

Bangalore Declaration: ‘Toward a New World Order’  

‘Let India Set a Lesson to the World’

by Chandrajit Yadav

Speech by the chairman of the Centre for Social Justice.

‘The Issue by 2004 Will Be the World Economy’

A press conference of Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. and Helga Zepp-LaRouche in Bangalore on May 24.

Indian Press Highlights LaRouche on the Economy

Indications of the wide national coverage of the conference in the Indian media.

Auspicious Hour for Change at Bangalore  

by Ramtanu Maitra

International

‘Road Map’ Begins in Mideast, But Must Change Washington Map

by Dean Andromidas

Can one part of the Bush Administration organize peace between Palestine and Israel, while another is leading an unjust occupation in Iraq and is calling for “regime change,” if not war, in Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia?

Iraq WMD Flap Has ‘Mortally Wounded’ Blair

by Mark Burdman and Alan Clayton

Vietnam Taking Rightful Place in the World

by Michael Billington

Regional Powers Seek Afghanistan’s Stability

by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

There is good reason to believe that the awesome task of stabilizing the country is being assumed through a new approach by neighboring countries, with western European help.

International Intelligence

National

FCC Deregulation Is a Threat to U.S. National Security

by Edward Spannaus

On the day before the Federal Communications Commission voted for further deregulation of the nation’s broadcast and print media, Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche warned that this deregulation scheme must be stopped, on the grounds that it is a threat to U.S. national security.

Rupert Murdoch and the Imperial Disease

by Anton Chaitkin

Conrad’s ‘Black Hole’ Puts Hollinger in Red

by Michele Steinberg and Scott Thompson

National News

Reviews

Frederic Remington’s Little Dark Age

by Steven Carr

“Frederic Remington: The Color of Night,” an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Departments

Report From Germany

by Rainer Apel

India Gives German Industry Options.

Editorial

Stopping the Genocide.

Corrections

In last week’s issue, the article on “Krafft Ehricke’s Mission to Mars,” pp. 14-15, gave the wrong e-mail address for the Krafft Ehricke Institute. The correct address is krafftehrickeinst@sbcglobal.net.

Dr. Areti Demosthenous, whose speech to the Bad Schwalbach conference we published in our May 9 issue, was not correctly identified. She is Director of the Institute of Historical Research for Peace, Visiting Lecturer at the Department for Turkish Studies, University of Cyprus, Nicosia. Cyprus.

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