Volume 31, Number 15, April 16, 2004

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Terror on Worldwide Main Street: President Bush’s April 2  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

A statement by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. April Fools’ Day came a day late this year, as the Bush team pulled one of the dumbest publicity stunts in modern history, with the way they orchestrated fraudulent reports of job increases, in an attempt “to convince the world’s dumbest suckers that there is an ongoing uptick in the already stumbling, bumbling, broken-down U.S. economy.”

April 2 Fake ‘Recovery’ Could Kill the System

by Lothar Komp

Debt-Choked System at Hyperinflation ‘Boundary’

by John Hoefle

‘What We Must Do’: LaRouche on the FDR Model for Real Recovery Measures

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Kerry ‘Me Too’ Economics Could Wreck Democrats  

by Paul Gallagher

Economics

Argentina Must Nationalize Foreign ‘Energy Vultures’

by Dennis Small and Cynthia R. Rush

A Spain-centered grouping of foreign-owned privatized oil and utility companies has declared economic warfare against Argentina, in an attempt to strangle that country and bring about the overthrow of the Kirchner government.

Bush’s Energy Pirates Get Ready To Turn Off the Lights

by Dennis Small

Will the Philippines Follow Argentina in Facing Down the IMF?  

by Michael Billington

The Philippines is, unfortunately, rapidly descending into the same kind of financial-economic crisis and related political instability which brought the once-rapidly developing nation of Argentina into poverty and decay.

International

Iraqi Resistance Makes Rummy’s Vietnam in the Desert

by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

Defense Secretary Rumsfeld’s protestations to the contrary, the Iraqi resistance to occupation is expanding rapidly, encompassing Shi’ite and Sunni forces which are increasingly coordinating their activities.

EIR’s 2003 Warning: Lessons of Iraq’s Resistance to Imperial Conquest  

by Hussein Askary

A reprint of Hussein Askary’s study, first published in EIR on Nov. 14, 2003.

Will Cheney Flash Sharon ‘Green’ To Kill Arafat?  

by Dean Andromidas

‘They Are Not Living As Human Beings’

by Ghaleb Darabya

A speech by Ghaleb Darabya, who represents the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian Authority, at The Palestine Center in Washington on March 17.

Are European Terror Threats ‘Islamic’?

by Rainer Apel

Terror’s Legacy: Hjalmar Schacht, Otto Skorzeny, and Allen Dulles  

by Michael Liebig

Part 2 of a series.

National

Cheney’s Iraq Obsession: A National Security Menace

by Jeffrey Steinberg

The drumbeat of attacks on the Vice President’s role in orchestrating an unnecessary and foolish war has escalated sharply, both in the media and on Capitol Hill.

LaRouche Launches Penna. Media Blitz, as State Rep. H. James Endorses Him  

Documentation: Lyndon LaRouche discusses health-care policy at a reception in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, hosted by State Rep. Harold James.

Health Care Is a Right Under General Welfare

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Perpetual War Wrecking U.S. Military: Return It to Engineering Principles

by Carl Osgood

Cheney’s Private Army in Iraq

by Edward Spannaus

Untruth and Consequences

by David MacMichael

A guest commentary by a former CIA analyst and a member of the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.

Book Reviews

The Greatest of Roosevelt’s ‘Forgotten Men’

by Jerry Berg

That Man, An Insider’s Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt, by Robert H. Jackson, edited by John Q. Barrett.

Congressional Closeup

by Carl Osgood

Departments

Editorial

How To Leave Iraq in Time.

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