Volume 31, Number 33, August 20, 2004
As the Economy Sinks, ‘Bush Doesn’t Give a Dam’
by Marcia Merry Baker
The case of the McAlpine Locks and Dam on the Ohio River in Kentucky—closed for emergency repairs on Aug. 9—is the latest example of the Bush Administration’s abandonment of economic infrastructure, while it inflates the economy with lunatic annual tax cuts.
Bush Doesn’t Give a Dime, Either
by Carl Osgood
Decrepit U.S. Dams Are ‘A Recipe for Disaster’
by Mary Jane Freeman
Louisville: Decline of an American Hub City
by Richard Freeman
Bush’s ‘Don’t Give a Dam’ Creates Poverty
by Paul Gallagher
Economics
LaRouche Sparks Anti-Austerity Demonstrations in Germany
by Rainer Apel
The LaRouche Youth Movement began the rallies against the German government’s draconian austerity policies, which have now grown into “Monday Demonstrations” involving tens of thousands of people in many cities, particularly in the eastern part of the country, modelled on the protests in Autumn of 1989 that brought down the East German communist government.
Great Projects To Reindustrialize Saxony
by Lothar Komp
Schachtian Law Targetting Pensions and Social Security Approved in Mexico
by Benjamin Castro Guzmán
Classic Tragedy Today: The Decline of the Monterrey Group
by Benjamin Castro Guzmán
Mexico’s Monterrey Group is a classic case of a business elite which has disappeared because it clung irrationally to the axioms of free trade and globalization which, under today’s conditions of global financial disintegration, led to their own destruction.
Election 2004
The LaRouche Show: From Now to November: Prevent the U.S.A. from Going Fascist
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. was interviewed on “The LaRouche Show” Internet radio program, on his plans for the new LaRouche PAC. Then, three leaders of his Youth Movement joined the show to discuss their unique and effective strategies for mobilizing and transforming the American population.
International
U.S. Flight Forward in Iraq: Is Iran the Next War Target?
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Instead of encouraging steps toward regional cooperation, the Bush Administration is doing everything imaginable to exacerbate the conflict in Iraq, and against Iran.
Sharon Prepares To Strike Iran
by Dean Andromidas
Iraqis Order Chalabi Arrest in Murder Plot
by Michele Steinberg
Georgia’s Saakashvili Boasts U.S.-U.K. Approval for Showdown
by Rachel Douglas
‘The Americans Are Bound To Continue with This Retaliation’
An interview with Sen. Aquilino Pimentel.
A Proposal To Actually Solve the Sudan Crisis
by Uwe Friesecke
Why the British Hate Sudan: The Mahdia’s War Against London
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
National
Senate Must Not Capitulate to Blackmail on Goss Nomination
by Edward Spannaus
Were the Senate to go along with the Administration’s provocative nomination of Porter Goss for CIA Director, it would mark a cowardly capitulation to the stonewalling of any investigation of the crimes of Vice President Cheney and his cronies in the Bush Administration.
‘Veterans of Watergate’ Attack Kerry’s Record
Not Scared Yet? Try Connecting These Dots
by Ray McGovern
A guest commentary by former CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
George Bush: ‘A Puppet Who Chose His Puppeteers’
by Jeffrey Steinberg
An interview with Dr. Justin Frank.
Interviews
Sen. Aquilino Pimentel
Pimentel is a leading opposition Senator in the Philippines, having served as both Majority Leader and Minority Leader of that institution. He is currently in the forefront of efforts to bring about an investigation of alleged fraud in the May 10 Presidential election.
Dr. Justin Frank
The author of Bush on the Couch is a practicing psychoanalyst in Washington, and is on the faculty of the George Washington University Medical School.
Book Reviews
The Ugly Truth About G.W. Bush
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Bush on the Couch—Inside the Mind of the President, by Justin A. Frank, M.D.
Editorial
A Cheney Victory Is Unthinkable
