Volume 31, Number 39, October 8, 2004
Kerry Wins the Debate, So Far
by Nancy Spannaus
Although President Bush did not actually crack up during the Sept. 30 debate with Senator Kerry—thanks in part to the elaborate rules and regulations insisted upon by his handlers—his enraged “body language” drew attention to the question of his mental health, the issue which Lyndon LaRouche has defined as the major issue in the countdown to the election on Nov. 2.
Bush’s Mental Illness the Number One Issue
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
A mass leaflet from LaRouche PAC.
King W’s Leer
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Ashcroft, GOP Gear Up To Suppress the Vote
by Edward Spannaus
Former CIA Analyst Hits Back Against Neo-Con Witchhunt
Larry Johnson responds to the Wall Street Journal’s Sept. 29 editorial “The CIA Insurgency.”
Senator Conrad Hits DeLay in Indian Affairs Hearings on Abramoff Looting
by Anton Chaitkin
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
Feature
LaRouche Briefs Europe: ‘A Turning Point in History’
by Werner Hartmann
Lyndon LaRouche told the Sept. 24-26 European conference of the Schiller Institute: “You are now living in a time whose importance exceeds any in the memory of any living person on this planet. What will happen between now and the date of the inauguration of the next President of the United States, will be the greatest turning point in history, for better, or for very much worse, in a very long time.”
The Crucial Role of the United States in Saving Civilization Today
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon LaRouche’s keynote speech.
Greetings from Iraq’s Dr. Ahmed al-Kubaisi
The Real Reunification of Germany Starts Now
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Helga Zepp-LaRouche, in her keynote to the conference, described the intervention her party, the BüSo, made, to stop the slide of German politics into the neo.conservative “free-market” morass of the Cheney-Bush co-thinkers. The BüSo and the LaRouche Youth Movement intervened into the state elections in Saxony, renewing the Monday demonstrations, and adding the beauty of singing, from the repertoire of the greatest of Germany’s poets and composers.
Economics
In Ohio, It Is ‘The Physical Economy, Stupid!’
by Paul Gallagher
Under Bush-Cheney in 2001-04, Ohio has lost the largest number of industrial jobs—more than 250,000—of any state; crushed by collapsing steel and other industries, Ohio has sunk into poverty.
Kentucky Governor’s Health-Care Extortion Is ‘a Sneak Preview’ of Bush’s Medicare
by Marcia Merry Baker
Kentucky Workers Facing a ‘Death Care Plan’
An interview with Rep. Perry Clark.
Business Briefs
International
Cheney’s Provocations Stall North Korea Peace Talks
by Kathy Wolfe
North and South Korea need to step back from Cheney’s traps, because every predictable response the North makes to provocations, just hands Cheney ammunition to get his puppet Bush elected. Nothing could be worse for peace.
Afghan Election: Opium and Warlords Abound
by Ramtanu Maitra
Sharon’s Hit-Men Kill in Damascus, in Countdown to Neo-Cons’ New War
by Dean Andromidas
New Indonesian President Faces Economic Crisis
by Michael Billington
Was Secretive Fascist Fundy Party Created To Throw Australian Election?
by Allen Douglas
Spain: Zapatero Opposes Aznar’s Crusade
by Cynthia R. Rush
International Intelligence
Interviews
Rep. Perry B. Clark
A Democratic State Representative in Kentucky explains why he has branded Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s new healthcare plan, a “death care plan.”
Book Reviews
A Cynical Attempt To Destroy the United States
by Nancy Spannaus
Dime’s Worth of Difference: Beyond the Lesser of Two Evils, edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
Departments
Report from Germany
by Rainer Apel
A New Phase for the Monday Rallies.
Editorial
Economic Fantasyland
