Volume 32, Number 18, May 6, 2005
More GOP Fractures Emerge As Dems Batter Bush Policy
by Jeffrey Steinberg and Paul Gallagher
After a series of stunning political setbacks in both Houses of Congress, the Bush Administration has launched a campaign of intimidation against both Republican lawmakers and a highly mobilized Democratic Party. President Bush is reported to be so dysfunctional that Vice President Dick Cheney has assumed virtual control over all policy initiatives.
Feature
Attack on Judiciary Takes Aim at U.S. Constitution
by Edward Spannaus
Referring to those pushing the “nuclear option” and the “Constitution-in-Exile” notion, Lyndon LaRouche charged: “This is the Confederacy plain and simple. They not only hate the Constitution; they hate the Declaration of Independence as well.”
Which Constitution Are They Defending?
by Edward Spannaus
Why They Hate 1937
by Edward Spannaus
Organized by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and notably his Second Inaugural speech of Jan. 20, 1937, the Supreme Court reversed its prior trend, and affirmed New Deal programs, for the first time, on the basis of the General Welfare clause of the U.S. Constitution.
U.S. Senators Speak Out Against Nuclear Option
History
The Armenian Genocide: True Justice Requires the End of Geopolitics
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Muriel Mirak-Weissbach recounts the history of her family, refugees from the Armenian genocide 90 years ago, and draws the conclusion that only a new Peace of Westphalia, as Lyndon LaRouche has discussed it, can end the “clinch” between Turks and Armenians.
The Treaty of Westphalia
National
Bolton Nomination: More Than Meets the Eye
by Ray McGovern
A guest commentary by former CIA analyst Ray McGovern. The fight over the Bush-Cheney nominee for ambassador to the UN is much more than a partisan political squabble. It is a matter of life and death for the endangered species of intelligence analysts determined to “tell it like it is,” no matter what the Administration’s policies may be.
Congress Needs To Fix the U.S. Economy, Not Social Security
LaRouche PAC testimony submitted to the Senate Committee on Finances, Hearing on Social Security Solvency.
Waxman: Bush’s Stand Is Morally Wrong
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
Books
The American Revolution’s Crossing into Nationhood
by Stu Rosenblatt
Washington’s Crossing, by David Hackett Fischer.
Up From Another Kind of Slavery
by Mike Billington
Life After Life: A Story of Rage and Redemption, by Evans D. Hopkins.
Economics
Kirchner Assumes Leadership As Global Crisis Worsens
by Cynthia R. Rush
Argentine President Néstor Kirchner is demonstrating a new quality of combativeness in response to the disintegration of the global financial system.
Documentation: From President Kirchner’s speech in Berlin on April 14.
Mexican Right Readies Its Own Funeral
by Rubén Cota Meza
Economic Mission for Congress: To Save Auto, Build Rail
by Richard Freeman
“Every GM plant in the United States is capable of retooling for whatever is needed to be produced,” said a United Auto Workers official at General Motors’ Mansfield, Ohio plant, discussing Lyndon LaRouche’s call for emergency government action to re-tool the American auto sector.
Debate Government’s Role in Saving Rail
Fund National Rail To Rebuild Economy
LaRouche PAC testimony submitted to a Congressional hearing on “The Federal Railroad Administration and AMTRAK.”
Ex-Greenpeace Activist Backs Nuclear Power
by Gregory B. Murphy
Interview with Lord Dick Taverne.
International
Germans Debate FDR Model, Defense of Social State
by Rainer Apel
It’s little surprise to those in the know, that “the LaRouche factor” has emerged at the center of a brawl over the future of Germany as an industrialized nation-state.
Neo-Cons Throw New Provocations at Iran
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Anti-Colonial ‘Spirit of Bandung’ Revived
by Mike Billington
Japan-China Relations Need ‘New Westphalia’
by Kathy Wolfe
Palestinian Social and Political Expectations
by Hanan Ashrawi
From a speech by Palestinian activist Dr. Hanan Ashrawi in Washington.
Interviews
Lord Dick Taverne
Taverne is a member of the House of Lords in Great Britain. A former member of Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, he realized that the attitudes of his past associates are geared toward anti-science. He is the author of March of Unreason: Science, Democracy, and the New Fundamentalism.
Editorial
A New Bretton Woods Now!
