Volume 32, Number 20, May 20, 2005
The Battle To Save GM Is the Battle To Save the Nation
by Nancy Spannaus
On the one side is the international banking establishment, which has signalled its intent to bury the productive core of the industry, in a desperate attempt to save their financial power. On the other side, are the forces led by Lyndon LaRouche, who has the only plan on the table for protecting, and expanding, the machine-tool capability and skilled labor force which the auto industry represents.
Guts and Government
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Kirk Kerkorian: Billionaire Vulture Grabs Up GM Stock
Wilbur Ross, Jr.: The Profile of a Vulture Capitalist
by Patricia Salisbury
A Damage Report: The Cost of the General Motors’ Crisis
by Nancy Spannaus and Lawrence K. Freeman
Documentation: Resolutions to the Kentucky legislature and the Cleveland City Council; and a letter from Mark A. Sweazy, president of UAW Local 969, to Lyndon LaRouche.
National
Bolton Fight Opens Window on Intelligence-Rigging
by Edward Spannaus
The emergence of so many new witnesses, in the context of the hearings on John Bolton’s nomination as UN Ambassador, represents an institutional move against the Administration’s continued war drive.
Senate Committee Rakes Bolton Over the Coals
Secret Downing Street Memo
Congressmen Seek Answers
The Franklin Espionage Case: Bigger Than the Pollard Affair?
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Nuclear Option on Hair Trigger: Profiles of the Detonators
by Edward Spannaus
Bush Administration’s Strategic Policy Creates a Conundrum for U.S. Military
by Carl Osgood
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
Economics
‘Pension Panic’ Nails Coffin of Bush Social Security Scheme
by Paul Gallagher
The United Airlines $10 billion default against all its employee pension funds, means that the privatization of Social Security, frantically pushed by the Bush/Cheney White House for the past six months, is dead.
German Labor Calls for Emergency Action
by Rainer Apel
Report from a conference on “Industrial Policy” arranged by the Social Democratic Party for factory councillors of industrial firms.
The American System
Hamilton’s Economics Were About Mind, Not Money
by Nancy Spannaus
A review of “Alexander Hamilton, The Man Who Made Modern America,” an exhibition at the New York Historical Society.
International
60th Anniversary of World War II Victory: Commemoration Sends a Double Message to the Russian People
by Michael Liebig
The new-found quality of economic and political relations in Eurasia, assuming this were to be accompanied by an entirely new form of trans-Atlantic relations through changes in U.S. policy, is an opportunity the world must not miss.
Pitfalls Ahead for Tony Blair
by Mary Burdman
Bush Policy, Not Proliferation, Threatens World Security
by Marsha Freeman
The NPT: A Faustian Bargain
South American-Arab Summit Sets Example for World Peace
by Gretchen Small
Earth’s Next 50 Years: Your Generation Crucial
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon LaRouche briefs German youth in Düsseldorf.
‘Don’t Re-Kissingerize Lebanon,’ Patriots Say
by Nina Ogden
Congressman McCotter Joins Cheney’s Drive
by Nina Ogden
Italy Is Drawing the Lessons from the Calipari Murder in Iraq
by Claudio Celani
The Italian Government’s Calipari Report
Young Israeli ‘Refusers’ Face Jail for Resisting Oppression of Palestinians
An interview with Ellie Armon Azouley.
Israeli Youth: ‘We Believe There Is Another Way’
International Intelligence
Interview
Ellie Armon Azouley
An 18-year-old Israeli, Ellie Azouley is a “refusenik,” who is facing a jail term for her decision to refuse to serve in the Israeli Defense Forces in the occupied territories.
Editorial
Bolton Has To Be Defeated!
