Volume 33, Number 42, October 20, 2006
How Not To Play Chess
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon LaRouche reviews Michael Isikoff and David Horn, Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War. LaRouche emphasizes that today, “when the presently onrushing general collapse of the world’s present monetary-financial system, is the principal imperative accelerating the Bush-Cheney drive toward immediate launching of new major wars, the typical critic of the current war-policy of that administration, refuses to take the actually determining onrush of the presently threatened, global economic breakdown crisis itself into consideration, in assessing the war-danger as such.”
Investigation
Chicago Boys’ Bloody Hand Behind Cheney Campus Gestapo
by Anton Chaitkin
Lynne Cheney’s strategists from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) are a gang bred at the University of Chicago around Leo Strauss, and their project is far deadlier than the street-variety Mafia killers that blackened Chicago’s reputation.
The British Pedigree of Lynne Cheney
From Train to Trash, Top Down & Dirty
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Horowitz’s Hit-List
Horrorwitchers at UCLA Attack the ‘Dirty Thirty’
ACTA Plans Strategy at Athena Roundtable
International
Russians See ‘Permanent War’ Escalation as Aimed at Them
by Rachel Douglas
The decision announced by Russia’s state-owned firm Gazprom, to drop U.S. interests from its giant Shtokman offshore natural gas project, both as potential co-developers and as future customers, gives an indication of how Moscow perceives the world strategic lineup.
Can Genocide in Iraq Be Stopped?
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Economics
Globalization’s Policy of Famine: Wheat Supplies Plunge
by Marcia Merry Baker
The 2006 world production level for wheat and all other grains combined—is below the average annual level of world grain consumption, for the sixth year, out of the last seven. Therefore, world stockpiles have been drawn down to the level of shortages.
IMF/World Bank-Imposed Globalization Leading Bangladesh Further into Hell
by Ramtanu Maitra
Putin Offers Germany Industrial Cooperation
by Rainer Apel
Reality Bursts Mortgage Bubble and Greenspan’s Fantasies
by Richard Freeman
Business Briefs
National
Bipartisan Briefing Focuses on Cheney’s October Surprise
by Carl Osgood
Rep. Dennis Kucinich co-hosts testimony on Vice President Cheney’s push for a military attack on Iran.
Another Confrontation in the Middle East?
by Rep. Dennis Kucinich
Interventionist U.S. Policy Is a Failure
by Rep. Ron Paul
U.S. Attack Would Bolster Iran Government
by Dr. Trita Parsi
Testimony by the president of the National Iranian American Council.
National News
Science & Technology
Fusion Torch Can Create New Raw Materials
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
The fusion torch can create new mineral resources from ordinary dirt and rock, and get rid of waste by reducing it to its constituent elements.
Editorial
Whose War Is This?
