Volume 25, Number 12, March 20, 1998
Interviews
Angelo Beda
Mr. Beda is Minister of Manpower in the Sudanese government. A Christian, he comes from the south.
Samuel Aru Bol
Mr. Bol is a member of Sudan’s National Congress, representing the United Democratic Front, Salvation Front. He was with rebel leader John Garang in the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army until recently, when he returned to Khartoum to join the National Congress and work toward unity of the nation.
Departments
Australia Dossier
by Robert Barwick
OECD fronts for multinationals.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Wanted: a sound economic program.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
You can buy a “Sir” with oil.
Editorial
American education needs a “paradigm shift.”
Political Economy
How great minds thought about the Great Depression
by Jeffrey Steinberg
President Franklin Roosevelt and Prof. Wilhelm Lautenbach approached the global crisis of the 1920s and ’30s in a way that policymakers should learn from today.
FDR’s American System diplomacy
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Jeffrey Steinberg analyzes President Franklin Roosevelt’s article in the July 1928 edition of Foreign Affairs.
The Lautenbach Plan for economic recovery
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
From a speech by Helga Zepp-LaRouche.
Friedrich List and the American System of political economy
by Michael Liebig
A speech by Michael Liebig.
Economics
New Bretton Woods system must top the G-22 agenda
by Marcia Merry Baker and Gail G. Billington
As the financial crisis deepens, there is increasing public discussion of Lyndon LaRouche’s plan for a New Bretton Woods.When the “Willard Group” of 22 nations meets in Washington on April 16, this is the number-one issue that must be addressed.
A ‘New Deal,’ with Chinese characteristics?
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
China has embarked on a $1 trillion, three-year infrastructure-building program to ensure continued economic growth.
Britain is riding the ‘euro’ horse
by William Engdahl
The British are using the European Monetary Union, is to destroy the U.S. economy.
Soros on monetary reform
Financial crisis drives merger mania
by John Hoefle
Oil price collapse slams Venezuela
by David Ramonet
Business Briefs
Feature
How the KKK got into the U.S. Justice Department
by Anton Chaitkin
April 4 is a double anniversary: the murder of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the dedication of a statue to Confederate General and Ku Klux Klan founder Albert Pike. Historian Anton Chaitkin highlights the still-ongoing struggle between two irreconcilable traditions in American life: that of the Lincoln revolution vs. that of British-sponsored anti-American treason.
International
President Clinton’s diplomatic offensive
by Jeffrey Steinberg and Umberto Pascali
Milosevic tries ‘final solution’ in Kosova
by Konstantin George
The new Mideast peace offensive
by Joseph Brewda
President Clinton has tentatively begun a new diplomatic effort to force Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to comply with the Oslo peace accords.
Kosova: Britain’s war against the U.S.A.
by Umberto Pascali
Documentation: 1917: Serbia defends British Empire’s “gate”; 1937: Serbia plotted genocide against Kosova; The 1990s: the British hand against Bosnia; The U.S.-British ‘secret war’ in Bosnia; Major Stankovic, the British traitor; Dame Pauline Neville-Jones and the Dayton Accords; Brits provide KLA with cadre and cash.
Sudan moves toward peace, democracy
Success is a matter of political will
An interview with Angelo Beda.
Southern leaders are working with Khartoum
An interview with Samuel Aru Bol.
Colombia: Samper cheats to stop Bedoya electoral threat
by Javier Almario
International Intelligence
National
More Scaife-Falwell sleaze behind assault on Presidency
by Edward Spannaus
New revelations about the true origins of the “Troopergate” story, secret payments to the Paula Jones legal defense fund, and to Arkansas “sources” whose lies ended up being circulated by the American Spectator and other rags.
DOJ’s ‘Operation Fruehmenschen’ apparatus continues its reign of terror
by Harley Schlanger
Former U.S. Rep. Mervyn Dymally, former South Carolina State Sen. Theo Mitchell, and Harley Schlanger of the Schiller Institute brief a forum at the University of Houston on the crimes of the U.S. Justice Department’s permanent bureaucracy against black elected officials.
Mitchell issues challenge to NAACP
“You are called upon to pay attention to the all-too-long exercise of the Fascist Doctrine of ‘Operation Fruehmenschen,’” former South Carolina State Sen. Theo Mitchell writes in an open letter to NAACP president Kweisi Mfume.
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
