Volume 26, Number 46, November 19, 1999
Departments
Australia Dossier
by Robert Barwick
Aussies reject fraudulent republic.
Africa Report
by Linda de Hoyos
Albright discredits IGAD process on Sudan.
Editorial
Pickpockets of Brussels and London.
Economics
WTO summit will deploy ‘free trade’ to destroy nations
by Marcia Merry Baker
The record shows that any government that commits itself to free trade, will be further relinquishing its sovereign power over its national economy, just at the time when the world financial system itself is in the process of breakdown, requiring actions and institutions for national economic build-up.
Labor protest against WTO would leave free-trade system intact
by Marianna Wertz
The AFL-CIO is mobilizing to bring 15,000 trade unionists to Seattle on Nov. 30, to participate in a rally at the opening of the World Trade Organization conference. They are going to demand that the WTO be “reformed,” so that the rights of labor and the environment gain greater “respect”—in the context of a world dominated by the murderous axioms of free trade. It won’t work.
Documentation: Opposition to the WTO from Teamsters union president James P. Hoffa; the United Autoworkers resolution on “The American Economy in a New Century”; and the trial of former Teamsters political director William Hamilton: blackmail against labor.
New perspectives for the Transrapid
by Rainer Apel
German Chancellor Schröder found to his surprise, when he visited China early in November, that what the Beijing leaders wanted to talk about most was the maglev: the rail technology of the 21st century.
Bank of England behind latest gold price fall
by William Engdahl
Russia: A comment on demographic issues and a forbidding forecast
by Murray Feshbach
A guest commentary by Dr. Murray Feshbach.
Business Briefs
Feature
Will the U.S.A. keep its sovereignty?
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
“This present report is written for those citizens who wish to be certain, that they themselves have met U.S. founder Benjamin Franklin’s standard for voters who are qualified to select the new leaders of our presently imperilled U.S. republic.”
International
Europe takes steps toward joining the Survivors’ Club
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
A growing number of institutional forces in continental Europe are responding to what they perceive as a threat to their very national survival, coming from the sorts of policies identified with Britain’s Blair government, and Madeleine Albright in the United States.
France: Behind the fall of Strauss-Kahn
by Jacques Cheminade
IMF, Transparency Int’l celebrate De la Rúa victory in Argentina
by Gerardo Terán Canal and Gonzalo Huertas
Argentinians, fed up with the disastrous economic policies of the Carlos Menem administration, have voted in a new President—who is promising more of the same.
International Intelligence
National
It’s past time to fire Madeleine Albright
by Scott Thompson
From Russia, to China, to Kosovo, to Sudan, and on an on, President Clinton has been faced with one foreign policy disaster after another, because of his Secretary of State. With all the White House’s enemies embracing her, the President should have smelled a rat.
Int’l Criminal Court and humanitarian intervention debated
by Edward Spannaus
Endorsements of LaRouche’s campaign are pouring in from around the world
Toward the sovereignty and development of all the world’s nations
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
An Internet dialogue between Lyndon LaRouche and diplomats from 22 countries.
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
