Volume 26, Number 50, December 17, 1999
Interviews
Hartwig de Haen
Assistant Director General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s Economic and Social Department.
Natalia Vitrenko and
Volodymyr Marchenko Leaders of Ukraine’s Progressive Socialist Party.
Departments
Editorial
The strategic assessment.
Investigation
Congress takes up LaRouche challenge vs. drug bankers
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The international drug trade, and black market criminality more generally, cannot thrive without institutional clout to launder the funds. As Lyndon LaRouche outlined 21 years ago, a serious war on drugs begins by going after the drug banks.
Senate hearings on money laundering highlight criminality of U.S. bankers
by Suzanne Rose
Rep. Waters asks: Will DOJ prosecute banks?
by Maxine Waters
An open letter from U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) to Attorney General Janet Reno.
Congress drafts bills vs. money laundering
by Michele Steinberg
Dope, Inc.’s ‘bankers above suspicion’
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Economics
WTO flop reflects resurgence of nationalist economics
by Marcia Merry Baker and Harley Schlanger
European and Third World leaders, and core constituency groups in the United States, are reacting to the disintegration of the economy, with demands for protection for their industries and jobs. That is why the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle ended in failure.
Eco-fascists riot in Seattle
by Harley Schlanger
The hard core of the rioters at the WTO meeting in Seattle were trained in Canada and Great Britain.
Prince Philip’s eco-terrorists
by Jeffrey Steinberg
WTO offers poorest nations more looting
by Marcia Merry Baker
The Least Developed Countries need real development, and not this latest plan to sweeten the same bitter pill of colonialist looting.
Documentation: Excerpts from briefings at the WTO Seattle summit.
LDCs face ‘chronic undernourishment’
An interview with Dr. Hartwig de Haen.
Cargill: ‘We have far from a monopoly’
Not another ‘period of colonization’
Business Briefs
Feature
On the subject of education
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
“The function of this policy-statement is, both, to define the goals which the Federal government must set for public education, and, also, define the means and methods which the Federal government, especially its Executive Branch, should employ to promote those goals which were implied in the Preamble of the Federal Constitution of 1789,” LaRouche writes. “I emphasize a policy for education which is axiomatically consistent with ‘the general welfare clause.’”
International
Mideast talks must solve water resource shortage
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Underlying every Mideast conflict, recent past and present, is the lack of enough water for everyone. Peace must be based on cutting this Gordian knot, with the establishment of massive nuclear-driven desalination plants throughout the region.
Israel: Iran-Contra returns to haunt George Bush
by Dean Andromidas
British fear losing Germany
by Rainer Apel
Hard economic realities have blown the “Third Way” ideology to pieces: The majority of the German political elite, with backing from most of the population, have felt compelled to intervene against Britain’s pet policies—globalization and the free market.
Ukraine: a new President, and old, unanswered questions
by Anatoli Voznytsa
‘Kuchma’s election fraud is a time bomb’
An interview with Natalia Vitrenko and Volodymyr Marchenko.
Al-Fayed: Prince Philip had Diana, Dodi killed
by Jeffrey Steinberg
President Clinton’s North Korea initiative could prevent war
by William Jones
International Intelligence
National
LaRouche, in New York, warns of new ‘Pearl Harbor’
by Debra Hanania Freeman
“We’re now in that kind of situation. Not that anyone at this moment is prepared to drop bombs on Pearl Harbor or New York City. But, nonetheless, we are on the verge of an experience, an emotional-psychological experience, a political experience, which very much resembles what happened on Dec. 7, 1941. In a sense, this has already begun to happen,” Lyndon LaRouche said at a campaign appearance.
Lying and racism inside the Democratic National Committee: the implications
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
