Volume 27, Number 7, February 18, 2000
Departments
Australia Dossier
Lunatics plot new war.
Editorial
For a moratorium on executions.
Book Reviews
Fighting like hell to live till tomorrow
by Gail G. Billington
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, by Loung Ung.
Economics
America in the 1990s: a decade of debt
by John Hoefle
Total debt in the United States nearly doubled during the 1990s, topping $25 trillion. In a properly run economy, it is necessary to spend money today to build the technology and infrastructure to increase the productive power of the workforce of tomorrow. But that is not what is happening now, as families live off their credit cards, and financiers peddle IOUs to inflate the speculative bubble. Bankruptcy will be the ultimate result.
The euro falls, and falls, and falls...
by William Engdahl
The euro is in a dangerous “no man’s land,” too weak to attract the billions in foreign investment its framers had expected a year ago, and politically too entrenched to be abandoned without risking a political and monetary collapse of the European Union.
‘Dirigist’ measures needed to halt systemic collapse, says LaRouche
Business Briefs
Feature
Nation-states disintegrate under assault from London
by Jeffrey Steinberg
“The underlying, principal strategic conflict dominating the planet today, is expressed as the varied threat of generalized warfare, famine, and epidemic disease, the which is caused, ultimately, and that almost entirely, by the several efforts to employ the model of pagan Imperial Rome, or more barbaric ethics, for the purpose of establishing ‘one-world government,’ through the United Nations Organization, or some alternate instrument,” Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. wrote recently. In this report, we identify those forces that are attempting to destroy the nation-state, the one institution that could offer a defense against these Dark Age forces.
The assassins of the nation-state
by Michele Steinberg
A “Who’s Who” of the institutions and individuals who are deliberately destroying nations.
Asia 1997: The case of Indonesia
by Michael O. Billington
Indonesia was an easy target for the 1997 blood-letting by currency speculator George Soros and his ilk, the so-called Asian crisis, which was in fact a global crisis which broke out in Asia.
Oil, opium and the attack on Asia
Russia 1998: The line is drawn vs. attack on sovereignty
by Rachel Douglas
Nowhere is the insanity of the perpetrators more prominently on display than in Russia—still one of the world’s great nations, and still the possessor of a superpower’s nuclear arsenal.
South America 1999: Narco-nations come to the fore
by Dennis Small
Plunged into bankruptcy, nations are disintegrating and the continent is slated to be dominated by Jacobin mobs and narco-empires.
Ecuador is turned into a concentration camp
by Gretchen Small
Argentina stands at the edge of the abyss
by Cynthia R. Rush
‘Clean Hands,’ but dirty tricks vs. Europe
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Oligarchy’s assault is destroying Africa
by Linda de Hoyos
International
Cohen and Hoon pursue policy of strategic confrontation
by Rainer Apel
The 36th annual Conference on Security Policy, known as the Wehrkunde conference, featured a sharp contrast between the outlook of the insane British-American-Commonwealth policy grouping, against most of the rest of the world.
LaRouche’s ideas are scrutinized in Russia
“The Social and Political Situation in Russia” was the theme of a seminar at the Institute of Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and coverage in the Moscow weekly Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta.
Austria bludgeoned by European Union
by Anno Hellenbroich
The Haider case: Who stands to gain from the EU overreaction to the center-right Austrian coalition government?
International Intelligence
National
LaRouche’s drive for U.S. Presidency: On to Michigan!
by Debra Hanania-Freeman
The heavy-handed effort by the Gore apparatus to deny Lyndon LaRouche access to Democratic primary ballots is running into trouble in a number of states, where LaRouche’s campaign has beaten down all obstacles thrown in its way, and has placed the candidate’s name on the ballot. International endorsements of Lyndon LaRouche’s campaign for President.
LaRouche speaks for the 80%of voters being ignored by the ‘bozo’ candidates
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon LaRouche’s opening statement to a Wilmington, Delaware town meeting on Feb. 4, on the eve of state’s primary election.
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
Civil Rights
LaRouche takes voting rights case to U.S. Supreme Court
In this brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. and his fellow plaintiffs prove that former Democratic Party National Committee Chairman Donald L. Fowler and co-defendants violated their rights, under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, by refusing to seat delegates pledged to LaRouche at the 1996 Democratic National Convention.
