Volume 27, Number 8, February 25, 2000
Interviews
Riccardo Moro
Professor Moro is a member of the Executive Board of the Italian Church Committee for Debt Remission in the Jubilee Year.
Faris Nanic
Croatian political leader Nanic gives a first-hand evaluation of the new political situation in Croatia and the problems facing the new government.
Departments
Editorial
We have entered an area of phase-shift.
Science & Technology
The unscientific hoaxes behind EPA’s pesticide ban
by Dr. J. Gordon Edward
Dr. J. Gordon Edward analyzes what it means to say a chemical poses “the reasonable certainty of no harm”—and it’s not what the Environmental Protection Agency says.
Economics
Speculation-fever and fear become explosive mixture
by Lothar Komp
The phase of outward stability, which has prevailed since the near-collapse of the world financial system in the fall of 1998, has petered out. Although most investors are hyped to keep their money flowing into the markets, everyone knows that the big crash is imminent.
Milan is urged to back New Bretton Woods
A motion that would commit the city to helping bring about a New Bretton Woods global financial system has been introduced into the City Council.
Commentaries: Warnings of coming crash proliferate
by Liliana Gorini
Jubilee 2000: The poor have paid their debt
An interview with Riccardo Moro.
South Africa moves ahead with high-temperature reactor project
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
The South African electricity company ESKOM has drawn up plans for an ambitious program to develop and produce small, standardized high-temperature reactor modules, both for domestic use and for export.
Banking
by Richard Freeman
Greenspan, Summers extoll derivatives.
Business Briefs
International
Now there are going to be two drug DMZs in Colombia
by Valerie Rush
The Colombian government is about to hand over a substantial chunk of territory to ELN narco-terrorists. In exchange, the ELN promises to sit down to “peace” talks with the government. Instead, of peace, the FARC and ELN are striding down a blood-red carpet, right into the halls of power.
Iran-Contra secrets strangle German CDU
by Rainer Apel
After the elections in Croatia: a Marshall Plan, or a new war?
by Elke Fimmen
The new President of Croatia, Stipe Mesic, is facing a severe economic crisis.Will theWest come through with assistance?
‘We are expecting a fifth Balkan war’
An interview with Faris Nanic.
UN aid coordinators in Iraq resign in protest against embargo
by Hussein Al-Nadeem
International Intelligence
National
Will American voters buy Wall Street’s vote-rigging game?
by Nancy Spannaus
“There are certain differences between this year’s Presidential election campaign and world-class wrestling,” said Lyndon LaRouche in Detroit. “But not much.” In speeches in Michigan, LaRouche blew the lid off the vote-rigging game now in process in the U.S. Presidential elections.
How George W. Bush got rich through graft, kickbacks, and family connections
by Scott Thompson
There is not a single business deal that President Bush’s son has been involved in that did not involve some form of “insider trading” on the family name—or worse.
Skullduggery and the Ohrstrom family
by Scott Thompson
Bush’s buddies at BCCI
by Scott Thompson
Dubya, Enron Corp., and the spoils of war
by Scott Thompson
Al Gore is a racist liar: the lies Bradley didn’t mention
by Michele Steinberg
To secure the nomination, Gore is trying to shut down all the Democratic primaries that he can, and push independents and even Democrats to vote for John McCain in the GOP primary. Gore’s biggest problem is to maintain the bodyguard of lies about his own character, and beliefs, as a cover for permitting his thuggery to work.
Blood and Gore for Thatcher’s Iraqi war
by Michele Steinberg
Primaries cancelled in Puerto Rico, Kansas
by Michele Steinberg
‘Don’t vote for the lions,’ LaRouche urges Michigan voters
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The transcript of a half-hour television spot purchased by Lyndon LaRouche’s Presidential campaign, which aired in Michigan.
Capital punishment is under assault in U.S.
by Marianna Wertz
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
