Volume 27, Number 30, August 4, 2000
Interviews
Loretta Owens
Loretta Owens, President of AFSCME Local 1033, representing approximately 800 professional and technical workers at D.C. General Hospital in Washington, D.C., is a faith and community HIV and AIDS prevention outreach specialist.
John Fairman
John Fairman, former CEO of D.C. Health and Hospitals Public Benefit Corp., discusses his fight to protect health care services at D.C. General.
Departments
Editorial
The LaRouche Experiment.
Economics
Group of Eight Chooses Laptops, Ignores Reality
by Nancy Spannaus
Given the state of mind of the heads of state of the major industrialized nations, it were better if they had stayed home. The summit itself cost more than the debt relief the G-8 intends to give poor nations.
Peru’s Economic Measures against Free Trade Panic Wall Street
by Luis Vásquez Medina
French Socialist Party: The Common Good as the State’s Responsibility
by Elisabeth Hellenbroich
Free Traders Losing Friends in the East
by Rainer Apel
Egypt and the New Silk Road
by Prof. Dr. Mohammed Al-Sayid Selim
A guest commentary.
Iran, Iraq, and Syria To Connect Their Rail Networks
by Hussein Al-Nadeem
German Pension Reform: From Social Security to Casino Economy
by William Engdahl
Business Briefs
Feature
On a Basket of Hard Commodities: Trade without Currency
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon LaRouche, sympathetic to Asian nations’ efforts to protect their economies and currencies from the collapse of the global financial system, outlines why their proposal for a basket of currencies won’t work. Rather, he writes, “The time has come to bring forth on this planet, the rule of man’s affairs by a partnership among a community of perfectly sovereign nation-state republics.”
The Lautenbach Plan for Economic Recovery
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
From a 1998 speech by Helga Zepp-LaRouche.
International
Revive Mideast Peace Process with Water, Economic Growth
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach and Paolo Raimondi
The major stumbling block at the Camp David summit was over the status of Jerusalem and the return of Palestinian refugees. But no resolution of that problem is possible without the region undergoing economic growth, including the provision of large new sources of fresh water.
Create New Water Resources, Which Will Create the Basis for Peace
by Marcia Merry Baker
A look at “Solving the Problem of FreshWater Scarcity in Israel, Jordan, Gaza and the West Bank,” a White Paper prepared by the Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation.
British Foreign Office, U.S. State Department Plan Iraq Provocation
by Dean Andromidas
London, Wall Street Now Turn To Sever Chiapas from Mexico
Colombia’s Gen. Harold Bedoya Fingered for Assassination
Argentines Sue Britain’s Thatcher for Acts of War
by Jacques Cheminade
International Intelligence
National
Dems Take to the Hustings, To Revive the Party of FDR
by Marla Minnicino and Rochelle Ascher
Democratic constituency leaders are realizing that distributing the proceedings of the June 22 Ad Hoc Democratic Party Platform Hearings, is their best weapon to take the party back from the usurpers around Al Gore.
Economic ‘Boom’ Causing National Hospital-Nursing Home Shutdown
by Paul Gallagher
You may be among those who believe that the U.S. is booming and prosperous, and has entered an era of budget surpluses. If so, chances are you have not been seriously ill or had an accident recently.
Stop the Shutdown of D.C. General Hospital
by Marianna Wertz
‘This Hospital Is Family’
An interview with Loretta Owens.
Who Is To Blame for Health-Care Crisis?
An interview with John Fairman.
The Danforth Report on Waco: One More Justice Department Cover-Up
by Edward Spannaus
‘Black Like Me’? The Strange Saga of J. Edgar Hoover
by Edward Spannaus
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
