Volume 27, Number 33, August 25, 2000
Interviews
Akira Nambara
Dr. Nambara, now a private corporate official, is the former Executive Director of the Bank of Japan. He is a signer of the call of the Ad Hoc Committee for a New Bretton Woods System.
Peter Kearney
Mr. Kearney is a candidate for the position of Senior Vice-Convener, or deputy leader, of the Scottish National Party.
Reviews
Hollywood’s New Cult Offensive: ‘The Gladiator’ To Revive Pagan Rome
by Elisabeth Hellenbroich
Departments
Australia Dossier
by Robert Barwick
Crown Cartels Plunder Australia.
Editorial
The Storm Over Asia Intensifies.
Economics
The Asian Monetary Fund Is Facing Strategic Challenges
by Kathy Wolfe
Asia’s problems—now being carefully ignored, like polite company trying to ignoring an elephant on one’s front lawn—include non-performing loans, the dependence on U.S. markets, and cultural antagonisms among Asian nations.
‘Elect LaRouche President To Improve World Economy’
An interview with Dr. Akira Nambara.
The Hoax of U.S. ‘Core Inflation’
by William Engdahl
Russian Economists Forecast: World Economic Crisis to Explode in Autumn
by Jonathan Tennenbaum and Konstantin Cheremnykh
Oleg Grigoryev and Mikhail Khazin analyze the U.S. and global economy in Ekspert, a prominent Russian economics and business weekly.
Thousands of U.S. Nursing Homes Are Being Forced into Bankruptcy
by Marcia Merry Baker
Legitimacy of Debt Debated in Argentina
by Gonzalo Huertas
Business Briefs
Feature
‘New World Order’ Gang Is Back, with G.W. Bush
by Jeffrey Steinberg
When the Bush family launched George W.’s campaign for the Presidency in the Summer of 1998, the policy advisory team was called the “Vulcans.” A more accurate name might be the “Martians,” after the Roman god of war. Because if this gang of throwbacks to Sir George Bush’s New World Order gets anywhere near the White House, you can expect a bloody mess throughout the world.
‘2000 GOP Platform’ Would Mean War
by Michele Steinberg
George Shultz: Godfather of Bush’s ‘Vulcans’
by Scott Thompson
The Nightmare of Bush Senior’s Presidency
by Michele Steinberg
PROFILES
Brent Scowcroft: The Kissinger Clone on the Bush Team
by Anton Chaitkin
Dick Cheney: Oil in the Family
by Anton Chaitkin
Paul Wolfowitz: A Bully To Enforce the ‘New World Order’
by Michele Steinberg
Condoleezza Rice: The ‘Quarterback’ for Bush’s Vulcans
by Scott Thompson
Robert Zoellick: James A. Baker III’s Man on the Bush Team
by Scott Thompson
Lawrence Lindsey: More of the Same Brand of Poison
by John Hoefle
CRIMES OF THE BUSH DYNASTY
Dubya’s Grandpa and Great-Grandpa Helped Put Adolf Hitler into Power
by Anton Chaitkin
International
Great Game’ Fanatics Spark Insurgency Against Central Asia
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Over the past year, various “Islamist” insurgencies, backed by the British, have spread throughout Central Asia, intended to initiate the break-up of Russia. The revival of this British “Great Game” could lead to World War III.
Uzbekistan and National Economic Policy
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Drought Is Devastating Central and South Asia
by Mary Burdman
Did a Collision Sink the ‘Kursk’?
by Michael Liebig
Russia Accuses British ‘Halo Trust’ of Hand in Chechen War
by Rachel Douglas and Dean Andromidas
Malaysia ‘Deserves Better’ than Albright
by Gail G. Billington
Malaysia is fighting off foreign destabilizations, part of the heavy price it is paying for defending its economy from Western speculators.
Korea: The ‘Iron Silk Road’ Could Open Next Year
by Mary Burdman
Independence for Scotland Posed, as Nationalists Prepare To Elect Leaders
by Mark Calney
‘End the Union of 1707,’ Says Scottish Candidate
An interview with Peter Kearney.
Egyptian-U.S. Relations ‘in the Hand of a Goblin’
by Hussein Al-Nadeem
International Intelligence
National
LaRouche: Support Election of ‘Good FDR Democrats’
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Speaking at an international teleconference on Aug. 17, Lyndon LaRouche termed Al Gore’s acceptance of the Democratic Presidential nomination “a national catastrophe,” but declared that he will not abandon his commitment to help “good FDR Democrats” take the party and the nation back to sanity.
Buchanan Campaign May Fuel Voter Revolt
by Jeffrey Steinberg
“We clearly need some form of monetary reform,” Buchanan told a LaRouche campaign worker who had asked him about LaRouche’s New Bretton Woods proposal.
Verizon Strike: Taking On the ‘New Economy’
by Marianna Wertz
National News
