Volume 27, Number 45, November 17, 2000
Politics as Art
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
“Real politics, as Plato and the recently elevated, great, and martyred English statesman Thomas More rightly understood, is properly practiced as a form of Classical art, practiced according to the same principles which the greatest tragedians, Shakespeare and his successor Schiller, most notably, subsequently expressed as Classical modes of composition and performance of poetry and tragedy.”
Economics
U.S. Natural Gas, Heating Oil Crises Are a Policy Crisis
by Marcia Merry Baker
Natural gas prices were up 5.2% for October, food prices underwent the highest rise in six months, and other prices were rising. Despite notorious fakery in official figures, the impact, along with other aspects of financial and economic breakdown, is hitting hard throughout the economy.
The Physical Economy of the Natural Gas Industry
by John Hoefle
The Major Natural Gas Transmission Companies
Will Your Aunt Freeze in Her Rocking Chair This Winter?
by Mary Jane Freeman
Documentation: “Emergency Resolution To Reduce Oil Prices,” introduced into the Boston City Council.
Why Tony Blair’s Britain Is ‘All Wet’
by Mark Burdman
British Rail Disaster Has Come to Germany
by Rainer Apel
Argentine Debt Crisis Unnerves Wall Street
by Gonzalo Huertas and Cynthia R. Rush
Business Briefs
International
Time for Asia To Ditch IMF or Go Down with the Dollar
by Kathy Wolfe
The dollar is about to crash, the U.S. Presidential elections have been reduced to a powerless farce, and the European press is speculating that the United States could soon collapse like the Soviet Union. Asia must act if it is to survive.
LaRouche Warns Leaders at ‘ASEAN-Plus-3’ Summit
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Government Crises Across Asia Threaten New Economic Approach
by Michael O. Billington and Gail G. Billington
Russia, China Relations in ‘Best Period Ever’
by Mary Burdman
Iran, Japan Prepare for Post-Crash World
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
‘FARC International’ Deploys Across Ibero-America to Pick Up the Pieces
by Gretchen Small
Ivory Coast Riots Stem from IMF Policies
by Christine Bierre
International Intelligence
National
The Election Crisis Is Not a Constitutional Crisis
by Edward Spannaus
The Framers of the Constitution provided the means to deal with an impasse between leading candidates, or the popular selection of unqualified candidates for the Presidency. So, there is no need for a rush to judgment, to determine a “winner” of the Presidential election.
D.C. Nurses Settle, But Slave Labor in Health Care Expands
by Linda Everett
Fighting the Takeover of Detroit’s Schools
by Marianna Wertz
The Privatizers Have Looted the Schools
An interview with Sharon McPhail.
Rights Are Being Repeatedly Violated
An interview with Ed Vaughn.
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
Interviews
Sharon McPhail
Sharon McPhail, a Detroit attorney and former president of the National Bar Association, is representing plaintiffs in a Federal civil rights suit against last year’s takeover of the Detroit public school system by the State of Michigan.
Ed Vaughn
Rep. Ed Vaughn (D-Detroit) serves as Minority Vice-Chair of the Constitutional Law and Ethics Committee, and is a member of the Committees on Economic Development, and Regulatory Reform in the Michigan Legislature.
Books
New Insights Into a 20th-Century Monster
by Mark Burdman
Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness, 1921-1970, Vol. II, by Ray Monk.
The Military Genius of Jeanne d’Arc, and the Concept of Victory
by Irene Beaudry
Joan of Arc, A Military Leader, by Kelly DeVries.
The Historical Jeanne d’Arc
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Departments
Australia Dossier
by Robert Barwick
“The Right to Intervene.”
Editorial
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
On the U.S. Elections.
