Volume 28, Number 5, February 2, 2001
A New Voyage to Laputa: California Takes a Swift Look at Today’s Economists
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The trigger-event known as “the California energy-crisis” poses the question most sharply:Why have nearly all among today’s ostensibly leading economists failed so miserably? The defective mentality behind their policy failures, is a pervasive cultural disease. To understand it, study Jonathan Swift’s famous Gulliver’s Travels. His book suggests the explanation for the follies of today’s middle-aged economic-policy Laputians.
California Crisis Could Trigger a Global Financial Crash
by Marsha Freeman
Economics
Deregulation Introduces America to a New Dark Age
by John Hoefle
As the case of California shows, the purpose of this new energy hoax, is to set up the mechanism by which the income stream from energy consumption can be grabbed by the financier oligarchy, after a financial crash.
Debt Relief and New Bretton Woods: Italy’s Leadership Discussed in Milan
by Liliana Gorini
LaRouche on Urgent Debt Reorganization
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
A memo to the Milan Conference.
Rep. Bianchi: ‘There Is No Time To Lose’
by Giovanni Bianchi
From the speech by Italian parliamentarian Giovanni Bianchi.
Minister Toia: Students Must Debate the International Debt
by Patrizia Toia
From the speech by Italian Minister for Relations with the Parliament Patrizia Toia.
LaRouche to Nader: Voodoo Won’t Save California
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Free-Market Economics Is the Last Thing American Agriculture Needs
by Marcia Merry Baker
EIR’s “Testimony to the Agriculture Committee of the U.S. Senate in Opposition to the Confirmation of Ann M. Veneman as Secretary of Agriculture.”
Business Briefs
International
Manila’s ‘EDSA II’ Coup Is a Wake-Up Call for Asia
by Gail G. Billington
The military-backed coup in the Philippines—praised by the U.S. State Department as an example of democracy in action—is a threat, by London and Wall Street, to all the nations of Southeast Asia that are exercising their national sovereignty, in the interests of national survival.
LaRouche to Philippines: ‘We Know How To Rebuild the Economy’
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon LaRouche is interviewed on RMN radio in the Philippines.
Dr. Mahathir: Asia Must Forge ‘Model for Mutual Good for Rest of the World’
by Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad
From a speech by the Malaysian Prime Minister in Osaka, Japan.
New Tactics in Blair’s Election Project
by Alan Clayton
Economic Cooperation Outflanks Political Differences in Mideast
by Hussein Al-Nadeem
National
Stopping Ashcroft Is Key to Sane U.S. Economic Policy
by Edward Spannaus
Only Lyndon LaRouche has made the most crucial argument against the nomination of John Ashcroft as Attorney General: that stopping him is key to preventing the emergence of a fascist regime, using the pretext of “crisis-management” methods to deal with the onrushing financial and economic collapse.
How Ashcroft Engaged in Character Assassination: The Henry Foster Case
An interview with Dr. Henry Foster.
Pennsylvania NAACP Wins Vote for Ex-Offenders
by Marianna Wertz
‘This Decision Will Be Cited’
An interview with Earl Trent.
Right-Wing Zionist Bushmen Say That Oslo Peace Accord Is Dead
by Dean Andromidas and Michele Steinberg
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
Interviews
Dr. Henry Foster
Dr. Foster’s 1995 nomination by President Clinton as Surgeon General was defeated, in a filibuster led by Sen. John Ashcroft.
Earl Trent
Attorney Trent argued the NAACP’s friend of the court brief in the suit brought by a group of incarcerated Pennsylvanians in 1999, which argued that all felons should have the right to vote upon release from incarceration.
Departments
Australia Dossier
by Robert Barwick
Australia Aligns Itself with Bush.
Editorial
After Kabila, an African World War?
