Volume 30, Number 9, March 7, 2003
The Human Race Says No, at the Brink of Iraq War
by Michele Steinberg and William Jones
The irony of having Lyndon LaRouche, America’s best known champion of peace, as a guest of honor at the same Feb. 26 Kuwait Embassy celebration as Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, the advocate of preemptive war on Iraq, focussed a battle between America’s republican and “imperial” policies, which has mobilized the whole world.
Facing Global ‘No War,’ U.S. Plays ‘Monopoly’
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Revolt Against Blair Explodes Across U.K.
by Mark Burdman
Africa Unites Against Iraq War
by David Cherry
The Pope Leads Diplomacy for Peace
by Claudio Celani
Economics
Disarray in Crisis Is Clear Among G-7 Finance Ministers
by Paul Gallagher
The Feb. 21-22 Paris meeting meeting of the G-7 Finance Ministers and central bank governors had been expected to indicate what monetary moves the industrialized nations would take to meet the shock of a new Mideast war. But, the ministers threw up their hands at the prospect of deepening global depression.
Emergency Meetings over German Bank Crisis
by Lothar Komp
Pro-American Germans Oppose Iraq War
by Rainer Apel
Brazil: Lula About To Slam Into Soros’ ‘Wall of Money’
by Dennis Small
What Follows Brazil’s ‘Great Expectations’?
by Adriano Benayon
A guest commentary.
Major Airlines Will Go Bankrupt Without LaRouche’s Re-Regulation
by Anita Gallagher
Kolkata: Mother Teresa’s Haunt
by Ramtanu Maitra
Feature
José Rizal and the Challenge of Philippines Independence
by John D. Morris
The story of the Philippines’ national hero, Dr. José Rizal, and his family, is representative of the courageous spirit and moral intellect, the sublime quality of leadership, that makes possible the emergence of an independent nation from colonialized, disunited, or economically looted territories.
International
Sharon Forms New War Government in Israel
by Dean Andromidas
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has formed a government which is the furthest right in more than a decade.
An America ‘Posse’ Heads for Philippines
by Michael Billington
Anti-U.S. Taliban Ready to Strike
by Ramtanu Maitra
Including a profile of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the U.S.’s former best friend, now labelled a terrorist.
FARC Narcos Goad Bush To Invade S. America
by Gretchen Small
Pro-Drug Soros Ally Forced Out of UN Post
by Lotta-Stina Thronell
Non-Aligned Movement Revives a Voice for the Third World
by Michael Billington
The Spirit of Bandung
by Michael Billington
Excerpts from a history of the Non-Aligned Movement.
National
LaRouche Becoming the Issue in the Democratic Party
Lyndon LaRouche, who is seeking the 2004 Democratic Presidential nomination, returned on Feb. 23-25 to Arkansas, where he garnered more than 22% of the vote in the year 2000 Democratic Presidential primary. LaRouche’s support has grown in both depth and breadth—while the Gore-Lieberman organized-crime-linked machine seems to have learned little from its past fatal errors.
‘To Deal With a Depression’
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Address to members of the Black Caucus of Arkansas, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on Feb. 24.
Nuclear First-Strike Plan: It Keeps Getting Scarier
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The Ghost of Bertrand Russell Stalks Cheney-Rumsfeld Pentagon
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Lieberman Again Claims Bush’s Iraq Policy
by Scott Thompson
Imagery Intelligence of U.S. Blurred
by Ray McGovern
Ray McGovern was a CIA analyst for 27 years, and is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
Departments
Editorial
The Fight for Peace.
