Volume 26, Number 26, June 25, 1999

Interviews

Henry Nicholas

Nicholas is International Vice President of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), AFL-CIO; President of the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees, AFSCME; and President of District 1199C, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

George Zeller

Mr. Zeller is a senior researcher for the Council for Economic Opportunities, who helped prepare a study by the Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies.

Miomir Zuzul

His Excellency Miomir Zuzul is the Ambassador of Croatia to the United States.

Departments

Australia Dossier

KKK-FBI invading Australia.

Report from Bonn

Government's popularity sinking fast.

Editorial

The power of truth.

Economics

Greenspan in a barrel: The suckers bet again, against LaRouche, and lose

While stock markets have been soaring to stratospheric heights, the world's physical infrastructure has been collapsing at an accelerating pace. Now, even the IMF's Camdessus realizes that the speculative bubble is about to blow.

Greenspan's `irrational exuberance' and the Dow

Brazil's `virtuality pact' about to pop

Prospects increase for Russian, Ukrainian debt `default'

Welfare `Reform' in America

America's missing in action: Al Gore's genocide vs. the poor

A new class of citizens, "The Disappeared," has been created since the welfare "reforms" of the 1990s terminated Franklin Delano Roosevelt's guarantee of a Federal safety net for America's poor. This "Conservative Revolution" policy of the Al Gore and Newt Gingrich crowd is a threat to the jobs, health, and well-being of all Americans. Documentation: Statements by Sens. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.).

The LaRouche movement's record vs. welfare slave labor

Al Gore, Dick Morris: The unholy alliance

Case Studies: California destitution rises as welfare ends

How a crime against humanity worked in Philadelphia

Repeal welfare repeal, and then begin reform

An interview with Henry Nicholas.

Ohio: results so bad they won't print them

An interview with George Zeller.

Mississippi: `reform' where there's no work

Feature

Debate on Balkan reconstruction rages around LaRouche proposal

The overwhelming majority of the Balkans' leaders agree on at least one point: If reconstruction, a New Marshall Plan for the Balkans, is not launched immediately, there will be no peace.Documentation: Excerpts from ambassadors' conference presentations.

EU official: We will not rebuild Danube bridges

How Germany financed its postwar reconstruction

Lothar Komp relates the history of the stunning success of the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau.

International

Russian military's decision exposes NATO miscalculations

The Russian General Staff's command decision to occupy the Pristina, Kosovo airport, shows that there is one institution capable and willing to take decisive actions.

European Parliament elections: big defeat for Blair's `Third Way'

`Jewish spies' case aimed at Iran's Khatami

International Intelligence

Conference Report

Paris gathering heeds `wise words of LaRouche'

A conference on the theme "The Eurasian Land-Bridge for Peace: France, Catalyst between East and West."

Jacques Cheminade: The role for France in global recovery

Tan Sri Ramon Navaratnam: How a small country can defeat the IMF

Prof. Taras Muranivsky: On ways to overcome the crisis in Russia

López Portillo: Listen to LaRouche

Marivilia Carrasco: The `Kosovo effect' in Ibero-America

National

Gore launches campaign . . . with attack on the President

Gore's campaign strategy of distancing himself from President Clinton was characterized by Lyndon LaRouche as a "politically fatal folly." LaRouche observed, "It prompts me to recall the adage, `Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad!' "

LaRouche to Clinton: Tell the truth about China Embassy bombing

Bush: The compassionate dynasty?

There are several scandals waiting to explode, as Texas Gov. George W. Bush's Presidential bid gets under way. Anton Chaitkin reports.

Nebraska's DeCamp endorses LaRouche

John DeCamp is a former Nebraska State Senator and the author of The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in Nebraska.

National News

Congressional Closeup