Volume 26, Number 45, November 12, 1999
Departments
Australia Dossier
The end of an industrial era.
Editorial
President Clinton must fire Albright!
Book Reviews
The evil of banality
The Road to Democracy: Taiwan's Pursuit of Identity, by Lee Teng-hui.
How the Bundy family ruined America
The Color of Truth, by Kai Bird.
Strategic Studies
How to catch a British agent
Stu Rosenblatt's third review cataloguing the perfidious careers of some of the 20th century's leading British agents-of-influence within the U.S. political establishment. Here he takes up McGeorge and William Bundy, who were responsible for many of the wretched, British-steered turns in American foreign policy and national outlook, during the period between the end of World War II and the beginning of the Reagan Presidency.
Economics
German banks slash credits
to medium-sized industry
The traditional partnership between Germany's banks and small and medium-sized industry is crumbling, as the large private banks, operating on the "Anglo-Saxon" model, cut off funding to industry in favor of financial speculation.
Zepp-LaRouche:
Germany's existence is at stake
An open letter to German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder from the president of the Schiller Institute in Germany.
Speculative bubble feeds off economy
IMF wages protracted economic
warfare against the Balkans
Fall issue of `21st Century Science':
Real calculus vs. what you learned
Mahathir rallies Asia to build economy
The Malaysian Prime Minister is conducting diplomacy in order to bolster national economies against the International Monetary Fund and the financial speculators.
African leaders are challenging
the credibility of the IMF system
The IMF caused the floods in Mexico
Business Briefs
Feature
To make a revolution,
we must make a renaissance
Lyndon LaRouche addresses a conference of the Civil Rights Movement Solidarity (BüSo) party in Germany, on Oct. 17. "We must undertake no lesser objective globally now," he says, "than launching a new renaissance, a new Classical renaissance, in which people become happy through being--sometimes reluctantly--impelled to realize they have something within them which is beautiful: the experience of a validatable act of discovery of a universal principle, whether as a scientific principle, a physical principle, or as an artistic principle."
International
Iran's Khatami advances `dialogue of civilizations'
Iranian President Seyyed Mohammad Khatami's visit to France was a giant step forward in the Islamic Republic's stride toward normalization of relations with the West, and will boost stability, in the Persian Gulf and Central Asia.
Pakistan's Musharraf faces an uphill task
The British factor in the Strauss-Kahn exit
The French Finance Minister's resignation has weakened France's "political clout," according to the London Financial Times.
Italy: The acquittal of Andreotti
and the crisis of D'Alema's government
Christian Solidarity International
loses NGO status at UN
East Africa needs peace,
economic development, not witchcraft
Mexico's Vincente Fox promotes globalization
Burundi is at the danger point
From Korea to Kosovo: The No Gun Ri massacre
The cost of not being ready
A guest commentary by retired Army Colonel Carl F. Bernard.
International Intelligence
National
LaRouche campaign heats up
as Gore's problems mount
Lyndon LaRouche was the first to file in Kansas and New Hampshire, and petitioning is under way to put him on the ballot in at least 48 states. Meanwhile, Al Gore can't figure out how to act like an "alpha male," while labor is walking away from his campaign in droves. Documentation: Statement by Lyndon LaRouche's Presidential campaign on the Democratic National Committee's attack on the Voting Rights Act; endorsements of LaRouche by former South Carolina State Senator Theo Mitchell and Austrian diplomat Prof. Ernst Florian Winter.
LaRouche in dialogue with labor movement
Excerpts from the candidate's Nov. 4 live campaign webcast.