Volume 26, Number 50, December 17, 1999

Interviews

Hartwig de Haen

Assistant Director General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's Economic and Social Department.

Natalia Vitrenko and Volodymyr Marchenko

Leaders of Ukraine's Progressive Socialist Party.

Departments

Editorial

The strategic assessment.

Investigation

Congress takes up LaRouche challenge vs. drug bankers

The international drug trade, and black market criminality more generally, cannot thrive without institutional clout to launder the funds. As Lyndon LaRouche outlined 21 years ago, a serious war on drugs begins by going after the drug banks.

Senate hearings on money laundering
highlight criminality of U.S. bankers

Rep. Waters asks: Will DOJ prosecute banks?

An open letter from U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) to Attorney General Janet Reno.

Congress drafts bills vs. money laundering

Dope, Inc.'s `bankers above suspicion'

Economics

WTO flop reflects resurgence of nationalist economics

European and Third World leaders, and core constituency groups in the United States, are reacting to the disintegration of the economy, with demands for protection for their industries and jobs. That is why the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle ended in failure.

Eco-fascists riot in Seattle

The hard core of the rioters at the WTO meeting in Seattle were trained in Canada and Great Britain.

Prince Philip's eco-terrorists

WTO offers poorest nations more looting

The Least Developed Countries need real development, and not this latest plan to sweeten the same bitter pill of colonialist looting. Documentation: Excerpts from briefings at the WTO Seattle summit.

LDCs face `chronic undernourishment'

An interview with Dr. Hartwig de Haen.

Business Briefs

Feature

On the Subject of Education

By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. "The function of this policy-statement is, both, to define the goals which the Federal government must set for public education, and, also, define the means and methods which the Federal government, especially its Executive Branch, should employ to promote those goals which were implied in the Preamble of the Federal Constitution of 1789," LaRouche writes. "I emphasize a policy for education which is axiomatically consistent with `the general welfare clause.' "

International

Mideast talks must solve water resource shortage

Underlying every Mideast conflict, recent past and present, is the lack of enough water for everyone. Peace must be based on cutting this Gordian knot, with the establishment of massive nuclear-driven desalination plants throughout the region.

Israel: Iran-Contra returns to haunt George Bush

British fear losing Germany

Hard economic realities have blown the "Third Way" ideology to pieces: The majority of the German political elite, with backing from most of the population, have felt compelled to intervene against Britain's pet policies--globalization and the free market.

Ukraine: a new President, and old, unanswered questions

Guest commentary by Anatoli Voznytsa.

`Kuchma's election fraud is a time bomb'

An interview with Natalia Vitrenko and Volodymyr Marchenko.

Al-Fayed: Prince Philip had Diana, Dodi killed

President Clinton's North Korea initiative could prevent war

International Intelligence

National

LaRouche, in New York, warns of new `Pearl Harbor'

"We're now in that kind of situation. Not that anyone at this moment is prepared to drop bombs on Pearl Harbor or New York City. But, nonetheless, we are on the verge of an experience, an emotional-psychological experience, a political experience, which very much resembles what happened on Dec. 7, 1941. In a sense, this has already begun to happen," Lyndon LaRouche said at a campaign appearance.

Lying and racism inside the
Democratic National Committee: the implications

A statement by Lyndon LaRouche.