Volume 27, Number 19, May 12, 2000
Interviews
David Schildmeier
The Director of Public Communications of the Massachusetts Nurses Association comments on the issues underlying the current strike.
Political Economy
China Needs Protectionism and
the ideas of Friedrich List
A review of the Chinese-language book Collision! The Globalization Trap and China's Real Choice. Author Han Deqiang's attacks on the British System of economics, and the role of American System economists Friedrich List and Alexander Hamilton in building nations, intersects an increasingly bitter controversy in China unleashed by its upcoming entry into the World Trade Organization.
Music
The Classical Revolution in Jewish Liturgical Music
A two-part review of a CD set, The Musical Tradition of the Jewish Reform Congregation in Berlin.
Celebrating God's Universal Creation
Departments
Editorial
Summers Destroys the System in Order To Save It.
Economics
Ban HMOs! Don't Tolerate Nazi
`Managed Care' Atrocities
On Dec. 29, 1973, President Nixon signed into law the Health Maintenance Organization and Resources Development Act, which for the first time authorized, and encouraged, HMOs and practices known as "managed care." Over the ensuing decades, this policy undermined the entire U.S. hospital and medical care delivery system, and caused injury and death to millions.
In November, Vote the Pro-HMO Congressmen
Out of Office!
Managed Care's Destruction of
American Health Services
Nurses' Strike Is About Patient Care, Not Money
An interview with David Schildmeier.
U.S. Families' Exposure to Stock Market at Unprecedented Level
`Chile-Model' Crazies Besiege Moscow
Sapir Offers Plan To Reconstruct Europe
Drought Ravages India, Pakistan, Afghanistan
Robert Schuman's Message for Today
Two appeals by Bernard Zamaron, director of the Luxembourg branch of the Robert Schuman Center for Europe, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the "Schuman Declaration."
Business Briefs
International
Debacles of Britain's Blair Undermine
Gore, `Third Way'
Ken Livingstone, the man whom Prime Minister Tony Blair denounced as "a disaster," and who ran as an independent after Blair's Labour machine brutally rigged the intra-party candidate selection contest against him, scored a decisive victory as the first-ever elected Mayor of London. The results have consequences both domestically and internationally.
New Leadership for a Time of Crisis:
Australia's Curtin Labor Alliance
A new political party has been founded as a statewide organization in Western Australia. It is dedicated to concluding the unfinished business of Australian history: conducting a political revolution against the British Crown and the City of London--what the old Labor Party of wartime Prime Minister John Curtin called "the Money Power."
Will Wall Street Pick Mexico's President?
Mexico's economy continues to crumble, and none of the six candidates has so far shown himself to be up the challenge.
Bush-British Loonies Plot New Confrontations
The New Atlantic Initiative meets in Bratislava, Slovakia.
London Headquarters Established To
Overthrow Zimbabwe's Mugabe
International Intelligence
National
U.S. Acknowledges: AIDS Is a
National Security Threat
A report issued by the CIA's National Intelligence Council, on "The Global Infectious Disease Threat and Its Implications for the United States," confirms what Lyndon LaRouche has warned about since 1973: that economic deterioration has spread HIV-AIDS, fostered the emergence of new diseases, and brought about the re-emergence of diseases once thought to be under control.
LaRouche Was Right: the Record on AIDS
The CIA's Assessment of Infectious Disease Threat
Excerpts from the CIA's unclassified report.
Voting Rights Abuses: The World Is
Watching LaRouche's Campaign
Excerpts from the complaint submitted to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, documenting how in the United States, "gross violations of and interference with free and fair elections" are being perpetrated against Lyndon LaRouche and his political supporters.