Lesson of the Cole Incident: Stop Privatizing Our Generals

"The shocking experience of the attack upon the USS Cole," writes Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., "should have awakened relevant, witting U.S. policy-shapers to the urgency of an immediate and sweeping reversal of the process of `privatization' of the military and immediately related institutions and functions of the U.S. government. . . . The dismal results of related, current trends in U.S. strategic and related policies, of which an obsessive fixation upon `privatization,' is but one symptom, is a pervasive problem, a problem whose existence can not be separated from what even non-military professionals should and must recognize as a spreading illiteracy respecting relevant strategic lessons of modern history."

Privatization Creates Opening for Terrorism

The Pentagon's Dilemma under Privatization

Economics

Russia-EU Energy Diplomacy Prepares To Survive Crash

Russian President Vladimir Putin's talks with European Union leaders defined EU-Russia cooperation on strategic crisis spots, and a package of upgraded EU investments in Russia's industry, notably in the energy sector, and consultations on banking and monetary affairs.

Under IMF Pressure, Nigeria Stumbles into Disaster

LaRouche: With a New Bretton Woods,
Argentina's Opportunities Are Great

An interview with Lyndon LaRouche, broadcast on Carlos Gamero's "Economic Agenda" program in the southern Argentine province of Neuquén.

Italian Senators Present Motion for a `New Bretton Woods'

Renewed Financial Crisis Threatens Asia

Fatal Railtrack Wrecks Are Markers of Britain's Decline

Great Projects of Water and Power
Could Drive Asia's Long-Term Growth

Mahathir Issues Call for `New Asia' Agenda

Business Briefs

International

Specter of Nuclear War Shadows the Middle East

The current Israeli-Palestinian conflict threatens to engulf the region in a conflagration that would radically transform the global military strategic situation--including Israeli use of nuclear weapons.

LaRouche in Ascoli Piceno: Italy's Leadership in World History Today

Lyndon LaRouche's Oct. 7 keynote address to a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the province of Ascoli Piceno.

Resistance Rises in Brazil to U.S. State Department Military Policy

New ETA Terror Wave Is Out To Weaken Europe

Indonesian-U.S. Tensions Mount

National

The Bestiality of the Fundies

By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. World leaders must be woken up to the horrors being unleashed by the oligarchy-created so-called "Fundamentalists," who are pushing the Middle East toward war. Clinton, if he is not to leave office a tragic figure, must intervene forcefully now, to revive the peace process.

Budget Process Dissolves into Partisan Warfare

Congress Votes for Mideast Holy War

Drug Legalization Gets Boost from Wall Street

Departments

Editorial Statement

Gore Might Elect George Bush.