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Volume 29, Number 19, May 17, 2002

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After Erfurt:
We Need To Ban Violent Videos Worldwide

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, candidate for the German Bundestag, issued this statement on April 29. The outbreak of "New Violence," she writes, "is a worldwide phenomenon, one which represents as grave a threat to human civilization, as does the outbreak of a new life-threatening epidemic disease."

Media, Arms Producers
Make Killer Video Games


Economics

Indonesia Walks a Tightrope

The nation is facing an unpayable debt burden left over from the 1997-98 looting and forced devaluation carried out by global speculators and their protector, the IMF, and the resulting poverty-fuelled threat of separatist, ethnic, and religious violence. However, it has a little new leverage, in the form of a de facto debt moratorium.

Lights Out for
Energy Privatization in Mexico

Ontario's Sell-Off of Hydro One Stopped

The `Misfortune 500' Lead U.S. `Recovery'

Brazil's Debt:
Trying To Conceal the Abyss


Feature

The Middle East Blow-Back Effect

Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. addresses a Washington, D.C. seminar and international webcast on May 1, 2002. The full text of his speech and dialogue with the audience.


International

Strategy of Tension Now Targets
the Netherlands

Sharon's `Hallelujah Chorus'
Shouts for Mideast War

Ariel Sharon:
Profile of an Unrepentant War Criminal


National

The Rules by Which Games Are Played

By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. "Was Columbine, perhaps, one of a series of `test drives' of a new product intended for mass military production of that kind of killer adolescents, who would kill one another as readily as their explicitly assigned targets?"

`Nintendo Joe' Saved Killer Game Producers

Within days after the April 20, 1999 massacre at Columbine High School, Sen. Joe Lieberman and Sen. John McCain mobilized to defend Hollyood's "entertainment industry" against a nation in an uproar against Hollywood's film and video-game makers.

`Fundies' Howl War,
But Main Churches Call for
End to Israel's Occupation

Congressional Closeup


Departments

Editorial

An Urgent Memorial Day Message.