Volume 26, Number 38, September 24, 1999
Interviews
Bishop Charles Palmer
This Roman Catholic Bishop from Ghana calls for a full cancellation of Africa’s international debt.
Departments
Editorial
Either/or.
Economics
Kyrgyzstan President promotes ‘renaissance of the Silk Road’
by Mark Burdman
During a visit to Germany, Dr. Askar Akayev emphasized that a “rebirth of the Great Silk Road”—the project otherwise known as the Eurasian Land-Bridge—will make possible the creation of a “zone of stability, friendship, cooperation, security and partnership” in the world.
‘Prince of Thieves’ Robert Strauss and money laundering in Russia
by Richard Freeman
The swirling scandal around the laundering of criminal and capital flight money from Russia through the Western banking system, has now expanded to include George Bush’s former Ambassador to Russia.
Ghana bishop calls for debt cancellation and a Marshall Plan for Africa
An interview with Bishop Charles Palmer from Ghana, who spoke at the recent National Summit of Africa in Baltimore, Maryland.
Business Briefs
Feature
Real economics vs. virtual reality
If you still suffer from the illusion that the U.S. and world economy are “doing great,” this package is the antidote. We present the proceedings of the economics panel of the Schiller Institute’s Labor Day conference, featuring a team of economic experts working with Lyndon LaRouche’s ideas.
Virtual reality, real psychosis
by John Hoefle
John Hoefle shows how “we live in a world gone nuts,” where the only freedom in the “free market” is the financial oligarchs’ freedom to steal from the physical economic in a desperate effort to shore up the hopelessly boated financial bubble.
U.S. farms, factories, 1960s and 1990s: a real economy documentary
by Marcia Merry Baker
The collapse of the machine-tool design principle
by Richard Freeman
Richard Freeman surveys the disastrous collapse of the industrialized countries’ machine-tool production, to near Third World levels.
International
British vow to rip apart the world’s nation-states
by Jeffrey Steinberg
An aide to British Royal Consort Prince Philip, Martin Palmer, confirms that the deliberate policy of the British Foreign Office is to foster the disintegration of rival “empires”: starting with Russia and Indonesia. Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. issues a sharp warning on this British policy, with a focus on the crisis over East Timor.
The geopolitical Great Game and Russia’s ‘Pinochet’ option
by Konstantin George
The deadly bombings of apartments in Moscow are not an “internal” matter, but part of a British-steered strategy to force a dictatorial regime in Russia that would ensure continued flows of debt repayment into the bankrupt Western financial system.
Australia acts as British stooge in the East Timor crisis
by Allen Douglas
Almost one-fifth of Australia’s tiny 25,000-man Army is being sent to East Timor on a British-sponsored “peacekeeping” mission, whose aim is anything but the preservation of peace. Why are Australia’s leaders repeating the follies of Gallipoli?
Blair’s ‘Third Way’ defeated in Germany
by Rainer Apel
Elections in two German states have started a welcome sea-change in Germany’s political direction.
French coverup of Princess Diana’s death is already unraveling
by Jeffrey Steinberg
India, Pakistan head toward a showdown
by Ramtanu Maitra
A nuclear exchange is not out of the question.
Who manufactured the crisis over the Taiwan Strait crisis, and why
Documentation: A chronology of how the crisis was created.
National
GOPers say Bush is ‘demented’; Dems desert Gore’s sinking ship
by Michele Steinberg
Even before the financial collapse hits full-force, the nation’s political parties are splintering, as it becomes evident that Bush and Gore are equally depraved.
DOJ bureaucracy cans Waco ‘whistleblower’
by Edward Spannaus
Condoleezza Rice and the team behind George W. Bush’s campaign
by Scott Thompson
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
