Volume 26, Number 44, November 5, 1999
Departments
Australia Dossier
by Allen Douglas
Rio Tinto: the Crown jewel.
Editorial
Winter comes to the Balkans, Africanization comes to Europe.
Economics
Neo-liberalism kills: the legacy of Thatcherism
by Lothar Komp and Susan Welsh
The industrialized economies in the world are all being hit by the lethal virus of neo-liberalism, which has brought us free trade, budget-balancing, globalization, and other policies that spell economic suicide.
Can we still run our nuclear and space industries?
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
Japan’s nuclear accident: a case of financial sabotage
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
Neo-liberals cause rail accidents
by Rainer Apel
Audi’s top design is a functional flop
by Rüdiger Rumpf
The design of new cars is being turned over to “virtual-reality” personnel rather than engineers—and they’re unsafe.
Is dioxin scandal agriculture’s future?
by Rosa Tennenbaum
Europeans hear ominous echoes of 1929 crash
by William Engdahl
Including statements by former Dresdner Bank chief economist Dr. Kurt Richebächer, who warns that the extraordinary growth in American debt is today’s form of inflation—and it can’t last forever.
An unparalleled record: LaRouche’s economic forecasts
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
If Peru’s Fujimori is to be reelected, he needs to change his economic policy
by Luis Vásquez Medina
Robert Mundell wins Nobel Prize for supply-side quackery
by Richard Freeman
The author of supply-side economics helped destroy the U.S. physical economy, build up the world’s biggest speculative bubble, and create Federal budget deficits larger than any in the history of the United States.
Banking
by John Hoefle
The rubber-stamp bank bailout of 1999.
Business Briefs
Feature
Spotlight is on LaRouche, as global crisis deepens
by Susan Welsh
Responses to Lyndon LaRouche’s Oct. 13 Internet press conference show that from China to Poland to Africa to Nebraska, serious people are looking to him for leadership.
Documentation: Press coverage of LaRouche, personal comments, and endorsements of his Presidential campaign.
International
Jiang’s trips to Britain, France: a sharp contrast
by Mary Burdman
The British, intent on preventing the development of a strategic partnership between China and the United States, were playing a nasty double game. But, Jiang Zemin’s visit to France consolidated Chinese-French strategic ties.
Bloodbath in Armenia creates power vacuum
by Anno Hellenbroich
Several Armenian leaders were killed in a terrorist assault on the Parliament, including Prime Minister Vazgen Sarkisian and Speaker of the Parliament Karen Demirchian.
Rwandan puppet provokes fracas at Washington think-tank seminar
by Linda de Hoyos
Documentation: The Rally for Congolese Democracy’s record of massacres, and excerpts of testimony presented by Mwabilu L. Ngoyi, president of the Congolese International Union, before the House International Relations Africa Subcommittee.
Albright stokes fires of war against Sudan
by Linda de Hoyos
British coup d’état in European Commission
by Jacques Cheminade
Lyndon LaRouche slandered in Brazil by terrorists’ agent
by Valerie Rush
International Intelligence
National
The real ‘dope’ on the three Georges
by Jeffrey Steinberg
While the media are focussed on whether George W. Bush used drugs, the real story is that he, his father Sir George H.W. Bush, and financier George Soros are in bed with the drug cartels.
Documentation: Excerpts from a statement by J.H. Hatfield, author of Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President, the book which was recalled by St. Martin’s Press.
LaRouche v. Fowler: The Democratic National Committee has a choice
by Debra Hanania Freeman and Bruce Director
It is time tell the story that the Democratic Party’s Washington, D.C.-based apparatus wants to keep under wraps, writes Lyndon LaRouche’s campaign spokeswoman Debra Hanania Freeman.
Documentation: Excerpts from the court transcript on Aug. 16.
Weldon hearings seek to revive Cold War
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) featured Cambridge MI6 historian Christopher Andrew and former KGB London station chief Oleg Gordievsky, in melodramatic Cold War-style hearings on “Russian Threat Perceptions and Plans for Sabotage Against the United States.”
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
