Volume 27, Number 48, December 8, 2000
ASEAN-Plus-3 Summit Opens Door to New Leadership
by Kathy Wolfe
The Singapore summit of the ten member-nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, plus China, South Korea, and Japan, announced their intention to create a new 13-nation political organization, an expanded Asian Free Trade Association, an Asian Investment Area, and major joint regional development projects.
Singapore Summit Could Signal ‘End of American Empire in Asia’
An interview with Dr. Chalmers Johnson.
LaRouche: Don’t Shut Down Korean Industries
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
ASEAN-Plus-3 Proceeds With Great Projects
by Michael O. Billington
The Mekong Cascade
by Marcia Merry Baker
Washington Mulls East Asian Summit
by William Jones
Economics
Turkey’s Financial System on the Skids
by William Engdahl
Mad Cow Disease Hits Europe: How Globalization Is Poisoning Your Food
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
Globalization: 1980s Origin of ‘Mad Cow’
by Marcia Merry Baker
UNAIDS Report Presents Disaster, and Offers No Solution
by Paul Gallagher
Business Briefs
Feature
Our Times of Decay: Grammar and Science
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The inability of the English-speaking public to punctuate in accordance with the principles of Classical prosody, could doom the world to a new dark age, argues Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. The doctrines promulgated by the New York Times style book, he writes, “must, of necessity, produce significant impairment in the way the victim of such conditioning thinks. Most notably, it is the higher, cognitive functions of the mind, which tend to suffer the relatively greatest damage.”
International
Israel Elections: Time Running Out To Stop Region-Wide War
by Dean Andromidas
The prospect of early elections in Israel, gives Prime Minister Barak six months to either conclude a peace agreement with the Palestinians, or see the “limited” war engulf the entire region in a conflagration.
Is Russia’s Putin Breaking with ‘Liberal Reform’ Economics?
by Rachel Douglas and Jonathan Tennenbaum
A New Quality Develops in German-Russian Ties
by Rainer Apel
LaRouche on Mexican Radio: ‘This Will Be a Time for Ingenuity’
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Narco Lobby Installed as Government of Peru
by Gretchen Small
LaRouche on Peru Radio: Crisis Will Change the Political Geometry
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Will Rail Breakdown Be Blair’s Waterloo?
by Alan Clayton
Western Europe Fails to Address Worsening Balkans Crisis
by Alexander Hartmann
A Surprise in Dresden
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. reviews a performance of Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito by the Dresden Staatsoper, at the famed opera house in Dresden.
International Intelligence
National
Gore’s Own Vote-Stealing in Arkansas Pursues Him Now
by Edward Spannaus
Gore stole more votes from Lyndon LaRouche in the Democratic Presidential primary in Arkansas, than the margin by which he lost that state to George Bush.
The Electoral College: A Uniquely American, Republican Institution
by Edward Spannaus
Leaders Seek Reform of U.S. Justice System
by Marianna Wertz
For a Moratorium on Federal Death Penalty
An interview with Angela E. Oh.
A Democrat of Courage and Passion Dies
by Harley Schlanger
On the death of former U.S. Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez (D-Tex.).
Interviews
Dr. Chalmers Johnson
Dr. Johnson is President of the Japan Policy Research Institute; Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego; and the author of two books, MITI and the Japanese Miracle and Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire.
Angela E. Oh
Angela Oh is a signer on the Nov. 21 Open Letter to President Clinton from the Citizens for a Moratorium on Federal Executions. She is a member of the Advisory Board One America: The President’s Initiative on Race, and former president of the Korean-American Bar Association of Southern California.
Departments
Australia Dossier
by Allen Douglas
Vote fraud in Western Australia.
Editorial
The Campaign of Lies Is Over.
