Volume 29, Number 19, May 17, 2002
After Erfurt: We Need To Ban Violent Videos Worldwide
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
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
by Alexander Hartmann
Economics
Indonesia Walks a Tightrope
by Michael Billington
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
by Rubén Cota Meza
Ontario’s Sell-Off of Hydro One Stopped
by Eric Alexander and Marcia Merry Baker
The ‘Misfortune 500’ Lead U.S. ‘Recovery’
by Art Ticknor and Richard Freeman
Brazil’s Debt: Trying To Conceal the Abyss
by Adriano Benayon
Feature
The Middle East Blow-Back Effect
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
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
by Dean Andromidas
Sharon’s ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ Shouts for Mideast War
by William Jones
Ariel Sharon: Profile of an Unrepentant War Criminal
by Jeffrey Steinberg
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
by Don Phau and Scott Thompson
Within days after the April 20, 1999 massacre at Columbine High School, Sen. Joe Lieberman and Sen. John McCain mobilized to defend Hollywood’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
by Edward Spannaus
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
Departments
Editorial
An Urgent Memorial Day Message.
