Volume 26, Number 43, October 29, 1999
Interviews
Shalva Natelashvili
Georgian Member of Parliament Shalva Natelashvili, a politician, jurist, and one of the authors of the current Constitution of Georgia, heads one of the leading slates in upcoming Parliamentary elections, that of the Labor Party of Georgia.
Hrant Khachatrian
Hrant Khachatrian is a member of the Armenian Parliament and president of the Union of Constitutional Rights in Armenia.
Reviews
The Golden Age of Chinese archaeology
by Bonnie James
Washington’s National Gallery of Art exhibits “The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology: Celebrated Discoveries from the People’s Republic of China,” offering visitors a glimpse into civilization’s oldest culture—5,000 years old.
Departments
Report from Germany
by Rainer Apel
When will the maglev finally run?
Africa Report
by Linda de Hoyos
IMF puts Zimbabwe under the gun.
Editorial
Not just a magazine.
Economics
The Greenspan bubble is wrecking the world economy
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Alan Greenspan has created the biggest financial bubble in history, destroyed the real economy, and his policies have contributed to the death and impoverishment of millions of people worldwide. President Clinton must not reappoint him for another term as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
How Volcker and Greenspan created the financial bubble
by Richard Freeman
Greenspan and the cult of Ayn Rand: Don’t reappoint ‘the undertaker’
by Kathy Wolfe
Famous financial bubbles of the past
by Nancy Spannaus
The gold-reserve system vs. British monetarism
BAC interests prepare to seize Russian assets
by Mark Burdman
A community of nation-states must put together a new financial system
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
An interview with Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche, by the Philippines radio station DZXL-AM.
Business Briefs
Investigation
Free-market parasites are nation’s top drug pushers
by Michele Steinberg
The drug legalization push is entering a new phase of escalation, and it is coming from the top echelons of the financier oligarchy. A conference at the Conservative Revolution’s Cato Institute provided a rare glimpse into the Wall Street and conservative Republican drive for drug legalization.
British Crown’s minions promote legalization of drugs Mark Burdman
Colombia: Drug legalization, by any name, still stinks
by Valerie Rush
Mexican ‘human rights’ activist goes to bat for narco-politician
by Hugo López Ochoa
The case of Mexico’s would-be “Madame Human Rights,” Teresa Jardí.
Is drug legalization’s moneybags hurting?
by Scott Thompson
A profile of George Soros.
International
New hoax to conceal British hand in China Embassy bombing
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The Danish newspaper Politiken and the London Observer have published a Big Lie, that President Clinton personally ordered the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade on May 7. The lie is intended to cover up the British effort to demolish the potential for a U.S.-China “strategic partnership.”
Russian ‘doctrine’: the posture of a big military power, under attack
by Rachel Douglas
A look at the draft “Military Doctrine of the Russian Federation,” published by the Russian military newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda.
Russians briefed on LaRouche Webcast
by Stanislav Menshikov
Prof. Stanislav Menshikov reports on LaRouche’s Internet press conference in the Russian weekly Slovo, under the headline “Plato Among the Bulls in the China Shop.”
Middle East: War, or peace, to be decided in Washington
by Dean Andromidas
Is Indonesia on the rebound?
by Gail G. Billington
In an unexpected result, Abdurrahman Wahid has been elected the fourth President of the Republic of Indonesia, and Megawati Sukarnoputri, Vice President.
Georgian candidate: ‘We have no use for NATO’
An interview with Shalva Natelashvili.
IMF severely criticized in Armenia
A report on Anno Hellenbroich’s visit to Armenia on the invitation of the Union of Constitutional Rights.
Armenian political figures back LaRouche
A statement by Hrant Khachatrian and Haik Babookhanian, Deputies of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia.
The oligarchy is trying to destroy our economy
An interview with Hrant Khachatrian.
‘It takes a little bit of courage to stand for ideas that are right’
A dialogue with Faris Nanic, Secretary General of the Party of Democratic Action in Croatia.
National
The Washington Post ‘Death Beam’ hoax
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The Post’s bizarre and lying attack on Gen. George Keegan—as a stand-in for the name of Lyndon LaRouche—reflects only one thing: the hysteria which the skyrocketting of LaRouche’s Presidential pre-candidacy had stirred up among the circles of Vice-President Al Gore, Bush circles, and some others.
Documentation: Excerpts from the Washington Post article, and from 1970s reports by LaRouche’s associates on beam weapons, which prove that everything the Post writes is a lie.
Al’s pal: kleptomaniac Tony Coelho
by Scott Thompson
Between kleptocrats like former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, and kleptomaniacs like current Gore year 2000 campaign chairman Tony Coelho, Al Gore has built a stable of crooks around himself that would keep an ardent prosecutor occupied for years.
GOP budget strategy runs into reality
by Carl Osgood
Chinese legislators visit U.S. Congress
by William Jones
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
