Volume 29, Number 43, November 8, 2002
Russia’s Putin Pulls Victory Out of Strategic Attack
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
The hostage-taking at Moscow’s Melnikova Street theater was intended to be a devastating strategic blow against Russia and against Putin’s Presidency in particular. The operation had nothing essential to do with the Chechnya issue per se, but very much to do with the global strategic context, including Russia’s opposition to war against Iraq, and its reinvigorated diplomacy with respect to Eurasia and the Arab world.
Economics
Brazil’s Lula Caught Between the Nation and Free Trade
Even before the new President’s inauguration, Brazil’s international creditors are demanding that he repudiate the mandate upon which he was elected.
‘Guadalajara Forum’ for New Economic Order Holds First Meeting in Argentina
by Silvia Palacios
Why the Power of the Guadalajara Forum?
by Lorenzo Carrasco
LaRouche: Infrastructure Gives Nature a ‘Helping Hand’ Against Drought
by Marcia Merry Baker
1956 Highway Act Broke Down U.S. Transport
by Richard Freeman
Germany Waits for a New Economic Policy
by Rainer Apel
Business Briefs
Science & Technology
What Is the Future of Space Exploration?
by Marsha Freeman
The international economic collapse, compounded by Bush Administration technological apartheid, has shrunk nations’ space programs and their great potentials of only a decade ago.
International
Unilateralist U.S. Fuels China-India-Russia Ties
by Ramtanu Maitra
Cooperation among China, India, and Russia will advance in the coming months—not against the United States, but to share responsibilities along with the United States, the European Union, and other nations.
A New Momentum Seen in Diplomacy of France
by Christine Bierre
A Taste of Things To Come in Mideast
by Dean Andromidas
Anti-Terror Operations Terrorize Indonesia and Southeast Asia
by Michael Billington
New Iran-Contra War in the Philippines?
by Michael Billington
Economic Cooperation Is on Eurasian Agenda
Israel: Sharon’s Unity Government Splits
by Dean Andromidas
International Intelligence
National
Bush Shows Signs of Serious Mental Strain at APEC Summit
by Michele Steinberg
Mexican officials are scratching their heads at the President’s bizarre performance at the Los Cabos meeting, and U.S. columnists are writing that the Boy Emperor is “going off the deep end.”
‘Chicken-hawks’ Create Own ‘CIA’ in Pentagon
by Edward Spannaus
Euro-Trilateral Center Stage Grabbed by Perle
by Mark Burdman
National News
Books
Why Hiroshima Was Bombed: The ‘Utopians’ Duped a Nation
by William Jones
Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie Groves, The Indispensable Man, by Robert Norris; and The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, by Gar Alperovitz.
Departments
Editorial
Moongate Eclipses Chinagate, Koreagate.
