Volume 24, Number 42, October 17, 1997
Interviews
Dr. Ray Terry
Dr. Terry is a Public Health Analyst in theWashington, D.C. Health Department.
Jonathan Smith
The executive director of the D.C. Prisoners’ Legal Services Project reports on the fate of the D.C. prisoners transferred to the private Corrections Corporation of America prison in Youngstown, Ohio.
Dr. Andres Taylor
An English teacher at the University of the District of Columbia, Dr. Taylor describes the gutting of the university’s programs and staff, under recent austerity programs.
Departments
Australia Dossier
by Allen Douglas
Travel expenses scandal rocks government.
Editorial
“Global warming” is a British hoax.
Investigation
Bankers’ dictatorship makes Washington a death camp
by Dennis Speed
The deliberate destruction of Washington, D.C. is the product of a set of false assumptions about economic policy, which are shared by groups otherwise bitterly opposed to each other. Dennis Speed reports.
What’s at stake, in the battle to save the nation’s capital
by Anton Chaitkin
Anton Chaitkin addresses a citizens’ hearing on “Nazi economics” in Washington, D.C.
How Washington was built
Blueprint for Nazi economics in the District of Columbia
by Abdul Alim Muhammad, M.D.
Testimony of Abdul Alim Muhammad, M.D., to the citizens’ hearing.
The downsizing of health care in D.C.
An interview with Dr. Ray Terry.
Privatized prisons: a travesty of justice
by Dennis Speed
An eyewitness report from CCA-Youngstown
An interview with Jonathan Smith.
Funds for higher education cut in half
An interview with Dr. Andres Taylor.
Big MAC: How a bankers’ dictatorship was imposed on New York City
by L. Wolfe
Economics
Behind ‘emerging market,’ depression grips Russia
by Rachel Douglas
While the virtual reality of “emerging markets,” which are dominated by pure speculation, paints a rosy picture, Russia is losing population faster than in World War II.
Currency Rates
Malaysia’s Mahathir gaining global support in fight against Soros
by Gail G. Billington
Documentation: From the prime minister’s press conference in Argentina, and press controversy over the fight between him and George Soros.
Pakistan’s Aziz hits ‘footloose capital’
Mahathir takes fight versus speculators to Ibero-America
The text of Dr. Mahathir’s speech in Santiago, Chile.
Congressional hearing defends speculation in derivatives
by Richard Freeman
Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and the top U.S. derivatives trading banks are desperately opposed to reporting of derivatives on-balance sheet.
Business Briefs
Feature
Moles try to wreck U.S.A.-China summit
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
“The British monarchy is waging economic and diplomatic warfare, aimed at isolating and crushing the United States, and the strategic planners at the Defense Department do not appear to be paying attention to their duty to plan the strategic defense of our republic,” writes Lyndon LaRouche.
Shaping the 21st Century for the betterment of mankind
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Schiller Institute’s Zepp-LaRouche returns to Beijing
by Mary Burdman
Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche was interviewed by People’s Daily, during a week-long visit to Beijing in September.
International
Israel’s Netanyahu caught deploying assassins
by Joseph Brewda
It has been shown once again, that the British and Israeli right-wing fundamentalists are the major purveyors of terrorist operations worldwide.Will Netanyahu be ousted before he starts another Mideast war?
British royals launch Commonwealth imperial offensive
by Mark Burdman
Hoping to reverse their mounting political losses, the British royals are shifting the empire’s functions increasingly under the banner of the Commonwealth.
In Memoriam: Gertrude Pitzinger: Lieder singer’s soul speaks out from song
by Renate Leffek
International Intelligence
National
Anglophiles try to derail Clinton’s China policy
by Suzanne Rose
A nest of British agents in and around Congress are trying to disrupt the historic U.S.-China summit in October, between Presidents Clinton and Jiang Zemin.
Clinton rejects Brits on greenhouse cuts
by William Jones
The British want the United States to agree to a 15% cut in “greenhouse gases” emissions at the Environmental Summit in December in Kyoto, Japan, which would be economic disaster. And, the demand is based on the fraud of global warming.
Reno clears President on Chinagate, for now
by Edward Spannaus
By forcing the issue, what Republicans got was a detailed refutation of the most serious charges which have been levelled by the news media against President Clinton in the course of the campaign fundraising controversy.
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
