Volume 25, Number 43, October 30, 1998
Interviews
Chalmers Johnson
An old “Asia hand,” Johnson gives his analysis of the proposal by the Japanese Finance Minister to establish a $30 billion fund to protect Asia’s currencies from collapse.
Yossi Beilin
The former Israeli Foreign Minister backs peace and the formalization of a Palestinian state.
Departments
Banking
by John Hoefle
Going, going ...
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Ecologism in, technology and jobs out.
Australia Dossier
by Allen Douglas
Leiblers take a hit.
Editorial
The hour of the nation-state is here.
Economics
Equity mutual fund losses wiping out Americans’ savings
by Richard Freeman
At the end of July, equity mutual fund held assets were worth $2.81 trillion; by the end of August, some $450 billion in assets had disappeared. And yet, some 26 million households own equity in mutuals.
Questions raised on LTCM scandal in Italy
by Paolo Raimondi
Russian government, industry look to lessons of ‘Mittelstand,’ New Deal
by Rachel Douglas
More leading figures are speaking out to revive industry, by supporting innovative small firms and to adopt the dirigist initiatives of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
LaRouche ‘action program’ published in Moscow
by Rachel Douglas
Georgian political figure urges Clinton to appoint LaRouche
Japan’s policymaking takes positive turn
IMF, Federal Reserve discredited in Japan
An interview with Chalmers Johnson.
India under globalization’s shadow
by Ramtanu Maitra
The country has not totally succumbed to the “free trade” mania, but neither has it taken on the larger task of fighting it.
Space research is still a major priority in Asia Pacific nations
by Marsha Freeman
The 49th annual congress of the International Astronautical Federation, held in Australia, deliberated on the future of Asian nations to join the “space race.”
Business Briefs
Feature
Time to explode your myths about the U.S. media
by L. Wolfe and Jeffrey Steinberg
Disgusted as most people are with the media, they are spending more time accumulating “information” than ever before. We expose the puppet-masters, and their policies, behind this paradoxical mass addiction to something nearly everyone hates.
Who controls the media cartel
by Marcia Merry Baker, Jeffrey Steinberg, and Frank Bell
How the media cartel works
Don’t be a junk mail junkie!
by Jeffrey Steinberg and Charles Tuttle
One of the most pervasive con-jobs to come along in decades, targets U.S. conservatives, to manipulate them in the direction London, and its cohorts in the U.S. eastern establishment, desire.
Media blackout of the real stories
The ‘black art’ of spreading slander
by L. Wolfe
How the media brainwash you
by L. Wolfe
International
Netanyahu’s paid terrorist targets Wye summit
by Joseph Brewda
No sooner had President Clinton forced the Israeli Prime Minister to sit at the negotiating table, than an “Islamic terrorist” grenade attack gave Netanyahu the excuse to try to leave. Except that the “Islamic terrorist” was a paid informant of Israel’s Shin Bet.
‘A Palestinian state is the only solution’
An interview with Yossi Beilin.
London’s warlords annex eastern Congo
by Linda de Hoyos
Congressional yahoos peddle ‘big lie’ on Cambodia
by Michael O. Billington and Gail G. Billington
Some 90% of the voters of a once war-torn nation cast their sovereign ballots and choose their prime minister. That’s not good enough for the “democracy mafia” in Congress and their unelected allies in the NGOs.
Pakistan’s Sharif gets yet another opportunity to set things right
by Susan B. Maitra and Ramtanu Maitra
International Intelligence
National
Congress must first investigate Starr!
by Edward Spannaus
The House first has a responsibility to find out how the independent prosecutor carried out a coup against the U.S. Constitution.
Victory won vs. DOJ on McDade-Murtha
by Suzanne Rose
A central feature of the “Citizens Protection Act” has been passed into law, undercutting the ability of Federal prosecutors to carry out biased and political prosecutions.
Rallies tell Clinton: Bring in LaRouche!
The message is ringing out from Lafayette Park, to Mexico City, to Stockholm.
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
