Volume 26, Number 13, March 26, 1999
Departments
From New Delhi
by Ramtanu Maitra
China-India relations are on the mend.
Australia Dossier
by Robert Barwick
Big push for Timor independence.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Green party is heading for a split.
Editorial
A strategic red alert.
Book Reviews
Beware George Soros’s crazy swindle
by Richard Freeman
The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered, by George Soros.
Soros and drugs
‘The man you can trust’ discusses Britain’s conflict with America
by Claudio Celani
L’Uomo di Fiducia, by Ettore Bernabei with Giorgio Dell’Arti.
Conference Report
Italians join LaRouches’ call for New Bretton Woods
by Claudio Celani
EIR and the Italian Civil Rights Movement Solidarity co-sponsored a conference in Rome, on how to reorganize the world financial system and build the great Eurasian Land-Bridge project for global development.
Which way for Europe?
by Flaminio Piccoli
A speech by former Italian senator Flaminio Piccoli.
Europe must choose the Survivors’ Club
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
The keynote speech by Helga Zepp-LaRouche. “We are faced with an incredible danger, the immediate short-term danger of depression, financial collapse, and nuclear war. But I’m convinced that God has made man in such a way that when man is confronted with a great evil, God has given him an even greater power to answer that great evil with an even greater good. To this effort, I want to invite you to join.”
For solidarity among nations and humanity
by Jan Lopuszanski
From a speech by Polish parliamentarian Jan Lopuszanski.
Economics
Speculators make bloody example of Ecuador
by Cynthia R. Rush
Why has a small nation of only 12 million been singled out by the International Monetary Fund for such brutal treatment, that political chaos and violence are deepening with each passing day?
The Great Depression of 1929-1934
by Maurice Allais
The first part of a three-part series by French economist Maurice Allais, Nobel Prizewinner in Economic Science in 1988.
Business Briefs
Feature
Shocks on export markets show world economy collapsing
by Lothar Komp
A dramatic contraction occurred in all areas of the real economy worldwide in the past year—even computer chips! So much for the “post-industrial society.” Lothar Komp analyzes the international picture.
International
Europe gripped by shock over ‘gathering of war clouds’
by Michael Liebig
The debate over NATO policy has reached the point that Willi Wimmer, a defense expert in Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union, warns that it could result in “the extinction of the world.”
The NATO ‘new strategic concept’ or American-German partnership
by George Gregory
George Gregory gives an eyewitness report on a conference on the future of NATO, sponsored by the German-Atlantic Society and the Academy for Political Education, in Tutzing, Germany. The “new NATO” is not popular.
Prime Minister Zhu Rongji turns power of wit against China-bashers
by Mary Burdman
Iran’s President Khatami pursues ‘dialogue of civilizations’
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
His visit to Italy and the Vatican was a diplomatic triumph.
FARC alliance with Venezuela’s Chávez ignites Andean region
by Valerie Rush and Dennis Small
Cambodia asserts sovereignty in case against Khmer Rouge
by Gail G. Billington
Before the lynching, define the crime
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Remarks by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. on the subject of an international tribunal on Cambodia.
National
President Clinton counters the China-bashers
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The President’s decision to upgrade the visit by Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji to the status of a full state visit, shows that it is the President who will be conducting the discussions—not Vice President Al Gore and the Principals Group. This presents a precious opportunity for reason to reassert itself, in the policy maelstrom in Washington.
U.S. export policy will hurt American industry, not China
by Marsha Freeman
Clinton gets out front on Africa policy
by William Jones
A report from the U.S.-Africa Ministerial meeting held at the U.S. State Department on March 16, in which 46 African nations participated.
Jackson’s HOPE for Africa Act challenges rule by the IMF
by Linda de Hoyos and Carl Osgood
Documentation: A comparison of H.R. 722 with H.R. 434, and, LaRouche’s comments on what is needed for Africa.
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
