Volume 26, Number 20, May 14, 1999
Interviews
Dr. Riak Machar
Dr. Machar is president of the Coordinating Council of the South of Sudan and vice-president of the Sudan National Congress. He was the leader of the South Sudan Independence Movement, which signed the peace accord with the Sudan government in 1997.
Dr. Lam Akol
Dr. Akol is Sudan’s Minister of Transportation.
David Grossman
Mr. Grossman is an Army psychologist (ret.) and author of “Why Are Kids Shooting Their Classmates?” published in the magazine Christianity Today.
Johnathon Powell
Mr. Powell has known Al Gore for more than a decade. He is now British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Chief of Staff.
Robin Renwick
Lord Renwick is a former British Ambassador to the United States, and is now with Fleming Bank in London.
History
How the Balkan war could have been prevented
by Elke Fimmen
The mass deportation of ethnic minorities, the bombing and destruction of lives and economic infrastructure—all this could have been prevented, had policy proposals presented by Lyndon LaRouche and the Schiller Institute been acted upon at the opening of this decade. The Schiller Institute presents its record.
Documentation: From a 1997 presentation by Lyndon LaRouche on the roots of the Balkans war.
Departments
Australia Dossier
by Allen Douglas
Unions are being decimated.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
The strains of war, and of depression.
Editorial
Even wilder lies about China.
Strategic Studies
Winning the war for peace in Sudan
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Sudan and Eritrea have signed an agreement to end hostilities. That, and meetings with the opposition, mark an important step forward in the process of national reconciliation, and a potentially fatal setback to the British-backed war against the government.
The friends of John Garang
Prospects, obstacles to peace in Sudan
An interview with Dr. Riak Machar.
Sudan’s struggle for peace and development
An interview with Dr. Lam Akol.
Washington war dog takes diplomatic tack
by Linda de Hoyos
John Prendergast outlined his policy for a U.S. diplomatic offensive against Sudan.
Economics
The economics ‘I.Q.’ test
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
A Special Feature by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. “If anyone tells you that a rising Dow-Jones stock-market index proves that the U.S. economy is growing, your reply ought to be: ‘Oh, you mean that the cancer is growing. Tell me, Doctor: How is the patient doing?,’” LaRouche writes, in this piece designed to help the sane citizen determine whether an economy is actually growing, or not.
‘Greenspan vectors’ worse than disease
by Marcia Merry Baker
Clinton administration opens debate on hedge fund controls
by William Engdahl
U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin presented the report of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets. He’s says he’s ready for more radical measures if these don’t work—and they won’t.
Italians promote Balkan reconstruction
by Claudio Celani
Central Banker ‘Chico’ Lopes falls in Brazil; will others follow?
by Lorenzo Carrasco and Gretchen Small
Argentine agriculture is going up in flames
by Gerardo Terán Canal and Gonzalo Huertas
Business Briefs
International
A step back from the precipice of total war
by Rainer Apel
President Clinton’s May 6 visit to Bonn and the simultaneous conference of the G-8 foreign ministers, gives reason for hope that the threatening catastrophe can be averted.
Peace through development for the Balkans
A declaration being circulated for signatures internationally by the Schiller Institute.
The Pinochet Case: British Lords launch assault on nation-state
by Cynthia R. Rush
International Intelligence
National
Helga Zepp-LaRouche keynotes EIR Washington seminar
by Bonnie James
At a seminar entitled “After the NATO Summit, What Next? The Post-Balkan War Perspective,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche said that at this moment, we are offered the chance to create a new, just world economic order out of the horror unleashed by NATO’s air war.
Unnatural born killers: video brainwashing and Littleton
by Anton Chaitkin and Jeffrey Steinberg
The methods employed by military trainers to help soldiers overcome their inhibitions to killing fellow human beings are the common fare of children’s video games.
Video games teach children to kill
An interview with David Grossman.
Only LaRouche is advancing ideas in the U.S. Presidential campaign
by Nancy Spannaus
The currency of the coming election is going to be ideas, for dealing with the most devastating financial and strategic crisis in history. By this standard, Lyndon LaRouche is the only qualified candidate.
The Anglophile Vice President, Al Gore, Jr.
by Scott Thompson
Interviews with Johnathon Powell and Robin Renwick.
House votes against war on Yugoslavia
by Carl Osgood
National News
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
