Volume 26, Number 35, September 3, 1999
Interviews
Haik Babookhanian
Mr. Babookhanian, Vice President of the Union of Constitutional Rights, the leading party within the electoral alliance “Iravunk ev Miabautiun” (Justice and Unity), and a longtime associate of Lyndon LaRouche, was elected to the Armenian Parliament on May 30.
Ernst Florian Winter
A senior Austrian diplomat, who played a key role restoring the West’s relations with China in the 1970s.
Devendra Kaushik
Devendra Kaushik is Professor of Central Asian Studies at the School for International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, in New Delhi, and Chairman of the Maulana Azad Institute for Asian Studies in Calcutta.
Departments
Editorial
Will you reject market psychosis?
Economics
Hysterical money printing, as global emergency looms
by Lothar Komp
Don’t be fooled: The London-centered financial oligarchy wants to swindle its way out of the coming financial crash, and plans to blame it all on the “Y2K bug.”
Labor protest wave building in Germany
by Rainer Apel
Moving 25 million tons of food to Africa
by Molloy Vaughn
Col. Molloy Vaughn (ret.) passed away on Aug. 17. This paper is a fitting memorial to this beautiful soul, and also a timely contribution on how to effectively carry out an international relief effort for nations devastated by war, hunger, or natural catastrophe.
London’s grain cartels gain stranglehold on Mexican agriculture
by Carlos Cota Meza
Business Briefs
Feature
The Classics against the Enlightenment in the 18th century
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Helga Zepp-LaRouche reviews the contributions of Gotthold Lessing and Moses Mendelssohn. Their work created a German renaissance, and kept alive Classical culture.
The Yiddish Renaissance comes to America
by Paul Kreingold and Kenneth Kronberg
Remarks by Paul Kreingold and Kenneth Kronberg to the International Caucus of Labor Committees’ Feb. 14, 1999 Presidents’ Day Conference.
International
Earthquake derails plan for Turkish move into Caucasus
by Dean Andromidas
The massive earthquake dealt a blow both to Turkey’s economy and political institutions, and to British designs to use Turkey to attack Russia in the Caucasus and Central Asia.
LaRouche: Turkey quake shakes NATO strategy
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Theater, national missile defense: revolution, or bluff?
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
There is no way that the Theater Missile Defense being mooted for Taiwan, or the U.S. National Missile Defense system, could effectively defend any country against missile attack. Their only effect will be to bring us even closer to World War III.
‘We must get Armenia’s economy on its feet’
An interview with Haik Babookhanian.
A Russian expert’s view of N. Caucasus conflict
by Mark Burdman
Development vs. geopolitics: the U.S., China, Taiwan and Eurasia’s future
An interview with Ernst Florian Winter.
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir strengthens ties to Russia, China
by Gail G. Billington
BJP expected to form new government after India’s general elections
by Ramtanu Maitra
India to take an active interest in the Central Asian region
An interview with Devendra Kaushik.
NATO, the ‘Eurasian Triangle,’ and the Caucasus/Central Asia region
by Michael Liebig
A speech by Schiller Institute representative Michael Liebig to a conference in New Delhi, on Indian relations with Central Asia.
Murderous British-backed Kagame regime wins big in the Congo
by Linda de Hoyos
The implementation of the July Lusaka accords that were designed to end the six-country war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is guaranteed to continue the spiral of bloody confrontation throughout the region.
Documentation: Excerpts from the report of Special Rapporteur for the United Nations Human Rights Commission Roberto Garreton, and from a report by Human Rights Watch.
International Intelligence
National
Money-washing scandal slams Gore and cronies
by Edward Spannaus
Once again, EIR scooped the entire media by almost eight months. Now everybody’s talking about Gore’s interventions on behalf of his Russian kleptocratic friends.
Criminality was the policy in Russian ‘reform’!
by Rachel Douglas
Swiss probe could topple Yeltsin, Gore
by Michele Steinberg and Claudio Celani
Bruce Rappaport: the Russian connection
by Jeffrey Steinberg
DNC says, nullify Voting Rights Act to stop LaRouche
Congress faces HMO showdown over new bipartisan patients’ rights bill
by Linda Everett
Leading ‘China-basher’ bites the dust
by William Jones
National News
