Volume 27, Number 15, April 14, 2000
Interviews
Ernie Preate, Jr.
Mr. Preate, Attorney General of Pennsylvania during 1989-95, and District Attorney of Lackawanna County during 1978-89, was an advocate of the death penalty who is now calling for a moratorium on its use.
Departments
Report from Germany
by Rainer Apel
“Third Way” is on the march.
Editorial
The party is over!
Reviews
A leading Russian economist details genocide against nation
by Nancy Spannaus
Genocide: Russia and the New World Order, by Sergei Glazyev.
Defending the Republic: work, not soup kitchens
by Denise Henderson
Harry Hopkins: Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer, by June Hopkins.
The republican art of Honoré Daumier on exhibit at the Phillips Collection
by Bonnie James
Daumier, the 19th-century French artist, is most famous for his devastating caricatures of lawyers and judges—a subject which continues to strike a chord today.
Economics
White House fails LaRouche’s ‘Economics I.Q. Test’
by Marcia Merry Baker
The Clinton-hosted April 5 love-fest for the doomed “New Economy,” reminds Lyndon LaRouche of the Herbert Hoover Administration—except this time, the promise is for pot in every chicken.
Wake up! ‘New Economy’ is hitting the skids
Voices of relative sanity from Switzerland, Germany, and even Great Britain.
U.S. speculation fever going off the charts
EIR study debunks ‘New Economy’ myth
by Elisabeth Hellenbroich
A special report on “The Myth of the Information Society” was released at a Berlin seminar.
Business Briefs
Feature
Saving the nation-state is child’s play
by Dennis Small
A speech by Dennis Small at the Schiller Institute-International Caucus of Labor Committees’ Presidents’ Day conference. “The title is not meant to indicate that I think the task is going to be easy,” says Small. The issue is cognition, in children in particular, and how one thinks, as discussed by Socrates. “At the very heart of what is required to truly defend the nation-state from its ongoing disintegration, what the oligarchy is really out to destroy, is this quality of thinking like children, of excitement at new discoveries, and of not being attached to any particular old beliefs.”
International
Europeans fear new matrix of conflicts in Eurasia
by Mark Burdman
The concern of leading European strategists is focussed on the Balkans, the Caucasus-Transcaucasus region, and the Baltic states, as likely points of strategic confrontation.
‘Alpha’ founder demands Putin become ‘Pinochet’
by Rachel Douglas
The penetration of immorality into Russia’s Putin’s economic policy
by Taras Muranivsky
So far, Russia’s new President does not include a single constructive thinker on economics. An analysis by Moscow Schiller Institute president Prof. Taras Muranivsky.
British establishment promotes new Opium War
by Mark Burdman
Britain’s Blair government moves toward alliance with the FARC
by Gretchen Small
Colombia’s top narco-terrorists will be warmly welcomed at 10 Downing Street if they accept the British government’s official invitation. Who says the Queen’s not pushing drugs?
British key in ‘Echelon’ controversy
by Edward Spannaus
A decades-long global electronic spy scandal is being put in the spotlight, both in Europe and the United States.
Was ‘Echelon’ involved in Princess Diana’s death?
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Will the ‘jihadis’ topple Pakistan’s Musharraf?
by Ramtanu Maitra
International Intelligence
National
LaRouche campaign at center of battle for Voting Rights Act
by Michele Steinberg and Marla Minnicino
Just because a racially bigoted Supreme Court has nullified the Voting Rights Act that cost the blood of so many heroic Civil Rights fighters, doesn’t mean that the battle is lost. Big fights are breaking out in Virginia, Texas, Michigan, and elsewhere—fights that will go all the way to the Democratic National Convention.
LaRouche to Democrats: Break the fix and take back the party
by Nancy Spannaus
‘Sovereignty, above all,’ says Peru’s Ricketts
A statement by former Peruvian Minister of State Patricio Ricketts Rey de Castro, contrasting the hypocritical U.S. interference in Peru’s elections, with the treatment being given to Lyndon LaRouche’s Presidential campaign.
‘Battle of Seattle’ comes to Washington
Picking up from the World Trade Organization summit, representatives of 405 organizations from around the world—some of whom are well-known terrorists— are beginning to descend on Washington, D.C. to rally against the IMF and World Bank.
Momentum grows in Pennsylvania for a moratorium on executions
by Marianna Wertz
Al’s pal Tony Coelho, and ‘honest graft’
by Scott Thompson
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
