Volume 27, Number 20, May 19, 2000
Books
Who Was Charles Babbage?
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
A review by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. of The Cogwheel Brain, by Doron Swade.
Departments
Australia Dossier
by Allen Douglas
“Pacifying” Rural Unrest.
Editorial
Current History as Classical Tragedy.
Economics
Financial Crisis Prompts Asian Chiang Mai Initiative
by Kathy Wolfe
As Asia, Europe, and the United States alike face a renewed global financial crisis, East Asian finance ministers reached what Thailand’s The Nation called “an historic agreement to redesign Asia’s financial architecture” to protect their currencies from attack.
Europeans Are Getting Uncomfortable on the Titanic
by Rainer Apel
With the euro collapsing, the refusal of European governments to enter a serious debate on how to implement a production-based economic system that bans financial speculation and creates millions of jobs, condemns them to stumble from one emergency to the next.
Danish Parliamentarian Backs New Bretton Woods
The Genocidal Policy behind the Creation of the HMOs
by Richard Freeman
A Wall Street-directed team of budget-cutters in the Nixon administration authored the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1971, which passed in 1973, inaugurating the murderous system of HMOs, which have imposed Nazi medical standards, destroyed America’s health system, closed hospitals, and led to unnecessary suffering and death.
A Call for Action on Russia’s Health Crisis
by Suzanne Rose
Business Briefs
Feature
Solving the Water Shortage Is the Key to Mideast Peace
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
When peace talks resume, between the Israeli and Syrian governments, or as the Palestinian-Israeli track is revived, there will be one central issue which must be faced, if progress is to be made. That issue is water. There can be no viable Palestinian state, no future perspectives for hundreds of thousands of returning Palestinian refugees, unless the basis is established for a productive, growing agricultural and industrial economy; and that requires water currently not available. And, the technology is available to provide it.
A Nuclear-Powered Desalination Plant for Use in the Mideast
by Marcia Merry Baker
Generating Water, Power: Beautiful, and Necessary
by Marcia Merry Baker
International
Sri Lanka in Turmoil as Tamil Tigers Gain Ground
by Ramtanu Maitra
The Tamil Tigers’ recent victory over the Sri Lankan Army, threatening to re-gain possession of the northern Sri Lankan peninsula of Jaffna, is a threat to the stability of South Asia.
Thailand: Transparency International Attacks the Institutions
by Michael O. Billington
Momentum Builds in Congress To Change U.S. Iraq Policy
by Carl Osgood
Opposition is growing to the UN sanctions which have killed hundreds of thousands of children.
‘Brazil Is Melting Like Ice Cream in the Sun’
by Silvia Palacios and Lorenzo Carrasco
Opposition is growing to President Cardoso’s destruction of national institutions.
Documentation: An “Order of the Day” by Army Commander Gen. Gleuber Viera, and statements by Brigadier Ercio Braga, warning that the policies under President Fernando Henrique Cardoso must be reversed or the nation of Brazil will cease to exist.
Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela: Little Bread, But Many Circuses
by David Ramonet
The Terminal Phase of the Bankrupt System: What Nations Must Do Now
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
U.S. Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.’s videotaped address to the founding conference of Australia’s new political party, the Curtin Labor Alliance.
International Intelligence
National
LaRouche Continues Drive, as Gore Self-Destructs
by Debra Hanania Freeman
Unless a qualified dark-horse candidate emerges at the 11th hour, to rescue the Democratic Party from nominating Al Gore for President, the party is going to go up in flames in November—as Lyndon LaRouche warned.
Al Gore and George W. Bush: Wall Street’s Two-Headed Freak
by Scott Thompson and Michele Steinberg
With this article, EIR initiates a score-card, showing that Gore’s and Bush’s policies of genocide and corruption are essentially the same.
The Dirty Justice Department Is the Dirtiest of Them All
by Edward Spannaus
The DOJ is coming under another round of public attack, this time for its cover-up of false testimony given to the court during the 1983 trial of rogue CIA officer Edwin Wilson.
Warfield on Tour, Uplifts Audiences with Classical Art: ‘Live It, Baby!’
by Harley Schlanger
For those privileged to spend some time with world-renowned baritone William Warfield, it is clear that he is a rare example of what Friedrich Schiller envisioned when he wrote of the “beautiful soul.”
Sing the Music
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. wrote this essay to honor the 80th birthday of William Warfield, who is one of the great Classical singers and musical pedagogues of our time.
Congressional Closeup
National News
