Volume 27, Number 23, June 9, 2000
Book Reviews
Indicting America’s ‘Justice’ System
by Marianna Wertz
Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution, and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted, by Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld, and Jim Dwyer.
Departments
Australia Dossier
by Robert Barwick
Globalists Are Behind Fiji Coup.
Editorial
SDI Redux.
Economics
Oil and the Coming Financial Armageddon
by William Engdahl
Little more than eight weeks after an OPEC agreement to increase oil production, the price of benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude has again risen above $30 per barrel. An investigation as to why, must start with the oil cartel and its bankers.
Economic Instability Wracks Southeast Europe, UN Report Shows
by Rainer Apel
‘Shareholder Value,’ the Bigger Crime, Untouched in Columbia/HCA Settlement
by Richard Freeman
Columbia/HCA has announced that it has reached a tentative $745 million settlement to conclude one part of a U.S. Justice Department investigation into its practices.
HMOs Put American Children at Risk
by Linda Everett
Managed-care policies are responsible for harming, maiming, or killing children, undermining the nation’s most advanced pediatric treatment protocols and its critical safety net of pediatric services.
Business Briefs
Feature
Schiller Institute Organizes for a New, Just Economic Order
We begin here to publish the “Proceedings of the Historical Bad Schwalbach International Conference: The World on the Brink of the Great Financial Crash.”
Only a New Classical Period Can Save Humanity from a Dark Age
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
A speech by Helga Zepp-LaRouche to the conference. Romanticism, and the Romantics, those Conservative Revolutionaries and agents of the oligarchs who deem “the ideas of 1789,” the synonym for the American Revolution, to be their enemy-image, says Zepp-LaRouche, represent the danger of a new fascism today. “Only if the majority of the population very quickly learns how to think Classically, can catastrophe be avoided.”
International
Sovereignty Is at Stake in Arkansas and Peru
by Dennis Small
The worst nightmares of the London and Wall Street financial oligarchy began to come true on May 31, as one after another Ibero-American country flatly rejected the U.S. State Department’s demand that the Organization of American States adopt a new “limited sovereignty” clause which in effect would mean the end of any sovereignty whatsoever.
LaRouche: Defend Peru’s Sovereignty as Our Own
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The Peruvian magazine Gente’s interview with U.S. Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche.
Peruvian Mass Media Cover LaRouche’s Proposals for Crisis
Behind the War on Peru: Wall Street’s Drive for Limited Sovereignty
by Gretchen Small
Another Third-Term President: FDR
The Beam in the U.S. State Department’s Eye
by Edward Spannaus
No My Lai Massacre Here, Sy!
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Seymour Hersh’s attack on White House drug policy adviser Gen. Barry McCaffrey (ret.) has fallen flat.
The LaRouche Campaign Complaint to the OAS
Mexican Presidential Candidate Cárdenas: Another Salinas, in Leftist Clothing
by Carlos Cota Meza
Cárdenas, the PAN’s Vincente Fox, and former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari represent precisely the same political project for Mexico: globalization, privatization, and free trade.
Balkan Intrigues Raise Threat of Renewed War
by Umberto Pascali
International Intelligence
National
Will Gore’s Crash Wake Up Endangered Democrats?
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Just because Al Gore claims that he’s stolen, fair and square, the votes of 53,000 Arkansas voters from his opponent Lyndon LaRouche, doesn’t mean it’s so. Fact is, more Democrats hate Gore than like him, and one heck of a fight is shaping up for an open national Democratic Party convention in August, with LaRouche delegates’ participation.
Democrats Should Reject Gore: He Pushes Bush’s Policies
by Michele Steinberg
Part 2 of our scorecard on the two so-called front-runners, showing that on Social Security, the Middle East, health care, and welfare, Bush and Gore have the same policies.
The Privatizers Are Destroying District of Columbia’s Children
by Carl Osgood
The death of two-year-old Brianna Blackmond, who had been in the city’s foster-care system, has given further impetus to a plan to privatize the District’s child welfare services. But her death can be laid right on the doorstep of the Conservative Revolutionaries in Congress, who advocate ripping up the Constitution’s General Welfare clause.
UN Rebukes U.S. for ‘Torture,’ Other Rights Violations in Justice System
by Marianna Wertz
