Volume 26, Number 46, November 19, 1999

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Departments

Australia Dossier

by Robert Barwick

Aussies reject fraudulent republic.

Africa Report

by Linda de Hoyos

Albright discredits IGAD process on Sudan.

Editorial

Pickpockets of Brussels and London.

Economics

WTO summit will deploy ‘free trade’ to destroy nations

by Marcia Merry Baker

The record shows that any government that commits itself to free trade, will be further relinquishing its sovereign power over its national economy, just at the time when the world financial system itself is in the process of breakdown, requiring actions and institutions for national economic build-up.

Labor protest against WTO would leave free-trade system intact

by Marianna Wertz

The AFL-CIO is mobilizing to bring 15,000 trade unionists to Seattle on Nov. 30, to participate in a rally at the opening of the World Trade Organization conference. They are going to demand that the WTO be “reformed,” so that the rights of labor and the environment gain greater “respect”—in the context of a world dominated by the murderous axioms of free trade. It won’t work.

Documentation: Opposition to the WTO from Teamsters union president James P. Hoffa; the United Autoworkers resolution on “The American Economy in a New Century”; and the trial of former Teamsters political director William Hamilton: blackmail against labor.

New perspectives for the Transrapid

by Rainer Apel

German Chancellor Schröder found to his surprise, when he visited China early in November, that what the Beijing leaders wanted to talk about most was the maglev: the rail technology of the 21st century.

Bank of England behind latest gold price fall

by William Engdahl

Russia: A comment on demographic issues and a forbidding forecast

by Murray Feshbach

A guest commentary by Dr. Murray Feshbach.

Business Briefs

Feature

Will the U.S.A. keep its sovereignty?  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

“This present report is written for those citizens who wish to be certain, that they themselves have met U.S. founder Benjamin Franklin’s standard for voters who are qualified to select the new leaders of our presently imperilled U.S. republic.”

International

Europe takes steps toward joining the Survivors’ Club

by Jonathan Tennenbaum

A growing number of institutional forces in continental Europe are responding to what they perceive as a threat to their very national survival, coming from the sorts of policies identified with Britain’s Blair government, and Madeleine Albright in the United States.

France: Behind the fall of Strauss-Kahn

by Jacques Cheminade

IMF, Transparency Int’l celebrate De la Rúa victory in Argentina

by Gerardo Terán Canal and Gonzalo Huertas

Argentinians, fed up with the disastrous economic policies of the Carlos Menem administration, have voted in a new President—who is promising more of the same.

International Intelligence

National

It’s past time to fire Madeleine Albright

by Scott Thompson

From Russia, to China, to Kosovo, to Sudan, and on an on, President Clinton has been faced with one foreign policy disaster after another, because of his Secretary of State. With all the White House’s enemies embracing her, the President should have smelled a rat.

Int’l Criminal Court and humanitarian intervention debated

by Edward Spannaus

Endorsements of LaRouche’s campaign are pouring in from around the world

Toward the sovereignty and development of all the world’s nations

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

An Internet dialogue between Lyndon LaRouche and diplomats from 22 countries.

Congressional Closeup

by Carl Osgood

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