Is a World Dictator About to Appear?
His headline gripped the attention of a handful of readers of the first edition of the world’s newest current affairs magazine, way back in February 1934. Sixty-six years later, we review many of the predictions made by the Plain Truth magazine and its founder, Herbert W. Armstrong, and find unerring accuracy in the forecasting of events leading to the rise to global dominance of the present European Union.
Remember
Sixty-six years of accuracy in global forecasting
Israel’s Wound
The spin doctors glaze the surface with a deceiving gloss, but Israel’s peace process is on course to produce more carnage.
China’s Three-Card Trick
In less than three years, the most populous nation on earth has seized a hat-trick of strategic sea gates. How will this affect global events in the new century?
Religion’s Clash of the Century
Watch for it—the state is set
Trials and Errors
Mankind has tried every form of government known to him. Yet the way to peace still eludes him.
The Bear’s Headache
The Russian bear has been licking its wounds for almost a decade since the Soviet Union collapsed. Will Russia ever rise again to great-power status?
Can the Blind Lead …?
Some claim we’ve never had it better. Others see doom around the corner. What is the true state of the world as we rush towards the end of one century into another?
No to NATO
It was in the bag. Everyone agreed that Germany’s defense minister was right for the job of NATO secretary general. But the Germans balked. Why?
The Search For a Compromise
Once again the infamous Irish “peace process” has failed. This shoddy, unworkable compromise came crashing down on the very day that was to mark its greatest step forward.
Return of the Old World Order
As the dust of war settles over Kosovo and Serbia licks its bleeding wounds, the most profound effect of this latest Balkan crisis is beginning to dawn on some observers of the European scene. This Kosovo crisis has simply quickened the pace, dramatically, of the rise of imperial Europe.
Frankenstein Revisited
Embryologists are forging ahead in ethically murky territory with nothing to guide them but their own curiosity.
Return of the Old World Order
Over the past decade, following cessation of the cold war era, many touted the rise of a “New World Order.” But events this year have revealed something quite different:
Divided We Fall
things fall apart: In the long history of Britain and the relatively short history of the American nation, governments have come and gone with regularity. Yet, never in their post Cold-War histories have they faced such bitter division within their elected governing bodies as over the Kosovo crisis. Why? And where is it all leading?
A Matter of Honor
It drives the Serbs. It eludes the U.S.
Papal Call to Arms
Pope John Paul II threw down the gauntlet in Mexico in the greatest challenge yet to recover his lost sheep. This is but a sample of things to come.
The Other Hussein
Exploiting the newly sensitized Middle East
“The Gate of His Enemies …”
The greatest strategic blow is about to be struck against the United States. It will contribute to the breakdown of the U.S. economy and massively degrade its defense capability—and it is happening without a single shot being fired!
Facing the Dragon
Through decades of inscrutable Oriental diplomacy, China has succeeded in robbing Taiwan of all its former powerful friends. Across the Taiwan Strait, an old ally of the West now feels the hot breath of the Chinese dragon in its face.
The “Luck” Runs Out
The World bank maintains that Australia is the richest country in the world, when unexploited natural resources are taken into account. Yet today Australia is broke. What’s happened to the land down under?
Fifty Years in the Making
Today’s crisis began as nations rebuilt from the rubble of World War II.
System Failure!
As we advance toward the close of 1998, global economic peril looms large on the horizon. Will 1999 be the year of the big crash?
