Braving Bush's New World Order.

The article examines the causes of Russia's weakness and of Europe's abject abdication, and to seek behind these failures the political and social forces that may be capable of challenging U.S. President George Bush's "new world order," which is as old as capitalism and as modern as a laser-guided missile. While the warmongers gloat, the struggle must go on, with its hours of hope and moments of despair. This time around the U.S. establishment had an easier task, since it confronted not a revolutionary people in arms but an allegedly mighty regular army, driven to disaster by a madman.