Volume 25, Number 28, July 17, 1998

Departments

Editorial

Take off the gloves for McDade-Murtha.

National Economy

How the government and Army built America's railroads

Historian Anton Chaitkin reports on the military-government alliance that brought America's railroads into being. The oligarchical financial interests, such as Wall Street and big-name Eastern Establishment families, ended up owning, and, mostly, destroying, America's railroads, but they didn't build them.

John Quincy Adams: `Liberty is power'

Army-engineered rail construction projects

Great rail projects raised living standards

LaRouche: Railroads and the Eurasian Land-Bridge

Economics

Epicenter of financial crisis shifts to Russia

The issue, as Deputy Premier Boris Nemtsov put it, is: "Will we succeed in avoiding a bankruptcy of the Russian Federation or not?" Handing over the Russian crisis to the IMF to cure, imperils civilization.

EIR confronts Camdessus

The Russian fight for `national economy'

The intelligentsia around the Academy of Sciences and government-linked think-tanks are beginning to debate how to save Russia's physical economy from destruction by the financial pyramid and the IMF.

Only a healthy economy will save the ruble

Russia boosts India's nuclear power program

Thailand rethinks IMF, looks to great projects to end depression

Thai patriots want to revive the Kra Canal.

Business Briefs

Feature

Where Franklin Roosevelt was interrupted

By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. "Had the same war-time, Roosevelt program of 1939-1945, been adapted to the rapid, post-war, agro-industrial development of new nations freshly freed from the debilitating hand of British, French, etc. imperialism, the U.S. and its partners would have enjoyed a continuing, post-war economic growth. The policy-shaping institutions established under the first two decades of such a post-war conversion program, would have virtually ensured further, planetary growth and stability throughout the 1945-1998 interval."

International

Clinton's China trip: a triumph, with tragic flaws

President Clinton achieved a very significant improvement in the climate of U.S.-China relations, but he missed the historic opportunity to engage China as a key ally of the United States in a "New Bretton Woods" policy to reorganize the bankrupt, collapsing international financial system. Documentation: Excerpts from Presidents Bill Clinton's and Jiang Zemin's remarks during the visit.

Congressmen call for U.S. special peace envoy to end war in Sudan

Venezuela: Will Caldera impose a national emergency?

International Intelligence

National

Starr shreds Constitution in `Get Clinton' crusade

Starr has specifically violated the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

New `Pentagon papers' show Linda Tripp was a high-level mole

EIR has acquired papers from Tripp's official descriptions of her own career in the military--including handling top secret material--that clearly point to having been a Bush "stay-behind" within the Clinton White House.

Congressional Closeup

National News