Volume 23, Number 34, August 23, 1996
Interviews
Seyed Hossein Mousavian
The ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Germany outlines how Iran’s strategic economic role is growing.
Departments
Entente Bestiale
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Club of the Isles Wages Global Irregular Warfare against the U.S.
Terrorist Incidents Since the Clinton Inauguration
Israel Blasted the Brits
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Panama Report
by Carlos Wesley
Bush’s Invasion Freed Cali Cartel Capo.
Editorial
We Are At War.
Books
South Carolina Patriot Was a Reconstruction Hero
by Denise Henderson
Gullah Statesman: Robert Smalls from Slavery to Congress, 1839-1915, by Edward A. Miller, Jr.
Economics Text from Belize Reflects LaRouche’s Influence
by Paul Gallagher
The ABCs of Economics: A Primer, by William Lindo.
Terrorists, Through Rose-Colored Glasses
by Christine Bierre
Ces Hommes sont avant tout nos frères (These Men Are Above All Our Brothers), by Danielle Mitterrand.
Economics
Wealth Gap Widens as U.S. Loses Its Middle Class
by Richard Freeman
Families that constitute 10% of all households own 30-80% of all physical and financial assets possessed by U.S. households. They have accumulated their holdings by pillaging and destroying the economy.
Foreign Creditors Are Desperate To Privatize Venezuela
by David Ramonet
U.S. Navy’s Industrial Capability Is Being Destroyed by Cost-Cutting
by Lt. Cmdr. John Patrick Anamosa (USN, ret.).
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
Feature
U.S. Law: Neither Truth Nor Justice
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The moral principles of natural law, on which the founders of the United States based this constitutional republic, have been swept into the rubbish heap. This is shown most dramatically by the political prosecution of LaRouche, Michael Billington, and associates. Will this nation have the morality to return to its dedication to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” and a common commitment to secure the “general welfare”?
International
Iran-Turkey Deals: The West Should Now Pursue ‘Dialogue’
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Turkish Prime Minister Ecmettin Erbakan signed several ambitious bilateral agreements with Iran which challenge British geopolitics and offer especially the United States the opportunity to replace a “dual containment” policy with one of constructive dialogue.
Prospects for Mideast Peace: The View from Gaza
Brazilian NGOs Answer to the World Financial Oligarchy
by Silvia Palacios and Lorenzo Carrasco
A top Brazilian security official charges that the Viva Rio environmentalist outfit is linked to the drug traffickers that control Rio’s slums.
International Intelligence
National
Will GOP Virtual Reality Fool American Voters?
by Harley Schlanger
There should have been a consumer warning label attached to this “big tent” in San Diego, that this new image is brought to you by the same snake oil salesmen who made Rush Limbaugh a success story. Harley Schlanger reports from the Republican Convention.
LaRouche vs. Kemp on the Gold Standard
The leading economist’s views are not to be confused with the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee’s.
Mars Discovery Spurs Review of American Space Policy
by Marsha Freeman
The Scientific Basis for Life on Mars
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Indicates that the issue behind the new discoveries, “is a matter which pervades all my scientific work.”
Federal Judge Rules against LaRouche, Overturning Voting Rights Act
by Nancy Spannaus
Documentation: Excerpts from LaRouche’s suit against Democratic National Committee Chairman Donald Fowler and the DNC.
Dem. Institute Says Economy Is the Issue
by Suzanne Rose
The Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. confronts some hard facts in “Volatile Voters, Declining Living Standards and Non-College-Educated Whites.”
National News
