Volume 25, Number 44, November 6, 1998
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Lafontaine’s unserious proposal.
Australia Dossier
by Allen Douglas
“Two bob each way”?
Editorial
Ally with China, not London.
Book Reviews
President Clinton should listen to James Carville more often
James Carville, ... And the Horse He Rode in on—The People v. Kenneth Starr.
Investigation
Meathead Netanyahu brings in Butcher Sharon
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The agreements reached at the Wye Plantation have unfortunately done nothing to thwart the murderous political combination that rules in Israel right now, and whose policies will lead to war, if they are not stopped.
Think-tank threatens U.S., Israeli security
by Michele Steinberg
A profile of the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS).
The Israeli spy network that Jonathan Pollard left behind
by Joseph Brewda
EIR’s investigation of the networks behind Pollard goes way back, including the role of the secretive “X Committee,” which got Pollard his job.
Economics
The Fed is sacrificing people to save the junk
by John Hoefle
The Federal Reserve, by cutting interest rates, is signalling to all that it would stand firmly behind the banks and the derivatives bubble, no matter what the cost. The idea is to lure gullible investors back into the corporate and bond markets—junk bonds in particular.
Back Russia with ‘Food for Peace’ assistance
by Marcia Merry Baker
With Russia’s grain harvest half of last year’s, there is a need for an emergency mobilization worldwide to prevent mass starvation.
U.S. trade balance sharply deteriorates
by Richard Freeman
Britain’s leading ‘idiotic hysteric’
by Mark Burdman
Prime Minister Tony Blair is under fire for the devastation that is sweeping the British economy.
Is India being marginalized?
by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan B. Maitra
Business Briefs
Feature
The roots of today’s mass hysteria
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
“How could most of the leading banks and related institutions of this planet, have been, for so many years, such pathetic suckers for such an obvious swindle as that so-called ‘derivatives’ bubble which now threatens, at almost any moment, to do to the world’s financial system what the Weimar hyperinflationary bubble did to the 1923 Reichsmark?”
International
Can Clinton thwart Netanyahu’s drive for war?
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Regardless of what was ceremoniously signed on Oct. 23 at the White House, peace will depend on the extent to which the terms agreed upon are implemented.
Italy gets a new government: From the ‘third way’ to a triumvirate
by Claudio Celani
D’Alema: Who is the new Italian Prime Minister?
Cossiga: The comeback of the ‘Pick-Axer’
What is behind the Pinochet arrest
by Cynthia R. Rush
General Pinochet’s arrest had nothing to do with what he did, or did not do, during the 17 years he presided over Chile’s military junta (1973-90).
London gameplan for Congo proceeds apace
by Linda de Hoyos
International Intelligence
National
Another layer of the assault on the Presidency exposed
by Edward Spannaus
New areas of investigation center around Richard Mellon Scaife and Lucianne Goldberg.
Historians slam GOP impeachment perfidy
by Jeffrey Steinberg
U.S. labor federation issues a call for ‘Global New Deal’
by Marianna Wertz
New light on Transatlantic assassins: Lucianne Goldberg and Murder, Inc.
by Anton Chaitkin
The Madam who incited Linda Tripp to deploy Monica Lewinsky to destroy President Clinton, has long-standing ties to the London-controlled apparatus that has carried out assassinations of Presidents, among other crimes.
National News
