Volume 26, Number 24, June 11, 1999
Editorial Policy
What EIR knows and what Hollinger says
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. comments on the contrast between our policy and that of the disreputable London Daily Telegraph, as manifested in the case of the recent, brief appearance of the republication of a list of names from other Internet sources on EIR’s Internet site.
Interviews
Tony Brown
Brown is the founding dean and former professor of the School of Communications at Howard University; he is now the nationally known host of the public television program “Tony Brown’s Journal.”
Book Reviews
Talk show host quotes LaRouche against the British oligarchy
by Marianna Wertz
Empower the People: A Seven-Step Plan to Overthrow the Conspiracy That Is Stealing Your Money and Freedom, by Tony Brown.
Departments
Australia Dossier
by Robert Barwick
Banks open for foreign takeover.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Talking reconstruction to death.
Editorial
Reconstruction must start now!
Economics
Russia racked by crisis as globalizers demand more loot
by Rachel Douglas
Russian economist Sergei Glazyev summed up the situation: “In effect, default has already occurred, since we deferred payments many times.”
Wall Street hedge fundies push for Russian default
by Rachel Douglas and Roger Moore
Primakov government in retrospect
by Sergei Glazyev
Excerpts from Sergei Glazyev’s article in the newspaper Zavtra.
The fallacy of benchmarking
by Jonathan Tennenbaum, Rüdiger Rumpf, and Ralf Schauerhammer
The celebrated disaster of Mercedes’ “A-Class” automobile reveals the lunacy of current corporate-industrial methods, from the standpoint of the science of physical economy.
Mexico is on course for a Salinas-style blowout
by Carlos Cota Meza
President Zedillo is bequeathing to his successor, who will take office in December 2000, a new huge debt bubble set to explode whenever the U.S. Federal Reserve decides to start raising interest rates—and/or when Zedillo is forced to devalue the peso in the face of the current unsustainable trade deficit.
Feature
IMF would not allow Bosnia to rebuild
by Edward Spannaus
In 1996, after four years of war, Bosnia was ready to rebuild its shattered economy, and circles in the U.S., including Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, were ready to help. But the financial vultures would not let it happen. Will the same mistake be repeated today with all the Balkans?
How Bosnia won, and lost, its economic sovereignty
by Umberto Pascali
Documentation: Excerpts from the Dayton peace agreement, World Bank dictates to Bosnia, and responses from Bosnian leaders.
Peace through development for the Balkans
Political, religious, labor, and other figures the world over are signing the Schiller Institute call initiated on April 28 by Helga Zepp-LaRouche and Faris Nanic.
The World Bank is the killer worm that sabotaged Middle East peace
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
International
Crisis in Kashmir created to weaken South Asia
by Ramtanu Maitra
Britain’s long-standing terrorist capability is at work in this crossroads between India, Pakistan, and China.
‘Rice War’ coalition against Sudan crumbles
by Linda de Hoyos
The return of former Sudanese President Jaafar Nimeiri after 14 years of exile, typifies the moves toward peace within Sudan, as well as with its neighbors, to the chagrin of the “human rights” mafia, such as the State Department’s Susan Rice.
The crimes against peace in The Hague
by Mark Burdman
What’s behind the cynical war crimes indictment against Milosevic.
Israel: Barak’s prospects for peace with Syria
by Dean Andromidas
BüSo slate brings ideas to eager voters
by Hartmut Cramer
A report on the European Parliament elections.
Robert Burns song to open the new Scottish Parliament
by Mark Calney and Mark Burdman
Conference Report
EIR in Prague discusses solutions to financial crisis
by Angelika Beyreuther-Raimondi
A press conference co-sponsored by the Czech Management Association, EIR, and the Schiller Institute addressed the severe crisis in the Czech economy and “solutions to find a pathway out of the dead end.” Speakers whose remarks are included are: Michael Liebig of the Schiller Institute, and Prof. Jaroslav Jirasek and Prof. Zbynek Pitra of the Czech Management Assocation.
The world financial crisis, and what to do about it
by Michael Liebig
Study the American System of economy
by Prof. Jaroslav Jirasek
We should focus on ‘adding real value’
by Prof. Zbynek Pitra
The IMF has harmed the Czech Republic
A transcript of the questions and answers at the Prague press conference.
National
Backlash grows against Gore’s Cox Report hoax
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The Cox Commission’s report is a scientific fraud, aimed at fueling a new “Yellow Peril” Cold War with China, at precisely the moment that President Clinton needs to expand his commitment to forge a strategic partnership with both China and Russia.
Senators critical of China embassy bombing
by Suzanne Rose
Some members of the Foreign Relations Committee are demanding an accounting, and punishment of those responsible.
The Iraqi opposition, ‘made in Britain,’ descends upon Washington
by Scott Thompson and Michele Steinberg
And they made a pilgrimage to Washington to get money promised them by the Congressional Republicans.
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
