Volume 24, Number 7, February 7, 1997
Interviews
Abdelhamid Brahimi
The former prime minister of Algeria underscores the urgency for the West to get the present regime to the peace table with its opposition.
Book Reviews
HMOs: Robin Hoods, or profit vultures?
by Marianna Wertz
Health Against Wealth: HMOs and the Breakdown of Medical Trust, by George Anders.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Germany prepares for post-Kohl era.
Editorial
Africa: today’s “Indo-China quagmire.”
Economics
British minerals grab targets South America
by Cynthia R. Rush and Gonzalo Huertas
The genocide visited on Africa, on behalf of the Empire’s strategic minerals cartel-including the Barrick Gold Corp. of “Sir” George Bush-is the dagger being pointed at Ibero-America.
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
Feature
Return to the Machine-Tool Principle
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon LaRouche introduces our comprehensive report on the disaster caused by the “single, characteristic feature of the recent thirty years’ devolution of the world economy taken as a whole: the crucial impact of cutting deeply into capital costs of machine-tool input, ostensibly to effect a more competitive pricing of commodities.”
The era of deindustrialization has now reached its dead end
by Lothar Komp
Lothar Komp’s detailed presentation, focussing on Germany, on the machine-tool requirements to build the Eurasian land-bridge.
The ‘Asian Tigers’ and the end of full-set industry
by Kathy Wolfe
The deceptive lumping together of Hongkong and Shanghai as “tiger economies,” with Taiwan and South Korea, deliberately obfuscates what Japanese followers of the American System called “full-set industrial structure.”
London sells a killer ‘tiger’ tonic to Southeast Asia
by Michael O. Billington and Gail G. Billington
Countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines are being fed the same bait that Mexico fell for earlier.
America’s machine tool design sector has shrunk by two-thirds
by Richard Freeman
Richard Freeman looks at the history of U.S. machine tools, dating from Benjamin Franklin, and at its collapse under the “controlled disintegration” of America’s industrial economy.
International
Civil war destroys Algeria, while the world looks on
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
This is the stark reality which policymakers in Bonn, Paris, and Washington have been refusing to face, since the dramatic events of six years ago.
Algerians wonder why the West keeps silent
An interview with former Prime Minister Abdelhamid Brahimi.
U.S. should back German plan on Sudan
Four U.S. legislators who visited Sudan last September, call on the U.S. Congress to support a resolution passed by Germany’s parliament, titled “Initiatives to Produce Peace in Sudan.”
Colombia’s Samper in trouble as U.S. decertification nears
by Valerie Rush
Zedillo: Mexico will not allow segregation
by Carlos Méndez
International Intelligence
National
Pennsylvanians take the lead to defend welfare
by Nancy Spannaus
State legislators, backed by labor and civic groups, are moving to restore Gov. Tom Ridge’s Nazi-like cuts in state health insurance for the medically indigent, and to tax securities transactions to fund necessary programs.
NBCSL: Investigate Bush drug running
The official text of the resolution passed by the National Black Caucus of State Legislators.
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
