Volume 17, Number 36, September 21, 1990
Interviews
Charles Mankin
by Stephen Parsons
The director of the Oklahoma Geological Survey says that so much of unused U.S. oil drilling capacity is so dilapidated that there’s little prospect of being able to quickly increase domestic oil production.
Book Reviews
How To Sow Terror with Statistics
by Margaret Sexton
Currents of Death: Power Lines, Computer Terminals, and the Attempt to Cover Up Their Threat to Your Health, by Paul Brodeur.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Solving the Soviet Housing Problem.
Panama Report
by Carlos Wesley
Bush’s Occupation Creates New Sodom.
Editorial
Freedom Must Be Victorious.
Science & Technology
Integrating Europe: Freight and Passenger Rail Transport
by Ralf Schauerhammer
Europe’s railway system, which has never really recovered from World War II, is now at a take-off point for integration across every national boundary, and magnetic levitation and conventional high-speed rail will play a crucial role. Part III concludes a series taken from a chapter of the Special Report now circulating in every European capital.
Economics
Ibero-American Oil Targeted in New U.S. Raw Materials Grab
by Peter Rush
With the pretext of the Middle East crisis, Bush & Co. are pushing even harder for a long-standing policy goal: the denationalization of the national oil companies of Mexico and Venezuela.
British Economic Warfare against Iraq Triggered Invasion of Kuwait
by Scott Thompson
A chronology.
Oil Price Hike Can’t Raise U.S. Production
by Stephen Parsons
‘We Have Dismantled the U.S. Oil Exploration Industry’
by Stephen Parsons
Interview with Charles Mankin, director of the Oklahoma Geological Survey.
Brazil Goes Insane, Renounces Nuclear Energy for Alcohol
by Geraldo Luis Zaraiva Lino and Mark Sonnenblick
Currency Rates
Bankers Want To Wipe Peru Off the Map
by Cynthia R. Rush
Poverty and Neo-Capitalism in the 1990s
by Prof. Dario Composta
A speech by Prof. Dario Composta of the Urbaniana University in Rome, Italy; first of two parts.
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Will United Germany’s Farms Be Free?
Banking
by John Hoefle
Deposit Insurance Fund Is Broke.
Business Briefs
Feature
Germany’s New Mission: Peace by Development
by Rainer Apel
The signing of the treaty on the reunification of Germany is not only a victory for peace in Europe, but represents the only salvation for a world otherwise in the throes of economic depression and impending war. And Moscow is keenly aware of this, even if Washington and London are not.
German Reunification Is the Key to a Worldwide Cultural Renaissance
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
The Chairman of the Patriots for Germany party tells why the coming months will likely determine whether mankind is morally fit to survive, since the only two options are World War III, or a renaissance, led by Europe and especially by Germany, and the freeing of Lyndon LaRouche from prison.
Chancellor Kohl Echoes LaRouche Triangle Proposal
From his Heiligenstadt speech.
International
After Helsinki: The Deeper Issues behind the ‘Iraq Crisis’
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Imprisoned statesman Lyndon LaRouche analyzes the world strategic situation following President Bush’s failure to rope the Soviet Union into the AngloAmerican Mideast adventure.
New Baker Plan Will Carve Up the Mideast
by Joseph Brewda
The Persian Gulf Crisis and Britain’s New Imperial Order
by Mark Burdman
Documentation: “Better imperialist than dead,” says Peregrine Worsthorne.
Palestinians and Lebanese Get Knife
by Joseph Brewda
Italy: Gulf Crisis Stokes New ‘Hot Autumn’
by Webster G. Tarpley.
Korean Dialogue: A Big Step Forward
by Lydia Cherry
Power-Sharing Deal Struck in Cambodia
by Linda de Hoyos
Japan Walks a Tightrope
by Linda de Hoyos
Colombia’s Drug War Dead and Buried
by Andrea Olivieri
International Intelligence
National
Bush’s Support May Sink in Budgetary Quicksand
by Stephen Parsons and Kathleen Klenetsky
His military adventure won’t be able to keep his micron-thin “popularity” intact as the economy falls to pieces.
Muhammad Campaign Rocks Dem Machine
by Debra Hanania Freeman
Maryland Congressman Steny Hoyer had to pull off some fast and dirty tricks in order to beat off a national spokesman for Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam.
Four Primaries Show LaRouche Democrats’ Backing
The Congressman from ADM and AIPAC
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Profile of Rep. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.).
‘Cannibal’ Is Would-Be Governor of Virginia
LaRouche associates say that Attorney General Mary Sue Terry is out to kill.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
