Volume 24, Number 13, March 21, 1997
Book Reviews
Aiming at victory in Ireland
by Paul Gallagher
Michael Collins, by Tim Pat Coogan.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Irregular warfare strikes, again.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
MST in the footsteps of the Zapatistas.
Dateline Mexico
by Carlos Méndez
Anti-IMF candidate challenges “the system.”
Editorial
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
A turning-point in history.
Physical Economy
Wrong policies are to blame for damage from Flood of ’97
by Richard Freeman
Plans to upgrade levee systems and build new reservoirs to cope with alternating drought and heavy rains on the West Coast, would have prevented the damage that killed at least 26, damaged 2-3,000 homes, and left 25-50,000 head of livestock dead over a five-state area.
EIR fuels infrastructure vulnerability debate
George Chaffey enabled the Imperial Valley to bloom
by Richard Freeman
Economics
Thailand financial collapse may spark broader crisis
by Michael O. Billington
The bankruptcy of this paragon of the “globalized” economy may burst the international speculative bubble.
Currency Rates
Venezuelan workers rebel against IMF
by David Ramonet
“The country must defend its sovereignty,” the head of the country’s labor federation told 2,000 angry farmers, “and that is why we must defend agriculture.”
Business Briefs
Feature
London in a phase-twitch
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The warning by a growing number of individuals of a meltdown of the global financial system “reflects a radical phase-shift in both the international financial situation, and also the political situation,” Lyndon LaRouche writes. Someone is using the London Sunday Telegraph “to signal that a very big blow-out has either occurred, and will soon he reported, or that something sudden and enormous is expected to blow very soon.”
London prepares for derivatives horror
by John Hoefle
The Sunday Telegraph pegged the world value of derivatives at $55 trillion, but that is a dramatic understatement of the actual size of the international exposure.
Documentation: Sunday Telegraph sleepless over derivatives nightmare.
LaRouche’s Ninth Forecast
International
London lights East Africa powder keg against Clinton
by Linda de Hoyos
Baroness Chalker’s Ugandan marcherlord Museveni has accelerated his invasions against Britain’s targets for destruction: Sudan and Zaire.
Documentation: Sanctions would cripple health care, food relief. Excerpts from the report by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to the president of the Security Council on the humanitarian effects of an air embargo against the government-owned Sudan Airways.
Clinton’s enemies plot U.S.-Mexico showdown
by Valerie Rush
Great Britain’s colonial guns turn against Indonesia
by Michael O. Billington
The same dramatis personae that brought us the genocide/raw materials grab in Africa, are behind using the battering ram of “human rights in East Timor” against Indonesia.
Lord Mountbatten and the return to empire
Is a new MK-Ultra drug plague afoot?
by Scott Thompson
There is a growing push to perform experiments on humans, using dangerous hallucinogens, under the guise of “medical” research.
Why hasn’t the U.S. decertified Britain?
EIR lays waste Soros’s ‘drug reform’ big lie
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Cracks appear in Palme assassination coverup
by Dean Andromidas
International Intelligence
National
DOJ misconduct fuels demand for hearings
by Debra Hanania Freeman
Since late February, there have been a series of shocking revelations of a clear pattern of gross misconduct by the FBI and the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice. A clean-out of this corruption is long overdue.
Noriega exposes Bush as cocaine kingpin on national television
by Jeffrey Steinberg
America’s only prisoner of war details his personal experiences with George Bush, providing new, corroborating evidence of Bush’s drug-running career while he was U.S. vice president.
Richard Mellon Scaife: Who is he, really?
by Edward Spannaus
The first part of a profile of the money-bags of Wall Street’s private intelligence networks.
Texas welfare plan pits Bush vs. Clinton
by Marianna Wertz
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
