Volume 24, Number 50, December 12, 1997
Interviews
Sam Aluko and Ode Ojowu
Professor Aluko is chairman of the National Economic Intelligence Committee of Nigeria. Dr. Ojowu is a member of the NEIC, and is director of the Center for Development Studies in Jos.
Chief Anthony Ani
Nigeria’s minister of finance discusses the international financial crisis, and its effects on his nation.
Bob Duncan
The executive director of the Engineers and Architects Association attacks the layoffs at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Revive the Humboldt education system!
Australia Dossier
by Allen Douglas
Uproar over pedophile scandal.
Editorial
Let America’s children sing.
Political Economy
LaRouches face off against the British in Nigeria
by Lawrence K. Freeman
The contrast in outlooks presented at the Fourth Nigerian Economic Summit, between Helga Zepp-LaRouche and a spokesman for British interests, expresses the fierce debate over Nigeria’s economic policy.
IMF conditionalities are destroying Nigeria’s economy
Am interview with Prof. Sam Aluko and Dr. Ode Ojowu.
Nigeria’s perspective for achieving economic growth
An interview with Chief Anthony Ani.
Economics
The IMF demands Weimar-style hyperinflation
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
“Unless the United States government acts, very soon, to stop him in his tracks, the ‘bail-out conditionalities’ which an imperial IMF Director, Michel Camdessus, has dictated to South Korea, will have launched the entire world into a global replay of the famous 1922- 1923 Weimar Germany hyperinflation.”
Hyperinflation in Germany, 1921-23
by Richard Freeman
LaRouche calls for exchange controls
Camdessus fingers South Korea
by William Engdahl
The IMF conditions attached to the $55 billion emergency package will finish off the world’s 11th-largest industrial economy.
40% of U.S. Treasuries are held by foreigners
by Richard Freeman
Fight against currency speculation spreads
by Gail G. Billington
Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir continues his campaign against the speculators.
Currency Rates
Soros’s ‘lunar cycles’ won’t stop collapse
by Cynthia R. Rush
Greens and the United Nations ram through ban on methyl bromide
by Colin Lowry
Business Briefs
Feature
French police hush up new leads on Diana’s murder
by Jeffrey Steinberg and Allen Douglas
There are gaping holes in the French cover-story, centered around the vehicles involved in the crash, and the delay in providing medical care for Diana, who was still alive after the crash.
Hollinger hit-man targets al-Fayeds
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, the poison pen against President Clinton, has a new assignment: smearing the al-Fayed family.
Royals were steering MI6 campaign vs. Diana, Dodi
International
The systemic threat of disintegration in Russia
by Konstantin George and Rachel Douglas
The eagerness of the IMF to patch together an illusory bailout of Russia, is matched by that of the Russian comprador caste, which faces political elimination, when the crisis of state finances reaches a point of no return.
Free-trader Klaus falls in the Czech Republic
by Angelika Beyreuther-Raimondi
S. Asia, Land-Bridge hit by new instability
by Susan B. Maitra and Ramtanu Maitra
London fuels Mideast ‘Armageddon’ war danger
by Joseph Brewda
Sudan and Iraq are the latest targets of Israeli sabre-rattling, on orders from London.
Kagame’s killing fields in Rwanda
by Linda de Hoyos
UN’s Kofi Annan okays Brit terrorist haven
by Joseph Brewda
Ukraine must reject IMF shock therapy
by Natalya Vitrenko
A speech by Dr. Natalya Vitrenko, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, chairman of the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, and co-initiator of the “Urgent Appeal to President Clinton to Convene a New Bretton Woods Conference.”
Dangers, opportunities in the third millennium
by Jozef Miklosko
By Dr. Jozef Miklosko, former vice prime minister in the first post-communist government of Czechoslovakia, and vice rector of Trnava University in Trnava, Slovak Republic.
International Intelligence
National
The mob that Moon really married
by Anton Chaitkin
Moonshine over Washington: Anton Chaitkin reveals what lies behind Sun Myung Moon’s multimillion-dollar cult empire.
Activists vow to defeat prison privatization
by Rochelle Ascher
Troupe appeals to state legislators
A letter by State Rep. Charles Quincy Troupe (D-Mo.).
Trouble in the Mellon patch, as Scaife cuts off funding
by Edward Spannaus
Conservative Revolutionary money-bag Richard Mellon Scaife has had a falling out with some of the beneficiaries of his largesse.
The ‘media food chain’ and the ‘burial’ hoax
by Edward Spannaus
Allegations that the Clinton White House was selling plots at Arlington National Cemetery in exchange for campaign contributions, turned out to be a total lie.
Los Angeles union head speaks out about pending layoffs, cutbacks
An interview with Bob Duncan.
National News
