Volume 25, Number 19, May 8, 1998
Departments
Australia Dossier
by Robert Barwick
Greenies don’t give a dam.
Editorial
New financial system, or no food.
Strategic Studies
Caspian Sea development has British worried
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
This oil-rich region is of the utmost strategic significance, particularly as the Eurasian Land-Bridge opens up development prospects for all of Central Asia.
The legal status of the Caspian Sea
by Yand Shu
A guest contribution by Prof. Yand Shu, vice president of the Institute of Central Asia Studies at Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, People’s Republic of China.
Economics
Exposed! The anti-German plot behind the ‘euro’
by Elisabeth Hellenbroich
The German government has declassified secret documents which show how Chancellor Kohl was pressured to agree to the European Monetary Union, as the price for the reunification of Germany.
Documentation: The British strategy against German unity, and the Bank of England’s plan today, to “manage” the euro.
Wave of bank mergers reflects a grave danger to the economy
by John Hoefle
Testimony by EIR’s John Hoefle submitted to a House Banking Committee hearing on bank mergers.
Japan’s new ‘stimulus package’ solves nothing
One small step for nuclear R&D
by Marsha Freeman
An effort to keep the nuclear option alive revolves around the Nuclear Energy Research Initiative.
Business Briefs
Feature
Colombia must follow Peru’s strategy vs. narco-terrorism
by Dennis Small
If the situation continues as it is, Colombia will become a narco-state within a year. The United States must ally with those who are willing to fight narco-terrorism, as Peru has conducted this war.
London’s São Paulo Forum declares war on the United States
by Gretchen Small
In March, the São Paulo Forum’s Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) declared war against the United States, promising to turn the region into a new “Vietnam,” should the United States aid Colombia against the drug cartels.
The FARC attacks, the government negotiates, and Colombia disintegrates
by Javier Almario
Gen. Bedoya: To win, mobilize the nation
Colombia ushers in a narco-dictatorship
Peru moves decisively on narco-terrorism
Recommendations for Peru’s war on drugs
by Luis Vasquez
Samper hands FARC huge territory
International
Serbia’s Milosevic steers Balkans toward a new war
by Umberto Pascali
The strings of the Serbian dictator are being pulled from London and Paris, where the oligarchy is once again trying to blow up the Balkan powderkeg.
High protest vote in German state election
by Angelika Beyreuther-Raimondi
The election in the former East German state of Saxon-Anhalt, where unemployment is officially 24.1%, was a stunning defeat for Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s Christian Democratic Union.
A phantom dissolves: the end of the RAF?
by Angelika Beyreuther-Raimondi
Helga Zepp-LaRouche on RAF terrorism
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Ukrainian ‘democracy’ is sacrificed to the IMF
by Rachel Douglas
Including a statement by Dr. Natalya Vitrenko, chairman of the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, who is being denied the parliamentary seat to which she was elected.
Schiller Institute organizes in Poland
by Katherine Notley
Angolans protect fragile, new peace, foil British destabilization effort
by Dean Andromidas
An EIR team was invited to Angola to investigate first-hand the role of the London-based Defence Systems Ltd. and Executive Outcomes in destabilizing the peace process.
International Intelligence
National
Starr’s Hubbell indictment: the Olson Salon in action
by Edward Spannaus
There is only one purpose to the new indictment, and that is to pressure the former Associate Attorney General to lie about the President of the United States. Hubbell is saying, “No, thanks.”
Clinton slaps down ‘clean needles’ ploy
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The President’s extension of the nine-year ban on Federal funding of needle-exchange programs was a personal defeat for drug-legalizer George Soros.
Congress stalls: last gasp for the IMF?
by Suzanne Rose
The refusal of the U.S. Congress to fund the IMF is a signal to the world of a lack of confidence in this institution.
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
