Volume 25, Number 24, June 12, 1998
Interviews
Jerzy Oledzki
The longtime Solidarnosc member and former Deputy Education Minister urges the need to maintain Classical education.
Witold Rutkowski
The Polish economist discusses how Poland views the international financial crisis.
Prof. Vakhtang Goguadze
According to this member of the Georgian Parliament, the IMF imposed a “non-market market economy,” which destroyed Georgia’s agricultural and industrial exports.
Msgr. Antoine Audo
The Chaldean Bishop of Aleppo, Syria spoke to EIR in Rome, where he was attending the Synod of Bishops from Asia convoked by the Pope.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
“Nuclear wars” resume.
Australia Dossier
by Allen Douglas
Establishment pushes dope.
Editorial
LaRouche’s enemies are Clinton’s enemies.
Economics
Russian liquidity problems lead world financial crisis
by Richard Freeman
Economic policymakers can no longer skirt the fundamental question—the urgency of scrapping IMF policies.
Documentation: Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir urges reform of the global financial system.
Keeping a stable, developing China is in the West’s strategic interests
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
A statement by Helga Zepp-LaRouche.
LaRouche’s ideas polarize forum on China at Harvard
by Roger Ham
A report on the inaugural conference of the Harvard China Review.
Poland’s elites fear social upheaval, as IMF austerity takes its toll
by Frank Hahn
Education must foster the human person
An interview with Jerzy Oledzki.
Contours of Poland’s financial crisis
An interview with Witold Rutkowski.
The IMF destruction is like nothing Georgia has ever seen in its history
An interview with Prof. Vakhtang Goguadze.
Science: Use it or lose it
by Hugh W. Elsaesser
Meteorologist Dr. Hugh Ellsaesser tackles the anti-science mafia, on such “politically correct” issues as global warming and ultraviolet radiation.
Business Briefs
Feature
The world needs the TVA model, not the IMF
by Marsha Freeman
The Tennessee Valley Authority is looked at the world over as a model, by cultural optimists who agree with the TVA’s first director, David Lilienthal, that “no longer do men look upon poverty as inevitable, or think that drudgery, disease, filth, famine, floods, and physical exhaustion are visitations of the devil or punishment by a deity.”
International
Khmer Rouge papers expose media support for genocide
by Michael O. Billington and Gail Billington
The just-discovered minutes of Khmer Rouge leaders show that the Cambodian butchers had conspired with co-Prime Minister Prince Ranariddh to seize power. The silence of the Western press and human rights mafia about this revelation has been deafening.
U.S. policy could lead to tragedy for Cambodia
Transparency International: Camdessus unleashes anti-corruption pimps
by Umberto Pascali
The IMF chief has invoked the French Revolution’s Jacobin mobs against any government that defends its sovereignty, which he deems “corrupt.” He has taken aim at Indonesia.
Nuclear proliferation and the renaissance of the SDI
by Michael Liebig
The nuclear tests in India and Pakistan mark the beginning of the overdue end for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. With Strategic Defense Initiative defensive systems, the risks of nuclear proliferation can be brought under control.
Documentation: From a Feb. 17, 1982 speech on the SDI by Lyndon LaRouche.
New holes in cover-up of Diana murder plot
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Testimony by eyewitnesses and the public prominence of EIR’s investigations on British TV, have the oligarchs chewing the rug.
Scaife money supports Israeli think-tank
by Dean Andromidas
The British and terrorism
‘Dope, Inc.’ wins in first round of Colombian Presidential elections
by Javier Almario and Dennis Small
The first-round loss has not dimmed the determination of the anti-drug forces around Gen. Harold Bedoya to “right the evils in Colombia.”
The ‘Bush Factor’ in U.S. Colombia policy
by Dennis Small and Gretchen Small
The U.S. must life the embargo on Iraq
An interview with Msgr. Antoine Audo.
International Intelligence
National
Supreme Court won’t back Starr’s impeachment drive
by Edward Spannaus
The not-so-independent prosecutor accused the President and his lawyers with obstructing justice, just days before he insisted the Supreme Court by-pass the justice system on behalf of his search for “truth.”
LaRouche Dems win thousands of votes for exoneration, New Bretton Woods
by Marianna Wertz
Documentation: Excerpts from Nancy Spannaus’s speech before the 10th CD nominating convention of the Virginia Democratic Party.
White House debunks GOP flap over Loral
by William Jones
Re-regulate, re-build U.S. railways: maglev technology to lead the way
by Marcia Merry Baker and Anton Chaitkin
Testimony submitted by EIR on June 3 to the House subcommittee on railroads.
National News
