Volume 25, Number 33, August 21, 1998
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
No truce in nuclear power wars.
Australia Dossier
by Robert Barwick
Privatization contaminates Sydney water.
Editorial
This financial system is finished.
Economics
A ‘rolling crash’ hits global financial markets
by William Engdahl
“The international financial system is in such a state, that the wrong news at this point can crack it open,” one financial expert commented to EIR.
China makes clear: No devaluation of RMB!
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
Reflecting sane economic thinking, leading Chinese officials and economic experts have stepped forward to reaffirm China’s commitment to maintain the value of its currency.
IMF package is no solution for Ukraine
by Konstantin George
Japan in political, economic collapse
It’s official: Japan has entered a depression, and the current leadership is crazy, committed to protecting paper property values, while the real economy goes to hell.
Malaysia battles the IMF on national, international fronts
by Michael O. Billington
Malaysia’s government has escalated its counter-offensive against the International Monetary Fund, while introducing an emergency domestic economic policy for survival.
The real, and fake, opponents of the IMF
by Michael O. Billington
Business Briefs
Feature
Mathematics & Measurement: Science vs. ideology
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
“How did it happen, that, in the U.S.A., in particular, so many among government officials, and others, have been misled into supporting those policies which have ruined the U.S. economy during the course of the recent quarter-century?... The essence of the problem ... is that our government and Wall Street, to name but two relevant cases, have chosen a kind of mathematics which is intrinsically absurd when applied to economic analysis.”
Math and matter
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
International
Embassy bombings aimed to drive U.S. out of Africa
by Dean Andromidas and Joseph Brewda
The international oligarchical enemies of the United States have declared that they do not intend to allow the United States to trample on their “colonial turf”—especially African colonial turf, rich in strategic raw materials.
Tracking Her Majesty’s intelligence service
by Hussein Al-Nadeem
London’s terrorist groups have been shouting since Aug. 7, the day of the bombing of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, “We did it! We did it!”
Taliban conquer northern Afghanistan
by Ramtanu Maitra
Milosevic creates catastrophe in Kosova
by Umberto Pascali
The genocide continues, as the West fails to intervene.
London’s warlords launch war to grab Congo—again
by Linda de Hoyos
Less than 16 months since the military forces of Rwanda and Uganda marched Laurent Kabila into power in Kinshasa, the two neighbors have again invaded Congo.
Human rights mafia commits fraud against Cambodia
by Michael O. Billington and Gail G. Billington
Narco-terrorists open ‘war of secession’ against Colombia
by Gretchen Small
Israeli Labor leaders urge U.S. Mideast role
by William Jones
Prince Philip’s assault on religion
by Scott Thompson
The residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury was the site at which representatives of the “nine world religions,” plus World Bank President Sir James Wolfensohn, met to confer on implementing the Royal Consort’s Malthusian, feudalist agenda.
Documentation: Excerpts from the speeches at Lambeth Palace.
High priest of evil: Martin Palmer
by Scott Thompson and Mark Burdman
International Intelligence
National
Will new scandals bring down Starr and Olson?
by Edward Spannaus
The independent inquisitor is under investigation for leaking grand jury secrets to the press, and for witness-tampering involving his key witness in Arkansas, David Hale.
News media were Starr’s informants
by Edward Spannaus
Starr has not just been secretly giving confidential information to the news media, but members of the news media have also been giving confidential information to Starr, for his use in investigations and prosecutions.
Rep. Smith ambushes Chinese ambassador
by William Jones
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
