Volume 7, Number 16, April 22, 1980
Departments
From the Editor-in-Chief
by Daniel Sneider
Editorial
by Nora Hamerman
An evil omen.
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menendez
The church goes political.
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
Iraq poised to knock out Khomeini.
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
Civil disobedience at the DOE.
Congressional Calendar
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Facts Behind Terrorism
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Hare Krishna: from cult to terrorism.
Economics
Carter Has Produced Hyperinflationary Recession
by David Goldman
Judging by the 1974-75 recession, some are saying interest rates have “peaked.” But this recession is different, because the U.S. economy in 1980 is different. For six months, it has been in the same condition as Schacht’s pre-1936 Nazi economy–and now verges on a Germany 1936-38-style breakdown.
International Credit
by Peter Rush
Japan’s “resource finance.”
Foreign Exchange
Transportation
by Steven Parsons
Rail dereg: a defense need?
Agriculture
by Susan B. Cohen
Can the cattlemen afford cattle?
Trade
Carter makes trade war his policy.
Trade Review
Business Briefs
Special Report
Planning Crises: From Nuclear Disaster to Nuclear War
by Konstantin George
It simulated a “nuclear disaster” one year ago, and a “nuclear war” two weeks ago. Now, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is ready to take over the U.S. government and reorganize the U.S. economy on fascist models-and it’s perfectly positioned to create the “crisis” that triggers its dictatorship.
What is FEMA?
‘Evacuating All, Allocating All’
Exclusive interview with Gen. Frank Camm.
How FEMA Ran the Scare at Three Mile Island
Agency Insider: ‘The Colonels Will Run the Cabinet’
Plus how FEMA ran New York City’s transit strike.
Who Is FEMA’s John Macy?
‘We’re Getting The City Ready For Much Worse’
A Fascist Economy with ‘Limited Sovereignty’
by Kathy Burdman
How FEMA would take over in a banking crisis.
International
Will the Soviet Union Occupy Sinkiang next?
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon LaRouche said in 1976 that world war was probable if Jimmy Carter was elected president. Last Spring, he predicted a Soviet invasion of Afghanistan if the Carter administration did not change policy course. He now reports that Soviet occupation of the western dessert region of China is probable, because the Carter administration has not changed course.
Iran Crisis: ‘Reichstag Fire’ and Blackmail of Europe
by Robert Dreyfuss
West Germany Pressured To Join in War Policy
by Rachel Douglas
“Germany Is Not America’s Shepherd Dog” – Schmidt: “Superpowers Are Moving Toward War.”
Japan Wants Mexican Oil: Will It Get It?
by Tim Rush
Including U.S., Mexican, and Japanese policy statements.
Mexico: No to ‘Pacific Community’
by Valerie Rush
Military Strategy: British Defense Policy: Aura of Power
by Susan Welsh
Britain’s Chinese Mentality
International Intelligence
National
Opposition Mounts to Volcker’s Austerity
by Marcia Merry Pepper and Bonnie Mesaros
In the cities, in state legislatures, in trade unions and on the farms, a rising tide of protest is directed at Paul Volcker’s credit policies. If this dispersed ferment unites around its own, alternative program, the administration could be in trouble.
When Will America’s Lights Go Out?
by Marsha Freeman
A special report on the status of the U.S. electrical grid by energy columnist Marsha Freeman.
National News
