Volume 17, Number 48, December 14, 1990
Interviews
Brigadier Hugo de Oliveira Piva
by Silvia Palacios and Lorenzo Carrasco
The former director of the Brazilian Aerospace Technology center tells why he led a Brazilian team to help Iraq develop air-to-air missile technology.
Book Reviews
Inside the Perfidious Col. Oleg Gordievsky
by Jeffrey Steinberg
KGB: The Inside Story, by Oleg Gordievsky and Christopher Andrew.
When ‘Family’ Comes before Country
by Pamela Lowry
The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family, by Paul C. Nagel.
The Dream of Decent Black Education
by Denise Henderson
Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations: Charleston’s Avery Normal Institute, by Edmund L. Drago.
Books Received
War-Winning Doctrine Is Best Defense
by Dean Andromidas
The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece, by Victor Davis Hanson.
Departments
Report from Rome
by Antonio Gaspari
Do Oil Multis Run Italian Politics?
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
A Vote against Neo-Liberalism.
Dateline Mexico
by Hugo López Ochoa
Salinas-Bush Pact: Oil for Fraud.
Panama Report
by Carlos Wesley
Bush Orders Another Invasion.
Books Received
Editorial
George Bush’s “New World Order.”
Economics
Depression Now a ‘Downturn,’ as Bush Scapegoats Iraq
by Christopher White
Gone is the talk of the umpteenth month of economic recovery; now Americans are supposed to believe that Saddam Hussein has caused the past 25 years of collapse of the physical economy.
Why I Helped Iraq Develop Advanced Technologies
by Silvia Palacios and Lorenzo Carrasco
Interview with Brazilian Brigadier Hugo de Oliveira Piva.
Argentina, Brazil Bury Nuclear Hopes
by Dennis Small
Soviets Made Fatal Blunders in Energy and Agriculture
by William Engdahl
U.S. States Reveal Huge Budget Deficits
by H. Graham Lowry
Giant Turkish Dam Projects Offer Water for the Desert, Aid to Peace
by Marcia Merry
Currency Rates
Banking
by John Hoefle
More Deregulation Is Coming.
Domestic Credit
by Anthony K. Wikrent
A New Threat to Airport Financing.
Transportation
by Giuliana Sammartino
At Last, a Navigable Po.
Business Briefs
Feature
The Terrible Cost of George Bush’s Persian Gulf War
by Webster G. Tarpley
Whether Bush orders the troops to attack, or Israel attacks in response to a staged atrocity, the Anglo-American Establishment’s policy direction is impelling the world toward World War III and nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union. This dossier, based on extensive interviews with military experts, presents what the Gulf war may actually look like, and points out where it will go out of control.
LaRouche: Why We Must Support Iraq
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Coalition against Gulf War Forms in France
Propaganda Hitmen Target Gullible To Fork Out Funds for Gulf War
by Herbert Quinde
International
German Elections: A Vote for Economic Progress
by Rainer Apel and Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
The first national vote in the reunified country, on Dec. 3, came as a black day for the ecologists and the socialists alike.
Army and KGB Dictate Soviet Reorganization
by Konstantin George
The Days of Major’s Kingdom Are Numbered
by Mark Burdman
Britain’s new prime minister isn’t even moving his family into 10 Downing Street.
LaRouche: Thatcher Caused More Deaths than Adolf Hitler
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Bush Tour of South America Builds Hemispheric War Machine
by Dennis Small
Carlos Menem Provokes Military Uprising in Argentina
by Cynthia R. Rush
Africa’s Refugees: A Moral Test for the Industrialized World
by Michael Gelber
They’re at the top of the malthusians’ list for mass extermination.
Burundi Acts To Overcome Tribalism
by Michael Gelber
Pakistan Reevaluates Its U.S. Ties after Pressler Amendment Aid Cutoff
by Susan Maitra and Ramtanu Maitra
International Intelligence
National
Bush Pushes War, Prepares To Override Constitution
by Joseph Brewda
In effect, Defense Secretary Cheney and Secretary of State Baker told Congress, “Gentlemen, if it’s war we want, then you will just have to rubberstamp it.”
Gulf Military Stance Doubted in Hearings
Dire warnings from economist John Kenneth Galbraith and former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia James Akins.
The ADL Hawks War in the Gulf
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The Anti-Defamation League is setting the stage for Israel launching war as a “breakaway ally” of the United States.
North Gets Subpoena in Roanoke Trial
by Nora Hamerman
National News
