Volume 22, Number 20, May 12, 1995
Book Reviews
Britain and America Cross Swords over Postwar Policy toward China
by Michael Billington
Recasting the Imperial Far East: Britain and America in China, 1945-1950, by Lanxin Xiang.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Eurasian Land-Bridge Is Taking Shape.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
The Privatization of Eletrobras.
Andean Report
by David Ramonet
Venezuela’s Gordian Knot.
Editorial
Cynical Journalism in Service of the British.
Economics
Hoary Old Lloyds of London Heads into Insolvency
by William Engdahl
The world’s oldest and largest insurance market is in a scramble to raise something like $4.8 billion in cash by August; if it fails, it will be barred by law from accepting any new business.
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
Special Report
London Launches International Terrorism
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Introduces a study of Britain’s Pacific warfare against the United States, by analyzing those key conceptions which are crucial to understanding the motives and methods of the British monarchy’s deployment of the present wave of international terrorism.
EIR versus the Windsors
The United States Fights Britain’s Pacific Empire, 1820-1900
by Paul Goldstein
The U.S. intervention to open up friendly relations with Japan: Commodore Matthew Perry, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Carey, and E. Peshine Smith.
Britain’s Pacific Plot Against the United States, and War Plan Red
by Webster G. Tarpley
From the World War I-era Anglo-American rivalry for world naval domination, to the U.S. plan for war against Britain, to World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.
Sims vs. Benson: U.S. Admirals in Policy Clash
by Carl Osgood
Sir Robert Thompson and the U.S. Defeat in Vietnam
by Webster G. Tarpley
Britain and America Cross Swords over Postwar Policy toward China
by Michael Billington
U.S Policy toward India, 1940-50: An Indian Viewpoint
by Ramtanu Maitra
The Indian struggle for independence from Great Britain was the subject of bitter clashes between Roosevelt and Churchill, as well as of U.S. policy blunders that earned Washington the wrath of the Indian leaders.
Anatomy of the British War against President Clinton in Korea
by Kathy Wolfe
Great Britain’s Six-Year Destabilization of Japan
by Kathy Wolfe
Documentation: A chronology of the scandals, murders, and financial manipulations wielded against the ruling institutions and political figures of Japan.
International
Britain’s Baroness Chalker Defends Massacres in Rwanda
by Linda de Hoyos
Assault on Ibero-American Militaries Enters New Stage
by Valerie Rush
Documentation: “Just War” versus a “Dirty War.”
Legal Assault Planned on Ibero-American Armed Forces
by Cynthia R. Rush
As Crisis Deepens, Rare Truths Are Spoken Of in Britain
by Mark Burdman
The consensus around crucial historical, strategic, and philosophical questions that has prevailed inside the establishment over a significant period of time, shows signs of cracking.
Stalemate on a Shifting Front
by Katharine Kanter
The renewed Croatian military moves could end up being just another of President Tudjman’s diversions; but there are some unpredictable factors that could take on greater importance.
Trilaterals Having Trouble ‘Staying Relevant’
by Scott Thompson
International Intelligence
National
The Rehnquist Court Joins the Conservative Revolution
by Edward Spannaus
In the case of U.S. v. Lopez, the Supreme Court invalidated a law passed by Congress in 1990, which made it a federal crime for anyone to possess a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school.
Documentation: Excerpts from the Supreme Court opinion.
Oklahoma Bomb Probe Points to Conspiracy
by Jeffrey Steinberg
National News
