Volume 23, Number 35, August 30, 1996
Interviews
Alberto Guglielmo
by Liliana Celani and Claudio Celani
The regional minister for Productive Activities of Italy’s Lombardy Region was one of the two leaders of a delegation of 140 Italian industrialists who visited China in June, and inaugurated the “Palazzo Lombardia” in Shanghai.
Book Reviews
Justice Served, At Last
by Katherine Notley
Defending “Ivan the Terrible”: The Conspiracy To Convict John Demjanjuk, by Yoram Sheftel.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Globalizers Coming Under Attack.
Entente Bestiale
by Silvia Palacios and Jeffrey Steinberg
Danielle Mitterrand Promotes a New “Chiapas” in Brazil.
Editorial
The Sword of Damocles.
National Economy
Water Usage Decline Shows U.S. Economy Is ‘Drying Up’
by Marcia Merry Baker, Anthony K. Wikrent, and John Hoefle
The water crisis is a marker for the overall breakdown of the physical economy. An exclusive study.
Major Problem Areas in U.S. Water Supply
by Marcia Merry Baker
Build Waterworks: NAWAPA, Nuclear-Powered Desalination
Who Opposes Water Projects?
Economics
IMF Austerity Provokes Bread Riots in Jordan
The riots broke out after the Kabariti government announced that state subsidies on bread and animal fodder would be lifted, in accordance with the dictates of the International Monetary Fund.
Resistance Grows to Argentine Austerity
by Cynthia R. Rush
Analysts and investors on Wall Street and in the City of London were rattled on Aug. 8, when the labor movement paralyzed Argentina in a general strike.
Currency Rates
Leibniz and the List Hypothesis
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Afterword to a forthcoming book on the German-American economist Friedrich List (1789-1846).
Business Briefs
Feature
Today’s Echoes of Civil Wars in Ancient Rome
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
“The source of (at least, most) international terrorism today, is not Libya, not Iran, nor some privately funded potency, such as a mythical ‘Goldfinger’ conceived for a James Bond movie-script. Most of today’s terrorism occurs as covert warfare among leading powers of the world, like the U.S.-backed, British covert war against the Soviet Union, in Afghanistan, conducted by privately funded channels of an Afghansi mujahideen, and based out of the drug-trafficking paradise in northern Pakistan.” Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. brings his unique grasp of history to bear on the current strategic crisis.
International
Russia Edges Toward Civil War as Power Struggle Deepens
by Konstantin George
With Yeltsin ailing, a post-Yeltsin triumvirate now rules: Gen. Aleksandr Lebed, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, and Anatoli Chubais.
Documentation: Economist Sergei Glazyev is named to a high post in Russia’s Security Council.
France and Britain Demand New Imperial Rule in Africa
by Christine Bierre
Reports from Paris on the new face of French military policy, and Franco-British demands for a “new empire.”
Jacques Chirac in Africa
by Frédérique Vereycken
Colonialism—‘The Best Thing Since the Flood’
Entente Bestiale Makes OAU Its Enforcer
by Frédérique Vereycken
UN Tries To Impose Narc-FARC in Colombia Power-Sharing Deal
by José Restrepo
Brawl over ‘Bush Plan’ Breaks Out in Bolivia
by Gretchen Small
International Intelligence
National
Starr Uses Open Thuggery in ‘Get Clinton’ Drive
by Edward Spannaus
The wild-card in the Whitewater operation is the only serious Arkansas scandal: the drug-smuggling and gun-running operation run out of Mena by George Bush and Ollie North.
The Pathology of ‘Cultural Determinism’
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The victim believes that the universe is controlled by a vast conspiracy made up of a class of galactic aliens known as “The Administrators,” and that anything which the Administrators believe in common must inevitably occur.
Perot Threw a Party, and Hardly Anyone Came
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Plus the polymorphous “therapy” methods of Lenora Fulani.
Polymorphous Politics
by Dennis Speed
GOP Platform Revives ‘Contract on America’
by Edward Spannaus
LaRouche v. Fowler: DNC Defends Its Jim Crow Rule Changes
Excerpts from the court hearing in the LaRouche v. Fowler case, in which the judge overturned the 1965 Voting Rights Act, declaring the Democratic Party to be a private club that can select its own members.
Pennsylvania Schools Fleeced in Latest Derivatives Scam
by John Hoefle
National News
Correction
Correction
On p. 34 of our Aug. 23 issue, in the article “Iran-Turkey Deals: The West Should Now Pursue ‘Dialogue,’” second column, the text should have read: “Swap transactions are also used, whereby Iran exports its crude oil from Kharg Island to consumer markets in exchange for crude made available to Iran [not Iraq, as erroneously printed] by the other countries.”
