Volume 23, Number 38, September 20, 1996
Departments
Entente Bestiale
by Omar Abdul-Aziz
London Terrorist Meeting Cancelled, but the Fight Has Just Begun.
Terrorism in Peru: The British Connection
by Cynthia R. Rush
Report from Paris
by C. Agricola
Papal Visit Unleashes Mad Dogs.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Signs of Sanity in Foreign Policy.
Editorial
Keep the Heat on Ridge.
Books
U.S. Labor Movement Revived as a Real Social Movement
by Marianna Wertz
America Needs a Raise: Fighting for Economic Security and Social Justice, by John J. Sweeney with David Kusnet.
Britain’s Legacy to Thailand: 150 Years of Dope, Inc.
by Michael Billington
Thailand: Economy and Politics, by Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker.
Economics
European Financial Elite Prepares Anti-Dollar Move
by William Engdahl
The Bank for International Settlements is launching the largest expansion in its history, to overthrow the “dollar era.”
China Opens Another Rail ‘Great Project’
by Mary Burdman
The Beijing-Kowloon railroad is “ready to roll,” in the latest expansion of China’s infrastructure.
Currency Rates
Mexico’s New Pact with IMF Shores Up Foreign Reserves with Drug Dollars
by Carlos Cota Meza
City of London Dumps De Benedetti from Italy’s Computer-Maker, Olivetti
by Claudio Celani
Business Briefs
Feature
Lazare Carnot’s Grand Strategy for Political Victory
by Dino de Paoli
Documents the brilliant military and political approach of France’s “Organizer of Victory,” the heir of Leibniz and Colbert who saved the nation many times during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars.
Lazare Carnot’s France
A chronology.
Britain, Venice Steered the French Revolution
Carnot: Beat the English with Flanking Operations
Excerpts from his “General System for Military Operations in the Next Campaign.”
British Economics vs. the American System
The work of Charles Laboulaye, in the tradition of Carnot.
International
Iranian Mission to Africa: Bad News for the British
by Hussein Al-Nadeem
Iranian President Rafsanjani orchestrated a peace settlement between Sudan and Uganda, and is taking new initiatives to deal with the economic crisis facing east Africa-the crisis upon which British-backed insurgencies thrive.
Documentation: The text of the agreement between Uganda and Sudan.
Colombia’s President Samper Is Behind Narcoterrorist Insurrection
Samper’s government is running cover for the FARC’s “Tet offensive.”
International Intelligence
National
LaRouche: Decisive Election Issue Will Be George Bush
Lyndon LaRouche tours Texas and Louisiana, gearing up a national mobilization for the weeks remaining before the November election.
Documentation: LaRouche’s speech in Monroe, Louisiana on Sept. 9 on “The U.S. Constitution and the American System.”
Simon the Bungler, the Texas Angel
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Maria Milton Wins Arizona Dem Primary
Star Chamber Overexposes Itself
by Edward Spannaus and Nancy Spannaus
Does Dole Have His Own Dick Morris Problem?
by Mark Sonnenblick
A profile of Paul Manafort.
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions: Bush’s Alabama ‘Knuckle-Dragger’
by Suzanne Klebe
Britain’s Media Sewer: Newhouse, Roy Cohn, and ‘Union Jackie’
by Stuart Rosenblatt and Anton Chaitkin
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
Correction
Correction
An editorial error on p. 32 of last week’s issue, in the article “U.S. Attack on Iraq Plays Right Into British Hands,” introduced a reference to “Margaret Bush’s Desert Storm.” We hope that our readers took it either as a joke or a Freudian slip, and were not unduly confused.
