Volume 24, Number 23, May 30, 1997
Book Reviews
Who is out to ‘Hammer’ Vice President Al Gore?
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer, by Edward Jay Epstein.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Berlin—from boom to doom?
Australia Dossier
by Allen Douglas
Kennett gives sleaze a bad name.
Editorial
The media are protecting George Bush.
Science & Technology
Mathematicians who can’t tell time
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. replies to an inquiry regarding Stephen Hawking’s 1988 book, A Brief History of Time. “Is the celebrated Professor Hawking competent on the subject of the place of time within physics?” LaRouche asks. “No. Are his views worth reading? Does a good police detective consider gruesome evidence bearing on a homicide worth studying?”
Economics
ECO summit promotes ‘Silk Road’ economic development
by Hussein al-Nadeem
Last year’s inauguration of a critical Iran-Turkmenistan rail link, heralded the first summit of the new Economic Cooperation Organization. These predominantly Muslim nations continue to move forward with a program for economic reconstruction and development.
Collapse of Dulles Greenway spells doom for ‘private’ road infrastructure
by L. Wolfe
The first U.S. private toll road in nearly two centuries, is going nowhere, and fast.
Economic growth depends upon investment in science, technology
by Marsha Freeman
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences sponsored a symposium on “National Science and Technology Strategies in a Global Context.”
Criminal investigators probe managed-care giant, Columbia/HCA
by Paul B. Gallagher
This predator is sucking the blood from the U.S. hospital system.
Bankers and insurance moguls run Columbia/HCA
by Marcia Merry Baker
Cartels patent bio-tech advances to stifle food R&D and production
by Colin Lowry
Cartel companies are tightening their grip over food production, by perversely obtaining patents on genetically modified plants.
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
Feature
Clinton, Zedillo defend sovereignty vs. one world order
by Valerie Rush and Dennis Small
The meeting of the two Presidents reaffirmed exactly the community of principle between sovereign nation-states, that the British and their co-thinkers in Washington had hoped to shatter.
Clinton’s encounter with Mexican history
by Carlos Cota Meza
From Tlaxcala, founded in the early 16th century, to the monument to the Child Heroes of 1847.
‘Dialogue’ says, smash the nation-state now!
by Cynthia R. Rush and Gretchen Small
The Inter-American Dialogue bankers’ lobby has issued two new reports, blueprints for turning the OAS into a regional dictatorship.
Kissinger to Clinton: Back Brazil’s Cardoso
by Silvia Palacios
A founding member of the Inter-American Dialogue, Cardoso has walked in lock-step with its directives, including allying with the continental narco-terrorists in the São Paulo Forum.
International
Who will be next on London’s target list?
by Linda de Hoyos
With the arrival of Zairean mercenary Laurent Kabila in Kinshasa, Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the forces of the Privy Council to the British monarchy completed phase one of their seizure of central Africa for the British Commonwealth.
Financiers, seeking loot, prop up Kabila’s Nazi rule
by Richard Freeman
In the tradition of Hjalmar Schacht’s backing for Adolf Hitler, top financiers from the British Commonwealth met in Lubumbashi on May 9 to open the cashboxes for Kabila’s takeover of mineral-rich Zaire.
EIR nails Kagame for his role in genocide
by Dean Andromidas
International Intelligence
National
Clinton says, fair labor standards cover workfare
by Marianna Wertz
Nearly 2 million people are moving from welfare to workfare, and advocates of the Conservative Revolution are demanding that they be paid below the minimum wage. The Labor Department rejects that, and adds that they should receive all the protections of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Mellon Scaife in new fraud against Clinton
by Edward Spannaus
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
