Volume 24, Number 24, June 6, 1997
Departments
Dateline Mexico
by Carlos Méndez
Will Cárdenas be the Kabila of Mexico?
Australia Dossier
by Allen Douglas
Green light for pedophiles.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Labor needs new ideas, new leaders.
Editorial
Japan crisis, or global blowout?
Strategic Studies
CFR signals new British tactic toward Iran, Iraq
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Foreign Affairs, journal of the New York Council on Foreign Relations, has served up a series of articles on “Changing Course in the Persian Gulf,” acknowledging that the Kissingerian dual containment strategy has failed, and frantically seeking a “kinder, gentler” method of stopping economic development in this crucial region. Muriel Mirak Weissbach reports.
Documentation: A chronology of Iran’s diplomatic initiatives.
Economics
Thailand fights back vs. hedge fund speculators
by Michael O. Billington
After the second round of speculative attacks on Thailand’s currency, Bangkok shocked the City of London by its uncharacteristic show of nationalist backbone.
Asian financial earthquake sends tremors around the world
by William Engdahl
As Alan Greenspan’s secret Tokyo stop shows, the people trying to “manage” the financial bubble risk blowing it out, no matter what they do.
Currency Rates
Upgrade India’s machine tool industry to build the Eurasian Land-Bridge
by Susan B. Maitra and Ramtanu Maitra
An in-depth look into the promise of this newly reviving sector of the Indian economy.
Business Briefs
Feature
Who will answer for East Zaire holocaust?
by Linda de Hoyos
Laurent Kabila, inaugurated President of the Republic of Congo on May 29, has given himself total authority over the government. It will require confrontation with the fact that Kabila’s master is London, to bring to account those responsible for the mass murder in eastern Zaire.
Genocide in Africa: Some of the truth comes out
A selection from the international press coverage of the atrocities being committed by Kabila’s forces.
The Hannibal Principle: Superior strategy can defeat the British
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon LaRouche explained to the Walluf, Germany conference on Africa’s Great Lakes region, how it is possible to defeat an apparently overwhelming enemy force.
International
Russian military is latest target of IMF austerity
by Rachel Douglas
The financial oligarchy’s justification for dismantling Third World militaries is that the Cold War is over. Now, the same principle is being applied to Russia itself.
Iran: Voters want change, within continuity
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Colombia hands over territory to the FARC, without firing a shot
by Javier Almario
Documentation: Excerpts from an interview granted by Colombian Army Commander Gen. Manuel José Bonett Locarno to El Tiempo.
The Perafán Case: Extradition back on the agenda of continental War on Drugs
by Valerie Rush
Venezuela’s decision to extradite the Cali Cartel drug lord to the United States is a major blow on behalf of hemispheric security.
International Intelligence
National
Bush, ‘Lords of Loudoun’ caught pushing genocide
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Not only have new revelations come to light tying George Bush to the Contras’ drugs-for-guns operations, but the evidence tracks to the oligarchical families of Virginia’s Hunt Country, who are up to their elbows in the African genocide.
New evidence links George Bush to Los Angeles drug operation
by Edward Spannaus
‘Lords of Loudoun’ assist British genocide in Africa
by L. Wolfe
The ‘Lords of Loudoun’ revisited
by L. Wolfe
Clinton undertakes to revamp NATO
by William Jones
The President recalled the promise of the Marshall Plan 50 years ago, on his European trip, where he also witnessed the signing of the Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security between NATO and the Russian Federation.
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
