Volume 24, Number 33, August 15, 1997
Interviews
Gregory D. Blaska
A dairy farmer and board member of the National Dairy Board explains what happened to dairy after parity protection was undermined.
Gösta Söderström
The first policemen to arrive at the scene of Olof Palme’s murder discusses the official coverup.
Richard Dieter
The executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center is the author of a report on “Innocence and the Death Penalty.”
Book Reviews
Ford Foundation operative promotes fascist ‘alternative’ to globalization
by Mark Burdman
When Corporations Rule the World, by David C. Korten.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
An army that wins the peace.
From New Delhi
by Ramtanu Maitra
India and ASEAN oppose U.S. on Myanmar.
Australia Dossier
by Robert Barwick
Heroin “trial program” approved.
Labor in Focus
by Marianna Wertz
Strikers reject “post-industrial” economy.
Editorial
Either justice, or war.
Economics
Asian leaders expose George Soros’s crimes
by Michael O. Billington and Gail G. Billington
After the British-owned speculator battered their currencies, Malaysia’s foreign minister told his associates at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, “It is time that we recognize these actions for what they really are, namely, villainous acts of sabotage.”
Danish infrastructure projects complement Eurasian Land-Bridge
by Poul Rasmussen
Three projects are getting under way: linking Denmark’s east and west, bridging the strait to Sweden, and crossing the Baltic Sea to northern Germany.
Parity pricing for dairy farming ‘built a beautiful industry’
An interview with Gregory D. Blaska.
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
Feature
Global financial crisis: The cookie crumbles
by Marcia Merry Baker
Finally, some parts of the establishment in Europe and the United States are admitting there’s a problem. “Okay, tell the suckers to get out of the market,” they say, “because if we don’t tell them to get out of the market, when it blows, they’re going to go running to LaRouche and say, ‘He was right, and these guys are wrong.’”
The robust Dow Jones: A closer look at the ‘fantasy index’
by John Hoefle
John Hoefle addresses an EIR seminar on “How to Save the Economy.”
How the suckers lost it all the last time around
by William Engdahl
What the Bretton Woods system really was designed to do
by William Engdahl
The objective of the Washington group working on proposals for Bretton Woods, was to create a treaty among sovereign nations to facilitate “the reconstruction of a multilateral system of world trade.” The U.S. view at the conference was not the “free trade” view of Lord Keynes and the British delegation.
International
Iran and its new President face an historic challenge
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
The Eurasian Land-Bridge has put Iran in a strategically crucial location, geographically, economically, and politically.
The Palme assassination: Swedish political ‘gatekeepers’ are losing their grip
by Torbjörn Jerlerup
New evidence in the murder of an investigative journalist who was uncovering Swedish arms deals with East Germany, Iran, and African nations, peels another layer from the coverup of the Palme assassination. As Edgar Allan Poe proved in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the hand behind the coverup, is the hand behind the deed.
‘The Palme investigation was initiated to protect the assassin’
An interview with Gösta Söderström.
International Intelligence
National
It’s time to cancel the Weld nomination
by Jeffrey Steinberg
As ambassador to Mexico, William Weld, who continues the 18th century traditions of his New England opium-trading family, would ill-serve the President and the country.
Tulsa trial adds twist to Oklahoma bomb plot
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Terrorism probes should target London
by Edward Spannaus
A fruitful investigation into “Islamic” terrorism in the U.S. would scrutinize the London networks of Afghansi moneybags Osama bin Laden.
Appeal is filed in LaRouche Voting Rights Act case
by Mary Jane Freeman
The same rotten party leadership around then-DNC chairman Don Fowler and the salacious Dick Morris, who prevented the Democratic Party from retaking Congress in 1996, ordered state parties to “ignore” the primary votes to send LaRouche delegates to the national convention.
America is killing innocent people
by Marianna Wertz
A report on “Innocence and the Death Penalty.”
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
