Volume 24, Number 49, December 5, 1997
Interviews
Gerald Kuhn
Mr. Kuhn, a geologist based in southern California, has done pioneering work on the relationship of volcanoes to climate.
Christian Sendegeya
Mr. Sendegeya is the vice president of the National Council for the Defense of Democracy in Burundi.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Without new ideas, no new jobs.
From New Delhi
by Ramtanu Maitra
Currency collapse looms over India.
Australia Dossier
by Noelene Isherwood
Extraordinary Rembrandt exhibit under way.
Editorial
It’s time to bury the IMF.
Strategic Studies
Tweedledum goofs again
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
“Zbigniew Brzezinski’s most important political asset is that he is so obviously goofy,” writes Lyndon LaRouche of this British asset.
William Yandell Elliott: Confederate high priest
by Stanley Ezrol
The man who launched the careers of Sir Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Brzezinski’s geostrategic scheme for Eurasia
Excerpts from Zbigniew Brzezinski’s “A Geostrategy for Eurasia,” published in Foreign Affairs, the journal of the New York Council on Foreign Relations.
Russian commentary on Brzezinski’s plan
Articles by Sergei Glazyev and Yuri Maslyukov.
British ‘do business’ in the Caucasus
by Rachel Douglas
Clinton must impose sanctions against Britain for terrorism
by Joseph Brewda
Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak has courageously taken the initiative in denouncing Britain’s protection of terrorists.
Economics
So, the mountain will come to Clinton
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. comments on the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Vancouver, Canada.
APEC leaders tread water, as financial tidal wave sweeps in
by William Jones
William Jones reports from Vancouver.
Derivatives threaten shaky world financial system
by Richard Freeman
Brazil advances in space technology
by Geraldo Luis Lino
Brazil has become the first developing sector nation to participate in the International Space Station.
Volcanoes and the weather: surprising, nonlinear effects
An interview with Gerald Kuhn.
Business Briefs
Feature
The lesson of “The ‘Spot’ Resolutions”
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Abraham Lincoln’s 1847 “Spot” resolutions, writes Lyndon LaRouche, established “a benchmark, that point of reference out of which the United States became, during the 1861-1876 interval, the most powerful, most advanced economy of the world, and the model for all other societies capable of providing the means of true freedom to the entirety of their populations.”
How Britain’s treason machine made war against Mexico
by Anton Chaitkin and John C. Smith, Jr.
Anton Chaitkin and John C. Smith, Jr. examine Lincoln’s bold exposure of President James Polk’s lying pretexts for the Mexican War.
Bancroft and the treason school of history
by Anton Chaitkin and John C. Smith, Jr.
International
New probe, after 27 years, shows Mattei was murdered
by Claudio Celani
Italian nationalist leader Enrico Mattei died on the eve of a trip to the United States, during which he was to meet President Kennedy. That meeting would have sealed an alliance for a strategic development policy—a powerful threat to British strategic interests.
Permindex: Britain’s Murder, Inc.
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Fight for development at Nigerian economic summit
A report on the Fourth Nigerian Economic Summit, addressed by Helga Zepp-LaRouche.
Unbridled free trade is no help for Nigeria
by Sam Aluko
Brief comments on Vision 2010, by Sam Aluko.
Diana’s murder: French scramble to cover role
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Authorities in charge of the coverup are especially nervous that EIR has identified that Socialist government officials were at the scene.
Why London supports Rwanda’s confessed mass killer Paul Kagame
by Linda de Hoyos
What it will take to bring peace and development to Burundi
An interview with Christian Sendegeya.
International Intelligence
National
DOJ fraud embarrasses Clinton
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The head of the DOJ Fraud Section is telling lies about the railroad prosecution of Lyndon LaRouche.
Mayors warn of social crisis because of ‘welfare reform’
by Carl Osgood
Most cities in the United States will not be able to meet the job requirements set out in the 1996 welfare reform law, because of “a serious lack of available jobs in many cities,” according to Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell, based on a survey by the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
National News
