Volume 25, Number 28, July 17, 1998
Departments
Editorial
Take off the gloves for McDade-Murtha.
National Economy
How the government and Army built America’s railroads
by Anton Chaitkin
Historian Anton Chaitkin reports on the military-government alliance that brought America’s railroads into being. The oligarchical financial interests, such as Wall Street and big-name Eastern Establishment families, ended up owning, and, mostly, destroying, America’s railroads, but they didn’t build them.
John Quincy Adams: ‘Liberty is power’
Army-engineered rail construction projects
Great rail projects raised living standards
LaRouche: Railroads and the Eurasian Land-Bridge
Economics
Epicenter of financial crisis shifts to Russia
by Rachel Douglas and Konstantin George
The issue, as Deputy Premier Boris Nemtsov put it, is: “Will we succeed in avoiding a bankruptcy of the Russian Federation or not?” Handing over the Russian crisis to the IMF to cure, imperils civilization.
EIR confronts Camdessus
The Russian fight for ‘national economy’
by Rachel Douglas
The intelligentsia around the Academy of Sciences and government-linked think-tanks are beginning to debate how to save Russia’s physical economy from destruction by the financial pyramid and the IMF.
Only a healthy economy will save the ruble
Russia boosts India’s nuclear power program
by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan B. Maitra
Thailand rethinks IMF, looks to great projects to end depression
by Michael O. Billington
Thai patriots want to revive the Kra Canal.
Business Briefs
Feature
Where Franklin Roosevelt was interrupted
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
“Had the same war-time, Roosevelt program of 1939-1945, been adapted to the rapid, post-war, agroindustrial development of new nations freshly freed from the debilitating hand of British, French, etc. imperialism, the U.S. and its partners would have enjoyed a continuing, post-war economic growth. The policy-shaping institutions established under the first two decades of such a post-war conversion program, would have virtually ensured further, planetary growth and stability throughout the 1945-1998 interval.”
International
Clinton’s China trip: a triumph, with tragic flaws
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
President Clinton achieved a very significant improvement in the climate of U.S.-China relations, but he missed the historic opportunity to engage China as a key ally of the United States in a “New Bretton Woods” policy to reorganize the bankrupt, collapsing international financial system.
Documentation: Excerpts from Presidents Bill Clinton’s and Jiang Zemin’s remarks during the visit.
Congressmen call for U.S. special peace envoy to end war in Sudan
by Linda de Hoyos
Venezuela: Will Caldera impose a national emergency?
by David Ramonet
International Intelligence
National
Starr shreds Constitution in ‘Get Clinton’ crusade
by Edward Spannaus
Starr has specifically violated the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
New ‘Pentagon papers’ show Linda Tripp was a high-level mole
by Anton Chaitkin
EIR has acquired papers from Tripp’s official descriptions of her own career in the military—including handling top secret material—that clearly point to having been a Bush “stay-behind” within the Clinton White House.
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
