Volume 25, Number 41, October 16, 1998
Interviews
C. Michael Foale
Dr. Foale was the fifth NASA astronaut to live on the Mir station, and he conducted experiments on growing plants in space. He is Assistant Director (Technical) at the NASA Johnson Space Center.
Departments
Australia Dossier
by Robert Barwick
Harbingers of a New Dark Age.
Editorial
Clinton must bring in LaRouche.
Science & Technology
Research on Mir advances growing plants in space
by Marsha Freeman
An international program to grow plants in microgravity has produced important, and sometimes surprising results.
First seed-to-seed plants grown in space
An interview with Dr. C. Michael Foale.
Economics
People first!
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon LaRouche’s guidelines for reorganization of the global financial system. “The present financial system is doomed to disappear, very soon,” he writes. “The continued existence of the U.S.A., as of other nations, depends absolutely upon the alacrity with which the government responds with certain required, immediate measures of emergency action.”
Time to tell the truth
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
“So far, the President has refused to tell the truth about the U.S. economy,” says Lyndon LaRouche. If the nation is to survive, that must stop.
‘Bailouts’ won’t work: The whole financial system is disintegrating
by John Hoefle
Why then do they do it? The present financial system exists by cannibalizing the nations and peoples of the world, and were it to stop doing so, the system itself would immediately collapse.
Providing Russia’s ‘daily bread’ is now an international emergency
by Marcia Merry Baker
The “free-market” reforms have razed Russia’s agriculture, and devalued its currency to the point it cannot import food: Muscovites now spend nearly all their wages just to eat.
Leaders fail to act to stem financial crash
by Jeffrey Steinberg
A report on meetings on the financial crisis in Washington, including the G-22.
Documentation: Excerpts from President Clinton’s speech to the IMF.
U.S. in rapid decline, yet Rubin talks up IMF
by Marcia Merry Baker
Soros loses his cool over speculation, drugs
by Jeffrey Steinberg
After his tête-à-tête with EIR.
Greenspan backs hedge funds; Congress gags
by Marcia Merry Baker
Lull in Venezuela’s foreign exchange crisis: the calm before the storm
by David Ramonet
A currency board would finish off Mexico
by Carlos Cota Meza
Business Briefs
Feature
The human rights issues in the Virginia LaRouche cases
by Barbara Boyd
The Virginia cases against Lyndon LaRouche’s associates—serving between 33 and 77 years as political prisoners—represent the crudest side of what former Attorney General Ramsey Clark referred to as the most “complex and pervasive utilization of law enforcement, prosecution, media and non-governmental agencies focussed on destroying an enemy” in his experience.
International
Will NATO strike? The price of appeasement in Kosova
by Umberto Pascali
London is talking up NATO air strikes against butcher Milosevic, provoking a harsh reaction from an economically distraught Russia. The intent is to paralyze U.S. authority internationally.
City of London unleashes ‘Netanyahu wars’ from Balkans to Central Asia
by Joseph Brewda
Britain is seeking to turn the entire area into a foreign policy minefield, paralyzing especially U.S. ability to secure peace and development in these regions.
Italian government falls over budget
by Claudio Celani
How long will Tony Blair last?
by Mark Burdman
Blair, like the Depression government of Ramsay MacDonald, is rapidly becoming Her Majesty’s Expendable.
Dramatic revelations in Princess Diana case
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Did British intelligence down Swissair Flight 111?
by Dean Andromidas
A former MI6 agent, who has been airing a lot of the agency’s dirty laundry, was booked on that flight—which he missed.
Australia’s elections: Elites conspire vs. economic nationalists
by Robert Barwick and Allen Douglas
International Intelligence
National
House Republicans commit treason in impeachment vote
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Never has the world needed the leadership of the United States and its President more than now. Never mind—the House GOP voted in unprincipled lock-step to press ahead with a coup d’e´tat.
Why was George Bush never impeached?
by Edward Spannaus
During his 12 years in the White House, Bush’s offenses went to the heart of what the Framers of the Constitution meant by “high crimes and misdemeanors”—that is, offenses against the state and the constitutional order.
Cover-up continues in Martin Luther King case
by Edward Spannaus
New initiatives could help expose the very-much-alive Justice Department effort to keep the truth from coming out.
National News
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
