Volume 25, Number 48, December 4, 1998
Departments
Banking
by John Hoefle
Deutsche Bank is buying Bankers Trust.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Sobering begins on red-green policy.
Australia Dossier
by Allen Douglas
The handwriting is on the wall.
Editorial
A whole world of trouble.
Economics
Russia’s plan to rebuild farming shocks free traders
by Marcia Merry Baker
Russia needs food assistance, but its rejection of cartel dumping policies has free-trade advocates like Senator Lugar flustered. The United States must undertake a Food for Peace program.
Primakov government must be supported
by Taras Muranivsky
Remarks by Dr. Taras Muranivsky, president of the Schiller Institute for Science and Culture in Russia, to an EIR seminar.
Japan: new thinking on financial crisis
A marked shift is under way, in the thinking of Japanese policymakers concerning the nature of the global economic crisis.
U.S. farm equipment production, a strategic asset, is shutting down
by Richard Freeman
Hunger looms in Brazil, with ‘just in time’ food reserve policy
by Lorenzo Carrasco and Vitor Grunewaldt
What Brazil’s policy comes down to today is providing enormous profits to the food cartels which control “the comparative advantages” of the markets.
Brazil’s deal with the IMF is suicide
Business Briefs
National Economy
How China is building the Eurasian Land-Bridge
by Mary Burdman
A report on a conference on “Asia-Europe Economic and Trade Relations in the 21st Century and the Second Eurasian Bridge.”
The Silk Road will gloriously reappear
by Zhang Quan
A speech by Zhang Quan, vice-president and general secretary of the China Association of Enterprises of Foreign Investment.
Foreign policy in the Land-Bridge era
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
A speech by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, president of the Schiller Institute.
The eastern terminal of the Land-Bridge
by Zia Geng
A speech by Xia Geng, the mayor of Lianyungang.
International and internal cooperation
by Xue Jiaji
A speech by Xue Jiaji, professor at Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Social Sciences.
The economic potential of Jiangsu Province
by Yu Xingde
A speech by Yu Xingde, executive vice governor of Jiangsu Province.
Join hands to build the Continental Bridge
by Guo Gengmao
A speech by Guo Gengmao, vice governor of Hebei Province.
An important role for Qinhuangdao bridgehead
by Zhang Duliang
A paper by Zhang Duliang, of the Qinhuangdao City Research Group on the New Euro-Asia Continental Bridge.
Feature
Friedrich Schiller and the Liberation Wars
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Helga Zepp-LaRouche, in her keynote speech to the Schiller Institute’s conference in Bad Schwalbach, Germany, uncovers a hitherto-suppressed dimension of world history: the role of Friedrich Schiller, Germany’s Poet of Freedom, and his associates, in defeating Napoleon’s imperial conquest of Europe. There are indispensable lessons to be learned, for those fighting to defeat oligarchism and globalization today.
International
Jiang in Russia: a speech that can change history
by Mary Burdman
Chinese President Jiang Zemin’s visit to Russia, and especially his speech at Novosibirsk’s Science City, constituted a strategic revolution.
Documentation: The full text of President Jiang’s speech.
Relief agencies call for peace in Sudan
by Linda de Hoyos
Schiller Institute meets in Germany; LaRouche calls for end to IMF system
At a conference in Bad Schwalbach, Germany, participants conducted a wide-ranging discussion, under the banner of “History as a Principle of Action.”
International Intelligence
National
Department of Injustice, under attack, lashes out
by Rochelle Ascher
Faced with its failure to stop McDade-Murtha, with its towel boy Kenneth Starr increasingly discredited, and more expose´s coming out on its abuses, the permanent bureaucracy in the Department of Justice has launched a new round of frame-ups of prominent African-American elected officials.
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
