Volume 26, Number 2, January 8, 1999
Science & Technology
The Moon: Where it came from, how we will colonize it
by Marsha Freeman
An interview with Dr. Alan Binder.
Interviews
Nicholas E. Hollis
Mr. Hollis is president of the Agribusiness Council, a non-profit association which aims to project the best of American agribusiness into the international arena.
Dr. Alan Binder
Dr. Binder discusses the continuing puzzle of where the Moon came from, and the discoveries that will make it more easily habitable.
Departments
Australia Dossier
by Allen Douglas
Disarming national sovereignty.
Editorial
The threat of nuclear war.
Strategic Studies
Lazare Carnot: the excellence of leadership in times of crisis
by Elisabeth Hellenbroich
At a meeting of the Schiller Institute in Bad Schwalbach, Germany on Nov. 21, 1998, Elisabeth Hellenbroich introduces a panel on the great French scientist, mathematician, military leader, and political figure.
How Carnot became a lieutenant general in the Prussian Army
by Andreas Ranke
Carnot and his times
Carnot’s theory of technology: the basis for the science of physical economy
by Dino de Paoli
‘A citizen of all places, and a contemporary of all times’
by Jacques Cheminade
Economics
Oil price collapse puts Mexico in existential crisis
by Carlos Cota Meza
As is typically the case, specialized publications around the world have failed to report what is actually going on.
The global financial crisis reaches the Texas ‘oil patch’
by Brian Lantz
The disastrous situation demonstrates the failure of “globalism” and British free-market economics.
U.S. Ex-Im Bank sets up shop in Beijing
by William Jones
When will Washington stop shooting itself in the foot, and join the effort to build the Eurasian Land-Bridge?
ADM’s price-fixing spotlights need for nation-serving agribusiness
by Marcia Merry Baker
Jennings Randolph: in the FDR tradition
ADM’s history of corruption
Peru’s banking crisis: just the beginning
by Manuel Hidalgo
Banking
by John Hoefle
Bashing the CFTC.
Feature
Al Gore and Adolf Hitler
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
“As the writer Plutarch would have described it, there is an ominous parallel between the presently attempted coup d’état against President Clinton, and the way in which the government of Germany’s Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher was overthrown, on January 28, 1933, by Hjalmar Schacht and London-backed forces inside the German parliament, to hustle Adolf Hitler into power.”
Lautenbach’s program for German recovery
by Michael Liebig
Iraq crisis placed Gore center-stage
by Michele Steinberg
How Britain and Israel set up the Iraq trap
by Joseph Brewda
A dossier on the British and Israeli agents and assets who propelled the United States into its disastrous war against Iraq, in order to destroy the U.S. Presidency.
International
The Russia-China-India triangle moves forward
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
Russian Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov’s visit to New Delhi marks a strategic milestone toward the Eurasian Land-Bridge, the infrastructure development project of the 21st century.
Is the West Too Arrogant To Learn?
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
LaRouche’s ideas circulate in Russia
by Rachel Douglas
Documentation: From an interview with Lyndon LaRouche published in the Russian journal Who Is Who.
Mandelson resigns; can Blair be far behind?
by Mark Burdman
The government of Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair is coming apart at the seams.
Blair’s Fortress Europe decouples from U.S.A.
by Tore Fredin
All of a sudden, Swedish and Finnish social democratic leaders are calling for an orientation to “NATO”—by which they mean, not the United States, but Britain.
Paris Club bankrolls Central Africa wars
by Linda de Hoyos
The consortium of government lenders to developing countries is handing over $2.2 billion to Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni, whose government is even recognized by the World Bank as one of the most corrupt in the world.
ASEAN unites against economic crisis
by Michael O. Billington and Gail G. Billington
Cambodia overcomes NED subversion
by Michael O. Billington and Gail G. Billington
National
Senate impeachment trial: a ‘bipartisan’ coup d’état
by Edward Spannaus
The pressure for a “censure” deal in the Senate, which is intended to force the weakened President into a power-sharing “co-Presidency” arrangement with Vice President Al Gore, is coming from traitorous Senate Democrats as well as Confederate-loving Republicans.
