Volume 27, Number 36, September 15, 2000
Interviews
Curt Johnson
Mr. Johnson, the Commissioner of School and Public Lands in South Dakota, discusses, in the context of the widespread fires raging in U.S. Western states, how forests should be properly managed.
Departments
Editorial
Many Strategic Threats, One Cause.
Strategic Overview
Storm Over Asia, Take Two: I Told You So, and Now It Is Happening
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.’s keynote speech to the annual Labor Day weekend conference of the ICLC/Schiller Institute.
In October 1999, in a videotape entitled “Storm over Asia,” LaRouche warned that the collapse of the British-led oligarchy’s global financial system was propelling the world toward war. That assessment of the danger has been shown to be correct. Will the United States redeem its soul, and break from the British monarchy’s insane policy?
Economics
Germans Expose U.S. GDP Fraud, Imply Threat to Dollar
by Paul Gallagher
Monetary authorities in Germany have begun to expose as fraudulent, the United States’ statistics on GDP and inflation. Their criticism implies a warning that the dollar is greatly overvalued and set to fall.
Investment, Eurasian Infrastructure Are Burning Questions for Russia
by Rachel Douglas
Documentation: A memorandum on an economic program for the nation prepared by Yuri D. Maslyukov, Chairman of the Russian State Duma’s Committee on Industry, Construction, and Science-Intensive Technologies.
French Protest Oil and Gas Price Hikes
by Christine Bierre
Germany: The Autumn of Our Discontent Has Arrived
by Rainer Apel
Business Briefs
Special Report
Hyperinflationary Price Explosion in Housing Is Sweeping the U.S.
by Richard Freeman
A hyperinflationary spiral is sending U.S. home prices skyward; the prices bear no relation to what most Americans can afford. This reflects the debt-usury policy of the British-American-Commonwealth financier oligarchy, and the crossing over of this process, through a critical boundary condition, into Weimar Germany-style hyperinflation.
International
Fujimori Urges S. American Summit: Take Path of Unity
by Silvia Palacios and Lorenzo Carrasco
A report from Brasilia on the historic summit of 12 South American heads of state.
Fujimori: ‘Let Us Build the United States of South America’
‘The Rivers Which Unite Us’
by Nilder Costa
A review of plans for the economic integration of South America through construction of great infrastructure projects.
Brzezinski Again Lights the Geopolitical Fuse for War
by Scott Thompson
France’s Védrine Slams Anglo-American Policy
by Christine Bierre
Water Is Necessary for Durable Mideast Peace
by Carl Osgood
Former two-time Israeli Ambassador to the United States and a member of the Israeli Likud Party, Zalman Shoval, endorsed plans to create new water sources for the Mideast.
Korean ‘Miracle’ Moves Ahead As IMF Financiers Lash Out
by Kathy Wolfe
With excerpts from a speech by South Korean President Kim Daejung at the UN; and a statement by North Korean Vice Foreign Affairs Minister Choe Su-bon, on a nasty provocation at the Frankfurt Airport.
National
Clinton Won’t Authorize Bogus Missile Defense System
by Edward Spannaus
Recent breakthroughs in technologies based on new physical principles, suggest that the time is ripe to scrap the bogus NMD schemes of the past decade, and to go back to the original LaRouche-Reagan SDI approach.
LaRouche Rallies Democrats for Victory
by Michele Steinberg
A movement of Democrats dedicated to the General Welfare concept of the U.S. Constitution, and to the policies of a New Bretton Woods alliance of sovereign nation states, has emerged to rally the 80% of Americans, the “Forgotten man,” as President Franklin D. Roosevelt called them, to assert political control.
Report on TWA 800 Crash Leaves Many Questions
by Carl Osgood
Eyewitnesses say that a missile hit the plane, amid charges that the government is conducting a cover-up.
Threat of Indictment Hanging Over Clinton
by Edward Spannaus
The Science of Forest Fire Prevention
An interview with Curt Johnson.
