Volume 28, Number 4, January 26, 2001
California Energy Disaster: A Failed Economic Policy
by Marsha Freeman
On Jan. 17, the electricity crisis that has plagued California since last Spring, finally resulted in rolling electricity blackouts. This extreme measure was ordered due to a lack of supply, and fear for the integrity of the electrical grid. And, the crisis is spreading throughout the nation. The choice now is, the policies of GeorgeW. Bush, whose family has profited from the policies which led to the crisis, or those of Lyndon LaRouche, who would revive President Franklin Roosevelt’s approach.
Texas Bandits and Popular Delusions Hold State of California Hostage
by Harley Schlanger
Testimony on Secretary of Energy Nomination: Reregulate Energy, and Keep Privateers Out of the Cabinet
by Marcia Merry Baker and John Hoefle
“Testimony to the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, U.S. Senate, in Opposition to the Confirmation of Senator Spencer Abraham as Secretary of Energy,” submitted by EIR economics experts.
Economics
Saudi Minister Yamani: ‘Kissinger Was Behind 1974 Oil Shock’
U.S. ‘Energy Crisis’ Slams Manufacturers
by Marcia Merry Baker
Energy Crisis Hits America’s Poor Hardest
by Mary Jane Freeman
Energy Inflation Also Devastates Mexico
by Juan José Mena Carrizales
LaRouche, Other Top Economists, Talk to ‘Smart Investor’ Magazine
The Malaysia- and Singapore-based magazine Smart Investor invited Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. to contribute to a two-part series, with three other prominent economists, on the debate among Asian nations on how to deal with the global financial collapse.
Business Briefs
International
Eurocrats Tell Asia at ASEM: Stay on the IMF ‘Titanic’
by Kathy Wolfe
If Asian nations take the IMF’s advice and stay within the current, bankrupt global financial system, they will be signing their own death warrant.
China Endorses Asian Economic Integration
by Mary Burdman
Major Steps Taken To Bolster Chinese-Indian Relations
by Ramtanu Maitra
India Prepares To Broaden Its Role in Southeast Asia
by Ramtanu Maitra
China Builds on Strong Ties to Southeast Asia
by Mary Burdman
Globalized Bank Sector Is Collapsing In Peru
by Manuel Hidalgo
Chiluba’s U-Turn Is Last Chance for Zambia
by Lydia Cherry
‘Bush Lobby’ Plots New Provocations in London
by Mark Burdman
International Intelligence
History
Jean Sylvain Bailly: The French Revolution’s Benjamin Franklin
by Pierre Beaudry
Pierre Beaudry presents the work of a man who, although the Benjamin Franklin of the French Revolution, is today almost completely unknown! So false are the British-dominated historical sciences, that the case of Jean Sylvain Bailly is only one of a number in the history of Europe alone, in which real “Founding Fathers” of sovereign nation-states have become virtually unheard-of, even in their own nations. The case of Bailly is a warning of the crucial importance of studies such as this, if we are to regain the true history of the republican nation-state, and not allow its destruction in a new, “globalized” world empire.
National
Ashcroft Fight Is Really About Fascist Path for U.S.
by Debra Hanania Freeman
When Lyndon LaRouche warned that unless put on a very short leash, the Bush Administration would likely move quickly, under the guise of “crisis management,” to impose a bureaucratic fascism on the United States, bearing striking similarities to the conditions under which Adolf Hitler seized power in Germany in 1933, some people thought that LaRouche might be exaggerating. However, Bush’s drive to ram through his crisis management team has established LaRouche’s authority as uncontestable.
Challenges Continue to Florida Vote
by Michele Steinberg
Rumsfeld Aims at China, Korea in Hearings
Sen. Jesse Helms Gets a New Lease on Life
by William Jones
Four Decades of ‘Crisis Management’: Precedents for Incoming Bush Team
by Edward Spannaus
Departments
Australia Dossier
by Robert Barwick
Selling Off the Farm.
Report from Germany
by Rainer Apel
The Bell Tolls for Joschka Fischer.
Editorial
A Market Crash Might Save Your Family
