Volume 29, Number 8, March 1, 2002
After the Collapse of Enron: Next Comes the Cluster-Bust!
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.’s keynote speech to the Presidents’ Day weekend conference of the Schiller Institute and International Caucus of Labor Committees, in Reston, Virginia. “We’ve come to a momentous weekend, as I promised you, when I issued the title for today’s remarks: The Enron crisis would be ‘Cluster’s Last Stand.’ That we are now on the weekend of the Great Cluster-Buster; the day that the walls fall down. Not that the falling is completed today, but, to many people around the world who are paying attention, it’s obvious that this financial system, as a whole, is in the process of disintegrating.”
The solutions—the Eurasian Land-Bridge, the New Bretton Woods—are on the table. “All it requires, at this point, is ... a leader of vision and understanding, who’s willing to break glass, the glass imprisonment of popular opinion, and say: ‘We are going to Hell. Would you like to survive? Will you join me in surviving?’ And, what I need from you, and from many other people, is a simple, ‘Yes. We want to do it.’”
Economics
Derivatives Write Epitaph for the Financial Markets
by John Hoefle
Since the collapse of Enron, new revelations are warning that underneath the visible spectacle of large corporations going bankrupt, are tens of trillions of derivatives contracts, threatening to bring down the biggest banks in the world.
South Korea’s Kim Gets Bush To Back Silk Road
by Kathy Wolfe
Ibero-America and the World Land-Bridge
by Dennis Small
Colombia’s Pastrana Breaks with the FARC
by Valerie Rush
Science & Technology
New Nuclear Designs Ready To Power Economic Reconstruction
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
In America, Russia, and South Africa, companies have designed new nuclear reactors—small, inherently safe high-temperature modules, ideal for industrializing underdeveloped regions.
South Africa’s PBMR Is Moving Ahead
Russia’s GA Reactor To Burn Weapons Plutonium
An interview with Walter Simon.
General Atomics’ GT-MHR
Interviews
Walter Simon
Mr. Simon is a nuclear engineer and Senior Vice President for Reactor Projects at General Atomics in San Diego. He is in charge of the joint program GA has with Russia to build a nuclear reactor, which will use weapons-grade plutonium as fuel.
Departments
Editorial
What’s Really at Stake in Zimbabwe.
International
British Colonialists Misfire in Zimbabwe
by Lydia Cherry
As Zimbabwe’s March 9-10 elections approach, Africa’s former colonial masters, led by Britain, have so accelerated their war of propaganda and manipulation against the Zimbabwe government, that they run the risk of losing some of their control elsewhere in Africa.
Zimbabwe Under Siege
by Dr. Simbi Mubako
Dr. Mubako is the Ambassador of Zimbabwe to the United States.
UN Adviser Tells the Hard Truth About Africa
by Lawrence K. Freeman
Sharon’s Two-Front War Against Peace
by Dean Andromidas
The Truth Sticks: Sharon Is a Liar
by Dean Andromidas
Washington Is Heading for a New Iraq War
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
Europeans Oppose ‘Axis of Evil’ Line
by Rainer Apel
Afghanistan Plants a Bumper Opium Crop
by Alexander Hartmann
In Memoriam: John Erickson (1929-2002)
by Mark Burdman
On the Passing of John Erickson
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
OIC, EU Unite vs. Clash of Civilizations Crowd
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Cambodia: UN, NGOs Endanger Peaceful Recovery
by Gail G. Billington
National
On Presidents’ Day, LaRouche Is the American Leader
by Paul Gallagher
During the long weekend of Feb. 16-18, Presidents’ Day, Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche was simultaneously the center of attention and leadership at a national conference of his U.S. political movement, and in the press of a number of other nations.
Bush’s Budget Seeks British-Style ‘Reform’
by Carl Osgood
Pakistan: Little Substance in Musharraf’s U.S. Visit
by William Jones
Maryland Teachers Fight Bush’s Testing Policy
by Donald Phau
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
Correction
In last week’s issue, an editorial error was introduced into the article “Scalia Backs Feudal Law Against Democracy,” by Marianna Wertz (p. 79). Scalia told the Pew Forum, “The Constitution I apply is not living but dead or, as I put it, ‘enduring.’”
