Volume 29, Number 28, July 26, 2002

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The Global Systemic Crisis and the End of ‘Free Trade’  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

A speech delivered in São Paulo, Brazil, at a conference organized jointly by the Alumni Association of the Superior War College and EIR, in the auditorium of the Latin American Parliament. “We are now at a point that the existing definitions, axioms, and postulates of the system which has increasingly ruled the entire world, for the past 35 years, have now demonstrated themselves to be a catastrophic failure,” LaRouche said. “And for reasons I shall indicate, we are now at the point, where we can not expect this system to last, in its present form, for longer than a few months.”

Dialogue with LaRouche  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Commentaries on LaRouche’s keynote presentation by Gen. Oswaldo Muniz Oliva and Deputy Marcos Cintra, LaRouche’s response, and a wide-ranging question-and-answer session with the audience.

Economics

Italian Senators Again Call for New Bretton Woods System  

More than 100 members of the Italian Parliament have endorsed a call for a New Bretton Woods conference to organize a new world financial system. On July 2, Sen. Riccardo Pedrizzi, president of the Senate Finance Committee and member of the government coalition party National Alliance, stressed the need for immediate action.

Japan Elites See ‘New 1971’ Dollar Crisis

by Kathy Wolfe

Africa Suffers Far Worse Than Food Crisis

by Lawrence K. Freeman

State Resumes Control of Mineral Rights

by Lydia Cherry

Neo-Liberalism Now a Dirty Word in Poland

by Rainer Apel

The Importance of Jean Monnet for Today’s Troubled World

by Mark Burdman and Michael Liebig

A discussion with Max Kohnstamm, who was a close collaborator of Jean Monnet, first as secretary of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community, later as vice president of Monnet’s Action Committee for the United States of Europe.

‘Free Trade’ Farming Wipes Out Wheat Crop

by Marcia Merry Baker

International

Fear of Financial Collapse Fuels Iraq War Drive  

by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

The dollar crisis which Lyndon LaRouche has been forecasting, as a marker of the global breakdown of the world financial, monetary, and economic structures, is now upon the world’s central bankers and national governments. The way out being sought by a panic-stricken financial oligarchy, is war.

UN’s Rwanda Tribunal Tainted by Expediency  

Documentation: Expert testimony by Uwe Friesecke and Wayne Madsen, prepared for submission to the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda.

Cocaine Front-Man Set To Take Over Bolivia

by Gretchen Small

Afghan Warlordism Revived by Washington

by Ramtanu Maitra

Has India Abandoned Its ‘Monroe Doctrine’?

by Ramtanu Maitra

National

Fascist William Buckley Put Joe Lieberman in the Senate  

by Scott Thompson

Buckley, the Carlist fascist and the leading intellectual spokesman for McCarthyism in the 1950s, was responsible for putting Joe Lieberman in the U.S. Senate, in the 1988 election against liberal Republican incumbent Sen. Lowell Weicker. What does that tell Democrats about the man who wants to be their 2004 standard-bearer?

The Real Corruption: McCain and Lieberman  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Democratic Presidential pre-candidate LaRouche released this statement on July 14, 2002. His campaign committee is producing it as a half-million leaflets for mass distribution.

Homeland Security Hits Congress Meat Grinder

by Carl Osgood

Insane U.S. Military Utopians Use Video Games To Plan Iraq War

by Don Phau

Campaigning for Governor With FDR-Democrat Policies

by Marcia Merry Baker

An interview with Nevada State Sen. Joseph Neal.

Nuclear Waste Isn’t Waste, It’s a Valuable Resource!

by Marjorie Mazel Hecht

Congressional Closeup

by Carl Osgood

Interviews

Joseph Neal

Nevada State Sen. Joseph Neal (D-North Las Vegas) is expected easily to win the September Democratic Party primary for Gubernatorial candidate, and is campaigning to unseat the incumbent, Republican Gov. Kenny Guinn, in November.

Departments

Australia Dossier

by Allen Douglas

Draconian “Anti-Terror” Laws Passed.

Editorial

Jihad, and “Greater Jihad.”

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