Volume 29, Number 30, August 9, 2002
Will the U.S. Strike Iraq?
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
An article written for the Turkish magazine Yarin, LaRouche describes the three factions struggling on this question, including his own political flanking action to stop the blunder into war. The resolution will have a strategically indispensable effect on the present U.S. Congress, the upcoming Congressional elections, and the Bush Administration.
LaRouche: 5 Million Leaflets To Stop McCain-Lieberman Is the Strategic Flank
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
A strategic July 27 briefing on The LaRouche Show weekly Internet radio program.
LaRouche’s Flanking Attack on McCain and Lieberman Draws Its First Blood
by Jeffrey Steinberg and Marielle Kronberg
Lieberman-McCain Cabal Plots against U.S. Military Opposition to Iraq War
by Michele Steinberg
Economics
Financial Armageddon Is Unfolding in South America
by Gretchen Small
While the financial establishment was riveted on the chaos on Wall Street, another part of their global speculative bubble was bursting: Brazil, and with it, the entire South American financial system.
Michael Steinhardt’s 1991 Corner of the U.S. Treasury Market
by Richard Freeman
Great Projects Top South American Summit
by Gretchen Small
Russians Debate Impact of Dollar, Market Falls
by Rachel Douglas
Documentation: An article by economists Oleg Grigoryev and Mikhail Khazin in the Russian weekly Ekspert.
Poverty Spreading in Germany’s Big Cities
by Rainer Apel
U.S. Hospitals Face Critical Drug Shortages
by Linda Everett
Part 2 of a series on “The Other Security Risk.”
Malaysia Adopts Plan for Food Self-Sufficiency
by Michael Billington
Southeast Asia Responds to the Global Collapse
by Michael Billington
Global Financial Reform Now!
by Lothar Komp
A speech by EIR’s Lothar Komp to a working group of the Austrian Social Democratic Party in Vienna.
International
Sharon Slashes Budget, Wages War on Israel’s Poor
by Dean Andromidas
Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has declared war on his own nation’s poor, in order to finance his war against the Palestinians.
The Cease-Fire Sharon Bombed
by Michele Steinberg
New Alliances Form in Britain Against Planned War on Iraq
by Mark Burdman
Ukraine Searches for Its Lost Dignity
by Taras Teliha
Insane Reports Blame U.S. Economy on—China
by Mary Burdman
Review Reflects Brzezinski Lunacy
Worst China-Bashers Are Universal Fascists
by Michael Billington
U.A.E. Meet Challenges the ‘Laws of Empire’
by Hussein Askary
An international conference on “Human Rights, War Victims and International Law” at the Zayed Centre for Coordination and Follow-Up, including a speech by Hussein Askary, representing Lyndon LaRouche and EIR.
National
Senate Probe Discovers How Banks Created ‘Enronomics’
by Marcia Merry Baker
What EIR’s economic analyst John Hoefle wrote in 2001, in both Congressional testimony and articles on Enron’s failure, is now being “discovered” on Capitol Hill: The big banks were the sponsors, and even the creators, of Enron’s and the others’ off-balance-sheet looting schemes.
Enron Was How the U.S. Banking System Operates
Excerpts from EIR testimony submitted to the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs’ Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on “The Role of the Financial Institutions in Enron’s Collapse,” on July 30.
Virginia Budget Blows, As Dot-com Bubble Pops
by Mary Jane Freeman
‘Cranes of LaRouche’ Hit D.C. Mayor Williams
by Lynne Speed and Carl Osgood
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
Departments
Editorial
Wreck What’s Wrecking the Parties.
Correction
In “Fascist William Buckley Put Joe Lieberman in the Senate,” in our July 26 issue, certain editorial errors were introduced. The place where Triumph magazine spawned the Christian Commonwealth Institute was the 16th-Century Escorial monastery, built by the Hapsburg King Philip II. Carlism came into being in the 19th Century, nearly two centuries after Philip’s death.
