Volume 30, Number 1, January 10, 2003
The Weeks of Crisis Before Us
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
A New Year’s statement. “We have reached the point at which the institutions of the states of the Americas and Europe will either end their hysterical denials of economic reality, or those nations which have not already plunged into an accelerating process of disintegration will begin to do so very soon.”
Shanghai’s Maglev Launched: Revolutionary Step for Eurasia
by Rainer Apel
The world’s first commercial maglev project, a German-Chinese effort, inaugurates the railroad technology of the 21st Century. The breakthrough in Shanghai was a victory for Lyndon and Helga LaRouche, who have been campaigning for magnetically levitated rail for more than a decade, against the opposition of budget-cutters and deranged environmentalists.
Economics
American Air Transport Grid Is Disappearing
by Anita Gallagher
U.S. Household Credit Bubble Set To Explode
by Richard Freeman
Philippines’ Leader’s Bold Step Offers Hope
by Michael Billington
Mahathir Points to Dollar Crisis
Signs of Depression in America’s Cities
by Mary Jane Freeman
Business Briefs
Feature
LaRouches in Berlin: Learn the Lessons of Germany’s History
by Ortrun Cramer
Report from an EIR seminar in the German capital on Dec. 18.
Conflict Is Not the Natural Condition Among Men and Nations
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
LaRouche’s keynote address, and discussion with the audience.
The Lautenbach Plan and Its Consequences
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
International
Sharon and His ‘Mafiya’ Allies Plot Israel Election Theft
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Among the hidden hands behind Ariel Sharon’s drive to install a fascist war Cabinet in Tel Aviv, are Russian “mafiya” dons and American organized crime figures, whose own longstanding goal is to complete the process of transforming Israel into a bastion of organized crime.
Sharon Faces Election Scandal, Threatens War
by Dean Andromidas
Israel’s Central Bank Warns
Iran’s Diplomacy Aims at Eurasian Cooperation
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Khatami Hails Role for Pakistan’s National Poet
by David Cherry
No ‘Allende Solution’ for the Chávez Problem
A statement from the LaRouche in 2004 Presidential campaign.
Venezuela Facing Civil War
IMF Orders Closure of Colombia’s Symphony
by Javier Almario
‘We Are the Nation’s Real Educators’
An interview with Liz Angela García.
Interviews
Liz Angela García
The acting concertmistress of the Colombian Symphony Orchestra comments on the importance of music in a nation’s culture, and the significance of the fiscal budget-cutters’ decision to eliminate the state-funded orchestra.
Departments
Editorial
An Opportunity, Not a Threat.
