Volume 31, Number 7, February 20, 2004
The End of the Dollar System Is on the Agenda
Any severe shock can now crash the floating-exchange.rate monetary system. The response by international bankers has been to demand that they, not governments, will control an attempt to reorganize and salvage the dying dollar system, and will reject any move for its bankruptcy reorganization into a “New Bretton Woods” proposed by Lyndon LaRouche.
Presidential Candidate Glazyev: Time For New Financial Architecture
Documentation: From Sergei Glazyev’s Feb. 5 press conference.
Asia Ponders ‘Exit Strategy’ from the Dollar
by Kathy Wolfe
Argentina vs. IMF: ‘Test Issue’ for U.S. Leaders
by Cynthia R. Rush
Brazil’s Congressman Enéas Speaks Out
by Dennis Small
LaRouche’s New Bretton Woods Is ‘Sensational’
An interview with Dr. Enéas Carneiro.
World’s Worst Housing Bubble Menaces Britain
by Mary Burdman and Lothar Komp
Economics
Mad Cow Threat Requires Restoring Public Health
by Marcia Merry Baker
The legacy of Margaret Thatcher’s “Mad Cow” deregulation has been continued in the United States, leading to the disease outbreaks we see today. That mindset must be eradicated, especially concerning the whole category of diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, where more is unknown than known.
Avian Flu: A Global Pandemic Threatening?
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
‘Rebel’ Stiglitz: IMF’s Last Line of Defense?
by Michael Billington
A profile of Joseph Stiglitz, the “financial insider-turned-radical” who, even while serving as Chief Economist at the World Bank, broke from supposed IMF orthodoxy, to expose its destructiveness toward the Third World and the former Soviet states. Buyer, beware!
Business Briefs
Science & Technology
Russia, Iran, and Peaceful Nuclear Power
U.S. accusations that the nuclear power plant that Russia is building in Iran will lead to a nuclear bomb, are without scientific foundation. An interview with Russian expert Vladimir I. Ryabchenkov.
Feature
Election or Coup? Will HAVA Bring In a U.S. Dictatorship?
by Edward Spannaus
The Help America Vote Act of 2002 has brought in a nightmare of computerized voting, which constitutes a threat to the Constitution.
Why Congress Must Repeal the HAVA Act
by Arthur Ticknor
Fair Election Means Ability To Recount
An interview with Don Eret.
How Computers Can Steal Your Vote
Case studies from a new book by Bev Harris, Black Box Voting.
Philippines Court Bans Computerized Election
by Michael Billington
Who’s Who of Virtual Voting Machine Companies
International
China, N. Korea Hint At Move on Six-Power Talks
by Kathy Wolfe
“China will surprise the Feb. 25 talks, by announcing that the United States has failed to demonstrate” that North Korea has a hidden uranium bomb, the Korea Times wrote.
Iranian Crisis Could Ignite Regional War
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Gaza Evacuation Will Expand the Conflict
by Dean Andromidas
Wehrkunde Conference: Only ‘Outsiders’ Introduce Reality
by Rainer Apel
International Intelligence
Interviews
Enéas Carneiro
A Federal deputy in Brazil for the PRONA party, Dr. Enéas hosted Lyndon LaRouche’s visit to Brazil in 2002.
Vladimir I. Rybachenkov
A Counselor at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Washington, D.C., Rybachenkov worked for ten years in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the nuclear division, and has worked closely with the Ministry of Atomic Energy.
Don Eret
A former Nebraska State Senator, presently the vice chairman of the Saline County Democratic Party. He is a farmer and a retired space engineer.
National
The Most Important Moment in Your Lives To Date!
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
An open letter to the Democratic National Committee. Lyndon LaRouche warns that his exclusion from the Democratic Primary process by a small clique within the DNC, and the acquiescence to it by others, “could lead to, not only the party’s loss of the 2004 general election, but the early disintegration of the U.S.A., caused by the lack of a Presidency qualified even to understand the nature of the onrushing crisis.”
LaRouche Drive Has Created Potential for Cheney To Be Out Soon
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Why Does Cheney Ally Co-Chair Bush WMD Probe?
by Edward Spannaus
Campaign 2004: Where They Stand
The sixth in a series. Democratic Presidential candidates compared on “The Middle East Crisis: What the President Must Do.”
Departments
Editorial
Nuremberg Crimes.
