Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. briefly recounts the genesis of his Strategic Defense Initiative, and the rare quality of decision with which President Reagan announced it.
Counterintelligence Editor Jeffrey Steinberg's 1993 review of the planning and launching, on March 23, 1983, of the policy shift that brought the Soviet Union to collapse.
The Soviets' Fatal Reaction to
Reagan and LaRouche
Eastern Europe Editor Rachel Douglas described in detail, in a 1993 presentation, why after the SDI announcement, in LaRouche's words, "Moscow regards me with a curious sort of fascination, and . . . considers everything I say on policy matters to be influential, and very credible."
Strategic Studies
The clearest exemplar of a modern national leader who was capable of realizing when not to "stay the course," and acting forcefully on that decision, was French President Charles de Gaulle, who ended France's bloody attempt to keep colonial control over Algeria. Pierre Beaudry reports the details of de Gaulle's choice to admit, publicly, a national mistakeand thereby save France from right-wing coup and national disaster.
Science & Technology
Spurred by the dramatic and life-saving results in a few African nations that persisted in using DDT, a larger group of nations, now malaria-ravaged, want to use the banned pesticide. Marjorie Mazel Hecht reports.
National News
`Super-Watergate' Hits Bush and Cheney
The Watergate-type pattern is strikingand the overall process is clear to those familiar with the fight that LaRouche and his associates have been waging against the neo-conservatives in the Administration, and against Vice President Dick Cheney in particular, for the past two years. Now, the Abu Ghraib torture scandal has put the issue of war crimes on the table.
Will the "presumptive" Democratic nominee back the embattled House senior Democrats on Abu Ghraib?
Rumsfeld Hits a Buzzsaw in Singapore
Close Asian allies charge United States anti-terror policy spreads terrorism.
Ed Spannaus reviews John Dean's new book on George W. Bush's Secret Presidency.
LaRouche Youth Movement
Pokes at Soros's Dems
Unravelling Ravelston:
RICO and Richard Perle
Congressional Closeup
International News
A signal piece by Israeli military commentator Amir Oren, and several military and intelligence sources, warn that shifts in U.S.-Israel military point to Israeli Defense Forces' preparations to confront Egypt, in much the same way the 1967 war was triggered.
`Project Daniel' Is Issued by
Israel's Dr. Strangeloves
Unchanging Afghanistan:
Whither Karzai?
In the conclusion of a two-part interview, Maxim Ghilan discusses Israel's peace movement and his mission for it.
Australia Is in the Middle of the
Iraq Torture Scandal
The Italicus Train Bombing:
Was Aldo Moro the Target?
A guest counterintelligence commentary by Italian author and journalist Paolo Cucchiarelli.
Malaysia, China: Ties of Centuries Celebrated
International Intelligence
Financial Vultures Try To
Topple Argentina's Kirchner
Argentina's "final offer" to bond creditors is being met with serious destabilization attacks sponsored by international "vulture funds."
Oil Gets Germans
To Rediscover Nuclear Power
IMF Caused Killer Flood in Hispaniola
Business Briefs
Editorial
Who Benefits From Chaos?
Book Reviews
President McKinley Made a Victim
of Character Assassination
William McKinley, by Kevin Phillips
Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush, by John W. Dean
Interview
Maxim Ghilan is a writer, journalist, and poet, editor of Israel and Palestine Strategic Update, and founder of the International Jewish Peace Union.