Volume 7, Number 19, May 20, 1980
Departments
From the Editor-in-Chief
by Daniel Sneider
Editorial
Two opposing strategies.
Foreign Exchange
Trade Review
Dateline Mexico
by Josefina Menendez
Where does Mexican labor stand?
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
The plot to topple Begin.
Congressional Calendar
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
The environmentalist bilks the taxpayer.
InSight
by Nora Hamerman
Tax revolt: American tradition?
The Facts Behind Terrorism
The next attack on Seabrook.
Economics
What’s Behind the Fall in Interest Rates?
by Richard Freeman
Conventional wisdom says that interest rates fell over recent weeks because they always do in a recession. But the fact is, transatlantic cables from London told Paul Volcker that if he didn’t make available some liquidity, the Europeans would bolt from the Anglo-American monetary order, and the U.S. banking system would blow out.
Gold
by Alice Roth
Silver crash or oil grab?
Agriculture
by Susan B. Cohen
Bergland to “restructure” agriculture.
International Credit
by Peter Rush
“A reluctant ECU reserve center”?
Aerospace Industry Confirms EIR’s Depreciation Index
by David Goldman
Science & Technology
Hydrogen produced from a fusion reactor.
Guest Column: A Disastrous Shortage of Skills
by John R. Popovich
John R. Popovich is President of the American Metal Stamping Association.
Business Briefs
Special Report
Brzezinski’s Military Madness and the ‘New Age’ of Aquarius
by Vin Berg
Zbigniew Brzezinski is a kook whose goal is “technocratic dictatorship” over a civilization steeped in mysticism. He is running U.S. foreign policy on the basis of a military posture befitting that “Aquarian Age.” Meanwhile, an Aquarian NATO General has written about the kind of “Third World War” Brzezinski wants to provoke-the Anglo-American oligarchy wins; France, Germany, the Soviet Union, and the institution of the nation-state itself are destroyed.
NATO and the Club of Rome: The Aquarian Command
by Criton Zoakos and Mark Burdman
Aquarians on War: A British General Plots a Brave New World
by Susan Welsh
Why Gen. Sir John Hackett wrote his book, The Third World War, and why what the book describes will never happen.
International
Europe Warns Against New U.S. Adventure in Mideast
by Dana Sloane
Commentaries in the European press indicate that the continent is beginning to catch on-Jimmy Carter’s escalations in the Persian Gulf have nothing to do with concern for the hostages. European sovereignty is being challenged.
Offroy: ‘Are We To Be Vassals?’
High Summitry at Tito Funeral
Why Japan’s Ohira Left Mexico Empty-Handed
by Dennis Small and Peter Ennis
López Portillo wanted technology. Masayoshi Ohira wanted oil. And yet, the summit could not have become a bigger shambles if Jimmy Carter himself had participated–and apparently, he did.
Documentation: The joint communiqué, and statements by the Mexican President and the Japanese Premier.
Brzezinski’s Madness: Threat to the Caribbean
by Gretchen Small
Solid Shield ’80: Invasion of Cuba?
by Cynthia Rush
A Close Encounter with Robert Moss
by Robert Dreyfuss
He’s puffy, pompous and paranoid–and he’s a liar.
International Intelligence
National
The ‘Dump Carter’ Option Is on the Planning Boards
by L. Wolfe
The boys in the backrooms in London and New York met hurriedly after the Iran “rescue” fiasco almost touched off World War III, and they decided that Jimmy Carter will not continue as President.
Documentation: Interviews with Helmut Sonnenfeldt and Scott Thompson.
Judge Voids Ban of Nuclear Power
by Sanford Roberts
Kennedy’s ‘Bioethics’ and the Karen Ann Quinlan Case
by Dr. Ned Rosinski
The Quinlan case dominated newspaper headlines for months, and Americans were methodically steeped in the philosophy behind Ted Kennedy’s health bill: Advanced medical technology is costly, redundant and useless, and keeps alive “useless eaters” to borrow the Nazi phrase.
National News
