Volume 17, Number 37, September 28, 1990
Interviews
Mohamed al-Mashat
Iraq’s Ambassador to the United States says that an Anglo-American effort to crush Iraq was already being prepared after the Iran-Iraq War failed to destroy the country.
Book Reviews
Will Britain’s ‘Great Game’ Bring New World War?
by Mark Burdman
The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia, by Peter Hopkirk.
Read Nehru to Fathom the British Empire
by Marianna Wertz
Glimpses of World History; An Autobiography; and The Discovery of India; by Jawaharlal Nehru.
Rembrandt Celebrated Man’s Dominion over Water
by Nora Hamerman
Rembrandt’s Landscapes, by Cynthia P. Schneider.
Departments
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Technology Noose Tightens.
Dateline Mexico
by Carlos Cota Meza
Mexico, the “Perfect Dictatorship.”
Panama Report
by Carlos Wesley
A Lesson in Hypocrisy.
Northern Flank
by Lotta-Stina Thronell
Stopping the Satanic Youth Culture.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Resurgent Rajiv.
Editorial
Lest We Forget.
Economics
Uncle Sam Is Insolvent: The $5 Trillion Theft
by William Engdahl
In September-October 1989, the U.S. underwent a sharp contraction in bank lending as dramatic as the loosening of risk criteria which typified the “roaring ’80s.” But, unlike 1930-32, today the solvency of the U.S. government itself is in question.
Beyond German Reunification: Europe Looks to Cooperation with Third World, Soviet Union
by Volcker Hassmann
New Oil Price Shock Will Finish Off the U.S. Economy
by Marsha Freeman and Anthony K. Wikrent
U.S. Cities Face Bankers’ Dictatorship
by Stephen Parsons
India Rejects Use of Food as a Weapon
by Mary Burdman
Gdansk Workers Confront Mazowiecki, Attack Balcerowicz Plan
by Jacques Cheminade
Brazil’s Monetarist ‘Bullets’ Won’t Stop Inflation
by Lorenzo Carrasco
U.S. Says ‘Mexico Belongs to Us’
by Peter Rush
Currency Rates
Poverty and Neo-Capitalism in the 1990s
by Prof. Dario Composta
The second half of an exposé by Prof. Dario Composta of the Urbaniana University in Rome, Italy.
Banking
by John Hoefle
“Take or be taken.”
Business Briefs
Feature
Creating a Network of Rivers and Lakes in the Desert
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
All talk of “limited water resources” is bunk. If we decide to, we can turn deserts green by producing unlimited supplies of water, even with present technologies. Jonathan Tennenbaum of the European Fusion Energy Forum shows how nature can be humanized in the Middle East and Africa, just as it has been over the centuries in Europe.
Greening the Desert: The Mideast’s Potential for Water Development
by Marcia Merry
An economic geography of the region.
Water Projects for the Mideast, Africa
by Marcia Merry
A rundown of the leading projects, some proposed, others actually begun and then sabotaged by ecology fanatics.
International
Will France and Germany Play Deputy Sheriff in the Gulf?
by Michael Liebig
The nations of continental Europe have so far allowed themselves to be coerced into helping the Anglo-American drive toward war, but the point of no return is fast approaching. Will Europe have the courage to say “no” to Bush and Thatcher?
Anglo-American Mideast Occupation Was ‘Preplanned’
by Fernando Quijano and Joseph Brewda
Interview with Iraq’s Ambassador to the United States.
Iraq’s Proposed Comprehensive Mideast Settlement
Plan To Occupy Saudi Arabia Is an Old One
U.S. Cozies Up to Narco-Terrorist
by Jeffrey Steinberg
A profile of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.
Pope in Africa Seeks Dialogue, Development
by Maria Cristina Fiocchi
Is a ‘Third Force’ Pushing a Bloodbath in South Africa?
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Gaviria Joins Bush’s ‘Three Stooges’
by Valerie Rush
International Intelligence
National
U.S. Uses Gulf Crisis To Wage War on Germany, Japan
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Those industrialized countries which have dared to place production and growth above “free market” usury, are being targeted as enemies by the decaying Anglo-American empire.
Congressman Seeks Full U.S. Force Withdrawal
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Documentation: Text of the resolution introduced by Rep. Henry Gonzalez (D-Tex.).
Attack on ADL Sparked by Gulf Policy Fight
Columnist Patrick Buchanan, smeared as an “anti-Semite” by the same Anglophile, drug-pushing Anti-Defamation League which targeted Lyndon LaRouche, is fighting back.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
