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Feature:

• LaRouche's Flanking Attack on McCain And Lieberman Draws Its First Blood
  As Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) began to speak at the annual Democratic Leadership Council meeting in New York City on July 29, a strange thing happened: He was exposed as a dirty-money-funded, war-mongering blackmailer of President Bush and the U.S. Presidency.
  
  
• LaRouche: 5 Million Leaflets To Stop McCain-Lieberman Is the Strategic Flank
  Here is an edited transcript of The LaRouche Show Internet radio program on July 27, 2002. The LaRouche Show airs weekly, on Saturdays, at 3-4 p.m. (Eastern Time), with Lyndon LaRouche as occasional guest. It can be accessed from www.larouchepub.com.
  
  
• Will the U.S. Strike Iraq?
  by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
  "At the moment I am writing this, there are chiefly three conflicting sets of policies respecting a projected military assault on Iraq by the combined forces of the U.S.A. and Britain's Blair government. The first faction is building for a probable, August, September, or early October attack on Iraq. This is a policy currently led by political ideologues associated with the U.S. Defense Department's Paul Wolfowitz, with U.S. Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman, and with Bush Administration advisor Richard Perle."
  
  
• Lieberman-McCain Cabal Plots Against U.S. Military Opposition to Iraq War
  In a secret meeting of the Defense Policy Board (DPB) in the Pentagon on July 10, the war-mongers for an early attack on Iraq, led by DPB chief Richard Perle, plotted to ensure that 'heads would have to roll' among ranking U.S. military officers, who oppose the drive for this war led by Perle and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz.
  
  

Economics:

• Michael Steinhardt's 1991 Corner of the U.S. Treasury Market
  In 1991, Michael Steinhardt, in coordination with Salomon Brothers, conducted one of the biggest corners of the U.S. Treasury market in U.S. history, turning America's sovereign debt into a speculative plaything. It was an attack on the sovereignty of the United States. (See the feature article)
  
  
• Russians Debate Impact Of Dollar, Market Falls
  The $40 billion-plus in cash dollars inside Russia, and the fact that Russian currency reserves are held chiefly in dollars, make the weakening of the U.S. currency a burning issue. The week of July 22, exchange points in Moscow were swamped by people trying to exchange their dollars for euros, or demanding reliable advice on what else to do.
  
  
• Poverty Spreading in Germany's Big Cities
  Updating German municipal finances for the first six months of 2002, the DST, the national organization of the German cities,warned at several occasions during the lastweek of July, that the survival of core functions of urban life was at risk.
  
  
• Southeast Asia Responds To theGlobal Collapse
  The reality of the collapse of the U.S. economy, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) system, is finally sinking in in Southeast Asia.
  
  
• Malaysia Adopts Plan for Food Self-Sufficiency
  Last week's EIR (Aug. 2, 2002) ran an exclusive interview with scientist Mohd Peter Davis from Malaysia, regarding his proposal to the Malaysian government, first presented in March of this year to a Bio-Industry Forum, for an ambitious transformation of the nation's agricultural program to achieve food self-sufficiency in the face of a collapsing world economy. On July 28, the Malaysian government announced that it will, indeed, transform the system along these lines.
  
  

International:

• Sharon Slashes Budget, Wages War on Israel's Poor
  Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has declared war on his own nation's poor, in order to finance his war against the Palestinians.
  
  
• The Cease-Fire Sharon Bombed
  Instead of mass funerals for six-month-old Palestinian babies, American students studying at Hebrew University, and Israeli housewives, there could be peace negotiations under way.
  
  
• Insane Reports Blame U.S. Economy on—China
  Within a few days of each other in mid-July, the Pentagon and the 'U.S.-China Security Review Commission' issued two ponderous reports on China, both variations on the Clash of Civilizations doctrinenowdriving Washington policymaking. The reports are dangerous miscalculations, whose implications were certainly not lost on policymakers in China, Russia, or Europe.
  
  
• Worst China-Bashers Are Universal Fascists
  The two China-bashing reports released in July, by the Pentagon and the Congressionally appointed U.S.-China Security Review Commission, were not intended to be factual appraisals or serious strategic studies of U.S.-China military relations. Rather, the faction within the defense-security institutions which is promoting a 'Clash of Civilizations,' a military showdown pitting the West against Islam and the Confucian world. (see accompanying article).
  
  
• New Alliances Form in Britain Against Planned War on Iraq
  It is certainly unprecedented, in the last two decades of British politics, that leading figures of the Labour Party left wing who usually oppose foreign military actions of the British government, should publicly praise the views of a former Chief of the Imperial Defense Staff, who served under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Exactly that is now happening.
  
  
• U.A.E. Meet Challenges The 'Laws of Empire'
  Under the patronage of Sheikh Sultan bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Chairman of the Zayed Centre for Coordination and Follow-Up, the International Conference on 'Human Rights, War Victims and International Law' was convened in Abu Dhabi, capital city of the U.A.E., on July 15-16. Diplomats, academics, researchers, and human rights activists attended from around the world.
  
  
• Financial Armaggedon Is Unfolding in South America
  The decision was made on July 23-24 by the U.S. Federal Reserve, reliable European sources report, that any and all measures would be taken to keep the U.S. stock markets from melting down before the November 2002 mid-term elections. At stake was far more than the Republican Party's election prospects, or U.S. stocks.
  
  

National:

• Senate Probe Discovers How Banks Created 'Enronomics'
  Newly released Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee (SPIS) evidence proves how major U.S., London, Canadian, and other banks, including J.P. Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Barclays, Cre´dit Suisse, Toronto Dominion, secreted billions of dollars in the energy-trade bubble run by Enron, Dynegy, Mirant, Williams, and many other big energy pirate companies, now bankrupt or nearly so.
  
  
• 'Cranes of LaRouche' And D.C.Mayor Williams
  In Friedrich Schiller's famous ballad, 'The Cranes of Ibykus,' an honored national poet is brutally murdered, the terrible deed witnessed only by a flock of cranes—who later that day, at a great poetry festival, so haunt the murderers' tortured conscience, that the criminals give themselves away. So today, the mayor of Washington, D.C., Anthony Williams, is being tormented by his past misdeeds.