Club of e cults· the American �,- rboI:.e 6are of crisis' in Caribbean? nut policy. can productl ty coDapse be re¥ e Trilateral on to · back the 19308 [THIS PAGE IS INTENTIONALLY BLANK] Editor-in-chief: Daniel Sneider Associate Editor: Robyn Quijano Managing Editors: Kathy Stevens, Vin Berg Art Director: Deborah Asch Circulation Manager: Lana Wolfe Contributing Editors: From the Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Criton Zoakos, Nora Hamerman, Editor-in-Chief Christopher White, Costas Kalimtgis, Uwe Parpart, Nancy Spannaus INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: Africa: Douglas DeGroot Asia: Daniel Sneider Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg Economics: David Goldman Energy: William Engdahl and Marsha Freeman Europe: Vivian Zoakos Latin America: Dennis Small Law: Felice Merritt "N 0 real recovery is possible until there is real recession", con­ Middle East: Robert Dreyfuss cluded David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission on Susan Welsh Military Strategy: March 27 after a meeting of the Commission in London. He thus Science and Technology: Morris Levitt announced the Commission's strategy to let financial markets crash, Soviet Sector: Rachel Douglas conduct all-out financial warfare against Europe, and put into place a United States: Konstantin George corporatist apparatus in the U.S. to salvage whatever pieces of bank­ United Nations: Nancy Coker ing and industry they deem essential, under their direct control. INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: The crash these gentlemen have designed, the "real recession," Carlos Cota Meza Bogota: will be a depression more shattering than the last with more hideous Bonn: George Gregory and Thierry LeMarc political consequences if their war against the European Monetary Brussels: Christine Juarez System alternative is won. This economic restructuring of the U.S. Mitchell Hirsch Chicago: economy along lines resembling 1933-39 Germany was initiated by Copenhagen: Vincent Robson Mexico City: Josejina Menendez House Banking Committee Chairman Henry Reuss (D-Wisc.), and Milan: Muriel Mirak Fed Chairman Paul Adolph Volcker. Their legislation and policy New Delhi: Paul Zykofsky measures leads the trail of evidence which proves the Trilateral's Paris: Katherine Kanter and Sophie Tanapura intention. Rome: Claudio Celani Our Special Report this week documents the legislation of this Stockholm: Clifford Gaddy corporatist take-over and the war on Europe. We present you with all Washington D.C.: Laura Chasen the evidence, in interviews and source documents. Our intention, and Susan Kokinda Wiesbaden: (European Economics): however, is more than good reporting. We have prepared the evidence Mark Tritsch and Laurent Murawiec in order to place it on the desks of every official and executive capable Executive Intelligence Review is published by of acting to assure that the 1930s strategy is not carried out. New Solidarity InternationalPress Service We also draw your attention to another important report, "Club 304 W,58thStreet,New York,N. Y.10019. In Europe: Executive Intelligence Review Na­ of Rome death cults: killing the American dream." Here we reveal the chrichtenagentur GmbH., 6200 Wiesbaden, unified command and the common source of environmentalism, F.R.G., Schiersteineritt. 6. Managing Direc­ tors: Anno Hellenbroich and Michael Liebig. religious cults, and the policy behind them: to manipulate the popu­ Copyright c 1980 New Solidarity lation into launching its own war against scientific and technological International Press Service progress, so essential to Trilateral designs. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Subscription by mail for the U.S.: 3 months-$125. 6 months-$225. I year-$396. Single issue-$l0 ISSNO 146- 9614 TIillContents Departments Economics 1 From the Editor-in-Chief 6 Tax policy: Can the productivity collapse be 5 InSight reversed? "1984" ... by 1981 How can tax policy enhance the performance of the economy? 46 Middle East Report The Riemannian computer­ applications model has been The Iran-Libya connection applied to evaluate three prominent tax proposals, that of 47 Dateline Mexico the Joint Economic Committee's More oil for Japan? Annual Report; that forwarded by Democratic candidate 59 Campaign 1980 LaRouche, the Riemannian model's designer; and the Reagan 60 Congressional Calendar tax policy associated with economist Arthur Laffer. Only 64 Energy Insider one of the proposals would actually improve industrial Decreeing a gas shortage output, the computer showed. The JEC Report The Reagan policy The LaRouche alternative 15 Gold· Engelhard traps the Hunts 16 Foreign Exchange Will the dollar bust? 18 Agriculture The fa rmers denounce the embargo 19 Domestic Credit The crunch is on 20 Business Briefs Volume 7, Number 14 April 8-14, 1980 SpecialReport International National 38 Italians and French join 50 The New York transit in crackdown on terrorists strike: 'ordered Unprecedented cooperation from on high' across national borders led to a A transit strike in New York major terrorist round-up in three could subtract enough from total countries. two conclusions national economic activity to resulted: terrorism is a unified trigger a recession all by itself. international deployment, and But Paul Volcker declared a "above-ground" radical transit strike in New York "a organizations have a membership David President Carter signs budget legislation as good thing." And his administration's economic policymakers interchangeable with Rockefeller declared a recession look on. Photo: UPI "underground" terrorist groups. in the nation "a good thing." And a transit worker said the 39 Italy 22 The Trilateral strategy strike could be settled immediately, "but somebody big to bring back the 1930s A Carter phone call to a Roman squillo is gumming things up." As Rockefeller announced at Meanwhile, the city's population the close of the London Trilateral 41 Latin America is being acclimatized to Commission meeting, the U.S. catastrophe. will be put through a crash-this A turn to the East in trade programs time with fat worse consequences 52 Club of Rome death cults: intended for both America and killing the American dream Europe than the last great Is Cuba fomenting depression. The evidence is in, revolution A conference of the U.S. chapter and assembled for every official to get Mexico's oil? of the Club of Rome convened in and executive who can play a Maryland and mapped out a Including interviews with massive campaign to build cults part in preventing this calculated Georgetown policymakers, and a catastrophe. throughout the United States. report on Franco-Cuban talks Their hero: Elizabeth Kubler Documentation: Ross, whose celebration of death • Henry Reuss interviewed 48 International Intelligence and dying is to be applied to • Reuss and Proxmire aides Americans en masse to gain their interviewed acceptance of economic collapse. • The Reuss-Miller letters Documentation: • The Omnibus Banking Bill • Kubler-Ross on child murder • The Credit Control Act of 1969 • An Episcopal priest on • Proposal for a trade-war dep t 'life after growth' • J. Rifkin on 'fundamentalism' I. A bank-collapse bill • Aspen Institute view of 'The Great Transition' II. 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Makechecks payable to campaignerPublicatloR&. Inc.. 304West 58th Street. New York. New York 10019. For further information.call: (212) 247·8820. InSight by Nora Hamerman "1984" . • • by 1981 The "One World" conspiracy that this review ex­ endorsement of some of the state's most prominent posed only four months ago has come dangerously labor leaders. close to succeeding in imposing its will over the Such a monstrous fraud could only occur if the United States. As the news stories in this issue United States were already living under fascism, document, the Carter administration is fully com­