Volume 19, Number 25, June 19, 1992
Interviews
Munther Haddadin
by Joseph Brewda and Marcia Merry
The former director of the Jordan Valley Authority, Dr. Haddadin currently heads Jordan’s delegation to the Multilateral Talks on water, and is the principal expert on water issues on the Jordanian delegation to the Bilateral Peace Talks with Israel.
Book Reviews
Can Scientific Islam Provide a ‘Third Way’ in Economic Policy?
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Islam and the Economic Challenge, by M. Umer Chapra.
Catholic Monthly Blasts American Free Traders
Do the ‘Revisionists’ Really Understand Japan?
by Kathy Wolfe
Trading Places: How We Are Giving Our Future to Japan, by Clyde V. Prestowitz, Jr.
G.W. Leibniz’s Writings in a Recent Popular Collection
by Nora Hamerman
Philosophical Essays, edited by Roger Anew and Daniel Garber.
Departments
China Report
by Michael Billington
China’s Economy on the Brink.
Andean Report
by Javier Almario
Judge Orders Terrorists To Stand Trial.
Dateline Mexico
by Carlos Cota Meza
“La Quina” Conviction Dooms Pemex.
Editorial
Bush, John Major, and More Wars.
Strategic Studies
Pagan `Earth Summit’ Opens in Rio de Janeiro
by Silvia Palacios
U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali inaugurated this modern-day version of a fascist Nuremberg Rally with two minutes of silence in honor of Mother Earth, the pagan goddess Gaia.
Why the ‘Eco-Pagan’ Movement Wants To Destroy the Essence of Christianity
by Lorenzo Carrasco Bazúa
Lorenzo Carrasco Bazúa, in a speech to the founding conference of the Ibero-American Solidarity Movement in Tlaxcala, Mexico, traces the “sick naturalism” of the ecology movement back to Marxism, Romanticism—and the Pelagian heresy.
Dixy Lee Ray Battles Rio Green Agenda
by Geraldo Luis Zaraiva Lino
The former governor of the state of Washington, a biologist, confronted the environmentalists head-on, leading a Brazilian paper to brand her “the big bad wolf” of Eco-92.
Economics
IMF Hits the Rocks in Russian Republic
by Rachel Douglas and Denise Henderson
On the first anniversary of Boris Yeltsin’s election as President of the Russian Federation, the economy is a shambles, with Weimar-style hyperinflation. Yeltsin’s team has been unable to deliver the changes ordered by the IMF.
Japan Hits U.S. with ‘Unfair Trade’ Charges
by Kathy Wolfe
Mideast Water Development: Making the Desert Bloom
by Joseph Brewda and Marcia Merry
An interview with Munther Haddadin.
Currency Rates
Thousands of Jobs Needed in U.S. Heavy Manufacturing
by Anthony K. Wikrent
U.S. Unemployment Cover-up
Catholic monthly blasts
American free traders
Agriculture
by Suzanne Rose
Dutikel Woos Farmers for GATT.
Banking
by John Hoefle
Olympia & York: The Bankers’ Nightmare.
Business Briefs
Feature
Population Control Lobby Banned DDT To Kill More People
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
It is the 20th anniversary of the banning of the pesticide that has saved more human lives than any other man-made chemical. At a press conference sponsored by Conference-14, scientists presented the truth about this travesty: Not only is the ban scientifically incompetent, but it is based upon a policy of deliberate genocide.
Poison of ‘Silent Spring’ Lingers On
by Dr. Thomas H. Jukes
Exposing the Myth of the ‘Danger’ of DDT
by Dr. William E. Hazeltine
Ecoindustry Pursues ‘Unholy Genocide’
by Dr. J. Gordon Edwards
DDT Ban Means Death for Millions
by Edward G. Remmers
International
Turkish-Albanian Alliance Raises Threat of Balkan War
by Konstantin George
The military pact signed with the blessing of Washington is intended to give Turkey an Ottoman Empire-style protectorate over neighboring states to “protect” Muslim populations. The plan is a threat to just about everyone in the region.
Documentation: Statements from around the world on the danger of world war arising out of the recent developments in the Balkans.
Venezuela Seethes with Anti-IMF Anger
by José Ignacio Mussett
International Intelligence
National
Balanced-Budget Mania Pushes Nation to the Brink
by H. Graham Lowry
The Congress is threatening to institutionalize draconian austerity, by promoting a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. The vote to submit the amendment to the states for ratification failed, but only barely.
LaRouche Wins N. Dakota Primary
by John Sigerson
There’s a big media scramble on to try to pretend it didn’t happen—but it did. Said LaRouche in a message to North Dakota voters: “It means no more than it means, but it means a great deal.”
U.S. Court Re-Opens Demjanjuk Case
by Katherine Notley
Will the Anti-Defamation League and its Office of Special Investigations finally have to answer for years of flouting the law?
Michigan Serial Killer Remains at Large
by Linda Everett
Someone must be determined to back Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s crusade to legalize death on demand.
International Law Expert: No NATO Intervention into Balkans!
by Francis A. Boyle
An open letter to the U.S. Senate by a professor of international law at the University of Illinois.
Whittle Attempts To Capitalize on Disaster in U.S. Education
by Joyce Fredman
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
