Volume 21, Number 5, January 28, 1994
Interviews
Rabah Kebir
A leader of the Islamic Salvation Front outside Algeria charges that the International Monetary Fund is fostering civil war.
Lyndon LaRouche
In an interview from prison with a Croatian magazine, LaRouche gives a broad historical perspective from which to understand the crisis in the Balkans, and what must be done to prevent Europe from falling any deeper into a “Thirty Years War.”
Book Reviews
Diatribe against the Armed Forces Whitewashes Colombia’s Narco- Terrorism
by Valerie Rush
The Palace of Justice: A Colombian Tragedy, by Ana Carrigan.
The Red Dye
by Katherine Notley
Investigation
EIR Helps Build Resistance to ‘Zapatista’ Threat
by Carlos Wesley
The report on “Shining Path North” is released internationally.
Mexican Government Assesses EZLN Threat
Exclusive to EIR in English: The full text of a report on the Chiapas insurrection, issued by Mexico’s Department of Interior.
Departments
Editorial
Let’s Build for the Future.
Economics
Nigeria Draws the Line against Disintegration
by Lydia Cherry
A speech by the new head of state, Gen. Sani Abacha, has sent tremors throughout the Anglo-American establishment. One of Africa’s two potential superpowers has challenged the IMF, demanding the right to economic development.
Gaza-Jericho Accord Is Caught on an Economic Snag
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Currency Rates
African Scientists Reject Malthusianism
Text of the African Academy of Sciences statement.
The Failure of Communist Economics
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Analyzes the bankruptcy of Marxian economics, and the alternatives available to Russia.
France Abandons Africa to the International Monetary Fund
by Jacques Cheminade
Business Briefs
Feature
Will U.S. Public Education Survive to the year 2000?
by Michael Minnicino
The looting of the nation’s $700 billion per year education “industry,” is, in the words of a recent Hudson Institute study. “the greatest business opportunity since Rockefeller discovered oil.” Michael Minnicino analyzes the history of the privatization mafia, and shows that recent moves toward the so-called information superhighway are, in part, based on the free-traders’ forecast that big profits can be had by throwing “too expensive” teachers on the scrapheap and replacing them with television.
International
Russia Sheds Gaidar, But Steps Up Third Rome Aims
by Konstantin George
The government that is now emerging says it will move away from the International Monetary Fund’s “shock therapy,” but its foreign policy remains the same, as demonstrated by rapid-fire moves to reannex Ukraine and all the republics along Russia’s western borders.
Moscow Paper Prints LaRouche Open Letter to Russian Leaders
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Historical Dilemma Faced by Britain as Institutional Crisis Accelerates
by Mark Burdman
Peru Bombarded with New Threats
by Cynthia R. Rush
Sovereignty of Nation-States Coheres with Natural Law
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
An interview with Lyndon LaRouche published in the Croatian weekly cultural and political magazine Hrvatski Rukopis.
International Intelligence
National
Inman Strafes Weak Flank of Clinton’s Media Adversaries
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The admiral, with 30 years of public service, blasted the media and neo-con columnist William Safire, in particular, as the “new McCarthyites.”
Michael Gelber Will Be Greatly Missed
EIR Circulates Fact Sheet on Victor Gunnarsson and Palme’s Murder
With the discovery of Gunnarsson’s corpse in a North Carolina forest, certain media outlets are attempting to revive the outrageous lie that associates of Lyndon LaRouche in Sweden were behind the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme. In a press release given international circulation, the record is set straight.
Policymakers Deeply Split over Western Policy toward Russia
Is BCCI Deal Linked to Assault on Clinton?
by Edward Spannaus
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
