Volume 22, Number 11, March 10, 1995

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Departments

Report from Bonn

by Rainer Apel

Tide Begins To Turn against Greens.

Editorial

Deregulated, or Deranged?

Investigation

California’s Nazi Eugenics Laws Behind Proposition 187

by Mark Calney and Leo Scanlon

Report on the historical background behind California’s ugly anti-immigration referendum.

Economics

The Collapse of Barings Was Inevitable and Spontaneous

by Richard Freeman

Don’t believe the nonsense you hear about “loan assassin” Nicholas Leeson, the Singapore-based derivatives trader. This is no isolated event!

The City of London Loses Its Barings

by Anthony K. Wikrent

No Trade War as China, United States Emphasize Long-Term Ties

by Mark Burdman

Currency Rates

UN Climate Summit in Berlin Is an Eco-Spectacle with a Dubious Goal

by Helmut Böttiger

The Kobe Earthquake and the Lessons for Urban Infrastructure

by Rogelio A. Maduro

Is a Major Earthquake Coming in the Himalayas

by Ramtanu Maitra and Rogelio A. Maduro

Business Briefs

Feature

Mexico’s Debt Bomb Explosion Spreads: How LaRouche Knew

by Dennis Small

EIR Ibero-American Editor Dennis Small, in this speech to the conference of the International Caucus of Labor Committees and Schiller Institute on Feb. 20, documents how EIR and Lyndon LaRouche have been right on the mark, where the establishment economists and other “experts” have been dead wrong.

LaRouche in 1988: ‘The Bouncing Ball’

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Derivatives Cancer Is Killing Off the Physical Economy

by John Hoefle

Address to the ICLC-Schiller Institute conference.

LaRouche’s Method of Physical Economy

by Dennis Small

International

Mexico Busts British-Backed Assassination Network

by Valerie Rush

The arrest of Raúl Salinas de Gortari, brother of the former President, has far-reaching implications.

Paris Meeting Reveals Paralysis of Middle East Peace Process

by Dean Andromidas

A report from the conference on “The Future of the Mediterranean Area after the Peace Process.”

Dr. Braverman: ‘The House Is Almost On Fire’

by Dr. Avishay Braverman

From the president of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, a former senior economist with the World Bank.

Russia Undergoes ‘Real Deconstruction’

by Gabriele Liebig

A report from a conference of the Loccum Evangelical Academy on the theme of “Russia on New Paths.”

Pakistan: Sectarian War a Threat to Bhutto Government

by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan Maitra

New Movement in Afghanistan Changes the Balance in Central Asia

by Adam East and Ramtanu Maitra

Arab-Jewish Network Is Funding Terrorism

by Dean Andromidas

International Intelligence

National

Budget Amendment Defeat Slows Conservative Revolution

by H. Graham Lowry

Senators Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota cast the decisive “no” votes, while putting a national spotlight on the Conservative Revolution’s plan to gut the Social Security Trust Fund to balance the federal budget.

Russian Lawmakers Say IMF ‘Reforms’ Are Dead

by Jeffrey Steinberg

U.S. Supreme Court Realignment Puts Rehnquist in Minority

by Edward Spannaus

LaRouche on Chicago Radio, Urges Rapid Financial Reorganization

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

From an interview broadcast on WJJD Radio.

Congressional Closeup

by William Jones

National News

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