Volume 22, Number 17, April 21, 1995
Reviews
Venice, Not So Glorious Upon Closer Inspection
by Nora Hamerman
A review of an exhibit at Washington’s National Gallery of Art, and its catalogue, The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Jane Martineau and Andrew Robison.
Departments
Report from Rio
by Lorenzo Carrasco Bazúa
Shadow of Mexico Looms over Brazil.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Re-Entering the Nuclear Power Era.
Editorial
The Hand Behind Terrorism.
Economics
Ukraine Parliament Rejects IMF Privatization Program
by Anthony K. Wikrent
Shortly before the vote, Schiller Institute representatives visited Kiev, and exposed the fraud of the International Monetary Fund’s “neo-liberal” economic policies.
Earth Day Quacks Push Environmental ‘Global Ethic’
by Marsha Freeman
Report on a conference celebrating the 25th anniversary of Earth Day.
Hoaxes Refuted: There Is No Global Warming
by Rogelio A. Maduro
Do Cow Farts Really Cause Global Warming?
An inconvenient guest at the Berlin UN climate conference.
Brazil: Tractors Roar Against ‘Real’ Plan
by Lorenzo Carrasco
Monetarist stupidity turns Brazil’s biggest bumper crop in history into a nightmare for farmers.
Currency Rates
Brand X Proposals for Financial Reform: What Is To Be Done?
by Marcia Merry Baker
A record of recent warnings, proposals, and cover-up attempts, presented by Marcia Merry Baker to a conference of the Schiller Institute in Washington.
Business Briefs
Feature
Jacques Cheminade Campaigns for French Nationhood
by Christine Bierre
The “surprise candidate” has thrown the Paris nomenklatura off guard. An analysis of the strategic and historical importance of the French Presidential elections.
Louis XI’s Founding of the French Nation
Helga Zepp-LaRouche Endorses Cheminade
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Probe of Slanders of Cheminade Leads to International ‘Murder, Inc.’
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Profiles: The Other Eight Candidates
by Emmanuel Grenier
Edouard Balladur, Jacques Chirac, Lionel Jospin, Philippe de Villiers, Ariette Laguiller, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Robert Hue, and Dominique Voynet.
‘We Must Change the Rules of the Game’
by Jacques Cheminade
Excerpts of Cheminade’s program.
‘Let’s Put Space Back on the Horizon’
The Press Reports on Cheminade’s Policies
International
Peruvian Voters Choose Fujimori over UN Stooge
by Sara Madueño
Incumbent Alberto Fujimori’s smashing defeat of ex-UN chief Pérez de Cuellar is one the best lessons in democracy that the Peruvians have dealt to the arrogant one-worldist oligarchy.
A Spanner in the Spokes of the EZLN’s Urban Machine
by Hugo López Ochoa and Gerardo Castillejas
Mexico’s Zedillo government, in a good move, breaks up a semi-public bus company and union in Mexico City, well-known as a hotbed of Zapatista cohorts.
Obituary: The Taoist Hell of Joseph Needham, 1900-1995
by Michael Billington
British Scandal Could Signal End of Thatcher Politics Forever
by Dean Andromidas
The case of Jonathan Aitken, Major’s chief secretary of the Treasury.
International Intelligence
National
Clinton Draws New Battle Lines against Gingrich Gang
by Edward Spannaus
A series of explicit veto threats from the President confronts the Gramm-Gingrich wrecking operations.
Brits Lash Out at Clinton for Ending ‘Special Relationship’
by Scott Thompson
The Drumbeat for Lyndon LaRouche’s Exoneration Thunders Worldwide
by Marianna Wertz
Christian Coalition, ADL Kiss and Make Up
by Jeffrey Steinberg and Scott Thompson
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
Correction
In last week’s profile of Argentine leftist geopolitician Norberto Ceresole (p. 33), an editorial error ascribed to Ceresole the use of the term “National Army.” In fact, it is Col. Mohamed Alí Seineldín and the nationalists who use the phrase.
