Volume 23, Number 3, January 12, 1996
Interviews
Charles Quincy Troupe
by Marianna Wertz
A member of the Missouri House of Representatives, Troupe was appointed by President Clinton to the Presidential Council on HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome).
Reviews
Mandela’s ‘Long Walk,’ from Prison to the Presidency of South Africa
by Donald Phau
Review of A Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.
‘Companion of Joy, Balm for Sorrow’: The Paintings of Johannes Vermeer
by Nora Hamerman
A review of Johannes Vermeer at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and its exhibition catalogue.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
At the End of Their Economic Wisdom.
Editorial
“Arbeit macht frei.”
Economics
Rising Commodities Prices Confound the Financial Gurus
by Marcia Merry Baker
Don’t look for the cause of higher prices for precious metals and hydrocarbons in mere seasonal or local processes, Marcia Merry Baker warns.
‘Safe Drinking Water’ Law Features Unsafe Anti-Chlorine Measure
by David Cherry and Marcia Merry Baker
Why the legislation before Congress threatens a public health disaster.
Currency Rates
IMF Policy Spreads Flu across Russia
by Denise Henderson
Russia is becoming a nation unable to reproduce itself, physically.
Business Briefs
Feature
Newt Gingrich Looks into the Future
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Today’s House of Windsor/Club of the Isles apparatus is steering the “New Age Conservatives” to tear down the American republic.
‘Anticipatory Democracy’: Britain’s Tavistock Institute Brainwashed Newt
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Gingrich Patron Promotes Genghis Khan
by Joseph Brewda
Gingrich and Carter Are Still Bonding
Royal Dutch Shell Game
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The Tavistock Roots of the ‘Aquarian Conspiracy’
by L. Wolfe
Tavistock’s ‘Anticipatory Democracy’ in Action: Newtzi’s GOPAC
by Suzanne Rose and Mark Sonnenblick
A review of the GOPAC documents reveals not simply a sleazy political action committee bending and breaking the law—but something even worse.
Du Pont Formed GOPAC in the Service of London
by Anton Chaitkin
International
Gulf Widens between French Elites and Striking Workers
by Elisabeth Hellenbroich
Strikers were not able to force Prime Minister Juppé to withdraw his social security “reform,” and so the fight over the Maastricht Treaty and neo-liberal economic policies is still on.
Israel: Safra and Friends Are Under Pressure
by Dean Andromidas
Kidnap Plot on Peru Congress Foiled, Global Narco-Terror Net Exposed
by Luis Vásquez Medina
Implications of the capture of a terrorist cell of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement in Lima.
International Intelligence
National
Gingrich Foments Insurrection against the U.S. Constitution
by Edward Spannaus
An appraisal of the constitutional issues at work in the budget showdown.
LaRouche Presidential Campaign Will Exert Decisive Influence
by Nancy Spannaus
Fight against AIDS Is a Public Health Priority
by Marianna Wertz
Interview with Charles Quincy Troupe, member of the Missouri House of Representatives.
Recommendations on HIV-AIDS
by Rep. Charles Quincy Troupe
Clinton’s War on Drugs Wins Victories, Despite Congressional Sabotage
by Joyce Fredman
A retrospective look at 1995.
National News
Correction
In our Jan. 5 issue, “Ukraine’s Opposition Has an Economic Program to Avert National Catastrophe,” p. 6, the official minimum wage in Ukraine has remained, for two years now, at 30¢ per month, not per hour.
