Volume 23, Number 7, February 9, 1996
Book Reviews
Chile Was Wrecked by Mont Pelerin Experiment
by Cynthia R. Rush
Pinochet’s Economists: The Chicago School in Chile, by Juan Gabriel Valdés.
Departments
Editorial
Save the Children of Bosnia.
Investigation
Mont Pelerin Society Plots Destruction of the Americas
by Cynthia R. Rush
The worst assortment of the Western Hemisphere’s proponents of drug legalization, racism, slavery, and destruction of the nation-state, descended on the Mexican resort city of Cancún on Jan. 14-17.
Lord Acton: Britain’s Trojan Horse in the Catholic Church
by David Ramonet
From Mandeville to the Mont Pelerin Society: The Satanic ‘Doctor’ Novak
by Carlos Cota Meza
Michael Novak has created a “religious” argument for free trade based on a bizarre mixture of Aristotle, Adam Smith, and passages extorted from the Bible.
The Mont Pelerin Society in Mexico
by Carlos Cota Meza
Chile’s Privatized Pension Funds Are Going Belly-Up
by Cynthia R. Rush
Economics
One Year of IMF ‘Solutions’ Leaves Mexico Bankrupt
by Carlos Cota Meza
Like a drunk trying to relieve a hangover, the financial wizards are imbibing the “hair of the dog that bit them”: Mexico’s Treasury Secretary proposes to cure the country’s devastating monetary and economic crisis with more of the same policies that caused it.
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
Feature
Leibniz, Gauss Shaped America’s Science Successes
by Anton Chaitkin
How Benjamin Franklin and his intellectual heirs brought about modern industry, modern agriculture, and the living standards of the industrialized countries during the nineteenth century: a sequel to our report on “The Anti-Newtonian Roots of the American Revolution.”
1. Leibniz’s Plan for the American System
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
2. The Franklin Circle Starts Modern England
by Anton Chaitkin
3. The Nationalists Dump Free Trade
4. International Scene Becomes Electrified
Gaussian Mechanics and U.S. Naval Warfighting
by Charles B. Stevens
5. Why Lincoln Built the Nation’s Railroads
6. How Lincoln Made Farmers Scientific
7. The ‘Philadelphia Interests’: The World after Lincoln
8. The Real Thomas Edison
Bibliography and Acknowledgments
International
British Prepare To Ignite Genocidal War in Sudan
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Britain is committed to sanctions, as a trigger for chaos, and ethnic and tribal war, throughout the Horn of Africa, an inferno that would dwarf the Rwanda and Burundi tragedies by comparison-yet the mass media have had virtually nothing to say.
Russia Hedges on Shift Away from ‘Reform’
by Konstantin George
While cabinet changes directed by Yeltsin during January, indicate a potential for major policy changes, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, who has obeyed the IMF, has remained untouched.
British Assets Upset at LaRouche Presence
by Allen Douglas
Australia’s establishment can’t abide the expanding influence of the LaRouche’s co-thinkers, the Citizens Electoral Councils.
International Intelligence
National
LaRouche TV Broadcast Tackles Voters’ Illusions
by Jeffrey Steinberg
At least 3 million American households tuned in to watch LaRouche’s first Presidential campaign broadcast, on the economic and budget crisis facing the nation. The responses from viewers gave a reading of the “pulse” of the American electorate. The next broadcast will be on NBC-TV on Saturday, March 2, at 8:00 p.m. EST.
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
