Volume 23, Number 8, February 16, 1996
Interviews
A. Moneim Z. Nahas
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
A. Moneim Z. Nahas is a retired deputy chief justice, who now heads the General Elections Authority in Sudan.
Departments
Report from Paris
by Christine Bierre
Financial Chernobyl Ahead?
Report from Rio
by Lorenzo Carrasco Bazúa
Organized Crime Takeover Bid Exposed.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
A Risky Attempt To Buy Time.
Editorial
Worse, Worst, Worsthorne.
Science & Technology
Britain Sabotaged the Steam Engine of Leibniz and Papin
by Philip Valenti
The Royal Society and Isaac Newton successfully obstructed the industrial and maritime use of steam power for 100 years, and then claimed the discovery for themselves.
Economics
Italian Officials Investigate Soros for Financial Crimes
by Paolo Raimondi
Two official probes against the international speculator for his involvement in the 1992 attack on the lira, both stem from a legal brief presented by the International Civil Rights-Solidarity Movement.
Pundits Proclaim Financial System ‘Shockproof,’ as Stock Prices Soar
by Michael Liebig
Kapstein's Curious Hoax
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Comments on “a curious piece of whistling-in-the-graveyard fiction authored by Ethan B. Kapstein” in the New York Council on Foreign Relations’ Foreign Affairs journal.
Maastricht ‘House of Cards’ Is Falling
by Susan Welsh
‘Fig Leaf’ Laws Won’t Stop Money-Laundering
by George Gregory
Russians Seek Help To Revive Agriculture
by Rosa Tennenbaum
Congress Okays Telecom Deregulation Boondoggle
by Anthony K. Wikrent
Currency Rates
Venezuelan Brady Bond Market Was a Laundry
by David Ramonet
Business Briefs
Feature
‘Budget-Balancing’ Is an Exercise Doomed to Failure
by Richard Freeman
Shows how, from the 1977-81 Jimmy Carter era, the approach has repeatedly been tried to balance the Federal budget like a household’s—by cutting spending to bring it in line with apparent income. This “wisdom” has consistently led to a doubling of the budget deficit!
Tax Breaks To Benefit Parasites
by Richard Freeman
A History of the Push for a Balanced Budget
by Richard Freeman
The virus started under Carter in 1977, continued with the Kemp-Roth “Economic Recovery Tax Act” under Reagan, and persisted with Gramm-Rudman-Hollings in 1985.
KKK Backer Started the ‘Budget Process’
by Susan Kokinda
NTU: Weapon against the United States
by Anthony K. Wikrent
The National Taxpayers Union is under top-down control from London, starting with its founder James Dale Davidson’s chummy connection to Lord William Rees-Mogg.
International
British General Sabotaged NATO Bombing of Serbs
by Umberto Pascali
EIR’s exposé of the treacherous British role in Bosnia has been dramatically confirmed.
Will the British Allow Sudan To Hold Democratic Elections?
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Jordan: Cabinet Reshuffle Portends Confrontation
The trial of former independent Islamist member of parliament Laith Shubeilat was a signal.
Rima Shubeilat Calls for a Free Press in Jordan
by Rima Shubeilat
U.S. Decertification of Colombia Is in Both Nations’ National Interest
by Andrea Olivieri
‘Bush Manual’ Crew Targets Peru’s Hermoza
by Luis Vásquez Medina
International Intelligence
National
LaRouche Takes Presidential Campaign to New England
by Mel Klenetsky
“I am not a rival to President Clinton,” the New England-born Democrat told press in Portland, Maine: “We have a division of labor.”
Pentagon Says Bosnia Must Be Rebuilt Fast
by William Jones
Gore-Chernomyrdin Agreements Show Risky U.S. Policy vis-à-vis Russia
by William Jones and Marsha Freeman
The problem which is being avoided, is the aversive environment shaped by International Monetary Fund austerity.
What Democrats Can Learn from Legacy of Senator Yarborough
by Harley Schlanger
America, We Have a Problem
The FBI sting at NASA was more of the Justice Department’s “wrong stuff.” A guest commentary by a group of former senior NASA officials and contractors.
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
