Volume 23, Number 11, March 8, 1996
Interviews
Abdel Mahmoud Alkoronky
The press counsellor for the Sudanese embassy in London traveled to the United States to attend the Schiller Institute’s Presidents’ Day conference Feb. 17-18, and to meet with policymakers in Washington.
Book Reviews
Honest Historical Research Sends Bronfman Crowd into a Rage
by Harley Schlanger
Eternal Guilt? Forty Years of German-Jewish-Israeli Relations, by Michael Wolffsohn.
The Civil War and America’s Naval ‘Surrogate War’ against Britain
by William Jones
Divided Waters: The Naval History of the Civil War, by Ivan Musicant.
Departments
Dateline Mexico
by Carlos Méndez
PRD Opens “Another Chiapas” in Tabasco.
Editorial
What You Are Thinking Today.
Economics
Deadly Cure: Currency Board Urged on Mexico’s Zedillo
by Carlos Cota Meza
The oligarchy’s new “solution” for the disintegration of their financial system is to force countries like Mexico to overturn their central banks and replace them with currency boards.
Panic in the World’s Bond Markets Could Pop the Speculative Bubble
by William Engdahl
Currency Rates
End of the Line for U.S. Fusion Program?
by Mark Wilsey
The Fusion Energy Advisory Committee of the Department of Energy has issued its report on “a restructured fusion energy sciences program.”
Behind the Myth of ‘Exploding Social Expenditures’ in Germany
by Lothar Komp
Germany became an industrial giant in the last century because of, not in spite of, its pioneering the social safety net.
Business Briefs
Feature
National Economic Security Depends on Farm Parity
by Marcia Merry Baker, John Hoefle, Anthony K. Wikrent, Fred Huenefeld, and Robert Baker
The facts on agricultural parity policy, as a reference for policymakers confronted with today’s food shortages and economic breakdown.
Parity Law Is Based on Economic Security
by Marcia Merry Baker, Fred Huenefeld, and Robert Baker
‘American System’ behind Parity Policy
Calculating Parity Prices: Begin with the ‘Market Basket’
by Marcia Merry Baker, Fred Huenefeld, and Robert Baker
Thirty-year Decline of U.S. Farm Parity Ratio
by Marcia Merry Baker and Robert Baker
International
A British Hand Is Behind the World Terror Rampage
by Jeffrey Steinberg
In the span of 48 hours, over the weekend of Feb. 24-25, the stability of the Middle East and the Caribbean region was severely damaged by acts of irregular warfare—just as the 19-month peace process in Northern Ireland was shaken weeks earlier by a string of terrorist bombs, purported to have been carried out by the Irish Republican Army.
Samper Sends Gestapo against His Enemies
by Andrea Olivieri
Chirac Reorganizes the French Army: Bonapartism, not Gaullist ‘Grandeur’
by Christine Bierre
British Complete Their Coup in Burundi
by Linda de Hoyos
John Paul II Brings Hope to Venezuela
by David Ramonet
The Shubeilat Case: Jordan Government’s Conundrum Deepens
UN Campaign against Sudan Is Based on Lies and Political Manipulation
An interview with Abdel Mahmoud Alkoronky.
International Intelligence
National
LaRouche Reshapes Debate over the Nation’s Future
by H. Graham Lowry
The Daschle-Bingaman report is billed as “a set of comprehensive, specific Democratic proposals to address wage and income stagnation-to produce long-term, higher rates of economic growth, shared with working families in the United States,” but errs fatally, by denying the reality of global economic disintegration.
LaRouche Campaigns in Texas, Tells Dems: ‘It’s Still the Economy’
by Harley Schlanger
Gephardt Pledges New Era of ‘Income Politics’
by Rep. Richard A. Gephardt
Arkansas ‘Starr Chamber’ Heats Up, as Senate Whitewater Hearings Play On
by Edward Spannaus
Eye on Washington
by A. Lazzaroni
Kemp Bluffs on Lincoln, Fakes on JFK.
National News
