Volume 23, Number 44, November 1, 1996
Interviews
Vazgen Manukian
by Karl-Michael Vitt and Hovhanes Galajian
The leader of Armenia’s National Democratic Union and unified former opposition candidate in the Sept. 22 Presidential elections, discusses the vote fraud that left his country with a “semi-dictatorial regime, with a democratic shell.”
Book Reviews
The ‘Super-Blowout’ in World Finance
by Lothar Komp
Die Globalisierungsfalle (The Globalization Trap) by Hans-Peter Martin and Harald Schumann.
Investigation
The Secret Financial Network behind ‘Wizard’ George Soros
by William Engdahl
From a dossier by our Wiesbaden, Germany bureau, titled “A Profile of Mega-Speculator George Soros.” Beneath the thin veneer of philanthropy, Soros has been called the master of “hit-and-run capitalism.”
George Karlweiss and the Rothschild Family
by Scott Thompson
Soros’s Looting of Ibero-America
by Scott Thompson
Case studies of Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, and Peru.
Departments
Editorial
A Crisis of the Institutions.
Economics
Zedillo Won’t Privatize Oil; Speculators Take Revenge
by Carlos Cota Meza
Mexico’s President is said to be “retaking a nationalist path,” and as a result, financial warfare against him is escalating.
Currency Rates
Venezuela’s Austerity Plan Puts It on the Road to a ‘Mexican’ Explosion
by David Ramonet
How Deregulation Shot Down the U.S. Airlines
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Whole Classes of Patients Are Denied Treatment with ‘Managed Care’
by Marcia Merry Baker and Anthony K. Wikrent
Children and adults with mental disabilities are being denied care under these “managed abuse” plans.
Business Briefs
Feature
Bush’s ‘Democracy’ Lobby Instigates Breakup of Russia
by Roman Bessonov
Part 4 of Roman Bessonov’s series, “The Anti-Utopia in Power,” shows how the indigenist, separatist, and environmentalist seeds of breakup of the former U.S.S.R. were planted by Gorbachov’s “new thinking,” and are being nurtured today by the friends of George Bush and Margaret Thatcher, including the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy and its affiliated “quangos.”
Democracy or Destabilization? What the NED Funds in Eurasia
Follow the money-trail of the National Endowment for Democracy.
International
IMF Pressure Is Driving Russia toward Civil War
by Rachel Douglas
Yeltsin’s firing of Lebed reminded Russians that they didn’t elect a President last summer, but a continuing time of strife, as the International Monetary Fund turns the screws tighter on the ravaged economy.
Belgium Rocked by Protests as People Stand Up against ‘Pornocracy’
by Rosa Tennenbaum
Italian Prosecutors Close In on ‘New P-2’
by Claudio Celani
Europe’s Responsibility in Bosnia-Hercegovina
by Gen. J.A. Graf von Kielmansegg (ret.)
By the former chief of NATO’s Northern Command of Europe.
‘Williamsburg II’ Flops: Time To Dump Bush’s Defense Policy for the Americas
by Gretchen Small
The second Defense Ministerial of the Americas was a failure, as U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry adopted bankrupt policies inherited from the Bush Administration: destroying nations, under the slogans of “peace” and “democracy.”
‘Democrat’ Sarmiento: An Anglophile Racist
by Cynthia R. Rush
The program of Argentina’s President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento in the 19th Century was a forerunner of today’s efforts to demilitarize Ibero-America.
International Intelligence
National
Coverup Begins To Crack on Bush Cocaine Ring
by Edward Spannaus
Frantic efforts by the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post to cover for drug super-kingpin George Bush are falling apart, as Senate hearings begin into the Contra crack-running operations headed by Bush and his “gopher” Oliver North.
‘Bill Weld Blocked Our Investigation’
DOJ’s Bromwich: Some Oppose Drug Probe
by Suzanne Rose and Edward Spannaus
Battle Lines Drawn against Social Security Privatization
by Marianna Wertz and Richard Freeman
Including the National Association of Manufacturers’ resolution to “piratize” the system.
National News
