Volume 25, Number 30, July 31, 1998
Departments
Australia Dossier
by Robert Barwick
Hanson derails Mont Pelerin juggernaut.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Germany’s “safe” markets are not so safe.
Editorial
“Democracy,” IMF-style.
Economics
Clinton sounds the alarm on U.S. agriculture crisis
by Marcia Merry Baker
The President has announced urgent aid measures, but the most urgent one of all—dumping the IMF—is unfortunately not among them.
‘Alternative’ debated, in case Russian finance package fails
by Rachel Douglas
It took rule-by-decree in Russia, as IMF Deputy Managing Director Stanley Fischer had proposed it would, for the IMF to approve $11.2 billion in “financial support.” Now, nationalists are preparing programs in the event of its inevitable failure.
The Philippines at 100
by Herman Tiu Laurel
A guest commentary by Herman Tiu Laurel, who chronicles the IMF experiments on the island nation, and asks: When will the colonization end?
Philippine journal features EIR, LaRouche
Pakistan struggles to avoid debt default
by Ramtanu Maitra
U.S. RTC model would collapse Japan’s bankrupt banking system
by Richard Freeman and John Hoefle
The Japanese government has announced that it will attempt a bailout of its banks, modelled on major features of the Resolution Trust Corp. What a disaster that would cause!
U.S. RTC destroyed the real economy
by Kathy Wolfe and John Hoefle
Business Briefs
Feature
LaRouche movement flexes its muscle vs. DOJ tyranny
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Citizens’ rage at the corruption of Washington’s “permanent bureaucracy” has been transformed by the LaRouche political movement into a drive to clean out the criminals in the U.S. Department of Justice.
Three cases of DOJ prosecutorial misconduct
Testimony submitted by the Schiller Institute to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, on July 13.
At stake in GM strike: globalization’s destruction of labor and industry
by Richard Freeman
Either globalization is halted, or there will be no industrial capacity and labor force left to economically reproduce the human race.
United Steelworkers file lawsuit against NAFTA
‘Maquiladoras’: ‘manufacturing plantations’
by Carlos Cota Meza
Mexico’s Mr. NAFTA and the drug trade
by Gretchen Small
Former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who pushed through NAFTA with George Bush, financed his campaign with drug money.
NAFTA ban on DDT will cost more lives
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
Privatizing the prison system: ‘maquiladoras’ in the United States
by Marianna Wertz
America’s rapidly growing prison system is threatening to become a cheap-labor haven for free-enterprisers.
H.R. 4100: ‘Free market’ slave labor for U.S. prisons
by Marianna Wertz
A report on “The Free Market Prison Industries Reform Act of 1998,” introduced by Rep. Bill McCollum (R-Fla.).
Private prisons are U.S. ‘growth industry’
by Marianna Wertz
The case of Virginia: Prison labor program riddled with scandal
by Edward Spannaus
Workfare is a human rights violation
by Marianna Wertz
International
Block the British plan for disintegration of Indonesia
by Michael O. Billington
Indonesian leaders are warning that a loss of cohesion among the nation’s diverse ethnic and religious groups, could lead to civil war. Not surprisingly, British intelligence agents and their friends have a hand in stirring up the conflicts over the provinces of East Timor and Irian Jaya.
The Cold War vs. the Non-Aligned Movement
by Michael O. Billington
U.S. leaders should look at the battle between Roosevelt and Churchill, to see where U.S. interests really lie with respect to developments in Indonesia.
International Intelligence
National
Turning the tables: Starr is now under investigation
by Edward Spannaus
The independent counsel could be held in contempt of court or even jailed, because of the leaks of grand jury information from his office to the news media.
Trent Lott lies on China satellites
by Marsha Freeman
The Senate Majority Leader’s claims about an “interim report” on U.S. satellite exports for launch in China, turn out to be hogwash. When it comes down to it, Lott is trying to give the GOP a head start in the mid-term elections in November.
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
