Volume 17, Number 7, February 9, 1990
Interviews
Nils Castro
by Carlos Wesley
A leader of Panama’s Democratic Revolutionary Party, now in exile in Mexico, describes how the lawless U.S. invasion of Panama destroyed not only the country’s sovereignty, but its physical economy as well. Part I of two.
Book Reviews
Justice Holmes, and the Subversion of America
by Stanley Ezrol
Draws devastating conclusions from Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, by Sheldon M. Novick.
Real Thrifts Story—the Deregulation Disaster—Has Yet To Be Told
by Harley Schlanger
Texas candidate for U.S. Senate Harley Schlanger on Inside Job: The Looting of America’s Savings and Loans, by Stephen Pizzo, Mary Fricker, and Paul Muolo, and Other People’s Money: The Inside Story of the S&L Mess, by Paul Zane Pilzer with Robert Deitz.
Willie Nelson and the Dirt behind the ‘Country Image’
by Marcia Merry
Classical musician and expert on agriculture and physical geography, reviews Willie: An Autobiography, by Willie Nelson and Bud Shrake, and Country: The Music and the Musicians, by the Country Music Foundation.
Departments
Vatican
by Denise Henderson
Pope: World Must Not Forget Africa.
Andean Report
by Peter Rush
Venezuelans Protest Economic Disaster.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Bush Dumping Kohl To Help Gorbachov?
Dateline Mexico
by Mark Sonnenblick
Bush Launches Military Actions.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Tremors in the Hindu Kingdom.
Editorial
The Real State of the Union.
Economics
The Return of Herbert Hoover
by Christopher White
Bush is cast in the role of the Depression President, while Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan plays Russian roulette with the economy.
Currency Rates
Louisiana Considers Parity Farm Prices
by Marcia Merry
Domestic Credit
by Anthony K. Wikrent
Bush’s Budget from Fantasyland.
International Credit
by William Engdahl
The Panic of the Short-Sighted.
Soviet Economy
by Rachel Douglas
Railroads Snarled Again.
Banking
by John Hoefle
Neil Bush Decides To Fight.
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry
Food Shortages: A National Security Risk.
Medicine
by John Grauerholz, M.D.
Are High Fiber Diets Worth the Gas?
Business Briefs
Feature
Shadow of Economic Debacle Looms over Bush Presidency
by Marcia Merry
As the United States plunges into the worst depression of this century, millions are being denied even such fundamental rights as the freedom from hunger and the right to a place to live. We present first-hand reports from the Jan. 13-15 Martin Luther King Tribunal, showing why the allegedly popular Bush is heading for a precipitous fall.
American Farmers, Back to Serfdom
by George Gentry
Oklahoma farmer and U.S. Senate candidate.
Food for the Hungry a Matter of Justice
by Paul Magno
Of Zacchaeus Community Kitchen, Washington, D.C.
Health Holocaust of the Medically Indigent
by Elsie Pilgrim
Infectious disease control specialist, Newark, New Jersey.
Intolerable Plight of America’s Homeless
by Juliet Grant
Community activist, Newark, New Jersey.
International
World Freedom Imperiled as Never Before: LaRouche
The world is heading toward war under the Bush Administration’s “deluded, wishful, insane trust” in Mikhail Gorbachov.
Kernel of Truth in Gorbachov Rumors
by Konstantin George
Romanian Thugs Trash Opposition Offices
by Konstantin George
Czech Leader Outlines Plan for Free Europe
by Laurent Murawiec
Germany’s ‘Democratic Revolution’ Party Holds First Free Congress
by Rosemarie Schauerhammer
An exclusive first-hand report.
U.S. Destroys Fabric of Society in Panama
by Carlos Wesley
Is Bush Danny Ortega’s Campaign Manager?
by Mark Sonnenblick
Policy Disarray in Argentine Government
by Cynthia R. Rush
Bush, Thatcher Under Fire for Lockerbie Coverup
by Thierry Lalevée
West German Social Democrats Backed East German Communists to the End
East Bloc Revolutions Threat to Appeasers
by Mark Burdman
International Intelligence
National
Bush’s State of the Union: A U.S. Strategic Retreat
by William H. Harrison
The official Democratic Party spokesman, Speaker Foley, had nothing of substance to say about the President’s substanceless speech. But Virginia congressional candidate LaRouche put forward a strong alternative.
Attempt To Break Billington in Prison
LaRouche’s associate thrown into “The Hole” in prison—for no reason.
Truth Suppressed; Phau Convicted
Another chapter in Bush’s police-state vendetta in Virginia.
Perle Shows True Colors, against SDI
by Leo F. Scanlon
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Bankers Plot against War on Drugs.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
