Volume 19, Number 48, December 4, 1992
Interviews
Rodolfo Oswaldo González Meda and Fernando Becaga
by Gerardo Terán Canal
Two leaders of Argentina’s retiree movement show how IMF austerity conditionalities have driven the elderly into desperate straits.
Book Reviews
‘Nightmare’ Is Not Meant as Fiction
by Kathy Wolfe
Pacific Nightmare: How Japan Starts World War III, A Future History, by Simon Winchester.
Another Attempt To Cover Up Mozart’s Assassination Fails
by David Shavin
The Mozart Myths: A Critical Reassessment, by William Stafford.
Departments
Dateline Mexico
by Rubén Cota
Credit Screws Are Tightening.
Andean Report
by Ludovico Benítez
New Scandal Breaks Out in Venezuela.
Panama Report
by Carlos Wesley
Coming Apart at the Seams.
Music Views and Reviews
by Kathy Wolfe
“Messiah” and “The Creation” for Christmas.
Editorial
It’s Your Responsibility.
Economics
New York Bankers Issue Marching Orders to Clinton
by Kathleen Klenetsky
The “100-day economic agenda” scheduled to be published shortly by the New York Council on Foreign Relations, calls for vicious austerity, as the financial elites follow in the footsteps of Nazi Economics Minister Hjalmar Schacht.
Clinton To Revive Carter Energy Policy?
by Marsha Freeman
Gonzalez Calls for Hearings on the Fed
by William Jones
GATT Talks Resume amid Monetary Chaos
by Marcia Merry
Currency Rates
Unionists Take Dim View of NAFTA
Documentation: From speeches at a conference on “Trade Union Response to Global Free Trade,” held at Pennsylvania State University’s Australia-New Zealand Studies Center.
Bankers’ Socialism Leaves Spain in Chaos
by María del Carmen de Pérez Galindo
Nothing Being Done To Stop African Epidemics
Agriculture
by Suzanne Rose
Usury against Farmers Exposed.
Banking
by John Hoefle
The Bronfmans Sue the Reichmanns.
Business Briefs
Science & Technology
Methyl Bromide Ban Will Hasten World Depopulation
by Rogelio A. Maduro
The Montreal Protocol group that fashioned the excuses to ban CFCs is meeting in Copenhagen to ban another crucial compound—and millions will pay with their lives.
EPA Challenged about Methyl Bromide Lies
Hitler, Too, Was an Environmentalist
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
Conference Report
Columbus Quincentenary Is Celebrated in Brazil
by Silvia Palacios
At a seminar in the city of Anápolis on “The Fifth Centenary of the Evangelization and Ibero-American Integration,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche joined Brazilian leaders in founding the Center for Ibero-American Studies and Solidarity.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche: ‘We Need a World Reconstruction Program’
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
The Earth Could Sustain 35 Billion Human Beings
by Dom Manoel Pestana Filho
A summary of the speech by Dom Manoel Pestana Filho, the bishop of Annapolis.
Argentine Patriots Greet Center for Solidarity
Greetings from Col. Mohamed Alí Seineldín and Capt. Gustavo Breide Obeid.
Brazilian Armed Forces Prepare To Defend National Sovereignty
by Lorenzo Carrasco Bazúa
International
Iran May Be Next To Get ‘Desert Storm’ Treatment
by Joseph Brewda
The same Anglo-American channels that duped Iraq into going to war with Iran in 1980, and into invading Kuwait in 1990, are at it again, trying to shore up their geopolitical power.
Half a Million Bosnians Face Death; Balkan War Looms in Next Phase
by Konstantin George and Nora Hamerman
Was Windsor Castle Fire an Act of God?
by Mark Burdman
Peru’s Fujimori Wins Election, But Not Freedom from Foreign Pressure
by Gretchen Small
Britain on Reckless Course in Hong Kong
by Mary McCourt Burdman
International Intelligence
Feature
Reconstruction: The Civil War Battle Yet To Be Won
by Fredric W. Henderson
Tells the real story of the battle over Reconstruction after the Civil War. It was a bitter strategic fight between the advocates of the American System of political economy on the one side, and the British-backed usurious bankers, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Freemasons on the other.
National
Two Cities Demand Demolition of KKK Founder Pike’s Statue
by Patricia Salisbury
The national mobilization launched by Lyndon LaRouche and the Rev. James Bevel has scored some victories, and the KKK’s backers are furious. When will the despicable statue in the nation’s capital finally come down?
Atlantic Council Sees Split with Europe
by William Jones
National News
