Volume 21, Number 8, February 18, 1994
Interviews
Paul Hebert
A delegate at large from Haiti’s National Campaign for Unity, Peace, and Reconciliation describes the effects of the embargo against his country.
Msgr. Raouf Najjar
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
The Apostolic Delegate in Jordan discusses the status of diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Israel, and the prospects for peace in the Mideast.
Dr. Shauki Tuma
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Iraq’s Deputy Minister of Health exposes the hideous and illegal manner in which life-saving medical supplies not prohibited under the embargo are being kept from the people of Iraq.
Book Reviews
Fighting Today’s Tuberculosis Means We Must Fight AIDS, Too
by Ernest Schapiro, M.D.
The Forgotten Plague: How the Battle against TB Was Won—and Lost, by Frank Ryan, M.D.
Greater Serbians were Hitler’s Best Henchmen
by Paul Gallagher and Irene Beaudry
A review of a draft translation of Mosaic of Betrayal: Serbian Collaboration with the Nazis, published in Croatia by Ljubica Stefan and Tomislav Vukovic.
Eyewitness Report
Tavistock Techniques Are Being Used To ‘Break’ Iraq
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Reports from Baghdad, after three years of a cruel and inhuman embargo.
West Illegally Withholding Medicine, Food from Iraq
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
An interview with Dr. Shauki Tuma.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
The Decline of Geopolitics.
Northern Flank
by Tore Fredin
Sweden Toes the Anglo-American Line.
Report from Rio
by Lorenzo Carrasco
Lula and the Armed Forces.
Editorial
Put the Lid on Environmental Hoaxes.
Economics
Federal Reserve Hikes Rates To Save the Bubble
by Anthony K. Wikrent and Christopher White
Treasury Secretary Bentsen calls it a “preemptive strike” against inflation. But, in fact, it’s Phase Three in the attack on foreign currencies, designed to prop up the speculative bubble.
California’s Earthquakes: The ‘Big One’ Is Still To Come
by Rogelio A. Maduro
Beijing Embraces France’s Ailing Economy, Furthers ‘Globalization’
by Michael Billington
India’s Reserves Are Growing, But at a Cost
by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan Maitra
Rao Visit Opens a Great Opportunity for German-Indian Relations
by Mary Burdman
Devaluation of the CFA Franc: France Sucks Its Neo-Colonies Dry
by Lawrence Eyong-Echaw
The author is a journalist writing from Cameroon.
Currency Rates
Agriculture
by Rosa Tennenbaum
Russia Facing Mass Starvation.
U.S. Unemployment Coverup
Business Briefs
Feature
Racist ADL Uses Gestapo Tactics To Boost Fundraising
by Dennis Speed
The Anti-Defamation League’s loud cries of “anti-Semitism” directed against the Nation of Islam, are part of a systematic campaign mapped out in Montreal in 1991, which included the sale of intelligence on the NOI to South Africa. When revenues began to lag after the December 1992 exposure of ADL espionage against its political opponents, the campaign went into high gear.
Establish Proper Relations with the Jewish Community, Says Farrakhan
Excerpts from a Feb. 3 news conference by the Nation of Islam leader.
Media Scramble To Defend the ADL
The ADL’s Sordid Legacy of Racism and Hate Crimes
ADL Strategizes on Targeting Farrakhan
From an ADL policy memorandum.
International
NATO Falls Out in Chaos over the War in Bosnia
by Katherine Kanter
Once again, the British are preparing a trap for the Clinton Administration. Unless the geopolitical game of the British-led Entente Cordiale is overturned, the Balkan war could soon engulf the rest of Europe.
Croatia Trapped by Compromise
by Elke Fimmen
Haiti Must Determine Its Own Destiny
An interview with Paul Hebert.
Can the British Gameplan for South Africa Be Stopped?
by Linda de Hoyos
Separatist Strategy Advances in Mexico
by Cynthia R. Rush
Vatican Ties with Israel Are a Step toward Peace
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
An interview with Msgr. Raouf Najjar.
International Intelligence
National
Anglo-American ‘Special Relationship’ Is On the Rocks
by Kathleen Klenetsky
The bitter recriminations over the granting of a temporary visa to Gerry Adams, head of Ireland’s Sinn Féin, are but the surface manifestation of much deeper differences.
Thatcher Peddles ‘Special Relationship’ in Virginia
by Scott Thompson
British Assets Pump Whitewater Scandal
by Edward Spannaus
LaRouche Wing of Democratic Party Makes ADL Toadies Tremble with Fear
by John Sigerson
In Illinois, the friends of Sen. Paul Simon are chewing the rug.
Judge: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia Rulings Give the Right to ‘Suicide’
by Linda Everett
Judge Richard C. Kaufman has overturned Michigan’s law banning “assisted suicide,” as Dr. Jack Kevorkian cheers.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
