Volume 18, Number 8, February 22, 1991
Interviews
Abdelwahab El Messiri
by Joseph Brewda
The Egyptian author of several books on the Middle East is writing an encyclopedia on Zionism.
Msgr. Ladas Tulaba
by Maria Cristina Fiocchi
The former rector of the Lithuanian College of St. Casimir in Rome comments on events since Lithuania’s Feb. 9 referendum.
Book Review
Wrong in the End: What Is the Fatal Flaw of Pat Buchanan?
by Doug Mallouk
Right from the Beginning, by Patrick J. Buchanan.
Departments
Vatican
by Leonardo Servadio
Pope’s Life Said To Be Threatened.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Germany’s “Gulf” Lies at the Elbe River.
Dateline Mexico
by Carlos Cota Meza
Mexican People Hostile to Bush’s War.
Andean Report
by José Restrepo
Dual Power in Colombia.
Kissinger Watch
by M.T. Upharsin
“Get out of Venezuela, Dr. K.” — “Please Explain How You Differ from Hitler.”
Editorial
The Real Agenda.
Science & Technology
Making ‘Common Sense’ of Beltrami Vortex Geometry
by Charles B. Stevens
Describes how Winston Bostick’s early work in plasma pinches led to attempts to better understand astrophysical processes, such as galaxy and star formation, some of which is being corroborated by Hubble Space Telescope data today.
The Pinch Effect Revisited, Part 3
by Dr. Winston Bostick
The conclusion of Winston Bostick’s historical 1977 treatment of this feature of controlled thermonuclear fusion research.
Economics
IMF Austerity Brings Cholera Epidemic to Peru
by Mark Sonnenblick
This is the first time in 90 years that this killer has raged on the continent—and some people in the population-control crowd approve.
Currency Rates
U.S. Bombing Causing Polio and Plague
by Marcia Merry
U.S. “surgical strikes” may be breeding more disease than biological warfare.
Which Is Arrogant—California’s Water System, or Its Critics?
by Pamela Lowry
Trade Pact To Destroy Mexico, U.S. Economies
by Peter Rush
The pact with Canada helped strip its industry and agriculture. Now the Wall Street establishment wants to pit Mexico’s workers against U.S. labor.
Brazil’s Neo-Liberal Model Collapses with ‘New’ Anti-Inflation Measures
by Lorenzo Carrasco
Banking
by John Hoefle
Shooting the Messenger.
Business Briefs
Feature
Third World ‘Just Says No’ to Bush’s New World Order
by Nancy Spannaus
The bombings are provoking moral outrage, and could catalyze a worldwide anti-colonial resistance.
If This Is the New World Order, What an Ominous Future!
by Hussein, King of Jordan
The King’s Feb. 6 address, in which he reserves special greetings for Pope John Paul II and blasts the role of the United Nations.
Rajiv Gandhi Takes Point Against Obeisance to Washington
by Susan Maitra and Ramtanu Maitra
U.N. Did Not Intend Iraq To Be Destroyed
by Rajiv Gandhi
Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s Feb. 7 statement.
Brazil Resists U.S. on Gulf War Policy
by Lorenzo Carrasco and Cynthia R. Rush
Since the Anglo-Americans view the Amazon as the “world’s patrimony,” Brazil is on Bush’s hit-list.
Bush’s ‘New Dawn’ for Ibero-America: North-South War and No Sovereignty
by Cynthia R. Rush
International
Is Bush Planning To Use Nuclear Weapons?
by Joseph Brewda
The deliberate attack on a civilian air raid shelter may signal the upcoming use of nuclear arms.
New Documents Lay Bare Bush, U.N. Lies
by Joseph Brewda
The Jan. 13 transcript of Javier Pérez de Cuéllar’s meeting with Iraq’s President and his until-now secret report to the U.N.
We Do Not Want To Be Assimilated into This So-Called New International Order
by Joseph Brewda
Interview with Egyptian author Abdelwahab El Messiri.
Red Cross Appeals ‘To All Belligerents’
Lithuanian Freedom and the Gulf War
by Maria Cristina Fiocchi
Interview with Msgr. Laths Tulaba.
Soviets Begin Break from Anglo-Americans
by Konstantin George
Iceland To Establish Ties with Lithuania
by Poul Rasmussen
French Public Opinion Deeply Shaken by War
by Jacques Cheminade
New Papal Encyclical Charts Course of Optimism for Asian Missions
by Maria Cristina Fiocchi
Redemptoris Missio is John Paul II’s eighth encyclical.
North Korea Could Go Either Way
by Lydia Cherry
Did ‘Third Force’ Run S. Africa Massacre?
by Jeffrey Steinberg
International Intelligence
National
Defense Budget Is for Third World Wars—or World War 3
by Leo Scanlon
Bush sees the present adventure as a live-fire exercise for a force that can “project military power rapidly,” but “within fiscal constraints.”
Clark: Will U.N. Be a Party to War Crimes?
by William Jones
Even before the Dresden bombing anniversary raid on the Amariyah shelter, Ramsey Clark blasted the destruction of Iraq’s infrastructure as targeting civilians.
George Bush Blew Strategic Openings
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche’s Feb. 6 statement.
Judge Slaps Down Minnesota Attorney General
The court vacated all seizures of bank accounts and ordered “Skip” Humphrey to “discontinue” proceedings against organizations tied to the LaRouche movement.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
