Volume 23, Number 13, March 22, 1996
Interviews
Leah Casselman
by Marianna Wertz
She is the president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union in Canada, who led the 67,000 members of OPSEU out on the first strike by civil servants in Ontario’s history, in protest of the anti-labor policies of the provincial government of Progressive Conservative Premier Mike Harris.
Maximiliano Londoño
by Nora Hamerman
The president of the Ibero-American Solidarity Movement (MSIA) of Colombia explains why he came to the United States to urge government officials and lawmakers to back decertification of Colombia.
Karen Vardanian
by Marianna Wertz
He is a member of the Presidium of the Union for Constitutional Rights (Armenia) and was interviewed during a visit to the United States.
Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad
The Washington, D.C.-based medical doctor, national spokesman for the Nation of Islam, gives an eyewitness account of Minister Louis Farrakhan’s recent tour of Africa and the Middle East.
Strategic Studies
Britain’s ‘New Empire’ Strategy Invades Asia
by Michael Billington
The British campaign was dramatically advanced at the “Asia Europe Meeting” (ASEM) in Bangkok on March 1-2. Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew played the role of the top British stooge, and French President Jacques Chirac, that of Lee’s most befuddled admirer.
‘The Message of Venice’
by Mary Burdman
Lee: ‘The Best Bloody Englishman East of Suez’
by Michael Billington
Reality Shatters Chirac’s Asian Dreams
by Christine Bierre and Mary Burdman
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Hanging by the Rope of Austerity.
Editorial
The Magic of the Marketplace.
Economics
Mexicans Combat IMF, Mont Pelerin Society
The battered nation of Mexico is refusing to roll over and play dead, as was proven by a meeting on March 8 in León, Guanajuato of the Fourth National Forum “Yes, There Is Life After the Death of the IMF.”
Documentation: Press coverage of the Forum and international messages of support.
Mont Pelerin Society: Satan’s Social Doctrine
Editorial published in a pamphlet by the MSIA.
Investigation of Soros Shifts Mood in Italy
by Claudio Celani
Camdessus and Russia’s ‘Big Boys’
by Roman Bessonov
Global Warming Hoax Takes Its Last Gasp
by Rogelio A. Maduro
Business Briefs
Feature
Soros Bankrolls Global Drive for Drug Legalization
by Jeffrey Steinberg
At the root of the dope-legalization drive is growing hysteria in London and on Wall Street over the looming global financial blowout. EIR presents the legalizers: who they are, and who among your elected officials is working to advance their nefarious aims.
Dope, Inc.’s Soros: Vesco of the 1990s
by Scott Thompson and Jeffrey Steinberg
Frank Introduces Gingrich Bill To Legalize ‘Pot’
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Swiss Referendum Is Crucial in Fight against Drug Legalization in Europe
by Karen Steinherz
The Samper Pizano File: Colombia’s Decertified President Is a 20-Year Project of Drug Legalizers
by Andrea Olivieri
Documentation: Excerpts from an interview Samper granted showing that he wanted drugs legalized in 1979.
Dope Lobby Pushes Legalization Debate
by Gretchen Small
A profile of the Inter-American Dialogue.
International
Schiller Institute Exposes British Plot against Sudan
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
In written testimony prepared for congressional hearings, Muriel Mirak-Weissbach demolishes the British operatives from Christian Solidarity International who are trying to manipulate the policy of the U.S. government.
Freemasonic Intrigue and the British ‘Party of Treason’ in France
by Mark Burdman
Prince Philip Fiddles, While Monarchy Burns
by Scott Thompson
What would happen to the Duke of Edinburgh’s project for a new, global Mother Earth religion, if the constitutional plug were pulled on the House of Windsor?
Armenian Leader Tours U.S., Condemns IMF Genocide
by Marianna Wertz
An interview with Karen Vardanian.
International Intelligence
National
LaRouche Campaign Sparks Fight on National Policy
by Mel Klenetsky
With double-digit showings in two of the Super Tuesday primaries, the 73-year-old candidate is well situated to re-focus the Democratic Party on the issues that will enable it to defeat Gingrich in 1996.
LaRouche in Louisiana: Muster Up the Courage To Solve Our Problems
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Excerpts from Lyndon LaRouche’s March 7 speech to the Rotary Club in Monroe, Louisiana, where he was invited as a contributing editor of EIR.
Farrakhan Tour: Atonement Principle Applied to World
by Dennis Speed
The first-hand account of the controversial National of Islam delegation’s tour, which neither the mass media nor Congress have wanted to hear.
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
