Volume 20, Number 47, December 3, 1993
Interviews
Prof. Volodymyr Chernyak
by Karl Michael Vitt
Professor Chemyak is a department head at the Institute of Economics of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.
Vyecheslav Chornovil
by Karl Michael Vitt
The founder and leader of the Rukh, the independence movement in Ukraine, Mr. Chornovil is a member of Parliament of Ukraine. He was imprisoned many times during the Soviet regime.
Book Reviews
Proof of Kennedy’s ‘No’ to Vietnam
by Linda de Hoyos
JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power, by John M. Newman.
Departments
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Workers Party Under Investigation.
Andean Report
by Valerie Rush
Drug Legalization Scenario Launched.
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Social Democrats Offer No Solutions.
Editorial
Of Crime and Rage.
Economics
New York State Announces a Bold Maglev Program
Finally, somebody is planning to build an intercity magnetically levitated line in the United States—if the funding comes through. And that’s a big “if.”
Currency Rates
Beijing, Local Leaders Fight over Taxes
by Cho Wen-pin
Mexican Farmers Ask Their Congress To Investigate Secret NAFTA Accords
by Hugo López Ochoa
A report on a conference of the Permanent Forum of Rural Producers (FPPR) in Ciudad Obregón.
Documentation: FPPR leader Jaime Miranda Peláez opens the proceedings.
Banking
by Anthony K. Wikrent
Ten Trillion Dollars, and Counting.
Business Briefs
Feature
Globalization Wrecks Industry and Labor Force
by William Engdahl
Documents the devastating impact on the economies of the OECD nations of industry’s shift toward cheap-labor regions of Asia and Ibero-America. Companies say this is what they need to survive “the competition.” But the policy portends massive unemployment and social dislocation, turning what used to be the advanced industrial sector into a rust bucket.
Allais Blasts OECD’s Free Trade Fraud
by Maurice Allais
LaRouche Hits ‘Travesty’ of OECD’s Economists
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
List’s Attack on British ‘Shopkeeper’ Trade System
by Friedrich List
International
World Leaders Are Cool to Clinton’s Pacific Strategy
by William Jones
Behind the smiles and photo opportunities at the Seattle summit of the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, the real agenda was to smash resistance to the global free trade agenda.
Civil War Looms in Algeria
by Christine Bierre
Ukraine, Ignored by West, Is Under the Gun of Economic Disaster
‘Wild Liberalism Is Making Us Paupers’
by Karl Michael Vitt
An interview with Prof. Volodymyr Chernyak.
‘Destructive Forces Threaten Ukraine’
by Karl Michael Vitt
An interview with Vyecheslav Chornovil.
Cárdenas: The Aristide of Mexico?
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, who could become the new President of Mexico, upholds the International Monetary Fund’s murderous austerity conditionalities, like Haiti’s Jean-Bertrand Aristide, whom he defends. A statement by the Ibero-American Solidarity Movement of Mexico.
International Intelligence
National
Free-Traders Plan Phony Debate on Drug Legalization
At meetings of the International Network of Cities on Drug Policy and of the Drug Policy Foundation, the dope legalizers were on an offensive, led by free-trade guru Milton Friedman.
Sixth Circuit Court Lambasts OSI Misconduct in Demjanjuk Ruling
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Excerpts from the unusually forthright court decision. Are heads now going to roll at the Justice Department?
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
