Volume 23, Number 26, June 21, 1996
Interviews
Bogdan Pek
by Anna Kaczor-Wei
The free market economic model is a fallacy, says a member of parliament from the Polish Peasant Party.
Krzysztof Mlodzik
by Anna Kaczor-Wei
The regional chairman of the Upper Silesia Solidarity trade union of miners and energy sector workers puts the stress on infrastructure as the root of true reform in Poland.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
They Are Still Not Doing Their Job.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
MST Opts for Irregular Warfare.
Andean Report
by Gretchen Small
BBC’s “Revive Shining Path” Project.
Editorial
British Ideology Is an Infectious Disease.
Political Economy
Colombian Canal Project Could Thwart Separatist Plot
by Javier Almario and Carlos Wesley
The proposed Atrato-Truandó interoceanic canal could open up a new era of economic development for Colombia, while undercutting the geopolitical schemes of the British, the separatists, and the United Nations.
Pugwash World Federalists behind Urabá Grab
Economic Impact of the Canal Project
by Javier Almario
From a 1985 speech by EIR’s Javier Almario.
Economics
Poland’s Gdansk Shipyard Is Shut Down on Orders of IMF
by Anna Kaczor-Wei
In 1990, Lech Walesa, later Poland’s President, said that “Polish sheep have lots of wool; foreign investors can come and cut it.” This is what has happened during the last six years.
Currency Rates
Iran Inaugurates Rail Link To Revive the Ancient Silk Road
by Hussein al-Nadeem
A blow is struck against geopolitics by opening the Mashhad-Tajan railway connecting Iran to Turkmenistan.
Business Briefs
Feature
Maggie Thatcher’s Economics Spread ‘Mad Cow’ Disease
by Marcia Merry Baker and Jonathan Tennenbaum
The spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, is a textbook case of how radical “free trade” economics leads to disaster.
The Scientific Picture on BSE: Incomplete, But Frightening
by Jonathan Tennenbaum
More Work Is Needed To Develop BSE Tests
by Carol Hugunin
How Thatcher Ravaged U.K. Infrastructure
by Marcia Merry Baker and Mary Burdman
How Thatcherism Led to BSE
A timeline of events from the 1970s to the 1990s.
European Backlash Grows against London
by Rosa Tennenbaum
The Leading Firms During BSE’s Spread
by Anthony K. Wikrent
Corporate profiles of some of the top British companies in the livestock feed business.
International
British Crown Lashes Out at LaRouche in Australia
by Allen Douglas
The sudden uproar “down under” is not a domestic affair, but the reaction of the House of Windsor to Lyndon LaRouche’s growing policy influence worldwide.
Documentation: Excerpts from a radio interview by LaRouche with “EIR Talks” and from a press conference by Australian Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer.
India: The ‘Leftist’ United Front Takes the Helm
by Susan Maitra and Ramtanu Maitra
In India, the caution of the media and public about the new government, is based on the abject failure of two past experiments, in 1977 and 1989, when anti-Congress Party forces had hatched a common front to take power.
Indian Elections: Shifting Vote Patterns
by Susan Maitra and Ramtanu Maitra
Turbulence Ahead for Romania, Bulgaria
by Konstantin George
The Strategic Gambits behind France’s ‘Cheminade Case,’ 1990-91
by Mark Burdman
‘Northern Venice’ Scenario Set Back in St. Petersburg
by Roman Bessonov
International Intelligence
National
‘Impeach Ridge’ Campaign Aims To Knock Out the Nazis
by Nancy Spannaus
The national significance of targeting the Pennsylvania Governor as a Nuremberg criminal, is that it may be crucial to getting Clinton reelected, and to freeing Congress of the Conservative Revolutionaries who are out to destroy the country.
A Resurgent AFL-CIO Is Key to Defeating Conservative Revolution
by Marianna Wertz
Documentation: From recent speeches by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney.
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
Correction
Correction
In our June 7 issue, the article “LaRouche: Impeach Pennsylvania’s Gov. Ridge for ‘Nazi-Like’ Policies” contained an error on p. 65. The New England Journal of Medicine reported that 5 out of 186 medically indigent adults studied, died after six months-at least 3 of these directly due to lack of health care. LaRouche used this figure, 3 out of 186, or 1.61%, to estimate that 3,542 people would die in Pennsylvania in the first six months, as a result of Governor Ridge’s legislation.
