Volume 24, Number 12, March 14, 1997

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Interviews

Clint Van Vleet

Mr. Van Vleet is president of the Texas Milk Producers Association.

Departments

Australia Dossier

by Allen Douglas

What’s behind the BRA?

Editorial  

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Clean up the Justice Department.

Natural Law

The U.S. Constitution’s new life

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Lyndon LaRouche provides the tools President Clinton will need to act “with pungency and force” in the near term, tools that exist within our Federal Constitution, specifically the proper understanding of the “general Welfare” clause, as against the Lockean dishonesty of those such as Michael Novak and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

Economics

New IMF looting program creates European Rwandas

by Konstantin George

Missions from the International Monetary Fund have descended on Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia, with the aim of reducing these nations, within months, to a level of degradation that the IMF took years to accomplish in Africa.

‘World markets’ for cartels showcased at USDA conference

by Marcia Merry Baker

Preaching competition for the purpose of greater concentration of power.

Currency Rates

Business Briefs

Feature

IMF policy for Russia, Ukraine must be scrapped

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

The transcript of Lyndon LaRouche’s address to the Feb. 19 FDR-PAC Policy Forum in Washington, D.C. LaRouche introduced the three speakers, from Russia and Ukraine, and stressed the importance that their report on the IMF destruction of their nations be heard in Washington.

U.S., Russia must ally against IMF immorality

by Dr. Tatyana Koryagina

Russian economist Dr. Tatyana Koryagina details how the economic reforms have so shredded the very fabric of Russian society, that the word “democrat” has become a curse word.

Ukraine is being most cruelly destroyed

by Dr. Natalya Vitrenko

As Ukrainian member of Parliament Dr. Natalya Vitrenko documents, whereas World War II reduced Germany’s GDP by 56%, IMF shock therapy has reduced Ukraine’s by 58%.

No support for IMF’s ‘imposed’ reforms

by Volodymyr Marchenko

Every country in the former Soviet bloc had its constitution changed—some by force, and some merely by dark of night—to make IMF looting go smoothly, Ukrainian member of Parliament Volodymyr Marchenko told the FDR-PAC forum.

IMF, Soros death count raised at policy forum

Excerpts from the question and answer session.

International

Albania’s plunge into civil war could re-ignite Balkans

by Konstantin George

The open battles between enraged Albanians defrauded of their meager savings and the regime of Sah Berisha, threaten to spill over into conflicts with neighboring Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, and Kosova.

Clinton defies British on U.S.-Mexico clash

by Valerie Rush

The ones screaming most for the U.S. to decertify Mexico are the friends of drug super-kingpin George Bush.

Fact-finding mission to Sudan finds reality is not what the British claim

by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

The British are attempting to draw the United States into a quagmire by supporting Baroness Cox’s war against Sudan. EIR’s report from a Schiller Institute delegation of American legislators and others to the war front, gives the lie to the claims that the Khartoum government is about to fall, as well as to the tall tales of religious persecution.

Documentation: Atrocities by invading forces are verified.

Successes mark Peru’s war on drugs

by Manuel Hidalgo and Dennis Small

International Intelligence

National

‘The Silk Road Lady’ presents Land-Bridge in New York

by Dennis Speed and Nancy Spannaus

Helga Zepp-LaRouche held an intensive series of seminars in New York on the Eurasian Land-Bridge, which received widespread reportage in the world’s Chinese communities, in mainland China, and on Taiwan.

Labor: Organizing for change, changing to organize!

by Marianna Wertz

The AFL-CIO puts forward an aggressive organizing perspective.

Dairy farm crisis is a ‘free-trade’ disaster

An interview with Clint Van Vleet.

National News

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