EIR Volume 17, Number 7, February 9, 1990

Volume 17, Number 7, February 9, 1990

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Interviews

Nils Castro

by Carlos Wesley

A leader of Panama’s Democratic Revolutionary Party, now in exile in Mexico, describes how the lawless U.S. invasion of Panama destroyed not only the country’s sovereignty, but its physical economy as well. Part I of two.

Book Reviews

Justice Holmes, and the Subversion of America

by Stanley Ezrol

Draws devastating conclusions from Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, by Sheldon M. Novick.

Real Thrifts Story—the Deregulation Disaster—Has Yet To Be Told

by Harley Schlanger

Texas candidate for U.S. Senate Harley Schlanger on Inside Job: The Looting of America’s Savings and Loans, by Stephen Pizzo, Mary Fricker, and Paul Muolo, and Other People’s Money: The Inside Story of the S&L Mess, by Paul Zane Pilzer with Robert Deitz.

Willie Nelson and the Dirt behind the ‘Country Image’

by Marcia Merry

Classical musician and expert on agriculture and physical geography, reviews Willie: An Autobiography, by Willie Nelson and Bud Shrake, and Country: The Music and the Musicians, by the Country Music Foundation.

Departments

Vatican

by Denise Henderson

Pope: World Must Not Forget Africa.

Andean Report

by Peter Rush

Venezuelans Protest Economic Disaster.

Report from Bonn

by Rainer Apel

Bush Dumping Kohl To Help Gorbachov?

Dateline Mexico

by Mark Sonnenblick

Bush Launches Military Actions.

From New Delhi

by Susan Maitra

Tremors in the Hindu Kingdom.

Editorial

The Real State of the Union.

Economics

The Return of Herbert Hoover

by Christopher White

Bush is cast in the role of the Depression President, while Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan plays Russian roulette with the economy.

Currency Rates

Louisiana Considers Parity Farm Prices

by Marcia Merry

Domestic Credit

by Anthony K. Wikrent

Bush’s Budget from Fantasyland.

International Credit

by William Engdahl

The Panic of the Short-Sighted.

Soviet Economy

by Rachel Douglas

Railroads Snarled Again.

Banking

by John Hoefle

Neil Bush Decides To Fight.

Agriculture

by Marcia Merry

Food Shortages: A National Security Risk.

Medicine

by John Grauerholz, M.D.

Are High Fiber Diets Worth the Gas?

Business Briefs

Feature

Shadow of Economic Debacle Looms over Bush Presidency

by Marcia Merry

As the United States plunges into the worst depression of this century, millions are being denied even such fundamental rights as the freedom from hunger and the right to a place to live. We present first-hand reports from the Jan. 13-15 Martin Luther King Tribunal, showing why the allegedly popular Bush is heading for a precipitous fall.