Volume 22, Number 43, October 27, 1995

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Departments

Report from Bonn

by Rainer Apel

Economic Liberalism Means Disaster.

Letters to the Editor

Our Forgotten Christian Brothers.

Editorial

Nobel Committee Disgraces Itself Yet Again.

Economics

Strategic Food Crisis Marks UN’s 50 Years of Failure

by Marcia Merry Baker

When the Food and Agriculture Organization met in Quebec to mark its 50th anniversary, the topic was global food security, which has worsened for the past 30 years and is reaching strategically dangerous proportions now in Russia.

China Sets Anti-Shock Therapy Course, to the Consternation of the British

by Michael Billington

Documentation: Li Peng Reports on the Ninth Five-Year Plan.

Currency Rates

Private Toll Road, Highway Robbery

by Lonnie Wolfe

As the first such road in two centuries opens in Virginia, L. Wolfe explains the thievery behind these “public-private partnerships.”

Academy of the 100 Elects Hecht, Tarpley

Business Briefs

Feature

The Budget Debacle: Read the Writing on the Wall

by Christopher White

Be it within the seven years of Gingrich, Gramm, and Kasich, and their “Contract on America,” or the ten years envisioned by President Clinton’s budget bureaucracy, the grail of balance will never be achieved.

The Real Problem Is Collapsing Revenue

by John Hoefle

The 85.3 Million ‘Missing’ Americans are Bankrupting Social Security

by Richard Freeman

Had the U.S. birth rates of 1945-59 been maintained, instead of the zero growth post-industrialism, our Social Security and Medicare trust funds would be more than solvent.

Costs of the Counterculture: Incarceration Takes Its Economic Toll

by Marcia Merry Baker and Marianna Wertz

International

London’s Nazi Experiment in the Balkans Collapses

by Umberto Pascali

The so-called Pale regime, led by war criminals Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, is escalating its atrocities, including against Serbs, as it tries desperately to cling to power.

Documentation: From Foreign Minister Mohamed Sacirbey’s press conference at the National Press Club in Washington on Oct. 10.

Pope Proposes a Bill of Rights of Nations

by Leonardo Servadio

Dalai Lama’s Ties to Aum Sect Exposed

by Mary Burdman

French and Algerian Presidents To Meet

by Christine Bierre

German Peace Prize Goes to Orientalist

by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach

Prof. Annemarie Schimmel was awarded the annual peace prize of the German Book Trade Association, despite a vicious campaign against her by the advocates of “political correctness.”

International Intelligence

National

March Signals Revolt Against the Conservative Revolution

by Jeffrey Steinberg

Last year Minister Louis Farrakhan, the head of the Nation of Islam, called for 1 million black men to come to Washington, D.C. for a national “Day of Atonement.” When it came to pass on Oct. 16, a new phase of national history was marked.

Clinton Says America Must ‘Clean House’

by William J. Clinton

From his Oct. 16 speech in Austin, Texas.

A Day of Atonement and Reconciliation

by Minister Louis Farrakhan

Excerpts from the two and a half-hour speech to the Oct. 16 march.

Schiller Institute Hosts ‘Musical Tribute to Justice’ Concert

LaRouche Takes Presidential Campaign to Fayette, Missouri

by Webster G. Tarpley

Congressional Closeup

by William Jones and Carl Osgood

National News

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