Volume 23, Number 37, September 13, 1996
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Resistance Grows to the Green Agenda.
Entente Bestiale
by Omar Abdul-Aziz
Egypt Charges: London’s Support of Terrorism Is New Face of Colonialism.
Sudan Hijacking Points to U.K. as Terror Haven
Editorial
The Bombing of Iraq—a Grave Blunder.
Economics
‘Hot Autumn’ in France May Finish Off Foolish Chirac
by Christine Bierre
All economic indicators are in the red, as political commentators and trade unionists are forecasting a social explosion in the autumn.
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
Feature
George Bush: Crack Kingpin of the 1980s
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The San Jose Mercury has exposed how the Nicaraguan Contra apparatus provided crack cocaine and guns to Los Angeles street gangs such as the Crips and the Bloods. EIR’s dossier provides the essential, missing piece of the picture, tracing the command of this operation all the way to the top: George Bush.
The Contras and the Crack Epidemic
by Jeffrey Steinberg
How the ‘Iran-Contra’ Investigation Protected Bush’s Secret Drug Network
The truth behind Oliver North’s dirty “Enterprise.”
What Really Went On at the Mena Airport?
by Edward Spannaus
Iran-Contra Prosecutor Never Investigated Drug-Running
by Edward Spannaus
Somehow, this crucial aspect of the picture “fell between the cracks” of Lawrence Walsh’s investigation.
Mexico’s Drug Kingpin Is a Bushman, Too
by Gretchen Small
Bush’s Friends Ran Drugs in Panama
by Carlos Wesley
Bush Created Colombia’s Narco-Government
by Valerie Rush
Guns and Drugs: The Syrian Connection
by Joseph Brewda
Afghanistan Drugs: A Withdrawal Syndrome
by Susan Maitra and Ramtanu Maitra
Investigation
Gulf War Syndrome: Deadly Legacy of George Bush’s War
by Carol Hugunin
Up to 150,000 soldiers returned from the 1991 Gulf war with symptoms, 60,000 with severe symptoms, but the Pentagon and the Veterans Administration deny them medical care and testing, writing the problem off as due to “combat stress.”
Thatcher, Bush Set Up the War against Iraq
International
U.S. Attack on Iraq Plays Right Into British Hands
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
President Clinton, incompetently briefed on the consequences of his action, launched bombing raids against Iraq which have outraged just about everybody in the world, except the British.
Kurds’ Interests Hurt by Geopolitical Games
by Omar Abdul-Aziz
Russia’s Crisis Enters Lull before the Storm
by Konstantin George
Terror International Launches New Insurgency in Ibero-America
by Valerie Rush
Mexico and Colombia have been hit with an explosion of narco-terrorism, at a new level of intensity and barbarism.
The FARC Cartel
Schiller Institute Visits Sarajevo on Eve of Bosnian Elections
by Elke Fimmen
The Dayton Accord is being flagrantly violated by the Bosnian Serbs, jeopardizing the election process.
Declaration on Bosnia-Hercegovina
International Intelligence
National
LaRouche Builds ‘Third Force’ in Democratic Election Fight
by Mel Klenetsky
With the resignation of Clinton campaign “Rasputin” Dick Morris and the coming resignation of Democratic National Committee chairman Donald Fowler, the opportunity opens up for a political transformation of the Democratic Party.
The Murderous Impact of the Welfare Bill
From the debate in the House and Senate prior to the passage of the “Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.”
National News
