EIR Volume 23, Number 46, November 15, 1996

Volume 23, Number 46, November 15, 1996

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Interviews

Fans Nanic

by Elke Fimmen

Mr. Nanic is general secretary of the Bosnian ruling party branch SDA in Croatia, and head of the TWRA Press Agency in Zagreb. He was the spokesman of the Ministry of Defense in Sarajevo, and, until the recent Bosnian elections, Chief of Cabinet of Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic.

Harold Bedoya Pizarro

by Javier Almario

The commander of the Colombian Armed Forces evaluates the Army’s role in the fight against terrorism.

Héctor Orozco Orozco

by Javier Almario

The Mayor of Florencia, Colombia tells what is happening with the marches of coca-farmers in the region-contrary to what the media say.

Departments

Report from Bonn

by Rainer Apel

Labor’s Protests Grow Louder.

Editorial

Time for a Health Civil Rights Law.

Physical Economy

On the Subject of Evolution: The Descent to Bush from Man

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Takes up the issues raised by Pope John Paul II’s recent address on evolution, from the standpoint of LaRouche’s own expert knowledge as a physical economist, with independent discoveries in this field. He shows “that virtually all extant academic theories of evolution, including those which contain some useful elements of research, are essentially ideological fabrications.”

Economics

World Financial System Is at ‘Five Minutes to Midnight’

by John Hoefle

Financial “experts” around the world (not including the United States) are stating publicly what Lyndon LaRouche said in his Ninth Forecast, over two years ago: The whole system is coming down!

Italy: LaRouche Group Sparks Fight vs. Privatization

Two Italian senators are demanding an investigation of the privatization of the Banco di Napoli, based on material submitted by the Solidarity Movement.

Financial Sharks Advance Four Plans To Privatize U.S. Social Security

by Richard Freeman

Scientists’ Understanding of Cold Fusion Remains Elusive

by Carol White

A report from the Sixth International Cold Fusion Conference in Hokkaido, Japan.

Currency Rates

Argentine Government Moves To Seize Wages

by Gretchen Small

Business Briefs

Feature

The Murderous Issue of Food Policy

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

“The issue of the right to food has become the choice of contest which will determine whether this imperilled civilization of our planet survives the closing years of this century.”

Pontifical Council on ‘World Hunger’

Excerpts from the report of “Cor Unum.”

Lester Brown: Food Advances Are Over; It’s Time To Kill People

by Marcia Merry Baker

The president of the Worldwatch Institute is geared up to present his Malthusian program to the World Food Summit in Rome on Nov. 13- 17.

New ‘Super Rice’ Means 25% Yield Increase

by Marcia Merry Baker

International

Looted Russia Is Straining at the Seams

by Rachel Douglas

Without a change in the so-called “reform,” the imported policies that launched the economic and social demolition of Russia in 1992, there is no hope for that nation to survive, even if Boris Yeltsin’s physical recovery were to stabilize the power configuration in the short term.