Dr. L.C. Jain is a noted economist and former member of the Planning Commission of lndia. This article is excerpted from his talk at the “Consultation on new Economic Policy and Health Care” sponsored by Health Action. It has been reprinted here from Health Action,

After what many population control professionals saw as a humiliating defeat at the Earth Summit, the head of an international population control advocacy group has charged the Vatican with “treason” for its opposition to coercive birth control language contained in environment agreements. Organizations advocating escalated

Population Growth Wrongly Blamed “Population growth in the Third World is being increasingly and falsely identified as a primary cause of environmental destruction .… “Population growth is not a cause of the environmental crisis but an aspect of it and both are related to the

Franco Bandini is an Italian journalist and historian who has been in the business for almost fifty years. This article is reprinted from Il Sabato, 6 July 1991. Among those of us who work in the media, there currently flourish Hippocratic declarations of faith in

The Papua New Guinea Government (PNG) will be presented with a detailed design for a major population control project devised by the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau (AIDAB). Indications are that the PNG Government is likely to

“UNFPA Warns of Fivefold Population Increase by 2150” The United Nations Population Fund warns that the planet faces economic and ecological catastrophe — “the nightmare of the 1990s” — unless “urgent action is taken.” UNFPA Executive Director Nafis Sadik, in crisis-ridden language, stated that, “Delay

The Agency for International Development (AID) often uses intermediaries to conceal the fact that its programs are sponsored by the United States government. In 1986, AID initiated one of the strangest and most controversial “development” activities in its 32-year history. The project, which involved several

More False ‘Starvation Death’ Statistics The big lie of 40,000 hunger/starvation/malnutrition deaths which supposedly occur daily in the world got a big boost recently in The Washington Post. Ms. Jessica Mathews’ 17 January article “A Retreat on Trade?,” stated that “An appalling 40,000 [people] die

Editor’s Note: Organizations imposing population control methodologies attempt to co-opt religion through the reinterpretation of religious teaching. The Philippine NGO Council, in a recent publication, attempted to redefine Catholic religious teaching on population control as expressed in Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Populorum Progressio and a