Executive Intelligence Review, Volume 27, Number 37, September
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EIR Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editorial Board: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, Antony Papert, Gerald From the Associate Editor Rose, Dennis Small, Edward Spannaus, Nancy Spannaus, Jeffrey Steinberg, William Wertz Associate Editors: Ronald Kokinda, Susan Welsh Managing Editor: John Sigerson e prepared for abrupt economic and strategic shifts, as we move Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht B Special Projects: Mark Burdman into October. The rapidly changing pace of events in Europe, docu- Book Editor: Katherine Notley mented in our Economics section, is the harbinger of greater turbu- Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol lence to come, as the hyperinflationary spiral of which EIR and Lyn- INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: don LaRouche have warned, becomes more manifest by the day. Asia and Africa: Linda de Hoyos Of course, some of your neighbors still don’t believe it. That’s Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Paul Goldstein why they need EIR! See our interview with Nevada State Sen. Joseph Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, Neal, who is leading a fight to reverse the deregulation of the electric- William Engdahl History: Anton Chaitkin ity industry. He is using the Feature on deregulation in our Aug. 18 Ibero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small issue, to mobilize support among his colleagues. (He only regrets that Law: Edward Spannaus Russia and Eastern Europe: he didn’t have EIR in 1997, when the Legislature passed deregulation Rachel Douglas in the first place, out of ignorance.) United States: Debra Freeman, Suzanne Rose In this issue, we have exclusive reports that go against just about INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: Bogota´: Jose´ Restrepo everything your neighbor believes about the world: Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Apel A report from the UN Millennium summit, featuring speeches Buenos Aires: Gerardo Tera´n ∑ Caracas: David Ramonet by leaders of Africa, Iran, and the Arab world, calling for a “dialogue Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen among civilizations” and an end to the disastrous globalization pol- Houston: Harley Schlanger Lima: Sara Maduen˜o icy. We also have an interview with Cambodian Prime Minister Melbourne: Robert Barwick Samdech Hun Sen, on his plans for national development. Mexico City: Hugo Lo´pez Ochoa Milan: Leonardo Servadio ∑ Little by little, the real story behind the sinking of the Russian New Delhi: Susan Maitra submarine the Kursk is coming out, showing how close we came to Paris: Christine Bierre Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios World War III on Aug. 12. Stockholm: Michael Ericson United Nations, N.Y.C.: Leni Rubinstein ∑ Helga Zepp-LaRouche, in her keynote speech to the Labor Day Washington, D.C.: William Jones conference of the Schiller Institute, demolishes the cult of Romanti- Wiesbaden: Go¨ran Haglund cism, which destroyed Napoleon Bonaparte, and which could destroy EIR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (51 issues) Western civilization, if it is not scrapped in favor of a Classical Re- except for the second week of July and the last week of December, by EIR News Service Inc., 317 Pennsylvania naissance. Ave., S.E., 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 20003. (202) And the U.S. election? Our National section reveals the growing 544-7010. 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Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. EIRContents Feature Economics International 18 Empires Always Destroy 4 Oil Goes Up, Euro Goes 32 Russians Link Sinking of ThemselvesDown: It’s the Same Kursk to Strategic Crisis A keynote speech by Helga Zepp- Deadly Disease Statements by Russian President LaRouche to the Labor DayA growing sense of alarm prevails Vladimir Putin and representatives conference of the Schiller Institutein Europe, where it is recognized of the Russia Armed Forces, and International Caucus of Laborthat the combined effects of the oil confirm what Lyndon LaRouche Committees. She examines “theprice shock, and the decline of the has insisted from the beginning: case of the first modern fascist,”euro, will devastate Europe’s The Aug. 12 sinking of the Russian Napoleon Bonaparte: how hiseconomies. nuclear submarine Kursk occurred empire came into being, and then in the context of an ongoing, global brought about its own destruction.6 Fuel War Ignites strategic crisis. The lesson for us today, is to banish European-wide Revolt the virus of Romanticism from our Against the Greens 34 Most Probably, a Foreign culture. The Greens’ policies, which are Submarine Rammed the ravaging living standards, are Kursk recognized by more and more From an article in the Russian daily Interviews people for what they are—insane. Nezavisimaya Gazeta by Rear Adm. Valeri I. Aleksin, former chief 40 Samdech Hun Sen 8 Elites Sound the Alarm navigational officer of the Russian Samdech Hun Sen is Prime Minister over Impending Crash Navy. of Cambodia. 11 LaRouche on Colombian 39 Kursk Affair Excuse for 74 Joseph NealRadio: Financial System Is New FBI, Birch Society Nevada State Senator Joseph Neal Set To Explode Slander of LaRouche (D) is rolling back steps toward LaRouche replies to a slander by electricity deregulation in the state. Joel Skousen. 13 Peru’s President Fujimori: Ibero-America Has 40 Create a New World Order Departments Already Paid Its Debt! Shared by All, Fairly An interview with Samdech Hun 15 Australia Dossier 14 Now Food Inflation Takes Sen. Cartels To Grab Australia’s Wheat. Center Stage 44 Who Is Provoking the Neo- 80 Editorial16 Business Briefs Nazis? Wen Ho Lee Is Free: But the A statement by Helga Zepp- Nation? LaRouche, chairman of the Civil Rights Movement Solidarity, a German political party. Volume 27, Number 37, September 22, 2000 National 46 UN Millennium Summit 74 Fighting Deregulation, Draws the Battle Lines Inflation: State Legislators A bitter political fight emerged, Use EIR largely between the nations of the developing sector and formerly 74 Energy Crisis Is Spreading communist world, versus the tiny like an ‘Angel of Darkness’ grouping of would-be one-worldist An interview with Joseph Neal. dictators. 77 Barnabei’s Execution: His 53 Russia’s Putin Promotes President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore (inset). Death May Help End New ‘Atoms for Peace’ Capital Punishment 62 The Clintons Part 54 Seyyed Mohammad 79 Congressional Closeup Khatami: A Call for Company with Gore over ‘Dialogue among ‘New Violence’ Civilizations’ A dramatic rift has erupted between the Clintons and Al Gore over what Lyndon LaRouche has called the 58 Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa “new violence.” This rift could have Photo and graphics credits: Cover Al Thani: ‘That Peoples dramatic implications for the (Clinton, Gore, composite photo), May Know One Another’ Presidential contest, and it places pages 19, 47 (Obasanjo), 45, 52, 64, the issue squarely in the middle of 74, EIRNS/Stuart Lewis. Page 7, 60 Abdelaziz Bouteflika: the national political debate. ‘Know Yourself by EIRNS. Pages 9, 66, 67, EIRNS/ Claudio Celani. Pages 27, 30, Knowing the Other’ 65 Media Caught Gore in Yet ”2000 arttoday.com. Page 33, U.S. Another Lie Navy Photo/Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class August Sigur. Page 47 68 The FTC’s Case Against (Mugabe), UN Photo; (Mbeki) Hollywood ANC website. Page 49, DPAO. Page 51, WHO/Gubb. Page 54, 69 LaRouche Speaks Out on EIRNS/Muriel Mirak-Weissbach. Hollywood: Stop Turning Page 60, President Bouteflika’s Kids into Killers website. Page 63, AFP PHOTO/ Paul J. Richards. 71 ‘Entertainment Industry Functions at the Moral Level of Drug Dealers’ A statement by Lt. Col. David Grossman (ret.). 72 Congress Addresses the AIDS Crisis EIREconomics Oil Goes Up, Euro Goes Down: It’s the Same Deadly Disease by Lothar Komp A growing sense of alarm prevails in Europe’s capital cities. announced that, even though it would not sell the dollar re- The talk is that the combined effects of the oil price shock, serves outright, it would be selling the interest earnings on and the decline of the euro, are bound to devastate Europe’s its dollar-denominated paper—an immediate intervention of economies. Even such export industries as the chemical in- about 2.5 billion euros. dustry, whose expenditures for organic substances have dou- But it’s not going to work: All of the usual rules of cur- bled over the past 12 months, won’t escape.