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Executive Intelligence Review, Volume 31, Number 10, March 12 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 Editor: Nancy Spannaus Associate Editors: Ronald Kokinda, Susan Welsh any of our younger readers in the LaRouche Youth Movement Managing Editor: John Sigerson M Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht were not yet born, when the shocking events related in our Feature Technology Editor: Marsha Freeman occurred. This is the true, suppressed story of a crucially important Special Projects: Mark Burdman Book Editor: Katherine Notley period in U.S. history. This story must be fully understood, in order Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis to make any sense out of what is happening today—in particular, Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol how it could be that the Democratic Presidential candidate who has INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: the broadest base of public support, as measured by individual cam- Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Michele Steinberg paign contributions (see p. 28), could be “written out” of the pri- Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, Lothar Komp maries by the Democratic National Committee (DNC). LaRouche’s History: Anton Chaitkin article, “The Night They Tried To Kill Me,” is going out as a 5 Ibero-America: Dennis Small Law: Edward Spannaus million-run leaflet issued by his campaign committee. Russia and Eastern Europe: Our documentation includes a report on the historic 1971 debate Rachel Douglas United States: Debra Freeman between LaRouche and Keynesian economist Prof. Abba Lerner, INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: over the relationship between Schachtian economics (which Lerner Bogota´: Javier Almario supported), and Hitler’s fascist politics (which Lerner said, indig- Berlin: Rainer Apel Caracas: David Ramonet nantly, that he did not support). LaRouche insisted that you can’t Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen have the one without the other—and three decades of history since Houston: Harley Schlanger Lima: Sara Maduen˜o the debate have proven him right. The second documentary piece is Melbourne: Robert Barwick a chronology of the fight around the Strategic Defense Initiative, Mexico City: Rube´n Cota Meza Milan: Leonardo Servadio LaRouche’s brainchild. Anyone who thinks LaRouche is (as the me- New Delhi: Ramtanu Maitra dia says) a “fringe” politician, has only to read this historical record. Paris: Christine Bierre Stockholm: Michael Ericson LaRouche was at the center of the policy fight then, and is today. And United Nations, N.Y.C.: Leni Rubinstein the role of the DNC chairman has not changed—only his name. Washington, D.C.: William Jones Wiesbaden: Go¨ran Haglund The second feature package in this issue, in Economics, is on the very issues posed in the Lerner-LaRouche debate. Harvard’s Samuel EIR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (50 issues), by EIR News Service Inc., 217 4th Street, S.E., Huntington, a political fascist if ever there was one, has issued a call Washington, DC 20003. (202) 543-8002. (703) 777- 9451, or toll-free, 888-EIR-3258. for race war between “Anglo-Protestant” Americans and Hispanic World Wide Web site: http://www.larouchepub.com Americans. The economic policy behind this is precisely Schachtian e-mail: [email protected] European Headquarters: Executive Intelligence Review economics, as demonstrated in Paul Gallagher’s report on the “recycl- Nachrichtenagentur GmbH, Postfach 2308, D-65013 Wiesbaden, Bahnstrasse 9-A, D-65205, ing” of the immigrant labor force, driving down living standards both Wiesbaden, Federal Republic of Germany Tel: 49-611-73650. at home and abroad. Our Editorial draws the connection between Homepage: http://www.eirna.com this policy and the ongoing battles over the bankrupt international E-mail: [email protected] Executive Directors: Anno Hellenbroich, Michael Liebig financial system. In Denmark: EIR, Post Box 2613, 2100 Copenhagen ØE, Tel. 35-43 60 40 For LaRouche’s comments on John Kerry and the new political In Mexico: EIR, Serapio Rendo´n No. 70 Int. 28, Col. San geometry since “Super Tuesday,” see his interview with Argentine Rafael, Del. Cuauhte´moc. Me´xico, DF 06470. Tels: 55-66- 0963, 55-46-2597, 55-46-0931, 55-46-0933 y 55-46-2400. radio (p. 14), and the election story on p. 64. Copyright 2004 EIR News Service. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Postmaster: Send all address changes to EIR, P.O. Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. EIRContents Economics 4 ‘Remittances’ and Labor Recycling: Harvard’s Cover Fascist Policy for the This Week Americas The call by Harvard’s Samuel Huntington for a clash of Lyndon LaRouche civilizations war against Hispanic addresses a Fusion immigrants, points to an underlying Energy Foundation fascist economic policy, which goes conference on the under the name of “immigration Strategic Defense facilitation and workers’ Initiative, in remittances.” Washington, D.C. on April 13, 1983. His authorship of 9 Huntington Raves Again: the SDI earned him 18 The Night They Came To Kill Me Watch Out for a New the enmity of the Cheney War! Soviet government By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. “Convict him or kill him!” and “utopian” was the slogan of the “Get LaRouche” task force, whose circles in the U.S. operations began as early as 1973, continued in 1986, 10 A Fanatic of Cultural War establishment. and led up to LaRouche’s imprisonment on trumped-up charges in 1989. The same forces behind those earlier 11 Battle Lines Drawn in assaults are excluding LaRouche from the Democratic Argentina-IMF Showdown Party’s electoral process in this year’s Presidential Documentation: From Argentine election. President Ne´stor Kirchner’s March 1 speech to the Legislative Assembly. 22 LaRouche’s Fateful Debate With Abba Lerner 14 ‘Argentina Must Grasp 23 SDI and the Jailing of Lyndon LaRouche The Global Crisis’ A chronology of the events by which LaRouche’s An interview with Lyndon successful intervention into the events of national and LaRouche on Argentine radio. global policy in 1982-83, brought the Soviet reaction which led to his imprisonment. 17 Business Briefs 28 FEC Figures Show LaRouche With Broadest Base of Support www.larouchepub.com Volume 31, Number 10, March 12, 2004 International Conference Report National 30 Stop Playing Football With 42 Europe’s Mission: Build a 62 LaRouche: For Fair Korea Powderkeg, SaysFuture for 6 Billion People Elections, Ban Computer RussiaHelga Zepp-LaRouche, chairman of Voting Now! The Six-Power Talks on Koreathe Civil Rights Movement The idea, LaRouche said, is “to adjourned in stalemate, as a result Solidarity political party in eliminate the use of computer- of the U.S. demand that NorthGermany, gave this keynote speech controlled voting devices— Korea simply give up all nuclear to the party’s national convention absolutely!” This is necessary programs, including peacefulon Jan. 25, to outline the because computerized voting nuclear power. Russian spokesmenperspectives for the party’s machines, by their nature, cannot be warn that this could “could raise theparticipation in the European audited. possibility of military intervention.” Parliament elections. 64 As LaRouche Forecast, the 32 Legality of Iraq War Race Is Now Down to Challenged in Britain Books Kerry and Him 33 Attempt To Trigger Civil 54 Benjamin Franklin Was No 65 Subpoena Threats Haunt War Fails in Iraq ‘Practical Man’ Cheney and White House Benjamin Franklin, by Edmund S. 35 Why Afghanistan Is Morgan; and Benjamin Franklin, an 67 From ‘War on Terror’ to Becoming a Narco-State American Life, by Walter Isaacson. ‘Climate Warfare’ A new psychological warfare 39 Palestinians Need Viable 58 Smithson and Adams: The campaign from the utopian Political Solution Will to Promote American Pentagon shop of Andrew Marshall. Dr. Hanan Ashrawi speaks in Science Washington. The Stranger and the Statesman, by 70 Congressional Closeup Nina Burleigh. 40 Saakashvili’s Roses Not Yet 71 National News Wilted in U.S. Visit Departments 72 Editorial Photo and graphic credits: Cover, Rohatyn, or LaRouche? pages 19, 25 (Manatt), EIRNS/ Stuart Lewis. Page 10, swiss- image.ch/Remy Steinegger. Page 12, Agencia Brasil/Antonio Cruz. Page 15, Fabiana Barrera/EIRNS. Page 25 (Gorbachov), UN Photo. Page 25 (Mondale), EIRNS/ Nicholas Benton. Pages 43, 45, 51, EIRNS/Christopher Lewis. Page 49 (Humboldt), Library of Congress. Page 55 (Franklin), EIRNS/Jim Duree. Page 55 (Leibniz), Library of Congress. Page 67 (Cheney), swiss-image.ch/Remy Steinegger. Page 67 (Chalabi), INC website. Page 68, University of Kentucky website. EIREconomics ‘REMITTANCES’ AND LABOR RECYCLING Harvard’s Fascist Policy For the Americas by Paul Gallagher The publication of Harvard/Trilateral Commission “cultural 6 speech to the Council of the Americas in Washington, where warmonger” Samuel Huntington’s article in Foreign Policy he virtually told them to take remittances from their emigrants magazine, which calls for a Clash of Civilizations between in the United States, and forget about other forms of aid or the “native” American population and its Hispanic immi- credit. And the next day, Jan. 7, President George W. Bush grants (see article following), points to an underlying fascist proposed a new U.S.-Mexico immigration policy which economic policy in the Hemisphere, which has recently gone would allow undocumented immigrants to be legal to work under the name of “immigration facilitation and workers’ in the United States for one or two three-year periods, without remittances” in the international banking community. offering permanent residency or citizenship; its key was a This policy is one which explicitly aims to block any kind of indentured relationship of such “semi-legals” to their tendency, in the countries of the Americas, to attempt an corporate employers in America. “FDR-style” policy of credit generation for large-scale infra- Samuel Huntington’s new fanatical denunciation of His- structure-project investments, as the way to confront eco- panic immigrants as America’s economic and cultural nomic collapse—Lyndon LaRouche’s policy.
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