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Executive Intelligence Review, Volume 30, Number 18, May 9, 2003 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: Paul Gallagher Associate Editors: Ronald Kokinda, Susan Welsh he cat is finally out of the bag: With the acknowledgement by Managing Editor: John Sigerson T Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht the Federal Election Commission and a growing number of media Special Projects: Mark Burdman outlets, of the fact that Lyndon LaRouche is the frontrunner among Book Editor: Denise Henderson Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis Democratic candidates for the Presidential nomination, it has become Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol impossible for his enemies to plausibly dismiss him as a “fringe INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: candidate.” The more they try, the more of a laughingstock they Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Michele Steinberg become. (See National for the fracas around South Carolina’s candi- Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, dates’ debate.) Lothar Komp History: Anton Chaitkin It is no coincidence, that the breakout of LaRouche’s campaign Ibero-America: Dennis Small comes at the same time as a brawl has erupted within U.S. policy- Law: Edward Spannaus Russia and Eastern Europe: making layers over the imperial “perpetual war” drive of Vice Presi- Rachel Douglas dent Dick Cheney’s “chicken-hawks.” The opposition to the war United States: Debra Freeman policy that preceded the U.S. attack against Iraq has not gone away— INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: Bogota´: Javier Almario on the contrary, institutional resistance is growing, fueled by the Berlin: Rainer Apel organizing of the LaRouche campaign. As LaRouche has said, what is Buenos Aires: Gerardo Tera´n Caracas: David Ramonet needed is a full-fledged counte-rcoup, to save a weak and inadequate Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen President from the grips of the small gang of lunatics that seized Houston: Harley Schlanger Lima: Sara Maduen˜o control of his Administration in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001. In Melbourne: Robert Barwick this issue, we launch a new flank against the Cheney cabal: Those Mexico City: Marivilia Carrasco, Rube´n Cota Meza whom we have previously identified as “Straussians,” the prote´ge´s Milan: Leonardo Servadio of the late fascist Leo Strauss, have another nasty skeleton in their New Delhi: Ramtanu Maitra Paris: Christine Bierre closet. See International for our first salvo against Cheney’s “French Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios Connection.” Stockholm: Michael Ericson United Nations, N.Y.C.: Leni Rubinstein One thing that LaRouche’s opponents keep asking, is why he is Washington, D.C.: William Jones attracting support from youth, when nobody else is. Our Feature Wiesbaden: Go¨ran Haglund gives a very good idea of the answer. This is the concluding install- EIR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (50 issues) ment of our coverage of the March 21-23 conference of the Schiller except for the second week of July and the last week of December, by EIR News Service Inc., 317 Pennsylvania Institute’s conference in Bad Schwalbach, Germany: the panel of Ave., S.E., 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 20003. (202) 543-8002. For subscriptions: (703) 777-9451, or toll- pedagogical discoveries presented by young people of several na- free, 888-EIR-3258. World Wide Web site: http://www.larouchepub.com tions. Their discussion shows a level of intellectual competence and e-mail: [email protected] passionate commitment to truth, that might seem astonishing to those European Headquarters: Executive Intelligence Review Nachrichtenagentur GmbH, Postfach 2308, familiar with America’s campuses of the past 35 years. Why? Be- D-65013 Wiesbaden, Bahnstrasse 9-A, D-65205, Wiesbaden, Federal Republic of Germany cause these members of the “no-future generation” have grasped the Tel: 49-611-73650. Homepage: http://www.eirna.com E-mail: [email protected] Executive Directors: Anno fact that nothing but a cultural Renaissance can give them a future; Hellenbroich, Michael Liebig In Denmark: EIR, Post Box 2613, 2100 Copenhagen ØE, and that nobody but LaRouche has ever demanded of them that they Tel. 35-43 60 40 be the purveyors of such a transformation. They are rising to the In Mexico: EIR, Serapio Rendo´n No. 70 Int. 28, Col. San Rafael, Del. Cuauhte´moc. Me´xico, DF 06470. Tels: 55-66- challenge, becoming a force that will change the world. 0963, 55-46-2597, 55-46-0931, 55-46-0933 y 55-46-2400. Japan subscription sales: O.T.O. Research Corporation, Takeuchi Bldg., 1-34-12 Takatanobaba, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo 160. Tel: (03) 3208-7821. Copyright 2003 EIR News Service. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Periodicals postage paid at Washington D.C., and at an additional mailing offices. Domestic subscriptions: 3 months—$125, 6 months—$225, 1 year—$396, Single issue—$10 Postmaster: Send all address changes to EIR, P.O. Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. EIRContents Economics 4 Vernadsky and the Biogeochemical Cover Development of N. This Week America’s Desert To reconstruct U.S.-Mexican relations on a sane basis, this in- Lyndon H. depth economic study proposes the LaRouche, Jr. with two countries jointly develop the young organizers at Great American Desert, with water the Bad Schwalbach projects, high-speed rail lines and conference on other transportation systems, and March 23. power. The conceptual framework for such an ambitious enterprise 32 LaRouche Youth Movement: ‘A Second was provided by the Russian biogeochemist V.I. Vernadsky American Revolution’ (1863-1945). At the Schiller Institute’s conference in Bad Schwalbach, Germany, LaRouche Youth Movement leaders presented 20 Nuclear Desalination a panel on the intellectual discoveries required to stop the world’s plunge into a Dark Age, and to create, instead, a 26 LaRouche Posed U.S./ new Renaissance. Intertwined themes included the Mexico Task of Blooming historic role of the sublime Joan of Arc, the axiom- the Desert in Visit Last busting discoveries of Carl Gauss, and the physical Year economy of Friedrich List. LaRouche was interviewed by Hipatia magazine of the 56 Pedagogical Exercises in a Russian Classroom Autonomous University of A speech by Dr. Nina V. Gromyko. Coahuila, during a visit to Mexico in November 2002. 60 Reconstruction Through Multicultural Education A speech by Areti Demosthenous. www.larouchepub.com Volume 30, Number 18, May 9, 2003 International National Departments 62 Dick Cheney Has a French 74 LaRouche Campaign, 80 Editorial Connection—To Fascism Leading in Contributors, The Economic Question First. The “Straussian cabal” of warhawks Breaks Blackout in and around the Bush News of the Federal Election Administration is linked to a Commission’s April report, network of World War II and showing Lyndon LaRouche with postwar Nazi collaborators. The more campaign contributors than central figure in EIR’s investigation any of the nine other Democratic is the lifetime collaborator of neo- Presidential candidates, has “put the conservative “godfather” Leo fox among the chickens” in the race Strauss—the Paris-based Russian for the Democratic nomination. emigre´, Alexandre Koje`ve. 76 Indecent Exposure: Newt 64 Where the Chicken-Hawks And New McCarthyites Got Their Love of War 78 Ritter: Iraq War Like 66 Palestinian-Israeli Peace Nazis’ Poland Invasion Road Map Under Pantheo- Cons’ Attack 79 Intelligence Vets Ask: Probe Iraq ‘WMD’ Fraud 68 Indonesia and Russia Launch ‘New Beginning in Relations 70 LaRouche Movement Intervening into Germany’s Economic, Political Crises 72 India, Pakistan Pressed To Hold Kashmir Talks Photo and graphics credits: Cover, pages 33, 34, 41, 46, 52, 55, 56, 60, 71, EIRNS/Christopher Lewis. Page 5, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation/J.C. Dahilig. Page 20, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Page 27, EIRNS/Susana Gutie´rrez Barros. Page 30, EIRNS. Page 39, EIRNS/ Susan Bowen. Page 45, EIRNS/ Doug Mayhew. Page 48, Fusion/ Christopher Sloan. Page 51, (Bloody Sunday), courtesy of Amelia Boynton Robinson. Page 51, (Commemoration), EIRNS/ Diane Sare. Page 63 (Cheney), FEMA NewsPhoto/Jocelyn Augustino. EIREconomics Vernadsky and the Biogeochemical Development of N. America’s Desert by Dennis Small and Richard Freeman This study of a program for joint U.S.-Mexico development ize its economy and its relationship with the United States. of the Great American Desert, is an expanded version of a But, how to do that?—especially in light of the recent imperial presentation by EIR Ibero-American Editor Dennis Small, at war against Iraq, which rang in the new age of the Law of the a LaRouche Youth Movement seminar in Mexico City on April Jungle in international politics. How to respond, given that 12. Research was contributed by Richard Freeman in Wash- we are at the end not only of the existing economic model, ington, and Ronald Moncayo in Mexico City. but of the political model as well? That question is being posed today not only by Mexico, Nowhere is the bankruptcy of the free-trade economic model but by every nation of the Third World, and the developed more evident, than in the U.S.-Mexico relationship. For two countries as well. decades, Mexico has dutifully followed the International To address it, we go back to statements made by Lyndon Monetary Fund’s (IMF) prescriptions. And in the last decade, H. LaRouche during his visit to Saltillo, Mexico in November the North American Free Trade Accord (NAFTA) formalized 2002. Asked how U.S.-Mexican relations could be recon- and enthroned these same destructive policies as an interna- structed on a sane basis, LaRouche replied that Mexico and tional treaty among Mexico, the United States, and Canada. the United States, together, have to develop the Great Ameri- The results are most visibly evident in Mexico’s addiction can Desert (see Interview, page 26).
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