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Executive Intelligence Review, Volume 23, Number 16, April 12 What is LaRouche's tists many of them veterans of the Soviet "There exists no authority on Russia? space program possible solution • • April 1994, laRouche, paroled in On Oct. 12, 1988, in Berlin, laRouche In to this crisis, either issued his famous Food for Peace pro­ January after five years in prison, made for Russia or for posal, which included collaboration his first visit to Russia, at the invitation of the world within the between the Soviet Union and a free, re­ the Universal Ecological Academy. bounds of the united Germany to overcome the grow­ previously accepted ing economic crisis. WHY YOU NEED THIS REPORT: EIR's Special Report, issued in August includes terms of dominant • 1989, laRouche enunci­ 1994, In November "Russia�s Future: The Three Alternatives": international ated his Paris-Berlin-Vienna Productive Lyndon laRouche's account of his six-day trip economic and Triangle, an infrastructure program for to Russia. "A Reconstruction Strategy for financial institutions." the economic reconstruction of post­ Russia-And the World Economy" by communist Eurasia. -Lyndon LaRouche Lyndon H. laRouche, Jr. ''Whither Russia: • Situation Report," by Brig. Gen. Paul-Albert in "Prospects for Russian In October 1993, laRouche was elect­ A Economic Revival," ed to the Universal Ecological Academy Scherer (ret.) "The Military in Post­ prepared for Feb. 20, for his contributions to the science of Bolshevik Russia," by Konstantin George 1995 hearings at the phy sical economy. The Academy was "Have We Already Lost Eastern Europe Russian State Duma. and Russia?" by William Engdahl founded in May 1989 by a group of scien- Mail 142 pages, $250 EIR 94-004 to: __ Name __________________________________ ________ ____ ______ o Please sene the EIR Special Report, "Russia's future: dictatorship, chaos, or Address ___________________________________________________ _ reconstruction?" to the address shown. City _________________State____ Zip, ____ Phone ( __ ) __________ Enclosed for each report postpaid. IS $250.00 Charge my 0 Mastercard 0 Visa No. o Please send a full listing of publications Exp. Date ..___________ Signature ____________________ ______________ available from EIR News Service, including other Special Reports. Make check or money order payable to: EIR News Service P.O. Box 17390 Washington, D.C. 20041-0390 Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editorial Board: Melvin Klenetsky, Antony Papert, Gerald Rose, Dennis Small, Edward From theAssociate Editor Spannaus, Nancy Spannaus, Jeffrey Steinberg, Webster Tarpley, Carol White, Christopher White Senior Editor: Nora Hamerman T he Strategic Studies report which forms the bulk of this week's Associate Editor: Susan Welsh expanded issue, has its origins 16 years ago, with the publication in Managing Editors: John Sigerson, Ronald Kokinda 1980 of the book Hostage to Khomeini. Commissioned by Lyndon Science and Technology: Carol White LaRouche after the 1979 seizure of power by Ayatollah Khomeini in Special Projects: Mark Burdman Book Editor: Katherine Notley Iran, and the taking of 53 hostages in the American embassy there, Advertising Director: Marsha Freeman the book blew apart the "common sense" view of the Khomeini re­ Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol gime: that it was a gang of homegrown Islamic fundamentalists INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: Agriculture: Marcia Merry driven to rebel against the cruelty and oppressiveness of the Shah's Asia and Africa: Linda de Hoyos regIme. Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Paul Goldstein The book's preface states: "The key to unlocking the otherwise Economics: Christopher White apparent puzzle of the Khomeini revolution is LaRouche's identifi­ European Economics: William Engdahl Ibero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small cation of the worldwide battle between the representatives of the so­ Law: Edward Spannaus called New Dark Ages faction and those forces who are seeking to Russia and Eastern Europe: Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George unleash a new era of unlimited growth and industrialization through­ United States: Kathleen Klenetsky out the world.. ..For several centuries the British-centered oligarchy INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: has been spreading its gospel of opposition to progress, of deliberate Bogota: Jose Restrepo Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Ape/ fostering of backwardness and religious cultism.... It is the British Buenos Aires: Gerardo Teran who sponsored Ayatollah Khomeini's assault on the twentieth cen­ Caracas: David Ramonet Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen tury in Iran." Houston: Harley Schlanger Lima: Sara Madueiio Hostage to Khomeini identified the role of British intelligence Mexico City: Hugo LOpez Ochoa specialist BernardLewis in planning the fragmentation of the nation­ Milan: Leonardo Servadio New Delhi: Susan Maitra states of the Mideast and Central Asia.We exposed Carter adminis­ Paris: Christine Bierre tration National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski's "arc of cri­ Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios Stockholm: Michael Ericson sis" strategy, as part of the same project.This is the "Great Game" of Washington, D.C.: William Jones British imperial domination. Wiesbaden: Giiran Haglund �------.---------- In this week's report, we show how that same strategy is being EIR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (50 issues) applied to the area from the Caucasus to Afghanistan, to sabotage the except for the second week of July, and the last week of December by EIR News Service Inc., 317 Pennsylvania potential for a Eurasian land-bridge of economic development. By Ave .. S.E., 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 20003. (202) 544-7010. For subscriptions: (703) 777-9451. examining this case study, you can see clearly what Britain's strategy European Headquarters: Executive Intelligence Review is for the rest of the world. Nachrichtenagentur GmbH, Postfach 2308, D-650 13 Wiesbaden, Otto von Guericke Ring 3, D-65205 Next week, we will present a dossier on British policy in another Wiesbaden, Federal Republic of Germany Tel: (6122) 9160. Executive Directors: Anno Hellenbroich. region of the world: the Balkans.We will also have an evaluation of Michael Liebig In Denmark: EIR, Post Box 2613. 2100 Copenhagen 0E, the tragic death of U.S.Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. Tel. 35-43 60 40 Don't miss LaRouche's next Presidential campaign broadcast on In Mexico: EIR, Rio Tiber No. 87, 50 piso. Colonia Cuauhtemoc. Mexico. DF, CP 06500. Tel: 208-3016 y 533- Thursday, April 18, on CBS-TV, 9:30 Eastern/Pacific, 8:30 Centrall 26-43. Japan subscription sales: D.T.O. Research Corporation, Mountain Time. Takeuchi Bldg., 1-34-12 Takatanobaba, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo 160. Tel: (OJ) 3208-7821. Copyright © 1996 EIR News Service. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Second-class postage paid at Washington D.C., and at an additional mailing offices. Domestic subscriptions: 3 months-$125. 6 months-$225. I year-$396, Single issue-$10 Postmaster: Send all address changes to EIR, P.O. Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. TIillContents Strategic Studies I. Caucasus-Gateway m. The Afghan Theater to Central Asia 43 London's 19th-century 20 David Urquhart's holy war afghansi 21 General Thomson's little 44 Why the Afghanistan war war does not end 23 Nagorno-Karabakh: 'apple 48 Originators of the afghansi A Russian soldier guards the body of a woman blown of discord' up by a mine on March 31 in Grozny. the capital of Chechnya. The British "Great Game" is turning the Transcaucasus into a battleground for ethnic and reli­ 27 The Caucasus: new gious wars. 'afghansi' hotbed Jokhar Dudayev, the strongman of IV. Central Asia 4 The British monarchy "independent Chechnya," led Air rapes Transcaucasus, again Force operations during the Soviet 49 Development or free trade? Since the 1989 fall of the Berlin war in Afghanistan, and today he is The case for the Eurasian land­ Wall and the implosion of the leading a secessionist armed force bridge Soviet Union, the British monarchy against the Russian military. has roused its long-standing "sleeper" and other regional 31 UNPO plays key role in 52 The 'Great Game' and the intelligence assets throughout the Transcaucasus blowup pipeline wars Islamic world and Transcaucasia, for the incitement of the bloodiest 35 A rogue's gallery 55 Dope, Inc.'s Afghan conflictongoing in the world today. harvest 9 'Great Game' case files Karl Marx; Anglo-American support of Afghan war vs. Soviet Union; the Golden Crescent; arming II. The 'Imperial Turkey' both sides of the Iran-Iraq war; the Set-Up Olof Palme and Uwe Barschel murders. 36 David Urquhart's Ottoman legions Photo 37 The neo-Ottoman trap for credits: Cover, AFP Photo. Maps, EIRNS/John Sigerson. Page Turkey 8 (Marx), Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. 41 Pan-Turks target China's Pages 24 (Ter-Petrossian), 35, 40, Xinjiang EIRNS/Stuart Lewis. Page 38 (Ataturk), Courtesy of the Ataturk Society of America. Page 49, EIRNS/Guggenbuehl Archive. Page 65, EIRNSILamar Pittman. Page 72, EIRNSl Philip Ulanowsky. Volume 23, Number 16, April 12, 1996 Economics International National 58 Merger mania: bankrupt 64 Sudan resists U.N. plans for 70 Labor, Democrats on the British model 'one-world' government accelerate revolt versus Thanks to modern accounting The outcome of the tug-of-war Gingrich lunacy tricks, regulatory collusion, and between the U.N. Security Council The political mobilization of the lies, two bankrupt banks, Chemical and the republic of Sudan could Democratic ranks was stimulated by and Chase Manhattan, have
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