Executive Intelligence Review, Volume 26, Number 51, December
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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 his is the last issue of EIR for 1999—the year, the century, and Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht T Special Projects: Mark Burdman the millennium. And, although we didn’t exactly plan it that way, it Book Editor: Katherine Notley provides a wealth of feature material that reflects upon some of the Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol most important historical events of the now concluding century: INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: ∑ The Great Depression and the FDR years. Richard Freeman Asia and Africa: Linda de Hoyos and John Hoefle analyze the history of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Paul Goldstein and the impact of its recent repeal. This was the law that separated Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, commercial banking from investment banking and insurance—the William Engdahl History: Anton Chaitkin law that, as we all learned in school, was supposed to prevent a Ibero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small Depression from ever happening again. Well, in their infinite wisdom, Law: Edward Spannaus Russia and Eastern Europe: the Wall Street establishment and the U.S. Congress have erased it Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George from the books, to foster the ever-greater expansion of the speculative United States: Debra Freeman, Suzanne Rose bubble that is doomed to pop—sooner, rather than later. See also INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: Bogota´: Jose´ Restrepo Lyndon LaRouche’s webcast address to supporters in Los Angeles, Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Apel for his discussion of how a new “FDR coalition” must be rebuilt Buenos Aires: Gerardo Tera´n Caracas: David Ramonet today, to shift American political and cultural life from the disastrous Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen course upon which it is currently travelling. Houston: Harley Schlanger Lima: Sara Maduen˜o ∑ Geopolitics: from World War I to the present. LaRouche pro- Melbourne: Robert Barwick vides a short conceptual overview of “the myth of geopolitics,” to Mexico City: Hugo Lo´pez Ochoa Milan: Leonardo Servadio situate the documentary reports in our Feature on how this insane New Delhi: Susan Maitra doctrine is being revived today by Zbigniew Brzezinski and his Brit- Paris: Christine Bierre Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios ish controllers. See also Roman Bessonov’s fascinating article on the Stockholm: Michael Ericson United Nations, N.Y.C.: Leni Rubinstein debate in Russia, sparked by terrorism and the geopolitical “Great Washington, D.C.: William Jones Game” being played against Russia by the British. Wiesbaden: Goran Haglund ¨ ∑ U.S. policy in Cambodia. Michael Billington contributes a dev- EIR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (51 issues) astating historical analysis of what is really behind the push for an except for the second week of July and the last week of December, by EIR News Service Inc., 317 Pennsylvania international war-crimes tribunal against the Khmer Rouge in Cam- Ave., S.E., 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 20003. (202) bodia. The very forces in the West who brought the Khmer Rouge 544-7010. 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EIRContents Interviews Economics Feature 71 William Pepper 4 As the old year passes, cries The attorney for the family of of ‘crash’ ring in the new Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Just as Lyndon LaRouche forecast historic case which has finally during the early days of 1999, shattered the wall of silence over during the past year the hopelessly the conspiracy to murder the great bankrupt world financial system civil rights leader. lurched into a “boundary condition” state, and only foolish people blinded by their own greed are still Departments denying the collapse is imminent. Geopolitical lunatics Zbigniew Brzezinski (right) and James Schlesinger are U.S. spokesmen for the British Documentation: Commentaries in plan to grab oil and other raw materials from the 80 Editorial the world press on the coming Transcaucasus and Central Asia. World-strategic significance of financial crash. Mideast talks. 24 Brits go for raw materials 7 Banking deregulation: an grab before the bubble assault on America’s pops Strategic Studies national sovereignty The Center for Strategic and The Glass-Steagall Act, passed International Studies and the 50 Cambodia genocide: under the direction of President London Financial Times energy Kissinger and Brzezinski in Franklin Roosevelt explicitly to division co-sponsored a conference limit the power of the international in Washington on “The Geopolitics the dock bankers over the U.S. economy, Oligarchical spokesmen are of Energy into the Twenty-First was a decidedly political act. Its demanding an international tribunal Century.” It was warmed-over repeal is a serious mistake. to try leaders of the Khmer Rouge, British raw materials geopolitics, the genocidalists who they helped borrowed from Britain’s nineteenth- put into power, to cover up their 10 How the Glass-Steagall Act century “Great Game” which is own crimes, and to destabilize struck a blow against Wall leading the world toward war. Cambodia once again. Street’s power 26 The myth of geopolitics 55 Learn from the past to save 15 Deregulation: a license to By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. the future steal Geopolitics was always a fairy-tale, created to hide the British The Cambodians are handling the The irony of a dangerously out of monarchy’s actual motives—to war crimes tribunal very carefully, control group of parasites destory both Russia and Germany, to avoid spooking former Khmer proclaiming that they are being and to take over control of the Rouge soldiers into fleeing to the “over-regulated,” should not be lost U.S.A. jungle and renewing war. on anyone watching the bankers running roughshod over the very Photo and graphic credits: Cover people they claim they want to 27 Conference at CSIS: (oil rig), Department of Energy. serve. geopolitics of energy Cover (Brzezinski, Schlesinger), pages 8, 29, 31, 40, 51 (Brzezinski), 20 WTO summit failure: a 61, 68, EIRNS/Stuart Lewis. Pages view from Malaysia 9, 16, 25, 35, EIRNS. Page 11, Guest commentary by Ramon Library of Congress Prints and Navaratnam. Photographs Division. Page 47, EIRNS/Gonzalo Huertas. Page 51 22 Business Briefs (Kissinger), HAK United Nations/ T. Chen. Page 71, Ben Fernandez, courtesy of William Pepper. Volume 26, Number 51, December 24, 1999 International National 28 Lunatic Brzezinski’s ‘New 34 Russia, China counter 58 Stench of racism surrounds Carter Doctrine’threat to world security indictment of Wen Ho Lee He’s pushing a re-tooled version of A close look at the Russia-China The Dec. 10 arrest of American his old 1970s “Arc of Crisis”Joint Declaration issued on Dec. 10 nuclear physicist Wen Ho Lee was geopolitics, fostering a “Zone of by Russian President Boris Yeltsin an act of politically and racially- Instability” in Central Asia, directedand China’s President Jiang Zemin, motivated scapegoating that has at destroying the great nations of shows that it is not merely a show sparked anger from Asian- Eurasia. of sabre-rattling, but rather it is a American constituency groups, result of a profound shift under way and concern over this new 31 Administration views in relations among the three main McCarthyism. Baku-Ceyhan pipeline as Eurasian powers: Russia, China, one alternative and India. 60 LaRouche: Rebuild FDR Despite its potential advantages, an Documentation: Extracts from the coalition and retake the oil pipeline that detours around Joint Declaration. Democratic Party Russia can become an easy pawn in Portions of an address which the the “Great Game” being played by 39 A Russian debate Democratic Presidential pre- Madeleine Albright and otherSt. Petersburg correspondent candidate delivered on Dec. 11 via lackeys of British geopolitics. Roman Bessonov examines the sea- satellite and Internet to supporters change under way in Russian in Los Angeles.