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 n the few remaining days before the Nov. 7 U.S. elections, the Managing Editor: John Sigerson I Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht crucial margin will be the role played by youth on America’s college Technology Editor: Marsha Freeman campuses. Not only do they themselves constitute a significant per- Book Editor: Katherine Notley Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis centage of votes in battleground states; but the extent to which they Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol mobilize others can determine not only whether the Democratic Party INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: regains control of Congress, but, equally important, whether the party Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Michele Steinberg is revived as a potent force, for changing the direction into which the Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, country is plunging. Lothar Komp History: Anton Chaitkin That is why the LaRouche Youth Movement is putting everything Ibero-America: Dennis Small they’ve got into campus organizing now. As readers of last week’s Law: Edward Spannaus Russia and Eastern Europe: issue know, EIR’s investigative team is putting together the story of Rachel Douglas how the campuses have been kept so quiet since the November 2004 United States: Debra Freeman election. Even as the Iraq War becomes more disastrous day by day, INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: Bogota´: Javier Almario the auto sector goes into mass layoffs and bankruptcy, and the stan- Berlin: Rainer Apel dard of living of the lower 80% of family income-brackets sinks ever Caracas: David Ramonet Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen lower, too many intelligent young people are saying, “I won’t go Houston: Harley Schlanger there.” Now we know why: A right-wing fascist gestapo apparatus Lima: Sara Maduen˜o Melbourne: Robert Barwick has been installed on the campuses, under the top-down direction of Mexico City: Rube´n Cota Meza Mrs. Lynne Cheney, investment banker John Train, George Shultz, New Delhi: Ramtanu Maitra Paris: Christine Bierre and other marcher-lords for Anglo-Dutch Liberalism. Rome: Paolo Raimondi In this issue, we expand our coverage to identify the origins of United Nations, N.Y.C.: Leni Rubinstein Washington, D.C.: William Jones this “academic” grouping, in the circles of the late Leo Strauss at the Wiesbaden: Go¨ran Haglund University of Chicago. We also document the Train gestapo’s “hit EIR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (50 issues), list” of academic opponents of Bush-Cheney policies, and Train’s by EIR News Service Inc., 912 Pennsylvania Ave., S.E., explicit support for the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Washington, DC 20003. (703) 777-9451. Lyndon H. LaRouche’s contribution to this issue is a review of World Wide Web site: http://www.larouchepub.com e-mail: [email protected] Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq European Headquarters: Executive Intelligence Review Nachrichtenagentur GmbH, Postfach 2308, War, by Michael Isikoff and David Corn. 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Tel.: 2453-2852, 2453-2853. omy,” this will have crucial importance for the 21st Century. Copyright 2006 EIR News Service. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Canada Post Publication Sales Agreement #40683579 Postmaster: Send all address changes to EIR, P.O. Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. EIRContents Investigation 20 Chicago Boys’ Bloody Hand Behind Cheney Cover Campus Gestapo This Week Lynne Cheney’s strategists from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) are a gang bred at “Merchants of the the University of Chicago around Clothmakers’ Leo Strauss, and their project is far Guild,” by deadlier than the street-variety Rembrandt van Mafia killers that blackened Rijn. Chicago’s reputation. 23 The British Pedigree of Lynne Cheney 4 How Not To Play Chess Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. reviews Michael Isikoff and 28 From Train to Trash, Top David Horn, Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, Down & Dirty and the Selling of the Iraq War. LaRouche emphasizes By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. that today, “when the presently onrushing general collapse of the world’s present monetary-financial 29 Horowitz’s Hit-List system, is the principal imperative accelerating the Bush- Cheney drive toward immediate launching of new major 30 Horrorwitchers at UCLA wars, the typical critic of the current war-policy of that Attack the ‘Dirty Thirty’ administration, refuses to take the actually determining onrush of the presently threatened, global economic 30 ACTA Plans Strategy at breakdown crisis itself into consideration, in assessing Athena Roundtable the war-danger as such.” www.larouchepub.com Volume 33, Number 42, October 20, 2006 International National Science & Technology 32 Russians See ‘Permanent 48 Bipartisan Briefing Focuses 54 Fusion Torch Can Create War’ Escalation as Aimed on Cheney’s October New Raw Materials at Them Surprise The fusion torch can create new The decision announced by Rep. Dennis Kucinich co-hosts mineral resources from ordinary dirt Russia’s state-owned firm testimony on Vice President and rock, and get rid of waste by Gazprom, to drop U.S. interests Cheney’s push for a military attack reducing it to its constituent from its giant Shtokman offshore on Iran. elements. natural gas project, both as potential co-developers and as future 50 Another Confrontation in customers, gives an indication of the Middle East? how Moscow perceives the world Opening statment by Rep. Dennis Editorial strategic lineup. Kucinich. 64 Whose War Is This? 34 Can Genocide in Iraq Be 51 Interventionist U.S. Policy Stopped? Is a Failure Statement by co-sponsor Rep. Ron Paul. Economics 52 U.S. Attack Would Bolster Iran Government 38 Globalization’s Policy of Testimony by the president of the Famine: Wheat Supplies National Iranian American Council. Plunge The 2006 world production level for 53 National News wheat and all other grains combined—is below the average annual level of world grain consumption, for the sixth year, out of the last seven. Therefore, world stockpiles have been drawn down to the level of shortages. 40 IMF/World Bank-Imposed Globalization Leading Bangladesh Further into Hell 43 Putin Offers Germany Industrial Cooperation 45 Reality Bursts Mortgage Bubble and Greenspan’s Fantasies 47 Business Briefs EIRBook Review How Not To Play Chess by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. October 9, 2006 performance in other ways, as in blindfold chess games, with fair performance at the Prussian game of Schachtspiel, and Out of the lesser true-to-life legends from the U.S.A. of World with great success, relatively speaking, in dealing with up to War II, came the story of the security guards at a war-time eight tyros simultaneously, while I was blindfolded, but defense plant, who were perplexed by their failed attempts highly amused, in the course of a return voyage from abroad, to discover what might be buried in that sand conveyed out on shipboard, at the close of my military service. through the plant gate by employees regularly pushing rele- But, I lost my zest for treating the game seriously when I vant wheelbarrows through the exit check-points. discovered, a few years later, that the Eighteenth-Century The story runs: years later a former guard asked one of Newtonian mathematician Leonhard Euler had discovered those employees: “Tell me, between you and me, what were the mathematics of the knight’s move in chess. As the old you guys stealing?” drunk said to Hickey, near the close of Eugene O’Neill’s The The answer came: “Wheelbarrows.” Iceman Cometh, “Hickey, you took the life out of the booze.” De´ja` vu! For me, the game of chess was not really fun any more. For me, who knew that generation of war-time defense- Did Euler take the life out of my game? On the contrary, industry employees, and the rationing system of that time, the I suddenly recognized that it had never really been there. I story of “wheelbarrows” had verisimilitude. But, consider have just had a similar reaction in reading the book of Isikoff another story with a similar point, for which I can account of and Corn. my own direct knowledge, a story of my experience with the That kind of reaction against chess, prompted by the Euler game of chess. case, had not been an isolated experience for me. In a closely Anyone who knows the secret