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 ome among our readers may be provoked, or shocked, at the image Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht S Special Projects: Mark Burdman on our cover, and the headline that accompanies it. “Al Gore?” “Adolf Book Editor: Katherine Notley Hitler?” “You gotta be kidding!” Advertising Director: Marsha Freeman Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol Please turn to page 20 and study carefully the argument LaRouche INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: makes, and the accompanying documentary dossier. This is no sim- Asia and Africa: Linda de Hoyos plistic comparison. We are not talking about armbands with swasti- Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Paul Goldstein kas. We are not talking about personalities. The key to the scientific Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, comparison we are drawing, is the fellow marching to the right of William Engdahl History: Anton Chaitkin Hitler in the photo: Hjalmar Schacht, the representative of the British- Ibero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small led financier oligarchy that installed Hitler in power, at a time when Law: Edward Spannaus Russia and Eastern Europe: the world financial and monetary system had broken down—as it is Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George breaking down today. Today, that same oligarchy views Al Gore, the United States: Debra Freeman, Suzanne Rose zero, the cigar-store Indian, as their tool of the moment, in a strategy INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: Bogota´: Jose´ Restrepo to destroy the republican institutions of the United States in the imme- Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Apel diate days ahead. Buenos Aires: Gerardo Tera´n Caracas: David Ramonet It is the political-economic process as such, which has determined Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen both coups d’e´tat—the British direction of the coup which brought Houston: Harley Schlanger Lima: Sara Maduen˜o Hitler to power, and the same British interests’ direction of the coup Melbourne: Robert Barwick in which Gore figures as a foolish and malicious puppet. The process Mexico City: Hugo Lo´pez Ochoa Milan: Leonardo Servadio is the British financier-oligarchical monarchy’s continuing, decades- New Delhi: Susan Maitra long reaction against each perceived systemic threat to its “world- Paris: Christine Bierre Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios government” scheme, a state of mind which had arisen, in 1929- Stockholm: Michael Ericson 34, and again during 1992-98, in response to a systemic political- United Nations, N.Y.C.: Leni Rubinstein Washington, D.C.: William Jones economic crisis within the oligarchical world financial order. 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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 Science & Technology Strategic Studies Economics 32 The Moon: Where it 56 Lazare Carnot: the 4 Oil price collapse puts came from, how we will excellence of leadership in Mexico in existential crisis colonize it times of crisis As is typically the case, specialized An interview with Dr. Alan Binder. At a meeting of the Schiller publications around the world have Institute in Bad Schwalbach, failed to report what is actually Germany on Nov. 21, 1998, going on. Elisabeth Hellenbroich introduces a Interviews panel on the great French scientist, 7 The global financial crisis mathematician, military leader, and reaches the Texas ‘oil political figure. 12 Nicholas E. Hollis patch’ Mr. Hollis is president of the The disastrous situation Agribusiness Council, a non-profit 59 How Carnot became a demonstrates the failure of association which aims to project lieutenant general in the “globalism” and British free-market the best of American agribusiness Prussian Army economics. into the international arena. By Andreas Ranke. 10 U.S. Ex-Im Bank sets up 32 Dr. Alan Binder 60 Carnot and his times shop in Beijing Dr. Binder discusses the continuing When will Washington stop puzzle of where the Moon came 65 Carnot’s theory of shooting itself in the foot, and join from, and the discoveries that will technology: the basis for the effort to build the Eurasian make it more easily habitable. the science of physical Land-Bridge? economy A speech by Dino de Paoli. 11 ADM’s price-fixing spotlights need for nation- Departments 71 ‘A citizen of all places, and serving agribusiness a contemporary of all 55 Australia Dossier times’ 14 Jennings Randolph: in the Disarming national sovereignty. A speech by Jacques Cheminade. FDR tradition 80 Editorial 17 ADM’s history of The threat of nuclear war. corruption 18 Peru’s banking crisis: just the beginning 19 Banking Bashing the CFTC. Volume 26, Number 2, January 8, 1999 Feature International National 42 The Russia-China-India 78 Senate impeachment trial: triangle moves forward a ‘bipartisan’ coup d’e´tat Russian Prime Minister Yevgeni The pressure for a “censure” deal in Primakov’s visit to New Delhi the Senate, which is intended to marks a strategic milestone toward force the weakened President into a the Eurasian Land-Bridge, the power-sharing “co-Presidency” infrastructure development project arrangement with Vice President Al of the 21st century. Gore, is coming from traitorous Senate Democrats as well as 45 LaRouche’s ideas circulate Confederate-loving Republicans. Adolf Hitler on parade with (right) Hjalmar Schacht, in Russia the London bankers’ man who promoted and financed Documentation: From an interview Hitler’s road to power. with Lyndon LaRouche published in the Russian journal Who Is Who. 20 Al Gore and Adolf Hitler By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. “As 47 Mandelson resigns; can the writer Plutarch would have Blair be far behind? described it, there is an ominous Photo and graphics credits: Page The government of Britain’s Prime parallel between the presently 8, Brown & Root, Inc. Pages 12, 14, Minister Tony Blair is coming apart attempted coup d’e´tat against courtesy of Nicholas E. Hollis. Page at the seams. President Clinton, and the way in 21, EIRNS/Stuart Lewis. Page 24, which the government of Claudio Celani. Pages 33, 35, Germany’s Chancellor Kurt von 48 Blair’s Fortress Europe NASA. Page 37, adapted from the Schleicher was overthrown, on decouples from U.S.A. May 1977 report of the National January 28, 1933, by Hjalmar All of a sudden, Swedish and Space Development Agency of Schacht and London-backed forces Finnish social democratic leaders Japan. Page 38, Lockheed-Martin. inside the German parliament, to are calling for an orientation to Page 39, NASA Ames Home Page. hustle Adolf Hitler into power.” “NATO”—by which they mean, not Page 43, EIRNS/Christopher Lewis. the United States, but Britain. Page 68, EIRNS/Philip Ulanowsky. 25 Lautenbach’s program for Page 72, EIRNS/Dana Scanlon. German recovery 50 Paris Club bankrolls Central Africa wars 27 Iraq crisis placed Gore The consortium of government lenders to developing countries is center-stage handing over $2.2 billion to Ugandan dictator Yoweri 28 How Britain and Israel set Museveni, whose government is up the Iraq trap even recognized by the World Bank A dossier on the British and Israeli as one of the most corrupt in the agents and assets who propelled the world. United States into its disastrous war against Iraq, in order to destroy the 52 ASEAN unites against U.S. Presidency. economic crisis 53 Cambodia overcomes NED subversion EIREconomics Oil price collapse puts Mexico in existential crisis by Carlos Cota Meza Mexico’s budget plan for 1999, which was presented to the ing “loans contracted before July 30, 1996.” This means that nation’s Congress last November in accordance with the law, it is going to reschedule the very unpaid loans that were sup- confirms in spades that Mexico is rapidly moving toward a posedly restructured through Fobaproa! crisis similar to that of 1994-95, despite the 1996 financial As some bankers have already warned, a new bank rescue bailout which was, at the time, considered the largest in the package “will become necessary” when the “End Point” pro- world.