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 ll around the world, the LaRouche political movement is battling Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht A Special Projects: Mark Burdman it out against the enemies of the nation-state, the “globalizers” whose Book Editor: Katherine Notley lunatic doctrines are propelling us into a Dark Age. Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol Take the symposium in western China, reported in Economics. INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: Nobel laureate Lawrence Klein, of the Wharton School of Business, Asia and Africa: Linda de Hoyos must have been dismayed to find representatives of the Schiller Insti- Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Paul Goldstein tute confronting him after his speech in Chongqing. Associates of Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, Lyndon LaRouche first picketed Klein’s classroom in Philadelphia William Engdahl History: Anton Chaitkin back in the 1970s, and have crossed swords with him repeatedly. In Ibero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small Chongqing, Jonathan Tennenbaum rose from the audience to charge Law: Edward Spannaus Russia and Eastern Europe: that Klein, in his paean to the “New Economy,” had not even men- Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George tioned the speculative bubble on the U.S. financial markets, the U.S. United States: Debra Freeman, Suzanne Rose trade deficit of over $400 billion per year, and the growing income INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: Bogota´: Jose´ Restrepo gap within the U.S. population. Klein replied that speculation was a Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Apel “separate problem,” which had nothing to do with the “New Econ- Buenos Aires: Gerardo Tera´n Caracas: David Ramonet omy,” and that the U.S. trade deficit was actually created in order to Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen help the world overcome the Asian financial crisis! Houston: Harley Schlanger Lima: Sara Maduen˜o With such idiocy coming from the mouths of the “experts,” it is Melbourne: Robert Barwick no wonder that more and more people are looking to LaRouche. In Mexico City: Hugo Lo´pez Ochoa Milan: Leonardo Servadio this issue, we publish interviews that he gave to the Peruvian maga- New Delhi: Susan Maitra zine Gente and the influential Arabic daily Al-Arab International, Paris: Christine Bierre Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios elaborating his defense of the nation-state against the financier oligar- Stockholm: Michael Ericson United Nations, N.Y.C.: Leni Rubinstein chy. On June 23, LaRouche addressed policymakers in Rome, on Washington, D.C.: William Jones the subject of a New Bretton Woods financial reorganization—an Wiesbaden: Go¨ran Haglund exciting event on which we shall have more to say next week. 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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 Interviews Economics 58 Robert Wilkins 4 Regional Initiatives 13 Germany: A Power without Mr. Wilkins, an attorney with the Proceed in Wake of Energy Sovereignty D.C. Public Defender Service, Pyongyang Summit The government and energy makes a strong case for keeping In the two weeks since EIR producers have agreed on a parole, and against prison published Lyndon LaRouche’s call timetable to terminate use of privatization. for the “Regional Organization nuclear energy. under a New Bretton Woods,” developments have moved at a 15 Machine Tools, Farm Book Reviews rapid pace in precisely that Equipment Show U.S. direction. Economic Collapse 65 Challenges of Space Flight, Then and Now 6 Global Moves Toward a 17 President Zedillo Failure Is Not an Option, by Gene ‘New Architecture’ Bequeaths Mexico a Kranz, and Off the Planet: Statements by Japanese economist ‘Balkanized’ Economy Surviving Five Perilous Months Eisuke Sakakibara, Malaysian Aboard the Space Station Mir, by Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir bin Jerry M. Linenger. Mohamad, and a report on the visit 20 Business Briefs to China of Iranian President Seyyed Mohammad Khatami. Departments 7 Dr. Mahathir: Bretton 72 Editorial Woods Worked, Floating Cut the Mideast Gordian Knot, Mr. Rate System Failed Clinton. Documentation: Excerpts from Dr. Mahathir’s speech to “The Future of Asia” conference in Tokyo, on June 9. Photo and graphics credits: Cover, EIRNS/Dean Andromidas. 11 Debate over Globalization Pages 15, 16, 24, 36, EIRNS. Pages Shapes Symposium on 23 (Rice, Payne), 41, 42, EIRNS/ Western China Stuart Lewis. Page 23 (Holbrooke), A report on “International EIRNS/Christopher Lewis. Page 26, Symposium on Development of UNHCR/P. Moumtzis. Page 35, Western China,” held in EIRNS/Muriel Mirak-Weissbach. Chongqing, China, on Page 61, EIRNS/Brian Lantz. Pages June 8-9. 66, 68, NASA. Volume 27, Number 26, June 30, 2000 Feature International National 30 There Are No Rogue States, 52 Ad Hoc Platform Hearings Not Even Iraq Give Voice to ‘Forgotten In the wake of the historic Inter- Man’ Korean Summit, the U.S. State A panel of 11 Democratic state Department has abandoned the legislators, joined by former U.S. official vocabulary “rogue states.” Senator Eugene McCarthy, presided So, how can the U.S. over Ad Hoc Democratic Party Administration continue to justify Platform hearings. The panel took the genocidal sanctions and on the responsibility to do what the undeclared war against Iraq? current Democratic Party leadership Rwandan refugees in Goma in 1994, in what is now has refused to do: Give a voice to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 34 LaRouche Discusses His those “forgotten Americans” who Policy for the Mideast know that the so-called “crisis of 22 U.S. Policy Debacle Brings The London-based Arabic-language abundance” being discussed by Al Death to Millions in Congo daily Al Arab interviewed Lyndon Gore is a fraud. For the third time in a year, LaRouche. hostilities have broken out in the 55 Gore’s Campaign in Total city of Kisangani in the Democratic 39 Peru Braces for Visit by Disarray Republic of the Congo, between the OAS Hit-Squad armed forces of Rwanda and OAS Secretary General Ce´sar 56 New Studies Build the Case Uganda. The fighting between the Gaviria and Canadian Foreign for Abolition of Capital two former allies is the most lurid Minister Lloyd Axworthy will try to Punishment sign to date that the post-Cold War topple the recently re-elected policy for Africa architected by government of Alberto Fujimori, 58 Mass Murderer G.W. Bush British intelligence and allied and install one more favorable to Executes Gary Graham American interests, is in ruins. London’s objectives of free trade, dollarization, and drug legalization. 25 Mortality in Eastern 58 Stop D.C. Sentencing Bill, Congo: Results from Five 40 LaRouche: They Are Out Keep Parole Mortality Surveys to ‘Dollarize’ Peru and All An interview with Robert Wilkins. Excerpts from a report by the of Ibero-America International Rescue Committee. An interview with Lyndon 60 Louisiana Acts vs. HMOs, LaRouche by Peru’s Gente as High Court Backs Right 27 Voices Cry Out against magazine. To Kill Genocidal War in Congo Statements by U.S. Rep. Cynthia 44 Peru’s Diego Garc´ıa Saya´n: 63 Eco-Terrorist Bomb Plot McKinney; Cardinals, Archbishops, Drug Legalization and Foiled in Oregon and Bishops of the Democratic Limited Sovereignty Republic of the Congo; the 69 National News Ugandan Joint Christian Council; 45 Britain’s Tony Blair Is and the Catholic Bishops of Decomposing Like Gore 70 Congressional Closeup Uganda. 28 BBC Cover-Up of a 47 The Anglo-Americans Fear Massacre an African-Malaysian Hundreds of civilians were Alliance murdered in the village of Katogota by Burundian military forces and 50 Poland’s New Goverment the Rwandan Patriotic Army.