Executive Intelligence Review, Volume 27, Number 7, February 18
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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 issue centers on the drive by the British-led financier oligarchy Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht T Special Projects: Mark Burdman to wipe out the nation-state. As our Feature puts together the global Book Editor: Katherine Notley picture—whose total impact is greater than the sum of its parts—you Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol can see that, during the past year and a half, this effort on the part of INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: the oligarchs has proceeded at a dizzying pace, with dangerous por- Asia and Africa: Linda de Hoyos tents for world peace. Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Paul Goldstein But even as this assault proceeds, leading figures around the world Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, are rallying to Lyndon LaRouche’s call for a defense of national William Engdahl History: Anton Chaitkin sovereignty, and of those values that make the nation-state an indis- Ibero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small pensable institution for promoting the general welfare. See the selec- Law: Edward Spannaus Russia and Eastern Europe: tion of international endorsements of LaRouche’s Presidential cam- Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George paign, on p. 53, for an idea of how this process is occurring. United States: Debra Freeman, Suzanne Rose Especially encouraging is the letter by 14 Russian scientists and intel- INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: Bogota´: Jose´ Restrepo lectuals. Their eloquent letter shows not only that they look to Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Apel LaRouche as the hope for achieving friendly and productive relations Buenos Aires: Gerardo Tera´n Caracas: David Ramonet between Russia and the United States; more deeply, they are grap- Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen pling with LaRouche’s “big ideas,” and are making them their own. Houston: Harley Schlanger Lima: Sara Maduen˜o “Like no one before,” they write to him, “you have succeeded in Melbourne: Robert Barwick uncovering the harmony and interaction of rigorous science and Clas- Mexico City: Hugo Lo´pez Ochoa Milan: Leonardo Servadio sical art forms, as well as uniting the methods of scientific discovery New Delhi: Susan Maitra and the education of youth.” Paris: Christine Bierre Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios LaRouche, writing in “Will the U.S.A. Keep Its Sovereignty” Stockholm: Michael Ericson United Nations, N.Y.C.: Leni Rubinstein (EIR, Nov. 19, 1999)—a useful companion-piece to the current is- Washington, D.C.: William Jones sue’s Feature on the disintegration of the nation-state—pointed out Wiesbaden: Go¨ran Haglund that, emerging in the United States today, there is a shift in mood, “a EIR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (51 issues) limited, but rapidly accelerating appetite for serious answers,” rather except for the second week of July and the last week of December, by EIR News Service Inc., 317 Pennsylvania than “the evasive word-play of bite-size slogans.” This process was Ave., S.E., 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 20003. (202) manifest in the New Hampshire primary, where voters delivered the 544-7010. 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But that is 45 Fighting like hell to live till not what is happening now, as Australian troops patrol the streets of Dili, East Timor, tomorrow families live off their credit cards, September 1999, following a destabilization operation First They Killed My Father: A and financiers peddle IOUs to run against Indonesia by the British Commonwealth. Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, inflate the speculative bubble. by Loung Ung. Bankruptcy will be the ultimate 12 Nation-states disintegrate result. under assault from London “The underlying, principal strategic 7 The euro falls, and falls, conflict dominating the planet Photo and graphic credits: Cover, and falls... today, is expressed as the varied threat of generalized warfare, DPAO. Pages 4-6, 16, 17, 23, 24, The euro is in a dangerous “no famine, and epidemic disease, the 29, 32-34, 39, EIRNS. Page 13, man’s land,” too weak to attract the which is caused, ultimately, and that ANCOL/German Enciso. Page 19 billions in foreign investment its almost entirely, by the several (Huntington, Brzezinski), 20 framers had expected a year ago, efforts to employ the model of (Camdessus), 43, 55 (Bedoya), 69, and politically too entrenched to be pagan Imperial Rome, or more 71, EIRNS/Stuart Lewis. Page 19 abandoned without risking a barbaric ethics, for the purpose of (Peccei), United Nations. Page 20 political and monetary collapse of establishing ‘one-world (Wolfensohn), World Bank/Michele the European Union. Iannacci. Page 41, DOD/Helene C. government,’ through the United Nations Organization, or some Stikkel. Page 54, EIRNS/ 8 ‘Dirigist’ measures needed Christopher Lewis. Page 57, alternate instrument,” Lyndon H. EIRNS/Philip Ulanowsky. Page 76, to halt systemic collapse, LaRouche, Jr. wrote recently. In courtesy of Amelia Boynton says LaRouche this report, we identify those forces Robinson. that are attempting to destroy the 10 Business Briefs nation-state, the one institution that could offer a defense against these Dark Age forces. 18 The assassins of the nation- state A “Who’s Who” of the institutions and individuals who are deliberately destroying nations. Volume 27, Number 7, February 18, 2000 International National 21 Asia 1997: The case of 40 Cohen and Hoon pursue 52 LaRouche’s drive for U.S. Indonesiapolicy of strategic Presidency: On to Indonesia was an easy target for the confrontation Michigan! 1997 blood-letting by currency The 36th annual Conference on The heavy-handed effort by the speculator George Soros and his ilk, Security Policy, known as the Gore apparatus to deny Lyndon the so-called Asian crisis, which Wehrkunde conference, featured a LaRouche access to Democratic was in fact a global crisis which sharp contrast between the outlook primary ballots is running into broke out in Asia. of the insane British-American- trouble in a number of states, where Commonwealth policy grouping, LaRouche’s campaign has beaten 22 Oil, opium and the attack against most of the rest of the down all obstacles thrown in its on Asia world. way, and has placed the candidate’s name on the ballot. 25 Russia 1998: The line is 42 LaRouche’s ideas are International endorsements of drawn vs. attack on scrutinized in Russia Lyndon LaRouche’s campaign for sovereignty “The Social and Political Situation President. Nowhere is the insanity of the in Russia” was the theme of a perpetrators more prominently on seminar at the Institute of Physics 56 LaRouche speaks for the display than in Russia—still one of of the Russian Academy of 80% of voters being the world’s great nations, and still Sciences, and coverage in the ignored by the ‘bozo’ the possessor of a superpower’s Moscow weekly Ekonomicheskaya candidates nuclear arsenal. Gazeta. Lyndon LaRouche’s opening statement to a Wilmington, 27 South America 1999: 44 Austria bludgeoned by Delaware town meeting on Feb. 4, Narco-nations come to the European Union on the eve of state’s primary fore The Haider case: Who stands to election. Plunged into bankruptcy, nations gain from the EU overreaction to are disintegrating and the continent the center-right Austrian coalition 64 Congressional Closeup is slated to be dominated by Jacobin government? mobs and narco-empires. 66 National News 50 International Intelligence 30 Ecuador is turned into a concentration camp Civil Rights 35 Argentina stands at the 68 LaRouche takes voting edge of the abyss rights case to U.S. Supreme Court 37 ‘Clean Hands,’ but dirty In this brief submitted to the U.S. tricks vs. Europe Supreme Court, Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. and his fellow 38 Oligarchy’s assault is plaintiffs prove that former Democratic Party National destroying Africa Committee Chairman Donald L.