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Executive Intelligence Review, Volume 35, Number 15, April 11 Executive Intelligence Review EIRApril 11, 2008 Vol. 35 No. 15 www.larouchepub.com $10.00 The British Empire’s Economic Suicide Club Can Dick Cheney’s War Against Iran Be Avoided? LaRouche on the Subject of Principle: Project ‘Genesis’ The British Empire Has Us on The Path to World War III SUBSCRIBE TO EIR ONLINE The Banking System Has Already Collapsed! “There is no possibility of a non-collapse of the present financial system—none! It's finished, now!” —Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., webcast, July 25, 2007 Unless the Homeowners and Bank Protection Act “is enacted as a first order of business of the 110th Congress in September [2007], many millions of Americans will be evicted from their homes.... The foreclosure tsunami is occurring, not as a result of a mere housing or mortgage crisis, but a disintegration of the entire global financial system.” —EIR Editorial, Aug. 31, 2007 “My view of the economy is that the fundamentals are strong.” —President George W. Bush, Dec. 20, 2007 EIR Online’s Subscribers Know What Is Really Going On.... Do You? To subscribe: www.larouchepub.com/eiw Call 1-800-278-3135 (toll-free) See back cover for subscription rates Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editorial Board: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Antony Papert, Gerald Rose, Dennis Small, Edward Spannaus, Nancy Spannaus, Jeffrey Steinberg, EI R William Wertz Editor: Nancy Spannaus Managing Editor: Susan Welsh Assistant Managing Editor: Bonnie James Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht From the Assistant Managing Editor Technology Editor: Marsha Freeman Book Editor: Katherine Notley Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol Is it possible that the most important events taking place in the world INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS today are invisible to you? Compare what is being offered up by the Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Michele news media as coverage of “current events,” with what is actually hap- Steinberg Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, Paul Gallagher pening, as we present it in these pages, and you will see that virtually History: Anton Chaitkin Ibero-America: Dennis Small everything you are being told is a lie. Law: Edward Spannaus The biggest lies consist of what is not said: that there is a global Russia and Eastern Europe: Rachel Douglas drive on by the British empire for a new world war. That this war is al- United States: Debra Freeman ready “live” is revealed by Helga Zepp-LaRouche in our Feature, “Do INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS We Really Want a Third World War?” From Russia, to China, to South- Bogotá: Javier Almario Berlin: Rainer Apel west Asia, to Argentina, to Zimbabwe—seemingly disparate parts of Copenhagen: Tom Gillesberg the world—we see the British hand: Look at the way Tibet is being Houston: Harley Schlanger Lima: Sara Madueño used as a battering ram against China; examine the role of the Uighurs, Melbourne: Robert Barwick Mexico City: Rubén Cota Meza and of the controllers of the Dalai Lama, including the Nazi pedigree New Delhi: Ramtanu Maitra of those networks. Look also at the vicious attempt by the British to re- Paris: Christine Bierre United Nations, N.Y.C.: Leni Rubinstein colonize the nation of Zimbabwe, which has been subjected to brutal Washington, D.C.: William Jones Wiesbaden: Göran Haglund economic warfare, leaving the country afflicted with Weimar levels of hyperinflation. ON THE WEB e-mail: [email protected] Underlying all, is the reality of the deepening global financial and www.larouchepub.com economic disintegration, spurring the oligarchy’s desperate moves. Per- www.larouchepub.com/eiw Webmaster: John Sigerson haps nowhere do the lies fall thicker and faster than in the economic Assistant Webmaster: George Hollis sphere. As John Hoefle writes in Economics, “The British Empire’s Economic Suicide Club,” a theatrical farce was on display during hear- EIR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (50 issues), by EIR News Service, Inc., 729 15th St. N.W., ings of the Senate Banking Committee, where everyone in that chamber Washington, D.C. 20005. (703) 777-9451 played their parts to perfection, while the real drama—a bailout of world-historic proportions of the financial elites—is already taking European Headquarters: E.I.R. GmbH, Postfach 1611, D-65006 Wiesbaden, Germany; place on the world stage. Bahnstrasse 9a, D-65205, Wiesbaden, Germany Has the world gone completely mad? Not yet. 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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. EI R Contents www.larouchepub.com Volume 35, Number 15, April 11, 2008 Economics 20 The British Empire’s Cover Economic Suicide Club The supposed regulators of the U.S. This Week economy and the lawmakers have no idea why the world financial system collapsed, judging from a Senate Banking Committee U.S. Marines hearing on the subject of financial arrive in market turmoil. And everyone Afghanistan, concurred that the illegal bailout of March 2008, for the already dead system is the right deployment under thing to do. NATO command. U.S. Marine Corps/Staff Sgt. Robert Piper 4 Lining Up for the Countdown: Do We Really 22 Argentine President Defies Want a Third World War? British Empire The April 2-3 NATO summit in Bucharest was held to transform NATO into an imperial global organization. If a totally different policy is not placed on the agenda, a new world war looms, which threatens to become even more horrendous than the world wars of the 20th Century. Helga Zepp-LaRouche reports. 8 The Uighurs: Britain’s Double-Edged Razor To Cut Up China and Beyond 13 British Use Tibet Networks for War on China— Again 17 British Destabilization of Zimbabwe: One Part of Global Chaos ‘Great Game’ 18 Zimbabwe UN Ambassador Destabilizes BBC Anchor 19 Why This Assault on Mugabe? EI R Contents www.larouchepub.com Volume 35, Number 15, April 11, 2008 International National Science 24 Can Dick Cheney’s War 32 California Democratic 36 The Subject of Principle: Against Iran Be Avoided? Convention: LaRouche Project ‘Genesis’ Vice President Dick Cheney’s trip Youth Bring Reality, Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. to Southwest Asia left Iraq-Iran and Provide Leadership to proceeds from a discussion of Israel-Palestine teetering on the “Collective Evolution and the brink of full-scale confrontations, Party Genetic Code,” by biologists The LaRouche Youth Movement, including discussions of possible Kalin Vetsigian, Carl Woese, and some of whose members were imminent attacks on Iran and Syria. Nigel Goldenfeld, to consider delegates to the convention, and Lyndon LaRouche warned that it important issues of epistemology others elected to official party would be an error to think that the which have been implicitly positions, provoked many well- impetus for expanded global posed by their work. To get to meaning, but ignorant and impotent irregular warfare could be the heart of it, start with V.I. Democrats to reflect on the best contained by making local Vernadsky’s conception of the tradition of the party, that of agreements. Noösphere. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and its leading advocate today, 26 Opponents of ‘Lisbon Lyndon LaRouche. 44 Einstein on Kepler Monster’ Take to the Streets 35 National News 45 Kepler on Aristotle’s The European Union’s Lisbon Sabotage of Astronomy Treaty would strip member nations of any vestige of national 53 Fermat and Least-Time: sovereignty. Descartes Did Not See 27 Treaty Would Deprive the Light Nations of Veto Right An interview with Harry van Bommel. Interviews 29 Gianni: Lisbon Treaty Is 27 Harry van Bommel ‘Anti-Democratic’ Mr. van Bommel is a member of Alfonso Gianni is Undersecretary to the Parliament of the the Economic Development Netherlands, and the foreign Ministry in Italy’s outgoing policy specialist of the Socialist government. Party, which is the country’s third largest party and is 30 From Our Archives: Gore’s currently leading the opposition Racist Assault Against in Parliament. Malaysia Editorial 56 World War III Has Begun! EIR Feature LINING UP FOR THE COUNTDOWN Do We Really Want A Third World War? by Helga Zepp-LaRouche Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche is the chairwoman of the BüSo (Civil we have the orchestrated and violent campaign against China, Rights Solidarity) party in Germany. This article was trans- as well as the unrelenting British campaign against Russia, lated from German. and Putin personally, and the attempt to bring Zimbabwe back under colonial control. It is therefore evident, that the geo- Whoever had the idea of holding the “GröNaGiaZ” (Greatest strategy behind this global policy of provocation is being car- NATO Summit of All Time),1 in the modern and super-ugly ried out regardless of the consequences—or is even intended Tower of Babel in Bucharest, which, at 330,000 square me- to build up an enormous factor of rage against London and ters, is the second-largest building in the world after the Pen- Washington, among countries such as China, Russia, India, tagon, must have a macabre sense of humor.
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