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Executive Intelligence Review EIRFebruary 8, 2013 Vol. 40 No. 6 www.larouchepub.com $10.00 Lyndon LaRouche: There Has Been a Breakthrough! Enact Glass-Steagall To Halt Financial Breakdown Bruce Fein: What Is Mankind as a Species? Empire’s Permanent War Threatens Global Conflict Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editorial Board: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Antony Papert, Gerald Rose, Dennis Small, EI R Nancy Spannaus, Jeffrey Steinberg, William Wertz Editor: Nancy Spannaus Managing Editors: Bonnie James, Susan Welsh Technology Editor: Marsha Freeman From the Managing Editor Book Editor: Katherine Notley Graphics Editor: Alan Yue Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS James Blaine, U.S. Secretary of State in the Garfield Administra- Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Michele tion, testifying to Congress about the 1879-81 “War of the Pacific” Steinberg Economics: John Hoefle, Marcia Merry Baker, between Peru and Chile, placed the blame for the war squarely on Paul Gallagher History: Anton Chaitkin “the English bondholders.” “It is a perfect mistake to speak of this as Ibero-America: Dennis Small a Chilean war on Peru,” he said. “It is an English war on Peru, with Law: Edward Spannaus Russia and Eastern Europe: Rachel Douglas Chile as the instrument.” (See History: “The Empire Crushes Peru’s United States: Debra Freeman American System Project.”) INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS Would that our State Department today had such keen insight! Bogotá: Javier Almario Berlin: Rainer Apel We feature in this issue the London-backed drive for war on sev- Copenhagen: Tom Gillesberg Houston: Harley Schlanger eral fronts, in which the Obama Administration is fully complicit. Lima: Sara Madueño Start with Jeffrey Steinberg’s strategic overview of Tony Blair’s Melbourne: Robert Barwick Mexico City: Gerardo Castilleja Chávez marching orders for “long, messy” wars around the globe. Documen- New Delhi: Ramtanu Maitra Paris: Christine Bierre tation includes quotes from Blair’s interview to the BBC; Russian Stockholm: Ulf Sandmark Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s speech at the Munich Security United Nations, N.Y.C.: Leni Rubinstein Washington, D.C.: William Jones Conference, on the anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad; the Rus- Wiesbaden: Göran Haglund sians’ commemoration of that battle and its meaning for them today; ON THE WEB and a sample of the ranting against Syria and Russia in Munich. To e-mail: [email protected] www.larouchepub.com this we add a dossier from our Melbourne associates on Australia’s www.executiveintelligencereview.com www.larouchepub.com/eiw role in Obama’s “Asia pivot”—which is to become virtually one Webmaster: John Sigerson giant, ever-expanding U.S. military base, targeted at China in par- Assistant Webmaster: George Hollis Editor, Arabic-language edition: Hussein Askary ticular. And controlled by the British. The latest in a series of reports on the Schiller Institute’s confer- EIR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly ence in New York last month gives historical and conceptual back- (50 issues), by EIR News Service, Inc., P.O. Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. ground to these developments, with presentations by constitutional (703) 777-9451 lawyer Bruce Fein, historian Cliff Kiracofe, and filmmaker Sean European Headquarters: E.I.R. 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Azcapotzalco, CP 02240, Mexico, DF. Tel: 5318-2301, 1163-9734, 1163-9735. the desired political and scientific changes: “More on the Princi- Copyright: ©2013 EIR News Service. All rights ple. : There Has Been a Breakthrough!” and “Mind versus Mere reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without Brain: An End to Reductionism.” 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 40, Number 6, February 8, 2013 National 19 LaRouche Webcast: Enact Glass-Steagall Now, To Halt Financial Breakdown Washington is abuzz with talk Cover about Glass-Steagall, thanks to This Week the organizing drive of LaRouchePAC. Lyndon LaRouche jas called for Israeli Defense immediate re-enactment of the Force warplanes USAF/TSGT Kevin Gruenwald FDR measure, exactly as take part in written, to end the policy of maneuvers over bailing out worthless the Nevada Test 4 Britain’s Blair Demands a Thirty Years War and Training institutions, at the expense of the Ranges, Nellis Tony Blair’s call for a “generation of war” against American people and the U.S. Airforce Base. al-Qaeda and other jihadist groups all over the economy. globe, and his likening of the war on terrorism to the 45-year Cold War, directly reflect the British 22 An Organizing Dialogue: Empire’s policy of “permanent war”—which, What Glass-Steagall under current circumstances, is leading to Will Do thermonuclear confrontation with Russia and EIR Economics Editor Paul China. Gallagher engaged in this dialogue with LaRouchePAC 6 Documentation: Russia’s Lavrov organizers on Jan. 24, 2013. Denounces NATO Interventionism 7 Commemorating Stalingrad Economics 8 Ranting Against Russia, Syria at Munich 27 Oligarchy Spins Meeting Confusion Over Glass- Steagall By Helga Zepp-LaRouche. With 9 Blair Says, More War the ongoing disintegration of the trans-Atlantic financial system, 10 British Empire Grooms Australia, Expands on the one hand, and the NATO, for War with China growing international support Britain intensifies its nuclear war threats against for a return to FDR’s Glass- Russia and China, by pushing, Australia and other Steagall Act, on the other, the Asian nations to join NATO in a military alliance bankers who want to cling to the targeted at China. Robert Barwick and Gabrielle casino economy are attempting to sow confusion about the Peut report from Melbourne. banking reform. 14 Hugh White: Empire’s Man Prepares for 29 Monte dei Paschi Affair War with China Could Bring Draghi 17 Michael Danby: Project Democracy’s Road Down to Nuclear War EI R Contents www.larouchepub.com Volume 40, Number 6, February 8, 2013 Feature Conference Report History 30 More on the Principle. 38 Fighting the Politics of 54 The War of the Pacific: There Has Been a Empire: America’s The Empire Crushes Breakthrough! Tradition Peru’s American By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. A continuation of EIR’s System Project Sense-certainly, as a method for coverage of the Schiller A review of La Verdad seeking truth, has now officially Institute’s Jan. 26 conference in Detrás de la Guerra del been demolished, with the New York City, on the theme “A Pacífico: el imperio británico publication of this paper, whose New Paradigm To Save contra el sistema Americano purpose, LaRouche writes, is Mankind.” de economía en Sudamérica “to correct what had been the (The Truth Behind the War of widespread, taught illusion, the 38 Bruce Fein: What Is the Pacific: the British illusion which works to the Mankind as a Species? Empire Against the American present effect of what passes System of Economics in among all too many, for a 45 Dr. Clifford Kiracofe: South America), written by claimed knowledge of Empire or Republic? The Luis E. Vásquez Medina, the principle. Actually, the founder in Peru of statesman claims made in support for such American Foreign Policy Lyndon LaRouche’s political admittedly commonplace of John Quincy Adams movement. academic illusions as those, hang upon presumptions which 50 Sean Stone: A New Dark have been entirely discarded by Age or a Renaissance? the greatest of all truly great Editorial scientific minds. .” 61 The Constitution vs. 36 Mind versus Mere Obama Brain: An End to Reductionism In which LaRouche poses the question: “What is the actually crucial distinction of the mere human brain, the distinction supplied from that of the actually noëtic powers of the human mind?” EIR International Britain’s Blair Demands A Thirty Years War by Jeffrey Steinberg Feb. 3—Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair gave Paschi of Siena bank and the German Deutsche Bank.) an interview to BBC today, in which he called for a Blair’s psychotic rantings resonated at the annual “generation of war” against al-Qaeda and other jihadist Munich Security Conference (Feb. 1-3). NATO Secretary groups all over the globe. Blair compared the global General Anders Fogh Rasmussen delivered a Blair-esque war on terrorism to the 45-year Cold War between the speech in which he declared that NATO would deploy West and the Soviet Union, and heaped praise on French wherever Alliance interests were threatened. He declared President François Hollande for deploying French that he looked around the globe and saw an “arc of crises troops to Mali to beat back a jihadist insurgency that stretching from the Sahel to Central Asia,” and vowed was purportedly threatening to take over the country’s that NATO’s future mission, following the withdrawal capital Bamaka. His statement directly reflected the from Afghanistan, would be global in scope, would deploy British Empire’s policy of “permanent war”—which, special operations forces, rapid reaction forces, and mis- under current circumstances, is leading to thermonu- sile defense capabilities to secure NATO dominance.