Executive Intelligence Review, Volume 28, Number 21, June 1, 2001
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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 Editor: Paul Gallagher Associate Editors: Ronald Kokinda, Susan Welsh round the world, as the insanity of the Bush Administration be- Managing Editor: John Sigerson A Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht comes every day more apparent, people are looking to Lyndon Special Projects: Mark Burdman LaRouche and EIR for solutions. Book Editor: Katherine Notley Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis For example, an African leader, speaking to the Bad Schwalbach Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol conference of the Schiller Institute, appealed to LaRouche for “an INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: immediate agenda” for national survival. The conference panel on Asia and Africa: Linda de Hoyos Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Africa, reported in this issue, as well as our interview with the Ambas- Michele Steinberg sador to the United States from the Democratic Republic of the Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, William Engdahl Congo, provide a stark picture of the genocide that is going on in that History: Anton Chaitkin continent—as well as the optimism of African leaders that, with the Ibero-America: Dennis Small Law: Edward Spannaus help of people of good will internationally, the crisis can be reversed, Russia and Eastern Europe: and Africa can take its rightful place at the forefront of nations in the Rachel Douglas United States: Debra Freeman, Suzanne Rose 21st Century. INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: In Russia, the new Eurasian Transport Union is shaping up along Bogota´: Javier Almario the lines that LaRouche has long proposed (see Economics). Berlin: Rainer Apel Buenos Aires: Gerardo Tera´n From the United States, we report on the fight for LaRouche’s Caracas: David Ramonet policies in support of the general welfare, as the energy-price crisis Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen Houston: Harley Schlanger moves toward hyperinflation, and the death toll mounts from the Lima: Sara Maduen˜o shutdown of D.C. General Hospital in the nation’s capital. Melbourne: Robert Barwick Mexico City: Hugo Lo´pez Ochoa LaRouche’s Feature, “Faith, Hope, and Agape¯!” continues the Milan: Leonardo Servadio dialogue begun at Bad Schwalbach, in response to the appeal by that New Delhi: Susan Maitra Paris: Christine Bierre African diplomat, among others. But, as usual, LaRouche does not Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios say what people expect. 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EIRContents Economics 4 Russia’s New Transport Union To Change Map of Cover Eurasia This Week The creation of a Eurasian Transport Union, announced May 15 by Russian Minister of Transport Task of New Bretton Sergei Frank, provides an Woods: Stop the institutional venue for deliberations Genocide in Africa. among the nations of Eurasia, and Lyndon LaRouche any others, interested in building meets with African great infrastructure projects as a political figures, at road out of economic depression. a conference in Europe. 48 ‘Never Again!’ World Now Knows 6 LaRouche’s ‘Land-Bridge’ What Is Happening in Africa Strategies in Russia: The Africa panel from the Schiller Institute’s conference Chronology in Bad Schwalbach, Germany: representatives of 40 nations discussed the relation of Eurasian development, 9 LaRouche Analysis to reversing Africa’s humanitarian catastrophe. Presented at Kremlin Seminar 48 Peace Through Development in Africa: 10 Breakdown in Finance, The Nigerian Perspective Manufacturing Worsening By Sam Aluko, Professor of Economics, who served in in the Industrial Nations the Economics Ministry of the Nigerian government for four years during the early 1980s. 11 America’s Poor Forced Into Energy Bondage 51 Winning the Peace for an African Renaissance By Jean Gahururu, a representative of the Rally for Democracy in Rwanda, in charge of foreign relations. 54 Fight for a World Free of the IMF, World Bank By Leonce Ndarubagiye, a representative of the National Committee for the Defense of Democracy in Burundi. 56 All Africa Is in a Crisis of Survival By Prof. Abdalla A. Abdalla, Sudan’s former Minister of Agriculture and former Ambassador to the United States. Volume 28, Number 21, June 1, 2001 Feature International National 14 A Lawless U.S.A. Today: 60 Invading Armies and 70 Bush-Cheney Energy Plan: Faith, Hope, and Agape¯!Congo’s Human Disaster Reliant Robbers U¨ ber Alles By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. “From An interview with the Ambassador The Bush Administration has this awful blend of cupidity,to the U.S. of the Democratic released its National Energy Policy, stupidity, arrogance, and Republic of the Congo, Dr. Faida and nowhere does it provide remedy incompetence” of the BushMitifu. for the actual energy crisis that is Administration, “nothing could save threatening the health, safety, and the U.S.A., except its return to those64 Uganda, Rwanda Armies economy of the United States—the underlying principles of law, uponMust Leave Congo Now destruction of a reliable, affordable which our sovereign constitutionalA review of two reports, one by the supply of electricity, brought about republic’s existence was originallyInternational Rescue Committee by deregulation. premised. What, then, shall we and one by the United Nations, on identify as those principles of law? the physical destruction of the 72 California vs. Reliant: What is, really, that constitutional Congo as a result of the years-long Beating the Bushes For principle of the general welfare, on succession of wars perpetrated by Justice which the renewal and durability of Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi. A profile of Houston’s Reliant our republic’s constitutional Energy. freedoms depends?” 64 Hearings Confirm EIR Congo Warning of 1997 73 Pennsylvania Rep. James Attacks Reliant, Enron 66 Du¨sseldorf Voters Defeat Privatization 74 Soros Smiling About Bush’s Drug Policy? 68 Sharon’s War Drive Fuelled by Bush Team 76 The Fight for D.C. General: Death Toll Rises in Washington, as Medical Treatment Is Denied 78 Congressional Closeup Interviews Photo and graphic credits: Cover, EIRNS/Maria Schmitz; Page 5, 60 Dr. Faida Mitifu Russian Ministry of Transport. Dr. Mitifu, PhD, is Ambassador to Pages 15, 35 (LaRouche), EIRNS/ the United States of the Democratic Stuart Lewis. Pages 16, 34 Republic of the Congo. (Pasteur), Library of Congress. Page 19, EIRNS/Claudio Celani. Page 20, U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Page 22, EIRNS/ Departments Fletcher James. Page 31, Hale Observatories. Page 34 80 Editorial (Vernadsky), EIRNS. Page 40, A Damning Admission, Late in the EIRNS/Guggenbuhl Archive. Page Game 45, EIRNS/Philip Ulanowsky. Pages 48, 51, 67, EIRNS/Chris Lewis. Page 71, EIRNS/Don Mallory. EIREconomics Russia’s New Transport Union To Change Map of Eurasia by Rachel Douglas The creation of a Eurasian Transport Union (EATU), an- India to Moscow is reduced by nearly two-thirds in distance, nounced May 15 by Russian Minister of Transport Sergei compared with shipment by sea through the Suez Canal; and Frank, provides an institutional venue for deliberations the time, from 45 days to 30. The Russian Transport Ministry among the nations of Eurasia, and any others, interested in projects that the north-south route will handle over 15 million building great infrastructure projects as a road out of eco- tons of containerized freight each year.