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Executive Intelligence Review, Volume 24, Number 34, August 22 EIR Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editorial Board: Melvin Klenetsky, Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Antony Papert, Gerald Rose, From the Associate Editor Dennis Small, Edward Spannaus, Nancy Spannaus, Jeffrey Steinberg, Webster Tarpley, William Wertz Associate Editor: Susan Welsh n the dog days of August 1988, Communist East Germany was Managing Editors: John Sigerson, I Ronald Kokinda suffering from food shortages. Responding to growing rumbles of Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht discontent, the regime had incarcerated some 2,400 political prison- Special Projects: Mark Burdman Book Editor: Katherine Notley ers. Newspapers reported that 1.3 million people, nearly 10% of the Advertising Director: Marsha Freeman entire population, were seeking emigration to West Germany. Yet Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol Erich Honecker, the aging chieftain of the East German communist INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: party, reiterated his oft-stated belief that the Berlin Wall would stand Asia and Africa: Linda de Hoyos Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, for another hundred years. Looking at the barbed wire and the power- Paul Goldstein Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, ful military machine at the disposal of Honecker’s state apparatus, William Engdahl most people thought he was right. History: Anton Chaitkin Ibero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small But in October of that year, Lyndon LaRouche, at a press confer- Law: Edward Spannaus ence in West Berlin, forecast the reunification of Germany, and called Russia and Eastern Europe: Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George for a “food for peace” mobilization by Germany and the United United States: Kathleen Klenetsky States, to build up the economies of Eastern Europe, particularly that INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: of Poland, in the interests of peace and Eurasian development. One Bogota´: Jose´ Restrepo Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Apel year and one month later, the Berlin Wall came down. Buenos Aires: Gerardo Tera´n Within that short space of time, a population oppressed and down- Caracas: David Ramonet Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen trodden was transformed by hope and optimism for the future. The Houston: Harley Schlanger axiomatic beliefs of nearly 45 years were cast aside. Lima: Sara Maduen˜o Mexico City: Hugo Lo´pez Ochoa Today, almost a decade later, the world is watching the death Milan: Leonardo Servadio agonies of a hopelessly bankrupt monetary and financial system. The New Delhi: Susan Maitra Paris: Christine Bierre defenders of the International Monetary Fund system declare, as Hon- Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios ecker did, that their regime will last forever. But now as then, the Stockholm: Michael Ericson Washington, D.C.: William Jones writing is on the wall. Wiesbaden: Go¨ran Haglund Is there life after the IMF? That depends upon what we do. The top EIR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (50 issues) item on the agenda is to convene a new Bretton Woods conference, to except for the second week of July, and the last week of put the current system through bankruptcy proceedings and launch a December by EIR News Service Inc., 317 Pennsylvania Ave., S.E., 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 20003. (202) new world financial system, oriented toward productive investment 544-7010. For subscriptions: (703) 777-9451. World Wide Web site: http://www.larouchepub.com and the construction of the Eurasian Land-Bridge. e-mail: [email protected] European Headquarters: Executive Intelligence Review In order to carry out such a revolutionary transformation, we must Nachrichtenagentur GmbH, Postfach 2308, D-65013 Wiesbaden, Otto von Guericke Ring 3, D-65205 defeat Britain’s “Invisible” Empire. In this expanded issue, you will Wiesbaden, Federal Republic of Germany Tel: (6122) 9160. Homepage: http://www.eirna.com find explosive new material to help you understand how this empire E-mail: [email protected] Executive Directors: Anno Hellenbroich, Michael Liebig operates. Our Feature needs no further introduction from me, as it is In Denmark: EIR, Post Box 2613, 2100 Copenhagen ØE, ably introduced by Jeffrey Steinberg, beginning on page 4. A short Tel. 35-43 60 40 In Mexico: EIR, R´ıo Tiber No. 87, 5o piso. Colonia section of top international news stories begins on page 78. Cuauhte´moc. Me´xico, DF, CP 06500. Tel: 208-3016 y 533- 26-43. Japan subscription sales: O.T.O. Research Corporation, Takeuchi Bldg., 1-34-12 Takatanobaba, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo 160. Tel: (03) 3208-7821. Copyright © 1997 EIR News Service. All rights reserved. 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 Feature I. The Dogs of War Photo and graphics credits: Cover, page 35 (North), EIRNS/ Stuart Lewis. Page 5, EIRNS. Page 8 Her Majesty’s irregular 6 (Buckingham Palace), EIRNS/Ian forces Levit. Page 9, Claudio Celani. Pages 21, 23, 26, 44, 49-51, 53-55, 9 Chatham House heralds 59, 61, 64, 65, 67, 68, 75, 76, Crown’s imperial revival EIRNS/John Sigerson. Page 84, EIRNS/Anthony DeFranco. 10 Crown Agents: the Queen’s The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City is an important entry-point for British intelligence managers operations in the United States. Shown here: investi- ture of the Knights of Malta at the cathedral, Nov. 13 Directors, councillors of Correction: In “If This Is Success, 7, 1982. Why Are Ugandans Dying?” (EIR, Crown Agents Aug. 8), Figure 9 on page 32 should 4 Britain’s ‘Invisible’ Empire have been titled “Persons per unleashes the dogs of war 14 The Queen’s Corps of medical doctor,” rather than Commissionaires “Medical doctors per capita.” 17 Executive Outcomes vs. the nation-state 18 Defence Systems Ltd.: a Crown jewel Volume 24, Number 34, August 22, 1997 News Analysis II. Africa V. Ibero-America 78 Derivatives disintegration, not stocks, fuels the panic This is no “cyclical crisis” of the 20 Congo-Zaire: The 42 London’s policy of stock market, but a systemic dissolution of the nation- ‘Africanization’: The next breakdown of the whole worldwide state target is Brazil financial system. 22 London reaps a harvest of 45 The significance of Brazil’s 80 Hyenas closing in on ‘Asian death CVRD Tigers’ The International Monetary Fund 46 ‘Mindless Movement’ out “experts” are full of advice for to bury Iberno-America bankrupt Thailand and the other III. Australasia erstwhile “Tigers.” 48 British banks establish death grip over Ibero- 81 Teamsters’ strike targets 25 Queen Elizabeth runs a labor recycling coup: the case of Papua America New Guinea 58 British cartels break up 82 Lyndon LaRouche offers Brazil’s CVRD, target support for Teamsters’ continent’s raw materials UPS strike The continent’s largest raw materials company, heretofore the 85 Netanyahu with his back to IV. British Subversion of patrimony of a sovereign Brazil, is the wall the United States being sold off to the likes of the Queen’s banker, George Soros. 87 Iran’s new cabinet ushers 31 Who is wagging your in a change neighbor’s tongue? The 62 Mining laws favor raw militias and Pentecostalism materials grab The biggest national security threat to the United States comes from 67 British run private armies these pagan cults, run by the Church in Colombia of England. The raw materials cartels are taking down the national defense, and 32 Church and state employing the narco-terrorists and A comment by Lyndon H. mercenaries to protect their claims. LaRouche, Jr. 70 London, the new lord of Mexico’s skies? 72 The ‘parks for peace’ ploy for bloody border wars The British set up Peru and Ecuador, urging them, “Let’s you and him fight.” EIRFeature Britain’s ‘Invisible’ Empire unleashes the dogs of war by Jeffrey Steinberg Over the past three years, EIR has produced two blockbuster studies of the dominant evil power on this planet,1 the British Commonwealth/Empire, and many support- ing elements of documentation. We have exposed the major battlelines in the global strategic battle before us all, between the British Imperial System, and the system of sovereign nation-states, of which the United States is the leading example. In this issue of EIR, we unravel a new set of secrets of the Empire, exposing the way in which the British Crown is using private networks—in the military, the church, and business—to carry out its objective of destroying the nation-state, and thus, to maintain its power into what it hopes will be a New Dark Age. To get the picture, you have to start from the top down. At the top, you find the British monarchy and Privy Council, positioned as the primus inter pares of the 3-5,000 families that comprise the inner core of the Club of the Isles. While the Queen herself, contrary to myth, exercises her royal prerogative over the nations of the Commonwealth, and a network of companies, the broader grouping of families runs a set of cartels which functions as a modern-day British East India Company. For much of the 250 years following its chartering in 1600, the East India Company served as the leading instrument of the British imperium, governing India as “private” territory, employing its own private mercenary armies, and presiding over the Opium War policy against China. The “Company” was admin- istered by a board of stockholders, who reported to a three-man “secret commit- tee,” who, in turn, represented the combined interests of the British Crown and the leading City of London financial interests. When circumstances required, “Company” figures, typified by the late-eighteenth-century Earl of Shelburne, 1. See EIR, Oct. 28, 1994, “The Coming Fall of the House of Windsor”; and, EIR, May 24, 1996, “The Sun Never Sets on the New British Empire.” 4 Feature EIR August 22, 1997 FIGURE 1 The British ‘Invisible’ Empire House of Windsor UN, IMF, Club of Privy Commonwealth Church of World Council World Bank the Isles Council England of Churches Transparency Crown Corps of ‘low church’ International Agents Commissionaires Executive Rio Tinto, British Israelites, Outcomes, Anglo American, Full Gospel, Sandline, BP, Barrick, etc.
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