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Executive Intelligence Review, Volume 28, Number 42, November 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 n this troubled world, we are happy to present a Feature story of Managing Editor: John Sigerson I Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht unbridled optimism: Jonathan Tennenbaum’s report on the signifi- Special Projects: Mark Burdman cant progress being made on the construction of the Eurasian Land- Book Editor: Katherine Notley Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis Bridge, the great project of the 21st Century. Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol This cooperative venture among nations was inaugurated by Lyn- INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: don LaRouche, in an October 1988 speech in West Berlin; it devel- Asia and Africa: Linda de Hoyos Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, oped in public and private diplomacy, achieving a breakthrough in Michele Steinberg May 1996, when the Chinese government sponsored an “Interna- Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, William Engdahl tional Symposium On Economic Development Of The Regions History: Anton Chaitkin Along The New Euro-Asia Continental Bridge,” with Helga Zepp- Ibero-America: Dennis Small Law: Edward Spannaus LaRouche as a featured speaker. The following year, EIR released a Russia and Eastern Europe: Special Report, The Eurasian Land-Bridge, which is still circulating Rachel Douglas United States: Debra Freeman, Suzanne Rose far and wide, and has become a kind of “user’s manual” for govern- INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: ments committed to realizing this grand vision. Bogota´: Javier Almario Now we have another breakthrough to report: Russian President Berlin: Rainer Apel Buenos Aires: Gerardo Tera´n Vladimir Putin’s speech to the APEC summit on Oct. 19, demon- Caracas: David Ramonet strates that he is fully on board with the Land-Bridge plan, and has Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen Houston: Harley Schlanger grasped its strategic significance: to revive the world’s moribund Lima: Sara Maduen˜o economies and to prevent the catastrophic “clash of civilizations” to Melbourne: Robert Barwick Mexico City: Marivilia Carrasco, Rube´n Cota which Anglo-American geopolitical strategists are committed. Meza This potential is exactly what those who carried out the Sept. 11 Milan: Leonardo Servadio New Delhi: Susan Maitra terror attacks, and the ongoing attempt at a coup d’e´tat in the United Paris: Christine Bierre States, are trying to prevent. Americans who are being brainwashed Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios Stockholm: Michael Ericson by CNN and who are obsessing about whether their children are going United Nations, N.Y.C.: Leni Rubinstein Washington, D.C.: William Jones to die of anthrax, need to know about it. Wiesbaden: Go¨ran Haglund The coup plotters are in an increasingly exposed position. The military operation into which they have dragged the United States in EIR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (50 issues) except for the second week of July and the last week of Afghanistan, is now being widely recognized as a trap. Many people December, by EIR News Service Inc., 317 Pennsylvania Ave., S.E., 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 20003. 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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 Economics 4 Putin Asserts Economic Reality At APEC Summit Cover Intervening in a process This Week prearranged to be limited to discussions of terrorism and free trade, President Putin instead issued Transportation a call for the transformation of the consultant Hal collapsing world economy through Cooper’s map for vast infrastructure development extending the projects across the Asia-Pacific Eurasian Land- region. Bridge to the Americas, which could include 6 What Depression? maglev rail 14 Eurasian Land-Bridge: Build Our Way Out By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. technology. Of The World Depression 7 Putin at Shanghai: Russia’s The world is not in recession, but in a deepening Eurasian Mission economic depression—but an alternative is taking shape, in the form of the building of the “Eurasian Land- 10 U.S. Physical Economy Is Bridge.” Actually a conception of several rail-centered In A Free Fall development corridors across Eurasia, this idea is giving The 12-month decline of industrial rise to a large number of “Great Projects” of power, production reported by the Federal communications, and water management. Reserve is actually an underestimate of the state of 16 The New Eurasian Land-Bridge collapse in manufacturing Infrastructure Takes Shape industries. A report by Jonathan Tennenbaum of how the building of the Eurasian Land-Bridge has progressed. 12 Business Briefs Photo and graphics credits: Cover design, Alan Yue. Cover (map), 17, 28, 29, 65, EIRNS. Cover (maglev), pages 15 (maglev), 40, Transrapid website. Page 5, Russian President’s website. Pages 7, 61, Bundesbildstelle. Pages 11, 57 (Powell), EIRNS/Stuart Lewis. Page 15 (Shanghai), China Pictorial. Pages 18-21, 23, 25, 27, 30, 33, 34, 36, 41, EIRNS/John Sigerson. Page 32, Government of Bangladesh website. Page 35, Iranian Government website. Page 37, Tsinghua University. Page 46, NASA. Page 51, Government of Israel Press Office. Page 54, DOD photo by R.D. Ward. Page 57 (Vajpayee), Indian Prime Minister’s website. Page 59, NATO photo. Page 69, courtesy of Matthew Fogg. www.larouchepub.com Volume 28, Number 42, November 2, 2001 International National Interviews 50 Did Israeli Military Kill 64 LaRouche Says, Treat 68 Matthew Fogg ‘General Gandhi’? Anthrax Attack As A decorated U.S. Chief Marshal Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., in ‘Wartime’ Emergency who has waged a legal battle against assessing the assassination of Israeli The only competent approach, is to racism in the U.S. Marshals Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi, open up any and all the medical Service, Fogg spent several days at references the “facts which expose institutions needed to deal with the Ground Zero, the site of the World the appalling credulity of those, emergency, to test and define areas Trade Center, in New York City who exclude the strong evidence of exposure and infection; use just after the Sept. 11 attack. suggesting that the list of suspects relevant antibiotics; regularize in seeking out the authorship of the testing as an early warning assassination, could be the Israeli program; and look for specifics of Science & Technology military itself.” other biological threats. 42 Dr. Robert E. Stevenson: 53 Beyond Afghanistan: Syria, 66 Budget Cuts Threaten Father Of Space Lebanon, Iraq May Be Argentine Institute Oceanography Next Targets The budget cuts at the Malbra´n In memoriam: Robert K. Stevenson National Microbiology Institute, are recounts the fascinating career of 55 Israel Buried Reagan Peace a case study of what the United his father, oceanographer Bob Plan In Blood States should not be doing, in the Stevenson, who died on Aug. 12, face of a public health emergency. 2001. 56 Powell’s Visit To Asia Clarifies Some Issues 67 States Cut Public Health, Medical Infrastructure Departments 58 Pakistani Economy Is Collapsing Fast 68 Sept. 11 Must Involve 72 Editorial Enemy Within U.S. Barking Up The Wrong Trees. 59 U.S. Protects Al-Qaeda An interview with Matthew Fogg. Terrorists In Kosovo 70 Decorated U.S. Marshal 60 Australia: Election May Fights For Justice Bring Drug Legalization 71 Congressional Closeup 62 International Intelligence EIREconomics Putin Asserts Economic Reality At APEC Summit by Michael O. Billington On Oct. 19, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented an scious of itself as an inseparable part of the world economic historic speech to 20 heads of state meeting in Shanghai, system, and desires to work together with our partners, to at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit. ensure that that system will be more stable, firm, and secure.” Intervening in a process prearranged to be limited to discus- Reflected here is the point made repeatedly by LaRouche over sions of terrorism and free trade, President Putin instead is- the past year—that outside of the United States and Great sued a call for the transformation of the collapsing world Britain, only Russia among the world’s nations has the his- economy through vast infrastructure development projects toric and cultural capacity to assert international leadership, to across the Asia-Pacific region.
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