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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, William Wertz Associate Editor: Susan Welsh Managing Editors: John Sigerson, hree days after the cover date of this magazine, is the 15th anniver- Ronald Kokinda T Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht sary of President Reagan’s announcement of the Strategic Defense Special Projects: Mark Burdman Initiative (SDI). Certainly, on March 20, 1983, few people expected Book Editor: Katherine Notley Advertising Director: Marsha Freeman that such a “bombshell” was about to be dropped. Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol But those in the know, knew that Lyndon LaRouche had defined INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: that policy several years before, as a way of getting the United States Asia and Africa: Linda de Hoyos Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, out of the strategic box in which it found itself. The era of Mutual Paul Goldstein and Assured Destruction (MAD), ushered in by Bertrand Russell Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, William Engdahl and H.G. Wells, perfected by Leo “Dr. Strangelove” Szilard, and History: Anton Chaitkin continued by Henry Kissinger, was destroying the nation-state and Ibero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small Law: Edward Spannaus its scientific and technological capabilities. The domination of global Russia and Eastern Europe: economic and financial policy by the British oligarchy was leading, Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George United States: Debra Freeman, Suzanne Rose as LaRouche had forecast, to a blowout of the world monetary system. INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: The spread of the counterculture was undermining nations’ resistance Bogota´: Jose´ Restrepo to these dangerous trends. Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Apel Buenos Aires: Gerardo Tera´n At a conference sponsored by EIR in Washington, D.C. on Feb. Caracas: David Ramonet 17, 1982, attended by several hundred representatives of policymak- Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen Houston: Harley Schlanger ing institutions from the United States and other nations, LaRouche Lima: Sara Maduen˜o developed a revolutionary conception of strategic antiballistic-mis- Mexico City: Hugo Lo´pez Ochoa Milan: Leonardo Servadio sile defense, as a lever to shift the direction of policymaking overall, New Delhi: Susan Maitra toward a return to the American System of industrial and scientific Paris: Christine Bierre Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios progress. It was that powerful idea, which President Reagan endorsed Stockholm: Michael Ericson on March 23, 1983. Washington, D.C.: William Jones Wiesbaden: Go¨ran Haglund Today, we are in an analogous circumstance. The world’s leaders, confronting the meltdown of the global financial system, have no idea EIR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (51 issues) except for the second week of July, and the last week of what to do; no government has responded competently. A powerful December by EIR News Service Inc., 317 Pennsylvania Ave., S.E., 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 20003. (202) concept, like that underlying LaRouche’s call for a New Bretton 544-7010. For subscriptions: (703) 777-9451. World Wide Web site: http://www.larouchepub.com Woods system, can effect a rapid transformation. e-mail: [email protected] In this issue’s Political Economy section, we show how great European Headquarters: Executive Intelligence Review Nachrichtenagentur GmbH, Postfach 2308, minds of the past—from Friedrich List and Abraham Lincoln, to D-65013 Wiesbaden, Otto von Guericke Ring 3, D-65205 Wiesbaden, Federal Republic of Germany Walter Lautenbach and Franklin D. Roosevelt—defined policies that Tel: (6122) 9160. Homepage: http://www.eirna.com E-mail: [email protected] Executive Directors: Anno saved, or could have saved, their nations, in times of crisis. Hellenbroich, Michael Liebig In the Feature, Anton Chaitkin traces the battle between patriots In Denmark: EIR, Post Box 2613, 2100 Copenhagen ØE, Tel. 35-43 60 40 of the American System, such as Lincoln and Martin Luther King; In Mexico: EIR, R´ıo Tiber No. 87, 5o piso. Colonia Cuauhte´moc. Me´xico, DF, CP 06500. Tel: 208-3016 y 533- and the racist oligarchs, descendants of KKK founder Albert Pike, 26-43. Japan subscription sales: O.T.O. Research Corporation, lodged in the U.S. Justice Department—among other places. Takeuchi Bldg., 1-34-12 Takatanobaba, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo 160. Tel: (03) 3208-7821. Copyright 1998 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 Interviews Political Economy Economics 51 Angelo Beda 4 New Bretton Woods system Mr. Beda is Minister of Manpower must top the G-22 agenda in the Sudanese government. A As the financial crisis deepens, Christian, he comes from the south. there is increasing public discussion of Lyndon LaRouche’s plan for a 55 Samuel Aru Bol New Bretton Woods. When the Mr. Bol is a member of Sudan’s “Willard Group” of 22 nations National Congress, representing the meets in Washington on April 16, United Democratic Front, Salvation this is the number-one issue that Front. He was with rebel leader must be addressed. President Abraham Lincoln discusses the Emancipa- John Garang in the Sudanese tion Proclamation with his Cabinet. The American People’s Liberation Army until System of political economy, of which Lincoln was 6 A ‘New Deal,’ with Chinese recently, when he returned to a master, provides the key to solving the crisis we characteristics? Khartoum to join the National face today. Engraving by A.H. Ritchie, from the paint- ing by Francis B. Carpenter. China has embarked on a $1 trillion, Congress and work toward unity of three-year infrastructure-building the nation. program to ensure continued 20 How great minds thought economic growth. about the Great Depression President Franklin Roosevelt and Prof. Wilhelm Lautenbach 8 Britain is riding the ‘euro’ approached the global crisis of the horse Departments 1920s and ’30s in a way that The British are using the European policymakers should learn from Monetary Union, is to destroy the 15 Australia Dossier today. U.S. economy. OECD fronts for multinationals. 21 FDR’s American System 10 Financial crisis drives 16 Report from Bonn diplomacy merger mania Wanted: a sound economic Jeffrey Steinberg analyzes President program. Franklin Roosevelt’s article in the 14 Oil price collapse slams July 1928 edition of Foreign Venezuela 17 Report from Rio Affairs. You can buy a “Sir” with oil. 18 Business Briefs 24 The Lautenbach Plan for 72 Editorial economic recovery American education needs a From a speech by Helga Zepp- “paradigm shift.” LaRouche. 25 Friedrich List and the American System of political economy A speech by Michael Liebig. Volume 25, Number 12, March 20, 1998 Feature International National 30 How the KKK got into the 38 President Clinton’s 62 More Scaife-Falwell sleaze U.S. Justice Department diplomatic offensive behind assault on April 4 is a double anniversary: the Presidency murder of civil rights leader Dr. 39 Milosevic tries ‘final New revelations about the true Martin Luther King, Jr., and the solution’ in Kosova origins of the “Troopergate” story, dedication of a statue to secret payments to the Paula Jones Confederate General and Ku Klux 41 The new Mideast peace legal defense fund, and to Arkansas Klan founder Albert Pike. Historian offensive “sources” whose lies ended up Anton Chaitkin highlights the still- being circulated by the American President Clinton has tentatively ongoing struggle between two Spectator and other rags. irreconcilable traditions in begun a new diplomatic effort to force Israeli Prime Minister American life: that of the Lincoln 64 DOJ’s ‘Operation revolution vs. that of British- Benjamin Netanyahu to comply with the Oslo peace accords. Fruehmenschen’ apparatus sponsored anti-American treason. continues its reign of terror 42 Kosova: Britain’s war Former U.S. Rep. Mervyn Dymally, against the U.S.A. former South Carolina State Sen. Documentation: 1917: Serbia Theo Mitchell, and Harley Schlanger of the Schiller Institute Photo and graphics credits: defends British Empire’s “gate”; brief a forum at the University of Cover, Library of Congress Prints 1937: Serbia plotted genocide Houston on the crimes of the U.S. and Photographs Division. Page 7, against Kosova; The 1990s: the Justice Department’s permanent Courtesy of New Star Publishers. British hand against Bosnia; The bureaucracy against black elected Page 8, EIRNS/Joseph Jennings. U.S.-British ‘secret war’ in Bosnia; officials. Pages 11-13, 40, EIRNS/John Major Stankovic, the British traitor; Sigerson. Page 31 (Lincoln Dame Pauline Neville-Jones and the Memorial), National Archives. Dayton Accords; Brits provide 66 Mitchell issues challenge to Pages 31 (Pike statue), 49, 65, KLA with cadre and cash. NAACP EIRNS/Stuart Lewis. Page 67, “You are called upon to pay EIRNS/Chris Lewis. Page 52, 51 Sudan moves toward peace, attention to the all-too-long exercise EIRNS/Lawrence Freeman. democracy of the Fascist Doctrine of ‘Operation Fruehmenschen,’ ” former South Carolina State Sen. 51 Success is a matter of Theo Mitchell writes in an open political will letter to NAACP president Kweisi An interview with Angelo Beda. Mfume. 55 Southern leaders are 68 Congressional Closeup working with Khartoum An interview with Samuel Aru Bol. 70 National News 59 Colombia: Samper cheats to stop Bedoya electoral threat 60 International Intelligence EIREconomics New Bretton Woods system must top the G-22 agenda by Marcia Merry Baker and Gail Billington On April 16, representatives of 22 nations will meet in Wash- casts on the crisis, is central to any solution of the crisis. As ington, D.C., convened by the United States, to address the we go to print, he was scheduled to be the featured speaker at crisis in the world financial system.