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 abor Day traditionally is supposed to mark the point at which Managing Editor: John Sigerson L Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht Americans “get serious.” Evidently Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill Special Projects: Mark Burdman didn’t get the message, announcing on Sept. 6 that “our economy is Book Editor: Katherine Notley Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis sound, and I look forward to a rising growth path in the months ahead Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol and through 2002.” The next day, as the stock markets continued to INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: be battered worldwide, the Labor Department announced that unem- Asia and Africa: Linda de Hoyos Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, ployment had soared to 4.9%: 113,000 Americans lost their jobs in Michele Steinberg August, according to the official (doctored) statistics. Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, William Engdahl At the Labor Day weekend conference of the Schiller Institute History: Anton Chaitkin and International Caucus of Labor Committees, Lyndon and Helga Ibero-America: Dennis Small Law: Edward Spannaus LaRouche challenged Americans to get serious all right—and to have Russia and Eastern Europe: fun doing it! To get serious about mobilizing the citizenry to prevent Rachel Douglas United States: Debra Freeman, Suzanne Rose the ongoing economic-financial crash from leading to catastrophe. INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: Our Feature contains their keynote speeches, and a tribute to civil Bogota´: Javier Almario rights heroine Amelia Boynton Robinson, whose 90th birthday was Berlin: Rainer Apel Buenos Aires: Gerardo Tera´n celebrated by conference participants. 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EIRContents Economics 4 Argentina Crisis: Wall Street Brains Are In Cover Default, Too This Week Bankers, international financial institutions, and entire governments are scurrying around, frenetically Lyndon LaRouche trying to convince each other that with student the corpse before them— organizers at the Argentina’s totally insolvent Schiller Institute- foreign debt of nearly $250 International billion—is still alive and Caucus of Labor “performing.” Committees annual Labor Day conference. 16 You Have Nothing To Fear So Much As 7 Colonel Seineld´ın’s Call Denial Itself For A New System Lyndon LaRouche’s keynote speech to the annual Labor Day conference of the Schiller Institute and International 9 LaRouche: Let Seineld´ın Caucus of Labor Committees on Sept. 1, in Reston, Negotiate Argentine Debt Virginia. “What I promised you, in effect, on Jan. 3, of this year, is now happening. No one can stop it, as long 9 Greenspan Peters Out In as this present system exists: It’s doomed. No one can fix Jackson Hole it. There is no recovery from it. The system is finished. The question is: Can we kill the system, in time, to save 11 Australia’s Economy: A the nations and the economy. No other question.” Nation In Denial 14 Business Briefs 30 Why Americans Should Go There: Eurasian Land-Bridge Determines Your Future Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s speech to the Schiller Institute- ICLC Labor Day conference. 47 Amelia Boynton Robinson: Her Love of Freedom Is ‘A Higher Power’ In celebration of the 90th birthday of this living heroine of the civil rights movement, a presentation/slide show on her life was offered to the ICLC-Schiller Institute conference by her longtime friend and editor of her autobiography, Marianna Wertz. www.larouchepub.com Volume 28, Number 35, September 14, 2001 International National Departments 52 Bush Backing For Israel’s 66 ‘Anti-IMF’ Jacobins Are 80 Editorial Sharon Assailed At Durban Part Of ‘Strategy Of Lest You Be Judged. The Bush Administration’s failure Tension’ vs. U.S. to intervene to stop Israeli Prime Unless this Jacobin operation is Minister Ariel Sharon’s continuing exposed and dismantled, the United terror and assassination campaign States will be hit by the worst wave against the Palestinian Authority of terrorism in its history, now threatens to isolate the United potentially paralyzing the States from the entire Arab world, institutions of government and and from a majority of developing triggering, from among elements of nations as well. the Bush Administration, a police- state response, that will threaten the 54 Putin Prepares Russia For very existence of our Constitutional A Dollar Crash republic. 55 Behind The Threat To 69 The ‘Faith-Based’ Scam: Russia’s President Putin Religion As State-Run Prostitution 57 French Courts Reopen Probe Into Princess 71 National News Diana’s Murder Documentation: A statement by Photo and graphics credits: Mohammed Al Fayed. Cover, pages 17, 21, 22, 25, 27, 28, 30, 49, 50, 60, EIRNS/Stuart Lewis. 59 Peru: Inca Monetary Pages 5, 6, 8, 10, EIRNS. Page 18, Fund’s Toledo Takes Office White House photo/Paul Morse. Pages 31 (Breugel), 46, www.arttoday.com. Page 35, 62 Army War College In EIRNS/Dean Andromidas. Page 40, China-Bashing Orgy Transrapid International website. Page 42, EIRNS/Guggenbuhl 64 International Intelligence archive. Pages 47, 48, Courtesy of Amelia Boynton Robinson. Page 56, PRNewsFoto. Page 70, Unification Home Page. Correction: With reference to the article “Spirit of Bandung, or a New Cold War,” in last week’s issue (Sept. 7), the Embassy of Thailand to the United States has informed EIR that only scheduling difficulties have prevented the arrangement of a meeting between Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and President George W. Bush, and that there have been no conditions placed on the proposed meeting by the United States, as reported in the article. EIREconomics Argentina Crisis: Wall Street Brains Are in Default, Too by Dennis Small Viewed dispassionately, the events of the last few months in sors! “We have beaten those who were betting against Argen- Argentina’s debt crisis leave the distinct impression, that the tina,” was the irrational victory cry at the time of Economy world’s financial and political elite have “lost it.” Bankers, Minister Domingo Cavallo—a PhD product of the Harvard international financial institutions, and entire governments Economics Department. scurry around, frenetically trying to convince each other that Six weeks later, in mid-August, Argentina was again in the corpse before them—Argentina’s totally insolvent for- the default barrel. After 12 days of non-stop negotiations, eign debt of nearly $250 billion—is still alive and “per- which the world’s financial media followed with morbid fas- forming.” cination, the IMF and Argentina’s debt negotiator Daniel U.S.