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 Associate Editors: Ronald Kokinda, Susan Welsh Managing Editor: John Sigerson ith this issue, EIR enters its 26th year of publication. We could Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht W Special Projects: Mark Burdman not be celebrating our 25th birthday at a time of greater historic Book Editor: Katherine Notley importance. This nation and the world are at what Lyndon LaRouche Advertising Director: Marsha Freeman Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol has described as the “boundary layer”—the limit of a bankrupt finan- INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: cial system, which poses the necessity for a revolutionary policy Asia and Africa: Linda de Hoyos transformation, lest the world plunge into a Dark Age worse than Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Paul Goldstein anything we can presently imagine. Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, Those who are looking for policy direction, in the tumultuous William Engdahl History: Anton Chaitkin year to come, had better rally to LaRouche. Ibero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small His authority, and the fighting qualities of the movement he Law: Edward Spannaus Russia and Eastern Europe: founded, are well known. 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EIRContents Interviews Science & Technology Economics 6 Jozef Fraczek 16 Asbestos: The real danger 4 Oil collapse signals next Mr. Fraczek is a member of the is irrationality phase of global depression Senate of Poland, and chairman of The campaign to ban asbestos is Compared to 1990, the muted the Senate Agricultural Committee, based on anti-scientific hysteria. response in the rise in the price of from the Solidarity Electoral Action Research shows that small airborne oil to today’s bombing of Iraq, party. amounts of this highly beneficial underscores the collapse in the mineral are not dangerous at all. physical economy. If OPEC nations 20 Malcolm Ross begin to liquidate their holdings in Dr. Ross is a research mineralogist 18 Asbestos is not guilty! G-7 markets, the “low inflation” oil with the U.S. Geological Survey. By Dr. Paul and Natalie Lysenko. price is set to trigger a new round of He has worked with Dr. Brooke global financial meltdown. Mossman and others who have been 20 Bringing sense to the instrumental in disproving the myth asbestos issue 6 The free market will not that “one fiber of asbestos can kill.” An interview with Malcolm Ross. revive Polish agriculture An interview with Jozef Fraczek. Departments 8 Pope issues appeal on World Day of Peace 12 Report from Bonn Photo and graphics credits: The euro will crash like Icarus. Cover, pages 23, 46, 59, EIRNS/ 10 LaRouche: Governments Stuart Lewis. Page 17, U.S. must act to avert 13 Australia Dossier Geological Survey. Page 20, catastrophe What Eurasian Land-Bridge? Courtesy of Dr. Malcolm Ross. A message from Lyndon LaRouche Pages 24-29, 32, 37, 39, 40, EIRNS. to a conference of the Slovakian 72 Editorial Page 42, Nauka v Sibiri. branch of the international Catholic A plot to make Al Gore president? organization Justitia et Pax (Justice and Peace), in Bratislava, Slovakia. Book Reviews 14 Business Briefs 66 Does ‘PBS’ mean, ‘Praise for the British System’? Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery, by Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith, and the WGBH Series Research Team. Volume 26, Number 1, January 1, 1999 Feature International National 22 1998 was the year that 34 Butler faked Iraq report, as globalization finally died Gore, Blair pushed war Bankers think that the only hope President Clinton’s decision to they have of surviving, is a global launch air strikes against Iraq is an bankers’ dictatorship. But even act of political suicide, launched were all the world’s nations to under the tutelage of British Prime surrender to the demands of the Minister Tony Blair and British bankers, the bankers and their asset, Vice President Al Gore. system is still doomed. What is killing them, is their belief that 36 China, India, and Russia money, especially their money, is must cooperate to ensure Rally on Capitol Hill against the impeachment of primary, and that all else must be stability President Clinton, Dec. 17, 1998. sacrificed to protect monetary There are many opportunities to assets. further cooperation on the Eurasian 56 Thousands ‘raise hell’ to Land-Bridge, as Russian President save Presidency, appoint 30 Greenspan sets off Yevgeni Primakov is about visit to LaRouche hyperinflationary time India. Mass-based political actions to stop bomb the destruction of the Presidency The objective financial problems, as 41 Russia’s Glazyev briefs and the ongoing coup on behalf of daunting as they are, are not as Indian press Vice President Al Gore, determining in the situation as the crescendoed following a call by subjective problem: Greenspan’s Lyndon LaRouche, who said, disordered state of mind. He has 42 Jiang Zemin speech run in invoking the words of French Gen. embarked on a recklessness course Siberian newspaper Charles de Gaulle during a great of hyperinflation, to “save the moment of crisis for his nation, system.” 43 There is no ‘third way’ for “Help me! Help me to save the Venezuela’s President-elect honor and future of these United 32 Don’t regulate derivatives Cha´vez States!” market, but eliminate it! Testimony to the House Agriculture 45 Korean peninsula faces war 58 It didn’t start with Monica: Committee on over-the-counter without a New Bretton the five-year campaign to financial derivatives, by EIR Woods system bring down President banking columnist John Hoefle. A group of GOP Congressmen are Clinton seeking to eliminate the 1994 agreement between the United 64 Hyde’s secret life of States and North Korea, setting up a corruption and coverup dangerous new strategic flashpoint. A few of the skeletons in the closet of House Judiciary Committee 47 Mexican press plays up Chairman Henry Hyde, he man who Zepp-LaRouche visit is overseeing the assault against President Clinton. 49 1998 in Review: Interventions by LaRouche 69 Congressional Closeup and associates, to change the course of world history 70 National News 54 International Intelligence EIREconomics Oil collapse signals next phase of global depression by William Engdahl On Dec.