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: Nancy Spannaus Associate Editors: Ronald Kokinda, Susan Welsh he Feature story in this week’s issue was commissioned by Lyn- Managing Editor: John Sigerson T Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht don H. LaRouche, Jr., for widest possible distribution internationally. Technology Editor: Marsha Freeman EIR has “the goods” on the Pentagon faction of lunatics, kooks, and Book Editor: Katherine Notley Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis outright Satanists that is gunning for two horrendous actions in the Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol immediate weeks ahead: a “pre-emptive” military attack against Iran, INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: including the possible use of nuclear weapons; and a “new 9/11” Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Michele Steinberg assault against several U.S. cities, including, but not restricted to, Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, New York City and Washington, D.C. Such a terrorist atrocity, which Lothar Komp History: Anton Chaitkin would probably be run under the cover of Hezbollah or al-Qaeda or Ibero-America: Dennis Small some other Islamic group, would be blamed on Iran, thereby provid- Law: Edward Spannaus Russia and Eastern Europe: ing the pretext for a nuclear strike. You can read about it in our Rachel Douglas exclusive interview with Gen. Paul Vallely (ret.), one of those who United States: Debra Freeman are promoting the insane strategy. INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: Bogota´: Javier Almario Also notable in our coverage is the link between the “spoon- Berlin: Rainer Apel benders” and the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay prison atrocities; Caracas: David Ramonet Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen and the connection of one of these Pentagon weirdos to certain of the Houston: Harley Schlanger Sept. 11, 2001 hijackers. There is much more to this story, still to Lima: Sara Maduen˜o Melbourne: Robert Barwick be unravelled. Mexico City: Rube´n Cota Meza This insane policy, which we and others are exposing in order to New Delhi: Ramtanu Maitra Paris: Christine Bierre prevent, comes from the highest levels of the Administration, notably Rome: Paolo Raimondi Dick Cheney and his neo-conservative cabal. 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In Mexico: EIR, Serapio Rendo´n No. 70 Int. 28, Col. San Rafael, Del. Cuauhte´moc. Me´xico, DF 06470. Tels: 55-66- 0963, 55-46-2597, 55-46-0931, 55-46-0933 y 55-46-2400. Copyright 2005 EIR News Service. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Canada Post Publication Sales Agreement #40683579 Postmaster: Send all address changes to EIR, P.O. Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. EIRContents International 24 LaRouche Drive Spreads Against Cheney’s Iran War Cover Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who is a This Week candidate for Chancellor of the Civil Rights Movement Solidarity (Bu¨So) party in the upcoming An earlier German elections, is spearheading generation of the campaign in Europe to prevent spoon-benders, Cheney from implementing his war shown in Pieter plans. Brueghel the Elder’s “The 27 No New War Against Iran! Alchemist” (detail). Withdraw From Afghanistan! 4 Cheney’s ‘Spoon-Benders’ Pushing Nuclear A statement by Helga Zepp- Armageddon LaRouche. Leading figures within the U.S. military’s Special Operations community have promoted the application of 28 Cheney’s Paraguay Caper New Age and outright Satanic practices to warfare. Some Is Intended To Produce ‘A of the top-secret programs funded by taxpayer dollars Splendid Little War’ over the past 25 years betray a significant degree of U.S. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld “spoon-bending” lunacy. Others lead directly to the is implementing Vice President doorsteps of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. Jeffrey Cheney’s scheme to establish a U.S. Steinberg reports. military base in the heart of South America, to facilitate wars between nations, and civil wars in the region 11 Abu Ghraib, Satanists, and Spoon-Benders 30 Iraq Is About To Get a 13 ‘We’ve Got To Bring the Hammer Down on Political Deal Iran’ An interview with Gen. Paul Vallely (ret.). 32 Horrifying Conditions 16 Cheney Wants War Against Iran Now 34 Japan in Chaos Over Lyndon LaRouche gave this interview on Aug. 17 to Privatization Effort Lebanese television station NewTV SAT, hosted by Maria Maalouf. 35 Two Koreas: ‘Silk Road And Sunshine,’ Not War 21 Satanic Subversion of the U.S. Military A reprint of a July 2, 1999 article from EIR, which exposed the role of satanist and alleged pedophile Lt. Col. Michael Aquino (ret.). www.larouchepub.com Volume 32, Number 33, August 26, 2005 Economics Interviews 36 Jewish Fundamentalism’s50‘Neurotic’ Scheme for 13 Gen. Paul Vallely (ret.). ‘Errant Weeds’ Threaten ‘Lighter’ Euro Targets Vallely is currently the head of the Israel and Palestine Italy Military Committee of Frank The heirs of terrorist Baruch While the agony of the European Gaffney’s Center for Security Goldstein are alive in Israel’s illegal Monetary Union is becoming more Policy and a member of the Iran settlements today, and are in full and more visible, some factions in Policy Committee, neo- activation—against both Jews and the European elite are playing with conservatives who promote war and Palestinians—as Prime Minister the idea of trying to prolong the life rebellion in Iran. He has a long Sharon carries out the evacuation of of the doomed euro by making it history with the Pentagon’s “spoon- Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip, “lighter.” bending” faction. the first roll-back of the illegal settlements on Palestinian land 52 Got Drought? Tend Man’s 42 Giovanni Galloni since 1967. Garden Hon. Galloni participated in the In the United States, almost weekly, Italian Resistance against Fascism 40 Netanyahu As Israel’s another Midwest governor during World War II, and became a Generalissimo Franco announces that he’s asking U.S. leader of the Christian Democracy Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns party. He was a close collaborator for emergency disaster relief for his of former Italian Prime Minister Investigation state’s farmers. The drought is part Aldo Moro; a Member of of a global picture; but there are Parliament; Minister of Education; solutions ready at hand. and editor of the newspaper Il 42 Was There a Foreign Hand Popolo. In 1991, he was appointed in the Moro Assassination? 54 White House Hand Is president of the state institution that An interview with Giovanni supervises the Italian legal and Galloni. Behind Labor’s Troubles magistracy system. 47 ‘Strategy of Tension’ 25 56 Cheney’s Energy Act: Will Years Ago, and Now Warren Buffett Be the New Editorial Investigations continue, on the Samuel Insull? anniversary of the Bologna train 64 The Super-University of station bombing. National Our Planet 48 A Profile of Gelli and the P-2 Lodge 58 Abramoff Indictment Makes Bush Regime a Fat Target Lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the financial godfather for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, was arrested on Aug. 11, spelling trouble for the whole network of his cronies. 60 Is Rumsfeld Plan To Close Bases Crumbling? 63 Keep Air Force Institute in Ohio EIRFeature Cheney’s ‘Spoon-Benders’ Pushing Nuclear Armageddon by Jeffrey Steinberg Sometime in late 1980, then-Col. Paul E. Vallely, the Com- and neutrals alike across the globe—neither through primitive mander of the 7th Psychological Operations Group, United ‘battlefield’ leaflets and loudspeakers of PSYOP nor through States Army Reserve, Presidio of San Francisco, Calif., co- the weak, imprecise, and narrow effort of psychotronics— authored a discussion paper, which received wide and contro- but through the media possessed by the United States which versial attention within the U.S. military, particularly within have the capabilities to reach virtually all people on the face of the Special Operations community. The paper was titled the Earth. These media are, of course the electronic media— “From PSYOP to MindWar: The Psychology of Victory,” television and radio. State of the art developments in satellite and it presented a Nietzschean scheme for waging perpetual communication, video recording techniques, and laser and psychological warfare against friend and enemy populations optical transmission of broadcasts make possible a penetra- alike, and even against the American people.