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 journalist from an Ibero-American country, stationed in Wash- Managing Editor: John Sigerson A Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht ington, was invited by an EIR staff member to attend Lyndon Special Projects: Mark Burdman LaRouche’s Dec. 12 post-election seminar, on the theme, “Election Book Editor: Katherine Notley Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis Crisis 2000: The Fall of Ozymandias.” The journalist pulled from his Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol wall a well-worn piece of paper, on which was written Shelley’s INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: “Ozymandias,” in English. “My favorite poem,” he said. Looking out Asia and Africa: Linda de Hoyos Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, at the skyline of Washington, he explained: “All empires come to an Paul Goldstein end; Rome did, and so will this one!” Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, William Engdahl This “Ozymandias Principle,” the inevitable doom of the oligar- History: Anton Chaitkin chical model in world history, is a recurrent topic in this week’s issue. Ibero-America: Dennis Small Law: Edward Spannaus LaRouche’s Strategic Memorandum, on the startling developments Russia and Eastern Europe: in Brazil and Australia, demonstrates what is at stake, in the British Rachel Douglas United States: Debra Freeman, Suzanne Rose monarchy’s latest assault on himself and his associates. Paradoxi- INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: cally, he writes, “the system represented by that monarchy is doomed Bogota´: Javier Almario to precisely the relative degree it tends to converge upon becoming Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Apel Buenos Aires: Gerardo Tera´n globally hgemonic!” Therein, lies the tale. Caracas: David Ramonet It is no coincidence that these renewed attacks on LaRouche oc- Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen Houston: Harley Schlanger curred during the same time-frame as the inauguration of George W. Lima: Sara Maduen˜o Bush as President of the United States. Bush, who is as much beloved Melbourne: Robert Barwick Mexico City: Hugo Lo´pez Ochoa of the House of Windsor as was his father before him, is the instru- Milan: Leonardo Servadio ment for crisis-management fascist rule, on the part of the global New Delhi: Susan Maitra Paris: Christine Bierre financier oligarchy. He and his controllers staged a “Reichstag fire” Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios confrontation with the U.S. Senate, over the appointment of John Stockholm: Michael Ericson United Nations, N.Y.C.: Leni Rubinstein Ashcroft as Attorney General. They succeeded in ramming the nomi- Washington, D.C.: William Jones nation through, but, as we report in National, the “Stop Ashcroft” Wiesbaden: Go¨ran Haglund mobilization led by the LaRouche Democrats has changed the face EIR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (50 issues) of American politics, and will make it harder for the next steps in except for the second week of July and the last week of December, by EIR News Service Inc., 317 Pennsylvania fascist “emergency rule” to be taken. And, with the daily escalation Ave., S.E., 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 20003. (202) 544-7010. For subscriptions: (703) 777-9451, or toll- of the economic crisis, as seen in California most immediately, the free, 888-EIR-3258. 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Even in states where and the Duke of short-term price cuts were written Edinburgh, at the into the deregulation laws, the state opening of manipulation of natural gas prices Parliament on will end the honeymoon quickly. Dec. 6, 2000. 7 Thousands More Job Cuts 20 Look At What Happened in Brazil Hit U.S. Economy By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. It is not some particular deeds of the British monarchy’s representatives, which 9 We Told You So: The are the determining consideration in the pattern of events LaRouche Record of addressed in this report; the threatened evil comes from Economic Forecasts, Fall that monarchy’s intention, or, one might say, the orbit of 1999-Election 2000 that monarchy’s history, an intention which, as the great Carl Gauss proved Kepler’s method for the case of the 14 Bush’s ‘Faith-Based’ Policy asteroid Ceres, is merely expressed by the recent Returns United States to developments in Brazil and Australia. Feudalism Appendix: WWF’s October 2000 Brief. 15 Building Trades Defeat Welfare-to-Work Program Including an interview with Will Collette. 18 Business Briefs Interviews 14 Will Collette A spokesman for the Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, discusses workfare in New York. Photo and graphics credits: Cover, AFP Photo/Mike Forster. Pages 21, 56, EIRNS/Stuart Lewis. Pages 41, 62, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, EIRNS. Page 43 (Venice), Dr. Frederick Guggenbuhl. Page 43 (Thirty Years War), www.arttoday.com. Page 48, United Nations. Page 57, Library of Congress. Page 58, EIRNS/Philip Ulanowsky. Page 60, EIRNS/Lawrence Freeman. Volume 28, Number 6, February 9, 2001 Feature National 40 LaRouche in Sudan: 61 Cut Down the Number of 84 LaRouche Democrats ‘Peace Through EconomicOutside Actors Lead Resistance to Bush Progress’By Mogus T. Michael, vice Fascist Push Lyndon and Helga LaRouche joinedpresident of the Ethiopia Despite the shameful capitulation of African political leaders for aInternational Institute for Peace and the Senate Democrats to the conference in Khartoum, on Jan.Development. nomination of John Ashcroft as 14-17, co-sponsored by Sudan’s Attorney General, the base of the Ministry of Information and63 Discussion: The Most Democratic Party and major Culture, the Centre for StrategicImportant Topic Is portions of the trade union Studies of Sudan, EIR, and theDevelopment movement were activated by the Schiller Institute. The theme was massive call-up and lobbying “Peace Through Development69 The Crisis of Leadership campaign by LaRouche supporters. along the Nile Valley in the Concluding remarks by Lyndon Framework of a New, Just World LaRouche. 86 Bush to California: Economic Order.” This first Drop Dead! installment of our report, is the The President and his team made it panel on “Peace Through clear there will be no futher Federal Development, Foundation for a intervention to prevent a total Dialogue Among Civilizations.” International catastrophe in California, while the energy crisis quickly spreads to 42 Dialogue Among Cultures: 72 Globalization’s surrounding states in the Northwest. The Road To Peace Footsoldiers Meet at By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. ‘Anti-Davos’ Fest Global speculator and drug legalizer 50 History of the Peace George Soros inadvertently, but Book Reviews Process in Sudan truthfully, admitted that Davos and “anti-Davos” are “the two faces of By Amin Hassan Omer, editor-in- 79 The Other ‘Moscow on chief of the Sudanese daily Al-Anba globalization.” A report on the World Social Forum gathering in the Hudson’ Poˆrto Alegre, Brazil. Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob 53 Toward a Dialogue Among Has Invaded America, by Robert I. Civilizations Friedman. By Dr. Tagilsir Maghoub, Secretary 74 Teddy Goldsmith: The General of Sudan’s National Fund Portrait of an Eco-Fascist for State Support. Goldsmith was a key player at the “anti-Davos” summit in Poˆrto Departments 55 The Cultural Basis for a Alegre. Peace Policy 17 Report from Germany By Helga Zepp-LaRouche. 76 Counter Suit Filed Against Lying WWF China Deal Gives New Push for Transrapid. 59 The Lessons To Be Learned from Nigeria 77 The French Establishment Is Self-Destructing 83 Africa Report By Prof. Ode Ojuwo of the Center Congo’s New President Comes to for Development Studies, Jos Washington. University, Nigeria. 88 Editorial Who Wants a War in the Middle East? EIREconomics Halt Energy Speculation Before It Shuts Down the Nation by John Hoefle While the deregulation spin-doctors promised lower electric would be no problem now.