EIR Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editorial Board: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, Antony Papert, Gerald From the Editors Rose, Dennis Small, Edward Spannaus, Nancy Spannaus, Jeffrey Steinberg, William Wertz Editor: Nancy Spannaus Associate Editors: Ronald Kokinda, Susan Welsh yndon H. LaRouche, Jr. set the stage for the politically crucial Managing Editor: John Sigerson L Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht coming period leading into the Democratic Convention, in remarks Technology Editor: Marsha Freeman to organizers in Montreal on July 1. “We have a Democratic Conven- Special Projects: Mark Burdman Book Editor: Katherine Notley tion in Boston, Massachusetts,” he said, “in which I will be a factor. Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis What kind of a factor? Nobody knows. I don’t know; they don’t Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol know. But, something is going to happen. And we’re going to be fully INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: mobilized around that, knowing that Bush is a disaster; that Cheney Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Michele Steinberg will probably be out, somewhere in this process—all things are Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, Lothar Komp possible—but probably out; that Kerry is impossible at the present History: Anton Chaitkin time.... Ibero-America: Dennis Small Law: Edward Spannaus “We’re going into Boston, with a full commitment to do whatever Russia and Eastern Europe: we have to do. And our presence there will be a significant factor, Rachel Douglas United States: Debra Freeman in shaping the way politics goes in the United States, in the coming INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: months.” Bogota´: Javier Almario In this issue, we document Cheney’s imminent crash landing, as Berlin: Rainer Apel Caracas: David Ramonet he confronts scandals and criminal probes on all fronts—and is heard Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen muttering under his breath that LaRouche is persecuting him. 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EIRContents National 6 High Court Jams Cheney, Bush Imperial Presidency Cover The U.S. Supreme Court on June 28 This Week rejected the Bush Administration’s claim—most forcefully advocated by Vice President Dick Cheney— Lyndon H. that it has unlimited war-time LaRouche, Jr., at a powers, against which the Federal webcast event courts can say or do nothing. earlier this year, demanded Dick 8 Congressional Closeup Cheney’s ouster. 4 Dick Cheney’s Imminent Political Crash Landing Political Economy It is widely known around Washington Republican circles that Vice President Cheney holds Lyndon 10 Hans Koschnick Poses a LaRouche personally responsible for most of his Question Which the July election-year woes. Every time a House or Senate Democrats Must Also Democrat, or an establishment media pundit raises a Answer question about Halliburton patronage, the Valerie Plame By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. “All leak, Ahmed Chalabi’s disinformation mill, or the non- leading political parties of the world, socialist or not, whether or existent Saddam weapons of mass destruction, Cheney not they admit this reality, are sees LaRouche’s face before his eyes, and goes wild. The presently thrown, like the [German question now is, can the Democrats break loose from the Social Democratic Party], into an Democratic National Committe’s corrupt acquiescence existential crisis caused chiefly by in Cheney’s policies, and present a real alternative to their hysterical refusal to take into voters in November? account the nature of the profound and sweeping changes in national and world affairs which have already been brought on by the worsening storms of monetary- financial, economic, and increasing war-danger.” 11 What Koschnick Said Photo and graphic credits: Cover, Page 19, EIRNS/Stuart Hans Koschnick, a former deputy Lewis. Page 12, Online Magazine for Elisabethschule chairman of the German Social Osnabru¨ck. Page 13, www.spd.nippes.de. Page 15 (scene), Democratic Party (SPD) and former Courtesy of Robert Beltran. Page 15 (inset, Odets), U.S. mayor of Bremen, told the daily Die Library of Congress. Page 17, DoD Photo/Staff Sgt. Klaus Welt that his party’s economic- Baesu. Page 24, Army Corps of Engineers/Carol Arney. Pages social policies have come to a 26, 27, 29, 32, Army Corps of Engineers. Pages 39, 40, 41, 42, complete dead-end. 43, NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute. Page 50, EIRNS. Page 59 (Huntington), swiss-image.ch/photo Remy Steinegger. Page 60 (Aznar), NATO. Page 61, clipart.com. Page 63 (FDR), Library of Congress/Harris & Ewing photograph. Page 64, LaRouche in 2004. Page 71, www.asambleadf.gob.mx. Page 77, U.S. National Archives. www.larouchepub.com Volume 31, Number 27, July 9, 2004 Economics Science & Technology Feature 22 LaRouche: Build Up the 38 Unlocking the Secrets of 58 The Nazi-Instigated U.S. Army Corps ofMysterious Saturn National Synarchist Union EngineersWhen the Voyager spacecraft flew of Mexico: What It Means The urgency of Lyndon LaRouche’s by Saturn in the early 1980s, they for Today call is shown by two developments: revealed a complex of rings and Part 1 of a series by William F. the breakdown in the nation’s moons that scientists could not Wertz, Jr. Founded by Nazis in inland navigation system, and the explain. Marsha Freeman reports on 1937, the National Synarchist particular opportunity to reverse the Cassini mission now observing Union (NSU) operated with the this process, provided by the Corps’ the ringed planet. Spanish Falange and the Japanese new proposal before Congress, for militarists. Today, this history has authorization to refurbish the 37 been whitewashed by those who are locks and dams on the Upper promoting the fascist ideology of Mississippi River and Illinois International Hispanidad—the Spanish Waterway system. counterparts of Harvard’s Samuel 44 The Friends of Blas Pin˜ar “Clash of Civilizations” 23 Modernize Navigation on Send the Andes Up in Huntington. the Upper Mississippi Flames EIR’s testimony to the June 24 The Humalas’ ethno-nationalist/ 63 FDR’s Good Neighbor hearing of the Sub-Committee on fascist insurgency in Peru is an Policy Water Resources and Environment intelligence operation, run by of the House Committee on people belonging to the Synarchist 67 The Cristero Rebellion Transportation and Infrastructure, International of the Spaniard Blas on the Upper Mississippi and Pin˜ar. Supporting the legalization of 72 Who’s Who in the Fight Illinois Rivers. coca, they were also the only group Over Mexican Synarchism in Peru to publicly praise the 9/11 26 ‘Lean Times’ Harm Water attack on the United States. Infrastructure An interview with Jeffrey L. 53 Bolivia Is Targetted To Interviews Stamper. Redraw S. America Map 31 The Lesson of the 1993 26 Jeffrey L. Stamper 55 Bush Sets Up New A structural engineer with the St. Flood: Restore the Army Government in Iraq Corps Tradition Louis District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Stamper currently serves as a specialist for 36 Business Briefs design and rehabilitation of locks and dams. Editorial 80 The Lemming Party? EIRNational Dick Cheney’s Imminent Political Crash Landing by Jeffrey Steinberg Dick Cheney’s “Go fuck yourself” flip-out at Senate Judiciary controlled shouting of obscenities. It is often diagnosed by Committee ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) in June psychiatrists as a form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. 22 on the floor of the U.S. Senate, was but the most public display of the Vice President’s mounting hysteria over accel- Cheney’s Persecution Complex erating pressure for his ouster from the 2004 Republican The Vice President is also evidencing signs of an acute ticket.