Executive Intelligence Review EIRJanuary 18, 2008 Vol. 35 No. 3 www.larouchepub.com $10.00 LaRouche on ‘London’s Brutish Fairy-Tale’ Bloomberg ‘Mussolini Option’ Is Kicked Off in Oklahoma Clinton Shifts Strategy, Fights for ‘Invisible Americans’ The 68ers Reviewed: Under Their Skins Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editorial Board: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, Antony Papert, Gerald Rose, Dennis Small, Edward Spannaus, Nancy EI R Spannaus, Jeffrey Steinberg, William Wertz Editor: Nancy Spannaus Managing Editor: Susan Welsh Assistant Managing Editor: Bonnie James Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht From the Managing Editor Technology Editor: Marsha Freeman Book Editor: Katherine Notley Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol It is often said that truth is stranger than fiction. In today’s world, it INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS might better be said that truth is stranger than “spin.” Take the follow- Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Michele ing cases, which are developed in this issue: Steinberg Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, Paul Gallagher • In Britain, the media is full of stories about the disintegration of History: Anton Chaitkin Ibero-America: Dennis Small Gordon Brown’s government, as the economy hits rough waters. In Law: Edward Spannaus fact, as Lyndon LaRouche analyzes in “London’s Brutish Fairy-Tale,” Russia and Eastern Europe: Rachel Douglas you can’t believe anything you hear about “the British political situa- United States: Debra Freeman tion.” It’s all fake! Look instead at “the historically situated, clinical INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS reality of what is actually behind the British—or, better said, Brutish— Bogotá: Javier Almario Berlin: Rainer Apel mask.” Copenhagen: Tom Gillesberg • And don’t believe anything you hear about what “Europe is going Houston: Harley Schlanger Lima: Sara Madueño to do.” As Helga Zepp-LaRouche explains, there is nothing European Melbourne: Robert Barwick Mexico City: Rubén Cota Meza nations can do about the crisis, as long as they remain locked in the New Delhi: Ramtanu Maitra straightjacket of the Maastricht Treaty. Paris: Christine Bierre United Nations, N.Y.C.: Leni Rubinstein • Regarding the U.S. elections: Since the New Hampshire primary, Washington, D.C.: William Jones Wiesbaden: Göran Haglund every talking head and pundit has been eating crow, at their predictions that Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign was in the garbage can. ON THE WEB e-mail: [email protected] Why did she win? 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Contreras #100, the fight now is not financial but political, over what to replace it with— Despacho 8, Col. San Rafael, CP 06470, Mexico, DF. Tel.: 2453-2852, 2453-2853. fascism, or the American System. Copyright: ©2008 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. EI R Contents www.larouchepub.com Volume 35, Number 3, January 18, 2008 International 4 London’s Brutish Cover Fairy-Tale By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. If you This Week want to understand what’s going on in Britain, don’t rely on what is being said publicly, or what the press reports. The politics of the Rioting (and British political system itself “have police rioting) in arrived at a point far beyond the Chicago, 1968. reach of any self-determined sort of possible remedial actions by that political system itself. The residual function thus remaining within the 20 The 68ers Reviewed: Under Their Skins power of the British political By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. The intention of the super- system, has been to provide wealthy financial parasites largely controlling the U.S. distracting pieces of entertainment, Presidential campaigns, is to have the candidates destroy fairy-tales or mere gossip, whiling each other, clearing the road for a campaign by New away the hours until the economic York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, as the American version of the proverbial ‘grim Mussolini. To understand how this threat could emerge, reaper’ arrives. .” look at the reality underlying the role of the “68ers,” and their deadly, Nazi-echoing, global strategic significance. 12 U.K. Factional Brawl As System Blows Out 25 Bloomberg ‘Mussolini Option’ Is Kicked Off in Oklahoma 13 London’s Blair Pushes Harley Schlanger reports from Norman, Okla., where Post-Westphalia Chaos Bloomberg was featured at a Bipartisan Forum of Documentation: From Tony Blair’s primarily former elected officials, pledging to work for March 5, 2004 speech on the need “bipartisan” corporatism and austerity. for preventive war and imperial reach, to “overcome” the Westphalian system of sovereign 27 Governator Demands Sacrifice, Death nation-states. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s State of the State address. 15 The End of the ‘Free’ Market Economy: We Need 28 Long Before Bloomberg, There Was Mussolini Laws To Save the Common Good in Germany! 29 Chronology: The Campaign for Michael Because the “free-market” world ‘Mussolini’ Bloomberg economy is now as wrecked as the Communist system was in 1989, 31 How Bloomberg Got His Billions Helga Zepp-LaRouche asserts that Germany must dump the European Union’s financial architecture, so 32 Mayor Bloomberg Readies Budget Axe the German government can activate its Basic Law to uphold the vital functions of the economy. 19 International Intelligence EI R Contents www.larouchepub.com Volume 35, Number 3, January 18, 2008 National Economics The American Patriot 34 Clinton’s Fight for 40 The Monkey Trap 46 Who Was Benjamin ‘Invisible Americans’ Can What we are witnessing are not Franklin? Save the U.S. events which could lead to a In honor of Franklin’s birthday, financial collapse, but the In the final 72 hours before the New we reprint a chapter from the late disintegration of a system which has Hampshire primary, Hillary Clinton H. Graham Lowry’s book, How already died. As various financial shifted her strategy, abandoning the the Nation Was Won: America’s groups maneuver for their own campaign persona that had been Untold Story, Volume 1, 1630- survival, this is ultimately not a scripted for her, and reaching out to 1754, first published in 1987. financial fight, but a political one: citizens in the lower 80% of income Lowry rips apart all the myths to over the nature of the system which brackets. show how Franklin was the will replace the one which has product of a nation-building failed. 36 Grassroots Support for conspiracy dating back to the earliest days of our republic. LaRouche’s HBPA 42 Ruination of Auto: The The Homeowners and Bank Protection Act (HBPA) is gaining Consequences of Following support in the first weeks of 2008. Fascist Felix Rohatyn Editorial 37 What Is the HBPA? 44 Brazil and Argentina 64 Running a Policy for Launch Space Mission President 38 Veterans’ Suicide: From Eugenics to Video Games 45 Business Briefs EIR International EIR ON LONDON London’s Brutish Fairy-Tale by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. January 11, 2008 Those persons, unfortunately including most of those individuals in the relatively highest political ranks of both Our Mary Burdman turned in a report on the current view our U.S.A. and many among today’s other leading nations, from London. The content of that report itself, especially when who do not accept what I have just said, are thus continuing compared with former Prime Minister Blair’s brutish, March to show themselves as lacking any competence for judging 2004 attacks on the Peace of Westphalia, is a fair reflection the presently spiraling world financial breakdown-crisis. of the quality of the reports being popularly circulated from Such a defect as theirs is to be properly recognized as in the there during most recent weeks. The problem which any re- nature of all true Classical tragedy, on stage, or in today’s port depending on British publications must suffer, is that al- U.S.