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 eginning with Lyndon LaRouche’s article “The Great Crash of Managing Editor: John Sigerson B Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht 2004-2005 Is Here!” this entire issue deals, in one way or another, Technology Editor: Marsha Freeman with the necessity of inspired and effective leadership in this time of Book Editor: Katherine Notley Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis crisis, when the synarchist bankers are attempting to consolidate their Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol “cold coup” in Washington, even as the global financial-economic INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: system crumbles. LaRouche ridicules the “world-wide assortment of Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Michele Steinberg liars and gullible fools” who insisted, right up through the Nov. 2 Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, Presidential election, that the crash forecast by LaRouche would not Lothar Komp History: Anton Chaitkin occur. Since it is now ongoing, he writes, the “most important of the Ibero-America: Dennis Small political facts of today’s reality, is that I have been consistently right Law: Edward Spannaus Russia and Eastern Europe: on this set of issues all along, since no later than the late 1950s when Rachel Douglas I was already forecasting a certain probability for the crucial breaking United States: Debra Freeman global economic developments which were to actually happen begin- INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: Bogota´: Javier Almario ning the late 1960s.” Berlin: Rainer Apel Our Feature, the second installment in a series on what author Caracas: David Ramonet Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen John Perkins calls the “Economic Hit Men” (EHMs), develops— Houston: Harley Schlanger far beyond what Perkins does in his best-selling book—the EHMs’ Lima: Sara Maduen˜o Melbourne: Robert Barwick assault on the nation-states. 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EIRContents Economics 4 The Great Crash of 2004- 2005 Is Here! Cover By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. “Now, This Week when the great world financial collapse is onrushing, who is willing to make himself a public Brazil’s Angra 2 fool, still, by discussing ‘some other nuclear power issue,’ some issue other than why I plant. The financier have been right, and my so-called oligarchy’s policy critics proven terribly wrong, over for the developing all these years?” sector is “technological apartheid.” 7 Argentina: Center of 16 Unmasking the Secret War by the ‘Economic Global Economic Battle Hit Men’ Helga Zepp-LaRouche calls for reopening the cases of 9 Hans Tietmeyer’s ‘New the murders of Germany’s Alfred Herrhausen and Detlev Social Market-Economy Rohwedder, who were assassinated soon after the fall of Initiative’—Cui Bono? the Berlin Wall, because their policies went against the dictates of the “Economic Hit Men” exposed by author John Perkins. 20 Development Projects vs. the IMF Hit Men, 1971-91 30 George Pratt Shultz: Profile of a Hit Man 32 Connally: ‘Shultz Did It’ Photo and graphic credits: Cover, 35 ‘Washington Consensus’ Indicted for Framatom. Page 5, EIRNS. Page Genocide 10, DBU. Page 17, EIRNS/Rick A review of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How Magraw. Pages 18, 19, the U.S. Uses Globalization To Cheat Poor Countries Bundesbildstelle/Bonn. Page 21, Out of Trillions, by John Perkins. United Nations/Y. Nagata. Page 31, EIRNS/Stanley Ezrol. Page 36, Ancol/Fernando Ruiz. Page 37, 37 There’s a ‘Tremendous Opportunity for johnperkins.org. Page 38, FEMA Change’ News Photo/Andrea Booher. Page An interview with John Perkins. 44, EIRNS/Stuart Lewis. Page 47, homepage of President Roh Moo- Hyun. Page 48, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Page 60, Combat Camera/SFC Johancarles Van Boers, 55th Signal Co. Page 63, Vietnam People’s Army. Page 67, French Army. Page 69, National Archives. www.larouchepub.com Volume 31, Number 47, December 3, 2004 International National Interviews 42 Flattened by IMF, Ukraine 52 Leading Democrats Take 37 John Perkins in Geopolitical Crosshairs Up Vote-Suppression Fight The author of Confessions of a Hit The strife that gripped Ukraine “The battle for civil rights, Man, Perkins was recruited in the during this year’s Presidential expressed as the need to bring 1960s, by the National Security election is not the clash of perpetrators of voter suppression to Agency. He later worked for private “Western, Europe-oriented” the prescribed forms of justice, is corporations, including as chief Ukraine vs. “Eastern, Russia- the battlefield to choose at this stage economist for the Chas. T. Main, oriented” Ukraine, as depicted in of the war,” Lyndon LaRouche Inc. engineering firm. the mass media. It is rooted in 13 declared. years of economic devastation, at the hands of the IMF. 54 The Vanishing American Book Reviews Pension Foretells Bush 45 LaRouche: Stop Social Security Gameplan 35 ‘Washington Consensus’ Brzezinski’s Meddling in Indicted for Genocide Ukraine Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses 46 LaRouche Warns: Bush Is Strategic Studies Globalization To Cheat Poor on Autopilot for Korea Countries Out of Trillions, by John Conflict 58 A Time for Some Real Perkins. Leadership: Is Fallujah a 48 UN Brands Afghanistan a New Dien Bien Phu? ‘Narco-State,’ As By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Departments Washington Looks the Other Way 59 ‘Victory’ in Fallujah: A 15 Report From Germany Political Disaster “We’re Cutting Ourselves to 51 International Intelligence Death.” 62 The Battle of Dien Bien 55 From the Congress Phu: The French Empire Democrats Denounce GOP Dies in Vietnam Omnibus Funding Bill. 68 The Issue of Effective Leadership: General Editorial MacArthur’s Inchon Flank 72 Criminal Insanity EIREconomics The Great Crash of 2004-2005 Is Here! by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. November 28, 2004 be found among the world’s notable economists and political figures, most, until now, have either flatly denied that such a It is time to speak, in the spirit of Aeschylus, Shakespeare, monetary-financial crisis was already in progress, or have and Schiller, of the Great American Tragedy of 2004. insisted that reforms must be confined within the conditions Some featured cartoons in the weekend British and U.S.A. specified by authorities such as those two predatory instru- press, among other relevant sources, have announced that ments of world government which have done the most to the world’s present, great monetary-financial crisis is now cause this depression-breakdown over the course of the recent accelerating into its phase as a general collapse. thirty-odd years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Typical of this lunatic situation is the rising chorus of World Bank. voices heard from Asia and Europe, which propose an imme- Therefore, most important of the political facts of today’s diate withdrawal from the collapsing U.S. dollar now, while, reality, is that I have been consistently right on this set of they propose, something of value must still be salvaged by issues all along, since no later than the late 1950s when I pulling away from the dollar, “in time.” Contrary to their was already forecasting a certain probability for the crucial delusions, the trend toward a “basket of currencies,” as an breaking global economic developments which were to actu- alternative to the dollar, will merely accelerate the already ally happen beginning the late 1960s.