Executive Intelligence Review EIRJune 11, 2010 Vol. 37 No. 23 www.larouchepub.com $10.00 LaRouche: A Vision for the Post-Obama Era Europe Will Go Under Without Global Glass-Steagall Netanyahu Must Go if Israel Is To Survive The Musical Soul of Scientific Creativity: Rebecca Dirichlet What Is LaRouche Saying About How To Solve The Global Economic/Financial Crisis? Economy for Scientists: Economics as Science, in Short EIR, June 19, 2009 Lyndon LaRouche THE SCIENCE A Sequel on Economics as Science: The Rule of Natural Law OF PHYSICAL EIR, July 17, 2009 ECONOMY With this present opening of this third section of this trilogy on the underlying, practical foundations of Economics as History: the science of physical economy, we The Science of Physical Economy have presented ourselves with the EIR, Sept. 18, 2009 task of untangling the most crucial of the issues posed by recorded human history, with emphasis on the history of European civilization from its ancient to modern times, up to the present day. —LaRouche, from the final segment of “The Science of Physical Economy” SUBSCRIBE TO EIR ONLINE www.larouchepub.com/eiw 1-800-278-3135 See back cover for subscription rates Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editorial Board: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Antony Papert, Gerald Rose, Dennis Small, Edward Spannaus, Nancy Spannaus, Jeffrey EI R Steinberg, William Wertz Editor: Nancy Spannaus Managing Editors: Bonnie James, Susan Welsh Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht Technology Editor: Marsha Freeman From the Managing Editor Book Editor: Katherine Notley Graphics Editor: Alan Yue Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol Recently I had occasion to speak with a Bosnian film director, and INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Michele told him that it seemed miraculous that his country had emerged so Steinberg Economics: John Hoefle, Marcia Merry Baker, quickly from a horrendous war, to produce films of outstanding qual- Paul Gallagher ity and essential optimism. His reply was that, yes, the war was brutal; History: Anton Chaitkin Ibero-America: Dennis Small but ironically, that experience developed him artistically and as a Law: Edward Spannaus Russia and Eastern Europe: Rachel Douglas human being. The trauma was a force that “helped one to separate the United States: Debra Freeman important things from the unimportant.” In sum, he said, “Survival INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS was a miracle; creativity was a necessity.” Bogotá: Javier Almario Berlin: Rainer Apel That captures the potential for positive change in the period of Copenhagen: Tom Gillesberg crisis we are in now. Lyndon LaRouche adds another dimension, in Houston: Harley Schlanger Lima: Sara Madueño his interview to LaRouche PAC-TV that we publish in this issue. Melbourne: Robert Barwick Mexico City: Rubén Cota Meza Laying out his vision of the “post-Obama era,” he addresses the in- New Delhi: Ramtanu Maitra dispensable role of human creativity in physical economy. Only by Paris: Christine Bierre Stockholm: Hussein Askary fostering that special spark that makes man different from the beasts, United Nations, N.Y.C.: Leni Rubinstein Washington, D.C.: William Jones can we reverse the current plunge toward a Dark Age. Discussing the Wiesbaden: Göran Haglund case of Abraham Kästner, the 18th-Century German mathematician ON THE WEB and poet, LaRouche said that Kästner combined the two crucial as- e-mail: [email protected] www.larouchepub.com pects: Classical culture and science. “The combination here,” he said, www.larouchepub.com/eiw “is that the creative powers of reason, by which great discoveries are Webmaster: John Sigerson Assistant Webmaster: George Hollis generated, as science progresses, are located in the area of Classical Editor, Arabic-language edition: Hussein Askary art, not the area of mathematics. Mathematics is a tool, which is used by science, but mathematics is not science. 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He traces the in- e-mail: [email protected] Director: Georg Neudekker tersecting lives of a group of young 19th-Century geniuses, including Montreal, Canada: 514-855-1699 the Dirichlets, the Mendelssohns, the Shumanns, and Johannes Denmark: EIR - Danmark, Sankt Knuds Vej 11, Brahms. The pivot-point is Rebecca Mendelssohn Dirichlet, the sister basement left, DK-1903 Frederiksberg, Denmark. of musicians Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, and the wife of mathe- Tel.: +45 35 43 60 40, Fax: +45 35 43 87 57. e-mail: [email protected]. matician Lejeune Dirichlet. At her musical evenings in Göttingen, Mexico: EIR, Manual Ma. Contreras #100, Germany, musicians and scientists gathered and created the culture Despacho 8, Col. San Rafael, CP 06470, Mexico, that makes creative breakthroughs possible. DF. Tel.: 2453-2852, 2453-2853. In next week’s issue, Michelle Rasmussen will continue the story Copyright: ©2010 EIR News Service. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without with a celebration of Robert Schumann’s 200th birthday June 8, titled “Ro- permission strictly prohibited. bert and Clara Schumann, and Their Teacher Johann Sebastian Bach.” 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 Strategy 4 LPAC Weekly Report: LaRouche Offers a Vision for the Post- Obama Era Lyndon LaRouche addressed Cover LaRouche PAC’s weekly video This Week report June 4, to raise the level of discussion from the “issues” that consume most people, and A musikabend at instead, posed the problems that Rebecca must be addressed to reverse Dirichlet’s, with course from the deepening dark Griepenkerl at 30 The Musical Soul of Scientific Creativity: age, and elaborated on the the piano. Rebecca Dirichlet’s Development of the organizing process required. Complex Domain Rebecca Mendelssohn Dirichlet’s 1855-58 musikabends in Göttingen attracted the most creative minds of the time: the Classical musicians Robert and Clara Schumann, Joseph Joachim, and Johannes Brahms, the scientists Lejeune Dirichlet and Carl Gauss, and the painter Wilhelm Hensel, among others. They also attracted the hatred of those enemies of the renaissance begun by Moses Mendelssohn, notably Felix Klein, Richard Wagner, and Franz Liszt. 50 Richard Wagner’s ‘Mendelssohn Obsession’ 63 Wagner’s Ring(worm): L.A.’s Götterdämmerung? www.larouchepub.com Volume 37, Number 23, June 11, 2010 World News 23 LaRouche Supports Editorial Russian Drive for 16 An Appeal for a Two- Afghanistan Opium 64 Obama Is the Problem Tier Banking System: Eradication Withou t Glo bal Glass- By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Steagall, Europ e Will LaRouche sent this Go Under memorandum to Victor P. By Helga Zepp-LaRouche. If Ivanov, head of Russia’s Federal Europe’s nations follow the Narcotics Control Service, who recommendations of the is leading a vigorous effort to European Central Bank, secure international cooperation contained in its recently against the plague of heroin published annual financial flowing out of Afghanistan. stability report, then Europe LaRouche writes, “I am in full will plunge into economic, agreement with your stated political, and social chaos. The intent for the specified, ECB warns politicians and immediate measures to eradicate banking supervisors against the opium production and forbidding local banks from trafficking within and from trading with hedge funds and Afghanistan.” private equity firms—i.e.: Keep the casino economy going! Only a Global Glass-Steagall will rescue Europe from utter disaster. 19 What Is Synarchism? 20 Netanyahu Must Go Now, If Israel Is To Survive Latest Gaza Atrocity A review of Israeli and other media coverage prior to the May 31 pre-dawn Israeli commando assault on the Gaza aid flotilla, confirms, beyond a doubt, that the operation was not a bungled mistake, but a carefully planned military operation. Some U.S. intelligence veterans have warned that Netanyahu and company could take the weak- kneed response of the Obama Administration as a green light for an Israeli attack against Iran. EIR LPAC Weekly Report LPAC WEEKLY REPORT LaRouche Offers a Vision For the Post-Obama Era June 5—In the midst of the day-to-day struggle which is Europe, of course, is a mess right now. It’s on the currently occurring between the British-controlled verge of a general collapse of civilization, especially Obama Administration, on the one hand, and the mass Western Europe, the part which is pretty much a mess strike process among the American people, on the other, right now. There are hopeful signs, that something good Lyndon LaRouche chose to address LaRouche PAC’s might happen, initiatives in terms of Germany. Germa- weekly video report on a higher level than the “issues” ny’s the one who looks as though it’s the quickest to get which consume most people, posing the problems that out of this pattern, British-controlled pattern of the euro must be addressed to reverse course from the deepening system. Greece, in a different way, is thinking of chuck- dark age, and elaborating on the organizing process ing the whole effort of bailout; the Spanish and Portu- required. The discussion was hosted by John Hoefle guese situation is unspeakable. And there are ugly with guest Nancy Spannaus.