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 e go to press on the eve of the Presidents Day Weekend confer- Managing Editor: John Sigerson W Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht ence of the LaRouche movement in Northern Virgnia, at which Lyn- Technology Editor: Marsha Freeman don LaRouche will deliver what he promises will be “the most impor- Special Projects: Mark Burdman Book Editor: Katherine Notley tant political address to have been given anywhere in the world, by Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis anyone, in more than a century to date” (see LaRouche’s “Open Letter Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol to the DNC,” in this issue). That’s no arrogant claim, but is based on INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: LaRouche’s cold-sober assessment of 1) the precarious state of the Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Michele Steinberg world economic and financial system, at the brink of an abyss that Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, Lothar Komp most cannot even imagine; 2) the decision of the Democratic National History: Anton Chaitkin Committee’s leadership clique to exclude him from the Democratic Ibero-America: Dennis Small Law: Edward Spannaus Primary process, and the fact that Democrats who oppose that exclu- Russia and Eastern Europe: sion have failed to end it; and 3) the importance of his own message. Rachel Douglas United States: Debra Freeman Only LaRouche is calling for a bankruptcy reorganization of the INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: global monetary system, and only he has the determination to fight Bogota´: Javier Almario the central bankers and Wall Street, to see such a reorganization Berlin: Rainer Apel Caracas: David Ramonet through successfuly. Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen For that reason, his Presidential campaign, far from ending, as Houston: Harley Schlanger Lima: Sara Maduen˜o some have expected it to do, will escalate. Melbourne: Robert Barwick We have assembled an Economic Feature to provide crucial doc- Mexico City: Rube´n Cota Meza Milan: Leonardo Servadio umentation on the financial-economic crisis, with case studies of the New Delhi: Ramtanu Maitra breakdown in Asia, Ibero-America, and Great Britain, as a result of Paris: Christine Bierre Stockholm: Michael Ericson free-trade policies. Most pointed is the case of Argentina, where United Nations, N.Y.C.: Leni Rubinstein President Kirchner had the courage to say what most heads of state Washington, D.C.: William Jones Wiesbaden: Go¨ran Haglund do not: that accession to the demands of rapacious creditors “would be a new genocide against the Argentine people that we cannot ever EIR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (50 issues), by EIR News Service Inc., 317 Pennsylvania Ave., S.E., allow again.” Our package also shows the readiness of world leaders 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 20003. (202) 543-8002. (703) 777-9451, or toll-free, 888-EIR-3258. for LaRouche’s leadership: notably in Russian Presidential contender World Wide Web site: http://www.larouchepub.com Sergei Glazyev’s call for a “new financial architecture” to replace e-mail: [email protected] European Headquarters: Executive Intelligence Review the bankrupt dollar-dominated system; and Brazilian Congressman Nachrichtenagentur GmbH, Postfach 2308, D-65013 Wiesbaden, Bahnstrasse 9-A, D-65205, Ene´as Carneiro’s enthusiastic endorsement of LaRouche’s program. Wiesbaden, Federal Republic of Germany Tel: 49-611-73650. Our second Feature is on the urgent threat to the U.S. Constitution Homepage: http://www.eirna.com posed by computerized voting machines. Will there be an election E-mail: [email protected] Executive Directors: Anno Hellenbroich, Michael Liebig worthy of the name next November? Or will a computer programmer In Denmark: EIR, Post Box 2613, 2100 Copenhagen ØE, Tel. 35-43 60 40 from a company run by Dick Cheney’s pals just flick a switch, and In Mexico: EIR, Serapio Rendo´n No. 70 Int. 28, Col. San decide who will be the next President? The whole corrupt system has Rafael, Del. Cuauhte´moc. Me´xico, DF 06470. Tels: 55-66- 0963, 55-46-2597, 55-46-0931, 55-46-0933 y 55-46-2400. to be stopped dead in its tracks. Copyright 2003 EIR News Service. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Postmaster: Send all address changes to EIR, P.O. Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. EIRContents Economics 20 Mad Cow Threat Requires Restoring Public Health Cover The legacy of Margaret Thatcher’s This Week “Mad Cow” deregulation has been continued in the United States, leading to the disease outbreaks we The G-7 meetings see today. That mindset must be public statements eradicated, especially concerning failed to stabilize the whole category of diseases such the dollar’s fall. as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, where more is unknown than known. 4 The End of the Dollar System 21 Avian Flu: A Global Is on the Agenda Pandemic Threatening? Any severe shock can now crash the floating-exchange- 23 ‘Rebel’ Stiglitz: IMF’s Last rate monetary system. The response by international Line of Defense? bankers has been to demand that they, not governments, A profile of Joseph Stiglitz, the will control an attempt to reorganize and salvage the “financial insider-turned-radical” dying dollar system, and will reject any move for its who, even while serving as Chief bankruptcy reorganization into a “New Bretton Woods” Economist at the World Bank, proposed by Lyndon LaRouche. broke from supposed IMF orthodoxy, to expose its 6 Presidential Candidate Glazyev: Time For destructiveness toward the Third World and the former Soviet states. New Financial Architecture Buyer, beware! Documentation: From Sergei Glazyev’s Feb. 5 press conference. 26 Business Briefs 8 Asia Ponders ‘Exit Strategy’ From the Dollar Science & Technology 10 Argentina vs. IMF: ‘Test Issue’ for U.S. Leaders 28 Russia, Iran, and Peaceful Nuclear Power U.S. accusations that the nuclear 13 Brazil’s Congressman Ene´as Speaks Out power plant that Russia is building in Iran will lead to a nuclear bomb, 14 LaRouche’s New Bretton Woods Is are without scientific foundation. ‘Sensational’ An interview with Russian expert An interview with Dr. Ene´as Carneiro. Vladimir I. Ryabchenkov. 18 World’s Worst Housing Bubble Menaces Britain www.larouchepub.com Volume 31, Number 7, February 20, 2004 Feature International National 34 Election or Coup? Will 44 China, N. Korea Hint At 52 The Most Important HAVA Bring In a U.S.Move on Six-Power Talks Moment in Your Lives Dictatorship?“China will surprise the Feb. 25 To Date! The Help America Vote Act oftalks, by announcing that the United An open letter to the Democratic 2002 has brought in a nightmare ofStates has failed to demonstrate” National Committee, by computerized voting, whichthat North Korea has a hidden Presidential contender Lyndon H. constitutes a threat to theuranium bomb, the Korea Times LaRouche, Jr. He warns that his Constitution.wrote. exclusion from the Democratic Primary process by a small clique 36 Why Congress Must 46 Iranian Crisis Could Ignite within the DNC, and the Repeal the HAVA Act Regional War acquiescence to it by others, “could lead to, not only the party’s loss of 37 Fair Election Means Ability 48 Gaza Evacuation Will the 2004 general election, but the Expand the Conflict early disintegration of the U.S.A., To Recount caused by the lack of a Presidency An interview with Don Eret. qualified even to understand the 49 Wehrkunde Conference: nature of the onrushing crisis.” 38 How Computers Can Steal Only ‘Outsiders’ Introduce Your Vote Reality 54 LaRouche Drive Has Case studies from a new book by Created Potential for Bev Harris, Black Box Voting. 51 International Intelligence Cheney To Be Out Soon 42 Who’s Who of Virtual Interviews 56 Why Does Cheney Ally Co- Voting Machine Companies Chair Bush WMD Probe? 14 Ene´as Carneiro A Federal deputy in Brazil for the 57 Campaign 2004: Where PRONA party, Dr. Ene´as hosted They Stand Lyndon LaRouche’s visit to Brazil The sixth in a series. Democratic in 2002. Presidential candidates compared on “The Middle East Crisis: What 28 Vladimir I. Rybachenkov the President Must Do.” A Counselor at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Washington, D.C., Rybachenkov worked for ten Photo and graphic credits: Cover, years in the Ministry of Foreign Departments EIRNS. Cover design, Alan Yue. Affairs in the nuclear division, and Page 6, Rodina website. Page 8, has worked closely with the 64 Editorial EIRNS/Dean Andromidas. Page 11, Ministry of Atomic Energy. Nuremberg Crimes. EIRNS/Carlo Concha Zea. Page 13, Ageˆncia Brasil/Marcello Casal, Jr. 37 Don Eret Page 15, EIRNS/Steven Meyer. A former Nebraska State Senator, Page 19, www.clipart.com. Page presently the vice chairman of the 24, EIRNS/Stuart Lewis. Pages 28, Saline County Democratic Party. 57-63, EIRNS/Marsha Freeman. He is a farmer and a retired space Page 29, Bellona, courtesy of engineer. iranmania.com. Page 31, U.S. Dept. of Energy. Page 35, Sequoia Corp. website. Page 39, Diebold Corp. website. Page 47, ENS photo/Peter Serling. Page 58, EIRNS. EIREconomics The End of the Dollar System Is On the Agenda by EIR Staff The complete lack of impact on international currency mar- World debtors. kets, of the G7 finance ministers’ and central bankers’ Feb. 7 Should Argentina stand up to that confrontation with the public call for “stabilization” of the dollar, showed the global IMF and the vulture bankers, it will immediately force the crisis of the dollar/International Monetary Fund system to be question of a new monetary system.