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 Associate Editors: Ronald Kokinda, Susan Welsh Managing Editor: John Sigerson his may be the first time in American history, that a group of Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht T Special Projects: Mark Burdman prominent international figures has come to observe the fairness of Book Editor: Katherine Notley one of our national elections. The delegation that visited the Michigan Photo Editor: Stuart Lewis Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol Democratic Party caucuses came away shocked and shaken, as they INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: reported to a press conference in Washington, D.C. (see Feature). Asia and Africa: Linda de Hoyos They were manhandled and in some cases refused entry; they ob- Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Paul Goldstein served that citizens who wished to vote for Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, were prevented from doing so, or their votes were not counted; not William Engdahl History: Anton Chaitkin only was there was no secret ballot, but voters were required to write Ibero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small their name, address, and telephone number on the ballot itself. Per- Law: Edward Spannaus Russia and Eastern Europe: haps most disturbing of all, was the fact that fewer than 1% of regis- Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George tered voters participated. United States: Debra Freeman, Suzanne Rose The findings of this international team will be circulated far and INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: Bogota´: Jose´ Restrepo wide, and could very well overturn the rigged results of the Presiden- Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Apel tial primaries and caucuses to date. Buenos Aires: Gerardo Tera´n Caracas: David Ramonet Yes, the “fix” is in, as LaRouche said it would be. We now have Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen what a European source called “the worst leading candidates possi- Houston: Harley Schlanger Lima: Sara Maduen˜o ble”: Bush, who is “a kind of criminal,” and Gore, who is simply Melbourne: Robert Barwick “corrupt.” Mexico City: Hugo Lo´pez Ochoa Milan: Leonardo Servadio But the “fix” can and must be broken. It will certainly not be New Delhi: Susan Maitra broken because the Supreme Court decides that LaRouche has been Paris: Christine Bierre Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios treated unjustly. 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Summers always take his policy cues from Wall Street Strategic Studies and major international banks? A look at the man who holds the second most powerful position in 42 Laundering the FARC the world of finance and monetary cartel in Colombia policy, after Federal Reserve Board The nation-state of Colombia is Truckers protest rising fuel prices, in this demonstra- Chairman Alan Greenspan. being destroyed, its sovereignty tion by the National Owner Operator Trucking Associ- lost, as prominent political and ation in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 22. business leaders are implementing 15 China puts ‘Revive the the Wall Street-State Department 4 Greenspan’s West’ program into motion policy of de facto legalization of the hyperinflationary policy The prolonged world economic drug trade. hits the gas pump crisis has been a critical factor in The urgent question for citizens to prompting the leadership of China understand, confronted by “gas to move ahead with a full-scale 44 ‘The war on drugs and the program to develop the country’s fight for national pump shock,” is that this is a manifestation of hyperinflationary vast, impoverished hinterlands. sovereignty’ processes throughout the economy, Speeches by Democratic not some limited, “supply and Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon 22 Business Briefs demand” gone awry in crude oil, H. LaRouche, Jr. and Gen. Harold which “market forces” can be Bedoya (ret.), former Defense trusted to fix. Minister and former head of the Armed Forces of Colombia, at a Feb. 23 Washington, D.C. seminar 6 LaRouche forecasted Correction: In “The Unscientific on “The War on Drugs and the hyperinflationary explosion Hoaxes Behind EPA’s Pesticide Defense of the Sovereign Nation- Ban,” by Dr. J. Gordon Edwards, in State.” 8 Hyperinflation in Weimar our Feb. 25, 2000 issue, Figure 1 Germany and the caption on p. 20, showing the generalized biological response to chemical and physical agents, 9 Economic impact of the oil should have been credited to Photo and graphic credits: Cover, price shock Zbigniew Jaworowski in EIRNS/Michael Bohnett. Pages 4-8, “Hormesis: The Beneficial Effects 16, 29, 50, EIRNS. Pages 13, 45, 11 International of Radiation,” 21st Century Science EIRNS/Stuart Lewis. Pages 18, 20, & Technology, Fall 1994. Courtesy of China Pictorial. Page commentaries: Europeans 25, EIRNS/John Ascher. Page 33, warn dumb Americans of EIRNS/Lawrence Freeman. Page coming crash 36, Bavarian government website. Page 47 (Opium War), www.arttoday.com. Page 52, ANCOL/Fernando Ruiz. Page 55, ANCOL/German Enciso. Page 62, Senator Dodd’s webpage. Volume 27, Number 12, March 24, 2000 Feature International National 24 International team 32 Sudan moves toward 60 The new violence: observes Michigan electionpeace; will Washington America’s kids are victims atrocities support the effort? of menticide Eight prominent internationalSince U.S. State Secretary There is nothing accidental about observers compared the conduct of Madeleine Albright’s tour to East the “new violence” sweeping the March 11, MichiganAfrica last October, which aimed at America, in which children are Democratic Caucuses to the starting a new war against Sudan, killing each other, their parents, and practices of Nazi Germany and theevents have happily gone in the themselves. Creating killer kids segregationist U.S. South. opposite direction. using Nintendo techniques and animated violence is a multimillion- 26 State Dept. conditions for 35 Tensions grow along dollar business, and it is deliberate. democracy in Peru Europe’s ‘fault line’ The region which comprises Russia, 63 Capitol Hill forum exposes 28 The delegation’s findings Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, and the bankruptcy of NATO’s Baltic states has again become a Balkans policy 29 LaRouche escalates after theater of tensions, with the NATO’s 78-day air war against possibility, seen by several leading Yugoslavia was a fiasco from ‘Stupor Tuesday’ strategists, that it will descend into Are the Presidential nominations beginning to end, that has left the conflict and even war. really “locked up”? LaRouche is Balkans on the verge of a new war, still very much in the race, and his has transformed NATO into an vote percentages are rising—an 36 First salvoes fired in next aggressive intervention force, while expression of voters’ disgust with German election demonstrating that NATO is not the election-rigging by both Bush capable of fighting a real war and Gore. 38 Ethnic-religious violence against a formidable enemy—topics explored at a seminar sponsored by sweeps Nigeria Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio). 30 Democrats Abroad: For the first time in years, there is talk of breaking up Nigeria, and LaRouche is the hottest 66 Bush backer W.L. Berman topic at party caucuses analogies are being drawn to the 1967 Biafra civil war, in which linked to Connecticut millions of Nigerians were killed RICO conspiracy case when the Ibos tried to separate themselves from the Nigerian 68 Congressional Closeup nation.