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Published: Tuesday, May 20, 2003
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It is EIR's assessment, at this time, that the hideously destructive terrorist attacks which occurred over May 11-14, against both
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Chechnya and Saudi Arabia, were probably carried outas Russian President Vladimir Putin has chargedby al-Qaeda. But the important question remains: Who is running al-Qaeda?
The widespread view in the Arab world is that this terrorist network is comprised of misguided adherents of Islam, who are simply choosing a counter-productive method to express their rage against the overwhelming injustices being carried out by the United States, in particular, or by Russia. That opinion would appear to be buttressed by the fact that an explosion of terrorism against the United States, had been widely anticipated, in the wake of the hated Iraq war.
But it would be a terrible mistake to chalk these actions up to simply another "sociological phenomenon."
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Playing 'Hopscotch' vs. Managing the Biosphere
by Lyndon LaRouche
More than 100 young people, gathered for a LaRouche Youth Movement cadre school in Lancaster, Pa. on May 10, heard Lyndon LaRouche give the following presentation. A two-hour discussion, excerpted below, followed his opening remarks.
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As all the "weapons of mass destruction" and other excuses for the war against Iraq melt away, and the Chickenhawks' agenda of expanded war in the region emerges more and more prominently, it is becoming increasingly obvious that we are facing a religious war. As Lyndon LaRouche and many others have emphasized, a religious war is the kind of war to be most avoided, because of its endless, fanatical quality.
Today, we do well to recall the famous "religious" war called the "Thirty Years' War," which was waged between 1618 and 1648 in Central Europe, a war whose horror led to the breakthrough called the Treaty of Westphalia, and the ecumenical efforts at statecraft epitomized by the German scientist and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. May 23, 1618 is the day to which start of that war can be dated. On that day occurred the famous "Defenestration of Prague."
Before describing that precipitating incident, let's set the stage. Throughout the course of the 16th Century, coming into 1618, Europe had been wracked by sporadic episodes of religious warfare, in which Protestants and Roman Catholics fought over territory and religious practicesas the oligarchical families of Venice manipulated both sides. But 1618 represented a turning point, in that the incoming Hapsburg Emperor Ferdinand II, a Jesuit-advised Roman Catholic, had let it be known that he intended to reverse the policy of toleration for certain Protestant enclaves; in specific, the largely Protestant kingdom of Bohemia. Rather than wait for this to happen, the Protestant Count Heinrich Matthias von Thurn staged a provocation. He and his henchmen signalled their rejection of the Emperor's position, by throwing two emissaries of his court out a window, 20 feet above the ground!
This is the incident that has been dubbed the "Defenestration [out the window] of Prague."

Dialogue was clearly coming to an end. While the emissaries survived (they landed in a wagon of dung), both sides immediately girded for war, and most of the kingdoms and duchies throughout Europe began to choose sides, most of them attempting to rally their troopsamong whom many were mercenariesunder the banner of religion.
The slaughter was horrendous, as one atrocity by one side, provoked another atrocity by the other. Cities were besieged, razed, and sacked, often with no mercy shown to any of the residents, including women and children. Take the example of Magdeburg, a town in Saxony with "free city" status, which was technically neutral. In the spring of 1631, the Catholic League Army determined to take the town. An army of 30,000 besieged the city, which had approximately the same number of inhabitants, but only a small garrison of about 3,000 Swedes to defend it. Once the walls were breached, the attacking army went on a killing spree, and the city was torched. The attackers were seen throwing civilians into the flames, and impaling infants as they were clutched to their mothers' breasts. The most reliable estimate is that only 5,000 of the inhabitants survivedprimarily merchants who offered booty, or those who took refuge in the cathedral.
This fanaticism was not restricted to one side; it inflamed combatants on both. Meanwhile, the countryside, which was ravaged in order to provide food and shelter for the massive armies, was turned into a virtual desert. In the end, the population of Europemostly in the region of Germany, and what is now Hungary, the Czech Republic, Austria, and Slovakiawas reduced by anywhere from one-third to one-half.
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Feature:
LaRouche in Italy: Take the Lead for Eurasian Development
by Claudio Celani
For the second time in a month, Lyndon LaRouche visited Italy, a country where he has high recognition and where, last year, the national Chamber of Deputies approved a resolution calling for a 'new world financial architecture' oriented toward productive investment, not speculationas LaRouche's proposed New Bretton Woods system specifies.
- The Precedent of Postwar Reconstruction for Today
On May 5, Lyndon LaRouche was the main speaker at a conference of ISIES, a think-tank associated with the Chamber of Commerce of Vicenza, Italy. Here is an edited transcript of his presentation and the two-hour discussion which followed.
Economics:
The Meltdown of the Dollar: It's Systemic, Stupid!
by Lothar Komp
Does it seem paradoxical? Just a few weeks after the ostensibly glorious victory of U.S. and British troops in Iraq, the U.S. dollar and the British pound have turned into two of the weakest currencies in the world.
Only 'FDR Solution' Can Stop States' Collapse
by Mary Jane Freeman
Over two years ago, in February 2001, Lyndon LaRouche, now the leading Democratic Party 2004 Presidential pre-candidate, warned a group of American state legislators that the Federal states faced huge revenue declines30% was his estimateunless economic policy dramatically changed.
Germany: Current Policy Can't Stop Unemployment Rise
by Rainer Apel
Even with a new, 'adjusted' statistical approach, national unemployment in Germany reached a 13-year high at the end of April, with 4,485 million officially registered jobless citizens, above 10% of the workforce. The steady increase500,000 more since last Summer's election campaigncannot be stopped without wrenching government policy away from obedience to the free trade and austerity enshrined in the European Union's Maastricht Treaty.
Infrastructure Centers Brazil's New Diplomacy
by Lorenzo Carrasco
Today in Brazil, the impact of the U.S. Iraq war and its preemptive war doctrine has triggered new diplomatic initiatives toward economic integration of Ibero-America.
- LaRouche Reform of Credit System in theAmericas
On April 12, Lyndon LaRouche spoke by phone with simultaneous youth movement gatherings in Mexico City and Lima (see EIR, April 16). Excerpted here is his answer to a question from Mexico.
- FDR Sought Brazil's Industrialization
by Cynthia R. Rush
In his accompanying article, EIR's Lorenzo Carrasco reports that Brazilian President Luiz Ina´cio Lula da Silva's efforts to make the National Economic and Social Development Bank (BNDES) function as a real development bank, has a precedent in Brazilian history.
Chaos in Iraq Food Aid A Disaster for Africa
by Paul Gallagher
An unusual protest by the director of the World Food Programme (WFP) to the UN Security Council has highlighted the fact that the huge American-driven food aid program for conquered Iraqa program now completely stalled in the absence of security in the countryis causing the food crisis in Africa to become disastrously worse.
International:
Chicken-Hawks as China-Hawks: The Straussians Target Beijing
by Mike Billington
Many leading U.S. policy-makers, military officers, and foreign service experts believed that their outspoken opposition to the war plan on Iraq would prevent that misadventure from taking place. The voice of the 'Establishment,' they believed, would overcome the irrational impulses of the neo-conservative 'chicken-hawks' who had the ear of a weak-minded President.
On the 300th Anniversary of The Founding of St. Petersburg
by Konstantin Cheremnykh
It has often been difficult for the leadership of post-Soviet Russia to invoke Russia's historical past. The 300th anniversary of the Russian Navy, marked in 1997, was reduced to a bureaucratic procedure, with a bit of phony pomp played out against a backdrop of the miserable devastation of that once glorious defense institution.
Sharon Killing Palestinians To Kill The 'RoadMap': Will Bush Stop Him?
by Michele Steinberg
On May 8, in brief, but stunning remarks at the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine in Washington, D.C., Ghaleb Darabya, the counsellor for political affairs for the Palestine Liberation Organization, told the audience that Israel had given its 'answer' to the Road Map already on May 1with deeds, not words; with blood, not peace.
Conference Report: What the Iraq War Hath Wrought
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
What would you have done, had you been in Germany in 1932 when the specter of dictatorship stalked the country? Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche recently em- phasized that this is the question individuals and political forces outside the United States must ask themselves today, in thewake of the catastrophic 'permanent war policy' launched with the U.S.-led war against Iraq.
Europe's Anti-War Three Build Bridges With Southeast Asia
by Mike Billington
In resistance to the American turn to unilateralism and pre-emptive warfare, and the collapsing dollar-based financial system, Russia, France, and Germany are looking increasingly to Asia, and Eurasia-wide economic infrastructure and technology development projects, as the basis for a new economic order.
Is It Operation 'Enduring Chaos'?
by Hussein Askary
As has been suggested that the stabilization of the situation in Iraq, and the Middle East in general, would be an easy task if there were an intention to do that. The American Administration would need to undertake several dramatic measures to reach that end.
National:
Rumsfeld's 'Notverordnung' Still on a Fast Track
by Carl Osgood
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's demand that the Defense Department be almost completely exempted from Congressional oversight has hit growing resistance, but that resistance has not yet provided a barrier to passage of the Defense Transformation for the 21st Century Act.
Why Rumsfeld's 'Transformation' Bill Is Unconstitutional
by Edward Spannaus
In Lyndon LaRouche's 'Rumsfeld's Notverordnung' statement issued on May 10, the Democratic Presidential precandidate charged that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's 'Defense Transformation for the 21st Century Act,' violates the separation of powers provisions of the United States Constitution, and that it would be 'a leak in the dike which opens the way for the kinds of dictatorial powers assumed by the Adolf Hitler regime on Feb. 28, 1933, powers from which all the principal crimes of the Hitler regime ensued.'
Bush Administration 'Dr. Strangeloves' Take a Hit
by Jeffrey Steinberg
In the latest sign of resistance to the mad imperial-utopian war schemes of the Bush Administration, a bipartisan group of House Armed Services Committee members has blocked the deployment of mini-nuclear weapons, thus stalling a decade-old scheme of Vice President Dick Cheney, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, and other Administration 'Dr. Strangeloves,' to make nuclear war 'thinkable' and 'do-able.'
Anti-American Roots of the 'Leo-Cons'; What the New York Times Won't Print
by Barbara Boyd
While newspapers throughout the world have republished Lyndon LaRouche's expose´ of the fact that the neo-conservatives presently running the White House occupied by George Bushsuch as Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Abram Shulsky, Paul Wolfowitz, Gary Schmitt, and John Ashcroft are maniacal devotees of the late University of Chicago Prof. Leo Strauss, many of them have also sought to blunt the horrified political reaction which this revelation should create.
Interview: Sen. Eugene McCarthy
What Happened to The Baby Boomers?
This is the third and final part of a series of interviews with Senator McCarthy, conducted by Nina Ogden in March through May 2003... Here, Senator McCarthy discusses how the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, the Kennedy brothers, and other tragic events of the 1960s led to the destruction of the power of reason and optimism, and destroyed the promise of the Baby Boomer generation.
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