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The Follies of the Economic Hitmen — Re-Animating the World's Economy

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

November 24, 2004

In John Perkins' otherwise notably useful Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, there are four systemic errors concerning the principles of physical economy, and one, added point of curious unclarity, concerning his references, there and elsewhere, to the meaning of the events of September 11, 2001.

The organization behind the contemporary operations Perkins describes, is the direct descendent of that same Venetian financier oligarchy, which operates today under its current guise as the Europe-based, international, Anglo-Dutch Liberal financier oligarchical system, of which today's United States, like today's second-generation economic hitman, Arnold Schwarzenegger controller George Shultz, is merely a leading subsidiary instrument.

Error Number One:

First, and foremost, he greatly exaggerates the place of the United States of America in the authorship of operations associated with what he identifies as "The Economic Hitmen."

The precedent for, and actual root of the operation which he otherwise describes fairly, is typified by those operations run by that Venetian financier oligarchy's Florentine House of Bardi which led into the so-called New Dark Age of Europe's Fourteenth Century. The notorious Bardi agents nicknamed "Biche" and "Mouche," were the leading Venetian "economic hitmen" of that century.

The organization behind the contemporary operations Perkins describes, is the direct descendent of that same Venetian financier oligarchy, which operates today under its current guise as the Europe-based, international, Anglo-Dutch Liberal financier oligarchical system, of which today's United States, like today's second-generation economic hitman, Arnold Schwarzenegger controller George Shultz, is merely a leading subsidiary instrument.

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FDR Opens Inter-American Peace Conference

Nov. 29 - Dec. 5, 1936

On Dec. 1, 1936, President Franklin Roosevelt gave the keynote address at the opening of a major pan-American conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The world situation was grim, with fascism already in power in Italy and Germany, and threatening to take over Spain, through the conflict known as the Spanish Civil War. Because of this looming threat to the Americas, and because a bitter war between Bolivia and Paraguay had raged between 1932 and 1935, Roosevelt focussed on encouraging pan-American unity and mechanisms for arbitrating disputes.

He also wanted to make it clear that he was available for mediating between the warring parties in Spain. He wrote, after his South American tour, that he was "still most pessimistic about events in Europe, and there seems to be no step we can take to improve the situation. Therefore until there is something I can hang my hat on, I must keep away from anything that might result in a rebuff of an offer to help." For that reason, he kept America neutral in the conflict.

Even before he had been elected to a second term, Roosevelt's eyes had been on the American republics to the south. He had sent his wife Eleanor on a trip to the Caribbean to scout out conditions there, and she returned with accounts of widespread grinding poverty. Then, on a trip through the Panama Canal to America's west coast, Roosevelt stopped at Haiti and in Panama itself.

After that, preparations began for a meeting with the nations of South America. On Jan. 30, 1936, Roosevelt formally proposed to the 21 Latin American nations that they send representatives to "an extraordinary inter-American conference ... to assemble at any early date, at Buenos Aires ... to determine how the maintenance of peace among the American Republics may be best safeguarded...."

Roosevelt laid out his general policy toward Latin America in a speech at Chautauqua, N.Y. on Aug. 14. "The American Republics to the south of us have been ready always to cooperate with the United States on a basis of equality and mutual respect, but before we inaugurated the good-neighbor policy there were among them resentment and fear, because certain Administrations in Washington had slighted their national pride and their sovereign rights.

"In pursuance of the good-neighbor policy, and because in my younger days I had learned many lessons in the hard school of experience, I stated that the United States was opposed definitely to armed intervention.

"We have negotiated a Pan-American convention embodying the principle of non-intervention. We have abandoned the Platt Amendment which gave us the right to intervene in the internal affairs of the Republic of Cuba. We have withdrawn American Marines from Haiti. We have signed a new treaty which places our relations with Panama on a mutually satisfactory basis. We have undertaken a series of trade agreements with other American countries to our mutual commercial profit. At the request of two neighboring Republics, I hope to give assistance in the final settlement of the last serious boundary dispute between any of the American Nations."

The conference was scheduled to begin on Dec. 1, so on Nov. 18, President Roosevelt and his staff boarded the USS Indianapolis at Charleston, S.C. and embarked for the South Atlantic. The ship entered the harbor of Rio de Janeiro on Nov. 27, and Roosevelt's open-car cavalcade through the city was greeted with loud shouts of "Viva la democracia! Viva Roosevelt!" When the President addressed Brazil's Congress, he told them that when he was a little boy, his "first introduction to Brazil" came when his parents took him to Europe and they met, strolling in a park, Emperor Dom Pedro II and his Empress. Dom Pedro and President Ulysses Grant had opened America's Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, and Dom Pedro had enthusiastically participated in Alexander Graham Bell's demonstration of the first telephone.

Roosevelt then explained that although he was going to address the conference in Argentina, he had felt he had to tender his respects to Brazil, "with which for more than a century we have maintained a tradition of good understanding, mutual regard, and cooperation, which is rare in history." He continued by saying that "if in the generations to come we can live without war, democratic government throughout the Americas will prove its complete ability to raise the standards of life for those millions who cry for opportunity today. The motto of war is: 'Let the strong survive; let the weak die.' The motto of peace is: 'Let the strong help the weak to survive.'"

On Nov. 30, the Presidential party landed in Buenos Aires, where 2 million Argentines greeted him enthusiastically and showered him with flowers as he passed. Roosevelt wrote to his wife that, "the moral effect of the Good Neighbor policy is making itself definitely felt." The next morning, the President Roosevelt formally opened the Inter-American conference and called upon the delegates to develop "mechanisms of peace" which would make any war between American nations impossible, and would enable the American nations to help Europe "avert its impending catastrophe of war."

In his keynote address, Roosevelt stated that, "In this Western Hemisphere the night of fear has been dispelled. Many of the intolerable burdens of economic depression have been lightened and, due in no small part to our common efforts, every Nation of this Hemisphere is today at peace with its neighbors.

"This is no conference to form alliances, to divide the spoils of war, to partition countries, to deal with human beings as though they were pawns in a game of chance. Our purpose, under happy auspices, is to assure the continuance of the blessings of peace....

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LaRouche Launches Attack On Shultz's Fascist Vulcans
by Jeffrey Steinberg
The publication and initial widespread circulation of a book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins, has prompted Lyndon LaRouche to launch a major new international flanking attack against George Shultz's fascist 'Vulcan' apparatus, an attack which could catapult the Perkins book to the top of the international best-seller lists, and drive the would-be controllers of the Bush-Cheney 'Halliburton Regime' into new, greater-than-ever fits of wildeyed rage.

The Follies of the Economic Hitmen:
Re-Animating the World's Economy
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
November 24, 2004
In John Perkins' otherwise notably useful Confessions of an Economic HitMan, there are four systemic errors concerning the principles of physical economy, and one, added point of curious unclarity, concerning his references, there and elsewhere, to the meaning of the events of September 11, 2001.

Nuclear Club of Wall Street 'Hit Men' vs. LaRouche's Fusion Energy Foundation
by Paul Gallagher
A critical case in recent U.S. history, of a vicious attack by what insider-author Perkins calls 'economic hit men' against the potential economic and scientific progress of nations, was the 1978-86 war of Wall Street investment banks and their agents against the Fusion Energy Foundation (FEF) of Lyndon LaRouche.

LaRouche to Youth in Denmark:
Perkins' Expose´ Shows Free Trade Enslavement
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. addressed the Denmark LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM) weekend training seminar by telephone on Nov. 20, 2004. Besides Danes, the group included Swedes, Germans, Africans, and Russians. The transcript of his opening remarks follows.


National:

Schwarzenegger Savages California, Aims at Presidency
by Harley Schlanger
'I admired Hitler . . . because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. And I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for his way of getting to the people and so on. . . .'
—Arnold Schwarzenegger, n a 1977 interview with George Butler

Rep. Waxman Demands Halliburton Hearings
The letter excerpted below was sent on Nov. 10 to Rep. Tom Davis (Va.), Republican Chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform, by the ranking Democrat on the Committee, Rep. Henry Waxman (Calif.). So far, there has been no response—and little-to-no coverage in the media of this initiative. Although it is unsaid in the letter, the Halliburton contract issue goes directly to the corruption of Vice President Dick Cheney, the former CEO of that company, among others.

Congress Passes a War And Austerity Budget
by Carl Osgood
For the eighth time in ten years, the U.S. Congress has wrapped up the annual appropriations process with an omnibus spending bill written behind closed doors, and completed in the middle of the night. As has become the custom, the process guaranteed that members of the House and Senate were confronted with a bill that all but a few of them had had little chance to read; that had provisions removed which had been passed by both the House and the Senate; and other provisions added that had never been considered by either House. Nor were members, in spite of all of the unconsidered changes, able to offer amendments.


International:

Huge Potential in China's Ibero-American Initiatives
by Cynthia R. Rush
Coincident with the Nov. 20-21 convening of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Santiago, Chile, Chinese President Hu Jintao made an unprecedented two-week diplomatic and trade foray into South America, with high-profile state visits to Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Cuba. Speaking before the Brazilian Congress on Nov. 12, Hu announced that China is prepared to invest $100 billion in Ibero-America over the next ten years, and would double the current level of business over the next three.

LaRouche to Ibero-American Youth: Argentina's Enemies Are The Synarchist Bankers
U.S. political leader Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. held a webcast video-conference with youth in Argentina and Peru on Nov. 11, 2004. The introductions and questions have been translated from Spanish.

Austerity, Fear Basis For Blair Re-Election
by Mary Burdman
The Queen of England laid out Prime Minister Tony Blair's electoral program in her official speech for the Opening of Parliament Nov. 23. The New Labour election mantras are 'security' and 'opportunity,' euphemisms for the politics of fear, and austerity. Blair has publicly committed himself to early national elections—most likely in May 2005—in his bid for a full third term.

Conference Report
Eurasian Youth Initiative' in Moscow
by Andrei Andryushkov
A Eurasian Youth Initiative conference took place Oct. 8 in Moscow. Sponsored by the Moscow Academy for Culture and Educational Development (MAKRO), the Science Dialogue Center for Continuing Education, and the Schiller Institute, the event was attended by Moscow high school and university students, as well as representatives from the State Duma (lower house of Parliament), the Kremlin staff, and Russian and Chinese scientific circles.

Ivory Coast
West Behind Rebels in Raw Materials Grab
by Uwe Friesecke
The rebel movements in Sierra Leone illegally marketed diamonds; in Liberia, diamonds, rubber, and timber. In Ivory Coast, the source of wealth is predominantly cocoa, of which the country is still the largest producer in the world. Here, both sides—the rebels, called the New Forces, led by Guillaume Soro, and the government of Laurent Gbagbo and its militias—are involved in these illegal schemes. Suddenly, Burkina Faso has become an exporter of cocoa, even though it does not produce it. The Ivorian rebels are the source of it, but also, the Gbagbo government uses proceeds from the sale of cocoa to buy weapons through illegal business channels to supply the network of government-sponsored militias.


Economics:

Dangers of Cartel Monoculture Threaten Nations' Food Supplies: Interview with Dr.William Heffernan
by Marcia Merry Baker
For three decades, Dr. William Heffernan has led research into documenting the increasing degree of concentation of control over U.S. farm and food sectors by a small number of firms. In January 1999, the National Farmers Union released a 20-page report, 'Concentration of Agricultural Markets,' by Heffernan and colleagues Dr. Mary Hendrickson and Dr. Robert Gronski, at the University of Missouri, Department of Rural Sociology.

Sharon, Netanyahu Are Making Israel Poorer
by Dean Andromidas
The economic collapse in Israel has reached new depths. According to an Israeli government report, poverty increased by more than 10% between 2002 and 2003, exposing the fact that 22.4% of the Israeli population is now living below the poverty line.

Bush FDA Protects Profit Rather Than Health
by Mary Jane Freeman
At Congressional hearings held Nov. 17 and 18, documentary evidence was released showing President Bush and his Administration's culpability for the avoidable deaths of Americans due to the gross negligence of his Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These hearings inquired into, first, this and previous years' increasingly drastic flu shot shortages; and second, how it is that the arthritis drug Vioxx was ever allowed onto the market for use. Both hearings showed that the FDA failed to do its job: safeguard the public's health.

Report From Germany: Poverty Is Increasing Dramatically
by Rainer Apel
Welfare and other care organizations report a dramatic increase in hunger, homelessness, and unemployment.
In recent weeks, headline reports are putting into doubt Germany's status as being among the 'rich nations' of the world. New official statistics and private welfare organizations report a marked increase in poverty. One official estimate is that more than 200,000 Germans are without health insurance—these are not citizens on social welfare, because the system still provides a minimum of health care to welfare recipients.


Science and Technology:

Nuclear Power: The Litmus Test for Space Exploration
Marsha Freeman reviews James A. Dewar's book on the history of the U.S. nuclear rocket program. Without nuclear propulsion,a visionary manned space program is simply impossible....
Since the dawn of the space age, nearly 50 years ago, it has been well understood that using nuclear energy was the prerequisite to accomplish the goal of exploring the Solar System. Therefore, the fight over the nuclear rocket program, as James Dewar states in the Preface to To the End of the Solar System: The Story of the Nuclear Rocket, was not just a fight over a specific technology, but 'a proxy: [the fight] was really over the future of the space program.'

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