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2001

Program No. 489
Election Crisis 2000: The Fall of Ozymandias, Part 1

Speaking by video teleconference from Germany, former Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche addressed the second of three scheduled Washington, DC seminars being sponsored by Executive Intelligence Review to address the political crisis now enmiring the country. The December 12th proceedings were webcast live in English and Spanish on www.larouchepub.com to an international audience.

Mr. LaRouche called for the implementation of the established Constitutional procedures of the Electoral College, with the Congress following up, as the only viable direction available to be taken to get a new President. Mr. LaRouche singled out the philosophy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, as a major threat to the U.S. Constitutional order. To follow Justice Scalia, he said, would be to turn an electoral crisis, into a Constitutional crisis.

Mr. LaRouche’s speech laid out the stark implications of such a Supreme Court intrusion into the electoral process. Coming as it does, in the midst of the worst financial crisis in centuries, Mr. LaRouche said, such a political action sets up a situation for a "crisis-management" government, imposing austerity and de facto dictatorship on this United States with devastating implications for the entire world. All necessary action should be taken to try to prevent such a travesty, Mr. LaRouche said.

Within hours of Mr. LaRouche’s warning, the U.S. Supreme Court unfortunately did follow Scalia’s policy direction, in a 5 to 4 ruling which fixed the election for George W. Bush.

The first seminar in the series, entitled "Now Comes the Aftermath," which took place on Nov. 14, is featured on The LaRouche Connection Program No. 483. The third seminar, entitled "Now The Incoming President: The Third But Not Final Report by Lyndon LaRouche on the Next Presidency," which took place on Jan. 3, 2001, will be the subject of future LaRouche Connection programs.

[For a full transcript of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks, and selections from the question and answer session from the Nov. 14 seminar, see EIR magazine, Nov. 24, p.48-67.]

[For a full transcript of Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks from the Dec. 12 seminar, see EIR magazine, Dec. 22, p. 46-58.]

Note: This program was originally released as Program No. 487 on Dec. 20, 2000

Re-released as Program No. 489: Jan. 4, 2001

Program No. 490
Save the Nation: Revive FDR-Kennedy Policies!

Speaking by video teleconference from Germany on Jan. 3rd to a packed audience in Washington, DC, and by conference-phone to a sizable group of diplomats in New York City, newly announced Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche challenged the American people: Either the base of the Democratic Party comes together to demand, and force through, a revival of the policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, under LaRouche’s leadership, or the nation will be destroyed very soon.

This edition of The LaRouche Connection features Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks to this the third of three scheduled Washington, DC seminars sponsored by Executive Intelligence Review to address the political crisis now engulfing the country. The proceedings were webcast live in English and Spanish on www.larouchepub.com to an international audience.

As Mr. LaRouche put it, "If the Bush team occupies the Presidency, and sticks to the policies which it has stated its firmly committed to, the United States will very soon be destroyed as a nation, not years down the line, but perhaps in a very short time."

The reason is the collapse of the huge financial bubble built by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, which will bring about a global economic breakdown crisis, since the U.S., as importer of last resort, will itself be unable to continue to play that role. At that point, a continuation of the "great mistake" of the New Economy and Southern Strategy policies of the last 35 years, will lead to a disaster much worse than that Roosevelt faced. "We have to go back to the legacies of the Roosevelt-Kennedy era, to solve these kind of problems."

Mr. LaRouche concluded by stressing his personal qualifications to rally action around those policies, given that he is the world’s best economist, and that he has the leadership capability to pull together the constituency leaders, especially on the state level, and develop enough clout to force through the right policy as the crisis breaks over people’s heads, and nothing else is working.

The first seminar in the series, "Now Comes the Aftermath," which took place on Nov. 14, is featured on The LaRouche Connection Program 483. The second seminar, "Election Crisis 2000: The Fall of Ozymandias," which took place on Dec. 12, is featured on Programs 487 and 488.

[For a transcript of LaRouche’s opening remarks, and selections from the question and answer session from the Nov. 14 seminar, see EIR, Nov. 24, p.48-67.]

[For a transcript of LaRouche’s opening remarks from the Dec. 12 seminar, see EIR, Dec. 22, p. 46-58.]

[For a transcript of LaRouche’s opening remarks from the Jan. 3 seminar, see EIR, Jan. 12, p. 71-78.]

Released Jan. 11, 2001

Program No. 491
EIR Video Magazine: January 16, 2001

On December 28, 2000, Lyndon LaRouche said, that unless defeated Sen. John Ashcroft (R-MO), President-elect George W. Bush’s choice for U.S. Attorney General, can lead the U.S. Senate to evidence proving that the purported interview with him in the Southern Partisan magazine was a hoax, the Senate must reject his nomination. Opening this week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection, host Tony Papert briefs viewers that the question is not Ashcroft as such, but what he represents in terms of the danger of crisis-management leading to dictatorship in America.

Next: a prison sentence of 77 years for political organizing in America? Michael Billington, a leading political organizer with the LaRouche movement, speaks about his imprisonment, and his recently released autobiography, Reflections of an American Political Prisoner, with Nancy Spannaus, editor-in-chief of the nationally circulated weekly newspaper, The New Federalist, on Dec. 12, upon his recent release after more than 10 years in Federal and State prisons.

Then: brownouts, blackouts, 50-100% increases in the price of electricity, heating oil, and natural gas--these have been the major energy stories coming out of California and other parts of the country for the last 6 months. On Dec. 4, the Boston City Council held a hearing on a Resolution on Emergency Government Action to Reduce Oil and Natural Gas Prices, [see EIR, Nov. 17, 2000, pp. 13-14 for full text of the Resolution], put forward by Councilor Chuck Turner, explicitly based on measures advanced by Lyndon LaRouche in September, to resolve the crisis on a national level in the interest of providing for the general welfare. Nancy Spannaus presents excerpts of the testimony from that hearing.

And last: an excerpt from the question-and answer session of a Jan. 3 Washington, DC seminar, sponsored by the weekly magazine, Executive Intelligence Review. Speaking from Germany, newly-announced Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche had just challenged Americans to demand and force through a revival of the policies of Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, or the nation will be destroyed. Answering a question from the Vietnam News Agency to the United Nations, on whether the Electoral College should be abandoned for direct popular vote, Mr. LaRouche defends the Electoral College as "one of the best-conceived institutions of our Constitution." And, responding to His Excellency Mark Ntataruye, Ambassador to the UN from Burundi, about his concern for the type of policy the incoming Bush Administration will have toward the horrific situation in Africa’s Great Lakes Region, Mr. LaRouche states bluntly that "the gut of the Republican Party today, the gut of the Bush Administration will be racism. This is the legacy of the Confederacy; this is the Southern Strategy." "When it comes to Africa, Africa is written off. They want one thing from Africa: natural resources, gold, minerals. Don’t expect any improvement in the situation in Africa because of a Bush Administration."

Released Jan. 16, 2001

Program No. 492
A Musical Tribute to the Dignity of Man, Pt. 1

On January 20, a Houston, TX audience was treated to a thrilling classical music concert featuring a combination of German Lieder, Italian opera arias, and Negro spirituals.

The first half of this week’s program features excerpts from that concert, sponsored by the Schiller Institute, held at the First Presbyterian Church. After opening remarks by Schiller Institute spokesman Harley Schlanger, internationally renowned opera and concert diva mezzo-dramatique Debraa Brown sings "Von Ewigea Liebe, by Johannes Brahms. Next, baritone Doreceal Duckens of the Ebony Opera Guild of Houston, sings "Un Della Mia Sorte" (from The Barber of Seville) by J. Rossini. Ms. Brown returns to sing "Jesus in Canaan" (from The Passion of Jonathan Wade) by C. Floyd. And last, baritone William Warfield, one of the world’s leading experts on Spirituals and Lieder sings "Die Beiden Grenadiere" and "Du Bist Wie Eine Blume," both by Robert Schumann; and "Erlkoenig" by Franz Schubert. All soloists are accompanied by pianist and vocal coach Sylvia Olden-Lee.

The second half of the program features an excerpt from the question-and-answer session of a Jan. 3 Washington, DC seminar, sponsored by the weekly magazine, Executive Intelligence Review. Speaking from Germany, newly-announced Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche had just challenged Americans to demand and force through a revival of the policies of Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, or the nation will be destroyed. Prof. Dr. Ernst Winter, from the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna Austria, asks Mr. LaRouche to comment on the European Union and the Eurasian Land-Bridge proposal. And, next, a series of questions to Mr. LaRouche from a group of journalists in the Dominican Republic: Is the Democratic Party sufficiently mature to accept a candidacy as innovative as LaRouche’s without collapsing? What would be the consequences of a collapse, and what are the correctives that should be adopted? And, what can small nations do to overcome the difficulties of the world economy?

Released Jan. 24, 2001

Program No. 493
A Musical Tribute to the Dignity of Man, Pt. 2

On January 20, a Houston, TX audience was treated to a thrilling classical music concert featuring a combination of German Lieder, Italian opera arias, and Negro spirituals.

The first half of this week’s program features excerpts from the second half of that concert, sponsored by the Schiller Institute, held at the First Presbyterian Church.

The second half of the program features an excerpt from the question-and-answer session of a Jan. 3 Washington, DC seminar, sponsored by the weekly magazine, Executive Intelligence Review. Speaking from Germany, newly-announced Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche had just challenged Americans to demand and force through a revival of the policies of Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, or the nation will be destroyed. Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, Minister of Health for the nation of Islam, and Director of the Abundant Life Clinic in Washington, DC, asked Mr. LaRouche for his views on the current public health crisis in Washington, DC, and especially concerning D.C. General Hospital. Next, Prof. Abegunan, from Howard University’s Dept. of Political Science, asked, from Happened this past election, does America still have the credibility to go out to South Africa, or Panama, or Nigeria, to supervise elections?

[See Program No. 392 for excerpts from the first have of the Houston concert, and more from the Q&A session of the Jan. 3 Seminar featuring Lyndon LaRouche.]

Released Jan. 30, 2001

Program No. 494
Election Crisis 2000: The Fall of Ozymandias, Pt. 2

Speaking by video teleconference from Germany, former Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche addressed the second of three scheduled Washington, DC seminars being sponsored by Executive Intelligence Review to address the political crisis now engulfing the country. The December 12th proceedings were webcast live in English and Spanish.

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features the conclusion of Mr. LaRouche’s speech, and some excerpts from the extensive question-and-answer session which followed.

Responding to Brazilian journalist Carlos Chagas, who asked about George Bush’s statement that the poor and indebted countries of the world must pay their debts with their forests, Mr. LaRouche answered, it was British colonialism. The policy Bush reflects, is the resource grab, the stealing, which is the same thing the British East India Company did in India.

Dr. Frederick Seymour, from Washington, DC General Hospital, then asked what could be done to provide assured health coverage for our citizens, considering that other hospitals are being closed, and the HMOs are putting pressure on the common welfare, which especially affects the poor. Mr. LaRouche proposed returning to the approach characterized by the 1946 Hill-Burton legislation, to mobilize the resources necessary to defend life.

When Rep. Erik Fleming, Mississippi House of Representatives, asked for an elaboration on the so-called Southern Strategy--its history, and how to defeat it, Mr. LaRouche began with a history of slavery in America from the inception of the country, coming up to 1966, with Richard Nixon’s strategy to defeat Lyndon Johnson; former DNC Chairman Don Fowlers anti-Negro writings; the Nashville Agrarians; U.S. State Dept. population policy; Global 2000; and Al Gores Earth in the Balance. The only way to defeat all this, is to have the guts to stand up and not compromise on these things, to have a sterling quality of moral leadership, to keep people from betraying themselves.

Two Congressional offices indicated they were under pressure not to pursue allegations of fraud, due to alleged considerations of international standing, and even "the markets." Mr. LaRouche responded with "First, our responsibility lies to the truth. The truth." He then called for the formation of a special Congressional Committee to investigate two issues which have been raised in the course of the Florida Presidential vote; and secondly, to look into whether the kind of ballot confusion, generated by the many types of ballot designs and methods used in Florida, is an impairment of the elections, and should it not be required that some standard of ballot, and voting be provided?

The first seminar in the series, "Now Comes the Aftermath," from Nov. 14, is featured on Program 483. LaRouche’s opening remarks to the Dec. 12 seminar is featured on Program 487. Mr. LaRouche’s address, to the third seminar, "Save the Nation: Revive FDR-Kennedy Policies!", from Jan. 3, is featured on Program 490.

[For a transcript of LaRouche’s opening remarks from the Dec. 12 seminar, see EIR, Dec. 22, p. 46-58.]

Note: This program was originally released as Program No. 488 on Dec. 27, 2000.

Re-released Feb. 7, 2001

 

Program No. 495
Who is Sparking a Religious War in the Middle East?

In 1982, Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) uncovered a major, very nasty operation, involving high-level American, British, and Israeli personalities, with profound implications for the determination of war or peace in the Middle East. After almost 20 years of continuing investigations, and in light of the ominous escalation which occurred with Ariel Sharon’s provocative visit to the Temple Mount/Al-Haram Al-Sharif on Sept. 28, 2000, the editors of EIR decided to release a major portion of its findings in the form of a special report, published in Dec. 2000, entitled "Who is Sparking a Religious War in the Middle East?" Since that time, matters have gotten worse, with the election of Mr. Sharon as Prime Minister of Israel. Jeffrey Steinberg, Counterintelligence Editor for EIR exposes the filthy networks seeking to provoke confrontation, particularly around the Al-Aqsa mosque, bringing viewers face to face with the madness which characterizes the cultists, all the way from the circles of the British Monarchy, on down to the deranged fundamentalists who wish to rebuild Solomon’s Temple, to bring on Armageddon and the appearance of the Messiah. Sane persons must come to grips with that reality, in order to stop the onrushing horror.

The second part of this week’s program features more excerpts from the discussion period of the Jan. 3 EIR seminar in Washington, DC, with Lyndon LaRouche:

Answering a question from George Weeks, of the Detroit News, about the appointment of Michigan’s former Senator, Spencer Abraham as the new Secretary of The Department of Energy, Mr. LaRouche uses the opportunity to talk about the disaster which is the Bush Administration’s energy policy, and what the nation’s energy policy must be.

Next, in response to a caller from the Namibian Mission to the United Nations in New York, who wanted to know what Mr. LaRouche’s proposals were for the electrification of Africa, Mr. LaRouche launched into a discussion of what is required in terms of a package of infrastructure of all sorts, specifying the establishment of a special facility, in which foreigners who are contributing to the effort, will engage in a technology transfer-type operation, in which they will come in and provide the lead edge of the technology, and support, for building various systems, but they will do this by employing and developing Africans to take over the projects.

State Sen. Joe Neal (D-Nevada), chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus there, wanted to know how LaRouche could get African-Americans to buy into the 1933-1965 period, when civil rights were at their worst, especially in the South, during that timeframe? Mr. LaRouche answered with the fact of large numbers of African-Americans moving out of the Republican Party into the Democratic Party, and then discussed the necessity of developing passionate leaders today who care for every human being, referencing Martin Luther King, as an example of such a leader.

And last, from Maria Shannon, from the University of Maryland at College Park: how does Mr. LaRouche propose to fix the education system, and how does one mobilize the demoralized and clueless to do what is right? This gave Mr. LaRouche an opportunity to talk about what a good teacher must do in imparting Classical education: getting students to re-experience the discovery of principles, rather than memorizing words and formulae. When a person realizes they have the power in themselves, to discover a principle, they tend to become optimistic because they know they can know.

Released: February 13, 2001 

Program No. 496
A Branch in the Road of History, Pt. 1

On February 17-18, the Schiller Institute, an international policy development organization founded by Helga Zepp LaRouche, held its annual Presidents’ Day conference in Reston, Virginia, under a banner that posed the question, "Is The U.S. Doomed Under Bush?" Keynoting the conference, with a presentation entitled "A Branch in the Road of History," Lyndon LaRouche began by examining the context for the intention and the action on the matter of the U.S. and Britain resuming Desert Storm against Iraq. The Bush Administration is desperate, said LaRouche. They are in the midst of an onrushing depression, which is increasing day by day. The new President, and the machine behind him, have a dream in which Bush and Enron loot the whole world—a dream that will never be.

Mr. LaRouche then proceeded to discuss how this all came about, going back to the assassination of President McKinley, the necessity to return to the policies of 1933-65, and dump the 1966 Southern Strategy road to Hell. The American people must change quickly, away from the outburst of fundamentalism, the fake religion of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. The quality of the human individual, distinguishing us from cattle, said Mr. LaRouche, is the ability to discover a valid universal physical principle, or at least to re-experience a discovery made by someone else. That is made possible by Reason—cognition, the quality that sets people apart from monkeys. Instead of barking like dogs, we can then say about ourselves that we are made in the image of God. We can then think of our rights, and obligations, to do something good, and make a difference in the lives of those who came before us, those presently living, and those who come after.

Mr. LaRouche concluded by emphasizing that we can win by returning to policies that worked before; that deals and arrangements with especially Western Europe will enable us to solve the problems of Central and South America, and Africa. He called for a moral movement in the United States, and urged his listeners to get the message out around the world that such a movement exists. Then we will see a response: the lifting up of eyes and hopes, saying, "We have a friend inside the United States; let’s hope he takes over."

Mr. LaRouche’s remarks were webcast, live in English and Spanish, to an international audience via the internet at www.larouchepub.com.

Released: February 21, 2001

Program No. 497
 Branch in the Road of History, Pt. 2

On February 17-18, the Schiller Institute, an international policy development organization founded by Helga Zepp LaRouche, held its annual Presidents’ Day conference in Reston, Virginia, under a banner that posed the question, "Is The U.S. Doomed Under Bush?" Keynoting the conference, with a presentation entitled "A Branch in the Road of History," Lyndon LaRouche began by examining the context for the intention and the action on the matter of the U.S. and Britain resuming Desert Storm against Iraq. The Bush Administration is desperate, said LaRouche. They are in the midst of an onrushing depression, which is increasing day by day. The new President, and the machine behind him, have a dream in which Bush and Enron loot the whole world—a dream that will never be.

Mr. LaRouche then proceeded to discuss how this all came about, going back to the assassination of President McKinley, the necessity to return to the policies of 1933-65, and dump the 1966 Southern Strategy road to Hell. The American people must change quickly, away from the outburst of fundamentalism, the fake religion of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. The quality of the human individual, distinguishing us from cattle, said Mr. LaRouche, is the ability to discover a valid universal physical principle, or at least to re-experience a discovery made by someone else. That is made possible by Reason—cognition, the quality that sets people apart from monkeys. Instead of barking like dogs, we can then say about ourselves that we are made in the image of God. We can then think of our rights, and obligations, to do something good, and make a difference in the lives of those who came before us, those presently living, and those who come after.

This week’s program features the conclusion of Mr. LaRouche’s presentation in which he emphasizes that we can win by returning to policies that worked before; that deals and arrangements with especially Western Europe will enable us to solve the problems of Central and South America, and Africa. He calls for a moral movement in the United States, and urges his listeners to get the message out around the world that such a movement exists. Then we will see a response: the lifting up of eyes and hopes, saying, "We have a friend inside the United States; let’s hope he takes over."

Several questions addressed to Mr. LaRouche were then taken from the floor. Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, national spokesman for Nation of Islam Minister Lois Farrakhan, first brought up the battle to save D.C. General Hospital; Joe Neal, State Senator from Nevada, spoke about the battle in California and nationally for energy re-regulation; Korean journalist Harry Lee asked about the new Bush Administration; Camden, NJ City Councilman Ali Sloan-El asked for help in organizing against the takeover of city governments by States, as done to Camden by Christie Todd Whitman, when she was Governor of New Jersey; former South Carolina State Sen. Theo Mitchell then gave a brief commentary on the history of the LaRouche movement.

Released: February 28, 2001

Program No. 498
EIR Video Magazine: March 8, 2001

There is a battle raging in our nation’s capital, and on Capital Hill, over the fate of D.C. General Hospital, the only public hospital in Washington. The Mayor, the D.C. Control Board, and the Congress, dominated by Stone Age Republicans, have decided to close it. This is a life-or-death issue for the poor, the uninsured, and all residents or visitors to Washington. D.C. General has advanced trauma, prenatal, and clinical services, which if eliminated, cannot be replaced by other existing institutions. Closing it is not an issue of fiscal responsibility, but a deliberate policy to depopulate Washington and increase the death rate. In this week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection, Nancy Spannaus, Editor-in-chief of The New Federalist, a nationally circulated news-weekly, presents the battle to save D.C. General Hospital, an issue of national and international implications. To give viewers a sense of the fight, and what’s at stake, a number of video clips are provided, showing leaders of the fight, including Nation of Islam Minister of Health Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, LaRouche organizer Lynne Speed, and numerous local clergy and healthcare workers speaking at town meetings called to stop the shutdown of the hospital, which were held Jan. 26 and Feb. 6.

Next, with the globalization of trade and a monstrous bursting financial bubble, we find that once again, pestilence and disease are spreading throughout the world. Whether this leads us into 14th Century levels of misery and death, depends on whether the human race can be mobilized to implement the sort of "New Bretton Woods" measures put forward by Lyndon LaRouche to turn things around and rebuild. Tony Papert reports on a growing threat to our source of animal protein, necessary for proper human growth, health, and development: the recent outbreak of Hoof-and-Mouth disease (HMD), which affects cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, and related wild animals, and kills many of the animals it affects. Coming in the wake of an epidemic of Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis (BSE), also known as "mad cow disease," which apparently causes in humans the incurable and rapidly fatal Creuetzfeldt-Jacob disease, this new epidemic, although not directly transmittable to humans, is wreaking havoc around the world.

The disclosure of the alleged 15-year espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia by a senior FBI counterintelligence specialist, once again raises crucial issues about the nature of the institutions in which the accused spy, Robert Philip Hansen, was employed. EIR counterintelligence editor, Jeffrey Steinberg, emphasizes that the FBI, as an organization, does not have any governing moral principles which could be used to set a standard of loyalty on the part of employees. The inherent corruption of the FBI, which was the subject of congressional action in 1998, in the form of the McDade-Murtha "Citizens Protection Act," runs so deep, and is so pervasive, institutionally, that a case like that of Hansen may be considered a lawful consequence of its longstanding institutional character.

And last, a segment from the discussion session of the recent Schiller Institute Presidents’ Day Conference. Responding to a question on what steps cold be taken to overcome the bad influences of video games and movies on us, Lyndon LaRouche said, "It’s a matter of identity. When the mood of the population is changing, institutional relations are changing and you can gain control of the situation. Our job is to be prepared to run society."

Released: March 8, 2001 

Program No. 499
Beauty as a Necessary Condition for Mankind

On February 17-18, the Schiller Institute, an international policy development organization, held its annual Presidents’ Day conference in Reston, Virginia.

Founder Helga Zepp LaRouche’s stirring presentation about how mankind can build a renaissance out of the rubble-field of modern "culture," began with a description of today’s cult of ugliness, and the necessity for beauty, because this is the cultural question which must be answered for mankind to come out of its present crisis. Mrs. LaRouche located a major source of the problem we encounter today, in the attack by the Romantics on the German Weimar Classics, of which Friedrich Schiller is the highest representative.

In Schiller’s "Aesthetical Letters," for example, she said, Schiller shows that the most perfect of all arts is the building of true political freedom. It is the task of the individual to bring himself into cohesion with the inner, God-given beauty, and beautiful art is the most important medium for achieving that, for the perfection of Man.

Today, a new Renaissance has to go back to Schiller, in order to counter the door to Hell which Kant opened with his attack on the cohesion of Truth, Beauty, and the Good, and which was furthered by the thesis of the irrational in art.

In True Classical art, the dark side of the soul exists, but, because Man is seen as greater than his destiny, it is demanded of him that he educate his emotions, not indulge in his problems.

Today, concluded Mrs. LaRouche, only a mass movement, in which people reject Romanticism in all its depraved forms, and embrace the coherence of Beauty, Truth, and Reason, can succeed.

Released: March 15, 2001

 

Program No. 500
LaRouche’s Policy for Worldwide Recovery"

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection provides viewers with two examples of the types of interventions being carried out by the LaRouche movement internationally, at this time of deepening economic, financial, and political crisis.

First, we present excerpts from a March 14 town meeting, called by the Coalition to Save D.C. General Hospital, as part of a continuing series of interventions and events, to stop the closing of Washington’s only public hospital. At that meeting, approximately 150 hospital employees, community activists, and LaRouche movement organizers heard presentations from the Schiller Institute’s Lynne Speed, on the "Negro Removal" project to replace the hospital with high-rise apartments and a river-front marina; EIR historian Tony Chaitkin, who gave explosive new details on the project by the secretive, elite organization called the Federal City Council; and Nation of Islam Minister of Health, Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, who chaired the meeting.

The last time Lyndon LaRouche made a public appearance in Berlin, on Oct. 12, 1988, his remarks concerning the perspective for German reunification, and the re-establishment of Berlin as its undivided capital, sounded a prophetic note. Just over one year later, the communist system came crumbling down, and German reunification was a reality soon thereafter. On March 5, 2001. Mr. LaRouche was welcomed again in Berlin, to keynote an EIR seminar. In his presentation, featured as the second part of this week’s LaRouche Connection program, entitled "What We Can Learn Today from Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Policy In the World Economic Crisis," Mr. LaRouche took up a theme that he has often treated in the past: the precedent of the FDR Presidency, in dealing with the Great Depression. But, LaRouche emphasizes, we would be fools to attempt to simply apply Roosevelt’s programs to our own time—a time in which the problems we confront will soon be far worse than what Roosevelt had to deal with. What must be considered, is Roosevelt’s intention, as it differed from the intention of his political opponents. The crucial issue, is summed up by the "General Welfare" clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Can Americans be mobilized, as the citizens of East Germany were in 1989, to put aside their petty, day-to-day obsessions, and demand their leaders act in the interest of the General Welfare? That is the challenge now being put to each and every one of us.

Released: March 22, 2001

Program No. 501

This Little Piggy Went to Market

 

On February 17-18, the Schiller Institute, an international policy development organization founded by Helga Zepp LaRouche, held its annual Presidents’ Day conference in Reston, Virginia, under a banner that posed the question, “Is the U.S. Doomed Under Bush?”

 

After an afternoon session devoted to a dialogue with Lyndon LaRouche, the final panel took up the current economic situation, under the title, “The Demise of the Importer of Last Resort.” This week’s LaRouche Connection features a presentation from that panel, by EIR magazine’s director for Ibero-American Intelligence, Dennis Small, entitled “This Little Piggy Went to Market.”

 

“We told you so!” With these words, Mr. Small began his presentation, pointing out that we have entered a new stage of the global financial crisis, which Lyndon LaRouche has been warning everyone about for quite some time. “The new stage is not simply the fact that the crisis is now hitting the United States with a vengeance, but rather, that the process which has been under way globally, is now so far gone, that it is beginning to manifest itself inside the United States as well. Up until now, to a certain degree, the bubble in the U.S. has been kept afloat by a process of looting all parts of the world. That looting process is, of course, continuing; however, that looting process is now beginning to implode inside the United States as well. And so, the United States, which has become the “importer of last resort” for countries around the world—Absorbing, through the financial bubble, huge imports from country after country—that role is now ending. And this is one of the ways in which the meltdown and disintegration of the international financial system is going to spread like wildfire throughout the globe.”

 

After providing great detail on the actual state of production and consumption, and ridiculing mercilessly academic economists, singling out for special attention Paul Samuelson, and their wacky theories of supply and demand and indifference (!) curves, Mr. Small then addressed the issue of why people fail to act on LaRouche’s forecasts, despite the fact that they can be shown to have been totally factually correct, particularly over the past year. The problem, he stressed, is the failure of people to understand the role of mankind, and human reason, in the universe, a universe which will bend to free will exercised according to the laws of reason.

 

To underscore this point, Mr. Small used Plato’s famous dialogue, the Timaeus, which, in discussing God’s creation of the universe, notes that Reason makes Necessity (the material universe) adjust to its dictates, rather than, as most people believe, “necessity being the mother of invention.”

 

Mr. Small concluded by saying that “God gave each of us a divine genius, that which, as they say, inhabits the highest part of our body, in order to uplift us from the earth toward our heavenly kinsmen, since we are an offshoot, not earthly, but heavenly. We are not a virus; we are not a worm; we’re not a piggy. We are an offshoot heavenly. And this is not a “market” out there. It’s an economy. And for that reason, there is no reason whatsoever for this little piggy to keep going to market. It’s time for a change.”

 

 

Released: April 5, 2001           

Program No. 502
The Bush Administration: The First 60 Days

 

Speaking from Germany to a crowd of diplomats and supporters gathered in New York City and Washington, D.C., via an international webcast on March 21, Lyndon LaRouche provided his assessment of the first 60 days of the George W. Bush administration. This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features Mr. LaRouche’s remarks, plus an excerpt from the discussion period which followed.

 

Defining the President’s first 60 days as “disastrous,” Mr. LaRouche proceeded to provide the pathway by which Americans can raise themselves out of the slave-like position they’ve been taking toward events, and move to embrace a policy orientation that will bring this country, and the world, out of its current crisis.

 

“What we have to have,” said Mr. LaRouche, “is a sense of national mission; the idea of the United States cooperating with Western Europe, with Eurasia as a whole, to restart the world economy; the idea of taking that one, as a 25-year long-term credit mission; rebuilding a new financial system, like the old Bretton Woods system, to handle the kind of problem we faced in the immediate postwar period—the same general kind of lesson. And then, getting a science driver policy; to expand the scientific work in our universities, to build the laboratories, to get the new projects, the new productive technologies, and the new products, in place. And, to think about rebuilding this world, to be able to tell our children, who come 25 years down the line: ‘What we’re going to do for you, is, we’re going to give you a better world. And, that’s what we’re doing now.’”

 

Mr. LaRouche concluded with the following challenge: “Let’s revive the American intellectual tradition, in which our nation was founded, in cooperation with other nations of the world. And, let the American citizen stop thinking of themselves as a poor person; but instead, as a citizen, of a nation, which is rebuilding the planet; and let him or her take pride in being a citizen of such a nation, with such a commitment. If we can mobilize that, we can save this nation; we can save this world, from one horrible mess. And, that is what I propose we ought to do.”

 

From the discussion period, the first question to Mr. LaRouche, read by moderator Debra Freeman, was from a Japanese journalist, who asked him to comment on the real cause behind today’s market crisis, and what positive role Japan could play, to help create some solutions.

           

Next, David Brode, a sheet metal worker, and vice president of a small AFL Labor Council in Western Maryland, wanted to know how to get trade unionists—rank and file as well as leadership—to support LaRouche’s policies.

 

Released: April 5, 2001           

Program No. 503

Conyers Hearing on D.C. General Hospital

 

With virtually all 700,000 residents of our nation’s capital now following the growing battle over whether the Washington’s only public general hospital will remain open and be expanded, or shut down on Congressional orders, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, dean of the Congressional Black Caucus, and a leading advocate of universal public health care, hosted an extraordinary congressional briefing at the Rayburn House Office Building March 22, entitled: “National Public Hospital Safety Net in Crisis; D.C. General in Focus.”

 

Over reported objections by Mayor Anthony Williams and D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, over 300 Washingtonians, bolstered by delegations from Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts, heard testimony on the determination and necessity to adopt policies to both protect and promote the general welfare of all Americans, particularly in the midst of the worst economic and financial breakdown crisis in modern history.

 

Every American has the right to expect access to a full-service, fully-funded public hospital. Keeping D.C. General open on this basis, an excellent place to start. It’s time to draw the line against policies which are consciously and deliberately designed to eliminate poor people, proliferate disease, increase infant mortality, and lower life expectancy among citizens who have been deemed “redundant”

 

This week’s edition features extensive excerpts from the hearing, including these speakers:

 

·        Rep. John Conyers (D-MI)

·        Lynne Fagnani, vice-pres., National Association of Public Hospitals & Health Systems (NAPH)

 

·        Dr. Debra Hanania-Freeman, Doctor of Public Health, national spokeswoman for the 2004 Presidential campaign of Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

 

·        State Rep. Harold James (D-PA), former chairman of the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus, and former President of the National Black Policy Association.

 

·        Charlene Gordon, RN--registered nurse, 18-year employee at D.C. General Hospital.

 

·        State Rep. Erik R. Fleming (D-MS)

 

·        Dr. Michal Ann Young – Medical and Dental staff of D.C. Health & Hospitals Public Benefit Corp., and director of neo-natology at D.C. General Hospital.

 

·        Dr. Abdul Alim Mumannad – founder and director of the Abundant Life Clinic, and Health Minister of the Nation of Islam.

 

Released: April 11, 2001

 

Program No. 504
“Win the Battle to Save D.C. General Hospital!”

As the world enters new depths of the Depression of 2001, with a lunatic Bush Administration committed to preserving the bank accounts of its greedy friends at all costs, there is an urgent need for a political victory that will turn the tide back toward the principle of the General Welfare embodied in the U.S. Constitution. Right now, the battle to save D.C. General Hospital, holds the promise of providing that victory.

 

The fight to preserve D.C. General as a full-service, fully funded public hospital, has reached a critical stage. Thanks to the activity of an informal coalition of clergy, hospital workers, political activists, and leaders of the LaRouche political movement, there has arisen a popular movement to resist the diktat of puppet accountant Mayor Anthony Williams, and his bosses in the D.C. Financial Control Board, the Congress, and Katie Graham’s Federal City Council. Support for the hospital has been pouring in from around the country and the world. A Congressional briefing was sponsored by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), on March 22, to explore the matter’s national significance.

 

In this week’s program, taped April 16, Nancy Spannaus, editor-in-chief of the nationally-circulated newsweekly, The New Federalist, provides viewers the history of the effort to privatize the hospital, and ultimately tear the building down, as part of a genocidal “Negro removal” re-development plan, as well as the effort to save it.

 

Released: April 20, 2001

 

 

Program No. 505
“The Demise of the Importer of Last Resort”

On February 17-18, the Schiller Institute, an international policy development organization founded by Helga Zepp LaRouche, held its annual Presidents’ Day conference in Reston, Virginia, under a banner that posed the question, “Is The U.S. Doomed Under Bush?”

 

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features the presentation of Richard Freeman, economics writer for Executive Intelligence Review magazine, who spoke on Feb. 18. Mr. Freeman presented a graphics-oriented review of the current phase of the worldwide economic collapse, particularly in the United States, dealing primarily with the collapse of production of energy, physical goods, and world trade.

 

Contrary to the myth that the United States has experienced ten years of unbroken economic expansion during the 1990s, it is the origination and growth of America as the world’s importer of last resort, which has dominated world trade during this period.

 

America’s role as an importer of last resort, which has dominated the world trade for the last decade, is coming to an inglorious and violent end,” said Mr. Freeman. “This is starting to produce a shock wave of devastation throughout the world’s trading system, while being amplified by and intensifying the disintegration of the world’s financial system.”

 

“The nations which are most at risk from this development, are those that attempted to satisfy America’s insatiable need for imported goods, to the extent that today an astounding 20-40% of world physical goods exports are shipped to the United States. These nations include many of the world’s leading economies, such as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Mexico, and Venezuela.”

 

“Under the press of the worldwide financial disintegration, the United States has entered a zone of instability, wherein it will neither be able to generate enough income internally, nor bring in sufficient funds from abroad, to finance the continued import of goods. This means that many of the nations that export to the United States will suffer sharp drops in their trade. Since many of these countries are heavy exporters, this will lead to steep cuts in their domestic production. This effect will spread to the whole trading system.”

 

Released: April 26, 2001

 

Program No. 506
 “Fight Escalates to Save D.C. General Hospital

At an extraordinary town meeting held April 18 at Union Temple Baptist Church, sponsored by the Coalition to Save D.C. General Hospital, it became obvious that the drive to save Washington’s only public hospital, has been transformed into a full-fledged movement, based in the tradition of the civil rights movement of Dr. Martin Luther King, and rooted in the principle of the General Welfare clause of the U.S. Constitution.

 

As a result of several months of Coalition efforts, the duly elected City Council had voted unanimously on April 12 to fund the hospital and make it the center of the District’s health-care system in the impoverished, largely black, Southeast section of town, defying the scheme put together by Mayor Anthony Williams and the non-elected Control Board, which would have closed down the hospital by March and put health care into the hands of Doctors Community Healthcare Corporation, an outfit exposed by the Coalition as involved in organized crimes to loot and strip the assets and cash flow of the hospitals it has taken over.

 

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features major excerpts from this meeting attended by over 400 citizens from the District, as well as from Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey and elsewhere. Special guest speakers included, in order of appearance:

 

·        Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, national spokesman for the Nation of Islam

·        Joycelyn Elders, former Clinton Administration Surgeon General

·        Kevin Chavous, D.C. City Councilman

·        Phil Mendelson, D.C. City Councilman (does not appear in the edited version of the program)

·        Dennis Speed, Northeast coordinator for the Schiller Institute

·        Rev. James Bevel, director of Direct Action for Martin Luther King, Jr.

·        Dr. Simon Wilcox, past president of the Medical Staff of Aliquippa Community Hospital of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, who led the successful fight to kick DCHC out of Aliquippa.

·        Rev. Richard Boone, creator of the 1963 Birmingham Childrens’ March

·        Dr. Michal Ann Young, president of the Medial/Dental Staff, D.C. General Hospital

·        Lynne Speed, spokeswoman for the Schiller Institute and the Coalition

 

City Councilman Chavous predicted that the City Council would override an anticipated veto by Mayor Williams of their April 12 vote, and that the hospital’s budget would go back to the Control Board and then to Congress. Dr. Alim explained that because Congress is the seat of ultimate decisions about the District, the issue of D.C. General has now become the domain of every citizen who can, and must lobby every member of the Congress to vote to save the hospital as a fully-funded full service facility.

           

Released: May 1, 2001

 

Program No. 507
 “LaRouche in Dialogue with Russian Economists”

On  May 4-6, over 400 representatives from 40 nations from all 5 continents, including numerous active and former diplomats, came together in Bad Schwalbach, Germany for the annual international conference of the Schiller Institute, under the banner, “The Ecumenical Battle for the Common Good.”

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection, the first in a series from that conference, features excerpts from:

 

·        The keynote presentation given May 4 by Lyndon LaRouche

·        Contributions from two distinguished Russian economists, Dr. Sergei Glazyev, chairman of the Economic Policy Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; and Prof. Stanislav Menshikov, of the Central Mathematical Economics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (CEMI).

·        The discussion session, in which questions were directed at Mr. LaRouche and Mr. Glazyev.

 

In his presentation, Mr. LaRouche warns of the danger of the fascist faction of the U.S. Republican Party, and that [President] “Bush is a cheap version of Hitler.” Mr. LaRouche said that the worst economic crisis in centuries is turning into a social crisis in the United States, centering around the denial of—and battle for—the principle of the General Welfare in health care and in provision of energy.

Mankind has arrived at a turning-point of history, and we are faced with a mental-case in the White house, put there on purpose, by the financial oligarchy, under the worst conditions of human history, to carry out methods of intimidation and terror, intentionally, to keep the oligarchy in charge, while the system collapses. Bush, like Hitler, has the same policy of terror to force the rest of the world to accept the oligarchy’s rule.

The remedy for the ongoing Bush administration-led plunge of the entire planet into a global new dark age, said Mr. LaRouche, must be in the form of a great ecumenical Eurasian development project, with Russia playing a key role, as the pivot of an intended global economic and moral recovery of society: A community of principle among nations for the common good of all. The moral intention of this global policy, expressed by a Eurasia-centered initiative, will give Eurasia the means to support justice for Africa in the face of the genocide being perpetrated, intentionally, against all of sub-Sahara Africa by the Anglo-American directors and supporters of the Hitler-like Christian Solidarity International of Britain’s beast-like Caroline Cox.

Taking into account the positive counterpoint of Pope John Paul II’s ongoing ecumenical mission, there exists no tolerable alternative to this policy, anywhere in the world. There exists no practicable, feasible alternative to this principled approach. Every alternative proposed form other locations, is either as evil as what is radiating from President Bush, et al., or are so foolish, as to amount to remedies with the same effect as the disease being addressed.

 

Release Date:  May 14, 2001

 

 

Program No. 508
“Celebrate Cusa’s Birthday with a Dialogue of Cultures”

On  May 4-6, over 400 representatives from 40 nations from all 5 continents, including numerous active and former diplomats, came together in Bad Schwalbach, Germany for the annual international conference of the Schiller Institute, under the banner, “The Ecumenical Battle for the Common Good.”

 

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection, the second in a series from that conference, features Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp LaRouche’s presentation, entitled “Celebrating the 600th Birthday of Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa Through a Dialogue of Cultures.” She spoke on May 6.

 

In presenting the crucial role of Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa in developing the principles of the modern nation-state, and his concept of a dialogue of cultures, which led to the golden renaissance, Mrs. LaRouche further developed the ecumenical and scientific principles required to carry out the ambitious reconstruction plans which had been laid out, especially by her husband Lyndon LaRouche, in the earlier conference panels

 

“More than ever,” Mrs. Zepp LaRouche began, “we need to clarify the principles which should define the relations of the international community of peoples. The 13th and 14th centuries were an era of great change. It was the time of a big struggle between the forces who contributed to the emergence of the sovereign nation-state through fundamental changes in the world outlook, and those who wanted to go back to the imperial structures just like the forces of globalization, today.”   Mrs. LaRouche then proceeded to outline in some detail, the forces and ideas that led to the emergence of the nation-state, and the community of nations based on international law, and how Cusa used the ideas of Plato to develop for the first time the idea of representative government, in which the individual would have the opportunity, and obligation, to speak out for the common good.

 

Mrs. Zepp LaRouche concluded with these words: “Today, the idea of a community of sovereign nation-states based on the common good, has become a life and death issue for our entire civilization. Let us celebrate Nicholas of Cusa’s 600th birthday by developing the same power of intellect, the same passion for great ideas. Let us be joyful about the cultural multitude and beauty, as being represented at this conference, because we are One, before we are many.”

 

Released: May 17, 2001

 

 

Program No. 509
“Dialogue with LaRouche: Bad Schwalbach, Germany

On  May 4-6, over 400 representatives from forty nations from all five continents, including numerous active and former diplomats, came together in Bad Schwalbach, Germany for the annual international conference of the Schiller Institute, under the banner, “The Ecumenical Battle for the Common Good.”

 

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection, the third in a series from that conference, features excerpts from the discussion session following the presentations on May 4 by Lyndon LaRouche, Dr. Sergei Glazyev and Prof. Stanislav Menshikov.

 

·        Comments from a Georgian on how LaRouche’s ideas are being used in the diplomatic high school there.

 

·        A Ugandan asks Mr. LaRouche how is Africa to make its own way to gain its freedom.

 

·        A German woman asks Dr. Glazyev about geopolitical attempts to pull Russia away from China.

 

·        A Nigerian asks Mr. LaRouche how realistic is [Alexander] Hamiltonian type credit in today’s economic environment.

 

·        A Rwandan asks Dr. Glazyev about the fate of Soviet-era-trained African intellectuals.

 

·        An American woman asks Mr. LaRouche how to get Americans face up to solving the global economic collapse, when they seem to think of themselves as on their own planet.

 

Released: May 23, 2001

 

Program No. 510
 “In Defense of the General Welfare”

On  May 4-6, over 400 representatives from 40 nations from all 5 continents, including numerous active and former diplomats, came together in Bad Schwalbach, Germany for the annual international conference of the Schiller Institute, under the banner, “The Ecumenical Battle for the Common Good.”

 

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection, the fourth in a series from that conference, opens with host Tony Papert providing a short report, taped in the studio on May 29, on the exciting news of Russian Transport Minister Sergei Frank’s announcement on May 15 that Russia has created a Eurasian Transport Union, dedicated to the implementation of international transportation corridors leading from Europe to Asia, via the territory of Russia. The corridors are planned to go across Siberia, and on a North-South route that will start at the Indian port of Calcutta and link up with North European countries through the territories of Iran and Russia. This commitment represents a giant step toward the Eurasian Land-Bridge development project, set as a global strategic priority Lyndon LaRouche, at the recently-concluded Bad Schwalbach conference.

 

Next, is an interview with Dr. Sergei Glazyev, a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Chairman of the Committee on Economic Policy and Business of the Russian State Duma (lower house of Parliament), by Rachel Douglas of EIR magazine. The interview was conducted on May 5, in Bad Schwalbach, Germany, where he had spoken the previous evening, together with Lyndon LaRouche on the opening panel of the Schiller Institute’s international conference. Dr. Glazyev makes emphatic points on the reality of the deepening global financial crisis, remarks on the fruitfulness of Mr. LaRouche’s ideas concerning the promotion of economic growth, and provides considerable detail about various large infrastructure possibilities in Russia. [See EIR magazine, Vol. 28, No. 20: May 25, 2001, p.6-11 for complete transcript.]

 

Then, the presentation by Charlene Gordon, RN. Mrs. Gordon is head of the nurses union at District of Columbia General Hospital. Mrs. Gordon, who spoke on May 5, described how D.C. General “serves the community well,” but the Mayor Anthony Williams, “a foster child who forgot where he came from”; and Eleanor Holmes Norton, “who would rather pick out the towels at the Frederick Douglass home, rather than save the people;” Washington Post publisher Katie Graham and her Federal City Council; and the D.C. Control Board, appointed not elected—all “want to close the safety net for the poor, because they want the real estate located so close to the Capitol.” “We have to fight with paper and pen, rally, boycott, educate and spread the word that they will not stop with D.C. General; they will close your hospital. Your life is at stake. Stand up and be counted. Don’t straddle the fence. This is your world. It’s time to take a stand to promote the general welfare.”

 

Concluding the program is the presentation by Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, Health Minister for the Nation of Islam, and head of the Coalition to Save D.C. General Hospital. Dr. Muhammad, who spoke on the same panel as Charlene Gordon, also gave an impassioned speech, entitled “The Indispensable Victory,” presenting the battle to save Washington’s only public hospital, as in the forefront of an international battle for the general welfare. “We’re here to resist evil,” said Dr. Muhammad. After relating some details on how the Financial Control Board was forced to sign an illegal contract on a card table in the basement of a library, to close the hospital, Dr. Muhammad spoke about how the people and institutions of Washington have been transformed by the battle, making it impossible for people to be herded to the slaughterhouse. “The stage is set. We have to challenge the Congress, that an unelected body is overturning a clear decision by a democratically elected body [The D.C. City Council, which has voted 13-0 twice to support and fund the hospital], to respond to understand that democratic ideals and the general welfare have priority, and they are duty-bound to uphold the general welfare clause [in the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution]. This is relevant to everyone on the planet.

 

Released: May 30, 2001

 

Program No. 511
“Win the Battle to Save D.C. General Hospital!”

As the world enters new depths of the Depression of 2001, with a lunatic Bush Administration committed to preserving the bank accounts of its greedy friends at all costs, there is an urgent need for a political victory that will turn the tide back toward the principle of the General Welfare embodied in the U.S. Constitution. Right now, the battle to save D.C. General Hospital, holds the promise of providing that victory.

 

The fight to preserve a full-service, fully funded public hospital in the nation’s capital, has reached a critical stage. Thanks to the activity of an informal coalition of clergy, hospital workers, political activists, and leaders of the LaRouche political movement, there has arisen a popular movement to resist the diktat of puppet accountant Mayor Anthony Williams, and his bosses in the D.C. Financial Control Board, the Congress, and Katie Graham’s Federal City Council. Support for the hospital has been pouring in from around the country and the world. A Congressional briefing was sponsored by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), on March 22, to explore the matter’s national significance.

 

In this week’s program, taped April 16, Nancy Spannaus, editor-in-chief of the nationally-circulated newsweekly, The New Federalist, provides viewers the history of the effort to privatize the hospital, and ultimately tear the building down, as part of a genocidal “Negro removal” re-development plan, as well as the effort to save it.

           

Originally released: April 20, 2001

Re-released:             June 6, 2001

 

Program No. 512
“LaRouche Address to Schiller Institute in Poland

Today, Poland is gripped by a terrible exploding unemployment crisis, and the axioms of liberalism and monetarism are shattering. As the European Union (EU) uses the stick of membership conditions to push Poland into the corner, while at the same time showing disrespect and disinterest in Poland, Poland is beginning to realize that membership in the EU is getting farther and farther away. A new thinking is arising in Poland about relationships to the East, especially Russia. Under these conditions, Lyndon LaRouche’s Eurasian Land-bridge concept is becoming a hotly debated issue.

 

Towards the end of May of this year, Lyndon LaRouche visited Poland for several days, addressing several important meetings, along with many private discussions. At  the invitation of the Polish Parliament, (the Sejm), on May 23, he addressed a group of 13 deputies from the PSL and other parties, stressing the need of an FDR-type bankruptcy reorganization of the global financial system in the interest of the common good; a Eurasian Land-bridge concept for the next 25 years; reform of energy policy; and reorganization of health care policy. Mr. LaRouche stressed his own role to change the United States from inside, to pick up the pieces of the Democratic Party, to accomplish these tasks.

 

On the morning of May 24, Mr. LaRouche was invited by a former vice-minister of education to the very respected Warsaw Polytechnic, to address a group of 20 scientists there. Attending this science seminar were economists, mathematicians, physicists, engineers, musicologists, and historians from different universities, all of whom are heavily engaged in the fight to restore the humanist education system of Poland. Beginning with the concept of Analysis Situs, Fermat’s conception of relativity of time, and how this led to the work of Gauss and Riemann: “Here, formal logic breaks down and human cognition takes over…,” said Mr. LaRouche. The discussion centered around the question of education from the struggle of empiricism vs. real science.

 

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features Mr. LaRouche’s address to a public event the evening of May 24, sponsored by the Schiller Institute of Poland, also held at Warsaw Polytechnic. Attending were 160 persons, among them representatives from the embassies of Mexico, Tunisia, Nigeria, South Africa, Vietnam, Iran, Romania, and Lithuania, and the United States. Persons from four ministries—Economics, Labor, Transportation, and Science—as well as four newspapers and representatives of various social, religious, industrial, trade union, and student groups were also there.

 

After developing in a condensed way his ideas of the common good and Eurasian Land-bridge, Mr. LaRouche warned about the impending bankruptcy of the global financial system. He then elaborated the principle of survival embedded in European history, from the Greeks through the Apostle Paul to John Paul II: the principle of Agape and natural law that has made possible the rise of European civilization. “We cannot win tomorrow morning…but want to win the war. That is the old Polish custom: to continue to fight, although there is not always a short term success…”

 

Released:  June 14, 2001

 

Program No. 513
“EIR Video Magazine: June 18, 2001”

            Opening this week’s program, in a segment taped June 18, host Tony Papert, reports on exciting developments from Russia and Japan, as those nations participate in the growing momentum for the Eurasian Land-Bridge, the project conceived by Lyndon LaRouche as the great cooperative undertaking of the 21st Century, which must replace the bankrupt “bubble economy” of Wall Street and the City of London. Included in this segment is a video clip from Chinese TV (CCTV-4) of China’s President, Jaing Zemin, speaking to a gathering of the Asian-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Beijing on May 24, wherein he called for the creation of a “New Silk Road” between Asia and Europe,  “to boost exchanges between these two civilizations in the new century.”

Next, is an interview of New Jersey Gubernatorial Candidate and LaRouche Democrat, Elliot Greenspan, taped June 11 by CNI-TV in Philadelphia.  Since filing his candidacy April 12, Mr. Greenspan, well-known as a political figure in New Jersey for 20 years, has pitched his campaign for sanity against the “insane bubble-pumping [Alan] Greenspan” of the Federal Reserve. “I am calling on all Democrats and ‘Lincoln’ Republicans … to join the movement for a New Bretton Woods monetary system.” Mr. Greenspan is the sole challenger to Mayor Jim McGreevy in the June 26th Democratic Primary there.

Concluding, are three speeches from the June 13 city-wide meeting of the Coalition to Save D.C. General Hospital, held at Union Temple Baptist Church, in Southeast Washington. Also speaking were Rev. Willie Wilson, pastor at Union Temple, Lynne and Dennis Speed of the Schiller Institute, Rev. Mildred King, “warrior” nurse Charlene Gordon, and a student from Howard University. An audio tape of an interview with Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche by WOL radio was also played.

·        Mississippi State Representative Erik Fleming reported on his meetings with Members of Congress, and told them they must not be like Jonah, who was hard-hearted and refused to do what God wanted him to do. “If the [D.C. Financial Control Board] is successful in shutting down public health care in Washington, by making [D.C. Delegate] Eleanor Holmes Norton take the heat, that next, they are coming to where you live, to a theater near you.” “This is not about just saving some jobs; this is about saving lives; this is about saving a nation!” “We must step this campaign up to another level.”

·        Amelia Boynton Robinson, 90-year old heroine of the civil rights movement, who had been lobbying the Federal and City governments all week, said the meeting reminded her of the meetings in Selma, Alabama 35 years ago, “where there was so much excitement and optimism, that we will win.” Mrs. Robinson then recounted the history of the hard-fought fight for the right of all to vote, saying that the jailing of children in Selma finally made people mad enough to fight. She excoriated Eleanor Holmes Norton. Mrs. Robinson told people they must lose their fear, because “fear is evil.” Fear, she said, leads to cowardice, which leads to envy. Fear is a cancer, not of the body, but of the mind.

·        Rev. James Bevel, former Director of Direct Action for Martin Luther King, delivered a powerful discussion on organizing, which literally had the entire audience on the edge of their chairs, including in his account things he had learned from Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., sketching his experiences since the late 1950’s, confronting the various challenges of organizing and of actually winning. Rev. Bevel told his audience that the spectacle of the Timothy McVeigh execution, is the beginning of the re-imposition of the Federal death penalty, which is a political instrument, recalling the mass lynchings of the 1930’s in the South. The message: “don’t expect us to provide health care; don’t expect us to provide education; we’re prepared to kill you.” The fight for the principle of inalienable rights, which flows from the concept of man created in the image of God, can never be given up until it is won. This is the global, historical issue involved in the fight to save D.C. General.

Released:   June 21, 2001

 

Program No. 514
“Vladimir Vernadsky’s Revolution in the Science of Life”

On  May 4-6, over 400 representatives from forty nations from all five continents, including numerous active and former diplomats, came together in Bad Schwalbach, Germany for the annual international conference of the Schiller Institute, under the banner, “The Ecumenical Battle for the Common Good.” This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection, the fifth in a series from that conference, features two presentations from the Science Panel on May 6.

 

First, Dr. Jonathan Tennenbaum, director of the European Fusion Energy Forum, began with the question: “What is Life?” A biologist might reply, that life is a biochemical process, where lots of molecules are involved, etc. But, when forced to admit that he himself is a collection of molecules, the biologist is caught in a paradox, when it is further demanded what molecule is talking. Dr. Tennenbaum: “We need a new scientific revolution! The growing economic crises with outbreaks of old and new diseases, is a result of economic policy. If this process continues, mankind will become a virtually extinct species. The nonsense of the idea of keeping an “equilibrium” has to be wiped out.” After tracing the evolution of discoveries from Plato, to Nicolas of Cusa, to Johannas Kepler, and Louis Pasteur on the characteristics of living and non-living processes, Dr. Tennenbaum introduced the Russian scientist Vladimir Vernadsky, who found that there is an unbridgeable gap between life and non-living processes, and that the principle of life is a universal physical principle. It was Vernadsky who developed three levels of physical processes in the universe: 1) the non-living, 2) the living, and 3) the processes of reason, which he called the ‘noosphere,’ because the further development of the biosphere is being driven by the deliberate action of man.

 

Laurence Hecht, editor of 21st Century Science and Technology magazine, then discussed how Louis Ampere’s discovery of angular force had an impact on the entire future of science, giving this as an example of the special role of the human creative process. In showing two experiments – first moving a compass with an electric current, and then with a magnet – Mr. Hecht demonstrated another discovery by Ampere, namely the identity of electricity and magnetism, that there are no distinct electric and magnetic fields, as is taught even today in school textbooks, but that they are the same phenomena. These discoveries show how a sovereign individual mind makes a scientific discovery, which fits the description of a “natural object” in Vernadsky’s terminology. Discovery comes as a process of solving paradoxes, not at a blackboard.

 

Released: June 27, 2001

 

Program No. 515
“Vernadsky’s Revolution in the Science of Life,” Pt. 2

On  May 4-6, over 400 representatives from forty nations from all five continents, including numerous active and former diplomats, came together in Bad Schwalbach, Germany for the annual international conference of the Schiller Institute, under the banner, “The Ecumenical Battle for the Common Good.”

 

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection, the sixth in a series from that conference, features the final two presentations from the Science Panel on May 6.

 

First, Mr. Wolfgang Lillge spoke on the science of living processes, the fact that the first two processes in the universe identified by the Russian scientist Vladimir Vernadsky – living, and non-living – emit radically different wavelengths, indicates the “grave difference” between the two. He explained the Russian physicist Gurwitsch’s discovery of “microgenetic radiation,” which most scientific circles said could not exist. And, after discussing a few experiments on the incredible harmonic, almost musical sounds emitted during interactive photo-emissions of living tissue, Mr. Lillge reminded his audience of the highly magnetic actions taking place on the Sun, and the impact of these developments on Earth.

 

Dino de Paoli then presented the paradox that human Thought, although not a form of energy, can nevertheless change material processes. Quoting Vernadsky: “Mind cannot be a physical force, but how can a non-physical force produce physical changes?” Mr. Paoli: “There is a continuous transformation of biophysical energy, and there is a direction in the evolution of the universe; there is nothing arbitrary.” Man’s “durable colonization” of the Earth cannot be compared with any of the geometries characterizing any other species in the biosphere; on the contrary, the noosphere (Vernadsky’s term, denoting the third process in the universe: namely, that of Reason, the development of the biosphere driven by the deliberate action of mankind) becomes an enlarged mirror of the biosphere in its totality. And, quoting from a recent remark by Pope John Paul II: “A good culture must be able to make man to overcome the fear of his own scientific discoveries, the fear of the process of the transformation of the created to which he has been called by vocation.”

 

Released: July 5, 2001

 

Program No. 516
“LaRouche in Dialogue with Russian Economists”

On  May 4-6, over 400 representatives from 40 nations from all 5 continents, including numerous active and former diplomats, came together in Bad Schwalbach, Germany for the annual international conference of the Schiller Institute, under the banner, “The Ecumenical Battle for the Common Good.”

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection, the first in a series from that conference, features excerpts from:

 

·        The keynote presentation given May 4 by Lyndon LaRouche

·        Contributions from two distinguished Russian economists, Dr. Sergei Glazyev, chairman of the Economic Policy Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; and Prof. Stanislav Menshikov, of the Central Mathematical Economics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (CEMI).

·        The discussion session, in which questions were directed at Mr. LaRouche and Mr. Glazyev.

 

In his presentation, Mr. LaRouche warns of the danger of the fascist faction of the U.S. Republican Party, and that [President] “Bush is a cheap version of Hitler.” Mr. LaRouche said that the worst economic crisis in centuries is turning into a social crisis in the United States, centering around the denial of—and battle for—the principle of the General Welfare in health care and in provision of energy.

Mankind has arrived at a turning-point of history, and we are faced with a mental-case in the White house, put there on purpose, by the financial oligarchy, under the worst conditions of human history, to carry out methods of intimidation and terror, intentionally, to keep the oligarchy in charge, while the system collapses. Bush, like Hitler, has the same policy of terror to force the rest of the world to accept the oligarchy’s rule.

The remedy for the ongoing Bush administration-led plunge of the entire planet into a global new dark age, said Mr. LaRouche, must be in the form of a great ecumenical Eurasian development project, with Russia playing a key role, as the pivot of an intended global economic and moral recovery of society: A community of principle among nations for the common good of all. The moral intention of this global policy, expressed by a Eurasia-centered initiative, will give Eurasia the means to support justice for Africa in the face of the genocide being perpetrated, intentionally, against all of sub-Sahara Africa by the Anglo-American directors and supporters of the Hitler-like Christian Solidarity International of Britain’s beast-like Caroline Cox.

Taking into account the positive counterpoint of Pope John Paul II’s ongoing ecumenical mission, there exists no tolerable alternative to this policy, anywhere in the world. There exists no practicable, feasible alternative to this principled approach. Every alternative proposed form other locations, is either as evil as what is radiating from President Bush, et al., or are so foolish, as to amount to remedies with the same effect as the disease being addressed.

 

Original Release Date:  May 14, 2001

Re-Released:                   July 11, 2001

 

Program No. 517
“LaRouche Address: Vicenza, Italy Chamber of Commerce”

On July 3-5, Lyndon LaRouche visited Italy, and was the invited guest speaker at three events sponsored respectively by the Italy-Russia Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Commerce of Vicenza, and the Milan-based Association for the Development of Banking and the Stock Market Studies. At all three, Mr. LaRouche spoke on the necessity of re-organizing the international financial system, and placing the common good at the center of economic policy-making.

 

These events were the result of the growing movement in Italy, among industrialists as well as politicians, in support of Mr. LaRouche’s proposals to meet the on-rushing global economic crash. His proposals have been at the center of numerous public initiatives by members of the Italian Parliament, and the July events represent a step forward in bringing these ideas to a larger audience of progressive entrepreneurs.

 

This week’s program features Mr. LaRouche’s address to the Chamber of Commerce of Vicenza, Italy’s third largest industrial city of 800,000. The Chamber has 86,000 members, which means more than 10% of the population are entrepreneurs! Mostly, these are small to medium sized technology-oriented firms owned by their managers. This extremely dynamic structure, however, given its export orientation, is sensitive to the international conjuncture, in particular to the collapse of the import capacity of the United States.

 

Mr. LaRouche was invited to speak on the role of Italy, and in particular its Northeast, in contributing to reversing the current worldwide economic collapse, and to fostering the economic cooperation necessary to build the Eurasian Land-Bridge. At the conference, over 60 entrepreneurs, presidents of  industrial associations, and press heard Mr. LaRouche explain why the current financial system is bankrupt, and why European nations must join his efforts to create an international alliance for economic development, in opposition to the suicidal policies coming from the oligarchical-financier interests in London and New York.

 

“We must face reality,” said Mr. LaRouche. “We are entering the largest financial collapse of contemporary history, which will determine the crisis of the world monetary system provoking a real catastrophe. Already now, governments must decide whether they want to survive.” “A dark age, however, can be avoided through stable currencies, through the reintroduction of fixed exchange rates, control of capital movements, the creation of new credit systems to support large infrastructure projects in the world, which, using the best of technology, become the engine of an economic recovery emphasizing the machine tool sector. In this, Italy and its Northeast will play a fundamental role.”

 

Release Date:  July 18, 2001

 

Program No. 518
“The Guns of August”

This special edition of The LaRouche Connection catalogues recent warnings by Lyndon LaRouche about a war of Middle East origins, but global in scope, possibly including the use of nuclear and/or other weapons of mass destruction, featuring an assassination of Israel’s current Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon. The war drive is not coming strictly from the Middle East, but from leading Anglo-American circles who want to trigger a clash of civilizations. This report is provided by Jeffrey Steinberg, Counterintelligence Editor for Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) magazine, in a studio session taped the morning of July 26.

 

In 1982, EIR uncovered a major, very nasty operation, involving high-level American, British, and Israeli personalities, with profound implications for the determination of war or peace in the Middle East. After almost 20 years of continuing investigations, and in light of the ominous escalation which occurred with Ariel Sharon’s provocative visit to the Temple Mount/Al-Haram Al-Sharif on Sept. 28, 2000, the editors of EIR decided to release a major portion of its findings in the form of a special report, published in Dec. 2000, entitled “Who is Sparking a Religious War in the Middle East?” The second segment in today’s program reprises a report from an earlier program, (No. 495) in which  Mr. Steinberg covered the release of that special report, exposing the filthy networks seeking to provoke confrontation, particularly around the Al-Aqsa mosque, bringing viewers face to face with the madness which characterizes the cultists, all the way from the circles of the British Monarchy, on down to the deranged fundamentalists who wish to rebuild Solomon’s Temple, to bring on Armageddon and the appearance of the Messiah. This Temple Mount plot, is now a live terrorist option.

 

Concluding the program, is the first available footage from a July 24 international webcast, in which Lyndon LaRouche comments on the danger today for war in the Middle East. He is responding to a question posed by Dr. Fahed Fanek, an economist from Jordan.

 

Release Date:  July 26, 2001

 

Program No. 519
“How to Survive the Onrushing Global Financial Crash”

Lyndon LaRouche, the only U.S. economist who has been consistently right in each and every one of his published forecasts, over more than 30 years, delivered a history-shaping address to a crowd of diplomats and political leaders in Washington, DC, via video teleconference from Germany on July 24. His remarks were broadcast live internationally via the internet to a world-wide audience. The event, his fifth post-November 7, 2000 election webcast, addressed the urgent measures that must be taken by governments around the world, to avert the onrushing financial, monetary, and economic collapse.

 

Mr. LaRouche, also known worldwide as the founding and contributing editor of the weekly news magazine, Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), is the first declared candidate for the 2004 Democratic Party Presidential nomination.

 

Since Mr. LaRouche’s Sept. 3, 1999 dialogue with civil rights and labor leaders inaugurating his 2000 Presidential campaign, many millions of U.S. citizens, who ignored or rejected Mr. LaRouche’s earlier warnings, have lost, in total, trillions of dollars, in the financial crisis which he had warned was inevitable should either Bush or Gore be elected President. Many 401(k) investors and others, who could ill-afford to lose their savings, have been hit cruelly by their failure to support Mr. LaRouche’s efforts to mobilize the Democratic Party against this now wildly accelerating crisis. Nothing can prevent a total collapse of the present world financial system. As Mr. LaRouche testified to the Russian State Duma on June 20, 2001, the collapse is inevitable, but the world economy can be survive and grow, if leading nations come to their senses, and launch a new world monetary system right now.

 

LaRouche: “We are now in the depths of a systemic financial crisis, that, if war does not break out between now and the end of the year, or if there are not assassinations of key figures from among international leaders during this period, by the end of the year, purely and simply, the present financial system will have collapsed. And the present monetary system as well. It can be stopped. We’re at the end of the system. What we can do, is, we can save the economy, at the price of sacrificing the existing system.”

 

“I think that if the American people see the kind of leadership that will not capitulate, as too many otherwise good Democrats capitulated [on the battle to save] D.C. General [Hospital], as too many good Democrats capitulated on repeal of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as they did in 2000 [when they supported Al Gore] that the world will pay attention. And I know the world—they’ll pay attention. And I’m getting a lot of heat from around the world, on my personally, ‘Please do something about your country,’ and I’m appealing to you, right now, to help me do it.”

 

Release Date:  August 2, 2001

 

Program No. 520
Dialogue with LaRouche: July 24, 2001

Lyndon LaRouche, the only U.S. economist who has been consistently right in each and every one of his published forecasts, over more than 30 years, delivered a history-shaping address to a crowd of diplomats and political leaders in Washington, DC, via video teleconference from Germany on July 24. His remarks were broadcast live internationally via the internet to a world-wide audience. The event, his fifth post-November 7, 2000 election webcast, addressed the urgent measures that must be taken by governments around the world, to avert the onrushing financial, monetary, and economic collapse.

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features an excerpt from the extensive discussion session following Mr. LaRouche’s address. The discussion was moderated by Debra Freeman, national spokeswoman for Lyndon LaRouche. These questions were answered by Mr. LaRouche:

  • From an Islamic organization in the U.S.: How can we address the suffering and economic problems Islamic populations in Central Asia are going through, as a consequence of the collapse of the Soviet Union, and how will that go with the Eurasian Land-Bridge concept?
  • From a leader of the Coalition to Save D.C. General Hospital: What is your take on the recent Lusaka, Zambia conference of heads of state of African governments, who essentially agreed that there should be an African union, for economic and political reasons. What are the implications of a federated African republic linking up with the Eurasian Land-Bridge project?
  • From a Democratic Party representative: To accomplish the goal of Democrats regaining control of both the House and Senate in 2002, and the White House in 2004, … isn’t it more important to be united with the Democratic Party, than oppose it? Or to propose other progressive groups?
  • From another leader of the Coalition to Save D.C. General Hospital: Congress knows that, as a result of closing D.C. General Hospital, children being killed. They know this is wrong, yet they still sit back and do nothing. What do we do? How do we wake these people up?
  • From Japan: What is your view of the shock therapy program recently announced by Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi, to deal with the huge amount of non-performing loans in Japanese banks? What is your proposal for getting rid of those non-performing loans, without a yen crash?
  • From the Russian United Nations Mission: In accordance with UN experts’ forecasts in the Economic and Social Survey 2001, an improvement of the world economy is anticipated for 2002, with an expected growth of GWP at about 3%, and of the world trade at some 6.5%. Please comment on these forecasts, in the context of the need for further reform of the present world financial system, and of your ideas on how to do it?
  • From a Macedonian leader in North America: What is your view of NATO, and what can we do, to prevent the Brzezinskis, the Kissingers, and Lord Owens of the world, to play their favorite games of "divide and rule?"

Release Date: August 9, 2001

Program No. 521
LaRouche Address to Mexican Public Accountants

On August 2, Lyndon LaRouche addressed a seminar, entitled "New Alternatives in View of the End of Globalization," sponsored by Mexico’s prestigious National Institute of Public Accounts at the Service of the State (INCOPSE) via video teleconference from Germany. In the 350-person audience were political leaders from eight Mexican states and several other countries, as well as business, military, university, and trade-union representatives on federal, state, and local levels, plus students, professionals, and journalists from at least eight media, including radio, TV, and press.

The event was viewed across that nation as a strategic intervention by highly placed members of Mexico’s leading institutions, who rightly fear that Mexico will soon collapse into bankruptcy, as Argentina already has, and as the rest of the hemisphere seems headed in the same direction.

An entire stratum of Mexican political and economic leaders within the opposition PRI Party are only too aware, and called Mr. LaRouche in to provide an alternative. Among those on the panel which dialogued with Mr. LaRouche after his presentation, were Dr. Hector Luna de la Vega, executive committee president of INCOPSE; former Ambassador and former Congressman Julio Zamora Batiz; former national Cabinet member Francisco Javier Alejo; and Marivilia Carrasco, president in Mexico of Mr. LaRouche’s Ibero-American Solidarity Movement.

Mr. LaRouche: "The world today is not on the edge of depression. We are already in it!" We can either continue to ignore reality until it tumbles around our ears, warned Mr. LaRouche, or we can assume "our urgent responsibility" of educating the relevant political forces on what must be done.

Again, Mr. LaRouche: "Today, we have untold trillions of dollars of outstanding debt obligations. We have a collapsing world economy. Collapsing industry, collapsing agriculture. We can never pay those debts….The world is bankrupt. The U.S. is bankrupt. Japan is bankrupt. Virtually every nation today, with the exception of China, is bankrupt. We must put the system into bankruptcy reorganization…. We must protect and restore national industries, which are essential to nations. We will protect and restore farming, because food production is essential to nations. We must do this for nations. And do the same thing to the world monetary and financial system. Put it through bankruptcy, for the purpose of saving nations, of saving human populations."

After describing how such a bankruptcy reorganization must take place, Mr. LaRouche went on to say why and how we must finance large-scale infrastructure development projects, not only because they are urgently needed for growth and to provide employment, but also to bring nations together and lay the basis for durable peace.

Release Date: August 15, 2001

Program No. 522
Dialogue with LaRouche: Mexico City, Aug. 2, 2001

On August 2, Lyndon LaRouche addressed a seminar, entitled "New Alternatives in View of the End of Globalization," sponsored by Mexico’s prestigious National Institute of Public Accounts in the Service of the State (INCOPSE) via interactive video teleconference from Germany. In the 350-person audience were political leaders from eight Mexican states and several other countries, as well as business, military, university, and trade-union representatives on federal, state, and local levels, plus students, professionals, and journalists from at least eight media, including radio, TV, and press.

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features excerpts from the extensive dialogue with Mr. LaRouche, following his initial presentation. Among panelists which dialogued with Mr. LaRouche: Dr. Hector Luna de la Vega, executive committee president of INCOPSE; former Ambassador and former Congressman Dr. Julio Zamora Batiz; former national Cabinet member Dr. Francisco Javier Alejo; Dr. Ricardo Carrillo Arronte; and Marivilia Carrasco, president in Mexico of Mr. LaRouche’s Ibero-American Solidarity Movement. Here are their questions, to which Mr. LaRouche responded:

  • Dr. Batiz: What are the differences between your proposals for reorganizing the financial system, and those of others, such as George Soros? What effect would your Eurasian Land-Bridge project have on Ibero-America, especially in terms of concentration of capital and world trade?
  • Dr. Alejo: Do the conditions exist, in reality, for us to create … an international economic and financial system, that would enable us to discipline all the actors involved, but especially the strongest economies, and the already-globalized giant corporations, which today are the ones which really have the deciding voice in the international economy?
  • Dr. Arronte: What would be the most effective or efficient actions that non-government groups of advanced thinking persons can take, in dependent countries like Mexico, to collaborate in changing our own countries, and on an international level? And, after the great failure of all liberal thinking with the Great Depression, the emergence of the Bretton Woods system, etc., how is it possible that this thinking has re-surged with greater force, greater cruelty, greater injustice, on a world scale? What role did and does the Trilateral Commission have in neo-liberalism?

Opening the program this week, host Tony Papert provides viewers an update, taped August 20, on the current precarious situation in the Middle East, where Israeli tanks are in place just outside Bethlehem, and a global battle is raging over whether there will be war or peace. The McConnell-Feinstein amendment, supported by AIPAC, is being introduced in the U.S. Senate, (identical to the Lantos amendment in the House) calls for the imposition of sanctions on the Palestinian Authority. There is increasing discussion of "unilateral separation," the construction of a new "Berlin Wall" to separate Israel from the Palestinians. Meanwhile, the influence of Mr. LaRouche can be seen clearly in Russian moves against a Middle East war becoming the trigger for a broader geo-strategic clash of civilizations.

Release Date: August 21, 2001

Program No. 524
You Have Nothing to Fear so Much as Denial Itself!

On September 1, Lyndon LaRouche keynoted the Schiller Institute’s semi annual conference in Reston Virginia, under the theme "How to Beat the World Depression Which Has Now Arrived." Over 800 political activists, including more than 100 students, discussed the immediate perspective for burying the murderous IMF system, and creating the New Bretton Woods and Eurasian Land-Bridge system, developed by Mr. LaRouche over the last decades.

Focusing his remarks primarily on the question of leadership, how to lead the U.S. population out of its adaptation to an alliance with the British looting system, Mr. LaRouche set before his audience the key strategic issue: how is the United States going to stop acting like a "self-policed prison house" and move to embrace the Roosevelt-like policies to save the otherwise totally doomed economy. LaRouche: "What I promised you, in effect, on January 3 [in an international webcast] is now happening. No one can stop it, as long as this present system exists: It’s doomed. No one can fix it. There is no recovery from it. The system is finished. The question is: can we kill the system in time, to save the nations and the economy? No other question. Let’s have some fun!"

Americans are going to have to change, Mr. LaRouche emphasized, if we are going to make it. Mr. LaRouche then presented the history of the U.S. and world economy, beginning with the conflict between FDR and Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and FDR’s commitment to wipe out colonialism, and how the Bretton Woods monetary system, despite the compromises made after Roosevelt’s death, actually functioned to bring progress in the standard of living to a large part of the world, despite the system’s shortcomings. But then came disaster, with the advent of President Nixon’s "Southern Strategy." Things were made even worse by President Carter, and then, on the global scale, as this predatory system took over with a vengeance to loot the world, after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989-91. And this shift doomed the U.S. itself.

Unless the necessary change is made, away from such predatory practices, and back toward the standard of cognition – using the mind to solve problems, playfully – the U.S. and the world will not be saved.

Mr. LaRouche concluded by highlighting his own record of leadership, of standing up against all public opinion to the contrary, and by noting the awesome responsibility of leadership in these times, which has come to him, and to those who have chosen to join with him.

Release Date: September 8, 2001

Program No. 525
Deadly Covert Operation Threatens U.S. Coup d’Etat & War

On the morning of September 11, in an extremely sophisticated and coordinated action, two hijacked airliners slammed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, as a third buried itself into the Pentagon, just outside Washington, DC. The nation and the world went into shock. But are these tragic events the work of Middle Eastern Islamic terrorists, as the mass media would have everyone believe?

In this week’s program, Jeffrey Steinberg, counterintelligence director for EIR magazine, in a report filed the morning of Sept. 13, relays Lyndon LaRouche’s sober assessment: "This is not a terrorist operation. This is a covert, strategic, special-operations operation, which has the characteristic similarities to the militia operation against the Oklahoma City Federal Center some years ago."

Mr. Steinberg begins by reviewing an interview with Mr. LaRouche on the Jack Stockwell radio program (KTKK-AM) out of Salt Lake City that fateful morning, which was broadcast internationally live on the internet at the time, highlighting Mr. LaRouche’s warnings that Osama bin Laden’s name would be surfaced as the culprit, but that this is impossible. Mr. Steinberg then reviews the level of sophistication of the operation, citing EIR magazine’s 1995 in-depth profile of the "new international terrorism," centered around the Afghansi mujahadeen, narco-terrorists, and the contamination of the domestic intelligence community, dating back to the days of George Bush Sr. Vice Presidency: Iran-Contra guns-for-drugs, Oliver North, etc. Mr. Steinberg then reviews Mr. LaRouche’s effort to prevent Timothy McVeigh’s execution, on national security grounds, given what he knew about the Oklahoma City Federal building bombing. Mr. Steinberg also emphasizes LaRouche’s marching orders to President Bush: call Russian Prime Minister Putin, and work with allied governments around the world in a coordinated effort to roll up the corrupt apparatus behind this atrocity.

Concluding this week’s program, is the conclusion of the keynote address delivered by Lyndon LaRouche to the Schiller Institute’s semi annual conference in Reston Virginia on Sept. 1, under the theme "How to Beat the World Depression Which Has Now Arrived." Over 800 political activists, including more than 100 students, discussed the immediate perspective for burying the murderous IMF system, and creating the New Bretton Woods and Eurasian Land-Bridge system, developed by Mr. LaRouche over the last decades.

Focusing his remarks primarily on the question of leadership, how to lead the U.S. population out of its adaptation to an alliance with the British looting system, Mr. LaRouche sets before his audience the key strategic issue: how is the United States going to stop acting like a "self-policed prison house" and move to embrace the Roosevelt-like policies to save the otherwise totally doomed economy. LaRouche: "What I promised you, in effect, on January 3 [in an international webcast] is now happening. No one can stop it, as long as this present system exists. It’s doomed. No one can fix it. There is no recovery from it. The system is finished. The question is: can we kill the system in time, to save the nations and the economy? No other question. Let’s have some fun!"

Mr. LaRouche ends by highlighting his own record of leadership, of standing up against all public opinion to the contrary, and by noting the awesome responsibility of leadership in these times, which has come to him, and to those who have chosen to join with him.

Release Date: September 15, 2001 

Program No. 526
A Conversation with Lyndon LaRouche in a Time of Crisis

On the morning of September 11, in an extremely sophisticated and coordinated action, two hijacked domestic airliners slammed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, destroying both, as a third buried itself into the Pentagon. A fourth hijacked plane crashed just outside Pittsburgh. The nation and the world went into shock. Everyone wants to know who is responsible, why they did it, and what to do.

This week’s program features an interview with Lyndon LaRouche, conducted by Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) magazine’s managing editor, John Sigerson, on September 18.

As Americans continue to be bombarded by hysterical jingoistic anti-Arab war propaganda, Mr. LaRouche provides a voice of calm reason. In his interview, Mr. LaRouche states what might be surprising to many: that the deadly attacks were the product of a covert operation run primarily by rogue elements within the U.S.’s own intelligence/security community: "This did not come from the Middle East. It didn’t come from Europe. It didn’t come from South America. Anyone who has been able to keep a cool head when confronted with the news media, has to realize that there is no solid evidence to be presented that the flamboyant Osama bin Laden was linked to the operation, or has the capability to carry it out. These were psychological attacks against the U.S. population." These attacks must be considered a potential threat to the President, but at this point, they were meant to panic the American people, in a buildup toward a coup d’Etat against the U.S. government. "If the population is sufficiently malleable, by being terrified by this, then [the perpetrators] might go for an actual coup d’Etat…against the U.S. government."

Mr. LaRouche then discusses what measures must be taken now to bring the country, and the world, out of the horrible national emergency in which the U.S. finds itself. Asked if he supported a military move against Afghanistan, he says "no," and instead proposes two immediate policy areas in which initiatives should be taken in order to calm the world down. First, "get a Middle East peace immediately, to end this war which is going on in Israel." Second, deal with the ongoing international monetary and financial collapse, which is providing the context for the attempted coup d’Etat. The necessary measures are nothing less than bankruptcy reorganization to re-start the U.S. and world economy. LaRouche: "In that process, we will weaken the potential of the enemy who is preparing to strike again. And, if we make the American people aware of this, then no coup d’Etat could be successful in the United States. Then the enemy is morally, and politically, defeated, whatever power he represents. Those, I think, are the immediate objectives."

"We’re in a terrible crisis, the worst crisis we’ve faced, probably, since the Civil War…. We, who are leaders, or who have the capacity to think as leaders, must take the crisis of our time, think as leaders, and try to impart our sense of building the future, to the rest of our citizens. And, say to them, that, no matter what happens, to any of us, we guarantee, that your life, will not be wasted. That, whatever good you do, the rest of us are dedicated to perpetuate, for the benefit of the future of humanity. And, you can smile, because your future, in that sense, is assured—your sense of identity."

Release Date: September 22, 2001

Program No. 527
The Eurasian Land-Bridge Determines Your Future

Over the Labor Day weekend, the Schiller Institute convened in Reston, Virginia for its semi-annual conference, under the theme, "How to Beat the World Depression…Which Has Now Arrived." More than 800 political activists attended, along with representatives from many foreign nations.

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features the second keynote address, delivered on Sept. 2, by Helga Zepp LaRouche.

Providing a perfect complement to her husband, Lyndon LaRouche’s address the day before [see The LaRouche Connection Program No. 424: "You Have Nothing to Fear So Much as Denial Itself!"], Mrs. LaRouche delivered a sensuous vision of what must be accomplished in the great project called the Eurasian Land-Bridge. She utilized footage form a video series called "The Silk Road, An Ancient World of Adventure," produced by Japanese filmmakers, which gives a picture of the deserts, mountains, and cultures along the ancient trading route, dramatically showing the geographic and other obstacles which pose a major challenge to be surmounted today.

After cataloging some of the now obvious-to-everyone examples of the global collapse of the economy, Mrs. LaRouche states the "good news." "There is a global alternative shaping up, namely in the form of the Eurasian Land-Bridge. An unbelievably large number of projects—railways, highways, water management, all kinds of engineering projects—are being built, giving an impetus to new trade. Many countries are involved in this right now. It’s no longer just a program. The Eurasian Land-Bridge—the infrastructure integration of the entire Eurasian continent—is shaping up at a very rapid speed."

With a humorous identification of what Americans must overcome to take up this challenge—the lying mass media which covers up the moves actually being taken to implement the Land-Bridge; the lure of isolationism; the poor quality of education; and the general decline in culture over the recent 35 years—Mrs. LaRouche then shifts to the exciting challenge of the Land-Bridge itself, including a historical presentation of how the idea of reviving this project was developed, from the time of her husband’s October 1988 address in Berlin, Germany.

Using maps and videos, including film clips of magnetically-levitated trains, Mrs. LaRouche presents the vision of what can and must be done in Africa and the Americas, as well as Eurasia. She concludes with a discussion of the foreign policy required to implement these tasks, along the conceptual lines put forward by Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa for a "dialogue of cultures," rather than the Samuel Huntington and Zbigniew Brzezinski inspired program for a "clash of civilizations."

Zepp LaRouche: "If you think about all of this, it is a matter of life and death for the United States, to link up with this beautiful development…meant as a global reconstruction program, to include every part of the world…." "You have take the whole of mankind, into your heart. Be their parents. Be the ones who undo the terrible sickness of the world. And, if we do this, we will look into the most beautiful future anybody can imagine."

Release Date: September 26, 2001

Program No. 528
LaRouche Address to Peruvian Engineers

On Oct. 2, Lyndon LaRouche addressed a conference in Lima, Peru, via teleconference from Leesburg, Virginia, co-sponsored by the Economist Engineers chapter of the Peruvian Association of Engineers (CIP), and Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), titled "What is to be Done in the Face of the World Financial Collapse?"

Speaking to an audience of about 200 for more than two hours, Mr. LaRouche began by stating "We’re in the final breakdown phase of the present world financial and monetary system," a breakdown that will reach the point of disintegration by the end of the year, whether or not the system limps along a bit longer. In addition to members of CIP, attending also were representatives of the International Organization of Fujimoristas, the Independent Democratic Movement, an APRista former senator, retired and active-duty military, a leader of the association of retirees of the state oil company, PETROPERU, a German journalist who writes for Frankische Tag, university students, professionals, EIR subscribers, and others.

"Under the present policies, the system cannot be preserved. We are in an extraordinarily dangerous period, as typified by the events of Sept. 11, largely an internal operation, but may involving elements from other parts of the world as participants. We have not seen the end of it. No one has stopped the terrorists. No one has identified yet the terrorists, the actual ones, so, they’re sitting there, ready to strike again."

Mr. LaRouche then developed the parallel between the current crisis and the crisis centered in Germany in 1933, when an effort was underway inside Germany to stop Hitler, via the Von Schleicher government. At that time, Anglo-American forces, led by Montagu Norman, the Harriman interests, and Hjalmar Schacht, overthrew Von Schleicher and installed Hitler, who’s power was not consolidated until the famous Reichstag fire and imposition of dictatorial rule. "We are in such a time of crisis now: danger, coups d’Etat, overthrows of governments, revolutions, violence, terrorism—of the characteristics of a period in which a financial system collapses. It’s a time of desperate men."

Two things must be done, urgently, Mr. LaRouche told his audience: First, international political forces must be rallied to end the danger. Next, there must be an immediate reform of the international financial and monetary system. A bankruptcy reorganization is needed, similar to when you save and protect a firm that performs an essential function for a nation. National governments cannot be allowed to collapse. Banks must be kept open, governments must continue to function, pensions must continued to be paid. The 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt precedent is known, as is the 1944 success of the Bretton Woods conference

Once such a bankruptcy reorganization has been carried out, a gigantic growth program must be set into motion. Large amounts of public credit must be generated to increase employment. Basic infrastructure projects must be launched on a large scale, along with the revival of industry, worldwide. Mr. LaRouche cited his Eurasian Land-Bridge proposal as already in the process of being adopted as policy by Russia, China, and other nations, which now must be taken up by the United States. The second aspect of a growth policy, must be a science driver program. New technologies must be brought on line, employing new higher-density forms of energy. Universities must begin producing scientists and engineers who are capable of advancing discoveries, creating new kinds of national economies.

Finally, what is required, is the political will to force through the bankruptcy reorganization, and launch a recovery via massive public credits. Expand productive employment, in pursuit of the General Welfare, then pioneer transcontinental infrastructure that unifies the entire human race. Elevate nation-states to the status of true sovereign states.

We face the greatest danger in all known history—a new Dark Age that threatens to engulf all mankind. Perhaps this crisis is what is needed to force our fellow citizens to give up their childishness, grow up, and become adults, so that when we reach the moment that we are to die, we can say, "We lived and it was good!"

Release Date: October 6, 2001

Program No. 529
LaRouche Dialogue with Peruvian Engineers

On Oct. 2, Lyndon LaRouche addressed a 200-person conference in Lima, Peru, via teleconference from Leesburg, Virginia, co-sponsored by the Economist Engineers chapter of the Peruvian Association of Engineers (CIP), and Executive Intelligence Review magazine (EIR), titled "What is to be Done in the Face of the World Financial Collapse?"

In addition to members of CIP, attending also were representatives of the International Organization of Fujimoristas, the Independent Democratic Movement, an APRista former senator, retired and active-duty military, a leader of the association of retirees of the state oil company, PETROPERU, a German journalist who writes for Frankische Tag, university students, professionals, EIR subscribers, and others.

This week’s program features the discussion session following Mr. LaRouche’s address. EIR’s correspondents Luis Vásquez and Sara Madueño read and summarized the questions posed to Mr. LaRouche, which were submitted in written form from the audience:

  • Do you think we are already in World War III? What’s going to happen to the debt situation? What’s going to happen to the nation state? Are we going to go into a situation where we’ll have world city-states? What’s the proper role of nationalist military forces? Are we in the process of disintegrating now? What’s going to happen to Latin America, given the crisis today facing the United States? What do you think that we, here, can do about this?
  • What do you think of the role of monetary policy in the generation of public investment in the countries of South America?
  • If war is promoted by great financial interests, what happens with nations? With the institution of the nation state? What happens with the United States, Germany, France? Why can’t we close ranks, to face down these financial interests? What role can countries like Peru play, in finding a solution for this problem? How can we change the mentality, especially those of our governments, because it’s obvious that we’re facing a problem of this sort?
  • You have said that the recent events in the United States [the Sept. 11 attacks against the World Trade Center and Pentagon] have been manipulated by financial interests, which seems very plausible to me. But can you make clear, for me, what are the advantages that these international forces will obtain, from these latest events?
  • Do you believe, that the globalization process affects the educational process? Do you believe that Peru has a distinct reality regarding education than other countries? What can we do to improve the spiritual quality of the people?
  • What is the relationship of the CIA to the terrorist movements in Peru: Sendero Luminoso, and the MRTA? What about the situation of terrorism in Colombia? What do you think about the relationship of terrorism and the drug trade in the whole continent? Please point out in broad terms, exactly what your security policy is for this hemisphere, for the Americas?

Release Date: October 11, 2001

Program No. 530
Clash of Civilizations, or Great Projects?

Beginning with the U.S. and British led bombing of Afghanistan, the danger of triggering a "clash of civilizations," between "the West and the rest," has vastly increased. Jeffrey Steinberg, Counterintelligence Editor for EIR magazine, opens this week’s program with a briefing on the real possibility of a new general war, ushering in a dark age, which would take a generation or more to recover from, and an analysis of the origins and nature of the danger.

On September 11, at the very moments when the hijacked airliners were hurtling into the two World Trade Center Towers and Pentagon, Lyndon LaRouche was being interviewed by radio talk show host Jack Stockwell. In that interview, Mr. LaRouche warned the American people about jumping to the conclusion that Mr. Osama bin Laden was the person totally responsible for the attacks. Although Mr. Bin Laden’s network may have supplied some of the ground forces involved, the sophistication of the attacks required a much higher-level capability: rogue elements within the Anglo-American security/intelligence community, who either facilitated the take-down of the security screens, thereby making possible the attacks, or who had worked to insure that the security screens were so denigrated that they did not detect the preparations for the attacks, which could have taken years.

Mr. Steinberg reminds viewers that the entire Afghansi network, after all, was put together during 1979-90 by the U.S., Britain, and Israel, to drive the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan, creating thousands of irregular war troops, now set at large. Bin Laden and his networks remain a controlled asset.

Although the mass media, especially CNN and CBS, has attempted to tunnel vision the public into focusing exclusively on Osama bin Laden, much more important, and dangerous, re those in Britain and the United States who desperately wish to trigger what is known as a "clash of civilizations," pitting a largely Christian West, against the one billion Muslims living from Morocco in Africa, through the Middle East, Central Asia, all the way to the islands of Indonesia.

There are now two scenarios which would trigger such an event. First, any follow-on attack against one or more Muslim countries, would likely result in the overthrow of moderate Muslim governments, setting into motion radicalized elements within those countries, with incalculable results. Second, we have the danger of Israel acting as a "breakaway ally." Unless the mad elements in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) are reigned in, any attack against Iraq, or incursion into the West Bank, or assassination of Palestinian Authority head Yasser Arafat, would likely result in the same general conflagration. Fortunately, Sec. of State Colin Powell, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld seem to be resisting the pressure for such adventures coming from such neo-con quarters as Dep. Sec. of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, and his evil twin Richard Pearle, Chm. of the Defense Policy Board, among others.

What is driving the world to war at this time, is the collapse of the world’s financial and monetary system. To avoid descent into a new dark age, we need to take Lyndon LaRouche’s advice, and implement a reorganization and orderly bankruptcy of the world’s financial system, and use the opportunity of a new economic system to organize a series of great infrastructure projects, as epitomized by the Eurasian Land-Bridge proposal of Mr. LaRouche, which would create corridors of development from the Pacific to the Atlantic, into the Middle East into Africa, and through North America to South America. Mr. LaRouche’s ideas are being increasingly accepted for policy in China, Russia and other nations. It’s time for those in the U.S. who agree with these ideas, to come forward publicly fight for them here.

The final portion of the program features the conclusion of an address, entitled "The Eurasian Land Bridge Determines Your Future," delivered on Sept. 2 by Helga Zepp LaRouche to a conference of the Schiller Institute, in Reston, Virginia. [See TLC Show No. 527 for the beginning of her address.]

Zepp LaRouche: "If you think about all of this, it is a matter of life and death for the United States, to link up with this beautiful development…meant as a global reconstruction program, to include every part of the world…." "You have take the whole of mankind, into your heart. Be their parents. Be the ones who undo the terrible sickness of the world. And, if we do this, we will look into the most beautiful future anybody can imagine."

Release Date: October 18, 2001

Program No. 531
“A Time of Crisis, a Time of Opportunity

            Opening this week’s edition, Mr. Jeffrey Steinberg, Counterintelligence Director for Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) magazine, in a studio report taped Oct. 23, briefs viewers on the recent assassination of former Israeli Cabinet minister Gen. Rehavan Ze’evi, as confirmation of Lyndon LaRouche’s warning that Israel could instigate a “breakaway ally” provocation in the Middle East, aimed at drawing the United Sates into the “Clash of Civilizations” war against the Islamic world that is being demanded by factions of the Anglo-American oligarchy. After detailing the circumstances of his murder in a Jerusalem hotel, in which the involvement of Israel’s own military or security services is highly probable, Mr. Steinberg states that noting short of an all-out U.S.-led peace drive will stop the madmen in Israel from blowing up the world. But something more is wanting.

            That “something” is what is featured in the second part of the program: Lyndon LaRouche’s Oct. 2 address to a conference in Lima, Peru, co-sponsored by the Economist Engineers chapter of the Peruvian Association of Engineers (CIP), and EIR, titled “What is to be Done in the Face of the World Financial Collapse?”

            Speaking to an audience of about 200 for more than two hours, Mr. LaRouche began by stating “We’re in the final breakdown phase of the present world financial and monetary system,” a breakdown that will reach the point of disintegration by the end of the year, whether or not the system limps along a bit longer.

            “Under the present policies, the system cannot be preserved. We are in an extraordinarily dangerous period, as typified by the events of Sept. 11, largely an internal operation, but may involving elements from other parts of the world as participants. We have not seen the end of it. No one has stopped the terrorists. No one has identified yet the terrorists, the actual ones, so, they’re sitting there, ready to strike again.”

            Mr. LaRouche then developed the parallel between the current crisis and the crisis centered in Germany in 1933, when an effort was underway inside Germany to stop Hitler, via the Von Schleicher government. At that time, Anglo-American forces, led by Montagu Norman, the Harriman interests, and Hjalmar Schacht, overthrew Von Schleicher and installed Hitler, who’s power was not consolidated until the famous Reichstag fire and imposition of dictatorial rule. “We are in such a time of crisis now: danger, coups d’etat, overthrows of governments, revolutions, violence, terrorism—of the characteristic of a period in which the financial system collapses. It’s a time of desperate men.”

            Two things must be done, urgently, Mr. LaRouche told his audience: First, international political forces must be rallied to end the danger. Next, there must be an immediate reform of the international financial and monetary system. A bankruptcy reorganization is needed, similar to when you save and protect a firm that performs an essential function for a nation. National governments cannot be allowed to collapse. Banks must be kept open, governments must continue to function, pensions must continue to be paid. The 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt present is known, as is the 1944 success of the Bretton Woods conference.

            Once a bankruptcy reorganization has been carried out, a gigantic growth program must be set into motion. Large amounts of public credit must be generated to increase employment. Basic infrastructure projects must be launched on a large scale, along with the revival of industry, worldwide. Mr. LaRouche cited his Eurasian Land-Bridge proposal as already in the process of being adopted as policy by Russia, China, and other nations, which now must be taken up by the United States. The second aspect of a growth policy, must be a science driver program. New technologies must be brought on line, employing new higher-density forms of energy. Universities must begin producing scientists and engineers who are capable of advancing discoveries, creating new kinds of national economies.

            Finally, what is required, is the political will to force through the bankruptcy reorganization, and launch a recovery via massive public credits. Expand productive employment, in pursuit of the General Welfare, then pioneer transcontinental infrastructure that unifies the entire human race.

            We face the greatest danger in all known history—a new Dark Age that threatens to engulf all mankind. Perhaps this crisis is what is needed to force our fellow citizens to give up their childishness, grow up, and become adults, so that when we reach the moment that we are to die, we can say, “We lived and it was good.!”

Release Date: October 25, 2001

Program No. 532
It Only Smells Like the Island of Dr. Moreau

Over the Labor Day weekend, the Schiller Institute convened in Reston, Virginia for its semi-annual conference, under the theme, "How to Beat the World Depression…Which Has Now Arrived." More than 800 political activists attended, along with representatives from many foreign nations.

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features the address of Stanley Ezrol, delivered on Sept. 2, as part of panel devoted to the question of culture, specifically the choices which face Americans today.

Mr. Ezrol, whose article on "the Lost Corpse of the Agrarian Movement" had just appeared in EIR magazine, gives his audience a "smell" of the opponents of the American Intellectual Tradition, by introducing the thought and actions of such literary characters as Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, and Allen Tate, Andrew Nelson Lytle, William Yandell Elliott, Stark Young, etc., and the way these pro-Confederates have mis-shaped modern American thought.

Ezrol: "What we’ve got here, is a group of fellows known as the Fugitive Poets, or the Nashville Agrarians. They are, for the most part, third-generation descendants of the Tennessee Templars, who, along with Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, and Albert Pike, the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, founded the Ku Klux Klan, in 1866." "These kids, starting out in 1915, and their direct intellectual descendants, their collaborators, and their friends, have played a leading role in shaping the environment which shapes the way that…most people in American culture think."

The Nashville Agrarians, in alliance with the Distributionists (anti-Renaissance, pro-Feudal Catholics), have provided the intellectual basis and the program, for the upsurge of the influence of the fundamentalist religious cults in political life, over the last 70 years, including the Christian Right, New Age Aquarian-type cults, Conservative Revolutionaries, and Southern Strategy Republicans. They and their collaborators have also provided the ideological basis of the systems analysis-connected one-worldist, counterculture freak movement, and allied Southern Strategy Democrats. They have provided the intellectual framework for the bipartisan, foreign, strategic and economic policy, which goes under the headings of globalization, or Project Democracy, the idea of which, is that all nation-states ought to be subject to some sort of global authority, in terms of their credit policies, economic development policies, military and technology policies. They have directly created and have led the leading school of literary criticism, which dominates the Modern Language Association, which is the professional association for all university and high school English teachers and literature professors; which sets standards for grammar in America’s major publications. They have played an important role in influencing all of the institutions of so-called culture and entertainment, typified by the Hollywood movie industry.

What characterizes all their work, is that they all tend to support a Southern way of life against what may be called the American, or prevailing way: agrarian versus industrial. They all believe a terrible thing happened to the human race, as epitomized by the development of the United States, which was cognition. That, instead, things should just be left the same, generation to generation: live in harmony with nature, instead of what they see as the American way, which thrusts folks into an unrelenting war against nature, into an infinite series of progress. The idea that it is possible to discover something new, to make improvements, must be stopped, they believe.

Release Date: November 2, 2001

Program No. 533
Anthrax Terror Spotlights Destruction of Public Health

Opening this week’s edition, host Tony Papert, in a brief studio report filed Nov. 6, tells the truth that the military operation in Afghanistan is becoming what a majority of military men internationally have termed a quagmire, and cannot be won. The idea that you could intervene in that area and not destabilize everything, was always an impossible dream. If we desire to stop terrorism, we have to hit the money supply, which means a war on drugs, gun-smuggling, and money laundering. Towards this end, but not going nearly far enough, during the week of Oct. 22, both Houses of Congress passed H.R. 3162, the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act," which, among other things, authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to take special measures against foreign countries or financial institutions or accounts deemed "primary money-laundering concerns." Passing in the midst of the biggest financial and monetary crisis in modern history, however, our legislators included two major loopholes: if enforcement would threaten the solvency of a bank, or impose too big a cost burden, the enforcement can be waived, if the financial community wishes; and secondly, the hedge funds remain completely unregulated, providing unique opportunities for laundering of drug money. What hypocrisy! If the banking system is so fragile and corrupt, that closing down a drug, money, and terror network brings it down, you have bigger problems. The whole financial and monetary system must be put through an orderly bankruptcy proceeding, for us to survive the systemic breakdown crisis we face.

In our feature, Nancy Spannaus, editor-in-chief of the nationally-circulated weekly, The New Federalist newspaper, presents the contents of a policy statement issued October 28 by Lyndon LaRouche, entitled "Build a National Defense Against Germ Warfare," in which Mr. LaRouche reminds Americans that "war costs a lot of money, but losing a war costs infinitely more." This is the lesson to be learned from the wave of anthrax attacks launched from inside the U.S. The question posed by these attacks is, "What’s coming next?"

According to Mr. LaRouche, "The most important principles of national defense against bacteriological and related forms of warfare, were featured in the adoption and implementation of the Hill-Burton legislation shortly after the close of World War II," The Hospital Survey & Construction Act of 1946. "We must not limit the idea of defense against germ warfare and related attacks to the role of medical practice. We must situate the role of the medical profession, both in care of the sick and in other ways, as an essential, subsumed feature of public sanitation." By this, is meant measures which improve and defend the life-expectancies and well-being of the population as a whole, including measures and institutionalized practice which modern society has come to consider public sanitation: safe water, improved supplies of energy, per capita and per square kilometer; improved public transportation. "Without lessening emphasis on the importance of medical counter-intelligence practice, it is public sanitation which remains the first line of defense of the population against both normal epidemic disease, and also biological warfare attacks. We require a coordinated "crash program" sort of attack on both fronts, combined. We must prepare for the worst, but aim for the best."

After presenting this document and summarizing its highlights, Mrs. Spannaus introduces a video excerpt from the Oct. 31 meeting of the Coalition to Save D.C. General Hospital, held at Campbell AME Church in SE Washington, DC, under the theme "Anthrax Terror Spotlights Destruction of Public Health: D.C. General Must be Restored!" Speaking to an audience of about 45 community activists, Marcia Merry Baker, economics editor for EIR magazine, provides an in-depth review of the principles and history of the buildup of the public health system in the United States over the last century, and its de-construction over the last 30 years under the deregulated, managed-care, HMO era. Using graphs and photographs, Mrs. Baker shows what that buildup looked like in the past, and what a build-up today must involve, in simple terms, such as the ratio of hospital beds per thousand population and the ratio of public health workers per 100 thousand population; as well as modern technologies in radiation, power generation, water infrastructure and medical facilities.

Closing out the program is a portion of the discussion session of the Schiller Institute Conference, from Sept. 2, with Lyndon LaRouche.

Release Date: November 10, 2001

Program No. 534
What to do About the Economic-Financial Meltdown

Last March, a distinguished international group of economists addressed an EIR seminar in Berlin, joining Lyndon LaRouche at the podium to call for a New Bretton Woods financial reorganization, to replace the current hopelessly bankrupt system. One hundred twenty-five economists, diplomats, politicians, and media representatives from Germany and other European countries re-convened in that city on Nov. 5, for a seminar titled "What Can Be Done In the Face of a Financial Meltdown?"

In the intervening eight months since March, over 2 million workers have lost their jobs in the U.S. and Western Europe alone. The ritualized interest-rate cuts by Alan Greenspan’s Federal Reserve, the corporate bailouts, the fiscal belt-tightening, the stimulus packages—none of this has helped, and it cannot help. The Depression is here—and it has nothing to do with the events of Sept. 11. The solution, however, is clear now, just as it was last March.

This week’s edition features Lyndon LaRouche’s keynote address to that Nov. 5 EIR seminar, in which he emphasized "The problem is not a problem of how to fix the present system, but how to replace it." Mr. LaRouche told his audience that the cause of the crisis today, lay in the "pathology" of the last 35 years, of relying on the mentality of accountants, or of "general public opinion and government opinion, which obviously does not function." Reviewing some history, Mr. LaRouche said, that whereas from 1945-1963, "Western European nations and the Americas and Japan in particular, had prospered…[with] a net growth in per-capita physical product, in per-capita standard of living, in per-capita productivity, and the general productivity of industries," in the early 1960s, there was a decline. Over that period, there has been a "succession of changes in the way the world thinks about economy," focusing on financial figures and accounting, rather than real production.

The key to the relative success of the 1945-1960 system, Mr. LaRouche said, was the "Bretton Woods system—which was a gold-reserve-based, well-regulated system, protectionist system—[which] caused those who participated in the system, as nations, to improve the standard of living, to improve productivity, and generally, the perception of prosperity in the future. From the changes that occurred during the interval between 1964 and 1967, we have gone downward. The floating exchange rate system has bankrupted the world."

Mr. LaRouche emphasized that "governments must declare the financial system bankrupt, and use their sovereign authority, individually and in combinations, to reorganize the system in bankruptcy," as was done after World War II. Mr. LaRouche added a second aspect: the need to revive and protect the sovereign nation-state, without which no economy can function. Mr. LaRouche concluded his remarks by appealing to his listeners, to think historically: "Learn to think of humanity as something very ancient in its origin, and think of humanity in what we hope will be a much longer future, than [its] antiquity. Think in terms of history! Look at what we’re doing today as a system, from the standpoint of historical criticism."

Also addressing the Nov. 5 EIR seminar in Berlin were Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Hankel, former chief economist of the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau development bank, former president of the Hesse State Bank, and professor of economics at Frankfurt University; Dr. Nino Galloni, General Director of the Italian Ministry of Labor and President of the Technical Committee of the Fund for Special Unemployment Compensation; Jacques Cheminade, candidate for the French Presidency in 2002; Dr. Kurt Richebächer, former chief representative of the Dresdner Bank, and publisher of the Richebächer Letter; Prof. Dr. Tatyana I. Koryagina, economist at the Institute of Macro-Economic Research of the Russian Ministry of Economics and Trade; Prof. Yuri Gromyko, from the Moscow Academy of Culture and Education; and Helga Zepp-LaRouche, President of the Schiller Institute.

Release Date: November 16, 2001

Program No. 535
LaRouche Medical Taskforce Discusses Public Health

Since the discovery of Anthrax spores in various letters sent through the mail, practically everyone in the country is now concerned with bio-terrorism, public health, the danger of a spreading growth of epidemics, and other threats to their personal physical survival.

This week’s edition features a roundtable discussion conducted Nov. 17 by members of the LaRouche Medical Taskforce assembled by Lyndon LaRouche to address the necessity of re-building our nation’s public health system, now that this has become a national emergency.

Chairing the discussion was Nancy Spannaus, editor-in-chief, of the nationally-circulated news-weekly The New Federalist, who introduced the three members of the taskforce: Lynne Speed, of the LaRouche political movement; Dr. Alim Muhammad, minister of Health for the Nation of Islam, and Director of the Abundant Life Clinic in Washington, DC; and Charlene Gordon, a nurse, who had, until it was closed down, worked for 18 years at D.C. General Hospital in Washington, DC.

Leading off the discussion, Mrs. Spannaus read from a transcript of a public apology to the LaRouche movement by Rep. Maxine Waters, at a Nov. 14 Congressional Briefing chaired by John Conyers and Dennis Kucinich on the theme of "Public Hospitals in Crisis: Is Our Safety Net Unraveling?" Rep. Waters: "We’ve had people coming to Congress for months, trying to focus us on the issue of D.C. General, and Congress shied away, because it was the LaRouche organization that was at the forefront of trying to get us to understand this issue. We were told [by especially Eleanor Holmes Norton] this was a local issue, not a national issue…But now, Sept. 11 has come. We should all apologize now, because they were right, and I apologize publicly. We have to all work together to solve this issue."

Mrs. Speed then went through some of the history of the Coalition to Save D.C. General Hospital’s efforts to keep DCGH open as a full-funded public hospital, and the betrayal by Tom Dashelle, who had signed a statement in support of this effort, who withdrew his support upon his acceding to Sen. Majority Leader.

After some back and forth around the case of the two postal workers who died as a result of HMO negligence after their exposure to Anthrax, and the issue of airport security, with Dr. Alim reiterating the remarks he made at the Conyers/Kucinich Briefing connecting Congress’s responsibility for dismantling public health care to their worship of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Nancy Spannaus pointed out that the financial community has said for decades "don’t invest according to the needs of the population; go for shareholder values—make money, and cut out everything else."

Throughout the discussion, nurse Gordon repeatedly called for people to wake up. "When will people recognize the leadership of Lyndon LaRouche? Stop denying that American will do this to you!

To close out the program, Mrs. Spannaus stated that one of the problems with the national health care emergency we’ve had over the recent period, is the lack of scientific information, as opposed to panic mongering form our mass media, permitting nurse Gordon to give the kind of idea of what everyone should have seen from CNN, but didn’t, during the days of the Anthrax attack.

Release Date: November 20, 2001

Program No. 536
LaRouche Address to BueSo Party Congress

This week’s edition features Lyndon LaRouche’s address to the annual national congress of the Civil Rights Movement Solidarity party (Buergerrechtsbewegung Solidaritaet, BueSo) in Mainz, Germany, Nov. 17.

To an audience of over 200, Mr. LaRouche spoke of the present period of history as a revolutionary one. "We’re in a period of history which is unlike anything that, probably, any of you have experienced in your lifetime, which most of you do not know from even studies, a period where everything that seemed to be conventional and expected, suddenly vanished. And things came forward, and became dominant, as if from nowhere, at least in the eyes of most people. These are the characteristics of the truly great revolutionary periods of history, the great upheavals which mark the separation between entire phases of history, sometimes the existence of the nations. We’re in such a period."

Mr. LaRouche described how the current political parties are trapped in the fishbowl phenomenon of sticking with popular opinion assumptions that no longer work. "The reason why all of these political parties will soon disappear from the scene, is because they have come from a period which is passed, and have entered a shift, into a period in which they are irrelevant." The key to success in such a revolutionary period, is the willingness to change one’s axioms, postulates, and definitions, in the way you think in society. You must be willing to reject the "popular opinion" of the day, concerning acceptance of certain institutions of government, law, financial and accounting practice.

Modern European civilization has achieved the greatest rates of increase in standard of living due to two factors: the sovereign nation-state system, and the emergence of science as a general practice, enabling problem solving. "Modern science is based on the discovery of the absurdity of previously established scientific opinion. "[Someone] presents experimental evidence, which presents an ontological paradox, a contradiction in physical terms, in which the same standard of mathematical physics, for example, says that something works, but in another experimental case, it doesn’t work."

The greatest threat today, is the lack of Classical humanist education: people who do not know how to think. They have been taught to learn, not to know. "Real politics today, takes the form of applied Classical humanist education, of thinking, preparing, when you’re dealing with people, to present what they need to know, in the form of experiencing a relevant ontological paradox, and working through the process of discovery to see what the principle is, which that paradox requires us to discover. And when they have shared the discovery of that principle, then they know it."

After giving a brief overview of post World War II history, referencing the long "cycles" of cultural axioms spanning generations which make societies behave in characteristic manners, Mr. LaRouche told how he was able to make a series of accurate forecasts. He then took up the question of the Sublime. "Tragedy is not the failure of a leader, but the corruption of whole societies, and the failure of leadership to emerge that is able to take on the axiomatic fallacies that corrupted their society. "Whether the danger today will be mastered, will depend upon how many natural, organic leaders, come forth from the population, to exert leadership; leadership of the quality, which Schiller identifies as the Sublime."

Release Date: November 26, 2001

Program No. 537
Are You Willing to Make the Change?

On November 17, Lyndon LaRouche was invited to address the annual national congress of the Civil Rights Movement Solidarity party (Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität, BüSo), in Mainz, Germany.

"The crucial problem we have today is the question of the Sublime," said Mr. LaRouche. "Tragedy does not lie in a mis-leader. Tragedy lies in a bad people, with a bad culture. The great figures of tragedy—the leading figures of tragedy—were bad because they were consistent, in their behavior and outlook with the society which they led. What was bad, was the lack of a leader, who would lead the society away from its habits."

Today, civilization is destroying itself. It is not a case of mis-leaders. It is being destroyed from inside, by its own people, by its own culture. It is a case of the people themselves destroying themselves. Why?

LaRouche: "Because civilization has the willpower to be able to make decisions which would change it, but the people are not making the changes. It is that characteristic behavior of not making the changes in a timely fashion, which is the force of tragedy, in real history."

"The problem we face, is that there are very few people today, who have the moral quality to rise above the littleness, the mediocrity, the small-mindedness, the petty self-interest of the average person, who knows the change that has to be made, in the assumptions of the society, to save the society, and will risk everything, as necessary, for the nation, for the people, and for the future, whatever the risk that entails for themselves."

"We’re in a revolutionary period now. It’s a period of great danger, globally. It’s also a period of great opportunity. Whether the danger will be mastered, will depend upon how many natural, organic leaders come forth to exert leadership—leadership of the quality, which Friedrich Schiller identifies as the Sublime."

Release Date: December 7, 2001

Program No. 538
The Suicidal Insanity of Ariel Sharon

This week’s edition has three sections:

EIR magazine’s counterintelligence editor Jeffrey Steinberg, opens with a 25-minute report, taped in studio on Dec. 3, focusing on the Sept. 11 attacks as a coup d’Etat attempt against the government of the United States masterminded by rogue elements within the U.S.’s own military and security community; and the danger of world war coming out of the Middle East, as Israel continues to act in a "breakaway ally" mode against the Palestinian Authority. Mr. Steinberg hits at the suicidal insanity of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s policies, supported by U.S.-based "neo-conservatives," such as Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Pearl, Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and others in the "get Iraq" mob in and around the Bush Administration. Israel cannot win the kind of prolonged irregular warfare that it is provoking. Sec. of State Colon Powell’s Louisville speech for the first time denouncing the illegal Israeli occupation of the Palestinian lands; Powell's deployment of Gen. (ret.) Anthony Zinni to the Middle East as a peace maker; and the efforts of Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to collaborate with the U.S. to cool down the situation, all offer some hope. The role of Lyndon LaRouche, in defining the policy alternatives, is crucial to prevent and defeat a "clash of civilizations" war.

Next, is former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter, from Dec. 7, speaking at the Center for Policy Analysis. In his remarks, Mr. Ritter tears through the arguments of Richard Pearle, Dep. Sec. of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Undersecretary of State John Bolton, and the rest of the "bomb Iraq" gang. The notion of self defense, as it has been defined since the Sept. 11 attacks, he said, does not include attacking other nations or groups not connected with those attacks. The alleged terrorist training camp south of Baghdad is not a terrorist training camp, but rather has been used to train operatives to attack opponents of the Iraqi regime. Iraq’s bio-weapons program was destroyed by the U.N. inspectors. The anthrax used in the attacks in the U.S., most likely came from a U.S. Defense Dept. source, not Baghdad. The real reason that the U.N. inspectors were pulled out of Iraq in Dec. 1998, was because U.S. bombing was imminent, not because the Iraqis refused to let them inspect. Iraq no longer poses a military threat to U.S. interests. Even the Israelis don’t consider Iraq their biggest threat any more. The real threat comes from U.S. ideologues who, during the 1990s staked everything on building an anti-Saddam opposition, and those ideologues are now in government. Ritter concluded by saying, that the reason the U.S. is winning in Afghanistan, is because we’re backed up by international law, and we were able to build a coalition on that basis. "If the U.S. attacks Iraq without the support of international law, and without coalition support," he warned, "the end result will be a modern-day version of Vietnam."

Concluding the program, is Lyndon LaRouche, answering a question posed to him at the BueSo party congress in Mainz, Germany, on Nov. 17.

Release Date: Dec. 13, 2001

Program No. 539
The Meteoric Rise and Fall of Enron

During its meteoric rise, Houston-based Enron was touted as the model "new-economy" energy business, a money machine which would eliminate the inefficiencies of the "old-fashioned" utilities and bring the benefits of low energy costs to all Americans. In a few short years, beginning life as a gas pipeline company, it transformed itself into an investment bank, identifying itself as a securities broker and dealer. Enron helped create an over-the-counter derivatives market in energy contracts, becoming a major derivatives dealer and player. It became the largest energy trader in the world through a variety of manipulations, some legal and some not. Its spectacular meltdown in late November is remarkable, but explicable.

This week’s edition features that explanation, with two interviews, conducted by host Jeffrey Steinberg. The first, on Dec. 14, with Harley Schlanger, Southwest Coordinator for the LaRouche political movement, from Houston, who reviews the LaRouche factor in Enron’s demise; and the second, on Dec. 15, in studio with John Hoefle, economics writer for EIR magazine, who covers Enron’s final phase.

In his interview, Mr. Schlanger reviews the activity of the LaRouche Democrats, beginning with several webcasts conducted shortly after Nov. 2000 by Lyndon LaRouche, in which he pointed to the energy crisis, which was just then becoming visible in California-—the result of a lethal mixture of post-industrial environmentalism and deregulation, as an example of the bleak future facing the nation if not reversed. LaRouche singled out the role of Enron as the key promoter of de-reg. LaRouche circulated hundreds of thousands of a campaign pamphlet, which analyzed the crisis, and offered his solutions. LaRouche and his movement repeatedly hit the Enron-led cartel responsible for the unsustainable looting of California and other states. LaRouche’s policy alternative—re-regulation, orderly bankruptcy reorganization, and a crash program of energy development, based on the use of nuclear technologies—is the only alternative to total economic and financial collapse. Within weeks, the Governor finally charged Enron, Reliant, and others by name with rigging the crisis to profiteer. At the same time, LaRouche took the fight to Washington, in further webcasts, days of lobbying, and testimony to the Senate Energy Committee hearings. It was the political climate shaped by this mobilization, that Federal regulators—while not yet touching deregulation as such—were pushed into threatening legal and regulatory actions, which forced the pirate "power marketers" to sheathe their Shylock’s knives and let prices fall back. Once falling, the deepening economic collapse accelerated the price drops by knocking the bottom out of the energy consumption.

In his interview, Mr. Hoefle explains that Enron failed because these energy pirates were never a viable operation, but were instead set up to divert part of the electricity income stream into the general financial bubble. Now, Wall Street is moving in to take over the energy-trading business at pennies on the dollar, in a desperate move to replace the income lost from the collapse of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Initial Product Offerings markets. Behind all this, is a derivatives crisis, where the big banks are far more bankrupt than Enron. Ultimately, deregulation is a post-crash maneuver, to grab an income stream after the bubble pops. That’s why the de-reg addicts keep pushing it, despite its obvious failure.

Release Date: December 21, 2001

Program No. 540
The Meteoric Rise and Fall of Enron

During its meteoric rise, Houston-based Enron was touted as the model "new-economy" energy business, a money machine which would eliminate the inefficiencies of the "old-fashioned" utilities and bring the benefits of low energy costs to all Americans. In a few short years, beginning life as a gas pipeline company, it transformed itself into an investment bank, identifying itself as a securities broker and dealer. Enron helped create an over-the-counter derivatives market in energy contracts, becoming a major derivatives dealer and player. It became the largest energy trader in the world through a variety of manipulations, some legal and some not. Its spectacular meltdown in late November is remarkable, but explicable.

This week’s edition features that explanation, with two interviews, conducted by host Jeffrey Steinberg. The first, on Dec. 14, with Harley Schlanger, Southwest Coordinator for the LaRouche political movement, from Houston, who reviews the LaRouche factor in Enron’s demise; and the second, on Dec. 15, in studio with John Hoefle, economics writer for EIR magazine, who covers Enron’s final phase.

In his interview, Mr. Schlanger reviews the activity of the LaRouche Democrats, beginning with several webcasts conducted shortly after Nov. 2000 by Lyndon LaRouche, in which he pointed to the energy crisis, which was just then becoming visible in California—the result of a lethal mixture of post-industrial environmentalism and deregulation, as an example of the bleak future facing the nation if not reversed. LaRouche singled out the role of Enron as the key promoter of de-reg. LaRouche circulated hundreds of thousands of a campaign pamphlet, which analyzed the crisis, and offered his solutions. LaRouche and his movement repeatedly hit the Enron-led cartel responsible for the unsustainable looting of California and other states. LaRouche’s policy alternative—re-regulation, orderly bankruptcy reorganization, and a crash program of energy development, based on the use of nuclear technologies—is the only alternative to total economic and financial collapse. Within weeks, the Governor finally charged Enron, Reliant, and others by name with rigging the crisis to profiteer. At the same time, LaRouche took the fight to Washington, in further webcasts, days of lobbying, and testimony to the Senate Energy Committee hearings. It was the political climate shaped by this mobilization, that Federal regulators—while not yet touching deregulation as such—were pushed into threatening legal and regulatory actions, which forced the pirate "power marketers" to sheathe their Shylock’s knives and let prices fall back. Once falling, the deepening economic collapse accelerated the price drops by knocking the bottom out of the energy consumption.

In his interview, Mr. Hoefle explains that Enron failed because these energy pirates were never a viable operation, but were instead set up to divert part of the electricity income stream into the general financial bubble. Now, Wall Street is moving in to take over the energy-trading business at pennies on the dollar, in a desperate move to replace the income lost from the collapse of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Initial Product Offerings markets. Behind all this, is a derivatives crisis, where the big banks are far more bankrupt than Enron. Ultimately, deregulation is a post-crash maneuver, to grab an income stream after the bubble pops. That’s why the de-reg addicts keep pushing it, despite its obvious failure.

Release Date: December 27, 2001


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