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Program No. 541
LaRouche Rome TV Debate: Peace Through Development

From Nov. 20-24, Lyndon LaRouche was in Rome, Italy, to address a number of meetings with members of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, and to participate in a televised debate on his ideas.

On Nov. 22, Mr. LaRouche was the main guest in a television debate on the theme, "Peace Through Development," on the weekly program "Incontri con…" (Meetings With…), broadcast live from Rome by Teleambiente. Host Giuseppe Vecchio introduced the four speakers: Lyndon LaRouche, economist and philosopher; Prof. Roberto Panizza, economist and professor of international economics at Turin University; Dr. Nino Galloni, director of the Italian Labor Ministry; and Father Ulisse Frascali, president of the Foundation Nuovo Villaggio del Fanciullo in Ravenna. Host Vecchio introduced LaRouche as a special guest, saying, "Mr. LaRouche has been promoting a New Bretton Woods system for years, to replace the present, bankrupt, IMF system, and to create a just world economic order, which promotes the realization of infrastructural projects, such as the Eurasian Land-Bridge, allowing peace through development." Host Vecchio proceeded to ask Mr. LaRouche to explain his assessment of the present world economic crisis, and how to get out of it.

When asked by host Vecchio what he thought about LaRouche’s call for an urgent financial reorganization, Prof. Panizza (one of the Italian economists involved in preparing the proposal for debt relief for poor countries in the Jubilee Year promoted by Pope John Paul II and the Italian Catholic Bishops Conference, and approved by the Italian Parliament in July 2000) replied "I fully agree with everything LaRouche said, and I am always amazed to see how his ideas fully coincide with mine. I think such a financial reorganization would be much more effective in stopping international terrorism than bombing Afghanistan, since the main support to terrorism does not come from Afghanistan, but from financial interests involved in the drug trade and financial speculation worldwide, as LaRouche said."

Dr. Galloni then emphasized the importance of what Mr. LaRouche had said about the phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Bush on Sept. 11, which averted a serious international crisis. Dr. Galloni also endorsed LaRouche’s proposal for Third World development, as the only solution, not only to poverty and destabilization, but also to the economic crisis in the developed countries, including Europe, which depends largely on export markets.

Father Frascali added to the discussion the social experience of a priest, who is working daily with the "forgotten man," those children and adults who are the first victims of what he called a "rush to success an riches," forgetting social values.

Responding to host Vecchio’s query concerning American economic thinking, and John Maynard Keynes, LaRouche explained that many people in Europe tend to concentrate on Keynes, when they debate free-market economics, as opposed to other schools in economics, while the American school of economics actually goes back to President Lincoln.

Economist Panizza underlined the importance of what LaRouche said, regarding the three "American System" economists—Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich List, and Henry Carey—given the demonstrated failure of present economic theories in facing the world financial crisis.

The one-hour debate ended with the announcement of several future broadcasts on economics, with Prof. Panizza and Dr. Galloni as permanent guests. Many viewers called into Teleambiente to congratulate LaRouche and the other speakers for their courage to openly discuss such important matters, normally avoided on TV.

Simultaneous translation of the Italian speakers is provided by Umberto Pascali.

Release Date: January 2, 2002

Program No. 542
LaRouche Delhi Seminar:
A New Monetary System

After an absence of 18 years, Lyndon LaRouche and his wife Helga Zepp-LaRouche returned to India. From Nov. 30 to Dec. 6, they met with several high-ranking Indian leaders, including two former Prime Ministers, Chandra Shekhar and I.K. Gujral; and leading officials of the present government of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. On Dec. 5, India’s President, K.R. Narayanan received Mr. And Mrs. LaRouche.

On Dec. 3, Mr. LaRouche keynoted a seminar at the India International Center in Delhi, sponsored by Executive Intelligence Review magazine. The invitation-only session was attended by 35 persons, among them former national cabinet ministers, high-level economic advisers, key intellectuals, and selected journalists. This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features Mr. LaRouche’s presentation, entitled "Growing Global Crisis: The World Needs a New Monetary System."

Opening the seminar, Prof. Devendra Kaushik, former chairman of the Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, and present chairman of Maulana Azad Institute of Asian Studies in Calcutta, called Mr. LaRouche "one of the most powerful thinkers of our time, for whom economics is not a subject of money and finances, but a commitment to the General Welfare and the Common Good."

In his presentation, Mr. LaRouche stressed the importance of learning real history, in particular learning from the fight to create the sovereign nation-state, the key achievement of the European Renaissance in the 15th Century. He then discussed the "American system of political-economy," and its impact in Europe, Japan, China, and Russia during the 19th Century. The key achievement was the building of railway systems, such as the Trans-Siberian, as the basis for inland economic development. It was to counter this, that British geopolitics was founded, he said.

This approach to economics demands a new approach to education, Mr. LaRouche continued, based on re-creating the crucial discoveries made in history—a vital issue for India, with its huge population and problem of under-development and poverty. India must emphasize infrastructure, water management and power supply, with the nuclear high-temperature reactor as the appropriate technology for power generation. Public credit is required for investment in new industrial technologies, and machine tool investments. All this requires long-term thinking: "No government is thinking, unless it thinks 25 years ahead. We must choose the road for the future. Think like a parent, who fosters the development a child for the future."

In his closing remarks, Mr. LaRouche emphasized that "the present global financial system is finished," and must be superseded by a "New Bretton Woods" reorganization. The Eurasian Land-Bridge is the right development perspective. The nations of East and Southeast Asia need a rapid infusion of technology, based on long-term credit at low interest rates for great infrastructure projects, and with Russia serving as transmission belt. We can bring the nations into the new system. If we fail, "we are headed for a new dark age."

Release Date: January 9, 2002

Program No. 543
Dialogue with LaRouche: Delhi Seminar

Jeffrey Steinberg, counterintelligence editor for Executive Intelligence Review magazine opens with an announcement of an upcoming international webcast, entitled "Continue the American Revolution," to be held on January 24, which will feature Lyndon LaRouche, whose presentation and subsequent discussion will focus on the world crisis, and how to solve it.

Typifying the situation in Europe and the U.S., where more and more voices are echoing what Mr. LaRouche has been saying regarding the events of September 11, 2001, Mr. Steinberg then briefs viewers on statements made recently by Andreas von Buelow, former German Minister of Technology; and Brig. Dr. Mahmoud Khalaf, an Egyptian strategic analyst, fellow of the Nasr Higher Military Academy, and a member of the Scientific Association of the U.S. Army. Mr. von Buelow’s remarks appear in an interview published in the Berlin Tagesspiegel daily newspaper of Jan. 13. Dr. Khalaf’s remarks appear in a presentation he made at the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Cairo on Dec. 5.

On Dec. 3, Mr. LaRouche keynoted a seminar at the India International Center in Delhi, sponsored by Executive Intelligence Review magazine. The invitation-only session was attended by 35 persons, among them former national cabinet ministers, high-level economic advisers, key intellectuals, and selected journalists.

Following Mr. LaRouche’s keynote, Helga Zepp-LaRouche appealed to the Indian elite to recognize that a renewed effort has to be made by the planners of India to internalize the idea of Eurasian infrastructural integration, because the moment of crisis is coming very soon. "If people have the right conception, then this crisis can be used to put the new world economic order, based on the Eurasian Land-Bridge, back on the agenda, and to realize it." Her short remarks are featured here.

Concluding the program, is part of the extensive discussion session from that Delhi seminar, featuring Mr. LaRouche. Participating in the discussion session, among others, were the following persons:

  • Prof. Devendra Kaushik, former chairman of the Center for Russian, East European, and Central
  • Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; and present chairman of the Maulana Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta.
  • Dr. Nirupa Sen, correspondent for Current Science.
  • Vinod Seghal, former Indian military attaché to France.
  • J.C. Kapur, publisher of the magazine World Affairs, and owner of the Kapur Solar Farm.
  • Chandrajit Yadav, former Union minister and former Member of Parliament.
  • Dr. Padma Seth, member of the National Women’s Commission.
  • Prof. Arjun Sengupta, School of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; former economic adviser to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; former adviser to International Monetary Fund Managing Director Michel Camdessus.

Release Date: January 16, 2002 

Program No. 544
Dialogue with LaRouche: Berlin Seminar

In March of 2001, a distinguished international group of economists joined with Lyndon LaRouche at an EIR seminar in Berlin, Germany 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 from March to November, over 2 million workers had 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 the discussion session with Lyndon LaRouche from that Nov. 5 EIR seminar. In that discussion, Mr. LaRouche addresses the following issues:

  • The September 11 attacks: A coup run by a trans-Atlantic cabal, on the ideas of Zbigniew Brzezinski and his ilk, who are determined to trigger a clash of civilizations. "The question is not how to fight this war, but how to prevent it."
  • The world-wide financial/economic crash: "Over the past 2 million years, Man has been able to survive, and even prosper, when most institutions, and most populations stick and are morally depraved, because of the Sublime."

Release Date: January 23, 2002

Program No. 545
Lyndon LaRouche: And Now, A Year Later

Addressing an overflow crowd at a hotel in Washington, DC, and a gathering in New York City, Lyndon LaRouche issued a moral challenge on January 24 to U.S. and world leaders, to step forward with him in a life-or-death battle to save civilization. Mr. LaRouche spoke from Frankfurt, Germany in an interactive video teleconference, which was also webcast live to an international audience.

In the face of both a systemic financial breakdown crisis, and a threat of world empire by the fascist gang around former Carter National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and Harvard political scientist and global strategist Samuel Huntington which inspired an attempted coup d’Etat on Sept. 11, Mr. LaRouche said the world desperately needs leadership which will face reality, and act to support the establishment of a community of principle among sovereign nations, to restore economic growth.

Mr. LaRouche first established for his audience the fundamental reality of the world monetary-financial system. "Despite all efforts at denial, there is no way that any present mode of IMF policy can prevent a disintegration of Argentina." But that’s not the only crisis. There’s Japan, Eastern Europe, and a looming disaster in the European Union as well.

As for the solution: "The remedy for a collapse is not to cut, cut, cut. The remedy is not to cut credit. It is rather to increase credit, especially state credit, but to channel it, under strict regulation, and strict conditionalities, to ensure that the credit goes into no place but increase of production, and other useful things—such as more employment in infrastructure reactivating idle capacity of industry, meeting obligations in health care, meeting pension obligations, meeting other obligations which are essential for the political and social stability of society, as well as the basis of the recovery."

There is a crisis of leadership, however, in Europe and the Americas. No one is willing to deliver the solutions. LaRouche: "We have people in this country who could be part of the solution, including seasoned political figures, if they were brought together as a force. But we don’t have them together at this time, and one of the things I’m trying to do today, is to shame them into moving in that direction. Step forward, and begin to show the kind of leadership this country needs for this crisis. Bypass the two parties. Just give some leadership outside the two-party framework, and then come back and reorganize the party system on the basis of a show of leadership, by showing a leadership which can rally the American people…"

Mr. LaRouche pledged to head this fight, and recommended his record of unparalleled accuracy in forecasting, in support of his qualifications for leadership. "I can promise you that I am committed to not an empire, but to what some people call a [multi]-polar world: a community of principle among perfectly sovereign nation-states, which I think is the only way this planet can be managed. And I can promise you that I’ll fight now, and I’ll fight until I die. I will not quit."

Release Date: January 30, 2002

Program No. 546
LaRouche International Webcast: Jan. 24, 2002

In the face of both a systemic financial breakdown crisis, and a threat of world empire by the fascist gang around former Carter National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and Harvard political scientist and global strategist Samuel Huntington which inspired an attempted coup d’Etat on Sept. 11, the world desperately needs leadership which will face reality, and act to support the establishment of a community of principle among sovereign nations, to restore economic growth.

This week’s program features an address by Lyndon LaRouche to an overflow crowd at a hotel in Washington, DC, and a gathering in New York City, in which he issued a moral challenge to U.S. and world leaders, to step forward with him in a life-or-death battle to save civilization. Mr. LaRouche spoke on Jan. 24, from Frankfurt, Germany in an interactive video teleconference, which was also webcast live to an international audience.

Establishing for his audience the fundamental reality of the world monetary-financial system, Mr. LaRouche said, that "Despite all efforts at denial, there is no way that any present mode of IMF policy can prevent a disintegration of Argentina." But that’s not the only crisis. There’s Japan, Eastern Europe, and a looming disaster in the European Union as well.

The solution? "The remedy for a collapse is not to cut, cut, cut. The remedy is not to cut credit. It is rather to increase credit, especially state credit, but to channel it, under strict regulation, and strict conditionalities, to ensure that the credit goes into no place but increase of production, and other useful things—such as more employment in infrastructure reactivating idle capacity of industry, meeting obligations in health care, meeting pension obligations, meeting other obligations which are essential for the political and social stability of society, as well as the basis of the recovery."

With no one willing to delivery the solutions, however, there is a crisis leadership in Europe and the Americas. "We have people in this country who could be part of the solution, including seasoned political figures, if they were brought together as a force. But we don’t have them together at this time, and one of the things I’m trying to do today, is to shame them into moving in that direction. Step forward, and begin to show the kind of leadership this country needs for this crisis. Bypass the two parties. Just give some leadership outside the two-party framework, and then come back and reorganize the party system on the basis of a show of leadership, by showing a leadership which can rally the American people…"

Standing on his record of unparalleled accuracy in forecasting, in support of his qualifications for leadership, Mr. LaRouche pledged to lead the fight. "I can promise you that I am committed to not an empire, but to what some people call a [multi]-polar world: a community of principle among perfectly sovereign nation-states, which I think is the only way this planet can be managed. And I can promise you that I’ll fight now, and I’ll fight until I die. I will not quit."

Release Date: February 5, 2002

Program No. 547
Dialogue with LaRouche:
Jan. 24, 2002 Webcast

In the face of both a systemic financial breakdown crisis, and a threat of world empire by the fascist gang around former Carter National Security Advi