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Program No. 591
"LaRouche: Youth Movement Key to Saving Civilization"

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features an address given by Lyndon LaRouche on January 5 to the staff of EIR News Service at its European bureau in Wiesbaden, Germany. Included also is a portion from the discussion session following Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks.

Telling his audience that the survival of civilization, and its ability to recover from the current global crisis depends on the success of the international youth movement that he personally is building, Mr. LaRouche explains that only the creation of a youth movement based upon an understanding of fundamental principles--such as the distinction that makes man different from the beasts--and that is committed to fight for policies based on those principles, will have the staying power to prevent a slide back into crisis and chaos. Whenever society allows itself to be governed by the prevailing popular opinions, that society heads for tragedy and doom. The key then to saving civilization, is the rise of a leader, at a moment of crisis, who is able to lift a people above their wrong-headed popular opinions, enable them "to recognize that their culture is rotten, and to change it, in time." Such leaders "did not work alone. As far as we know, there have been youth movements, who have arisen in response to such leadership, to kick their parents in the rear end, and to make them human again."

Mr. LaRouche provides a tour d’horizon of European and American history, pointing out that civilization is marked by ebbs and flows, moving forward where leaders and movements go against popular opinion, and falling back and even collapsing, as cultures slide into decay. Using the example of the Golden Renaissance giving way to the decadence of the Enlightenment and Romanticism, he describes how a network of leaders were able to revive principles of the Renaissance, to create a new potential flowering of human knowledge and civilization: Johann Sebastian Bach, Gottfried Leibniz. Abraham Kaestner, Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, among many others.

Mr. LaRouche describes his own efforts to build a youth movement, starting, really, in the 1960s, and reviving it in the last two years, as the organization he founded has aged. "The difference of this youth movement, and those you’ve known from the past, is [that prior] youth movements have been too practical. There’s been too much enthusiasm, and too little intellect. And therefore you do not have leaders in sufficient numbers, to have a secure movement…. Therefore, we have to produce a youth movement of geniuses. We have to outnumber the enemy, so we’re not vulnerable to the loss of a few people, as we are now."

You do that by inculcating in youth leaders the principles of Classical culture, making them all capable of thinking like LaRouche. A grounding in Classical education, especially understanding the work of the great German mathematician Gauss, teaches one to grasp the idea that reality is not defined by one’s senses, but by one’s ability to think, to see with one’s mind. This is the essence of man, his ability to know, to think creatively, to discover fundamental principles, and to communicate them; no beast can willfully change its environment, no beast can make its own history.

To be a real leader, one must be willing to face one’s immortality. "My mission here, is to develop a stratum of young people – 18 to 25 year olds – who represent a broad base of capable leadership, who by being broad in their numbers, and qualities, are not so vulnerable, as those youth movements to which we are indebted from the past."

Release Date: Jan. 16, 2003

Program No. 592
"Dialogues with LaRouche: Berlin & Budapest

In mid-December, 2002, Lyndon LaRouche traveled to Berlin and Budapest

In Berlin, Germany, on Dec. 18, at a seminar sponsored by Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) magazine, Lyndon LaRouche spoke on the necessity for resolute and thoughtful action this coming year: "On the 28th of January, about five days after President George W. Bush, Jr. will have delivered his State of the Union address, I shall issue mine, which will be webcast [live from] Washington, DC. Until those two addresses have been made, it will be extremely difficult to estimate what U.S. policy is going to be, and consequently, very difficult to estimate what the world situation will be."

Attending the seminar were diplomats from Arab, Asian, African, and East European embassies, representatives of Arab, German, and Asian media, and students from universities in France, Denmark, Berlin, and a representative from the Robert Schuman Center for Europe in Luxembourg.

This first segment of this week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features the conclusion of the discussion session following Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks to that seminar. [See The LaRouche Connection Program No. 589 for Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks.]

In Budapest, Hungary on December 12, Mr. LaRouche spoke before a Schiller Institute co-sponsored a seminar, at the St. Laszlo Academy in Budapest, entitled "How to Reconstruct a Bankrupt World." One hundred twenty friends and guest were challenged by Mr. LaRouche with the question of what quality of "moral leadership" is needed to overcome the presently unfolding world-wide tragedy.

The second segment of this week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features the conclusion of the discussion session following Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks to that seminar. [See The LaRouche Connection Program No. 588 for Mr. LaRouche’s opening remarks.]

Release Date: Jan. 24, 2003

Program No. 593
"LaRouche: The State of the Union in 2003," Pt. 1

On January 28, Lyndon LaRouche delivered one of the most historic speeches of his long and distinguished career in public life, in his "State of the Union," subtitled "On the Subjects of Economy and Security." From the Bush team’s last-minute "damage control" revision of the President’s own State of the Union speech, delivered several hours later; to the diplomat and international journalists firing off e-mails to their home countries; to the on-line viewers in the world’s corridors of power and homes of ordinary citizens--the shockwaves from the speech are spreading out, and will be doing so for a long time to come. Mr. LaRouche’s intervention comes at one of the most dangerous times in history, with the dollar system hanging by a thread, and the Clash of Civilizations faction in a countdown for war against Iraq.

Representing what its former friends around the world call "the true United Sates," the historical "exception" founded by a Leibnizian conspiracy as a sovereign republic, opposed to the bestial notion of empire, Mr. LaRouche’s approach to the world contrasts dramatically from the current sitting President. LaRouche insists that the utopian drive to attack Iraq can be stopped, while Bush encourages it; LaRouche demonstrates that the current financial system is finished, and outlines economic recovery measures to save the country, while Bush ignores the collapse of the financial system and the physical economy; LaRouche outlines forceful action to stop HIV/AIDS from wiping out nations in Africa, while Bush inserts an HIV/AIDS initiative to supply drugs to Africa, at the last minute in his speech.

Constituting the live audience of over 250 in Washington, DC, were 19 diplomats representing 16 nations spanning Africa, Asia, Europe, Eastern Europe, Ibero-America, and the Middle East; as well as representatives from associations of State legislators, Middle East policy associations, American Muslim organizations, the Nation of Islam, Congressional staff, community, ethnic, and political activists, and three representatives of the press. LaRouche youth movement recruits counted for more than 20%. The speech was watched and/or listened to live on nearly 800 web connections, besides group meetings held around the audio/video Internet broadcast, from Detroit, Michigan to Lima, Peru.

Mr. LaRouche’s address is a thorough-composed overview of what he calls "the present as current history." He covers four major areas: (1) the causes and nature of the present economic crisis; (2) the emergency measures which must be taken now; (3) the global strategic conflicts which overlap this economic crisis; and (4) the urgent measures needed to correct the current panic-driven notions of "homeland defense." Mr. LaRouche uses the occasion to call for firing Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff and chief national security aide.

Mr. LaRouche concludes by saying "[T]here's no need for the problems we have today. There’s no need for their happening. But if we understand why they shouldn’t have happened, as I’ve tried to indicate as succinctly as possible, we can fix the problems now, and perhaps prevent them from recurring again in the future."

Release Date: Feb. 7, 2003

Program No. 594
LaRouche: The State of the Union in 2003," Pt. 2

On January 28, Lyndon LaRouche delivered one of the most historic speeches of his long and distinguished career in public life, in his "State of the Union," subtitled "On the Subjects of Economy and Security."

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features the second hour of his opening remarks.

Representing what its former friends around the world call "the true United Sates," the historical "exception" founded by a Leibnizian conspiracy as a sovereign republic, opposed to the bestial notion of empire, Mr. LaRouche’s approach to the world contrasts dramatically from the current sitting President. LaRouche insists that the utopian drive to attack Iraq can be stopped, while Bush encourages it; LaRouche demonstrates that the current financial system is finished, and outlines economic recovery measures to save the country, while Bush ignores the collapse of the financial system and the physical economy; LaRouche outlines forceful action to stop HIV/AIDS from wiping out nations in Africa, while Bush inserts an HIV/AIDS initiative to supply drugs to Africa, at the last minute in his speech.

Constituting the live audience of over 250 in Washington, DC, were 19 diplomats representing 16 nations spanning Africa, Asia, Europe, Eastern Europe, Ibero-America, and the Middle East; as well as representatives from associations of State legislators, Middle East policy associations, American Muslim organizations, the Nation of Islam, Congressional staff, community, ethnic, and political activists, and three representatives of the press. LaRouche youth movement recruits counted for more than 20%. The speech was watched and/or listened to live on nearly 800 web connections, besides group meetings held around the audio/video Internet broadcast, from Detroit, Michigan to Lima, Peru.

Mr. LaRouche’s address is a thorough-composed overview of what he calls "the present as current history." He covers four major areas: (1) the causes and nature of the present economic crisis; (2) the emergency measures which must be taken now; (3) the global strategic conflicts which overlap this economic crisis; and (4) the urgent measures needed to correct the current panic-driven notions of "homeland defense." Mr. LaRouche uses the occasion to call for firing Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff and chief national security aide.

Mr. LaRouche concludes by saying "[T]here's no need for the problems we have today. There’s no need for their happening. But if we understand why they shouldn’t have happened, as I’ve tried to indicate as succinctly as possible, we can fix the problems now, and perhaps prevent them from recurring again in the future."

Release Date: Feb. 26, 2003

Program No. 595
"LaRouche: The State of the Union in 2003," Pt. 3

On January 28, Lyndon LaRouche delivered one of the most historic speeches of his long and distinguished career in public life, in his "State of the Union," subtitled "On the Subjects of Economy and Security." This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features the conclusion of his opening remarks, and the beginning of the discussion session which followed.

Representing what its former friends around the world call "the true United Sates," the historical "exception" founded by a Leibnizian conspiracy as a sovereign republic, opposed to the bestial notion of empire, Mr. LaRouche’s approach to the world contrasts dramatically from the current sitting President. LaRouche insists that the utopian drive to attack Iraq can be stopped, while Bush encourages it; LaRouche demonstrates that the current financial system is finished, and outlines economic recovery measures to save the country, while Bush ignores the collapse of the financial system and the physical economy; LaRouche outlines forceful action to stop HIV/AIDS from wiping out nations in Africa, while Bush inserts an HIV/AIDS initiative to supply drugs to Africa, at the last minute in his speech.

Constituting the live audience of over 250 in Washington, DC, were 19 diplomats representing 16 nations spanning Africa, Asia, Europe, Eastern Europe, Ibero-America, and the Middle East; as well as representatives from associations of State legislators, Middle East policy associations, American Muslim organizations, the Nation of Islam, Congressional staff, community, ethnic, and political activists, and three representatives of the press. LaRouche youth movement recruits counted for more than 20%. The speech was watched and/or listened to live on nearly 800 web connections, besides group meetings held around the audio/video Internet broadcast, from Detroit, Michigan, to Lima, Peru.

Mr. LaRouche’s address is a thorough-composed overview of what he calls "the present as current history." He covers four major areas: (1) the causes and nature of the present economic crisis; (2) the emergency measures which must be taken now; (3) the global strategic conflicts which overlap this economic crisis; and (4) the urgent measures needed to correct the current panic-driven notions of "homeland defense." Mr. LaRouche uses the occasion to call for firing Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff and chief national security aide.

From the discussion session, moderated by Debra Freeman, national spokeswoman for Mr. LaRouche:

  • From a member of the staff of one of the Congressional Committees: Why is budget-cutting not sound economic policy?
  • From many questioners: On Rev. Sun Moon and the Unification Church: their role in current policy of this Administration toward Korea, in the Nation of Islam, and their general intent?
  • From many questioners: On Africa policy: what can we do right now?

Release Date: March 6, 2003

Program No. 596
"In the Aftermath of January 28"

Over the Presidents’ Day weekend, the LaRouche movement met in Reston, Virginia, preparing its members to take leadership in a world exploding with revolutionary change. With the theme "This is Our Time," about 750 people--more than 200 of them youth--attended the semi-annual conference of the Schiller Institute, in the midst of the worst blizzard to hit the U.S. East Coast in 40 years.

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features the keynote address given on Feb. 15 by Lyndon LaRouche, entitled "In the Aftermath of January 28."

Mr. LaRouche takes up the international situation since January 28 when he gave his State of the Union Address, [See The LaRouche Connection Programs No. 593 and 594], reviewing the tremendous progress shown in the phase shift reflected in the Feb. 14 United Nations Security Council meeting and the massive demonstrations against the war the next day. A revolution in world public opinion has been made on the question of the alleged "inevitability" of the war against Iraq, and LaRouche and his movement have played a crucial catalytic role in jamming up the war, providing time for the anti-war movement, and strong international resistance to develop. This tested leadership must now turn America away from tragedy, and onto the path of a real economic recovery.

Turning to the cause of the crisis, Mr. LaRouche reprises what has happened to the U.S. economy over the past 40 years, showing how the monetary-financial system has been driven into a state of terminal collapse. "What you’ve seen, is this transformation of the U.S., from the world’s leading producer society, into an imperial society, which lives, not by producing wealth at home, but by looting the rest of the world, using imperial military and financial muscle to force other countries to feed us, on a slave-wage production budget." The problem, he argues, is in the morality of the population, which has disintegrated, with everyone kowtowing to public opinion. What is needed, instead, is sublime leadership, to inspire. "We’ve come to a time of great potential tragedy, and great opportunity. We’ve come to a time where mankind is shaken. We find people moving. And even though the war has not yet been stopped, we have an affirmation from implicitly the great majority of humanity, saying : "This war shall not be allowed to occur!’ That is a great moment"

"In history, from time to time, in moments of crisis, there has emerged a leadership, capable of addressing a people who realize ‘We’ve been wrong.’ The danger of great, senseless wars, sweeping over this planet, convinces people that something is wrong; that drastic change is occurring." "We’ve come to a time, when it is no longer possible to fool all of the people. This is one of those periods in history of great opportunity for change, where the fate of mankind depends largely upon a relative handful of leaders; always has. And, there’s reason for it." "The most important thing, is to produce, among young people, when they are entering maturity, a sense--a true, deep sense--of immortality." If the younger generation, the "no-future" generation," can grasp that sense, then they in turn can inspire their parents’ generation with a true sense of historic mission for humanity. We can then proceed to put the economy through bankruptcy reorganization, implement a New Bretton Woods, build great infrastructure projects such as the Eurasian Land-Bridge, the Super-TVA, and the exploration of space: a real future! "I think we’ll find the world is ready for us. Its ready for us to play a leading role, once again."

Release Date: March 12, 2003 

Program No. 597
"LaRouche Youth Movement: Shattering Axioms," Pt. 1

Over the Presidents’ Day weekend, the LaRouche movement met in Reston, Virginia, preparing its members to take leadership in a world exploding with revolutionary change. With the theme "This is Our Time," about 750 people--more than 200 of them youth--attended the semi-annual conference of the Schiller Institute, in the midst of the worst blizzard to hit the U.S. East Coast in 40 years.

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features the first half of Panel V: The LaRouche Youth Movement: "Shattering Axioms, Fighting for Our Future!" from Feb. 16.

Presenting various "pedagogical exercises," leaders of the LaRouche Youth Movement from around the country explore the boundaries of science and art, by means of various paradoxes--known for thousands of years, but understood by few in today's world--pointing up the malicious mis-education we all have received.

  • Cody Jones, the panel chairman, begins by stating that "students need to stop watching the shadows on the irregular wall of their professors’ rectums, and crawl out to smell the reality behind the shadows." "If you want to run from your immortality, LaRouche will be waiting with his youth movement at the door."
  • Jennifer Chaine (an ex truck driver), introduces classical art, "something that today’s students are taught to rush through on their way to getting down to the ‘expressing myself’ part as quickly as possible." She leads her audience through Rembrandt’s Lucretia, as a classical tragedy in mid-motion.
  • Alex Getachew presents poetry, as "an act of revolution," through the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Paul Lawrence Dunbar. He shows a videotape of baritone William Warfield reciting Dunbar’s poem on Shelley, which ends, "we tingle where old poets used to storm." In revolutionary times like this, as Shelley states, the population is endowed with a non-mystical power to discuss the most profound ideas of man. Poets, Shelley says, are the "unacknowledged legislators" of Man, making people more fit to govern.
  • Jason Ross continues the mental fight for the sublime, and an end to "sucking shadows." "You have to get inside someone, if you want them to change, not propitiate their backwardness." Bernard Riemann’s Habilitation dissertation makes clear to all but the most blocked, that true knowledge always increases Man’s power to change the universe, and thus is only provably true through physical experiment. Jason illustrates this idea by contracting the "shadow-watchers" with Johannes Kepler, who shows how to find a new acting principle that has power over your observations. "What’s wrong with your thinking, is where you find the Truth. Common sense may be common, but its not sense. People get PhDs for studying tiny parts of shadows in the cave, but they are oblivious to the fact that they themselves are in a cave."
  • Anna Shavin presents the paradox of the Pythagorean Comma. Assisted by Jennifer Kreingold, she leads her audience through the divisions of the monochord, to a demonstration of piano vs. the human voice. Repeating the experiment, she makes sure the audience actually hears the paradox of the slight difference (the comma) between the voice and the piano, rather than just nodding their heads. She then shows that it was actually a paradox in the geometry of the universe, as commas occur as well on the keyboard.

Release Date: March 17, 2003 

Program No. 598
"LaRouche Youth Movement: Shattering Axioms," Pt. 2

Over the Presidents’ Day weekend, the LaRouche movement met in Reston, Virginia, preparing its members to take leadership in a world exploding with revolutionary change. With the theme "This is Our Time," about 750 people--more than 200 of them youth--attended the semi-annual conference of the Schiller Institute, in the midst of the worst blizzard to hit the U.S. East Coast in 40 years.

This week’s edition of The LaRouche Connection features the second half of Panel V: The LaRouche Youth Movement: "Shattering Axioms, Fighting for Our Future!" from Feb. 16.

Presenting various "pedagogical exercises," leaders of the LaRouche Youth Movement from around the country explore the boundaries of science and art, by means of various paradoxes--known for thousands of years, but understood by few in today’s world--pointing up the malicious mis-education we all have received. Chairing the panel is Cody Jones.

  • Riana St. Classis, assisted by Sky Shields and Anna Shavin, perplexes her audience with a pedagogical on mapping and projection, using a series of transparent spheres, projected in different ways onto a flat screen, to show how the mapping process generates ordered singularities that occur as paradoxes to the observer. "It is the discovery and comprehension of these paradoxes which help us get at what’s really going on."
  • Sky Shields, continues with Riana’s mapping, shows the enlarged image of Antarctica in a Mercator Projection as a metaphor for what Bach uses to express a musical idea. "It is in the utilization of such paradoxes as irony, counterpoint, and metaphor, that the human mind is forced out of the notes and into the actual idea."
  • Lyndon LaRouche, invited by the youth to give some brief remarks, about the fundamental nature of Man, points out that there are three distinct phase spaces in the universe: 1) A-biotic, which does not assume Life, and which is characterized, as in crystal growth, in symmetrical geometries; 2) Life, which introduces "left-handed" distortions into the a-biotic universe; and 3) Spiritual, the cognitive powers of the human mind. Mr. LaRouche provides three "spiritual exercises," by which Man discovers the pre-existing fundamental principles of the universe, for the purpose of, and which permits him to, transform the universe: 1) the Pythagorean Comma; 2) the doubling of the line, square, and cube; and 3) the fact that there is only one regular polyhedron which can be inscribed in a sphere.
  • Brian McAndrews then speaks about how the LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM) sees itself as part of an historical process, comparing itself to the light cavalry of Civil War General Phil Sheridan, whose deployments were designed for strategic, not local, purposes, to win the war. "We have to amplify our effect beyond the field of battle, to win the war. Our mission is two-fold: to put LaRouche in the White House in 2004, and to launch a perpetual renaissance, creating generations of geniuses. In our cavalry, no knowledge of horseback riding is required, but we have to know about the horses’ asses that permeate the ranks of the baby boomers." Using still photos and video clips, Brian discusses the development of the LYM as an unfolding of an idea in the mind of Lyndon LaRouche four years ago, to the present, where it deploys internationally. "Profound ideas are conveyed through beautiful art." "It is ideas which shape events, not the other way around."

Release Date: April 2, 2003 

Program No. 599
"Physical Geometry as Strategy," Pt. 1

On March 21-23, the Schiller Institute convened an international conference, entitled "How to Reconstruct a Bankrupt World," in Bad Schwalbach, Germany. Nearly 600 people from 45 nations--including 120 LaRouche Youth Movement activists from across Europe--came to confront the disaster of imperial "perpetual war," with a grand design for economic development, put out for worldwide circulation as "The Bad Schwalbach Declaration."

Featured in this edition of The LaRouche Connection is the first hour of Lyndon LaRouche’s keynote, delivered the day after U.S. strikes against Iraq began. Mr. LaRouche condemns the war as the beginning of a world war. "If you don’t stop it, there is no ‘after” Iraq war, because you will be going into another war, under an administration which is totally committed to a worldwide fascist imperialism. Therefore, we must stop it."

Sitting next to Mr. LaRouche on the podium were representatives from three nations of the Eurasian Strategic Triangle: Dr. Vladimir Myasnikov from the Far East Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Dr. Bi Jiyao from the Chinese State Development Planning Commission; and Chandrajit Yadav a Minister in Indira Gandhi’s government. Tam Dalyell, Britain’s anti-war parliamentary leader, known as the "Father of the House of Commons," sent a message to the conference, saying "I applaud Lyndon LaRouche’s caring serious approach toward Iraq."

LaRouche: "There is a combination of farce and tragedy in progress in Washington, DC. Its a kind of Shakespearean farce, in which the President is playing the role of King Lear, and the Vice President that of Lady Macbeth. But this is a very serious matter. Sometimes fools will do what others will not do, and sometimes, he who wishes to have a great crime committed, finds a fool to do it, because he wont shrink from it, because he doesn’t know any better. Like this poor President, who sincerely does no know what he’s doing. Has no idea what the reality is, in which he’s operating."

"What we have to understand is that, in this tragedy, as in all Classical tragedies, in all true tragedies in history, the root of disaster is not leaders of the people. It is not leading institutions. It is the people themselves, who bring disaster upon themselves, by selecting leaders, or by supporting leaders, who are the agents of that disaster. That’s what the Greek tragedy teaches. That’s what Shakespeare teaches. That’s what Schiller teaches. That’s truth."

Mr. LaRouche explains the roots of popular corruption and challenges his audience to give up those public opinions, and policy axioms, which permitted world leaders to start this war--and to mobilize for a worldwide economic recovery program which could lead to world peace. This program has been developed over years by the LaRouche movement, in the form of the Eurasian Land-Bridge and an FDR-style New Bretton Woods monetary and financial system.

Release Date: April 10, 2003

Program No. 600
"Physical Geometry as Strategy," Pt. 2

On March 21-23, the Schiller Institute convened an international conference, entitled "How to Reconstruct a Bankrupt World," in Bad Schwalbach, Germany. Nearly 600 people from 45 nations--including 120 LaRouche Youth Movement activists from across Europe--came to confront the disaster of imperial "perpetual war," with a grand design for economic development, put out for worldwide circulation as "The Bad Schwalbach Declaration."

Featured in this edition of The LaRouche Connection is the conclusion of Lyndon LaRouche’s keynote, "Physical Geometry as Strategy," delivered the day after U.S. strikes against Iraq began. Mr. LaRouche condemns the war as the beginning of a world war. "If you don’t stop it, there is no ‘after the Iraq war,’ because you will be going into another war, under an administration which is totally committed to a worldwide fascist imperialism. Therefore, we must stop it."

Mr. LaRouche explains the roots of popular corruption and challenges his audience to give up those public opinions, and policy axioms, which permitted world leaders to start this war--and to mobilize instead for a worldwide economic recovery program which could lead to world peace. This program has been developed over years by the LaRouche movement, in the form of the Eurasian Land-Bridge and an FDR-style New Bretton Woods monetary and financial system.

Sitting next to Mr. LaRouche on the podium were representatives from China, India, and Russia (the three nations of the Eurasian Strategic Triangle), whose presentations, along with that of a representative from Nigeria, are also included in this edition:

  • Chandrajit Yadav (former Union Minister, government of India under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.): "Why We Need Peace and Eurasian Union." He spoke to the "Eurasian Land-Bridge" panel on March 22.
  • Dr. Bi Jiyao (Director, Institute for International Economic Research, State Development and Reform Commission of China, Beijing): "China’s Economic Development Prospects and New Measures in Opening Up [the Process]." Dr. Bi spoke to the "Eurasian Land-Bridge" panel on March 22.
  • Academician Vladimir S. Myasnikov (Deputy Director, Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences): "The Strategic Triangle of Russia, China, and India: the Eurasian Aspect." Dr. Myasnikov spoke to the "Eurasian Land-Bridge" panel on March 22.
  • Prof. Sam Aluko (retired economics professor, and former economic advisor for various Nigerian governments for more than 30 years): "Conflicts and Economic Development in Africa." Prof. Aluko spoke to the "New Bretton Woods" panel on March 23.

Release Date: April 19, 2003

Program No. 601
"The Loss of Liberty"

On June 8, 1967, during the Six Day War between Israel and the Arab States, the American intelligence ship USS Liberty was attacked for 75 minutes in international waters by Israeli aircraft and motor torpedo boats. Thirty-four men died and 172 were wounded.

The attack has been a matter of controversy ever since. Survivors and many key government officials, including then Sec. of State Dean Rusk and former Joint Chief of Staff Chairman Adm. Thomas H. Morrer, say it was no accident. Israel and its supporters insist it was a "tragic case of mis-identification," and charge that the survivors are either lying or too emotionally involved to see the truth.

American documentary film-maker Tito Howard has produced a powerful documentary on the attack, the recall of the 6th Fleet fighter planes sent to protect Liberty, and the subsequent cover-up by the Israeli and U.S. Governments, proving beyond any doubt, that the Israeli attack was pre-medicated and deliberate. The video includes deeply moving testimony from many Liberty survivors, a number of Congressional Medal of Honor winners, and from such high-ranking Americans as Adm. Morrer, Adm. Arleigh Burke, Gen. Ray Davis, and Sec. of State Rusk.

Mr. Howard has made this documentary available to EIR News Service for distribution through The LaRouche Connection cable TV network.

[Visit http://ussliberty.org for more information about the Liberty Alliance, a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to a full investigation by the U.S. Congress.]

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Program No. 602
"Helga Zepp LaRouche: the Eurasian Land-Bridge Concept," Pt. 1

On March 21-23, the Schiller Institute convened an international conference, entitled "How to Reconstruct a Bankrupt World," in Bad Schwalbach, Germany. Nearly 600 people from 45 nations--including 120 LaRouche Youth Movement activists from across Europe--came to confront the disaster of imperial "perpetual war," with a grand design for economic development, put out for worldwide circulation as "The Bad Schwalbach Declaration."

Featured in this edition of The LaRouche Connection is the first hour of Founder and Chairman Helga Zepp LaRouche’s keynote, entitled "The Eurasian Land-Bridge Concept: the Answer to the Strategic Crisis."

Referring to the U.S. strikes against Iraq, just begun the day before, Mrs. LaRouche begins: "I feel sick. What is happening is mass murder, and the whole world is watching it. If Friedrich Schiller were alive today, what would he say? Something like ‘You foolish people! Don’t you see that Nemesis is about to strike? That there is a higher lawfulness, which will come back and haunt you, for what you are doing!’" She continues: "The doctrine of "pre-emptive war," the idea of first strike--nuclear weapons against countries without nuclear weapons--if not stopped, means the end of international law, and the return to barbarism. It could plunge the world into a new Dark Age and international anarchy, which is why we have to work to reverse this, as quickly as possible."

Reflecting the vision of Leibniz and the content of the historic collaboration between Russian Finance Minister Count Serge Witte, and France’s Gabriel Hanotaux, the alternative is coming together in a new alliance for Eurasian development. "Two world wars were organized to sabotage this development. We need to look back 150 years and make sure we do not repeat the mistakes made in the past. We have to prevent a new world war."

Mrs. LaRouche then proceeds to look at the situation prior to the outbreak of World War I. Then, as now, the people who speak about the inevitability of war, are also the same people who want it, who have their own ulterior motives. It is not true, however, that war is inevitable. "In 1892 there was no real reason for war." Hanotaux and Witte had a mission to establish a ‘community of principle.’ Witte pushed the construction of railroads, setting up in 1892 the Siberian Railway Commission to industrialize Russia. Both were followers of Friedrich List, the German economist, whose ideas of a Zollvereign (customs union) helped unify Germany. "There was an alternative to war, and that alternative was Eurasian development, which was opposed on geopolitical grounds. Today, the issues are the same as at the end of the 19th Century. Today, we need new institutional agreements which will go far beyond the Marshall Plan or the New Deal." "At the same time, we need a new cultural paradigm. We must develop a dialogue of cultures along with economic development. To do so, we must start with what is universal about man. Man is capable of improving the conditions of mankind through cognition, that which distinguishes him from the animal. International law must be developed. The concept of ‘natural law,’ which has been missing, must be re-introduced."

Mrs. LaRouche concludes by proposing a declaration be drafted and adopted at the conference--The Bad Schwalbach Declaration--with which to intervene in the world situation after the conference. "Our mission must be to bring the Age of the Folly of Mankind to an end forever!"

Release Date: May 2, 2003 

 

Program No. 603
"Helga Zepp LaRouche: the Eurasian Land-Bridge Concept," Pt. 2

On March 21-23, the Schiller Institute convened an international conference, entitled "How to Reconstruct a Bankrupt World," in Bad Schwalbach, Germany. Nearly 600 people from 45 nations--including 120 LaRouche Youth Movement activists from across Europe and the