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organizers, who took the microphone to LaRouche’s perspective, and genocide, in role in slowing the war drive. Small con- tell the story from their perspective. Ibero-America. Steinberg located La- centrated on the pedagogical example of Speaking after the keynote were Jef- Rouche’s ongoing battle against the war Argentina, where one can see both the frey Steinberg and Dennis Small, on, faction, now dubbed the “chickenhawks,” horror of precipitous descent into a New respectively, the topics of “the war that’s and demonstrated how the LaRouche Dark Age, and the potential of develop- already begun,” and the fight between movement had already played a crucial ment under a new monetary system. The second keynote of the weekend was given by Helga Zepp LaRouche, founder of the international Schiller Institute. She spoke about the growing movement against the “Clash of Civiliza- tions” war, which has been catalyzed in Europe, and the promise of the Eurasian Land-Bridge policy, which she and her husband had initiated in the late 1980’s, and which is now taking off and can suc- ceed, if the war drive can be stopped.

See page 62 for Special Feature coverage and photos of the LaRouche Youth Move- ment. An excerpt from Helga Zepp LaRouche’s keynote presentation appears as a Commentary on page 102.

EIRNS/Stuart Lewis Right: Panelists Harley Schlanger (top) The Schiller Institute’s Chicago-based “Philosophical Quartet,” which features Youth and Phil Rubinstein discuss recruitment Movement organizers, performs Mozart Quintet No. 17 in B-flat Major (“The Hunt”), K.458. among the “no-future” generation. International Webcast LaRouche: Americans Must Prevent Lunatic War s the Bush Administration, and It was from this commitment, that This insanity went directly against an Aleading lunatics in the Anglo- Harry Truman was made FDR’s Vice actual war-winning strategy, such as Roo- American political establishment, were President in 1944, and then, before sevelt used successfully. Winning wars going into a frenzied push toward FDR’s body was cold, totally reversed actually requires logistics, which require immediate war against Iraq, Lyndon the international policies FDR repre- an economic base. “If you have great eco- LaRouche addressed an international sented. The crucial action was the nomic power and great logistical power, webcast in Washington, D.C. on Sep- atomic bombing of Hiroshima and you can win wars in various ways. . . . tember 11. LaRouche emphasized that Nagasaki—like the proposed war You can win them because your sheer there is no one in the Administration, or against Iraq, an insane, unnecessary act. economic power attracts not merely the world leadership, who has shown the What that bombing initiated was a envy, but the admiration of others.” You courage to tell the truth. The drive for drive for world government, as a win wars by being powerful enough to war against Iraq has absolutely nothing process, LaRouche said. The conspiracy make a peace that will benefit your to do with reality, but with the insis- was an open one, as H.G. Wells, the enemy, as well as yourself, LaRouche tence by a group of American Tories— popularizer of the utopians, said in his explained. utopians—on launching a perpetual war 1928 book, The Open Conspiracy. To against the Muslim world. accomplish it, the Anglo-American The Hand and the Glove Where does this strategy come lunatics developed three tools: the idea This is not the policy the U.S. is using from? For this, LaRouche said, you of air power; the idea of nuclear now, LaRouche continued. The cur- have to go back to 1944, and the deter- weapons; and the idea of special opera- rent policy can be described as the mination of an Anglo-American utopi- tions. This combination was intended as hand and the glove. The utopian hand an faction to ensure that Franklin Roo- a new kind of warfare, one which was has put on the Israeli (Sharonite) sevelt’s anti-colonialist vision of the geared to kill and to instigate wars, but glove, in order to detonate a Middle post-World War II era was eradicated. not to win the peace. East war which will destroy the entire

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© 2002 Schiller Institute, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Italy: ParliamentaryBreakthrough For New Bretton Woods System EIRNS/Stuart Lewis EIRNS/Rudiger Rumpf Lyndon LaRouche was the keynote speaker at a Rome conference on July 2, mobilizing support for a New Bretton Woods. Left to right: Sen. Oskar Peterlini, Paolo Raimondi of the Italian Solidarity movement, LaRouche, and Dr. Nino Galloni of the Italian Labor Ministry. EIRNS/Stuart Lewis ith a bipartisan vote, the Italian and avoiding speculative bubbles and WChamber of Deputies voted up a financial crashes.” Middle East and spread chaos across resolution on September 25 calling for a During the final discussion, Rep. the globe. “new financial architecture” to establish Giovanni Bianchi, speaking in the While the world is against the war, a new international monetary and finan- name of his parliamentary group, LaRouche said, it appears that a kind of cial system, that would support “the real stressed the importance of the para- compromise is in place, being pushed economy” and avoid “speculative bub- graph addressing the issue of debt by Tony Blair, who has convinced Bush bles.” The debate, and resolution, were restructuring. “Not by chance,” said to go to the United Nations. The first the result of a two-year effort by the Bianchi, “one speaks of a new Bretton option is that the U.N. rejects the deal LaRouche movement to put Lyndon Woods. I believe that we are in such an offered by Bush—and the U.S. goes LaRouche’s New Bretton Woods on the evident disorder that the need and the ahead unilaterally against Iraq. The agenda. demand for some order is necessary. second, is that the U.N. and Bush come The final language of the resolution Let us not let an isolated and (unfortu- to an agreement, but Saddam Hussein described the crisis now affecting nately) a bit prophetic figure, like Lyn- says no. But if Saddam says yes, there Argentina as “a crisis of the whole don LaRouche, who had forecast the is a third possible road to war: Sharon financial system, characterized by specu- destiny of the bubble, be the only one to simply launches the war he needs, lation reaching the $400,000 billion . . . carry on this issue.” either with his nuclear arsenal, or related to a world gross product of about without. $40,000 billion (this gap has been grow- Extensive Debate The problem could be solved, ing in the last years),” and called for a The motion proposing wholesale change LaRouche said, if he were in the White host of measures to aid the Argentine in the policy of the International Mone- House. But, until LaRouche can get into economy, with which Italy has very tary Fund and a New Bretton Woods- the White House, he has taken it upon close ties. style reorganization of the international himself to protect the Presidency and One of the most important measures financial markets, was discussed in the President Bush himself, “but somehow read: “to undertake, in particular, the Italian Parliament on Sept. 24 and 25. induce the changes in policies that I initiative of continuing, in international Originally drafted by Paolo Raimondi of would make, at least enough of those to competent forums, the activity of study- the Italian LaRouche movement, it had get us through the next two years, when ing and proposing a new financial archi- been signed by nearly 100 Italian Repre- I’ll take over.” tecture able to support the real economy Please turn to page 94

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