A Forty-Year Fight for a New World Economic Order by Matthew Ogden

EIR The LaRouche Record

For over four decades, Lyndon LaRouche has provided Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA). the intellectual and political leadership in the fight for a A partial timeline of LaRouche’s role in leading the new international economic order for the planet, for the fight for a new world economic order, with an emphasis purpose of ending the historic imperial control by mon- on international initiatives, is chronicled below. The etarism and unleashing mankind’s creative powers as a chronology is based on a more extensive version at species. larouchepac.com, which has many links to excellent The profound impact of LaRouche’s intellectual documentary material, including the original articles, leadership is clearly reflected in the current actions speeches, and videos. being taken by the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) and others to create a new global financial architecture and strategic alliance The 1970s among nations, with the recent establishment of the New Development Bank and related developments. LaRouche Calls for International Development The July 15-16, 2014 BRICS summit in Fortaleza, Bank Brazil was a turning point in this process, as EIR has At press conferences in reported at length. April 1975 in Bonn, Ger- The LaRouche movement in the United States has many and Milan, Italy, La- campaigned throughout this 40-year period for this Rouche presents his plan country to return to its American System tradition, as for “the immediate estab- enunciated by President John Quincy Adams and lishment of an Interna- others, and join the fight for a global community of sov- tional Development Bank ereign nations in the interests of all: a new, just world as an agreement among the economic order. These U.S. initiatives have notably in- three principal world sec- cluded the call for Russian-American cooperation in tors—the industrialized the Strategic Defense Initiative; a New Bretton Woods capitalist sector, the so- financial system; the reinstatement of the Glass-Stea- called developing sector, gall Law to destroy the Wall Street monetarist faction; and socialist countries.” LaRouche in 1975 detailed the Homeowners and Bank Protection Act of 2007; and He specifies that the im- his proposal for global such development projects as the North American mediate concentration of financial cooperation.

30 The LaRouche Record EIR October 24, 2014 new international monetary and financial system to replace the International Monetary Fund and provide capital for Third World development through the creation of a Bank of the Develop- ing Countries, as well as a debt moratorium for the least developed countries whose outstanding debts at the time made economic development The summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Colombo, Sri Lanka. for those nations impossible. The heads of state of the Non-Aligned na- the investment thus made possible should be indus- tions declare that this summit represented: “. . . a new trial development and expanded food production step for the establishment of the new world economic worldwide. order, and in particular, the essential element of such a LaRouche predicts that the present, or then-exist- new order, a new monetary and financial system.” ing, international monetary system of the IMF, would In her keynote address to the summit, Sri Lankan inevitably go bankrupt, and should be replaced by a dif- Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike endorses the ferent credit-creating institution, namely, an Interna- establishment of a development bank for the Third tional Development Bank (IDB), to facilitate long- World: “The developing countries are consistently term, low-interest credit for capital investment and denied the true value of their output by the vagaries of capital-goods transfer from the industrialized sector to the international market and the manipulations of inter- the so-called developing sector, in order to overcome national finance. The developed countries have shaped the underdevelopment of Africa, Latin America, and the international financial system to suit their interests. large parts of Asia. Should we in the developing world sustain such a LaRouche issues a policy document for interna- system? Should we not, instead attempt to develop a tional circulation titled “IDB: How the International system all our own? . . . One area of great promise, Development Bank Will Work,” in which he writes that would be the establishment of a commercial bank—a two immediate, interconnected actions are imperative: Bank for the Third World—the bank of Asia, Africa, 1. The declaration of a commitment to sweeping re- and Latin America. This would not be another non- organization of the world monetary system, involving aligned solidarity fund. It would be a genuine commer- an orderly process of debt moratoria and the establish- cial bank and a truly multinational enterprise.” ment of an institution such as the proposed Interna- tional Development Bank (IDB). Guyana’s Wills Calls for International 2. Immediate commitment to enact, within each na- Development Bank at UN tional sector of the capitalist world, these measures of Immediately following the Colombo Summit, the emergency financial-reorganization legislation re- Foreign Minister of quired to facilitate immediate economic recovery in Guyana, Frederick conjunction with IDB efforts. Wills, addresses the United Nations Gen- Non-Aligned Movement Endorses New eral Assembly in New International Economic Order York, on Sept. 27, Within months, 85 nations, representing 2 billion 1976, and calls for a people, meet in Colombo, Sri Lanka for the Fifth new international eco- Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement and issue a nomic order through unanimous declaration calling for a new international the creation of an in- economic order on Aug. 19, 1976, identical in many ternational develop- EIRNS Frederick Wills, foreign minister regards to LaRouche’s proposals spelled out in his ment bank and a debt of Guyana, calls for an policy document from the preceding year. moratorium for the international development bank The declaration endorses both the establishment of a developing world. and debt moratorium at the UN.

October 24, 2014 EIR The LaRouche Record 31 Wills declares that “there can be no first contribution India must make meaningful economic advance in this battle is to lead the develop- without the implementation of the ing countries, in concert with lead- New International Economic ing Third World nations, in a decla- Order.” ration of moratoria on the payment Wills asserts: of all debt to the bankrupt monetar- “The IMF and the Bretton ist institutions of the IMF-World Woods monetary system must give Bank and their aid consortia. The way to alternative structures like freezing of unpayable debts to the international development monetarists is not only morally im- banks. . . . The crippling problem of perative but is the strategic weapon debt and the servicing of debt has we must wield to open the way to assumed a special urgency. Devel- the establishment of a new mone- oping countries cannot afford to tary system. As the 1975 program- depart from their basic and funda- matic document, ‘The International mental demand made in Colombo Development Bank,’ proposed, the earlier this year calling for mea- central task of a New World Eco- sures of cancellation, reschedul- Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi talked nomic Order is to facilitate the ing, and the declaration of morato- with EIR about her plans for development. greatest possible flow of technolo- ria. We cannot afford to mortgage gies and industrial processes from the future of unborn generations to the obligations of the advanced sector into the developing sector.” burdensome capital repayments and crushing debt servicing. The time has come for a debt moratorium.” Indira Gandhi’s Interview to EIR In 1978, the year before her stunning comeback vic- LaRouche: U.S. Must Integrate Itself into the tory as Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi gives the IDB first of several interviews to EIR. In the interview, con- As a Presidential candidate for the U.S. Labor Party ducted at her home in New Delhi, Mrs. Gandhi strongly in 1976, LaRouche celebrates the historic decisions defends a return to the non-aligned foreign policy of her made by the Non-Aligned Movement at the Colombo father Jawaharlal Nehru, and insists that only a policy Summit saying: “We have succeeded in mobilizing 85 of aggressive government support for investment in countries and 2 billion people around our program. science and technology can save India from crushing That is what I have worked for all my life. Our small poverty: “Science and technology, this is essential to organization has accomplished what many termed im- fight poverty. It is ridiculous to say that you can solve possible. We must use our victory at Colombo to orga- rural problems without science and without industry; nize the American working class behind our program. you simply can’t. In our scheme of things, there is no They want to do something, but the average person conflict between agriculture and industry; they comple- lacks the sense of how to fight. Colombo changes this ment one another.” prescription. Colombo has shown these forces what can In another interview with EIR following her victory be done on a world scale with a cadre of a handful of in the 1980 elections, Mrs. Gandhi elaborates on her people. . . . The United States will have to integrate itself development policy: “India is a developing country, into the International Development Bank (IDB).” and development has been rather uneven. It is obvious that where there is industry, it is much easier for that LaRouche Situates India’s Role in New area to grow and for people to get more jobs. We have a International Economic Order program for developing backward areas and we have In 1977 EIR Special Report titled “The Struggle for made progress in it. . . . We have to encourage invest- Indian Freedom: A New Program,” LaRouche states that ment to increase production, we have to build up the India can lead the Non-Aligned Movement in declaring distribution system for essential commodities. . . . We a debt moratorium as a “strategic weapon,” as well as have to take up again the special programs for the poor- establishing the International Development Bank: “The est and weaker sections of the population.”

32 The LaRouche Record EIR October 24, 2014 Program for the Industrialization of Africa the Indian Council of World Affairs, as well as the Insti- The Fusion Energy tute for Defense Studies and Analysis, and the Jawaha- Foundation, an interna- rlal Nehru University School of International Studies. tional association of sci- LaRouche then travels to Bombay to tour the Bhabha entists co-founded by La- Atomic Research Center. Rouche, holds an LaRouche’s speech to the Indian Council on World international conference Affairs is titled “A New Approach to North-South Rela- in Paris in June 1979 tions” in which he states that the program adopted at the titled “The Industrializa- Non-Aligned summit in Colombo must be the model tion of Africa” on the sub- for achieving a new world economic order, and de- ject of a New International clares: “I propose that the developing nations, and the Economic Order as the in- spokesmen of them, make a unilateral statement to this dispensable precondition effect: that there will be international cooperation on for the development of the East-West/North-South development interrelatedly; African continent. that conditions of political stability and peace be pre- mised upon the mutual self-interests of the parties in promoting economic development.” The 1980s LaRouche Meets with Mexican President Forty-Year Plan for the Industrialization of López Portillo India Immediately after returning LaRouche releases a program from his meeting with Indira to transform India into an indus- Gandhi in India, LaRouche travels trial superpower, at a conference to Mexico City to meet with Presi- on May 5-6, 1980 in Frankfurt, dent José López Portillo on May Germany, sponsored by EIR and 27, 1982. At a press conference at the Fusion Energy Foundation. the Presidential palace Los Piños Indian Prime Minister Indira following the meeting, LaRouche Gandhi sends greetings to the con- proposes that the nations of Ibero- ference: “Since 1947 India has America unite to deploy a “debt made considerable progress in sci- bomb” against the City of London ence and technology. The world to force a restructuring of the now recognizes the versatility and world economic system as the capability of our industries. Our means to usher in the New Interna- aim is to make our country self- tional Economic Order. Multiple reliant. . . . It is appropriate to leading Latin American newspa- assess our progress now and to pers publish stories on May 28 look into the future. My good covering LaRouche’s proposal. wishes to the conference on In- dia’s industrial development being LaRouche Issues ‘Operation held by the European Fusion Foundation and the EIR.” Juárez’ Proposal for South America In the aftermath of his meeting with President López LaRouches Meet with Prime Minister Indira Portillo, LaRouche issues a major policy document Gandhi titled Operation Juárez, on Aug. 2, 1982, in which he In April 1982, Lyndon and Helga LaRouche travel elaborates his original proposal for an International De- to India where they meet with Prime Minister Indira velopment Bank in the context of the debt crisis facing Gandhi for the first time, along with several members South America. LaRouche proposes that the nations of of Parliament, leading scientists, industrialists and Ibero-America use their collective strategic leverage as economists. While in New Delhi, LaRouche addresses debtor-nations to unite in a common bloc and unilater-

October 24, 2014 EIR The LaRouche Record 33 ally declare a restructuring of their Order” in which he says, “I shall debts and the establishment of a summarize the scientific basis for new monetary order. the establishment of a New World The formation of an interna- Economic Order.” LaRouche tional development bank among states: “My chief personal role in these nations, he writes, would the effort to establish a just new serve “as a coordinating agency world economic order has been to for planning investments and apply my special skills as an econ- trade-expansion among the mem- omist to design policy-structures ber-republics. This bank will soon of economic and monetary poli- become one of the most powerful cies.” LaRouche elaborates the financial institutions in the scientific theory behind his Oper- world. . . . The Ibero-American ation Juárez proposal, specifying continent could rapidly emerge as “potential relative population den- a leading economic power of the sity” as the necessary measure for world, an economic super-power.” the performance of economies, and states: “We define economic López Portillo Demands New science as a study of the manner in International Economic LaRouche’s “Operation Juárez” program for which the use of technological Ibero-America was written at the request of Order at UN President José López Portillo. progress maintains and increases In August 1982, Mexi- this potential relative popu- can President José López lation density.” Portillo acts on LaRouche’s proposals as contained in Founding Conference Operation Juárez by adopt- of the Club of Life ing credit controls on Mexi- With simultaneous co’s currency, nationalizing founding conferences in the banking system, and an- Rome and Wiesbaden, West nouncing a debt moratorium Germany Oct. 20-22, 1982, on Mexican debt. On Oct. 1, joined by supporting con- 1982, he addresses the UN ferences in nine cities of the General Assembly, where Americas, the Club of Life he declares: “The most con- was born, as proposed by stant concern and activity of Helga Zepp-LaRouche, to Mexico in the international galvanize a counterpole of EIRNS/Philip Ulanowsky arena, is the transition to a President José López Portillo addresses the UN General optimism throughout the New Economic Order. . . . It Assembly. world to the rampant neo- is imperative that the New Malthusian ideology being International Economic Order establish a link between fostered by organizations such as the Club of Rome refinancing the development of countries that suffer More than 1,000 people attend, including some 400 in capital flight, and the capital that has fled. . . . Let us not Rome, despite efforts by the U.S. Embassy to discour- continue in this vicious circle: it could be the beginning age participation. of a new medieval Dark Age, without the possibility of Attendees included the embassies of Colombia and a Renaissance. . . .” Guatemala to the Vatican; the embassies of Senegal, Venezuela, and Vietnam to Italy; the Italian Foreign LaRouche in Rome: ‘The Theory of the New Ministry; cultural and trade union groups; and large World Economic Order’ student delegations. There were also economists, anti- LaRouche delivers a speech on Oct. 20, 1982 in Malthusian activists, journalists, scientists, and indus- Rome titled “The Theory of the New World Economic trialists.

34 The LaRouche Record EIR October 24, 2014 Zepp-LaRouche based on justice and sounds the theme of the equality. We propose events with her keynote the immediate con- in Wiesbaden, “On the vening of an interna- Urgent Necessity to tional conference on Create a Just New World money and finance Order.” Lyndon La- for development, with Rouche follows with a universal participa- presentation on the eco- tion, and a compre- nomic theory behind hensive restructuring the New World Eco- of the international nomic Order, noting monetary and finan- especially the process cial system.” EIRNS/Stuart Lewis underway since the LaRouche’s call Indian Prime Minister Indira Malvinas War in lbero-America, towards forced debt for debtor-nations to Gandhi at the National Press Club renegotiation. unite and unilaterally in Washington, 1982. declare a restructur- Indira Gandhi Hosts Non-Aligned: ‘New ing of their debts, as specified in his Operation Juárez, Economic Order or Nuclear War’ pervades the debate at the summit, and is raised by the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi hosts the 7th Summit President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, who calls for of the Non-Aligned Movement in New Delhi, March the establishment of “a common organization of debtor 1983, where she warns, “Humankind is balancing on countries” to conduct “joint efforts and actions that the brink of the collapse of the world economic system would induce the creditors to seriously consider the ne- and annihilation through nuclear war,” and calls for the cessity of a new international economic order.” Ulti- convening of “an international conference on money mately, the Economic Declaration of the summit states: and finance for development.” She specifies that such a “It is essential to secure a cancellation of the external conference “should suggest comprehensive reforms of debt owed to developed countries.” the international monetary system to facilitate the mobilization of developmental finance for investment in Reagan Announces Strategic Defense Initiative vital areas of food, energy and industrial development.” On March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan Mrs. Gandhi also calls for “a major debt restructuring shocks the world by announcing the Strategic Defense exercise,” stating that the “debt problem of developing Initiative (SDI), calling on the scientific community to countries has assumed an unprecedented dimension.” “turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind She appeals to the 100 heads of state present to seize the and world peace; to give us the means of rendering nu- “marvelous opportunity” before them, saying: “The clear weapons impotent and obsolete.” eyes of the world are upon us. Let us decide here to The policy unveiled in this historic announcement usher in a New International Economic Order, to call had been discussed for months in back-channel negoti- for an International Conference on Money and Finance ations with Soviet representatives, which Lyndon La- for Development.” Rouche conducted personally at the behest of leading The “New Delhi Appeal” which is adopted by the members of Reagan’s national security team. 100 world leaders present, representing almost half of LaRouche began calling for economic and scien- humanity, echoes Indira Gandhi’s warnings of “the tific collaboration with the Soviet Union in the mid- threat of a worldwide nuclear catastrophe” as well as 1970s to develop new physical principles for space- her demands for an international conference on finance based missile defense systems as a driver for global for development: “A thoroughgoing restructuring of development. the existing international economic order through a LaRouche had proposed beginning in 1977, in a process of global negotiations is necessary. Non- pamphlet titled “Sputnik of the Seventies,” that an in- aligned countries are committed to strive for the estab- ternational crash program to develop such a system lishment of the New International Economic Order would provide the economic driver to fuel global devel-

October 24, 2014 EIR The LaRouche Record 35 Reagan last night; it is a moment of greatness never to be forgotten.”

LaRouches Meet With Indira Gandhi for Second Time On July 13, 1983, as part of a tour of several nations in Asia, Lyndon and Helga LaRouche have their second meeting with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Ten days later, Mrs. Gandhi inaugurates a new heavy-water nuclear reactor at Kalpakkam, saying: “Our science, par- ticularly nuclear science, is dedicated to development, the achievement of freedom from want, and the provi- sion of essentials and an honorable life for the masses. White House Photo President Reagan announces the SDI, to render the threat of We are to make the deserts bloom.” nuclear war “impotent and obsolete.”’ In the weeks following, LaRouche issues an EIR Special Report titled “A 50-Year De- opment. The pamphlet proposed velopment Policy for the Indian-Pa- “long-range economic and scientific cific Oceans Basin,” proposing three collaboration with the Soviet Union projects for the development of the among other nations, which will Pacific region: 1) a canal through the eliminate the danger of world oblit- Kra Isthmus of Thailand, 2) a new eration,” and emphasized the “tre- sea-level canal across the Panama- mendous revolutionary industrial nian Isthmus, and 3) the expansion implications available to this nation and improvement of the Suez Canal. and the world if the political will of LaRouche writes that the precondi- the United States forces a recommit- tions for developing the Pacific ment to technological progress in the Basin are the “required reforms of form of an International Develop- the international monetary system ment Bank (IDB) and its national specified in Operation Juárez” concomitant, the Third National which would create “a new interna- Bank.” tional economic order not inconsis- On March 24, LaRouche greets tent with the monetary and economic Reagan’s announcement: “There is, LaRouche began calling for policies of the American System. at last, hope that the thermonuclear collaboration with the Soviet Union in The paradigm for a republican mon- the mid-1970s, to develop new physical nightmare will be ended during the principles for space-based missile etary order is the statement of poli- remainder of this decade. . . . The defense systems as a driver for global cies set forth in U.S. Treasury Secre- words the President spoke last night development. tary Hamilton’s famous Reports to can never be put back into the bottle. the Congress, on credit, a national Most of the world will soon know, and will never bank, and manufactures.” forget that policy announcement. With those words, the President has changed the course of modern his- LaRouche Addresses Conference in Bangkok tory. Today I am prouder to be an American than I have on Kra Canal been since the first manned landing on the Moon. For LaRouche travels to Thailand in October 1983 to the first time in 20 years, a President of the United address the first of several conferences in Bangkok on States has contributed a public action of great leader- building the Kra Canal, jointly sponsored by EIR, the ship, to give a new basis for hope to humanity’s future Fusion Energy Foundation, and the Thai Ministry of to an agonized and demoralized world. True greatness Communications. This conference is followed by an- in an American President touched President Ronald other in October 1984 for which LaRouche writes a

36 The LaRouche Record EIR October 24, 2014 EIRNS This Special Report was published in parallel LaRouche addresses a conference in Thailand on the Kra Canal development with a series of conferences in Asia. perspective. policy paper titled “The Pivotal Role of Thailand in the nations met in Cartagena, Colombia, to coordinate their Economic Development of Southeast Asia” in which he approach to the continent’s debt crisis; and as the Al- states: “The prospect of establishing a sea-level water- fonsín government approached another end-of-quarter way through the Isthmus of Thailand, ought to be seen cliffhanger, in which it had to choose between paying not only as an important development of basic eco- $460 million in back interest payments, or seeing cred- nomic infrastructure both for Thailand and the cooper- itor banks declare its foreign debt to be non-perform- ating nations of the region; this proposed canal should ing. also be seen as a keystone, around which might be con- In a press conference following his meeting with the structed a healthy and balanced development of needed Argentine President, LaRouche announces that were he basic infrastructure in a more general way.” elected President of the United States, he would aid Ar- gentina “with justice and equality, to overcome the LaRouche Visits Argentina, Meets President crisis unleashed by its foreign debt.” Alfonsín LaRouche visits Buenos Aires the week of June Schiller Institute Founded, Adopts Declaration 24-30, 1984, for discussions with representatives of the of Inalienable Rights of Man major political parties in Congress, the trade union Helga Zepp-LaRouche founds an international movement, the scientific and cultural communities, and strategic and cultural organization, the Schiller Insti- the Armed Forces, culminating in a meeting with Presi- tute, named after the German “Poet of Freedom,” dent Raúl Alfonsín on June 28. The visit comes at a Friedrich Schiller, at conferences in July 1984 in Ar- time when Argentina is under fierce pressure from its lington, Va., and in September 1984 in Wiesbaden, foreign creditors to submit to the austerity conditionali- Germany. In describing the purpose of the Schiller In- ties of the IMF. He was invited by several private insti- stitute, Zepp-LaRouche states: “Let us enter into the tutions whose leaders thought it urgent that his policy solemn pledge to work to end for all time every form recommendations, elaborated in the August 1982 docu- of imperialism, and that means above all that we must ment Operation Juárez, and his evaluation of the world bring about a just world order that will make possible financial and strategic crisis, be widely disseminated in the urgently necessary development of the Southern their country. Hemisphere.” The trip occurs 10 days after Ibero-American debtor The Schiller Institute adopts “The Declaration of

October 24, 2014 EIR The LaRouche Record 37 EIRNS Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, holds its founding document, the Declaration of the EIRNS Inalienable Rights of Man. The Schiller Institute’s 10,000-person “March for the Inalienable Rights of Man” in Washington, D.C., for the creation of a new the Inalienable Rights of Man” as its founding doc- international economic order. ument, based on the U.S. Declaration of Indepen- dence, at a conference in Richmond, Va., on Nov. 24, velop fully all potentialities of their intellect and their 1984. The document asserts: “The history of the present souls. That therefore a change in the present monetary International Financial Institutions is a history of re- and economic order is necessary and urgent, to estab- peated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct lish justice among the peoples of the world. . . .” object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States; They have refused their Assent to our Call for an ‘Indira Gandhi Memorial Summit’ plans of development, the most wholesome and neces- for a New Economic Order sary for the public good; They have forbidden their On Jan. 15, 1985, Helga Zepp-LaRouche ad- Banks to engage in business of immediate and pressing dresses a 10,000-person “March for the Inalienable importance for us, and in equal Rights of Man” in Washington, terms; They have dictated to us terms D.C. organized by the Schiller Insti- of trade and relations of currency, tute in honor of Martin Luther King, that have relinquished our Rights as Jr.’s birthday, to call for the conven- Equals in the World Community, a ing of an Indira Gandhi Memorial Right inestimable to them and for- Summit between debtor and credi- midable to tyrants only; They have tor nations “to implement a rapid overthrown legitimate governments program for massive debt renegoti- repeatedly, for opposing with manly ation for a new, just world economic firmness their invasions on rights of order.” the people; They have endeavored to prevent the necessary population in- Program for ‘The Integration crease for industrialization of these of Ibero-America’ States. . . . In 1986, the LaRouche move- “We, therefore, the Representa- ment publishes a book-length spe- tives of the Peoples of the World, do cial report in Spanish, La Inte- solemnly declare. . . that all human gración lbero-Americana, as an beings on this planet have inalien- elaboration of LaRouche’s Opera- able rights, which guarantee them tion Juárez, specifying great proj- life, freedom, material conditions ects for the development of the worthy of man, and the right to de- continent, including the construc-

38 The LaRouche Record EIR October 24, 2014 EIRNS/Philip Ulanowsky LaRouche addresses a conference in Bretton Woods, N.H. With him at EIRNS/Dean Andromidas the podium are Helga Zepp-LaRouche and former Guayana Foreign LaRouche forecasts the fall of the Berlin Wall and Minister Frederick Wills. coming reunification of Germany, West Berlin, 1988. tion of a interoceanic sea-level “Second Panama time to return to the fundamental appreciation that Canal.” money and monetary systems are the servants of hu- The introduction states: “During the Malvinas War, manity.” in May 1982, U.S. economist Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. traveled to Mexico to meet with President José López LaRouche in Berlin Forecasts Reunification of Portillo and other important political leaders. Some of Germany them asked him to write out his proposal for dealing On Oct. 12, 1988, LaRouche addresses a press con- with the problem of the foreign debt. Three months ference in West Berlin “on the subject of prospects for later, the historic essay Operation Juárez was pub- the reunification of Germany,” asserting that “the world lished, in which LaRouche takes up the old integration- has now entered into what most agree is the end of an ist idea, and poses the necessity of immediately form- era. The state of the world as we have known it during ing a Debtors’ Club and an Ibero-American Common the postwar period is ended.” LaRouche states: “The Market. . . . This book intends as its primary purpose to economy of the Soviet bloc is a terrible, and worsening, contribute to the realization of that longed-for integra- failure. . . . The Soviet bloc economy as a whole has tion, demonstrating both the feasibility and the concep- reached the critical point, that, in its present form, it tual grounding for the Ibero-American Common will continue to slide downhill from here on.” There- Market. Its more detailed elaboration will be the task of fore, “the time has come for early steps toward the re- that successful integrationist movement that we also unification of Germany, with the obvious prospect that seek to awaken and consolidate.” Berlin might resume its role as the capital.” LaRouche elaborates a program for the cooperative LaRouche in Bretton Woods: ‘A New development of Eastern Europe as an engine for creat- International Economic Order’ ing a new economic system: “Let us say that the United The Schiller Institute sponsors a conference in Bret- States and Western Europe will cooperate to accom- ton Woods, New Hampshire titled “A New Just World plish the successful rebuilding of the economy of Economic Order: Development Is the Name for Peace” Poland. There will be no interference in the political on Jan. 30-31, 1988. In attendance is Frederick Wills, system of government, but only a kind of Marshall Plan former Foreign Minister of Guyana, who delivers a aid to rebuild Poland’s industry and agriculture. If Ger- speech titled “The History of the Fight for the New many agrees to this, let a process aimed at the reunifica- World Economic Order” relating how he first became tion of the economies of Germany begin, and let this be acquainted with Lyndon LaRouche and his idea for an the punctum saliens for Western cooperation in assist- International Development Bank. Wills declares: “It is ing the rebuilding of the economy of Poland.”

October 24, 2014 EIR The LaRouche Record 39 ‘Productive Triangle’ Development Plan for Europe LaRouche commissions a policy study in 1989 to elaborate his proposals from the previous year to use the modernization of Eastern Europe as the “locomotive” for the economic development of Eurasia. The concept takes the form of the “Productive Triangle” linking together Paris, Berlin, and Vienna through high- speed rail, thus creating an integrated, high-density 320,000 km2 industrial development zone, spiraling out into eastern Europe via transport, energy, and commu- nication development corridors.

The 1990s

Helga LaRouche Campaigns for ‘Productive Triangle’ Special reports on the “Productive Triangle” program are published in every major European language, and Helga Zepp-LaRouche launches an aggressive speaking tour throughout Europe, addressing conferences in numerous capitals including in many Warsaw Pact and other Soviet countries that are newly gaining The Productive Triangle concept came to include radiating vectors of development into Eastern and Southern Europe. their independence, including Hungary and Poland. Representatives of the Schiller Institute host seminars on LaRouche’s program across Eastern Europe, includ- able to reach the whole of Eastern Europe, the not-so- ing in Czechoslovakia, Belarus, and Ukraine, as well as developed regions of Western Europe, and also the nearly every country in Western Europe. Soviet Union. The great expanse of Europe, with the Zepp-LaRouche issues a statement on July 18, ‘Productive Triangle’ as its core, will make possible 1990, in which she says that Germany has the opportu- such a great increase in productivity and in the output of nity to function as the locomotive for the world econ- capital goods, that it will function as the locomotive for omy, both of the East and “above all for the develop- the world economy—not only for the infrastructure and ment of the Southern Hemisphere,” finally rising to the industrial development of the East, but above all for the moral challenge of realizing a new, just world economic development of the Southern Hemisphere. . . .” order: “Germany, the heart of Europe, must be the locomo- Productive Triangle: Cornerstone of New tive which raises the economic development of the Economic Order whole of Europe to a qualitatively new level. The pro- In March 1991, the Schiller Institute convenes a gram of the ‘Productive Triangle,’ proposed by the U.S. conference in Berlin on the “Productive Triangle” pro- economic scientist LaRouche, is the crucial key to this. gram, attended by representatives from a number of A high-speed rail system will not only connect the newly independent Eastern European nations and not Paris-Berlin-Vienna triangle, but, simultaneously, will quite yet independent republics of the Soviet Union, in- enclose a region with the greatest immediate growth cluding Hungary, including Hungary, Czechoslovakia, potential, as far as industrial and labor capacities are Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Armenia, Bulgaria, concerned. The rapid expansion of infrastructure and, and Croatia. In a message to the conference, LaRouche especially of a productive Mittelstand in industry and calls for “a sphere of cooperation for mutual benefit agriculture can initiate a new economic miracle here, among sovereign states” to united Eurasia. which, through new industrial corridors, will soon be The conference adopts a “Berlin Declaration,”

40 The LaRouche Record EIR October 24, 2014 which calls for the nations of ing “an alliance of nations com- Europe to seize the “unique histor- mitted to a common programmatic ical opportunity” presented by the perspective for establishing a just end of the disappearance of the world economic order.” This new Iron Curtain, and states: “We strive economic and monetary order for a just, new economic order, would be comprised of a “commu- which secures peace, in that all nity of interest among sovereign peoples are given the same oppor- nations committed to rapid eco- tunities for economic and social nomic development” to replace development. For, development is the failed financial systems of both the name for peace.” East and West, bridging the rich LaRouche elaborates the Pro- and diverse cultures of the Eur- ductive Triangle proposal in a asian continent and ending the policy paper in EIR, May 10, legacy of the geopolitical “Great 1991, “For the Economic Devel- Game” policy of perpetual war. opment of Eastern Europe,” in Helga Zepp-LaRouche states which he counterposes his “Pro- that the world is experiencing the ductive Triangle” program for de- opportunity for “the beginning of velopment to the shock therapy The “Triangle” idea later expands to a new more hopeful time and the encompass Eurasia, with three development policy being implemented in East- corridor routes spanning the continent. emergence of a new, just world ern Europe, which he asserts is economic order” and issues a call merely a different form of “primi- for a peaceful revolution to estab- tive accumulation” that brought down the Soviet state. lish an “International Coalition for Peace and Develop- ment.” Productive Triangle Concept Extended to ‘Eurasian Land-Bridge’ Russian Edition of LaRouche’s Economics Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in Textbook Released 1991, LaRouche expands the concept of the “Produc- The Schiller Institute sponsors its first-ever confer- tive Triangle” to include the former Soviet territories in ence in Moscow, on Oct. 30-31, 1992, to announce the Russia and central Asia, stretching all the way to the release of a Russian-language edition of LaRouche’s Pacific coastlines of China and Russia. This proposal, textbook on physical economy, So, You Wish To Learn which becomes known as the “Eurasian Land-Bridge,” All About Economics? With Russia undergoing the di- concentrates on three “development corridors” spanning the Eurasian continent: a northern route via the Trans-Siberian Railroad to Vladivostok; central routes through Ukraine-Russia-the Caucasus-Iran or Russia- Kazakhstan, Central Asia, and China; and southern route from Western Europe through Turkey and Iran, and on to China via Central Asia or India. This plan would economically integrate the Eurasian continent, maximizing the productive potential of its territory and peoples for the common benefit of all, and resolving the artificially imposed strategic divisions among the great powers through the promotion of development in their mutual interest. EIR publishes a study, July 17, 1992, elaborating EIRNS/Christopher Lewis this “integrated Eurasian development network stretch- Dr. Taras Muranivksy co-chaired the first Schiller Institute ing from the Atlantic to the Pacific,” stressing that it conference in Moscow, titled “Alternative Approaches to will serve as the centerpiece and foundation for creat- Economic Reform,” in October 1992.

October 24, 2014 EIR The LaRouche Record 41 sastrous effects of the IMF “shock on Scientific Information on therapy” policy, the conference is Social Science (INION), the Insti- titled “Alternative Approaches to tute of Oriental Studies, and the Economic Reform,” focusing on Africa Institute. At the INION, he LaRouche’s proposals for a rapid stresses that the Russian intelli- reconstruction of the Russian gentsia must understand the col- economy by means of the Produc- lapse of the Soviet system was tive Triangle/Eurasian Land- merely one part of a global process Bridge program. The conference, of collapse, caused by a general held at the Russian State Humani- failure to abide by the fundamen- tarian University, is attended by tal laws of physical economics, over 50 people representing lead- which would doom the free-mar- ing political and academic institu- ket system of the West as well: tions, and is co-chaired by Prof. “You get a reflection of a failure to Taras Muranivsky, rector of the comprehend this problem, and a Ukrainian University in Moscow. belief that the disease which is Muranivsky delivers a speech on called free trade, is the superior al- “establishing a new economic ternative to communism. So in- theory” based on LaRouche’s sci- LaRouche in Red Square during his first trip stead of bowing to the statue of ence of physical economy. to Russia, in 1994, where he lectured on Karl Marx, you are now supposed In the foreword to the Russian- physical economics. to bow to the statues of Adam language publication of his text, Smith and Ricardo. This tends to LaRouche writes: “The Russian edition of this textbook create an instinctive lack of appreciation for the fact appears at the moment the greatest financial bubble in that the entire global system is now about to collapse.” history is collapsing upon us. If we fail to take appropri- Additionally, LaRouche is hosted by Dr. Pobisk ate corrective action soon, this collapse could become Kuznetsov at a gathering of the “Prezident” group of the worst economic disaster in European history. Out of approximately 60 scientists. Following LaRouche’s the wreckage of that monetary collapse, a new form of visit, Kuznetsov publishes a report in the journal Ros- national economy must be constructed.” siya 2010, in which he calls for a new unit of measure- ment to be applied to physical economics, which he LaRouches Visits Moscow for the First Time proposes be called “the larouche,” or “La” for short: In April 1994, Lyndon and Helga LaRouche travel “Let us introduce the physical magnitude of ‘a la- to Russia for a week of meetings and speaking engage- rouche,’ designated by La, which gives the number of ments. Lyndon LaRouche’s first public event is a lec- persons who can be fed from 1 square kilometer, or 100 ture sponsored by the Economic Academy of the Min- hectares, during one year. Our base magnitude of area is istry of Economics of the Russian Federation on April 1 square kilometer or 100 hectares. This base value of 25, where he states: “The problems in Russia are a re- area is necessary, in order to bring all existing world flection not of conditions internal to Russia, but the re- food statistics to a single basis. The figures cited flection of a collapse in the world economy. . . . What is above. . . correspond to ’potential relative population going to happen, without question, is a general total density,’ introduced by LaRouche. . . . We share La- breakdown collapse of the global financial system. . . . If Rouche’s view that the magnitude of potential relative there is an agreement on principles of sound economy, population density can serve as an indicator of ‘intel- then there can be an agreement among states to reestab- lectual culture,’ but taking into account the quite di- lish, in a very short period of time, a new world finan- verse values for farv (photochemically active radiation cial and monetary system to replace the old one, while per vegetative period), we shall compare not simply we put the old one into bankruptcy.” 100 hectares, but 100 hectares for a given local farv LaRouche also addresses seminars at three insti- value.” tutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences: the Institute Upon his return to Washington, LaRouche gives a

42 The LaRouche Record EIR October 24, 2014 EIRNS/Rachel Douglas EIRNS LaRouche addresses Pobisk Kuznetsov’s “Prezident” Lyndon and Helga L aRouche at the Economics Academy of the grouping, 1994. Russian Ministry of Economics in Moscow, 1994. report on his trip to a meeting systems, and the relative ex- of diplomats and press, where haustion of Russia’s ability to he repeats what he had stated deliver a stream of loot to at the Ministry of Economics Western financier interests. in Moscow: “Have no doubt There exists no possible solu- that the present global finan- tion to this crisis, either for cial and monetary system is Russia or for the world, not only going to collapse, within the bounds of the pre- but is going to go into an ab- viously accepted terms of solute breakdown collapse, EIRNS dominant international eco- unless various governments, LaRouche speaks at a seminar on physical economics nomic and financial institu- including the U.S. govern- sponsored by Moscow State University, 1995. tions. The present world ment, were to put the present system, as derived from the monetary system into bankruptcy. That would stop the post-1971 form of ‘floating exchange-rate’ interna- collapse, and nothing else will stop it. Therefore, intel- tional monetary system, and present doctrines of IMF ligent governments will consider nothing serious, ‘conditionalities,’ is doomed to extinction during the except to make preparations for this collapse and to or- near- to medium-term. The present system will either ganize quickly a recovery of a new financial system and be brought to an end in an orderly way, through govern- a new monetary order the instant the collapse occurs.” ments acting responsibly to put existing central banking and financial systems under state-controlled reorga- Hearings in Russian Duma on LaRouche nization in bankruptcy, or through a chain-reaction Program form of rapid, ‘thermonuclear’ implosion of that specu- On Feb. 20, 1995, the lower house of the Russian lative financial bubble which the world’s financial Parliament, the State Duma, holds hearings to discuss system has become. All workable alternatives to gen- emergency measures to prevent the disintegration of eral collapse require governments to assume responsi- Russia’s economy. A memorandum submitted by La- bility for the establishment of new monetary and finan- Rouche, titled “Prospects for Russian Economic Re- cial institutions to replace the bankrupt institutions vival,” is presented to the hearing, in addition to oral which continue to dominate the world up to this presentations by representatives of the Schiller Institute moment.” in Moscow. LaRouche writes: “The present phase of the eco- LaRouche Makes Second Visit to Moscow, nomic crises inside Russia and nearby countries is the Speaks at Duma result of the interaction between the ongoing, new In June 1995, Lyndon and Helga LaRouche visit phase of collapse in the world monetary and financial Moscow, where LaRouche speaks at the State Duma on

October 24, 2014 EIR The LaRouche Record 43 “The World Financial System and which the Soviet system had been Problems of Economic Growth.” thrown an historical instant ear- He also speaks at the Methodolog- lier.” ical University of Russia, the Insti- tute of Economics of the Russian LaRouche Makes Third Trip Academy of Sciences, and to Russia for Meetings with Moscow State University, where Intelligentsia he states that the world is headed In April 1996, LaRouche toward what Rosa Luxemburg makes his third trip to Russia for identified as “a breakdown crisis” meetings with academics and poli- and the only solution is to declare cymakers. He participates in a the IMF bankrupt and initiate an round table discussion jointly international credit system to build sponsored by the Institute for So- the Eurasian Land-Bridge project: cio-Political Research of the Rus- “Some believe the present IMF sian Academy of Sciences and the system must be reformed by es- Free Economic Society of Russia, sentially only administrative re- established in 1765. The event is forms. Others of us take the view, chaired by Leonid Abalkin, head as I do, that the international mon- LaRouche’s report “The New Role for Russia of the Institute of Economics of etary and financial system of the in U.S. Policy Today” is published in EIR as a the Russian Academy of Sciences. preface to a policy paper by Russian world today, is totally bankrupt, Academician Dmitri Lvov. LaRouche, speaking on the sub- and that only the elimination of ject “Russia, the U.S.A., and the that system by bankruptcy, and the establishment of a Global Financial Crisis.” emphasizes that a partnership new system, is possible.” among the United States, Russia, and China, of the sort that President Franklin Roosevelt envisioned in the LaRouche: Russia and U.S. Must Create New 1940s for a post-colonial world, would be the combina- Monetary System tion of world powers necessary to reorganize the inter- EIR on Aug. 25, 1995 publishes a report by Acade- national financial system: “We are in the middle of the mician Dmitri Lvov, the vice-director of the Central worst international monetary and financial crisis of the Economic-Mathematical Institute (CEMI) in Russia, century. . . . The combination of the United States and titled “Toward a Scientific Grounding for Economic Russia, now, as in 1945, with the cooperation of China, Reforms in Russia.” CEMI had studied LaRouche’s can change the course of world history, and get out of economic model in the 1980s at the time thatwas exam- this economic mess. . . . Only a majority combination ining the strategic and economic implications of the among great powers can break the power of these inter- Strategic Defense Initiative. Lvov’s paper is prefaced national authorities. Therefore, not in order to create by a short introduction by LaRouche, titled “The New another global hegemonic system, but to create a world Role for Russia in U.S. Policy Today,” in which he which is safe for sovereign nation-states. We’re in a writes: “As the present, IMF-centered, global monetary great struggle. We’re in a great, strategic world-histori- and financial system disintegrates in a holocaust of re- cal struggle. And therefore, as in war, the unity of great versed financial leverage, Russia’s present, most cru- powers can be decisive in whether you win the war or cial predicament will be shared by every nation of this lose it, as Roosevelt understood before he died.” planet. The challenge will be, to prevent the collapse of Participating in the dialogue with LaRouche were the Earth’s physical economy, by launching immedi- Valentin Pavlov, former prime minister and finance ately a new world monetary and state-credit system, on minister of the U.S.S.R., and Vyacheslav Senchagov, the basis of ‘American System’ principles contrary to director of the Center for Banking and Financial Re- every direction of change in economic policy, under the search at the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of IMF and World Bank system, during the recent thirty Economics. At the conclusion of the event, Academi- years. In short, the Adam Smith system is shortly to be cian Abalkin stated: “Today we are facing the necessity carried away by the same Styx of dead history into of developing a new paradigm in the social sciences. . . .

44 The LaRouche Record EIR October 24, 2014 I see all the work of Professor all available industrial capac- LaRouche as a step on the ities of the participating na- path to this paradigm.” tions, and, as new capacities have to be created, the differ- Zepp-LaRouche Travels ent countries should work in to China to Promote a division of labor, and Eurasian Land-Bridge thereby balance existing Helga Zepp-LaRouche at- three-way trade flows tends the “International Sym- through so-called clearing- posium on Economic Devel- houses. A newly founded opment of the New Euro-Asia Schiller Institute Eurasian Development Bank Continental Bridge,” in Bei- Helga LaRouche in Beijing calls for a Eurasian could take over this task.” jing, sponsored by the Minis- Development Bank and “an emergency meeting of the Finally, she calls for “an try of Foreign Trade and Eco- principal nation-state powers for the purpose of emergency monetary policy establishing a new international monetary system.” nomic Cooperation of the meeting of the principal na- People’s Republic of China. tion-state powers, for the pur- She delivers a speech on May 8, pose of establishing a new inter- 1996, “Building the Silk Road national monetary system, based Land-Bridge: The Basis for the on stabilized parities of curren- Mutual Security Interests of Asia cies, to the purpose of fostering a and Europe,” in which she states: global revival and expansion of “The governments of Eurasia agricultural and industrial produc- should agree on an integrated in- tion, based upon capital intensive, frastructure program, which con- energy-intensive modes of invest- nects the industrial centers of ment, in scientific and technologi- Europe and Asia with the popula- cal progress.” tion centers in South and Southeast Asia, through ‘development corri- LaRouche Calls for ‘New dors.’ The development of those Bretton Woods’ main axes of traffic, through Great On Jan. 4, 1997, LaRouche Projects for infrastructure in trans- delivers an address in Washing- port, energy, water, and communi- ton, in which he first issues his call cations, is the precondition, for the for a “New Bretton Woods” to re- industrial development of the Eur- EIR’s Special Report was translated into organize the world financial asian landmass, and can thus several languages and has circulated system, calling on President Bill become the motor for overcoming throughout the world since its publication in Clinton to convene an interna- the world economic crisis.” 1997. tional conference to launch a gen- Zepp-LaRouche calls for the eral monetary reform for the establishment of a Eurasian Development Bank mod- planet on the basis of mutual development of sovereign elled on Lyndon LaRouche’s original International De- nations: velopment Bank proposal, to facilitate cooperation “The President must say, ‘We are going to proceed to among the sovereign states of Eurasia for development: put what we know to be bankrupt financial and monetary “The right to generate credit must be brought back institutions, into bankruptcy, that is, into receivership, under the control of sovereign governments. Through for financial reorganization under the supervision of appropriate legislation, national banks must be able to government. The United States must act, together with generate credit lines for these projects. As these credits other powers, to put the world into bankruptcy reorgani- are related to future production, wealth is being created, zation. Every financial system, every banking system in and they are not inflationary. . . . As the realization of the world, is presently bankrupt! Therefore, the United infrastructure projects of this magnitude, will require States must take international leadership in proposing a

October 24, 2014 EIR The LaRouche Record 45 new Bretton Woods. . . . We’re going to take the Eurasian Land-Bridge concept and what it represents as a policy, as a global policy, and we’re going to rebuild this planet.’ ” LaRouche elaborates on his at a conference of the Schiller Institute in February 1997, at which a resolution titled “Urgent Appeal to President Clinton To Convoke a New Bretton Woods Conference” is endorsed by the participants. The appeal declares: “We appeal to you, President Clinton, to use the Powers of the Presidency of the United States, to convoke, on an emergency basis, a new international Bretton Woods conference, to replace the present bankrupt monetary system with a new one. A global debt reorganization, the establishment of fixed-parity exchange EIRNS rates and a new set of trade and tariff agree- Helga Zepp-LaRouche at the “Eastern Terminal of the Eurasian Land- ments are the absolute precondition for stabil- Bridge” in Lianyungang, China. ity in world economic and financial relations, which are required for a return to economic growth.” titled “Principles of Foreign Policy in the Coming Era of the New Eurasian Land-Bridge,” she states: “While EIR Releases Special Report on ‘Eurasian the present meltdown of the global financial system ob- Land-Bridge’ viously represents enormous dangers for the existence On Feb. 5, 1997, Lyndon and Helga LaRouche host of entire nations and their populations, the profound a seminar of diplomats in Washington, to announce the discrediting of the institutions associated with that release of a book-length EIR Special Report, “The Eur- system, represents, at the same time, a unique and un- asian Land-Bridge: The New Silk Road, Locomotive precedented chance, to replace the unjust principles of for Worldwide Economic Development.” In the intro- the old political and economic order with new, just duction to this 300-page detailed compendium of de- ones, which will allow the survival and well-being of velopment projects across the Eurasian landmass, La- all nations on this planet.” Rouche is quoted: “Call together an immediate emergency conference of crucial powers, an interna- President Clinton Calls for ‘New Financial tional monetary conference setting up a new monetary Architecture’ system to replace the bankrupt one.” President Clinton calls for an international summit The introduction further states: “The realization of to create a “new financial architecture for the 21st Cen- the ‘New Silk Road’ and the ‘Productive Triangle,’ a tury,” in a speech in New York City on Sept. 14, 1998. real reconstruction of Russia and Eastern Europe, the This is needed, he says, to “douse the flames of the in- development of the entire Eurasian landmass with the ternational financial crisis” and resolve “the biggest fi- most modern infrastructure, would be the central eco- nancial challenge facing the world in a half-century.” nomic issue at such a monetary conference of world He states: “In the face of this new challenge, America powers. . . .” can and must continue to act and to lead to take the urgent steps needed today to calm the financial crisis, Zepp-LaRouche Returns to China restart the engine of growth in Asia, and minimize the Helga Zepp-LaRouche visited Beijing in October impact of financial turmoil on other nations, and to 1998 to participate in a second conference on the Eur- make certain that for tomorrow the institutions and asian Land-Bridge, titled “Asia-Europe Economic and rules of international finance and international trade are Trade Relations in the 21st Century and the Second prepared to support steady and sustainable growth over Eurasian Bridge.” In her speech at the keynote session, the long term.”

46 The LaRouche Record EIR October 24, 2014 EIRNS LaRouche speaks in Khartoum, Sudan, on the New Bretton Woods and the New International Economic Order.

EIRNS/Ruben Cota Meza “First, we must restore the characteristics of the old Helga Zepp-LaRouche and former President José López Portillo at a press conference in Mexico in 1998. Bretton Woods system of the immediate post-war decades. That means, a system of fixed-exchange rates, capital controls, currency controls, and financial con- López Portillo: ‘World Must Listen to Wise trols, and global growth fostered by the same methods Words of Lyndon LaRouche’ employed through institutions such as Germany’s At a seminar in Mexico City, Dec. 1, 1998, former Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau, to promote large-scale Mexican President López Portillo joins Helga Zepp- development of basic economic infrastructure, and to LaRouche to discuss the urgency of establishing a New use the market potential generated by that infrastruc- World Economic Order, asserting, “It is now necessary tural development, as the base for creating a still-larger for the world to listen to the wise words of Lyndon La- rate of growth in development of agriculture and indus- Rouche.” In an editorial comment published in the try. Mexican daily El Universal, López Portillo states: “The “Second, we must do as President Roosevelt had in- new economic order must be oriented to the increase of tended: All Sovereign nations must be, on principle, production, and not to the control of demand, the latter full partners in the new international monetary system. fundamentally directed to favoring capital (frequently, This is the fundamental difference between the old that of speculative capital) through outright depressive Bretton Woods system, and what must happen now. We measures which reward profits, even if this postpones cannot have a system which is going to work, which the satisfaction of real human, social needs.” does not treat the majority of the human race as full partners in the system. Otherwise, it won’t work. “Third, we must rely chiefly on credit created by the The 2000s authority of perfectly sovereign nation-state governments, to generate the medium- to long-term domestic and international trade agreements on which the eco- LaRouche in Sudan for New World Economic nomic recovery and expansion will be centered.” Order In January 2001, LaRouche travels to Khartoum, LaRouche in Russia Addresses State Duma Sudan for a conference sponsored by EIR and the Schil- On June 29, 2001, LaRouche speaks before a hear- ler Institute on “Peace Through Development: Nile ing of the lower house of the Russian Parliament, the Valley Development and the New Just World Economic State Duma, sponsored by economist Sergei Glazyev, Order.” His keynote address is on “The New Bretton the chairman of the Duma Committee on Economic Woods System as a Framework for a New Just World Policy. Titled “On Measures To Ensure the Develop- Economic Order” in which he specifies three principles ment of the Russian Economy Under Conditions of a that must serve as the foundation for a new interna- Destabilization of the World Financial System,” the tional economic system: hearing is attended by 150 parliamentarians and gov-

October 24, 2014 EIR The LaRouche Record 47 Office of the President of India EIRNS President of India K.R. Narayanan welcomes Lyndon and Lyndon and Helga LaRouche join Dr. Sergei Glazyev at a press Helga LaRouche, and EIR’s New Delhi bureau chief Ramtanu conference in Moscow. Maitra (far left), in 2001. ernment advisors and broadcast live into all Duma of- end. . . . Indira Gandhi was right, in her instinct for pro- fices. tectionism. Her father, and others, were right, in the LaRouche states that “nothing can save the present Non-Aligned Movement, in saying, ‘You can not func- world financial and monetary system in its present tion, merely on national protectionism. You must find a form” and lists four necessary measures to reorganize new, more just world economic order.’. . . the global economic system including the cancellation “And that is exactly what we proposed in terms of of illegitimate debts and the reorganization of the rest, the Eurasian Land-Bridge. If we can agree, and under- stating: “The reorganization of the world monetary and stand that the nations of East and South Asia require an financial systems, must be based upon the use of large- early, and rapid infusion of technology, to develop these scale, long-term cooperation in infrastructural develop- economies so that they can survive; and if this can be ment within, and among nations, and heavy emphasis done through credit arrangements, extended by govern- upon adopted targets of scientific and technological ments at interest rates of 1 to 2% simple interest, on progress. The pivot for world economic growth, shall long term; and if we take the great infrastructure proj- be a new system of transcontinental cooperation among ects as the driver force; and if we unite the need of the sovereign nation-states of continental Eurasia.” Western Europe for markets for this type of technology, and the role of Russia, as the transmission belt between LaRouches Return to New Delhi East and South Asia, and Western Europe; and if we Almost two decades after their earlier trips to India think of this as the center of the world, and bring na- to meet with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Lyndon and tions in Africa, in the Americas, into the same arrange- Helga LaRouche return to India in December 2001 to ment, then we have the basis for creating a new mone- participate in an EIR seminar at the Jawaharlal Nehru tary system, under which this world can come out of University School for International Studies, and to this mess.” meet with India’s President K.R. Narayanan, advisors to Prime Minister Atal Benhari Vajpayee, and other cur- LaRouche in Moscow for Kuznetsov Memorial rent and former officials of the Indian government, in- Conference cluding two former prime ministers, Chandra Shekhar For the second time in one year, LaRouche travels to and I.K. Gujral. Moscow, Dec. 10-14, 2001, to participate in a scientific LaRouche concludes his keynote address to the conference honoring the memory of scientist Pobisk seminar, “World in Crisis Needs a New Monetary Kuznetsov, who had died the previous year. The System”: “We’ve come to a time, when the alternative Kuznetsov memorial symposium is titled “Space & has failed. Free trade, globalization, and so forth, have Time in the Evolution of the Global System Nature-So- become horror-shows, which destroy us. The floating- ciety-Man” at which LaRouche speaks on “Russia’s exchange-rate system has destroyed the world. It must Role in Solving the Global Crisis.” He states: “If the

48 The LaRouche Record EIR October 24, 2014 EIRNS EIRNS/Rachel Douglas LaRouche at the São Paulo City Council, where he received an LaRouche speaks at a symposium in Moscow dedicated to the honorary citizenship. memory of his friend Pobisk Kuznetsov, a scientist, engineer, and veteran of the GULAG, who had died the previous year. each country and in treaty agreements to get the world economy moving upward. . . . We must generate a tre- world is to come out of this great financial, and mone- mendous amount of capital investment. How do we do tary, and economic crisis successfully, Russia, as a Eur- that? We must create a credit system.” asian nation, must play a very crucial, central role. . . . I have proposed that we must develop development cor- LaRouches in India: Reorganize the World ridors, superseding the Trans-Siberian Railroad, across Financial System Eurasia. . . . This would require, and would mean, the In January 2003, Lyndon and Helga LaRouche greatest transformation in the biosphere, in the history participate in public and private events in Calcutta, of humanity.” New Delhi, Jaipur, and other cities, on the subject of LaRouche also addresses a seminar hosted by Aca- creating a Eurasian alliance to reorganize the bankrupt demician Dmitri Lvov at the Central Mathematical world financial system. One seminar keynoted by La- Economics Institute and meets with the Mayor of Rouche is hosted by the Institute of Economic Growth Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov. at Delhi University, which serves as a think-tank for the government of India; he also speaks at a conference LaRouche in Brazil, Calls for Emergency hosted by the Political Science Department of Jaipur Financial Conference University. He emphasizes in his speech to the Institute In June 2002, LaRouche travels to Brazil to partici- for Economic Growth, titled “The Indispensible Role pate in a series of seminars on reorganization of the of the State in Reorganizing a Bankrupt System,” that world financial system. He also receives an honorary the “Strategic Triangle” of Russia, China, and India citizenship from the City of São Paulo. At a meeting of must be the primary engine for economic growth in the the Commercial Association of São Paulo, he calls for world. “an emergency monetary conference” to create a new In his speech in Jaipur, titled “Globalization Is a international economic system. Prescription for Disaster,” LaRouche again highlights LaRouche states: “Governments must act to put the the Strategic Triangle of Russia, China, and India “as a system into bankruptcy reorganization. . . . What does keystone for bringing together the nations of Asia in an this mean? First, we require a global, monetary finan- alliance of mutual security and economic progress” and cial reform. The best model we have is the 1945-1964 defines the means by which credit can be created to de- system, not as a perfect model, but as a political model. velop Eurasia: “We need to go back very quickly to a Under this, we must have, therefore, financial reorgani- fixed-exchange rate system. . . . We need a system under zation in various countries. We require an emergency which nations can cooperate, as I indicated in the case monetary conference among leading countries to im- of Asia: a 25-year period. . . .” mediately negotiate a general reform and bankruptcy In May 2003, the LaRouches return to India for an reorganization. We must also, then, take certain steps in international conference co-hosted by the Schiller In-

October 24, 2014 EIR The LaRouche Record 49 stitute and the Center for Social Jus- cially young men and women, to tice of India. The conference opens launch a worldwide movement to with a speech by Member of Parlia- achieve the above goal.” ment Shri K. Natwar Singh, who was the Secretary General of the Non- Russia’s Glazyev Calls for New Aligned Movement under the govern- World Financial Architecture ment of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi Member of the Russian State when India hosted the Non-Aligned Duma Sergei Glazyev, who had in- Movement Summit in New Delhi in vited LaRouche to Russia in 2001, 1983. Singh emphasizes the historic calls for a “new world financial archi- role of the Non-Aligned Movement as tecture” during a Feb. 4, 2004 press leading the fight for the New Interna- conference in Moscow announcing tional Economic Order. his campaign for President of Russia. LaRouche echoes that theme and Glazyev states: “The key priority declares: today in world politics, where Russia “We must have what we fought for could take the lead, is the formation of at Colombo, Sri Lanka in August of a new world financial architecture. . . . 1976. We must revive the spirit of We should get away from the exces- Bandung, as a part of an international sive dependence of the world finan- movement. We must revive the concert of a just, new cial system on the currency issues of any one country, world economic order—now! and shift to a system of equality-based financial and “How can this be brought into being?. . . We need a monetary relations. In practical terms, it is possible to monetary system, with many of the best features of the reach a consensus among a large group of countries and Bretton Woods system, of the immediate postwar begin to move to a new world financial and monetary period. But, this time, the United States can not run it, system that would be more stable, more reliable and as the United States did back then. . . . We must have a more fair.” concert of nations which does this. . . .” LaRouche submits a policy document to the confer- LaRouche Travels to Russia, Publishes ence, “A Précis: The Peaceful Concept of Technology ‘Economics of the Noösphere’ Transfer,” in which he details the necessary scientific In April 2004, LaRouche travels again to Moscow principles for “establishing a more just, peaceful, and to keynote a conference co-sponsored by the Vernadsky profitable new world economic order within a global State Geological Museum of the Russian Academy of community of perfectly sovereign nation-states.” Sciences and the Schiller Institute. LaRouche’s speech, The conference participants endorse The Bangalore “Entering the Economy of the Noösphere,” echoes the Declaration: “Toward a New World Political-Economic themes that he elaborates in his newest published book, Order” which states: “Establishing a just and equitable The Economics of the Noösphere, featuring the ideas of economic order in the world is an urgent necessity if the Ukrainian-Russian scientist Vladimir I. Vernadsky. vast majority of people in the world are to enjoy the LaRouche declares that mankind is entering “a new benefits of human and scientific progress. . . Develop- era” which must impel revolutionary changes in the ex- ments leading to war, especially the position adopted isting economic order: “Hopefully, the increasing se- by some of the leading powers, demonstrate that the verity of the present world economic and related crises, international order is becoming less aligned. This opens will compel us to institute those urgently needed new opportunities to strengthen the process and build a changes in the present world order. . . . The growing more cooperative International Order. What we need is needs of humanity could not be met without the kind of a new community of nation-states, non-aligned in mili- scientific revolution which we should associate with tary terms, but aligned against all forms of political, what the great V.I. Vernadsky defined as the Noö- social, and economic injustice, and a global movement sphere. . . . We are entering a new era of mankind, an era to pursue a new, just political-economical order. . . . The which must grasp more fully, more practically, the im- conference calls upon the peace-loving people, espe- plications of V.I. Vernadsky’s development of the

50 The LaRouche Record EIR October 24, 2014 notion of the Noösphere.” came back, and he made for the first time, the proposal to have the Interna- LaRouche Details ‘New tional Development Bank, as an in- Westphalian’ World Order strument to replace the IMF, to be the At an EIR seminar in Berlin, Nov. vehicle for a $400 billion credit per 29, 2005, involving Russian, Chinese, year for clearly defined development Indian, American, and European poli- projects. This idea, we then circulated cymakers, Lyndon and Helga La- for one year, among 85 countries, the Rouche elaborate the “Westphalian” countries of the Non-Aligned Move- principles which must serve as the ment. Many of these countries did foundation for a new international feasibility studies, with the idea of Mr. order. Lyndon LaRouche authors two LaRouche’s work. Then, in Colombo, discussion documents for conference, Sri Lanka, in ’76, eighty-five nations titled “Toward a Second Treaty of accepted the idea of a new world eco- Westphalia: The Coming Eurasian nomic order. . . . Then, the next major World” and “The Dialogue of Eur- thing was when LaRouche got the co- asian Civilizations: Earth’s Next Fifty operation of López Portillo, to make a Years.” proposal—again, to have a new world LaRouche invokes the fight for a economic order. This time coming new economic order, saying, “go back to 1976 to this from a debtors’ cartel, from the Latin American debtor experience, where the Non-Aligned nations group, in countries: Mexico, Brazil, Argentina.” majority on the initiative of India, actually, adopted a She traces this history through the collapse of, first, resolution on a just new world economic order.” In his the Soviet Union, and then of the free-market “global- speech, titled “We Need a New Treaty of Westphalia,” ization” system, asserting: “This is now the opportunity LaRouche declares: “We’re going into either a period to put the idea of a just new world economic order, back of chaos, which could be a Dark Age, or we’re going on the agenda. If you want to have a just new world eco- into a period in which the assumptions of relations nomic order, it’s not a technocratic question; it’s not among states, especially respecting economic and re- only a question of a new financial system, a new eco- lated kinds of relations, will be changed forever. . . . The nomic system: It’s a question of a passionate idea, of decision is on the table: Are we going to create a new the idea of the international community of people. . . . monetary system, which presumes that a concert of na- So, I think we need to have the discussion on this level, tion-states, sovereign nation-states, will put the exist- and put the new world economic order, back on the ing IMF system into bankruptcy receivership? In other agenda.” words, governments would take these banking institutions into receivership and manage these bankrupt enti- Argentine President Kirchner Calls for New ties, in such a way as to promote the general welfare.” Financial Architecture at UN Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s speech, titled “Society Néstor Kirchner, the President of Argentina, deliv- Needs a New Paradigm Worthy of the Dignity of Man,” ers a speech before the UN General Assembly on Sept. elaborates the history of LaRouche’s role in leading the 21, 2006, in which he calls for a “new financial archi- fight for a new international economic order and asserts tecture” to replace the failed and destructive IMF the urgent need to “put the new world economic order system. back on the agenda.” “In 1971,” she says, “when Nixon Denouncing the violation of national sovereignty decoupled the dollar from gold, creating the private and prevention of economic development that the IMF banking power over money creation in the offshore “conditionalities” regime represents, Kirchner de- markets, LaRouche said, this will lead to a new depres- clares: “There is sufficient empirical evidence to dem- sion, the new danger of fascism, and the danger of a onstrate that the participation of the international finan- collapse of society—or, the just new world economic cial organizations in the promotion of development of order. . . . In 1975, Mr. LaRouche went to Iraq, to par- poorer nations has not been successful, and in many ticipate in the celebrations of the Ba’ath Party. And he cases, with their conditionalities, they have acted in a

October 24, 2014 EIR The LaRouche Record 51 beria and the Russian Far East. LaRouche’s prepared speech, delivered on his behalf, is titled “The World’s Political Map Changes: Mendeleyev Would Have Agreed.” It states: “This on- rushing collapse of the world’s presently hyperinflated, disintegrating world monetary-financial system, re- quires early concerted emergency action by responsible leading nations. . . . These must include the U.S.A., Russia, China, and India, as the rallying-point for a new, spreading partnership among perfectly sovereign nation-state economies. In such cooperation, the development of a great network of modern successors to old

UN Photo forms of rail transport, must be spread across continen- Argentine President Néstor Kirchner at the United Nations. tal Eurasia, and across the Bering Strait into the Ameri- cas. . . . The bridging of the Bering Strait becomes, thus, contrary sense, preventing development. . . . That is now, the navel of a new birth of a new world economy.” why, together with the majority of countries, we support the reform of the international financial architec- LaRouche in Moscow as Guest of Academy of ture, such that it will lead to the progress of the poorest Sciences nations. In noting the scant willingness of these interna- LaRouche is in- tional financial organizations to produce a real change vited in May 2007 to in their policies, we deem it necessary to make this attend a celebration change, and to consider the creation of new interna- sponsored by the Rus- tional financial instruments that will permit the build- sian Academy of Sci- ing of development projects to combat poverty and ences of the 80th hunger in the world and to provide real options for ad- birthday of economist vancement.” Stanislav Menshikov. The celebration is

Conference in Moscow Demands Bering Strait also attended by Aca- EIRNS Tunnel demician Alexander LaRouche and Menshikov at a Lyndon LaRouche Granberg, who spon- celebration of the latter’s 80th birthday in Moscow, sponsored by participates in a confer- sored the Bering the Academy of Sciences. ence on April 24, 2007 Strait forum earlier in in Moscow, titled the year, and Dr. “Megaprojects of Rus- Sergei Glazyev, also a member of the Academy of Sci- sia’s East: A Transconti- ences. LaRouche tells the gathering: “The United States nental Eurasia-America must change its behavior, by approaching Russia, Transport Link via the China, and India, in order to create a new order of rela- Bering Strait,” orga- tions in the world, bringing all the smaller nations in to nized by the Russian cooperate with them. I think we can do it: We can Academy of Sciences change history.” Council for the Study of During his visit to Moscow, LaRouche is inter- Productive Forces, in viewed by several Russian media, both television and Proceedings of Moscow conjunction with the print, including by economist Mikhail Khazin, during conference on the Bering Strait Russian Ministry of which LaRouche reviews his role in shaping economic Tunnel project are published in both Russian and English Economic Development policy relations between the United States and Russia: and Trade, the Russian “From 1994 on, since I was visiting Russia, in that Ministry of Transport, the state-owned company Rus- period, my concern, which I shared with many of my sian Railroads, and several regional governments in Si- Russian friends in high positions, was to try to get an

52 The LaRouche Record EIR October 24, 2014 understanding with throughout the entire global financial system. President Clinton, On Aug. 22, 2007, the LaRouche Political Action and people in Russia. Committee announced a mobilization for LaRouche’s So, some of the key proposed Homeowners and Bank Protection Act of people here in Russia 2007 (HBPA), to stop millions of home foreclosures organized a meeting and evictions, and to launch a larger process of bank- which I addressed in ruptcy restructuring of the U.S. and global dollar-based Moscow. They were financial system prepared, through me, LaRouche defines the purpose of this legislation as LaRouche is interviewed by a because they knew follows: Russian TV station during his visit. my connection to “The crisis will proceed in successive phases. We Clinton, to open a have entered the first phase, which is typified by the new channel of economic understanding and coopera- collapse of a global real-estate bubble on which the tion with the United States. Academician Gennadi entire current monetary-financial system hangs today. Osipov was one of the leaders of that group, to organize The most immediate of these challenges, is being pre- it. The former Prime Minister, Valentin Pavlov, was sented at this time. The U.S.A. and other governments part of it. But the Vice President of the United States, Al must now react to the need for an immediate placing of Gore, was a close friend of Yeltsin, and they put pres- home mortgages and chartered banks of the U.S. under sure on Clinton not to do it. Finally, in 1998, in August bankruptcy protection by law. This measure is the in- and September, Clinton recognized I had been right. . . . dispensable lawful protection needed to prevent an un- We must have a dialogue between Russia and the United controllable, chain-reaction, hyperinflationary collapse States, involving other countries, like China, India, and of the present world monetary-financial system as a so on, who understand that we believe the same thing whole. An uncontrolled crisis of that type would be about the present world crisis, and can understand what comparable to the chain-reaction set into motion by the we must do for the next 50 years.” Fourteenth-Century collapse of the House of Bardi.”

LaRouche Forecasts Financial Crash, Calls for Zepp-LaRouche: Land-Bridge Is Cornerstone HBPA of New Economic Order On July 25, 2007, during a webcast in Washington, The Schiller Institute holds a conference in Kied- D.C., LaRouche states that the banking system had rich, Germany on Sept. 14-15, 2007 attended by 350 reached the point where a catastrophic collapse must be people from 40 nations, with presentations and papers expected in the immediate future. Three days later, Bear from Russian academicians and political figures, in- Stearns goes under, triggering a chain reaction crisis cluding Prof. Stanislav Menshikov of the Russian

EIRNS Lyndon and Helga LaRouche are joined by Prof. Stanislav EIRNS Menshikov of the Russian Academy of Sciences at a Schiller Helga Zepp-LaRouche: “The new world economic order is our Institute conference in Germany. life’s work, and it is now the time to implement it.”

October 24, 2014 EIR The LaRouche Record 53 Academy of Sciences; Victor Razbegin, deputy chair- ternational infrastructure projects are possible, under man of the Council for the Study of Productive Forces; predictable conditions. and Dr. Sergei Cherkasov and Academician Dmitri “3. Derivatives speculation and speculation in food, Rundqvist, both of the Vernadsky State Geological energy, and raw materials must be banned by treaty Museum. among governments. LaRouche calls for bankruptcy reorganization of “4. There must be an immediate reorganization, in- the world financial system: “The only peaceful cluding, for example, cancellation of debts. remedy for the present world situation, today, would “5. In a New Deal for the world economy, in the tra- be by actions which, in effect, place the present world dition of Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich List, Henry monetary-financial system into a process of reorgani- Carey, and FDR, new credit lines must be made avail- zation of bankruptcy; and a return to a design consis- able for investments in basic infrastructure and techno- tent with what U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt had logical renovation. intended for the Bretton Woods System, had he lived. “6. Building the Eurasian Land-Bridge, as the core No possible solution for this crisis exists within the project for reconstruction of the world economy, is structures of the present world financial-monetary therefore the vision that can not only bring a new eco- system. Only a political reform of the world system, as nomic miracle, but also bring peace to the 21st Century. it must be promoted by the initiative of a relevant lead- “7. Food production must be doubled worldwide in ing group of powerful nation-states, could turn the tide the coming years. of horror now gripping the fate of this planet as a “8. A new ‘Peace of Westphalia’ must, within at whole.” least 50 years, secure the availability and development Helga Zepp-LaRouche describes the purpose of the of raw materials for all nations on this planet. gathering: “This conference is supposed to be the be- “We maintain that the system of globalization, with ginning of a worldwide dialogue, and forum, of people its brutal, predatory capitalism, is economically, finan- who want to reconstruct the world; of putting together cially and morally wrecked. Instead, man must be placed the combination of people who want to fight for the old at the center again, and the economy must serve the idea, which used to be the agenda, for example, of the common good. The new world economic order must Non-Aligned Movement, to build a just new world eco- guarantee the inalienable rights of all men on this planet.” nomic order.. . . We have reached a situation where either we establish a new world economic order based Helga Zepp-LaRouche in Rhodes: A New on the Eurasian Land-Bridge, and go for global recon- Westphalian World Economic Order struction, or we will plunge into a dark age. . . . The Zepp-LaRouche addresses the World Public Fo- question of the new world economic order has been our rum’s “Dialogue of Civilizations’ conference, in life’s work, and it is now the time to implement it.” Rhodes, Greece, Oct. 9-13, 2008, with more than 700 people from 70 countries attending. The Forum was Zepp-LaRouche: We Need a New Bretton founded and chaired by Vladimir Yakunin, chairman of Woods Russian Railways, and brings together political, reli- Helga Zepp-LaRouche issues a call, titled “World gious, and intellectual leaders from around the globe Financial System Faces a Meltdown; Call for a New for annual conferences. Zepp-LaRouche’s speech is Bretton Woods System; We Need a New World Eco- titled “For a New World Economic Order in the Tradi- nomic Order!” on July 17, 2008. She specifies eight tion of the Peace of Westphalia.” She states: points: “An emergency conference, modeled on the Bretton “An emergency conference must be called, at the Woods Conference of 1944, has long been proposed by level of heads of state, to establish a new financial ar- Lyndon LaRouche. . . . In order for this new system to chitecture. This emergency conference for a New Bret- have credibility and integrity, the initiating powers— ton Woods must resolve that: the U.S.A., Russia, China, and India—have to build the “1. The present world financial system must be de- core of a representative group of nations which, in the clared hopelessly bankrupt, and replaced by a new one. tradition and spirit of the Treaty of the Peace of West- “2. It must promptly set up a fixed-exchange-rate phalia, decide on a multicultural and multinational monetary system, so that long-term investments in in- credit system, even while the current monetary and fi-

54 The LaRouche Record EIR October 24, 2014 nancial system is put through an orderly bankruptcy process. . . . The most important principle of the Westphalia Treaty, upon which international human rights are based, was the idea that, in the interest of peace, all foreign policy must be oriented to the “advan- tage of the other.”

LaRouches Promote Four-Power Alliance in New Delhi Lyndon and Helga LaRouche attend a seminar in New Delhi in December 2008, EIRNS/Stefan Tolksdorff sponsored by the Forum for Strategic Secu- Lyndon and Helga LaRouche address the Rhodes conference of the World rity Studies, a military think-tank, in addition Public Forum: Dialogue of Civilizations. to participating in private meetings on the subject of organizing a Four Powers alliance among standard will receive full protection and will be as- India, China, Russia, and the United States to lead in signed protection under the category of a Glass-Stea- creating a new global political and economic order. gall qualified account. These banks, which we will LaRouche tells the seminar: “There are four nations clean up in that way, have to be under bankruptcy pro- on this planet, which are significantly large and impor- tection, even though they’ve been purged of this gar- tant enough, that they could, if willing, make a decision bage. . . . We’re going to put the commercial banking which would eventually change the direction of affairs system through a Glass-Steagall-standard reorganiza- on the planet. . . . How do we expand the capacity for tion; we’re going to use the end-product of that reorga- carrying the world’s population in a stable, growing nization to reestablish the full support of the Federal way, which can’t be done under the present monetary system, as a credit system, not a monetary system.” system? If these four nations agree to form a nucleus, in recognition of defense against this crisis, then we can LaRouches Attend World Public Forum in change the world. . . . These four governments, the Rhodes United States, India, Russia, China, can sponsor the Lyndon and Helga LaRouche are invited to address idea of an agreement to deal with this particular crisis the World Public Forum in Rhodes, Greece, Oct. 8-12, by creating a new credit system to replace the present 2009, attended by over 500 academics, religious lead- bankrupt monetary system.” ers, economists, politicians, artists, and journalists, from 60 countries. LaRouche: Reorganize Banking for Glass- Lyndon LaRouche gives an address titled “A Four- Steagall Power Agreement Can Create a New World Credit In October 2009, Lyndon LaRouche outlines a pro- System” in which he states: “The task is for Russia, and gram for bankruptcy reorganization of the financial the United States, and China, and India, to agree, as a system, specifying that, through the application of the group of countries, to initiate and force a reorganization “Glass-Steagall standard,” fictitious values of specula- of the world financial and credit system, under those tive debt will be distinguished from productive debt conditions, with long-term agreements, of the same type with legitimate economic value. LaRouche asserts that that Franklin Roosevelt had uttered before his death. . . . the speculative debt must not be honored or bailed out, The result of this, will be the elimination of the mone- while the legitimate productive debt must be protected tary system of the world that has been dominating Euro- and reorganized as was done by Alexander Hamilton. pean civilization since the Peloponnesian War.” He declares: “What is required is to put all regular Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s speech is titled “New Alli- commercial banks through reorganization in bank- ances for a New World System,” which she concludes ruptcy. . . . The accounts which are in commercial banks by saying: “We must open a new era of humanity, one will be put into reorganization in bankruptcy, such that in which oligarchical and imperial designs have been those accounts which correspond to a Glass-Steagall defeated once and for all, replaced with an alliance of

October 24, 2014 EIR The LaRouche Record 55 republics which are perfectly sovereign, yet, which are clusively toward future investment into the real econ- united through the higher interest of mankind as a omy, with high energy-flux densities. We must return to whole. It is possible to bring this about, but it will re- national currencies, fixed exchange rates, and an eco- quire interventions by courageous individuals who are nomic reconstruction program for Southern Europe, the fired by a passionate love for mankind.” Mediterranean region, and the African continent. . . .”

Schiller Institute Initiates ‘New Paradigm for The 2010s Civilization’ Conferences The Schiller Institute sponsors a conference in No- vember 2012 near Frankfurt, Germany titled “A New BRICS New International Financial Paradigm for Civilization,” as the first in a series of in- Architecture ternational conferences. The conference is attended by At their fourth summit in New Delhi on March 29, over 300 participants from 25 countries. 2012, the leaders of the BRICS issue a statement call- Lyndon LaRouche’s remarks to the conference fea- ing for “a more representative international financial ture the steps that must be taken to reorganize the bank- architecture, and the establishment and improvement of rupt financial system: a just international monetary system that can serve the “1. The first of the three essential preconditions for interests of all countries and support the development recovery is that the relevant, combined leading nations of emerging and developing economies.” of both the United States and the leading parts of Eur- The New Delhi Declaration announces: “We have asia, must immediately enact the Glass-Steagall law. . . . considered the possibility of setting up a new Develop- “2. A recovery of the economy of the relevant na- ment Bank for mobilizing resources for infrastructure tions depends upon the actual creation of a set of sys- in BRICS and other emerging economies and develop- tems based on the principle of national credit, among ing countries. We direct our Finance Ministers to exam- respective nations. This means that the future invest- ine the feasibility and viability of such an initiative, set ments must be those rightly deemed physically worthy up a joint working group for further study, and report of the credit which is uttered under the authority pro- back to us by the next Summit.” vided by the credit systems of the respective sovereign nations. . . . EIR: ‘There Is Life After the Euro!’ “3. It must be recognized, that it is the increase of EIR publishes a Special Report in June 2012 titled physical wealth which must be made practicable by the “There Is Life After the Euro: Economic Miracle for respective nations’ extension of systems of public Southern Europe & Mediterra- credit. . . .” nean,” which details the development programs which could re- LaRouche Interviewed in construct Europe if the European Chinese Press: ‘Change the nations were to free themselves Direction of History’ from the collapsing euro system. Lyndon LaRouche is inter- Helga Zepp-LaRouche writes, viewed by Xinhua, the official in the introduction: “The euro Chinese news agency, on July 27, system, and the entire trans-Atlan- 2013. Interviewer Zhang Mian tic financial system, are in the pro- states, “As an economist, you’ve cess of total disintegration. . . . A committed yourself to establish a solution does exist. That solution, new world economic order” and however, is absolutely impossible asks what is required to accom- within our current system. The plish this goal. hopelessly bankrupt system of LaRouche replies: “We have to globalization, and today’s casino create a new world, a new world economy, must be replaced by a which is based on a commitment credit system that is oriented ex- to high technology, because only

56 The LaRouche Record EIR October 24, 2014 by increasing the technologi- relatively small percentage cal potential of the nations of live decently, that many lan- the planet, can we possibly guish in inhumane poverty, work our way out of this while what Pope Francis problem. That could be done. called ‘hidden euthanasia’ is China is potentially a very widespread. . . . important part of this new “It is high time to put the world system. We can create legitimate demand of the an agreement among leading Non-Aligned Movement for nations of the world, to a just world economic order change the general direction back on the agenda. Such a of the history of this planet in new order could begin with modern times—and China is EIRNS the proposal of Chinese Pres- a key nation in this whole Zepp-LaRouche at the maglev train station in Shanghai, ident Xi Jinping at the latest process. . . .” China. SCO [Shanghai Cooperation Organization] conference, to Chinese President Xi build the new Silk Road as the Jingping Announces ‘New basis for peaceful cooperation Silk Road Economic Belt’ among all the countries along that Chinese President Xi Jingping route. This proposal is totally in visits Kazakhstan on Sept. 7, 2013 line with the proposal for a Eur- and announces his policy for a asian Land-Bridge that the Schil- “New Silk Road Economic Belt,” ler Institute advanced beginning stretching “from the Pacific Ocean in 1991, in reaction to the disinte- to the Baltic Sea.” “To forge closer gration of the Soviet Union. That economic ties, deepen coopera- The “Silk Road Lady” is interviewed by Yang concept has been expanded, in the tion and expand development in Rui on Chinese TV. meantime, to a World Land- the Euro-Asia region.” He says, Bridge to bring people together, “we should take an innovative approach and jointly which has gained many friends and supporters through- build an ‘economic belt’ along the Silk Road. This will out the world. Such a worldwide infrastructure and de- be a great undertaking benefitting the people of all coun- velopment program would hoist us onto the next higher tries along the route. . . . We must expand the develop- economic platform, where hunger and underdevelopment of Eurasia, creating an economic belt along the ment could be eliminated forever.” Silk Road. China and the Central Asian countries are at a crucial stage; we need a broader vision for coopera- Zepp-LaRouche Returns to China To Support tion. The peoples of this ancient Silk Road together can ‘New Silk Road’ compose a wonderful new chapter in the much-told In February 2014, Helga Zepp-LaRouche returns story. Now is a golden opportunity for development.” to China for the first time since 1998 to participate in over a dozen seminars, conferences, and media inter- Zepp-LaRouche: New Economic Order Begins views on the New Silk Road. President Xi Jingping’s with New Silk Road announcement of his “Silk Road Economic Belt” policy Helga Zepp-LaRouche publishes an appeal to the precipitated numerous invitations to Zepp-LaRouche United Nations, endorsing President Xi Jinping’s Silk from academics and policymakers familiar with her Road policy as creating the opportunity to “put the le- leadership role since the early 1990s in promoting the gitimate demand of the Non-Aligned Movement for a Eurasian Land-Bridge. just world economic order back on the agenda.” She is featured in a half-hour interview on the She writes: “We all know that the current economic prime-time CCTV “Dialogue” program by Yang Rui, order in the world only allows a very small percentage who introduces her as the person “who first advocated of the population to live a life of luxury, that only a the idea of a Eurasian Land-Bridge more than 20 years

October 24, 2014 EIR The LaRouche Record 57 ago” noting that she is referred to as the “New Silk diversity and availability of resources for promoting Road Lady.” development and ensuring stability in the global econ- In the interview, Zepp-LaRouche stresses that the omy.” But the document also notes, “We will continue extended Eurasian Land-Bridge can serve as the foun- to pursue our fruitful coordination and to promote our dation for “a peace order for the 21st Century” and development goals within the international economic create a paradigm shift away from perpetual war: “We system and financial architecture.” have to move away from geopolitics, because geopolitics gave the world two world wars in the 20th Century. Zepp-LaRouche Tours Silk Road Route on If we stay with geopolitics, we are on the verge of a Return Visit to China Third World War. The conception of the Eurasian Land- Helga Zepp-LaRouche is invited to return to China Bridge is larger than only the Silk Road, because it also to tour the Silk Road route and address several confer- involves the building of a corridor along the Trans-Si- ences on the Silk Road Economic Belt initiative of berian Railway, and it has many routes going all the President Xi Jingping. On Sept. 5, 2014 she addresses way to Indonesia, into Africa. We are really talking a forum in Beijing on the topic “One Belt, One Road” about the Silk Road being the beginning of a World along with Col. Bao Shixiu, Professor (Emeritus) of Land-Bridge. . . . It is extremely important to put a peace Military Science at the People’s Liberation Army Acad- order for the 21st Century on the table and create a level emy of Military Science, who emphasizes in his speech of reason, where everybody who participates has a ben- the leading role of both Helga and Lyndon LaRouche in efit, so that historical conflicts, past wars, and all these the campaign for the New Silk Road since the begin- problems are put behind us, if you build the Eurasian ning of the 1990s. The event, sponsored by China In- Land-Bridge as a totality.” vestment magazine, which is an arm of the National De- Zepp-LaRouche is also interviewed on China Radio velopment and Reform Commission, the main International’s “People in the Know” program, in which economic policy planning commission under the State she stresses that the New Silk Road can serve as the Council of the Chinese government, is the first of what pathway to “a new system of credit among sovereign is intended to become an annual event bringing together nations” to replace the current collapsing financial researchers from many Chinese think-tanks tasked with system. the mission of developing a program for President Xi’s Silk Road Economic Belt. BRICS Countries Take First Steps Toward Zepp-LaRouche is also a participant in an interna- New World Economic Order tional conference on the New Silk Road at Lanzhou The heads of state and government of the BRICS University attended by representatives of the Chinese nations, meeting in Fortaleza, Brazil July 15-16, 2014, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and by the president of Rus- issue a 72-point Fortaleza Declaration, including the sian Railways Vladimir Yakunin. She is interviewed decision to form a New Development Bank to fund in- twice on the prime-time CCTV “Dialogue” show, as frastructure and other development projects in BRICS well as on Chinese Radio International. During the and other developing countries. It will be initially capi- latter interview she states: “In these six months, tre- talized at $50 billion, with equal contributions from mendous developments have taken place. You had the each of the five countries. The declaration also an- strategically extremely important summit between nounces the establishment of a Contingent Reserve Ar- President Xi Jinping and President Putin in Shanghai in rangement, with an initial size of $100 billion, “to help May; and then in July, the equally important BRICS countries forestall short-term liquidity pressures.” meeting in Brazil, which was followed by a summit be- The Declaration also criticizes the IMF’s unrespon- tween the BRICS countries and the heads of state of siveness to the economic crisis, and states: “We call for Latin America. And what has emerged out of this series an international financial architecture that is more con- of meetings is a fantastic development, namely, the ducive to overcoming development challenges. We shaping of a new financial order and a new economic have been very active in improving the international fi- system. And this is extremely important, because this nancial architecture through our multilateral coordina- has given tremendous hope to many other countries to tion and through our financial cooperation initiatives, finally go for the kind of development which is in their which will, in a complementary manner, increase the self-interest.”

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